They *do* have the ability to remove torrents. They *know* they are linking to copyrighted material, and they *do* refuse to remove those ones.
No, they link directly to torrent files which are not copywrited unless the original torrenter decides the torrent file is copywrited. The torrent file in turn points at the subject material which may or may not be copywrited. TPB itself does not host the referenced subject material which is why the prosecution is going for 'making available' via the tracker, which just keeps track of the IP addresses of those actually hosting the subject matter and those wishing a copy of it.
and if it flies in Sweden, prosecutors in the US will point to it and say, "See? There really is a problem when THE most liberal country on the planet thinks it's a problem!" End result, 'making available' will creep back into US courts.
The basics don't change. You need a vehicle to deliver a probe. That means, fuel, engines, guidance system, computers, communications. These can be standardised. Landers need to be custom, but an orbiter needn't be.
are you that simpleminded that you think everyone in every entertainment industry from every country on earth has that lifestyle?
No, kid, just the execs, which I specifically mentioned. Might wanna get your sarcasm meter recalibrated while yu're at it...
Jesus you need to get out more kid. 99% of people working in software/movies/tv/games work as hard as you for the same or less than you earn.
Ya think??? Industry contracts are designed to do two things: Dump as much of the overhead onto the artists while stealing everything you can of value from them, including the fillings in their teeth if you can pull it off. I managed a couple bar bands back in the day, and one of them got offered a record deal. Happy day, you think, right? I ran it past our lawyer who said he'd have them committed if they signed. It was a 3 record deal, 100K upfront against earnings, but the band had to pay for studio time, producer time (no choice of producer), session musicians (no choice in picking them), distributing, manufacturing, mastering, any catering to the studio during the tapings, and so on, all to come out of the artists' share of any profits down the line. They had to sign over copyrights and any performance rights for songs used on any albums. They had effectively zero artistic control. They signed anyways, hey, who doesn't want a record deal, right? First thing the label did was force them to fire me in favor of an inhouse manager. That's when I learned that it isn't what's right or wrong that counts in court, it's what you can prove.
The 'happy ending'? They disbanded about 4 months after cutting their first album, dead broke. It was never released, but they still ended up owing the label the advance money and production costs. They all went bankrupt within 2 years and ended up taking up 'real jobs'.
Back in the mid 70's someplace there was an ad for something, can't remember what off the top of my head, but part of it was an actor portraying a musician saying "I made $250,000 last year. If I do that again this year, I might break even."
That said, if Dennis Kucinich were running, he'd have my vote hands down. He's liberal and not in the pockets of the **AA, and in my opinion he's the guy who would make the best president.
As someone who lived inside the city limits of Cleveland when 'Dennis the Menace' told off CEI and thus set the stage for Cleveland's default, I can categorically classify him as an idiot. The 'competition' that was 'provided' by Munincipal Light was a few cents cheaper than CEI's rates, but it pissed CEI off bigtime because they were forced by law to supply Muni Light with all their electricity below cost. Don't think the guys in the back rooms didn't keep that in mind when reassessing Cleveland's bond rating. 'Kicking CEI's ass' won him votes in the next election, but it did nothing to fix the streets.
You ought to torrent shows like ReGenesis, The Border, Little Mosque On The Prairie and Trailer Park Boys, a lot of which you can't get in the States unless you live close to The Line. Corner Gas is sometimes seen on WGN, however. There's some good stuff happening above The Line, and I'd LOVE to see more of it down here.
These guys, known to have been Bob Dylan's backup band back in the day. You have heard of Bob Dylan, yes? They also did an interesting documentary that was well-recieved.
Except that "making available" was thrown out in U.S. court. If they're convicted of "assisting making available" in Sweden it'll mean that the U.S. is the more liberal country and I don't think Sweden can live with that. No one in the E.U. would talk to them anymore.
I'm thinking if that charge flies in Sweden, American prosecutors will use it in American courts by saying 'Hey, the most liberal country on the planet thinks it's a problem. What's wrong with us??'
Seriously, can't we just round up all of the lawyers, executives, and directors and just fucking kill them already?
