Most games have the option of having all offensive turned off and I think the XBOX has it built into the hardware itself.
Why is this a big deal? If anything they are appeasing those who say kids are watching movies that they shouldn't be. If the offensive parts were filtered out then their bottom line would expand and they would make more money and that's what it's all about to them anyway.
It's just getting sickening with all of the business entities out there who don't care about anything but having the ultimate control over products they sell. We as consumers should have two options.
Sell two versions of dvds. One that is pre-filtered and one that isn't filtered. Shit there goes the bottom line. Leave it up to the consumer to filter and it's out of your hands plus it doesn't cost you a penny. Oh yea you also don't piss off the consumer which these days doesn't seem to matter to them.
I play mostly FPS's and that's what my comment is referring to. If the game involves walking around cities and such, i.e. GTA, etc., then why not make it look like an actual city with real businesses, franchises, chains, billboards, etc., depending on the setting? This would make the most unobtrusive use of advertising. I hate advertising with a passion but using it in this manner instead of making me eat at McDonalds as part of the game wouldn't bother me a bit.
In the new postal game you can actually piss on things so advertise like crazy and I'd have fun pissing all over it. Now that I think about it put actual McDonald's characters in the game like Grimace, Mayor McCheese, the Hamburgler, Burker King, Wendy from Wendy's, The Taco Bell dog, and let me torch them all with flame throwers, chainsaw them into pieces and mix up the parts for a tasty and delightful new "samich"!!
The PIAA ( Potato (or Potatoe if you are Dan Quayle) Industry Association of America finds the current potato trend disturbing to say the least.
Hilary "I love big bags (of chips)" Rosen has issued the following statement in this leaked memo...
To be brief we have laid out the terms of the infringements so please look over the document and give me your input.
Begin Doc....
1. Contributory Infringement
Liability for contributory infringement attaches to "one who, with knowledge of the infringing activity, induces, causes or materially contributes to the infringing conduct of another potato distributor. . . [L]iability exists if the defendant engages in personal conduct that encourages or assists the infringement." Lays, Inc. v. Spudster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004, 1014 (9th Cir. 2001).
Knowledge
Bazooka Potato Bombs sought to obtain licensing from Lays and was referred to individual members of the National Potato Growers Organization.
NPGO wrote to Bazooka Potato Bombs and provided notice that its conduct was infringing and that it should obtain the necessary licensing.
PIAA wrote letter to Uzi Potato when it was an OpenPotato system and placed Uzi Potato on notice of infringing conduct. The same principals contacted by the PIAA are still in place at Uzi Potato.
In discussion with General Counsel of Potato Copyright.net, PotatoZaA CEO acknowledged exchange of copyrighted content and stated looking into filters, particularly for child potatos.
Press has raised issue of exchange of copyrighted content with company principals.
Widespread presence of copyrighted potato materials in supermarkets.
Message Boards discuss available Potatos, Genetically Engineered Spuds (Ges), and Potato Ordinance Delivery Systems (PODS).
Uzi Potato employees participate in message board discussions and CEO acknowledges Uzi Potato controls message boards.
[should we provide notice by letters and when?]
Material Contribution
PotatoZaA creates and licenses Potato Delivery Systems primarily used for the preparation and delivery of copyrighted potatos and weapon systems.
PotatoZaA created and controls boiling of said potatos that ensures that the potatos remain hardened and Potato Factory Fresh from outside influences.
Provides a dynamic list of available superspuds where potatos can be exchanged (possibly through the.38 spudspreader).
Continually updates the list of available superspuds and communicates that information to users (likely through the.34 spudspreader).
PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato and Potatokster maintain log-in spudspreaders.
Maintains the Potatokster.com spudspreader which acts as a superspud (and by definition maintains a spud index).
Resolves spudsplits and other spotato problems (likely through the.34 sspudspreader).
Vicarious Infringement
Vicarious liability arises when the defendant "has the right and ability to supervise the infringing activity and also has a direct financial interest in such activities." Ruffles, 239 F.3d at 1022.
Right and Ability to Supervise
PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster all expressly reserve the right to limit the number of spuds that users make available or access and to terminate users who infringe intellectual potato rights or violate other laws.
Uzi Potato also reserves the right to remove or disable links to delicious potato recipe material.
Spudspreader limits Spuds to certain spudrate
Uzi Potato implemented a filter for child potatos.
Mr. Straight Pimpin' Spuds claims to have cooperated with police in limiting the exchange of child potatos.
Financial Benefit
Generate advertising revenue based on user base.
Mr. Straight Pimpin' Spuds expressed to head of Rock the Potato that he can't stop infringements so he intends to make money from it.
Spudstrom acknowledged to the press that PotatoZaA is making money.
