Will the Ron Paul Channel Get Crushed?

[heavenlyboy34]

I do not believe IP / knowledge can be owned.
I don't believe digital content can be owned.
I don't believe in owned code.
I don't believe in text, writings, images, or any of the like.

I'll engage in discussion of trademark on a fraud level,

but I have zero interest in protecting the "statist imposed monopolies", "corporate fascism", and "artificial scarcity" of copyright or patents.

http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Libertarian:perspectives:on:intellectual:property.html




I believe in the hermetic/alchemist rule:


If you want to keep some bit of knowledge to yourself, don't share it.


This whole concept of IP is about to crumble in the P2P interconnected, encrypted, 3d printed age.


If you want to give Ron Paul $10/mo to watch his channel "live", God Bless You.
If you want to share a youtube copy with your friends, God Bless You too.


I can guarantee you however, that any content produced WILL eventually find its way to some dark alley in the commons. This tendency is a blessing not a curse.




Lao Tzu: "The highest good is like water."

presence wins the thread. +rep

 

[TaftFan]

Looks like they got youtube to take the videos down. https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRonPaulChannel1

Another channel has the first two episodes

 

[Schifference]

I recognize my shortfalls and therefore delegate others with more charisma to deliver a message when necessary. I think that the concept is a great one but Ron is not the best orator. He stumbles and does not deliver the optimum presentation. His insight and message is second to none but he needs someone else to be the front man. He could deliver some of the content but if you expect people to pay $10 bucks a month they better be getting 24/7 stimulation of information they cannot get elsewhere. This is my opinion so please don't hate me or neg rep me for speaking it. His message is awesome but he is not charismatic in delivering it. For $10 I would want to be able to sit down turn it on and watch a wealth of info. If he does not provide that it will fail.

 

[RickyJ]

Not all libertarians fall in lockstep on this issue. I believe in the protection of IP rights myself.

I'm glad I am not the only one here who believes in the protection of IP rights.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

I'm glad I am not the only one here who believes in the protection of IP rights.

There are a number who believe that. And you're all wrong.

 

[enoch150]

You have to wonder what course history would have taken absent the tens of thousands of unauthorized printings of Common Sense.

Thomas Paine contracted with one printer to have a 1,000 copies printed, and then with another printer for a second run (the second run was at his own expense, because the first printer never paid Paine.) Within three months there were dozens of printers cranking them out. Paine estimated there were 100,000 - 150,000 printed in the first three months.

Although much less celebrated, copyright violation is almost as much a part of American tradition as tax evasion.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

You have to wonder what course history would have taken absent the tens of thousands of unauthorized printings of Common Sense.

Thomas Paine contracted with one printer to have a 1,000 copies printed, and then with another printer for a second run (the second run was at his own expense, because the first printer never paid Paine.) Within three months there were dozens of printers cranking them out. Paine estimated there were 100,000 - 150,000 printed in the first three months.

Although much less celebrated, copyright violation is almost as much a part of American tradition as tax evasion.

If it's worthy to be spoken into the ear, it's worthy to be copied and spread like grass-seed.

 

[BetterCallSaul]

If he's really interested in spreading the liberty message, he should be giving away most of the content for free. He should not care about the repeated sharing of the videos. He should get youtube ad revenue if he wants to keep costs covered, and ask for donations at the end of each episode, or an Amazon affiliate program, or selling value-added products through the show (e.g. autographed books from his collection or his guests, DRM protected bonus content, or tie-ins to live events).

As it stands now, this production fits one of the two standard operating procedures evident from RP's brand: (1) absolute incompetence in marketing, financial management, employee oversight, and concern for broad-appeal, or (2) only caring about growing RP's personal/family net worth by taking money from the gullible and fervent supporters who view him as a messiah.

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[ClydeCoulter]

I'm glad I am not the only one here who believes in the protection of IP rights.

I wish I knew about such things when I was younger. I have given away so much over my lifetime. Fc=Sqrt(fh*fl) for a simple bandpass filter (as opposed to the approximation used at the time), Sine tables for 3D graphics (when processors were relatively slow), property and class discovery (currently realized in .Net), etc...

But, you know what. I grew up in the programming world where people wanted to keep secrets, and I never did want to do that, I taught a lot of new programmers how to avoid mistakes and to look for metaphors that could fit the problems they were trying to solve. Because, it was all 1's and 0's.

How the hell do you make 1's and 0's into something that the average user of software can understand? Only by applying metaphors to what could be done. You want to see what we used to look at day in and day out?

ld a,b
rrca
rrca
rrca
ld l,a              ; store away in l.
and 3               ; mask bits for high byte.
add a,88            ; 88*256=22528, start of attributes.
ld h,a              ; high byte done.
ld a,l              ; get x*32 again.
and 224             ; mask low byte.
ld l,a              ; put in l.
ld a,c              ; get y displacement.
add a,l             ; add to low byte.
ld l,a              ; hl=address of attributes.
ld a,(hl)

Now, tell me, who's IP is that?

hell, ascii was an improvement for standardization and so was VESA for graphics (which I had a huge argument with IBM over)

Things are built upon things. That's one reason I can somewhat understand the "you didn't build that". Yeah, you did, but with tools that others built. "We are in this together". Later, I was convinced by a guy, who wrote the boot code and bios for a computer that we used in the company I worked for, to try the C language and it was wonderful. It abstracted a lot of what I did by hand in assembler to make calls to subroutines and it saved me a whole bunch of time. Then C++, as a pre-compiler for C, came out and I was testing some new boards for taking calls and detecting dtmf tones and the like and it made it easier to do multi-threaded stuff (but wasn't actually multithereaded in the sense of what we do today, longjump anyone?).

 

[KingNothing]

Good. If you want to see it, pay for it.

Such a poor, backward, strategy.

 

[speciallyblend]

Oh I agree. I just mean in the sense that someone signs up and all they got in the site is one piece of content. Much easier to sell the product if he had say 50 hours of prerecorded content to start. They could have produced some lecture series, maybe licensed some videos from others, etc. Right now all they have is one interview which I can get on youtube, and when they do the next one, I'll probably be able to get that one too.

I like the concept of it all, just doesn't seem like they got anyone on the team who has produced this sort of thing before. We'll see though

I guess i will wait to join then since the pirate video is why i was joining. I will wait to join once rpc gives me a free link to their whole video ,since we cannot let the ron paul.com motivate me to send ron paul 10 bucks. It wouldn't be right. Since the pirate video is what motivated me. Sounds like a bunch of old metallica band members complaining about pirated stuff.

I will join eventually but i want to see rpc giving us links to spread. This does no good if it is preaching to the choir. why wouldn't they use the models of rt or cenk?