So? Unless they get a warrant to search into a specific account, hands the fuck off. We have due process for a reason, and fishing expeditions into hosting company data does not fall into due process.
Dude, it's the MPAA putting them up to this. The MPAA doesn't need a warrant, or probable cause, or anything like that. They already bought and paid for their 'justice'. Now they're trying to collect. By kicking out allegations of kiddie porn on the MU servers, they've guaranteed none of this data will ever see the light of day from these servers.
Sounds about right as a description of the US over the last decade or so. Only thing missing is a hereditary 'President For Life'. Weren't the Republicans working on repealing the 22nd Amendment during Bush II to address that problem?
I'm a firm believer in the 'two term' policy. One term in office, one term in jail.
Ever notice how polls keep showing that people think the crime rates are going up and there is more violent crime today than 10 years ago? Ever wonder why they keep getting that same result, even when the exact opposite trend is the reality?
Of course people are led to believe that violent crime is on the rise. If it was shown and known to be falling, everybody would want cutbacks on police services. Why pay taxes for something that's not used? Second off, if people are scared as hell to cross the street because of violent crime, it's that much easier to get 'law and order' candidates into office. Your opponent just voted to reduce police funding? Obviously soft on crime, and maybe we should check his background for 'ties to organised crime' Let's face it, 'everybody knows' that the instant you let your guard down is the instant the $BADGUYS attack.
THAT'S how you win elections. And guess what, it's an election year here in the US.
I don't give a damn what the law says. If I am innocent, and wrongly arrested and locked in a cage, then there can be only one conclusion: I am the victim, and government is the criminal.
Now you're starting to get it. Problem is, it's their ball, their bat, their backyard and their rules, with no possiblilty of a change in venue to make things 'more fair'.
The 'wildcat' oil men used to call it 'poormouthing'. You could never get a straight answer from them on the subject 'How much oil, really, do you have onhand?' The numbers they gave might have been way higher than it was, or way less than what it was, but for sure it wasn't what they said it was. Same thing with any 'industry' numbers, whether music or movie. They're going to give you the numbers they think will show them in the best light for that particular situation.
Actually, horses are still in demand to work on ranches in the Southwest. A lot of places out there are still pretty much inaccessible except on foot or on horseback, if you don't have a helicopter.
The App Store makes almost no money for Apple, as evident by their latest numbers
Except you need an iPhone to run those trivial donut money-generating apps. iPhone is seen to have 'got there first' with 3rd party apps to do just about anything, just like the Mac is seen to have 'got there first' with GUIs and mice, even though they scammed the ideas from Palo Alto.
Why wouldn't they? They sell a product which is pirated around the world. Are the movie companies not even allowed to try to prevent this? They're not a charity. They make a product for the masses with an expectation of a returned profit.
I don't mind a movie studio making a profit. I DO mind it when that profit is federally mandated, federally guaranteed, and federally enforced. You can blather on and on about a 'free market' all you want, but when federal regulations favoritize an 'industry' that the 'free market' would let die, something is wrong. In media, there is no free market. Under a 'free market', the media companies are responsible for financing their own enforcement of their copyrights. Under current legislation and under legislation 'under consideration' that will pass no matter what, the enforcement is pawned off on the government at tax payer expense. That is not the definitition of a 'free market'. Let the media companies adapt or die, but goddammit, let them pay for enforcing their precious eternal copyrights. It's only right in a free market.
Do they really think that the MPAA and other corrupt powerful organizations will go away, just because there is a small government? And who do they think will rush in to take over whatever the government no longer does?
Take a look at the legislation the *AAs are pushing for. They want the government to enforce 'their' copyrights at taxpayer expense. Smaller government means less resources to do this. It would make it harder for them to come out and say "We think XYZ's website infringes on our sacred copyrights and interferes with our government-mandated profits. Take his site down, slap a fine on his service providers, and throw XYZ in jail so we can make money on 'XYZ The Movie'. No need for a trial, he's on the internet and has a website, that's proof enough he's a pirate."
Sounds like a great application for orbital solar power satellites beaming microwave energy to a rectenna onboard the craft. That is, if the engines can scale up.
CBS's position is, the script was a 'work for hire', the way any script for an episodic tv show is. Writers were hired specifically to write for that show. Not all scripts or script ideas are used. Those that aren't used go on the shelf, probably to never be seen again. It would have been different if Norman had approached Desilu (the studio that was doing the original Star Trek) with a 'spec script', but that wasn't the case.