The services have a rapidly growing user base and according to SPUDNET's spudload.com is the most popular potato ordinance delivery system blueprint software on the net.
Uzi Potato obtaining additional funding from Potato Venture Partners.
III. Recommendation
We have solid claims against PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster of secondary liability for copyright infringement. The claims are not as strong as those against Spudster, but they are also not so remote as to be wishful.
Our claims would likely be strengthened by learning more about the designation of superspuds and the content of growing genetically engineered potatos within the system. However, the encryption of this communication precludes further learning absent cooperation from one of these companies or court ordered discovery. In that regard, we recently learned that PotatoZaA is very interested in exploring alternatives to litigation and its principals are willing to sit down with the potato companies to discuss ways of resolving any dispute. PotatoZaA is willing to sell the company and the technology, or enter into a licensing arrangement. PotatoZaA is also willing to implement filtering technologies to prevent potato infringements. We have also learned that PotatoZaA is looking for the litigation and would like for us to file suit.
Thus, we recommend (1) filing claims against PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster, (2) immediately thereafter initiating discussions with PotatoZaA about resolving our claims in a way that will provide us with useful information and testimony against Uzi Potato, and if possible obtain PotatoZaA's cooperation in shutting down or converting Uzi Potato and Potatokster, and (3) continue forward with litigation against Uzi Potato, Potatokster, and potentially Potato Venture Partners.
We hope one day to have a world where people actually pay for their potato content and/or potato delivery systems. When users are using unlicensed potatos, spuds, and their delivery systems they are in a sense supporting potato terrorism of which the likes we haven't seen in a hundred years. We can't afford another Mashed Potato Eleven (MP11). Mr Potatohead was lost in that disaster as well as Mrs. Potatohead and that day will forever live in infamy. Please I ask everyone in our organization to help end this senseless crime.
The PIAA ( Potato (or Potatoe if you are Dan Quayle) Industry Association of America finds the current potato trend disturbing to say the least.
Hilary "I love big bags (of chips)" Rosen has issued the following statement in this leaked memo...
To be brief we have laid out the terms of the infringements so please look over the document and give me your input.
Begin Doc....
1. Contributory Infringement
Liability for contributory infringement attaches to "one who, with knowledge of the infringing activity, induces, causes or materially contributes to the infringing conduct of another potato distributor. . . [L]iability exists if the defendant engages in personal conduct that encourages or assists the infringement." Lays, Inc. v. Spudster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004, 1014 (9th Cir. 2001).
Knowledge
Bazooka Potato Bombs sought to obtain licensing from Lays and was referred to individual members of the National Potato Growers Organization.
NPGO wrote to Bazooka Potato Bombs and provided notice that its conduct was infringing and that it should obtain the necessary licensing.
PIAA wrote letter to Uzi Potato when it was an OpenPotato system and placed Uzi Potato on notice of infringing conduct. The same principals contacted by the PIAA are still in place at Uzi Potato.
In discussion with General Counsel of Potato Copyright.net, PotatoZaA CEO acknowledged exchange of copyrighted content and stated looking into filters, particularly for child potatos.
Press has raised issue of exchange of copyrighted content with company principals.
Widespread presence of copyrighted potato materials in supermarkets.
Message Boards discuss available Potatos, Genetically Engineered Spuds (Ges), and Potato Ordinance Delivery Systems (PODS).
Uzi Potato employees participate in message board discussions and CEO acknowledges Uzi Potato controls message boards.
[should we provide notice by letters and when?]
Material Contribution
PotatoZaA creates and licenses Potato Delivery Systems primarily used for the preparation and delivery of copyrighted potatos and weapon systems.
PotatoZaA created and controls boiling of said potatos that ensures that the potatos remain hardened and Potato Factory Fresh from outside influences.
Provides a dynamic list of available superspuds where potatos can be exchanged (possibly through the.38 spudspreader).
Continually updates the list of available superspuds and communicates that information to users (likely through the.34 spudspreader).
PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato and Potatokster maintain log-in spudspreaders.
Maintains the Potatokster.com spudspreader which acts as a superspud (and by definition maintains a spud index).
Resolves spudsplits and other spotato problems (likely through the.34 sspudspreader).
Vicarious Infringement
Vicarious liability arises when the defendant "has the right and ability to supervise the infringing activity and also has a direct financial interest in such activities." Ruffles, 239 F.3d at 1022.
Right and Ability to Supervise
PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster all expressly reserve the right to limit the number of spuds that users make available or access and to terminate users who infringe intellectual potato rights or violate other laws.
Uzi Potato also reserves the right to remove or disable links to delicious potato recipe material.
Spudspreader limits Spuds to certain spudrate
Uzi Potato implemented a filter for child potatos.
Mr. Straight Pimpin' Spuds claims to have cooperated with police in limiting the exchange of child potatos.
