Fair-use defense sounds plausible here to me.
In any event, as long as you recognize that there isn't the slightest tinge of irony at play here, my work is done.
You're aware that use of only small portions of a copyrighted work is not automatically fair use, I trust? Or are you just spouting off uninformed crap on Slashdot? My money's on the latter.
I'll have to adopt the strategy I learned via a painful lesson given me by Fallout 3...
Wait for it to come out, then wait to hear what people say; if old-school fans say it sucks, DON'T WATCH IT, to avoid having awesome memories and mental images ruined by a crappy film adaptation.
I thought it was kind of funny. I mean, can't you get like every counterfeit good in the world in China? And, didn't you notice how the comment included a reciprocal dig on the American university system? I honestly think you need to lighten up. Was it really that offensive?
that these "bitcoin" will not turn out to be absolutely worthless and worth less, in fact, than the electricity and CPU time that produced them.
CONFIDENT, I say. Oh wait, I mean CERTAIN.
Uh, I suppose I could be wrong about this, but I highly doubt RIAA would agree to, and a judge would sanction, a settlement agreement that one party can't even begin to abide by.
I suspect this settelement indicates that Limewire actually has much more than $100 million to spare.
Congratulations, RIAA.
-- Guy who obtains all his music legally and would rather support overpaid industry execs than organized crime (cue stupid responses saying they're the same thing).
then I'd like to share with that person my process for making a turkey sandwich at lunchtime.
It would likely blow their mind.
I mean, for starters, wouldn't it have been better to DOWNLOAD the incoming email on a known safe computer rather than a webcafe computer that could be shunting dialers or other malware onto every removable drive it touched? It seems conceivable to me that the isolated Bin Laden computer, once infected, might thereafter copy potentially revealing information onto every flash drive it subsequently touched, which could be collected by a host program on the infected, internet-connected webcafe computer.
All in all, doesn't sound as super secure as they're making it out to be.
You get 1 US Marshal free with every federal search warrant not falling under the FBI's jurisdiction:)
Hah. Maybe, just speculating. But I guarantee they don't just call up the marshal service and ask them out to lunch. We're talking court orders.
It wouldn't be a specific criminal law, per se, but rather a standard of negligence that might be nominally codified in specific state statutes. But... Sony's conduct is laughably distant from that.
Imagine someone who parks their delivery truck across both lanes of a narrow road, right around a bend so oncoming drivers can't see. That's criminal negligence (if and only if someone gets pretty seriously hurt as a result). You have to go through some serious analogizing to produce a comparison of Sony's behavior with that. The kind of analogizing that makes most rational people, including judges, say "yeah, ok, BS".
Crap, forgot to also add, absolutely love the idea of suing the financial institutions. It's always struck me as absolutely absurd that people can actually get stuck with the consequences of identity theft when it's a systemic failure of those institutions that allowed it to occur. This comment will probably be blocked by my karma, but oh well.
The words "any and all" and "consequential damages" are crazy and not really supported by the law, in my opinion, but I would say some form of limited indemnification might be quite reasonable, although it would seem to invite abuse/fraud in the form of false claims, not least from some of the rabid nutjobs that sound off on these forums. 3
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a bunch of anarchist morons smear feces all over their faces and congratulate each other on the look
Fair-use defense sounds plausible here to me. In any event, as long as you recognize that there isn't the slightest tinge of irony at play here, my work is done.
You're aware that use of only small portions of a copyrighted work is not automatically fair use, I trust? Or are you just spouting off uninformed crap on Slashdot? My money's on the latter.
almost every single poster (including, apparently, the OP and approving editor) cluelessly thinks that this is ironic in some fashion.
I'll have to adopt the strategy I learned via a painful lesson given me by Fallout 3... Wait for it to come out, then wait to hear what people say; if old-school fans say it sucks, DON'T WATCH IT, to avoid having awesome memories and mental images ruined by a crappy film adaptation.
It would be less easy to buy, obviously. See why?
I thought it was kind of funny. I mean, can't you get like every counterfeit good in the world in China? And, didn't you notice how the comment included a reciprocal dig on the American university system? I honestly think you need to lighten up. Was it really that offensive?
It's very lulzy IMO
Fuck you, stupid mod faggots. Ebay yourself a sense of humor IMO.
I bet you can buy those degrees in China, whereas in the U.S. you can only buy a liberal arts degree or a variety of lesser graduate degrees.
Like, oh, I don't know... I'll have to think of an example...
a bunch of brain-dead idiots get modded +5 (Insightful) for their infantile gurgling. No one is surprised.
seems improbable. very improbable...
that these "bitcoin" will not turn out to be absolutely worthless and worth less, in fact, than the electricity and CPU time that produced them. CONFIDENT, I say. Oh wait, I mean CERTAIN.
Why don't YOU ask Fred Goldman if he and OJ entered into a settlement agreement? (Hint: the answer is NO).
And the HDMI technical specification actually works as intended?? STOP THE PRESSES
Uh, I suppose I could be wrong about this, but I highly doubt RIAA would agree to, and a judge would sanction, a settlement agreement that one party can't even begin to abide by. I suspect this settelement indicates that Limewire actually has much more than $100 million to spare.
And you say it Blurs the Line Between Story and Game?
I greatly enjoyed this comment, which I found to be hilarious. Good show.
Congratulations, RIAA. -- Guy who obtains all his music legally and would rather support overpaid industry execs than organized crime (cue stupid responses saying they're the same thing).
then I'd like to share with that person my process for making a turkey sandwich at lunchtime. It would likely blow their mind. I mean, for starters, wouldn't it have been better to DOWNLOAD the incoming email on a known safe computer rather than a webcafe computer that could be shunting dialers or other malware onto every removable drive it touched? It seems conceivable to me that the isolated Bin Laden computer, once infected, might thereafter copy potentially revealing information onto every flash drive it subsequently touched, which could be collected by a host program on the infected, internet-connected webcafe computer. All in all, doesn't sound as super secure as they're making it out to be.
You get 1 US Marshal free with every federal search warrant not falling under the FBI's jurisdiction :)
Hah. Maybe, just speculating. But I guarantee they don't just call up the marshal service and ask them out to lunch. We're talking court orders.
It wouldn't be a specific criminal law, per se, but rather a standard of negligence that might be nominally codified in specific state statutes. But ... Sony's conduct is laughably distant from that.
Imagine someone who parks their delivery truck across both lanes of a narrow road, right around a bend so oncoming drivers can't see. That's criminal negligence (if and only if someone gets pretty seriously hurt as a result). You have to go through some serious analogizing to produce a comparison of Sony's behavior with that. The kind of analogizing that makes most rational people, including judges, say "yeah, ok, BS".
Crap, forgot to also add, absolutely love the idea of suing the financial institutions. It's always struck me as absolutely absurd that people can actually get stuck with the consequences of identity theft when it's a systemic failure of those institutions that allowed it to occur. This comment will probably be blocked by my karma, but oh well.
The words "any and all" and "consequential damages" are crazy and not really supported by the law, in my opinion, but I would say some form of limited indemnification might be quite reasonable, although it would seem to invite abuse/fraud in the form of false claims, not least from some of the rabid nutjobs that sound off on these forums. 3
that at least some of these were written by a harem of unpaid interns