You seem to be missing a crucial point here. All of the instances that you cited were of the general populace trying to weasel through loop holes in copyright law, and the laws were rightly changed to accomodate for this. The instance we're discussing here is a band who is distributing two blanks with their own cd, which one would assume is to encourage people buying the cd to share a copy with a couple friends. This is NOT the same as finding loop holes in the law. They are extending the basic provisions of copyright law the same way as someone releasing code under the GPL is. I would seriously doubt that any sane judge is going to tell you that you can't make extensions like this on materials that you own the copyright to.
My girlfriend's dad has a similar device in his garage. It's called the "Newfie Weather Station". It's a rock dangling from a piece of string, and the verse accompanying it goes something like "If rock is wet, it's raining. If rock is white, it's snowing. If rock is swaying, it's windy. If rock is gone, there's a hurricane."
The quality's not sketchy, it's just misconfigured. Go ahead and send me the AIM screen names of these 11 y/o girls with webcams and I'll try to help them fix it...
Google now shows Caldera as the first hit for a search on "litigious bastards", while www.litigiousbastards.com (a site about SCO) comes up about five down. Go team!
"Well, officer, the usb key *was* plugged into the computer when you confuscated it, so I guess you must have it somewhere. What? No, sorry, that was the only copy..."
Just a quick question. Since there is absolutely nothing in the linked article about Clear Channel or anyone else making up news from central studios, would you care to post us a link to THAT story too? It sounds like a good one.
Yeah, and having been in the computer programming business, I find it odd that they would write such an incredible OS and give it away for free. Ok, seriously, I'm not in the programming business, but I *am* a graphic designer and I plan to submit at least one or two ideas, and if I do happen to win, I plan to tell them that they can keep their money.
That's a great sounding argument, from someone who obviously knows nothing about photoshop. Ask someone who works in graphics what software is the de facto standard for image manipulation, and they'll tell you Photoshop. But it's not the only player in the game. So why do professionals shell out for it? Because it's the best. Hands down. Try learning one percent of the things Photoshop can be used for, then tell me it's over priced. The people who really need this tool will buy it. The people who you claim would like to pay for it but can't afford it, that's just their way of justifying the copy they downloaded from kazaa. Chances are they need Photoshop like my mom needs a 3Ghz P4 for surfing the web and solitaire.
And that would be covered by our drinking and driving laws. Drinking alcohol is legal (if you're of legal age) but driving while under the influence is not. You'll always have people that will break the laws. My point was that if I'm "allowed" to drink alcohol, why am I not allowed to smoke marijuana, or snort coke? Adjust the impaired driving laws and let us do to our own bodies as we see fit.
How is that an obvious argument? It seems pretty stupid. Seems to me I should be allowed to do whatever I want to my own body, so long as I'm not harming others. The government has no problem with drinking and smoking, but hey, they collect taxes on that, so even though it may be killing you, it's ok to do it. I have no problem with laws against drinking and driving, since you could harm others. I have no problem with restricting harmful substances to those old enough to realize the consequences. But telling me I can smoke tobacco but not marijuana is asinine.
I checked my favourite logo site for a copy of that logo, but all I found was the "don't copy music" logo. Although for comic value, click on the second link for that "don't copy music" logo and see someone's idea of a parody (it still points to the RIAA website).
I just got a Mindstorms kit for xmas from my girlfriend, and I'm 25. You can build some pretty wacky shit with those things, then program them to do your biddings. Good times.
"There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore," Carly Fiorina, chief executive for Hewlett-Packard Co., said Wednesday. "We have to compete for jobs."
And I agree with her, in that I don't think anyone is entitled to a job just because they happen to be a U.S. citizen. But a corporation the size of HP could be helping the economy out immensely by keeping jobs in the U.S. Regardless of whether or not they were going to ship jobs overseas, it was extremely irresponsible of her to say that on the record.
Take a look at the money being paid to Carly, then tell me again why any American should even consider buying HP ever again when she makes comments like that. An American company is paying her vast ammounts of American dollars, but when the economy's in the shitter, she ships jobs overseas. Good job. And no, I'm not American.
Honest question: how is this illegal, but selling used cds/dvds/whatever is legal? Places that sell used cds buy them cheap and sell for less than what a new copy would cost, which looks like the same as what this kid was doing. And it's not like the school was their only other option if they chose not to purchase from him.
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You seem to be missing a crucial point here. All of the instances that you cited were of the general populace trying to weasel through loop holes in copyright law, and the laws were rightly changed to accomodate for this. The instance we're discussing here is a band who is distributing two blanks with their own cd, which one would assume is to encourage people buying the cd to share a copy with a couple friends. This is NOT the same as finding loop holes in the law. They are extending the basic provisions of copyright law the same way as someone releasing code under the GPL is. I would seriously doubt that any sane judge is going to tell you that you can't make extensions like this on materials that you own the copyright to.
