I'm reasonably certain that's never happened. It would be quite the uphill battle to demonstrate damages from violating the GPL. Someone like Trolltech or MySQL might be able to do so (because they offer commercial licenses as well), but pretty much anyone else is SOL.
The worst judgement that can be brought against a GPL violator is an injunction preventing further distribution. The GPL does not have any provisions to deny the license to those who have violated it, and so any violators can simply rectify their procedures and continue.
Thus, the GPL *does* allow you to fix problems retroactively.
True, but the amount of time that's passed until us showing up is also astronomically large. Except for that part. We're might actually be early to the party. The universe is something on the order of 15 billion years old. Our solar system and Earth is something on the order of 5 billion years old. Even assuming the universe was ready for solar system formation at year 0, that still puts us in the third generation at latest. It's entirely plausible that we're in the first generation.
Given that we've only been producing synthetic radio transmissions for about 0.00000001% of the life of our solar system, it's not all that surprising that we've not heard anyone else's. Will we still be sending those transmissions in a hundred years, let alone a billion? Maybe we'll switch to ubiquitous encryption, indecipherable from noise. Maybe we'll hit a technological singularity and use something currently incomprehensible for communications, and/or move to the spaces in between stars.
1. Probably the default billing period of their host. Irrelevant. 2. Who in their right mind would give a real email address as an administrative contact? That's a spam dump that will never be read, if it's even valid. There's nothing untoward about this, in fact it could be called standard practice. 3. So? They're a start up. They'll buy more bandwidth when it's needed. It's not that hard. 4. It's 2007. No one uses fax.
Kuwait (not a democracy, by the way) drilled diagonal wells into Iraq's oil fields. Iraq signaled its intention to defend those oil fields via diplomatic channels to the US, and the US approved of them. So yes, Gulf War 1.0 was quite random and uncalled for.
Even assuming one does notice the extra $20, what are you going to do about it? It would cost them more than $20 to send a courier to pick it up, and I'm certainly not taking time out of my day to fix their mistakes.
Of course he was denied because the session was on security. He'd been allowed to do this for years, and was only stopped when they looked at his literature.
Engineers can and do write books and perform music. Granted, it's unusual for them to muck it up in the low brow world of television, so I suppose you have me there.
They've made it quite clear that they don't like "furriners", so why are people still pressing the issue? Canada is a free and open society, and just to the north. We have lots of conference space in environments much more conducive to rational thought.
$68K is pocket change to these people. At best, this is a neutral outcome. When they dig up the rotting corpse of Jack Valenti and charge him with barratry, then we can call it positive.
Even if they did end up paying all her legal fees, plus interest, plus lost wages, the MAFIAA would still be ahead.
The point of these lawsuits isn't to recover "damages". It's to frighten the rest of the country into acting the way they want them to. If their skin were a little darker, it would be called "terrorism".
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That value includes the disk caching done be the kernel on behalf of the process. It isn't actually holding that much memory.
ktorrent and deluge are fine.
The company that owns the BitTorrent trademark is not the arbiter of the protocol or anything else. Do they even own that trademark?
Note that they opposed the addition of encryption, and they were completely ignored. BitTorrent, the company, is entirely irrelevant.
And believing in God is a symptom of a lack of education, or a rejection of it.
Exactly the same thing as your morals have to do with your superstitions; not a damn thing.
To anyone but the Danes. Since I'm not Danish, I certainly can say "No loss -> no compensation".
Unless both the defendant and plaintiff are Danish. Otherwise it will be heard in another jurisdiction.
You most certainly do have to show loss in civil court, and jail does not apply to corporations.
Nothing there prohibits them from obtaining another, identical license.
I'm reasonably certain that's never happened. It would be quite the uphill battle to demonstrate damages from violating the GPL. Someone like Trolltech or MySQL might be able to do so (because they offer commercial licenses as well), but pretty much anyone else is SOL.
The GPL is not legislation nor magic pixie dust.
The worst judgement that can be brought against a GPL violator is an injunction preventing further distribution. The GPL does not have any provisions to deny the license to those who have violated it, and so any violators can simply rectify their procedures and continue.
Thus, the GPL *does* allow you to fix problems retroactively.
Given that we've only been producing synthetic radio transmissions for about 0.00000001% of the life of our solar system, it's not all that surprising that we've not heard anyone else's. Will we still be sending those transmissions in a hundred years, let alone a billion? Maybe we'll switch to ubiquitous encryption, indecipherable from noise. Maybe we'll hit a technological singularity and use something currently incomprehensible for communications, and/or move to the spaces in between stars.
And maybe everyone else already has.
1. Probably the default billing period of their host. Irrelevant.
2. Who in their right mind would give a real email address as an administrative contact? That's a spam dump that will never be read, if it's even valid. There's nothing untoward about this, in fact it could be called standard practice.
3. So? They're a start up. They'll buy more bandwidth when it's needed. It's not that hard.
4. It's 2007. No one uses fax.
You're rather ignorant, though.
Kuwait (not a democracy, by the way) drilled diagonal wells into Iraq's oil fields. Iraq signaled its intention to defend those oil fields via diplomatic channels to the US, and the US approved of them. So yes, Gulf War 1.0 was quite random and uncalled for.
Now keep your military to yourself.
Don't want to get bombed? Don't bomb other people.
It really is that simple. The blowback you are now receiving was entirely predictable, and you have no justification to complain about it now.
Even assuming one does notice the extra $20, what are you going to do about it? It would cost them more than $20 to send a courier to pick it up, and I'm certainly not taking time out of my day to fix their mistakes.
And I'll let you have it *real* cheap.
Of course he was denied because the session was on security. He'd been allowed to do this for years, and was only stopped when they looked at his literature.
Engineers can and do write books and perform music. Granted, it's unusual for them to muck it up in the low brow world of television, so I suppose you have me there.
Science/engineering majors will be subsidizing do-nothing arts majors for the rest of their lives in the real world.
They've made it quite clear that they don't like "furriners", so why are people still pressing the issue? Canada is a free and open society, and just to the north. We have lots of conference space in environments much more conducive to rational thought.
$68K is pocket change to these people. At best, this is a neutral outcome. When they dig up the rotting corpse of Jack Valenti and charge him with barratry, then we can call it positive.
Even if they did end up paying all her legal fees, plus interest, plus lost wages, the MAFIAA would still be ahead.
The point of these lawsuits isn't to recover "damages". It's to frighten the rest of the country into acting the way they want them to. If their skin were a little darker, it would be called "terrorism".
I'm really sorry.
You could just be an idiot.