Nothing else has stopped the RIAA, and this won't either. They're on a Mission from God to destroy all pirates, and they'll argue (and rationalize to themselves) that everything has to be fair in the battle because they're being killed off every second by filesharing. Put 'em all in prison for life + 999 years and they may get a clue.
It's attitudes like this that make me glad I don't live in California any longer.
And this is nothing new. Some years ago now there was a ballot measure to add 1 cent to the gasoline tax to fund mass transit. Now, of course, people driving cars already aren't users of mass transit and therefore don't wish to pay for it. The ballot measure was soundly defeated!
Wonder of wonders, some bright light in the tax department in Sacramento SUDDENLY DISCOVERED that, Hey, we can apply Sales Tax to gasoline, which we never did before because we already had a gasoline tax. And on top of that, we can apply Sales Tax to THE ENTIRE PRICE of a gallon of gasoline, resulting in what should never be allowed, A TAX ON A TAX!
FRUTHERMORE, Sales Tax goes into the General Fund, meaning we can SPEND IT ON ANYTHING WE LIKE including mass transit, or not. That's still in effect in California, which is one of the two reasons why CALIFORNIA HAS SOME OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE GASOLINE IN THE COUNTRY! (Hawaii at least has the excuse that they have to import all their gasoline for their prices.)
This is timely because California is at it again trying to get registered car owners to pay for mass transit. And now it's IN ADDITION to the sales tax on gasoline!!
George Lucas is overreaching here. I don't know if he got bad advice, or really feels everything about Star Wars came only from him.
No movie is ever the effort, or vision, of one person. That's why there are all those names at the end of every feature flick. While it may have started with a script, the final product has had input from many sources.
George, you used to be considered one of the nicest, fairest people in the film industry. You don't need to be a greedy SOB here.
If George wants to own the copyright to something entirely to himself, let that be Jar Jar Binks.
It simply isn't permissible in the US legal system to prevent a plaintiff with a legitimate claim from discovering the identity of the person they have that claim against.
The problem with your argument is that the plaintiffs don't have legitimate claims. They can't prove actual uploading, actual downloading, and making available isn't in the Copyright Act. It's not the filesharer's fault that the law hasn't caught up to their activities, and the RIAA shouldn't be allowed to try and create new law where Congress hasn't acted yet.
Do you know how program was done 25 years ago?...I do, and it's not even remotely the same.
Yes. My C.S. degree was awarded in 1977, and I was programming 7 years prior to that.
Oh, guess what? I've been doing it even longer than you have, and I know how similar the approach to single-thread, and even multiple-thread one-instruction-after-the-previous-one still is.
They're clearly not in the music producing business, which is why Apple Computer and Apple Music have coexisted once Apple Computer quit trying to assert that they were the only Apple in the world. Hasn't The Big Apple been around longer than Apple Computer? So unless Apple is suddenly in the City Business (along with the computer, iPod, and iPhone businesses) as a competitor, it should simply go away and shut up!
Microsoft is stupid again, and clearly doesn't care about what its customers really want. Vista has failed to sell itself as superior to XP, so let's kill off XP and remove that choice entirely. It's unfortunate that Microsoft won't pay the price that most businesses pay for such bonehead decisions of giving a general "Up Yours" to their customers, who are clearly too stupid (in Microsoft's mind) to know what's really good for them!
You know, Microsoft could have created/could still create a "good" Windows OS if they took what they have in Vista, which has at least been knocked around in the real world for 18 months now, and streamlined what they have by stripping out all the DRM crap they built into it in the first place. If they quit kowtowing to special interests and thought of their customers first the next Windows could actually be competitive with XP.
And then just allow a full XP virtual machine to run under Windows 7 for compatibility purposes - the extra cost of which to MS is the low low price of FREE - and they could deliver a real winner that meets everybody's needs on the hardware that will be common in 2009.
The quick fix to this is web-sites all allowing https, ssl, and vpn connections to them. That will end deep-packet inspection, leaving only a list of web-pages visited available. gMail already allows https, but you have to ask for it.
a pre-action discovery proceeding [which is not authorized under the Federal Rules] masquerading as a copyright infringement proceeding.
You'd think the judge could put a stop to that -- or better yet a new Federal Rule -- mandating that any identities discovered could only be utilized in the current case. That way, if the plaintiffs lost, or never went to trial in the first place, that information couldn't be misused otherwise.
