User talk:Crosbie Fitch

Schroedinger's Copyright

I'm afraid the article is going to be deleted. Still, an interesting observation you made there. Are you, as far as you know, the first one to observe this dilemma? Lambiam^Talk 21:54, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, indeed. I have now posted a small article on my proto-blog: http://www.digitalproductions.co.uk/index.php?id=11

I've just realised the DMCA is flawed having been created from a highly polarised perspective of IP producers vs IP consumers, i.e. the erroneous assumption is that egalitarian law can be made to give the former a privilege not enjoyed by the latter.

This comes from the entrenched mentality that Internet users are just as much passive consumers as television subscribers, when in fact, everyone is a copyright holder, because everyone is an artist. To create is human.

Crosbie Fitch 14:48, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the 'talk thingie': there are basically two ways of doing this. The most common seems to be the one in which each sender edits the talk page of the recipient, who then will get a "You have a new message" banner on the next page they visit. A disadvantage is that the dialogue is spread out over more than one page, making it hard to follow for a third party -- note that all is public -- and if it is a "polylogue" (more than two parties), it gets very awkward for the participants themselves. But typically user talk pages are used only for 2-logues. An other approach in common use is to keep the discussion on one page, typically that of the initial recipient. It is the recipient, of course, who determines where they reply; if they prefer to answer on their own talk page, they will advertise that at the top. Finally, there are a few who go to the effort of doing both: they keep an identical record of the entire dialogue on the talk pages of both others involved.

I routinely add talk pages where I post a comment to my "watchlist", so I did in fact see a change to your talk page, which happened to be your reply.

Further, it is common to offset a reply by indenting it. I took the liberty of applying that typographical convention to your reply. On multi-party talk pages, such as those for articles nominated for deletion, each reaction to a posting gets one level more of indentation than the one it is a reaction to, until the indents run too deep and someone goes back to a low indentation level. In dialogues like this, it is more common to zigzag between flush with the margin and indented.

As to the original subject matter, I agree that the DMCA is deeply flawed and very one-sided in favour of the producers (read: the big guys) and tramples the rights of the consumers and actually also small producers. This was clear in advance; the EFF gave a good analysis of what was wrong with the Act, but to no avail. Lambiam^Talk 16:52, 28 April 2006 (UTC)