With all of the Verizon subscribers, why did they pick four? Was it the volume of files that they had or is it that once they have the four, they have firmer legal ground to go after the rest?
THIS DOCUMENT CAN BE RECOPIED AND REDISTRIBUTED WITHOUT RESTRICTION, HOWEVER ADDITIONS/MODIFICATIONS/CORRECTIONS SHOULD BE LABELED AS SUCH WHERE THEY OCCUR.
So are you saying that this document is Open Source/Public Domain? By your standards, I shouldn't have wasted my time reading it then and someone shouldn't have wasted their time writing it. Though it may have very important points, the stance of the document reeks of FUD.
By the way, who is "The open source organization"?
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The name, of course, brought to mind the classic Abbie Hoffman book "Steal This Book". Since I hadn't read the copy I stole from my Dad years ago (which he stole from an early Tower store) in a very long time, I popped "Steal This Book" into Google and was pleased to find several links to the ENTIRE BOOK!
I think it's ironic that the Hoffman book is found online in it's entirety after being brought to mind by a book about copyright protection and IP law. The universe has a strange sense of humor/justice...
lawsuite (n):The space in which a lawyer has an office, usually part of a building containing many such offices; see also law firm (the feel of a lawyers perky breast), legalese (the effort to get a lawful patent), litigate (a fence for holding back rabid IP lawyers) and miscarriage-of-justice-den
But wouldn't the crime have to fall under the law that gets used? This seems like fining someone for a traffic violation using federal tax law. If prossecutors were free to just pick and choose from laws that didn't have anything to do with a case, the US legal system would be in far worse shape than it's in. I think the ISP should have questioned this application of the DMCA provision before acting on it and may have actually opened themselves up to some liability if a DMCA violation is never proven. Doesn't sound like a good way to protect the ISP at all to me.
How can this be considered piracy? He isn't reproducing the patterns, he is selling hard merchandise. I understand that "He did not pay for these patterns" as Mr. Herman from McCall stated, but doesn't that make it theft? Where I live, dumpster diving is considered tresspass which could lead to theft charges, but Mr. Gendron claims "they are abandoned property" and he may be right if that is what Detroit law says. This was an underhanded misuse of an already bad law to get the site taken down. Gotta love that whole consequences before proven guilt thing the DMCA has going for it.
I looked at easyPDB. It may not be the prettiest app, but it's a small binary and does the same thing. I don't like how line returns end up in PDB files though, so now I use Acrobat and PDF files when I want the formatting to stay formatted. It does a good job, but won't bookmark. Does anyone know why Adobe hasn't built bookmarking into Acrobat for Palm OS?
I never said that Linus invented it or that Red Hat were the first to use it. I just noticed that MS is emulating the functionality of other solutions and announcing it in a way that makes them seem to be the innovator. RPM and DEB package systems are examples of the functionality that most/. readers know about. If I had made a reference to SYS1.LINKLIB under MVS, how many people would have known what I was talking about? You must think me a Linux zealot, but that's an incorrect assumption. Not everyone on/. is a fanatic.
In addition, Microsoft plans to ensure that Windows fixes add themselves automatically to the operating system's internal registry, rather than to different parts of the system. By introducing consistency and by making sure all patches register as present within the software, there's a better chance that fixes will be implemented correctly, the company expects.
You mean... like RPM? DEB? It's nice to know that MS is getting on board for things like centralized dependency checking, but do they have to make everything sound like they're inventing it? *sarcasm* "Microsoft is proud to present what keeps company vehicles going... It's MyWheel(tm)" */sarcasm*
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If SCO is really serious about proving this and wants anyone to take their NDA seriously, then show us one line of code that's both in it's property and in IBM's code or in Linux. If Mr. McBride truly is "going to show hundreds of lines of code", then give the public and your detractors a taste. If there are "hundreds of lines" that offend, surely SCO can pick one that proves their point.
Then again, he never said they were going to show offending code. For all we know, Mr. McBride could show us "Hello World!".
Better to roll on the laugh ass than have the laugh ass roll on you.
