However whilst the illusion might create the impression it creates job, the harsh reality is it eliminates more jobs than it creates. Other wise the crazy economist theory is, everybody users computers and the internet because they just generate more overheads and cost more and necessitate the employing of more workers. Where as the reality is, company deploy computer systems and make use of the internet to make productivity savings.
The internet whilst it most certainly employ people it will also favour the smarter more creative states, cheap dumb red necks do not make could It professionals, and top be brutally honest It professional don't want to reside in close minded, bigoted communities, so setting up business doesn't really work either. California and Washington do well, because they are, well, Washington and California and not some cheap labour, hick, red state.
Seeing as tech can so readily outsourced and the greed of corporations, that still leaves India and China, cents in the dollar employers, as the likely target for a lot of those jobs.
Nice, consider funeral homes targeting terminally ill patients, or lawyers offering will services, just your friendly googlite reminder when you are trying to escape on the internet about to die and they have to suck every last cent of marketing dollar they can out of you and even get in early on your grieving family.
As long as the details of all hospital and doctors that use these services are effectively sell you details for free data storage are publicly and clearly displayed across the internet so that clear thinking people can avoid them like the plague.
Of course if google and co want to keep secret those doctors and hospitals who use the service, we understand, it's just because they're all a bunch of privacy invasive asshats who really don't want to give you a choice.
Well come on be fair. Of course piracy leads to worse crimes, after all it facilitates the further spreading of anti-social content that the RIAA/MPAA etal support and protect. With lyrics and stories that low and behold promote crime, drug abuse violence and, that's right, the killing law enforcement officers. So who should law enforcement officers be pursuing, the pirates who are supposedly putting the publishers out of business or the publishers who a pushing violence, drug abuse and anti-social cop killing content upon the violent offenders of tommorow;).
The catch with financing the against the assets of a web company, basically it's user pool. I fthat user pool hates the company buying, expect them to leave at a rapid pace. Don't think yahoo users dislike M$, then check this out http://www.flickr.com/groups/microsoft-keep-your-evil-grubby-hands-off-our-flickr/pool/. So you micrtrolls can't blame/.ers for being the only techies that dislike M$, they just simply reflect the broader technological community.
Of course you bet several other companies were looking forward to the buyout, including google, ask and AOl. All of which would have seen major market share growth, not only from the initial rejection of M$ but also because that same team that managed to turn MSN into an unpopular money losing portal would do the same to Yahoo.
I provided that on an answer for a survey about my feelings about M$, I amended it though, Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me, OMFG I am so embarrassed those arseholes managed to fool me a lot more fucking times than twice.
M$ is of course a company, could I trust them in the future, sure, as soon as the current executive team is gone and along with them their malign, vile influence.
It is impossible to trust them, imagine, they launched a marketing exercise to target individual's who recommended Linux and attempted to smear them as religious zealots, terrorists, members of organised crime and that they were a cancer upon society. Seriously this is truly disgusting stuff, they set out to destroy the careers and reputations of IT professionals, because those professionals would dare to recommend an alternate product that was vastly superior and was a far better solution for the future.
Of course they did stop, but not because what they were doing was vile, offensive and basically criminal, they stopped, because it wasn't fucking working, really unbelievably sickening stuff. Now there was a class action law suit that went begging, slander on a mass scale via cooperative mass media venues. The reason it failed, it just infuriated those same IT Professionals, so rather than just recommended and use the alternate product, Linux, they became active supporters, promoters, coders, installers and distributors.
Whilst that same disgusting executive team remains, fuck em, they are a cancer upon the technological evolution of society and do genuinely, consistently, behave like the most corrupt of criminals.
So at the end of the day, what is really needed is WWW3, a children's Internet that is supervised and monitored all of the time. Due to the interactive nature of the Internet, just like any other interactive venue for children be it school, childcare or entertainment venues aimed at children, it should be properly supervised and controlled environment.
