But not everything you would download is infringing copyright.
Surely the example is more like:
Seeing what you think is a pile of free flyers on a table picking it up and starting to walk out of the room only to discover that it is a pile of cash! And government property at that and putting it back.
But is China actually doing anything wrong here? Disney may have copyright and trademarks on their creations in the USA, Europe, Oceana, etc. but do they in China? I don't know. I ask as a serious question in case anyone here actually knows.
China is a country with its own laws. Just because someone doing this in the USA would be breaking many American laws, doesn't mean that the Chinese government doing this in China is breaking any Chinese laws.
...and, as you live in the UK, you contribute to cancer treatment through taxes even if you yourself do not have cancer. Oh, and you fund police murder investigations even though you yourself have not been murdered.
Or possibly, as some form of information terrorism, what if someone spoofed their email headers so they appeared to be robert[dot]french[at]alrc[dot]gov[dot]au (one of the justices in this case) and started spamming the whole of Australia with links to mp3s?
When I used to see Compaq boxes declaring "1 GB = 1 billion bytes", I used to wonder if I could sue for missing hard drive space. Here in the UK, a billion means 1,000,000,000,000 -- a thousand times bigger than an American billion. Therefore, even if 1 GB did mean 10^9 bytes, they were still advertising their hard drives as being 1000 times their actual capacity!
The proper British spelling is 'disc' - a circular object. Disk is only used for 'floppy diskettes' (and sometimes for hard drives) as an abbreviation. Using the 'disc' spelling (for Compact Discs, Minidiscs, etc.) is nothing to do with them being optical media.
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So you've been watching Red Dwarf recently too, have you?
Surely the example is more like:
But is China actually doing anything wrong here? Disney may have copyright and trademarks on their creations in the USA, Europe, Oceana, etc. but do they in China? I don't know. I ask as a serious question in case anyone here actually knows.
China is a country with its own laws. Just because someone doing this in the USA would be breaking many American laws, doesn't mean that the Chinese government doing this in China is breaking any Chinese laws.
So we have finally reached the age of intergalactic war, have we? Or has the US declared a war on snails?
If your TV sits in the corner, unplugged and gathering dust through lack of use then you don't have to pay for the license.
Maybe it should be a "tax on anyone who chooses to use a television"?
...and, as you live in the UK, you contribute to cancer treatment through taxes even if you yourself do not have cancer. Oh, and you fund police murder investigations even though you yourself have not been murdered.
Welcome to society.
Or possibly, as some form of information terrorism, what if someone spoofed their email headers so they appeared to be robert[dot]french[at]alrc[dot]gov[dot]au (one of the justices in this case) and started spamming the whole of Australia with links to mp3s?
When I used to see Compaq boxes declaring "1 GB = 1 billion bytes", I used to wonder if I could sue for missing hard drive space. Here in the UK, a billion means 1,000,000,000,000 -- a thousand times bigger than an American billion. Therefore, even if 1 GB did mean 10^9 bytes, they were still advertising their hard drives as being 1000 times their actual capacity!
The proper British spelling is 'disc' - a circular object. Disk is only used for 'floppy diskettes' (and sometimes for hard drives) as an abbreviation. Using the 'disc' spelling (for Compact Discs, Minidiscs, etc.) is nothing to do with them being optical media.
Am I mistaken, is this report on MSNBC - part of the great(!) MicroSoft Network? Is it going to stay there long?