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Re: [h2o-discuss] more edges to IPR: we own the assassination... copyright for snuff films
hey eric...
i'm not sure which is worse... the police posting the photos on their
site... the fact that they have a site... or the lame justification:
'It's like walking around with the front page of the Daily News asking,
`Do you
recognize this guy?'''
yeah... that's a good analogy... only if you think that the police have
an automatic and un-challengeable right to appropriate/ confiscate and
then 're-present' or re-publish 'data' originally presented in one form
( and 'owned/controlled' by someone else) in a completely different
context and framing and 'medium' with completely different access and
circulation characteristics... i beg to differ...
how many 'baby steps' is it to confiscating 'home videos' according to
some kind of 'eminent domain' or 'public necessity' and streaming those
on the web site?... let's see ... that would be like walking around with
someone's personal notebook and asking -- do you recognize this guy?
i hope someone gets 'mis-recognized' and harassed and then they sue the
hell out of the police department... now that's a proper use of
lawyers.. :)
here's an appropriate next step: stream the video from the cameras
they're installing at all the intersections to nab the 'red light
running' criminals (in san francisco; all over san diego; elsewhere?)
directly to the internet for appropriate vigilante action...
or why not just stream a complete coverage network of surveillance video
on a 24 hour basis so that at every moment someone will be watching...
everyone... everywhere... i can feel a new cable channel ...
coming soon...
re: zapruder... i'm very glad you pointed out the angle on 'the raw
film' == source versus the uses of the (virtual, now digital) 'images'
-- (two modes of which can sometimes be separated: control and profit
) because that flew right by when i noticed that this morning... i was
thinking about that from the angle of this 'arbitration board' --
however that was constituted-- (sort of in reference to the MANDATORY
dispute resolution procedures that still seem to be a part of the ICANN
WIPO wipeout in process ) -- one of whose members... the dissenter...
thought that the amount, 18 mill, 'was just too high'... all i can say
is that he must have been 'just too high'... are you crazy? the
zapruder film? with all the 100 gazillionaires floating around? it
might as well be the shroud of turin... the fetish object to end all
fetish objects...
but that, and the 'state of washington' problem, actually brings up
this whole thing about focusing on 'the source' in 'open source' that i
think is a very similar kind of fetish but w/ more destructive
consequences... the main one being focusing all this 'anal' attention ,
effort , rhetoric, resources on the wrong thing: the pristine 'ur-bits'
... caught by the final, low-level impulse of syntax/ materiality trying
to maintain itself against looming (inevitable) 'virtuality' ... or in
other words: the 'source code' is not the 'source'... it's already a
derivative product/ deposit/ inscription/ residue... EMULSION... the
real value is in the semantic/ functional/ operational/ knowledge/
'meta' level that the source is only a 'dead' (static) material trace
of...
and the reason that understanding is vitally important can be seen in
this whole UCITA nightmare, the truly scary parts of which have nothing
to do w/ any kinds of licensing or copyright or 'material' = code
control and 'management' provisions... bad as those are... but with the
parts about 'reverse engineering'... which attempt to restrict the
development and expression of the semantic / 'knowledge layer' and
amount to an insidious attempt at mind control... don't even think about
how this works... or it's structure and function... or architecture...
anyway... oh ... the answer to the hypothetical... the outgoing gov is
thrown in jail for terminal mal-feasance for allowing 1B$ to be paid for
the MS 'site license to make a killing' in the first place... and the
source code is kept in a hermetically sealed set of jars in the gates
mansion under fort knox conditions with a 'doomsday device' set to
automatically trigger...
on a related subject:
pirates of silicon valley is on tnt again tonight... the most
insightful history of our times yet produced...
--
mark 'marcello' weitzel, cco
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