It is ludicrous to attempt to tame an adult internet so that it is suitable for the access by children.
What is needed is an internet based upon the interconnection of the various grades of schools, kindergarten, primary and high school, from around the world. Where teachers and qualified people will supervise the interaction and provide a range of suitable education materials as well as a full range of entertainment, social networking and gaming, all of which has been properly vetted and graded for each age group. A connection that can be locked in at the PC and by the ISP providing the internet service.
So while parents can allow children to access the full open adult internet when they are prepared to supervise that access, they can also arrange to lock down the connection to an more appropriate connection when they are not able to provide that same level of full supervision.
The whole filtering thing is just stupid, which filter is aligned to each age group, what is suitable for a 16 year is hardly suitable for a 6 year old, and at the end of the day, the greatest danger to children will always be other children, they are after all immature and can quite readily be irresponsible and make some terrible mistakes in judgement, which is why that interaction needs to be controlled.
Trying to tame the internet for children, is like trying to tame bars, strip joints, night clubs, casinos and adult locker rooms, so that they are suitable venues for children. The effort is ludicrous, any government that thinks it can, is just corrupt and in the pocket of mass media advertisers, that want to jam an endless stream of psychologically manipulative marketing into the minds of young children and the greedy companies selling net filtering software, whose executives can't see beyond their own sociopathic greed and, really don't give a rats about the failure of their software as long as it sells, and best of all for their luxury yachts and mansions, becomes government mandated by politicians pursuing under the table kick backs.
Sovereign countries have the right to democratically change any law they choose to, up to and including the seizure of assets owned, they really only have titles to those assets as defined by that sovereign government, which of course naturally any sovereign government can change.
So quite simply, anybody can take a running leap, if they believe that owning assets in a foreign country somehow entitles them to defines it's laws, and take precedence over the rights of citizens within that country to define that countries laws as they deem fit.
Changes in laws in one of the risks in investing in foreign countries. of course the US has an extremely vile and bloody record in allowing exploitative US corporations to direct foreign policy, when those corporation feel that their profits are at risk, which has lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens. Cuba only needs to look at Puerto Rico as a warning to what it is to be exploited third class citizens.
However that return also legally fails, as you are fully entitled to recover your costs of making the purchase and the return, as you were unable to review the conditions of contract prior to the purchase.
So that would typically include your time, wear and tear on your vehicle, the time it takes to install and then uninstall the software and can quite readily exceed the cost of the software.
In most countries all conditions of sale must be available and clearly displayed at the point of sale, any other conditions are strictly forbidden, basically due to the cost to the consumer of making that purchase, which of course the consumer is entitled to recover.
I was thinking the exact same thing. It is just so incredibly lame, stupid and embarrassing. Is this some new sort of attack on computer geeks/nerds to make us look bad just by association, some sort of revenge by billy goat ballmer for all the mocking he receives from computer geeks/nerds from around the globe.
What's next bubble gum trading cards of the leading windrones and micro-softies, with a special super secret set of the leading forum flooding microtrolls.
I can just imagine a whole range of viral videos depicting many varied and imaginative ways of destroying those disgusting little caricatures. Some days it feels just so good, to not be a M$ employee;).
Quite simply when ever a user is inactive the ISP could simply implement a bot to mimic the activity of a shopaholic user. Now remember this is an ISP, not an end user, so work on about 10,000 shopaholic robots, all with unique IPs (and of course the ISP has access to all the users internet data). It could all be quite successfully implemented in the back end, a fully automated system, as soon as the user becomes inactive the bot kicks in and keeps those clicks ticking over.
Now as you know major corporations completely lack honest and integrity, the only goal is to bloat the pockets of the corporate executive team, now you can mimic a few hundred thousand users, it doesn't take much, 10 to 100 hundred clicks per bot spread over hundred thousand bots, every day, adds up to substantial amounts of money, what modern corporation could resist. Of course it would only be an 'er' glitch in system, a programming error, that was meant as an 'er' security measure, yeah, the new guy did it.
