Huh??? Perhaps if you took time to RTFA... "He had been seen in the area on several previous occasions over the past three months and is believed to have been reported to police by a neighbour concerned that he was acting suspiciously. "
You clearly don't understand the tech. The channels are bundled into a series of multiplexes, you need ONE card to record one multiplex which contains a whole stack of channels. Read what others say about the tech...
There was a recent case in the UK where a guy killed a pedestrian (drunk think) but he got away with it because he claimed his livelyhood depended on his being able to drive.
There's been several cases where folks have been given very light sentences (2 years) for killing someone when drunk & driving.
Compare with a case yesterday where a guy, in a drunken rage, bit off the head of the family's pet parrot - got 5 years.
My lille 1.2 litre engined Fiat Punto costs me about 250 pounds a year ($400 ish) I do have 4 years no claims discount, without any discount it would probably be $700 tops OK it's a small car but you must be driving a very fancy pants car for an additional $1500 - either that or car insurance in NY is very very expensive (another reason not to live there)
RTFA, he had an i-curve and didn't like it!!! Go figure...
I don't see what's wrong with just using it on the desk anyways without any sort of stand. I mean laptops are supposed to be like, y'know.. portable...
Yup it is. Another unenforcible law that most dvd owners break with impunity.
Like everything else in life, you assess the risk and if it's acceptable you will do it - the chances of getting caught for breaking region encoding are extremely slim, and even if caught, the penalty is unlikely to be severe. However, that does not affect the fact that it is still illegal.
Almost all of us break the law every single day in some way or another (probably speeding is the most common one) but we have to accept that if we get caught we our punishment like a man.
The point I was making is that there are many here who have the attitude of " i bought product X, I can do wtf I like with it" which simply isn't true for lots of values of X
If you modify any product such that the use of it becomes illegal then you shouldn't complain.
The fact that the law may be unjust is irrelevant - the point, once again, is that you CANNOT do as you damn well please with any product you buy...
The conviction is the first of its kind in the UK, where the modification of video games consoles has been an illegal practice since October 2003, when the UK enacted the EU Copyright Directive.
And when you buy a car,are you told about all the ways you can't modify it? (clue: no windiong back the mileage, no removing seatbelts, leave the license plates on, and' you'll be needing to keep those screen wipers too... etc etc. none of that is explained to you when you buy a car...
If you want to modify something - anything - the first things you should do is find out (a) is it safe ? (oops maybe I shouldn't have knocked down that load bearing wall) and (b) is it legal? (No sir you CAN't wire your garden fence to the electricity supply)
You should not EXPECT to be told every damned little thing you can and can't do with a product you buy.
there's lots of ways of modding your possesions that have been illegal for many many years - taking the car as an example - you can't wind back the mileage. You cant modify the exhaust system so that it sounds louder than a certain limit, or emits certain gasses above a set limit. You can't remove seatbelts...
These are all things that are generally considered as acceptable.
That's just 30 seconds of thinking with just one device that you own...
No,the BBC WERE accurate, the offence was breach of the EU Copyright directive, which makes it illegal to chip the xbox - actually to defeat a copy protection system. That's what the guy did, and thats what he was convicted for. The piracy didn't help but the copying of games was actually just a side issue that didn't help his case at all
RTFA... "The conviction is the first of its kind in the UK, where the modification of video games consoles has been an illegal practice since October 2003, when the UK enacted the EU Copyright Directive. "
seems pretty clear to me what he was convicted of...
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"HEAVY" fiberglass
There's your problem, right there. Woops, no more payload.
Huh??? Perhaps if you took time to RTFA...
"He had been seen in the area on several previous occasions over the past three months and is believed to have been reported to police by a neighbour concerned that he was acting suspiciously.
"
It works differently with UK's digital spectrum
Ummm No it doesn't Freeview uses half a dozen or so multiplexes.
You clearly don't understand the tech. The channels are bundled into a series of multiplexes, you need ONE card to record one multiplex which contains a whole stack of channels. Read what others say about the tech...
