This has everything to do with the MPAA, if you think about it. It's at their request that Canada now has a law that makes it a criminal offense to record a movie at a theater using a camcorder, something that was at most a civil offense until last year. He's shown a willingness to protect the mercantile interest of big media companies by making into jailable offenses behavior that was either unregulated or fell into squarely into civil law.
Keep in mind that the Neo Democrats (NDP) are a minority party. As long as the ruling conservatives get the backing of the liberals (the main opposition party), they can beat the project and kill it outright. Stephen Harper has shown time and again to be a shill of the MPAA and RIAA, so this outcome is the most likely one.
The problem with electronic tracking is the same as alarm systems - a lot of criminals bank on the fact that a lot of alerts just go ignored or unreported and just go about their illegal business.
Math will prove that civilization is coming to a new dark age. We must compile encyclopedia galactica to reduce this period of ignorance so that Foundation may return.
You'll need access to his philactery first. Historically, most liches protect those with dungeons crawling with undead abominations and murderous curses.
It's basically a real life version of "The Producers" - by making zero box office profits on a failure and using tax deductions, he's still turning a personal profit.
Send a rag-tag bunch of misfit ex-astronauts in space with an atomic bomb to place at the center of the storm, to create "a sort of firecracker in closed fist effect", YEEEEEEE-HAW!!!
The software industry may have a hand in keeping the next gen of consoles at bay. Considering that most of the high-graphics high-profile games now have a development budget in the millions of dollars and require upwards of a year (sometimes several years) to create, game developers have seemingly reached the upper limit of technology they can currently handle before going financially or workforce bankrupt. It's not until they can create more art, level design and cgi with less time and ressources involved for the current generation that they'll be able to even consider going one step up.
So did Arrested Development - whenever the Bluths recorded anything on a VCR, it would always be preceded by a leftover fragment of George-Michael doing the Star Wars Kid act.
That's why judgments range from "100 biiiiiilion dollars" to "Nothing to see here, move along". Hell, capitalism isn't even prepared to deal with something like this.
Like our good friends of the RIAA asking for 1.5 trillions in court? Even Doctor Evil would think that's going too far. "Crank the insanity down two or three notches there. You're making me look bad by association."
I have already patented water years ago. Your rain infringes on my patent. My lawyers shall send the black helicopters at your location within ten minutes.
Aren't patents supposed to protect inventions rather than just discoveries of something that exists already? Or are they claiming that they created those breast cancer genes in labs and forcefully injected it in their test subjects?
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Who'd have thought that adults would possibly object to being treated like 5 year olds?
This has everything to do with the MPAA, if you think about it. It's at their request that Canada now has a law that makes it a criminal offense to record a movie at a theater using a camcorder, something that was at most a civil offense until last year. He's shown a willingness to protect the mercantile interest of big media companies by making into jailable offenses behavior that was either unregulated or fell into squarely into civil law.
Keep in mind that the Neo Democrats (NDP) are a minority party. As long as the ruling conservatives get the backing of the liberals (the main opposition party), they can beat the project and kill it outright. Stephen Harper has shown time and again to be a shill of the MPAA and RIAA, so this outcome is the most likely one.
The problem with electronic tracking is the same as alarm systems - a lot of criminals bank on the fact that a lot of alerts just go ignored or unreported and just go about their illegal business.
Math will prove that civilization is coming to a new dark age. We must compile encyclopedia galactica to reduce this period of ignorance so that Foundation may return.
You'll need access to his philactery first. Historically, most liches protect those with dungeons crawling with undead abominations and murderous curses.
The best spam stopping tool is still an alert, critical mind!
How many more blue turtle shell massacres must there be before lawmakers learn?!?
It's basically a real life version of "The Producers" - by making zero box office profits on a failure and using tax deductions, he's still turning a personal profit.
It's the original PPPoE - Pigeon to Pigeon over Europe!
That hasn't stopped Michael Bay movies so far!
Send a rag-tag bunch of misfit ex-astronauts in space with an atomic bomb to place at the center of the storm, to create "a sort of firecracker in closed fist effect", YEEEEEEE-HAW!!!
Buy it, slap on a coat of white semi-gloss, resell it to the federal government for a cool 100 mil!
The software industry may have a hand in keeping the next gen of consoles at bay. Considering that most of the high-graphics high-profile games now have a development budget in the millions of dollars and require upwards of a year (sometimes several years) to create, game developers have seemingly reached the upper limit of technology they can currently handle before going financially or workforce bankrupt. It's not until they can create more art, level design and cgi with less time and ressources involved for the current generation that they'll be able to even consider going one step up.
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In other obvious news, sad music makes depressed people feel bad!
So did Arrested Development - whenever the Bluths recorded anything on a VCR, it would always be preceded by a leftover fragment of George-Michael doing the Star Wars Kid act.
[Paul Harvey] ... and now you know... the rest of the story. [/Paul Harvey]
The sequel went a long way into making the original look like a piece of masterpiece cinematography.
That's why judgments range from "100 biiiiiilion dollars" to "Nothing to see here, move along". Hell, capitalism isn't even prepared to deal with something like this.
Like our good friends of the RIAA asking for 1.5 trillions in court? Even Doctor Evil would think that's going too far. "Crank the insanity down two or three notches there. You're making me look bad by association."
It should be clear to anyone that the damage caused by Limewire dwarf those from, say, BP.
Also, the RIAA is full of retards. No offense to people with actual disabilities, mind you, unless they work at the RIAA.
I move that from here on, we refer to them as "RIAAtards."
...is the flow of information, amirite?
I have already patented water years ago. Your rain infringes on my patent. My lawyers shall send the black helicopters at your location within ten minutes.
Agreed. Also, let us remember what a beacon of free enterprise and social progress 19th century industrial england was!
Aren't patents supposed to protect inventions rather than just discoveries of something that exists already? Or are they claiming that they created those breast cancer genes in labs and forcefully injected it in their test subjects?