So now only copyright laws apply to your usage of the software. I which all the restrictive licenses had clauses like that.
Except where you get to the part that the disclaimer of warranty, limitation of liability, ban on reverse engineering, etc. "survive termination of this License." Is this enforceable?
By downloading their product, you deprive them of a potential sale.
And by refusing to offer the product for sale, the copyright owner admits that there is no market for the product, possibly triggering a safety valve deep within the fair use law that considers "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work."
To change the starting virtual address of a binary, just change the linker script (or use a command-line option to the linker). Why did they have to patch binutils?
Perhaps the patch to GNU Binutils only modified the default linker scripts used by GNU ld on one or more common platforms.
When did McVeigh put up a website that everyone could discuss concerning his views?
Never, because it would have been ineffective. The bombing of the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City occurred in 1995, before a critical mass of American people had access to the World Wide Web.
Last I knew, the Ninth Amendment stated we had rights not specifically stated in the Constitution or Amendments. I'd like to think a basic level of privacy is one of them.
Better than that: The Fourth Amendment seems to imply some right to privacy in its ban on "unreasonable search and seizure".
Any version of Windows (3.11 should be cheap by now, as is 95, etc.)
Microsoft no longer makes IE for Windows 3.11 or for Windows 95. Almost all older versions of IE are vulnerable to arbitrary-code exploits and will not be patched against them.
Mac OS
Which requires a hardware key from Apple that's not available new to the general public for under $1000.
Solaris
Which requires an even more expensive hardware key from Sun.
Linux might be next
Got any documentation to corroborate the rumor of an authorized port of Microsoft Internet Explorer to the GNU/Linux operating environment?
In U.S. law tradition, there is a doctrine called "laches" that states that if a monopoly owner harmed an alleged infringer by delaying legal action, the monopoly owner is not entitled to damages for infringements that occurred before legal action began. In patent cases, laches kicks in after six years unless the defendant can prove that the plaintiff so harmed the defendant.
In those states where digital signatures are not yet binding, it soon will be. This page lists the legal status of digital signatures in all sorts of jurisdictions. On the page, pull down the menu and select "United States [All States]".
And you still have no way to guarantee delivery
Perhaps SMTP does not guarantee delivery, but the instant message protocols already do. Future instant message protocols will allow for cryptographically signed communication.
Where are you getting that they won't keep up development?
Pro Tools Free is advertised as compatible with Windows Me but not compatible with Windows 2000, which was first published before Windows Me. The web site also shows no indication that the developer is in any way working on a version compatible with Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It smells less like getting behind by accident and more like getting behind on purpose.
Pro Tools Freeis compatible only with Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, and Mac OS 9 operating systems. Almost no new computers are sold with one of those operating systems anymore; it's always Windows XP or Mac OS X, with which the Pro Tools publisher has sworn not to make the program compatible.
Are you aware of a similar case, Selle v. Gibb ( here [musicanalyst.com] or here [columbia.edu])? The same song written by two people, yet found not to infringe due to lack of access.
I've read that opinion, but unfortunately, the courts now seem to presume access because if a song has been on the Billboard Top 100 even once, then it's probably still played regularly on oldies stations.
In short, it is a very, very fast RGB strobe sequence that has no equivalent that I know of in any other display technology.
Some early color movies (filmed with the Kinemacolor system, before the Technicolor sandwich approach became feasible) had the same sort of strobe effect, except it was RG not RGB.
anyone who is a student, teacher, or faculty member
Unfortunately, that no longer applies. At the end of February, I just graduated from college with a B.S. in computer science, but according to the local evening paper's classified ad section, nobody in my backwoods town of 200,000 seems to want to hire me.
You can also take a look at the used market.
Most of the used Macintosh computers that I have seen in person aren't even new enough to be compatible with Mac OS X, let alone iTunes 4.
Apple has several products in the sub-$1000 range.
Which ones? Computers labeled $999 don't count because Apple collects sales tax in all U.S. states that have sales tax. Does Apple sell any complete computer systems in the sub-$900 range?
I can hit used CD stores and find MUCH more interesting music for half the price of the Apple music store.
