{"id":1358,"date":"2002-01-19T10:44:45","date_gmt":"2002-01-19T15:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2002-01-19T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2002-01-19T15:44:45","slug":"tanstaafl_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/19\/tanstaafl_2.html","title":{"rendered":"TANSTAAFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, as it&#8217;s spelled out, There Ain&#8217;t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.<\/p>\n<p>I am, in principle at least, a believer in copyright and intellectual property.  The idea that, &#8220;Hey, this copyrighted piece of music has been digitized, therefore I can make all the free copies of it I want,&#8221; has never made much sense to me, even if I&#8217;ve not always been a paragon of virtue in this area.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the Big Soulless Corporations who own the rights to so much music, video, etc., have been anything but good poster children for intellectual property.  Instead, they&#8217;ve come across, time and again, as greedy scumbags who aren&#8217;t interested in art, just in raking in oodles of bucks from it.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, I find it very interesting that Phillips, who &#8220;owns&#8221; the standard for Compact Discs, and thus the CD logo, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/4\/23736.html\">now decided<\/a> that copy-protected CDs are <i>not<\/i>, in fact, CDs, since they are not written to the standard.  Not only do they not want music companies to use the CD logo on copy-protected CDs, but they&#8217;re actually angling to have a disclaimer printed on each one that doesn&#8217;t meet the standard, so that customers know that, even though it looks like a CD and is sold like a CD, it&#8217;s not, officially, a CD.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting times ahead.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucky8ball.com\/wordsmeanthings\/index.cfm?postID=801\">Words Mean Things<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, as it&#8217;s spelled out, There Ain&#8217;t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. I am, in principle at least, a believer in copyright and intellectual property. 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