Or the fact that your chunks are probably unplayable on its own..
One does not upload a movie to another person, one uploads small amounts of "garbage" that, together with other garbage chunks, results in a full copy of the movie; however what the other person does with the garbage you gave him is not your responsibility?:)
Also, as someone else stated in this thread, uploading by using bittorrent is a side effect of the downloading, and hence the user did not upload with intent to distribute.:)
If the tracker has colocation with a agreed on amount of bandwith, the ISP will not care what the user does with that bandwith - until there comes a C&D letter from some lawyers representing some evil corporation.
Now the nice thing with bittorrent is that the.torrent files on the tracker, and the tracker itself, is completely legal. There is nothing the ISP can (or will) do to stop the tracker. Companies, such as microsoft (during the Halo 2 release on TBP), has contacted the ISP of the piratebay tracker, and tried to stop their activity. However with no success, since the tracker does nothing illegal or wrong.
Sadly, the scare tactics of lawyers works sometimes, and trackers can/do get closed down unfairly.
Since, as other posters point out, the torrent file is NOT "illegal" and it is not protected by copyright. What they can do, OTH, is go after the file-traders themselves, just like they do with all other warez-via-p2p-users in USA.
..even if it is used for warez.:) The only ones that are in trouble is the end-users, not the torrent trackers and tracker websites, since they do not distribute ANY copyright protected materials.
The torrent tracker piratebay gets a lot of legal requests, from lawyers who seem to be really bad on law, to remove.torrent files. It is quite hilarious, since the torrent files are not illegal or protected by copyright and what piratebay does is not illegal as a whole, but lawyers seem to have a poor understanding of reality.:)
Piratebay documents all its legal threats and responses on this website - have a nice read!:)
China is aware of the problems with oil + coal, and one of them being that oil leads to dependence on other countries. China also has a accelerating power requirement, so what is the solution? Burn more coal? (A side note: there are huge natural underground coal-burning going on in China, and afaik they contribute more to global warming than any non-natural coal burning in china).
Well, currently they are starting up 2 new nuclear reactors every year and 30 new nuclear reactors are planned until 2020. They are also planning to massproduce a new kind of safer reactors - pebble bed reactors (see this article for more information about this development). The pebble bed reactor in question is designed in china, with focus on safety and cheap mass production, and can be said to be an "chinese innovation". In the article they are talking about the chinese leadership planning 300 GW of nuclear reactors until 2050, amongst others for generating hydrogen for future hydrogen powered cars. (300 GW requires more than a thousand of these 200 MW pebble bed reactors!:). (on a side note, the newly elected President of China is a former engineer).
SO am pretty confident that china will use innovation and in the future beat us all..
RSA (Russian Space Administration) do travels to ISS with its soyuz rockets for circa 20 million USD. USA does the same thing with the space shuttle for around 500 million USD. (source various pages at wikipedia)
OK the space shuttle can carry building materials at the same time as crew. But the material requirements can be solved by another soyuz going up before the astronauts. So 20*2 = 40 million USD for the same thing as the 500 million NASA pays for the space shuttle.
I say that NASA should stop launching its own rockets and instead leasing the service from the much more efficient RSA.
I pulled the prices from my memory, but they are mostly correct, when i checked it:
CPU: Duron is no more, it semes. So instead I choose a Athlon "sempron" 2200+, it cost 5 USD more.
CD-rom: There are no super cheap cd-rom drives anymore, the cheapest is 25 USD - the same as the cheapest DVD/CD-rom reader. So the computer gets a DVD drive for 10 more USD.
HDD: The harddrive is 5 USD cheaper.
Summary:
Athlon 2200+, audio, lan, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD, DVD-rom, a Linux OS. Total cost: 185 USD.
I manufacture and sell servers/clients now and then for my company's clients, therefor I have access to a bulk/OEM merchandiser.
