to denounce the use of tax havens as socially unjust and immoral in that they cheat the greater well-being of society.
Excuse me, but, tax havens are nothing more than playing by the rules as written. If you don't like that, then change those rules, but don't pretend as if to be handing us rulings from God on this. God has a bigger Universe to worry about.
And it's pretty -- how about completely -- hypocritical of the person at the head of the Biggest Tax Haven on Earth to be telling the rest of us what to do. What's the matter? Too much tax free money going into havens, rather than the Church coffers?
If you feel this judge is especially wrong, clueless, or even really right on, about this, you can make your views heard at The Robing Room. This actually seems to carry some weight in some circles.
$2,500??? That's what I paid for a Dell P-II-233Mhz w/128 MB of RAM and 6.4GB of harddrive space just 10 years ago! Of course, I got a 17" crt monitor and 56KB modem at the time.
Twenty-five years or so the CD arrived, with it's promise of better quality music that would never degrade no matter how much you played it.
Prices were high because of the new technology, but there was the promise that as manufacturing improved CD costs would drop well below the cost of vinyl albums, making music a true bargain in the same way prices have dropped in other fields over time.
Well the originally high cost of CD manufacturing has plummeted, like a stone, over this period of time, and none of this has ever been passed on to the music consumer! Prices have gone up instead.
People are fed up with the fact that they're being ripped off, and finally found a way to fight back. P2P filesharing might just as well be renamed "Screw You, Fat Bastard Record Companies." That would be far more accurate than Online Media Distribution System.
If previous cases ruled in favor of the RIAA showed payment distributions being equal to each label within the RIAA, regardless of which labels specific copyrights had been violated, I think she'd have a pretty good claim there.
There has been very little money won and paid out from lawsuits yet. What you really need to be looking at is what happens to the ~$3000 settlements collected by the Settlement Support Center in lieu of a lawsuit being filed. Follow that money, and you may find some interesting results!
And in other news, the Colonial Government in Exile has legislated the same strictures on all Cylon Humanoid models -- except for Six's who agree to exclusively be love slaves and/or concubines.
Do you want to rank this judge's performance in a public manner? Visit The Robing Room and let your thoughts be heard. Just be sure to get her name and state correct. Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, Federal Judge, California.
Although no US IP addresses should be available since TS is blocking US IP addresses now, I don't recall that this order was limited to US IP addresses. The judge could force TS to turn over all IP addresses from anywhere in the world, and the MPAA could then pass this information along to their incestuous sister organizations in other countries.
Why doesn't someone create TorrentSpy Proxy, whose sole job is to connect any other user to the TS server? This way, all TS will see is the IP address of TSP, and TSP isn't involved in any way in serving up torrents, hence the MPAA has little available grounds for suing them?
Just suppose it's encrypted data in RAM? Shall they be given the still encrypted contents?
How about giving them a complete memory dump of RAM, letting them sort out what the data is that interests them? Can the judge require them to preserve it in pretty formats?
This whole order is such an overreach by this judge, and the US Judicial system, that an immediate halt should be put to it this very instant.
And just suppose, btw for the sake of argument, that the country were TS is located prohibits export of personal data due to privacy laws? Then who wins?
Windows XP defaults to creating a Share directory.
Now instead of a KaZaA application to search for other KaZaA applications, how about a "file sharing" program that doesn't publish any files in its own share directory, but just looks for the passive shares on publicly connected XP machines and lists their contents? You're not actively file sharing because you're not running KaZaA. You may have just put your music there for your other family computers to see. Are you "Making Available"?
I would say that under Doctrine of First Sale, you can do what you want with it once you own it.
However, manufacturers have managed to prevent you from modding your game console after you own it, or at least prevent other people from selling you mod chips and modding services, so now it's murky.
Wouldn't Ford love to only have you put Genuine Ford Advantage replacement parts in your car? They can't. Nor can they force you to only buy Ford approved gasoline from licensed dealers.
Yet Apple can't prevent you from putting non-iTMS purchased music into your iPod -- although that's probably because you'd never have bought the iPod if you couldn't rip your own albums and play them in it.
