I'm quite often confused by those who consider themselves big supporters of pure free market capitalism, but who also are adamant believers in the importance of intellectual property. Perhaps the largest group of such folks are the so-called "Objectivist" followers of Ayn Rand. Capitalist Magazine is running an a href="http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5358"Objectivist defense of the recent ProIP law/a that was recently a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081013/2256222533.shtml"signed into law/a despite basically being a government handout to the entertainment industry. Stephen Kinsella has a href="http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000000190" target="_new"responded to many of the points made in the original article/a, and picks up on a key point that many defenders of intellectual property always pull out in their defense: blockquotei The creator of content owns the content because he created it through his own labor, and you should always own the fruits of your own labor. /i/blockquote The problem is this just isn't true and never has been. Simply providing the labor does not equal ownership. As Kinsella notes in his response: blockquotei His argument? "If a baker bakes a loaf of bread, he therefore owns it." And likewise, for "music, movies, software." But note the mistake here Johson makes: "If a baker bakes a loaf of bread, he btherefore/b owns it." The "therefore" is the giveaway: he says this because he thinks of the creation of the loaf as the act that gives rise to ownership. Then this leads to the analogy with other created things, like music. But creation of the loaf is not the reason why the baker owns it. He owns the loaf because he owned the dough that he baked. He already owned the dough, before any act of "creation"--before he transformed it with his labor. If he owned the dough, then he owns whatever he transforms his property into; the act of creation is an act of transformation that does not generate any new property rights. So creation is not necessary for him to own the resulting baked bread. Likewise, if he used someone else's dough--say, his employer's--then he does not own the loaf, but the owner of the dough does. So creation is not sufficient for ownership. /i/blockquote Exactly. Creation alone does not grant property rights if none existed prior to that transformation. I would even take the argument a step further. Even if you own something due to the fact that you created it, once you have igiven away/i or isold/i that product, you no longer have ownership of it -- and claiming you do actually iremoves property rights/i from the lawful owner. br /br / That is, if I make a loaf of bread, and then sell it to someone, I no longer have control over that loaf of bread. I cannot tell the new owner that he can only make French toast with it and cannot feed the bread to the pigeons. That's for the new owner to determine. I certainly cannot tell him that he cannot take the bread and try to resell it or even give it away to others. That's part of the free market. Yet, intellectual property enthusiasts ido/i want to remove these property rights from the recipients of icopies/i of the original good. Despite their claims of being property rights supporters, they are actually the opposite. They are trying to deny property rights to any recipient.br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081123/1245112929.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081123/1245112929.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081123/1245112929op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=cb167aa87f434f4c3b391f009570800ap=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=cb167aa87f434f4c3b391f009570800ap=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=cb167aa87f434f4c3b391f009570800a" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=IyBBo"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=IyBBo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/472662031" height="1" width="1"/

A sports-team owner, a financial-firm executive and residents of Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia were among 2,702 millionaire recipients of farm payments from 2003 to 2006 - and it's not even clear they were legitimate farmers, congressional investigators reported Monday. nbsp; nbsp; They probably were ineligible, but the Agriculture Department can't confirm that, since officials never checked their incomes, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said.

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Recently i did some large text to send to multiple people... I was wondering if my iphone or att dont handle this large text and the people that i sent the text would not receive it... or if the people i sent (work) are lying about not receiving them and they are being lousy and dont want to do their work.

So the main question is...

making large text and sending them to multiple recipients wont work and how this works?
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When TorrentFreak broke the news that lawyers had started going after alleged downloaders of gay porn, we knew that this time the anti-piracy dynamic would be different. Named in Forbes’ Web Celeb 25, Violet Blue, a sex columnist and educator has surprisingly added her dissenting voice into the mix, unwittingly highlighting similarities to a story put to paper years ago by writer Roald Dahl.

For those that have been hiding under stone recently, here’s a summary. In a break from going after alleged games pirates, and what is being viewed by some as a cynical ploy to force ’settlement by embarrassment’, UK lawyers Davenport Lyons have started targeting people its client DigiProtect says have been pirating their porn on file-sharing networks. DigiProtect’s company slogan is: “Turning Piracy Into Profit”. There can be little doubt that they are trying to do just that.

When we broke the news on 18 November we noted that things would be very different this time, particularly when the frailties of the evidence gathering were exposed by the wrongful accusation of innocent parties.

It didn’t take long. On 29 November The Guardian reported that a couple in their sixties were horrified that they had been wrongfully accused of illegally sharing the gay porn movie Army Fuckers.

Many people have commented on these developments, and now it’s the turn of a sex writer. Placed by Forbes in their Web Celeb 25 and named by Wired in their Faces of Innovation 2008, Violet Blue is, amongst seemingly a million other things, sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and a best seling author. She also lectures cyber-law classes at UC Berkeley and is a Geek Entertainment TV reporter.

Writing in her blog, Violet Blue headlines her article “The New Face of Porn Racketeering?” Pointing out that this isn’t just any old porn, but “a Nazi gay male hardcore flick”, she goes on:

It’s sort of like if someone came up to you on the street and said, ‘hey I think you slandered me in a way that could be really embarrassing to you if anyone found out — but if you give me a couple hundred bucks, I won’t take you to court [where you’d lose even more money].’

Having enjoyed the work of writer Roald Dahl in both written and TV form (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach and the genius of Tales of the Unexpected), Violet’s description of how she sees this operation reminded me again of something i’d mused upon earlier.