Here's the answer to your search
http://www.findonefindall.com/
There was a recent case in the UK where a guy killed a pedestrian (drunk think) but he got away with it because he claimed his livelyhood depended on his being able to drive.
There's been several cases where folks have been given very light sentences (2 years) for killing someone when drunk & driving.
Compare with a case yesterday where a guy, in a drunken rage, bit off the head of the family's pet parrot - got 5 years.
The law is a joke.
You can drive at 14???? where is that?
EXTRA $1500??? wtf do u drive?
My lille 1.2 litre engined Fiat Punto costs me about 250 pounds a year ($400 ish) I do have 4 years no claims discount, without any discount it would probably be $700 tops OK it's a small car but you must be driving a very fancy pants car for an additional $1500 - either that or car insurance in NY is very very expensive (another reason not to live there)
I thought we'd banned the word "virii" on slashdot?
(Cluestick for moderators: look up the word "Humour")
ironic hydrogen? How does that differ from regular Hydrogen?
Noooooooo! We can't allow that to be made... that stuff is freaking DANGEROUS! Just breathing it in will kill ya
Take one proton, any proton, add 1 electron of yur choice. Stir well. TaDa! You've CREATED a hydrogen atom.
OMG! you posted a link to a picture of a female using a laptop. This is slashdot... Do you REALISE what you've just done??!!!
RTFA, he had an i-curve and didn't like it!!! Go figure...
I don't see what's wrong with just using it on the desk anyways without any sort of stand. I mean laptops are supposed to be like, y'know.. portable...
Yup it is. Another unenforcible law that most dvd owners break with impunity.
Like everything else in life, you assess the risk and if it's acceptable you will do it - the chances of getting caught for breaking region encoding are extremely slim, and even if caught, the penalty is unlikely to be severe. However, that does not affect the fact that it is still illegal.
Almost all of us break the law every single day in some way or another (probably speeding is the most common one) but we have to accept that if we get caught we our punishment like a man.
Of course I do.
The point I was making is that there are many here who have the attitude of " i bought product X, I can do wtf I like with it" which simply isn't true for lots of values of X
If you modify any product such that the use of it becomes illegal then you shouldn't complain.
The fact that the law may be unjust is irrelevant - the point, once again, is that you CANNOT do as you damn well please with any product you buy...
The BBC's "corner" as you put it doesn't alter the fact that it IS illegal to download coptyrighted material despite what others have posted here on /.
So you think you can take out you catalytic converter? remove the seatbelts? change the stop lights to blue?
Sorry but you are wrong.
From TFA
The conviction is the first of its kind in the UK, where the modification of video games consoles has been an illegal practice since October 2003, when the UK enacted the EU Copyright Directive.
And when you buy a car,are you told about all the ways you can't modify it? (clue: no windiong back the mileage, no removing seatbelts, leave the license plates on, and' you'll be needing to keep those screen wipers too... etc etc. none of that is explained to you when you buy a car...
If you want to modify something - anything - the first things you should do is find out (a) is it safe ? (oops maybe I shouldn't have knocked down that load bearing wall) and (b) is it legal? (No sir you CAN't wire your garden fence to the electricity supply)
You should not EXPECT to be told every damned little thing you can and can't do with a product you buy.
there's lots of ways of modding your possesions that have been illegal for many many years - taking the car as an example - you can't wind back the mileage. You cant modify the exhaust system so that it sounds louder than a certain limit, or emits certain gasses above a set limit. You can't remove seatbelts...
These are all things that are generally considered as acceptable.
That's just 30 seconds of thinking with just one device that you own...
No,the BBC WERE accurate, the offence was breach of the EU Copyright directive, which makes it illegal to chip the xbox - actually to defeat a copy protection system. That's what the guy did, and thats what he was convicted for. The piracy didn't help but the copying of games was actually just a side issue that didn't help his case at all
RTFA...
"The conviction is the first of its kind in the UK, where the modification of video games consoles has been an illegal practice since October 2003, when the UK enacted the EU Copyright Directive. "
seems pretty clear to me what he was convicted of...
modded the console THAT's why he was prosecuted, under the EU law that specifically forbids the circumvention of copy protection systems