Cultural Heritage? What a load of bullshit. First you guys say "Everything hollywood puts out is shit", now you're saying "Well it may suck total ass but it's part of our 'Cultural Heritage so we should get it free'
And dont even try telling me the lastest Splinter Cell, Warcraft, {NBA|NHL|FIFA} 2k7 can be considered anything remotely close to "Cultural Heritage"
Some of us are simply not willing to pay $20 for one decent song on a CD.
If you're not willing to pay the money, you're not able to get the goods. Simple as that. It seems that the vast majority of file-leechers seem to think that have this right to take whatever they want just because they dont feel like paying for it. I mean sure it's not classified as theft, but I think it should be. Sure you're not depriving them of their copy, but you're taking something that doesn't belong to you, nor do you have the rights to have. That fits my description of stolen property just fine.
Yes I do download stuff of bittorrent, but I dont try to justify myself by thinking I have some mystical right to get whatever I want 'just because'
Seems lots of people across the pond love to quote 1984 and make references to Big Brother about nearly every single political story about the United States.
Though it makes sense from a marketing perspective, this seems to compromise their position legally. If they really don't want people downloading the P2P files, then why are they spending so much money to talk directly to them OVER P2P?
How? What position? It's their IP, they can choose how they want to distribute *their* stuff. If they say "Yes, you can distribute this 7 minutes excerpt with ads in it over P2P" then thats their choice. If they says "You can't distribute things we didn't put on there" that's their choice as well.
It's their 'stuff' to do with as they please, not yours.
They tax Income. Period. They dont hate MMORPGs, they just hate that some people are generated large revenue streams and not paying taxes on it.
If you had some other way of converting virtual items into real currency the IRS would tax that too if you made money off of it. They dont have a 'thing' for MMORPGs.
Sounds like you're complaining about phpBB not MySQL, not to mention the standard troll of "its insecure because anybody can read the source".
There's plenty of companies out there that offer support for MySQL. Sure you got to pay for it, but if you used a closed system, you'd be paying for it even if you didn't need it.
They can use 'no name'. Simply change your DNS to forward request for anything ending in.spamhaus.org to SpamHaus' DNS servers. It doesn't require them to actually control the domain at all, and doesnt require updating any of the software that does the blacklist lookups.
In short, the Illinois court made a STUPID FUCKING BONEHEADED decision, and the judge or jury should probably be removed and caned, but it is certainly procedurally possible for them to hassle SpamHaus regardless of where you register the domain name.
How was it boneheaded? The fault lies with Spamhaus.
Spamhaus: Court $foo has no jurisdiction, it should be Federal Court $bar $foo: Ok, then I move this to $bar Spamhaus: Well . . uh . . we changed our minds, we're just going to ignore $bar now. $bar: Uh . . I dont think so.
Yea, but hard-coding IP's is a very very bad thing to do, the better solution is to update your DNS servers to specify "Hey ignore the upstream servers and query spamhaus directly"
Nukes are the most useless weapon any country can have, simply because you can't use them. If North Korea nukes the South, the Americans will nuke North Korea; if the Americans nuke North Korea, the North Koreans will nuke the South. So both sides have to rely on their conventional armies, just like before.
Bwahahahah, you think the DPRK is that rational? You think they're that *sane*?
Not quite accurate, according to the Wikipedia article:
There was CBS, it created Viacom to syndicate old tv shows. Westinghouse bought CBS, renamed to CBS Corporation, Viacom bought CBS Corporation. Viacom didn't like the new structure so split into two groups, one named CBS Corporation and . . . Viacom.
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Cultural Heritage? What a load of bullshit. First you guys say "Everything hollywood puts out is shit", now you're saying "Well it may suck total ass but it's part of our 'Cultural Heritage so we should get it free'
And dont even try telling me the lastest Splinter Cell, Warcraft, {NBA|NHL|FIFA} 2k7 can be considered anything remotely close to "Cultural Heritage"
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Where exactly is the line here? Which section of the USC was actually violated here?
Because he was knowningly and willfully helping others to comit illegal acts.
Some of us are simply not willing to pay $20 for one decent song on a CD.
