If copying is stealing, then why are there seperate copyrights laws ?
Besides, I don't mind this kind of stealing, if a 'thieve' comes into my house, makes an exact duplicate of my stereo system and takes that home leaving the original in place I really wouldn't care.
Is selling a television for profit wrong? No What about software? Neither What's the difference? Music is an artform, art should be free to everyone or at least sold at a reasonable price. People need art, especially music. Artificially keeping art prices higher than they need to be should be illegal.
My store specialised in family music - stuff that the whole family could listen to. I don't sell sick stuff like Marilyn Manson or cop-killer rap, and I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of.
And effect
My business faces ruin. CD sales have dropped through the floor.
It also explains:
This evening, my daughters asked me. "Why do the other kids laugh at us?"
I look at all the problems that are typical in countries where there are several parties, and not sure I would like that either. Israel, where two different parties have to join forces to form a majority, and other parlamentary states.
I live in a country where there is such a system (the netherlands), multiple parties have to form a coalition in order to get a majority. I would choose this system above the US system any day. If I vote for one of the smaller parties (which coincidentally I do) I know my vote counts, even if it's a small party, they can still have some influence. If I were living in the US, I would never vote for a similar party as I voted for during the last elections in the netherlands. Either the democrats or the republicans rule the country, in a winner-takes-all situation, I'd rather use my vote to help the democrats instead of a small party. because although I'd rather see <small party> win, common sense tells me this is never going to happen, and I'd better choose the lesser of two evils.
If I would live in the US, I'd have to support a bunch of fscking idiots to prevent a bunch of bigger fscking idiots from ruling the country. I'm thankfull that I'm living in a country where at least a small number of people in the government think the same way as I do about how the country should be run, and they're trying their best to talk a bit of sense into the bunch of fscking idiots that run it.
It has two strong parties and several smaller parties, but its not setup for 2 parties only. You are correct, you can vote for anyone you like, BUT.. because it's winner-takes-all you will always end up with 2 big parties.
Everyone bitches about the electoral college, but outside of the presidency, it has no bearing whatsoever on any election. And since the president effectively runs the country, that's the only thing that matters. Once a president has been elected allmost all civil servants down to the guy who wipes the streets is replaced with people in favour of the ruling party.
Yeah, the US has a real democracy, you'll can pick one of 2 'different' corporate-puppet-on-a-string dictators every 4 years.
Don't like the current political situation? Do something about it. In case you didn't notice: the US's electoral system promotes a 2 party system. starting a new party won't accomplish a thing, it's winner takes all.
[quote]Why don't you just PAY FOR THE #(%*&@$)*@ MOVIE???[/quote] I'd love to , give me the chance.
Some movies are available in DivX months before they are released in theatres in europe.
I wonder if they really can make this 'invisible'
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Foiling Cinema Pirates
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· Score: 3, Insightful
With people out there who say they can hear the difference between a CD and an MP3, I wonder if people won't complain about this, even if they can't see it.
Sounds to me like another reason not to go to a cinema anymore, along with reasons like the crappy picture quality (come on, stretching a 35mm film to that huge a screen is just dumb) and the fact that theatres in the netherlands only show ancient movies (except some big movies like LOTR which are released worldwide on the same date).
"Stealing is
stealing," Oppenheim said. "Those are major, significant networks. This was a student who created a piracy bazaar."
Let's see what the dictionary says about it: From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theft \Theft\, n. [OE. thefte, AS. [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e,
[thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e. See {Thief}.]
1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious
taking and removing of personal property, with an intent
to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the
owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed,
however slightly, from its former position; and it must
be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of
the thief. See {Larceny}, and the Note under {Robbery}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Piracy \Pi"ra*cy\, n.; pl. {Piracies}. [Cf. LL. piratia, Gr. ?.
See {Pirate}.]
1. The act or crime of a pirate.
2. (Common Law) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of
property from others on the open sea by open violence;
without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a
crime answering to robbery on land.
A pirate is a guy with a parrot on his shoulder who says "arrr.. matey" all the time.
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Yeah I know, don't feed the troll's
:-P
but I can't resist
If copying is stealing, then why are there seperate copyrights laws ?
Besides, I don't mind this kind of stealing, if a 'thieve' comes into my house, makes an exact duplicate of my stereo system and takes that home leaving the original in place I really wouldn't care.
From the article:
Icarus then scans their computer, detects any worms, viruses or programs that act as a server, such as Kazaa.
Looks like it's a machine somewhere on campus and all it does is check for known open ports, nothing a simple firewall rule can't solve.
If you use GPL, you are supposed to reveal ALL the code you have even if it parts of it was designed completely independently?
You have to release all sourcecode that is part of a derived work of the GPL software.
