... science would be in the dark ages once again. Human genome, computers, and ever other modern tech device would not exsist. Invent something and not share it's mechanics creates two things. A monopoly and an information vac
Screw you. I am a registered ______ party memeber (no reason to let you know what party I belong to). Just because I am a member of a party, doesnt mean I am a tool of said party.
The fact is that introducing tariffs will make the situation worse, not better.
It seems to be working pretty good for both China and Japan. Both countries the US has a trade deficiate.
You wish people would not point out your flaws. No one ever likes their flaws being exposed, but it all a part of getting better. As a user, I want to know how insecure my important data is, and what I can do to fix it. MS and SunnComm both need a reality check. It goes something like this: If you fuck up and try to hide, when people notice, there will be hell to pay.
Next your going to say you dont want people pointing out your obvious personal flaws, just because it might hurt your feeling.
I swear, industries now of day are acting more and more like babies than professionals.
Mmmmm coffee in hand and my morning SCO rant. WooHoo.....
Anyway, who did not see this coming. It's a "do as I say not as I do" thing with SCO. They think that they can get away with unbiased defamination. I beleive the judge will throw this motion out.
Hummm.... Sounds like LSU....
Right now we are moving from 2000 to XP, with many error in between, not to mention the extra tax that the blaster virus and sobig have been giving us.
...and the sicken thing is that the parents either dont care, dont know, or dont care to know.
Last Christmas I worked at Best Buy, selling consoles and console games. 9/10 parents didnt know about the ESPR rating system. 5/10 were shockedthat there was one, and that the game their kid wanted was rated "M" because of sex, drugs, violence, murder, life-like gore. 8/10 partents would putthe game down and not let their kid buy it. But 2/10 parents were like really....I'll get it anyway.
Seriously, what are these guys smoking. I can see it now, two weeks (or less) after it is released. So one will figure out that if they put the board into a PC case, they have the worlds cheapest 3GHz computer.
I am not a damn cajun. Cajans make up less than 4% of the states population and most of us look and act like we are from the Northeast. Ever been to New Orleans or Baton Rouge. The only real differnce is that we like spicy food, not your bland New England food.. bleh.
I think your forgeting, that at this point, Dave Matthews Band has no say so in whats going on. Both Dave Matthews and Micheal Jackson have both said that they dont think that file-sharing is a bad thing. It's the RIAA that is suing people. Just more proof that the RIAA isnt for artist rights
In light of this article, it seems that the US Civil courts need to be cleaned up, making the burden of proof stronger to win a case, AND set limits on how much money on litigation a corporation can throw at a citizen, since a coroporation has much more money than a citizen can make in a lifetime. (Humm aka we need an "Even Playing Field Act")
This is the letter to my senator... feel free to proof and send a copy to your own.
Senator_______,
I am appalled at the way the US Federal Court system is being hijacked by corporations. The Recording Industry Association of American and others are using the US Civil Courts as a way to punish both the wrong doers and the innocent. In all cases brought by the RIAA, the deck will be stacked in favor of the RIAA simply because they have more money to throw at the problem than an individual and better lawyers than anyone can afford. I do not support copyright infringement, but I do not support big corporations bullying around citizens because they can, and I definitely do not support proposed legislation that would make distribution of electronic copyrighted material an automatic felony, because, it would hurt many more people than the few that benefited, and it does not require that there be material proof (a list of IPs and such) that the file was downloaded. The sad fact is that the current legislation supports the copyright holders far more than the rights of the people. Right now both the RIAA and DirecTV are suing people for alleged infringements without any Due Process or conclusive proof and without a judge watching over their actions (as of right now it only takes a clerk's stamp to subpoena an individual). They have become their own police force, without all the restrictions that the police have, and without the assumption of "innocent until proven guilty". Now it's becoming like "You might already be a Millionaire" but in reverse "You might already be sued for Intellectual Property/Copyright Infringement". More legislation does not help; it only gives more rights to the corporations, and less to the US citizen. In the end it looks and smells like extortion, especially by DirecTV (pay us $3,500 now and settle out of court, go to court and pay us $10,000 to settle, or take your chances with a judge) just for buying a smartcard reader! What is the reason why corporations can do this? It's a simple question with a simple answer: Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a law with good intentions, but with major flaws. According to the EFF (EFF.org/share) there are more that 60 million Americans that use file sharing networks. The RIAA (and friends) is trying to make everyone who has copyrighted material a felon (proposed legislation "AACOPS"), and you can bet everyone has copyrighted material on their computer. They could not shut them down because they do have legal uses, so they are instead going after the users instead. Also, why hasn't the RIAA been under investigation as a trust? It is an entity that its members control at least 80% of the current US music market. Not to mention those same corporations have recently been ruled against in a price fixing class-action lawsuit, yet they have not reduced the price of CD's. Not only that they try to bully out smaller independent means of distribution (one reason why the hate file sharing).