There was a non-RIAA non-Copyright case a couple years ago where a company sued to obtain the identity of a blogger, critical to that company, and believed to be an employee. While that company had no possibility of winning their case under the First Amendment, once they forced the internet site to cough up sufficient identifying information, they dropped their case and simply fired the employee. That should have never been allowed, and side-steps the whole intent that anonymous persons can be forced to be identified by the courts in virtually any case, no matter how lame, because it's necessary for the administration of justice to identify these defendants.
The whole idea that this will all come out in the wash so to speak, meaning at the actual trial exonerating innocent defendants and punishing overreaching plaintiffs totally misses the point of the damage already being done by the time identities have been revealed under the most flimsy of pretenses.
There should be an argument made that because the RIAA cannot win at trial with the illegally gathered evidence they already have, then identities shouldn't be revealed in the first place. Of course the RIAA will throw back the Jamie Thomas case were stupid juries, a less than bright defendant, and outright wrong jury instructions show that anything is possible if you throw enough b.s. at it.
Of course, my idea will only work if the penalties for actually misusing identity information outside of the trial itself are very VERY severe!
This is too little too late. Just look a few articles above and you'll see that silicon will be dead in 4 years, having reached its limits. This isn't going to save it.
If Apple keeps iPhone a walled garden, and Google opens up Android, Android may well eat Apple's lunch. So far, closed systems lose out to open systems pretty much every time.
If this is true, then the players who are overly committed to silicon may lose ground to those moving to new materials and technologies. It could portend quite a shake up.
Nice, except that my automatic update screen doesn't offer this option. Only QuickTime + iTunes is offered. And if you look at some of the other examples on the net (http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/26/apple_safari_eula_paradox/) you'll see update screens that won't update QuickTime without updating iTunes.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ seems to offer me options both with and without itunes.
This option seems to involve uninstalling and reinstalling QT each time. Not a nice little Check for Updates option to stay current with the latest version.
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Nothing else has stopped the RIAA, and this won't either. They're on a Mission from God to destroy all pirates, and they'll argue (and rationalize to themselves) that everything has to be fair in the battle because they're being killed off every second by filesharing. Put 'em all in prison for life + 999 years and they may get a clue.
If you like this kind of stuff, get a copy of The Way Things Go (1987), a 30-minute documentary of a whole series of events, each triggering the next.
And this is nothing new. Some years ago now there was a ballot measure to add 1 cent to the gasoline tax to fund mass transit. Now, of course, people driving cars already aren't users of mass transit and therefore don't wish to pay for it. The ballot measure was soundly defeated!
Wonder of wonders, some bright light in the tax department in Sacramento SUDDENLY DISCOVERED that, Hey, we can apply Sales Tax to gasoline, which we never did before because we already had a gasoline tax. And on top of that, we can apply Sales Tax to THE ENTIRE PRICE of a gallon of gasoline, resulting in what should never be allowed, A TAX ON A TAX!
FRUTHERMORE, Sales Tax goes into the General Fund, meaning we can SPEND IT ON ANYTHING WE LIKE including mass transit, or not. That's still in effect in California, which is one of the two reasons why CALIFORNIA HAS SOME OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE GASOLINE IN THE COUNTRY! (Hawaii at least has the excuse that they have to import all their gasoline for their prices.)
This is timely because California is at it again trying to get registered car owners to pay for mass transit. And now it's IN ADDITION to the sales tax on gasoline!!
No movie is ever the effort, or vision, of one person. That's why there are all those names at the end of every feature flick. While it may have started with a script, the final product has had input from many sources.
George, you used to be considered one of the nicest, fairest people in the film industry. You don't need to be a greedy SOB here.
If George wants to own the copyright to something entirely to himself, let that be Jar Jar Binks.
Wouldn't this then mean that you're purchasing the music itself, and not just a license to the music? How does the RIAA feel about that?
The problem with your argument is that the plaintiffs don't have legitimate claims. They can't prove actual uploading, actual downloading, and making available isn't in the Copyright Act. It's not the filesharer's fault that the law hasn't caught up to their activities, and the RIAA shouldn't be allowed to try and create new law where Congress hasn't acted yet.
What ISP's could handle the requests for tens of thousands of subscribers information based in what? IP number and timestamp?