So what can, and cannot, Apple and AT&T do here? Besides scaring off potential unlockers, whatever the courts are willing to allow them to get away with. Clearly these days, there is no bright shining line of what's allowed, and what isn't.
Loan your new CD to your friend to listen to and the RIAA probably won't come knocking. Let him get the tracks through KaZaA and you may have an ugly time of it. Nobody knows the real rules any longer!
How long before the RIAA, if they haven't already done so here, create a phony case that they can absolutely win, just so that they then have the precedent to shove up every other judge's nose? The judges in this country seem to run in packs. Whatever one does, the rest find easier to follow than change. And many of them admit they don't even understand the technology -- or apparently copyright law -- yet they're willing to make decisions on it!
Wouldn't it have been easier to say that if dual processors or more are present, one processor is dedicated to playing the music, while the other processors continue handling all other functions? That's a better division of labor than we see in Windows now, and even the lowest end dual processor systems have enough oomph in any single processor to handle this well.
The Biggest Lie of the MPAA (and RIAA) is that every download equates to a lost sale, or a percentage of a lost sale. I'd love for him to have to explain how he can truly justify that position.
How fast was your LAN connection in '95? What media were you playing at work?
I was playing media off of my hard drive, as, I believe, was the case here. The network operations were independent of the MP3 playback. And this was with a single processor that was 20X slower, a hard drive that was likely 5X slower, RAM that was easily 3X slower. Trying to say that a faster LAN is what's bogging down machines doesn't hold water since XP isn't so affected.
What I'm talking about the the SAP (Secure Audio Path) in Vista that tries to prevent copying of any audio or video signals because it is incapable of distinguishing copyrighted material from non-copyrighted material. It spends a huge amount of effort attempting to encrypt/decrypt/hide the audio and video signals from any form of decoded capture. This is why Vista runs slower than XP under nearly every circumstance.
This is no longer an accident with Sony. No longer a simple lapse in judgment. This is a bad, ugly, habit on their part now, likely caused by the dichotomy of trying to be a content producer and a tech company at the same time.
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Excuse me, but, tax havens are nothing more than playing by the rules as written. If you don't like that, then change those rules, but don't pretend as if to be handing us rulings from God on this. God has a bigger Universe to worry about.
And it's pretty -- how about completely -- hypocritical of the person at the head of the Biggest Tax Haven on Earth to be telling the rest of us what to do. What's the matter? Too much tax free money going into havens, rather than the Church coffers?
We needed your NO vote. Microsoft has won their battle by removing your vote entirely, which is probably not what you intended.
Sincerely,
The rest of the (still) Free World.
If you feel this judge is especially wrong, clueless, or even really right on, about this, you can make your views heard at The Robing Room. This actually seems to carry some weight in some circles.
$2,500??? That's what I paid for a Dell P-II-233Mhz w/128 MB of RAM and 6.4GB of harddrive space just 10 years ago! Of course, I got a 17" crt monitor and 56KB modem at the time.
What's inconsistent with Microsoft's policy is getting caught doing this.
Prices were high because of the new technology, but there was the promise that as manufacturing improved CD costs would drop well below the cost of vinyl albums, making music a true bargain in the same way prices have dropped in other fields over time.
Well the originally high cost of CD manufacturing has plummeted, like a stone, over this period of time, and none of this has ever been passed on to the music consumer! Prices have gone up instead.
People are fed up with the fact that they're being ripped off, and finally found a way to fight back. P2P filesharing might just as well be renamed "Screw You, Fat Bastard Record Companies." That would be far more accurate than Online Media Distribution System.
There has been very little money won and paid out from lawsuits yet. What you really need to be looking at is what happens to the ~$3000 settlements collected by the Settlement Support Center in lieu of a lawsuit being filed. Follow that money, and you may find some interesting results!
So how do I enter the hieroglyphics for translation in the first place?
By definition -- their definition, that is -- the MPAA/RIAA companies cannot ever infringe anyone's copyright. Only the "little people" can do that.
I'm absolutely certain that warts, sunspots, and smog are also the direct result of music piracy. And don't even get into cancer.
