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The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "According to a report I just read in Mashable, Pirate Bay is coming to Facebook. Writer Ben Parr says that The Pirate Bay site now includes links under torrents to 'Share on Facebook.' Once posted to a profile, the Facebook member's friends can click the link on Facebook to begin the download right away, provided he or she already has a torrenting client installed. I just hope people do not use this feature to download copyrighted materials which are not authorized to be downloaded, or at least not materials copyrighted to litigation-happy RIAA Big 4 record labels. No doubt, if their song files were downloaded through this method, the record companies would sit back for awhile, derive profit from the promotional excitement generated for their dying industry, and then — armed with Facebook's data — sue the pants off all the hapless Facebook users who fell for it."
I wouldnt quite agree, as the .torrent files are checksums derived from either DVDrips or screencaps, which are both derivative works.
Go read up on what lawyers talk about the The Colour of the Bits. It's rather interesting, but also states indirectly that one cannot know this type of colour easily.
I wonder what NewYorkCoultryLawyer would say about this..
I know your just trolling, but...
Whenever you download a torrent, you must simultaneously upload it.
No, downloading Metallica_St_Anger.torrent is the same as downloading Ponies_n_kittens_playing.jpg from a website.
If you send the downloaded torrent file to a torrent application and allow it to connect and download files, then you are downloading the (possibly) illegal content, and usually, but not always, uploading the same content to someone else. There are quite a few torrents that I've downloaded where the Upload is 0kb.
I wonder what NewYorkCountryLawyer would say about this..
NewYorkCountryLawyer? He ain't sayin' nuttin'.
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
DeCSS isn't copyright infringement, its a DMCA violation.
I'm glad we piss you off. You don't "get it" either, dude. Copyright infringement IS NOT a criminal offense. It is a civil infraction. Allow me to paing a picture for you. If you were to go through my hometown, and kiss the ass of every single person who has EVER infringed on a copyright, then you MIGHT HAVE kissed the ass of a criminal. However, there would be no guarantee that you had done so. Copyright is NOT a felony, it is not a misdemeanor, it doesn't even warrant a summons to court by a law enforcement officer. The ONLY WAY to be brought to court for copyright infringement is by way of a civil action, brought by the complainant's lawyers. IF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT WERE A CRIME, there would be police stings just like the pedophile stings that are aired on public television. Have you ever seen such a sting? No? Alright, stop talking foolishness. You people who THINK you know it all are very damned annoying to those of us who do.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
Copyright infringement IS NOT a criminal offense. It is a civil infraction
in the US, that hasn't been true for over a decade and copyright infringement can be prosecuted on a Federal level.
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Just because the term 'has been, or still" is used to refer to what you linked to doesn't mean it is correct. "Automatic" is modified by "semi" for a reason.
It is correct. "Automatic", when applied to handguns, refers to the automatic nature of using some of the force of the firing explosion to drive the works of the gun. An automatic handgun harnesses that force to eject the spent casing, bring another into firing position, and sometimes cock the gun. Previously, as with a single or double-action revolver, the cylinder was moved by the cocking of the hammer or by pulling the trigger. That's the "automatic" part. It need not refer to the continuous firing mechanism of a fully-automatic weapon.
The full name of the M1911 handgun is Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911. Indeed, there are even automatic revolvers. The use of the term "automatic" to refer to a semi-automatic handgun has existed for over 100 years, and continues to this day. Whenever someone says "automatic", and it is not followed by "rifle" or preceded by "fully", they almost always are speaking of a semi-automatic handgun. I have never heard it used otherwise. If someone says, "I shot off a few rounds with my automatic", or "I took my automatic to the range", it is safe to assume they are referring to a semi-automatic handgun.
I consider the blurring of automatic and semi-automatic small arms to be an Overton window thing, done on purpose, by people with an agenda.
No. The term "semi-automatic" is a neologism just like "wooden baseball bat". It did not need qualification until a newer technology became widespread. I have never sensed an ulterior motive from people using the term "automatic". It's simply a descriptive name, which has been used for 100 years.
... and that's when the C.H.U.D.'s came at me.
the requirement of hard evidence that not only do I have the copyright material in my possession without a licence grant, but also that my *intention* was to then breach copyright by distributing further etc.
Here's a quote from "The Public Domain" by James Boyle.
Doesn't "no harm, no foul" apply in the world of
copyright? In a word, no. Copyright is what lawyers call a "strict liability"
system. This means that it is generally not a legal excuse to say that you did
not believe you were violating copyright, or that you did so by accident, or in
the belief that no one would care, and that your actions benefited the public.
Innocence and mistake do not absolve you, though they might reduce the
penalties imposed.
More importantly, you're just sharing a file full of MD5 hashes of files. You're not sharing any real data, or any Copyrighted works with this new button.
If the material the Torrent describes is Copyrighted and you have no download rights, then downloading it may constitute a Copyright violation, but the Torrent itself is no such object.
- Michael T. Babcock (Yes, I blog)
Saying "I am taking my automatic to shoot a few rounds" when your gun is a semi-automatic is wrong.
No, it's not. If you were to say "fully-automatic", "automatic rifle", or even "automatic weapon", it would be safe to assume that you were referring to a continuous-fire type gun. But, if you simply say "automatic", without any other qualifiers (as in the example you provide), you are referring to a semi-auto handgun. It is simply common usage, in addition to being correct.
Automatic is referred to the type of weapon that when you hold the trigger it shoots more then one round, while semi-auto refers to a weapon that requires multiple pulls of the trigger to fire more then one round.
No, that's a common misconception. If a gun is "automatic", it simply means that one or more of the actions usually required of the shooter is, instead, done with the power of the firing explosion. That can encompass ejecting the spent casing (or revolving the cylinder in an automatic revolver), bringing a new round into firing position, cocking the firing mechanism, and possibly firing another bullet (in the case of a fully-automatic weapon). Any gun which does one or more of these things can be correctly referred to as "automatic".
Symbols change over time, so do words.
Couldn't agree with you more. But, in this case, given the usage we are discussing, the meaning hasn't changed.
P.S. That being said, I'm not familiar with non-US usage of the term "automatic". It could be that in England or Canada the word has the meaning you describe. But, not here.
... and that's when the C.H.U.D.'s came at me.