Okay, my only question is - who's so damn important that he/she/it has to be in constant communication during an airplane flight? Criminey - can't people just relax and have a $10 cocktail and enjoy an in-flight movie? Or (gasp) read a book? Who needs to be connected ALL the time? Probably the same self important twits who try and conduct business while whizzing down the freeway at 87 miles an hour.
Perhaps I'm just too monumentally naive, but when are these poor businesses/publishing houses/musical groups going to realize that once you allow electronic access to material, you lose control over it? Is Penthouse really "losing money" over this...? People are still buying their trash and funneling an obscene (pardon the pun) amount of cash to Mr. Flynt and his gaudy gold plated house. Is Metallica really "losing money" over the Napster issue? People that can afford to buy their CD's already have copies of all of the albums (except maybe the Binge and Purge B.S. economy pack) Let me clue Larry and Lars and Dr. Dre and all the rest... gentlemen, you are no longer the masters of your domain! Just wait until 50 years from now when braintaping is possible... the descendants of these geniuses will try and have their copyright(s) extend to cover people's memories of their performances...
I vote that our worrisome government relax - If nothing else, I don't want to pay for some massive law enforcement agency with my tax money to pick through servers for contraband! Intellectual property can't be handled by a criminal court, especially internationally.
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Okay, my only question is - who's so damn important that he/she/it has to be in constant communication during an airplane flight? Criminey - can't people just relax and have a $10 cocktail and enjoy an in-flight movie? Or (gasp) read a book? Who needs to be connected ALL the time? Probably the same self important twits who try and conduct business while whizzing down the freeway at 87 miles an hour.
Perhaps I'm just too monumentally naive, but when are these poor businesses/publishing houses/musical groups going to realize that once you allow electronic access to material, you lose control over it? Is Penthouse really "losing money" over this...? People are still buying their trash and funneling an obscene (pardon the pun) amount of cash to Mr. Flynt and his gaudy gold plated house. Is Metallica really "losing money" over the Napster issue? People that can afford to buy their CD's already have copies of all of the albums (except maybe the Binge and Purge B.S. economy pack) Let me clue Larry and Lars and Dr. Dre and all the rest... gentlemen, you are no longer the masters of your domain! Just wait until 50 years from now when braintaping is possible... the descendants of these geniuses will try and have their copyright(s) extend to cover people's memories of their performances...
I vote that our worrisome government relax - If nothing else, I don't want to pay for some massive law enforcement agency with my tax money to pick through servers for contraband! Intellectual property can't be handled by a criminal court, especially internationally.
It sounds like the courts are finally realizing that you can put a Ford engine in a Chevy body without having to ask Ford's okay first