And in other news, the Colonial Government in Exile has legislated the same strictures on all Cylon Humanoid models -- except for Six's who agree to exclusively be love slaves and/or concubines.
Do you want to rank this judge's performance in a public manner? Visit The Robing Room and let your thoughts be heard. Just be sure to get her name and state correct. Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, Federal Judge, California.
Why are we doing this? Why are we trying to break GPL3, when it's the type of license that benefits the user the most of all?
Although no US IP addresses should be available since TS is blocking US IP addresses now, I don't recall that this order was limited to US IP addresses. The judge could force TS to turn over all IP addresses from anywhere in the world, and the MPAA could then pass this information along to their incestuous sister organizations in other countries.
Why doesn't someone create TorrentSpy Proxy, whose sole job is to connect any other user to the TS server? This way, all TS will see is the IP address of TSP, and TSP isn't involved in any way in serving up torrents, hence the MPAA has little available grounds for suing them?
How about giving them a complete memory dump of RAM, letting them sort out what the data is that interests them? Can the judge require them to preserve it in pretty formats?
This whole order is such an overreach by this judge, and the US Judicial system, that an immediate halt should be put to it this very instant.
And just suppose, btw for the sake of argument, that the country were TS is located prohibits export of personal data due to privacy laws? Then who wins?
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Now instead of a KaZaA application to search for other KaZaA applications, how about a "file sharing" program that doesn't publish any files in its own share directory, but just looks for the passive shares on publicly connected XP machines and lists their contents? You're not actively file sharing because you're not running KaZaA. You may have just put your music there for your other family computers to see. Are you "Making Available"?
However, manufacturers have managed to prevent you from modding your game console after you own it, or at least prevent other people from selling you mod chips and modding services, so now it's murky.
Wouldn't Ford love to only have you put Genuine Ford Advantage replacement parts in your car? They can't. Nor can they force you to only buy Ford approved gasoline from licensed dealers.
Yet Apple can't prevent you from putting non-iTMS purchased music into your iPod -- although that's probably because you'd never have bought the iPod if you couldn't rip your own albums and play them in it.
So what can, and cannot, Apple and AT&T do here? Besides scaring off potential unlockers, whatever the courts are willing to allow them to get away with. Clearly these days, there is no bright shining line of what's allowed, and what isn't.
Loan your new CD to your friend to listen to and the RIAA probably won't come knocking. Let him get the tracks through KaZaA and you may have an ugly time of it. Nobody knows the real rules any longer!
How long before the RIAA, if they haven't already done so here, create a phony case that they can absolutely win, just so that they then have the precedent to shove up every other judge's nose? The judges in this country seem to run in packs. Whatever one does, the rest find easier to follow than change. And many of them admit they don't even understand the technology -- or apparently copyright law -- yet they're willing to make decisions on it!
Wouldn't it have been easier to say that if dual processors or more are present, one processor is dedicated to playing the music, while the other processors continue handling all other functions? That's a better division of labor than we see in Windows now, and even the lowest end dual processor systems have enough oomph in any single processor to handle this well.
The Biggest Lie of the MPAA (and RIAA) is that every download equates to a lost sale, or a percentage of a lost sale. I'd love for him to have to explain how he can truly justify that position.
I see that your definition of "slightly" differs greatly from mine.
I was playing media off of my hard drive, as, I believe, was the case here. The network operations were independent of the MP3 playback. And this was with a single processor that was 20X slower, a hard drive that was likely 5X slower, RAM that was easily 3X slower. Trying to say that a faster LAN is what's bogging down machines doesn't hold water since XP isn't so affected.
What I'm talking about the the SAP (Secure Audio Path) in Vista that tries to prevent copying of any audio or video signals because it is incapable of distinguishing copyrighted material from non-copyrighted material. It spends a huge amount of effort attempting to encrypt/decrypt/hide the audio and video signals from any form of decoded capture. This is why Vista runs slower than XP under nearly every circumstance.
This is no longer an accident with Sony. No longer a simple lapse in judgment. This is a bad, ugly, habit on their part now, likely caused by the dichotomy of trying to be a content producer and a tech company at the same time.