With the exception of eBay's Half.com, hitting used CD stores requires a driver's license, a car, registration for your car, insurance for your car (which is prohibitively expensive until the driver turns 25), and petrol. Which of those does iTunes require?
Anyone want to bet on how many days go by before someone has reverse-engineered the MaciMusic store protocol and written an app that masquerades as iTunes-on-a-Mac thus allowing Linux and Windows users to purchase music through Apple?
Anyone want to bet on how many minutes it will take for the RIAA or one of the major labels to send a cease-and-desist letter alleging violation of 17 USC 1201(a), claiming that the presence of a Macintosh® computer is an access control mechanism?
The article claims 680,000 element CCD. Assuming 24-bit color, that's 3 bytes
Actually, it takes four CCD elements to make a single color pixel: one red element, two green elements, and one blue element, arranged in a square pattern with greens at opposite corners. So divide your estimated bandwidth by 4.
on most major label releases, the publishing rights are also...
I wonder what measures the major labels and publishers have taken to prevent another Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs fiasco. If you're not familiar with Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs, it was a court case in which the publisher of "He's So Fine" (written by Ronald Mack and performed by the Chiffons) successfully sued the publisher of "My Sweet Lord" (written and performed by George Harrison) for copyright infringement, even though Harrison was not aware that he was copying a copyrighted song. Do the major publishers have automated databases in which composers can search for melodies that have already been copyrighted? Or is there some sort of copyright liability insurance that songwriters have to take out, similar to a physician's malpractice insurance?
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Instead of a movie being 10MB too short, it can use that 10MB to add to the quality
Raise your hand if you actually notice the difference between a 689 MB video and a 699 MB video during normal viewing.
(less than 0.5% of hands go up)
I'd rather lose 10 MB so that I can include extras such as the necessary codecs, a .lrc file for captioning, etc.
So now only copyright laws apply to your usage of the software. I which all the restrictive licenses had clauses like that.
Except where you get to the part that the disclaimer of warranty, limitation of liability, ban on reverse engineering, etc. "survive termination of this License." Is this enforceable?
By downloading their product, you deprive them of a potential sale.
And by refusing to offer the product for sale, the copyright owner admits that there is no market for the product, possibly triggering a safety valve deep within the fair use law that considers "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work."
You may not want to buy a movie for $20 today, but might be willing to wait a year and buy it for $2 in the bargain bin.
What if the owner of copyright in the motion picture is not willing to sell me one copy for any price less than $20 billion, the value of the company?
To change the starting virtual address of a binary, just change the linker script (or use a command-line option to the linker). Why did they have to patch binutils?
Perhaps the patch to GNU Binutils only modified the default linker scripts used by GNU ld on one or more common platforms.
But what do you do if your algorithm is O(n) but the algorithm to check it will terminate with a reasonable result on bad input is O(n^3)?
Terminate the process if it has gone ten times as long as it should based on an initial estimate of the O(n) execution time.
When did McVeigh put up a website that everyone could discuss concerning his views?
Never, because it would have been ineffective. The bombing of the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City occurred in 1995, before a critical mass of American people had access to the World Wide Web.
Last I knew, the Ninth Amendment stated we had rights not specifically stated in the Constitution or Amendments. I'd like to think a basic level of privacy is one of them.
Better than that: The Fourth Amendment seems to imply some right to privacy in its ban on "unreasonable search and seizure".
Any version of Windows (3.11 should be cheap by now, as is 95, etc.)
Microsoft no longer makes IE for Windows 3.11 or for Windows 95. Almost all older versions of IE are vulnerable to arbitrary-code exploits and will not be patched against them.
Mac OS
Which requires a hardware key from Apple that's not available new to the general public for under $1000.
Solaris
Which requires an even more expensive hardware key from Sun.
Linux might be next
Got any documentation to corroborate the rumor of an authorized port of Microsoft Internet Explorer to the GNU/Linux operating environment?
Past infringement is still infringement.
In U.S. law tradition, there is a doctrine called "laches" that states that if a monopoly owner harmed an alleged infringer by delaying legal action, the monopoly owner is not entitled to damages for infringements that occurred before legal action began. In patent cases, laches kicks in after six years unless the defendant can prove that the plaintiff so harmed the defendant.
for compressing one or two files it is much smaller and much easier to use than old dos PKZip ... or any Winzip
Have you tried switching to the Info-ZIP suite?
