I hope it does, I also have an HBO subscription, starting to turn into a waste of money, and the TiVo I don't own, but I do have a TV card/PVR so I have the ability to make the recordings myself, when I remeber to set it. Since I have a subscription and the hardware requirements to make the copy myself, does it really matter when I get the copy.
Hey HBO, how about a private HBO hosted torrent? Possibly using your cable account info/number for login or free registration. SciFi hosted a copy of the first episode of Battlestar Galactica so we know it's possible. But they had a streaming video version and probably used lots of bandwidth, and we all know bittorrent was designed to SAVE the server's bandwidth.
right, they seem to have a little "evidence" this time. She admitted to being foolish enough to use her own screen name instead of defaultuser@kazaa and not moving files out of the shared folder or disable sharing files with other users or whatever the option is. The only thing left would be to make her collection not match what's on the RIAA list, with a little work the time stamps can be made match the older files. If the search warrant says drugs and electronics are found, "We're suing your for having files 1-1 to 1-800" "But I dont' have 1-1 to 1-800, I have D-175 to D-975" it still may be illegal, but "these are not the droids(songs) you're looking for." Yes, I downloaded music but nothing on your list looks familiar and I deleted them before receiving your lawsuit.
I'm not familiar with that legal stuff, but what happens if you get sued for having something and it turns out you don't have it or have something similar to the stated items? If they are allowed to appoint a Guardian ad Litem who gets to pick who it is? She better hope it isn't some RIAA appointed monkey who will turn her over to RIC(artel)A. I wonder how they're going to get any proof if they sue only the daughter. The computer is the property of the mother. Can A seize the property of C when suing person B? And of course the list, was it accurate or was it made by some RICA agent who secretly entered her mother's computer, like they claimed to do in Oregon? And got themselves countersued.
The RICA started their own little war and have become so involved they're past the point of being able to withdraw and saving face, as if they don't already look like a bunch of fools. As the call center person told the lady in Oregon, they can't back down or more people might decide to fight instead of rolling over and paying their collection agency.
"Are you kidding me? "in miles" suggests that you mean to imply that a good sniper can shoot more than one mile."
Yes, I believe that's what he's saying. A very good sniper with an equally good rifle and optics can hit a target over a mile away. There's a story of a sniper in Vietnam who attached a scope to a Browning M2(4miles) and hit someone very far away. But we're not taking about those snipers, just the kind hiding in a building(think the sniper in Full Metal Jacket). Since every weapon system carried by the Humvee has a range greater than the AK-47(400m) and M-16(550m) it might be a good idea.
"The military sniper relies on being a sneaky bastard by using natural cover and remaining hidden from view. A good sniper will take one shot, hit his target, and remain perfectly still until he determines that it is safe for him to move or unless he determines that he must move and risk giving away his position."
Remember, something like this is going to be vehicle mounted and vehicles carry heavy weapons. Yes, fire and remain perfectly still and wait for the computer directed "anti-sniper" fire from a MK-19 grenade launcher with a range of about 2000m firing at about 50 rounds/min. If you're firing from a room, everything in the room is dead, if you're outside and decide to get up and run, say hi to the shrapnel for me. That might make me think twice about playing sniper.
Now if only one of those existed back in '63 we'd know exactly where the shots that killed JFK came from.
If there was a hurricane or something giving some warning I'd grab my external hdd with weekly backup. For and "emergency" backup I'd go with whatever the most durable flash card happens to be. Scan all the important documents I have, proof of citivenship, residence, whatever else and cover the case with a few layers of DuckTape. Waterproof, shock resistant and small enough to fit in a pocket or onr of the suposedly extra durable USB drives, the rubber coated ones claiming to be extra shock resistant and waterproof. But that would only work if I was home at the time. I hear bank vaults are designed to survive nuclear blasts. With scanned document being not that large, no need for a high resolution scan, just identifiable and readable. I may condider keeping a heavily encrypted copy on the every-day drive. If I want it to be a useful backup, I may keep it on a swissbit/swiss memory pocket knife/flash drive. Yes, even if the tool part is less usful than my keychain sized leatherman. -AND/OR- find a trusted close relative living many many miles away and give them an encrypted copy
according to the 7th ammendment you have the right to trial by jury for disputes in excess of $20
I don't know what jury vote is needed to win this kind of case; 7-5 or 9-3 or 12-0. I'm guessing she or her lawyers think they have a better chance of convincing the average people in the jury that the RIAA or MediaSentry either broke into her computer to find the files or the list they have is a fake. By broke in I mean something other than used kazaa to view list of files. I don't know how much more or less illegal it is to have mp3s of copyrighted works but not be sharing them, borrowed and ripped a friend's CD but never sharing them over the Internets/Intraweb/Interweb/Intarnet/etc.
