Nobody did that? I think that's part of what's in question.
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They offer that "service" for free. It's to the user's advantage to have their ad plastered all over the web, but they could still implicitly accept a contract that waives that. And not everyone necessarily wants their ad elsewhere.
I don't think that's necessarily true. If a media company can hire a firm to send DMCA notices on their behalf, an individual can "hire" Craigslist to police your copyrighted ad for you.
I didn't get into Firefly until 2009. I then bough the Serenity Blu-Ray.
For some reason, Firefly was marketed VERY poorly. Constantly moving timeslots, typical Fox treatment. I kept seeing it being mentioned online, but with scarce details and little effort, I convinced myself it was probably an anime and didn't even know it was on Fox. Never heard about Serenity either. It wasn't until Netflix told me I'd like Firefly that I actually looked it up.
I had a similar problem with LOST. I thought it was this show because they picked the same name. It didn't surprise me at all that everyone was talking about the reality show du jour, but I never caught on that they were talking about a drama and not a reality show. I got into LOST in 2007.
1.Change DMCA s512 to impose penalties on anyone who sends a take-down notice for content for content they do not own. This stops take-down notices being sent when the entity doing the sending doesn't actually own the content they are claiming to own.
Isn't that technically already perjury the way it's written? It's the enforcement that's difficult - not the legality.
Don't forget the "Disney Vault" - they're actually abusing artificial scarcity. Abandonware is just difficult logistics that can be solved by the copyright owner if they wanted to. GOG is a nice start on that front, but we really need to make the process easier. People are eager to throw money at some abandonware. I'd love to buy the game The Neverhood - but that's crazy expensive secondhand.
He was copying copyrighted content. The users who posted the ad gave license to Craigslist to publish the ad freely (via T&C's) but not to this third-party.
You can't be prosecuted for doing something that isn't actually illegal - even if it looked so. But even still, in court you could just say that you knew he worked for Disney all along and what can they really say against you?
Agree. The CFAA is only being abused to amplify charges. An IP block is a lot different than being told "Leave and don't come back." For one, it could have been an automated process. If the blocked IP literally received a "Leave and don't come back" message instead of a dropped connection, that might be somewhat different but not enough to establish it in my mind. I'm not surprised at all that a judge has trouble understanding the differences - it's still fairly technical.
Right - if they posted a comment on TPB that said "For Authorized users only - copyrighted material" then they could go after anyone who downloads it. But that would be an outright reveal of the honeypot for all but the dumbest users.
Making your wifi password "password" is an implied lock - even if your SSID is "My password is password." But having an open wifi network is implied consent - even accepted general practice (among businesses that offer free wifi).
There are a lot of apps whose purpose is to present external data in a useful way. That's only marginally different than phoning home - you still want to proxy the data through your own domain for compatibility changes with the data provider if it's not your own data.
In the miniseries I linked, people just stopped dying. Nobody came back from the dead. No apparent side effects. And it was still an ugly mess. Real interersting to watch.
I was linking to a TV Mini-series that explored the possibility where death simply wasn't possible for some mysterious reason. Overpopulation, overcrowded hospitals, lack of food - all within a matter of only days. Sure, it's just TV. But it seemed realistic.
It wasn't like this was temporary life support to give her time to heal. It was a prison that she couldn't escape from - worse than Guantanamo, worse than Abu Graibh, worse than the worst prison ever built by pre-technological man
Not if she wasn't conscious. Was there any reason to believe she might have been?
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Nobody did that? I think that's part of what's in question.
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They offer that "service" for free. It's to the user's advantage to have their ad plastered all over the web, but they could still implicitly accept a contract that waives that. And not everyone necessarily wants their ad elsewhere.
I don't think that's necessarily true. If a media company can hire a firm to send DMCA notices on their behalf, an individual can "hire" Craigslist to police your copyrighted ad for you.
I didn't get into Firefly until 2009. I then bough the Serenity Blu-Ray.
