In an other article (not in English) about this case the German prosecuter said that it would be difficult to get countries like the USA to extradite their citizens to Germany, and that an international treaty was the only way to deal with right wing activities on the internet.
Clearly the Germans now hunt down the Nazi's but they still similar methods to those of the old Nazi's by imposing their laws on the rest of the world.
Meanwhile it would be best for racist webmasters not to set foot in Germany or travel to any country with an extradition treaty with Germany as the penalties for incitement to racial hatred and defemation of the dead are quite high there (10-12 years in prison).
The same applies for Scientologist webmasters as the Church of Scientology is considered to be an "enemy of the constitution" by the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, the government organisation that fights political and social movements that "threaten the democracy and the constitution".
The German high court has decided in a case against an Australian (but German born) denier that German laws apply everywhere in the world when the net is involved and that foreigners can be prosecuted in Germany if they put information on the net that is illegal there.
Why doesn't Disney then pay for using books like The Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland, Winnie the Pooh and Hunchback of the Notre Dame, which they make movies of (authors long since dead).
Disney is being hypocritical, they want to retain ownership of THEIR IP and prevent it from becoming Public Domain but on the other hand they gladly use the Public Domain to get stories for their movies.
So Disney could extend their rights over Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck et al but the estates of Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, Victor Hugo and Milne A. A., whose works they use can't do the same (I don't believe that estates should hold copyrights for a long time but it's the principle that counts).
And anyway, Spanish colonization was *very* different from English colonization. Just look at the ratio of mixed european/native/black ancestry in Latin American countries in general.
Not that the spaniard conquistadores were saints-- they were far from it-- but what happened in the US was positively hellish in comparison.
Are you saying that people from mostly non-mixed backgrounds are bad?
Anyways you should study up on why latin America has such a mixed population. Lots of Spanish slaveowners raped/had sex with their black and indian slaves and that is one of the reasons why.
Cortez the killer was a silly song, I recall him singing about "people lived together, they respected nature" or something, whilst the Maya's were reknowned for sacrificing other peoples and ruling over them.
It would be called a PC song nowadays and is typical for the "hey!hey! western culture's got to go!" mood existant in the '60s and early '70s.
Don't click on this link.
The bastard has put up a javascript on it that hovers the goatse.cx pic in a window around your mouse and then reboots your computer.
Eventually the USA will have to come to terms with the viewpoint of the Europeans and ban all discriminatory speech on the American part of the internet.
The USA signed the International Declaration of Humanrights and Freedom From Discrimination is one of the most important rights granted by that document. The USA can't continue to upset the world by allowing discrimination to exist in their part of the (one) world.
Censorship is the only way to guarantee the freedom of all people, not just the ones with the loud offensive mouths who hurt people and silence them into submission.
I never heard of girls being impressed by what compiler you use. Cars, clothes, yes, but not whether you use Visual C or DJGPP. Liking to program AT ALL is liable to get you labelled as a nerd/geek.
You should get outside of your cubicle a bit more.
Jamie surely doesn't imply that bears have no place in this century.
If we take anything into the new century it should be respect for nature.
Anyways, with an electronic election system you would probably not need to worry about bears disrupting the system (unless one bites through a power cable or something) but what about the lowly bug. What confidence do we have that even a minute bug wouldn't mess up the election results?
I think it should always be possible to count votes by hand as a final backup otherwise you give the system too much power and that leaves it open for abuse. And with the money that goes around in elections ($3 billion this year) there should be plenty of people with motives to tamper with it.
Librarians and historians usually deal with stuff that is past copyright protection and in the public domain.
Of course, if the vested IP interests get their way and are able to get perpetual copyrights passed then all libraries and historians could close up shop. They wouldn't be able to archive anything without tracing back the descendants of the original copyright holders.
They would need to e.g. find out who would inherit the copyrights to Shakespeares plays or Beethoven's 5th Symphony (not to mention Homer or Cicero's works) and pay them a fee to use the works.
A company could strike a deal with a copyright inheritor and own these works in perpetuity and sue to have them removed from all libraries and museums.
Actually I read a few years ago that some company bought the rights to the book on which the Hitchcock movie Rear Windows was based and they intended to have all existing copies of the movie removed from collective memory (by banning it's sale, viewing, etc), so they could pass the remake they were planning to make off as the only version.
I never heard what happened next, but Rear Window (the original) has been on TV some times since then so I guess they failed.
It does show that some companies would wipe out a piece of history to present their new version as the only one.
Have you actually downloaded anything on that site?
All I get is tonnes of links, that open other links sites and when you try to close them they pop up lots of porn sites, which also pop up other sites when you close them (what moron figured out that when you click on close you want to open windows).
Don't programmers use emulators during the development process of a game?
