Whether she is innocent or guilty of copyright infringement, the issue here is the Fourth Amendment, something DMCA supoenas seem to clearly violate. I am confident that the DMCA will eventully reach the U.S. Supreme court, and be struck down. For those unfamiliar with the Fourth Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Long live the bill of rights. To hell with the RIAA. Don't buy CDs.
SCO is just asking for trouble messing with the one true leviathan in the computer industry, but if IBM were truly using heavy handed tactics, SCO wouldn't be able to complain. They would be sleeping with the fishes.
I think in this case, the Australian courts knew exactly who was responsible, and dealt with them appropriately. With some detective work, identifying the individuals responsible for corporate misdeeds is possible. Knowing what's going on in the company is an executive's job, and you don't think for a second that Ken Lay, Bernie Ebbers, and Scott Sullivan were innocent, do you? Everything that happened at Enron and Worldcom was done on their orders.
In the United States of Avarice, evil execs are protected by the artificial entity the hide behind: A corporation. THey usually get away with anything. Ken Lay of Enron is still a free man, as are Bernie Ebbers and Scott Sullivan of Worldcom. Australia, on the other hand, holds execs accountable. After all, they committed these misdeeds. Hooray for Australia!
Maybe they are running spyware, and keeping IP logs. Maybe this is an RIAA/MPAA sting. That would be entrapment. This thread is calling out for the Fark.com Admiral Ackbar cliche'. Does anyone have ASCII art of it? It's a trap!
Why blame the President, It is Congress that makes the laws. The DMCA passed the Senate unanimously, and faced little opposition in the house. Even if the President had vetoed the bill, the Congress would have easily overridden the veto. Blame the Congressmen who are taking bribes from the corporate lobbyists.
Only buying a license to use? Before Bill Gates and EULAs, no one would have ever suggested that this is all you get. The idea would have been laughably absurd.
You buy a CD, and it becomes your personal property. You can't burn copies and sell them, that would be copyright infringement, but you can listen to it, resell it, use it for a clay pigeon, whatever. The RIAA wants to use that licensing idea to take away the first sale principle. I say bullshit. Funny how they dump the license concept, and view it as a sale of property when you want to upgrade in media from cassette to CD. There is no upgrade discount. You have to pay full price.
Yes. They dropped prices by about 1/3, making the price fair. People are very willing to buy when they aren't being ripped off. Here's the link. They are still boo-hooing that profits are down 2%, but if you are making a profit, stop your crabbing! It's not like you are operating in the red.
I've got some ideas that could be worked into Everquest, the crusades.You board ships in hordes, and said to the middle east. You kill all the moozlim ay-rabs you can, and anyone else who gets in the way, burninate villages, rape, pillage loot, take gold gems and jewelry! Leave nothing alive. Do it all in Christ's name.
You could also work in witch hunts. Hordes Go into towns with a few mad monks wielding copies of Maleus Maleficorum, and kill witches. Burn 'em! They only way to be sure you got them all is to not leave a single woman or girl alive. Any one of them could be a witch. If you find any Synagogues, those rabbis are probably in there making golems. That's witchcraft too. Burn the Synagogues and kill the rabbis!
Also, in Christian Everquest. Kill alchemists, astronomers, artists who make secular paintings, and anyone else found seeking knowledge from a source other than the dogma of the church. Christianity + The Middle Ages = Fun for Christ's sake!
Many EULAs have failed to stand up in court. For example, Network Associates had one that said you couldn't write a review of their product without their permission. This violated first amendment free speech. You can't just legislate through contract. The EULA was struck down in court, and they had to pay damages. A EULA saying you can't review a movie, or tell your freinds about it without the studio's permission would not stand up in court for the same reason.
So, hollywierd is upset that word of mouth is traveling faster than ever. Why don't they start making movies that don't suck? As for EULAs. I didn't sign anything. I didn't agree to anything. They can put them up there if they want to.
Those are the figures schools tell you that you can expect to make, but do you personally know people pulling down that kind of dough? I don't. Schools also don't tell you how programming is being outsourced overseas.
There is such a thing as being over educated. Unless you want to teach I.T. at a university level, a PH.D will just get you pegged as an ivory tower eggheaad who thinks he knows it all, but has never had to deal with the real world. Don't believe it when colleges tell you an advanced degree will mean a higher paying career. They just want your tuition money. Advanced degrees are for purely academic fields. Associates degrees, or at most, bachelor's degrees are for job-related fields. The stuff schools are teaching in quickly changing fields like IT is already dated anyhow.
Correlation is not equal to causation? Nice philosophy class mumbo jumbo. How about, "It's a fact that there are no facts." or "I can mathematically prove you don't exist." Now let's be serious for a minute.
Napster provided free promotion. When music is promoted, it sells, unless it sucks so bad even teens don't like it. That is basic and simple. Now, during the Kazaa era, sales are down directly proportional to production being down.
Considering the economy, and the millions angry at the industry, sales should be down a lot more, but they aren't.
