So now days to use simple technology as recording (something we used to be able to do for free with a VCR) we get dinged for $20 to $50 / month. I'm talking about DVR service. Augh.
Add that to the HD technology fee when you get the HD digital cable package. Um, what's with the technology fee? It's not like you're fixing issues with digital broadcasting or improving on the HD pictures that are compressed in transfer. We're just being hit with extra fees and questioning them does nothing to help anyone take notice of them.
Oh Cable companies, you're such a racket, as bad as the insurance industry, or Obamacare. Shame on all of you.
The point is, you as the driver, even while stationary are distracted. If you are looking down at the phone an texting, you are distracted.
We must all remember, driving is a privilege, not a right in this country. Whether you agree with the laws or not, when you accept the drivers license you accept that you are expected to follow the law when operating the vehicle. Unless you are parked where you can take your foot off the break, you are considered driving the vehicle.
The other thing many people haven't considered is the flow of traffic. I personally have experience too many times to count being stuck behind someone at a red light who is texting, the light goes green, and they don't realize it because they are distracted. Sure they may not be moving, but now the people behind the distracted driver are stuck waiting and if only a handful of cars makes the light because some Ass Hat was texting at a Red Light, a chain of frustration begins. If we're in our vehicles, we are all trying to get somewhere, if you're texting at a red light and I miss the light, because you're too busy with a text rather than watching the road, I think you should get a ticket.
Why is it that people can't wait for a few minutes to talk to someone? Why can't people just pick up the phone and dial the person and have a verbal discussion? Why are people pissed at the officer and calling him a jerk? What about those 800+ jerks who may have upset someone's else's day because they were texting?
A friend of mine has an app on her iPhone that will convert what she says on the phone's mic to text. Why then can't the text message be converted back, so that the receiver can receive the text in the form of a voice-text?
Shit in this scenario, if the sender knew the driver was on the road, then a bit more care in what is written so the text could be converted would simplify the entire argument.
Sadly, I know the response to this, the sender just doesn't give a shit. Many people don't know how to write proper English anymore, so why would they try to be more concise for a text to voice message.
Hell for that matter, just go back to CB radio then...
I am one of those people who pay to see the movie for the big screen movie experience.
Those patrons who feel the need to constantly talk to another person (in person or on the phone), play games or text, I have to ask you, why the heck did you spend the $12+ to go sit in a dark loud theater if you aren't watching the movie?
I paid hard earned $$ to go enjoy a movie on the big screen, not see all of your phone displays. If I wanted to watch all of you on your phones I'd just go sit in the food court for free at the mall.
When you go to the movies, put your phones away, if you must take a call, leave the seats and go around the wall, allow the rest of us to enjoy the movie we paid for.
...that's a spray, and the smell is fairly easy to follow.
Seriously, this sounds pretty interesting, and scary all at the same time. It has the potential to last years, but it appears that a Police swab would be necessary. Why not make it so it's luminescent thus allowing a special light to be used to detect the DNA? This would prevent the need of the swab and the refusal of a perpetrator from providing the sample.
Let me be clear about this. I DO NOT condone child pornography at all; I find it foul and disgusting. But there is a over-reaching that I think may go on here. If I purchase a server and I engage in a P2P network, then it is not Google nor any one else's business what I transmit. If the server is a public server or one owned by a company (such as Google), then I would agree they have every right to remove such foul content from their servers.
Yes I would rather that the people who engage in this be stopped. But whenever programs like this are created they tend to start out being put to use with the best of intentions, but will likely be used for other more nefarious purposes. If this algorithm is used to sniff out child pornography, it could be modified to sniff out a information about a political party and quell it, or news that a government agency doesn't want people to know about.
With all that has recently come to light about the spying by the US Govt. can you really say that this with 100% certainty that this technology won't be abuse for other purposes? I can't.
Blade Runner is by far one of the best movies ever, in part due to the never answered question. It does not need a sequel. That movie should stand on it's own and should not be messed or tampered with in any way.
Please Hollywood, Please, for the love of all good creations, don't do a sequel or a redo, ever. Let it remain the masterpiece that it is.