My girlfriend's dad has a similar device in his garage. It's called the "Newfie Weather Station". It's a rock dangling from a piece of string, and the verse accompanying it goes something like "If rock is wet, it's raining. If rock is white, it's snowing. If rock is swaying, it's windy. If rock is gone, there's a hurricane."
The quality's not sketchy, it's just misconfigured. Go ahead and send me the AIM screen names of these 11 y/o girls with webcams and I'll try to help them fix it...
HA! I tried to check that out, but I got told "Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled." Smart admins!
Oh, so it's a buddy flick?
Sweet stupid hell! I can buy Larry Wall's wife on ebay?!
Nice sig.
Um, yeah...the lameness filter likes it when I type more than a two-word sarcastic quip, so that's what all of this is.
I need to study how the respectable majority in the anti-abortion movement deals with its nutbags.
They have them cut off so they can't knock up anyone in the first place. *rimshot*
Thanks, I'm here all week. Try the fish.
Google now shows Caldera as the first hit for a search on "litigious bastards", while www.litigiousbastards.com (a site about SCO) comes up about five down. Go team!
"Well, officer, the usb key *was* plugged into the computer when you confuscated it, so I guess you must have it somewhere. What? No, sorry, that was the only copy..."
Just a quick question. Since there is absolutely nothing in the linked article about Clear Channel or anyone else making up news from central studios, would you care to post us a link to THAT story too? It sounds like a good one.
These guys seem to have that problem solved already.
You, sir, are a genius. My credit card's out and ready to match your $20. Time to "vote with my wallet" as it were. Meet ya there in five.
Yeah, and having been in the computer programming business, I find it odd that they would write such an incredible OS and give it away for free. Ok, seriously, I'm not in the programming business, but I *am* a graphic designer and I plan to submit at least one or two ideas, and if I do happen to win, I plan to tell them that they can keep their money.
This would enable handicap people to control machines, not vice-versa.
Well good, because the thought of handicapped machines controlling people frightens me...
That's a great sounding argument, from someone who obviously knows nothing about photoshop. Ask someone who works in graphics what software is the de facto standard for image manipulation, and they'll tell you Photoshop. But it's not the only player in the game. So why do professionals shell out for it? Because it's the best. Hands down. Try learning one percent of the things Photoshop can be used for, then tell me it's over priced. The people who really need this tool will buy it. The people who you claim would like to pay for it but can't afford it, that's just their way of justifying the copy they downloaded from kazaa. Chances are they need Photoshop like my mom needs a 3Ghz P4 for surfing the web and solitaire.
Yeah, give this poor guy some time to dig the web-serving Palm Pilot out of his solar-powered pockets and reboot it...
And that would be covered by our drinking and driving laws. Drinking alcohol is legal (if you're of legal age) but driving while under the influence is not. You'll always have people that will break the laws. My point was that if I'm "allowed" to drink alcohol, why am I not allowed to smoke marijuana, or snort coke? Adjust the impaired driving laws and let us do to our own bodies as we see fit.
How is that an obvious argument? It seems pretty stupid. Seems to me I should be allowed to do whatever I want to my own body, so long as I'm not harming others. The government has no problem with drinking and smoking, but hey, they collect taxes on that, so even though it may be killing you, it's ok to do it. I have no problem with laws against drinking and driving, since you could harm others. I have no problem with restricting harmful substances to those old enough to realize the consequences. But telling me I can smoke tobacco but not marijuana is asinine.
I checked my favourite logo site for a copy of that logo, but all I found was the "don't copy music" logo. Although for comic value, click on the second link for that "don't copy music" logo and see someone's idea of a parody (it still points to the RIAA website).
I just got a Mindstorms kit for xmas from my girlfriend, and I'm 25. You can build some pretty wacky shit with those things, then program them to do your biddings. Good times.
I can't go to sleep you insensitive clod! I'm at work - they'd notice me sleeping. However, they won't notice me posting! Wheeeeeeee!
And I agree with her, in that I don't think anyone is entitled to a job just because they happen to be a U.S. citizen. But a corporation the size of HP could be helping the economy out immensely by keeping jobs in the U.S. Regardless of whether or not they were going to ship jobs overseas, it was extremely irresponsible of her to say that on the record.
Take a look at the money being paid to Carly, then tell me again why any American should even consider buying HP ever again when she makes comments like that. An American company is paying her vast ammounts of American dollars, but when the economy's in the shitter, she ships jobs overseas. Good job. And no, I'm not American.
Honest question: how is this illegal, but selling used cds/dvds/whatever is legal? Places that sell used cds buy them cheap and sell for less than what a new copy would cost, which looks like the same as what this kid was doing. And it's not like the school was their only other option if they chose not to purchase from him.