I was wondering about this CD-Key sticker on the bottom of the computer. One day insted of dealing with the 3 disk OEM set-up they reformats my HDD (and partition record), I borrowed my friends retail version of WinXP HE, it turns out it says my CD-Key is invaild? Should I call HP and demand a new key?
(IANAL) After reading the Bill, the U.S government would still have to make a burden of proof the the file was uploaded to 10 unique individuals, with a base value of at least $2,500. 10x$20 = $2,000 if you upload a song from a CD. What needs to be clearified, is that if there are multiple songs from that CD that are also downloaded, they cannot also be added to the charges because it would cause double jeopardy over the same material. Also, multiple files should be counted as multiple counts, not added together. One thing about the criminal system is that the burden of PROOF is on the prosecutor, not a burden of conspiracy, or a burden of probablibity.
Would it be legal to sue a copyright holder because they included a DRM copy protection scheme on their product which infinges on my fiar use of the product? If I would like to make a back up of the software (usually granted in the EULA) or the music CD (which was bought), or even play a DVD on an OS that they do not support, I must break the DMCA to do so.
On another note: Are they responsible if their DRM destroys a device and or lost data if the meida is played on a device that do not want it played on.
The RIAA/MPAA have a slight problem when it comes to file sharing. Napster and file-sharng in general is already ingrained into American culture. If they had stopped this say 5 or 6 years ago, they would have had a good chance of actually squashing file-sharing. But now everyone knows about file-sharing. I guess you could say file-sharing is like a herpes virus, once your infected (American culture) you will never get rid of it.
Sounds cool... but little more is known
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I think it sounds pretty cool and would love to try it, but it does not give any specs needed to run the player...
Like what versions on Palm, processors.. etc etc
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... science would be in the dark ages once again. Human genome, computers, and ever other modern tech device would not exsist. Invent something and not share it's mechanics creates two things. A monopoly and an information vac
You forget -- Bleem kicked Sony's ass all over the place in the courts
Screw you. I am a registered ______ party memeber (no reason to let you know what party I belong to). Just because I am a member of a party, doesnt mean I am a tool of said party.
Then only the idoits and criminals (wait.. whats the difference...) have guns.
The fact is that introducing tariffs will make the situation worse, not better. It seems to be working pretty good for both China and Japan. Both countries the US has a trade deficiate.
You wish people would not point out your flaws. No one ever likes their flaws being exposed, but it all a part of getting better. As a user, I want to know how insecure my important data is, and what I can do to fix it. MS and SunnComm both need a reality check. It goes something like this: If you fuck up and try to hide, when people notice, there will be hell to pay.
Next your going to say you dont want people pointing out your obvious personal flaws, just because it might hurt your feeling.
I swear, industries now of day are acting more and more like babies than professionals.
Dont worry Raffe, it's an old article by slashdot time. I mean it came out last night..... Anyway, I got rejected a couple of times
Mmmmm coffee in hand and my morning SCO rant. WooHoo.....
Anyway, who did not see this coming. It's a "do as I say not as I do" thing with SCO. They think that they can get away with unbiased defamination. I beleive the judge will throw this motion out.
Hummm.... Sounds like LSU.... Right now we are moving from 2000 to XP, with many error in between, not to mention the extra tax that the blaster virus and sobig have been giving us.
...and the sicken thing is that the parents either dont care, dont know, or dont care to know.
Last Christmas I worked at Best Buy, selling consoles and console games. 9/10 parents didnt know about the ESPR rating system. 5/10 were shockedthat there was one, and that the game their kid wanted was rated "M" because of sex, drugs, violence, murder, life-like gore. 8/10 partents would putthe game down and not let their kid buy it. But 2/10 parents were like really....I'll get it anyway.
Seriously, what are these guys smoking. I can see it now, two weeks (or less) after it is released. So one will figure out that if they put the board into a PC case, they have the worlds cheapest 3GHz computer.
I am not a damn cajun. Cajans make up less than 4% of the states population and most of us look and act like we are from the Northeast. Ever been to New Orleans or Baton Rouge. The only real differnce is that we like spicy food, not your bland New England food.. bleh.
