17 USC 506 "(a)Criminal Infringement-- Any person who infringes a copyright willfully...for purposes of this subsection, evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement."
they may demand the id checks and carpet bombing, but i also suspect that they'll demand the idiot in chief be run out of town on a rail.
I wish I could share your optimism, but I'll stick with my original prediction. If no attack then Kerry wins a close race and the country can work on becomming sane again, otherwise it's Bush by a landslide.
yes, obviously we would elect a leader who has failed to protect the country TWICE.
yupe, makes perfect sense...
Frightened people don't act sensibly, they either run and hide or they lash out. Bush's policy has been a combination of both. Another successful attack will have the majority of Americans begging for ID checks on every corner and demanding carpet bombing of Middle East.
I know this is offtopic. but if the election is delayed, we need to remove the man from office "manually". Public awareness needs to be raised now on this matter. The public doesn't need to be blindsided by this a week before the election.
Yes, it is offtopic but it is too important not to point out you need to think a little harder on this because a 9/11 type attack just prior to the election would lead to a landside in Bush's favor and a massive Congressional shift even further to the right when scared voters decide to get those standing in the way of his "protectionist" reforms out of office.
No, they wont, as it cost them millions of dollars to create. Let's not get blinded by our ideologies. It's not right or wrong to be open or closed source - it's personal preference. Having a go at companies for not releasing their intellectual property they spent millions on to the general public for free is incredibly naive.
There's a huge difference between them releasing their intellectual property and simply telling people how interact with that property.
That is not due to the UN but to the arsenal of nukes which backed up the Cold War. It was only the threat of total annihilation that prevented WWIII.h
It's surprising how many people there are who give the UN more credit than it deserves. In the end it is only as strong as the strongest country willing to sacrifice its manhoo to protect it.
Gentoo is becoming the system of choice for those who like to develop, test, and play, while Debian is for those who just want to set up a stable box and forget about it. Of course there certainly are people who still use Debian to develop just as there are those who use Gentoo for servers, but each distro seems to be heading towards those two niches. Debian tried and true, Gentoo bleeding edge and new. Both distros are very important to the open source community.
"We made this game to play on Windows and X-boxen... now these Linux geeks have, totally without anyone's permission, made them play on everything including E-Z-Bake ovens! Which, in addition to being totally contrary to our intent, is in breach of the law!"
And so, as the grandparent says, a new era of lawsuits must ensue.
Making programs that are limited to a particular operating system is the very reason for this exception, isn't it. Besides, Transgaming doesn't bypass copy protection, they pay for the rights to do use it.
"`(f) REVERSE ENGINEERING- (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and that have not previously been readily available to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title."
There is exactly one way to destroy terrorism: education. Whether it is the secular education that we tend to focus upon in the U.S. or religious education, the net impact is the same. Educated people generally do not go off and fly airplanes into buildings.
Isn't Bin Laden an Engineer? Weren't most of the 9/11 hijackers aeronautical students? Getting an education doesn't stop a person from being a bozo.
The only way to stop terrorism in its tracks is to cut off the supply of easy marks... to usher in a new era of prosperity and education so that no man, woman, or child will feel so utterly helpless that he or she feels the only way out is through taking the life of another. Only then can we truly be free.
Beautiful sentiment, but to usher in this new era of prosperity and education you are going to have to remove governments that stay in power by keeping their people poor and ignorant.
Oh great. Like that won't further inflame a fanatical region of the planet. This will just create more terrorism! Why? Because people don't like being played like a board game.
How do you make a fanatic less fanatical? Giving him what he wants will just prove his actions a credible means to potential followers which would also serve to create more terrorism.
In the end either terrorism or attacking terrorism will be proven futile. If it is to be the former then we might as well get used to asking every nut case with the ability to light a molotov cocktail how it is he wants us to live our lives.
So we're going to be staying in Iraq indefinitely to use it as a launchpad for other attacks? What happened to the plans to set up a democratic government and turn it back over to the folks there? There will be a quasi-democracy complete with a bill of rights guaranteeing freedom of religion, speech, equality of women, etc. A democracy isn't a democracy unless everyone can participate.
What the US wants is just the bases which are convenient to both launch attacks and be attacked. Certainly it's better to have extremists try to blow up tanks there than buildings here.
There are other nations that are more of a threat to us than Iraq (North Korea) and there are plenty of other nations which are guilty of human rights violations... as the grandparent mentioned, of all the places on earth worthy of being "liberated", why Iraq?
