I am aware of what granting summary judgment means thanks. But throughout my law school career we've read a few cases where summary judgment has been overruled. A grant of summary judgment is pretty serious, especially as here it sounds to be in favor of the plaintiff. I bet it is more that the trial judge has little idea of the difference between previous cases and bittorrents and thus said "oh yeah this is the same thing lets just get it out of the court so I can go back to cases about things I understand".
Well even if it was enforceable, ISOhunt can always appeal the grant of summary judgment and perhaps the appeals court will reverse and call for an actual trial.
I don't know about anyone else but every person I know who uses drugs on a regular basis is a complete moron and doesn't have anything better to do than getting doped up and hanging out and talking with their friends for hours about nothing. I fail to see how this will be useful for anyone else because I doubt you would want to sit around and read a novel while you are high whether its from drugs or some brain simulation. Now won't you kids get off my lawn so I can sit here peacefully and read a book on my vacation.
Everyone should know that you have to pay an early termination fee if you get a 2 year contract with your free phone. That is how things work and if you don't want to pay it, put up with the phone you have for another 2 years (or less hopefully unless you JUST UPGRADED). More than likely if you are able to get by with your phone for any length of time you can also get by just as well for another year and a half before splitting to another provider that will shaft you just as much with the same sorts of fees.
Its about time the Australian government realized that games are not just for kids anymore. Its no more objectionable to have a game that is made for adults than it is to have a movie made for adults, yet some countries think there is a difference. I doubt Aliens v. Predator has anything I haven't seen before in my games that would otherwise scandalize me as a well-adjusted adult. We have had extreme violence in movies for years, there is nothing significantly different in games other than increased cathartic release.
Really? I mean sure I bought Garnier Fructis shampoo based on TV ads but with something like that you have to find it a significant upgrade to become the sort of addicted customer they really want. I certainly wouldn't buy a car based on the commercials they show on TV or pick my insurance based on a commercial let alone choose where I buy electronics, what type of HDTV to buy or what brand of laptop to buy based on a commercial. Anything over a certain price enters the realm where anyone with half a brain is going to do moderate research online before purchasing rather than impulse buying based on a TV commercial.
Uh I've been playing 360 games on my SDTV since launch and never once found text impossibly small. Perhaps developers of RPGs make the text more readable specifically because the games are so text-heavy but I don't find it bad. Although I do play 3 feet from my TV usually. Do action, fps, racing, or other non-rpg genres have much smaller text or are people just developing bad eyesight?
The problem is louder commercials don't make me more likely to buy stuff based on hearing it. They make me angry and likely to say "well if you are going to be like that maybe I won't buy your stuff." Of course the point is moot for most of America who watch TV on Hulu or even better off other online avenues where commercials are already removed by the time the program reaches the individual.
I agree, and loud is relative. The people who spend every night at clubs or concerts without hearing protection are going to have many more hearing problems than people who listen to moderately loud music on headphones frequently. Although I think the biggest problem is the majority of the population is listening to those terribly cheap ear buds that come with players and think they should be able to cancel out all the sound around them. They ARE NOT noise canceling headphones and were not developed for that purpose.
Or you could always buy a headphone amp to increase the output volume from the device when it is not enough to give you a decent volume out of your headphones. Are they going to ban headphone amps as well? I used to use one when my earlier player didn't have enough juice to power my Sennheiser EH350s but thankfully the Zune has a more powerful output that is sufficient. Still if my player was too quiet I would just boost the volume with an amp and go back to my usual volume. Of course I don't play my music at crazy loud levels.
Its not like google runs a message board where people post these rapidshare links and is being sent notices to run the message board better and remove infringing links. If that were the case then google and microsoft both would be advised if not required to remove those links if they want to avoid a suit. Google, on the other hand, simply runs a web site that searches other web sites and finds keywords without discrimination between keywords that are linked to rapidshare links and keywords that aren't. I fail to see how it is google's responsibility to comply with a takedown notice although it would be nice to have the forums with rapidshare links no longer showing up in google.
Except I didn't need the court to suggest to me it might be legal to rip my music off CDs I purchased to whatever format I choose. If some law made it illegal then there is something wrong with the law.
Hopefully this means we will have better samples before buying online. I am tired of searching for an album on Amazon, being curious, and finding the 30 second samples don't really help me, especially when the samples are TERRIBLE bitrate and overcompressed. More and more bands are offering the entire album for streaming online so that prospective purchasers like myself can get a real taste of the album before buying it.
Well by the time this is implemented at all, I will be done with my schooling and get little use out of it. If I ever have children, hopefully by then this will be commonplace.
