Advice: I'd immediately refuse that "offer" on the basis of my Constitutional rights against self-incrimination.
The privilege can be invoked only if your words would expose you to criminal prosecution. It is not a barrier to exposure of your business records, software, etc.
I always wondered why our science has assumed that other life would be carbon-based.
The short answer is that carbon is abundant and bonds easily with other elements to form complex and relatively stable long-chain molecules with the potential for further evolution.
I have the same doubts about the several cases of file traders being sued by the *AA's - every case I've heard about was settled out of court before it could be brought in front of a judge or jury. Why haven't the EFF or some other organization funded a legal defense for one of these folks?
Uploaders have been the rights agencies primary target. Without a license to distribute you are dead in the water, there is little or nothing left for a jury to decide, all that remains is the question of damages, which will be determined by the judge as a matter of law.
since payment through something anonymous like Freenet is pretty much impossible, there is no real incentive to create more child pornography. Plus, if childporn is available for free in this way, paysites for childporn on the normal internet will be less profitable, which should result in a decrease in such child exploitation
The incentive isn't direct payment but a secure distribution channel and the cultivation of the market. There is as well the instant gratification of seeing your work "in print," at very little risk.
The actual child abuse occurs in the creation of child pornography.
You have to be willfully blind not to see that the abuse continues in the publication of the photographs.
Now some consumers are aware of the browser they use, and are vaguely aware of the problem IE causes them [in their wallets, especially when they have to buy spyware and virus-removal tools and pay a PC technician to use them].
Our cable ISP offers a free service, equivalent to Norton NIS, to all Windows subscribers, which, for all practical purposes, is 100% of its customer base.
OpenOffice will have near-perfect.doc compatibility (which is all it needs to convince your average Joe that he should use it rather than pay hundreds of dollars for MS Office
Joe is still buying Office in numbers that keep it in the top thirty on the Amazon.com software sales charts, Student-Teacher Office in the top five.
It would mean that more than 1 in 20 of your customers would have difficulties with your website.
It is one thing to say that 1 in 20 users have installed Firefox. It is quite another thing to prove that 1 in 20 customers of Amazon.com or your local S&L are running Firefox.
Estimates of Firefox's success or IE's decline don't tell you much unless you can break them down geographically, and by age, income, usage patterns and so on.
Home users can't use their computers properly, so they call their local slashdot-reading, mozilla-promoting geek to fix their computer. That person doesn't like IE, and the end user will fail to notice any difference other than that the geek said it was "better".
You'd be surprised how thin on the ground the true Geek can be. I doubt that I could snare one off campus even if I set out free beer and a Hooters gal as bait.
My "mission" for my company is to provide good IT services for as low a cost as possible.
Your primary mission as a web designer is to reach the eighty to ninety percent of the audience for your employer's website that will be running Internet Explorer, an audience that will simply move on to the IE friendly sites of his competitors when a page does not render properly. Your boss will not want to hear how you saved him money by sabotaging one of his best marketing tools.
After Microsoft back ports everything from Longhorn to XP, will the $499 upgrade from XP to Longhorn be like 95 to 98? Just some bug fixes and a free browser?
For a great many users, that "$499 Upgrade" will ship installed on their new $500 Dell.
I, frankly, do not understsand why Burst settled for so little, given the gravity of the potential crimes.
Burst.com's only assets were a patent portfolio and a lawsuit. It had no product, no sales, no employees, and was bleeding red ink at every seam. Burst received a last minute infusion of cash to carry on the litigation, but it was the prospect of sharing in a big cash settlement and not any sense of moral outrage that was the lure for investors.
The "three strikes" rule is from criminal law. Moral outrage has its place, but in civil litigation it often gets in the way of a settlement that is in the best interest of both sides.
This case had all the indications that MS workers would finally be found guilty of perjury and sent to jail.
When the Paula Jones suit against President Clinton became an issue, it was estimated that there had been about ten to twenty federal prosecutions for perjury in a civil case. Is Civil Perjury Punishable?
According to the headlines, they seem to use extradition primarly for civil bs like this, rather than murder and rape. Then again, it could be due to the fact that "murder" and "rape" doesn't yield as many readers in the newspaper as "a group of internet pirates and hackers trafficing illegal MPAA movies"
A quick search of Google News yields about 200 stories on extradition of murder suspects to the United States, 8,000 stories about murders in the United States.
Copyright infringement can be prosecuted as a federal crime, a felony.
Cybercrime
If it is civil, there's nothing that says you can't file a countersuit, no? And the whole preponderance of evidence bit does cut both ways doesn't it? To date, they have sued a dead woman, a Mac using grandmother...
Your lawyer will tell you that need to consider the credibility of your own defense. He will ask you to think hard before commiting to litigation that stands little chance of success, may drag on for years, and deplete your savings.
WHy do you think the RIAA targets grandmothers and little girls? Because they know that THEY won't fight it in court - they CAN'T
The little girl isn't the target. The target is her parent or guardian.
The RIAA sues uploaders above a certain threshold. That implies a broadband connection, a fairly muscular PC, an experienced user, with a middle class income or higher.
