Are the whales on Hive too big?

07:46 AM - Ecency

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I started Steemit in 2017 with no money. I don't know how much money is a lot of money but my HP is close to 1,000 HP now. I've sent some of my Hive to Bitcoin. I currently have around $1,000 USD worth of Bitcoin BTC. It appears my accounts on Bittrex and Poloniex were suspended and I had something like twice that in Bitcoin.

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But I know these are small numbers compared to whales who may have 100,000 HP or 1,000,000 HP.

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Is it possible that I could someday turn my almost 1,000 HP into 100,000 HP? I don't know but that won't stop me from trying and I find that to be worth the adventure.

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08:05 AM
​@agentcarti, do you trust AOSP, would you compare it to the likes of Ubuntu Mate?

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Copyright is insane

08:25 AM - Ecency

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I believe in the ability to take a copyrighted item and make money off it because copyright is an insane mind-fuck in logic, the history of copyright and related topics can be traced back to roughly the 1500s AD if not earlier and I've been following all of that. I mentioned the problem with copyright on the Internet.

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But on top of that, copyright can violate hard work of individuals. The line between copyright and not is blurry.

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Should Disney sue Mighty Mouse for infringing the Mickey Mouse copyright as they are both similar or how about the Mighty Ducks for using the word Mighty and should the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers then sue the Mighty Ducks and should Walker Texas Rangers then sue the Power Rangers and should the state of Texas then sue Walker Texas Rangers?

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If Donald Trump copyrighted his own image and likeness, especially if he had his own cartoon, should he then sue Stephen Colbert for his cartoon show called Our Cartoon President which uses Donald's likeness?

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Should Trump sue anybody who airs his face on TV or on the Internet? What if you are simply showing the scene he is in from Home Alone 2?

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Copyright can discourage people who may be making original work that may appear to be infringing and may not be. I find the whole thing to be crazy. I can talk all day about copyright, there are several levels to it. If you can copyright data, then you can copyright thoughts which is something Bill Gates would likely get onto since he has a patent for human crypto.

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08:47 AM
Imagine if Toyota patented the concept of the wheel and then decreed that Ford cannot use wheels for their cars. I know this is a crazy illustration but my point is copyright, patents, trademark, etc, can go overboard.

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Oh, imagine if bottled water companies patented water and declared using water illegal as water is used in their products. But I already got water inside my body. So, I guess I have to die or give the money or go to prison or something.

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I use these insane illustrations to highlight how ideas can be similar to other ideas. People steal ideas from each other all the time. But doing so can make things better. Also, it can take a lot of work to take a product, add something to it, and sell it. YouTube would include an exception to copyright that if it is transformative then it may be dismissed or whatever.

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When I was 13, I took a firefly and cricket stuffed animal and made a comic out of it. It took me a lot of work to put together my Action Strip or Action Stripe. But imagine if those two stuffed animal figures were copyrighted or whatever. Sadly, that would be a punch in my hard work.

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I find copyright to be a violation of the free market.

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Is Alex Jones a bad person?

01:47 PM - Ecency

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No.
Alex Jones helps people.
Alex said all of this would happen and had we listened, things would have been better. Alex is making more predictions about the next few years and if not enough people do what they should do, those things will happen either sooner or eventually.

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Copyright Infringement

02:26 PM - Ecency

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There is a difference between what should be copyrightable and what ends up being copyrighted, there can be the slippery slope effect as too many laws are added and that brings me up to a topic.

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I'm thinking of writing an article about some illustrations describing copyright jurisdiction and enforcement.

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Imagine aliens on Mars or other planets in other galaxies or parallel universes and dimensions. Would you try to go there and tell them they were infringing on your copyrights, patents, trademarks, intellectual property, name, reputation, etc, or would you consider any of that to be outside the jurisdiction of the copyright?

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Imagine you upload a video to YouTube in Mexico and assume the laws of that nation allows for copyright infringement and/or Fair Use Exceptions alongside the Safe Harbor Act or imagine that the video was transformative in nature or whatever exceptions to copyright there might be, and assume this nation rejects alleged international laws relating to copyright if any or anything else that might be externally capable of an attempt to interfere with the internal affairs of a specific country.

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Imagine I come from America and assume the United States has copyright laws and such, should I try to enforce such copyright onto your video in Mexico or might I be outside the jurisdiction of the copyright?

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Now, imagine the alleged copyright infringement occurs in my house in Mexico. But now imagine that half of my house is in America. Assuming my house has dual citizenship, does the copyright have jurisdiction or not?

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Now, take that same question regarding jurisdiction and all of these insane illustrations above and apply them if you might to YouTube itself. Say, for example, imagine I upload my video to YouTube Mexico and they promise the video will stay in Mexico.

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If YouTube Mexico sends the video to YouTube America or Facebook America or fill in the blank, should American lawyers try to take you to court for that video or should they go after YouTube Mexico for passing the video to America?

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Now, imagine that YouTube Mexico argues liability protection thanks to the Safe Harbor Act and who knows what else, then it is possible the lawyers would be angry and would want to punish somebody. So, they may try to go after the user.

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The next question might be, does the liability protection apply also to the users of YouTube or does it only extent to the content therein but not the external parties involved in the uploading of the videos? And if that is true, then could operating systems of computers be targeted as they helped the user upload the video? Could you blame the cameras, phones, video editors, other programs, other machines, devices, computers, routers, modems, cords, cables, wires, etc, or can blame only be placed on the uploader? And what if the video is stolen and uploaded by another person, is copyright infringement blamed on the creators of the videos or on the uploaders or on the owners of the YouTube accounts therein?

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That leads me to a final point for this post and that is this main question being, what is YouTube? Like I've said before, YouTube is a combination of many servers and other things which resides in different countries of different jurisdictions meaning YouTube is like a house which resides in many different countries. YouTube may have given users in the past the feeling of liability protection which may not be legally true some may argue but YouTube appeared some would argue to have given their potential customers for years that perception regardless of the reality of the issues regarding copyright, laws, jurisdiction, the procedures and steps in attempts to enforce copyright and punishment of copyright infringement therein.

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It appears that Walt Disney used copyright to steal art from his partner nearly a century ago. Bill Gates is accused of stealing things which ended up being part of Microsoft Windows which is then given copyrights and such. Facebook is accused of stealing and selling user data which probably should have been copyrighted or what have you. Facebook is probably copyrighted as a whole and yet they are hiding behind the label of copyright protection and yet also liability protection which might be an aspect of a paradox between copyright and the liability protection as a publisher, platform, and for-profit intellectual property robber. And on top of that, when YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc, remove videos, etc, they are in fact destroying intellectual property, etc.

Robots Make Us Forget?

08:44 PM - Ecency

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The crazy thing is this video ends with a sponsor being an actual drone delivering food which might as well be small robots inside our brains. Yeah, love this hypothetical video that is actually something they will try to do among other things as well. My one counter is the soul can counter pacifism because it can come from higher dimensions while the nano mites are limited simply to the three main dimensions meaning humans have access to higher intelligence even in the face of alleged super artificial intelligence but of course Matrix AI has the potential of doing a lot of damage upon over 99% of most humans, there are a few exceptions, a few Neo people out there who might try to save us from such a future and yet I would hope we can try to stop things before they ever got that bad and yet things are pretty bad already right now at the same time.

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