What about songs with the wrong filename? Was I intentionaly sharing Celine Dion, or did I just think it really was a song from an artist legaly distributed on the net because it was named "John Doe's hits.mp3"? Is that illegal?
What about a non-music file format. Yeah, I know, file extensions are not the same through different O/S. Yet, if I am sharing a Celine Dion's song named "celine dion.jpg", and containing random ASCII characters, while I thought it was a picture... Is that illegal?
And what if I leave some CDs on my frontyard. Is it illegal because I am making them available to anyone? What is the difference between this and having some mp3s in a shared folder?
My point is, I am sure there are many, many, many loopholes/flaws in the way copyright laws are made, enforced and written. There simply wasn't anyone with enough money to spend to challenge these laws with good arguments and a talented lawyer. Yet.
I believe the problem is not the spammer exploiting flaws, but rather people not protecting themselves.
As someone pointed in a previous post, spammers evolve just like any species would in any other ecosystem. So shall we.
Complaining will just result in useless laws that actualy affect our freedom of speech instead of doing what they're meant to. We should rather adapt and stop being "lusers". People have to get computer-litterate v2.0. Knowing how to turn you PC on and how to play solitair just isn't enough. We should learn more about secutiry and how to protect our (more and more popular) home and office networks.
Are you REALLY relying on the government to clean your inbox?
We have seen a similar case rather recently with a guy whose last name is Nissan, and who had the idea of buying nissan.com BEFORE Nissan Motors Corp. did.
He ended up shutting down his website, and now the domain does not seem to be used for anything, except to explain the court ruling.
The Board cannot grant exemptions from the levy. However, the Copyright Act does grant one exemption to associations representing persons with perceptual disabilities. In this respect, to help mitigate the effect of the levy on certain groups, the CPCC has implemented a zero-rating scheme which permits manufacturers and importers to sell blank audio recording media to certain categories of users without having to pay the levy. These include religious organizations, broadcasters, law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals, court reporters, provincial ministers of education and members of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, music and advertising industries.
From what I understand, this seems like a breach just waiting to be exploited by some rich person with a good lawyer. One would have to prove that the media is not used to make illegal copies of copyrighted material, thus creating a precedant and bringing a tide of similar cases, probably (hopefuly) screwing up that whole levy thing in the end.
.... yeeaaaah... like, maybe Leia is in fact Darth Vader, Anakin is an ewok, Darth Vader was born with his helmet on and the Jedi order lived happily ever after. Who knows.
RIAA/SCAMP and co. should be sued by artists for not protecting their material appropriately, and letting people illegaly copy the CDs by not using any efficient copy protection. That could be fun to see.
Well, according to SCAMP/RIAA and co., they're letting their customers use P2P services to download music illegaly. So they somehow participate in the whole process.
It's not exactly like gun manufacturers. They make guns, but do not directly let people use them, while ISPs give you an access to illegal material.
I guess SCAMP sees ISPs more like the tatooed guy on the corner who's trying to sell you a gun illegaly.... As if ISPs had enough time, people and resources to monitor EVERYTHING that is downloaded around the world.
And that will make you a criminal, convicted twice for the same crime.
I hope so much that some controversial lawyer comes up with that in court and smash the whole idea of charging innocents for unproved copyright infrigements.
Lobotomy is fine. Lobotomy works. Do not download music. We love the RIAA. Lobotomy is good. Trust lobotomy. Forget music. Do not think of music. Lobotomy helps. Thank you lobotomy.
We should pay on a voluntary basis for the musicians we feel like encouraging.
Besides, there is more than just CDs. If I like a band/musician, I may download their music for free (or perhaps I've come to know them thanks to some MP3s), but I will pay to see them live, I will pay for their t-shirts and I will talk about them. And I could even buy the CD if I happen to like the cover or the additional content that is included.
This is what people should ask themselves when buying a "regular" 30$ CD: "What am I paying for?"...
I think it would be much simpler for ISPs to simply charge us a tax that would be paid to software publishers as a compensation for piracy... Just like they want to do in Canada for P2P music sharing. How brilliant!
If you could only imagine how many nebulous and unknown artists I've known juste because I downloaded their songs from the net... Then they made shows here, and I went to see them. Otherwise, they'd still be in their oversea garage playing for themselves.
THAT helps artists. Free advertisement. The artists are screwed the moment they sign with a label that rips them of their cash. That's when. It's not when I download their songs.
I believe this is not true for all registrars. They seem to have their own policies regarding the time left AFTER the expiry date to re-register the domain.
I'm experiencing a similar situation with a tucows reseller. My client has a website that has been registerd with them by the previous webmaster. Now, they want to pay less, but they would have to wait the 60ish-day period they give them to re-register it. The domain should be available, but it is not.
This is a much longer period than the 14 days you are talking about.
Microsun has just released a critical security patch for their Winsun OS. Apparently, the latest solar flares were caused by a major security hole letting important stuff escape.
Gill Bates was reported saying "This is no big deal. Everything is under control. Realy. Security is our top priority and we will make sure this does not happen in the next Sunhorn OS."
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"thanks to the RIAA eating a chunk of the money "
Ah yeah. I can see Apple almost out of business in a few years, blaming the RIAA and charging a levy on every CD sold. Hehe
It's actualy a new node for warboaters...
What about songs with the wrong filename? Was I intentionaly sharing Celine Dion, or did I just think it really was a song from an artist legaly distributed on the net because it was named "John Doe's hits.mp3"? Is that illegal?
What about a non-music file format. Yeah, I know, file extensions are not the same through different O/S. Yet, if I am sharing a Celine Dion's song named "celine dion.jpg", and containing random ASCII characters, while I thought it was a picture... Is that illegal?
