Exactly how is the government supposed to "find the guy"?! If the government can find him, then certainly a multi-national corporation can.
And, in case you don't know, the FBI doesn't have much jurisdiction outside the US. Considering that a company such as Sony has a presense in nearly every country on earth, I'd think it would have better luck catching the guy than the FBI.
Imagine that Sony discovers that Best Buy might be selling knockoff camera batteries. Sony could send an employee over to Best Buy to buy one of the batteries.
Once it is determined it is a knockoff, Sony could file a lawsuit for ex parte injunction. There would be no hearing. Basically the judge would sign an order giving Sony the right to all of the knockoffs and the right to obtain information about where Best Buy got them from.
Sony would send its process servers out to Best Buy and collect all the batteries and would be given the records.
Sony would then amend their lawsuit to name the party who sold the batteries. They'd continue with this process until they got the factory who made them.
This type of thing happens EVERY day in the US. It isn't hard to do at all and it's perfectly legal.
Corporations DO perform sting operations. There is nothing stoping a coporation from hiring a person to go and buy a knockoff to be used latter in evidence.
Corporations CAN get shipping records. It's called discovery.
Corporations CAN send people in undercover, see my first answer.
Corporations can get any information they want via discovery.
Corporations certainly have the authority to stop manufactures from selling knock offs. They can file injunctions, they can confiscate merchandise, they can do ANY thing the government can do except lock people up. Heck, if the infringer violated any civil court order, the corporation could even move to have him or her locked up. So, I guess they can do EVERYTHING the government could do.
Once again, why should I pay police to settle what are essentially disputes between businesses?
And the fact that you're buying them from a back of a truck doesn't give you a clue?
Seriously, if someone is violating Motorola's IP, why does the government have to bring a lawsuit?! Why should I pay higher taxes to protect businesses who only want to screw me over, e.g., making cell phones that require specific and much more expensive batteries.
If you think the government should be Corporate America's lackey, that's your right. But I totally disagree.
I agree with Verizon, the government should not be competing with private interests. For everyone who thinks the government should implement and sell broadband, do you also think the government should implement and sell fast food, automobiles, and clothes?! Heck, should the government go into the DVD rental business?!
Why should tax payer dollars be spent on a product and/or service that the private sector can perform?
It's easy to know you're buying cheap knockoff: THE PRICE IS VERY LOW!!! If the price is too good to be true, it's a cheap knockoff! Do you really need a government agency to tell you that?!
Oh yeah, we all know that the clothing industry is broke too. Heck, they use sweatshops to create their product. They must REALLY be broke. I have such sympathy for ALL of the IP industries.
I wonder if we'll get a Fair-Use Czar to help consumers from being screwed?
... the copyright industry lacks sufficient funds to sue infringers on their own. Poor Disney. Poor Sony. Poor Universal. These guys really need a break!
If I can install on multiple computers, I guess that's fair. I'm annoyed that I need an internet connection to play the game. But not enough to return it.
I own a copy of HL2. I have not opened it yet. I'm thinking about returning it depending on the answers I get here.
Do I have to install Steam to run HL2? Does Steam allow you to install the game onto more than one computer? If I have to buy one copy for each computer, I'm certainly returning it. I know they have the right to limit it one use per machine or one use per person, but I won't accept those terms. I'd rather have my money back.
"So why doesn't New York or LA have it? Where's your population desity argument for them?"
I have no idea about why New York or LA does not doesn't have anything. I've never been to either. I'm just saying that the US has a long way to go in relation to broadband when parts of the country doesn't even have access to local dial up.
The more Indian engineers in space, the less there will be back home stealing our jobs!!!
(Because some are too think headed to have a sense of humor, I AM KIDDING!)
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... is that EA will outsource jobs overseas. It may initially pretend to "fix" the problem and offer "solutions," but in five years there won't be any US programming jobs left.
No one bitches about working on Saturdays in the third world.
If you're getting eye strain, your monitor is not set up correctly or you should see a doctor. I'm 40 and sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day, then go home and sit in front of mine for a couple hours more, and I NEVER get "eye strain."
Microsoft will attempt to get patents on EVERY single aspect of computers, whether we find it funny, outrageous, or dangerous. What Microsoft is doing is perfectly legal.
The threat of patent lawsuits is the only chance Microsoft has against Linux. And for Microsoft even a little competition is an all out war.
When I set up my monitor correctly, I don't see any flicker. If I can't perceive it, as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't exist. How could anyone complain about a flicker that cannot be perceived?!
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Exactly how is the government supposed to "find the guy"?! If the government can find him, then certainly a multi-national corporation can.
And, in case you don't know, the FBI doesn't have much jurisdiction outside the US. Considering that a company such as Sony has a presense in nearly every country on earth, I'd think it would have better luck catching the guy than the FBI.
Here's a hypothetical:
Imagine that Sony discovers that Best Buy might be selling knockoff camera batteries. Sony could send an employee over to Best Buy to buy one of the batteries.
