Your assessment of things to consider is a good approach, however adding it all up is a human's work.
BTW You might also want to consider what the OS project is doing to protect its continuity, for example in terms of legal protection, or in lowering thresholds for new developers.
The law is specifically about digital cameras. I suspect cell phones will soon be equipped with analog cameras. (They might throw in a photo printer as well, but it must be a noisy one.)
The word "piracy" implies the existence of certain laws, and therefore it's perfectly valid to say that piracy is illegal. Which laws decide what exactly is piracy varies per country, but I can assure you that piracy is illegal outside of the U.S., too, even in Sweden.
As for the black/white reasoning: in a legal context, this is what you do.
Whiteshade is accused of "using the Fox News style of argument". This comment does not help the discussion, as many non-US citizens will not watch Fox News regularly. Let's try to remember that we are speaking to a global audience here. Speculating that the person who modded White Shade's comment "insightful" must work for "a corporation" is also a false argument.
Considering these things, I find the the fact that this comment has also been modded "insightful", and currently rewarded with a score 5, surprising.
Who do we send? I feel a spacecraft containing the world's finest public telephone sanitizers (in fact, all of them) would be most suitable to lead the way.
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Your assessment of things to consider is a good approach, however adding it all up is a human's work. BTW You might also want to consider what the OS project is doing to protect its continuity, for example in terms of legal protection, or in lowering thresholds for new developers.
So the cell phone still works, the computer isn't hacked, the car hasn't exploded yet?
The law is specifically about digital cameras. I suspect cell phones will soon be equipped with analog cameras. (They might throw in a photo printer as well, but it must be a noisy one.)
Consider it a tax on stupidity.
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/168/14/1550
Somebody send Kurt Russell over there quick!
The word "piracy" implies the existence of certain laws, and therefore it's perfectly valid to say that piracy is illegal. Which laws decide what exactly is piracy varies per country, but I can assure you that piracy is illegal outside of the U.S., too, even in Sweden.
As for the black/white reasoning: in a legal context, this is what you do.
Whiteshade is accused of "using the Fox News style of argument". This comment does not help the discussion, as many non-US citizens will not watch Fox News regularly. Let's try to remember that we are speaking to a global audience here. Speculating that the person who modded White Shade's comment "insightful" must work for "a corporation" is also a false argument.
Considering these things, I find the the fact that this comment has also been modded "insightful", and currently rewarded with a score 5, surprising.
Who do we send? I feel a spacecraft containing the world's finest public telephone sanitizers (in fact, all of them) would be most suitable to lead the way.