In 1987, Playboy published a short story by Dahl, entitled The Bookseller. The story features a gentleman called William Buggage who ran a rare book shop in London with his secretary Miss Tottle. Their business model was a little unconventional. Every day the pair read the newspaper obituaries looking for the deaths of married men who had left a wife behind. Armed with this information, they would send invoices to the grieving widows demanding payment for books their husbands had supposedly ordered. The books contained European hardcore pornography and ’sexual deviance’. Rather than face the ruination and humiliation of being named in court or the press, the widows would quietly pay up.

Those familiar with Dahl’s work will know that this master story teller is famous for the ‘twists’ revealed at the end of his stories, and The Bookseller is no different. In the end, Mr Buggage and Miss Tottle were found out when they tried to get money from a widow who revealed that her husband - far from quietly titillating himself with porn - was in fact, blind.

While most people acknowledge that Davenport Lyons have made some pretty big mistakes, no-one is suggesting that they or their clients simply make things up. However, for every set of allegations they get right (around 50% admit infringement and pay up), they absolutely get some wrong. They wouldn’t have expected that their allegations of sharing Atari’s Race 07 would’ve landed on the mat of a pair of pensioners and we will see if they choose to withdraw the allegations that the other pair of pensioners shared Army Fuckers. At the moment they find themselves in the position of the blind man - in receipt of a sordid accusation against them and absolutely no way of defending themselves.

In a statement to The Guardian, Davenport Lyons said: “We allow ample opportunity for the recipient to respond, and if they have done nothing wrong they have no reason to be concerned.”

The truth is much less straightforward. No matter how people defend themselves in the face of these allegations, Davenport Lyons continually argue that they are right, and the accused is wrong. When I pointed out the Dahl story to someone involved in the cases, this was the reply, which is an adaptation of a real response to those who try to plead their innocence:

It’s a shame for Mr. Buggage and Miss Tottle they didn’t have the knowledge and expertise of messrs Davenport Lyons. They could have easily argued in that case that “it is irrelevant for the purposes of our clients evidence how the European books of pornography and sexual deviance (”the Work”) came to be acquired in your blind late husband’s name. What our client’s evidence shows is that the Work was made available from an Internet connection registered in your late blind husband’s name on a certain date and time”

But while there are certain similarities with Dahl’s story, one point appears entirely mirrored. While the widows in The Bookseller pay up to avoid appearing in the press, those wrongfully accused by Davenport Lyons are going to the press for protection. Those that don’t have age on their side don’t find the going quite so easy.

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/9045?ns=guardianpageName=Comment+is+free%3A+Squires+and+steeplesch=Comment+is+freec3=The+Guardianc4=Christmas+%28Life+and+style%29%2CLife+and+stylec5=Not+commercially+useful%2CChristmasc6=Kathryn+Hughesc7=2008_12_01c8=1126677c9=articlec10=GUc11=Comment+is+freec12=blogc13=c14=Comment+is+freeh2=GU%2FComment+is+free%2Fblog%2FComment+is+free" width="1" height="1" //divpThere is nothing quite so potent as cheap Christmas cards. I don't mean charity cards, the sort that offer tasteful woodcuts, sharp contemporary graphics or well-done reproductions of old masters in return for your contribution to cerebral palsy or clean water. What I'm talking about are those cards that annually reshuffle a tiny repertoire of wayside inns, robins and snow-banked cottages, and then brazenly keep all the profits for themselves. The kind of cards, mostly found in large assortment boxes, that remain blithely confident that nothing says Christmas quite as instantly as the steeple of a country church smeared with some dandruffy glitter./ppWhat's striking is how all these favoured images hail from Britain's pre-industrial past. So you'll see cottages rather than suburban villas, pheasants instead of turkeys, coaching inns rather than railway stations. There may be squires and parsons and even a Regency buck, but you'll search in vain for a factory manager or his clerk. There could be some peasants, skating across a low, frozen pond, but nary a factory worker in sight. It's as if Christmas can only happen in a land known as Once Upon A Time. /ppThe irony is, of course, that nothing about Christmas is quite so modern as this custom of sending cards. In 1843, the busy public servant Henry Cole realised that he didn't have time to do the usual seasonal touching base with his vast social and professional network. So instead he commissioned an artist to knock up something suitable and then mailed it out to everyone in his address book. Sharp-eyed commentators couldn't help noticing that Cole was the man who had recently helped set up the penny post. What better advertisement for the system's reach and efficiency than an annual blizzard of envelopes arriving on the nation's doormat? /ppSo as far as conservative souls were concerned, this new custom of sending Christmas cards represented everything that was offputting about the modern industrial age. It substituted impersonal contact for face-to-face sociability. Instead of the personal letter or a firm handshake, there was a mean piece of pasteboard handed to you by a servant of the state. The cards themselves smacked of the tradesman's quarterly bill, and there was something intrusive and coy about the lisping hope that the recipient might enjoy "every health and happiness" over the next year. /ppNo wonder that it took about 30 years for the idea to catch on. For it was not until the 1870s that the nation got into the habit of exchanging illustrated bits of card each December with their entire social and professional network. No wonder, too, that after an early flirtation with a range of visual material, the Christmas card settled into endlessly circulated images of Britain from an earlier, pre-industrial age. It was as if the only way to offset the essential anomie of the Christmas card was to load it with images from a time when the bonds between people were organic and unforced. The wayside inn spoke of a habitual sociability between strangers; the partridge suggested a natural world that marched to its own seasonal rhythms; the village church stood for a community that honoured the hierarchical social bonds which Cole, with his tradesman's sensibilities, had cut across so crassly. /ppAnd yet the fact that all these steeples and game birds and hostelries remain so prominently in circulation suggests their continuing cultural punch. For if the images really had ceased to mean anything, they would surely have quietly disappeared long before now. Just perhaps, deep down, we recognise and value them as symbols of social and ecological continuity. 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