the Berne Convention, which first established the recognition of copyrights between sovereign nations, was the brainchild of Victor Hugo, a French author.
The aforementioned agreement was first adopted in Berne, Switzerland. - Berne Convention [wikipedia.org]
The European Union extended copyrights to life of the author plus seventy years in 1993, a full five years before the US did with the Sonny Bono act - European Copyright Harmonization [wikipedia.org]
Not of which contradict what he said.
As mentioned elsewhere, the Finnish police acted independantly, with no input from any of those 'evil American copyright owners'
This might, if its true - but then its hard to know the real facts. The timing is odd, of course they are unlikely to admit it even if they were "asked".
You can criticize the law all you want, I'm not about to debate the pros and cons of IP law on/. (hey, my karma has to be worth something), but the fact is copying protected works is illegal. Thus it is the job of the cops to enforce that law.
Yep, and the job of Storm Troopers is to kill rebels.
Your position is understandable, but far, far too many Slashdotters hold this opinion because it's a convenient, guilt-free way to engage in piracy. As in: "I don't P2P all my music because I'm trying to save a few bucks, but because I think that for Usher to claim a copyright on this music is amoral and wrong."
I don't believe the actions of some change the validity of position.
The balance here, of course, is that anybody can create something and copyright. If you don't like what somebody does with their own intellectual property, you are completely free to release your own under the terms you choose.
What we don't like is the term "intellectual property" - property is something you can touch - to apply it to anything else is amoral and wrong.
How can posting a list of files possibly be illegal?
That is all that Suprnova ever did.
It depends on context, Suprnova was helping people comit crimes, it exsisted for no other reason. Google exsists for finding legal websites, occasionaly it might find some that isn't legal, but since the links are build automatically for the purpose of legality its wastly different.
And for a counter counter counter example, just go to Denmark where prostituion is legal (after all a woman should be allowed to rent her body if she likes, as long as she pays taxes!)
True, Blizzard has no legal basis to keep people from advertising, but they do have the legal basis to find the person selling the "Blue 1H sword +20 Str +30 Sta", smack them, kick them off the game, and then find the guy that bought said sword, and delete the item.
I don't agree they have that legal basis either. He isn't charging for something which isn't real anyway, he is charging for his time. And they don't like it? Tough. Not their call.
Battlestar Galactica the new version (currently showing in the UK because Sky co founded it on the condition they could show it first - starts in january over there), includes radical concepts as:
* Story arc(essentially its one long story) * Sensible continuity (for instance, a pilot gets hurt in one episode, is in the sickbay in the next episode and walks on crutches in the following eps) * People who need to work together even though they may not like each other and sometimes even hate each other. * The rare kid (very rare) who is rude and not a super genius (sorry will;) * Non reset buttons * Stories which do not tell you everything but leaves room for questions, ambiguity and the pondering of what will happen next.
So in all likelyhood it'll be cancled after 3 episodes..
"how exactly do whites have the privilege of being colorblind ?"
Whites have the privilege of being colorblind because they only rarely have to take into account the possibility that the people whom they have to deal with in their day-to-day existence may be prejudiced against them because of their race.
I think you misunderstood what she was saying there. When white people read books, they assume the characters are white, unless otherwise specified. Where as, she seems to say, when people of other color are reading books they ALSO assume the characters are white, unless otherwise specified. So only the whites don't really care if the color of the character isn't specified.
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the Berne Convention, which first established the recognition of copyrights between sovereign nations, was the brainchild of Victor Hugo, a French author.
The aforementioned agreement was first adopted in Berne, Switzerland. - Berne Convention [wikipedia.org]
The European Union extended copyrights to life of the author plus seventy years in 1993, a full five years before the US did with the Sonny Bono act - European Copyright Harmonization [wikipedia.org]
Not of which contradict what he said.
As mentioned elsewhere, the Finnish police acted independantly, with no input from any of those 'evil American copyright owners'
This might, if its true - but then its hard to know the real facts. The timing is odd, of course they are unlikely to admit it even if they were "asked".
What's scary is that the submitter thinks shutting these sites down is somehow wrong and unjust
But it is - the laws are never ones the people wanted.
You can criticize the law all you want, I'm not about to debate the pros and cons of IP law on /. (hey, my karma has to be worth something), but the fact is copying protected works is illegal. Thus it is the job of the cops to enforce that law.
