Well, that would certainly solve a number of problems in the middle east....as long as it was done correctly, and Iran was turned into a big smoking hole.
It wouldn't solve a thing, it would make matters worse. The regime change in Iraq showed that. The Iraqi people are in worse shape now after 9 years of an American presence than they were pre-invasion. About the only people an Iranian invasion would be good for are Blackwater et.al. & the oil companies, by shortstopping oil going to China, they raise the world price again.
Off the coast, hell. In every embassy and likely every consulate on the planet. Not just our embassies, everybody's. The Russians, the Brits, everybody. Even the Canadians. It's one of those things that everybody does, but nobody talks about, like headquartering the local CIA/KGB/etc station chief in an embassy.
The FBI does their homework. They don't try to take someone to court based on an IP address. They get more evidence, a whole lot more, because they have a higher standard to meet than civil court (beyond a reasonable doubt instead of preponderance of the evidence).
Um, no. They''re Federal cops, plain and simple. What this boils down to is, they have jurisdiction all over the US & territories and 'superjurisdiction' over certain crimes like kidnapping & bank robbery, since they're likely to spill over other jurisdictions. Thus, you can't rob a bank in New Mexico and head for Florida and expect to get away with it for a good long time til the warrants in New Mexico time out. The only reason the FBI has to meet that higher standard is because they only work on criminal cases. The evidentiary standard is the same on any criminal case in the US. The FBI just has a way bigger budget and way niftier toys at Quantico because they can and have put them all in one place rather than in every city. It's cheaper to have one $500,000 toy than 10,000 $5,000 toys. Supercops, though, they're not. Ignore the photo op grabbing and the grandstanding. It's just theatre to justify their budget.
Luckily, the copyright infringement that is being done in file sharing doesn't fall under the "criminal" section of copyright law.
Somebody better tell the studios then. Every time I put a DVD in the player, the first thing I'm greeted with is the FBI warning notice threatening me with 5 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine for 'criminal copyright infringement' if I:
1. Rip a copy to my computer ('illegal' format change) 2. Have a couple friends over to watch it with me ('illegal public showing', even though no money changes hands except at the 7-11 for beer & chips)
Per the studios, I bought a license, not a copy of the content.
Your analogy about the car is flawed. The owner is responsible for the use of their vehicle and know they lent it to someone. That is not always the case with an IP address
It's not flawed at all, it's just a position you disagree with. You're an accomplice in any illegal activity if you fail to take any steps to prevent it. My previous example demonstrates additional legal situations where the owner can be charged for a crime that's committed by the user, absent proof that the user did it instead of the owner. There's plenty of legal precident to support my position, and only moral indignation to support yours.
OK, by that anaolgy, the ISP is the ones truly liable, since they 'own' the IP and 'loan' it out to subscribers. But the *AA isn't going aftre the ISPS, they're going after the people who 'borrowed' that IP address at that specific time.
Except the lawyers refuse to acknowledge it isn't stealing, it's copyright infringement. If you get something and make copies to give away or use as backups, you haven't stolen anything, you've infringed on a copyright or trademark. The original owner still has possession of their intellectual 'property'. Yet the lawyers know the difference, and keep misusing the word 'steal' in order to pump up the 'severeity' of the 'crime'.
I am, but that's just to see the latest pictures of my GORGEOUS granddaughter, turning 2 this June. The kids post her pics like mad. I keep a minimal profile, under 50 'friends', mostly family or family allies.
And it's not just slashdot either, the issue seems to be heating up in the media as though a 2006-2008 style struggle
over war-policy were going on behind the scenes and being played out in the media, (though this is just best-guess
speculation on my part of course)...
It's an election year. Nobody wants to get caught looking like they're 'soft on terrorism', it could cost them votes.
I'm glad they're doing it. I really hope they are doing even more along the same lines for anyone seeking experts or parts required for WMD. And shame on the NY Times for trying to make this out to be something its not.
Then they better arrest anybody who took high school chemistry and knows how to use Google, cause the chemistry class will give you enough expertise to follow a chemical recipe that you can find on the internet.
FWIW, chemistry was a requirement to graduate high school back in the late 60's/early 70's. Part of your science electives along with cutting up frogs & fetal pigs in biology.
Okay, so you can argue that guy wouldn't have done anything on his own. But what about the guy who thought he was blowing up the van full of explosives in the middle of the Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in Portland? He thought up the plot and sought out the informants. I've heard the tape where the agent asks the guy "Are you sure you want to do this, you know there will be women and children in the crowd." and he is adamant. That seems like a pretty valuable use of agency resources.
Apples and oranges. Yes, the nutjob that decided to blow up the tree lighting ceremony should have been arrested. He came up with the idea and put it into action. Well done, LEOs.
The schmuck who withstood FBI pressure to do something stupid for 11 months and finally broke? Nope. That's entrapment. BAD cop, NO donut!!
He didn't say "no" 101 times, though. When someone asks "wanna go blow up a bridge", you have to choose the correct answer EVERY SINGLE TIME. Forever.
The FBI wasted 11 months on this, pressuring him into it. You'd think after a couple months they'd give up and find another nutjob that was easier to manipulate.