Financial Benefit
Generate advertising revenue based on user base.
Mr. Straight Pimpin' Spuds expressed to head of Rock the Potato that he can't stop infringements so he intends to make money from it.
Spudstrom acknowledged to the press that PotatoZaA is making money.
The services have a rapidly growing user base and according to SPUDNET's spudload.com is the most popular potato ordinance delivery system blueprint software on the net.
Uzi Potato obtaining additional funding from Potato Venture Partners.
III. Recommendation
We have solid claims against PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster of secondary liability for copyright infringement. The claims are not as strong as those against Spudster, but they are also not so remote as to be wishful.
Our claims would likely be strengthened by learning more about the designation of superspuds and the content of growing genetically engineered potatos within the system. However, the encryption of this communication precludes further learning absent cooperation from one of these companies or court ordered discovery. In that regard, we recently learned that PotatoZaA is very interested in exploring alternatives to litigation and its principals are willing to sit down with the potato companies to discuss ways of resolving any dispute. PotatoZaA is willing to sell the company and the technology, or enter into a licensing arrangement. PotatoZaA is also willing to implement filtering technologies to prevent potato infringements. We have also learned that PotatoZaA is looking for the litigation and would like for us to file suit.
Thus, we recommend (1) filing claims against PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster, (2) immediately thereafter initiating discussions with PotatoZaA about resolving our claims in a way that will provide us with useful information and testimony against Uzi Potato, and if possible obtain PotatoZaA's cooperation in shutting down or converting Uzi Potato and Potatokster, and (3) continue forward with litigation against Uzi Potato, Potatokster, and potentially Potato Venture Partners.
We hope one day to have a world where people actually pay for their potato content and/or potato delivery systems. When users are using unlicensed potatos, spuds, and their delivery systems they are in a sense supporting potato terrorism of which the likes we haven't seen in a hundred years. We can't afford another Mashed Potato Eleven (MP11). Mr Potatohead was lost in that disaster as well as Mrs. Potatohead and that day will forever live in infamy. Please I ask everyone in our organization to help end this senseless crime.
The PIAA ( Potato (or Potatoe if you are Dan Quayle) Industry Association of America finds the current potato trend disturbing to say the least.
Hilary "I love big bags (of chips)" Rosen has issued the following statement in this leaked memo...
To be brief we have laid out the terms of the infringements so please look over the document and give me your input.
Begin Doc....
1. Contributory Infringement
Liability for contributory infringement attaches to "one who, with knowledge of the infringing activity, induces, causes or materially contributes to the infringing conduct of another potato distributor. . . [L]iability exists if the defendant engages in personal conduct that encourages or assists the infringement." Lays, Inc. v. Spudster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004, 1014 (9th Cir. 2001).
Knowledge
Bazooka Potato Bombs sought to obtain licensing from Lays and was referred to individual members of the National Potato Growers Organization.
NPGO wrote to Bazooka Potato Bombs and provided notice that its conduct was infringing and that it should obtain the necessary licensing.
PIAA wrote letter to Uzi Potato when it was an OpenPotato system and placed Uzi Potato on notice of infringing conduct. The same principals contacted by the PIAA are still in place at Uzi Potato.
In discussion with General Counsel of Potato Copyright.net, PotatoZaA CEO acknowledged exchange of copyrighted content and stated looking into filters, particularly for child potatos.
Press has raised issue of exchange of copyrighted content with company principals.
Widespread presence of copyrighted potato materials in supermarkets.
Message Boards discuss available Potatos, Genetically Engineered Spuds (Ges), and Potato Ordinance Delivery Systems (PODS).
Uzi Potato employees participate in message board discussions and CEO acknowledges Uzi Potato controls message boards.
[should we provide notice by letters and when?]
Material Contribution
PotatoZaA creates and licenses Potato Delivery Systems primarily used for the preparation and delivery of copyrighted potatos and weapon systems.
PotatoZaA created and controls boiling of said potatos that ensures that the potatos remain hardened and Potato Factory Fresh from outside influences.
Provides a dynamic list of available superspuds where potatos can be exchanged (possibly through the.38 spudspreader).
Continually updates the list of available superspuds and communicates that information to users (likely through the.34 spudspreader).
PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato and Potatokster maintain log-in spudspreaders.
Maintains the Potatokster.com spudspreader which acts as a superspud (and by definition maintains a spud index).
Resolves spudsplits and other spotato problems (likely through the.34 sspudspreader).
Vicarious Infringement
Vicarious liability arises when the defendant "has the right and ability to supervise the infringing activity and also has a direct financial interest in such activities." Ruffles, 239 F.3d at 1022.
Right and Ability to Supervise
PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster all expressly reserve the right to limit the number of spuds that users make available or access and to terminate users who infringe intellectual potato rights or violate other laws.
