You know, all you are encouraging is the RIAA to engage in "busts" where they try to catch people red handed by kicking down their door. You're just going to make them more extreme by claiming that they need more extreme evidence. Meanwhile, you're neglecting the simple fact that a large percentage of the population believe they have the right to share files. Copyright is no longer a respected law.
Be careful what you wish for. This is not, yet, something the police are enforcing as a criminal act (even though the NET act made it one). If you keep asking for "fairness", then they possibility of criminal instead of civil law being used goes up, so people can get access to public defenders.
Heh, you can't come to the rescue of zappepcs by posting a well thought out analysis of 1984 and relating it to the current situation. I now have no doubt that you have read 1984, but that still doesn't change the fact that zappepcs clearly hasn't.
Didn't say they were. The CIA did the exact same thing in my country which resulted in our Prime Minister having to step down.
Australia. Gough Whitlam. In case you're curious.
Again, the CIA doesn't debate this. It is official record.
None of this changes the fact that people, for whatever reason, cause trouble at peaceful protests.. and the police feel a duty to try to stop this stuff from happening. How do you tell the good infultrators from the bad infultrators? No idea.
Yep, cause copyright and property are synonymous and someone I've never met should have a greater say over what I can do with my computer than I should.
So, basically, what you are tell me, is that you've no idea what 1984 was about and you're simply refering to "big brother" instead of "the surveillance boogeyman" cause you want to sound educated when you are clearly not.
man, what the fuck does that have to do with the warning against the "ideal society" promise of communism and its incompatibility with human nature that was the center point of the work entitled 1984 and a number of other works by Orwell?
It's kind of annoying that extremists can't seperate themselves from peaceful protesters. I mean, if you want to throw stones at cops, do it when they are beating up on civilians, or taking bribes, or driving through red lights without the siren on. Don't go fuck up a peaceful protest.
No. The current generation may tolerate a law that did not restrict copying, but required a royalty be paid to a collection agency. The next generation won't even tolerate that. We all have copying devices now. We want to use them.
The reason is the majority of people like to believe they will never get caught. Like speeding tickets. Uhh.. no. The reason is that they feel they have the right to copy whatever the hell they feel like with their own copying equipment and to hell with people who say they can't. Most everyone I know has burnt something onto a CD or DVD that copyright law says they cannot and none of them feel they have done anything wrong. Young, old, 20 something, 50 something.. Copyright law is fundamentally distant from the social intuition of fairness.
I must be some other QuantumG then.. When I contacted you, I had no "problems" for which I needed your help. In fact, I was offering my services as a reverse engineer to help prevent people using copyright and the strange binary-source nature of software to prevent free expression. Something for which I have repeatedly been turned down by legal people who see reverse engineering as too damn scary a topic to broach. Maybe, and I stress maybe, you're refering to the many years ago when I approached the FSF for advice on some copyright issues I was having with the Planeshift project.. which were caused by them having no clear, and legal, policy for user contributions.. something which they have since rectified.. but most likely not.
Please, if you have a problem with me contact me directly. My problem, with people who make idle threats through copyright law and then cant even be bothered paying for a lawyer, I think, are quite well founded and require no futher explanation to people who believe, as I do, that copyright is fundamentally a bad thing.
It's unaccountable.. unless you're privy to information the rest of us are not, his claims are just as true as yours. And, historically, claims of greater abuse of unaccountable powers is more likely than claims of lesser abuse.
Somehow I doubt it is a feat of supercomputing marvel if it only takes 86 hours. More likely 6 years, or the submitter just completely made up those numbers, as they're not in the story anywhere.
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Is there a verifiable history of the NYPD doing that? Or are you just painting them with your very long brush?
You know, all you are encouraging is the RIAA to engage in "busts" where they try to catch people red handed by kicking down their door. You're just going to make them more extreme by claiming that they need more extreme evidence. Meanwhile, you're neglecting the simple fact that a large percentage of the population believe they have the right to share files. Copyright is no longer a respected law.
Be careful what you wish for. This is not, yet, something the police are enforcing as a criminal act (even though the NET act made it one). If you keep asking for "fairness", then they possibility of criminal instead of civil law being used goes up, so people can get access to public defenders.
Heh, you can't come to the rescue of zappepcs by posting a well thought out analysis of 1984 and relating it to the current situation. I now have no doubt that you have read 1984, but that still doesn't change the fact that zappepcs clearly hasn't.
But I did enjoy your post, thank you.
Unfortunately, to most people it means "what that other guy said the other day" cause they have never read it.
You'd seriously consider paying $5000 to the RIAA? For a license to do something you should have the right to do anyway?
I've got a bridge you might like to buy.
Well shit, who's to say that the NYPD are not eating people? Jesus, can you at least try to make a sensible argument?
Didn't say they were. The CIA did the exact same thing in my country which resulted in our Prime Minister having to step down.
Australia. Gough Whitlam. In case you're curious.
Again, the CIA doesn't debate this. It is official record.
None of this changes the fact that people, for whatever reason, cause trouble at peaceful protests.. and the police feel a duty to try to stop this stuff from happening. How do you tell the good infultrators from the bad infultrators? No idea.
Yep, cause copyright and property are synonymous and someone I've never met should have a greater say over what I can do with my computer than I should.
wild guess: having a good laugh and throwing the notice in the nearest wastepaper bin.
So, basically, what you are tell me, is that you've no idea what 1984 was about and you're simply refering to "big brother" instead of "the surveillance boogeyman" cause you want to sound educated when you are clearly not.
3) Give up your right to use your computer as you see fit.
There ya go, fixed that for ya.
man, what the fuck does that have to do with the warning against the "ideal society" promise of communism and its incompatibility with human nature that was the center point of the work entitled 1984 and a number of other works by Orwell?
Isn't it clear then that the only solution is to stop corporations from buying politicans? And no, you can't use the political process to stop them.
It's kind of annoying that extremists can't seperate themselves from peaceful protesters. I mean, if you want to throw stones at cops, do it when they are beating up on civilians, or taking bribes, or driving through red lights without the siren on. Don't go fuck up a peaceful protest.
They make proprietary software.. they've already failed in that motto.
No. The current generation may tolerate a law that did not restrict copying, but required a royalty be paid to a collection agency. The next generation won't even tolerate that. We all have copying devices now. We want to use them.
I must be some other QuantumG then.. When I contacted you, I had no "problems" for which I needed your help. In fact, I was offering my services as a reverse engineer to help prevent people using copyright and the strange binary-source nature of software to prevent free expression. Something for which I have repeatedly been turned down by legal people who see reverse engineering as too damn scary a topic to broach. Maybe, and I stress maybe, you're refering to the many years ago when I approached the FSF for advice on some copyright issues I was having with the Planeshift project.. which were caused by them having no clear, and legal, policy for user contributions.. something which they have since rectified.. but most likely not.
Please, if you have a problem with me contact me directly. My problem, with people who make idle threats through copyright law and then cant even be bothered paying for a lawyer, I think, are quite well founded and require no futher explanation to people who believe, as I do, that copyright is fundamentally a bad thing.
It's unaccountable.. unless you're privy to information the rest of us are not, his claims are just as true as yours. And, historically, claims of greater abuse of unaccountable powers is more likely than claims of lesser abuse.
Some people consider omitting the truth lying.
Shya, you take that letter to a lawyer and the lawyer will give you the advice: do what it says and tell no-one that you showed me this.
Somehow I doubt it is a feat of supercomputing marvel if it only takes 86 hours. More likely 6 years, or the submitter just completely made up those numbers, as they're not in the story anywhere.
They're called punitive damages, son.