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eBay Running Trial for Downloadable Music
supersandra writes "Looks like eBay has been inspired by all those millions of iTunes song sales. They're running a six-month test offering downloadable music through authorized sellers, who would have to 'ensure copyright protection for the content and meet service-level agreements.' Also of note, 'music buyers won't be allowed to resell the files on eBay.'"
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Get your IPOD
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I'd recommend doing the ancestry.com one, you can cancel it right after you sign up. Use your junk e-mail address of course
Will they sell in ogg format?
Residents in the South African city of Cape Town are trying to reduce crime by staring at suspected criminals such as prostitutes and drug dealers.
Yellow Bibs members stare at suspects for up to 15 minutes
Three nights a week a group of up to 30 people from Sea Point go out, stand on the pavement and give wrongdoers "the evil eye".
Sea Point is notorious for crime and has a sleazy reputation, where groups of drug dealers can be seen lurking in alleyways and girls stand on street corners in miniskirts waiting for business.
The Yellow Bibs, as the neighbourhood group is known because of the uniforms they wear, say it only takes about 15 minutes before the people they watch start to feel uncomfortable and leave.
Shops re-open
The initiative was the brainchild of a local city councillor, JP Smith.
He is convinced that the presence of the residents has made a difference to the area since they started four months ago.
He says about 50 shops and local businesses have re-opened and criminal gangs have moved out of the area.
The prostitutes... got fed up and said they were going home to watch TV
City Councillor JP Smith
"We've drastically affected their core business, by reclaiming the streets for the residents," he says.
He hopes that more people will join the group so they can watch would be criminals every night of the week.
You might think the Yellow Bibs would be putting themselves in extreme danger, but they have a police escort and even a private security firm with them so they say they feel safe.
Unnerved
"No one has ever been physically abused although we have suffered verbal abuse from the prostitutes who have a very flowery vocabulary," says Mr Smith.
He explains how the residents' icy stares unnerved one group of sex workers recently.
"The prostitutes told me I couldn't stand there all the time," he recalls.
"I said of course, I could. They got irritated and left, but we followed them. They tried to sneak back, until they couldn't stand it anymore, so they got fed up and said they were going home to watch TV."
As well as cracking down on ladies of the night, the Yellow Bibs are also keeping a careful eye out for kerb-crawlers.
"We send the customer a picture of his car and a community service notice saying the car was seen in an area plagued by prostitution," says Mr Smith.
"If the guy's wife opens the envelope, it's not our fault!"
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for pointing out that you are different and alternative. Do you run LINUX?
Are you speaking to Doctor Science.. right now?
Not Meta-modding due to apathy.
It is illegal in these united states for an individual to own music, unless he or she wrote it,
/. in months. Show me a statute that says otherwise. It will be humorous to me to watch you fail in this.
/. -- the world needs to be able to laugh at your dumb ass, dumbass.
This is untrue. NO ONE owns music. It is possible to own a tangible object in which some music is embedded -- such objects are called copies. But the music itself -- the creative work capable of being found in a limitless number of copies -- is unownable. Copyrights are arguably ownable, but they're rights pertaining to music, not the music itself. Hence a copyright can be revoked or can expire, but the music it applied to persists.
Reselling physical Cds is illegal
Bzt. Wrong, dumbass. 17 USC 109 -- and some caselaw prior to the version of the statute that was part of the 1909 Act -- make it totally legal.
Man are you fucking stupid.
But it gets better!
That license is Non-transferable, 'selling' a used CD is a Violation of US law, punishable by up to a $25,000 fine per incendent.
You just totally made up a law! Out of fucking nowhere! I tell you what -- provide a citation to this law. I say that 17 USC 109 says, in effect, that you are the dumbest shit I've seen on
You don't have a right to transfer the audio file from the CD to your portable mp3 player,
That varies. As was found in the Diamond v. RIAA case back in 1999, it was fair use for a person to rip mp3s from copies of music that they owned, and still fair use to transfer those mp3s onto a portable mp3 player.
It is not NECESSARILY a fair use -- but it can be, and has been, and at this point is probably pretty safe to rely upon. I mean, it's not like, say, taping broadcast TV at home is always a fair use either. Fair uses must be analyzed on a case by case basis, according to the test at 17 USC 107, given the circumstances involved. No blanket statements can be made as to what is and isn't a fair use, though some trends can be found at times.
Keep in mind I am following the LETTER of the US law in these statments.
You would not know the letter of the law if it got up and bit you on the ass. That probably is why you NEVER EVER CITED ANY LAW. And you got it hilariously wrong! Pretty much every damn time!
Hell, not only do you not know the letter of the law, I'm pretty impressed you're able to SPELL it!
The only legal sources of digital music ciurrently are itunes, sony and the new napster.
I see you forgot about music put up by the copyright holder -- such as on artists' web sites.
And you're such an funny sub-moron that you forgot that CDs are a digital format.
Please tell me you'll keep posting on
Playing these songs where the general public may hear (and can hear) is a violation of us, and in some cases local law.
Would it interest you to know that local laws as to copyright are preempted by federal law? That would be 17 USC 301. Probably the only local laws at issue would be those relating to nuisance if you're playing music too loudly.
Thanks for being such a shithead. I really needed to laugh out loud at someone, and you fit the bill perfectly.
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
speaking of ebay auctions, check this out - I submitted it as a story to Slashdot (and "surprise" it was rejected), which means it will be rejected about 4 times before someone approves it... but it's the ultimate nerd auction.