Uzi Potato also reserves the right to remove or disable links to delicious potato recipe material.
Spudspreader limits Spuds to certain spudrate
Uzi Potato implemented a filter for child potatos.
Mr. Straight Pimpin' Spuds claims to have cooperated with police in limiting the exchange of child potatos.
Financial Benefit
Generate advertising revenue based on user base.
Mr. Straight Pimpin' Spuds expressed to head of Rock the Potato that he can't stop infringements so he intends to make money from it.
Spudstrom acknowledged to the press that PotatoZaA is making money.
The services have a rapidly growing user base and according to SPUDNET's spudload.com is the most popular potato ordinance delivery system blueprint software on the net.
Uzi Potato obtaining additional funding from Potato Venture Partners.
III. Recommendation
We have solid claims against PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster of secondary liability for copyright infringement. The claims are not as strong as those against Spudster, but they are also not so remote as to be wishful.
Our claims would likely be strengthened by learning more about the designation of superspuds and the content of growing genetically engineered potatos within the system. However, the encryption of this communication precludes further learning absent cooperation from one of these companies or court ordered discovery. In that regard, we recently learned that PotatoZaA is very interested in exploring alternatives to litigation and its principals are willing to sit down with the potato companies to discuss ways of resolving any dispute. PotatoZaA is willing to sell the company and the technology, or enter into a licensing arrangement. PotatoZaA is also willing to implement filtering technologies to prevent potato infringements. We have also learned that PotatoZaA is looking for the litigation and would like for us to file suit.
Thus, we recommend (1) filing claims against PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster, (2) immediately thereafter initiating discussions with PotatoZaA about resolving our claims in a way that will provide us with useful information and testimony against Uzi Potato, and if possible obtain PotatoZaA's cooperation in shutting down or converting Uzi Potato and Potatokster, and (3) continue forward with litigation against Uzi Potato, Potatokster, and potentially Potato Venture Partners.
We hope one day to have a world where people actually pay for their potato content and/or potato delivery systems. When users are using unlicensed potatos, spuds, and their delivery systems they are in a sense supporting potato terrorism of which the likes we haven't seen in a hundred years. We can't afford another Mashed Potato Eleven (MP11). Mr Potatohead was lost in that disaster as well as Mrs. Potatohead and that day will forever live in infamy. Please I ask everyone in our organization to help end this senseless crime.
I don't know what's worse your trolling or your belief that users here will buy your argument or lack there of. I would bet that you work for the RIAA/MPAA or have a vested interest. Your nose is so far up their ass it's sick. Why do you think that consumers should feel any guilt at all for downloading a lot of mp3s that they would never buy in the first place? If I download something I like then I buy it but it's gotta be good.
I grew tired of paying $19.99 for one song so now I have another avenue. Did you just happen to miss out on the recording industry losing their collusion case? There's proof positive that consumers are being gouged and it will continue. The RIAA cannot, as much as they try, force us to accept their version of the future of music. Most of us have been using the future of music delivery and will continue to do so. It's up to the RIAA if they want to keep burning their cash reserves while trying to plug the dam or accept P2P and stop gauging the consumer.
Now go wash the shit off your nose and try thinking for yourself. Try reading "independent thinking for dummies" if you are unsure in how to go about it.
Like everyone has said all forms of DRM will always be bypassed and only affect those who know very little. The RIAA is punishing their true customers while having no affect on those who download said materials for free.
I knew once they got rid of Napster that this would happen. You take a service like Napster that had centrally based servers, put them out of business, and replace them with non-centralized servers in a true P2P environment and what would you expect to happen? All the RIAA did is make their worst nightmare expand exponentially. Personally I think it's hilarious and they are their own worst enemy.
The RIAA is so busy fucking true consumers and pissing them off as well that they fail to see that they are only polishing the brass on the titanic. Their business model from back in the day is all but sunk and they refuse to accept or evolve into what would truely save them. How can a business as a whole that is so money hungry refuse to do what it takes to get back on track instead of turning themselves into the music gestapo? They only have themselves to blame for becoming so demonized.
The RIAA have become the equivalent of a computer illiterate user trying to rewrite a program in C+ all the while telling us they know what they are doing and how well it will work. They don't know shit period. I for one would *maybe* buy cds if they were priced right, (way under $10), or if I could use a service that didn't try to fuck me at every opportunity. Greed is a fact of life but I don't have to be a pawn in the game.
If the RIAA was actually able to stop all forms of P2P trading, etc. then I'll just go back to ftp and usenet but we all know it's not going to stop so let the RIAA keep spending their profits and hopefully they'll put themselves out of business. Maybe then artists will get the bigger share from their work and we can all be a little happier.
Either way fuck the RIAA:)
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Most games have the option of having all offensive turned off and I think the XBOX has it built into the hardware itself.
