In the city of Fortaleza, a local newspaper once declared that half the councilmen were disonest. However, due to the strong political reaction (and a number of threats), the same newspaper decided to "step back" the following day, by declaring that half the councilmen were honest.
More precisely this event happened in 1965 and those that can read Portuguese may check it out here.
Adam "retracted" his previous statement by clarifying that the production company Beyond Productions assumed responsibility for this decision (does it ever happen any other way?), and declaring the details behind this episode were even worse than the short version he provided. Wow I guess that changes everything!
It reminds me of another, somewhat similar story. In the city of Fortaleza, a local newspaper once declared that half the councilmen were disonest. However, due to the strong political reaction (and a number of threats), the same newspaper decided to "step back" the following day, by declaring that half the councilmen were honest. (I'm not making this up, this event was reported by journalist Stanislaw Ponte Preta (1923-1968) who became famous for collecting such bizarre stories in Brazil).
Early outbreaks of the Black Death killed 80% of the infected people and massively depopulated Europe. Nowadays you'd only have about 50% chance to die of it. Our immune system did evolve somewhat.
That's straightforward natural selection. A significant part of the world population is descendant of the surviving 20% which were naturally more resistant to the plague.
(Unless you are not a creationist, in which case you will have to find your own perfectly irrational explanation all by yourself.)
The right was granted in the Constitution, and while the Constitution allows it to be temporarily suspended, it has not been lost.
It's not been lost? Tell it to those in Guantanamo Bay, or those held without legal consul, notification to their families, or admissions of their presence in this and similar facilities. Since their names are secret, and even admitting that you know the names can get you thrown in jail as a security risk, that's about as serious a violation of habeas corpus as you can commit. It's also a major violation of the Geneva Convention.
This is not even something new. Here in Brazil, music artists have been complaining for decades that record labels quite often pay them peanuts by "cheating" on sale numbers or simply ignoring contract agreements -- even the big labels such as EMI. But they continued recording CDs anyway, simply because the sustained publicity help promote their live shows, which is the part that really matters.
There is no revenue in recorded music anymore. I know I'm not buying any, and nobody I know is buying any.
Even before the time of MP3s and pirated CDs, everybody I know used to spend even more money buying show tickets than vinyls. From what I can tell, live shows became an even larger business now than decades ago.
I think the "business" of music is pretty much over.
For record labels, obviously. But for artists? Not at all!
"Mandating that proof could thus have the pernicious effect of depriving copyright owners of a practical remedy against massive copyright infringement in many instances."
That's true, you know. Mandating proof of actual distribution, instead of just making available, really makes it a lot harder to prove copyright infringement. They are right when they claim it's very inconvenient for fighting piracy...
But you know what? The law's not supposed to be "convenient" for anybody! Claiming "the law doesn't apply here since it's not convenient for my interests" doesn't really work.
Thus whenever there's going to be a millionaire production, if the author dies in an unfortunate "accident", a corporation could be saving lots of money...
PS: Never mind. I doubt anybody would seriously consider sacrificing another person's life for profit.
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In the city of Fortaleza, a local newspaper once declared that half the councilmen were disonest. However, due to the strong political reaction (and a number of threats), the same newspaper decided to "step back" the following day, by declaring that half the councilmen were honest.
More precisely this event happened in 1965 and those that can read Portuguese may check it out here.
Adam "retracted" his previous statement by clarifying that the production company Beyond Productions assumed responsibility for this decision (does it ever happen any other way?), and declaring the details behind this episode were even worse than the short version he provided. Wow I guess that changes everything!
It reminds me of another, somewhat similar story. In the city of Fortaleza, a local newspaper once declared that half the councilmen were disonest. However, due to the strong political reaction (and a number of threats), the same newspaper decided to "step back" the following day, by declaring that half the councilmen were honest. (I'm not making this up, this event was reported by journalist Stanislaw Ponte Preta (1923-1968) who became famous for collecting such bizarre stories in Brazil).
Early outbreaks of the Black Death killed 80% of the infected people and massively depopulated Europe. Nowadays you'd only have about 50% chance to die of it. Our immune system did evolve somewhat.
That's straightforward natural selection. A significant part of the world population is descendant of the surviving 20% which were naturally more resistant to the plague.
(Unless you are not a creationist, in which case you will have to find your own perfectly irrational explanation all by yourself.)
The right was granted in the Constitution, and while the Constitution allows it to be temporarily suspended, it has not been lost.
It's not been lost? Tell it to those in Guantanamo Bay, or those held without legal consul, notification to their families, or admissions of their presence in this and similar facilities. Since their names are secret, and even admitting that you know the names can get you thrown in jail as a security risk, that's about as serious a violation of habeas corpus as you can commit. It's also a major violation of the Geneva Convention.
For those that still refuse to believe the US government disrespects human rights nowadays, the best evidence you can provide are reports from reliable sources such as Amnesty International, other human rights organisations, and even the UK government.
I'd like to hear about a business model whereby the artists produce the music and put it out on the Internet for free.
Music artists make a lot more money out of shows than from selling CDs. Nowadays you can find top artists distributing free CDs, providing full albums under Creative Commons license, and even refusing to record new albums since 1990. And you can be sure these groups are still making huge profits from their shows, thank you very much!
This is not even something new. Here in Brazil, music artists have been complaining for decades that record labels quite often pay them peanuts by "cheating" on sale numbers or simply ignoring contract agreements -- even the big labels such as EMI. But they continued recording CDs anyway, simply because the sustained publicity help promote their live shows, which is the part that really matters.
There is no revenue in recorded music anymore. I know I'm not buying any, and nobody I know is buying any.
Even before the time of MP3s and pirated CDs, everybody I know used to spend even more money buying show tickets than vinyls. From what I can tell, live shows became an even larger business now than decades ago.
I think the "business" of music is pretty much over.
For record labels, obviously. But for artists? Not at all!
That's true, you know. Mandating proof of actual distribution, instead of just making available, really makes it a lot harder to prove copyright infringement. They are right when they claim it's very inconvenient for fighting piracy...
But you know what? The law's not supposed to be "convenient" for anybody! Claiming "the law doesn't apply here since it's not convenient for my interests" doesn't really work.
So... what's the best way to install email encryption support in gmail?
Preferably a tutorial for non-geeks that i could pass along to everybody i know.
Thus whenever there's going to be a millionaire production, if the author dies in an unfortunate "accident", a corporation could be saving lots of money...
PS: Never mind. I doubt anybody would seriously consider sacrificing another person's life for profit.