Sorry but I'd argue that unless they get your signature on a new contract that the old one is the one they should be operating under. Naturally any contract that includes a one sided 'i can change anything but you cant' would easily be considered unconscionable in court.
You could easily make a case for $150,000 per song because they willingly and knowingly used songs for which they did not procure the rights for. Willful and Systemic infringement rather than casual infringement. The only way to make it not happen again is to make it so they have a huge loss over it.
No they wont. The only thing utilities are there for is to gouge you as much as they can before they become obsolete.
Do you really think they have power savings on their mind when they install smart meters? No. They're using them to cut costs to improve profit, the price of electricity is just going to keep increasing because power companies can never ever run at a loss unless everyone cuts the power cord simultaneously.
Yeah too bad booting from a network was/is already done... I guess Apple is the first company to throw the term CLOUD in thus they clearly deserve another patent
It's just a false flag issue to get people on side with ACTA. Now everytime you see a big bust they wont use the word piracy, they'll use counterfeiting. Yeah we caught this guy counterfeiting 1000's of songs on the internets clogging up the tubes.
I wouldn't be surprised if this guy was a plant by the MAFIAA or something.
Government documents are not protected by copyright whether they are classified or not. Whether they can be said to cause injury is debatable just like a good number of US government departments (like the DEA's war on marijuna)
Yeah, I think anyone who falsely accuses someone of rape should spend a few hours in a prison shower with some other inmates then they'll know what the word means
Yeah what about the workers who go on strike. Clearly they shouldnt be allowed to sit at the entrance and stop everyone from going in by giving them all a 5 minute lecture or controlling the flow of business in and out.
You should save in ASCII, Word becomes obsolete each version upgrade. Sure there is backwards compatibility but at least with ASCII you know that something like notepad.exe or similar in non-windows OSes can read it.
The only thing fancy editors are for is to pretty up the presentation, separate the content from the presentation and you're golden. HTML did it with CSS years ago.
What ever happened to the good old fashioned chopping up magazines to make threatening letters? Kids these days and their newfangled printers relying on them instead of you know less trackable methods.
Remember it took the police so long to find the unibomber because he did all his stuff on an old school typewriter and lived like a hermit. I bet you if he had printed his crap out on some printer somewhere he would have been caught much faster.
I'm betting in the future Law Enforcement Officers will practice due diligence and obtain a warrant before going and asking for these records. No doubt the courts will act as little more than a rubber stamp though.
They're obligated to process transactions. However, they are still able to decide to cut off a client from being able to submit transactions. If they didnt then it'd be a whole lot more easier to fraud accounts because the companies would not be able to protect themselves or the customer or merchant.
I work with an ex police officer and he's pretty set against 'civilians' recording police, in his eyes its another way to get innocent police officers in trouble since a lot of the videos that have implicated officers in the past have lacked any context. This makes sense because a clip showing police brutality could be part of a longer incident where the suspect resisted arrest and tried to hurt the officer. I understand that in the heat of the moment a person who feels their life is in jeopardy may use force which seems excessive out of context. That being said, the same officer buddy is in favor of red light cameras, the nanny state, and airport scanners that see through your clothes. You can't have it both ways in a free and just society. You can't give the police the ability to watch everyone while denying the public the ability to watch the police. I think a better solution, that nobody in law enforcement would like, would be to put cameras on police officers and also allow the public to photograph them. That way in a court of law you have evidence that can provide context to any side videos in play. If the police officer is innocent he has nothing to fear from the surveillance, that's the line they have been feeding the public in general so it's fitting for it to fly back in their faces.
This cuts both ways... videos have implicated innocent civilians have lacked context. Therefore we should ban cameras everywhere, not just recording police officers but ones which record everyone without their express consent.
Remember cameras are more likely to be used against civilians than police. Even when police brutality is involved they say curling up in a fetal position and protecting your head is resisting arrest.
If is walks like duck, quacks like a duck and tastes like a duck when you cook it for supper... You're not gonna say it's a cow... Unless you're the Dept. of Justice in the US of A.
Right, all they did was make it binding that multinational corporations are allowed to price fix by charging more to richer places and less to poorer places.
Yeah, then again maybe it's time salaried employees strike back. Just because you are on salary does not necessarily mean you are not entitled to overtime pay, etc... if an employer wants to play that game and use such things as calling in sick to goto a funeral or maybe they're just overworked and need 24 hours to themselves to relax.
Studies have also shown that employees to take more days off tend to be more productive with their 'on' days because they destress more often.
Yep, hypocritically too... because governments exist only to make themselves more powerful thus they will do whatever possible. That 'whatever possible' is often reprehensible to the normal citizenry.
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Sorry but I'd argue that unless they get your signature on a new contract that the old one is the one they should be operating under. Naturally any contract that includes a one sided 'i can change anything but you cant' would easily be considered unconscionable in court.
Actually in RIAA Math...