Why is this a big deal? If anything they are appeasing those who say kids are watching movies that they shouldn't be. If the offensive parts were filtered out then their bottom line would expand and they would make more money and that's what it's all about to them anyway.
It's just getting sickening with all of the business entities out there who don't care about anything but having the ultimate control over products they sell. We as consumers should have two options.
Sell two versions of dvds. One that is pre-filtered and one that isn't filtered. Shit there goes the bottom line. Leave it up to the consumer to filter and it's out of your hands plus it doesn't cost you a penny. Oh yea you also don't piss off the consumer which these days doesn't seem to matter to them.
I play mostly FPS's and that's what my comment is referring to. If the game involves walking around cities and such, i.e. GTA, etc., then why not make it look like an actual city with real businesses, franchises, chains, billboards, etc., depending on the setting? This would make the most unobtrusive use of advertising. I hate advertising with a passion but using it in this manner instead of making me eat at McDonalds as part of the game wouldn't bother me a bit.
In the new postal game you can actually piss on things so advertise like crazy and I'd have fun pissing all over it. Now that I think about it put actual McDonald's characters in the game like Grimace, Mayor McCheese, the Hamburgler, Burker King, Wendy from Wendy's, The Taco Bell dog, and let me torch them all with flame throwers, chainsaw them into pieces and mix up the parts for a tasty and delightful new "samich"!!
The PIAA ( Potato (or Potatoe if you are Dan Quayle) Industry Association of America finds the current potato trend disturbing to say the least. Hilary "I love big bags (of chips)" Rosen has issued the following statement in this leaked memo... To be brief we have laid out the terms of the infringements so please look over the document and give me your input. Begin Doc....
.38 spudspreader).
.34 spudspreader).
.34 sspudspreader).
1. Contributory Infringement
Liability for contributory infringement attaches to "one who, with knowledge of the infringing activity, induces, causes or materially contributes to the infringing conduct of another potato distributor. . . [L]iability exists if the defendant engages in personal conduct that encourages or assists the infringement." Lays, Inc. v. Spudster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004, 1014 (9th Cir. 2001).
Knowledge
Bazooka Potato Bombs sought to obtain licensing from Lays and was referred to individual members of the National Potato Growers Organization.
NPGO wrote to Bazooka Potato Bombs and provided notice that its conduct was infringing and that it should obtain the necessary licensing.
PIAA wrote letter to Uzi Potato when it was an OpenPotato system and placed Uzi Potato on notice of infringing conduct. The same principals contacted by the PIAA are still in place at Uzi Potato.
In discussion with General Counsel of Potato Copyright.net, PotatoZaA CEO acknowledged exchange of copyrighted content and stated looking into filters, particularly for child potatos.
Press has raised issue of exchange of copyrighted content with company principals.
Widespread presence of copyrighted potato materials in supermarkets.
Message Boards discuss available Potatos, Genetically Engineered Spuds (Ges), and Potato Ordinance Delivery Systems (PODS).
Uzi Potato employees participate in message board discussions and CEO acknowledges Uzi Potato controls message boards.
[should we provide notice by letters and when?] Material Contribution
PotatoZaA creates and licenses Potato Delivery Systems primarily used for the preparation and delivery of copyrighted potatos and weapon systems.
PotatoZaA created and controls boiling of said potatos that ensures that the potatos remain hardened and Potato Factory Fresh from outside influences.
Provides a dynamic list of available superspuds where potatos can be exchanged (possibly through the
Continually updates the list of available superspuds and communicates that information to users (likely through the
PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato and Potatokster maintain log-in spudspreaders.
Maintains the Potatokster.com spudspreader which acts as a superspud (and by definition maintains a spud index).
Resolves spudsplits and other spotato problems (likely through the
Vicarious Infringement Vicarious liability arises when the defendant "has the right and ability to supervise the infringing activity and also has a direct financial interest in such activities." Ruffles, 239 F.3d at 1022. Right and Ability to Supervise
PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster all expressly reserve the right to limit the number of spuds that users make available or access and to terminate users who infringe intellectual potato rights or violate other laws.
Uzi Potato also reserves the right to remove or disable links to delicious potato recipe material.
Spudspreader limits Spuds to certain spudrate
Uzi Potato implemented a filter for child potatos.
Mr. Straight Pimpin' Spuds claims to have cooperated with police in limiting the exchange of child potatos. Financial Benefit
Generate advertising revenue based on user base.
Mr. Straight Pimpin' Spuds expressed to head of Rock the Potato that he can't stop infringements so he intends to make money from it.
Spudstrom acknowledged to the press that PotatoZaA is making money.
The services have a rapidly growing user base and according to SPUDNET's spudload.com is the most popular potato ordinance delivery system blueprint software on the net.