WordPerfect released WP6 for DOS at one point, probably the most advanced graphical application DOS ever saw.
Even counting Quake by Id Software?
Are digital signatures legally binding?
In those states where digital signatures are not yet binding, it soon will be. This page lists the legal status of digital signatures in all sorts of jurisdictions. On the page, pull down the menu and select "United States [All States]".
And you still have no way to guarantee delivery
Perhaps SMTP does not guarantee delivery, but the instant message protocols already do. Future instant message protocols will allow for cryptographically signed communication.
The character might be copyrighted
But then again, it might not thanks to a faulty copyright notice.
Where are you getting that they won't keep up development?
Pro Tools Free is advertised as compatible with Windows Me but not compatible with Windows 2000, which was first published before Windows Me. The web site also shows no indication that the developer is in any way working on a version compatible with Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It smells less like getting behind by accident and more like getting behind on purpose.
How can it be a legal notice with no signature?
----- BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE -----
Pro Tools Freeis compatible only with Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, and Mac OS 9 operating systems. Almost no new computers are sold with one of those operating systems anymore; it's always Windows XP or Mac OS X, with which the Pro Tools publisher has sworn not to make the program compatible.
Are you aware of a similar case, Selle v. Gibb ( here [musicanalyst.com] or here [columbia.edu])? The same song written by two people, yet found not to infringe due to lack of access.
I've read that opinion, but unfortunately, the courts now seem to presume access because if a song has been on the Billboard Top 100 even once, then it's probably still played regularly on oldies stations.
So how can I protect myself as a songwriter?
In short, it is a very, very fast RGB strobe sequence that has no equivalent that I know of in any other display technology.
Some early color movies (filmed with the Kinemacolor system, before the Technicolor sandwich approach became feasible) had the same sort of strobe effect, except it was RG not RGB.
anyone who is a student, teacher, or faculty member
Unfortunately, that no longer applies. At the end of February, I just graduated from college with a B.S. in computer science, but according to the local evening paper's classified ad section, nobody in my backwoods town of 200,000 seems to want to hire me.
You can also take a look at the used market.
Most of the used Macintosh computers that I have seen in person aren't even new enough to be compatible with Mac OS X, let alone iTunes 4.
Apple has several products in the sub-$1000 range.
Which ones? Computers labeled $999 don't count because Apple collects sales tax in all U.S. states that have sales tax. Does Apple sell any complete computer systems in the sub-$900 range?
I can hit used CD stores and find MUCH more interesting music for half the price of the Apple music store.
With the exception of eBay's Half.com, hitting used CD stores requires a driver's license, a car, registration for your car, insurance for your car (which is prohibitively expensive until the driver turns 25), and petrol. Which of those does iTunes require?
Anyone want to bet on how many days go by before someone has reverse-engineered the MaciMusic store protocol and written an app that masquerades as iTunes-on-a-Mac thus allowing Linux and Windows users to purchase music through Apple?
Anyone want to bet on how many minutes it will take for the RIAA or one of the major labels to send a cease-and-desist letter alleging violation of 17 USC 1201(a), claiming that the presence of a Macintosh® computer is an access control mechanism?
The article claims 680,000 element CCD. Assuming 24-bit color, that's 3 bytes
Actually, it takes four CCD elements to make a single color pixel: one red element, two green elements, and one blue element, arranged in a square pattern with greens at opposite corners. So divide your estimated bandwidth by 4.
on most major label releases, the publishing rights are also...
I wonder what measures the major labels and publishers have taken to prevent another Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs fiasco. If you're not familiar with Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs, it was a court case in which the publisher of "He's So Fine" (written by Ronald Mack and performed by the Chiffons) successfully sued the publisher of "My Sweet Lord" (written and performed by George Harrison) for copyright infringement, even though Harrison was not aware that he was copying a copyrighted song. Do the major publishers have automated databases in which composers can search for melodies that have already been copyrighted? Or is there some sort of copyright liability insurance that songwriters have to take out, similar to a physician's malpractice insurance?