From googles point of view, or from any other privacy invasive freaks point of view they would just see an increase in traffic from an IP, quite explainable especially as internet is still in a growth and acceptance phase.
However in this case, that is exactly what can happen. China does not have to do the nanotechnology research or genetic research itself. All it has to do is create the environment where European and American companies can do the research, especially for technology that is banned (often for good reason), but socioptahtic greed drive the corporations to do it anyhow.
China can then simply steal the technology through industrial espionage and either weaponise it or it use in what ever other way to achieve their goal of global dominance. Of course dominance has not benefit for the people living in China, it is however what always festers in the minds China's autocratic leaders, the perverse desire to control and direct everybody else, as clearly demonstrated by their opposition democracy and freedom of speech.
You know what the craziest thing about it all is. It is completely pointless matching the add to the user history. You match the add to the current content.
Simple example; you search and check out notebook computers for a week and then buy one, not based upon any adds but upon reviews and user experiences, for the next month after you have bought the computer they pointlessly continue to send you new notebook adds.
So you tie the add to the current content, to the web pages not to internet users. It is all just privacy invasive marketing B$. Now if governments can accept common carriers, intercepting , monitoring, recording and altering you internet traffic, will they also allow ISP's to add a telephone sales force to their VOIP service, monitor your calls and if key words come up, interrupt your call to try sell you something.
Just think with an ISP, you also get the added benefit, if you don't click yhe banner add they can interrupt you service, or even better just reroute your clicks to where ever will earn them the most money, but then of course, as an ISP they can simply create a whole fake mirror of their user base and create a click fraud system that would be completely undetectable.
Very interesting. So what you are saying is photographers are not entitled to any copyright protections, RIAA/MPAA etal should have copyright protection and they should be entitled to steal their ideas from the rest of society for free.
As for all those/.ing computer geeks/nurds who craft web pages and have the content stolen all the time, what, fuck them too?
There is the rub, all are equal under the law, or you allow corruption to take root and start treating some differently than others. So what is the basis for that bias, those that can provide politicians with free sex, drugs, money and get them re-elected get protection and those that can't including millions of private individuals who regularly have their ideas stolen by corporations just get screwed over ?
The reason for that is of course, is that you as the end user have no means by which to establish whether it is a legally copy able version or not. The same would go for any other copied item. For example, say you enter a store a buy a article of clothing which has been copied and is not from the original manufacturer, should the government penalise you and confiscate your credit card, for buying it.
No difference to all those fake rolex watches etc., should it be a criminal offence to buy one or to have it in your possession.
Should the government make the end user liable for being the 'victim' of a fraud. Similarly those people who have been victims of phishing, a downloaded a fake copyright infringing version of their banking web site, not only does the victim have their account raided by a criminal, but the government will fine them in addition, perhaps by confiscating what remains of that bank account, as well as of course kicking them off the internet.
Of course you can not differentiate between different types of copyrighted content, so unknowingly click on a web site that contains 3 infringing photos, and they will kick you off the internet. Well if they really are going to be a bunch of fucked up phreaks, why don't they make it a criminal offence, to download infringing copyrighted content, I am totally positive that after just one month using the internet their would not be one person who has not unknowingly downloaded some infringing content, be a piece of writing, a photo, a portion of a web page design, some web page coding, or a viral video etc.
So the maroons can try to turn the whole country into a prison and oddly enough honour it's heritage as a prison colony, with a 'Rudd'y fool as the head warden.
Perhaps you should read what you post "Meaning one who takes another's work without permission", your not taking it you are only copying it and as a torrent technically only small fair use portions of it at any one time;).
The question is would you then allow someone to waste their lives and come to harm, as a result of ignorance when you could have warned them. So when you are advising the non technologically minded about the long term risks of surrendering all their privacy to amoral corporations, when those corporations lack any degree of honesty and integrity that is not forced upon but it also has to be with significant crippling penalties, because as you well know the sociopaths that run corporations have no qualms about breaking the law if the profits are greater than the penalties.
