We have sensible Internet legislation, as opposed to the U.S. -- after all it's the U.S. who started with the DMCA and the like.
Not completely true. WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization) first came up with a DMCA like treaty which countries (like the US) ratified, and then wrote legislation (in the US, the DMCA) to enforce.
After CBDTPA passes there will be no Internet in the US, just a TCP/IP based conduit for pay-per-view content from the media conglomerates to the consumers.
They should completely get rid of Internet access to Germany.
Send a message to these kangaroo courts: enforce ridiculous regulations and we will just leave.
Instead of getting an environment where online services are warm and fuzzy, they'll just get an environment without online services.
Then they will have to decide, as a country, what is more important, keeping the (assinine) regulations or getting back access to the Internet.
Losing access to the Internet WILL hurt them economically and general quality of life.
Yes, it hurts Microsoft economically, but so will them paying (possibly monsterous) fines for activities they can not control (unless they pre-approve every posting - and someone could always embed the forbidden photos using steganography - which could possibly also result in a fine). Pre-approving posting is very time consuming, it costs the ISP a lot, and it means images or posts will not appear until the ISP approves them. That kills any chance of having a smooth running board where people can respond in a timely manner.
They need to be taught in the only language they understand.
PanIP can choose to enforce the patent any way they wish.
This means they can leave the big fish like Amazon alone (who in turn will leave PanIP alone) and only go after the little guys.
Unlike trademarks and trade secrets, non-enforcement of patents and copyrights DOES NOT waive the right to enforce them against other targets and/or at other times. It is NOT "use it or lose it" or "you must enforce it 'fairly'".
... or bypasses anti-circumvention technology, thereby infringing upon Blizzard Entertainment copyrights.
Isn't an illegal act of circumvention NOT a copyright infringment, but a totally different tort/offense? That is why fair use is apparently not a defense against it (the Constitution not withstanding). Bypassing the lock and unauthorized use of the content protected by the lock are 2 different things. (17 USC 1201 violation versus violation of the copyright specific part of Title 17).
Anyone else find this strange?
Note, the complaint says circumvention.. thereby.. infringement. This means the the first implies the second. This is a much stronger statement than just that circumvention allows infringement - it states circumvention IS infringement - not even the DMCA says that.
If you have a strong immune system, these bacteria aren't going to affect you. (*)
If you have a weak immune system, you are very likely to get sick no matter what - quite possibly very sick - with or without using "anti-bacterial" products - unless you isolate yourself in a bubble, like people with Severe Combined ImmunoDeficiency (SCID, a.k.a. bubble boy syndrome) have to.
(*) Same applies to many viruses. Some people in experiments had live cold virus put up their nose! Some of the people did not get sick. Why? Because their immune system was strong.
Not letting your immune system even fight normal battles makes it both ineffective - leading to more infections, not less, and overreactive - leading to more allergies, asthma and even auto-immune diseases (such as Lupus and MS).
Criminals can read the information from a credit card using nothing more sophisticated than their eyes!
Well we can always outlaw eyes. Or at the very least, require certified security technologies to be implanted in them to prevent theft. The SSSCA/CBDTPA is only a beginning.;)
Media companies are very very large, and, as a result, have an enormous financial intrest in Washington.
They aren't nearly as large as the hardware manufacturers and the telecom and ISP industries (which stand to lose BIG TIME if the Internet and PCs are neutered). The ITAA is on our side on this issue - and they represent FAR more money than the RIAA and MPAA combined.
Asking to make a license simple and easy to understand by those not trained in legal matters is very much akin to asking to make code simple and easy to understand by those not trained in computers.
A certain level of complexity is needed to make both legal documents, and code to work.
Of course, the requirements of our overly complex legal system make this much harder.
Other issues are that when many radio waves are in a small space, they do not always combine to produce the same frequencies. Harmonics and other frequencies are generated, so saying that the frequency that the phone transmits is not dangerous doesn't mean the area is.
Adding multiple frequencies together will NOT create any new frequencies.
If that was the case - all the radio stations would result in so many extra frequencies that'd we'd barely have any usable radio spectrum for anything else.
Should we envision a dark future where you watch a show and then are QUIZZED on the ads you saw? If you pass you're good, if you fail you're fined?
Maybe they could use a carrot instead of a stick. Tie some contest into the ads contents - like 1/N of the people who remember X from ad Y win Z amount of dollars.
