Judge Lee could find no case "holding the mere owner of an Internet account contributorily or vicariously liable for the infringing activities of third persons."
I can see next year, really early
HR 2008 - 0002 "Secure Communication Relating to Existing Wireless Environment Detection" Act.
(i) Owners of a wireless network will be held accountable for all civil and criminal liabilities associated with any unauthorized copyrighted materials on the network....
There are tens of thousands of videos on the site. How is Google supposed to police them all? Removing existing clips is about the best they can do, and maybe banning a user who uploaded copyrighted content, to address your reupload thing. I suppose they could filter certain titles like 'Daily Show' but then the uploader could use 'Daily_show' instead. It'd be pretty hard to keep it all off, without a full time staff of video reviewers.
I'm sure the producers of the fifth Harry Potter movie are jumping for joy, as their movie comes out very close to that time (July 13). The publication of the last book would generate much more buzz about Harry Potter than any thing they could come up with for the movie on it's own.
IANAL, But let's say for argument's sake that the kid is right and the record companies are 'colluding'. That seems immaterial to the charge that he violated copyright violation. Statue of Limitations I can see, but you can't use wrongdoings of others as a defense for your own, unless they are directly relevant to this case (extortion claims? But isn't that how all lawsuits work? Sue or settle?) If the case had no merit, then it shouldn't go forward at all, but I don't see how this 'collusion' defense addresses the charges at hand.
Not to state the obvious here, but if it kills 90% of the virus, doesn't that just mean that next year we'll get a flue completely immune to this stuff?
Not that I disagree with you, but on Cable TV, the number of channels you have to block will be minor, compared to the millions of inappropriate sites on the web. It is infeasible to have a black list for each of these sites. I'm not sure how well automated filtering software works at all, so I don't know that that would help.
The WTO does not have the power to strike down any US law.
Disclaimer, IDNKWIATA (I do not know what I am talking about), but I think that even though the parent statement is technically true, I believe the WTO can decide to take punative trading measures against countries that do not comply with these rulings. I do not know if the US has any veto power here, like they do in the security council.
This is quite an insightful concept. It certainly answers my original question "What need does the game industry need to gather 'popular' game information, when they can simply go by 'games sold'?" How much does it cost to get those annoying advertisements out of games? The only justification I can think of is to give the games some kind of realism, like sporting events.
So if you have a TV, a vcr and a computer, that's about $750 a year? Wow. I thought it was about $200 or so, but I hadn't figured the multiples thing. yowch. I can't imagine spending $1000 a year on dvds.
Just out of curiosity, what is the yearly TV tax? It would have to be high, I would think, to subsidize the tv enough to have no commercials. DVD sets run from $30 to $150 a season here, and they don't seem to be enough to cover the cost of series. (Maybe it has something to do with the massive number of series produced here)
Not having seen much of the original series, in the new series, the Doctor is the last of the Time Lords, after a Time War wiped them out (along with the Daleks). When in time did this occur, because it seems that in all time periods, people seem to know that the Daleks were wiped out? Do the time lords age chronologically in time? What year was their planet destroyed? Having the time lords exist in our linear time doesn't make much sense then, if they've "always never existed" (which is what it seems like).
My idea is maybe they have a concept of linear time, but it is a line "perpendicular" to our timeline. Our entire timeline is in flux as their timeline goes forward. At one point in their timeline, our timeline consisted of a world with timelords, throughout history. Later in their timeline, our timeline consisted of a world where the timelords had always been destroyed, throughought history. This is weird, as time travel is weird, but does anyone have any thoughts about this?
Did you read his blog? I'm very sorry to say that the AOL "First View" Premiere of the "White & Nerdy" video has been cancelled.
Apparently, the video has already leaked online, and AOL doesn't feel comfortable doing a "World Premiere" promotion for a video that a number of people have seen already. (I can understand songs leaking, but a video? How'd THAT happen?)
Anyway, it's really a bummer... it would have been great promotion for the album... but hey, life goes on.
So...
I'll be uploading the video to this page shortly. Tell your friends!
It was already 'out there', so he put it on myspace. Order of events. 1) Leaked 2) AOL Cancelled 3) Al put it on his site.
He might have put it on his site either way, but there is no contradiction between leak and wide availability.
As a corollary to this, since my party X is "none", I should say that !X "all parties" are corrupt. This is probably true for the big main two, but like anything else, given enough people, critical mass is reached and it becomes corrupt. This is probably true of governments, companies, organized religion, etc. That's why I advocate that we all live in caves with at most 20 people. That would keep us from being corrupt.
Slashdot Mirror
Abolish it.
Judge Lee could find no case "holding the mere owner of an Internet account contributorily or vicariously liable for the infringing activities of third persons."
I can see next year, really early
HR 2008 - 0002 "Secure Communication Relating to Existing Wireless Environment Detection" Act.
(i) Owners of a wireless network will be held accountable for all civil and criminal liabilities associated with any unauthorized copyrighted materials on the network....
I heard that there is a non-trivial correlation.
