Publicly distributing copyrighted material without the copyright holder's consent is against the law.
Libraries and used music stores distribute original, legal copies to a single client, which is fine.
Fair Use is legal. Publicly distributing complete copies of songs, albums, and movies is not fair use.
When I listen to an album privately at your house, that is perfectly legal. Don't let the groupthink convince you otherwise.
Broad claims like "file sharing is a crime" are always going to be shot down in an arena like this. Publicly distributing copyrighted material without the copyright holder's consent is illegal.
If you go 1/2 mph over the speed limit, you are breaking the law and you should be prepared to face jail tiime as many famouus practicioners of civil disobedience have in the past.
Congratulations. You've found the connection.
Speeding and copyright infringement are both crimes -- very different crimes, but crimes nonetheless. Because they have been prosecuted sporadically in the past, people tend not to fear prosecution when they commit these crimes.
If every police department announced that it would prosecute people who went 1/2 mph over the speed limit, then the same thing would happen as happened here: people would laugh in the police's face and prepare their typical lines of defense (speedometers are inaccurate, etc., etc.) to use when/if they ever got prosecuted.
Ask a New Yorker what he thinks about Rudy Giuliani's repeated attempts to curtail jaywalking in New York, and you'll see what the RIAA faces here. The crimes still exist, but they go unpunished.
Please have your wife post about such matters in the future. It is not considered "fair use" to distribute entire songs, albums, movies, and other forms of copyrighted material publicly and in their entirety without the copyright holder's consent.
It is against the law to distribute copyrighted material without the copyright holder's consent.
Sorry, that should be "Sharing music in the United States of America is illegal." Please insert the words "in the United States of America" after each occurrence of the words "illegal" or "law" in the parent post and read again.
I am happy for those citizens of other countries who are allowed to publicly distribute copyrighted works without the copyright holder's consent, but this is not the issue at hand. The issue is that American companies are within their rights to prosecute American citizens who are in violation of American law.
It is illegal to publicly distribute copyrighted works without the copyright holder's consent.
People who use any publically available service to upload copyrighted works without the copyright holder's consent are breaking the law.
If you consider this crime to be a measure of "civil disobedience" against the evil entertainment industry, then you should be prepared to face jail time as many famous practitioners of civil disobedience have in the past.
I don't understand what is so "murky" about this issue.
Even when you tell Opera to report itself as MSIE, it includes "Opera" in the user-agent string. There is no way to specify a custom user agent string.
This is how MSN identified Opera users to serve them a different style sheet. This is how my bank prevents me from using their online banking application.
Mozilla, OmniWeb, and many other alternative browsers let you override the user agent string to whatever you want. Opera does not allow you this flexibility. I know this because I'm a registered Opera user.
Finally, a Linux-based gaming console! I can't wait to pick one up.
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VW doesn't sell a single-CD player for the New Beetle in the US -- although they do in some other coutntries. When I got mine in 2000, my only option was a $700 dealer-installed CD changer.
I waited three years, but eventually settled on a nice Alpine CD deck that plays MP3s. Now I have 10 hours of music on a disc -- and the drop in quality isn't as evident when driving down the Pennsylvania Turnpike at 80 mph.:)
Dear Strong Bad, Why can't I see your web page any more? Sincerely, Kerri FL
Well, Kerri, if that is your real name, I switched to a format called SVG. It's a more better way of presenting vector graphics. More... more better...
So these techno-geeks think they can get everyone to download some new piece of untested software to make a point. What do you think?
P.S. You won't be able to read this anyway, since I'm using SVG to present this e-mail.
(sound of dot-matrix printer) Click here to e-mail Strong Bad as long as you're using Mozilla
Sony, TDK, and Iomega all have drives that can do DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM (in Iomega's case) at 4x or so. Why were none of these reviewed?
Is there a lot of this in the USA? States which have allowed things that are banned in other states gaining additional 'export' markets?
Yes. Look at all the border stores that sell fireworks -- it's illegal to take them back home, but the store owners don't care because their state's laws apply.
And in Pennsylvania, until recently all liquor stores were closed on Sunday -- currently 10% of them are open Sundays, as a pilot program. Until that happened, people had to drive to neighboring states to buy hard liquor on a Sunday. This happens in plenty of other states too -- and in some states, it happens at the county level.
And whatever you do, don't ask people in Greenwich, Connecticut what they think about New Yorkers buying Powerball tickets there...
The queries will be submitted to a central repository for transmission via e-mail. The results come back the next day.
Assuming that the results total about 20 KB in size, that represents a baud rate of about (160,000 bits / 86,400 seconds) = less than 2 bits per second.
Outlook is not just an e-mail client. Outlook also provides groupware such as calendars, task management, and e-mail gateways to the same. Many people in a corporate environment depend on these features to help them stay organized. In Outlook, it is convenient when scheduling a meeting to look up the shared calendars of all potential attendees and try to schedule around potential conflicts. In Outlook, it is nice to send a task as a small, vCal (?) compatible e-mail attachment.