I'm all for parents and schools knowing who is getting on the bus and such, as a basic answer to the age old question "Do you know where your kids are right now?" question. But this is insane. Are there really that many kids that a bus driver or school has to have Bio-metric information on their students? Is that data destroyed when the student leaves the school to go to another school, drops out, or graduates? Who else has access to such data? It's bad enough that there are smart chips in Student ID's but crap is getting out of hand.
Parents, it's time for more of you to Home School.
....PayPal, it just makes you look worse. If you had that vulnerability found already, there should have been something posted somewhere.
At this point, the only way for PayPal to save face is to dole out the reward and create a new policy stating all of the rules and when the bug is reported and verified, it should be posted immediately.
I am not on Facebook, so if some Jackwagon felt like disparaging me on Facebook, I may never know, thus I would not be bullied. Conversely, if there are false statements, I'm not there to contradict them. It's a double edged sword.
But in the end all parents should be monitoring their children's on-line presence until they are 18. After that, the child is now and adult and can and should be held accountable for their actions. If more parents gave a $h!t about what their children do and say on line or in public, maybe more of today's (and tomorrow's) youth will grow to have a greater respect for humanity. Maybe, just maybe, bullying would go down instead of doing what it is doing, trending up.
I am all for privacy on line and having an anonymous profile, but if you're brave enough to say something out loud, from your lips to another's ears while in public, then you should be brave enough not to post anonymously on-line and take responsibility for your words and actions.
Unfortunately, in the world we live in, people find the internet to be the place where they can air all their grievances about another person, and feel completely free to speak untruths and lies and never feel the repercussions of those actions. If our government does this, why would the average Joe citizen feel any less empowered? We're led by example...
Facebook has always maintained that children should be above a certain age.
Questions I would ask: How old was she when she created her account?
If under the age limit, did she lie about her age? Did her parents know she had an account?
If so, why the F... were they not monitoring her account and her on-line activities?
If not, why the F... were they not monitoring her on-line activities?
I find it so disconcerting how many parents expect the rest of the world to parent their children and when someone else does, the parents cry foul.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you're gonna have some fun and make some babies, remember YOU (mommy and daddy) are responsible for them until they are 18. That means that the actions they take reflect on how YOU reared them.
If you don't maintain control, you can't expect other to take the blame for not controlling what YOU yourselves could not (or would not) control./endrant
The fact of the matter is that Paypal should have thanked the individual with a reward regardless of age or account status. If a teenager can find a bug (and I'm assuming it's a pretty significant bug) without an account, it makes you wonder what he might have found had he had an account. It makes me wonder who else will now try to hack PayPal and exploit found bugs. This teenager in the pursuit to get some cash, and maybe with a noble cause to make the product better, found a bug, reported it and then is insulted for his efforts.
PayPal is doing everything in their power to shoot themselves in the foot.
This is not to say that I think this teenager committed a crime, personally I do not. When I went to school, there was Detention and then there was the big all day on Saturday detention. Personally I don't think this young lady should have been expelled, or even suspended. Two full all day detentions where she has to clean toilets, bathrooms, desks, buses, etc... would have sufficed.
Certainly, after that incident the school should have made an announcement that the situation was not considered acceptable without permission / supervision from a chemistry teacher. And then any future situations of a similar nature would result in a x #no of day(s) suspension. And a repeat offender, expulsion.
This would encourage students to be curious and cautious by approaching the appropriate teacher and getting guidance and permission.
School is for curiosity and learning. Students make mistakes but it shouldn't stay with them for the rest of their academic lives.
Hell if a teenager kills someone, their name is usually kept from the papers, they go to juvenile detention and their records are sealed at 18. This one young lady experiments with some chemical house hold items and she's persecuted across America by those who insist on zero tolerance.
Folks, I don't want to see people get hurt unnecessarily, but we learn from our mistakes, let us make them without persecution forever.
Zero-tolerance is the destruction of basic human nature and most of all COMMON SENSE. Every situation is different, Every student is different, treat them differently.
In every country, there is terrorism of some citizen. We've seen it all too often on the news media, but more so in high profile areas. Third World Countries (I hate that term) have a lot of terrorism of it's citizens, I thing specially fitted prosthetic limbs would be a good start.
Of course, someone may have already come up with this already.
The bug was hitting the nail through the pipe. Hiding it is laziness. There are some similarities, true, but if the individual fixed / replaced the pipe immediately, that would be similar to a mistake in coding during development and unit testing caught it. Hiding it blatantly is grounds for termination, that isn't a bug anymore.....that's just douchebaggery.
