The sentiment is just as common as yours. Most people joke about the McDonalds thing, even though the woman sustained severe burns and McD's kept their coffee at an unsafe (courts warned them before) temperature.
As for rape cases, as someone with experience in prosecution I can gaurantee you that the vast majority of people blame the victim, unless the assault was something particularly random or heinous. It's almost sickening, the degree to which people make excuses for "nice" (ie, not extremely violent and/or pedophilic) rapists.
Yes, RICO makes sense. All you need is 2 predicate crimes in the furtherance of a criminal or corrupt organization to get hit with it. Since this is federal, unauthorized distribution of copyrighted work is a crime. I'm sure he's done it more than twice in the past twenty years, and he has suppliers and distribution channels. Bang, RICO.
"Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device."
Transmittal is covered as part of copyright. You can sever an assignation of right to broadcast something on TV from one to make DVD copies. They are separate because they are separate parts of the copyright: the broadcast is distribution, the DVDs are reproduction.
Also, if you own something you have a limited right to distribute under fair use. You can copy, share and distribute, but within a very narrow (albeit loosely-defined) scope.
As for sanctions, most jurisdictions (especially the feds) have criminal statutes for distribution/copying of works under copyright over a certain amount of damage. I know that in Illinois and Federal court, there are felonies for it.
You know what stops genocide? Functioning governments with the ability to combat rogue elements within the country, or the diplomatic relations required to get help. Functioning militaries, headed by civilians and not career officers. Strict regulation of trade along with neoliberal economic policies to help ease countries out of depressive states. Ground-up education as both an educational and social tool to create civic awareness and consciousness.
A bunch of laptops to some starving, poor, thirsty people who live in terror of their government or paramilitary groups the government can't control are going to do a whole freaking lot.
a) EA has many, many studios. That does not mean those other studios will not make Wii games. This is simply a dedicated studio. Your first point doesn't make a whole lot of sense, if you are trying to make this into a point about EA's commitment to the Wii.
b) Most people? Distraction? What? I'm glad you have psychic powers and can read EA's collective mind, but if you're going to be making claims like that, you should probably have something to back you up.
I like how providing people with multiple arguments about why you are right and allowing them to choose which ones they believe have merit makes someone scum.
At least in the US, most jurisdictions have statutes providing for prosection of illicit copying or illicit distribution. They're not usually pursued, however, partially because it is generally a federal matter, and the feds have that shiny hammer that is wire and mail fraud.
Except he's caucusing with the Democrats. And he's traditionally been a liberal (while trying to sell a "maverick" image, sure). I don't think the Dems are really all too worried about Lieberman, other than the fact that he thumbed his nose at them and ran as an Independent. I imagine that's kind of embarassing.
This is really how all these "ranking" things work, however, from the ACLU to the FotF.
I'd prefer that people just paid more attention to specific candidates' stances, and not rely on cherry-picked numbers taken by special interests (or bad journalists), but it seems that these kinds of "report cards" are solidly entrenched in our electoral... thing.
This is exactly why E3 needed to be tightened up. The whole idea of a convention for an industry is to inform the public, through the media, of what's good and upcoming. Booth babes and a bunch of dorks there to gawk at things doesn't help anyone. Except maybe said dorks.
Any discussion of the appropriateness of stricted regulation aside, your argument is: "old people playing games means congress would be wary of regulating minors' access to games." This is interesting because a) it's a complete non sequitur, and b) old people are generally conservative and support restriction of information to minors.
How does that not hurt Linux adoption? If people associate RMS with Linux and are personally put off or offended by RMS, their perception of linux will suffer.
Pushing linux adoption is "selling" linux, and image is ridiculously important when you're selling something. People make the assumption that careful and polished presentation means the person takes the same care with their product. While this isn't always true (and nerds fight it to the death, with some justification), that is just how society operates.
In general, I agree with that idea. Personally, I'm embarassed by RMS. I agree with some of the things he says and I'm fine with the things I disagree with, but I don't want him as the spokesman for myself, my operating system or an ideology I would evangelize.
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1.5 million, rather.
1.5 VC downloads says "now overpriced old games."
The sentiment is just as common as yours. Most people joke about the McDonalds thing, even though the woman sustained severe burns and McD's kept their coffee at an unsafe (courts warned them before) temperature.
As for rape cases, as someone with experience in prosecution I can gaurantee you that the vast majority of people blame the victim, unless the assault was something particularly random or heinous. It's almost sickening, the degree to which people make excuses for "nice" (ie, not extremely violent and/or pedophilic) rapists.