Kill lawyers? I gotta say NO to that, as long as organisations like PETA exist to eliminate the lab rat. Who else is useless enough to use in their place?
Record and movie company execs, on the other tentacle, I have no problem with the concept you mentioned. Until we run out of lawyers, that is...
I agree. Record and movie company execs DESERVE their hookers and blow, their 30 minute work months, their strongarm government protections. How dare these criminals actually try to make these execs actually WORK for a living like us peasants???
Maybe we should just hit the Off switch to the internets and call it a day.
Wasn't there something here on/. the other day about the Powers That Seem To Be wanting to 'reboot the Internet' to make it 'safer'? From what I understand of the rantings on it, we'll eventually have to pay for every byte transfered through our computers...
If the argument is that putting a site up that points at known torrents is a crime, doesn't every media outlet in the world carrying this story run the risk of some culpability by promoting it?
Pretty much yeah, I'd think.
By the same token, if I lend one of my legally owned dvds that I bought to a buddy of mine and he ripped it down to an AVI, made a torrent for it, and posted that on the net, in theory, they could hold me 'guilty' of 'making available for infringement', particularly if my pockets were deeper than the guy who posts the torrent.
I highly doubt they'd use soil to grow stuff in. After all, most greenhouses growing food for direct consumption use hydroponics instead of soil. The root support is easier to keep free of pesky diseases by sterilising it than soil is. You can never get soil 'clean' enough to do the job for long term use. Alternate root support weighs less than soil, and being biologically neutral, easier to keep sterile between plantings.
Yes, current hydroponic systems are expensive for small systems. I've priced some out, and for a small 12x20 greenhouse, it would take about 15 years to repay the investment needed, even at today's overly inflated grocery store prices in my hometown (about 70 miles outside of Vegas, in the middle of the desert, where everything is a minimum of 35-40% higher than it is 'in town' and gas runs 75 cents a gallon more than the state and national average). My girlfriend and I think it's worth it for us, we'll be building one soon.
Hydroponic systems can weigh less than a waterbed, and the loading of a waterbed on 2x6 floor joists is trivial when the building is up to current building codes. I'd expect the architects and contractors to put steel in these highrises, which should simplify the floor loading immensely. All in all, these are doable systems. Yes, they're ugly. What isn't these days?
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"Gently used", right?
Killer Kudzu, cause it'll gorw on ya...
I thought ReGenesis wrapped. They renew for a 5th season?
Actually, the Beatles don't own their catalog, it belongs to Michael Jackson, IIRC...
Then why aren't they being tried in the United States?
No, they link directly to torrent files which are not copywrited unless the original torrenter decides the torrent file is copywrited. The torrent file in turn points at the subject material which may or may not be copywrited. TPB itself does not host the referenced subject material which is why the prosecution is going for 'making available' via the tracker, which just keeps track of the IP addresses of those actually hosting the subject matter and those wishing a copy of it.
and if it flies in Sweden, prosecutors in the US will point to it and say, "See? There really is a problem when THE most liberal country on the planet thinks it's a problem!" End result, 'making available' will creep back into US courts.
The basics don't change. You need a vehicle to deliver a probe. That means, fuel, engines, guidance system, computers, communications. These can be standardised. Landers need to be custom, but an orbiter needn't be.
How bout we check them out and see if there's life already there first before we go about trying to terraform them?
No, kid, just the execs, which I specifically mentioned. Might wanna get your sarcasm meter recalibrated while yu're at it...
Ya think??? Industry contracts are designed to do two things: Dump as much of the overhead onto the artists while stealing everything you can of value from them, including the fillings in their teeth if you can pull it off. I managed a couple bar bands back in the day, and one of them got offered a record deal. Happy day, you think, right? I ran it past our lawyer who said he'd have them committed if they signed. It was a 3 record deal, 100K upfront against earnings, but the band had to pay for studio time, producer time (no choice of producer), session musicians (no choice in picking them), distributing, manufacturing, mastering, any catering to the studio during the tapings, and so on, all to come out of the artists' share of any profits down the line. They had to sign over copyrights and any performance rights for songs used on any albums. They had effectively zero artistic control. They signed anyways, hey, who doesn't want a record deal, right? First thing the label did was force them to fire me in favor of an inhouse manager. That's when I learned that it isn't what's right or wrong that counts in court, it's what you can prove.