Anyone can be broken. Just ask the survivors of the Hanoi Hilton.
Only in America and American colonies. The rest of the world isn't that dumb.
Hence there is hope, because a brain drain could then ensue in which American talent flees that repressive hell hole for places beyond the reach of its bought and paid for laws. Then America could either realize it has tightened a noose around its own flabby throat and mend its asinine ways, or it could simply become irrelevant to the real world of progress.
Iraq. Afghanistan. Kim Dotcom.
There is no place 'outside the reach of its bought and paid for laws'. You might find temporary respite until a sudden outbreak of sanity/common sense in $YOURCOUNTRYOFCHOICE, but it'll be difficult and expensive for them to keep dodging 'American justice'. I'm thinking World War 3 will be the rest of the planet against the US in an attempt to bitchslap some sense into its government. And since the politicians won't be the ones doing the fighting, that might take awhile...
You might wanna google for 'fiat money', which is what the US has been running on since it left the Gold Standard.
I'm in no way claiming the US needs to go back to the Gold Standard, just that its money has been worthless for quite some time now. What's some more paper thrown at J Random Megacorp gonna hurt?
Two words: Independent Contractor. "Your Honor, we hired a contractor to build our new software application since we haven't got a clue when it comes to software engineering. Our IT guys only know 'turn it off and on again', thus, they couldn't notice where the contractor was infringing, and besides, the contractor used closed source so he wasn't gonna let our IT guys look at it, either. WE'RE the victims here!!"
... thereby creating a 'Pearl Harbor' incident resulting in the dropping of the Great American Shithammer.
Having the most technologically advanced military on the planet, you think the Joint Chiefs don't wanna take it for a ride and see what it can do? Go ahead, blow away an aging obsolete carrier group. After the sheeple finish their 96 hour chant of 'AMERICA!! FUCK YEAH!!', and the media finishes whipping said sheeple into a killing frenzy, lucrative contracts will be let without bidding to build the new, improved, state of the art carrier group while American Tomahawk missiles fall like raindrops in your capital and American tank brigades chew up your highway system on their way to force a regime change in favor of American corporations.
Yes, it does, just reread the offered contract. You'll find, once you strip out the legalese bullshit, that your ideas in any area you create them in become permenantly and irrevocably to that company. Those ideas could fuel lawsuits for the next thousand years, if the US lasts that long...
Which is why we have various 'franchises' like the Star Trek franchise, the Star Wars franchise, the Bourne franchise, ad nauseum, leading to more and more sequels/prequels/whateverquels. If you don't get in there first and stake a claim to your 'world', somebody else will and screw you out of any possible money you might have made on it.
With 'derivitives' now looked at as 'covered' by the original copyright, it's becoming possible to copyright ideas and plots. You may think your story is original, but some Big Media lawyer will argue that it's a derivitive of something your parents heard/watched while you were in the womb and thus you're infringing on their copyright so immediately hand over your checkbook.
Yes, it really is getting that stupid. 'Eternal' copyright needs to go.
The last thing you want to do in the middle of the night is run into something in a boat. The boat goes down. Yeah, the wind generators would be lit, but so would the boaters ramming them in their miniyachts. The Coasties likely have more important things to do than clean up their mess.
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It wouldn't solve a thing, it would make matters worse. The regime change in Iraq showed that. The Iraqi people are in worse shape now after 9 years of an American presence than they were pre-invasion. About the only people an Iranian invasion would be good for are Blackwater et.al. & the oil companies, by shortstopping oil going to China, they raise the world price again.
Off the coast, hell. In every embassy and likely every consulate on the planet. Not just our embassies, everybody's. The Russians, the Brits, everybody. Even the Canadians. It's one of those things that everybody does, but nobody talks about, like headquartering the local CIA/KGB/etc station chief in an embassy.
Um, no. They''re Federal cops, plain and simple. What this boils down to is, they have jurisdiction all over the US & territories and 'superjurisdiction' over certain crimes like kidnapping & bank robbery, since they're likely to spill over other jurisdictions. Thus, you can't rob a bank in New Mexico and head for Florida and expect to get away with it for a good long time til the warrants in New Mexico time out. The only reason the FBI has to meet that higher standard is because they only work on criminal cases. The evidentiary standard is the same on any criminal case in the US. The FBI just has a way bigger budget and way niftier toys at Quantico because they can and have put them all in one place rather than in every city. It's cheaper to have one $500,000 toy than 10,000 $5,000 toys. Supercops, though, they're not. Ignore the photo op grabbing and the grandstanding. It's just theatre to justify their budget.
Somebody better tell the studios then. Every time I put a DVD in the player, the first thing I'm greeted with is the FBI warning notice threatening me with 5 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine for 'criminal copyright infringement' if I:
1. Rip a copy to my computer ('illegal' format change)
2. Have a couple friends over to watch it with me ('illegal public showing', even though no money changes hands except at the 7-11 for beer & chips)
Per the studios, I bought a license, not a copy of the content.
