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Old 01-23-2012, 10:24 PM   #1
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SOPA and PIPA: What Went Wrong? | PCWorld Business Center

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Old 01-24-2012, 09:01 AM   #3
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Excellent stuff. I would recommend anyone interested to read through the first link and then follow the links through to the pieces by Freakonomics.com and the gentleman from the Cato institute. Both do a good job explaining why piracy and its effects are seriously misunderstood...mostly through incorrect propaganda perpetuated by the content-industry, either in a deceptive manner or simply out of ignorance.

Most research shows that piracy has no effect on an economy as a consumer who would have spent money on content, who then downloads something for free, then has that "saved" money to spend elsewhere in the economy.
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Ah yes, I found the same article yesterday. It's funny how the motion picture association got started on the premise of.........stealing other people's ideas!!!
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Possibly dangerous but also could go a long way towards improving society. This is basicaly the end game of file sharing.

Next Frontier in Piracy: Downloading Physical Objects to Your 3D Printer | Techland | TIME.com

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We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare parts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.
It's like, imagine if you only had to pay for housing, medical care, and services? People would have more disposable income. Less people would go hungry. I haven't thought it out fully but it seems like a good thing. Then again if you can download guns and keys.

Read more: Next Frontier in Piracy: Downloading Physical Objects to Your 3D Printer | Techland | TIME.com
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Possibly dangerous but also could go a long way towards improving society. This is basicaly the end game of file sharing.

Next Frontier in Piracy: Downloading Physical Objects to Your 3D Printer | Techland | TIME.com

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It's like, imagine if you only had to pay for housing, medical care, and services? People would have more disposable income. Less people would go hungry. I haven't thought it out fully but it seems like a good thing. Then again if you can download guns and keys.

Read more: Next Frontier in Piracy: Downloading Physical Objects to Your 3D Printer | Techland | TIME.com
Free copper pipes. Now, how do you print out the copper? Sounds more like sci-fi to me.
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Wow...imagine porn.......
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Wow...imagine porn.......
Ha ha. I'm reminded of a quote from Frasier.

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Ha ha. I'm reminded of a quote from Frasier.

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hahahaha!!!! Man I miss that show!!
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Possibly dangerous but also could go a long way towards improving society. This is basicaly the end game of file sharing.

Next Frontier in Piracy: Downloading Physical Objects to Your 3D Printer | Techland | TIME.com

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It's like, imagine if you only had to pay for housing, medical care, and services? People would have more disposable income. Less people would go hungry. I haven't thought it out fully but it seems like a good thing. Then again if you can download guns and keys.

Read more: Next Frontier in Piracy: Downloading Physical Objects to Your 3D Printer | Techland | TIME.com
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If everything is free then no one will make anything, innovate anything, do anything.
It's impossible for everything to be free (roads come to mind). And it would be even more dangerous for physical objects to be downloaded. If you could replicate food you could also replicate drugs. If you could replicate precious metals then you could also replicate guns. Also regulation of food, air pollution, drugs, medicine. I don't know maybe we're in a time where we can't even think of something like that.

However lack of profit motive doesn't necessarily mean that innovation would stop. People need something do and what once would have been a job in this hypothetical scenario would become a hobby. Windows becomes Linux so to speak.

By the way I'm not totally endorsing it. It would be way to much for the world to handle. However it is interesting to think about.
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Polish members of Parliment wear makeshift Guy Fawkes to protest ACTA.


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Poland signs copyright treaty that drew protests - KRLA 870
If I understand correctly ACTA has already been signed by the US. However it obviously hasn't been passed fully. I think June is when the stuff is going to start to hit the fan and the protest are going to come out in full force seeing as how thats when the EU parliament will vote on ratification.

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And it would be even more dangerous for physical objects to be downloaded. If you could replicate food you could also replicate drugs. If you could replicate precious metals then you could also replicate guns. Also regulation of food, air pollution, drugs, medicine. I don't know maybe we're in a time where we can't even think of something like that.
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