Pick one record label and concentrate on driving them into bankruptcy.
Won't work.
Geeks don't buy music. Record Company Exec: See! Those Evil Content Pirates(tm) are stealing so much of our profit that we need even better laws than the DMCA! Bainwol: Bill, I need a new law. Frist: Okely-Dokely!
You see, Harper Lee can make sure no one distributes copies of "To Kill A Mockingbird". Heck, I'll even give you that she can stop someone from writing an unauthorized sequel; But she can't stop people from writing stories about a white lawyer defending a black man in the american south.
Case in point: "A Time to Kill", John Grisham.
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Well, the NYT thinks I'm a 70 year old woman, living in Afghanistan, who is the CE0 of a company, and that I make less than $US20000/year.
Somehow I don't think that's helping their demographic DB one bit.
I asked this one on the DOJ guys interview... got modded to 5, but didn't make the cut...
All these content distributors insist that we're purchasing a license. Yet all their advertising suggests that we're buying the content, not a license to the content.
Could this be considered false advertising and fraud?
I like that about Europe. It seems like the people there really have a voice. If they can pull this one off, I'm on the next boat.
Congratulations! You've just embarrassed the rest of us Americans (and yes, you Europeans, that's the proper term). Australia isn't in Europe, it's its own continent. You know, off to the south and east of Asia?
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Here's a thought. Why can't some manufacturer use DeCSS or qrpff or one of those bad boys.
Because it's in a consumer player, with no mass storage or connectivity save the A/V outputs, the MPAA would have a damn hard time making the argument that it's piracy. And they wouldn't have to pay the license fee to the DVD-CSS consortium either!
I faxed Bush a letter about the proposed SSSCA/CBDTPA, asking him to lobby against it and veto it if it passed.
I used fax because I had heard that whitehouse.gov pretty much ignored email, and I didn't want to send a snailmail letter because it was still in anthrax scare mode.
A few weeks later, I got a letter back thanking me for my input -- didn't really address the issue though. Mrs. red floyd was so bloody worried that I would be in trouble with the Feds...
I also wrote (via email from his site) to my Rep. (Waxman (D-CA)) about the Freedom To Read Protection Act, and got an email back directly on topic (pointing out that he had sponsored the thing).
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Pick one record label and concentrate on driving them into bankruptcy.
Won't work.
Geeks don't buy music.
Record Company Exec: See! Those Evil Content Pirates(tm) are stealing so much of our profit that we need even better laws than the DMCA!
Bainwol: Bill, I need a new law.
Frist: Okely-Dokely!
Let us not forget the ever-popular Hit Clippy With Office Supplies Game provided by Microsoft, also starring Gilbert Gottfried!
Kairu the Dolphin!
Wouldn't this be considereed a meta-question?
You see, Harper Lee can make sure no one distributes copies of "To Kill A Mockingbird". Heck, I'll even give you that she can stop someone from writing an unauthorized sequel; But she can't stop people from writing stories about a white lawyer defending a black man in the american south.
Case in point: "A Time to Kill", John Grisham.
Well, the NYT thinks I'm a 70 year old woman, living in Afghanistan, who is the CE0 of a company, and that I make less than $US20000/year.
Somehow I don't think that's helping their demographic DB one bit.
1. Eat Pringles
2. ????
3. Profit!
OTOH, 50% of all people possess above median intelligence!
I asked this one on the DOJ guys interview... got modded to 5, but didn't make the cut...
All these content distributors insist that we're purchasing a license. Yet all their advertising suggests that we're buying the content, not a license to the content.
Could this be considered false advertising and fraud?
Yep. Laid off after 19 years. Finally got a job a few weeks ago (after four months).
Hmmmm... It seems that Microsoft tends to do that a lot.
the source code for PL/C
That's lost???? Bummer!!!! I remember coding in PL/C at WUSTL in '81 and '82!
[an Oakland judge] rebuked the company's lawyers for wasting her time by promising proof that never materialized--legal vaporware, in essence.
MS Exec: What? That's not allowed in court? We do it all the time in the real world!
Obviously I needed to put the tags in.
No, it's because no movie ever turns a profit. (cf. Coming to America).
Since no Hollywood movie has ever shown a profit (just ask Art Buchwald)!!!!!
(Ref: Art Buchwald and the "Coming to America" case).
Where can I pirate the commercials?
Not sure that they could claim BSD. That was settled around a decade ago with the AT&T vs. BSD case.
I like that about Europe. It seems like the people there really have a voice. If they can pull this one off, I'm on the next boat.
Congratulations! You've just embarrassed the rest of us Americans (and yes, you Europeans, that's the proper term). Australia isn't in Europe, it's its own continent. You know, off to the south and east of Asia?
Here's a thought. Why can't some manufacturer use DeCSS or qrpff or one of those bad boys.
Because it's in a consumer player, with no mass storage or connectivity save the A/V outputs, the MPAA would have a damn hard time making the argument that it's piracy. And they wouldn't have to pay the license fee to the DVD-CSS consortium either!
Don't they know that SCO 0\/\/n0R5 both Linux and AIX?
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HUMOR tags added for the humor impaired, to comply with the ADA.
I faxed Bush a letter about the proposed SSSCA/CBDTPA, asking him to lobby against it and veto it if it passed.
I used fax because I had heard that whitehouse.gov pretty much ignored email, and I didn't want to send a snailmail letter because it was still in anthrax scare mode.
A few weeks later, I got a letter back thanking me for my input -- didn't really address the issue though. Mrs. red floyd was so bloody worried that I would be in trouble with the Feds...
I also wrote (via email from his site) to my Rep. (Waxman (D-CA)) about the Freedom To Read Protection Act, and got an email back directly on topic (pointing out that he had sponsored the thing).
Like SCO Linux?
(Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds)
Doesn't Linus own the trademark on "Linux"? What if he revokes SCO's license to use said trademark? Wouldn't that cause them a bit of trouble?
Who puts out "Linux 9.0"?
I know there's MDK 9.1, RH9.0, Slack9.0....