I am an analyst and I often write requirements, test code and write user documentation. I've been in the industry for 20+ years. I have never met a single developer who doesn't have bugs in code. I've read some of the posts in this thread and many of you are comparing building contractors to software developer contractors and I honestly think you're comparing apples to oranges.
I don't know what the small business owner is making but I believe, to some degree his demands are unreasonable. When a contractor comes into your house to install an item, there are a limited number of ways in which that contractor can perform the tasks to complete the job. If that contractor must deviate from standard specs they run the possibility of having issues with the installed item. And under their contract, under normal conditions, they have limited liability to correct the issues after installation. If the house has a non-standard configuration, and the contractor must fit a square peg into a round hole, this is usually discussed before the work is performed and agreements are made. However, it happens all the time where a contractor faces a hidden issue in their goal to complete the task correctly without issue.
From that description comparing a building contractor to a software developer contractor is feasible. But code is different. With code there are several ways to skin a cat and depending on how rigid the specifications are can influence the amount of bugs that can be created. As good as I would like to think I am in writing requirements there are always hidden requirements that can't be considered until a software developer gets into the process of writing the code. The small business owner claims to have written the specifications, and I don't believe he has developer experience, and to write a chunk of code to capture data in one place may open several doors within the product on how to handle that captured data. Unless the specifications are that meticulous there will be bugs. My question would be, have you hired a tester? Just because requirement 1 says "capture data", and requirement 2 says "store data", where is the requirement on the length and type of data to store? Boom, bug. If specifications don't get down to that level of detail everywhere, there will be bugs. And if your specifications are that meticulous, then how much time is over used up front.
On top of that, you're requesting that a developer be able to write in multiple coding languages. How much would you pay an interpreter to speak five spoken languages? A lot of money, software developers who can write in multiple coding languages and are proficient in all of them don't come cheap. Specifications to interpret one to one from one language to the next.
I'd say the following: 1. raise your prices you're charging your customer 2. insist on a very small subset of development languages 3. hire a full time employee and find someone who cares about success in your company 4. perks, perks, perks 5. hire interns for testing 6. Most important, demand excellence, but be realistic.
As a Resident of this F'd up state I can tell you about it.
Initially, if caught on camera, you are sent a citation for ~$158, with no way to fight it in court.
Next, as we are all taught in Driver's Ed. if you find yourself unable to slow down to a stop at an intersection safely, it is safer to maintain your rate of speed and go through the light.
Next if you're not driving the car and someone else is (say a friend), because the car is registered to you, an individual, you receive the citation, NOT the driver.
Clearly red light camera are designed as money makers. If it was truly meant for safety, then you could go before a judge and argue the citation in court. Only recently can people begin to fight the citation.
I understand clearly that driving is NOT a right, but a privilege, but now I see our local / state governments treating everyone as if they were a criminal. Red light cameras remove the "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" aspect of our legal system. The burden of proof is on the camera, but since so many argued (originally), "...you can't ticket me if you didn't see me do it..." argument that our local govts. twisted the laws to suit their money making needs.
If they truly were installed for safety (as claimed), then people would be able to address the citations in traffic court. I have personally seen some positive results at one intersection. But shortening yellow lights, negates all of the positive results that people complained about originally, it's dangerous at that intersection. Now this will introduce more fender benders and accidents and way more red light violations.
/clap/clap/clap It's nice to learn that someone looked at curiosity in a common sense fashion rather than the typical spank-down people get for being smart enough to figure things our for themselves.
.... some a$$hat took a photo of me, posted it on the web and didn't ask for my permission. Now it's potentially orphaned, and Wham I'm the face on the ads for selling selling A$$ cream for Joe Schmoe over in the UK and I can't stop it?/facepalm
But with that logic, if one person makes a purchase, then it stays copyrighted, there is nothing stopping the industry from buying the work of art from itself.
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So now days to use simple technology as recording (something we used to be able to do for free with a VCR) we get dinged for $20 to $50 / month. I'm talking about DVR service. Augh.
Add that to the HD technology fee when you get the HD digital cable package. Um, what's with the technology fee? It's not like you're fixing issues with digital broadcasting or improving on the HD pictures that are compressed in transfer. We're just being hit with extra fees and questioning them does nothing to help anyone take notice of them.