Why do so many people use crap like Angelfire, Tripod, Homestead with all their bandwidth limits, restrictions, ads and blocking of remote image loads?
Not to mention that well over 50% of the time any search engine result that points to Angelfire in particular points to a 404 Not Found. This is much more than what I experience with other sites. Do their users get kicked off often, or just go away, or what? I don't even bother clicking on those results unless it looks like the content is truly compelling. And thank God for Google's cache.
I can understand if some truly can't afford hosting, but even for these people, even Geocities is much better!
Somehow I doubt the majority of those people using Angelfire, Tripod, etc can't afford hosting.
Well, after the dot-com world gets a little more squeezed, those sites may no longer exist. Too bad that many people won't bother rehosting their content and will just drop off the web.
olm.net offers Linux based hosting for under $9/month. No I don't work for them, but I am a (satisfied) customer.
$9 a month - and you won't piss off your users.
(Yes I know their other packages are more - but the $9 a month package is better than any of the free services)
Don't EVEN get me started on organizations and commercial BUSINESSES (ack!) that use free hosting - that is so unprofessional. I don't think I'd want to do business with a company (even a local store) that wouldn't/couldn't pay $9 a month to have a less annoying and more reliable website.
Of course, some of the content out on the Web isn't even worth $9/month, heck some of it has NEGATIVE worth.;) Of course, then it isn't worth looking at, so who cares if it is even hosted.
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Given a choice between Hell and a US Federal Prison, I'll take Hell. ;)
"Regular" light bulbs should run fine (and actually last longer) on DC.
We have sensible Internet legislation, as opposed to the U.S. -- after all it's the U.S. who started with the DMCA and the like.
Not completely true. WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization) first came up with a DMCA like treaty which countries (like the US) ratified, and then wrote legislation (in the US, the DMCA) to enforce.
The DMCA has an international origin.
Disconnect yourself.
Senator Hollings is going to do that for us.
After CBDTPA passes there will be no Internet in the US, just a TCP/IP based conduit for pay-per-view content from the media conglomerates to the consumers.
They should completely get rid of Internet access to Germany.
Send a message to these kangaroo courts: enforce ridiculous regulations and we will just leave.
Instead of getting an environment where online services are warm and fuzzy, they'll just get an environment without online services.
Then they will have to decide, as a country, what is more important, keeping the (assinine) regulations or getting back access to the Internet.
Losing access to the Internet WILL hurt them economically and general quality of life.
Yes, it hurts Microsoft economically, but so will them paying (possibly monsterous) fines for activities they can not control (unless they pre-approve every posting - and someone could always embed the forbidden photos using steganography - which could possibly also result in a fine). Pre-approving posting is very time consuming, it costs the ISP a lot, and it means images or posts will not appear until the ISP approves them. That kills any chance of having a smooth running board where people can respond in a timely manner.
They need to be taught in the only language they understand.
Can I have a Beowulf cluster of clones?
;)
And thanks to the DMCA, if you try to override it - you can get a $2,500 judgement against you!
I work with a database that has, as of now, 926 tables.
500 tables is NOT a lot for an enterprise database.
Prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas, and in fact in the whole county (Clark County).
You have to go to other counties in the state to be where it is legal.
Boiling water is 373.15 K and freezing water (or ice) is 273.15 K
300K = 26.85C = 80.33F
400K = 126.85C = 260.33F
Won't work.
PanIP can choose to enforce the patent any way they wish.
This means they can leave the big fish like Amazon alone (who in turn will leave PanIP alone) and only go after the little guys.
Unlike trademarks and trade secrets, non-enforcement of patents and copyrights DOES NOT waive the right to enforce them against other targets and/or at other times. It is NOT "use it or lose it" or "you must enforce it 'fairly'".
Patent 6289319 was granted on September 11, 2001.
Didn't they have something more important to worry about than granting yet another government enforced monopoly?
Can't let something like a terrorist attack slow down the patent mill!
In fact, it is likely that the application was approved after even LESS than usual scrutiny (which isn't much).
Entertainment copyrights.
Isn't an illegal act of circumvention NOT a copyright infringment, but a totally different tort/offense? That is why fair use is apparently not a defense against it (the Constitution not withstanding). Bypassing the lock and unauthorized use of the content protected by the lock are 2 different things. (17 USC 1201 violation versus violation of the copyright specific part of Title 17).