Despite the fact a government _can_ ban information about condom use, self drug rehibilitation, and of course, suicide, does not mean its right to rob people of information that effects no one but themself.
Talk to anyone who has counseled friends, familes, affected by a suicide. This is not a victimless crime.
Linux is free... How can anyone compete with that?
Linux is an operating system. It is one piece of the puzzle that is IT in the small business and enterprise environment. It may not always be the piece that fits.
Too bad Americans are too fucking stupid to read subtitles
Too much can be lost in a subtitle.
This is particularly true in readings by a classically trained actor like Stewart, who can breathe life and meaning into words which would otherwise lie dead on the page.
Linux represents the brutal and unflinching march of technology towards the zero price point.
You reach the illusionary zero price point only when software development and distribution costs are fully subsidized by the open-source community or its financial backers. IBM, Red Hat, The Moz Foundation, etc. But corporate backers expect to profit through hardware sales, service contracts or customization.
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The privilege can be invoked only if your words would expose you to criminal prosecution. It is not a barrier to exposure of your business records, software, etc.
The short answer is that carbon is abundant and bonds easily with other elements to form complex and relatively stable long-chain molecules with the potential for further evolution.
Uploaders have been the rights agencies primary target.
Without a license to distribute you are dead in the water, there is little or nothing left for a jury to decide, all that remains is the question of damages, which will be determined by the judge as a matter of law.
The incentive isn't direct payment but a secure distribution channel and the cultivation of the market. There is as well the instant gratification of seeing your work "in print," at very little risk.
The actual child abuse occurs in the creation of child pornography.
You have to be willfully blind not to see that the abuse continues in the publication of the photographs.
Most folks with $20K to play with are looking for a decent return on their CD, not a lever to promote an alternative browser.
Our cable ISP offers a free service, equivalent to Norton NIS, to all Windows subscribers, which, for all practical purposes, is 100% of its customer base.
Joe is still buying Office in numbers that keep it in the top thirty on the Amazon.com software sales charts, Student-Teacher Office in the top five.
Newspapers, radio and tv, aren't likely to appreciate direct competiton from a press service they help subsidize.
Brittanica's articles can be book length, with illustrations. So what counts as a "full length" article in the Wikipedia?
It is one thing to say that 1 in 20 users have installed Firefox. It is quite another thing to prove that 1 in 20 customers of Amazon.com or your local S&L are running Firefox.
Estimates of Firefox's success or IE's decline don't tell you much unless you can break them down geographically, and by age, income, usage patterns and so on.
You'd be surprised how thin on the ground the true Geek can be. I doubt that I could snare one off campus even if I set out free beer and a Hooters gal as bait.
and 94% is 500 million users. Creaky Operating Systems Form IT Foundations
Your primary mission as a web designer is to reach the eighty to ninety percent of the audience for your employer's website that will be running Internet Explorer, an audience that will simply move on to the IE friendly sites of his competitors when a page does not render properly. Your boss will not want to hear how you saved him money by sabotaging one of his best marketing tools.
For a great many users, that "$499 Upgrade" will ship installed on their new $500 Dell.
Burst.com's only assets were a patent portfolio and a lawsuit.
It had no product, no sales, no employees, and was bleeding red ink at every seam. Burst received a last minute infusion of cash to carry on the litigation, but it was the prospect of sharing in a big cash settlement and not any sense of moral outrage that was the lure for investors.
Burst.com (BRST.PK) was last known to have two employees. Burst.com Profile..
What product it had was sold without support. Customer Support The net proceeds from the settlement will be used to retire debt, promote licensing and enforcement of it's patent portfolio, and reward the penny stockholders who gambled on the litigation. $60 Million Non-Exclusive License Sets Stage For Aggressive Patent Enforcement.
The "three strikes" rule is from criminal law. Moral outrage has its place, but in civil litigation it often gets in the way of a settlement that is in the best interest of both sides.
When the Paula Jones suit against President Clinton became an issue, it was estimated that there had been about ten to twenty federal prosecutions for perjury in a civil case. Is Civil Perjury Punishable?
A quick search of Google News yields about 200 stories on extradition of murder suspects to the United States, 8,000 stories about murders in the United States.
Copyright infringement can be prosecuted as a federal crime, a felony. Cybercrime
Your lawyer will tell you that need to consider the credibility of your own defense.
He will ask you to think hard before commiting to litigation that stands little chance of success, may drag on for years, and deplete your savings.
So what are you doing here?
The little girl isn't the target. The target is her parent or guardian.
The RIAA sues uploaders above a certain threshold. That implies a broadband connection, a fairly muscular PC, an experienced user, with a middle class income or higher.
Talk to anyone who has counseled friends, familes, affected by a suicide. This is not a victimless crime.
Linux is an operating system. It is one piece of the puzzle that is IT in the small business and enterprise environment. It may not always be the piece that fits.
Too much can be lost in a subtitle.
This is particularly true in readings by a classically trained actor like Stewart, who can breathe life and meaning into words which would otherwise lie dead on the page.
You reach the illusionary zero price point only when software development and distribution costs are fully subsidized by the open-source community or its financial backers. IBM, Red Hat, The Moz Foundation, etc. But corporate backers expect to profit through hardware sales, service contracts or customization.