If you do that, then they win. Big business and the nigerian government would arguably prefer their children kept ignorant and poor thank you very much.
Did Burst ever make use of their own IP to do anything useful? I think that is the true test of the troll, that you sit on progress and make people pay you for thinking up crock.
I can't imagine what kind of idiot would actually buy things with one-click. It's like impulse buying on the internet, never a good idea for the consumer.
I was wondering why any company would shoot itself in the foot in such a way. The only explanation for me is that they are actually being coerced by the the same companies they license anime from - basically threatening to revoke their license if they didn't act as their fall guy and take all the bad PR. This has happened before - a company named BlueMax has had licensing rights revoked for not doing enough to combat unlicensed VCD releases. They're still in business though - there's enough anime out there that one revocation isn't going to break you. Nontheless this is the reason why you can't sue through proxy - you can't have it both ways, getting the cake of receiving damages, and dodging the bad PR that it brings. So here are the companies that Odex represents - apparently the only anime that it actually licenses directly is for Gundam.
Aniplex Inc. Asahi National Broadcasting Co., Ltd Bandai Visual Co., Ltd Dentsu Tec Inc. Fuji Creative Corporation Fuji Television Network, Inc Gonzo Digimation Holding K.K. Immg Pte Ltd Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. Kadokawa Pictures, Inc. King Records Co., Ltd. KSS Inc. Media Factory, Inc. Muse Communication Co., Ltd. Marvelous Entertainment Inc. Nippon Animation Co., Ltd. Nippon Television Network Corporation Odex Pte Ltd Pierrot Co., Ltd Pony Canyon Inc. Sojitz Corporation Sunrise Inc. Toshiba Entertainment Inc. Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd TBS Service, Inc. Television Tokyo Channel 12, Ltd Toei Animation Enterprises Limited TV Tokyo Medianet Co., Ltd Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Authorisation from other Licensors
Geneon Entertainment, Inc. Kodansha Ltd. Media International Corporation Shogakukan Production Co., Ltd Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd Victor Entertainment, Inc.
A bit of history here, could get long-winded. The actual origins of the letter are a group of Japanese Anime Licensors, acting under the umbrella of a foreign distributor, Singapore-based Odex Pte Ltd, which itself provides local distribution of VCDs, DVDs and sublicensing for on-air distribution. They first started going after their own customer base, by obtaining lists of ISP customers through their ISPs, (and please note the ISPs themselves were so ignorant of their customers rights that they didn't really put up much of a challenge to the right to obtain customer data, but hey, lawsuits like this doesn't happen often in Singapore). Once having obtained the contact info of the customers they started issuing letters of demand to the individual customer themselves for the amounts of SGD3000-5000 in restitution, together with a promissory note not to do it again. Of course, there are those who would say it was a fishing expedition, just to get the person to admit fault and become liable for prosecution (which would mean possible jail time under Singapore law). In any case, the PR backlash was immense, it made the news, and anime communities around the world took note. In order to pursue the alleged infringer without compromising his identity, Odex is now attempting to use the ISP as it's middleman to communicate their demands to the ISP customer. Which is why the letter is sent from Comcast and not from Odex itself, the company is supposed not to know the exact details of the infringer.
I do believe that something illegal had taken place here. The methods and motives for the mental abuse of this child is very similar to those that a paedophile would use to do sexual grooming of their young targets - that is to say, gain trust in order to get within their defenses. It's something an adult is not so susceptible to, but a child is very vulnerable to suck attacks. This is not about a relationship that turned sour, this is the intentional targetting of innocent children for the most vile of reasons.
There's no guarantee that Windows 7 will be any better, but there's a good premise - let the money do the talking. If Vista sales are abysmally poor that will be cause for a soul-searching rethink over at redmond, and maybe then common-sense will prevail.
Isn't it a shame that the treatment of Alan Turing after the war drove him to suicide though, as though all of his contributions meant nothing to the people. All that mattered to them was that he was a homosexual.
Anybody who tells you they have nothing to hide should be replied in the following manner: "If you've got nothing to hide then why not take your clothes off?" Having something to hide doesn't equate to breaking the law or doing something morally wrong.
Not to be pedantic but bar codes are only readable by candlelight because they have the numerical equivalent written just below. You could do that for RFID too, you know.
I may be a bit out of touch so please answer me this. Does the average poor guy in the US have a mobile phone? They do here (Singapore), it's considered essential to modern living.
A nullified copyright on windows wouldn't drive people to linux, it simply means anyone in the EU could and would pirate windows without any threat of repercussions.
Did it matter to SCO? They put themselves so far in debt it is inconceivable that there will ever be any reasonable amount of compensation for the wastage of time, effort and money. If trolls were to level attack after attack, you just can't defend against all of them before running out of cash. And it's not like you can transfer the debt owed to you by one troll to pay for the next suit.
If it is true that Microsoft is launching attacks through proxies then the only obvious answer is for companies like IBM to start the wave of claims in advance against Microsoft themselves. Keep them busy on the defensive, so to speak, and dry up the sources of funding for these patent trolls.
I for one see a problem with this line of defense. If Microsoft fails to mention which patents are allegedly infringed, then when they do eventually show their hand, they can claim that it was a patent that was not initially in the scope of their claim, but one that was only recently discovered by their legal department. And who could blame them, having to wade through an ocean of their own IP. A judge could be easily persuaded to believe this.
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If you do that, then they win. Big business and the nigerian government would arguably prefer their children kept ignorant and poor thank you very much.
Did Burst ever make use of their own IP to do anything useful? I think that is the true test of the troll, that you sit on progress and make people pay you for thinking up crock.
I can't imagine what kind of idiot would actually buy things with one-click. It's like impulse buying on the internet, never a good idea for the consumer.