The hardest trick about informing the non technologically minded about the risks and the things that they should 'not do' and the few bits of software they should install (which they can get for free and only need to install once), is not to scare them of using the Internet. Generally I find helping them install the security software (firewall, antivirus, antispyware software and of course a few firefox add-ons) and providing a simple explanation about what the software does and combining it with the warnings about what they should not do, helps to balance things out.
Add to that a warning about the vagaries of M$ software, and a quick introduction to the salient parts of M$'s non-warranty warranty 'er' eula, and why it is much better to use a non-M$ product when connecting to the internet or when attempting to secure that connection.
Well if your going to get all accurate about it, pirates sail the high seas, attack and board vessels and pillage the contents. What your talking about is people who infringe upon limited copyright terms and well, I suppose if they inset a cd into their drive and copy it they are creating a copy.
Pirate bay are only providing links, and techinically speaking when you use a torrent, only portion of the work is actually copied from your computer and all the other portions come from other peoples computers. Technically speaking copying a portion of the work is covered with in fair use and is not a copyright infringement.
It just happens that computers enable you to collate samples from multiple sources, and as such, reassembling of those legal samples is really a copyright infringement either, as each of the samples are legal fair use portions of the work.
China is an autocracy not a democracy. Some git with to much power and not enough sense, personally doesn't like horror movies. So all they need to do is come up with some delusional reason to ban them.
In addition they get a cheap thrill by arbitrarily creating a law, based upon their own personal preferences.
You can just imagine the nob head patting them self on the back about their great stroke of genius, while the various underlings dutifully agree with and compliment the decision, but secretly mock and laugh about the law behind the fools back.
Perhaps you have finally learned the principle behind selling you the same content over and over again. When you buy content, your right to access that content should last as long as the copyright of that content and not be locked to the life of a piece of hardware which will inevitably fail and basically steal that content away so that it can be sold to you over and over again.
M$ has attempted to force the OEM OS being tied to the hardware, so that if the hardware fails you have to re-buy the OS. Where they had complete control over the hardware, seriously did you really expect them to behave any differently. They know it is wrong, they know they are stealing your content rights, they know there will be bad consumer reaction to this, which is why they obfuscate, lie and misdirect their responses. As far as they are concerned, the software is a part of the hardware and subject to the same beyond warranty failure rate and requirements of repurchase. You might have thought you were buying that content but make no mistake as far as they were concerned you only rented it and it was only ever going to last until the next version of xbox was released, at which time you be forced to renew the rent.
Well you would have to be pretty whacked out not to see the illogical irony of the activity. So the US Airforce wants to play 'hackers', it finds a range of security faults in software and hardware and as per the micro-softies principles keeps the discoveries undisclosed.
Now the ironical part in doing that it is allowing for US citizens hardware and software to go unrepaired and hence at real risk of attack or, and here is the rub, it discloses all the faults to the public so that they can be repaired, it even assists in the repairs and hence destroys all of it's own weapon of mass digital destruction.
Can you not now see, why the activity would require some pretty heavy doses of drugs to keep the reality of the situation at bay. Really, if the US Airforce participates in the 'hackers' game, it is participating in a criminal conspiracy by knowingly keeping security faults secret, which would result those faults remaining undisclosed until they are inevitably exploited by criminals and which the victims 'the general public' would bear the brunt of the harm.
Typical worst case scenario, a fault goes unreported, a hospital computer network is cracked via that fault and the wrong medications are prescribed, hundreds die, hence the US Airforce is guilty criminal negligence. Failing to report a known fault in software when lives depend upon it is no different to failing to report a known fault in an aeroplane. It's like idiot children playing, no thought or reason.