Well I am also told that if i did drugs I would not retain as much of the information I study so that would defeat the purpose. Although I agree doing drugs would certainly lower my bar for musical quality.
Sure there is a large group of people who only want those one or two hit singles. The rest of the population with even a moderate appetite for music will want to buy at least 10-20 albums a year (assuming there are that many good albums released in one year). I know as a student, one reason my appetite for music is so enormous, and completely impossible to support on a student budget, is that I have to listen to music while I study and I study a good 40-60 hours a week. I also don't usually have the patience to listen to the same album on repeat 40 times in that period.
Exactly, If I only watch a movie once (usually the case) then if I watch all my movies in the theater, why the hell would I spend any money on dvds? Clearly they need to change their model. Hopefully soon I will be able to stream HD movies day of release in theaters and avoid those moronic idiots who don't know how to watch a movie without talking or texting.
If there was no piracy they would only really sell the stuff that is already selling and all the niche markets would dry up and they would still find a way to blame it on piracy. I have actually bought a few albums based on full tracks available to stream on bands myspace pages. They turned out to be good because I can get a pretty good idea based on a few tracks. The problem is a lot of groups either have short samples or terrible quality samples and either way I don't get a very good idea what I am buying.
Thats the problem, they don't have any good way to try before you buy. Best thing I get is 20 second samples in TERRIBLE quality on amazon. That isn't going to give me a very good idea what I want. Plus I don't even get samples when importing from Japan but of course you didn't even bother to address my main points.
The problem here is not piracy but that most of the music that is easy to buy is worthless drivel. I have to pirate in order to know what is good before I order it. I listen to mainly soundtracks, heavy metal, and Japanese Pop. Now the problem is that most good heavy metal is NOT originally from the US (few exceptions like Fool's Game and Future's End but they are the minority). Imports for game soundtracks are usually at least $30 and up to $50 after the conversion from Yen to Dollars. This isn't so bad because most $40 soundtracks from Japanese games are also 2-4 discs and each disc is actually a full 80 minutes unlike US releases with 40 minute discs.
Anime soundtracks though are usually $25-30 and are single disc releases. Thus because of the price of buying this stuff I have to know for sure this is something good before I buy it. The only way to do that is to either pirate everything first and buy the good stuff or to buy everything and find out that half of it sucks and I doubt very many people have the money to do that. It is somewhat easier when you are aware of the good composers out there because then you can be a little more sure that the album you order is good but that isn't very reliable either.
This leaves me with a choice between buying nothing and having nothing to listen to or pirating everything and buying something. I would think the businesses would rather get my money after I have educated myself the only way I can than not get my money at all. Sure I could play every single game, watch every single movie, and watch every single series of anime in existence to determine the quality of a soundtrack but that is completely impractical and often times the soundtracks that are the best are also for movies/anime/games that are not so good. Until there is a change in the way things work I don't see how I have any other option here.
As much as many here are too smart to be fooled by this, think back to when Dragon Quest VIII came with a pack-in demo of FFXII. I doubt much of the gaming populace actually bought DQVIII to play it rather than to play the demo (although I like to think that people bought it for DQVIII). However with downloaded demos a much bigger thing nowdays I don't see how this would work. If other demos work just fine when uploaded to the internet and burned on a CD (at least for the xbox 360) then I fail to see how that will be impossible to do here as well. Thus the demo will just show up on bittorrent sites for all to enjoy without wasting their money on District 9.
I agree. I've been downloading my favorite shows for 4 years now. I could never conceive of watching on TV anymore and dealing with that 20 minutes of Ads in order to enjoy a 42 minute episode. I watch my shows whenever I feel like it and sometimes hours before the shows air on TV here (People upload the East Coast airing). I get all my DVDs from Netflix and slowly am finding it harder to force myself to go into the theater for a movie because of all the crap I have to sit through before I get to the movie. I spend a good 20-30 minutes in my car going to and from the theater, another 10 minutes waiting for the ads to start, 10 minutes watching commercials and then 10-15 minutes watching previews for movies (most of which I've already seen online before hand). I find it hard to deal with all that shit just to enjoy a movie especially now that i have to put up with morons who don't know how to keep quiet during a movie. Soon I may just stop watching movies in theaters completely and watch everything on netflix months later.
I agree with the part about people who don't listen to music licensed by the RIAA. I listen to tons of music out of Europe and Japan and a number of American groups that aren't on RIAA labels. Are they going to offer me music from Chinese, Japanese, and European artists?
