. . . for all intents and purposes, it does little harm for Judge Patel to render a sop in the form of a favorable decision towards Napster so it maybe isn't as obvious that she's a bought and paid-for, corrupt, corporate tool.
The DMCA wielding scumbags haven't seen piracy yet. I've never played one of their games in my life, and I'm hosting it on three filesharing services. I hope they die, and painfully. (The company, I mean.) Hell, it might be a good idea to make CDRs with Warcruft 3 Beta with bnetd with the crack preinstalled, put them in pretty jewel cases with gorgeous color laser printed labels, and leave them on the benches outside Electronics Botique! Naw, I'll wait until release day.
There are already legal requirements about CD format, including a requirement that the "true name and address of the manufacturer" appear on the CD. This is in most states (here's Arizona's [state.az.us], look at Subsection A, 3 & 4) and in Federal law. This decision will just mean another line of fine print on the back of your CD.
That has got to be a First Amendment violation (protection of right to anonymous speech, e.g. pamphleterring), but I doubt it will ever be tested in court.
Concur. I ascribe no meaning to the proportion of positives. If someone has 20 negatives, he's pissed off 20 different people. I don't care if he's done 1E6 transactions; that's too many for me to take the risk.
In the case of one negative, I consider whether it was as a buyer or a seller, and check the guy who left it to see if the person I'm looking at retaliated or otherwise acted like a jerk.
Since this is so vital to protecting their business by their own admission, and there's no way to stop the code since the source is in the wild (q.v. DeCSS), shouldn't a number of helpful people post the fact that their "core copyright protection technology" that enables sales of their "upcoming flagship product" is hopelessly compromised to all the stock boards?
They deleted your post. So they're not just DMCA toting jackbooted rat bastards, they're censoring DMCA toting jackbooted rat bastards. Someone post the eDonkey e2dk:// links. I'll serve it until the end of fscking time. If I can lose them one sale of WarCruft 3 or whatever it is, I'll feel like I've helped in a tiny way.
don't see why the same people who would pay for a Red Hat distribution because they like it have a problem paying for a free online gaming service because they like it as well.
Might have something to do with the fact that Red Hat hasn't been going around stomping on the community like the jackbooted corporate DMCA wielding thugs at Blizzard.
So, did Giganews give up your contact information to the MPAA?
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1. There should be a way to do anything with your hands on the keyboard whenever possible. 2. The Escape key should always do just that. 3. If the app is going to try to hold my hand, give me the option to turn it off. 4. If it's a Windows app, follow the darned CUA guidelines! 5. If there's an operation that's going to take a long time, give me a progress indicator. 6. But if you're going to give me a progress indicator, make it mean something--don't let it move across like the progress bar on MSIE when it can't connect to a site.
I'm sure there are about a hundred more that I can't think of this early in the morning. Good luck!
Go back and read the previous posts, including the one containing the opinion of one dispensing legal advice. Obviously, you are going to keep posting until you've the last word. Feel free, and I'll go on knowing I'm right, and you'll go on thinking you're right. See you in another thread.
Except that if you use it to record a _live_ conversation, it's a recorder. The beep has jack shit to do with that. Either you're thick or are just being argumentative when you have no point whatsoever, and are wrong about the god damned beep.
Except that it'd be possible to fabricate a story that the logs were stored on an old backup tape or something, the whole ten years, while really having retrived the information from an archive yesterday.
IOW, your powerful adversary could use the stuff against you without revealing his sources and methods.
(Or better yet, for saying "Sorry, we only keep messages for an hour", thereby giving the illusion of the messages being transitory, while in reality, the messages are retained indefinitely for use in FISA cases.)
That's one of the really ugly things about secret evidence. If AOL held the messages indefinitely, and they were used in a public trial, the people would all be on notice. But in the scenario you describe, the people get the worst of both worlds: a false sense of security and the spectre of having ten year old IMs come back to haunt them if they do something to irritate someone powerful.
Apparently, you haven't raised a daughter yet. Thus, I think Colorado law is weak in the area, and am glad to know that in at least one the Eastern states, that isn't so.
Don't ascribe your own motives to everyone else. Are you going to be saying this same thing once non-policeware PCs get C&Dd and DMCAd? The GBA is a computer, and its owners have every right to purchase tools that allow them to develop for it, whether you believe these tools are for that purpose or not.
When I heard about that, I assumed that it was a ROM cartridge that contained some kind of crippled environment for programs to run atop, and not direct access to the machine. But I haven't checked it out.
What would be even more interesting is if the logs couldn't be entered into evidence because of the two-party thing, but AOL was able to cough up transcripts of the conversation after the fact. After all, messages traverse their servers. Might be pretty scary to find out how long they hold on to them.
