He probably did average them. Took 6 people saying $3798000, 3 people saying $4000 and 3 people saying $0 and got 1.9 million. Problem is, $2 million and $4 million, for middle class people, both round up to infinity.
Try to imagine Firefox pre-configured with every good addon on the internet. Would that even fit on your hard drive? Customizability is about choosing not to have features as much as choosing features. Also, does IE8 have anything like noscript?
Can we come up with some intelligent, thought-out responses against this? I'm picturing myself in the shoes of a non-anti-Microsoft zealot and I'm seeing nothing more than "Microsoft sucks because it does" here.
EULAs and copyright licenses are wrong, yet the GPL is good. Piracy isn't theft, yet GPL violations are referred to as "stolen GPL code"
Please, for the love of god, stop assuming that it's the same people saying both things. Slashdot is an online forum which means that it has multiple people on it with differing opinions (see: any discussion where it's not just people agreeing with each other)
1) Stop forcing people to watch through "piracy is a crime and teh FBI will jail you for 10 years if you bring your camera phone into a movie theater" for 5 minutes before every movie. Doing that just makes the TPB version a superior product to your version. It's basic capitalism - don't cripple your own product. It's that simple.
Except that millions of people did not download from her. Most likely, two people downloaded off her and uploaded it themselves (she should not be responsible for these acts, which those people themselves are responsible for)
Now, let's do the math.
Assumptions:
- 1 download = 1 lost sale
- she uploaded 24 songs, each one worth 99 cents
- 2 people downloaded each song off her, and both uploaded it (as opposed to downloading copyrighted material and sharing open source stuff to avoid anti-leeching mechanisms)
- 10x damage multiplier, constitutional maximum
I'm a libertarian too, and I don't see anything remotely wrong with regulating against false advertising. It's simple fraud when you promise unlimited, take the money, and add "within reasonable limits".
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'You' will 'probably' be 'modded' 'Funny'.
America, love it or leave it
If we're discussing de facto jurisdiction, the latter is currently pretty much impossible.
Sweden?
He probably did average them. Took 6 people saying $3798000, 3 people saying $4000 and 3 people saying $0 and got 1.9 million. Problem is, $2 million and $4 million, for middle class people, both round up to infinity.
This case is about uploading, not downloading. Downloading is harmless. Uploading is unfair competition, it causes damage.
Analysis comes from the word anal and the ancient Greek word "ysis", meaning "to pull numbers from".
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I agree with the people in this thread who are saying it's the IE people in Microsoft trying to prove that their jobs are useful.
Try to imagine Firefox pre-configured with every good addon on the internet. Would that even fit on your hard drive? Customizability is about choosing not to have features as much as choosing features. Also, does IE8 have anything like noscript?
I was taking absolute maxima, so yes, the actual value should be lower.
Can we come up with some intelligent, thought-out responses against this? I'm picturing myself in the shoes of a non-anti-Microsoft zealot and I'm seeing nothing more than "Microsoft sucks because it does" here.
I pirated my WIndows lunch bag.
Wait, are you trying to say 316006?
Liking OSS != liking the GPL. The free software world is much bigger than the GPL itself. You have public domain, BSD. and many other licenses.
Activist = someone fighting for a cause I like
Activist judge = a judge fighting for a cause I don't like
It's straight out of 1984.
EULAs and copyright licenses are wrong, yet the GPL is good. Piracy isn't theft, yet GPL violations are referred to as "stolen GPL code"
Please, for the love of god, stop assuming that it's the same people saying both things. Slashdot is an online forum which means that it has multiple people on it with differing opinions (see: any discussion where it's not just people agreeing with each other)
1) Stop forcing people to watch through "piracy is a crime and teh FBI will jail you for 10 years if you bring your camera phone into a movie theater" for 5 minutes before every movie. Doing that just makes the TPB version a superior product to your version. It's basic capitalism - don't cripple your own product. It's that simple.
I'll copy-paste one of my previous posts, setting the damages to about $500 total.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1272143&cid=28363955
Except that millions of people did not download from her. Most likely, two people downloaded off her and uploaded it themselves (she should not be responsible for these acts, which those people themselves are responsible for)
Now, let's do the math.
Assumptions:
- 1 download = 1 lost sale
- she uploaded 24 songs, each one worth 99 cents
- 2 people downloaded each song off her, and both uploaded it (as opposed to downloading copyrighted material and sharing open source stuff to avoid anti-leeching mechanisms)
- 10x damage multiplier, constitutional maximum
0.99*24*2*10 = $475.20
That's the cap.
And the police/government are so reliable that they never lose your data or let it be stolen and put all over the internet.
Terra-rism?
My IP address is LXX.XXVI.CLXXIX.CCVII you insensitive clod!
I KNEW Sarbanes Oxley does something good for the environment. Take that, deregulation advocates!
is a complete hex string of the pirated Wolverine mp3. Store that in your database, suckers!
*exchanges tinfoil suit for flame-retardant suit*
Good, because a 100% slope is only 45 degrees.
I'm a libertarian too, and I don't see anything remotely wrong with regulating against false advertising. It's simple fraud when you promise unlimited, take the money, and add "within reasonable limits".
the game
Crap, I lost.