Hey if they really wanted to pick on M$, they would mention this http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/13/2320220 recent article. So lets see, Disney's and M$'s house of the future, it would continual monitor all DRM and if any member of the house infringes upon copyright, either by humming tune, writing a quote or if the number of householders making use of any content the exceeds the number of people licensed for that content, or if heaven forbid, they should actually dare to attempt to copy that content.
Then under the new 21st century instant copyright conviction act, the house immediately goes into 'reduced functionality mode', the house doesn't allow anybody to enter or leave (except of course duly authorised harsh interrogation specialists, who will apply dully sanctioned, taser electro therapy and pepper spray chemo therapy), disables all content playback device, rations all services including lighting, heating, power and water. After all the instant prison, is not meant to be comfortable, and it is only fitting that the offender pays the full cost of their own incarceration.
In a police state it is only appropriate that a modern home should also serve double duty as a prison cell;).
That brings about the most important part of the saga. When Best Buy sought to mislead the customer about the theft of the laptop, they were in fact aiding and abetting the theif of the lap top in failing to report the crime. Hence the knowingly broke the law and as such any conditions the Best Buy puts on the customers data are null and void.
When Best Buy participated in the crime as accessories after the fact, by failing to report the theft for months after it occurred and as suck allowing the maximum amount of time for the criminal to cover the tracks and safely abscond with the computer and the data contained there in. Make no mistake failure to report a crime is in fact a crime.
This pretty much makes Best Buy liable for any kind of damages no matter how far fetched. The customer might also aid the case by seeking the criminal prosecution of those that failed to report the crime.
It will scare children into being rebellious teenagers who will take those copyrights lessons, and not ignore them but go out of their way to break them. It is already happening, just look at the BSA/MPA/RIAA vilifying pirates, as a result pirates are viewed as really cool and being a part of the teen rebellion scene.
It is all so stupid and primitive, the more they shove copyright laws into the public face, the more they threaten sending children to jail 'sic', the sooner the copyright laws will change and not in the favour of the BSA/MPA/RIAA.
By far the majority of people who can infringe on copyright do so and the reality is a lot of technophobe parents get their technophile children to do it for them and those same parents will try to move heaven and earth to protect their pirate children.
What is interesting about this issue is that the spy satellites are in international territory and as such must be controlled by an non-domestic agency. This puts it very close to a foreign intelligence service used for domestic surveillance and hence against the US constitution.
With regard to a search warrant, the only warrant that can really be legally applied, is one for illegal surveillance, rather than a warrant that makes use of the data recovered for other purposes.
Of course all the data is digital and not analogue and can be readily altered to present pretty much anything. The groups who control the satellites as well as the data trail, certainly have the technology and the expertise to turn any lie into a court based reality.
The obvious answer to this is, have they started patting down and strip searching children or are they too afraid of accusations of child molestation and the resulting civil suits. So where should they be hiding stuff now, hmm;).
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The internet whilst it most certainly employ people it will also favour the smarter more creative states, cheap dumb red necks do not make could It professionals, and top be brutally honest It professional don't want to reside in close minded, bigoted communities, so setting up business doesn't really work either. California and Washington do well, because they are, well, Washington and California and not some cheap labour, hick, red state.
Seeing as tech can so readily outsourced and the greed of corporations, that still leaves India and China, cents in the dollar employers, as the likely target for a lot of those jobs.
As long as the details of all hospital and doctors that use these services are effectively sell you details for free data storage are publicly and clearly displayed across the internet so that clear thinking people can avoid them like the plague.
Of course if google and co want to keep secret those doctors and hospitals who use the service, we understand, it's just because they're all a bunch of privacy invasive asshats who really don't want to give you a choice.
Well come on be fair. Of course piracy leads to worse crimes, after all it facilitates the further spreading of anti-social content that the RIAA/MPAA etal support and protect. With lyrics and stories that low and behold promote crime, drug abuse violence and, that's right, the killing law enforcement officers. So who should law enforcement officers be pursuing, the pirates who are supposedly putting the publishers out of business or the publishers who a pushing violence, drug abuse and anti-social cop killing content upon the violent offenders of tommorow ;).
