Mike you make it sound like the CSIRO is suing anyone who built on top of their work (implying the 'on top' part is the most important).
Rather than suing a company that used the CSIRO's inovation without paying for a license.
There is a difference between taking existing technology and finding an new use AND adding someone else's new inovation/improvement to your existing product.
What exactly did these companies ADD to the CSIRO's work?
Turbine has reported a 40% growth in subscriptions since F2P.
Sounds great, but still unanswered is how much impact will the Turbine v Atari lawsuit have on the game?
[given that Turbine has said Atari must OK all new content and if Atari is correct in the audit, Atari could terminate the licensing contract.]
These lawsuits are about damage to your reputation.
Consider the case of Dow Jones v J Gutnik. Gutnik has a reputation in Australia but not much of one in the US.
Seems reasonable that he would sue in Australia, where his reputation was most damaged.
Seems unreasonable that a company can profit by destroying his reputation untruthfully, but have no liability simply because the company is registered in the US.
Looks like US telecoms have been taking lessons from Australia's Telstra.
Probably after talking to Sol Trujillo and his Amigos (now he has taken the Au$3 mill golden handshake to go away).
Make the user sign up for 12 to 24 months contracts and have to pay a huge fee to cancel.
On entry level plans put a 300Mb/month cap (up + down) and charge Au$150 / Gb extra.
Then exclude Telstra 'pay to use' content from the quota to encourage use of Telstra's expensive walled garden.
This catches out new to broadband users and leaves them with no way out.
Telstra also refused to fix faults on copper lines and installs 'pair gain' systems (on which only Telstra can supply access) to ensure it maintains a customer base.
I was involved in creating an SMS system to alert online share traders of activity on their account in real time, including that a conditional trade requirement had been met.
We finished this in 2004 and it has been in production ever since.
Telstra in Australia has 'broadband' plans starting at 400Mb and excess useage up to Au$500 / Gb for ADSL!
Telstra also charges for uploads.
Telstra offers a movie download service, crippled with DRM (so the movie can not be played after 48 hours). Telstra also offers sporting event through the major (only) pay TV company.
These do not count towards your limit.
This way Telstra has created the true walled internet garden, only dreamed of by other ISPs.
Add to this that Telstra owns the only copper network in Australia (and will refuse to connect/repair/install at a whim).
Like most countries this is about politicians LOOKING like they are doing something worthwhile but not upsetting anyone important.
I spend a few weeks in Thailand each year visiting my sister.
Most Thai's do not have (powerful) PCs and use internet gaming cafes. GTA disks could be bought in most shopping centers for about 100 THB (~US$3).
Don't blame the Thais. Thailand is the country where the military leaders went to the king to ask permission to stage a coup. With the king's OK the coup succeeded with no shots fired.
As Australia has less than 10% the population of the US we have very little market power to leverage against these companies.
Many online companies bluff us out. The companies know we have little choice (isolation and market share) and take advantage of Australian consumers.
I am glad an Australian government body enforces the local laws, especially when they defend the Australian consumer against a multinational.
I think Australians would have much less trouble with these type of issues if the US government protected the US consumer as well as the ACCC does us.
“Moreover, as all competent security people know, there is no correlation between popularity and susceptibility.”
We also know that as the popularity of an OS increases so does the amount of malware that targets it.
Much of the reason many OSs are considered ‘safe’ is that no one bothers to investigate / create attack methods for them.
If these ‘secure’ OSs had the same market share (== probability of finding a target fro your malware) as Windows then they would have many more security vulnerabilities exposed.
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Re: The CSIRO Patent Looks Even Worse The More Closely You Examine It. (as TechNoFear)
Don't you have a masters in Anthropology?
I suggest you don't make sarcastic jokes about other cultures, unless you do your research first.
I suppose it shows the difference between people with only theoretical knowledge and those with real world experience.
BTW If you submitted your masters in '88, I an half a decade older than you.
Re: Re: (as TechNoFear)
Mike you make it sound like the CSIRO is suing anyone who built on top of their work (implying the 'on top' part is the most important).
Rather than suing a company that used the CSIRO's inovation without paying for a license.
There is a difference between taking existing technology and finding an new use AND adding someone else's new inovation/improvement to your existing product.
What exactly did these companies ADD to the CSIRO's work?
Re: Patent Fraud By The State. (as TechNoFear)
"Cockney in Australia,"
How can we trust you to get your facts right when you can't even get the origin of a simple accent right?
Cockney (rhyming slang) is English (UK) not Australian. ['Ocker']
I also fail to see how a 1979 text could possibly mention the speed issues caused by relected radio waves the CSIRO solved.
(as TechNoFear)
Turbine has reported a 40% growth in subscriptions since F2P.
Sounds great, but still unanswered is how much impact will the Turbine v Atari lawsuit have on the game?
[given that Turbine has said Atari must OK all new content and if Atari is correct in the audit, Atari could terminate the licensing contract.]
You again obsfucate the point..... (as TechNoFear)
This all started because Lily said 50c was harming the music industry by distributing his work legally for free (using TechDirt without a ref).
It is therefor a mute point as the the legality of the downloads Lily was offering.
