I've been paying this god-damn "pirate" tax for YEARS now. Doesn't *PAYING*FOR*IT* make these claims of IP Theft kind of moot?
IF we assume that it is stealing from the music industry to share music, how would paying the government have any bearing on that one way or the other?
I'm sure most people on slashdot have already been here...in fact I'm quite confident it was posted on slashdot itself when it first went up, but for anyone who didn't read it then, here is the report that went up on Gibson Research Corporation after they got ddos'ed
http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
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If the information in the database is commonly available, and not proprietary, though, it will be hard to distinguish between databases that were stolen and those that were developed simultaneously by different parties.
Also, can you copyright soemthing just because it took you some time and effort to do it, because that is basically what you are suggesting. To me that seems kind of absurd.
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I've been paying this god-damn "pirate" tax for YEARS now. Doesn't *PAYING*FOR*IT* make these claims of IP Theft kind of moot?
IF we assume that it is stealing from the music industry to share music, how would paying the government have any bearing on that one way or the other?
I'm sure most people on slashdot have already been here...in fact I'm quite confident it was posted on slashdot itself when it first went up, but for anyone who didn't read it then, here is the report that went up on Gibson Research Corporation after they got ddos'ed http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm enjoy
If the information in the database is commonly available, and not proprietary, though, it will be hard to distinguish between databases that were stolen and those that were developed simultaneously by different parties.
Also, can you copyright soemthing just because it took you some time and effort to do it, because that is basically what you are suggesting. To me that seems kind of absurd.