What you are forgetting here is the laziness of college students/kids. Do you really think college students are going to run out and get something notarized and then mail it? First, college students wouldnt know where the hell to take something to get notarized. Second they wouldnt have the cash to pay for the notary service or the stamp to mail it. This is of course assuming that they know how to mail an actual letter.
If there was a popup window in kazaa that said click here to get amnesty for all your illegal mp3 downloads a large portion of college students and the rest of the population would probably do it. But jumping through all of these legal hoops would only be done by a scared parent.
E-mail is the property of the sender and receiver, and both have the right to do with the text as they see fit. Thus, posting it is legit.
Actually this is incorrect. As with regular mail the receiver only has rights to the physical mail, in this case the file containing the mail. The copyright of the message contained in the letter is still held by the sender. This has been publicized a few time when lovers of famous people have attempted to publish books of love letters from that person such as the princess diana love letters. These attempts are always shot down in court unless agreed to by the copyright holder. However the receiver can sell the actual letter as the receiver owns the physical object of the letter but does not hold the copyright of the words on the page.
So in the most technical reading of the law forwarding email or posting recieved email to a webpage or listserv is a violation of copyright and illegal. When I asked my ethics teacher who is also an ip lawyer how this is illegal when it happens millions of times each day his reply is "Speeding is illegal too but that doesnt seem to stop anyone."
RTFM - I tried to read the damn manual. My biggest problem is that the manuals provided with linux are of no help to your average computer user. For example:
man help The help utility retrieves information to further explain
errors messages and warnings from SCCS commands. It also
provides some information about SCCS command usage. If no
arguments are given, help prompts for one.
An argument may be a message number (which normally appears
in parentheses following each SCCS error or warning mes-
sage), or an SCCS command name. help responds with an expla-
nation of the message or a usage line for the command.
Most computer users would have no idea what the hell that computer jargon means (SCCS???). If man pages were dumbed down and offered some examples on how to use the commands it would make my life and the lives of other non-linux gurus much easier.
These secret networks will only work if you know all of the members personally. If the members are letting in people they meet online then you never know if it is a RIAA cop or not.
A solution to this problem would be a trusted network. The network would be setup in such a way that you can only download from people you trust, which should be only people you have met in real life and that you know does not work for the RIAA. You might be saying that this would make for a very small network. True, but each person you trust can allow people they trust into the network. In order to get files from these people or to even search these peoples files you have to go through your trusted friend. That friend would stream a download from a person that they trust to you and no identifying information would go along with it. It would look as though the file was on your trusted friends computer and you downloaded it from there. So you could build a huge network of people based on trust and you dont have to trust anyone that you do not know. The only people who ever come in direct contact with your files are people you know so there is no way of you getting caught. Assuming all the traffic is encrypted and this actually scales to a decent number of members it would be the perfect file sharing program.
As reported in Yahoo News The Pentagon has Abandoned its plan for the Terrorism Betting. My favorite quote from the story:
"The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque," said Sen. Ron Wyden D-Ore.
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What you are forgetting here is the laziness of college students/kids. Do you really think college students are going to run out and get something notarized and then mail it? First, college students wouldnt know where the hell to take something to get notarized. Second they wouldnt have the cash to pay for the notary service or the stamp to mail it. This is of course assuming that they know how to mail an actual letter.
If there was a popup window in kazaa that said click here to get amnesty for all your illegal mp3 downloads a large portion of college students and the rest of the population would probably do it. But jumping through all of these legal hoops would only be done by a scared parent.
E-mail is the property of the sender and receiver, and both have the right to do with the text as they see fit. Thus, posting it is legit.
Actually this is incorrect. As with regular mail the receiver only has rights to the physical mail, in this case the file containing the mail. The copyright of the message contained in the letter is still held by the sender. This has been publicized a few time when lovers of famous people have attempted to publish books of love letters from that person such as the princess diana love letters. These attempts are always shot down in court unless agreed to by the copyright holder. However the receiver can sell the actual letter as the receiver owns the physical object of the letter but does not hold the copyright of the words on the page.
So in the most technical reading of the law forwarding email or posting recieved email to a webpage or listserv is a violation of copyright and illegal. When I asked my ethics teacher who is also an ip lawyer how this is illegal when it happens millions of times each day his reply is "Speeding is illegal too but that doesnt seem to stop anyone."
RTFM - I tried to read the damn manual. My biggest problem is that the manuals provided with linux are of no help to your average computer user. For example:
man help
The help utility retrieves information to further explain
errors messages and warnings from SCCS commands. It also
provides some information about SCCS command usage. If no
arguments are given, help prompts for one.
An argument may be a message number (which normally appears
in parentheses following each SCCS error or warning mes-
sage), or an SCCS command name. help responds with an expla-
nation of the message or a usage line for the command.
Most computer users would have no idea what the hell that computer jargon means (SCCS???). If man pages were dumbed down and offered some examples on how to use the commands it would make my life and the lives of other non-linux gurus much easier.
All Your Base All Belongs To SCO.
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These secret networks will only work if you know all of the members personally. If the members are letting in people they meet online then you never know if it is a RIAA cop or not.
A solution to this problem would be a trusted network. The network would be setup in such a way that you can only download from people you trust, which should be only people you have met in real life and that you know does not work for the RIAA. You might be saying that this would make for a very small network. True, but each person you trust can allow people they trust into the network. In order to get files from these people or to even search these peoples files you have to go through your trusted friend. That friend would stream a download from a person that they trust to you and no identifying information would go along with it. It would look as though the file was on your trusted friends computer and you downloaded it from there. So you could build a huge network of people based on trust and you dont have to trust anyone that you do not know. The only people who ever come in direct contact with your files are people you know so there is no way of you getting caught. Assuming all the traffic is encrypted and this actually scales to a decent number of members it would be the perfect file sharing program.
Anyone bored enough to build it?
As reported in Yahoo News The Pentagon has Abandoned its plan for the Terrorism Betting. My favorite quote from the story:
"The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque," said Sen. Ron Wyden D-Ore.