Altruism = awesome
Force = awesome
Ergo, altruism by force = SUPER AWESOME
Yes, RICO makes sense. All you need is 2 predicate crimes in the furtherance of a criminal or corrupt organization to get hit with it. Since this is federal, unauthorized distribution of copyrighted work is a crime. I'm sure he's done it more than twice in the past twenty years, and he has suppliers and distribution channels. Bang, RICO.
There are already crimes for certain types of copyright infringement! There's no plan! It's done!
Come on, people, know what you're talking about.
Most jurisdictions have crimes for unauthorized distribution of copyrighted work. The feds are most famous for this.
It's sad that this isn't known; both sides cloud the debate so horribly, people can't tell what's going on.
Corollary right? What?
"Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device."
Transmittal is covered as part of copyright. You can sever an assignation of right to broadcast something on TV from one to make DVD copies. They are separate because they are separate parts of the copyright: the broadcast is distribution, the DVDs are reproduction.
Also, if you own something you have a limited right to distribute under fair use. You can copy, share and distribute, but within a very narrow (albeit loosely-defined) scope.
As for sanctions, most jurisdictions (especially the feds) have criminal statutes for distribution/copying of works under copyright over a certain amount of damage. I know that in Illinois and Federal court, there are felonies for it.
Don't assume so much.
And for testing, and royalties for non-nintendo system games.
You know what stops genocide? Functioning governments with the ability to combat rogue elements within the country, or the diplomatic relations required to get help. Functioning militaries, headed by civilians and not career officers. Strict regulation of trade along with neoliberal economic policies to help ease countries out of depressive states. Ground-up education as both an educational and social tool to create civic awareness and consciousness.
A bunch of laptops to some starving, poor, thirsty people who live in terror of their government or paramilitary groups the government can't control are going to do a whole freaking lot.
Please.
To be fair, the "software-only" talk was all rumor, and bad rumor at that. Nintendo has always been a (usually very) profitable company.
a) EA has many, many studios. That does not mean those other studios will not make Wii games. This is simply a dedicated studio. Your first point doesn't make a whole lot of sense, if you are trying to make this into a point about EA's commitment to the Wii.
b) Most people? Distraction? What? I'm glad you have psychic powers and can read EA's collective mind, but if you're going to be making claims like that, you should probably have something to back you up.
This comment demands the inclusion of a (+1, Very Marginally Important Trivia).
I like how providing people with multiple arguments about why you are right and allowing them to choose which ones they believe have merit makes someone scum.
What, are they going to have negative PS3s?
Cuban has more money than God. He has no reason to sell to Google. Plus, according to the law, he's... uh... right.
So yeah, win-win for Cuban.
At least in the US, most jurisdictions have statutes providing for prosection of illicit copying or illicit distribution. They're not usually pursued, however, partially because it is generally a federal matter, and the feds have that shiny hammer that is wire and mail fraud.
Except he's caucusing with the Democrats. And he's traditionally been a liberal (while trying to sell a "maverick" image, sure). I don't think the Dems are really all too worried about Lieberman, other than the fact that he thumbed his nose at them and ran as an Independent. I imagine that's kind of embarassing.
This is really how all these "ranking" things work, however, from the ACLU to the FotF.
I'd prefer that people just paid more attention to specific candidates' stances, and not rely on cherry-picked numbers taken by special interests (or bad journalists), but it seems that these kinds of "report cards" are solidly entrenched in our electoral... thing.
This is exactly why E3 needed to be tightened up. The whole idea of a convention for an industry is to inform the public, through the media, of what's good and upcoming. Booth babes and a bunch of dorks there to gawk at things doesn't help anyone. Except maybe said dorks.
I like what he's done here. By creative use of language, he can say whatever he wants!
Like "misquotes," which is my favorite. What he actually means is "lying to drive sales," with the connotation of "rapid backpedalling."
The editor's dept. line is quite right. Less talk, more games.
Any discussion of the appropriateness of stricted regulation aside, your argument is: "old people playing games means congress would be wary of regulating minors' access to games." This is interesting because a) it's a complete non sequitur, and b) old people are generally conservative and support restriction of information to minors.
How does that not hurt Linux adoption? If people associate RMS with Linux and are personally put off or offended by RMS, their perception of linux will suffer.
Pushing linux adoption is "selling" linux, and image is ridiculously important when you're selling something. People make the assumption that careful and polished presentation means the person takes the same care with their product. While this isn't always true (and nerds fight it to the death, with some justification), that is just how society operates.
In general, I agree with that idea. Personally, I'm embarassed by RMS. I agree with some of the things he says and I'm fine with the things I disagree with, but I don't want him as the spokesman for myself, my operating system or an ideology I would evangelize.
Conspiracy theories are awesome.
Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
Some of us don't randomly search for games we own on wikipedia.
Games we don't own, however, are fair game.