"perhaps browsing people's computers without permission and using what they find, even if its non-p2p related, to "encourage" settlement. Maybe they've been doing so using default Windows shares, rather than Kazaa or other p2p sharing features. Who knows?)"
agreed, who knows what root kits/exploits they've gooten their hands on. With lots of people leaving their computers on close to 24/7, using IE(spyware) and leaving everything at the XP default settings, it makes sense that they'd try browsing the contents of people's comuter overnight, maybe around 4:24am, when the owner is less likely to notice it. If her claims are correct all the "evidence", even if accurate, would be thrown out as illegal search and seizure in a criminal case, but this seems to be a cival case unless something in the countersuit makes it a criminal case.
Before reading the statements I thought, ok, single mother, it's possible she doesn't know what her kid was doing with their PC, then I saw 8yr old and 4:24am. There's no way an 8yr old is going to be up after 4am.
"10. When Ms. Andersen contacted Settlement Support Center, she was advised that her personal home computer had been secretly entered by the record companies' agents, MediaSentry."
15. An employee of Settlement Support Center admitted to Ms. Andersen that he believed that she had not downloaded any music. He explained, however, that Settlement Support Center and the record companies would not quit their debt collection activities because to do so would encourage other people to defend themselves against the record companies' claims.
This is assuming all her statements are true and what she claims the RIAA agents said is also true. It would be nice for her if she recorded her calls, after telling them she was recording it, to the RIAA Collection Center, I mean "Settlement Support Center" and getting their statements in writing couldn't hurt.
She claims to not like "gangster rap" and that MediaSentry, oh look we finally have a name for the IP bounty hunters, hacked/secretly entered her computer. So do the files exist on her computer or not? If she has no interest in it then the files should not be there unless downloaded by some spyware they infected her with or the files don't exist and MediaSentry lied and made up the list. And they tell her that even though they believe she is innocent they cannot drop the case because it would be an admission of error, either way it doesn't look good for the RIAA.
And what's with IP address being IPA? IP=Internet Protocol NOT Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property = Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property != IP! greedy bastards
That'd be nice, but first they have to figure out what people want to see. I like movies with lots of shooting and stuff getting blown up and the slaughter of Jar-Jar, wait that never happened. I know enough people who don't decide if they want to see something or not until after it's been made and see the commercials/previews and read the reviews, only then do they decide to see it or not. Yes, they could stick with the general categories; action, sci-fi, comedy, mystery, horror, romance/chick-flick, remake of earlier version or based on tv, etc and hope that those who like that type go to see it, but that doesn't happen, the people who saw Star Wars are not the same as those who saw Galaxy Quest or whatever it was called. The same is true for TV, people arn't going to watch a show until after it's made. Then the station can choose to pull it after a season or 4 or 5 or even 2 episodes and put on a "reality" show because there are some people somewhere who still watch them. How about a game show with a real lightning round or a volcano?
"Like it's so hard to take on a B5 ship with a Trek ship. Omegas don't even have real gravity generation let alone shields or a torpedo or anything."
Yes, but if the Trek ships had working shields and type 12 phaser banks and quantum torpedos the battle would have lasted a whole 5min. Then it would have been a 'short' like Clone Wars instead of a movie and that's not long enough for it to be funny. And remember, the fleet was made in Soviet Russia. In Soviet Russia the fleet...
It's low budget a fan made movie, they at least deserve some credit for that.
Maybe not that far ahead. Good medical knowledge/practices seem to have gotten lost over the years, at least in "western" civilization. The Romans had decently trained medics/doctors with the ability to successfully treat lots of injuries and illnesses. I don't know about heart and brain surgery but they were good at eye surgery. So they missed the observation that discovered penicillin, but they knew it was a good idea to keep hospitals clean, they went with the option of buildings with lots of big open windows to provide plenty of ventalation to carry off the stuff that was coughed and sneezed out could be carried away by the wind instead of sealed buildings covered with bleach a few times a day. Today it seems a common solution for treating people is pump them full of drugs, broad spectrum antiboidics, pain killers and sedatives to the point where they can't think straight and see what happens. Then came the dark ages when everything good was lost of considered bad, the church considered it unholy to examine a body and taking a bath is bad because it removes the layers of protective dirt covering your skin. Advancement in western civilivation was halted or went backwards for a thousand years, The people of DaVinci's time only rediscovered the works of those a thousand years before. Yes, their building material were a little different, basic cement and iron and lead and oil lamps instead of steel reinforced hardened concrete and light bulbs and nuclear power plants but society behaved in much the same way.