There are tens of thousands of videos on the site. How is Google supposed to police them all? Removing existing clips is about the best they can do, and maybe banning a user who uploaded copyrighted content, to address your reupload thing. I suppose they could filter certain titles like 'Daily Show' but then the uploader could use 'Daily_show' instead. It'd be pretty hard to keep it all off, without a full time staff of video reviewers.
I'm sure the producers of the fifth Harry Potter movie are jumping for joy, as their movie comes out very close to that time (July 13). The publication of the last book would generate much more buzz about Harry Potter than any thing they could come up with for the movie on it's own.
IANAL, But let's say for argument's sake that the kid is right and the record companies are 'colluding'. That seems immaterial to the charge that he violated copyright violation. Statue of Limitations I can see, but you can't use wrongdoings of others as a defense for your own, unless they are directly relevant to this case (extortion claims? But isn't that how all lawsuits work? Sue or settle?) If the case had no merit, then it shouldn't go forward at all, but I don't see how this 'collusion' defense addresses the charges at hand.
Not to state the obvious here, but if it kills 90% of the virus, doesn't that just mean that next year we'll get a flue completely immune to this stuff?
Similarly, what if the disaster is a supernova?
CA is one of the most HIGH TECH states in the US
Do not confuse the state government of CA with the private sector, or state as a whole. State government bureaucracy is incredibly slow there.
So why are there still commercials at all?
Because we put up with it.
How can the majority of their customers use it if it hasn't even been released yet?
Why would this be a bad thing? I'm all for diversity of culture, but experiencing that diversity would be much easier if we all understood each other.
Not that I disagree with you, but on Cable TV, the number of channels you have to block will be minor, compared to the millions of inappropriate sites on the web. It is infeasible to have a black list for each of these sites. I'm not sure how well automated filtering software works at all, so I don't know that that would help.
The WTO does not have the power to strike down any US law.
Disclaimer, IDNKWIATA (I do not know what I am talking about), but I think that even though the parent statement is technically true, I believe the WTO can decide to take punative trading measures against countries that do not comply with these rulings. I do not know if the US has any veto power here, like they do in the security council.
Would it really be in their best interest though? It costs time and money to monitor people, resources most likely spent elsewhere.
This is quite an insightful concept. It certainly answers my original question "What need does the game industry need to gather 'popular' game information, when they can simply go by 'games sold'?" How much does it cost to get those annoying advertisements out of games? The only justification I can think of is to give the games some kind of realism, like sporting events.
I can imagine what someone would say about the parent being 'Informative' during metamoderation. :-)
Hmm... a post showing the sum of two numbers.
They prefer to be called Jovians.
So if you have a TV, a vcr and a computer, that's about $750 a year? Wow. I thought it was about $200 or so, but I hadn't figured the multiples thing. yowch. I can't imagine spending $1000 a year on dvds.
Just out of curiosity, what is the yearly TV tax? It would have to be high, I would think, to subsidize the tv enough to have no commercials. DVD sets run from $30 to $150 a season here, and they don't seem to be enough to cover the cost of series. (Maybe it has something to do with the massive number of series produced here)
They're showing the Christmas episode. Tonight's Sci fi a href="http://www.scifi.com">lineup
8:00 PM EST Doctor Who -- Christmas Invasion
9:30 PM EST Doctor Who -- New Earth
10:30 PM EST Doctor Who -- Christmas Invasion
What are they skipping? (Children in need 6 minute thing maybe)
Not having seen much of the original series, in the new series, the Doctor is the last of the Time Lords, after a Time War wiped them out (along with the Daleks). When in time did this occur, because it seems that in all time periods, people seem to know that the Daleks were wiped out? Do the time lords age chronologically in time? What year was their planet destroyed? Having the time lords exist in our linear time doesn't make much sense then, if they've "always never existed" (which is what it seems like).
My idea is maybe they have a concept of linear time, but it is a line "perpendicular" to our timeline. Our entire timeline is in flux as their timeline goes forward. At one point in their timeline, our timeline consisted of a world with timelords, throughout history. Later in their timeline, our timeline consisted of a world where the timelords had always been destroyed, throughought history. This is weird, as time travel is weird, but does anyone have any thoughts about this?
I assume they think that more units sold = more games bought, which are not sold at a loss, which would profit them.
Did you read his blog?
I'm very sorry to say that the AOL "First View" Premiere of the "White & Nerdy" video has been cancelled.
Apparently, the video has already leaked online, and AOL doesn't feel comfortable doing a "World Premiere" promotion for a video that a number of people have seen already. (I can understand songs leaking, but a video? How'd THAT happen?)
Anyway, it's really a bummer... it would have been great promotion for the album... but hey, life goes on.
So...
I'll be uploading the video to this page shortly. Tell your friends!
It was already 'out there', so he put it on myspace. Order of events.
1) Leaked
2) AOL Cancelled
3) Al put it on his site.
He might have put it on his site either way, but there is no contradiction between leak and wide availability.
As a corollary to this, since my party X is "none", I should say that !X "all parties" are corrupt. This is probably true for the big main two, but like anything else, given enough people, critical mass is reached and it becomes corrupt. This is probably true of governments, companies, organized religion, etc. That's why I advocate that we all live in caves with at most 20 people. That would keep us from being corrupt.