Since a modified kernel is a derived work of the original GPL-ed kernel they have to release the source to their modified kernel.
Is selling a television for profit wrong?
No
What about software?
Neither
What's the difference?
Music is an artform, art should be free to everyone or at least sold at a reasonable price.
People need art, especially music. Artificially keeping art prices higher than they need to be should be illegal.
And effect
It also explains:
Maybe it's wrong, I'm not sure yet if I find it unethical. At least trying to sell art for profit is wrong imho.
- Compilers
- API documentation
- Text editors (can be used to write VBScript virii)
- Microsoft Office (macro virii)
Sounds like a really well thought out idea.Same thing in the netherlands, I've seen ATM's crash and a friend of mine had his bank card swallowed when the thing BSOD'd
Atari was first with the tablet PC too (called the STylus)
Yes, another real 'innovation' by microsoft.
Another option:
IBM buys SCO, fires everyone responsible for this.
you will not cease to move forward.
Once the wind resistance equals the force from the belt against your feet, you will cease to accellerate, it's not like you're suddenly going to stop.
Note that the belt has to move pretty fast for that to happen.
How come it never hits the PHB's?
They do, only you never hear about it because no one really cares what happens to PHB's
Imho 'Reloaded' did more head-messing than the first movie.
I look at all the problems that are typical in countries where there are several parties, and not sure I would like that either. Israel, where two different parties have to join forces to form a majority, and other parlamentary states.
I live in a country where there is such a system (the netherlands), multiple parties have to form a coalition in order to get a majority. I would choose this system above the US system any day. If I vote for one of the smaller parties (which coincidentally I do) I know my vote counts, even if it's a small party, they can still have some influence. If I were living in the US, I would never vote for a similar party as I voted for during the last elections in the netherlands. Either the democrats or the republicans rule the country, in a winner-takes-all situation, I'd rather use my vote to help the democrats instead of a small party. because although I'd rather see <small party> win, common sense tells me this is never going to happen, and I'd better choose the lesser of two evils.
If I would live in the US, I'd have to support a bunch of fscking idiots to prevent a bunch of bigger fscking idiots from ruling the country.
I'm thankfull that I'm living in a country where at least a small number of people in the government think the same way as I do about how the country should be run, and they're trying their best to talk a bit of sense into the bunch of fscking idiots that run it.
It has two strong parties and several smaller parties, but its not setup for 2 parties only.
You are correct, you can vote for anyone you like, BUT.. because it's winner-takes-all you will always end up with 2 big parties.
Everyone bitches about the electoral college, but outside of the presidency, it has no bearing whatsoever on any election.
And since the president effectively runs the country, that's the only thing that matters. Once a president has been elected allmost all civil servants down to the guy who wipes the streets is replaced with people in favour of the ruling party.
Yeah, the US has a real democracy, you'll can pick one of 2 'different' corporate-puppet-on-a-string dictators every 4 years.
Don't like the current political situation? Do something about it.
In case you didn't notice: the US's electoral system promotes a 2 party system. starting a new party won't accomplish a thing, it's winner takes all.
[quote]Why don't you just PAY FOR THE #(%*&@$)*@ MOVIE???[/quote]
I'd love to , give me the chance.
Some movies are available in DivX months before they are released in theatres in europe.
With people out there who say they can hear the difference between a CD and an MP3, I wonder if people won't complain about this, even if they can't see it.
Sounds to me like another reason not to go to a cinema anymore, along with reasons like the crappy picture quality (come on, stretching a 35mm film to that huge a screen is just dumb) and the fact that theatres in the netherlands only show ancient movies (except some big movies like LOTR which are released worldwide on the same date).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theft \Theft\, n. [OE. thefte, AS. [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e,
[thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e. See {Thief}.]
1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious
taking and removing of personal property, with an intent
to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the
owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious;
every part of the property stolen must be removed,
however slightly, from its former position; and it must
be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of
the thief. See {Larceny}, and the Note under {Robbery}.
Copying mp3's isn't theft, it's a copyright violation, something completely different.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Piracy \Pi"ra*cy\, n.; pl. {Piracies}. [Cf. LL. piratia, Gr. ?.
See {Pirate}.]
1. The act or crime of a pirate.
2. (Common Law) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of
property from others on the open sea by open violence;
without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a
crime answering to robbery on land.
A pirate is a guy with a parrot on his shoulder who says "arrr.. matey" all the time.
No, just on days that start with a T
Thursday, Tuesday, Today, Tomorrow.
It looks exactly like every other nokia phone ever made.
original article
Anyone else get a bit of a deja vu feeling reading this newspost ?
I think these are meant for OEM's, so they choose a display, cpu, hdd, etc.