Under section 512 of the controversial DMCA, a representative of a copyright holder can send a "takedown" notice to a university or other Internet provider, requesting that copyrighted material be removed. Anyone receiving a false notice can sue for damages and attorney's fees, but only if the sender "knowingly materially misrepresents" information.
From the article is this little gem. Apparently as long as they do it out of stupidity its ok. Just one more reason why the DCMA should burn in hell.
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She actually couldn't have used your screen name. They're put on ice for at least six months to a year before they could be recycled.
You can call 888-265-8008, but you may be put on hold, or they can try to talk you out of it.
The simpler way is to write a letter. I've helped quite a few people through this process.
Here's the procedure from the AOL cancellation page. You need to provide full name, phone, address, primary screen name, and a reason. Just make up some excuse. Signing it is probably a good idea.
You can either pop it in the mail to:
AOL PO Box 1600 Ogden UT 84402
or fax it to 801-622-7969.
They'll send you a letter in the mail confirming your disconnection. It won't the instant disconnect that you can get on the phone, but if you've been sitting on the account for three months, a few more days won't hurt.
The difference is that cassettes are pretty poor quality to begin with, and subsequent copies will degrade the quality.
From what I recall of MDs, they don't allow direct digital copying. (I haven't looked into them for years, so this may or may not be current.) That would leave only the analog methods, which will also degrade quality over time.
A digital MP3 (or whatever format) file will sound the same on the millionth generation as it does on the first.
Some of the answers to questions on here can be found in James Banford's book, The Puzzle Palace. While it was published in 1983, I think it shows an insight into something most people don't know of today. Downright scary some of the stuff that goes on. Its been a while since I read it, but I think it even talked about Eschelon (or something similar), way back then.
Its not just signatures that they don't check. A few times over the years I have accidentally stuffed the wrong check into the wrong envelope while paying bills. The funniest example was once I got a notice from the phone co that they were going to close my service for only paying $10 of the bill. Turns out I accidentally sent them my CD club check. So I checked the other end. Sure enough, the CD club had me listed with a hundred dollar credit on my account.
Maybe so... he's friendly enough. I doubt he gets 30 people a year who stop and check it out. It doesn't help that it's kind of convenient to nowhere. Still, if you make the trek, it's interesting.
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We are already choking our landfills with those damn AOL free subscription CDs. The last thing we need is more stuff like this.
From the article is this little gem. Apparently as long as they do it out of stupidity its ok. Just one more reason why the DCMA should burn in hell.
She actually couldn't have used your screen name. They're put on ice for at least six months to a year before they could be recycled.
You can call 888-265-8008, but you may be put on hold, or they can try to talk you out of it.
The simpler way is to write a letter. I've helped quite a few people through this process.
Here's the procedure from the AOL cancellation page.
You need to provide full name, phone, address, primary screen name, and a reason. Just make up some excuse. Signing it is probably a good idea.
You can either pop it in the mail to:
AOL
PO Box 1600
Ogden UT 84402
or fax it to 801-622-7969.
They'll send you a letter in the mail confirming your disconnection.
It won't the instant disconnect that you can get on the phone, but if you've been sitting on the account for three months, a few more days won't hurt.
The difference is that cassettes are pretty poor quality to begin with, and subsequent copies will degrade the quality.
From what I recall of MDs, they don't allow direct digital copying. (I haven't looked into them for years, so this may or may not be current.) That would leave only the analog methods, which will also degrade quality over time.
A digital MP3 (or whatever format) file will sound the same on the millionth generation as it does on the first.
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from the Star Trek Episode: ELAAN OF TROYIUS
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Three....
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Some of the answers to questions on here can be found in James Banford's book, The Puzzle Palace.
While it was published in 1983, I think it shows an insight into something most people don't know of today. Downright scary some of the stuff that goes on.
Its been a while since I read it, but I think it even talked about Eschelon (or something similar), way back then.
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Its not just signatures that they don't check. A few times over the years I have accidentally stuffed the wrong check into the wrong envelope while paying bills.
The funniest example was once I got a notice from the phone co that they were going to close my service for only paying $10 of the bill.
Turns out I accidentally sent them my CD club check. So I checked the other end. Sure enough, the CD club had me listed with a hundred dollar credit on my account.
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> They lack a real computing "common sense" to be
> able to function even at a basic level with technology.
Voltaire: "Common sense is not so common."
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