The rights to buy the movies shown would have cost no less than 12M pounds. He "stole" 12M worth of movie showings. That he re-sold that for less than 1M is irrelevant.
If his gains are related to the crime, then stealing a $100,000 car and selling it for $10 is a $10 theft. That's not how it works.
So if I look for cars in garages that haven't been driven in a month, and I steal them, you have to prove that there was some actual loss of utility, not just a loss of property?
People paid him about $1,000,000 for movies illegally shown. That would seem to indicate at least $1,000,000 in actual loss. The court indicated it was about $12M in actual provable loss.
But then you know this case better than the judge who heard it. And you know the law better than the lawyers involved.
That you are too dumb to understand doesn't prove it never happened.
That makes no sense. If he can't and keep and spend the money, why go through all the effort?
Because you are only caught and punished for 10% of the stuff you do. So if your penalty isn't 10x worse than what you did, then there's no disincentive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Once they make it, or sell the rights to make it, the first sale doctrine trumps their IP claims on the device. I don't need Ford's permission to sell my car. Nor do I need Lexmark's permission to sell, resell, buy, or refill a used cartridge. They got paid for the first making of the device, and that's where their rights end.
Capitalism/fascism is where the corporations own the state. Communism is where the state owns the corporations. The results are similar, even if their philosophy is opposite.
Printing in offices is still common. Every employment agreement I've ever signed required a signed sheet of paper be filed with HR.
I'd commonly print out onine documents in an office environment because, though people could look at them online, anything could be changed at any time, and unless I removed permissions on something and read a screen to the people in the meeting, I'd just print it out and have everyone confirmed to be operating from the same version.
Version confusion was very high with the last job I had where they liked google docs. Everything easy to find and online, but the versioning and tracke changes functions were sufficiently unlike Word that nobody use them in the same way, and it confused everyone. Printing worked better for that.
And markup is not the same, and won't be until touch screens are everywhere. How do I markup a document with standard proofreading notation? Oh you can't. You just edit it for them, and they can look for changes and decide whether to accept or reject them.
When I'm writing, I like to print out references. I can keep the writing screen up and main and flip through papers for the content, rather than changing tabs or shrinking the working area to make room for references, which is still inconvenient because I can keep the focus on the writing area when checking a reference. Even with multi-monitors, switching focus to scroll material becomes inconvenient, especially when you get into a creative flow.
So every game downloadable today has been downloaded and cracked? You can't have more security on a download than what I proposed. So the "online" plan for the next XB will be no worse than what I proposed. How is that not an improvement?
How could this ever be a solution to anything?
What are you 3? You are even posting to a site that talks about "slashdotted" regularly. Big companies manage to do stupid all the time. If Halo 25 is the only game worth owning on the release day, and they sell 1M the first day like the last release, then they'll have 1M*25GB downloads that day. And you see nothing that could possibly go wrong with that. Plenty of companies with names like Amazon and such have crashed on bandwidth spikes. Pre-loading the data would prevent that bandwidth spike. And it would be no less secure than any other download. Have you never dealt with networks before? Heard about things that move bits around, and you just assume they work all the time. Never heard about entire ISPs crashing from large synchronized updates from CDNs they don't host (like iOS updates)? These things happen, more than people like to talk about. Cyber Monday came about to lower the traffic on Black Friday, because before Cyber Monday, many very large companies crashed on Friday.
Steam is also multi-platform. And the number of titles for a new console on game day is small, so why not have all of them pre-loaded, and just need a quick auth code to make them active? No need to have millions trying to download the same games at the same time on opening day.
They should include a 1TB HD, and preload the drive with every game available for launch. Dial-up needed to activate, but no downloads needed to play any launch games on launch day.
But I'm sure they'd worry about someone hacking it.
You mean the Angry Birds available on the PC, PS3, and other systems is exclusive to one and only one platform, Android and iOS? Or the Minecraft on PS3/Xbox/PC exclusively?
And no, I'm not pretending either list is exhaustive. I can just recall having seen it for those platforms at a minimum.
Frozen mud is harder than solid rock. So driving a pile through permafrost to rest on the ice layer below is easier, faster, and cheaper than any other known construction method. The problem is when the permafrost is receding, then the pile will be driven down by gravity a little more every summer, until it's too low to work. But if the permafrost level is rising, then the bottom of the pile will be anchored by ice forever. That was the construction nuance I was pointing out for the idiot who said there's no difference whether it was warming or cooling. I wasn't commenting on whether it was, whether I want it to be, but that if it were actually cooling now, we should be building all we can.