Oh Cable companies, you're such a racket, as bad as the insurance industry, or Obamacare. Shame on all of you.
The point is, you as the driver, even while stationary are distracted. If you are looking down at the phone an texting, you are distracted.
We must all remember, driving is a privilege, not a right in this country. Whether you agree with the laws or not, when you accept the drivers license you accept that you are expected to follow the law when operating the vehicle. Unless you are parked where you can take your foot off the break, you are considered driving the vehicle.
The other thing many people haven't considered is the flow of traffic. I personally have experience too many times to count being stuck behind someone at a red light who is texting, the light goes green, and they don't realize it because they are distracted. Sure they may not be moving, but now the people behind the distracted driver are stuck waiting and if only a handful of cars makes the light because some Ass Hat was texting at a Red Light, a chain of frustration begins. If we're in our vehicles, we are all trying to get somewhere, if you're texting at a red light and I miss the light, because you're too busy with a text rather than watching the road, I think you should get a ticket.
Why is it that people can't wait for a few minutes to talk to someone?
Why can't people just pick up the phone and dial the person and have a verbal discussion?
Why are people pissed at the officer and calling him a jerk?
What about those 800+ jerks who may have upset someone's else's day because they were texting?
A friend of mine has an app on her iPhone that will convert what she says on the phone's mic to text. Why then can't the text message be converted back, so that the receiver can receive the text in the form of a voice-text?
Shit in this scenario, if the sender knew the driver was on the road, then a bit more care in what is written so the text could be converted would simplify the entire argument.
Sadly, I know the response to this, the sender just doesn't give a shit. Many people don't know how to write proper English anymore, so why would they try to be more concise for a text to voice message.
Hell for that matter, just go back to CB radio then...
Here is some information about these disgusting bugs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_woods_cockroach
These types of bugs are very common in hot climate areas, Florida, Texas, Nevada, Alabama, etc...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cockroach
I hate when an article eludes to a point but never actually provides the full disclosure details.
Which three US banks?
The advertisers just elevated stupid, and the people who wanted free stuff only helped make the case for Stupid a solid win for entertainment.
I read the summary and it just made me laugh. /facepalm
/clapclapclap
Awesome joke, that isn't a joke.
As a tester, I would have to test that way because of the end user.
Thank you for my morning humor.
I am one of those people who pay to see the movie for the big screen movie experience.
Those patrons who feel the need to constantly talk to another person (in person or on the phone), play games or text, I have to ask you, why the heck did you spend the $12+ to go sit in a dark loud theater if you aren't watching the movie?
I paid hard earned $$ to go enjoy a movie on the big screen, not see all of your phone displays. If I wanted to watch all of you on your phones I'd just go sit in the food court for free at the mall.
When you go to the movies, put your phones away, if you must take a call, leave the seats and go around the wall, allow the rest of us to enjoy the movie we paid for.
...that's a spray, and the smell is fairly easy to follow.
Seriously, this sounds pretty interesting, and scary all at the same time. It has the potential to last years, but it appears that a Police swab would be necessary. Why not make it so it's luminescent thus allowing a special light to be used to detect the DNA? This would prevent the need of the swab and the refusal of a perpetrator from providing the sample.
Just a thought.
Let me be clear about this. I DO NOT condone child pornography at all; I find it foul and disgusting. But there is a over-reaching that I think may go on here. If I purchase a server and I engage in a P2P network, then it is not Google nor any one else's business what I transmit. If the server is a public server or one owned by a company (such as Google), then I would agree they have every right to remove such foul content from their servers.
Yes I would rather that the people who engage in this be stopped. But whenever programs like this are created they tend to start out being put to use with the best of intentions, but will likely be used for other more nefarious purposes. If this algorithm is used to sniff out child pornography, it could be modified to sniff out a information about a political party and quell it, or news that a government agency doesn't want people to know about.
With all that has recently come to light about the spying by the US Govt. can you really say that this with 100% certainty that this technology won't be abuse for other purposes? I can't.
Again I DO NOT condone Child Pornography.
What you said.
Blade Runner is by far one of the best movies ever, in part due to the never answered question. It does not need a sequel. That movie should stand on it's own and should not be messed or tampered with in any way.