Re:Another news: US 'abused rights post-9/11'
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Though it seems to be an off-topic troll and I'm sure someone will mod me down for putting you to rest, but I'll bite.
It was covered on NPR yesterday and was front page news on most newspapers (Time, NY Times) today. How you missed it, I don't know. I will agree that CNN is pathetic though...
but the video games and TV shows need to take responsibility as well.
But in the natural and man-made world, death surrounds us and always will. Should a wolf bear responsibility for taking down prey where children might see it? Is the cat that got splattered all over highway 50 responsible for the kids that see it's carcas?
Respect for death and the cycle of life is just as important as respect for life itself. It's the responsibility of the parents and all adults around children to help them understand and cope with situations involving death - teaching them when and what reactions are inappropriate. To blame the situation itself in any way is a cop out.
But the compilation has an umbrella copyright for the works contained theirin as well. From what I understand, each level (album, song, cover art, etc - yes there are literally hundreds of copyrights blended together to make whole new ones in some cases) has it's own copyright. Take a look at Reba's list from her website for an example of how spread out they are for just one artist. Of special note is how the song "Little Rock" is under the copyright for "Greatest Hits". I'm pretty confident that if the record company misses a payment for a song, they will claim it's protected under the album's copyright or some other relevant container.
So then I remove the panel that the GPS is attached to (so it doesn't look tampered with), say the cab firewall or a fender. Then I go to u-pull-it and buy a replacement without the GPS (though some more rural Oregonians may have the parts in their front yard, like the guy I know with his "spare" cars in front of his trailer-home). I leave the part with the GPS at home and drive to my heart's content. Before my annual inspection comes along, I put the GPS back in and claim that the vehicle was parked for most of the year. Even if they do track the actual locations, it would appear that my vehicle sat still for most of the year.
I think what will happen is similar to what you say, but we'll see the packages get bigger. What is the copywritten item here:
A single song
The original album the song was on
The compilation album with 20 such songs on it
The Boxed set containing all of the Artist's work in his/her lifetime
I can see the record industry trying to argue that the $1 for the boxed set should cover everything above. Of course, this could spark a move for print publishers to return to offering compilation sets from authors.
Actually, I think you're seeing more and more sources of information ask you for some of yours first. To the corporate world, it's becoming a kind of informational barter, except we can't make cash off of the deal so easily.
You know another thing strikes me as odd. If she's talking to teens about abstinance, then why is she drawing cutesy (childish, IMO) cartoons? Or is she trying to teach young children about sex? Ok, ok.. I hear you, she's just souting fluff to make the parents happy.
This highlights so many things wrong with (our) American culture, it's making my head spin.
The judge also prohibited Mr. Max from "disclosing any stories, facts or information,
notwithstanding its truth, about any intimate or sexual acts engaged in by" Ms. Johnson.
Think of all the books and unauthorized biographies being entered into evidence in various cases by attornys who just got the news. I bet Ike Turner is wondering if the statute of limitations is up.
Actually it's the Franchise Tax Board of all the stupid damn names. Like I'm a franchise outlet of my Mom or something. Look at their mission run on sentencrrr... Mission Statement:
The purpose of the Franchise Tax Board is to collect the proper amount of tax revenue, and operate
other programs entrusted to us, at the least cost; serve the public by continually improving the quality
of our products and services; and perform in a manner warranting the highest degree of public
confidence in our integrity, efficiency and fairness.
Strangely, they don't list the history of the institution anywhere on the website and I couldn't find anything else. Does anyone out there know how it came to be called that?
Ah, California! The only place in American society where something "proper" is usually on the rise.
I can just see it now... having to go for that extra click to "browse the entire contents of the world". Of course it will have a "Microsoft Windows World" sub-category.
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With all of the Verizon subscribers, why did they pick four? Was it the volume of files that they had or is it that once they have the four, they have firmer legal ground to go after the rest?
By the way, who is "The open source organization"?
