Maybe they had no choice? Isn't this the spirit of the lawsuits in the first place?
Not exactly. The antitrust lawsuits were over control of the desktop. Microsoft has come nowhere near control of the server arena; last time I checked, the free Apache HTTP Server was providing healthy competition.
It's possible to make the kernel GPL'd, put the installer under a more restrictive license, and make the directory structure not GPL'd at all. OpenBSD does this: all the packages are BSD licensed, but the install CD is copyrighted as a compilation with All Rights Reserved.
OK, so "stealing" may be a bit wrong. Let me think of another metaphor. So I trespass onto your real property. Though that's not stealing, it's still trespassing. Is copyright infringement anything like trespassing?
What copyright does is give the creator exclusive license to authorize copying, and it is that license which can be owned. The license is in fact property, which can be owned, sold, rented, etc.
In other words, copyrighted works aren't property, but the copyrights themselves are, and taking those rights without permission could in a way be thought of as stealing.
Likewise, 44.1/16 PCM is lossy compression (compared to 96/24) so you're losing data there, which some people are going to be able to notice and will cause problems if you re-encode at a lower bitrate compared to encoding to that lower bitrate from a superior source.
Sometimes, you just have to ask yourself how much loss is acceptable and weigh the options accordingly.
you don't have documentation on the IOP (presumably to prevent you from producing software that will boot on any PS2 without a sony liscence) and you have to use the provided runtime enviroment.
The runtime environment prevents the internal drive from reading a CD-R disc, a CD-RW disc, a DVD-R disc, a DVD-RW disc, a DVD+R disc, or a DVD+RW disc. Thus, the USB port is the only way to get mass information into the machine. Most people don't want to pay extra for a USB CD-ROM drive.
Hobbyist developers sometimes e-mail executable files to people who don't have a compiler installed. And if you don't have a compiler, a web browser, or an FTP client, how are you supposed to get one of those without receiving an executable through e-mail or spending an exorbitant sum on international postage?
So, if true, you could simply drop the connection on poorly-formed HELO lines.
That could work, but remember to make sure that the MTA doesn't actually drop the connection until after the RCPT line; otherwise, it breaks the SMTP RFCs.
What if I own the copyright to the "uploaded copyrighted music"?
Can you prove in court that you own the copyright in both the musical work and the recording thereof? Can you do so in light of the Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs decision?
So, under what authority does the RIAA have to subpoena the information in the first place. DMCA explicitly gives this right ONLY to the actual copyright holder
...or to the actual copyright owner's duly authorized agent. How is it impossible for a record label to authorize the RIAA to act in the label's interest?
Why did the RIAA refuse to negotiate with the P2P software vendors
Beats me. When Kazaa first started out, the company behind it tried to negotiate with the major labels.
Show me in the Constitution where it says that writings and discoveries are property. They are not property.
Try the copyright clause. Patent and copyright law "secure[s]... to authors and inventors the exclusive rights to their writings and discoveries." Similarly, real property is the exclusive right to land and the permanent structures thereon. What is the fundamental difference between property and a right of exclusion?
On the other hand, if copyrights are property, why aren't they subject to some sort of intellectual property tax?
Should Americans always defer to the Congress "because they say so"? Remember that during the 1920s it was a crime to make or sell alcoholic beverages, but people did so anyway.
Given the current bandwidth limitations of the net, you're not going to be able to download CD quality music easily.
I define "CD quality" for sound recording formats as equivalent subjective fidelity to 44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo linear PCM. True, 128 kbps MP3 is closer to cassette than CD, but an encoding of a recording into VBR MP3 (or, better yet, Ogg Vorbis) at a nominal data rate of 224 kbps has been shown to have CD quality, even with better-than-average ears.
Here's how I'd stop it: If you remove the black box from your vehicle, there will be nothing to respond to a ping from the tollbooth, and the tollbooth gate won't open. If you break the tollbooth gate, a camera will pick up your license plate number.
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Maybe they had no choice? Isn't this the spirit of the lawsuits in the first place?
Not exactly. The antitrust lawsuits were over control of the desktop. Microsoft has come nowhere near control of the server arena; last time I checked, the free Apache HTTP Server was providing healthy competition.
It's possible to make the kernel GPL'd, put the installer under a more restrictive license, and make the directory structure not GPL'd at all. OpenBSD does this: all the packages are BSD licensed, but the install CD is copyrighted as a compilation with All Rights Reserved.
I'm guessing the professor probably listens to NIN only because the late Johnny Cash covered one of Trent's songs.
From the perspective of a DNS server or client, what's the difference between a subdomain and a domain? Isn't "slashdot.org" a subdomain of "org"?
These are subdomains: sub 1 sub 2 sub 3
OK, so "stealing" may be a bit wrong. Let me think of another metaphor. So I trespass onto your real property. Though that's not stealing, it's still trespassing. Is copyright infringement anything like trespassing?