Box (ugly, bare minimum box): 20 USD Motherboard w. integrated audio, network and graphics (supports duron/athlon): 40 USD 256 MB RAM: 30 USD Duron 1200 mhz with fan: 30 USD No floppy, since it cost and noone use it. CD-rom: 15 USD 40GB HDD: 40 USD Linux OS: 0 USD
Total cost: 175 USD. Note that the same computer with Windows XP OEM license will cost twice as much!:)
The swedish ones are in the same style as the others. The best i think is the one with "Uppsala universitet", is from a university that is very upset over some leaked scientific papers or something, and is going to sue. However, after some discussion (and discussion on their part with their lawyer) they realize that there is nothing anyone can do, and the site "The Piratebay" is fully legal.
However, as I said in my previous post, the endusers can be held viable IF they can make the ISPs give out IP adresses - which they wont here in sweden, afaik. However the ISPs will send out letters to their customers on request (letters with no threats that is, just warnings).
They have denied that request, since the file in question is not illegal in sweden. The file only contains information on how HALO2 can be obtained - not HALO2 in itself - therefore the file in question is not at all illegal, according to swedish law (and The Piratebays lawyers views on the matter).
Also, according to previous court rulings - the owner / maintainer of The Piratebay cannot be held liable for how its users uses the service offered.
However, in the end, the seeders / downloaders that upload data, can be held liable - if microsoft can track them down AND get the court to force the ISPs to reviel who they are.
Sweden does is NOT the same country as Switzerland. In sweden you need a "search warrant" to seize harddrives, and for that you need some "proof" of illegal activity, and some court order, etc - this is not trivial to get.
But then again, who knows what is required after all these new anti-terrorism laws from USA that is imposed on every other country??
Remember that Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship also - and you will NEVER EVER see the US invade that country to get rid of its dictator. (that is because that country is US-friendly):)
I believe that the invation of iraq is more about oil than anything else, since the US does not really seem to mind dictatorships in the world if they are US-friendly.
(And then there are examples on dictatorships put in power BY the US, when the democratically elected does not suit the americans)
But as a matter of fact, when I was playing the game (I was maybe 10-12 years old), I was very disappointed on the ending - wtf was it all just a game?? - it felt so meaningless.:(
ScummVM can normally handle the music. I believe if you have trouble with midi synthesizer on your soundcard, you can use the SDL version of ScummVM, and have full software midi music.:)
IMO a leftwing party is a party striving for the stateless communism utopia in some way or another. (like the socialist and communist parties in europe) These parties are often atheists since they think that religion is originally a tool for the upper class to control the working class.
You are correct that it can be leftist politicans / people that vote left, that believe in a god - but IMO they are not "real" leftiest - since they do not agree on the "religion is a form of control".
I did not say that all atheists are leftist though - of course the conservatives/pro-capitalism parties can also be atheists. I said A => B, wich does not mean B => A. (where A beeing leftwing and B beeing atheist)
Another aspect: every outspoken christian party I have heard about is conservative/rightwing. Except for, of course, this australian leftist christian party; which I believe is not real leftist, but only "popular-leftist"; a way of gaining votes from both camps.
Leftwing christians is something of an oxymoron to me.
Real leftwings are atheists, not some crazy christians. Many parties in the world say they are leftwing and have a profile that looks like its leftwing - but in reality they work for rightwing ideals (like religion, capitalism, etc) - its a way of gaining votes. In their proposal of internet-filtering I say it is their conservative christian ideas you are witnessing, and the leftwing part beeing "offtopic".
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I believe that it is legal to share a maximum of 30 seconds of copyrighted music, without the copyright holders consent?
Or the fact that your chunks are probably unplayable on its own..
:)
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One does not upload a movie to another person, one uploads small amounts of "garbage" that, together with other garbage chunks, results in a full copy of the movie; however what the other person does with the garbage you gave him is not your responsibility?
Also, as someone else stated in this thread, uploading by using bittorrent is a side effect of the downloading, and hence the user did not upload with intent to distribute.