Once it is determined it is a knockoff, Sony could file a lawsuit for ex parte injunction. There would be no hearing. Basically the judge would sign an order giving Sony the right to all of the knockoffs and the right to obtain information about where Best Buy got them from.
Sony would send its process servers out to Best Buy and collect all the batteries and would be given the records.
Sony would then amend their lawsuit to name the party who sold the batteries. They'd continue with this process until they got the factory who made them.
This type of thing happens EVERY day in the US. It isn't hard to do at all and it's perfectly legal.
Corporations DO perform sting operations. There is nothing stoping a coporation from hiring a person to go and buy a knockoff to be used latter in evidence.
Corporations CAN get shipping records. It's called discovery.
Corporations CAN send people in undercover, see my first answer.
Corporations can get any information they want via discovery.
Anything else?
Corporations certainly have the authority to stop manufactures from selling knock offs. They can file injunctions, they can confiscate merchandise, they can do ANY thing the government can do except lock people up. Heck, if the infringer violated any civil court order, the corporation could even move to have him or her locked up. So, I guess they can do EVERYTHING the government could do.
Once again, why should I pay police to settle what are essentially disputes between businesses?
And the fact that you're buying them from a back of a truck doesn't give you a clue?
Seriously, if someone is violating Motorola's IP, why does the government have to bring a lawsuit?! Why should I pay higher taxes to protect businesses who only want to screw me over, e.g., making cell phones that require specific and much more expensive batteries.
If you think the government should be Corporate America's lackey, that's your right. But I totally disagree.
I agree with Verizon, the government should not be competing with private interests. For everyone who thinks the government should implement and sell broadband, do you also think the government should implement and sell fast food, automobiles, and clothes?! Heck, should the government go into the DVD rental business?!
Why should tax payer dollars be spent on a product and/or service that the private sector can perform?
Let the flaming begin!
It's easy to know you're buying cheap knockoff: THE PRICE IS VERY LOW!!! If the price is too good to be true, it's a cheap knockoff! Do you really need a government agency to tell you that?!
Thanks for clearing that up too. Others were saying that you have to verify every time you play the game.
Oh yeah, we all know that the clothing industry is broke too. Heck, they use sweatshops to create their product. They must REALLY be broke. I have such sympathy for ALL of the IP industries.
I wonder if we'll get a Fair-Use Czar to help consumers from being screwed?
... the copyright industry lacks sufficient funds to sue infringers on their own. Poor Disney. Poor Sony. Poor Universal. These guys really need a break!
If I can install on multiple computers, I guess that's fair. I'm annoyed that I need an internet connection to play the game. But not enough to return it.
Thanks for your help!
I own a copy of HL2. I have not opened it yet. I'm thinking about returning it depending on the answers I get here.
Do I have to install Steam to run HL2? Does Steam allow you to install the game onto more than one computer? If I have to buy one copy for each computer, I'm certainly returning it. I know they have the right to limit it one use per machine or one use per person, but I won't accept those terms. I'd rather have my money back.
Or you go to gamecopyworld.com, download the patch, then play the game.
"So why doesn't New York or LA have it? Where's your population desity argument for them?"
I have no idea about why New York or LA does not doesn't have anything. I've never been to either. I'm just saying that the US has a long way to go in relation to broadband when parts of the country doesn't even have access to local dial up.
I was actually referring to the countries mentioned in the article: South Korea and Taiwan.
My parents live in northern Michigan and they don't even have access to dial-up without paying long distance charges!
The US is very large and its population is spread much more thin than in Asia.
The more Indian engineers in space, the less there will be back home stealing our jobs!!!
(Because some are too think headed to have a sense of humor, I AM KIDDING!)
... is that EA will outsource jobs overseas. It may initially pretend to "fix" the problem and offer "solutions," but in five years there won't be any US programming jobs left.
No one bitches about working on Saturdays in the third world.
going to get it over with and simply repeal the Bill of Rights?!
Answer: After Ashcroft gets on the US Supreme Court.
Because we know that's a BIG difference.
If you're getting eye strain, your monitor is not set up correctly or you should see a doctor. I'm 40 and sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day, then go home and sit in front of mine for a couple hours more, and I NEVER get "eye strain."
Microsoft will attempt to get patents on EVERY single aspect of computers, whether we find it funny, outrageous, or dangerous. What Microsoft is doing is perfectly legal.
The threat of patent lawsuits is the only chance Microsoft has against Linux. And for Microsoft even a little competition is an all out war.
When I set up my monitor correctly, I don't see any flicker. If I can't perceive it, as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't exist. How could anyone complain about a flicker that cannot be perceived?!
If I wasn't blind from glaucoma, I'd offer a pithy rebut to your slander against the CRT!
The only reason a CRT flickers is because the user is too stupid to correctly set the refresh rate!