Mac OS 6.0.x and Mac OS 7.0 came with different sets of default system sounds. "Sosumi", "Eep", "Quack", and "Indigo" were introduced with 7.0.
Sosumi.'snd ' was in Mac OS 7.0. The Power Macintosh computers didn't come out until well into the 7.2 cycle.
What copyright does is give the creator exclusive license to authorize copying, and it is that license which can be owned. The license is in fact property, which can be owned, sold, rented, etc.
In other words, copyrighted works aren't property, but the copyrights themselves are, and taking those rights without permission could in a way be thought of as stealing.
You're forgetting the network adaptor, it's relativley simple to get the PS2 to access shares on another computer.
Which means you have to own another computer and either 1. put it in the game room or 2. drill holes in the wall to pull CAT5 through.
You also have the internet availiable.
At 4.5 KBytes/s down and 2.5 KBytes/s up? Please. And no, not everybody has $200,000 to spare.
You conveniently left out, via the "...", the part where it says "for a limited time".
So did Congress and the Supreme Court. Point?
Likewise, 44.1/16 PCM is lossy compression (compared to 96/24) so you're losing data there, which some people are going to be able to notice and will cause problems if you re-encode at a lower bitrate compared to encoding to that lower bitrate from a superior source.
Sometimes, you just have to ask yourself how much loss is acceptable and weigh the options accordingly.
you don't have documentation on the IOP (presumably to prevent you from producing software that will boot on any PS2 without a sony liscence) and you have to use the provided runtime enviroment.
The runtime environment prevents the internal drive from reading a CD-R disc, a CD-RW disc, a DVD-R disc, a DVD-RW disc, a DVD+R disc, or a DVD+RW disc. Thus, the USB port is the only way to get mass information into the machine. Most people don't want to pay extra for a USB CD-ROM drive.
Does Sony even publish GBA games? I thought Sony's handheld platforms were the Clie and the PSP.
Do most users exchange executable files?
Hobbyist developers sometimes e-mail executable files to people who don't have a compiler installed. And if you don't have a compiler, a web browser, or an FTP client, how are you supposed to get one of those without receiving an executable through e-mail or spending an exorbitant sum on international postage?
So, if true, you could simply drop the connection on poorly-formed HELO lines.
That could work, but remember to make sure that the MTA doesn't actually drop the connection until after the RCPT line; otherwise, it breaks the SMTP RFCs.
Second, get everyone to agree to get a key that's signed by a CA.
Some individuals can't afford the annual fees that many existing CAs charge. And how can a new CA get its key into circulation?
What if I own the copyright to the "uploaded copyrighted music"?
Can you prove in court that you own the copyright in both the musical work and the recording thereof? Can you do so in light of the Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs decision?
So, under what authority does the RIAA have to subpoena the information in the first place. DMCA explicitly gives this right ONLY to the actual copyright holder
Why did the RIAA refuse to negotiate with the P2P software vendors
Beats me. When Kazaa first started out, the company behind it tried to negotiate with the major labels.
How about showing the girl that there are plenty of great artists that allow some or all of their music to be traded freely?
When one of those artists writes a song, how can he be sure that the song is in fact original and not accidentally plagiarized from some popular song?
Show me in the Constitution where it says that writings and discoveries are property. They are not property.
Try the copyright clause. Patent and copyright law "secure[s] ... to authors and inventors the exclusive rights to their writings and discoveries." Similarly, real property is the exclusive right to land and the permanent structures thereon. What is the fundamental difference between property and a right of exclusion?
On the other hand, if copyrights are property, why aren't they subject to some sort of intellectual property tax?
You steal, you get fined or put in jail.
Should Americans always defer to the Congress "because they say so"? Remember that during the 1920s it was a crime to make or sell alcoholic beverages, but people did so anyway.
Laws are made to be bent. Laws that take away fundamental rights, such as the right to express oneself musically, are made to be broken.
Given the current bandwidth limitations of the net, you're not going to be able to download CD quality music easily.
I define "CD quality" for sound recording formats as equivalent subjective fidelity to 44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo linear PCM. True, 128 kbps MP3 is closer to cassette than CD, but an encoding of a recording into VBR MP3 (or, better yet, Ogg Vorbis) at a nominal data rate of 224 kbps has been shown to have CD quality, even with better-than-average ears.
Where are freely distributable post-1923 musical works (not sound recordings thereof) plentiful?
[the application of the term "censored"] trivializes the outrages that really deserve those descriptions.
Then why is bleeping street terms relating to sex, elimination of body wastes, and body parts used primarily therefor, commonly called "censorship"?
Here's how I'd stop it: If you remove the black box from your vehicle, there will be nothing to respond to a ping from the tollbooth, and the tollbooth gate won't open. If you break the tollbooth gate, a camera will pick up your license plate number.