I bet you own a pre-recorded VHS tape or DVD but if you sell copies of it on eBay then the copyright people will object.
By "pre-recorded", do you mean "factory recorded?" If you do, I think you're mistaken. The right to sell mass-produced tapes or DVDs is very rarely disputed. What has been disputed is the right to sell bits protected by digital restrictions management and a license agreement which prohibits their transfer.
Sorry, you just violated their patent on finding and removing audio recordings with a computer. Don't forget to remit your settlement fee in a timely manner. You can call the Recording Industry Association of America legal advice hotline if you have any questions.
Last I heard, Mozilla intentionally announces updates a couple days before pushing the auto-update out, to spread the bandwidth load. I could be wrong, though.
Correct, so the question that needs to be answered is whether what they're doing falls under fair use or not. I tend to feel that Google is crossing the line here, even though it would be an undeniably cool service and probably result in the publishers making more money.
The way I read copyright law, I think even a web spider falls outside the realm of fair use - especially if the search engine is keeping a verbatim copy of the page which is served on demand. I think if somebody actually sued and the judges were completely impartial, Google would lose. The ease and cost-effectiveness of being able to remove something from Google's index is what's saving them from such a doomsday lawsuit.
Actually, it's fairly trivial to find out you're running on a laptop - you just ask Windows. Even if you couldn't do that, you could probe the hardware to look for a battery, docking station, or some other laptop-only feature.
I don't know anything about your situation, but the Symantec fix might have just increased the required number of hardware changes before it deactivates - Windows Product Activation cuts laptops some slack for the same reason.
If the Apple and Windows userbases suddenly became equal, you'd see copy protection for both platforms. Why spend an equal amount of money for copy protection that's only going to affect 3% of your consumers vs 95%?
Why spend money for copy protection that's going to affect any of your consumers? It's clear the band thinks that either the DRM won't hurt sales, or that they can live with losing a few. In any case, what's the point of enforcing DRM on only some of the copies of their CDs? Won't the "evil pirates" just rip the unencumbered version?
Do they fit in your pocket and look inconspicuous at bookstores?
This paragraph is nonsense prose designed to deliberately slow my typing speed so the Slashdot filter won't think I'm trolling. Okay, that should about do it.
The artists that sing today's songs rarely, if ever, hold any of the copyrights on the songs they perform (remember, there's several - the lyrics, music, and recording can all be copyrighted by different entities). Any rights the performer would hold are typically signed away in the recording contract.
Incidentally, the RIAA isn't usually the plantiff in these suits. Rather, it's the specific RIAA member company the holds the copyright(s) to the work.
Naturally, IANAL. They're slimey (with the possible exception of hawk.)
I don't claim to know much about Linux, but wouldn't the conversation be more like:
Geek: Nanna, I ssh'd into your box and patched your software. Nanna: My boxes are in the garage, dear. Geek: No, I mean your computer. Nanna: Oh, my computer. I don't know what you mean, but you're so smart.
You ever have code that tries to delete log or temp files when a user is looking at them in notepad? Hi, now you can't rotate your log file. Not to mention backing up files that are in use.
I just deleted a file opened in Notepad without a peep. I also copied a file locked by another program (Winamp), and then deleted the copy. The original was playing through all of this.
On Windows, software doesn't have to lock files - many just choose to because it keeps everything consistent.
Technorati is also much more current than Google (which, after all, is Technorati's stated mission). Consider the most recent posts matching these searches, all fairly relevant right now:
dreamhost (A big web hosting provider that had a major power outage yesterday) T: 1 hour - G: 2 hours
katrina (Major Hurricane that hit New Orleans) T: 7 minutes - G: 57 minutes
yahoo mail (Getting ready to launch a beta with a new DHTML API) T: 14 minutes - G: 50 minutes
google blog search T: 7 minutes - G: 19 minutes
technorati T: 18 minutes - G: 20 minutes
slashdot T: 49 minutes - G: 2 hours ago
I couldn't find a single search that returned more current results in Google than Technorati. I think for the foreseeable future, Technorati has searching the World Live Web down.
So you can fit the transmitter in your hand. Can you also fit the microphones, tape/CD players, hard drive for cuts, EQ, phone hybrid, network feed receiver, headphones and (most importantly) mixer in your hand?
Sure, you could run a radio station without sound (except for your call sign), but that'd be kind of silly, don't you think? You could also wire a lone microphone or an iPod Nano to a transmitter with a 1/8" patch cable, but the sound wouldn't be terribly good, and the flexibility to react to changing conditions would kind of suck.
KAMP was scouting a location to install in the Astrodome. That strongly implies to me that they intended to actually build a decent radio station with real equipment rather than this hypothetical cell phone sized station you sorta-kinda hint at.