Uzi Potato obtaining additional funding from Potato Venture Partners.
III. Recommendation We have solid claims against PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster of secondary liability for copyright infringement. The claims are not as strong as those against Spudster, but they are also not so remote as to be wishful. Our claims would likely be strengthened by learning more about the designation of superspuds and the content of growing genetically engineered potatos within the system. However, the encryption of this communication precludes further learning absent cooperation from one of these companies or court ordered discovery. In that regard, we recently learned that PotatoZaA is very interested in exploring alternatives to litigation and its principals are willing to sit down with the potato companies to discuss ways of resolving any dispute. PotatoZaA is willing to sell the company and the technology, or enter into a licensing arrangement. PotatoZaA is also willing to implement filtering technologies to prevent potato infringements. We have also learned that PotatoZaA is looking for the litigation and would like for us to file suit. Thus, we recommend (1) filing claims against PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster, (2) immediately thereafter initiating discussions with PotatoZaA about resolving our claims in a way that will provide us with useful information and testimony against Uzi Potato, and if possible obtain PotatoZaA's cooperation in shutting down or converting Uzi Potato and Potatokster, and (3) continue forward with litigation against Uzi Potato, Potatokster, and potentially Potato Venture Partners. We hope one day to have a world where people actually pay for their potato content and/or potato delivery systems. When users are using unlicensed potatos, spuds, and their delivery systems they are in a sense supporting potato terrorism of which the likes we haven't seen in a hundred years. We can't afford another Mashed Potato Eleven (MP11). Mr Potatohead was lost in that disaster as well as Mrs. Potatohead and that day will forever live in infamy. Please I ask everyone in our organization to help end this senseless crime.
Hilary "I love big bags (of chips)" Rosen
The PIAA ( Potato (or Potatoe if you are Dan Quayle) Industry Association of America finds the current potato trend disturbing to say the least.
.38 spudspreader).
.34 spudspreader).
.34 sspudspreader).
Hilary "I love big bags (of chips)" Rosen has issued the following statement in this leaked memo...
To be brief we have laid out the terms of the infringements so please look over the document and give me your input.
Begin Doc....
1. Contributory Infringement
Liability for contributory infringement attaches to "one who, with knowledge of the infringing activity, induces, causes or materially contributes to the infringing conduct of another potato distributor. . . [L]iability exists if the defendant engages in personal conduct that encourages or assists the infringement." Lays, Inc. v. Spudster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004, 1014 (9th Cir. 2001).
Knowledge
Bazooka Potato Bombs sought to obtain licensing from Lays and was referred to individual members of the National Potato Growers Organization.
NPGO wrote to Bazooka Potato Bombs and provided notice that its conduct was infringing and that it should obtain the necessary licensing.
PIAA wrote letter to Uzi Potato when it was an OpenPotato system and placed Uzi Potato on notice of infringing conduct. The same principals contacted by the PIAA are still in place at Uzi Potato.
In discussion with General Counsel of Potato Copyright.net, PotatoZaA CEO acknowledged exchange of copyrighted content and stated looking into filters, particularly for child potatos.
Press has raised issue of exchange of copyrighted content with company principals.
Widespread presence of copyrighted potato materials in supermarkets.
Message Boards discuss available Potatos, Genetically Engineered Spuds (Ges), and Potato Ordinance Delivery Systems (PODS).
Uzi Potato employees participate in message board discussions and CEO acknowledges Uzi Potato controls message boards.
[should we provide notice by letters and when?]
Material Contribution
PotatoZaA creates and licenses Potato Delivery Systems primarily used for the preparation and delivery of copyrighted potatos and weapon systems.
PotatoZaA created and controls boiling of said potatos that ensures that the potatos remain hardened and Potato Factory Fresh from outside influences.
Provides a dynamic list of available superspuds where potatos can be exchanged (possibly through the
Continually updates the list of available superspuds and communicates that information to users (likely through the
PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato and Potatokster maintain log-in spudspreaders.
Maintains the Potatokster.com spudspreader which acts as a superspud (and by definition maintains a spud index).
Resolves spudsplits and other spotato problems (likely through the
Vicarious Infringement
Vicarious liability arises when the defendant "has the right and ability to supervise the infringing activity and also has a direct financial interest in such activities." Ruffles, 239 F.3d at 1022.
Right and Ability to Supervise
PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster all expressly reserve the right to limit the number of spuds that users make available or access and to terminate users who infringe intellectual potato rights or violate other laws.
Uzi Potato also reserves the right to remove or disable links to delicious potato recipe material.
Spudspreader limits Spuds to certain spudrate
Uzi Potato implemented a filter for child potatos.
Mr. Straight Pimpin' Spuds claims to have cooperated with police in limiting the exchange of child potatos.