Let's see... The RIAA claims music "piracy" is the great satan costing them billions in profits a year. Enter Steve Jobs, their great savior with a plan to legally distribute their merchandise over the Internet. He has the resources and has seen the light in the attractiveness of the 99c menu. He has software created to work with his company's media player, a good idea for him, the iPod promotes iTunes and supports the legal sale of songs owned by the RIAA. The plan works for years until someone gets greedy and threatens to pull the plug. I'm sure they know an end to iTunes will force people back to "piracy." Since the RIAA knows this, it is safe to conclude that "piracy" really isn't costing them as much as they claim. Now they want some variety in pricing, no not a drop in prices, only price increases. I guess they like suing people because that is soon going to be their main source of income. Remove people's ability to do something legaly and sue them, makes perfect sense.
Maybe the cell phone OEMs should start sueing the providers for cripling the copyrighted software they installed in the factory. It almost sounds like Dell suing Linux distro makers for allowing people to not use the preinstalled Windows. Once the contract is over, finished and not renewed or ended early with fee paid or you got out of it because of an unauthorized change or new service fee the phone is yours do do with a s you see fit. You can shoot it or burn it or blow it up or even use it with another provider. If you're still under contract it depends on what it says. I'd also consider instant rebate and mial in rebate. If you get an instant rebate with service it can be considered installment payment for the phone, but if it's mail-in-rebate then you did the work and paid postage and the rebate money and the phone should be yours.
I wonder how local the destination is determined? I libe where sales tax is 6% but 3% in low income areas. I live in a "normal" sales tax area but the nearest Staples and Home Depot are in the more-ghetto areas. So when I buy in store I only pay 3% based on the location of the store. But if it's not in stock and have to order it I have to pay 6% because of my billing address or because it's shipped from a 6% tax area. For some reason they've insisted on payment in advance. The next time I have to order something I'll see if I can pay at the time of in-store pickup and get my 50% off the sales tax.
Yes, they generated enough evidence to convince a jury his time...NOT
Wow, they needed a multi-million dollar survey to tell them that people who are old enough to want things but don't have the money to purchase them have a higher chance of possibly shoplifting. And cheating, some people cheat on tests for as long as their in school, 1st grade or college.
"37 per cent of respondents used a CD burner to record music within the last six months, up from 18 per cent in 2001."
I guess using a "CD burner" is illegal, even if at least 95% of new home PC have that as a standard feature. Note that it doesn't say make remixes also known as consolidating the good songs on to a few disks as possible. Or making a copy for their car, I'm sure they can find a study that says a lot of people between 18 and 29 buy cars, or portable player, no reason to risk damaging the fragile unreturnable/unexchangable original or maybe even a backup copy. And lets not even think that some of them could be real musicians, not the manufactured on hit wonders/failures created by the RIAA, who are recording their own works. And my already low opinion of the RIAA drops even further.
Yes, they have teams of monkeys who would have a better chance of rewriting A Tale of Two Cities then generating reliable evidence. Monkey #1 go get a list of IPs owned by an ISP serving a low income neighborhood Monkey #2 pick X from the list Monkey #3 here's a list of our most popular songs, pick X dozen Monkey #4 make up a time stamp to be "generated" by our tracking software
There's a thing called reasonable doubt and my doubt is becoming less resonable with every RIAA lawsuit where I don't see some reasonable proof. Yes, there are many guilty people, but the RIAA is doing a bad job of producing any proof I'd believe. Come on now, downloading and uploading and distributing information is a little unspecific, sounds a lot like what I'm doing now. My browser sent or "uploaded" a request to slashdot.org, then received or "downloaded" this posting, when I hit submit my comments will be "uploaded" amd "distributed" for all to see.
RIAA: "yeah, so ahh um we think these people are using some software that we think could possibly be used to "pirate" material that we might own the copyright to?
