"The lawsuit also demands that buyers and sellers, who use aliases in eBay transactions, register their screen names with the state of California as fictitious business names, and that eBay be forced to collect state sales tax."
that's like two more completely different issues! and, imo, much much worse than any silly squabble over some neg. feedback.
-olly the limey
well when it comes to trademarks and copyrights the only ones you can really look up are the registered ones (that "R" you see around sometimes) and although only the registered ones can be easily looked up, they are not the only ones that have legal sway. many others do, as long as they can show that they did it first, they're in.
"You do know that 1000 years ago, the climate was warmer than it is now, right? Greenland was actually green when Eric the Red "discovered" it. It isn't green now because it is COLDER than it used to be."
if there were lots of RIAA's in america, they wouldn't be a problem. that's just the point, they were one big, all-powerful entity. they had it all locked down and under control. but then people started *sharing* (more, not like you couldnt copy tapes and videos...) and they lost some of that control and power.
if there were lots of them, there would be some kind of competition, some kind of checks and balences they would (openly or automatically) impose on each other.
-olly the limey
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"The lawsuit also demands that buyers and sellers, who use aliases in eBay transactions, register their screen names with the state of California as fictitious business names, and that eBay be forced to collect state sales tax." that's like two more completely different issues! and, imo, much much worse than any silly squabble over some neg. feedback. -olly the limey
well when it comes to trademarks and copyrights the only ones you can really look up are the registered ones (that "R" you see around sometimes) and although only the registered ones can be easily looked up, they are not the only ones that have legal sway. many others do, as long as they can show that they did it first, they're in.
- olly the limey
"You do know that 1000 years ago, the climate was warmer than it is now, right? Greenland was actually green when Eric the Red "discovered" it. It isn't green now because it is COLDER than it used to be."
um... source?
-olly the limey
if there were lots of RIAA's in america, they wouldn't be a problem. that's just the point, they were one big, all-powerful entity. they had it all locked down and under control. but then people started *sharing* (more, not like you couldnt copy tapes and videos...) and they lost some of that control and power. if there were lots of them, there would be some kind of competition, some kind of checks and balences they would (openly or automatically) impose on each other. -olly the limey
let's try to keep the gay porn to a minimum on the public boards.mmmkay.
asshole