usually an ID is required to use the "check cashing" & "Check writing
feature at most supermarkets that they tie in to their "Discount card"... I.e. you can only write a check for your purchases if you join the discount club, you can only join the discount club if you have proven your identity and forked over some personal stats...
Besides the data mining, they can have decent enough log of info to go after check bouncers...
I'm not saying it's right or wrong or whatnot..just the rational for needing an ID when signing up for one of those cards...
*shrug*
E.
I'm missing the connection between scour.net and google? I understand how scour could have a finger/lawsuit be pointed at it (although I do hope that the suit is dismissed) but isn't google just a pretty damn good search engine? (or is there some other feature i should be exploiting, er.. uh. using =) Enrico
Hmmm.. Shouldn't Cuckoo be paying royalties for using the title of the song =) ??
I'm probably off the mark as far as language/legal/context etc... but think about it.
You can't print the title "New York Times" and then change the content to "quack quack quack..." etc... and redistribute it.
Therefore by misrepresenting the original work, and then switching the content to something else entirely, Cuckoo is probably just as well violating fair use... it's kinda fraudulent, but no money is involved... sorta slanderous in a certain twisted way (using the term slander in the general sense not legal sense, unless people stop buying albums because they think a song they thought was X, Y, or Z pop group and was bird noises turned them off the album...*Shrug*)
Not a real opinion mind you... just a different slant...
Slashdot Mirror
usually an ID is required to use the "check cashing" & "Check writing feature at most supermarkets that they tie in to their "Discount card" ... I.e. you can only write a check for your purchases if you join the discount club, you can only join the discount club if you have proven your identity and forked over some personal stats...
Besides the data mining, they can have decent enough log of info to go after check bouncers...
I'm not saying it's right or wrong or whatnot..just the rational for needing an ID when signing up for one of those cards...
*shrug*
E.
I'm missing the connection between scour.net and google? I understand how scour could have a finger/lawsuit be pointed at it (although I do hope that the suit is dismissed) but isn't google just a pretty damn good search engine? (or is there some other feature i should be exploiting, er.. uh. using =) Enrico
Hmmm.. Shouldn't Cuckoo be paying royalties for using the title of the song =) ??
I'm probably off the mark as far as language/legal/context etc... but think about it.
You can't print the title "New York Times" and then change the content to "quack quack quack..." etc... and redistribute it.
Therefore by misrepresenting the original work, and then switching the content to something else entirely, Cuckoo is probably just as well violating fair use... it's kinda fraudulent, but no money is involved... sorta slanderous in a certain twisted way (using the term slander in the general sense not legal sense, unless people stop buying albums because they think a song they thought was X, Y, or Z pop group and was bird noises turned them off the album...*Shrug*)
Not a real opinion mind you... just a different slant...
Enrico_suave