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I am aware of what granting summary judgment means thanks. But throughout my law school career we've read a few cases where summary judgment has been overruled. A grant of summary judgment is pretty serious, especially as here it sounds to be in favor of the plaintiff. I bet it is more that the trial judge has little idea of the difference between previous cases and bittorrents and thus said "oh yeah this is the same thing lets just get it out of the court so I can go back to cases about things I understand".
Well even if it was enforceable, ISOhunt can always appeal the grant of summary judgment and perhaps the appeals court will reverse and call for an actual trial.
I don't know about anyone else but every person I know who uses drugs on a regular basis is a complete moron and doesn't have anything better to do than getting doped up and hanging out and talking with their friends for hours about nothing. I fail to see how this will be useful for anyone else because I doubt you would want to sit around and read a novel while you are high whether its from drugs or some brain simulation. Now won't you kids get off my lawn so I can sit here peacefully and read a book on my vacation.
Everyone should know that you have to pay an early termination fee if you get a 2 year contract with your free phone. That is how things work and if you don't want to pay it, put up with the phone you have for another 2 years (or less hopefully unless you JUST UPGRADED). More than likely if you are able to get by with your phone for any length of time you can also get by just as well for another year and a half before splitting to another provider that will shaft you just as much with the same sorts of fees.
Its about time the Australian government realized that games are not just for kids anymore. Its no more objectionable to have a game that is made for adults than it is to have a movie made for adults, yet some countries think there is a difference. I doubt Aliens v. Predator has anything I haven't seen before in my games that would otherwise scandalize me as a well-adjusted adult. We have had extreme violence in movies for years, there is nothing significantly different in games other than increased cathartic release.
Really? I mean sure I bought Garnier Fructis shampoo based on TV ads but with something like that you have to find it a significant upgrade to become the sort of addicted customer they really want. I certainly wouldn't buy a car based on the commercials they show on TV or pick my insurance based on a commercial let alone choose where I buy electronics, what type of HDTV to buy or what brand of laptop to buy based on a commercial. Anything over a certain price enters the realm where anyone with half a brain is going to do moderate research online before purchasing rather than impulse buying based on a TV commercial.
Uh I've been playing 360 games on my SDTV since launch and never once found text impossibly small. Perhaps developers of RPGs make the text more readable specifically because the games are so text-heavy but I don't find it bad. Although I do play 3 feet from my TV usually. Do action, fps, racing, or other non-rpg genres have much smaller text or are people just developing bad eyesight?
The problem is louder commercials don't make me more likely to buy stuff based on hearing it. They make me angry and likely to say "well if you are going to be like that maybe I won't buy your stuff." Of course the point is moot for most of America who watch TV on Hulu or even better off other online avenues where commercials are already removed by the time the program reaches the individual.
I agree, and loud is relative. The people who spend every night at clubs or concerts without hearing protection are going to have many more hearing problems than people who listen to moderately loud music on headphones frequently. Although I think the biggest problem is the majority of the population is listening to those terribly cheap ear buds that come with players and think they should be able to cancel out all the sound around them. They ARE NOT noise canceling headphones and were not developed for that purpose.
Or you could always buy a headphone amp to increase the output volume from the device when it is not enough to give you a decent volume out of your headphones. Are they going to ban headphone amps as well? I used to use one when my earlier player didn't have enough juice to power my Sennheiser EH350s but thankfully the Zune has a more powerful output that is sufficient. Still if my player was too quiet I would just boost the volume with an amp and go back to my usual volume. Of course I don't play my music at crazy loud levels.
Its not like google runs a message board where people post these rapidshare links and is being sent notices to run the message board better and remove infringing links. If that were the case then google and microsoft both would be advised if not required to remove those links if they want to avoid a suit. Google, on the other hand, simply runs a web site that searches other web sites and finds keywords without discrimination between keywords that are linked to rapidshare links and keywords that aren't. I fail to see how it is google's responsibility to comply with a takedown notice although it would be nice to have the forums with rapidshare links no longer showing up in google.
Except I didn't need the court to suggest to me it might be legal to rip my music off CDs I purchased to whatever format I choose. If some law made it illegal then there is something wrong with the law.
Hopefully this means we will have better samples before buying online. I am tired of searching for an album on Amazon, being curious, and finding the 30 second samples don't really help me, especially when the samples are TERRIBLE bitrate and overcompressed. More and more bands are offering the entire album for streaming online so that prospective purchasers like myself can get a real taste of the album before buying it.
Well by the time this is implemented at all, I will be done with my schooling and get little use out of it. If I ever have children, hopefully by then this will be commonplace.