OK, by that anaolgy, the ISP is the ones truly liable, since they 'own' the IP and 'loan' it out to subscribers. But the *AA isn't going aftre the ISPS, they're going after the people who 'borrowed' that IP address at that specific time.
Except the lawyers refuse to acknowledge it isn't stealing, it's copyright infringement. If you get something and make copies to give away or use as backups, you haven't stolen anything, you've infringed on a copyright or trademark. The original owner still has possession of their intellectual 'property'. Yet the lawyers know the difference, and keep misusing the word 'steal' in order to pump up the 'severeity' of the 'crime'.
I am, but that's just to see the latest pictures of my GORGEOUS granddaughter, turning 2 this June. The kids post her pics like mad. I keep a minimal profile, under 50 'friends', mostly family or family allies.
I thought it already was public. My personal data is all over the internet.
Oh, they're taking their STOCK public. *Nevermind*...
'It's the end of the WORLD!! The Mayans were RIGHT!!!! Woe are we, woe are we! Won't SOMEBODY think of our DIVIDEND CHECKS???'
It's an election year. Nobody wants to get caught looking like they're 'soft on terrorism', it could cost them votes.
Then they better arrest anybody who took high school chemistry and knows how to use Google, cause the chemistry class will give you enough expertise to follow a chemical recipe that you can find on the internet.
FWIW, chemistry was a requirement to graduate high school back in the late 60's/early 70's. Part of your science electives along with cutting up frogs & fetal pigs in biology.
Apples and oranges. Yes, the nutjob that decided to blow up the tree lighting ceremony should have been arrested. He came up with the idea and put it into action. Well done, LEOs.
The schmuck who withstood FBI pressure to do something stupid for 11 months and finally broke? Nope. That's entrapment. BAD cop, NO donut!!
The FBI wasted 11 months on this, pressuring him into it. You'd think after a couple months they'd give up and find another nutjob that was easier to manipulate.
Anyone can be broken. Just ask the survivors of the Hanoi Hilton.
Like, say, the size of the Lower 48 of the US? Papers, please!
Iraq. Afghanistan. Kim Dotcom.
There is no place 'outside the reach of its bought and paid for laws'. You might find temporary respite until a sudden outbreak of sanity/common sense in $YOURCOUNTRYOFCHOICE, but it'll be difficult and expensive for them to keep dodging 'American justice'. I'm thinking World War 3 will be the rest of the planet against the US in an attempt to bitchslap some sense into its government. And since the politicians won't be the ones doing the fighting, that might take awhile...
You might wanna google for 'fiat money', which is what the US has been running on since it left the Gold Standard.
I'm in no way claiming the US needs to go back to the Gold Standard, just that its money has been worthless for quite some time now. What's some more paper thrown at J Random Megacorp gonna hurt?
Two words: Independent Contractor. "Your Honor, we hired a contractor to build our new software application since we haven't got a clue when it comes to software engineering. Our IT guys only know 'turn it off and on again', thus, they couldn't notice where the contractor was infringing, and besides, the contractor used closed source so he wasn't gonna let our IT guys look at it, either. WE'RE the victims here!!"
... thereby creating a 'Pearl Harbor' incident resulting in the dropping of the Great American Shithammer.
Having the most technologically advanced military on the planet, you think the Joint Chiefs don't wanna take it for a ride and see what it can do? Go ahead, blow away an aging obsolete carrier group. After the sheeple finish their 96 hour chant of 'AMERICA!! FUCK YEAH!!', and the media finishes whipping said sheeple into a killing frenzy, lucrative contracts will be let without bidding to build the new, improved, state of the art carrier group while American Tomahawk missiles fall like raindrops in your capital and American tank brigades chew up your highway system on their way to force a regime change in favor of American corporations.
Yes, it does, just reread the offered contract. You'll find, once you strip out the legalese bullshit, that your ideas in any area you create them in become permenantly and irrevocably to that company. Those ideas could fuel lawsuits for the next thousand years, if the US lasts that long...
Which is why we have various 'franchises' like the Star Trek franchise, the Star Wars franchise, the Bourne franchise, ad nauseum, leading to more and more sequels/prequels/whateverquels. If you don't get in there first and stake a claim to your 'world', somebody else will and screw you out of any possible money you might have made on it.
With 'derivitives' now looked at as 'covered' by the original copyright, it's becoming possible to copyright ideas and plots. You may think your story is original, but some Big Media lawyer will argue that it's a derivitive of something your parents heard/watched while you were in the womb and thus you're infringing on their copyright so immediately hand over your checkbook.
Yes, it really is getting that stupid. 'Eternal' copyright needs to go.
The last thing you want to do in the middle of the night is run into something in a boat. The boat goes down. Yeah, the wind generators would be lit, but so would the boaters ramming them in their miniyachts. The Coasties likely have more important things to do than clean up their mess.
Startin to look like it...
Guess they were fans of CowboyNeal...
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, you'll give away the Secret Plan.
Get back to watching the Kardashians already, they just inked a $40 mil deal and we need the advertising revenue.
Oh, please. They lose $25,000 for each pirated file on your computer, whether they 'own' it or not. Why do you think the fines are so high?