>You are not a hero, fighting mankind's bads. You are a criminal, according to the laws of your country.
no I'm not. in my country (and many other european countries) it's perfectly legal to download, copy from TV, radio, CD borrowed from library etc. I'm not a hero, I just use my rights, given to me by a democratic law. So stop whining about "theft of intellectual property" or piracy, because it's perfectly legal.
there's some countries that use 'raised' inks. probably not accurate enough for real braille, but a set of symbols (dots, a few mm across and similar sized bars) would be enough to keep different bills apart.
>This is not very different from certain South American and African countries that demanded and received the formulae to certain drugs and then turned around and started making their own.
that was a GOOD thing, saving thousands of human lives who otherwise could not afford medicine. withholding a lifesaving medicine for your own profit is not a very nice thing to do.
well they are. too much candy causes all kinds of health-problems, tummyaches rotten teeth and what not. but responsible use of some candy in moderation isn't all bad.
I've seen my teachers... I'm really glad I didn't know them as kids.. some of them were positively insane. on the other hand: the insaner the teacher, the better the lesson.
and explain the fact that downloading copyrighted materials is allowed for personal use in most countries, just like it's legal to tape a movie from TV or record a song from radio.
my reasoning is about the same as yours.. I hear diferences between original and an mp3 at 128. played around a bit, stopped hearing a difference at 160. also tried 192 and higher, but not much difference. so I opted for 192, reasoning that there must be people with better hearing.//rdj
>Quite the opposite, an activity so common that it is even practiced by 12 year olds, shouldn't be considered a cause for lawsuit.
exactly. just like home taping, which neither I, nor my parents ever found to be illegal (and in fact IS legal). this girl isn't doing anything new. I used to share music on cassettes, and lend people records and CDs. I borrowed those too, and I taped them. all was legal, all was good, everyone happy. but with a computer, it's suddenly a crime.
We SHOULD have a situation in which companies fear they may be next to suffer computer attacks if they take a business or legal position that angers the Open Source community.
it's the free market at work. obviously, SCO doesn't want consumers to have power over them. if fear can keeps a company in check, so it behaves normally then fear is what is needed.
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yes, but that plan consists mainly of being convicted for raping a spammer with said crowbar.
no.. not that fact. it is legal though. if you understand dutch, here's a link which explains it all. yes, those guys are lawyers.
>You are not a hero, fighting mankind's bads. You are a criminal, according to the laws of your country.
no I'm not. in my country (and many other european countries) it's perfectly legal to download, copy from TV, radio, CD borrowed from library etc. I'm not a hero, I just use my rights, given to me by a democratic law. So stop whining about "theft of intellectual property" or piracy, because it's perfectly legal.
damn RIAA trolls.
there's some countries that use 'raised' inks. probably not accurate enough for real braille, but a set of symbols (dots, a few mm across and similar sized bars) would be enough to keep different bills apart.
in much of the world downloading is legal. RIAA and their cronies can do fuck all against you.
the RIAA has more than enough motive to frame people.
many people I know do this. it's perfectly legal in most countries, but I'm not sure if it is in the US.
>This is not very different from certain South American and African countries that demanded and received the formulae to certain drugs and then turned around and started making their own.
that was a GOOD thing, saving thousands of human lives who otherwise could not afford medicine. withholding a lifesaving medicine for your own profit is not a very nice thing to do.
or -ol, or -ine
well they are. too much candy causes all kinds of health-problems, tummyaches rotten teeth and what not. but responsible use of some candy in moderation isn't all bad.
;)
DARE doesn't sound that bad to me
I've seen my teachers... I'm really glad I didn't know them as kids.. some of them were positively insane. on the other hand: the insaner the teacher, the better the lesson.
mighty nice of you to tell people that sharing is wrong...sounds very christian.
and explain the fact that downloading copyrighted materials is allowed for personal use in most countries, just like it's legal to tape a movie from TV or record a song from radio.
it is indeed, and Philips is trademarkholder. Philips are attacking 'DRM CDs' on the bases of trademarkviolation.
well wasn't it? if memory serves me right, that was about the end of the ice age, i.e. global warming..
correct me if I'm wrong though..
>Before someone came along and standardized TV broadcast signals, there were multiple different ones and some TV's wouldn't work on some signals.
when did that happen? there's still PAL, NTSC, SECAM.. not all TVs (expecially older ones) support all standards..
my reasoning is about the same as yours.. I hear diferences between original and an mp3 at 128. played around a bit, stopped hearing a difference at 160. also tried 192 and higher, but not much difference. so I opted for 192, reasoning that there must be people with better hearing. //rdj
ofcourse, legalizing both up- and downloads would have the same effect: a flourishing on-line music-scene.
printed on high-quality paper..
or just use another means of transportation and stop whining about driving being too expensive. the number of cars shows it's not.
>Quite the opposite, an activity so common that it is even practiced by 12 year olds, shouldn't be considered a cause for lawsuit.
exactly. just like home taping, which neither I, nor my parents ever found to be illegal (and in fact IS legal). this girl isn't doing anything new. I used to share music on cassettes, and lend people records and CDs. I borrowed those too, and I taped them. all was legal, all was good, everyone happy. but with a computer, it's suddenly a crime.
>Well, I guess the whole DLing of copyrighted works w/o reimbursing the copyright holder isn't illegal anymore.
never was, in most of the civilized world.
I'd go further:
We SHOULD have a situation in which companies fear they may be next to suffer computer attacks if they take a business or legal position that angers the Open Source community.
it's the free market at work. obviously, SCO doesn't want consumers to have power over them. if fear can keeps a company in check, so it behaves normally then fear is what is needed.
what we need is worldwide legislation that completely bans spam, with a minimum sentence of 1 hour jailtime per user getting sent the spam.
and 1 nice extension helps too: Flash-click-to-view.
:)
turns flash into a button. press button to play flash, gets rid nicely of flash ads