It's also illegal for them to call you after you tell them not to, and I've had companies tell me "it's not our policy to do that" when I asked to be put on their don't call list. Even after I told them I'd call the US Attorney.
If you share 1000 songs, at $1 a song (the retail value of downloaded digital songs, as sold by online retailers), that's $1000 retail value. The law says "1 or more" copies or "1 or more" copyrighted works. If 1000 copies of a single song are distributed, that's also a violation.
The RIAA cases are in civil court because going to the US Attorney with the names of infringers of your copyright and hoping to get them thrown in jail for a few months or fined doesn't get the record companies anyway. The possible civil penalties have higher dollar values and go directly to RIAA, and while jail time might have a deterrent effect, the burden of proof in a criminal case is higher.
But the main point is that you're completely wrong; copyright violation is a criminal act.
Read Section 506 of Title 17 of the US Code, which defines criminal copyright violations, and Section 2319 of Title 18, which provides the penalties for criminally infringing a copyright, asshat.
Research. It only took me 5 seconds to find the above link. Well - thank God I'm still allowed to.
Actually, even searching for the above link is a felony.
Having a shift key on your Windows keyboard may also be a felony. Let's just hope the government decides to go after the manufacturer instead of all of the end users.
Yes, it's a shameful waste of research dollars for a chemist to be doing research that doesn't have an immediate beneficial effect on some corporation's profits. Shame on them!
Believe it on not, there are plenty of scientists who do completely theoretical work for their entire lives without knowing if one day something they discover will have a practical application. Without them, there would be no science or technology at all.
Copyright infringement is a civil tort. Theft is a criminal offense. They're very, very different. No matter what some asshat from the RIAA or MPAA says.
Or, apparently, no matter what federal law says.
You might as well argue that because theft is also covered by the tort of conversion, theft is not a crime.
Sorry, but information isn't sentient and doesn't want anything.
Cheap people want their music to be free, not cheap. Feel free to make yourself a musical instrument with your own hands and materials you find laying around, and make your own damn music.
IIRC, they did give a discount on 9.2 with the coupons from 9.1. I don't believe I've seen any offers that used them since then, but they keep including them with the OS.
Wouldn't it be better for a project to get rid of the bad programmers and let them go off and learn how to code for themselves, instead of having a good programmer dictate code to them?
Most people, I think, can type their own code a lot more efficiently then they can dictate code to someone else. Unless they learned to code using some sort of voice recognition system instead of a keyboard.
So you wouldn't have any problem with tyhem completely changing the DNS specification to require every lookup to include information about what protocol was going to be used to connect to the IP address returned?
What if I first visit a site using http and then ssh to the same host? Would my lookupd be forbidden from using cached information from the first lookup to return a result for the second one?
It's easy to spoof as many IP addresses in the header of an email message as you want. However, it's pretty damn hard to spoof the very last Received: header of a message, since it's put on by the mail server that's actually receiving the message, and it records the IP address that connected to it, not what the server on the other end claims is its IP address.
Well, that's partially true, since RIAA doesn't control broadcasting rights and thus gets no money for them. However, radio stations do have to pay ASCAP and BMI for the right to broadcast music.
Anyone can subpoena anyone else to get information to use in a lawsuit. The DMCA makes it easier to do so in the case of alleged copyright infringement, but the right to issue subpoenas is avaialble to any person or corporation.
So you're saying I should beat you with the cluestick, since my point as that neither the tiBook or the alBook allow you to install an airport card under the keyboard, unlike the iBook?
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It's also illegal for them to call you after you tell them not to, and I've had companies tell me "it's not our policy to do that" when I asked to be put on their don't call list. Even after I told them I'd call the US Attorney.
The RIAA cases are in civil court because going to the US Attorney with the names of infringers of your copyright and hoping to get them thrown in jail for a few months or fined doesn't get the record companies anyway. The possible civil penalties have higher dollar values and go directly to RIAA, and while jail time might have a deterrent effect, the burden of proof in a criminal case is higher.
But the main point is that you're completely wrong; copyright violation is a criminal act.
Read Section 506 of Title 17 of the US Code, which defines criminal copyright violations, and Section 2319 of Title 18, which provides the penalties for criminally infringing a copyright, asshat.
Actually, even searching for the above link is a felony.
Having a shift key on your Windows keyboard may also be a felony. Let's just hope the government decides to go after the manufacturer instead of all of the end users.
Believe it on not, there are plenty of scientists who do completely theoretical work for their entire lives without knowing if one day something they discover will have a practical application. Without them, there would be no science or technology at all.
Or, apparently, no matter what federal law says.
You might as well argue that because theft is also covered by the tort of conversion, theft is not a crime.
# cd /boot /boot: No such file or directory.
# rm *.*
rm: No match.
And I'm sure you're very proud of your high school, where all students were required to take 2 years of physics.
Or ISPs could just ban Windows machines from their network, which would have the same effect without inconveniencing people with real computers.
Cheap people want their music to be free, not cheap. Feel free to make yourself a musical instrument with your own hands and materials you find laying around, and make your own damn music.
IIRC, they did give a discount on 9.2 with the coupons from 9.1. I don't believe I've seen any offers that used them since then, but they keep including them with the OS.
Most people, I think, can type their own code a lot more efficiently then they can dictate code to someone else. Unless they learned to code using some sort of voice recognition system instead of a keyboard.
What if I first visit a site using http and then ssh to the same host? Would my lookupd be forbidden from using cached information from the first lookup to return a result for the second one?
If I wanted the Makefile manual, I'd search for "Makefile manual", click on "I'm feeling lucky", and then RTFM.
ICANN is not the STATE.
Why is an EE professor wasting his time doing research on marketing semantics?
So every mail server on the planet will need to contain a public key for every other mail server on the planet? Yeah, that's practical.
It's easy to spoof as many IP addresses in the header of an email message as you want. However, it's pretty damn hard to spoof the very last Received: header of a message, since it's put on by the mail server that's actually receiving the message, and it records the IP address that connected to it, not what the server on the other end claims is its IP address.
Well, that's partially true, since RIAA doesn't control broadcasting rights and thus gets no money for them. However, radio stations do have to pay ASCAP and BMI for the right to broadcast music.
Yeah, but they're using it wrong. A "datum of information" is nonsense. Would you say, "We provided RIAA with several data of information"?
You probably hate retailers that don't make their stores attractive to shoplifters, too.
My Mac shuts down 95x faster than a Windows machine. Therefore its processor is 95x faster.
Anyone can subpoena anyone else to get information to use in a lawsuit. The DMCA makes it easier to do so in the case of alleged copyright infringement, but the right to issue subpoenas is avaialble to any person or corporation.
And if murder were legal, there'd be no need for a lot more subpoenas. What's your point?
So you're saying I should beat you with the cluestick, since my point as that neither the tiBook or the alBook allow you to install an airport card under the keyboard, unlike the iBook?
idiot.