If you're not willing to pay the money, you're not able to get the goods. Simple as that. It seems that the vast majority of file-leechers seem to think that have this right to take whatever they want just because they dont feel like paying for it. I mean sure it's not classified as theft, but I think it should be. Sure you're not depriving them of their copy, but you're taking something that doesn't belong to you, nor do you have the rights to have. That fits my description of stolen property just fine.
Yes I do download stuff of bittorrent, but I dont try to justify myself by thinking I have some mystical right to get whatever I want 'just because'
How about:
"Wow, can anything be more pointless?"
Seems lots of people across the pond love to quote 1984 and make references to Big Brother about nearly every single political story about the United States.
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Though it makes sense from a marketing perspective, this seems to compromise their position legally. If they really don't want people downloading the P2P files, then why are they spending so much money to talk directly to them OVER P2P?
How? What position? It's their IP, they can choose how they want to distribute *their* stuff. If they say "Yes, you can distribute this 7 minutes excerpt with ads in it over P2P" then thats their choice. If they says "You can't distribute things we didn't put on there" that's their choice as well.
It's their 'stuff' to do with as they please, not yours.
It's been noted that new additions in BC contradict what's been established so far. When asked about this, all Blizzard says is "Oh well"
Because Massive most likely wont completely fuck over existing lore just to appease a small percentage of whining subscribers. (ie: WoW)
They tax Income. Period. They dont hate MMORPGs, they just hate that some people are generated large revenue streams and not paying taxes on it.
If you had some other way of converting virtual items into real currency the IRS would tax that too if you made money off of it. They dont have a 'thing' for MMORPGs.
You sir have been hitting the Kool-Aid rather heavily havent you.
Or it means they completely screwed up a fission device, which, taking into account its North Korea, is probably more likely.
Sounds like you're complaining about phpBB not MySQL, not to mention the standard troll of "its insecure because anybody can read the source".
There's plenty of companies out there that offer support for MySQL. Sure you got to pay for it, but if you used a closed system, you'd be paying for it even if you didn't need it.
What implications will this have for SuSE users
Well, just a guess . . . but they might have to use a new filesystem!
It's also worth pointing out that WorldNetDaily could be described as just wee bit conservative
It's also worth pointing out that there's plenty of videos of people stripping on cam, yet none of them are censored.
They can use 'no name'. Simply change your DNS to forward request for anything ending in .spamhaus.org to SpamHaus' DNS servers. It doesn't require them to actually control the domain at all, and doesnt require updating any of the software that does the blacklist lookups.
In short, the Illinois court made a STUPID FUCKING BONEHEADED decision, and the judge or jury should probably be removed and caned, but it is certainly procedurally possible for them to hassle SpamHaus regardless of where you register the domain name.
How was it boneheaded? The fault lies with Spamhaus.
Spamhaus: Court $foo has no jurisdiction, it should be Federal Court $bar
$foo: Ok, then I move this to $bar
Spamhaus: Well . . uh . . we changed our minds, we're just going to ignore $bar now.
$bar: Uh . . I dont think so.
Yea, but hard-coding IP's is a very very bad thing to do, the better solution is to update your DNS servers to specify "Hey ignore the upstream servers and query spamhaus directly"
Because just maybe they have some sort of load-balancing setup, so everybody hammering a single machine is just as effective as pulling the domain.
Nukes are the most useless weapon any country can have, simply because you can't use them. If North Korea nukes the South, the Americans will nuke North Korea; if the Americans nuke North Korea, the North Koreans will nuke the South. So both sides have to rely on their conventional armies, just like before.
Bwahahahah, you think the DPRK is that rational? You think they're that *sane*?
So true. These people (DPRK, Iran, etc) are so batshit fucking insane, ignoring them is just letting them arm up till they finally blow their fuse.
And what's going to happen to Freedb2 (site that one of original founders forked from Freedb) then?
Down Syndrome Data, nuff said.
Not quite accurate, according to the Wikipedia article:
There was CBS, it created Viacom to syndicate old tv shows. Westinghouse bought CBS, renamed to CBS Corporation, Viacom bought CBS Corporation. Viacom didn't like the new structure so split into two groups, one named CBS Corporation and . . . Viacom.