as opposed to an all-'knowing' government knows better?
Yes. I'll say it right here: I would rather the government to have that $20 billion in their treasury to spend on roads / police / social security etc. etc. than a company that would spend every last cent on themselves.
IANAL but your reasoning here is suspect. If you send someone data, and they happen to put that data together with other data and conjure up a copyrighted work, they've committed a copyright violation if they don't have a license for that work.
You can't change that fact by playing what amounts to a digital shell game.
I know here in Pennsylvania we have to get our cars inspected annually; why not just check the odometer then and issue a tax receipt to the owner and to the IRS? No additional technology necessary.
Of course, I'm avoiding the argument as to whether this is necessary or a good idea in any way (which it's probably not) but if they're going to do it, it should be really, really easy to implement.
There is nothing that says customers can't band together and force AT&T to arbitrate with a large group of people at the same time.
Their contracts say that, and this Supreme Court decision upheld those contracts. You can only arbitrate on an individual basis. Oh, also, they pay the arbitration company.
Point me to the statutes that allow the winners of a civil copyright suit to seize the physical hardware of the losers. Let's just say I am doubtful such a statute exists, or that there's much in the way of precedence that supports such an idea.
They're just trying to make an example out of the defendants with no regard for the actual laws.
They'll tie it to a user account (and AFAIK all the console companies can move software from a broken console to a new one, you just can't without their help).
Even if it is recorded, the only reliable source is the cop's cruiser cam (I mean, he just took your cell phone), and good luck getting access to that. It'll almost certainly be "partially corrupted" where the parts that are corrupted are any part that benefits you.
Besides, the cell manufacturers would never publicly go against the cops, it's just really bad PR. (Those of us who know their ready acquiescence is bad are a statistically insignificant minority.)
To be fair, I would never believe a company that said that they "couldn't" access your data. Admins can always access everything. There should be a privacy policy in place that tells them not to disclose the files to which they have access, but they do have that access. If they didn't, they couldn't effectively do their job.
We all know where this is leading: game developers are going to end up locking games to the system on which they're installed, and refusing to allow installs to new systems. Console engineers will make this as easy as possible because they only make money when you buy a new game too. This will of course destroy the used games market, which is the only reason they're delaying, because it would piss off their retail partners.
Pirates, of course, will still have access to everything.
robots.txt isn't meant to have any enforcement capability; by its nature it's just an advisory mechanism telling bots who and what they will and will not accept. If a bot chooses to ignore it (as pretty much all of the types of bots described in this article do), it's up to the site admins to enforce it via IP bans etc.
We should chart popular shows agains the Sorting Algorithm of Deadness and plot them against time. If the average gets to 2.5 or below, there's a problem.
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as opposed to an all-'knowing' government knows better?
Yes. I'll say it right here: I would rather the government to have that $20 billion in their treasury to spend on roads / police / social security etc. etc. than a company that would spend every last cent on themselves.
Corruption just seems to be getting more and more visible and obvious, and nobody with the power to stop it gives a damn.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. At least if they had called it Zmodem it would have been more relevant ;^)
ISPs will simply put in their ToS that caps are based on the ISP's sole measurement of your bandwidth.
...for someone else to rescue SyFy from its current management. Until we achieve that, nothing else will work.
IANAL but your reasoning here is suspect. If you send someone data, and they happen to put that data together with other data and conjure up a copyrighted work, they've committed a copyright violation if they don't have a license for that work.
You can't change that fact by playing what amounts to a digital shell game.
Ignorantia juris non excusat. It doesn't just apply to people committing crimes.
I know here in Pennsylvania we have to get our cars inspected annually; why not just check the odometer then and issue a tax receipt to the owner and to the IRS? No additional technology necessary.
Of course, I'm avoiding the argument as to whether this is necessary or a good idea in any way (which it's probably not) but if they're going to do it, it should be really, really easy to implement.
Employees: Ahhhh!
(after being shot in the neck by the Chinese army)
Why would they need enabling federal legislation when they have your consent?
There is nothing that says customers can't band together and force AT&T to arbitrate with a large group of people at the same time.
Their contracts say that, and this Supreme Court decision upheld those contracts. You can only arbitrate on an individual basis. Oh, also, they pay the arbitration company.
They'll just require you to sign over access rights to your IRS tax transcripts in the agreements you have with the university.
Point me to the statutes that allow the winners of a civil copyright suit to seize the physical hardware of the losers. Let's just say I am doubtful such a statute exists, or that there's much in the way of precedence that supports such an idea.
They're just trying to make an example out of the defendants with no regard for the actual laws.
They'll tie it to a user account (and AFAIK all the console companies can move software from a broken console to a new one, you just can't without their help).
They're not complete assholes.
Even if it is recorded, the only reliable source is the cop's cruiser cam (I mean, he just took your cell phone), and good luck getting access to that. It'll almost certainly be "partially corrupted" where the parts that are corrupted are any part that benefits you.
Besides, the cell manufacturers would never publicly go against the cops, it's just really bad PR. (Those of us who know their ready acquiescence is bad are a statistically insignificant minority.)
To be fair, I would never believe a company that said that they "couldn't" access your data. Admins can always access everything. There should be a privacy policy in place that tells them not to disclose the files to which they have access, but they do have that access. If they didn't, they couldn't effectively do their job.
We all know where this is leading: game developers are going to end up locking games to the system on which they're installed, and refusing to allow installs to new systems. Console engineers will make this as easy as possible because they only make money when you buy a new game too. This will of course destroy the used games market, which is the only reason they're delaying, because it would piss off their retail partners.
Pirates, of course, will still have access to everything.
Wow, Scientology always finds new ways to shock me as to how far they'll go.
The format of the Trusted ID will be a nine digit number, separated into three groups by dashes...
And this is how it got expressed. LibreOffice people, just keep doing your thing. You don't need corporate control.
Apple disallowed Flash because it would have let people compete against App Store apps, for free, with much the same functionality.
robots.txt isn't meant to have any enforcement capability; by its nature it's just an advisory mechanism telling bots who and what they will and will not accept. If a bot chooses to ignore it (as pretty much all of the types of bots described in this article do), it's up to the site admins to enforce it via IP bans etc.
Because money speaks so much louder than people.
We should chart popular shows agains the Sorting Algorithm of Deadness and plot them against time. If the average gets to 2.5 or below, there's a problem.