Please Hollywood, Please, for the love of all good creations, don't do a sequel or a redo, ever. Let it remain the masterpiece that it is.
I'm all for parents and schools knowing who is getting on the bus and such, as a basic answer to the age old question "Do you know where your kids are right now?" question. But this is insane. Are there really that many kids that a bus driver or school has to have Bio-metric information on their students? Is that data destroyed when the student leaves the school to go to another school, drops out, or graduates? Who else has access to such data? It's bad enough that there are smart chips in Student ID's but crap is getting out of hand.
Parents, it's time for more of you to Home School.
should do the trick.
....PayPal, it just makes you look worse. If you had that vulnerability found already, there should have been something posted somewhere.
At this point, the only way for PayPal to save face is to dole out the reward and create a new policy stating all of the rules and when the bug is reported and verified, it should be posted immediately.
I agree with you.
I am not on Facebook, so if some Jackwagon felt like disparaging me on Facebook, I may never know, thus I would not be bullied. Conversely, if there are false statements, I'm not there to contradict them. It's a double edged sword.
But in the end all parents should be monitoring their children's on-line presence until they are 18. After that, the child is now and adult and can and should be held accountable for their actions. If more parents gave a $h!t about what their children do and say on line or in public, maybe more of today's (and tomorrow's) youth will grow to have a greater respect for humanity. Maybe, just maybe, bullying would go down instead of doing what it is doing, trending up.
I am all for privacy on line and having an anonymous profile, but if you're brave enough to say something out loud, from your lips to another's ears while in public, then you should be brave enough not to post anonymously on-line and take responsibility for your words and actions.
Unfortunately, in the world we live in, people find the internet to be the place where they can air all their grievances about another person, and feel completely free to speak untruths and lies and never feel the repercussions of those actions. If our government does this, why would the average Joe citizen feel any less empowered? We're led by example...
Facebook has always maintained that children should be above a certain age.
Questions I would ask:
How old was she when she created her account?
If under the age limit, did she lie about her age?
Did her parents know she had an account?
If so, why the F... were they not monitoring her account and her on-line activities?
If not, why the F... were they not monitoring her on-line activities?
I find it so disconcerting how many parents expect the rest of the world to parent their children and when someone else does, the parents cry foul.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you're gonna have some fun and make some babies, remember YOU (mommy and daddy) are responsible for them until they are 18. That means that the actions they take reflect on how YOU reared them.
If you don't maintain control, you can't expect other to take the blame for not controlling what YOU yourselves could not (or would not) control. /endrant
The fact of the matter is that Paypal should have thanked the individual with a reward regardless of age or account status. If a teenager can find a bug (and I'm assuming it's a pretty significant bug) without an account, it makes you wonder what he might have found had he had an account. It makes me wonder who else will now try to hack PayPal and exploit found bugs. This teenager in the pursuit to get some cash, and maybe with a noble cause to make the product better, found a bug, reported it and then is insulted for his efforts.
PayPal is doing everything in their power to shoot themselves in the foot.
This is not to say that I think this teenager committed a crime, personally I do not. When I went to school, there was Detention and then there was the big all day on Saturday detention. Personally I don't think this young lady should have been expelled, or even suspended. Two full all day detentions where she has to clean toilets, bathrooms, desks, buses, etc... would have sufficed.
Certainly, after that incident the school should have made an announcement that the situation was not considered acceptable without permission / supervision from a chemistry teacher. And then any future situations of a similar nature would result in a x #no of day(s) suspension. And a repeat offender, expulsion.
This would encourage students to be curious and cautious by approaching the appropriate teacher and getting guidance and permission.
School is for curiosity and learning. Students make mistakes but it shouldn't stay with them for the rest of their academic lives.
Hell if a teenager kills someone, their name is usually kept from the papers, they go to juvenile detention and their records are sealed at 18. This one young lady experiments with some chemical house hold items and she's persecuted across America by those who insist on zero tolerance.
Folks, I don't want to see people get hurt unnecessarily, but we learn from our mistakes, let us make them without persecution forever.
Zero-tolerance is the destruction of basic human nature and most of all COMMON SENSE. Every situation is different, Every student is different, treat them differently.
In every country, there is terrorism of some citizen. We've seen it all too often on the news media, but more so in high profile areas. Third World Countries (I hate that term) have a lot of terrorism of it's citizens, I thing specially fitted prosthetic limbs would be a good start.
