The default language right now is english and I'm not sure of what legal issues you are referring to. If you are referring to copyright infringment between two countries that have signed TRIPS then there are limited legal issues.
If the countries involved have signed TRIPS copyright is immediately granted to the artist. Most countries have signed TRIPS. Which means artistic works are covered for 50 years after the death of the artists. Now, software patents are not usually granted under TRIPS, but that is pretty much a US concept.
Now, many publishers have chosen to complicate matters with selling and distributing content, because it makes them more money. Publishing rights, distribution costs, etc. But any publisher stating you can't purchase this item in your country due to copyright issues is lying, if both countries have signed TRIPS.
There is not 100% effective birth control. The closest is 99.98% and if you do get pregnant it will most likely lead to a tubal pregnancy, which then has to be terminated. Also, many, many things can interfere with the pill (vitamin C, Saint John's wart, antibiotics, etc).
In the US you don't need to be employeed to beat people for saying something against Jesus or God (only the ONE God, of course)....in the South they would do it for free.
Have you ever worked in a bookstore or watched customers interacting with the salespeople? People who come in looking for a specific book want it NOW (they are usually not very nice if they don't find it or can't buy it right NOW too).
Thinking about it, murder is freedom for the murderer, but we all seem to agree that it's not evil to legislate against it. It seems reasonable that we legislate, at times, against freedom (in fact, that's all we really legislate against - chaos is the true freedom).
We legislate against freedom to secure something better.
Remember, when democracies came about they wanted more freedom from monarchies/dictatorships. Less laws inhibiting personal freedom was the motto (paraphrased). This whole concept of adding more and more laws on the people to "help" or "secure" the people is ridiculous.
Now suppose for a minute TPB was largely used to host torrents for child pronography files. Would everyone be leaping to their defense quite as vocally?
If it was used to hold torrents only for legal pornography would any judicial system in the world care?
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The default language right now is english and I'm not sure of what legal issues you are referring to. If you are referring to copyright infringment between two countries that have signed TRIPS then there are limited legal issues. If the countries involved have signed TRIPS copyright is immediately granted to the artist. Most countries have signed TRIPS. Which means artistic works are covered for 50 years after the death of the artists. Now, software patents are not usually granted under TRIPS, but that is pretty much a US concept. Now, many publishers have chosen to complicate matters with selling and distributing content, because it makes them more money. Publishing rights, distribution costs, etc. But any publisher stating you can't purchase this item in your country due to copyright issues is lying, if both countries have signed TRIPS.
There is not 100% effective birth control. The closest is 99.98% and if you do get pregnant it will most likely lead to a tubal pregnancy, which then has to be terminated. Also, many, many things can interfere with the pill (vitamin C, Saint John's wart, antibiotics, etc).
In the US you don't need to be employeed to beat people for saying something against Jesus or God (only the ONE God, of course)....in the South they would do it for free.
Have you ever worked in a bookstore or watched customers interacting with the salespeople? People who come in looking for a specific book want it NOW (they are usually not very nice if they don't find it or can't buy it right NOW too).
You are assuming that most consumers want to read their books online. I don't.
Thinking about it, murder is freedom for the murderer, but we all seem to agree that it's not evil to legislate against it. It seems reasonable that we legislate, at times, against freedom (in fact, that's all we really legislate against - chaos is the true freedom).
We legislate against freedom to secure something better.
Remember, when democracies came about they wanted more freedom from monarchies/dictatorships. Less laws inhibiting personal freedom was the motto (paraphrased). This whole concept of adding more and more laws on the people to "help" or "secure" the people is ridiculous.
Now suppose for a minute TPB was largely used to host torrents for child pronography files. Would everyone be leaping to their defense quite as vocally?
If it was used to hold torrents only for legal pornography would any judicial system in the world care?
Here is your fuckable video for calculus. Bikini Calculus - Constant Rule http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7172438422483406719