Perhaps the film has a soundtrack? The music industry is rather deeply embedded in the film industry and a contraban film is usually also a contraban audio recording whose rights can be defended seperately.
Ignoring for the moment the fact that the crime wouldn't be a federal offense. ..
I'm sorry, but that is a point I cannot ignore, seeing as it was my entire point.
Given that, your entire post is strawman. Nonetheless, having noted that, I'll respond to your points.
They have an OBLIGATION to enforce the laws. ..
Actually, they don't. You'll find the Justice Department itself backing this up if you look up their response to the charge that they were selectively enforcing the law and "picking" on Martha Stewart. All prosecution is discretionary. The system is intentionally structured this way to promote justice over law.
In most cases if your house is burgled the police will take a report and that will be the end of the matter. They will not even make a cursory attempt to "solve the crime."
. . . protect you and your property from thieves and intruders.
The law provides no protection from thieves and intruders. It provides prosecution after the fact. There is considerable question as to whether it even provides a deterence.
If the police don't have the manpower to do this, it's time to increase their budget so they can.
There isn't enough wealth in the known universe to provide sufficient manpower to proactively detect, investigate and prosecute every crime, nor is there sufficient manpower.
There is a name for a place with such "manpower" though.
Your point is valid, but so is the original poster's. The idea that copyright violation is a criminal issue is fairly modern and in contradiction to traditional American legal philosophy.
In the Sam Goody case, for instance, prior to the current laws, the charge was commercial counterfeiting. He passed off pirate records as the real thing. In American legal philosophy this is a legitimate criminal act because it is an act of fraud against the consumer.
In the case of file trading no such fraud is taking place and it should be a purely civil issue of copyright violation.
Ah. And I thought I actually might be the only one being vaguely bemused by the inch"worm". I also have to go out in the north 40 to check for Tomato Horn"worms" now and again (or at least I would if it had ever gotten hot enough to grow tomatoes this year).
I misspent a deal of my youth on lepidoptery and fly fishing. Not everyone was so blessed.
In any case, if you look in a dictionary you'll find that the term "worm" can properly be applied to caterpillars, although this usage is becoming archaic.
No, I don't think that's it. The disabled have to pay what they ask or go without, so they pay (or someone pays for them). However, a broader market is always worth more money, and there's no such thing as "enough" in the business world. Note also that the demand actually came from the gamers.
But here's the thing. Access devices cost, well, an arm and a leg, the small market means little economy of scale in manufacturing.
But if these devices become commodity items available at Best Buy. ..
There ya go. Just buying one of these things helps out the disabled. Makes ya feel all good inside everytime ya splash a Zeke.
Yeah, I mean really. I got mine used off ebay already. They didn't do a good job of cleaning it before offering it for sale though. I loaded it up and autoplay ran some movie of some chick with furry ear muffs saying "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."
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Haven't seen a one since I planted the marigolds and snapdragons.
KFG
Perhaps the film has a soundtrack? The music industry is rather deeply embedded in the film industry and a contraban film is usually also a contraban audio recording whose rights can be defended seperately.
KFG
Not to mention FreeDOS, if it comes to that, and all those old DOS programs, including graphical shells and games, still work.
FreeDOS, the 100% Microsoft compatible Open Source operating system.
Roger Wilco, over and out.
KFG
Mars Needs WomenH^H^H^H^H^Flashlight Batteries.
KFG
Not everything in this world is done for a profit motive, thankfully.
I fully understand that, but to ride the Race Across America I'm still going to have to raise 20 grand to win 5 and loose 15.
KFG
Who controls the backbone?
KFG
Either other companies will start if the parent fails or an open equivalent will appear.
.they can figure out a way to finance/profit from it.
IF. .
Please return to item 2 on the list.
KFG
. . .you would, IMHO, be arguing a technicality.
Jurisdiction is a pretty major "technicality."
(The exception to the above is if the law itself is unjust, in which case it should be prosecuted for nobody.)
I've addressed this issue briefly elsewhere under the story.
KFG
Their phones could even provide walking directions if they're already drunk...
Wouldn't crawling directions be more useful?
Of course you're not really drunk if you can lie on the sidewalk without holding on.
KFG
Yeah, I thought of bringing that up, but I've been fairly effective at keeping them out of my garden and have found that they rarely match the hatch.