He kills several Jedi and padawans in the Clone Wars. His original collection may have come from picking up the pieces from the fight scene at the end of Attack of the Clones. If there were going to be any deleted scenes with Grievous killing more Jedi they would be in Clone Wars v1, but there are no released deleted scenes. Can't leave out the super extended editions to be slowly released over the next 30yrs and finished off with the 30+ disk Super Jedi Extended Edition Box Set. With the extra limited edition box in the shape of the Death Star, think TNG Borg Cube set, only rounder.
Don't forget Episode 2.5, Clone Wars pts 1&2. Total running time is close to average movie time, about 2.5hrs.
I'll stick to buying them individually, Episodes 1 and 2 doesn't deserve to be in a set with the original trilogy. What I would like to see is a complete soundtrack, enough with the half dozen versions of the original trilogy, each with its own unique track or two. So far there seems to be one edition for each of the newer trilogy.
yes, Jack retired last year, but that doesn't mean some relative he got a job in the industry for, maybe in a post-production facility, isn't still working there and lost his get out of MPAA jail card when uncle Jack retired. And if you want a conspiracy theory, under secret orders from uncle Jack he was the source of copy 0 of every movie ever leaked into the Internets so Jack and the rest of the industry could have their "Cursade against Piracy" ARRRG! feel free to add to that
"Yes, saying "put me on your do not call list" is a simple thing to do, but doing so three times in one evening when you are trying to enjoy a DVD or play a computer game is very tiresome."
Right it was so easy to say but so hard to enforce. When you're getting a few a day how do you know who you're telling when insist on reading through their entire call script before giving you any info on their company, that is if they don't hang up first.
Caller: "You've won a Ford Explorer or 2 week Vaction" Me: "which company are you calling for/from?" or Me: "please put this number on your don't call list" -click-
or they mix up the company they're calling from with the company they're calling for. I'm calling form the company rudecallings1, but we're calling for freevactaions.com or the recordings that don't identify the company until the end of the 5min sales pitch or the computer assisted calls that go wrong and you hear silence when you pick up no, caller ID cost too much and most had caller ID blockers/scramblers
The DNCL worked for me. The prevoius apt/house I lived in got more than enough calls a day. There was enough for 4 people, three of us moved in and kept the same phone number at the request from the other guy. One person didn't like to give out his cell#, understandable, so he gave out the land-line number to every store he could find when he could have simply said no, you don't need it when BestBuy asked for it. And the number got passed around calling lists and we got a few a day, most were repeat calls who seemed to ignore our requests to put the number of their don't call list or remove from the calling list or claimed it took a few days for the change to go into effect when they called again the next day. Eventually we kept track of which companies called, after asking to be removed from their list most called back 3months later, maybe they thought we'd forget that we asked them no to call. "I'm sorry, you must have asked another call center" I registered the number during the first week of registration and when it went into effect the calls stopped.
damn you Google! seems using Google for a spell checker doesn't work anymore so I search for "Jack Valente MPAA" and get lots of results so I think I got it right, at least I'm not the only one to mix up the spelling, unless the spelling varies by location.
"MPAA's entire rationale to make movie copying a federal crime instead of a civil contract violation (as you state) is that they are supposedly losing millions (or even billions) of dollars"
They lied to buy federal laws. From the RIAA replies to Jobs "greedy" claim article. They are losing 250Billion a year due to piracy. Another estimate from some other article was they are loosing 3%-12% of their annual profits due to piracy if you take the lower percentage it's claiming that 250bn is 3% of their annual profits, making 100% of their total annual profits $8.3 trillion. That's more than enough to pay off the national debt in under a year. For some reason I don't think they're worth that much and some people somewhere are believeing their projections and estimates without checking the numbers. I don't find it hard to believe that that could happen. I don't know if a single member of Congress read the Partiot Act from cover to cover but it passed in the House 357-66 with 9 not voting and 98-1 with 1 not voting.
$380 million Ever notice that box office stats are only reported in dollar amounts, never in number of tickets sold? I don't care about the millions of dollars a movie made, I've never going to see a penny of it, in enough cases my $9.50 is part of it. I think a better judge of a movie's success would be in the number of tickets sold. Movies trageting older audiences are going to make more because most of the audience is going at night, when the evening showings are $9.50 and the matinee is $5.25 I wonder which one is going to make more. I hope this gets more publicity so the name Valente is forever associated with movie piracy.
Valente n, one who pirates a movie v, to Valente a movie
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"I wonder how that falls under fair-use?"
I hope it does, I also have an HBO subscription, starting to turn into a waste of money, and the TiVo I don't own, but I do have a TV card/PVR so I have the ability to make the recordings myself, when I remeber to set it. Since I have a subscription and the hardware requirements to make the copy myself, does it really matter when I get the copy.