Anyone else find this strange?
Note, the complaint says circumvention .. thereby .. infringement. This means the the first implies the second. This is a much stronger statement than just that circumvention allows infringement - it states circumvention IS infringement - not even the DMCA says that.
If you have a strong immune system, these bacteria aren't going to affect you. (*)
If you have a weak immune system, you are very likely to get sick no matter what - quite possibly very sick - with or without using "anti-bacterial" products - unless you isolate yourself in a bubble, like people with Severe Combined ImmunoDeficiency (SCID, a.k.a. bubble boy syndrome) have to.
(*) Same applies to many viruses. Some people in experiments had live cold virus put up their nose! Some of the people did not get sick. Why? Because their immune system was strong.
Not letting your immune system even fight normal battles makes it both ineffective - leading to more infections, not less, and overreactive - leading to more allergies, asthma and even auto-immune diseases (such as Lupus and MS).
Criminals can read the information from a credit card using nothing more sophisticated than their eyes!
Well we can always outlaw eyes. Or at the very least, require certified security technologies to be implanted in them to prevent theft. The SSSCA/CBDTPA is only a beginning. ;)
Except when they hit a Slashdot moderator. Now we have a explanation for some of the crazy moderation around here. ;)
since 64 bit ints are sufficient for any imaginable program.
That's just like saying, no one would ever need more than 640K.
If you can decrypt CSS yourself, are you still affected by regions? Does the DVD player deny the whole disk or just access to the deecryption keys?
Fair Use in Federal law: 17 USC 107.
Media companies are very very large, and, as a result, have an enormous financial intrest in Washington.
They aren't nearly as large as the hardware manufacturers and the telecom and ISP industries (which stand to lose BIG TIME if the Internet and PCs are neutered). The ITAA is on our side on this issue - and they represent FAR more money than the RIAA and MPAA combined.
No, over here in the USA we don't fight or debate.
We sue!
Asking to make a license simple and easy to understand by those not trained in legal matters is very much akin to asking to make code simple and easy to understand by those not trained in computers.
A certain level of complexity is needed to make both legal documents, and code to work.
Of course, the requirements of our overly complex legal system make this much harder.
You have a higher risk of getting mugged while using a payphone.
Other issues are that when many radio waves are in a small space, they do not always combine to produce the same frequencies. Harmonics and other frequencies are generated, so saying that the frequency that the phone transmits is not dangerous doesn't mean the area is.
Adding multiple frequencies together will NOT create any new frequencies.
If that was the case - all the radio stations would result in so many extra frequencies that'd we'd barely have any usable radio spectrum for anything else.
Should we envision a dark future where you watch a show and then are QUIZZED on the ads you saw? If you pass you're good, if you fail you're fined?
Maybe they could use a carrot instead of a stick. Tie some contest into the ads contents - like 1/N of the people who remember X from ad Y win Z amount of dollars.
Why do so many people use crap like Angelfire, Tripod, Homestead with all their bandwidth limits, restrictions, ads and blocking of remote image loads?
;) Of course, then it isn't worth looking at, so who cares if it is even hosted.
Not to mention that well over 50% of the time any search engine result that points to Angelfire in particular points to a 404 Not Found. This is much more than what I experience with other sites. Do their users get kicked off often, or just go away, or what? I don't even bother clicking on those results unless it looks like the content is truly compelling. And thank God for Google's cache.
I can understand if some truly can't afford hosting, but even for these people, even Geocities is much better!
Somehow I doubt the majority of those people using Angelfire, Tripod, etc can't afford hosting.
Well, after the dot-com world gets a little more squeezed, those sites may no longer exist. Too bad that many people won't bother rehosting their content and will just drop off the web.
olm.net offers Linux based hosting for under $9/month. No I don't work for them, but I am a (satisfied) customer.
$9 a month - and you won't piss off your users.
(Yes I know their other packages are more - but the $9 a month package is better than any of the free services)
Don't EVEN get me started on organizations and commercial BUSINESSES (ack!) that use free hosting - that is so unprofessional. I don't think I'd want to do business with a company (even a local store) that wouldn't/couldn't pay $9 a month to have a less annoying and more reliable website.
Of course, some of the content out on the Web isn't even worth $9/month, heck some of it has NEGATIVE worth.