Lily was, in her words, harming the music industry to promote her own sales (while telling others to stop).
re (as TechNoFear)
Shouldn't Lily's priority have been to stop distributing the suspect content?
The mixtapes are still available (when I post this) but she has taken the time to remove the blog.
Lets hope she stops impacting on others ability to make a living and benefit from the fruits of thier labour soon.
Google is your friend... (as TechNoFear)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1215725/Lily-Allen-declares-quitting-music-career-actin g.html
Lily Quits Music (as TechNoFear)
According to the English press Lily Allen has quit music.
No more tours or albums.
But is continuing the blog to stop the 'biggest threat to British music's future'?
But the blog is already gone?
Colour me confused....
Re: (as TechNoFear)
Another interesting ethical issue is insisting people to hold to standards you yourself do not adhere to.
Lily is clearly distributing free music while tell us it is wrong and harmful to do so.
Before we play semantics;
I am not a rock star, politician or lawyer, who it appears, can get away with this behavior.
I design safety systems for heavy machinery, so dishonesty on my part can have spectacular consequences.
(as technofear)
These lawsuits are about damage to your reputation.
Consider the case of Dow Jones v J Gutnik. Gutnik has a reputation in Australia but not much of one in the US.
Seems reasonable that he would sue in Australia, where his reputation was most damaged.
Seems unreasonable that a company can profit by destroying his reputation untruthfully, but have no liability simply because the company is registered in the US.
Taking Lessons from Telstra (as TechNoFear)
Looks like US telecoms have been taking lessons from Australia's Telstra.
Probably after talking to Sol Trujillo and his Amigos (now he has taken the Au$3 mill golden handshake to go away).
Make the user sign up for 12 to 24 months contracts and have to pay a huge fee to cancel.
On entry level plans put a 300Mb/month cap (up + down) and charge Au$150 / Gb extra.
Then exclude Telstra 'pay to use' content from the quota to encourage use of Telstra's expensive walled garden.
This catches out new to broadband users and leaves them with no way out.
Telstra also refused to fix faults on copper lines and installs 'pair gain' systems (on which only Telstra can supply access) to ensure it maintains a customer base.
Ban GUNS not GAMES (as TechNoFear)
Why is it that after these incidents the most vocal crowd asks for games to be banned, not GUNS?
Without the guns this would not have been any where near as horrific, no matter how violent (if at all) playing a game had made the shooter.
I suppose it is because the game critics are scared the gun nuts might get violent if you try to disarm them...
Prior Art, I have some.... (as TechNoFear)
I was involved in creating an SMS system to alert online share traders of activity on their account in real time, including that a conditional trade requirement had been met.
We finished this in 2004 and it has been in production ever since.
Welcome to Australian Broadband! (as TechNoFear)
I think Techdirt misses the point....
How can you make a walled garden, ie encourage your customers to consume your content/ads in preference to the general content?
Easy. Charge them to download other content, except your own by creating 'free' to download zones.
Spend a few hours on the tower of power... (as TechNoFear)
You can't write a chord ugly enough to say what you want sometimes, so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
- Frank Zappa
Aussie Telstra started this years ago... (as TechNoFear)
Telstra in Australia has 'broadband' plans starting at 400Mb and excess useage up to Au$500 / Gb for ADSL!
Telstra also charges for uploads.
Telstra offers a movie download service, crippled with DRM (so the movie can not be played after 48 hours). Telstra also offers sporting event through the major (only) pay TV company.
These do not count towards your limit.
This way Telstra has created the true walled internet garden, only dreamed of by other ISPs.
Add to this that Telstra owns the only copper network in Australia (and will refuse to connect/repair/install at a whim).
See the problem?
Thai politicians (as TechNoFear)
Like most countries this is about politicians LOOKING like they are doing something worthwhile but not upsetting anyone important.
I spend a few weeks in Thailand each year visiting my sister.
Most Thai's do not have (powerful) PCs and use internet gaming cafes. GTA disks could be bought in most shopping centers for about 100 THB (~US$3).
Don't blame the Thais. Thailand is the country where the military leaders went to the king to ask permission to stage a coup. With the king's OK the coup succeeded with no shots fired.
(as technofear)
Welcome to the Australian broadband experience, where an extra GB can cost up to Au$300.
Some 'broadband' plans are 256Kbit/sec with 300Mb, counting uploads and downloads.
Market Power (as TechNoFear)
Mike >
As Australia has less than 10% the population of the US we have very little market power to leverage against these companies.
Many online companies bluff us out. The companies know we have little choice (isolation and market share) and take advantage of Australian consumers.
I am glad an Australian government body enforces the local laws, especially when they defend the Australian consumer against a multinational.
I think Australians would have much less trouble with these type of issues if the US government protected the US consumer as well as the ACCC does us.
Popularity does indirectly correlate to susceptibi (as Technofear)
“Moreover, as all competent security people know, there is no correlation between popularity and susceptibility.”
We also know that as the popularity of an OS increases so does the amount of malware that targets it.
Much of the reason many OSs are considered ‘safe’ is that no one bothers to investigate / create attack methods for them.
If these ‘secure’ OSs had the same market share (== probability of finding a target fro your malware) as Windows then they would have many more security vulnerabilities exposed.
Why spend time creating malware that attacks