You declare bankruptcy. At this point, it doesn't matter if the fine is $1 million, $2 million or $20 million. It's more than she will probably make in the rest of her life, there's no way she's paying the full amount if the verdict sticks.
Something that is illegal can be lawful. For example, moving your pawn forward three squares in chess is an illegal move (against the rules) but it's not unlawful (against the law).
Star Wars includes a fictional farm boy. Your book includes a fictional Hitler parading in Trafalgar square. Child porn law, at least in theory, is about actual children.
I've said this many times and I'll say it again. The ease of photoshopping (or GIMPing) child porn these days means that few people will go to the trouble of abusing real children, so as this technology improves the number of children harmed will approach zero without any police involvement.
Coming up next, RIAA applies for patent for human voice. All speech will be licensed, $0.99 a sentence.
That seems like a very good idea, because human voice is an invention of nature and since nature is not present the RIAA can be appointed as its representative, like the laws in some countries where if no one claims copyright for a work some benevolent copyright managing organization takes hold of it so that no bad people pirate it until the real owner comes and takes it, although often when the real owner comes to take it the benevolent organization may not give the copyright back, but that's okay since they're benevolent and need the money to keep carrying out their benevolence, and also we have freedom of speech but the question is how can you speak freely when anyone can just copy what you say - look at China, they have no copyright and no one is willing to speak out against the government because if they do people would just steal it, because some people are bad and it only takes one person to let all the other bad people pirate your speech (to be continued...)
My favorite (sorry, Canada) basketball game was when one team scored the first goal and then simply had one person dribbling the ball for the rest of the game and everyone else guarding him. Eventually, the other team gave up, and the score was 2-0. Soon after the 24-second rule was implemented.
Heirs aren't nearly as powerful these days as in the old aristocratic tradition. Some people aren't leaving as much moneyto their children (yes I know 2 people != a trend but that alone is $80 billion) and there's the effect that people who get their fortune without hard work tend to lose it very quickly.
I create for my own profit, not your entertainment
Good luck profiting or entertaining with that mindset.
Once the Internet community stops (I know it isn't everyone but it is enough to be a major problem) stealing content created by artists for profit
This statement, especially with the word "once" in it (implying that it's inevitable) is the epitome of the "goodluckwiththat" tag.
we will finally be able to embrace the open standards we all truly want
We will be able to embrace open standards only when the entire internet agrees to do things your way. Nice.
Until then DRM will live one in some for or other.
Given that file sharing is not going to vountarily go away, this statement becomes "information will continue to be locked down until the entire internet is locked down", which is probably true. We can't stop DRM any more than you can stop piracy.
They do need to be paid. But the idea that they have to be paid "in a conventional [I'm assuming you mean artificially recreating the scarcity of physical goods] way" is a non-sequitur.
search capability, much overrated - books always had indexes and tables-of-contents, and besides, you're supposed to be learning the whole textbook).
I have to disagree with this. Tables of contents only cover general topics, and indexes cover only a few hundred terms (an exhaustive index is by definition as long as the book itself). But what if you're interested in looking back at something you saw once and don't remember clearly? What if you're looking for an exact, specific formula, statistic or quote? And this all ignores, of course, that electronic search takes 3 seconds and gets you exactly where the searched term is, but with paper books it takes minutes (often to take a 30-second look at something. Talk about lost productivity). Also, in all of my school experiences, I've never once covered 100% of a textbook.
Most police forces don't want you using drugs. Just because someone doesn't consent to you doing something doesn't necessarily mean that their opinion should be relevant.
Nineteenth century capitalism collapses when everything you make can be copied and shared at will. Government funding all research isn't such a bad idea, comparing to the pharma monopolies we have now.
So our voting system is at fault. Perhaps we should take (dare I say steal) a few ideas from the Swedish system that got the pirates a seat in parliament.
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You mean the same declaration that has copyright enshrined in it as a human right?
Copyright is an infringement on the free market. So you should support limitations on it.
You declare bankruptcy. At this point, it doesn't matter if the fine is $1 million, $2 million or $20 million. It's more than she will probably make in the rest of her life, there's no way she's paying the full amount if the verdict sticks.
