Less stuff is bought, then the government doesn't have the money to fix anything. This also applies to income tax, of course. Nation wide property tax is the way to go.
Does this mean that we'll have Jim Grey there to insult all the non-US Noble Prize winners right after they are awarded, like he did to many medal winners at the Olympics?
Wal Mart has a lot of room to talk about unfair business practices. They're the ones putting the local mom and pop stores out of business by undercutting prices, then once the competition is gone, raising prices back up to a normal level. I remember a certain school supply scandalwhere Wal Mart was selling school supplies for less than what they purchased them for, putting several 5 and 10 stores out of business.
From the text of the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992
Sec. 1008. Prohibition on certain infringement actions
`No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
Seems that riaa is trying to spread a little FUD of it's own. According to the text of the AHRA above, This bill doesn't cover non-commercial, home use.
The preliminary injunction was granted on Jan. 20 because it is probable that the plaintiffs will win, even though the supposed violation (Chapter 17, Section 1201(a) doesn't take effect until Jan. 27, 2000 (2 years from the date of passage). Hmmmm...
Here it is, you can read it for yourself.
`(a) VIOLATIONS REGARDING CIRCUMVENTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL MEASURES- (1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter.
Anyone got a link to the DMCA? IANAL, but I have some spare time and would like to see just what the exceptions are. Note how the judge contradicts himself. He says (in footnote 14) that even though DeCSS may fall under an exception to the DMCA, it uses methods prevented by the DMCA, thus is in violation of the DMCA. Chicken or the egg, folks. Just because the chicken came out of the egg doesn't mean that the chicken came first. There's my 2 cents. Where's my change?
What do you have to worry about? Won't M$echelon and M$gestapo be useless since they would crash every five minutes? I have a microsoft cordless phone. In order to use any of the features other than the number pad, you have to run a program that eats up 47MB of ram, minimum! Just think how much memory M$echelon would need!
Careful, you just might just get sued. You are linking to MPAA who is sueing people just for linking to things. It's kinda like me pointing to a store and saying "You could try to steal merchandise from that store." And then being arrested for theft. Never mind that nothing was stolen from the store, only that I pointed out the obvious.
Doesn't the encryption only prevent you from viewing the material on the DVD? If you want to make an [illegal or otherwise] copy of a DVD couldn't you just copy it bit by bit, encryption and all?
I hope they aren't getting to you, but I feel that you were justified in posting that article about the GPL. In my opinion, this is exactly what should be discussed on Slashdot as it is a legitimate discussion in and of itself, and it directly relates to a large majority of Slashdot users. I don't know what most of the flames you received were about, but unless the whole discussion was a joke, then it is newsworthy and appropriate for Slashdot (again, in my opinion.) To all those flamers, I would say that if discussions like this one hurt your ears(eyes) just because it is about something you believe in so much that it is beyond fallability, then you do more harm than good to its advocacy.
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'If Google and Facebook were smart,' says Lanier, 'they would want to enrich their own customers.'
Isn't that what Google Rewards does?
I had that much on my driveway after the snowpocalype.
Better than by color.
I thought the obvious answer was a Beowolf cluster. Maybe I'm just showing my age here.
Hmmm, my company must own a lot of pr0n.
Shouldn't it be "SCO has made false statements with the intent to cause customers and potential customers to not do business with SCO."?
He probably still thinks it's made out of cheese.
They're gonna try to get Linus drunk and steal the source code for the Kernel!!!!!! For heaven's sake, don't let them steal the source code for Linux!
Wouldn't they have to fill out one of these forms every time their orbit took them over the united states?
Hell. You can't even change the WORKGROUP NAME without having to reboot Windows.
Less stuff is bought, then the government doesn't have the money to fix anything. This also applies to income tax, of course. Nation wide property tax is the way to go.
Does this mean that we'll have Jim Grey there to insult all the non-US Noble Prize winners right after they are awarded, like he did to many medal winners at the Olympics?
If this is just now taking affect, on what grounds was 2600 sued for providing DeCSS?
I would like it if some companies (cough... Micro$oft... cough) would just include adequate documentation in any form.
Wal Mart has a lot of room to talk about unfair business practices. They're the ones putting the local mom and pop stores out of business by undercutting prices, then once the competition is gone, raising prices back up to a normal level. I remember a certain school supply scandalwhere Wal Mart was selling school supplies for less than what they purchased them for, putting several 5 and 10 stores out of business.
Sec. 1008. Prohibition on certain infringement actions
`No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
Seems that riaa is trying to spread a little FUD of it's own. According to the text of the AHRA above, This bill doesn't cover non-commercial, home use.
Just my $2x10^-2
The preliminary injunction was granted on Jan. 20 because it is probable that the plaintiffs will win, even though the supposed violation (Chapter 17, Section 1201(a) doesn't take effect until Jan. 27, 2000 (2 years from the date of passage). Hmmmm...
Here it is, you can read it for yourself.
`(a) VIOLATIONS REGARDING CIRCUMVENTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL MEASURES- (1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter.
Anyone got a link to the DMCA? IANAL, but I have some spare time and would like to see just what the exceptions are. Note how the judge contradicts himself. He says (in footnote 14) that even though DeCSS may fall under an exception to the DMCA, it uses methods prevented by the DMCA, thus is in violation of the DMCA. Chicken or the egg, folks. Just because the chicken came out of the egg doesn't mean that the chicken came first. There's my 2 cents. Where's my change?
What do you have to worry about? Won't M$echelon and M$gestapo be useless since they would crash every five minutes? I have a microsoft cordless phone. In order to use any of the features other than the number pad, you have to run a program that eats up 47MB of ram, minimum! Just think how much memory M$echelon would need!
Oh, silly me. Please disregard that previous post. I forgot that Win2k isn't scheduled to be released until 2.001k.
Of coure, this isn't a "development" release of Win2k, it's supposed to be the stable* release. This one is supposed to be ready for primetime.
It was posted on CNN's english site at 4:30pm ET. Here it is.
>(So? I got a little link happy. Sue me!!)
Careful, you just might just get sued. You are linking to MPAA who is sueing people just for linking to things.
It's kinda like me pointing to a store and saying "You could try to steal merchandise from that store." And then being arrested for theft. Never mind that nothing was stolen from the store, only that I pointed out the obvious.
Doesn't the encryption only prevent you from viewing the material on the DVD? If you want to make an [illegal or otherwise] copy of a DVD couldn't you just copy it bit by bit, encryption and all?
I hope they aren't getting to you, but I feel that you were justified in posting that article about the GPL. In my opinion, this is exactly what should be discussed on Slashdot as it is a legitimate discussion in and of itself, and it directly relates to a large majority of Slashdot users. I don't know what most of the flames you received were about, but unless the whole discussion was a joke, then it is newsworthy and appropriate for Slashdot (again, in my opinion.) To all those flamers, I would say that if discussions like this one hurt your ears(eyes) just because it is about something you believe in so much that it is beyond fallability, then you do more harm than good to its advocacy.
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