2 - Can offending code/trademarks/etc be removed since its 'seen'? Sure, I never said it could not, but it might be so tightly bound into the project that it can kill the project totally and still cause people involved to be held legally liable.
No, i bet they want it like it used to be, where you had to PAY for the copyright, and submit it to the federal government for "protection".
Then they lobby get the Feds to raise the cost to be prohibitively high, so that a starving artist has to come groveling to the industry to get their work protected.
Well, that pretty much covers anyone that has done anything in their life. Remember anything you write is technically copyrighted to you, unless you give that ownership away on the item in question.
And what the hell is this, they now want to have the right to commit fraud? These people need to be stopped. In many ways this is worse then them wanting to physically destroy people's equipment because they *suspected* there was a file on a pc they didnt like.
Not in the least are they immune to the same sorts of troubles as some 'company' when IP rghts are violated.. Its just harder to shut it down when its some sort of distributed creature. But legally, there is really no difference.
Remember the date 1985 was just a plot tool, and a mixture of the current date at teh time. There was no "magic' date being predicted.. Just some abstract eventual future of mankind.
But i do agree, i think we have arrived on its doorstep.
Did i specifically say terrorism? No. Though i do admit that is part of the modern world, that is not the only threat, and is far down on the food chain of direct effect to our daily lives.
But yes, all our law enforcement people should be dealing with things that actually mean something. Wasting resources on a GAME is ludicrous.
What the hell is going on with this nonsense? Don't we have better things to do with our tax dollars, like umm protecting our borders or preventing another local attack?
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1 - All are threats.
2 - Can offending code/trademarks/etc be removed since its 'seen'? Sure, I never said it could not, but it might be so tightly bound into the project that it can kill the project totally and still cause people involved to be held legally liable.
Sure we can, but can we pay off as many legislature people as Microsoft can? Nope.
Blah.
This is getting really old.
Go ahead and stick your head in the sand. I'm done wasting time here.
I do hope your pet project goes down in flames due to something like this.
And beacuse its open source it means it magically cant be infected with other peoples IP?
No, i bet they want it like it used to be, where you had to PAY for the copyright, and submit it to the federal government for "protection".
Then they lobby get the Feds to raise the cost to be prohibitively high, so that a starving artist has to come groveling to the industry to get their work protected.
Well, that pretty much covers anyone that has done anything in their life. Remember anything you write is technically copyrighted to you, unless you give that ownership away on the item in question.
And what the hell is this, they now want to have the right to commit fraud? These people need to be stopped. In many ways this is worse then them wanting to physically destroy people's equipment because they *suspected* there was a file on a pc they didnt like.
Not in the least are they immune to the same sorts of troubles as some 'company' when IP rghts are violated.. Its just harder to shut it down when its some sort of distributed creature. But legally, there is really no difference.
Isnt that the low end Mini?
We past that point long ago, and it only bred more stupidity.
How i wish that was true.. but i got a bad feeling the worst is yet to come.
Yes, this will make for an interesting precident.
Ironically, without a contract, even legit 'pickups' could land you in jail if you were the target ( instead of the 'oferrer' ).
Its just your word against his, and he can prove ownership. You cant.
But, if you actually use what you have you get a phonecall complaining about it.
It was just a typo.. 5 is close to 4 on the keyboard.
Remember the date 1985 was just a plot tool, and a mixture of the current date at teh time. There was no "magic' date being predicted.. Just some abstract eventual future of mankind.
But i do agree, i think we have arrived on its doorstep.
Although i dont like the idea of a streetlamp watching then yelling at me for littering, it is against the law to litter at least.
But telling me im a bad person due to some backroom algorithm or the words on my protest sign? no F-ing way would i stand for that if i was British.
If you gamble, you risk losing all your money by the very definition.
If you are stupid enough to do it, you deserve to have it taken away.
Did i specifically say terrorism? No. Though i do admit that is part of the modern world, that is not the only threat, and is far down on the food chain of direct effect to our daily lives.
But yes, all our law enforcement people should be dealing with things that actually mean something. Wasting resources on a GAME is ludicrous.
I really doubt it. It takes far more neurons to make us who we are then could ever be replaced and 're-programmed'.
Its much easier and effective to just brainwash or blackmail someone into doing your bidding.
What the hell is going on with this nonsense? Don't we have better things to do with our tax dollars, like umm protecting our borders or preventing another local attack?
geesh.
These days thats too damned common for my taste.
I operate under the assumption that my network is never secure, so i have to protect my data in other ways.
Also, I don't get charged for bandwidth at home and dont mind sharing.
Can we ( as the US ) simply negate their authority?
What if they were free movies?
Or, how about you downloaded a couple of DVD isos of some linux distro or something?
5gb isnt that much these days. Id say my spam alone is hitting 1gb a month at a guess.