There are many open source applications (Evolution, for example) that can interoperate with Outlook in a mixed-OS environment. However, it's naive at best to think that Mozilla Mail can replace Outlook all by itself.
They already have, sort of. The Beta Google Toolbar includes a "BlogThis" button, similar to the Bookmarklet that Blogger offered before.
I wouldn't mind a blog-only search engine, considering how much noise blogs have added to the web. It's so annoying to search for a song lyric or quote to find the source, only to find that thousands of blogs have cleverly used it as a title.
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I've bought from Amazon all the time, and I've never received a promotion I didn't ask for. The unique e-mail address I use for Amazon has never been used for any other purpose than informing me of my order status.
I mean AOL is like a big commercial already, and with the control they have over their user's Internet experience, I can see major harassment to follow.
It's not harassment. It's value-adding.
AOL adds perceived value to a membership by offering AOL Call Alert for $4 a month, voice mail for $6 a month, premium packages that allow multiple concurrent sign-ins (for families) for $6 a month, and all sorts of co-branded programs from which they derive revenue. This music/DVD sales idea is no different from, say, "AOL Shopper's Advantage" (which is just this with an AOL logo on it).
AOL spends more than any other Internet service to gain customers -- I remember reading that it costs about $52 for AOL to recruit a new member, so they have to make that up as quickly as possible.
You forgot to include all the pretentious administrative crap like "This index is normative. This standard may be superseded by any number of future standards at an arbitrary point in time." Use lots of CSS to make every one of those boldfaced terms a different color.
No, I'm not bitter about reading those awful standards documents...
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Publicly distributing copyrighted material without the copyright holder's consent is against the law.
Libraries and used music stores distribute original, legal copies to a single client, which is fine.
Fair Use is legal. Publicly distributing complete copies of songs, albums, and movies is not fair use.
When I listen to an album privately at your house, that is perfectly legal. Don't let the groupthink convince you otherwise.
Broad claims like "file sharing is a crime" are always going to be shot down in an arena like this. Publicly distributing copyrighted material without the copyright holder's consent is illegal.
If you go 1/2 mph over the speed limit, you are breaking the law and you should be prepared to face jail tiime as many famouus practicioners of civil disobedience have in the past.
Congratulations. You've found the connection.
Speeding and copyright infringement are both crimes -- very different crimes, but crimes nonetheless. Because they have been prosecuted sporadically in the past, people tend not to fear prosecution when they commit these crimes.
If every police department announced that it would prosecute people who went 1/2 mph over the speed limit, then the same thing would happen as happened here: people would laugh in the police's face and prepare their typical lines of defense (speedometers are inaccurate, etc., etc.) to use when/if they ever got prosecuted.
Ask a New Yorker what he thinks about Rudy Giuliani's repeated attempts to curtail jaywalking in New York, and you'll see what the RIAA faces here. The crimes still exist, but they go unpunished.
Please have your wife post about such matters in the future. It is not considered "fair use" to distribute entire songs, albums, movies, and other forms of copyrighted material publicly and in their entirety without the copyright holder's consent.
It is against the law to distribute copyrighted material without the copyright holder's consent.
Sorry, that should be "Sharing music in the United States of America is illegal." Please insert the words "in the United States of America" after each occurrence of the words "illegal" or "law" in the parent post and read again.
I am happy for those citizens of other countries who are allowed to publicly distribute copyrighted works without the copyright holder's consent, but this is not the issue at hand. The issue is that American companies are within their rights to prosecute American citizens who are in violation of American law.
It is illegal to publicly distribute copyrighted works without the copyright holder's consent.
People who use any publically available service to upload copyrighted works without the copyright holder's consent are breaking the law.
If you consider this crime to be a measure of "civil disobedience" against the evil entertainment industry, then you should be prepared to face jail time as many famous practitioners of civil disobedience have in the past.
I don't understand what is so "murky" about this issue.
Unlike earlier versions, Outlook 2003 by default doesn't display images in HTML email.
Of course, you have to pay for it or pirate (sorry, "liberate") it from a P2P network.
Even when you tell Opera to report itself as MSIE, it includes "Opera" in the user-agent string. There is no way to specify a custom user agent string.
This is how MSN identified Opera users to serve them a different style sheet. This is how my bank prevents me from using their online banking application.
Mozilla, OmniWeb, and many other alternative browsers let you override the user agent string to whatever you want. Opera does not allow you this flexibility. I know this because I'm a registered Opera user.
Try this link to the home page. Unfortunately, many of the links are broken -- perhaps they're reworking the page.
That's the "type R" model. It has special stickers that make it go faster and intimidate opponents in rover street races.
Stop talking. You're lying.
I've found Roadside America to be a nice resource for the curious travel geek. They even have a review of the Big Duck, which I visited last year.
