In contrast to those that buy law to get what they want
This is so ignorant its not even funny. Copyright has been recognized by the US since its founding (its in the constitution, article 2 I believe).
If I recall correctly, US did not recognize English copyrights until late in the 20th centurh (ask Mark Twian and Oscar Wilde about it, they complained a lot about it)
It may very well happen that sometime along your life, your "crime" may become legal. With Death Penalty, you are fucked up. With Life without Parole, you may get a chance and eventually get free. Ask Nelson Mandela about it.
Well, this means that NOW I can submerge reliably the whole PC into Mineral Oil without fear of oil getting into the only moving part, the hard drive. Can't wait to try this out!
Go to Panama. Strongest growing country in the middle of America with easy connections around the world and an American standard of living with a third world country cost of living. Your money will go very far there without the paranoia you will find in other countries. Our only curse is the politicians....:)
I want to see the Silmarillion but in Series format (like Game of Thrones or similar). It is long enough for at lest 4 or 5 seasons of 8-10 episodes each. I would really look forward to watch that!
Are you naive? Regarding your second argument, "need for evidence", It is collected AFTER a crime has been convicted AND someone is a SUSPECT. It has never been our western tradition to go and treat the innocent like guilty. That is why you have forensic sciences and such to gather evidence, and believe me, there is nothing as resilient as a disk drive. You would have to melt down your drive for someone not to be able to read it. That's why police are making their job HARDER, not easier with such laws. Now it will be more prevalent the use of encrypted drives and VPNs out of the country, raising the bar for snooping around.
The argument that it is necessary to MONITOR 24/7 in order to enforce the laws is patently false and absurd.
If Fedora yields on this, I'd go to another distribution. Paying $99 to Microsoft for the "right" to install the OS of my choice on my own hardware is making Microsoft $99 richer off the efforts of the volunteers who brought Linux and Fedora to us, and it makes my Free-gratis OS effectively cost $99, no longer free.
I'd rather go back to the time of compatibility lists and give my money to those companies that support my needs than give it to those Microsoft-bought hardware manufacturers.
From the Opinion: "But random characters are not files; because the TrueCrypt program displays random characters if there are files and if there is empty space, we simply do not know what, if anything, was hidden based on the facts before us. It is not enough for the Government to argue that the encrypted drives are capable of storing vast amounts of data, some of which may be incriminating. In short, the Government physically possesses the media devices, but it does not know what, if anything, is held on the encrypted drives."
Actually, this comes off the royalties paid to Artists. No wonder many of them do not see a cent of royalties because they are still "in the red". For the record company it is easy to get a better price than what you see here, but the artist will not see it, the record company lives off the arbitrage.
In the end, many successful modern artist go direct to the Internet and bypass this sinkhole.
You are right, at least as the US is involved, Copyright laws have nothing to do with giving credit. (That is the realm of trademark). Nevertheless, the introduction by Europe, specially the french, of so called "moral rights", have introduced "giving credit" into the equation. Therefore Falkvinge is right when you look at the modern laws of copyright as written in Europe.
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In contrast to those that buy law to get what they want
This is so ignorant its not even funny. Copyright has been recognized by the US since its founding (its in the constitution, article 2 I believe).
If I recall correctly, US did not recognize English copyrights until late in the 20th centurh (ask Mark Twian and Oscar Wilde about it, they complained a lot about it)
I thought Hotel California had a patent on this functionality :)
Damn, coldn't read the original
How can I block and take out of my system those Ads?
It may very well happen that sometime along your life, your "crime" may become legal. With Death Penalty, you are fucked up. With Life without Parole, you may get a chance and eventually get free. Ask Nelson Mandela about it.
Well, this means that NOW I can submerge reliably the whole PC into Mineral Oil without fear of oil getting into the only moving part, the hard drive. Can't wait to try this out!
Go to Panama. :)
Strongest growing country in the middle of America with easy connections around the world and an American standard of living with a third world country cost of living. Your money will go very far there without the paranoia you will find in other countries.
Our only curse is the politicians....
Unless everyone forgets: http://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/courses/cs458/F08-lectures/local/www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson
I want to see the Silmarillion but in Series format (like Game of Thrones or similar). It is long enough for at lest 4 or 5 seasons of 8-10 episodes each. I would really look forward to watch that!
Ditto Civ V. I have them all but the last one because of DRM. I refuse to purchase a DRMd game, specially any with calls back to the mothership
JP
Are you naive?
Regarding your second argument, "need for evidence", It is collected AFTER a crime has been convicted AND someone is a SUSPECT. It has never been our western tradition to go and treat the innocent like guilty. That is why you have forensic sciences and such to gather evidence, and believe me, there is nothing as resilient as a disk drive. You would have to melt down your drive for someone not to be able to read it. That's why police are making their job HARDER, not easier with such laws. Now it will be more prevalent the use of encrypted drives and VPNs out of the country, raising the bar for snooping around.
The argument that it is necessary to MONITOR 24/7 in order to enforce the laws is patently false and absurd.
I hope it works in Windows 2000...
Your novels brought me uncountable hours of entertainment, joy, sadness, thrill, and always a sense of wonder and magic.
If Fedora yields on this, I'd go to another distribution. Paying $99 to Microsoft for the "right" to install the OS of my choice on my own hardware is making Microsoft $99 richer off the efforts of the volunteers who brought Linux and Fedora to us, and it makes my Free-gratis OS effectively cost $99, no longer free.
I'd rather go back to the time of compatibility lists and give my money to those companies that support my needs than give it to those Microsoft-bought hardware manufacturers.
Say NO to Microsoft Danegeld
If the standard is the inability to focus, then half my office is depressed :)
Why build a plane when you can TELEPORT the bomb?
Wake me up when they convert the original King Kong movie into 3D. That would be something!
Skynet, is that you?
From the Opinion:
"But random characters are not files; because the TrueCrypt program displays random characters if there are files and if there is empty space, we simply do not know what, if anything, was hidden based on the facts before us. It is not enough for the Government to argue that the encrypted drives are capable of storing vast amounts of data, some of which may be incriminating. In short, the Government physically possesses the media devices, but it does not know what, if anything, is held on the encrypted drives."
Actually, this comes off the royalties paid to Artists. No wonder many of them do not see a cent of royalties because they are still "in the red".
For the record company it is easy to get a better price than what you see here, but the artist will not see it, the record company lives off the arbitrage.
In the end, many successful modern artist go direct to the Internet and bypass this sinkhole.
You are right, at least as the US is involved, Copyright laws have nothing to do with giving credit. (That is the realm of trademark). Nevertheless, the introduction by Europe, specially the french, of so called "moral rights", have introduced "giving credit" into the equation.
Therefore Falkvinge is right when you look at the modern laws of copyright as written in Europe.
I've fallen, and can't get up!!
Hell! No!!!!
What are they thinking about?
If they remove that, then they should have a display with a list and version of all components of Firefox available.
How am I going to figure out what kind of version I have when I arrive at a system I haven't touched before?
This is incredible dumb!
What was the name of that game? :)
First they came for Taxes, then they will come for your Death! Muahahahahaha!