Financial Benefit
Generate advertising revenue based on user base.
Mr. Straight Pimpin' Spuds expressed to head of Rock the Potato that he can't stop infringements so he intends to make money from it.
Spudstrom acknowledged to the press that PotatoZaA is making money.
The services have a rapidly growing user base and according to SPUDNET's spudload.com is the most popular potato ordinance delivery system blueprint software on the net.
Uzi Potato obtaining additional funding from Potato Venture Partners.
III. Recommendation
We have solid claims against PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster of secondary liability for copyright infringement. The claims are not as strong as those against Spudster, but they are also not so remote as to be wishful.
Our claims would likely be strengthened by learning more about the designation of superspuds and the content of growing genetically engineered potatos within the system. However, the encryption of this communication precludes further learning absent cooperation from one of these companies or court ordered discovery. In that regard, we recently learned that PotatoZaA is very interested in exploring alternatives to litigation and its principals are willing to sit down with the potato companies to discuss ways of resolving any dispute. PotatoZaA is willing to sell the company and the technology, or enter into a licensing arrangement. PotatoZaA is also willing to implement filtering technologies to prevent potato infringements. We have also learned that PotatoZaA is looking for the litigation and would like for us to file suit.
Thus, we recommend (1) filing claims against PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster, (2) immediately thereafter initiating discussions with PotatoZaA about resolving our claims in a way that will provide us with useful information and testimony against Uzi Potato, and if possible obtain PotatoZaA's cooperation in shutting down or converting Uzi Potato and Potatokster, and (3) continue forward with litigation against Uzi Potato, Potatokster, and potentially Potato Venture Partners.
We hope one day to have a world where people actually pay for their potato content and/or potato delivery systems. When users are using unlicensed potatos, spuds, and their delivery systems they are in a sense supporting potato terrorism of which the likes we haven't seen in a hundred years. We can't afford another Mashed Potato Eleven (MP11). Mr Potatohead was lost in that disaster as well as Mrs. Potatohead and that day will forever live in infamy. Please I ask everyone in our organization to help end this senseless crime.
Hilary "I love big bags (of chips)" Rosen
The PIAA ( Potato (or Potatoe if you are Dan Quayle) Industry Association of America finds the current potato trend disturbing to say the least.
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Hilary "I love big bags (of chips)" Rosen has issued the following statement in this leaked memo...
To be brief we have laid out the terms of the infringements so please look over the document and give me your input.
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1. Contributory Infringement
Liability for contributory infringement attaches to "one who, with knowledge of the infringing activity, induces, causes or materially contributes to the infringing conduct of another potato distributor. . . [L]iability exists if the defendant engages in personal conduct that encourages or assists the infringement." Lays, Inc. v. Spudster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004, 1014 (9th Cir. 2001).
Knowledge
Bazooka Potato Bombs sought to obtain licensing from Lays and was referred to individual members of the National Potato Growers Organization.
NPGO wrote to Bazooka Potato Bombs and provided notice that its conduct was infringing and that it should obtain the necessary licensing.
PIAA wrote letter to Uzi Potato when it was an OpenPotato system and placed Uzi Potato on notice of infringing conduct. The same principals contacted by the PIAA are still in place at Uzi Potato.
In discussion with General Counsel of Potato Copyright.net, PotatoZaA CEO acknowledged exchange of copyrighted content and stated looking into filters, particularly for child potatos.
Press has raised issue of exchange of copyrighted content with company principals.
Widespread presence of copyrighted potato materials in supermarkets.
Message Boards discuss available Potatos, Genetically Engineered Spuds (Ges), and Potato Ordinance Delivery Systems (PODS).
Uzi Potato employees participate in message board discussions and CEO acknowledges Uzi Potato controls message boards.
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Material Contribution
PotatoZaA creates and licenses Potato Delivery Systems primarily used for the preparation and delivery of copyrighted potatos and weapon systems.
PotatoZaA created and controls boiling of said potatos that ensures that the potatos remain hardened and Potato Factory Fresh from outside influences.
Provides a dynamic list of available superspuds where potatos can be exchanged (possibly through the
Continually updates the list of available superspuds and communicates that information to users (likely through the
PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato and Potatokster maintain log-in spudspreaders.
Maintains the Potatokster.com spudspreader which acts as a superspud (and by definition maintains a spud index).
Resolves spudsplits and other spotato problems (likely through the
Vicarious Infringement
Vicarious liability arises when the defendant "has the right and ability to supervise the infringing activity and also has a direct financial interest in such activities." Ruffles, 239 F.3d at 1022.
Right and Ability to Supervise
PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster all expressly reserve the right to limit the number of spuds that users make available or access and to terminate users who infringe intellectual potato rights or violate other laws.