Why care if it is not illegal in ones country? :)
If the tracker has colocation with a agreed on amount of bandwith, the ISP will not care what the user does with that bandwith - until there comes a C&D letter from some lawyers representing some evil corporation.
.torrent files on the tracker, and the tracker itself, is completely legal. There is nothing the ISP can (or will) do to stop the tracker. Companies, such as microsoft (during the Halo 2 release on TBP), has contacted the ISP of the piratebay tracker, and tried to stop their activity. However with no success, since the tracker does nothing illegal or wrong.
Now the nice thing with bittorrent is that the
Sadly, the scare tactics of lawyers works sometimes, and trackers can/do get closed down unfairly.
They have tried that and failed miserably. :)
Since, as other posters point out, the torrent file is NOT "illegal" and it is not protected by copyright. What they can do, OTH, is go after the file-traders themselves, just like they do with all other warez-via-p2p-users in USA.
..even if it is used for warez. :) The only ones that are in trouble is the end-users, not the torrent trackers and tracker websites, since they do not distribute ANY copyright protected materials.
.torrent files. It is quite hilarious, since the torrent files are not illegal or protected by copyright and what piratebay does is not illegal as a whole, but lawyers seem to have a poor understanding of reality. :)
:)
The torrent tracker piratebay gets a lot of legal requests, from lawyers who seem to be really bad on law, to remove
Piratebay documents all its legal threats and responses on this website - have a nice read!
China is aware of the problems with oil + coal, and one of them being that oil leads to dependence on other countries. China also has a accelerating power requirement, so what is the solution? Burn more coal? (A side note: there are huge natural underground coal-burning going on in China, and afaik they contribute more to global warming than any non-natural coal burning in china).
:). (on a side note, the newly elected President of China is a former engineer).
Well, currently they are starting up 2 new nuclear reactors every year and 30 new nuclear reactors are planned until 2020. They are also planning to massproduce a new kind of safer reactors - pebble bed reactors (see this article for more information about this development). The pebble bed reactor in question is designed in china, with focus on safety and cheap mass production, and can be said to be an "chinese innovation". In the article they are talking about the chinese leadership planning 300 GW of nuclear reactors until 2050, amongst others for generating hydrogen for future hydrogen powered cars. (300 GW requires more than a thousand of these 200 MW pebble bed reactors!
SO am pretty confident that china will use innovation and in the future beat us all..
I believe corporate america will stop doing spacemissions on its own, leaving the spaceexploration to the "developing nations"..
RSA (Russian Space Administration) do travels to ISS with its soyuz rockets for circa 20 million USD. USA does the same thing with the space shuttle for around 500 million USD. (source various pages at wikipedia)
OK the space shuttle can carry building materials at the same time as crew. But the material requirements can be solved by another soyuz going up before the astronauts. So 20*2 = 40 million USD for the same thing as the 500 million NASA pays for the space shuttle.
I say that NASA should stop launching its own rockets and instead leasing the service from the much more efficient RSA.
This is very dangerous if their lawsuit has merit. Since that would mean that all countries have great powers over other independent ones. Imagine if Pitcairn Islands (pop. 47), would create a law stating that all copyrights is valid for infinite amount of time.
And howcome it is the "most draconian" law that is supposed to go global, instead of the otherway around?
No, this lawsuit must not be valid - if it is, something is seriously wrong with the world.
I pulled the prices from my memory, but they are mostly correct, when i checked it:
CPU: Duron is no more, it semes. So instead I choose a Athlon "sempron" 2200+, it cost 5 USD more.
CD-rom: There are no super cheap cd-rom drives anymore, the cheapest is 25 USD - the same as the cheapest DVD/CD-rom reader. So the computer gets a DVD drive for 10 more USD.
HDD: The harddrive is 5 USD cheaper.
Summary:
Athlon 2200+, audio, lan, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD, DVD-rom, a Linux OS. Total cost: 185 USD.
I manufacture and sell servers/clients now and then for my company's clients, therefor I have access to a bulk/OEM merchandiser.
