Character entropy of Voynichese

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To be honest, I'm not a big fan of modern capitalist copyright, but at the same time I don't want David to be sued (or otherwise complained with) by Prentice-Hall.

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It seems that many people are not fans of copyright.

I used to be an off-the-shelf software developer. When software piracy became rampant on the Web, I was no longer able to earn a living that way. Millions of copies of my software were online, but no one was paying for it. As a direct consequence of piracy, my income dropped by 99%.

So I switched professions and three years later, people starting pirating that and my income dropped by 90%. I switched professions again and then what I was creating began being pirated also, my income dropped by 93% and once again I had to switch professions.


I respect other people's copyrights. They do not respect mine. That puts me in a rather awkward position and I am really tired of retraining and retooling every three years. Personal feelings, aside, as long as it's the law, it would set a good example for the forum to respect copyrights. Even a book that is out of print may still have content that belongs to someone, or might be re-released at some later date.

Fair use usually only applies to a paragraph or two, not usually to several pages.

What Google Books does has already been challenged in court and they were told not to show so much of the books. They reduced the content for a while and then began increasing it again, in flagrant violation of the law. Pinterest also flaunts the law. It was supposed to be only thumbnails, but the images, which do not belong to them, are getting bigger and bigger again, and they now force you to sign up before you can click through to the original content. Google (which probably holds shares in Pinterest) also uses Pinterest to index images, instead of leading directly to the original sites, which deprives the original content creators of their Google positions.


All this "free" content has consequences. Those who create the content don't get compensated and when you don't get compensated jobs disappear and you can't pay the bills.



Sorry, I just realized this is off-topic but I don't particularly want to start a thread on this either because it's a topic that tends to get hammered to death.

I am very interested in the entropy discussions and have been working on a blog about it for some time. I don't know if I can clean up the wording and pictures quickly enough to post it this weekend, but I'll try to get it posted soon.