Why Iraq? Because it shares borders with Syria, Iran and Saudi, which puts it smack dab in the center of the Middle East chessboard.
Interesting...so what's the plan for that other bastion of patents-out-the-wazoo, IBM? You know, the Linux hero in corporate clothing?
Hopefully, now that they've realized the game is much more fun when all can play, IBM will make sure their portfolio stays ahead that Microsoft will have to cross license everything to legally sell their system. At least until the rest of the world realizes how much power not implementing software patents will give them over the US.
Don't think they will? It doesn't take a genuis to figure out that if everyone but Americans could freely use American ideas America's IP based economy would be royally screwed.
What the RIAA/MPAA doesn't seem to realize is that their biggest long-term problem is not that people will 'steal' their product, it's that people will become so uninterested in their product that they won't be able to give it away even if they tried. Creating an atmosphere where consumers are threatened with prison and property confiscation for listening to RIAA product will go a long way to creating a subliminal distrust of commercial music. Eventually people will go out of their way to avoid exposure to RIAA product simply to avoid the possibility of arbitrary legal harassment.
Either that, or people will become so fed up that they remember that it is they, and not the **AA's who elect the Congress that sets the copyright terms. Can't sell your movie in a year? Oh well...public domain.
Exactly. Now, how much of that was unedited? More precisely, how much of the image he presented on the tube was the result of the media picking and choosing what would be presented on the tube, and how much of it was the unedited truth?
Rewatch the live debates and compare his demeanor to the other candidates. Even Kucinich offered a little hope in his message. Dean came across as cornered cat ready to lash out at everybody and everything, which made him look mentally unstable.
As for people having the ability to influence Congress, look back to Vietnam. Even all the money the Military-Industrial complex had at their disposable was not enough to stop the call to end the war.
Dean didn't have any problem competing in the primaries. His "grassroots" campaign was internet based, a medium not readily available to the poor and lower middle classes that make up a huge chunk of the Democratic Party, think Dewey/Truman here.
On the tube he presented himself as a wild-eyed maniac. He never smiled, just bitched and complained. In the end he exited the scene just as entered it, screaming like a mad banshee.
We (Average Joes) don't have the millions of dollars the Broadcast Fuckers have.
But you can vote the palms those dollars grease out of office. Congress can decrease the length of copyright protection just as easy as they can increase it.
Really, this ranks up there with the DMCA and lawsuits against children sharing files. And to think, just a decade ago average voters didn't give a damn about copyright extensions and other such nonesense. This one may just be ticket to wake them up when they find they can't timeshift their favorite reality dribble.
Now all that will be necessary is to remind them that is Congress that has the power to set copyright terms, and it is they who have the power to elect Congress. Now matter how much money the *AA's have, bribing out of work Representatives ain't going to do them much good.
So what do you say broadcasters, how does 24 hours of copyright protection sound to you? It will sure sound a lot better than 100 years to Mr. and Mrs. Couch Potato.
Much of the porn for sale in the United States is being sold solely because law enforcement has looked the other way. Nonetheless, the sale of the stuff routinely violates national, state, and local laws. You can't blame the attorney general when he devotes resources to battling clear violations.
Ever since the Miller test became the standard very little of the "stuff" violates the law. For a work to be considered obscene it has to appeal to prurient interest, depict sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and lack any serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Literary and artistic values are subjective, political can be just about any form of satire, and someone getting a stiffy from viewing patently offensive sexual conduct is in itself of scientific value.
It amuses me that people here expect companies to follow the copyright of the GPL but are freely willing to break the copyright of other companies' products simply because it's "easy" and "convenient."
What you are not understanding is that while the majority here support the idea of copyrights, they have a big problem with how they are implented today. Limiting the monopoly on works granted by Congress to fourteen years makes even more sense now than it did over two hundred years ago especially when you consider the sheer volume of material that is created every day.
The nearly eternal protection given today does nothing to promote the progress of the arts and sciences. At the rate things are going it will become virtually impossible to pen a new document that does not infringe another in some manner, and millions of works will be forever lost to history because the owners saw no profit in continuing to publish them.
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17 USC 506
"(a)Criminal Infringement-- Any person who infringes a copyright willfully...for purposes of this subsection, evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement."
they may demand the id checks and carpet bombing, but i also suspect that they'll demand the idiot in chief be run out of town on a rail.
