First of all any counterfeit money you print out has the identifying marks on it. That just screams "I'm counterfeit!" to anyone who knows to look.
Second if they manage to catch you and search your house and find your printer they can go to a jury and say "Here's the phoney money and this is the printer that made it which we found in the defendant's house." Makes the whole reasonable doubt thing so much easier to meet.
The short answer is: If there is money involved, it is very complicated. If no one wants to make money, distribtion is easy-peasy, rightsholders just sign off on it.
Problem: EVERYONE wants to make residual income, it requires no effort and is very lucrative.
So in conclusion: Big Media are a bunch of big jerks.
> I agree with you. Americans are cowards. We fear going to prison, losing years, and facing the fact > that for every job afterwards we'll have to explain why we committed a felony.
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me a nice comfortable job with 401K matching and stock options.
All I want is an e-mail client with an 'encrypt' button. I press the button and it asks me for an encryption key. I enter a key that my correspondent and I have exchanged over the phone, in person, etc. The message is encrypted and sent.
I don't know why this ended up being so hard. Eudora with with the PGP plugin has an encrypt button just like that. Why NAI didn't make more deals like this is beyond me.
Because there have been a few changes from version 1.3.14 which ships with OS X and the latest version 1.3.20 available from your friends at apache.org
>Really, what is the world coming to (or at
>least the US)? I feel that there's going to
>have to be a revolution before too long, ya
>know? Kill all the stupid people!
If that were to happen we'd all be the first one up against the wall.
The thing is Cnet has owned these domains since forever (or 1996 whichever comes first).
They got in at the ground floor and went nuts before anyone else thought grabbing domains was a nifty thing to do. That doesn't Necessarily excuse them if ones feels they need excusing.
On the other hand they're at least doing something with their domains.
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First of all any counterfeit money you print out has the identifying marks on it. That just screams "I'm counterfeit!" to anyone who knows to look.
Second if they manage to catch you and search your house and find your printer they can go to a jury and say "Here's the phoney money and this is the printer that made it which we found in the defendant's house." Makes the whole reasonable doubt thing so much easier to meet.
So in conclusion: Big Media are a bunch of big jerks.
> I agree with you. Americans are cowards. We fear going to prison, losing years, and facing the fact
> that for every job afterwards we'll have to explain why we committed a felony.
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me a nice comfortable job with 401K matching and stock options.
Bzzzt...
Prior Art: Green Mars
The link to the document is what is illegal in the US (at least that's what one district court has decided).
All I want is an e-mail client with an 'encrypt' button. I press the button and it asks me for an encryption key. I enter a key that my correspondent and I have exchanged over the phone, in person, etc. The message is encrypted and sent.
I don't know why this ended up being so hard. Eudora with with the PGP plugin has an encrypt button just like that. Why NAI didn't make more deals like this is beyond me.
Because there have been a few changes from version 1.3.14 which ships with OS X and the latest version 1.3.20 available from your friends at apache.org
>Really, what is the world coming to (or at
>least the US)? I feel that there's going to
>have to be a revolution before too long, ya
>know? Kill all the stupid people!
If that were to happen we'd all be the first one up against the wall.
They got in at the ground floor and went nuts before anyone else thought grabbing domains was a nifty thing to do. That doesn't Necessarily excuse them if ones feels they need excusing.
On the other hand they're at least doing something with their domains.