What makes it stealing isn't that you are taking it from them (which you aren't anyway), but rather that you are breaking the law and deriving a benefit from doing so.
If anything makes "piracy" wrong it's the disdainful attitude pirates have for the law.
Not always, though if it does turn out to be stolen, your goods can be confiscated and returned to the rightful owner.
Presumably that would also be a breach of the implied warranty of merchantability that would let you recover from the thief that sold you the hot property.
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Only kiddie porn is illegal.
Grown up porn is just obnoxious.
If it's scientifically viable, it should be considered probative.
My grounds for rejecting it would be more along 4th amendment grounds, and I'd consider a brain scan as a search.
Indeed.
What makes it stealing isn't that you are taking it from them (which you aren't anyway), but rather that you are breaking the law and deriving a benefit from doing so.
If anything makes "piracy" wrong it's the disdainful attitude pirates have for the law.
As a matter of pure self interest, it is to my benefit to come to your house with a gun and take everything you own.
Also as a matter of pure self interest, it is to my benefit to hog all the food at a thanksgiving dinner.
It is also in my interest to rat out my buddy in a Prisoner's Dilemma scenario.
Piracy is an exception, but self interest remains a rather poor guide for proper behavior, generally speaking.
Assinine companies suing them when they try.
In this case, wouldn't it be your ISP that owns the IP?
I gotta ask though why we assume that a machine revolution would be bad for humanity.
I consider the presumption of hostility on the part of the machines rather unfounded.
OTOH, evil *people* hacking the machines to do their bidding is entirely possible.
That's what we have customs for.
Anything infringing a patent gets confiscated at the border.
http://xkcd.com/149/
Did Novell make any GPLed contributions?
They can dock your pay if they make agreeing to such a policy a condition of employment.
It's worth whatever I feel like paying for it.
If that's not enough to cover costs, then maybe the invisible hand is telling them they're investing too much.
You've never read an EULA, have you?
The only guarantee you get is provided by product liability statutes.
Trust me, it takes skill to make music.
The RIAA is proof of that...in the sense that even cat /dev/urandom does better.
Not always, though if it does turn out to be stolen, your goods can be confiscated and returned to the rightful owner.
Presumably that would also be a breach of the implied warranty of merchantability that would let you recover from the thief that sold you the hot property.
Well space IS a vacuum...
I rather think that Google has deep pockets and a judge got greedy.
Except that they usually keep their ill gotten gains and use them to finance far more sinister operations.
If they took their fleecings and donated them to charity I would approve.
Remember, these guys are in cahoots with evil spammers.
I'll hand in my geek card for getting the line wrong.
It should be "Real men don't need instructions."
Real men don't read instructions
So you're saying that Adobe is a fool for trying to do something other than kiss Apple's butt and walk away with its tail between its legs?
Apple hates Adobe, and is hell bent on screwing them over scorched earth style no matter what it takes. I think they should answer for that.
Actually, with me they are. The karma that came back and bit them in the ass is that I will never be a customer of Apple.
I think Doe v. Ashcroft already nipped that one in the bud.
If you have to throttle, then you're overselling and owe a refund.
If a corporate puppet doesn't toe the line with the lobbyists they could always get their colleagues to trump up charges worthy of impeachment.
Actually if we start giving ourselves more of the produce instead of feeding it to cattle we'd have lots more food.
Unfortunately, many folks would rather have their steak and let a dozen people starve to death than graze on veggies and grains and let everyone live.