Hey HBO, how about a private HBO hosted torrent? Possibly using your cable account info/number for login or free registration. SciFi hosted a copy of the first episode of Battlestar Galactica so we know it's possible. But they had a streaming video version and probably used lots of bandwidth, and we all know bittorrent was designed to SAVE the server's bandwidth.
right, they seem to have a little "evidence" this time. She admitted to being foolish enough to use her own screen name instead of defaultuser@kazaa and not moving files out of the shared folder or disable sharing files with other users or whatever the option is. The only thing left would be to make her collection not match what's on the RIAA list, with a little work the time stamps can be made match the older files. If the search warrant says drugs and electronics are found, "We're suing your for having files 1-1 to 1-800" "But I dont' have 1-1 to 1-800, I have D-175 to D-975" it still may be illegal, but "these are not the droids(songs) you're looking for." Yes, I downloaded music but nothing on your list looks familiar and I deleted them before receiving your lawsuit.
I'm not familiar with that legal stuff, but what happens if you get sued for having something and it turns out you don't have it or have something similar to the stated items? If they are allowed to appoint a Guardian ad Litem who gets to pick who it is? She better hope it isn't some RIAA appointed monkey who will turn her over to RIC(artel)A. I wonder how they're going to get any proof if they sue only the daughter. The computer is the property of the mother. Can A seize the property of C when suing person B? And of course the list, was it accurate or was it made by some RICA agent who secretly entered her mother's computer, like they claimed to do in Oregon? And got themselves countersued.
The RICA started their own little war and have become so involved they're past the point of being able to withdraw and saving face, as if they don't already look like a bunch of fools. As the call center person told the lady in Oregon, they can't back down or more people might decide to fight instead of rolling over and paying their collection agency.
"Are you kidding me? "in miles" suggests that you mean to imply that a good sniper can shoot more than one mile."
Yes, I believe that's what he's saying. A very good sniper with an equally good rifle and optics can hit a target over a mile away. There's a story of a sniper in Vietnam who attached a scope to a Browning M2(4miles) and hit someone very far away. But we're not taking about those snipers, just the kind hiding in a building(think the sniper in Full Metal Jacket). Since every weapon system carried by the Humvee has a range greater than the AK-47(400m) and M-16(550m) it might be a good idea.
"The military sniper relies on being a sneaky bastard by using natural cover and remaining hidden from view. A good sniper will take one shot, hit his target, and remain perfectly still until he determines that it is safe for him to move or unless he determines that he must move and risk giving away his position."
Remember, something like this is going to be vehicle mounted and vehicles carry heavy weapons. Yes, fire and remain perfectly still and wait for the computer directed "anti-sniper" fire from a MK-19 grenade launcher with a range of about 2000m firing at about 50 rounds/min. If you're firing from a room, everything in the room is dead, if you're outside and decide to get up and run, say hi to the shrapnel for me. That might make me think twice about playing sniper.
Now if only one of those existed back in '63 we'd know exactly where the shots that killed JFK came from.
If there was a hurricane or something giving some warning I'd grab my external hdd with weekly backup. For and "emergency" backup I'd go with whatever the most durable flash card happens to be. Scan all the important documents I have, proof of citivenship, residence, whatever else and cover the case with a few layers of DuckTape. Waterproof, shock resistant and small enough to fit in a pocket or onr of the suposedly extra durable USB drives, the rubber coated ones claiming to be extra shock resistant and waterproof. But that would only work if I was home at the time. I hear bank vaults are designed to survive nuclear blasts. With scanned document being not that large, no need for a high resolution scan, just identifiable and readable. I may condider keeping a heavily encrypted copy on the every-day drive. If I want it to be a useful backup, I may keep it on a swissbit/swiss memory pocket knife/flash drive. Yes, even if the tool part is less usful than my keychain sized leatherman.
-AND/OR-
find a trusted close relative living many many miles away and give them an encrypted copy
according to the 7th ammendment you have the right to trial by jury for disputes in excess of $20
I don't know what jury vote is needed to win this kind of case; 7-5 or 9-3 or 12-0. I'm guessing she or her lawyers think they have a better chance of convincing the average people in the jury that the RIAA or MediaSentry either broke into her computer to find the files or the list they have is a fake. By broke in I mean something other than used kazaa to view list of files. I don't know how much more or less illegal it is to have mp3s of copyrighted works but not be sharing them, borrowed and ripped a friend's CD but never sharing them over the Internets/Intraweb/Interweb/Intarnet/etc.