Something that is illegal can be lawful. For example, moving your pawn forward three squares in chess is an illegal move (against the rules) but it's not unlawful (against the law).
Star Wars includes a fictional farm boy. Your book includes a fictional Hitler parading in Trafalgar square. Child porn law, at least in theory, is about actual children.
I've said this many times and I'll say it again. The ease of photoshopping (or GIMPing) child porn these days means that few people will go to the trouble of abusing real children, so as this technology improves the number of children harmed will approach zero without any police involvement.
Coming up next, RIAA applies for patent for human voice. All speech will be licensed, $0.99 a sentence.
That seems like a very good idea, because human voice is an invention of nature and since nature is not present the RIAA can be appointed as its representative, like the laws in some countries where if no one claims copyright for a work some benevolent copyright managing organization takes hold of it so that no bad people pirate it until the real owner comes and takes it, although often when the real owner comes to take it the benevolent organization may not give the copyright back, but that's okay since they're benevolent and need the money to keep carrying out their benevolence, and also we have freedom of speech but the question is how can you speak freely when anyone can just copy what you say - look at China, they have no copyright and no one is willing to speak out against the government because if they do people would just steal it, because some people are bad and it only takes one person to let all the other bad people pirate your speech (to be continued...)
My favorite (sorry, Canada) basketball game was when one team scored the first goal and then simply had one person dribbling the ball for the rest of the game and everyone else guarding him. Eventually, the other team gave up, and the score was 2-0. Soon after the 24-second rule was implemented.
No need to worry about forgetting anything. I brought my own airborne factory.
Now we can say "they violated 50 times as many court orders as we did". In a way, it's much more satisfying than 50-0.
Nothing else to say, really
Apple is starting to win me over
As in Windows.
Because if you square them they become enemies.
No, no, no. How many horses would fit into a Library of Congress?
And that steel was itself mined somewhere, so yes you can technically trace any and all costs to labor costs.
Heirs aren't nearly as powerful these days as in the old aristocratic tradition. Some people aren't leaving as much money to their children (yes I know 2 people != a trend but that alone is $80 billion) and there's the effect that people who get their fortune without hard work tend to lose it very quickly.
If you're seriously interested in top speed and top speed alone there are cars for that.
I create for my own profit, not your entertainment
Good luck profiting or entertaining with that mindset.
Once the Internet community stops (I know it isn't everyone but it is enough to be a major problem) stealing content created by artists for profit
This statement, especially with the word "once" in it (implying that it's inevitable) is the epitome of the "goodluckwiththat" tag.
we will finally be able to embrace the open standards we all truly want
We will be able to embrace open standards only when the entire internet agrees to do things your way. Nice.
Until then DRM will live one in some for or other.
Given that file sharing is not going to vountarily go away, this statement becomes "information will continue to be locked down until the entire internet is locked down", which is probably true. We can't stop DRM any more than you can stop piracy.
Pedophilia is not a crime. If it were it would be a thought crime. Molesting children is the crime.
They do need to be paid. But the idea that they have to be paid "in a conventional [I'm assuming you mean artificially recreating the scarcity of physical goods] way" is a non-sequitur.
search capability, much overrated - books always had indexes and tables-of-contents, and besides, you're supposed to be learning the whole textbook).
I have to disagree with this. Tables of contents only cover general topics, and indexes cover only a few hundred terms (an exhaustive index is by definition as long as the book itself). But what if you're interested in looking back at something you saw once and don't remember clearly? What if you're looking for an exact, specific formula, statistic or quote? And this all ignores, of course, that electronic search takes 3 seconds and gets you exactly where the searched term is, but with paper books it takes minutes (often to take a 30-second look at something. Talk about lost productivity). Also, in all of my school experiences, I've never once covered 100% of a textbook.
Most police forces don't want you using drugs. Just because someone doesn't consent to you doing something doesn't necessarily mean that their opinion should be relevant.
You forgot Wikibooks
Nineteenth century capitalism collapses when everything you make can be copied and shared at will. Government funding all research isn't such a bad idea, comparing to the pharma monopolies we have now.
So our voting system is at fault. Perhaps we should take (dare I say steal) a few ideas from the Swedish system that got the pirates a seat in parliament.