It's kind of funny (sad really) when I first read the title I (naively) thought oh they must be cleaning up their software....
Of course then I was hit with reality:(
France hates nonFrench culture (read: American culture).
Google is mirroring the very basis of culture; the write works of a people.
Therefore France does not hate google, it just hates what google is doing.
Did you read the actual French article?
Granted it comes off a little rough.
But when I read it I came off with the distinct impression that he was basically attacking google.
Not directly, but instead by saying what google is doing will need lead to an Americanize view of the world.
But this definitely makes it sound like what google is doing is a negative and they need to 'counter-attack'.
When was posed, since the second world war, on the side of the cinema then of audio-visual, the question of the French response to the American domination, dedicated, if one had not reacted, to oppress on our premises any original production, an initial reaction was of protectionism, according to a system of quotas, in the rooms then with television. That was not illegitimate and was partially effective. But, in the case which occupies us, this strategy appears, taking into account the nature of the Fabric, impossible. Thus remain the second, which proved reliable on our various screens: that of the counter-attack, with a positive support for the difference.
So, they'll be getting hockey, curling and Mexican food, then?
No, but that does kind of illustrate what I'm talking about.
Americans don't really care where their culture comes from. If it's good and we like it we take it in and make it our own.
The French on the other hand fight against McDonalds moving in.
They even wonder why we Americans think that the French hate us.
I know this one!
It's because the French appear to resist cultural change and since it's American culture that seems to take hold everywhere it looks like they are fighting against American culture... which we Americans don't understand at all and see it as them basically fighting against us.
Take banning of the word email. Email is basically an American word and by banning it seems like they fighting against our culture.
Similarly TV. They fight against the influx of American TV programming saying it deludes their culture. So when they try to limit it, it looks like they're fighting our culture.
And it's not just Americans the French piss off with their superior attitudes. You think the Muslims were happy about that head scarf banning thing?
If the French really want to get along with us better they should stop trying to resist everything American. Cultures change, get over it!
Not much.
It uses what? 100 watts at the most?
There's ~720 hours a month. So running 24/7 you'd use 72,000 watt hours a month @ 8.6 cents per kilowatt hour that's like $6.19 a month....
Because it's a desktop which means there will be a nice little hole in the wall nearby that can provide you with all the power you need.
It's easier to make a fast hot processor and just keep it cool with heatsinks/fans then to create a fast processor that runs cool.
I assure you they don't. The incident was about one agent that didn't listen to all the memos from the IT staff about not fowarding emails outside the office.
Well they were going to call themselves Microsoft fans. But then they realized that not even the people that run their software are fans of the company;)
But white bloodcells and HIV have been fighting each other for so long can we really expect them to put aside their diffrences and work together for a common goal?
"For example, a CD's (security code) could be cracked to play a recording on a car stereo, since a CD-player would be seen as an appropriate medium," the news release said. "But the security code could not be cracked to copy the recording onto an MP-3 player, since such a device would not be seen as an appropriate for a CD."
Ahh that's classic.
Who knew an mp3 player wasn't appropriate for playing music.
Why are civil suits allowed to proceed at all without any evidence from the prosecutor?
There is no prosecutor there is a plaintiff, and the case isn't proceeding. It's basically hasn't moved at all. The reason it's taking so long is SCO is using every staling tactic in the book. fact-finding stage even proceed if the prosecutor does not have any valid evidence to provide
It's called discovery, and it's not proceeding. This is the stage used to find evidence. You don't need any evidence to file a suit against someone per say. You file suit and then you use discovery to find the evidence of wrong doing. That's what's taking so long. SCO can't come up with any evidence despite 2 years of discovery and the judge is getting pissed. This is the sort of tort reform that we need,
I believe that SCO is suing for breach of contract... which isn't covered by tort law. actually found guilty?
You are found liable in civil cases.
Your the one talking about fraud.
The original poster said that copyright infringement was a civil matter only. I was pointing out that it can be come a criminal matter if you make money from it.
And PS the courts already ruled that matchmaking is illegal... remember the old napster?
506. Criminal offenses5 (a) Criminal Infringement. - Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either -
(1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
(2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000,
shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, United States Code. For purposes of this subsection, evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement.
As soon as he started recording it one would suppose but only he knows when that was. So he could have logs for the entire history of the site, or just the past few weeks.
The real question is what is in those logs. Did it record every transfer made by certain IPs. Did it just record total uploads/downloads. Maybe it was just usernames. Prehaps who uploaded what torrent.
There's only cause to worry if the site logged every transfer you made it stored it by the file you were uploading. But that would be a LOT of data and I would find it unlikely if he bothered to log all of that.
What is more likely is the logs contain total Up/Down stats listed by IP. If that is the case the logs won't help the MPAA file any more law suits since they won't be able to prove that any of your uploading activity was actually infringing.
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You mean like this (2002)?
;)
Or also seen here.
