Indeed. Copyright and patent were created to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts" to quote the U.S. Constitution, but how can censorship do that? It doesn't. If I can't express an idea that has been expressed bfore without getting permission, and/or paying a royalty, then I don't have freedom of speech, or freedom of the press.
I bought the MIT MyHD MDP-100 form them. It rocks! Since then, the MDP-120 has come out. I doubt that ATI would be able to top it, but they may be able to make enough of them that Best Buy and CompUSA will have them in stock. That would be a good thing.
Do you want to know what is really going on? The superflu, as well as other chemical and biological agents, are being distributed in designer immitation perfume and cologne.
Those pushy people who pounce on you in the mall parking lot are the terrorists, but they don't even know it.Read more.
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That's cute, but I want a case that looks like Hal 9000.
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History also indicates that DRM will frequently make it impossible for legitimate owners of media just to play them. The problem with all DRM is that it is an attempt to tell customers what they can do with their personal property even after a sale is made. That is why there is always a backlash, and rightfully so. Take for example, "copy protected" CDs that won't play in a computer.
Mandrake the Magician was a cartoon when my grandparents were young. Maybe ten people in my generation have even heard of him. How could Mandrakesoft possibly be confused with a yesteryear cartoon character that probably hasn't appeared since the fifties, or harm that character in any way? So-called "intellectual property" laws are nothing but a form of censorship, and censorship is contrary to the very purpose of communication. This case is a prime example.
Microsquash should take their lawsuits against Pella and Andersen to Belium, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands. They might win there. Just what have the judges in those countries been smoking anyway? Crack?
Judging by all the FUD spread by the recording industry, you might be tempted to believe that music didn't exist before Edison invented the phonograph. In truth, it has been around since early hominids first banged rocks and stick together, and doesn't depend on the recording industry for its survival. The recording industry is not the source of music, but a bunch of leeches and hangers-on exploiting music, and the artists who create it. Read more at dontbuycds.org.
Plants feel pain, communicate, and may even be sentient, yet vegetarians claim it isn't cruel to eat them. Yes it is! Here is an exerpt from an informative article:
"Maybe Disney will make a cartoon about a happy little vegetable. He will be called Buddy the Carrot. He'll lose his mother to the farmer when he picks her, and eats her. That could do to vegetables what Bambi did to meat! Carrots may in fact be more intelligent than deer. Who knows for sure?" Read more.
I wonder how many of these 532 are children and kindly old grandparents this time. It is the height of hypocricy to sue people and cry to Congress on one hand, but pay Big Champagne to track what's hot among file traders on the other. The RIAA and affiliated labels are a criminal syndicate just like the mafia. Boycott them!
Senator Coleman seems to understand these issues relatively well. If we write to him, then the voices of music lovers and consumers can be heard at this summit, too. If media executives are the only voices heard, disaster can be the only result. Read more about these issues at dontbuycds.org. Get help writing to Senator Coleman, and others in Washington at congress.org.
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You haven't seen anything yet! They found an Arizona Cardinals ball cap. Read more.
Indeed. Copyright and patent were created to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts" to quote the U.S. Constitution, but how can censorship do that? It doesn't. If I can't express an idea that has been expressed bfore without getting permission, and/or paying a royalty, then I don't have freedom of speech, or freedom of the press.
Here's the story behind it.
I bought the MIT MyHD MDP-100 form them. It rocks! Since then, the MDP-120 has come out. I doubt that ATI would be able to top it, but they may be able to make enough of them that Best Buy and CompUSA will have them in stock. That would be a good thing.
Those pushy people who pounce on you in the mall parking lot are the terrorists, but they don't even know it.Read more.
That's cute, but I want a case that looks like Hal 9000.
As Dr. Marcus Von Vickersburg from The International Institute for Photographic Analysis stated, "digital photographs cannot be faked"
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History also indicates that DRM will frequently make it impossible for legitimate owners of media just to play them. The problem with all DRM is that it is an attempt to tell customers what they can do with their personal property even after a sale is made. That is why there is always a backlash, and rightfully so. Take for example, "copy protected" CDs that won't play in a computer.
Looks a lot like William Smythe and his pet roomba, Scruffy. Read More.
You may indeed. Check it out!
Har ye bilgerat! Piracy be rape, robbery, murder, and the occasional buggery on the high seas not listenin' to chanties on the internet, matey.
Mandrake the Magician was a cartoon when my grandparents were young. Maybe ten people in my generation have even heard of him. How could Mandrakesoft possibly be confused with a yesteryear cartoon character that probably hasn't appeared since the fifties, or harm that character in any way? So-called "intellectual property" laws are nothing but a form of censorship, and censorship is contrary to the very purpose of communication. This case is a prime example.
Microsquash should take their lawsuits against Pella and Andersen to Belium, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands. They might win there. Just what have the judges in those countries been smoking anyway? Crack?
Judging by all the FUD spread by the recording industry, you might be tempted to believe that music didn't exist before Edison invented the phonograph. In truth, it has been around since early hominids first banged rocks and stick together, and doesn't depend on the recording industry for its survival. The recording industry is not the source of music, but a bunch of leeches and hangers-on exploiting music, and the artists who create it. Read more at dontbuycds.org.
That's a cover-up. It was really a Martian invasion. Mars was at its closest point to Earth at the time. Read more!
I wonder if they will abandon their lawsuits against Andersen and Pella now? Read more.
So, does this X-prize have anything to do with the X-4000 Launch Aparatus? Maybe it was designed by some kind of contest winner.
Florida? Utah? Who can say where The Matrix really is? Who can say what The Matrix really is?
Instead of Belgium, they have built The Beast in Salt Lake City.
"Maybe Disney will make a cartoon about a happy little vegetable. He will be called Buddy the Carrot. He'll lose his mother to the farmer when he picks her, and eats her. That could do to vegetables what Bambi did to meat! Carrots may in fact be more intelligent than deer. Who knows for sure?"
Read more.
I wonder how many of these 532 are children and kindly old grandparents this time. It is the height of hypocricy to sue people and cry to Congress on one hand, but pay Big Champagne to track what's hot among file traders on the other. The RIAA and affiliated labels are a criminal syndicate just like the mafia. Boycott them!
So, the Boston Strangler gave women home alone licenses to print money by the billions?
You have to record it to a hard drive or D-VHS. Red-laser DVD isn't ready for true HD, you will have to wait for blue laser.
Senator Coleman seems to understand these issues relatively well. If we write to him, then the voices of music lovers and consumers can be heard at this summit, too. If media executives are the only voices heard, disaster can be the only result. Read more about these issues at dontbuycds.org. Get help writing to Senator Coleman, and others in Washington at congress.org.
By Disney, do you actually mean Michael Eisner?