Of course you bet several other companies were looking forward to the buyout, including google, ask and AOl. All of which would have seen major market share growth, not only from the initial rejection of M$ but also because that same team that managed to turn MSN into an unpopular money losing portal would do the same to Yahoo.
M$ is of course a company, could I trust them in the future, sure, as soon as the current executive team is gone and along with them their malign, vile influence.
It is impossible to trust them, imagine, they launched a marketing exercise to target individual's who recommended Linux and attempted to smear them as religious zealots, terrorists, members of organised crime and that they were a cancer upon society. Seriously this is truly disgusting stuff, they set out to destroy the careers and reputations of IT professionals, because those professionals would dare to recommend an alternate product that was vastly superior and was a far better solution for the future.
Of course they did stop, but not because what they were doing was vile, offensive and basically criminal, they stopped, because it wasn't fucking working, really unbelievably sickening stuff. Now there was a class action law suit that went begging, slander on a mass scale via cooperative mass media venues. The reason it failed, it just infuriated those same IT Professionals, so rather than just recommended and use the alternate product, Linux, they became active supporters, promoters, coders, installers and distributors.
Whilst that same disgusting executive team remains, fuck em, they are a cancer upon the technological evolution of society and do genuinely, consistently, behave like the most corrupt of criminals.
It is ludicrous to attempt to tame an adult internet so that it is suitable for the access by children.
What is needed is an internet based upon the interconnection of the various grades of schools, kindergarten, primary and high school, from around the world. Where teachers and qualified people will supervise the interaction and provide a range of suitable education materials as well as a full range of entertainment, social networking and gaming, all of which has been properly vetted and graded for each age group. A connection that can be locked in at the PC and by the ISP providing the internet service.
So while parents can allow children to access the full open adult internet when they are prepared to supervise that access, they can also arrange to lock down the connection to an more appropriate connection when they are not able to provide that same level of full supervision.
The whole filtering thing is just stupid, which filter is aligned to each age group, what is suitable for a 16 year is hardly suitable for a 6 year old, and at the end of the day, the greatest danger to children will always be other children, they are after all immature and can quite readily be irresponsible and make some terrible mistakes in judgement, which is why that interaction needs to be controlled.
Trying to tame the internet for children, is like trying to tame bars, strip joints, night clubs, casinos and adult locker rooms, so that they are suitable venues for children. The effort is ludicrous, any government that thinks it can, is just corrupt and in the pocket of mass media advertisers, that want to jam an endless stream of psychologically manipulative marketing into the minds of young children and the greedy companies selling net filtering software, whose executives can't see beyond their own sociopathic greed and, really don't give a rats about the failure of their software as long as it sells, and best of all for their luxury yachts and mansions, becomes government mandated by politicians pursuing under the table kick backs.
So quite simply, anybody can take a running leap, if they believe that owning assets in a foreign country somehow entitles them to defines it's laws, and take precedence over the rights of citizens within that country to define that countries laws as they deem fit.
Changes in laws in one of the risks in investing in foreign countries. of course the US has an extremely vile and bloody record in allowing exploitative US corporations to direct foreign policy, when those corporation feel that their profits are at risk, which has lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens. Cuba only needs to look at Puerto Rico as a warning to what it is to be exploited third class citizens.
So that would typically include your time, wear and tear on your vehicle, the time it takes to install and then uninstall the software and can quite readily exceed the cost of the software.
In most countries all conditions of sale must be available and clearly displayed at the point of sale, any other conditions are strictly forbidden, basically due to the cost to the consumer of making that purchase, which of course the consumer is entitled to recover.
What's next bubble gum trading cards of the leading windrones and micro-softies, with a special super secret set of the leading forum flooding microtrolls.
I can just imagine a whole range of viral videos depicting many varied and imaginative ways of destroying those disgusting little caricatures. Some days it feels just so good, to not be a M$ employee ;).