When was the last time you were in Alaska? Care to take a guess what the AK in my name stands for? Oh, and you know they have a rail now through boggy and mountainous areas, right? And apparently there are no trains in New Orleans either, surrounded by bog and all that.
The delta of the Mackenzie River will be swamped so will the deltas of many Russian rivers that flow into the low artic.
How is that relevant to building railroads, or Alaska? Sounds like you are upset with Canadians and take it out on anyone who mentions Alaska too. Tundra isn't hard to build over. In WWII, the US military built roads over tundra without issue when the US was being invaded by Japan. The Glenn Highway (Alaska Highway 1) was built in its present location during WWII, as the Japanese bombed and occupied US territory in Alaska. Roads through tundra aren't hard. Railways take more digging, though. But same basic principles apply. Been done many times before. The reason Canada doesn't do it is because they are too cheap to build usable roads. Just drive on the rivers after the freeze. Expensive doesn't mean "hard".
Then if it's a temporary warming, we should use the opportunity to build the rail to Russia and other things that are easier in the warmer clime, and when the cold comes back, it's not a big deal. The trains run year-round in cold places, but it's harder to build in the cold than the warm. Digging down to the permafrost when it's melting is harder, but when it's growing back, it's easier, less drilling into the frozen ground, which is some of the hardest drilling on the planet.
For people on permanent disability, that sounds like a lot of trouble. I've only known two people on permanent disability. Both refused to work part time in a rehabilitative manner because the rules were impossible for them to follow (or understand).
Are you speaking as someone who's done it, or as someone who has heard about it in theory?
Do you correct the conservatives who lump them all together when complaining about the "welfare" of Social Security? That's where I got my usage from. How people use it, not how those who administer Wikipedia wished it was used.
Disability paid by Social Security is considered "welfare" by most definitions.
Oh, and he never paid into Social Security, so I'm not sure how you are so 100% wrong 100% of the time. Do you know how it works? Or do you hate it without understanding?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... 13 big ones, and hundreds of little ones. As for the 1/4, all the tribes have different rules for membership. I know someone 1/16th native who's not a member of his tribe (and can't even apply), but others in the tribe who are 1/32 or less and are full members. But that's for a non-Alaskan tribe. But the rules are set by the tribes, and vary.
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The rights to buy the movies shown would have cost no less than 12M pounds. He "stole" 12M worth of movie showings. That he re-sold that for less than 1M is irrelevant.
If his gains are related to the crime, then stealing a $100,000 car and selling it for $10 is a $10 theft. That's not how it works.
So if I look for cars in garages that haven't been driven in a month, and I steal them, you have to prove that there was some actual loss of utility, not just a loss of property?
People paid him about $1,000,000 for movies illegally shown. That would seem to indicate at least $1,000,000 in actual loss. The court indicated it was about $12M in actual provable loss.
But then you know this case better than the judge who heard it. And you know the law better than the lawyers involved.
That you are too dumb to understand doesn't prove it never happened.
So what should the fine be for a poor person stealing $100? How about a person worth $10,000,000 making $1,000,000 a year stealing $100
Then what should be the punishment be for non-violent theft?
I believe the word is rehabilitation.
You haven't talked about anything that would indicate a reduced rate of recidivism. So what do you propose, other than "not jail"?
That makes no sense. If he can't and keep and spend the money, why go through all the effort?
Because you are only caught and punished for 10% of the stuff you do. So if your penalty isn't 10x worse than what you did, then there's no disincentive.
Yes, rather than trusting your private army to not mutiny, you are trusting the government to do it for you. It's all trust.
So you'd get behind the Gary Busey/Mickey Rourke ticket?
You trust the government to enforce your contracts. It's all trust at some point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Once they make it, or sell the rights to make it, the first sale doctrine trumps their IP claims on the device. I don't need Ford's permission to sell my car. Nor do I need Lexmark's permission to sell, resell, buy, or refill a used cartridge. They got paid for the first making of the device, and that's where their rights end.
Capitalism/fascism is where the corporations own the state. Communism is where the state owns the corporations. The results are similar, even if their philosophy is opposite.
Printing in offices is still common. Every employment agreement I've ever signed required a signed sheet of paper be filed with HR.
I'd commonly print out onine documents in an office environment because, though people could look at them online, anything could be changed at any time, and unless I removed permissions on something and read a screen to the people in the meeting, I'd just print it out and have everyone confirmed to be operating from the same version.
Version confusion was very high with the last job I had where they liked google docs. Everything easy to find and online, but the versioning and tracke changes functions were sufficiently unlike Word that nobody use them in the same way, and it confused everyone. Printing worked better for that.