Yue Shee dis is not de wey we done talkin
I think your forgeting, that at this point, Dave Matthews Band has no say so in whats going on. Both Dave Matthews and Micheal Jackson have both said that they dont think that file-sharing is a bad thing. It's the RIAA that is suing people. Just more proof that the RIAA isnt for artist rights
In light of this article, it seems that the US Civil courts need to be cleaned up, making the burden of proof stronger to win a case, AND set limits on how much money on litigation a corporation can throw at a citizen, since a coroporation has much more money than a citizen can make in a lifetime. (Humm aka we need an "Even Playing Field Act")
Unfortunatly, SCO's case aginst IBM is a civil case, not criminal
This is the letter to my senator... feel free to proof and send a copy to your own.
Senator_______,
I am appalled at the way the US Federal Court system is being hijacked by corporations. The Recording Industry Association of American and others are using the US Civil Courts as a way to punish both the wrong doers and the innocent. In all cases brought by the RIAA, the deck will be stacked in favor of the RIAA simply because they have more money to throw at the problem than an individual and better lawyers than anyone can afford. I do not support copyright infringement, but I do not support big corporations bullying around citizens because they can, and I definitely do not support proposed legislation that would make distribution of electronic copyrighted material an automatic felony, because, it would hurt many more people than the few that benefited, and it does not require that there be material proof (a list of IPs and such) that the file was downloaded. The sad fact is that the current legislation supports the copyright holders far more than the rights of the people. Right now both the RIAA and DirecTV are suing people for alleged infringements without any Due Process or conclusive proof and without a judge watching over their actions (as of right now it only takes a clerk's stamp to subpoena an individual). They have become their own police force, without all the restrictions that the police have, and without the assumption of "innocent until proven guilty". Now it's becoming like "You might already be a Millionaire" but in reverse "You might already be sued for Intellectual Property/Copyright Infringement". More legislation does not help; it only gives more rights to the corporations, and less to the US citizen. In the end it looks and smells like extortion, especially by DirecTV (pay us $3,500 now and settle out of court, go to court and pay us $10,000 to settle, or take your chances with a judge) just for buying a smartcard reader! What is the reason why corporations can do this? It's a simple question with a simple answer: Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a law with good intentions, but with major flaws. According to the EFF (EFF.org/share) there are more that 60 million Americans that use file sharing networks. The RIAA (and friends) is trying to make everyone who has copyrighted material a felon (proposed legislation "AACOPS"), and you can bet everyone has copyrighted material on their computer. They could not shut them down because they do have legal uses, so they are instead going after the users instead. Also, why hasn't the RIAA been under investigation as a trust? It is an entity that its members control at least 80% of the current US music market. Not to mention those same corporations have recently been ruled against in a price fixing class-action lawsuit, yet they have not reduced the price of CD's. Not only that they try to bully out smaller independent means of distribution (one reason why the hate file sharing).
I was wondering about this CD-Key sticker on the bottom of the computer. One day insted of dealing with the 3 disk OEM set-up they reformats my HDD (and partition record), I borrowed my friends retail version of WinXP HE, it turns out it says my CD-Key is invaild? Should I call HP and demand a new key?
(IANAL)
After reading the Bill, the U.S government would still have to make a burden of proof the the file was uploaded to 10 unique individuals, with a base value of at least $2,500. 10x$20 = $2,000 if you upload a song from a CD. What needs to be clearified, is that if there are multiple songs from that CD that are also downloaded, they cannot also be added to the charges because it would cause double jeopardy over the same material. Also, multiple files should be counted as multiple counts, not added together. One thing about the criminal system is that the burden of PROOF is on the prosecutor, not a burden of conspiracy, or a burden of probablibity.
Would it be legal to sue a copyright holder because they included a DRM copy protection scheme on their product which infinges on my fiar use of the product? If I would like to make a back up of the software (usually granted in the EULA) or the music CD (which was bought), or even play a DVD on an OS that they do not support, I must break the DMCA to do so.
On another note: Are they responsible if their DRM destroys a device and or lost data if the meida is played on a device that do not want it played on.
The RIAA/MPAA have a slight problem when it comes to file sharing. Napster and file-sharng in general is already ingrained into American culture. If they had stopped this say 5 or 6 years ago, they would have had a good chance of actually squashing file-sharing. But now everyone knows about file-sharing. I guess you could say file-sharing is like a herpes virus, once your infected (American culture) you will never get rid of it.
I think it sounds pretty cool and would love to try it, but it does not give any specs needed to run the player... Like what versions on Palm, processors.. etc etc