Why wouldn't such an immense data dump have been known about before now?
And who identified all these filesharers in the first place?
Somewhere this just isn't adding up.
Yes. My C.S. degree was awarded in 1977, and I was programming 7 years prior to that.
Oh, guess what? I've been doing it even longer than you have, and I know how similar the approach to single-thread, and even multiple-thread one-instruction-after-the-previous-one still is.
They're clearly not in the music producing business, which is why Apple Computer and Apple Music have coexisted once Apple Computer quit trying to assert that they were the only Apple in the world. Hasn't The Big Apple been around longer than Apple Computer? So unless Apple is suddenly in the City Business (along with the computer, iPod, and iPhone businesses) as a competitor, it should simply go away and shut up!
Microsoft is stupid again, and clearly doesn't care about what its customers really want. Vista has failed to sell itself as superior to XP, so let's kill off XP and remove that choice entirely. It's unfortunate that Microsoft won't pay the price that most businesses pay for such bonehead decisions of giving a general "Up Yours" to their customers, who are clearly too stupid (in Microsoft's mind) to know what's really good for them!
And then just allow a full XP virtual machine to run under Windows 7 for compatibility purposes - the extra cost of which to MS is the low low price of FREE - and they could deliver a real winner that meets everybody's needs on the hardware that will be common in 2009.
Is Microsoft this smart?
The quick fix to this is web-sites all allowing https, ssl, and vpn connections to them. That will end deep-packet inspection, leaving only a list of web-pages visited available. gMail already allows https, but you have to ask for it.
Seriously, Folks, who can do anything for a mere $20M today, let alone change the entire programming paradigm of the last 65 years?
Tell the truth about Vista to people who already pretty much know it, or
Toe the corporate line and continue to receive paychecks and promotions.
Oh the pressure!
You'd think the judge could put a stop to that -- or better yet a new Federal Rule -- mandating that any identities discovered could only be utilized in the current case. That way, if the plaintiffs lost, or never went to trial in the first place, that information couldn't be misused otherwise.
There was a non-RIAA non-Copyright case a couple years ago where a company sued to obtain the identity of a blogger, critical to that company, and believed to be an employee. While that company had no possibility of winning their case under the First Amendment, once they forced the internet site to cough up sufficient identifying information, they dropped their case and simply fired the employee. That should have never been allowed, and side-steps the whole intent that anonymous persons can be forced to be identified by the courts in virtually any case, no matter how lame, because it's necessary for the administration of justice to identify these defendants.
The whole idea that this will all come out in the wash so to speak, meaning at the actual trial exonerating innocent defendants and punishing overreaching plaintiffs totally misses the point of the damage already being done by the time identities have been revealed under the most flimsy of pretenses.
There should be an argument made that because the RIAA cannot win at trial with the illegally gathered evidence they already have, then identities shouldn't be revealed in the first place. Of course the RIAA will throw back the Jamie Thomas case were stupid juries, a less than bright defendant, and outright wrong jury instructions show that anything is possible if you throw enough b.s. at it.
Of course, my idea will only work if the penalties for actually misusing identity information outside of the trial itself are very VERY severe!
Rambus is scum.
It must have real problems with political jokes. Half the people think they're real funny, while the other half don't. And that half changes by joke!
Sorry, I was speaking of hardware, which you should have understood in the context of hardware devices being discussed.
This is too little too late. Just look a few articles above and you'll see that silicon will be dead in 4 years, having reached its limits. This isn't going to save it.
If Apple keeps iPhone a walled garden, and Google opens up Android, Android may well eat Apple's lunch. So far, closed systems lose out to open systems pretty much every time.
If this is true, then the players who are overly committed to silicon may lose ground to those moving to new materials and technologies. It could portend quite a shake up.
Nice, except that my automatic update screen doesn't offer this option. Only QuickTime + iTunes is offered. And if you look at some of the other examples on the net (http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/26/apple_safari_eula_paradox/) you'll see update screens that won't update QuickTime without updating iTunes.
This option seems to involve uninstalling and reinstalling QT each time. Not a nice little Check for Updates option to stay current with the latest version.
Any other suggestions?
Of course Comcast can play nice now. Now that TorrentSpy has died and The Pirate Bay is in court once again.
Gee, the Chinese are just like Comcast.