Uzi Potato also reserves the right to remove or disable links to delicious potato recipe material.
Spudspreader limits Spuds to certain spudrate
Uzi Potato implemented a filter for child potatos.
Mr. Straight Pimpin' Spuds claims to have cooperated with police in limiting the exchange of child potatos.
Financial Benefit
Generate advertising revenue based on user base.
Mr. Straight Pimpin' Spuds expressed to head of Rock the Potato that he can't stop infringements so he intends to make money from it.
Spudstrom acknowledged to the press that PotatoZaA is making money.
The services have a rapidly growing user base and according to SPUDNET's spudload.com is the most popular potato ordinance delivery system blueprint software on the net.
Uzi Potato obtaining additional funding from Potato Venture Partners.
III. Recommendation
We have solid claims against PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster of secondary liability for copyright infringement. The claims are not as strong as those against Spudster, but they are also not so remote as to be wishful.
Our claims would likely be strengthened by learning more about the designation of superspuds and the content of growing genetically engineered potatos within the system. However, the encryption of this communication precludes further learning absent cooperation from one of these companies or court ordered discovery. In that regard, we recently learned that PotatoZaA is very interested in exploring alternatives to litigation and its principals are willing to sit down with the potato companies to discuss ways of resolving any dispute. PotatoZaA is willing to sell the company and the technology, or enter into a licensing arrangement. PotatoZaA is also willing to implement filtering technologies to prevent potato infringements. We have also learned that PotatoZaA is looking for the litigation and would like for us to file suit.
Thus, we recommend (1) filing claims against PotatoZaA, Uzi Potato, and Potatokster, (2) immediately thereafter initiating discussions with PotatoZaA about resolving our claims in a way that will provide us with useful information and testimony against Uzi Potato, and if possible obtain PotatoZaA's cooperation in shutting down or converting Uzi Potato and Potatokster, and (3) continue forward with litigation against Uzi Potato, Potatokster, and potentially Potato Venture Partners.
We hope one day to have a world where people actually pay for their potato content and/or potato delivery systems. When users are using unlicensed potatos, spuds, and their delivery systems they are in a sense supporting potato terrorism of which the likes we haven't seen in a hundred years. We can't afford another Mashed Potato Eleven (MP11). Mr Potatohead was lost in that disaster as well as Mrs. Potatohead and that day will forever live in infamy. Please I ask everyone in our organization to help end this senseless crime.
Hilary "I love big bags (of chips)" Rosen
I don't know what's worse your trolling or your belief that users here will buy your argument or lack there of. I would bet that you work for the RIAA/MPAA or have a vested interest. Your nose is so far up their ass it's sick. Why do you think that consumers should feel any guilt at all for downloading a lot of mp3s that they would never buy in the first place? If I download something I like then I buy it but it's gotta be good.
I grew tired of paying $19.99 for one song so now I have another avenue. Did you just happen to miss out on the recording industry losing their collusion case? There's proof positive that consumers are being gouged and it will continue. The RIAA cannot, as much as they try, force us to accept their version of the future of music. Most of us have been using the future of music delivery and will continue to do so. It's up to the RIAA if they want to keep burning their cash reserves while trying to plug the dam or accept P2P and stop gauging the consumer.
Now go wash the shit off your nose and try thinking for yourself. Try reading "independent thinking for dummies" if you are unsure in how to go about it.
Like everyone has said all forms of DRM will always be bypassed and only affect those who know very little. The RIAA is punishing their true customers while having no affect on those who download said materials for free. I knew once they got rid of Napster that this would happen. You take a service like Napster that had centrally based servers, put them out of business, and replace them with non-centralized servers in a true P2P environment and what would you expect to happen? All the RIAA did is make their worst nightmare expand exponentially. Personally I think it's hilarious and they are their own worst enemy. The RIAA is so busy fucking true consumers and pissing them off as well that they fail to see that they are only polishing the brass on the titanic. Their business model from back in the day is all but sunk and they refuse to accept or evolve into what would truely save them. How can a business as a whole that is so money hungry refuse to do what it takes to get back on track instead of turning themselves into the music gestapo? They only have themselves to blame for becoming so demonized. The RIAA have become the equivalent of a computer illiterate user trying to rewrite a program in C+ all the while telling us they know what they are doing and how well it will work. They don't know shit period. I for one would *maybe* buy cds if they were priced right, (way under $10), or if I could use a service that didn't try to fuck me at every opportunity. Greed is a fact of life but I don't have to be a pawn in the game. If the RIAA was actually able to stop all forms of P2P trading, etc. then I'll just go back to ftp and usenet but we all know it's not going to stop so let the RIAA keep spending their profits and hopefully they'll put themselves out of business. Maybe then artists will get the bigger share from their work and we can all be a little happier. Either way fuck the RIAA:)