Since the mods didn't see the first comment about this... surely they won't notice I shamelessly ripped this off the post right above this one
It's kind of funny (sad really) when I first read the title I (naively) thought oh they must be cleaning up their software.... :(
Of course then I was hit with reality
I bought a fancy sound card... but I didn't see any improvement over my old one. ;)
Napoleon?
France hates nonFrench culture (read: American culture).
Google is mirroring the very basis of culture; the write works of a people.
Therefore France does not hate google, it just hates what google is doing.
Granted it comes off a little rough.
But when I read it I came off with the distinct impression that he was basically attacking google.
Not directly, but instead by saying what google is doing will need lead to an Americanize view of the world.
But this definitely makes it sound like what google is doing is a negative and they need to 'counter-attack'.
So, they'll be getting hockey, curling and Mexican food, then?
No, but that does kind of illustrate what I'm talking about.
Americans don't really care where their culture comes from. If it's good and we like it we take it in and make it our own.
The French on the other hand fight against McDonalds moving in.
It's because the French appear to resist cultural change and since it's American culture that seems to take hold everywhere it looks like they are fighting against American culture... which we Americans don't understand at all and see it as them basically fighting against us.
Take banning of the word email. Email is basically an American word and by banning it seems like they fighting against our culture.
Similarly TV. They fight against the influx of American TV programming saying it deludes their culture. So when they try to limit it, it looks like they're fighting our culture.
And it's not just Americans the French piss off with their superior attitudes. You think the Muslims were happy about that head scarf banning thing?
If the French really want to get along with us better they should stop trying to resist everything American. Cultures change, get over it!
If only I could mod you to +6.
Is would anything have been done if he hadn't attempted to blackmail the company. I personally doubt it.
Ahh but I could blind you with my #63 and then take you out with my #20.
Not much.
It uses what? 100 watts at the most?
There's ~720 hours a month. So running 24/7 you'd use 72,000 watt hours a month @ 8.6 cents per kilowatt hour that's like $6.19 a month....
Because it's a desktop which means there will be a nice little hole in the wall nearby that can provide you with all the power you need.
It's easier to make a fast hot processor and just keep it cool with heatsinks/fans then to create a fast processor that runs cool.
I assure you they don't. The incident was about one agent that didn't listen to all the memos from the IT staff about not fowarding emails outside the office.
Well they were going to call themselves Microsoft fans. But then they realized that not even the people that run their software are fans of the company ;)
But white bloodcells and HIV have been fighting each other for so long can we really expect them to put aside their diffrences and work together for a common goal?
"For example, a CD's (security code) could be cracked to play a recording on a car stereo, since a CD-player would be seen as an appropriate medium," the news release said. "But the security code could not be cracked to copy the recording onto an MP-3 player, since such a device would not be seen as an appropriate for a CD."
Ahh that's classic.
Who knew an mp3 player wasn't appropriate for playing music.
Why are civil suits allowed to proceed at all without any evidence from the prosecutor?
There is no prosecutor there is a plaintiff, and the case isn't proceeding. It's basically hasn't moved at all. The reason it's taking so long is SCO is using every staling tactic in the book.
fact-finding stage even proceed if the prosecutor does not have any valid evidence to provide
It's called discovery, and it's not proceeding. This is the stage used to find evidence. You don't need any evidence to file a suit against someone per say. You file suit and then you use discovery to find the evidence of wrong doing. That's what's taking so long. SCO can't come up with any evidence despite 2 years of discovery and the judge is getting pissed.
This is the sort of tort reform that we need,
I believe that SCO is suing for breach of contract... which isn't covered by tort law.
actually found guilty?
You are found liable in civil cases.
Nope it got some value ;)
Consider it a free access pass to the class action lawsuit for fraud that will be filed against SCO.
Does anyone ever have urgent business at a hydrographic office?
Your the one talking about fraud.
The original poster said that copyright infringement was a civil matter only. I was pointing out that it can be come a criminal matter if you make money from it.
And PS the courts already ruled that matchmaking is illegal... remember the old napster?
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html
506. Criminal offenses5
(a) Criminal Infringement. - Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either -
(1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
(2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000,
shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, United States Code. For purposes of this subsection, evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement.
As soon as he started recording it one would suppose but only he knows when that was. So he could have logs for the entire history of the site, or just the past few weeks.
The real question is what is in those logs. Did it record every transfer made by certain IPs. Did it just record total uploads/downloads. Maybe it was just usernames. Prehaps who uploaded what torrent.
There's only cause to worry if the site logged every transfer you made it stored it by the file you were uploading. But that would be a LOT of data and I would find it unlikely if he bothered to log all of that.
What is more likely is the logs contain total Up/Down stats listed by IP. If that is the case the logs won't help the MPAA file any more law suits since they won't be able to prove that any of your uploading activity was actually infringing.
It is a criminal matter if you make ANY money off the infringement and soliciting donations is a form of making money.
Yes. If you used their tracker then your in their logs.