That leaves you responsible only for the default copyright terms.
Of course, it would cost you plenty to actually get such a ruling IF you could find a court that doesn't just go through the motions.
The default terms for copyright are: You can't copy my shit without my permission. If you agree to the EULA, the vendor relaxes those terms to let you copy your game into computer memory and 'play' it.
Eve allows you to get in game currency by selling game time to other players. This sets an 'exchange rate', the isk selling farms still exist - they just sell below the official rate.
Someone I know legally changed their name to be their online pseudonym and when they posted the documentation to show off they blacked out their old name while boasting about how they beat google. This lead me to conclude they don't actually understand the legal ramifications of what they have done.
That's something that gets brought up at trial time. The defense asserts that the logging computer could be inaccurate and the prosecution can demonstrate that it is accurate (or irrelevant if the address never changed at all).
After 9/11 all of the US government agencies pointed at each other and said 'we could have stopped it if we had that piece of info over there' while pointing at all the other agencies.
So the solution was to put everything on a giant intranet so everyone could see everything.
There are thousands of network changes made every day with spikes on weekends. Assuming the telocs have a change management system for internal notification of changes - and the probably do - then providing that feed to a single government person/server shouldn't be too hard.
You would be surprised at how few actual changes (rather than outages being returned to working condition) Telstra makes in a day. It's on the lower side of 50. I've worked at Telstra and interacted at length with change management. To actually 'change' something requires a horrifying amount of paperwork. (Compared to fixing a fault which requires one ticket outlining actions done to fix.)
Any major changes (such as implementing a new product, server, system) are all actioned in one large bundle of changes before the product goes live, and after that you're locked in and can't change anything at all without a change ticket.
It actually makes the network more stable in the long run, because it prevents cowboys from just plugging their laptop into a switch and causing a country wide outage. [Actual thing that happened once].
If you've ever worked in a company with change management, you'd know that Telstra does the first half of that anyway.
In the second half, the government would just legislate around that by insisting "All data must be provided in XYZ format, no later than XYZ days after the change has been made."
Hell, they wouldn't even need a law to do that.. They just legislate that has the authority to generate a specification that must be legally adhered to. If any telecos tried any of your hilarious suggestions, they'd find themselves in court sooner rather than later.
And they will talk to the tax office, and the tax office will say "They are in full compliance with the law. If you want them to do more you should change the law."
And that will be the end of the conversation. Unless they change the law, which they probably won't.
The 'tax people' don't care about when they get their money or what it is spent on as long as you are in full compliance with the laws regarding tax. Paying tax at the end of the financial year is completely legal and the 'tax people' prefer it because it reduces the amount of administrivia they have to deal with.
I can assure you, the 'tax people' won't lose any sleep over the money they 'lost'.
They should also put up their policies regarding other key issues as well.
If you want to be a viable candidate to the majors, people need to know that you're not going to do crazy things with their favourite issue.
In the interests of accuracy, it wasn't abbott who knifed turnbull in the back (although I can't stand Abbott).
Another MP triggered a leadership spill (Maybe Costello?) but Abbott was the third candidate and he skated in on the backs of both factions hating the 'other guy' more than they hated Abbott.
I have no idea why Telstra's shares are rising on the news - monopoly of the infrastructure was the only thing they had going for them.
Not anymore, their mobile arm has reached the point where it's more profitable than the PSTN arm (and now that they're selling their their copper to someone else, they don't have to maintain the aging cables anymore.)
I'd suggest that the cost of 'wholesaling' a copper line is going to increase, because it's going to need constant maintenance and that cost won't be subsidised by any more profitable arms of the business. (It also won't be price locked by the ACCC.)
In short, good fucking luck with that Eircom. I hope you get sued into the ground by a major label
So you're saying that a 'major label' is going to sue the first 'copyright friendly' ISP in Ireland 'into the ground'. Are you high? What will actually happen is the lawyers from 'a major label' will call the lawyers from the ISP and say 'hey, how can we get in on this copyright protection thing you've got going on, we need a few really high profile busts'.
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That leaves you responsible only for the default copyright terms.
Of course, it would cost you plenty to actually get such a ruling IF you could find a court that doesn't just go through the motions.
The default terms for copyright are: You can't copy my shit without my permission. If you agree to the EULA, the vendor relaxes those terms to let you copy your game into computer memory and 'play' it.
Eve allows you to get in game currency by selling game time to other players. This sets an 'exchange rate', the isk selling farms still exist - they just sell below the official rate.
Someone I know legally changed their name to be their online pseudonym and when they posted the documentation to show off they blacked out their old name while boasting about how they beat google. This lead me to conclude they don't actually understand the legal ramifications of what they have done.