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. . . for all intents and purposes, it does little harm for Judge Patel to render a sop in the form of a favorable decision towards Napster so it maybe isn't as obvious that she's a bought and paid-for, corrupt, corporate tool.
The DMCA wielding scumbags haven't seen piracy yet. I've never played one of their games in my life, and I'm hosting it on three filesharing services. I hope they die, and painfully. (The company, I mean.) Hell, it might be a good idea to make CDRs with Warcruft 3 Beta with bnetd with the crack preinstalled, put them in pretty jewel cases with gorgeous color laser printed labels, and leave them on the benches outside Electronics Botique! Naw, I'll wait until release day.
That has got to be a First Amendment violation (protection of right to anonymous speech, e.g. pamphleterring), but I doubt it will ever be tested in court.
In the case of one negative, I consider whether it was as a buyer or a seller, and check the guy who left it to see if the person I'm looking at retaliated or otherwise acted like a jerk.
The investors have a right to know!
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Might have something to do with the fact that Red Hat hasn't been going around stomping on the community like the jackbooted corporate DMCA wielding thugs at Blizzard.
Not that you're insinuating anything here :).
That's good to know--I'm glad they at least didn't give you up. Thanks!
So, did Giganews give up your contact information to the MPAA?
2. The Escape key should always do just that.
3. If the app is going to try to hold my hand, give me the option to turn it off.
4. If it's a Windows app, follow the darned CUA guidelines !
5. If there's an operation that's going to take a long time, give me a progress indicator.
6. But if you're going to give me a progress indicator, make it mean something--don't let it move across like the progress bar on MSIE when it can't connect to a site.
I'm sure there are about a hundred more that I can't think of this early in the morning. Good luck!
Go back and read the previous posts, including the one containing the opinion of one dispensing legal advice. Obviously, you are going to keep posting until you've the last word. Feel free, and I'll go on knowing I'm right, and you'll go on thinking you're right. See you in another thread.
Heh :). In a tar on the Linux partition--I knew someone was going to catch that. I just didn't know it would be that quick.
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Directory of \\charon\downloads\suppressed
. ..
02/20/2002 09:25 PM <DIR>
02/20/2002 09:25 PM <DIR>
07/27/2001 01:34 PM 746,194 aebpr22.zip
01/12/2002 10:57 AM <DIR> ASPI Me (backdate to 1998)
02/20/2002 09:18 PM <DIR> Blizzard Jackboots
09/22/2001 04:05 PM <DIR> Broadcast 2000
01/30/2002 04:22 PM <DIR> eBookReader (old verson)
06/07/2001 06:50 PM <DIR> PanoTools
08/25/2001 12:06 PM <DIR> SKIE
06/08/2001 07:24 PM <DIR> TiVo MPEG
12/31/2001 08:00 AM <DIR> WMA crack (v7)
12/31/2001 08:06 AM <DIR> Xolox
08/25/2001 12:06 PM <DIR> xp-stuff
1 File(s) 746,194 bytes
12 Dir(s) 10,921,562,112 bytes free
Think these intellectual property assmonkeys see a pattern yet? If you want the widest distribution of a file, just try to stamp it out.
* machine names changed to protect the guilty
Except that if you use it to record a _live_ conversation, it's a recorder. The beep has jack shit to do with that. Either you're thick or are just being argumentative when you have no point whatsoever, and are wrong about the god damned beep.
IOW, your powerful adversary could use the stuff against you without revealing his sources and methods.
No it won't, trust me :).
That's one of the really ugly things about secret evidence. If AOL held the messages indefinitely, and they were used in a public trial, the people would all be on notice. But in the scenario you describe, the people get the worst of both worlds: a false sense of security and the spectre of having ten year old IMs come back to haunt them if they do something to irritate someone powerful.
Apparently, you haven't raised a daughter yet. Thus, I think Colorado law is weak in the area, and am glad to know that in at least one the Eastern states, that isn't so.
Anyway, thanks for the info.
Don't ascribe your own motives to everyone else. Are you going to be saying this same thing once non-policeware PCs get C&Dd and DMCAd? The GBA is a computer, and its owners have every right to purchase tools that allow them to develop for it, whether you believe these tools are for that purpose or not.
I get your point, but the law disagrees with you. Minors are protected by the law by having sex with them considered rape.
When I heard about that, I assumed that it was a ROM cartridge that contained some kind of crippled environment for programs to run atop, and not direct access to the machine. But I haven't checked it out.
What would be even more interesting is if the logs couldn't be entered into evidence because of the two-party thing, but AOL was able to cough up transcripts of the conversation after the fact. After all, messages traverse their servers. Might be pretty scary to find out how long they hold on to them.
OK. Unlike the perp in this case, a shoplifter didn't demonstrate intent to rape anyone. :).
How so? Unlike the perp in this case, a jaywalker hasn't demonstrated intent to harm anyone but himself.