The 'happy ending'? They disbanded about 4 months after cutting their first album, dead broke. It was never released, but they still ended up owing the label the advance money and production costs. They all went bankrupt within 2 years and ended up taking up 'real jobs'.
Back in the mid 70's someplace there was an ad for something, can't remember what off the top of my head, but part of it was an actor portraying a musician saying "I made $250,000 last year. If I do that again this year, I might break even."
To be not giving them any ideas, now, eh?
Besides, I kinda doubt a presidential pardon would trump a disbarment...
As someone who lived inside the city limits of Cleveland when 'Dennis the Menace' told off CEI and thus set the stage for Cleveland's default, I can categorically classify him as an idiot. The 'competition' that was 'provided' by Munincipal Light was a few cents cheaper than CEI's rates, but it pissed CEI off bigtime because they were forced by law to supply Muni Light with all their electricity below cost. Don't think the guys in the back rooms didn't keep that in mind when reassessing Cleveland's bond rating. 'Kicking CEI's ass' won him votes in the next election, but it did nothing to fix the streets.
You ought to torrent shows like ReGenesis, The Border, Little Mosque On The Prairie and Trailer Park Boys, a lot of which you can't get in the States unless you live close to The Line. Corner Gas is sometimes seen on WGN, however. There's some good stuff happening above The Line, and I'd LOVE to see more of it down here.
These guys, known to have been Bob Dylan's backup band back in the day. You have heard of Bob Dylan, yes? They also did an interesting documentary that was well-recieved.
As Baber Siddiqui once said, "The best way to seperate men from women is Hockey Night in Canada.
They found my recipe book, the one I wrote??? I'LL SUE!!
I'm thinking if that charge flies in Sweden, American prosecutors will use it in American courts by saying 'Hey, the most liberal country on the planet thinks it's a problem. What's wrong with us??'
Kill lawyers? I gotta say NO to that, as long as organisations like PETA exist to eliminate the lab rat. Who else is useless enough to use in their place?
Record and movie company execs, on the other tentacle, I have no problem with the concept you mentioned. Until we run out of lawyers, that is...
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I agree. Record and movie company execs DESERVE their hookers and blow, their 30 minute work months, their strongarm government protections. How dare these criminals actually try to make these execs actually WORK for a living like us peasants???
Wasn't there something here on /. the other day about the Powers That Seem To Be wanting to 'reboot the Internet' to make it 'safer'? From what I understand of the rantings on it, we'll eventually have to pay for every byte transfered through our computers...
Pretty much yeah, I'd think.
By the same token, if I lend one of my legally owned dvds that I bought to a buddy of mine and he ripped it down to an AVI, made a torrent for it, and posted that on the net, in theory, they could hold me 'guilty' of 'making available for infringement', particularly if my pockets were deeper than the guy who posts the torrent.
So can corn. Takes a bit to pollinate it if grown in a greenhouse, but it can be done
Sounds like this would be a wizard time to invest in Winchester Corp stock...
Yes, current hydroponic systems are expensive for small systems. I've priced some out, and for a small 12x20 greenhouse, it would take about 15 years to repay the investment needed, even at today's overly inflated grocery store prices in my hometown (about 70 miles outside of Vegas, in the middle of the desert, where everything is a minimum of 35-40% higher than it is 'in town' and gas runs 75 cents a gallon more than the state and national average). My girlfriend and I think it's worth it for us, we'll be building one soon.
Hydroponic systems can weigh less than a waterbed, and the loading of a waterbed on 2x6 floor joists is trivial when the building is up to current building codes. I'd expect the architects and contractors to put steel in these highrises, which should simplify the floor loading immensely. All in all, these are doable systems. Yes, they're ugly. What isn't these days?
In what universe?