Try this gedanken experiment: Fill a bucket about half full of water. Now grab the bucket with both hands and run down the street. Once you get up to speed, try to stop or turn quickly without spilling any water. In fact, try to do it without letting the weight shift inside the bucket.
You see, as soon as you try to quickly change speed or direction, the weight shifts. When 24,000 gallons of water shifts, you have a lead sinker on your hands.
Watch the videos of those planes crashing. That is exactly what it looks like happened. The pilot tried to pull up, but the water shifted, and the plane lost it's wings under the intense weight shift.
This reminds me of a friend in highschool who's dream car was a hearse with a waterbed in the back. Sounds like a good idea untill you try to turn a corner at any speed greather than 5 mph!
By the way, Shane, if you are reading this, contact me.
The difference here is that when you buy a book, you OWN the book and that book has intrinsic value.
When you "buy" a CD, DVD, or what have you, you are purchasing a license to view or listen to it. You don't own anything unless you count the $.50 CD media.
So, if you destroy your purchased book, you have destroyed your own property and the publisher owes you nothing.
However, if you destroy the media that contained licensed material, I think the publisher should replace it. Afterall, the license isn't for the life of the media. The license is for forever. And the value of the media is negligable.
How about we all get "infringing" website/email addresses and notify them of our "infringment," daring them to sue us. This way, if they sue one of us, we can stomp them in court. If, on the other hadn, they don't sue us, they'd lose their right to enforce the patent in the future.
Well, how about it?
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Try this gedanken experiment: Fill a bucket about half full of water. Now grab the bucket with both hands and run down the street. Once you get up to speed, try to stop or turn quickly without spilling any water. In fact, try to do it without letting the weight shift inside the bucket.
You see, as soon as you try to quickly change speed or direction, the weight shifts. When 24,000 gallons of water shifts, you have a lead sinker on your hands.
Watch the videos of those planes crashing. That is exactly what it looks like happened. The pilot tried to pull up, but the water shifted, and the plane lost it's wings under the intense weight shift.
This reminds me of a friend in highschool who's dream car was a hearse with a waterbed in the back. Sounds like a good idea untill you try to turn a corner at any speed greather than 5 mph!
By the way, Shane, if you are reading this, contact me.
When you "buy" a CD, DVD, or what have you, you are purchasing a license to view or listen to it. You don't own anything unless you count the $.50 CD media.
So, if you destroy your purchased book, you have destroyed your own property and the publisher owes you nothing.
However, if you destroy the media that contained licensed material, I think the publisher should replace it. Afterall, the license isn't for the life of the media. The license is for forever. And the value of the media is negligable.
How about we all get "infringing" website/email addresses and notify them of our "infringment," daring them to sue us. This way, if they sue one of us, we can stomp them in court. If, on the other hadn, they don't sue us, they'd lose their right to enforce the patent in the future. Well, how about it?