Lots of people like indie content for what it is, but the big budget stuff we all love to put down is popular for a reason.. it's what most people want.
No, the big budget stuff is what the studios tell us we want. From everything I'm hearing, even with Disney hyping and advertising it beyond the stars, John Carter is reputedly a flop, and they spent a ton of money telling everybody they want to see John Carter.
Copyrights may annoy copycats, but the existence of copyrights in their current form do not stop anyone from creating new ideas.
Yes, they do. With a reasonably high priced team of lawyers, you can 'prove' that just about anything is derived from anything else, and derivatives belong to the original copyright holder. If I write a science fiction story and mention Vulcan as a planet, I have 'derived' the story from Star Trek. If I reference Vulcan as an industrial orbital platform, I've 'derived' the story from Cole & Bunch's 'Sten' series. The problem with the information age is two-fold. First, there's tons of media and information out there that can be accessed easily. It's almost impossible to prove you weren't influenced by any particular work. Second, everything is squirrelled away behind copyright and not going back into the public domain. Thus, the 'original artists', or the studios who aquired the copyrights of said works, can stomp on anyone they want.
Your idea of promoting artistic endeavors means giving artists shortcuts by "borrowing" public domain work. If the path of least resistance is simply taking someone else's IP and making some changes and reselling it, you don't think media corporations would almost exclusively be doing that now instead of trying to create new original ideas?
In a word, Disney. About the only 'original' work to come out of the Disney studio that I can think of offhand was 'The Black Hole', and everybody wants to forget that one. Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, The Lion King? All Disney captures of public domain works. John Carter? Yet another Disney capture of the public domain Edgar Rice Burroughs books. Who's 'taking shortcuts' now?
Yeah, that would seriously fuck the mouse, now, wouldn't it? Disney wouldn't be able to keep all their old stuff in the vault for decades to keep prices sky high for when they do rerelease stuff.
So when was the last time anybody saw 'Steamboat Willie'?
I'd love to know how they can call this 'No Child Left Behind' if they're never picked up in the first place. Seriously, they expect their kids to compete in the Real World when they can't teach natural history, history, science, and math?
Oh, well, it was an interesting civilization while it lasted. Time for my Mandarin lesson...
Considering the SOPA laws weren't even a gleam in a lawyer's eye four years ago, and by *AA's math they've been bleeding like a sieve, the question still remains. Why did they wait so long to drop the hammer?
Yeah, God help you here in the US if you don't think Snooki is the quintessential sublime incarnation of every love goddess in known history. It's almost enough to get you burned at the stake.
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Dude, it's the MPAA putting them up to this. The MPAA doesn't need a warrant, or probable cause, or anything like that. They already bought and paid for their 'justice'. Now they're trying to collect. By kicking out allegations of kiddie porn on the MU servers, they've guaranteed none of this data will ever see the light of day from these servers.
Sounds about right as a description of the US over the last decade or so. Only thing missing is a hereditary 'President For Life'. Weren't the Republicans working on repealing the 22nd Amendment during Bush II to address that problem?
I'm a firm believer in the 'two term' policy. One term in office, one term in jail.
Of course people are led to believe that violent crime is on the rise. If it was shown and known to be falling, everybody would want cutbacks on police services. Why pay taxes for something that's not used? Second off, if people are scared as hell to cross the street because of violent crime, it's that much easier to get 'law and order' candidates into office. Your opponent just voted to reduce police funding? Obviously soft on crime, and maybe we should check his background for 'ties to organised crime' Let's face it, 'everybody knows' that the instant you let your guard down is the instant the $BADGUYS attack.
THAT'S how you win elections. And guess what, it's an election year here in the US.
Now you're starting to get it. Problem is, it's their ball, their bat, their backyard and their rules, with no possiblilty of a change in venue to make things 'more fair'.
The 'wildcat' oil men used to call it 'poormouthing'. You could never get a straight answer from them on the subject 'How much oil, really, do you have onhand?' The numbers they gave might have been way higher than it was, or way less than what it was, but for sure it wasn't what they said it was. Same thing with any 'industry' numbers, whether music or movie. They're going to give you the numbers they think will show them in the best light for that particular situation.
'You need your eyes checked'?
Actually, horses are still in demand to work on ranches in the Southwest. A lot of places out there are still pretty much inaccessible except on foot or on horseback, if you don't have a helicopter.
I'm still trying to find out when Motley Crue became 'classic rock'.
That, and he wrote the original Microsoft product - a BASIC interpreter that could fit in a chip. It worked on the Altair.