:)
Box (ugly, bare minimum box): 20 USD
Motherboard w. integrated audio, network and graphics (supports duron/athlon): 40 USD
256 MB RAM: 30 USD
Duron 1200 mhz with fan: 30 USD
No floppy, since it cost and noone use it.
CD-rom: 15 USD
40GB HDD: 40 USD
Linux OS: 0 USD
Total cost: 175 USD. Note that the same computer with Windows XP OEM license will cost twice as much!
I have the philipsplayer they talk about in the article. - and it plays xvid just fine! :)
The swedish ones are in the same style as the others. The best i think is the one with "Uppsala universitet", is from a university that is very upset over some leaked scientific papers or something, and is going to sue. However, after some discussion (and discussion on their part with their lawyer) they realize that there is nothing anyone can do, and the site "The Piratebay" is fully legal.
However, as I said in my previous post, the endusers can be held viable IF they can make the ISPs give out IP adresses - which they wont here in sweden, afaik. However the ISPs will send out letters to their customers on request (letters with no threats that is, just warnings).
They have denied that request, since the file in question is not illegal in sweden. The file only contains information on how HALO2 can be obtained - not HALO2 in itself - therefore the file in question is not at all illegal, according to swedish law (and The Piratebays lawyers views on the matter).
Also, according to previous court rulings - the owner / maintainer of The Piratebay cannot be held liable for how its users uses the service offered.
However, in the end, the seeders / downloaders that upload data, can be held liable - if microsoft can track them down AND get the court to force the ISPs to reviel who they are.
LOL.
:)
This is Sweden.
This is Switzerland.
I do not understand how people can confuse those two all the time - again and again.
I have seen it here: The Piratebay
Sweden does is NOT the same country as Switzerland. In sweden you need a "search warrant" to seize harddrives, and for that you need some "proof" of illegal activity, and some court order, etc - this is not trivial to get.
But then again, who knows what is required after all these new anti-terrorism laws from USA that is imposed on every other country??
Cant we all stop using the propaganda word "theft" in this context; downloading music is NOT theft.
Piracy is another propaganda word.
Remember that Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship also - and you will NEVER EVER see the US invade that country to get rid of its dictator. (that is because that country is US-friendly) :)
I believe that the invation of iraq is more about oil than anything else, since the US does not really seem to mind dictatorships in the world if they are US-friendly.
(And then there are examples on dictatorships put in power BY the US, when the democratically elected does not suit the americans)
But as a matter of fact, when I was playing the game (I was maybe 10-12 years old), I was very disappointed on the ending - wtf was it all just a game?? - it felt so meaningless. :(
ScummVM can normally handle the music. I believe if you have trouble with midi synthesizer on your soundcard, you can use the SDL version of ScummVM, and have full software midi music. :)
..since I am SO disgusted by these raids I will never EVER pay for movies and/or music again, in protest.
Boycott the media companies and copyright profiteers!!
IMO a leftwing party is a party striving for the stateless communism utopia in some way or another. (like the socialist and communist parties in europe) These parties are often atheists since they think that religion is originally a tool for the upper class to control the working class.
You are correct that it can be leftist politicans / people that vote left, that believe in a god - but IMO they are not "real" leftiest - since they do not agree on the "religion is a form of control".
I did not say that all atheists are leftist though - of course the conservatives/pro-capitalism parties can also be atheists. I said A => B, wich does not mean B => A. (where A beeing leftwing and B beeing atheist)
Another aspect: every outspoken christian party I have heard about is conservative/rightwing. Except for, of course, this australian leftist christian party; which I believe is not real leftist, but only "popular-leftist"; a way of gaining votes from both camps.
Leftwing christians is something of an oxymoron to me.
Real leftwings are atheists, not some crazy christians. Many parties in the world say they are leftwing and have a profile that looks like its leftwing - but in reality they work for rightwing ideals (like religion, capitalism, etc) - its a way of gaining votes. In their proposal of internet-filtering I say it is their conservative christian ideas you are witnessing, and the leftwing part beeing "offtopic".