Yep, and the job of Storm Troopers is to kill rebels.
I don't get it - traffic from all Finish ISP's only amount to 6 Gigabytes a day?? Sounds very little.
But Bittorrents have organized around websites. These sites typically require registration and monitor the share ratio of users.
Which of course makes it much easier for the Police to catch the guilty parties.
It's therapeutic to see the slimeball lawyers really getting what is coming to them. These guys have really got a daring attitude :-)
;-)
Which will get them closed down all the sooner
What a pity it is that your message isn't funny :-/
since downloading Free software is so much more efficient with P2P,
Not for me, not if its Bittorrent then its usually something like 1800% slower....
"We" don't like the royal "we," either.
;)
You are part of the other we
Your position is understandable, but far, far too many Slashdotters hold this opinion because it's a convenient, guilt-free way to engage in piracy. As in: "I don't P2P all my music because I'm trying to save a few bucks, but because I think that for Usher to claim a copyright on this music is amoral and wrong."
I don't believe the actions of some change the validity of position.
The balance here, of course, is that anybody can create something and copyright. If you don't like what somebody does with their own intellectual property, you are completely free to release your own under the terms you choose.
What we don't like is the term "intellectual property" - property is something you can touch - to apply it to anything else is amoral and wrong.
There's nothing I can do to fix the law (which stated that copyrights were to promote the arts and sciences and should only run for 20 years);
Got a link for that?
Russian TV is just about the most horrid and bleak torrent of dementia ever to spring from the mind of man.
;)
So where can you download those torrents?
Its laws, like its territory, are inviolable and the business of Slovenians.
That's what Iraq said as well. Don't forget the US government do not care about international law if it goes against their commercial interests.
How can posting a list of files possibly be illegal?
That is all that Suprnova ever did.
It depends on context, Suprnova was helping people comit crimes, it exsisted for no other reason. Google exsists for finding legal websites, occasionaly it might find some that isn't legal, but since the links are build automatically for the purpose of legality its wastly different.
but I know too many people who view it as their RIGHT to access other people's work for free, without their permission.
That's because some fell that having that "permission" to give is the amoral problem to begin with.
And for a counter counter counter example, just go to Denmark where prostituion is legal (after all a woman should be allowed to rent her body if she likes, as long as she pays taxes!)
...so their fans would know if they are the true jerks.
True, Blizzard has no legal basis to keep people from advertising, but they do have the legal basis to find the person selling the "Blue 1H sword +20 Str +30 Sta", smack them, kick them off the game, and then find the guy that bought said sword, and delete the item.
I don't agree they have that legal basis either. He isn't charging for something which isn't real anyway, he is charging for his time. And they don't like it? Tough. Not their call.
Well you sounded like one, and more than 90% of the readers here are american, so the odds favoured that.
Then perhaps you should do the human race a favor and do yourself in.
I rest my case.
The human race is not worth keeping, we are just wicked.
Oh, I wanted it to end must assuredly, but I wasn't comparing you to Hitler - just picking a name I was fairly certain even an american had heard of.
Battlestar Galactica the new version (currently showing in the UK because Sky co founded it on the condition they could show it first - starts in january over there), includes radical concepts as:
;)
* Story arc(essentially its one long story)
* Sensible continuity (for instance, a pilot gets hurt in one episode, is in the sickbay in the next episode and walks on crutches in the following eps)
* People who need to work together even though they may not like each other and sometimes even hate each other.
* The rare kid (very rare) who is rude and not a super genius (sorry will
* Non reset buttons
* Stories which do not tell you everything but leaves room for questions, ambiguity and the pondering of what will happen next.
So in all likelyhood it'll be cancled after 3 episodes..
"how exactly do whites have the privilege of being colorblind ?"
Whites have the privilege of being colorblind because they only rarely have to take into account the possibility that the people whom they have to deal with in their day-to-day existence may be prejudiced against them because of their race.
I think you misunderstood what she was saying there. When white people read books, they assume the characters are white, unless otherwise specified. Where as, she seems to say, when people of other color are reading books they ALSO assume the characters are white, unless otherwise specified. So only the whites don't really care if the color of the character isn't specified.
There are still a few episodes that stand out as "excellent, for any series, not just Andromeda".
;)
Only problem is, that it was show in an alternate universe