I can play it on my Indrema!
Finally, a Linux-based gaming console! I can't wait to pick one up.
VW doesn't sell a single-CD player for the New Beetle in the US -- although they do in some other coutntries. When I got mine in 2000, my only option was a $700 dealer-installed CD changer.
:)
I waited three years, but eventually settled on a nice Alpine CD deck that plays MP3s. Now I have 10 hours of music on a disc -- and the drop in quality isn't as evident when driving down the Pennsylvania Turnpike at 80 mph.
C:\> strongbads_email.exe
Time to check the e-mail...
Dear Strong Bad,
Why can't I see your web page any more?
Sincerely,
Kerri
FL
Well, Kerri, if that is your real name, I switched to a format called SVG. It's a more better way of presenting vector graphics. More... more better...
So these techno-geeks think they can get everyone to download some new piece of untested software to make a point. What do you think?
P.S. You won't be able to read this anyway, since I'm using SVG to present this e-mail.
(sound of dot-matrix printer)
Click here to e-mail Strong Bad
as long as you're using Mozilla
E-mail is denshi me-ru. The word denshi means "electric," and me-ru is the "Japanized" form of "mail."
Sony, TDK, and Iomega all have drives that can do DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM (in Iomega's case) at 4x or so. Why were none of these reviewed?
Is there a lot of this in the USA? States which have allowed things that are banned in other states gaining additional 'export' markets?
Yes. Look at all the border stores that sell fireworks -- it's illegal to take them back home, but the store owners don't care because their state's laws apply.
And in Pennsylvania, until recently all liquor stores were closed on Sunday -- currently 10% of them are open Sundays, as a pilot program. Until that happened, people had to drive to neighboring states to buy hard liquor on a Sunday. This happens in plenty of other states too -- and in some states, it happens at the county level.
And whatever you do, don't ask people in Greenwich, Connecticut what they think about New Yorkers buying Powerball tickets there...
The queries will be submitted to a central repository for transmission via e-mail. The results come back the next day.
Assuming that the results total about 20 KB in size, that represents a baud rate of about (160,000 bits / 86,400 seconds) = less than 2 bits per second.
Outlook is not just an e-mail client. Outlook also provides groupware such as calendars, task management, and e-mail gateways to the same. Many people in a corporate environment depend on these features to help them stay organized. In Outlook, it is convenient when scheduling a meeting to look up the shared calendars of all potential attendees and try to schedule around potential conflicts. In Outlook, it is nice to send a task as a small, vCal (?) compatible e-mail attachment.
There are many open source applications (Evolution, for example) that can interoperate with Outlook in a mixed-OS environment. However, it's naive at best to think that Mozilla Mail can replace Outlook all by itself.
They already have, sort of. The Beta Google Toolbar includes a "BlogThis" button, similar to the Bookmarklet that Blogger offered before.
I wouldn't mind a blog-only search engine, considering how much noise blogs have added to the web. It's so annoying to search for a song lyric or quote to find the source, only to find that thousands of blogs have cleverly used it as a title.
I've bought from Amazon all the time, and I've never received a promotion I didn't ask for. The unique e-mail address I use for Amazon has never been used for any other purpose than informing me of my order status.
Geeks sure can hold grudges.
I mean AOL is like a big commercial already, and with the control they have over their user's Internet experience, I can see major harassment to follow.
It's not harassment. It's value-adding.
AOL adds perceived value to a membership by offering AOL Call Alert for $4 a month, voice mail for $6 a month, premium packages that allow multiple concurrent sign-ins (for families) for $6 a month, and all sorts of co-branded programs from which they derive revenue. This music/DVD sales idea is no different from, say, "AOL Shopper's Advantage" (which is just this with an AOL logo on it).
AOL spends more than any other Internet service to gain customers -- I remember reading that it costs about $52 for AOL to recruit a new member, so they have to make that up as quickly as possible.
You forgot to include all the pretentious administrative crap like "This index is normative. This standard may be superseded by any number of future standards at an arbitrary point in time." Use lots of CSS to make every one of those boldfaced terms a different color.
No, I'm not bitter about reading those awful standards documents...
Actually, I was shooting for "funny" by mocking the W3C's preference for verbose XML-based markup.
The fact that such an obvious fake was marked "informative" doesn't shock or surprise me.
Some sample W3C-approved markup from an image:
...
<image type="image/gif">
<pixels>
<pixel xcoord="0" ycoord="0">
<phosphor color="red">15</phosphor>
<phosphor color="green">60</phosphor>
<phosphor color="blue">20</phosphor>
</pixel>
<pixel xcoord="1" ycoord="0">
<phosphor color="red">14</phosphor>
<phosphor color="green">60</phosphor>
<phosphor color="blue">20</phosphor>
</pixel>
</pixels>
</image>
Using this method, the Slashdot logo takes up over 500 kB. Maybe it will be reduced using gzip, but I'm not buying into it for now.