Now, you failed to mention my point that this is expensive. It seems to me that if they've purchased 10,000 radios for the Astrodome "residents", they probably have the funding to purchase the stuff to feed a good signal. That kind of equipment does not fit in one's hand and costs enough money that looters might just be interested in it.
And to whomever modded my grandparent post funny: I hope you weren't also laughing when you heard New Orleans was underwater.
Couldn't this conceivably be a logistical problem? The equipment you need to feed a radio signal is somewhat bulky and expensive. Perhaps the people in charge don't want to provide security for the equipment, and don't want to be blamed if it gets stolen.
It's not pretty, but it's possible to order from Amazon without SSL. You have to be willing to transmit your address information (but not necessarily your credit card) in the clear. Once you do that, Amazon will give you instructions to phone in your credit card number.
It's not a good idea to send personal information without SSL, but Amazon will happily take your money anyway.
In other words, MySQL's and Trolltech's use of the GPL, instead of the LGPL, produces exactly the opposite effect to what Stallman prefers. The dual licensing scheme, rather than increasing the amount of Free software, simply encourages proprietary developers to use the proprietary versions of the libraries.
I think the dual license situation of MySQL is fair. It does remove choice, but I think there's still an incentive to open source software. Money is a powerful motivator, and I think being able to use the MySQL engine free (as in beer) will motivate at least a few developers to decide to release open source instead of proprietary. It's not the best situation, but it's still a much better deal than a proprietary license.
Not me. I did take a code and register, but I still have the same complaints I always have - the window layout system is buggy (particularly the progress bar, which never comes up when the dialog box says it should), and the keystrokes are too different from IE and Firefox (yes, I could change them, but that'd be a lot of extra work that they should have done for me).
I can't think of any conceivable circumstance where I would have actually registered Opera, so no money was lost on me. What they might have bought themselves is more compatibility on the sites I develop, since it's a lot more comfortable to test without the flashing ad on top of the window.
No, they'd be a disinterested third party who swears to render an impartial verdict. Hmm, that sounds something like a jury.
Oh, look, the great-grandparent thought the same thing: Or how about this: we already press citizens into jury duty yes? Why not press them into reviewing patent applications? It could be like scientific journal peer review. If a large enough group was surveyed, you shouldn't need to worry about self approval too much. Review a patent? Get a tax break (money that otherwise would have funded patent review anyway).
The problem is that the law is outdated. While IANAL, I think the point of a $150,000 statuatory fine per infringement is really to dissuade profit-making organizations from infringing and chalking up the fine to "the price of doing business." I don't think it was ever designed to be used against individuals.
What if you can't afford to leave (no car), and there are no services helping you evacuate?
Blame your government. Our local bus system has an evacuation plan. In the event of a disaster, the buses will pick up anyone, free of charge, along with necessary supplies like food and water, anywhere along the route (not only at stops). Here, at least, there is no excuse for not evacuating when told.
Even with Office XP's preloader turned off, it still loads 13 seconds faster than OpenOffice.org on this 1.6 GHz Pentium III with 560 MB RAM. (I timed it.)
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I bet you own a pre-recorded VHS tape or DVD but if you sell copies of it on eBay then the copyright people will object.
By "pre-recorded", do you mean "factory recorded?" If you do, I think you're mistaken. The right to sell mass-produced tapes or DVDs is very rarely disputed. What has been disputed is the right to sell bits protected by digital restrictions management and a license agreement which prohibits their transfer.
Sorry, you just violated their patent on finding and removing audio recordings with a computer. Don't forget to remit your settlement fee in a timely manner. You can call the Recording Industry Association of America legal advice hotline if you have any questions.
DejaNews.
Last I heard, Mozilla intentionally announces updates a couple days before pushing the auto-update out, to spread the bandwidth load. I could be wrong, though.
Most libraries and rental shops don't mail your selections, or (especially) let you keep them as long as you want for a flat rate.
Correct, so the question that needs to be answered is whether what they're doing falls under fair use or not. I tend to feel that Google is crossing the line here, even though it would be an undeniably cool service and probably result in the publishers making more money.
The way I read copyright law, I think even a web spider falls outside the realm of fair use - especially if the search engine is keeping a verbatim copy of the page which is served on demand. I think if somebody actually sued and the judges were completely impartial, Google would lose. The ease and cost-effectiveness of being able to remove something from Google's index is what's saving them from such a doomsday lawsuit.
At least the effort is getting made. I can wait a couple days for everything to settle down. Thanks, Taco.
Actually, it's fairly trivial to find out you're running on a laptop - you just ask Windows. Even if you couldn't do that, you could probe the hardware to look for a battery, docking station, or some other laptop-only feature.
I don't know anything about your situation, but the Symantec fix might have just increased the required number of hardware changes before it deactivates - Windows Product Activation cuts laptops some slack for the same reason.