Yes, some programmers do use emulators to create games. However, programmers who are properly licensed to create games for a game console do so with the permission of the affected copyright owners. These authorized programmers, who often use specialized hardware emulators, create new, properly licensed video games with the authorization of the copyright owner. However, a very different situation is presented when someone uses the proprietary code in a game console without the copyright owner's permission. In fact, most emulators that are freely available today are merely software emulators that have no role in the creation of properly licensed video games; these emulators have the exclusive purpose of infringing copyrights and are illegal
Many emulators don't contain the ROMs or OSes of the original computer or console. Are the writers of these emulators still criminals under the US copyright laws if they don't supply the ROMs or OSes?
What if you have the permission of to use the ROMs of the computer manufacturer (IIRC Amstrad allowed emulator makers to use the Sinclair ROMS)? Is it then still a crime to create the emulator because someone could use it to run pirated games?
Have any emulator makers been sued by IDSA or other companies?
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Clearly the Germans now hunt down the Nazi's but they still similar methods to those of the old Nazi's by imposing their laws on the rest of the world.
Meanwhile it would be best for racist webmasters not to set foot in Germany or travel to any country with an extradition treaty with Germany as the penalties for incitement to racial hatred and defemation of the dead are quite high there (10-12 years in prison).
The same applies for Scientologist webmasters as the Church of Scientology is considered to be an "enemy of the constitution" by the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, the government organisation that fights political and social movements that "threaten the democracy and the constitution".
This CNN article reports on the verdict.
Disney is being hypocritical, they want to retain ownership of THEIR IP and prevent it from becoming Public Domain but on the other hand they gladly use the Public Domain to get stories for their movies.
So Disney could extend their rights over Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck et al but the estates of Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, Victor Hugo and Milne A. A., whose works they use can't do the same (I don't believe that estates should hold copyrights for a long time but it's the principle that counts).
And you're willing to suggest that's fair?
Not that the spaniard conquistadores were saints-- they were far from it-- but what happened in the US was positively hellish in comparison.
Are you saying that people from mostly non-mixed backgrounds are bad?
Anyways you should study up on why latin America has such a mixed population. Lots of Spanish slaveowners raped/had sex with their black and indian slaves and that is one of the reasons why.
It would be called a PC song nowadays and is typical for the "hey!hey! western culture's got to go!" mood existant in the '60s and early '70s.
The "neoluddite" uprising was called the "Butlerian Jihad".
Damn, I knew I would see this on Slowdot, having seen it on several other newssites! ;-)
Don't click on this link. The bastard has put up a javascript on it that hovers the goatse.cx pic in a window around your mouse and then reboots your computer.
In Europe everyone speaks French, yeah right!
The USA signed the International Declaration of Humanrights and Freedom From Discrimination is one of the most important rights granted by that document. The USA can't continue to upset the world by allowing discrimination to exist in their part of the (one) world.
Censorship is the only way to guarantee the freedom of all people, not just the ones with the loud offensive mouths who hurt people and silence them into submission.
You should read this book, it tells what actually happened, from a non-imperialist viewpoint:
Another View of Stalin
I never had an IPO offer so I just kept my money in a good old fashioned bank account.
As it says that it is a WIP and Kylix isn't an actual product name I wonder if they are going to stick with the familiar Windows platform names.
It seems to me that they are hedging their bets, they don't want to risk the established names of their xBuilder and Delphi product lines just yet.
Fragging on the move, the ultimate stress relief for burnt out travellers! ;-)
Holding my breath!
Please copy the the internet on this floppy disk!
You can sit there and read books for free all day.
You should get outside of your cubicle a bit more.
If we take anything into the new century it should be respect for nature.
Anyways, with an electronic election system you would probably not need to worry about bears disrupting the system (unless one bites through a power cable or something) but what about the lowly bug. What confidence do we have that even a minute bug wouldn't mess up the election results?
I think it should always be possible to count votes by hand as a final backup otherwise you give the system too much power and that leaves it open for abuse. And with the money that goes around in elections ($3 billion this year) there should be plenty of people with motives to tamper with it.
It seems to be the last upgrade I can do with AT as 550 is the fastest I can set the professor at without overclocking it.
My other machine is an Athlon T/bird 750 and I don't reckon there are any AT motherboards for that and anyways it was about time to change.
I have put the P2 as a server in another AT case, a big tower case which I have had for 7 years and it still is fine.
Of course, if the vested IP interests get their way and are able to get perpetual copyrights passed then all libraries and historians could close up shop. They wouldn't be able to archive anything without tracing back the descendants of the original copyright holders.
They would need to e.g. find out who would inherit the copyrights to Shakespeares plays or Beethoven's 5th Symphony (not to mention Homer or Cicero's works) and pay them a fee to use the works.
A company could strike a deal with a copyright inheritor and own these works in perpetuity and sue to have them removed from all libraries and museums.
I never heard what happened next, but Rear Window (the original) has been on TV some times since then so I guess they failed.
It does show that some companies would wipe out a piece of history to present their new version as the only one.
All I get is tonnes of links, that open other links sites and when you try to close them they pop up lots of porn sites, which also pop up other sites when you close them (what moron figured out that when you click on close you want to open windows).
With sites like EasyWarez.com who needs IDSA?
If IDSA were responsible for books then they would force all libraries to burn all books that are no longer in print.