If someone told you you couldn't shoot someone who broke into your house because that made you a vigilante, your opinion would change pretty quickly, I'm sure. This wouldn't be the first law allowing someone to take matters into his own hands in protecting his property
Breaking into a house is a violent act. By shooting the person breaking into your house, you are just defending yourself. Unauthorized copying, however, is not a violent act. Therefore, copyright holders should not have as much leeway as real property holders in protecting their property. They are not in imment danger if someone copies their work.
I make a product, I can design it to work however I want. If I build the thing to play advertisements, and you still want to buy the thing, that's my decision.
No! No! No! Under the first sale doctrine, when you BUY a product, you can DO WHAT YOU WANT WITH IT!!
My problem with this bill is this: Let's say that it has all the safeguards Berman says it does. However, the RIAA damages my computer anyway. What could I do about it? Absolutly nothing!! Even if I take them to court, guess what? They'd be able to afford better lawyers than me. Which means they could even take a sledge hammer to my computer and get away with it.
Do you have any plans for what to do when you get out of prison? How do you think being a convicted criminal will affect job prospects, etc? What do you plan to do about any adverse affects a criminal record might have?
Secondly, I think that limited liability within the corporate system should be scrapped; this is an issue of personal responsibility too. If you're a shareholder of a corporation, and that corporation bilks it's employees out of their entitlements the day after paying its execs massive unjustified bonuses (as has happened in the US with Enron et al, and in Australia with One.Tel and HIH), then whatever money is owed should be stripped from the people running the company first, then whatever else is required should be stripped from the shareholders. The fact that they had less say over the everyday running of the corporation should be taken into account of course, but people need to stop treating share ownership as just a big cash cow, and take some serious responsibility for their investment decisions. They provided the money for these companies to do their dirty work.
Great idea...if you want to see the economy get worse than it already is. If stockholders were to be held responsible for the actions of the companies whose stock they hold, I, and probably most citizens, would simply not buy any stock. It just wouldn't be worth the risk.
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We have something like a coprorate death penalty in antitrust laws. However, I think that corporations should be disolved for any grave and serious illegal act, not just being a monopoly.
Try the Gnutella network. You can find a list of clients at Gnutella News. Also, try KaZaA. Don't use the official client; it has spyware and adware. Use KaZaA Lite instead.
GPL software isn't "imprisoned in a box with a pricetag". Yes, a company can charge you for GPL software. However, you can distribute said software for free.
We get allies that can actually do something. Verizon, AT&T, Cable and Wireless, the Bells...this will be a true clash of the titans. May our side win.
Nestle have been likened to baby killers, for their questionable and innapproriate marketing of powdered milk to African mothers who would have been far better off breast feeding their children. In many cases the powdered milk was mixed with dirty water and children died.
Right. I'm sure Nestle put a gun to the African mothers' heads and said "mix the milk with dirty water or die!"
The TIAJ (Telephone Industry Association of Japan) announced that they would be asking the Diet [Japanese Congress] to pass the DMTA (Digital Millennium Telephone Act), which would make VoIP illegal. "These people get all the benefits of telephone service, but none of the profits go to us!", TIAJ chairman Shinji Shinjisan said. "This needs to change."
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Personally, I'd rather be a cripple than not be able to talk, or have mental retardation. But that's just me.
Everything comes up as "Normal". There is no mention of service disruptions.
Breaking into a house is a violent act. By shooting the person breaking into your house, you are just defending yourself. Unauthorized copying, however, is not a violent act. Therefore, copyright holders should not have as much leeway as real property holders in protecting their property. They are not in imment danger if someone copies their work.
No! No! No! Under the first sale doctrine, when you BUY a product, you can DO WHAT YOU WANT WITH IT!!
My problem with this bill is this:
Let's say that it has all the safeguards Berman says it does. However, the RIAA damages my computer anyway. What could I do about it? Absolutly nothing!!
Even if I take them to court, guess what? They'd be able to afford better lawyers than me. Which means they could even take a sledge hammer to my computer and get away with it.
This guy has no job, no income, and he's taking responsibility to another human being? What a moron!
Zero, because Darwin wrote no such book. He did, however, write a book called The Origin of Species
How does not buying it hurt Ghibli less than if I bought a bootleg. They still loose a sale.
How does one plan to go to prison?
How do you plan to adjust to prison life?
Do you have any plans for what to do when you get out of prison?
How do you think being a convicted criminal will affect job prospects, etc?
What do you plan to do about any adverse affects a criminal record might have?
Great idea...if you want to see the economy get worse than it already is.
If stockholders were to be held responsible for the actions of the companies whose stock they hold, I, and probably most citizens, would simply not buy any stock. It just wouldn't be worth the risk.
We have something like a coprorate death penalty in antitrust laws. However, I think that corporations should be disolved for any grave and serious illegal act, not just being a monopoly.
Try the Gnutella network. You can find a list of clients at Gnutella News. Also, try KaZaA. Don't use the official client; it has spyware and adware. Use KaZaA Lite instead.
Napster has been dead for awhile. Whatever happens to it now will be a mere formality.
I'd add something like Norton Systemworks.
Are there any predictions as to the problems (blackouts, etc) that might be caused by this?
GPL software isn't "imprisoned in a box with a pricetag". Yes, a company can charge you for GPL software. However, you can distribute said software for free.
We get allies that can actually do something. Verizon, AT&T, Cable and Wireless, the Bells...this will be a true clash of the titans. May our side win.
The article is Slashdoted. I hope that the actual ISP's site can withstand a bit more traffic...
If it's human-observable, it's machine-recordable.
If I can't play them on my computer, to listen to music that I bought and paid for while I work, then these SACDs are useless to me.
Right. I'm sure Nestle put a gun to the African mothers' heads and said "mix the milk with dirty water or die!"
May I ask which company? May I ask for some sources for this information?
The TIAJ (Telephone Industry Association of Japan) announced that they would be asking the Diet [Japanese Congress] to pass the DMTA (Digital Millennium Telephone Act), which would make VoIP illegal. "These people get all the benefits of telephone service, but none of the profits go to us!", TIAJ chairman Shinji Shinjisan said. "This needs to change."
I will seriously consider signing up with these guys. Finally, an ISP that cares about its customers!