Length isn't a good measure of how 'good' an RPG is either. It's a measure of how much value for money you got perhaps.
But if I played a good 2 hour long RPG that cost me 5 bucks, I'd be delighted.
The 'too easy' thing is only true for people who confuse role playing games with 'isometric dungeons and dragons simulators'.
That's something that gets brought up at trial time. The defense asserts that the logging computer could be inaccurate and the prosecution can demonstrate that it is accurate (or irrelevant if the address never changed at all).
You were wrong dude. Just admit it, jesus.
Well, everything you record and upload to youtube for public release (bearing in mind you can upload private videos to youtube), certainly.
It is - I still buy my stuff through steam though, and unlock it via a VPN if they give me any stick about US vs Aus release dates.
Shit, I can't even imagine how humans survived back before the discovery of gun powder.
Constantly fending off bear attacks. It must have been a real nightmare
It's not facebook targetting you - When people submit ads to facebook, they choose the demographic they want to hit.
If you want a manager who knows how to do the job and who is also willing to take on the bullshit administrative overhead, you need to offer more.
If someone said "Ok, you can be a technician for 50k, or you can be a manager for 50k", which are you going to choose?
After 9/11 all of the US government agencies pointed at each other and said 'we could have stopped it if we had that piece of info over there' while pointing at all the other agencies.
So the solution was to put everything on a giant intranet so everyone could see everything.
Not such a good idea, really.
When westpac fucked up like this, they just replayed the batch the next day and it was sorted.
The fact that this wasn't fixed on day one means they're trying to put the data back together from scratch. (ie: they are so fucked)
iinet offer a 1 terabyte plan for 99 dollars a month, although I will concede that it's 500gb peak and 500gb offpeak.
I understand why ISP's offer offpeak quota, that doesn't mean it doesn't annoy the piss out of me.
He reads the Australian, of course he believes it.
The fact that it's not true would not influence his thinking in any way.
There are thousands of network changes made every day with spikes on weekends. Assuming the telocs have a change management system for internal notification of changes - and the probably do - then providing that feed to a single government person/server shouldn't be too hard.
You would be surprised at how few actual changes (rather than outages being returned to working condition) Telstra makes in a day. It's on the lower side of 50. I've worked at Telstra and interacted at length with change management. To actually 'change' something requires a horrifying amount of paperwork. (Compared to fixing a fault which requires one ticket outlining actions done to fix.)
Any major changes (such as implementing a new product, server, system) are all actioned in one large bundle of changes before the product goes live, and after that you're locked in and can't change anything at all without a change ticket.
It actually makes the network more stable in the long run, because it prevents cowboys from just plugging their laptop into a switch and causing a country wide outage. [Actual thing that happened once].
If you've ever worked in a company with change management, you'd know that Telstra does the first half of that anyway.
In the second half, the government would just legislate around that by insisting "All data must be provided in XYZ format, no later than XYZ days after the change has been made."
Hell, they wouldn't even need a law to do that.. They just legislate that has the authority to generate a specification that must be legally adhered to. If any telecos tried any of your hilarious suggestions, they'd find themselves in court sooner rather than later.
And they will talk to the tax office, and the tax office will say "They are in full compliance with the law. If you want them to do more you should change the law."
And that will be the end of the conversation. Unless they change the law, which they probably won't.
It might have an impact on the government, but I assure you the head of the tax office (a career civil servant) won't give a damn.
The 'tax people' don't care about when they get their money or what it is spent on as long as you are in full compliance with the laws regarding tax. Paying tax at the end of the financial year is completely legal and the 'tax people' prefer it because it reduces the amount of administrivia they have to deal with.
I can assure you, the 'tax people' won't lose any sleep over the money they 'lost'.
They should also put up their policies regarding other key issues as well. If you want to be a viable candidate to the majors, people need to know that you're not going to do crazy things with their favourite issue.
In the interests of accuracy, it wasn't abbott who knifed turnbull in the back (although I can't stand Abbott). Another MP triggered a leadership spill (Maybe Costello?) but Abbott was the third candidate and he skated in on the backs of both factions hating the 'other guy' more than they hated Abbott.
I have no idea why Telstra's shares are rising on the news - monopoly of the infrastructure was the only thing they had going for them.
Not anymore, their mobile arm has reached the point where it's more profitable than the PSTN arm (and now that they're selling their their copper to someone else, they don't have to maintain the aging cables anymore.) I'd suggest that the cost of 'wholesaling' a copper line is going to increase, because it's going to need constant maintenance and that cost won't be subsidised by any more profitable arms of the business. (It also won't be price locked by the ACCC.)