DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright
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@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
It's the bully problem. Parent hurts kid. Kid goes to school and hurts other kids. It's sad that the bully got hurt in the first place, but that never justifies hurting an innocent kid just to spite them.
And no amount of hurting the innocent fixes things for the bully (the business, here.) In fact, it just makes the rest of us no longer see them as innocent or to be helped.
This argument makes no sense at all. Copyrighted material is safe guarded from theft for a certain period of time.
Do you disagree that copyright laws are bad and no one, anywhere should have copyright laws? What about patient laws? Should these not exist either?
That's irrelevant to what I said. Totally different discussion. You believe that the innocent, anyone really, should be hurt if someone holding a copyright should be hurt?
Take for example, you. You aren't stealing anything. A movie gets pirated. Should YOU be hurt by that?
You're going down a drain here Scott. The argument here is that this device, is pulling in streams of copyrighted material and providing it to the users of the device at no cost. The manufacturer of the device is charging the consumer to have the device to pool these streams together.
That is a "go F the content developers who are spending this money to make the shows" and pay us to watch this stolen content.
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@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
I don't agree with the whole punishing the innocent. That seems to be what's happening here.
Exactly. I'm okay with copyright law, if the LAW was followed. It is not.
I've always thought this too. The concept is fine, but it's always abused in pretty much every single case and every single way possible.
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@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
It's the bully problem. Parent hurts kid. Kid goes to school and hurts other kids. It's sad that the bully got hurt in the first place, but that never justifies hurting an innocent kid just to spite them.
And no amount of hurting the innocent fixes things for the bully (the business, here.) In fact, it just makes the rest of us no longer see them as innocent or to be helped.
This argument makes no sense at all. Copyrighted material is safe guarded from theft for a certain period of time.
Do you disagree that copyright laws are bad and no one, anywhere should have copyright laws? What about patient laws? Should these not exist either?
That's irrelevant to what I said. Totally different discussion. You believe that the innocent, anyone really, should be hurt if someone holding a copyright should be hurt?
Take for example, you. You aren't stealing anything. A movie gets pirated. Should YOU be hurt by that?
You're going down a drain here Scott. The argument here is that this device, is pulling in streams of copyrighted material and providing it to the users of the device at no cost. The manufacturer of the device is charging the consumer to have the device to pool these streams together.
Google does the exact same thing.
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@tim_g said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
I don't agree with the whole punishing the innocent. That seems to be what's happening here.
Exactly. I'm okay with copyright law, if the LAW was followed. It is not.
I've always thought this too. The concept is fine, but it's always abused in pretty much every single case and every single way possible.
Even the concept has issues, but I'm kinda okay with it. But copyright is REALLY complicated when you actually get down to it and it doesn't work very well and never has. Technically, copyright makes things like libraries illegal.
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@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
It's the bully problem. Parent hurts kid. Kid goes to school and hurts other kids. It's sad that the bully got hurt in the first place, but that never justifies hurting an innocent kid just to spite them.
And no amount of hurting the innocent fixes things for the bully (the business, here.) In fact, it just makes the rest of us no longer see them as innocent or to be helped.
This argument makes no sense at all. Copyrighted material is safe guarded from theft for a certain period of time.
Do you disagree that copyright laws are bad and no one, anywhere should have copyright laws? What about patient laws? Should these not exist either?
That's irrelevant to what I said. Totally different discussion. You believe that the innocent, anyone really, should be hurt if someone holding a copyright should be hurt?
Take for example, you. You aren't stealing anything. A movie gets pirated. Should YOU be hurt by that?
You're going down a drain here Scott. The argument here is that this device, is pulling in streams of copyrighted material and providing it to the users of the device at no cost. The manufacturer of the device is charging the consumer to have the device to pool these streams together.
That is a "go F the content developers who are spending this money to make the shows" and pay us to watch this stolen content.
But that's not it's SOLE purpose. That's a bonus purpose if you will. The device can be used legally to view other options that are completely legal.
OH, and I'm betting that it can also be used to stream those services even if they PAID for them.
Again, just because it can be used for evil doesn't mean it's evil itself.
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I honestly can't believe I'm the only person who sees this for what it is.
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@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
I don't agree with the whole punishing the innocent. That seems to be what's happening here.
Exactly. I'm okay with copyright law, if the LAW was followed. It is not.
I've always thought this too. The concept is fine, but it's always abused in pretty much every single case and every single way possible.
Even the concept has issues, but I'm kinda okay with it. But copyright is REALLY complicated when you actually get down to it and it doesn't work very well and never has. Technically, copyright makes things like libraries illegal.
Yeah I never understood how libraries could exist. Even more - how does libraries sharing digital books exist?
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@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
I don't agree with the whole punishing the innocent. That seems to be what's happening here.
Exactly. I'm okay with copyright law, if the LAW was followed. It is not.
I've always thought this too. The concept is fine, but it's always abused in pretty much every single case and every single way possible.
Even the concept has issues, but I'm kinda okay with it. But copyright is REALLY complicated when you actually get down to it and it doesn't work very well and never has. Technically, copyright makes things like libraries illegal.
Yes, but if I spend lots of time and money designing Object1 (then copyright it), and start selling it... someone comes along and buys it, then produces an exact copy of it, and starts selling and profiting from it himself... that's is what I feel it should stop.
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@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
I honestly can't believe I'm the only person who sees this for what it is.
Because there is a principal.
I think most of us here see your point - these people are making money off crooks. They target thieves as an audience.
But there is nothing illegal about that specifically.
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@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
I honestly can't believe I'm the only person who sees this for what it is.
Because there is a principal.
I think most of us here see your point - these people are making money off crooks. They target thieves as an audience.