I wish I could share your optimism, but I'll stick with my original prediction. If no attack then Kerry wins a close race and the country can work on becomming sane again, otherwise it's Bush by a landslide.
yes, obviously we would elect a leader who has failed to protect the country TWICE.
yupe, makes perfect sense...
Frightened people don't act sensibly, they either run and hide or they lash out. Bush's policy has been a combination of both. Another successful attack will have the majority of Americans begging for ID checks on every corner and demanding carpet bombing of Middle East.
I know this is offtopic. but if the election is delayed, we need to remove the man from office "manually". Public awareness needs to be raised now on this matter. The public doesn't need to be blindsided by this a week before the election.
Yes, it is offtopic but it is too important not to point out you need to think a little harder on this because a 9/11 type attack just prior to the election would lead to a landside in Bush's favor and a massive Congressional shift even further to the right when scared voters decide to get those standing in the way of his "protectionist" reforms out of office.
No, they wont, as it cost them millions of dollars to create. Let's not get blinded by our ideologies. It's not right or wrong to be open or closed source - it's personal preference. Having a go at companies for not releasing their intellectual property they spent millions on to the general public for free is incredibly naive.
There's a huge difference between them releasing their intellectual property and simply telling people how interact with that property.
Once the last resisting country (USA) adheres to the UN resolutions as well I think there's a good chance for this to work as well.
This will come about only when you are willing to give up your life to make it come about.
That is not due to the UN but to the arsenal of nukes which backed up the Cold War. It was only the threat of total annihilation that prevented WWIII.h
It's surprising how many people there are who give the UN more credit than it deserves. In the end it is only as strong as the strongest country willing to sacrifice its manhoo to protect it.
hey!
be nice to the idiots^H^H^H^H^H^Husers!
That's right! If only idiot lusers would quit using computers programmers and technicians would have no problems at all.
Gentoo is becoming the system of choice for those who like to develop, test, and play, while Debian is for those who just want to set up a stable box and forget about it. Of course there certainly are people who still use Debian to develop just as there are those who use Gentoo for servers, but each distro seems to be heading towards those two niches. Debian tried and true, Gentoo bleeding edge and new. Both distros are very important to the open source community.
"We made this game to play on Windows and X-boxen... now these Linux geeks have, totally without anyone's permission, made them play on everything including E-Z-Bake ovens! Which, in addition to being totally contrary to our intent, is in breach of the law!"
And so, as the grandparent says, a new era of lawsuits must ensue.
Making programs that are limited to a particular operating system is the very reason for this exception, isn't it. Besides, Transgaming doesn't bypass copy protection, they pay for the rights to do use it.
"`(f) REVERSE ENGINEERING- (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and that have not previously been readily available to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title."
There is exactly one way to destroy terrorism: education. Whether it is the secular education that we tend to focus upon in the U.S. or religious education, the net impact is the same. Educated people generally do not go off and fly airplanes into buildings.
Isn't Bin Laden an Engineer? Weren't most of the 9/11 hijackers aeronautical students? Getting an education doesn't stop a person from being a bozo.
The only way to stop terrorism in its tracks is to cut off the supply of easy marks... to usher in a new era of prosperity and education so that no man, woman, or child will feel so utterly helpless that he or she feels the only way out is through taking the life of another. Only then can we truly be free.
Beautiful sentiment, but to usher in this new era of prosperity and education you are going to have to remove governments that stay in power by keeping their people poor and ignorant.
Oh great. Like that won't further inflame a fanatical region of the planet. This will just create more terrorism! Why? Because people don't like being played like a board game.
How do you make a fanatic less fanatical? Giving him what he wants will just prove his actions a credible means to potential followers which would also serve to create more terrorism.
In the end either terrorism or attacking terrorism will be proven futile. If it is to be the former then we might as well get used to asking every nut case with the ability to light a molotov cocktail how it is he wants us to live our lives.
So we're going to be staying in Iraq indefinitely to use it as a launchpad for other attacks? What happened to the plans to set up a democratic government and turn it back over to the folks there?
There will be a quasi-democracy complete with a bill of rights guaranteeing freedom of religion, speech, equality of women, etc. A democracy isn't a democracy unless everyone can participate.
What the US wants is just the bases which are convenient to both launch attacks and be attacked. Certainly it's better to have extremists try to blow up tanks there than buildings here.
There are other nations that are more of a threat to us than Iraq (North Korea) and there are plenty of other nations which are guilty of human rights violations... as the grandparent mentioned, of all the places on earth worthy of being "liberated", why Iraq?
