What important precedents where set by this case. It seems like it was settled out of court, which would usually mean that a judge didn't rule, and therefore didn't set an precedents. The appeals court did rule that an attribution clause is legally binding, which is good. Was there anything else established?
Long story short: as a minor you have some free speech rights in school but not all of them.
No, no, no. As a minor you have all the free speech rights any adult has. However, you are a subject to an oppressive government and will be punished if you try to use them.
That's what copyright is. It's not a normal market by any stretch of the imagination. If market forces were to take hold, competition would drive the price of copies of digital goods to zero, since the marginal cost is zero.
Why analog? At some point that content is being decrypted inside the screen. It should be possible to open the thing up and dump it and get a 1:1 digital un-encrypted copy. Sure, it's technically daunting but it only has to be done once per video.
But that's not really how RPGs work. You don't get experience points for doing stuff you don't like. You get experience points for playing the game, which should be fun, so you'd do it anyway. I've never been motivated in an RPG to do something simply for the sake of getting experience points. If I ever find myself doing something only to get experience points, that's a poorly designed game.
If you like this, check out the Computer Chronicles the archive is hosting. It's always neat to see people reacting to old technology like it's new. Funny to hear the predictions that pan out, and even funnier to see the ones that don't. Check out the UNIX episode, a lot of what they say about UNIX applies to Linux today.
I'd argue that a music file that is part of a computer program would be covered by the exception for computer programs. The exception would be pretty meaningless otherwise.
But you're right, it would take a lot of resources to argue such in court. Fortunately, I don't know of anyone who has ever been sued or prosecuted for downloading ROMs anyway.
The first two years of college are filled with meaningless pre-reqs. It only makes sense to get them out of the way at a low cost, local, part-time institution.
You don't really want a DS for emulators anyway, not other than GB/GBC. The screen resolution is so small that even NES games have to be scaled down. The best genesis emulator does run quite fast, but it doesn't scale horizontally which can be a big problem if you're playing Thunderforce IV. Those cropped columns can easily be the difference between seeing forward enough to react or dying.
The PSP is pretty nifty. You even get PSX hardware emulation. The DS does have a better library of games, but there are still plenty of games on the PSP worth spending time with.
I don't buy it. Nothing in that exceedingly verbose article you linked to cites any law or case law relevant to copyright. 17 USC 117 however, reads "it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy".
So if I own a copy of Super Mario Bros. (a computer program) it is not an infringement for me to make another copy of Super Mario Bros. If I download a smb.nes, then I have made a copy of Super Mario Bros. Providing that I only use it in the ways authorized by law, then I'm in the clear.
There's nothing in the law that can be construed to mean that I must make the copy from the copy I own.
I was going to say the exact same thing. I needed to bridge my upstairs and downstairs networks. I was able to use the existing runs of coax to guide my cat-5 up the wall. Just bought a new face plate with an RF-45 and F-connector and widened the existing hole a little bit.
CycloDS is best now. The major improvement I'm aware of is save state support. Personally, I don't think that's worth the premium. ($50 vs $7 for a TTDS).
There's a couple of reasons. First, homebrew. You can use your DS as a decent MP3 player, or even video player (with transcoding). There are also apps to take notes, read ebooks, etc. etc. There's even a handy scrabble dictionary, and some homebrew games available. (Amazingly, Quake runs pretty well on the DS.) A French court recently ruled that flash carts were legal for homebrew purposes.
There's also convenience. It's just easier to carry one card with your entire collection of DS games instead of juggling a dozen carts when you travel.
That said, there's plenty of illicit uses for such a device as well.
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Well, you see, we don't trust our government. We never have. We might have national pride, but we don't trust Bush
Seems like the country trusted Bush just fine back in 2003.
What important precedents where set by this case. It seems like it was settled out of court, which would usually mean that a judge didn't rule, and therefore didn't set an precedents. The appeals court did rule that an attribution clause is legally binding, which is good. Was there anything else established?
Long story short: as a minor you have some free speech rights in school but not all of them.
No, no, no. As a minor you have all the free speech rights any adult has. However, you are a subject to an oppressive government and will be punished if you try to use them.
Freedom of speech applies to adults
Can you quote the section of the Constitution where this limitation is stated?
