Perhaps the Russians could go back to Lance Bass and get the deal going again in order to secure the financing for their part of the space station. Alternately, they could approach other boy bands and offer a space for cash deal.
But 70 years after you die? Is there something I am missing here? No one is talking about taking copyrights away from writers - the conversations is about whether or not copyright protections should be extended another twenty years after the authors death. With all due respect, the starving artist argument ends when the author passes away, and then it becomes a matter of the author's family enjoying the fruits of the author's labor for almost their entire lives.
For that matter, USi is a great example of a company reorganising under chapter 11 protection. They just recently emerged from chapter 11 and are now on their way to becoming a solid firm.
What is curious about V/B's reasoning is that they are suing based on the possibility of future earnings (at least that is what they claim) but the rep states that something must be used by someone other than the creator to be illegal under the terms of the DCMA. Considering bnetd has yet to make any money off this, how does the DCMA argument even apply to this case?
The better question is, what gives anyone else the right to intrude upon it? Privacy is nothing more than the right to be left alone, and I remember nothing in my civics classes from college stating the government's mandate was to explore leads without the insight of a judiciary.
Ummm... I am bound by and NDA with Macromedia, but there are some new things on the way that just might change your point of view. Don't be too quick to judge,
@Home does not have such a large revenue, compared to what the cable companies bring in. Comcast charges me $50 per month for my cable modem. The net amount @Home sees per subscriber averages around $14 per, which is less than the cost of an AOL account. So, it is kind of understandable that they would want to renegotiate with the cable companies.
In all of this discussion, I think we are all forgetting a basic, simpler point: MSN is not a very good protal to begin with. It looks like a really bad shopping mall - every time I have ever seen it I covered my wallet.
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Perhaps the Russians could go back to Lance Bass and get the deal going again in order to secure the financing for their part of the space station. Alternately, they could approach other boy bands and offer a space for cash deal.
But 70 years after you die? Is there something I am missing here? No one is talking about taking copyrights away from writers - the conversations is about whether or not copyright protections should be extended another twenty years after the authors death. With all due respect, the starving artist argument ends when the author passes away, and then it becomes a matter of the author's family enjoying the fruits of the author's labor for almost their entire lives.
For that matter, USi is a great example of a company reorganising under chapter 11 protection. They just recently emerged from chapter 11 and are now on their way to becoming a solid firm.
What is curious about V/B's reasoning is that they are suing based on the possibility of future earnings (at least that is what they claim) but the rep states that something must be used by someone other than the creator to be illegal under the terms of the DCMA. Considering bnetd has yet to make any money off this, how does the DCMA argument even apply to this case?
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The better question is, what gives anyone else the right to intrude upon it? Privacy is nothing more than the right to be left alone, and I remember nothing in my civics classes from college stating the government's mandate was to explore leads without the insight of a judiciary.
Just another reason to switch to InDesign...
Ummm... I am bound by and NDA with Macromedia, but there are some new things on the way that just might change your point of view. Don't be too quick to judge,
Mike
Bringing in Arthur Andersen to do the books was the best thing Amazon could have done.
@Home does not have such a large revenue, compared to what the cable companies bring in. Comcast charges me $50 per month for my cable modem. The net amount @Home sees per subscriber averages around $14 per, which is less than the cost of an AOL account. So, it is kind of understandable that they would want to renegotiate with the cable companies.
In all of this discussion, I think we are all forgetting a basic, simpler point: MSN is not a very good protal to begin with. It looks like a really bad shopping mall - every time I have ever seen it I covered my wallet.
This story would be news if it was about google.