In UK law If someone demands money from a person and threats at further hostile action it's termed "Demanding money with menace" and is a criminal offence.
The Lawyer is basically saying "Pay my clients the money or we'll take you to court and take more money off of you." he has not provided any evidence other than "we got proof" which could mean anything from a bit of paper with the words "he's guilty!" scrawled on it in crayon, to a full IP tracking of every data packet too and from his machine.
Best thing the guy can do is contact the Lawyer and ask for proof...
Who cares with all that mathematical Technobabble!!
All we really want to know is how many....
MP3's
Divx's
DVD's
Blu-ray's...can a yottabyte hold!!!:D:D
It will be in English... http://www.ironsky.net/site/?page_id=10 "About the Film" - "The primary language of the film will be English with worldwide distribution, through theaters and via the Internet."
The RIAA are trying to get as many cases on the books as possible before any ruling in their current legal battles is made. They probably think they will loose and will push for the judgement NOT to be retroactive. i.e. all current cases can go forward and they are free to extort monies to settle or going to trial.
It's called hedging your bets...
I'm just waiting for then Euro-ENCAP or the US equivalent to complain that the Crashing of the cars is not realistic enough. That people can't just walk away from flying head first through a wind shield after hitting a cop car at 100Mph...
That you can't use a car to bash 20 - 30 cars into pedestrians and still be able to drive it away.. Or something just as stupid....
Will the SlashDot story of SlashDot's downtime cause SlashDot to be SlashDot'ed? There by causing another story of how SlashDot was Slashdot'ed. Causing SlashDot to be SlashDot'ed again...
My head hurts.......
how to ping your house:
step 1 - get elastic band
step 2 - loop over left thumb and hold using thump and forefinger of right hand.
step 3 - pull to just below breaking point.
step 4 - move left thump to point at solid (not living) object (i.e. wall)
Step 5 - release the righthand thump and fore finger.
You have now ping'ed your house
You may now apply toll points:D
p.s.
Hell if the EULA works for Apple.......
Why should it NOT work for the malware spreader?? At least they are honest...
**Cue MAC funboy fanboys**:P:P
hell.... EVERY E.U.L.A. is invalid. You can't agree to a licence if it's inside a shrink wrapped box before you buy it!......
You can't use the software unless you agree to the EULA. The only way to agree to the EULA is to read it. Only way to read it is to open the Box. By opening the box you Agree to the EULA. Catch 22 without a law degree.
Gates *waves his hand*:"This is not a flaw.."
MS Drone user: "This is not a flaw"
Gates: *ignore this*
MS Drone user "I'll ignore this..."
Evil cyber hacker : "WTF!! Another hole! I can't keep up!"
Well if the UK' TV licence detection van's can do it why not the NSA?
Seen a Detection van pull a reasonable image off of the interference put out by a CRT in a van 30 feet away!!
NSA gotta have more sensitive equipment!
Then again, Knowing the UK TV Licence team, they could probably get more info out of the American embassy using their van, than any spy around....;)
Instead of D/L the ISO i've opted for the web update.
Gonna take another hour to d/l the updates so it's probably just as quick as D/L via torrent, burning to CD then running the upgrade...:D
Guess FedEx / DHL will run out of Laptop sized boxes soon. All those business travellers opting to send their laptop home, instead of carrying it on the plane..
So phoenix_nz
If you left your car unlocked you would not mind if I used it to race down the local strip mall?
Also none of your friends have "Admitted" to piggy-backing a Wi-Fi signal, since it is illegal and probably a reason to get kicked out of Uni/College/School/Job whatever..
Well think of it this way...
If they are wasting time in this stupid effort, then they have less time to Funk up the rest of the world with stupid reasons to go to war....
I think using stupid filenames and encryption is the least we can do for world peace...:D
Lucky for me I can "Borrow" my neighbours Wireless connection. (I really should tell him about the security Tab)....:) So I'm not worried, well I've not played EVE since I've changed ISP's. But you never know if they'll ban the IP it's been D/L on THEN the user uses that IP to play for the first time...
If that happens, there lot's of players on Dynamic Addresses are gonna be very annoyed!! Lawyer Time!!!
Just been on to the website. It's up but Very very slow...
Apple will probably Kill this dead but if i did buy a Mac it would be something like an 'OpenMac' just so that i know i can stick it to Jobs and Co:D lol.
Wonder if they will go to court and test the EULA?? (Has an EULA been defended in court yet??)
I don't think I'm immune just because I'm running Linux.
I run AVG on my laptop. I'm careful of what i download and i never run as Root.
I think I'm immune because I'm careful.:D
(probably get flammed for this but...)
If you're that worried about Viruses. Drop Windows and look into a Linux install instead.:D But if you wan't to keep windows then keep running Virus scans and praying to the FSM on an hourly basis..:D
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In UK law If someone demands money from a person and threats at further hostile action it's termed "Demanding money with menace" and is a criminal offence. The Lawyer is basically saying "Pay my clients the money or we'll take you to court and take more money off of you." he has not provided any evidence other than "we got proof" which could mean anything from a bit of paper with the words "he's guilty!" scrawled on it in crayon, to a full IP tracking of every data packet too and from his machine. Best thing the guy can do is contact the Lawyer and ask for proof...