And markup is not the same, and won't be until touch screens are everywhere. How do I markup a document with standard proofreading notation? Oh you can't. You just edit it for them, and they can look for changes and decide whether to accept or reject them.
When I'm writing, I like to print out references. I can keep the writing screen up and main and flip through papers for the content, rather than changing tabs or shrinking the working area to make room for references, which is still inconvenient because I can keep the focus on the writing area when checking a reference. Even with multi-monitors, switching focus to scroll material becomes inconvenient, especially when you get into a creative flow.
How could this ever be a solution to anything?
What are you 3? You are even posting to a site that talks about "slashdotted" regularly. Big companies manage to do stupid all the time. If Halo 25 is the only game worth owning on the release day, and they sell 1M the first day like the last release, then they'll have 1M*25GB downloads that day. And you see nothing that could possibly go wrong with that. Plenty of companies with names like Amazon and such have crashed on bandwidth spikes. Pre-loading the data would prevent that bandwidth spike. And it would be no less secure than any other download. Have you never dealt with networks before? Heard about things that move bits around, and you just assume they work all the time. Never heard about entire ISPs crashing from large synchronized updates from CDNs they don't host (like iOS updates)? These things happen, more than people like to talk about. Cyber Monday came about to lower the traffic on Black Friday, because before Cyber Monday, many very large companies crashed on Friday.
Steam is also multi-platform. And the number of titles for a new console on game day is small, so why not have all of them pre-loaded, and just need a quick auth code to make them active? No need to have millions trying to download the same games at the same time on opening day.
They should include a 1TB HD, and preload the drive with every game available for launch. Dial-up needed to activate, but no downloads needed to play any launch games on launch day.
But I'm sure they'd worry about someone hacking it.
You mean the Angry Birds available on the PC, PS3, and other systems is exclusive to one and only one platform, Android and iOS? Or the Minecraft on PS3/Xbox/PC exclusively?
And no, I'm not pretending either list is exhaustive. I can just recall having seen it for those platforms at a minimum.
Frozen mud is harder than solid rock. So driving a pile through permafrost to rest on the ice layer below is easier, faster, and cheaper than any other known construction method. The problem is when the permafrost is receding, then the pile will be driven down by gravity a little more every summer, until it's too low to work. But if the permafrost level is rising, then the bottom of the pile will be anchored by ice forever. That was the construction nuance I was pointing out for the idiot who said there's no difference whether it was warming or cooling. I wasn't commenting on whether it was, whether I want it to be, but that if it were actually cooling now, we should be building all we can.
The delta of the Mackenzie River will be swamped so will the deltas of many Russian rivers that flow into the low artic.
How is that relevant to building railroads, or Alaska? Sounds like you are upset with Canadians and take it out on anyone who mentions Alaska too. Tundra isn't hard to build over. In WWII, the US military built roads over tundra without issue when the US was being invaded by Japan. The Glenn Highway (Alaska Highway 1) was built in its present location during WWII, as the Japanese bombed and occupied US territory in Alaska. Roads through tundra aren't hard. Railways take more digging, though. But same basic principles apply. Been done many times before. The reason Canada doesn't do it is because they are too cheap to build usable roads. Just drive on the rivers after the freeze. Expensive doesn't mean "hard".
200 more and they'll be the 700 club.
Then if it's a temporary warming, we should use the opportunity to build the rail to Russia and other things that are easier in the warmer clime, and when the cold comes back, it's not a big deal. The trains run year-round in cold places, but it's harder to build in the cold than the warm. Digging down to the permafrost when it's melting is harder, but when it's growing back, it's easier, less drilling into the frozen ground, which is some of the hardest drilling on the planet.
For people on permanent disability, that sounds like a lot of trouble. I've only known two people on permanent disability. Both refused to work part time in a rehabilitative manner because the rules were impossible for them to follow (or understand).
Are you speaking as someone who's done it, or as someone who has heard about it in theory?
Do you correct the conservatives who lump them all together when complaining about the "welfare" of Social Security? That's where I got my usage from. How people use it, not how those who administer Wikipedia wished it was used.
No, there is no such requirement in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Reality disagrees with you.
Disability paid by Social Security is considered "welfare" by most definitions.
Oh, and he never paid into Social Security, so I'm not sure how you are so 100% wrong 100% of the time. Do you know how it works? Or do you hate it without understanding?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... 13 big ones, and hundreds of little ones. As for the 1/4, all the tribes have different rules for membership. I know someone 1/16th native who's not a member of his tribe (and can't even apply), but others in the tribe who are 1/32 or less and are full members. But that's for a non-Alaskan tribe. But the rules are set by the tribes, and vary.