Of course, someone may have already come up with this already.
Peace Out.
The bug was hitting the nail through the pipe. Hiding it is laziness. There are some similarities, true, but if the individual fixed / replaced the pipe immediately, that would be similar to a mistake in coding during development and unit testing caught it. Hiding it blatantly is grounds for termination, that isn't a bug anymore.....that's just douchebaggery.
But I see your point.
I am an analyst and I often write requirements, test code and write user documentation. I've been in the industry for 20+ years. I have never met a single developer who doesn't have bugs in code. I've read some of the posts in this thread and many of you are comparing building contractors to software developer contractors and I honestly think you're comparing apples to oranges.
I don't know what the small business owner is making but I believe, to some degree his demands are unreasonable. When a contractor comes into your house to install an item, there are a limited number of ways in which that contractor can perform the tasks to complete the job. If that contractor must deviate from standard specs they run the possibility of having issues with the installed item. And under their contract, under normal conditions, they have limited liability to correct the issues after installation. If the house has a non-standard configuration, and the contractor must fit a square peg into a round hole, this is usually discussed before the work is performed and agreements are made. However, it happens all the time where a contractor faces a hidden issue in their goal to complete the task correctly without issue.
From that description comparing a building contractor to a software developer contractor is feasible. But code is different. With code there are several ways to skin a cat and depending on how rigid the specifications are can influence the amount of bugs that can be created. As good as I would like to think I am in writing requirements there are always hidden requirements that can't be considered until a software developer gets into the process of writing the code. The small business owner claims to have written the specifications, and I don't believe he has developer experience, and to write a chunk of code to capture data in one place may open several doors within the product on how to handle that captured data. Unless the specifications are that meticulous there will be bugs. My question would be, have you hired a tester? Just because requirement 1 says "capture data", and requirement 2 says "store data", where is the requirement on the length and type of data to store? Boom, bug. If specifications don't get down to that level of detail everywhere, there will be bugs. And if your specifications are that meticulous, then how much time is over used up front.
On top of that, you're requesting that a developer be able to write in multiple coding languages. How much would you pay an interpreter to speak five spoken languages? A lot of money, software developers who can write in multiple coding languages and are proficient in all of them don't come cheap. Specifications to interpret one to one from one language to the next.
I'd say the following:
1. raise your prices you're charging your customer
2. insist on a very small subset of development languages
3. hire a full time employee and find someone who cares about success in your company
4. perks, perks, perks
5. hire interns for testing
6. Most important, demand excellence, but be realistic.
As a Resident of this F'd up state I can tell you about it.
Initially, if caught on camera, you are sent a citation for ~$158, with no way to fight it in court.
Next, as we are all taught in Driver's Ed. if you find yourself unable to slow down to a stop at an intersection safely, it is safer to maintain your rate of speed and go through the light.
Next if you're not driving the car and someone else is (say a friend), because the car is registered to you, an individual, you receive the citation, NOT the driver.
Clearly red light camera are designed as money makers. If it was truly meant for safety, then you could go before a judge and argue the citation in court. Only recently can people begin to fight the citation.
I understand clearly that driving is NOT a right, but a privilege, but now I see our local / state governments treating everyone as if they were a criminal. Red light cameras remove the "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" aspect of our legal system. The burden of proof is on the camera, but since so many argued (originally), "...you can't ticket me if you didn't see me do it..." argument that our local govts. twisted the laws to suit their money making needs.
If they truly were installed for safety (as claimed), then people would be able to address the citations in traffic court. I have personally seen some positive results at one intersection. But shortening yellow lights, negates all of the positive results that people complained about originally, it's dangerous at that intersection. Now this will introduce more fender benders and accidents and way more red light violations.
/clap /clap /clap
It's nice to learn that someone looked at curiosity in a common sense fashion rather than the typical spank-down people get for being smart enough to figure things our for themselves.
.... some a$$hat took a photo of me, posted it on the web and didn't ask for my permission. Now it's potentially orphaned, and Wham I'm the face on the ads for selling selling A$$ cream for Joe Schmoe over in the UK and I can't stop it? /facepalm
But with that logic, if one person makes a purchase, then it stays copyrighted, there is nothing stopping the industry from buying the work of art from itself.