You also claim $600 dollar costs for hardware when it costs you $199
Try canceling your contract a month after you paid $199 for your iPhone - they'll bill you a cancellation fee for the cost of the subsidized phone ($20/month * 23 months left on your contract).
If we made copyright limited to 21 years, and made software ONLY protected by copyright, we'd see more innovation. After all, the idea behind a limited term for patents was exactly that - use it or lose it ('cuz you're going to lose it anyway in $X number of years).
It may seem shady and dubious, but it is pretty legitimate. Plus, I doubt the lawyers would put in the cease and desist letters if there wasn't a valid copyright claim behind it.
So rather than bitching about how copyright is being used, use it as an another example of how copyright is broken.
Lawyers don't lie? Lawyers get it wrong 50% of the time - go to any courthouse and watch - there's always at least one loser in every case (and sometimes there's no winner). The only thing "broken" is your understanding of copyright.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
This is also now the case in Canada. It used to be that juvenile records were sealed and required a court order to access them, but that ended a couple of decades ago.
Of course, juvenile records aren't criminal convictions (though juveniles can get criminal convictions if their case is remanded to the regular "adult" court system), but anyone can apply for a discharge - but even that doesn't guarantee that records won't be kicking around somewhere.
... Random example: Islands in the Sun, ch. 9. BORING! Too much dependence on dialog (typical Hemmingway). And he could have at least picked a better name for his main character!
When the sun woke Thomas Hudson he went down to the beach and swam and then had breakfast before the rest of them were up. Eddy said he did not think they would have much of a breeze and it might even be a calm. He said the gear was all in good shape on the boat and he had a boy out after bait.
Thomas Hudson asked him if he had tested the lines since the boat had not been out for big fish in quite a while and Eddy said he had tested them and taken off all the line that was rotten. He said they were going to have to get some more thirty-six thread line and plenty more twenty-four thread and Thomas Hudson promised to send for it. In the meantime Eddy had spliced enough good line on to replace the discarded line and both the big reels had all they would hold. He had cleaned and sharpened all of the big hooks and checked all the leaders and swivels.
"When did you do all this?"
"I sat up last night splicing," he said. "Then I worked on that new cast net. Couldn't sleep with the goddam moon."
"Does a full moon bother you for sleeping too?"
"Gives me hell," Eddy said.
"Eddy do you think it's really bad for you to sleep with it shining on you?"
"That's what the old heads say. I don't know. Always makes me feel bad, anyway."
"Do you think we'll do anything today?"
"Never know. There's some awfully big fish out there this time of year. Are you going clean up to the Isaacs?"
"The boys want to go up there."
"We ought to get going right after breakfast. I'm not figuring to cook lunch. I've got conch salad and potato salad and beer and I'll make up sandwiches. We've got a ham that came over on the last run-boat and I've got some lettuce and we can use mustard and that chutney. Mustard doesn't hurt kids, does it?"
"I don't think so."
"We never had it when I was a kid. Say, that chutney's good, too. You ever eat it in a sandwich?"
"No."
"I didn't know what it was for when you first got it and I tried some of it like a marmalade. It's damned good. I use it sometimes on grits."
"Why don't we have some curry pretty soon?"
"I got a leg of lamb coming on the next run-boat. Wait till we eat off it a couple of times--once, I guess, with that young Tom and Andrew eating, and we'll have a curry."
"Fine. What do you want me to do about getting off?"
"Nothing, Tom. Just get them going. Want me to make you a drink? You aren't working today. Might as well have one."
"I'll drink a cold bottle of beer with breakfast."
"Good thing. Cut that damn phlegm."
"Is Joe here yet?"
"No. He went after the boy that's gone for bait. I'll put your breakfast out there."
"No, let me take her."
"No, go on in and drink a cold bottle of beer and read the paper. I've got her all ironed out for you. I'll bring the breakfast."
Breakfast was corned-beef hash, browned, with an egg on top of it, coffee and milk, and a big glass of chilled grapefruit juice. Thomas Hudson skipped the coffee and the grapefruit juice and drank a very cold bottle of Heineken beer with the hash.
"I'll keep the juice cold for the kids," Eddy said. "That's some beer, isn't it, for early in the morning?"
