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Which was the origin of Hollywood? I have read what wikipedia says in the third paragraph of the previous link:
Various producers and filmmakers moved bases from the east coast to escape punitive licensing from the Motion Picture Patents Company.
A funny reading of that can be, the ones who nowadays are "injured" due to the piracy have started their business with tricks to avoid payments on a patent. The ones who nowadays are moving the flag about the intellectual property menace against piracy, they was the ones who escape the law.
Sure this doesn't represent all the entertainment industry, but even thinking that the ones who escape from this punitive licensing are a minority of this producers and filmmakers, their group origins are "affected" by that.
Many voices, victim like, are justifying the FBI action of the shutdown of megaupload to say that this place is stealing their incomings. But what about the people, with contents in megaupload without a problem of copyright that with this action are being affected? This action is affecting people with less money than the entertainment industry, but the police is not protecting them.
Furthermore, what's the cost of this international operation? Are the governments of this world expending the same number of money trying to clarify the world's bank crisis/fraud? Are this governments fighting against speculation on the markets, specially in the field of the price of the food? Although the money doesn't exist, the cost of the banks black hole is much bigger than the calculated to eradicate the world's poverty in less than one generation.
It is also ridiculous to see the public show on the TVs with images of the big house of the main boss of megaupload (how big is the house, the number of cars he have and the words he put in the plates, his eccentricities in an european cannonball, the guns he would have at home,...). But what do you expect to find in the big houses of the bosses of the entertainment and similar industries? Do they have less eccentricities? They can't reach the end of the month with their salaries?
It looks like a try to break the public image of this people. It remembers me the George Orwel's 1984. When the people was arrested, a long list of bad actions are repeated everywhere to criminalize the person.
I'm not defending, I'm only talking about the public circus created to change/manipulate opinions. This action is not to fix the problems for the common good, it's only to improve the incomings of the ones who have lots of it.
Today is one of the days where many internet services are protesting against SOPA (Stop On-line Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act). In Spain there is also a similar Act under the name "ley Sinde". There are many reasons to protest to some law like this ones.
Why the governments are acting against the intellectual property issues harder than the economical fraud?
What is worst, do not pay the contribution to the state or to referee here to hamlet:
Hamlet:
Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a
breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest;
but yet I could accuse me of such things that it
were better my mother had not borne me: I am very
proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at
my beck than I have thoughts to put them in,
imagination to give them shape, or time to act them
in. What should such fellows as I do crawling
between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves,
all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.
Where's your father?
Hamlet, act 3 scene 1.
Yesterday, I receive an answer from Jivson (the author of the 'ECC in OpenPGP' internet draft) from a couple of mails discussing something about how to play with the standard to made easy some future improvements.
I'm working in an improvement of the eccGnuPG project to add the feature to reset the cryptosystem using isogeny stars like Er Rostovtsev, Anton Stolbunov propouse.
To create this isogeny stars can be usefull that they have a cofactor 2 (or at most 4, like the standards recomend) in order to have easier ways to compute a path in the stars. My surprice arribes when Jivson draws me the attention on the point that cofactor division is under a patent.
I trust on it, but I cannot find this yet. Maybe this idea with I'm working now, will be patented by someone else some day. And I can be obligated again to drop some work because an stupid patent. This is the third time that patents bother my work on elliptic curves.
This is incredible, simply unacceptable.
A few days before the ephemeris of the expiration of the RSA patent an obsolete new one arribes from Microsoft. Remember in September 20th 2000 expires a patent from the 1983 (about an algorithm invented in 1977) how license exclusivelly the rsa company to explode the use of:
c = m^e (mod n)
Patent it's suposed to mean a technological advance that the company developer needs to has an exclusive to explodes in term of refund the inversion. But if you (and me) think what can be a discover when the algorithm date from 6 years before, we will not understand about the new microsoft patent...
How can be, now a day, patented the ``Page Up'' and ``Page Down''? Read in many places about this question (spanish, english). For how long this keys are in the keyboards doing the task recently patented?
I copy this title from a FFII press release. I cannot understand the position from the EU commission, neither the concrete position from the Commissioner itself. Who is able to imagine why this European instrument (and I need to remark, it is not elected) is not defending our interests. Furthermore, if the patents could be good or not for the industry (that I am not agree on it) who an European citizen likes to facilitate a foreigner company to be payed from us. Ok, maybe this is an European company with roots on USA.
By the way, if the software patents does not exist in Europe; why a company that operates in Europe has to pay a USA patent to another company (this one that I said has roots in the Estates).
Another turn of nut, the royalties about we are talking about works in the way of the interoperability! Ok, then I am understanding the EU commission antitrust measures impose a record fine to M$ and at the same time, this organism allows this company to smother other competitors, and indirectly help to pay the fine.
Some one can explaint to me?
Actualization: I send my questions to the Spanish ffii mail list from where I read the news. In the responses someone sends this link. I don't have work to express my disgust...
