It's very simple. Cases like this are heard in California because US courts have a reputation for awarding the largest damages, and also for being prohibitively expensive to defendants.
You see cases, usually large civil damages suits, being heard inappropriately in US courts all the time
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I love it when people describe libertarian politics as 'fascist'. It makes it so much easier to ignore their half-baked opinions.
All the programmers working at Bletchley park in the second world war were women; partly because all the men were in the army, but mostly because programming Colossus was a lot like working a telephone switchboard.
With the secrecy that surrounded Bletchley Park after the war, these women represent the best surviving knowledge of Collosus' operation (except for the blueprints and notes Turing kindly sent Von Neumann...)
This is supposed to be a market economy; the salaries of workers isn't decided by the value of what they produce at all, except to the extent that it decided the maximum possible salary. The price of labour, like the price of everything else, is determined by the laws of supply and demand.
Programmers earn more than garbage men because fewer people have the skills and qualifications to be good programmers. Just you wait 'til India and China are turning out programmers by the thousands, you'll see...
I am consistently amazed by people's inability to understand the social system they live in.
Can't remember where I saw this, but people are working on a fuel-cell powered laptop. The laptop has a semi-premeable layer on the ouside,and hydrogen is pumped round inside that. the hydrogen layer, the membrane and the oxygen in the air outside comprise the fuel cell.
LOL
I remember when the first European version of Encarta was released, it had to be withdrawn after reviewers objected to the number of inventions erroneously attributed to Americans.
When Von Neumann's notes were declassified it was discovered that, when he got stuck, he asked Alan Turing how he'd done it.
Frankly, there are a handful of claimed first-general-purpose computers. The one that usually gets the credit has the worst claim of them all.
Of course they can. In the rest of the world, they often do. In Europe, the Data Protection people would have nailed these bastards to the wall. Soon, they'll be able to nail US companies for breaching the privacy rights of European based customers.
Really, it's simple : the US government doesn't want to protect you from businesses, incase it costs the businesses money.
True. Of course, the Berne convention means that copyright violations are treated similarly (almost) everywhere, but the judgement against Napster was very dubious even in American law, since teh servers only held indexes. Most judicial systems don't roll over for big business quite as easily as the US. I can't imagine the Dutch or Swedish courts being quite as generous.
and what about the countries that never signed the Berne convention?
Lunatic though the US government's attitude is, I can't imagine them using sanctions against countries whose courts rule against RIAA.
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It's very simple. Cases like this are heard in California because US courts have a reputation for awarding the largest damages, and also for being prohibitively expensive to defendants.
You see cases, usually large civil damages suits, being heard inappropriately in US courts all the time
I love it when people describe libertarian politics as 'fascist'. It makes it so much easier to ignore their half-baked opinions.
All the programmers working at Bletchley park in the second world war were women; partly because all the men were in the army, but mostly because programming Colossus was a lot like working a telephone switchboard.
With the secrecy that surrounded Bletchley Park after the war, these women represent the best surviving knowledge of Collosus' operation (except for the blueprints and notes Turing kindly sent Von Neumann...)
This is supposed to be a market economy; the salaries of workers isn't decided by the value of what they produce at all, except to the extent that it decided the maximum possible salary. The price of labour, like the price of everything else, is determined by the laws of supply and demand.
Programmers earn more than garbage men because fewer people have the skills and qualifications to be good programmers. Just you wait 'til India and China are turning out programmers by the thousands, you'll see...
I am consistently amazed by people's inability to understand the social system they live in.
Can't remember where I saw this, but people are working on a fuel-cell powered laptop. The laptop has a semi-premeable layer on the ouside,and hydrogen is pumped round inside that. the hydrogen layer, the membrane and the oxygen in the air outside comprise the fuel cell.
They told us WAP was 'the web on your mobile phone' it is clearly Gopher. Not quite the same, huh?
LOL I remember when the first European version of Encarta was released, it had to be withdrawn after reviewers objected to the number of inventions erroneously attributed to Americans.
When Von Neumann's notes were declassified it was discovered that, when he got stuck, he asked Alan Turing how he'd done it. Frankly, there are a handful of claimed first-general-purpose computers. The one that usually gets the credit has the worst claim of them all.
Of course they can. In the rest of the world, they often do. In Europe, the Data Protection people would have nailed these bastards to the wall. Soon, they'll be able to nail US companies for breaching the privacy rights of European based customers. Really, it's simple : the US government doesn't want to protect you from businesses, incase it costs the businesses money.
True. Of course, the Berne convention means that copyright violations are treated similarly (almost) everywhere, but the judgement against Napster was very dubious even in American law, since teh servers only held indexes. Most judicial systems don't roll over for big business quite as easily as the US. I can't imagine the Dutch or Swedish courts being quite as generous. and what about the countries that never signed the Berne convention? Lunatic though the US government's attitude is, I can't imagine them using sanctions against countries whose courts rule against RIAA.