That's Bennet Hasselton for you. It would be nice if there were some way to block his screeds.
Creating artificial scarceness to raise prises?
That's what copyright is. It's not a normal market by any stretch of the imagination. If market forces were to take hold, competition would drive the price of copies of digital goods to zero, since the marginal cost is zero.
Why analog? At some point that content is being decrypted inside the screen. It should be possible to open the thing up and dump it and get a 1:1 digital un-encrypted copy. Sure, it's technically daunting but it only has to be done once per video.
Me too. I just add "and it's dystopian" to it.
They will. It's just a matter of time until it's cracked.
But that's not really how RPGs work. You don't get experience points for doing stuff you don't like. You get experience points for playing the game, which should be fun, so you'd do it anyway. I've never been motivated in an RPG to do something simply for the sake of getting experience points. If I ever find myself doing something only to get experience points, that's a poorly designed game.
What's to stop Mom and Pop from starting a website instead? There's a difference between being unable to compete, and being unwilling to compete.
If you want a gaming platform where cheating is not an issue, you need a closed platform
Or you can play with people you know and trust not to cheat.
If the judge actually bothers to read it, he can still disregard it and rule in favor of the RIAA.
If you like this, check out the Computer Chronicles the archive is hosting. It's always neat to see people reacting to old technology like it's new. Funny to hear the predictions that pan out, and even funnier to see the ones that don't. Check out the UNIX episode, a lot of what they say about UNIX applies to Linux today.
You can also find scans of some classic computer magazines at Atari Magazines and Old Computer Mags.
I'd argue that a music file that is part of a computer program would be covered by the exception for computer programs. The exception would be pretty meaningless otherwise.
But you're right, it would take a lot of resources to argue such in court. Fortunately, I don't know of anyone who has ever been sued or prosecuted for downloading ROMs anyway.
Heck, learning how to hack the original Civ was a siginifant contributing factoring to me choosing IT over business.
Gamewiz32 was awesome, wasn't it?
The first two years of college are filled with meaningless pre-reqs. It only makes sense to get them out of the way at a low cost, local, part-time institution.
MP3s aren't covered by the exemptions in 17 USC 117.
You don't really want a DS for emulators anyway, not other than GB/GBC. The screen resolution is so small that even NES games have to be scaled down. The best genesis emulator does run quite fast, but it doesn't scale horizontally which can be a big problem if you're playing Thunderforce IV. Those cropped columns can easily be the difference between seeing forward enough to react or dying.
The PSP is pretty nifty. You even get PSX hardware emulation. The DS does have a better library of games, but there are still plenty of games on the PSP worth spending time with.
I don't buy it. Nothing in that exceedingly verbose article you linked to cites any law or case law relevant to copyright. 17 USC 117 however, reads "it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy".
So if I own a copy of Super Mario Bros. (a computer program) it is not an infringement for me to make another copy of Super Mario Bros. If I download a smb.nes, then I have made a copy of Super Mario Bros. Providing that I only use it in the ways authorized by law, then I'm in the clear.
There's nothing in the law that can be construed to mean that I must make the copy from the copy I own.
Absolutely. I'm really fucking glad I don't live in China. I'm still freaked out about the increasingly authoritarian trend in the US though.
I was going to say the exact same thing. I needed to bridge my upstairs and downstairs networks. I was able to use the existing runs of coax to guide my cat-5 up the wall. Just bought a new face plate with an RF-45 and F-connector and widened the existing hole a little bit.
CycloDS is best now. The major improvement I'm aware of is save state support. Personally, I don't think that's worth the premium. ($50 vs $7 for a TTDS).
There's a couple of reasons. First, homebrew. You can use your DS as a decent MP3 player, or even video player (with transcoding). There are also apps to take notes, read ebooks, etc. etc. There's even a handy scrabble dictionary, and some homebrew games available. (Amazingly, Quake runs pretty well on the DS.) A French court recently ruled that flash carts were legal for homebrew purposes.
There's also convenience. It's just easier to carry one card with your entire collection of DS games instead of juggling a dozen carts when you travel.
That said, there's plenty of illicit uses for such a device as well.
Yeah, why do they do that? To earn CAs more money?