And what if I leave some CDs on my frontyard. Is it illegal because I am making them available to anyone? What is the difference between this and having some mp3s in a shared folder?
My point is, I am sure there are many, many, many loopholes/flaws in the way copyright laws are made, enforced and written. There simply wasn't anyone with enough money to spend to challenge these laws with good arguments and a talented lawyer. Yet.
I believe the problem is not the spammer exploiting flaws, but rather people not protecting themselves.
As someone pointed in a previous post, spammers evolve just like any species would in any other ecosystem. So shall we.
Complaining will just result in useless laws that actualy affect our freedom of speech instead of doing what they're meant to. We should rather adapt and stop being "lusers". People have to get computer-litterate v2.0. Knowing how to turn you PC on and how to play solitair just isn't enough. We should learn more about secutiry and how to protect our (more and more popular) home and office networks.
Are you REALLY relying on the government to clean your inbox?
We have seen a similar case rather recently with a guy whose last name is Nissan, and who had the idea of buying nissan.com BEFORE Nissan Motors Corp. did.
He ended up shutting down his website, and now the domain does not seem to be used for anything, except to explain the court ruling.
And this is a good part too:
The Board cannot grant exemptions from the levy. However, the Copyright Act does grant one exemption to associations representing persons with perceptual disabilities. In this respect, to help mitigate the effect of the levy on certain groups, the CPCC has implemented a zero-rating scheme which permits manufacturers and importers to sell blank audio recording media to certain categories of users without having to pay the levy. These include religious organizations, broadcasters, law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals, court reporters, provincial ministers of education and members of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, music and advertising industries.
From what I understand, this seems like a breach just waiting to be exploited by some rich person with a good lawyer. One would have to prove that the media is not used to make illegal copies of copyrighted material, thus creating a precedant and bringing a tide of similar cases, probably (hopefuly) screwing up that whole levy thing in the end.
In Antartica, all our base don't belong to you.
.... yeeaaaah... like, maybe Leia is in fact Darth Vader, Anakin is an ewok, Darth Vader was born with his helmet on and the Jedi order lived happily ever after. Who knows.
Spoiler: Phatooine Network gets /.ed in the first few minutes.
Then they should get sued. Because they allow end-user to use FAT system. Quick, sue them!
RIAA/SCAMP and co. should be sued by artists for not protecting their material appropriately, and letting people illegaly copy the CDs by not using any efficient copy protection. That could be fun to see.
This was sco predictable.....
The ISP is doing nothing illegal.
Well, according to SCAMP/RIAA and co., they're letting their customers use P2P services to download music illegaly. So they somehow participate in the whole process.
It's not exactly like gun manufacturers. They make guns, but do not directly let people use them, while ISPs give you an access to illegal material.
I guess SCAMP sees ISPs more like the tatooed guy on the corner who's trying to sell you a gun illegaly.... As if ISPs had enough time, people and resources to monitor EVERYTHING that is downloaded around the world.
am I supposed to pay more to my isp now?
And that will make you a criminal, convicted twice for the same crime.
I hope so much that some controversial lawyer comes up with that in court and smash the whole idea of charging innocents for unproved copyright infrigements.
Yes. It looks like young boys are not trendy anymore in church. So the RIAA is now taking care of them...
Wonder how far we are from surgical lobotomies
Lobotomy is fine. Lobotomy works. Do not download music. We love the RIAA. Lobotomy is good. Trust lobotomy. Forget music. Do not think of music. Lobotomy helps. Thank you lobotomy.
Do not put sig here. Lobotomy forbids.
We should pay on a voluntary basis for the musicians we feel like encouraging.
Besides, there is more than just CDs. If I like a band/musician, I may download their music for free (or perhaps I've come to know them thanks to some MP3s), but I will pay to see them live, I will pay for their t-shirts and I will talk about them. And I could even buy the CD if I happen to like the cover or the additional content that is included.
This is what people should ask themselves when buying a "regular" 30$ CD: "What am I paying for?"...
I think it would be much simpler for ISPs to simply charge us a tax that would be paid to software publishers as a compensation for piracy... Just like they want to do in Canada for P2P music sharing. How brilliant!
/sarcasm
People calculated the formula for "hit songs", now there's "best family game"... Let me try for the "best computer company":
0,00sco + 0,00ms + 1,23bsd + 0,00aol + 1,17gnu + 12,65oss
If you could only imagine how many nebulous and unknown artists I've known juste because I downloaded their songs from the net... Then they made shows here, and I went to see them. Otherwise, they'd still be in their oversea garage playing for themselves.
THAT helps artists. Free advertisement. The artists are screwed the moment they sign with a label that rips them of their cash. That's when. It's not when I download their songs.
Can anyone please mod the letter SCO sent +5 Funny? ...
"if the culture as a whole (or even in large part) decides the old way is inadequate, the language will change accordingly."
It's not even a large part. It's a loud, lobbying, politicaly-correct minority... And they probably wear wooden sandals too.
I believe this is not true for all registrars. They seem to have their own policies regarding the time left AFTER the expiry date to re-register the domain.
I'm experiencing a similar situation with a tucows reseller. My client has a website that has been registerd with them by the previous webmaster. Now, they want to pay less, but they would have to wait the 60ish-day period they give them to re-register it. The domain should be available, but it is not.
This is a much longer period than the 14 days you are talking about.
Microsun has just released a critical security patch for their Winsun OS. Apparently, the latest solar flares were caused by a major security hole letting important stuff escape.
Gill Bates was reported saying "This is no big deal. Everything is under control. Realy. Security is our top priority and we will make sure this does not happen in the next Sunhorn OS."
'What do traffic jams, obesity and spam have in common?'
Simple. Stupid fat f**ks read spam on their cell phones while driving and cause traffic jam.