"perhaps browsing people's computers without permission and using what they find, even if its non-p2p related, to "encourage" settlement. Maybe they've been doing so using default Windows shares, rather than Kazaa or other p2p sharing features. Who knows?)"
agreed, who knows what root kits/exploits they've gooten their hands on. With lots of people leaving their computers on close to 24/7, using IE(spyware) and leaving everything at the XP default settings, it makes sense that they'd try browsing the contents of people's comuter overnight, maybe around 4:24am, when the owner is less likely to notice it. If her claims are correct all the "evidence", even if accurate, would be thrown out as illegal search and seizure in a criminal case, but this seems to be a cival case unless something in the countersuit makes it a criminal case.
Before reading the statements I thought, ok, single mother, it's possible she doesn't know what her kid was doing with their PC, then I saw 8yr old and 4:24am. There's no way an 8yr old is going to be up after 4am.
"10. When Ms. Andersen contacted Settlement Support Center, she was advised that her personal home computer had been secretly entered by the record companies' agents, MediaSentry."
15. An employee of Settlement Support Center admitted to Ms. Andersen that he believed that she had not downloaded any music. He explained, however, that Settlement Support Center and the record companies would not quit their debt collection activities because to do so would encourage other people to defend themselves against the record companies' claims.
This is assuming all her statements are true and what she claims the RIAA agents said is also true.
It would be nice for her if she recorded her calls, after telling them she was recording it, to the RIAA Collection Center, I mean "Settlement Support Center" and getting their statements in writing couldn't hurt.
She claims to not like "gangster rap" and that MediaSentry, oh look we finally have a name for the IP bounty hunters, hacked/secretly entered her computer. So do the files exist on her computer or not? If she has no interest in it then the files should not be there unless downloaded by some spyware they infected her with or the files don't exist and MediaSentry lied and made up the list. And they tell her that even though they believe she is innocent they cannot drop the case because it would be an admission of error, either way it doesn't look good for the RIAA.
And what's with IP address being IPA? IP=Internet Protocol NOT Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property = Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property != IP! greedy bastards
"Who the heck listens to critics???"
hey, I listened to a critic, no wait that was "The Critic" and he said "it stinks"
"movies their customers will want to see."
That'd be nice, but first they have to figure out what people want to see. I like movies with lots of shooting and stuff getting blown up and the slaughter of Jar-Jar, wait that never happened. I know enough people who don't decide if they want to see something or not until after it's been made and see the commercials/previews and read the reviews, only then do they decide to see it or not. Yes, they could stick with the general categories; action, sci-fi, comedy, mystery, horror, romance/chick-flick, remake of earlier version or based on tv, etc and hope that those who like that type go to see it, but that doesn't happen, the people who saw Star Wars are not the same as those who saw Galaxy Quest or whatever it was called.
The same is true for TV, people arn't going to watch a show until after it's made. Then the station can choose to pull it after a season or 4 or 5 or even 2 episodes and put on a "reality" show because there are some people somewhere who still watch them. How about a game show with a real lightning round or a volcano?
"Like it's so hard to take on a B5 ship with a Trek ship. Omegas don't even have real gravity generation let alone shields or a torpedo or anything."
Yes, but if the Trek ships had working shields and type 12 phaser banks and quantum torpedos the battle would have lasted a whole 5min. Then it would have been a 'short' like Clone Wars instead of a movie and that's not long enough for it to be funny. And remember, the fleet was made in Soviet Russia.
In Soviet Russia the fleet...
It's low budget a fan made movie, they at least deserve some credit for that.
Maybe not that far ahead. Good medical knowledge/practices seem to have gotten lost over the years, at least in "western" civilization. The Romans had decently trained medics/doctors with the ability to successfully treat lots of injuries and illnesses. I don't know about heart and brain surgery but they were good at eye surgery. So they missed the observation that discovered penicillin, but they knew it was a good idea to keep hospitals clean, they went with the option of buildings with lots of big open windows to provide plenty of ventalation to carry off the stuff that was coughed and sneezed out could be carried away by the wind instead of sealed buildings covered with bleach a few times a day. Today it seems a common solution for treating people is pump them full of drugs, broad spectrum antiboidics, pain killers and sedatives to the point where they can't think straight and see what happens. Then came the dark ages when everything good was lost of considered bad, the church considered it unholy to examine a body and taking a bath is bad because it removes the layers of protective dirt covering your skin. Advancement in western civilivation was halted or went backwards for a thousand years, The people of DaVinci's time only rediscovered the works of those a thousand years before. Yes, their building material were a little different, basic cement and iron and lead and oil lamps instead of steel reinforced hardened concrete and light bulbs and nuclear power plants but society behaved in much the same way.