Well I am also told that if i did drugs I would not retain as much of the information I study so that would defeat the purpose. Although I agree doing drugs would certainly lower my bar for musical quality.
Sure there is a large group of people who only want those one or two hit singles. The rest of the population with even a moderate appetite for music will want to buy at least 10-20 albums a year (assuming there are that many good albums released in one year). I know as a student, one reason my appetite for music is so enormous, and completely impossible to support on a student budget, is that I have to listen to music while I study and I study a good 40-60 hours a week. I also don't usually have the patience to listen to the same album on repeat 40 times in that period.
Exactly, If I only watch a movie once (usually the case) then if I watch all my movies in the theater, why the hell would I spend any money on dvds? Clearly they need to change their model. Hopefully soon I will be able to stream HD movies day of release in theaters and avoid those moronic idiots who don't know how to watch a movie without talking or texting.
So have you guys heard the music of a group called Sieges Even? Great progressive rock, and they say they don't make good music anymore these days.
Or CD I haven't listened to first.
If there was no piracy they would only really sell the stuff that is already selling and all the niche markets would dry up and they would still find a way to blame it on piracy. I have actually bought a few albums based on full tracks available to stream on bands myspace pages. They turned out to be good because I can get a pretty good idea based on a few tracks. The problem is a lot of groups either have short samples or terrible quality samples and either way I don't get a very good idea what I am buying.
Thats the problem, they don't have any good way to try before you buy. Best thing I get is 20 second samples in TERRIBLE quality on amazon. That isn't going to give me a very good idea what I want. Plus I don't even get samples when importing from Japan but of course you didn't even bother to address my main points.
The problem here is not piracy but that most of the music that is easy to buy is worthless drivel. I have to pirate in order to know what is good before I order it. I listen to mainly soundtracks, heavy metal, and Japanese Pop. Now the problem is that most good heavy metal is NOT originally from the US (few exceptions like Fool's Game and Future's End but they are the minority). Imports for game soundtracks are usually at least $30 and up to $50 after the conversion from Yen to Dollars. This isn't so bad because most $40 soundtracks from Japanese games are also 2-4 discs and each disc is actually a full 80 minutes unlike US releases with 40 minute discs. Anime soundtracks though are usually $25-30 and are single disc releases. Thus because of the price of buying this stuff I have to know for sure this is something good before I buy it. The only way to do that is to either pirate everything first and buy the good stuff or to buy everything and find out that half of it sucks and I doubt very many people have the money to do that. It is somewhat easier when you are aware of the good composers out there because then you can be a little more sure that the album you order is good but that isn't very reliable either. This leaves me with a choice between buying nothing and having nothing to listen to or pirating everything and buying something. I would think the businesses would rather get my money after I have educated myself the only way I can than not get my money at all. Sure I could play every single game, watch every single movie, and watch every single series of anime in existence to determine the quality of a soundtrack but that is completely impractical and often times the soundtracks that are the best are also for movies/anime/games that are not so good. Until there is a change in the way things work I don't see how I have any other option here.
As much as many here are too smart to be fooled by this, think back to when Dragon Quest VIII came with a pack-in demo of FFXII. I doubt much of the gaming populace actually bought DQVIII to play it rather than to play the demo (although I like to think that people bought it for DQVIII). However with downloaded demos a much bigger thing nowdays I don't see how this would work. If other demos work just fine when uploaded to the internet and burned on a CD (at least for the xbox 360) then I fail to see how that will be impossible to do here as well. Thus the demo will just show up on bittorrent sites for all to enjoy without wasting their money on District 9.
I agree. I've been downloading my favorite shows for 4 years now. I could never conceive of watching on TV anymore and dealing with that 20 minutes of Ads in order to enjoy a 42 minute episode. I watch my shows whenever I feel like it and sometimes hours before the shows air on TV here (People upload the East Coast airing). I get all my DVDs from Netflix and slowly am finding it harder to force myself to go into the theater for a movie because of all the crap I have to sit through before I get to the movie. I spend a good 20-30 minutes in my car going to and from the theater, another 10 minutes waiting for the ads to start, 10 minutes watching commercials and then 10-15 minutes watching previews for movies (most of which I've already seen online before hand). I find it hard to deal with all that shit just to enjoy a movie especially now that i have to put up with morons who don't know how to keep quiet during a movie. Soon I may just stop watching movies in theaters completely and watch everything on netflix months later.
I agree with the part about people who don't listen to music licensed by the RIAA. I listen to tons of music out of Europe and Japan and a number of American groups that aren't on RIAA labels. Are they going to offer me music from Chinese, Japanese, and European artists?