Not to mention that fact that I don't have enough fur to tie one.
KFG
I'm in sympathy with your request, but I'm afraid I lack the personal power.
KFG
Ignoring for the moment the fact that the crime wouldn't be a federal offense. . .
.
I'm sorry, but that is a point I cannot ignore, seeing as it was my entire point.
Given that, your entire post is strawman. Nonetheless, having noted that, I'll respond to your points.
They have an OBLIGATION to enforce the laws. .
Actually, they don't. You'll find the Justice Department itself backing this up if you look up their response to the charge that they were selectively enforcing the law and "picking" on Martha Stewart. All prosecution is discretionary. The system is intentionally structured this way to promote justice over law.
In most cases if your house is burgled the police will take a report and that will be the end of the matter. They will not even make a cursory attempt to "solve the crime."
. . . protect you and your property from thieves and intruders.
The law provides no protection from thieves and intruders. It provides prosecution after the fact. There is considerable question as to whether it even provides a deterence.
If the police don't have the manpower to do this, it's time to increase their budget so they can.
There isn't enough wealth in the known universe to provide sufficient manpower to proactively detect, investigate and prosecute every crime, nor is there sufficient manpower.
There is a name for a place with such "manpower" though.
Hell.
KFG
Your point is valid, but so is the original poster's. The idea that copyright violation is a criminal issue is fairly modern and in contradiction to traditional American legal philosophy.
In the Sam Goody case, for instance, prior to the current laws, the charge was commercial counterfeiting. He passed off pirate records as the real thing. In American legal philosophy this is a legitimate criminal act because it is an act of fraud against the consumer.
In the case of file trading no such fraud is taking place and it should be a purely civil issue of copyright violation.
It may be the law, but it is a bad law.
KFG
The next time your house gets burgled, you wouldn't want the feds saying "uhh, but all our folks are fightin' Al-Sadr's men."
Oddly enough, that's reasonalby close to what the feds would tell me if called them when my house got burgled.
And it would be right and proper for them to do so.
KFG
This is the sort of idiotic thing you might find yourself saying once you start calling copyright violation "stealing."
Idiocies have a way of compounding themselves.
It is, of course, extremely disturbing when the United States Attorney General can say such an idiotic thing.
KFG
the difference between a worm and a caterpillar
Ah. And I thought I actually might be the only one being vaguely bemused by the inch"worm". I also have to go out in the north 40 to check for Tomato Horn"worms" now and again (or at least I would if it had ever gotten hot enough to grow tomatoes this year).
I misspent a deal of my youth on lepidoptery and fly fishing. Not everyone was so blessed.
In any case, if you look in a dictionary you'll find that the term "worm" can properly be applied to caterpillars, although this usage is becoming archaic.
KFG
No, I don't think that's it. The disabled have to pay what they ask or go without, so they pay (or someone pays for them). However, a broader market is always worth more money, and there's no such thing as "enough" in the business world. Note also that the demand actually came from the gamers.
.
But here's the thing. Access devices cost, well, an arm and a leg, the small market means little economy of scale in manufacturing.
But if these devices become commodity items available at Best Buy. .
There ya go. Just buying one of these things helps out the disabled. Makes ya feel all good inside everytime ya splash a Zeke.
KFG
Philips is Dutch, originally based in Eindhoven but quite recently their main office moved to Amsterdam.
Didn't I just say that on the other side of the record?
KFG
Ah! Well. That explains why my drive got fucked up then.
Any idea how to get a screwdriver out of one of those things?
KFG
No. Upstate NY.
KFG
NBC - The complete 1st season
You could probably fit that on a VCD if you were willing to fake the hours of test pattern with a jpeg.
KFG
No. Phillips is Dutch. They are HQd in Amsterdam.
KFG
Yeah, I mean really. I got mine used off ebay already. They didn't do a good job of cleaning it before offering it for sale though. I loaded it up and autoplay ran some movie of some chick with furry ear muffs saying "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."
Weird.
KFG
Ah leave him alone, he probably works on Mars landers and can't help it.
Or thinks that CDs were invented in America. Isn't everything?
KFG
But does this new neighbor have Jupiter-sized orbs?
.the attraction.
They're pulling me in. Can't. . . resist. .
KFG