Now as you know major corporations completely lack honest and integrity, the only goal is to bloat the pockets of the corporate executive team, now you can mimic a few hundred thousand users, it doesn't take much, 10 to 100 hundred clicks per bot spread over hundred thousand bots, every day, adds up to substantial amounts of money, what modern corporation could resist. Of course it would only be an 'er' glitch in system, a programming error, that was meant as an 'er' security measure, yeah, the new guy did it.
From googles point of view, or from any other privacy invasive freaks point of view they would just see an increase in traffic from an IP, quite explainable especially as internet is still in a growth and acceptance phase.
China can then simply steal the technology through industrial espionage and either weaponise it or it use in what ever other way to achieve their goal of global dominance. Of course dominance has not benefit for the people living in China, it is however what always festers in the minds China's autocratic leaders, the perverse desire to control and direct everybody else, as clearly demonstrated by their opposition democracy and freedom of speech.
Simple example; you search and check out notebook computers for a week and then buy one, not based upon any adds but upon reviews and user experiences, for the next month after you have bought the computer they pointlessly continue to send you new notebook adds.
So you tie the add to the current content, to the web pages not to internet users. It is all just privacy invasive marketing B$. Now if governments can accept common carriers, intercepting , monitoring, recording and altering you internet traffic, will they also allow ISP's to add a telephone sales force to their VOIP service, monitor your calls and if key words come up, interrupt your call to try sell you something.
Just think with an ISP, you also get the added benefit, if you don't click yhe banner add they can interrupt you service, or even better just reroute your clicks to where ever will earn them the most money, but then of course, as an ISP they can simply create a whole fake mirror of their user base and create a click fraud system that would be completely undetectable.
As for all those /.ing computer geeks/nurds who craft web pages and have the content stolen all the time, what, fuck them too?
There is the rub, all are equal under the law, or you allow corruption to take root and start treating some differently than others. So what is the basis for that bias, those that can provide politicians with free sex, drugs, money and get them re-elected get protection and those that can't including millions of private individuals who regularly have their ideas stolen by corporations just get screwed over ?
No difference to all those fake rolex watches etc., should it be a criminal offence to buy one or to have it in your possession.
Should the government make the end user liable for being the 'victim' of a fraud. Similarly those people who have been victims of phishing, a downloaded a fake copyright infringing version of their banking web site, not only does the victim have their account raided by a criminal, but the government will fine them in addition, perhaps by confiscating what remains of that bank account, as well as of course kicking them off the internet.
Of course you can not differentiate between different types of copyrighted content, so unknowingly click on a web site that contains 3 infringing photos, and they will kick you off the internet. Well if they really are going to be a bunch of fucked up phreaks, why don't they make it a criminal offence, to download infringing copyrighted content, I am totally positive that after just one month using the internet their would not be one person who has not unknowingly downloaded some infringing content, be a piece of writing, a photo, a portion of a web page design, some web page coding, or a viral video etc.
So the maroons can try to turn the whole country into a prison and oddly enough honour it's heritage as a prison colony, with a 'Rudd'y fool as the head warden.
Perhaps you should read what you post "Meaning one who takes another's work without permission", your not taking it you are only copying it and as a torrent technically only small fair use portions of it at any one time ;).
The hardest trick about informing the non technologically minded about the risks and the things that they should 'not do' and the few bits of software they should install (which they can get for free and only need to install once), is not to scare them of using the Internet. Generally I find helping them install the security software (firewall, antivirus, antispyware software and of course a few firefox add-ons) and providing a simple explanation about what the software does and combining it with the warnings about what they should not do, helps to balance things out.
Add to that a warning about the vagaries of M$ software, and a quick introduction to the salient parts of M$'s non-warranty warranty 'er' eula, and why it is much better to use a non-M$ product when connecting to the internet or when attempting to secure that connection.
