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RIAA Going After a 10-Year-Old Girl
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The latest target of the RIAA's ire is a 10-year-old girl in Oregon, who was 7 when the alleged infringement occurred, and whose disabled mother lives on Social Security. In Atlantic v. Andersen, an Oregon case that was widely reported in 2005 when the defendant counterclaimed against the RIAA under Oregon's RICO statute and other laws, the defendant's mother sought to limit the RIAA's deposition of the child to telephone or video-conference. The RIAA has refused, insisting on being able to grill the little girl in person. Here are court documents (PDF)."
Why did Clinton Need bush to ratify the treaty he signed?
And since when is the president supposed to ratify a treaty?
BTW, what was the reason for it not being raitified again?
> U.S.E. (United States of Europe ;-))
> I can download whatever I want and no one can touch me.
Firstly, there is no such thing as the united states of Europe. In Sweden, you can and will be prosecuted for downloading material. In the Netherlands (last time I checked) this was indeed not illegal. My point is that this varies from country to country.
> So, in that aspect; can anyone even explain what democracy actually is these days? I'm tempted to say that the more money
> someone has the more "democracy" they posses.
So, Sweden used to have a voting system where a number of votes were allotted to you depending on the amount of money you made. Switzerland got women's voting rights in 1971. Before that, it didn't. However Holland did beat the USA to voting rights for women by a year (1919 vs 1920), which is also not frightfully long ago.
Meanwhile, people with more money have either been able to swing more votes or obtain more votes through pay-offs, publicity or simple strong-arming all throughout history.
The ancient Greeks, although they had a "democracy", only had it for Greek men of independent status between one age to another, thus leaving out slaves, non-greeks, women and a whole array of citizens.
What surprises me is that you seem to thing that this is a sign of the times. I would argue that right now, we have more "democracy" than we ever had in the history of man-kind.
...but they're not able to keep the lid on their extremely cruel treatment! (Warning: this is not for the faint-hearted.)
The Hacker's Guide To The Kernel: Don't panic()!
*shakes head slowly*
Oh my God...
It's sad when we forget that pain exists outside of our own species...
And even worse when forget that there are at least "humane" ways to fill our (sometimes unnecessary) urges...
GR
"Paranoia is the flaw and gift of man. Heed its advice, but do not live by its will."
You seem to be under the common mistaken impression that the law applies equally to all people. Rich powerful people don't go to jail, they just have to wear an ankle braclet around the mansion. Rich powerful people don't get to vote just once, they can have dinner to discuss new legislation whenever they want. Rich power people aren't restricted by the law, they just tell the media that they do have the right to do what ever it is they are doing, and enough people believe it that they get away with it. Just look at how someone who had several failed businesses, multiple DUI's, and a well known cocaine habit got to rule the world. Money and power.
We are all just people.
sorry for continuing a off topic thread... but
A lot of animal rights activist that I have talked to are more concerned with factory farming, hormonal injections, and genetic modification. Genetic modification in-of-itself is not 'wrong' rather the problem comes in when decisions on maximizing profit dictate design such as plants that don't reproduce, or plants that produce organic pesticides being deployed in the wild without testing in a complex hetrogenus environment. These decisions risk apocalyptic famine.
When an animal activist that I knew entered into an alternate context where people where hutting & cultivating their own food curing their own meet and serving it to guests with respect for the animals they killed, she was open to trying the food.
This is entirely different from the toxicity of factory farms, the torture and alteration of the natural systems for sustaining life. Making large non-robust shifts in the genetic structure of plants and livestock with more concern for immediate capital gains than long term testing is hugely problematic. We should not thrown millions of years of semiotic evolution to the wind.
We are lucking people are resisting this and fighting for change.
You do know that Predator drones have been deployed in the USA? In some ways I'm glad our surveillance system is old and decrepit...at least it can't be used to aim laser-guided bombs!