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In What We Buy When We “Buy Now”, a paper forthcoming in The University of Pennsylvania Law Review, respected copyright scholars Aaron Perzanowski and Chris Jay Hoofnagle report on an experiment they set up to test what people clicking the “buy now” button on stores selling digital things (ebooks, games, music, videos, etc) think they get for their money – it’s not what they think.
The researchers set up their own storefront, selling digital and physical, and had 1299 experimental subjects make purchases on the store. Then they interviewed the purchases about what they thought they’d got for their money, and contrasted it with the normal deal from this kind of store.
When it came to physical goods, the shoppers pretty much knew exactly what they thought they were getting. But when it came to digital goods, there was a violent mismatch between what the customers thought they were buying (something they could resell, lend, or give away) and what the small print said they were getting (an extremely limited copyright license that required them to use their media in conjunction with special restrictive players that prohibited all these activities).
The confusion stems from the word “buy” in “buy now.” Buy has a widely agreed-upon meaning: to purchase clear title to something. When you buy a car, it’s yours. When you buy a shirt, it’s yours. When you “buy” an ebook, you’re actually taking a one-sided, limited license. It’s not surprising that purchasers would be confused.
Of course, there’s a simple solution to this: the FTC could require that companies only use the word “buy” for things that you’re, you know,buying. For everything else, merchants would have to make buttons that said, “Take a limited license now!”
Chances are fewer people would click that button. That’s the point: people are buying things because they have mistaken beliefs about what they’re getting, and if they knew better, they wouldn’t buy those things on those terms. That’s exactly the situation the FTC exists to remedy.
a cute lil piece of pompeian graffiti (CIL 4.8162). it reads “hic fuimus cari duo nos sine fine sodales nomina si [quaeris, Caius et Aulus erant];” in english, “we two men, dear companions without end, were here. if you [ask for] our names, [they are Caius and Aulus]”
sorry im reblogging this again but i just love how cute this is. two men 2000 years ago wrote this on a wall, probably never expecting that we would find it and know about them today. because of the preservation of pompeii, we know this tiny, tiny facet of caius and aulus’s life, this little scrawling on a wall from when they were having a good time together so long ago. and the best part about it is that it says they are “companions without end;” when you think about it, because this graffiti was preserved and we still know about them, that statement is, in its own way, true
does justin trudeau even know what hes doing ? or is he winging his entire ministerial career ?
Well that’s a really really really stupid move.
Did you guys just not read the article? The fire is larger than Hong Kong. Efforts to put it out have failed because it is literally dependent upon the RAIN coming at this point. Even the firefighters already fighting it have said, from the article,
“The decision was made by the firefighters in the emergency management system that (foreign help) wasn’t necessary because of the nature of this blaze,” Goodale said following question period.
“This beast is so big the only thing that will fix it is rain.”
At this point, it would merely add to massive expenses and right now, everything should be focusing on evacuating and helping people who have been affected by the blaze.
Trudeau said they’ll have more to say when the extent of the disaster is fully appreciated.
“Right now we are being the partner that the province, the municipality, and Albertans need for Ottawa to be,” he said.
“We are working every step of the way with our partners. We are in tight communication with the premier, with the mayor, whom I spoke to on the weekend, and we are there for the needs of the community devastated by this terrible incident. And I know there will be lots of discussions in the coming days and weeks about what we need to do to rebuild Fort McMurray, but I can ensure and reassure Alberta that all Canadians will be there.”
It’s just too big. This isn’t the time to be attacking Trudeau without doing research. This fire is a monster and it’s up to us to be the ones to help.
Text REDCROSS to 30333 to send $5 to help.
Do that instead of growling about politics while people lose their homes.
”The fire is larger than Hong Kong.”
Uh wow. Please help by texting the thing??
The amount of money donate for the relief effort by Canadian is over 50 millions at this point. PM Trudeau is matching every dollar given on top of the 90% coverage of the cost of everything that was lost/damaged due to the fire.
If you want to help then please donate, every dollar will help.
Unless Russia, USA, or Mexico have developed weather control satellites, at this point the best anyone can do is send money, and pray for rain.
Yes. Please read the actual article. This may or may not actually be the correct thing to do, but Trudeau is listening to the experts and going by their decisions which is a FANTASTIC trait in a Prime Minister.
The text donations don’t work if you’ve got a U.S. phone, but you can go to the Canadian Red Cross and donate here:
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