300,000 Songs * $150,000 (per song infringed) = $45,000,000,000 (that's 45 BILLION)
You could easily make a case for $150,000 per song because they willingly and knowingly used songs for which they did not procure the rights for. Willful and Systemic infringement rather than casual infringement. The only way to make it not happen again is to make it so they have a huge loss over it.
It would become trivially easy to DOS attack someone's TV by making it display nothing but goatse and 2girls1cup.
No they wont. The only thing utilities are there for is to gouge you as much as they can before they become obsolete.
Do you really think they have power savings on their mind when they install smart meters? No. They're using them to cut costs to improve profit, the price of electricity is just going to keep increasing because power companies can never ever run at a loss unless everyone cuts the power cord simultaneously.
Yeah too bad booting from a network was/is already done... I guess Apple is the first company to throw the term CLOUD in thus they clearly deserve another patent
It's just a false flag issue to get people on side with ACTA. Now everytime you see a big bust they wont use the word piracy, they'll use counterfeiting. Yeah we caught this guy counterfeiting 1000's of songs on the internets clogging up the tubes.
I wouldn't be surprised if this guy was a plant by the MAFIAA or something.
Government documents are not protected by copyright whether they are classified or not. Whether they can be said to cause injury is debatable just like a good number of US government departments (like the DEA's war on marijuna)
Yeah, I think anyone who falsely accuses someone of rape should spend a few hours in a prison shower with some other inmates then they'll know what the word means
Yeah what about the workers who go on strike. Clearly they shouldnt be allowed to sit at the entrance and stop everyone from going in by giving them all a 5 minute lecture or controlling the flow of business in and out.
#3 seems to be a winner
You should save in ASCII, Word becomes obsolete each version upgrade. Sure there is backwards compatibility but at least with ASCII you know that something like notepad.exe or similar in non-windows OSes can read it.
The only thing fancy editors are for is to pretty up the presentation, separate the content from the presentation and you're golden. HTML did it with CSS years ago.
Just rip the black box out of your car :D
What ever happened to the good old fashioned chopping up magazines to make threatening letters? Kids these days and their newfangled printers relying on them instead of you know less trackable methods.
Remember it took the police so long to find the unibomber because he did all his stuff on an old school typewriter and lived like a hermit. I bet you if he had printed his crap out on some printer somewhere he would have been caught much faster.
One is done by perceived legitimate companies, The other by black hat hackers looking to make a buck stealing credit card info.
Fixed it for you.
I'm betting in the future Law Enforcement Officers will practice due diligence and obtain a warrant before going and asking for these records. No doubt the courts will act as little more than a rubber stamp though.
Screw Jamie and Adam, this myth needs more Kari Byron
Yep or you'll end up with xSucksSucksSucks.com
They're obligated to process transactions. However, they are still able to decide to cut off a client from being able to submit transactions. If they didnt then it'd be a whole lot more easier to fraud accounts because the companies would not be able to protect themselves or the customer or merchant.
I work with an ex police officer and he's pretty set against 'civilians' recording police, in his eyes its another way to get innocent police officers in trouble since a lot of the videos that have implicated officers in the past have lacked any context. This makes sense because a clip showing police brutality could be part of a longer incident where the suspect resisted arrest and tried to hurt the officer. I understand that in the heat of the moment a person who feels their life is in jeopardy may use force which seems excessive out of context. That being said, the same officer buddy is in favor of red light cameras, the nanny state, and airport scanners that see through your clothes. You can't have it both ways in a free and just society. You can't give the police the ability to watch everyone while denying the public the ability to watch the police. I think a better solution, that nobody in law enforcement would like, would be to put cameras on police officers and also allow the public to photograph them. That way in a court of law you have evidence that can provide context to any side videos in play. If the police officer is innocent he has nothing to fear from the surveillance, that's the line they have been feeding the public in general so it's fitting for it to fly back in their faces.
This cuts both ways... videos have implicated innocent civilians have lacked context. Therefore we should ban cameras everywhere, not just recording police officers but ones which record everyone without their express consent.
Remember cameras are more likely to be used against civilians than police. Even when police brutality is involved they say curling up in a fetal position and protecting your head is resisting arrest.
If is walks like duck, quacks like a duck and tastes like a duck when you cook it for supper... You're not gonna say it's a cow... Unless you're the Dept. of Justice in the US of A.
Right, all they did was make it binding that multinational corporations are allowed to price fix by charging more to richer places and less to poorer places.
Just like his lip in a B-ball game.
Yeah, then again maybe it's time salaried employees strike back. Just because you are on salary does not necessarily mean you are not entitled to overtime pay, etc... if an employer wants to play that game and use such things as calling in sick to goto a funeral or maybe they're just overworked and need 24 hours to themselves to relax.
Studies have also shown that employees to take more days off tend to be more productive with their 'on' days because they destress more often.
Until the DHS seizes all the domains at the behest of the MAFIAA... You know it's a national security issue, not being able to get free content.
Yep, hypocritically too... because governments exist only to make themselves more powerful thus they will do whatever possible. That 'whatever possible' is often reprehensible to the normal citizenry.