The labels have created an artificial sales slump so they can cry piracy. Here are some informative links:
Tort is our only recourse in medical malpractice, dangerous products that injure people, and many other things. Tort reform is about giving corporations such as insurance companies even more wealth and power, at the expense of people. Succesful claims are NOT frivoulous. Where do you get these bogus statistics. Frivoulous suits get dismissed. Insurance rates are sky high because insurance companies lost their asses in the stock market when the dot com bubble burst, and are trying to recoup their losses. Insurance itself is a vapor product designed to take people's money without giving them anything for it. It was created so the rich could buy a feeling of security. We would all be better off without such scams. If you took the billions doctors spend on malpractice insurance, and the billions patients spend on health insurance, or paying their doctor cash if they are uninsured, we could have national health care easily. It would cost a pittence next to the money we throw into fire for "insurance."
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Which newspaper, when, and what was the lady's name. Without these details, you are only repeating an urban legend. I will raise the bullshit flag here. The ACLU will defend christians if they are being opressed, but usually they are the opressors we need to be protected from.
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The NRA gun nuts will never defend anyone's personal liberty, because they love Bush, Ashcroft et al, and helped them take over. They are turning America into The Fourth Reich, and the NRA gun nuts stand and cheer. They will get theirs though, just as the SA did as soon as the neocons' power is completely secured. You don't really believe that Boom and Muffy Country Club want the rabble armed, do you? Use your head, NRA gun nuts! Even if you decided to try to stop the "army from taking over," you couldn't. Your pop guns are no match for military weaponry. Besides, as long as Bushy is Fuhrer, you would help the army take over. Fuck you NRA hillbillies pig sodomizers!
While Napster was online, CD sales were up. This is beyond dispute. People heard songs they liked, then went out and bought recordings, much like radio in its glory days. Best of all, Napster was a free promotion. No one had to cough up any payola to get songs listed there. Now, the recording industry has millions so angry that they don't buy CDs. So, why did your industry kill the goose that laid the golden eggs? Are you stupid?
I've had electricity from two providers, Cinergy, a publicly traded corporation, charges way too much , and can't be bothered with crap like "customer service." When I lived further out in the country, I had Owen Electric cooperative. The electricity cost less, the service was more reliable, and friendlier, and to top it all off, their goal was to break even, so when they turned a profit, it was given back to members. I got a check every year. Cinergy sees me as a money tree they can shake at will.
The only risk publicly traded corporations worry about is not making projections for this quarter. If short term buck grabbing causes a long term problem, it will probably be someone else's problem. Besides, the boys in the boardroom can always blame the lowest level drones, and assure shareholders they will be dealt with.
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So, did anyone at this event say, "Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto"?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Long live the bill of rights. To hell with the RIAA. Don't buy CDs.
SCO is just asking for trouble messing with the one true leviathan in the computer industry, but if IBM were truly using heavy handed tactics, SCO wouldn't be able to complain. They would be sleeping with the fishes.
I think in this case, the Australian courts knew exactly who was responsible, and dealt with them appropriately. With some detective work, identifying the individuals responsible for corporate misdeeds is possible. Knowing what's going on in the company is an executive's job, and you don't think for a second that Ken Lay, Bernie Ebbers, and Scott Sullivan were innocent, do you? Everything that happened at Enron and Worldcom was done on their orders.
In the United States of Avarice, evil execs are protected by the artificial entity the hide behind: A corporation. THey usually get away with anything. Ken Lay of Enron is still a free man, as are Bernie Ebbers and Scott Sullivan of Worldcom. Australia, on the other hand, holds execs accountable. After all, they committed these misdeeds. Hooray for Australia!
Maybe they are running spyware, and keeping IP logs. Maybe this is an RIAA/MPAA sting. That would be entrapment. This thread is calling out for the Fark.com Admiral Ackbar cliche'. Does anyone have ASCII art of it? It's a trap!
Why blame the President, It is Congress that makes the laws. The DMCA passed the Senate unanimously, and faced little opposition in the house. Even if the President had vetoed the bill, the Congress would have easily overridden the veto. Blame the Congressmen who are taking bribes from the corporate lobbyists.
I wonder how much Garth Brooks got for his soul from Dr. Pepper? What a shamelss shill! Who respects a sellout?
You buy a CD, and it becomes your personal property. You can't burn copies and sell them, that would be copyright infringement, but you can listen to it, resell it, use it for a clay pigeon, whatever. The RIAA wants to use that licensing idea to take away the first sale principle. I say bullshit. Funny how they dump the license concept, and view it as a sale of property when you want to upgrade in media from cassette to CD. There is no upgrade discount. You have to pay full price.
Yes. They dropped prices by about 1/3, making the price fair. People are very willing to buy when they aren't being ripped off. Here's the link. They are still boo-hooing that profits are down 2%, but if you are making a profit, stop your crabbing! It's not like you are operating in the red.