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I think it's ironic that the Hoffman book is found online in it's entirety after being brought to mind by a book about copyright protection and IP law. The universe has a strange sense of humor/justice...
lawsuite (n):The space in which a lawyer has an office, usually part of a building containing many such offices; see also law firm (the feel of a lawyers perky breast), legalese (the effort to get a lawful patent), litigate (a fence for holding back rabid IP lawyers) and miscarriage-of-justice-den
But wouldn't the crime have to fall under the law that gets used? This seems like fining someone for a traffic violation using federal tax law. If prossecutors were free to just pick and choose from laws that didn't have anything to do with a case, the US legal system would be in far worse shape than it's in. I think the ISP should have questioned this application of the DMCA provision before acting on it and may have actually opened themselves up to some liability if a DMCA violation is never proven. Doesn't sound like a good way to protect the ISP at all to me.
How can this be considered piracy? He isn't reproducing the patterns, he is selling hard merchandise. I understand that "He did not pay for these patterns" as Mr. Herman from McCall stated, but doesn't that make it theft? Where I live, dumpster diving is considered tresspass which could lead to theft charges, but Mr. Gendron claims "they are abandoned property" and he may be right if that is what Detroit law says. This was an underhanded misuse of an already bad law to get the site taken down. Gotta love that whole consequences before proven guilt thing the DMCA has going for it.
I looked at easyPDB. It may not be the prettiest app, but it's a small binary and does the same thing. I don't like how line returns end up in PDB files though, so now I use Acrobat and PDF files when I want the formatting to stay formatted. It does a good job, but won't bookmark. Does anyone know why Adobe hasn't built bookmarking into Acrobat for Palm OS?
I'm over myself. Your turn.
Isn't running something like SuSE's Yast (yast online_update),which relys on RPM, doing the same or a rEEEAAALly similar thing?
Then again, he never said they were going to show offending code. For all we know, Mr. McBride could show us "Hello World!".
Better to roll on the laugh ass than have the laugh ass roll on you.
It was covered on NPR yesterday and was front page news on most newspapers (Time, NY Times) today. How you missed it, I don't know. I will agree that CNN is pathetic though...
Respect for death and the cycle of life is just as important as respect for life itself. It's the responsibility of the parents and all adults around children to help them understand and cope with situations involving death - teaching them when and what reactions are inappropriate. To blame the situation itself in any way is a cop out.
But the compilation has an umbrella copyright for the works contained theirin as well. From what I understand, each level (album, song, cover art, etc - yes there are literally hundreds of copyrights blended together to make whole new ones in some cases) has it's own copyright. Take a look at Reba's list from her website for an example of how spread out they are for just one artist. Of special note is how the song "Little Rock" is under the copyright for "Greatest Hits". I'm pretty confident that if the record company misses a payment for a song, they will claim it's protected under the album's copyright or some other relevant container.
So then I remove the panel that the GPS is attached to (so it doesn't look tampered with), say the cab firewall or a fender. Then I go to u-pull-it and buy a replacement without the GPS (though some more rural Oregonians may have the parts in their front yard, like the guy I know with his "spare" cars in front of his trailer-home). I leave the part with the GPS at home and drive to my heart's content. Before my annual inspection comes along, I put the GPS back in and claim that the vehicle was parked for most of the year. Even if they do track the actual locations, it would appear that my vehicle sat still for most of the year.
- A single song
- The original album the song was on
- The compilation album with 20 such songs on it
- The Boxed set containing all of the Artist's work in his/her lifetime
I can see the record industry trying to argue that the $1 for the boxed set should cover everything above. Of course, this could spark a move for print publishers to return to offering compilation sets from authors.Actually, I think you're seeing more and more sources of information ask you for some of yours first. To the corporate world, it's becoming a kind of informational barter, except we can't make cash off of the deal so easily.
This highlights so many things wrong with (our) American culture, it's making my head spin.
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Actually it's the Franchise Tax Board of all the stupid damn names. Like I'm a franchise outlet of my Mom or something. Look at their mission run on sentencrrr... Mission Statement:
Strangely, they don't list the history of the institution anywhere on the website and I couldn't find anything else. Does anyone out there know how it came to be called that?Ah, California! The only place in American society where something "proper" is usually on the rise.
I can just see it now... having to go for that extra click to "browse the entire contents of the world". Of course it will have a "Microsoft Windows World" sub-category.