But there is nothing illegal about that specifically.
Ok but lets look at the bank robber and get-away driver scenario.
Presumably the get-away driver is being paid. That there is the issue and thus makes the entire thing illegal. Now if DragonBox was giving these boxes away, not making a dime. Then the case would be one of just using open and freely available solutions.
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@tim_g said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
I don't agree with the whole punishing the innocent. That seems to be what's happening here.
Exactly. I'm okay with copyright law, if the LAW was followed. It is not.
I've always thought this too. The concept is fine, but it's always abused in pretty much every single case and every single way possible.
Even the concept has issues, but I'm kinda okay with it. But copyright is REALLY complicated when you actually get down to it and it doesn't work very well and never has. Technically, copyright makes things like libraries illegal.
Yes, but if I spend lots of time and money designing Object1 (then copyright it), and start selling it... someone comes along and buys it, then produces an exact copy of it, and starts selling and profiting from it himself... that's is what I feel it should stop.
See, this is a grey area for me.... I mostly see what you're saying.. but at the same time, more often than not, the law is used to stop innovation, hindering us as a people.
If you really want to keep making money from Object1, then you just have to keep innovating it so that people want yours, and not the other guys.
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@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
I honestly can't believe I'm the only person who sees this for what it is.
Because there is a principal.
I think most of us here see your point - these people are making money off crooks. They target thieves as an audience.
But there is nothing illegal about that specifically.
Ok but lets look at the bank robber and get-away driver scenario.
Presumably the get-away driver is being paid. That there is the issue and thus makes the entire thing illegal. Now if DragonBox was giving these boxes away, not making a dime. Then the case would be one of just using open and freely available solutions.
If DragonBox was giving it away free, they would still be getting sued. Napster was given away free, and they were sued.
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@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@scottalanmiller said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
I don't agree with the whole punishing the innocent. That seems to be what's happening here.
Exactly. I'm okay with copyright law, if the LAW was followed. It is not.
I've always thought this too. The concept is fine, but it's always abused in pretty much every single case and every single way possible.
Even the concept has issues, but I'm kinda okay with it. But copyright is REALLY complicated when you actually get down to it and it doesn't work very well and never has. Technically, copyright makes things like libraries illegal.
Yes, but if I spend lots of time and money designing Object1 (then copyright it), and start selling it... someone comes along and buys it, then produces an exact copy of it, and starts selling and profiting from it himself... that's is what I feel it should stop.
See, this is a grey area for me.... I mostly see what you're saying.. but at the same time, more often than not, the law is used to stop innovation, hindering us as a people.
If you really want to keep making money from Object1, then you just have to keep innovating it so that people want yours, and not the other guys.
In my scenario, it was copied and not changed, and then resold... that is what should be illegal.
But if someone bought Object1, and made it better... fair game.
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How do you not see the ISPs as just as complicit in this issue?
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And on the point of the get-away driver. There is nothing illegal about driving a car with passengers.
What is illegal is the act of helping them to get away with the crime. That is the accomplice part, they (dragonbox) is an accomplice to the people that are stealing the content from the content developers.
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@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
I honestly can't believe I'm the only person who sees this for what it is.
Because there is a principal.
I think most of us here see your point - these people are making money off crooks. They target thieves as an audience.
But there is nothing illegal about that specifically.
Ok but lets look at the bank robber and get-away driver scenario.
Presumably the get-away driver is being paid. That there is the issue and thus makes the entire thing illegal. Now if DragonBox was giving these boxes away, not making a dime. Then the case would be one of just using open and freely available solutions.
If DragonBox was giving it away free, they would still be getting sued. Napster was given away free, and they were sued.
Napster was sued because they had the ability to stop theft and didn't. Look at the court summary, it's explained in plain text there.
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@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
And on the point of the get-away driver. There is nothing illegal about driving a car with passengers.
What is illegal is the act of helping them to get away with the crime. That is the accomplice part, they (dragonbox) is an accomplice to the people that are stealing the content from the content developers.
I'd say timing is a HUGE factor here. The driver in your example is helping them knowingly during the crime.. escaping is likely still part of crime.
But with Dragon.. they sell you a box, and from then on, they aren't part of the equation.
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@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
How do you not see the ISPs as just as complicit in this issue?
The same reason that I can't call the road an accomplice to the get-away driver.
It's there, it isn't assisting in some active way. It was built for the purposes of getting things from Point A to Point B. It wasn't build to assist in theft.
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@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
And on the point of the get-away driver. There is nothing illegal about driving a car with passengers.
What is illegal is the act of helping them to get away with the crime. That is the accomplice part, they (dragonbox) is an accomplice to the people that are stealing the content from the content developers.
The object doesn't do anything at all, until a person actually commits a crime.
In the getaway driver scenario, it's the action. The dragonbox doesn't do anything illegal until you make it.
Just like the car doesn't do anything. The getaway driver scenario is like suing Ford or Chevy... because it's the person driving it who is doing the criminal act.
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@dashrender said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Straming Services, and Copyright:
And on the point of the get-away driver. There is nothing illegal about driving a car with passengers.
What is illegal is the act of helping them to get away with the crime. That is the accomplice part, they (dragonbox) is an accomplice to the people that are stealing the content from the content developers.
I'd say timing is a HUGE factor here. The driver in your example is helping them knowingly during the crime.. escaping is likely still part of crime.
But with Dragon.. they sell you a box, and from then on, they aren't part of the equation.
OK lets take a look at this
Nothing illegal in calling for a Uber to arrive at X time, the driver in this case has no clue who they are picking up (this would be an ISP). Just a location and a time to arrive, where to come from and go to.
That doesn't make the driver an accomplice.