"It would be pretty easy to be a rummy, wouldn't it, Eddy?"
"You'd never make a rummy. You like to work too well."
"Drinking in the morning feels awfully good though."
"You're damned right it does. Especially something like that beer."
"I couldn't do it and work though."
"Well, you're not working today so what's the goddam problem? Drink that one up and I'll get you another."
"No. One's all I want."
They got off by nine o'clock and went down the channel with the tide. Thom
Of course not - what I'm saying is that if you're going to scam a lot of people, a short workweek is the best time to do it. People are making their vacation plans, you've got the long weekend before the head honchos will deal with it, etc.
Amazing that this only breaks into the news over a long weekend?
Banks and CC companies will expect some purchases "out of the ordinary" on long weekends, and you won't be getting the first-line staff when you complain to Apple, etc.
Prime example of a site screwed up by way too much flash.
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Are you kidding? "The Economist" is the print edition of MENSA - anyone stupid enough to buy into either one shows that they're not really all that smart.
The real genius is in milking the "sophisticates".
It was amazing - like stepping into a time warp. The mother's a real estate agent, she's on the phone talking about creative financing and a balloon payment in 5 years but who cares because you'll be able to refinance at that point... and this was in 1983, a quarter-century before the real estate bubble meltdown.
War dialing....
Social engineering for logon info...
"Hacking" the payphone (we did it without having to unscrew the mouth piece - I guess they added that because showing the world how to really do it would have been a problem).
External 8" floppy drives.
Audio modems @ 300 baud (dropping down to 110).
Klunk-klunk-klunk-keyboards.
The same now-crappy-but-at-the-time-really-neat voice synthesizer from Radio Shack Color Computer for all the "computer voices"
Tthe task was made more difficult by the way Jefferson sought to match the lines and curves of the underlying smudged letters with the new letters he wrote on top of them.
"It's quite amazing how he morphed 'subjects' into 'citizens,' " she said. "We did the reverse morphing back to 'subjects.' "
Figures. The government has been trying to do that for years...
goods go directly from the wholesaler's warehouse to the final consumer.
No they don't. There's no such thing as a teleporter. Everything is shipped, either by truck, rail, air - even your pron passes over wires, and fibre-optics and radio... and all that has infrastructure costs, right-of-ways, etc.
It's not because California has gotten better, but because Illinois has pretty much collapsed.
The budget deficit in Illinois is almost as big as the one facing California, a financially beleaguered state that has triple Illinois' population, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal Washington-based think tank.
"This is historic, it is epic," said Laurence Msall, president of the watchdog Civic Federation. "It is impossible to overstate the level of peril."
The problem is that RIM can't comply - their system is designed so that only the customer has the decryption key. The customer creates the key, not RIM. If India wants the key, they have to sue the customer, not RIM.
Not only is Google Book Search very blatant copyright infringement, but so is offering to show users the entire cached page in addition to a "fair-use-sized" snippet and a link to the original source for the rest of it.
The cached page should only be used internally to build the search indexes - never exposed to the public.
There's no need to go any further than the refusal of permission to license z/OS. That by itself is fatal. As for the infringement, yes, they do claim that as another issue, BUT they have never gone after the Hercules project on that basis. Ever. Not in 10 years. What they are concerned about is commercial violations of their z/OS license, and they make that clear. Helping companies run z/OS on Hercules is a commercial violation. $250,000 fine + 5 years jail for felony copyright infringement.
If anything, it'd be more like if Microsoft refused to license Office and other Microsoft applications to run outside of Windows - the two are distinct products that have been artificially tied.
Actually, Microsoft does restrict most of their software to Windows. Try activating and validating your copy of MS-Office 2010 under Wine. Also, the developer tools are separately restricted to Windows only.
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Try canceling your contract a month after you paid $199 for your iPhone - they'll bill you a cancellation fee for the cost of the subsidized phone ($20/month * 23 months left on your contract).
Data corruption - it's not just for hard drives any more :-)
If we made copyright limited to 21 years, and made software ONLY protected by copyright, we'd see more innovation. After all, the idea behind a limited term for patents was exactly that - use it or lose it ('cuz you're going to lose it anyway in $X number of years).