Let's see...
The RIAA claims music "piracy" is the great satan costing them billions in profits a year. Enter Steve Jobs, their great savior with a plan to legally distribute their merchandise over the Internet. He has the resources and has seen the light in the attractiveness of the 99c menu. He has software created to work with his company's media player, a good idea for him, the iPod promotes iTunes and supports the legal sale of songs owned by the RIAA. The plan works for years until someone gets greedy and threatens to pull the plug. I'm sure they know an end to iTunes will force people back to "piracy." Since the RIAA knows this, it is safe to conclude that "piracy" really isn't costing them as much as they claim. Now they want some variety in pricing, no not a drop in prices, only price increases. I guess they like suing people because that is soon going to be their main source of income. Remove people's ability to do something legaly and sue them, makes perfect sense.
Maybe the cell phone OEMs should start sueing the providers for cripling the copyrighted software they installed in the factory. It almost sounds like Dell suing Linux distro makers for allowing people to not use the preinstalled Windows.
Once the contract is over, finished and not renewed or ended early with fee paid or you got out of it because of an unauthorized change or new service fee the phone is yours do do with a s you see fit. You can shoot it or burn it or blow it up or even use it with another provider. If you're still under contract it depends on what it says. I'd also consider instant rebate and mial in rebate. If you get an instant rebate with service it can be considered installment payment for the phone, but if it's mail-in-rebate then you did the work and paid postage and the rebate money and the phone should be yours.
I wonder how local the destination is determined? I libe where sales tax is 6% but 3% in low income areas. I live in a "normal" sales tax area but the nearest Staples and Home Depot are in the more-ghetto areas. So when I buy in store I only pay 3% based on the location of the store. But if it's not in stock and have to order it I have to pay 6% because of my billing address or because it's shipped from a 6% tax area. For some reason they've insisted on payment in advance. The next time I have to order something I'll see if I can pay at the time of in-store pickup and get my 50% off the sales tax.
"Make no mistake, Mr Henderson wants you to believe that File Sharing is a cause."
yep, file sharing is the cause of all the issues that existed BEFORE it. And exams cause cheating.
Yes, they generated enough evidence to convince a jury his time...NOT
Wow, they needed a multi-million dollar survey to tell them that people who are old enough to want things but don't have the money to purchase them have a higher chance of possibly shoplifting. And cheating, some people cheat on tests for as long as their in school, 1st grade or college.
"37 per cent of respondents used a CD burner to record music within the last six months, up from 18 per cent in 2001."
I guess using a "CD burner" is illegal, even if at least 95% of new home PC have that as a standard feature. Note that it doesn't say make remixes also known as consolidating the good songs on to a few disks as possible. Or making a copy for their car, I'm sure they can find a study that says a lot of people between 18 and 29 buy cars, or portable player, no reason to risk damaging the fragile unreturnable/unexchangable original or maybe even a backup copy. And lets not even think that some of them could be real musicians, not the manufactured on hit wonders/failures created by the RIAA, who are recording their own works.
And my already low opinion of the RIAA drops even further.
Yes, they have teams of monkeys who would have a better chance of rewriting A Tale of Two Cities then generating reliable evidence.
Monkey #1 go get a list of IPs owned by an ISP serving a low income neighborhood
Monkey #2 pick X from the list
Monkey #3 here's a list of our most popular songs, pick X dozen
Monkey #4 make up a time stamp to be "generated" by our tracking software
There's a thing called reasonable doubt and my doubt is becoming less resonable with every RIAA lawsuit where I don't see some reasonable proof. Yes, there are many guilty people, but the RIAA is doing a bad job of producing any proof I'd believe. Come on now, downloading and uploading and distributing information is a little unspecific, sounds a lot like what I'm doing now. My browser sent or "uploaded" a request to slashdot.org, then received or "downloaded" this posting, when I hit submit my comments will be "uploaded" amd "distributed" for all to see.
RIAA: "yeah, so ahh um we think these people are using some software that we think could possibly be used to "pirate" material that we might own the copyright to?