For some reason, Firefly was marketed VERY poorly. Constantly moving timeslots, typical Fox treatment. I kept seeing it being mentioned online, but with scarce details and little effort, I convinced myself it was probably an anime and didn't even know it was on Fox. Never heard about Serenity either. It wasn't until Netflix told me I'd like Firefly that I actually looked it up.
I had a similar problem with LOST. I thought it was this show because they picked the same name. It didn't surprise me at all that everyone was talking about the reality show du jour, but I never caught on that they were talking about a drama and not a reality show. I got into LOST in 2007.
1.Change DMCA s512 to impose penalties on anyone who sends a take-down notice for content for content they do not own. This stops take-down notices being sent when the entity doing the sending doesn't actually own the content they are claiming to own.
Isn't that technically already perjury the way it's written? It's the enforcement that's difficult - not the legality.
Don't forget the "Disney Vault" - they're actually abusing artificial scarcity. Abandonware is just difficult logistics that can be solved by the copyright owner if they wanted to. GOG is a nice start on that front, but we really need to make the process easier. People are eager to throw money at some abandonware. I'd love to buy the game The Neverhood - but that's crazy expensive secondhand.
How about their wife and dependent children - especially if he didn't have life insurance. I can't see how that's so evil.
I'm using the terminology of the person I replied to. Feel free to use the proper term while I speak on someone else's terms.
He was copying copyrighted content. The users who posted the ad gave license to Craigslist to publish the ad freely (via T&C's) but not to this third-party.
You can't be prosecuted for doing something that isn't actually illegal - even if it looked so. But even still, in court you could just say that you knew he worked for Disney all along and what can they really say against you?
I think they're saying the exact opposite.
Agree. The CFAA is only being abused to amplify charges. An IP block is a lot different than being told "Leave and don't come back." For one, it could have been an automated process. If the blocked IP literally received a "Leave and don't come back" message instead of a dropped connection, that might be somewhat different but not enough to establish it in my mind. I'm not surprised at all that a judge has trouble understanding the differences - it's still fairly technical.
No - this guy actually was stealing data. His site was aggregating and republishing Craigslist ads.
Prenda has records of how many people illegally downloaded it
Well that will make it easy to calculate the damages against Prenda...
Right - if they posted a comment on TPB that said "For Authorized users only - copyrighted material" then they could go after anyone who downloads it. But that would be an outright reveal of the honeypot for all but the dumbest users.
Making your wifi password "password" is an implied lock - even if your SSID is "My password is password." But having an open wifi network is implied consent - even accepted general practice (among businesses that offer free wifi).
load external content = phone home.
There are a lot of apps whose purpose is to present external data in a useful way. That's only marginally different than phoning home - you still want to proxy the data through your own domain for compatibility changes with the data provider if it's not your own data.
Wha? Why would you sync jQuery instead of downloading it once? Don't you compatibility test with new versions of jQuery before deploying it?
Google has so many data centers, that it would take a lot more than an entire facility being offline to black out Google.
For a few minutes this probably put Netflix at 90% of Internet traffic.
Maybe it's something they're putting in our water supply:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3qFdbUEq5s
Obligatory Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3qFdbUEq5s
In the miniseries I linked, people just stopped dying. Nobody came back from the dead. No apparent side effects. And it was still an ugly mess. Real interersting to watch.
I was linking to a TV Mini-series that explored the possibility where death simply wasn't possible for some mysterious reason. Overpopulation, overcrowded hospitals, lack of food - all within a matter of only days. Sure, it's just TV. But it seemed realistic.
A cure for death would wreak unbelievable chaos on the world.
It wasn't like this was temporary life support to give her time to heal. It was a prison that she couldn't escape from - worse than Guantanamo, worse than Abu Graibh, worse than the worst prison ever built by pre-technological man
Not if she wasn't conscious. Was there any reason to believe she might have been?