He hasn't written much since. But back in the day, he could code machine language...
Except you need an iPhone to run those trivial donut money-generating apps. iPhone is seen to have 'got there first' with 3rd party apps to do just about anything, just like the Mac is seen to have 'got there first' with GUIs and mice, even though they scammed the ideas from Palo Alto.
That was my thinking as well. Noah Wyle nailed the role down tight in 'Pirates'.
I don't mind a movie studio making a profit. I DO mind it when that profit is federally mandated, federally guaranteed, and federally enforced. You can blather on and on about a 'free market' all you want, but when federal regulations favoritize an 'industry' that the 'free market' would let die, something is wrong. In media, there is no free market. Under a 'free market', the media companies are responsible for financing their own enforcement of their copyrights. Under current legislation and under legislation 'under consideration' that will pass no matter what, the enforcement is pawned off on the government at tax payer expense. That is not the definitition of a 'free market'. Let the media companies adapt or die, but goddammit, let them pay for enforcing their precious eternal copyrights. It's only right in a free market.
Take a look at the legislation the *AAs are pushing for. They want the government to enforce 'their' copyrights at taxpayer expense. Smaller government means less resources to do this. It would make it harder for them to come out and say "We think XYZ's website infringes on our sacred copyrights and interferes with our government-mandated profits. Take his site down, slap a fine on his service providers, and throw XYZ in jail so we can make money on 'XYZ The Movie'. No need for a trial, he's on the internet and has a website, that's proof enough he's a pirate."
Sounds like a great application for orbital solar power satellites beaming microwave energy to a rectenna onboard the craft. That is, if the engines can scale up.
You've got Steamboat Willie on that DVD???? How old is it, and is it 'real Disney'??
CBS's position is, the script was a 'work for hire', the way any script for an episodic tv show is. Writers were hired specifically to write for that show. Not all scripts or script ideas are used. Those that aren't used go on the shelf, probably to never be seen again. It would have been different if Norman had approached Desilu (the studio that was doing the original Star Trek) with a 'spec script', but that wasn't the case.
No, the big budget stuff is what the studios tell us we want. From everything I'm hearing, even with Disney hyping and advertising it beyond the stars, John Carter is reputedly a flop, and they spent a ton of money telling everybody they want to see John Carter.
Yes, they do. With a reasonably high priced team of lawyers, you can 'prove' that just about anything is derived from anything else, and derivatives belong to the original copyright holder. If I write a science fiction story and mention Vulcan as a planet, I have 'derived' the story from Star Trek. If I reference Vulcan as an industrial orbital platform, I've 'derived' the story from Cole & Bunch's 'Sten' series. The problem with the information age is two-fold. First, there's tons of media and information out there that can be accessed easily. It's almost impossible to prove you weren't influenced by any particular work. Second, everything is squirrelled away behind copyright and not going back into the public domain. Thus, the 'original artists', or the studios who aquired the copyrights of said works, can stomp on anyone they want.
In a word, Disney. About the only 'original' work to come out of the Disney studio that I can think of offhand was 'The Black Hole', and everybody wants to forget that one. Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, The Lion King? All Disney captures of public domain works. John Carter? Yet another Disney capture of the public domain Edgar Rice Burroughs books. Who's 'taking shortcuts' now?
Yeah, that would seriously fuck the mouse, now, wouldn't it? Disney wouldn't be able to keep all their old stuff in the vault for decades to keep prices sky high for when they do rerelease stuff.
So when was the last time anybody saw 'Steamboat Willie'?
You mean, an inverse anti-tachyon beam modulated through the deflector dish? I didn't think of that. Good thing Torres is the Chief Engineer.
(Yeah, I misspelled 'tachyon' in my previous post. Boy, do I feel like a clone...)
Nononono.
Take an antitacyon beam and modulate it through the main deflector dish.
And you gotta do it from the holodeck.
I'd love to know how they can call this 'No Child Left Behind' if they're never picked up in the first place. Seriously, they expect their kids to compete in the Real World when they can't teach natural history, history, science, and math?
Oh, well, it was an interesting civilization while it lasted. Time for my Mandarin lesson...
Considering the SOPA laws weren't even a gleam in a lawyer's eye four years ago, and by *AA's math they've been bleeding like a sieve, the question still remains. Why did they wait so long to drop the hammer?
... discovered Z'Ha'Dum?
Yeah, God help you here in the US if you don't think Snooki is the quintessential sublime incarnation of every love goddess in known history. It's almost enough to get you burned at the stake.