I agree on the need to roll back the "Mickey Mouse" provisions - why not put it to the same as patents - 21 years after publication?
Lawyers don't lie? Lawyers get it wrong 50% of the time - go to any courthouse and watch - there's always at least one loser in every case (and sometimes there's no winner). The only thing "broken" is your understanding of copyright.
Read Title 17 before you spout any more bullshit.
You can start with Fair Use
This is also now the case in Canada. It used to be that juvenile records were sealed and required a court order to access them, but that ended a couple of decades ago.
Of course, juvenile records aren't criminal convictions (though juveniles can get criminal convictions if their case is remanded to the regular "adult" court system), but anyone can apply for a discharge - but even that doesn't guarantee that records won't be kicking around somewhere.
Both itunes.com (17.149.168.45) and store.apple.com (17.149.156.10) route to Internap's San Jose facility (apple-17.sje.pnap.net (66.151.128.62).
Last I heard, unless the Big One has hit in the last day, San Jose is still part of the US.
Of course not - what I'm saying is that if you're going to scam a lot of people, a short workweek is the best time to do it. People are making their vacation plans, you've got the long weekend before the head honchos will deal with it, etc.
Amazing that this only breaks into the news over a long weekend?
Banks and CC companies will expect some purchases "out of the ordinary" on long weekends, and you won't be getting the first-line staff when you complain to Apple, etc.
I'm in Canada - we're on METRIC time, you insensitive clod! 100 seconds per minute, 100 minutes per hour, 10 hours per day!
Good question.
http://www.thistv.com/
Prime example of a site screwed up by way too much flash.
Are you kidding? "The Economist" is the print edition of MENSA - anyone stupid enough to buy into either one shows that they're not really all that smart.
The real genius is in milking the "sophisticates".
Moo!
I watched WarGames last night (It was on THIS TV)
It was amazing - like stepping into a time warp. The mother's a real estate agent, she's on the phone talking about creative financing and a balloon payment in 5 years but who cares because you'll be able to refinance at that point ... and this was in 1983, a quarter-century before the real estate bubble meltdown.
War dialing....
Social engineering for logon info ...
"Hacking" the payphone (we did it without having to unscrew the mouth piece - I guess they added that because showing the world how to really do it would have been a problem).
External 8" floppy drives.
Audio modems @ 300 baud (dropping down to 110).
Klunk-klunk-klunk-keyboards.
The same now-crappy-but-at-the-time-really-neat voice synthesizer from Radio Shack Color Computer for all the "computer voices"
Figures. The government has been trying to do that for years ...
That's because everyone else was too busy losing at tic-tac-toe.
I thought Apple wouldn't approve stuff like that?
No they don't. There's no such thing as a teleporter. Everything is shipped, either by truck, rail, air - even your pron passes over wires, and fibre-optics and radio ... and all that has infrastructure costs, right-of-ways, etc.
It's not because California has gotten better, but because Illinois has pretty much collapsed.
The problem is that RIM can't comply - their system is designed so that only the customer has the decryption key. The customer creates the key, not RIM. If India wants the key, they have to sue the customer, not RIM.
RIM will probably tell them to go piss up a rope - they can't afford to lose all their non-Indian government customers.
The other two should do the same.
Speaking of which - all those outsourced-to-India types are going to complain when they can't use their crackberries any more.
Not only is Google Book Search very blatant copyright infringement, but so is offering to show users the entire cached page in addition to a "fair-use-sized" snippet and a link to the original source for the rest of it.
The cached page should only be used internally to build the search indexes - never exposed to the public.
There's no need to go any further than the refusal of permission to license z/OS. That by itself is fatal. As for the infringement, yes, they do claim that as another issue, BUT they have never gone after the Hercules project on that basis. Ever. Not in 10 years. What they are concerned about is commercial violations of their z/OS license, and they make that clear. Helping companies run z/OS on Hercules is a commercial violation. $250,000 fine + 5 years jail for felony copyright infringement.
Actually, Microsoft does restrict most of their software to Windows. Try activating and validating your copy of MS-Office 2010 under Wine. Also, the developer tools are separately restricted to Windows only.