Why Iraq? Because it shares borders with Syria, Iran and Saudi, which puts it smack dab in the center of the Middle East chessboard.
Interesting...so what's the plan for that other bastion of patents-out-the-wazoo, IBM? You know, the Linux hero in corporate clothing?
Hopefully, now that they've realized the game is much more fun when all can play, IBM will make sure their portfolio stays ahead that Microsoft will have to cross license everything to legally sell their system. At least until the rest of the world realizes how much power not implementing software patents will give them over the US.
Don't think they will? It doesn't take a genuis to figure out that if everyone but Americans could freely use American ideas America's IP based economy would be royally screwed.
(15) I believe Congress has the power to make the length of copyright protection one year as well as a hundred.
What the RIAA/MPAA doesn't seem to realize is that their biggest long-term problem is not that people will 'steal' their product, it's that people will become so uninterested in their product that they won't be able to give it away even if they tried. Creating an atmosphere where consumers are threatened with prison and property confiscation for listening to RIAA product will go a long way to creating a subliminal distrust of commercial music. Eventually people will go out of their way to avoid exposure to RIAA product simply to avoid the possibility of arbitrary legal harassment.
Either that, or people will become so fed up that they remember that it is they, and not the **AA's who elect the Congress that sets the copyright terms. Can't sell your movie in a year? Oh well...public domain.
Exactly. Now, how much of that was unedited? More precisely, how much of the image he presented on the tube was the result of the media picking and choosing what would be presented on the tube, and how much of it was the unedited truth?
Rewatch the live debates and compare his demeanor to the other candidates. Even Kucinich offered a little hope in his message. Dean came across as cornered cat ready to lash out at everybody and everything, which made him look mentally unstable.
As for people having the ability to influence Congress, look back to Vietnam. Even all the money the Military-Industrial complex had at their disposable was not enough to stop the call to end the war.
Then look at what happened to Dean.
Dean didn't have any problem competing in the primaries. His "grassroots" campaign was internet based, a medium not readily available to the poor and lower middle classes that make up a huge chunk of the Democratic Party, think Dewey/Truman here.
On the tube he presented himself as a wild-eyed maniac. He never smiled, just bitched and complained. In the end he exited the scene just as entered it, screaming like a mad banshee.
Excepting of course all of the films available at the Internet Archive such as the The Night Of The Living Dead
We (Average Joes) don't have the millions of dollars the Broadcast Fuckers have.
But you can vote the palms those dollars grease out of office. Congress can decrease the length of copyright protection just as easy as they can increase it.
Really, this ranks up there with the DMCA and lawsuits against children sharing files. And to think, just a decade ago average voters didn't give a damn about copyright extensions and other such nonesense. This one may just be ticket to wake them up when they find they can't timeshift their favorite reality dribble.
Now all that will be necessary is to remind them that is Congress that has the power to set copyright terms, and it is they who have the power to elect Congress. Now matter how much money the *AA's have, bribing out of work Representatives ain't going to do them much good.
So what do you say broadcasters, how does 24 hours of copyright protection sound to you? It will sure sound a lot better than 100 years to Mr. and Mrs. Couch Potato.
"Back in the day" a woman couldn't vote and people of a certain color had to ride on the back of the bus.
Its astonishing how much thinking has changed since.
Yes, sanity can have a real sobering impact on a society.
Much of the porn for sale in the United States is being sold solely because law enforcement has looked the other way. Nonetheless, the sale of the stuff routinely violates national, state, and local laws. You can't blame the attorney general when he devotes resources to battling clear violations.
Ever since the Miller test became the standard very little of the "stuff" violates the law. For a work to be considered obscene it has to appeal to prurient interest, depict sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and lack any serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Literary and artistic values are subjective, political can be just about any form of satire, and someone getting a stiffy from viewing patently offensive sexual conduct is in itself of scientific value.
It amuses me that people here expect companies to follow the copyright of the GPL but are freely willing to break the copyright of other companies' products simply because it's "easy" and "convenient."
What you are not understanding is that while the majority here support the idea of copyrights, they have a big problem with how they are implented today. Limiting the monopoly on works granted by Congress to fourteen years makes even more sense now than it did over two hundred years ago especially when you consider the sheer volume of material that is created every day.
The nearly eternal protection given today does nothing to promote the progress of the arts and sciences. At the rate things are going it will become virtually impossible to pen a new document that does not infringe another in some manner, and millions of works will be forever lost to history because the owners saw no profit in continuing to publish them.