He kills several Jedi and padawans in the Clone Wars. His original collection may have come from picking up the pieces from the fight scene at the end of Attack of the Clones. If there were going to be any deleted scenes with Grievous killing more Jedi they would be in Clone Wars v1, but there are no released deleted scenes.
Can't leave out the super extended editions to be slowly released over the next 30yrs and finished off with the 30+ disk Super Jedi Extended Edition Box Set. With the extra limited edition box in the shape of the Death Star, think TNG Borg Cube set, only rounder.
Don't forget Episode 2.5, Clone Wars pts 1&2. Total running time is close to average movie time, about 2.5hrs.
I'll stick to buying them individually, Episodes 1 and 2 doesn't deserve to be in a set with the original trilogy.
What I would like to see is a complete soundtrack, enough with the half dozen versions of the original trilogy, each with its own unique track or two. So far there seems to be one edition for each of the newer trilogy.
yes, Jack retired last year, but that doesn't mean some relative he got a job in the industry for, maybe in a post-production facility, isn't still working there and lost his get out of MPAA jail card when uncle Jack retired.
And if you want a conspiracy theory, under secret orders from uncle Jack he was the source of copy 0 of every movie ever leaked into the Internets so Jack and the rest of the industry could have their "Cursade against Piracy" ARRRG!
feel free to add to that
"Yes, saying "put me on your do not call list" is a simple thing to do, but doing so three times in one evening when you are trying to enjoy a DVD or play a computer game is very tiresome."
Right it was so easy to say but so hard to enforce. When you're getting a few a day how do you know who you're telling when insist on reading through their entire call script before giving you any info on their company, that is if they don't hang up first.
Caller: "You've won a Ford Explorer or 2 week Vaction"
Me: "which company are you calling for/from?"
or
Me: "please put this number on your don't call list"
-click-
or they mix up the company they're calling from with the company they're calling for. I'm calling form the company rudecallings1, but we're calling for freevactaions.com
or the recordings that don't identify the company until the end of the 5min sales pitch
or the computer assisted calls that go wrong and you hear silence when you pick up
no, caller ID cost too much and most had caller ID blockers/scramblers
The DNCL worked for me. The prevoius apt/house I lived in got more than enough calls a day. There was enough for 4 people, three of us moved in and kept the same phone number at the request from the other guy. One person didn't like to give out his cell#, understandable, so he gave out the land-line number to every store he could find when he could have simply said no, you don't need it when BestBuy asked for it. And the number got passed around calling lists and we got a few a day, most were repeat calls who seemed to ignore our requests to put the number of their don't call list or remove from the calling list or claimed it took a few days for the change to go into effect when they called again the next day. Eventually we kept track of which companies called, after asking to be removed from their list most called back 3months later, maybe they thought we'd forget that we asked them no to call. "I'm sorry, you must have asked another call center" I registered the number during the first week of registration and when it went into effect the calls stopped.
damn you Google! seems using Google for a spell checker doesn't work anymore
so I search for "Jack Valente MPAA" and get lots of results so I think I got it right, at least I'm not the only one to mix up the spelling, unless the spelling varies by location.
It's not the size, it's how they used did.
"MPAA's entire rationale to make movie copying a federal crime instead of a civil contract violation (as you state) is that they are supposedly losing millions (or even billions) of dollars"
They lied to buy federal laws. From the RIAA replies to Jobs "greedy" claim article. They are losing 250Billion a year due to piracy. Another estimate from some other article was they are loosing 3%-12% of their annual profits due to piracy if you take the lower percentage it's claiming that 250bn is 3% of their annual profits, making 100% of their total annual profits $8.3 trillion. That's more than enough to pay off the national debt in under a year. For some reason I don't think they're worth that much and some people somewhere are believeing their projections and estimates without checking the numbers. I don't find it hard to believe that that could happen. I don't know if a single member of Congress read the Partiot Act from cover to cover but it passed in the House 357-66 with 9 not voting and 98-1 with 1 not voting.
$380 million
Ever notice that box office stats are only reported in dollar amounts, never in number of tickets sold? I don't care about the millions of dollars a movie made, I've never going to see a penny of it, in enough cases my $9.50 is part of it. I think a better judge of a movie's success would be in the number of tickets sold. Movies trageting older audiences are going to make more because most of the audience is going at night, when the evening showings are $9.50 and the matinee is $5.25 I wonder which one is going to make more.
I hope this gets more publicity so the name Valente is forever associated with movie piracy.
Valente
n, one who pirates a movie
v, to Valente a movie