I was wondering why any company would shoot itself in the foot in such a way. The only explanation for me is that they are actually being coerced by the the same companies they license anime from - basically threatening to revoke their license if they didn't act as their fall guy and take all the bad PR. This has happened before - a company named BlueMax has had licensing rights revoked for not doing enough to combat unlicensed VCD releases. They're still in business though - there's enough anime out there that one revocation isn't going to break you.
Nontheless this is the reason why you can't sue through proxy - you can't have it both ways, getting the cake of receiving damages, and dodging the bad PR that it brings. So here are the companies that Odex represents - apparently the only anime that it actually licenses directly is for Gundam.
http://www.avpas.com.sg/AVPAS_Member.html
Associate Members
Aniplex Inc.
Asahi National Broadcasting Co., Ltd
Bandai Visual Co., Ltd
Dentsu Tec Inc.
Fuji Creative Corporation
Fuji Television Network, Inc
Gonzo Digimation Holding K.K.
Immg Pte Ltd
Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.
Kadokawa Pictures, Inc.
King Records Co., Ltd.
KSS Inc.
Media Factory, Inc.
Muse Communication Co., Ltd.
Marvelous Entertainment Inc.
Nippon Animation Co., Ltd.
Nippon Television Network Corporation
Odex Pte Ltd
Pierrot Co., Ltd
Pony Canyon Inc.
Sojitz Corporation
Sunrise Inc.
Toshiba Entertainment Inc.
Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd
TBS Service, Inc.
Television Tokyo Channel 12, Ltd
Toei Animation Enterprises Limited
TV Tokyo Medianet Co., Ltd
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Authorisation from other Licensors
Geneon Entertainment, Inc.
Kodansha Ltd.
Media International Corporation
Shogakukan Production Co., Ltd
Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd
Victor Entertainment, Inc.
A bit of history here, could get long-winded.
The actual origins of the letter are a group of Japanese Anime Licensors, acting under the umbrella of a foreign distributor, Singapore-based Odex Pte Ltd, which itself provides local distribution of VCDs, DVDs and sublicensing for on-air distribution. They first started going after their own customer base, by obtaining lists of ISP customers through their ISPs, (and please note the ISPs themselves were so ignorant of their customers rights that they didn't really put up much of a challenge to the right to obtain customer data, but hey, lawsuits like this doesn't happen often in Singapore). Once having obtained the contact info of the customers they started issuing letters of demand to the individual customer themselves for the amounts of SGD3000-5000 in restitution, together with a promissory note not to do it again.
Of course, there are those who would say it was a fishing expedition, just to get the person to admit fault and become liable for prosecution (which would mean possible jail time under Singapore law).
In any case, the PR backlash was immense, it made the news, and anime communities around the world took note. In order to pursue the alleged infringer without compromising his identity, Odex is now attempting to use the ISP as it's middleman to communicate their demands to the ISP customer. Which is why the letter is sent from Comcast and not from Odex itself, the company is supposed not to know the exact details of the infringer.
http://xedodefense.org/articles.php?art_ID=3
I do believe that something illegal had taken place here. The methods and motives for the mental abuse of this child is very similar to those that a paedophile would use to do sexual grooming of their young targets - that is to say, gain trust in order to get within their defenses. It's something an adult is not so susceptible to, but a child is very vulnerable to suck attacks. This is not about a relationship that turned sour, this is the intentional targetting of innocent children for the most vile of reasons.
There's no guarantee that Windows 7 will be any better, but there's a good premise - let the money do the talking. If Vista sales are abysmally poor that will be cause for a soul-searching rethink over at redmond, and maybe then common-sense will prevail.
3) ????
4) And in the Darkness Bind them
Isn't it a shame that the treatment of Alan Turing after the war drove him to suicide though, as though all of his contributions meant nothing to the people. All that mattered to them was that he was a homosexual.
Anybody who tells you they have nothing to hide should be replied in the following manner: "If you've got nothing to hide then why not take your clothes off?" Having something to hide doesn't equate to breaking the law or doing something morally wrong.
Not to be pedantic but bar codes are only readable by candlelight because they have the numerical equivalent written just below. You could do that for RFID too, you know.
Too... Easy...
I may be a bit out of touch so please answer me this. Does the average poor guy in the US have a mobile phone? They do here (Singapore), it's considered essential to modern living.
Another WAN Bytes DE_DUST
I'm quite sure they do this in windows already. Doesn't prevent people from clicking "Yes" anyway.
Is Howard Bashman in any trouble for not taking down the material as requested?
A nullified copyright on windows wouldn't drive people to linux, it simply means anyone in the EU could and would pirate windows without any threat of repercussions.
More like the disabling of updates for pirate copies. Do security updates protect you from the internet or the internet from you?
Getting things. Done. While! Getting. Laid. Who wouldn't?
I can only see this as a bid to grab more marketshare in the web client arena. Does the world need more web fonts?
Did it matter to SCO? They put themselves so far in debt it is inconceivable that there will ever be any reasonable amount of compensation for the wastage of time, effort and money. If trolls were to level attack after attack, you just can't defend against all of them before running out of cash. And it's not like you can transfer the debt owed to you by one troll to pay for the next suit.
If it is true that Microsoft is launching attacks through proxies then the only obvious answer is for companies like IBM to start the wave of claims in advance against Microsoft themselves. Keep them busy on the defensive, so to speak, and dry up the sources of funding for these patent trolls.
I for one see a problem with this line of defense. If Microsoft fails to mention which patents are allegedly infringed, then when they do eventually show their hand, they can claim that it was a patent that was not initially in the scope of their claim, but one that was only recently discovered by their legal department. And who could blame them, having to wade through an ocean of their own IP. A judge could be easily persuaded to believe this.
Screw that, just go for UID #2