When will we stop hobbling ourselves with copyright? It's used to harass people or guarantee profits (or both; the evidence that copyright infringement has an effect on profits is debatable).
The failed business models of publishers is not my problem.
Judge Rules Against Grooveshark in Copyright Infringement Case
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Re: Judge Rules Against Grooveshark in Copyright Infringement Case
#52Why do you link to websites with a paywall?
Most advanced paywall companies have a feature that enable premium content publishers to make exceptions to the paywall for referral links. Yes, they want subscribers. But they still want to drive traffic from social sharing.
Re: Judge Rules Against Grooveshark in Copyright Infringement Case
#53Content, like code, should be free! We also need a judge somewhere to rule against the shark who hijacked the Groovy codebase and turned it all into something it wasn't originally intended to be - surely that's a copyright infringement. Instead of a specified language with many open source implementations and much documentation as per its creator's vision, it's all being controlled by one corporate with hardly anyone…
Content, like code, should be priced at the level the creator wishes it to be while considering the price the market is willing to pay.
> [...] while considering the price the market is willing to pay
What about considering the cost of enforcement? Content "creators" in Hollywood and CBS et al offload their enforcement costs to U.S. government agencies which are funded by tax-payers, not those "creators" (though in fact those "creators" are really content copiers most of the time).