Who cares with all that mathematical Technobabble!! All we really want to know is how many.... MP3's Divx's DVD's Blu-ray's ...can a yottabyte hold!!! :D:D
It will be in English... http://www.ironsky.net/site/?page_id=10 "About the Film" - "The primary language of the film will be English with worldwide distribution, through theaters and via the Internet."
You guy's are not content stealing his music using P2P you have to use 'Ford Transit' too!! :D
Woo! :D
The RIAA are trying to get as many cases on the books as possible before any ruling in their current legal battles is made. They probably think they will loose and will push for the judgement NOT to be retroactive. i.e. all current cases can go forward and they are free to extort monies to settle or going to trial. It's called hedging your bets...
I'm just waiting for then Euro-ENCAP or the US equivalent to complain that the Crashing of the cars is not realistic enough. That people can't just walk away from flying head first through a wind shield after hitting a cop car at 100Mph... That you can't use a car to bash 20 - 30 cars into pedestrians and still be able to drive it away.. Or something just as stupid....
Will the SlashDot story of SlashDot's downtime cause SlashDot to be SlashDot'ed? There by causing another story of how SlashDot was Slashdot'ed. Causing SlashDot to be SlashDot'ed again... My head hurts.......
how to ping your house: step 1 - get elastic band step 2 - loop over left thumb and hold using thump and forefinger of right hand. step 3 - pull to just below breaking point. step 4 - move left thump to point at solid (not living) object (i.e. wall) Step 5 - release the righthand thump and fore finger. You have now ping'ed your house You may now apply toll points :D
but britneyspearstoxic.mp3 is 100% evident of bad musical taste. :D:D that alone deserves a lawsuit or 2 ;) lol
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else $Flame
p.s. Hell if the EULA works for Apple....... Why should it NOT work for the malware spreader?? At least they are honest... **Cue MAC funboy fanboys** :P:P
hell.... EVERY E.U.L.A. is invalid. You can't agree to a licence if it's inside a shrink wrapped box before you buy it!...... You can't use the software unless you agree to the EULA. The only way to agree to the EULA is to read it. Only way to read it is to open the Box. By opening the box you Agree to the EULA. Catch 22 without a law degree.
ignore typos.. please!! :D
Gates *waves his hand*:"This is not a flaw.." MS Drone user: "This is not a flaw" Gates: *ignore this* MS Drone user "I'll ignore this..." Evil cyber hacker : "WTF!! Another hole! I can't keep up!"
Well if the UK' TV licence detection van's can do it why not the NSA? Seen a Detection van pull a reasonable image off of the interference put out by a CRT in a van 30 feet away!! NSA gotta have more sensitive equipment! Then again, Knowing the UK TV Licence team, they could probably get more info out of the American embassy using their van, than any spy around.... ;)
Instead of D/L the ISO i've opted for the web update. Gonna take another hour to d/l the updates so it's probably just as quick as D/L via torrent, burning to CD then running the upgrade... :D
Guess FedEx / DHL will run out of Laptop sized boxes soon. All those business travellers opting to send their laptop home, instead of carrying it on the plane..
and it had nothing to do with that bulging envelope the Microsoft representative slipped the bureaucrat...
So phoenix_nz If you left your car unlocked you would not mind if I used it to race down the local strip mall? Also none of your friends have "Admitted" to piggy-backing a Wi-Fi signal, since it is illegal and probably a reason to get kicked out of Uni/College/School/Job whatever..
Well think of it this way... If they are wasting time in this stupid effort, then they have less time to Funk up the rest of the world with stupid reasons to go to war.... I think using stupid filenames and encryption is the least we can do for world peace... :D
Hey"!! I've always used a Manual Gearbox But since I'm in the UK that's not unusual :P
Lucky for me I can "Borrow" my neighbours Wireless connection. (I really should tell him about the security Tab).... :) So I'm not worried, well I've not played EVE since I've changed ISP's. But you never know if they'll ban the IP it's been D/L on THEN the user uses that IP to play for the first time...
If that happens, there lot's of players on Dynamic Addresses are gonna be very annoyed!! Lawyer Time!!!
Just been on to the website. It's up but Very very slow... Apple will probably Kill this dead but if i did buy a Mac it would be something like an 'OpenMac' just so that i know i can stick it to Jobs and Co :D lol.
Wonder if they will go to court and test the EULA?? (Has an EULA been defended in court yet??)
I don't think I'm immune just because I'm running Linux. I run AVG on my laptop. I'm careful of what i download and i never run as Root. I think I'm immune because I'm careful. :D
(probably get flammed for this but...) If you're that worried about Viruses. Drop Windows and look into a Linux install instead. :D But if you wan't to keep windows then keep running Virus scans and praying to the FSM on an hourly basis..:D