I've got some ideas that could be worked into Everquest, the crusades.You board ships in hordes, and said to the middle east. You kill all the moozlim ay-rabs you can, and anyone else who gets in the way, burninate villages, rape, pillage loot, take gold gems and jewelry! Leave nothing alive. Do it all in Christ's name. You could also work in witch hunts. Hordes Go into towns with a few mad monks wielding copies of Maleus Maleficorum, and kill witches. Burn 'em! They only way to be sure you got them all is to not leave a single woman or girl alive. Any one of them could be a witch. If you find any Synagogues, those rabbis are probably in there making golems. That's witchcraft too. Burn the Synagogues and kill the rabbis! Also, in Christian Everquest. Kill alchemists, astronomers, artists who make secular paintings, and anyone else found seeking knowledge from a source other than the dogma of the church. Christianity + The Middle Ages = Fun for Christ's sake!
Pretty soon, you'll be able to keep a roll of SCO stock certificates in the bathroom to wipe your all with. They are going down.
Many EULAs have failed to stand up in court. For example, Network Associates had one that said you couldn't write a review of their product without their permission. This violated first amendment free speech. You can't just legislate through contract. The EULA was struck down in court, and they had to pay damages. A EULA saying you can't review a movie, or tell your freinds about it without the studio's permission would not stand up in court for the same reason.
Yeah! It's no shirt and no shoes that will get you no service. They don't mention pants.
So, hollywierd is upset that word of mouth is traveling faster than ever. Why don't they start making movies that don't suck? As for EULAs. I didn't sign anything. I didn't agree to anything. They can put them up there if they want to.
Those are the figures schools tell you that you can expect to make, but do you personally know people pulling down that kind of dough? I don't. Schools also don't tell you how programming is being outsourced overseas.
There is such a thing as being over educated. Unless you want to teach I.T. at a university level, a PH.D will just get you pegged as an ivory tower eggheaad who thinks he knows it all, but has never had to deal with the real world. Don't believe it when colleges tell you an advanced degree will mean a higher paying career. They just want your tuition money. Advanced degrees are for purely academic fields. Associates degrees, or at most, bachelor's degrees are for job-related fields. The stuff schools are teaching in quickly changing fields like IT is already dated anyhow.
Napster provided free promotion. When music is promoted, it sells, unless it sucks so bad even teens don't like it. That is basic and simple. Now, during the Kazaa era, sales are down directly proportional to production being down. Considering the economy, and the millions angry at the industry, sales should be down a lot more, but they aren't. The labels have created an artificial sales slump so they can cry piracy. Here are some informative links:
1 2 3 dozens mone can be found on external links at dontbuycds.org
Tort is our only recourse in medical malpractice, dangerous products that injure people, and many other things. Tort reform is about giving corporations such as insurance companies even more wealth and power, at the expense of people. Succesful claims are NOT frivoulous. Where do you get these bogus statistics. Frivoulous suits get dismissed. Insurance rates are sky high because insurance companies lost their asses in the stock market when the dot com bubble burst, and are trying to recoup their losses. Insurance itself is a vapor product designed to take people's money without giving them anything for it. It was created so the rich could buy a feeling of security. We would all be better off without such scams. If you took the billions doctors spend on malpractice insurance, and the billions patients spend on health insurance, or paying their doctor cash if they are uninsured, we could have national health care easily. It would cost a pittence next to the money we throw into fire for "insurance."
Which newspaper, when, and what was the lady's name. Without these details, you are only repeating an urban legend. I will raise the bullshit flag here. The ACLU will defend christians if they are being opressed, but usually they are the opressors we need to be protected from.
The NRA gun nuts will never defend anyone's personal liberty, because they love Bush, Ashcroft et al, and helped them take over. They are turning America into The Fourth Reich, and the NRA gun nuts stand and cheer. They will get theirs though, just as the SA did as soon as the neocons' power is completely secured. You don't really believe that Boom and Muffy Country Club want the rabble armed, do you? Use your head, NRA gun nuts! Even if you decided to try to stop the "army from taking over," you couldn't. Your pop guns are no match for military weaponry. Besides, as long as Bushy is Fuhrer, you would help the army take over. Fuck you NRA hillbillies pig sodomizers!
While Napster was online, CD sales were up. This is beyond dispute. People heard songs they liked, then went out and bought recordings, much like radio in its glory days. Best of all, Napster was a free promotion. No one had to cough up any payola to get songs listed there. Now, the recording industry has millions so angry that they don't buy CDs. So, why did your industry kill the goose that laid the golden eggs? Are you stupid?
Did you know that Charles Taylor is now running in Cali?
I've had electricity from two providers, Cinergy, a publicly traded corporation, charges way too much , and can't be bothered with crap like "customer service." When I lived further out in the country, I had Owen Electric cooperative. The electricity cost less, the service was more reliable, and friendlier, and to top it all off, their goal was to break even, so when they turned a profit, it was given back to members. I got a check every year. Cinergy sees me as a money tree they can shake at will.
The only risk publicly traded corporations worry about is not making projections for this quarter. If short term buck grabbing causes a long term problem, it will probably be someone else's problem. Besides, the boys in the boardroom can always blame the lowest level drones, and assure shareholders they will be dealt with.