Pirate bay are only providing links, and techinically speaking when you use a torrent, only portion of the work is actually copied from your computer and all the other portions come from other peoples computers. Technically speaking copying a portion of the work is covered with in fair use and is not a copyright infringement.
It just happens that computers enable you to collate samples from multiple sources, and as such, reassembling of those legal samples is really a copyright infringement either, as each of the samples are legal fair use portions of the work.
In addition they get a cheap thrill by arbitrarily creating a law, based upon their own personal preferences.
You can just imagine the nob head patting them self on the back about their great stroke of genius, while the various underlings dutifully agree with and compliment the decision, but secretly mock and laugh about the law behind the fools back.
M$ has attempted to force the OEM OS being tied to the hardware, so that if the hardware fails you have to re-buy the OS. Where they had complete control over the hardware, seriously did you really expect them to behave any differently. They know it is wrong, they know they are stealing your content rights, they know there will be bad consumer reaction to this, which is why they obfuscate, lie and misdirect their responses. As far as they are concerned, the software is a part of the hardware and subject to the same beyond warranty failure rate and requirements of repurchase. You might have thought you were buying that content but make no mistake as far as they were concerned you only rented it and it was only ever going to last until the next version of xbox was released, at which time you be forced to renew the rent.
Now the ironical part in doing that it is allowing for US citizens hardware and software to go unrepaired and hence at real risk of attack or, and here is the rub, it discloses all the faults to the public so that they can be repaired, it even assists in the repairs and hence destroys all of it's own weapon of mass digital destruction.
Can you not now see, why the activity would require some pretty heavy doses of drugs to keep the reality of the situation at bay. Really, if the US Airforce participates in the 'hackers' game, it is participating in a criminal conspiracy by knowingly keeping security faults secret, which would result those faults remaining undisclosed until they are inevitably exploited by criminals and which the victims 'the general public' would bear the brunt of the harm.
Typical worst case scenario, a fault goes unreported, a hospital computer network is cracked via that fault and the wrong medications are prescribed, hundreds die, hence the US Airforce is guilty criminal negligence. Failing to report a known fault in software when lives depend upon it is no different to failing to report a known fault in an aeroplane. It's like idiot children playing, no thought or reason.
Then under the new 21st century instant copyright conviction act, the house immediately goes into 'reduced functionality mode', the house doesn't allow anybody to enter or leave (except of course duly authorised harsh interrogation specialists, who will apply dully sanctioned, taser electro therapy and pepper spray chemo therapy), disables all content playback device, rations all services including lighting, heating, power and water. After all the instant prison, is not meant to be comfortable, and it is only fitting that the offender pays the full cost of their own incarceration.
In a police state it is only appropriate that a modern home should also serve double duty as a prison cell ;).
When Best Buy participated in the crime as accessories after the fact, by failing to report the theft for months after it occurred and as suck allowing the maximum amount of time for the criminal to cover the tracks and safely abscond with the computer and the data contained there in. Make no mistake failure to report a crime is in fact a crime.
This pretty much makes Best Buy liable for any kind of damages no matter how far fetched. The customer might also aid the case by seeking the criminal prosecution of those that failed to report the crime.
It is all so stupid and primitive, the more they shove copyright laws into the public face, the more they threaten sending children to jail 'sic', the sooner the copyright laws will change and not in the favour of the BSA/MPA/RIAA.
By far the majority of people who can infringe on copyright do so and the reality is a lot of technophobe parents get their technophile children to do it for them and those same parents will try to move heaven and earth to protect their pirate children.
With regard to a search warrant, the only warrant that can really be legally applied, is one for illegal surveillance, rather than a warrant that makes use of the data recovered for other purposes.
Of course all the data is digital and not analogue and can be readily altered to present pretty much anything. The groups who control the satellites as well as the data trail, certainly have the technology and the expertise to turn any lie into a court based reality.
The obvious answer to this is, have they started patting down and strip searching children or are they too afraid of accusations of child molestation and the resulting civil suits. So where should they be hiding stuff now, hmm ;).