The term has certainly been in use for over twenty years. I'd bet you that same lunch that it was first used by copyright violaters themselves, looking to add a romantic gloss to their activities.
Face it, the English language changes. What does the word "piracy" bring to mind to most 21st century English speakers? Either swashbuckling outlaws on the high seas of the 1600's, or copyright violation. Sure, piracy on the seas still happens today, but it rarely affects the average Westerner. Does it bother you that personnel recruiters are called headhunters? There's nothing inherently bad about dysphemisms.
I did not say you had writing problems, I said that if that was the case, I didn't blame you.
Oh, please. You make it sound like Jack Valenti was the first to refer to copyright violation as piracy. The term has been used in that context for at least ten years, perhaps longer. It was well entrenched in the world of computers before the wholesale copyright violation of music on PCs was even possible.
Perhaps you're not familiar with the English language, and I'd let you off for that. For your information, many English words have more than one meaning. For example, a "hooker" is defined as either "one who hooks" (e.g. making rugs) or a prostitute. No competent English speaker would equate the two definitions. As you get more familiar with the English language, your reading comprehension skills will enable you to figure out what definition is appropriate based on the context of usage.
I find it quite astonishing you got moderated up so high for that comment; but this is Slashdot, after all.
There doesn't seem to be the $500 kickback kinda deal, but they can get fined up to $20,000 for violating the law. Bill C-6 deals with telemarketing too (do not call lists and such, I think). Unfortunately Junkbusters only gives the USA situation the full treatment.
A good friend of mine kinda likes Tenacious D, but not enough to buy the album, so he downloaded the MP3s he likes. Since he never would have bought the CD in the first place, you can't really count him as lost revenue. He would have never bought the CD.
If the concept and capability to share music as is done today did not exist, would he have bought the CD? Not a year later after hearing you play it? How do you know, really?
It means he uses CVS to keep track of changes to the kernel by himself; he doesn't want other people to have the ability to commit changes without going through him.
My ISP (DSL.ca) is doing the same, plus blackholing any remote IPs sending nimbda requests. They blackhole on seeing the first nimbda packet, and unblackhole 6 hours later to give them a chance to clean up in that time.
One analyst said the company sold 4.5 million game units in the United States since its introduction -- well off the company's goal of 7.5 million systems sold by March 2001. Another analyst said North American sales were even more anemic, amounting to a mere 3.9 million units.
Appears they had to buy back 600,000 units from Canada and Mexico. That *is* pretty bad.
An object, like carved-in-stone information, is nothing more than a specific arrangement of a finite number of particles. The entire concept that someone can "own" a particular grouping of particles is at best ludicrous.
(I agree with you about the 70 year thing, and the purpose of copyright is to allow the creator to not have his/her work stolen from him/her by someone else like a big corporation. Things change, eh?)
Slashdot Mirror
I'm confused, how many Libraries of Congress is that?
Hmm, take a look at that logo in the top left corner of the gotdotnet site.. I wonder what it means?
We hold the world in our iron fist!
or perhaps,
We've got you by the balls now!
Oh right, just in case CNET NEWS.COM is slashdotted. Gimme a break, mod down this whore!
For the same reason people in Ontario say "hydro" when they are talking about electricity.
The earliest references I can find go back as far as Google's newsgroup archives. Here are a few from 1981/1982:
piracy
pirate
The term has certainly been in use for over twenty years. I'd bet you that same lunch that it was first used by copyright violaters themselves, looking to add a romantic gloss to their activities.
Face it, the English language changes. What does the word "piracy" bring to mind to most 21st century English speakers? Either swashbuckling outlaws on the high seas of the 1600's, or copyright violation. Sure, piracy on the seas still happens today, but it rarely affects the average Westerner. Does it bother you that personnel recruiters are called headhunters? There's nothing inherently bad about dysphemisms.
I did not say you had writing problems, I said that if that was the case, I didn't blame you.
Oh, please. You make it sound like Jack Valenti was the first to refer to copyright violation as piracy. The term has been used in that context for at least ten years, perhaps longer. It was well entrenched in the world of computers before the wholesale copyright violation of music on PCs was even possible.
Perhaps you're not familiar with the English language, and I'd let you off for that. For your information, many English words have more than one meaning. For example, a "hooker" is defined as either "one who hooks" (e.g. making rugs) or a prostitute. No competent English speaker would equate the two definitions. As you get more familiar with the English language, your reading comprehension skills will enable you to figure out what definition is appropriate based on the context of usage.
I find it quite astonishing you got moderated up so high for that comment; but this is Slashdot, after all.
Here's a government page about telemarketing law in Canada:
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/ct01067e.html
There doesn't seem to be the $500 kickback kinda deal, but they can get fined up to $20,000 for violating the law. Bill C-6 deals with telemarketing too (do not call lists and such, I think). Unfortunately Junkbusters only gives the USA situation the full treatment.
Here's the new slashdot for those of us not subscribed... loverly! It doesn't appear all the time... yet.
http://islandofdoom.com/slashad.png
(shamelessly tagged onto the top moderated post)
No, they will exist "for such longer period as the Delaware Court of Chancery shall direct," as it says in the post to which you replied.
Court of Chancery does have a certain ring to it, doesn't it?
A good friend of mine kinda likes Tenacious D, but not enough to buy the album, so he downloaded the MP3s he likes. Since he never would have bought the CD in the first place, you can't really count him as lost revenue. He would have never bought the CD.
If the concept and capability to share music as is done today did not exist, would he have bought the CD? Not a year later after hearing you play it? How do you know, really?
There's a great stress relief tool relating to the settlement now available from Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech!
Enjoy!
It means he uses CVS to keep track of changes to the kernel by himself; he doesn't want other people to have the ability to commit changes without going through him.
Wacky Wheels!
Time to call your broker =)
True art gets interpreted differently by each individual viewer
Does that mean Rorschach ink blots are art?
My ISP (DSL.ca) is doing the same, plus blackholing any remote IPs sending nimbda requests. They blackhole on seeing the first nimbda packet, and unblackhole 6 hours later to give them a chance to clean up in that time.
http://www.dsl.ca/status/
She comes in colours.
This comment is not lame. I promise. Maybe.
Every Canadian knows Santa Claus lives in Canada!
As described in this official Canada Post news release, Santa's address is:
Santa Claus
North Pole HOH OHO
Canada
This has been a public service announcement.
@maddison[113]% man 1 fortune
FORTUNE(1) User Commands FORTUNE(1)
NAME
fortune - print a random, hopefully interesting, adage
[etc]
@maddison[114]% man 6 fortune
No entry for fortune in section(s) 6 of the manual.
I seem to recall reading this before..
Do *you* think you need an introduction?
Or they could have encrypted it with rot-26 cryptography, ala your sig. The school would have been circumventing their access control device..
=)
Millibits.
Micro is (mu).
Mega is M.
Bit is b.
Byte is B.
Little unit, little letter. Big unit, big letter.
Heh. I work for a company named Fred. We wouldn't sue =)
One analyst said the company sold 4.5 million game units in the United States since its introduction -- well off the company's goal of 7.5 million systems sold by March 2001. Another analyst said North American sales were even more anemic, amounting to a mere 3.9 million units.
Appears they had to buy back 600,000 units from Canada and Mexico. That *is* pretty bad.
An object, like carved-in-stone information, is nothing more than a specific arrangement of a finite number of particles. The entire concept that someone can "own" a particular grouping of particles is at best ludicrous.
(I agree with you about the 70 year thing, and the purpose of copyright is to allow the creator to not have his/her work stolen from him/her by someone else like a big corporation. Things change, eh?)