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Excerpts. Please note how he puts his invention in the context of his philosophical/anthropological/Campbellian/Jungian take on the history of inventions and human history. You'll see this in his other insane patent application too. For instance, he calls it the "45 Revolver." He's comparing his software invention to a repeating-action firing mechanism. He's saying it's capable of dealing out a lot of damage very quickly and compactly, &c.
The present invention offers novel and superior means for protecting and profiting from digital content. The rights-centric, creator-centric digital rights management application will lead to greater revenue and rights for artists, and a new era of creator's entrepreneurship, as opposed to the dominant aggregator's entrepreneurship. The present invention offers a simple interface for creators, artists, users, and owners to define rights, select from a plurality of DRM options, advertising options, watermarking options, thumbnailing options, syndication options, and publish, share, sell, and distribute their content in a plurality of manners. This invention has far-ranging ramifications, as it causes DRM providers, device manufacturers, web companies, social networks, and content marketplaces to more directly compete with one-another to provide the creator and content owner the best compensation for their work. Creators can bypass the traditional and new middlemen, define their rights, sell their content, and enhance profits.
[0004] This invention is dedicated to Fifty Cent, Eminem, Harlan Elison, Kid Rock, George Lucas, Puff Daddy, Lars Ulrich, Aimee Mann, Kristin Hersh, Scott Weiland, Kristen Hersh, Chris Robinson, toby Keith, Lou Reed, Victoria Shaw, Art Alexakis, the Beatles and Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, DMX, and every other artist who started off as an indie artist, and all the indie artists to come. The present invention salutes Abraham Lincoln's eloquence, the spirit and words of the United States Constitution and The Declaration of Independence, Johnny Cash, and the Creator they all served. For it is creator's Natural Right to protect and profit from their creations.
[0007] The present invention will provide tools of vast use to artists, creators, and entrepreneurs on their Hero's Journeys, where they answer the call to adventure to build a renaissance. Luke Skywalker had his light saber, Neo had his martial arts, The Man With no Name had his 45 Revolver, and so too will tomorrow's creators have their 45 Revolver.
[0023] The Rapper Fifty Cent (50 Cent) states in his book From Pieces to Weight, "Get Rich or Die Tryin': When I say that, everyone focuses on the negative aspects: death, desperation, depression. But you know what? Everybody, from the guy who gets up to punch a clock every day to the kid standing on the corner, is trying to get rich before they die. The guy punching the clock is probably going to night school or has a hustle on the side or some dream he's working on. Why? To get rich. The kid who picks up a bag of drugs to sell is the same way. He's out there in the entrepreneurial spirit, hustling, trying to get rich. That kid just doesn't want to work for anybody--he wants to work for himself. It's just that he has the wrong direction at that point in his life. All at the same time, he's trying to get rich, just like that guy punching a clock, the old man driving a cab, the kid going to college to get his degree, the girl waiting tables at the restaurant. It's all about back to getting rich--or trying to do so. This is nothing new. You can find pretty much the same sentiments in all philosophies--Samurai codes and sh--like that. If Confucius says it, it's wisdom. But when 50 Cent says it, he's being negative."
[0024] 50 Cent ought to be afforded an application that empowers him with greater versatility to distribute his music. He ought be given the opportunity to upload his songs, set a price, and then be fully compensated. This is because DRM is based on algorithms, which are free as the wind. Instead, when 50 Cent sells a 99 cent song on iTunes, which can only be downloaded by an iPod, he gets about 10 cents. The 45 Revolver, by offering the creator different DRM formats, would make DRM providers compete against one-another, driving the price of DRM down, until it reached its natural level--0.
[0027] Fifty Cent says "What we have the control of is the actual quality of the actual material. Now, if you're questioning if we're going to make the best music, I think generally if you ask anybody, they're going to tell you we're going to make the best rap records. so having the best rap records tied to a brand of clothing makes the clothing cool. The kid who enjoys a 50 Cent or Eminem project is not gonna stop enjoying the projects, but they may stop purchasing the CD. They may start stealing our music from the Internet. But they won't stop being fans of it."
[0028] Vibe Magazine: "And you can't download shirt."
[0029] 50 Cent: "Right"
[0030] Note 50 Cent says, "They may start stealing our music from the internet."
PRIOR ART AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0038] "I'm going to pick a fight," said William Wallace in the movie Braveheart.
[0039] And with the 45 Revolver, the indie artist can too.
[0040] The 45 Revolver allows the indie artist to define their rights, and then upload and protect their content with a few clicks of a mouse.
Quotes Ayn Rand. I'll spare you.
[0044] The same corporate and academic bureaucracies that try to manufacture artists also oppose digital rights management for true artists. Rupert Murdoch runs both American Idol and Myspace. For in their eyes, there is no good nor bad, nor higher aesthetics, nor United States Constitution that's really worth thinking about, nor defending. There is only a postmodern marketplace wherein the elites have the right to exaggerate (lie), profit from other's content, pensions, and saving (steal), and pornify the world, breaking up the family, speartaing husband and wife, and parents and children, and giving everyone credit cards and encouraging them to kill the unproductive members of society--the innocent unborn--to raise the bottom line for the short term profit of the elites, at the long-term expense of society. As the famous exchange in Scent of a Woman has it, "Lt. Col. Frank Slade: Haven't you heard? CONSCIENCE is daihed. Charlie Simms: No, I haven't heard. Lt. Col. Frank Slade: Well, then, take the f---in' WAX outta your ears! GROW UP! It's f--k your buddy. Cheat on your wife. Call your mother on Mother's Day. Charlie, it's all sh--." Lincoln is long gone along with all the great Lawyers schooled by the Great Books and the Bible instead of postmodern snarkiness, and with absolutely no leadership at the coproate and academic helms, no taste at the movie studios, no men capabable of passing God's Great and Just Judgment, it's mob rule; and it's elite rule too--just as long as the mob and the elite oppose the classical ideals. And the wholesale destruction of the traditional family is justified by a marketplace that replaces epic story and mythology with porn, as the numeric value of the Dow says nothing about the death of the soul, and thus the economists, who killed religion when they labeled economics a science, wash their hands, as Pontius Pilate washed his. The 45 Revolver, by protecting and defending the property rights of those who will build the renaissance, by allowing them to make money independent of myspace, Larry Lessig, Reality TV, Hollywood Studios, Dave Eggers' and his fake amazon review methodology, and American Idol, and all the rest of the bread and circuses that have distracted us from the better angels of our nature, and pit us against one-another. The 45 Revolver will lead to unparalleled wealth creation--both monetary and spiritual.
Communists like their porn as much as their pretensions, and the bestselling blogger--a creation of feminist academia--was given a scholarship.
This stuff just goes on and on.
Here is his Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_McGucken
Dude wrote a book of poetry called Eternity in a Grain of Sand. I didn't italicize that because there are too many italics in this post.
― bamcquern, Friday, 26 June 2009 03:01 (fifteen years ago)