If the Apple and Windows userbases suddenly became equal, you'd see copy protection for both platforms. Why spend an equal amount of money for copy protection that's only going to affect 3% of your consumers vs 95%?
Why spend money for copy protection that's going to affect any of your consumers? It's clear the band thinks that either the DRM won't hurt sales, or that they can live with losing a few. In any case, what's the point of enforcing DRM on only some of the copies of their CDs? Won't the "evil pirates" just rip the unencumbered version?
Do they fit in your pocket and look inconspicuous at bookstores?
This paragraph is nonsense prose designed to deliberately slow my typing speed so the Slashdot filter won't think I'm trolling. Okay, that should about do it.
The artists that sing today's songs rarely, if ever, hold any of the copyrights on the songs they perform (remember, there's several - the lyrics, music, and recording can all be copyrighted by different entities). Any rights the performer would hold are typically signed away in the recording contract.
Incidentally, the RIAA isn't usually the plantiff in these suits. Rather, it's the specific RIAA member company the holds the copyright(s) to the work.
Naturally, IANAL. They're slimey (with the possible exception of hawk.)
I don't claim to know much about Linux, but wouldn't the conversation be more like:
Geek: Nanna, I ssh'd into your box and patched your software.
Nanna: My boxes are in the garage, dear.
Geek: No, I mean your computer.
Nanna: Oh, my computer. I don't know what you mean, but you're so smart.
You ever have code that tries to delete log or temp files when a user is looking at them in notepad? Hi, now you can't rotate your log file. Not to mention backing up files that are in use.
I just deleted a file opened in Notepad without a peep. I also copied a file locked by another program (Winamp), and then deleted the copy. The original was playing through all of this.
On Windows, software doesn't have to lock files - many just choose to because it keeps everything consistent.
Technorati is also much more current than Google (which, after all, is Technorati's stated mission). Consider the most recent posts matching these searches, all fairly relevant right now:
dreamhost (A big web hosting provider that had a major power outage yesterday)
T: 1 hour - G: 2 hours
"john roberts" (Supreme Court chief justice nominee)
T: 24 minutes - G: 25 minutes
"ipod nano" (Recently released)
T: 13 minutes - G: 16 minutes
katrina (Major Hurricane that hit New Orleans)
T: 7 minutes - G: 57 minutes
yahoo mail (Getting ready to launch a beta with a new DHTML API)
T: 14 minutes - G: 50 minutes
google blog search
T: 7 minutes - G: 19 minutes
technorati
T: 18 minutes - G: 20 minutes
slashdot
T: 49 minutes - G: 2 hours ago
I couldn't find a single search that returned more current results in Google than Technorati. I think for the foreseeable future, Technorati has searching the World Live Web down.
So you can fit the transmitter in your hand. Can you also fit the microphones, tape/CD players, hard drive for cuts, EQ, phone hybrid, network feed receiver, headphones and (most importantly) mixer in your hand?
Sure, you could run a radio station without sound (except for your call sign), but that'd be kind of silly, don't you think? You could also wire a lone microphone or an iPod Nano to a transmitter with a 1/8" patch cable, but the sound wouldn't be terribly good, and the flexibility to react to changing conditions would kind of suck.
KAMP was scouting a location to install in the Astrodome. That strongly implies to me that they intended to actually build a decent radio station with real equipment rather than this hypothetical cell phone sized station you sorta-kinda hint at.
Now, you failed to mention my point that this is expensive. It seems to me that if they've purchased 10,000 radios for the Astrodome "residents", they probably have the funding to purchase the stuff to feed a good signal. That kind of equipment does not fit in one's hand and costs enough money that looters might just be interested in it.
And to whomever modded my grandparent post funny: I hope you weren't also laughing when you heard New Orleans was underwater.
Couldn't this conceivably be a logistical problem? The equipment you need to feed a radio signal is somewhat bulky and expensive. Perhaps the people in charge don't want to provide security for the equipment, and don't want to be blamed if it gets stolen.
It's not pretty, but it's possible to order from Amazon without SSL. You have to be willing to transmit your address information (but not necessarily your credit card) in the clear. Once you do that, Amazon will give you instructions to phone in your credit card number.
It's not a good idea to send personal information without SSL, but Amazon will happily take your money anyway.
In other words, MySQL's and Trolltech's use of the GPL, instead of the LGPL, produces exactly the opposite effect to what Stallman prefers. The dual licensing scheme, rather than increasing the amount of Free software, simply encourages proprietary developers to use the proprietary versions of the libraries.
I think the dual license situation of MySQL is fair. It does remove choice, but I think there's still an incentive to open source software. Money is a powerful motivator, and I think being able to use the MySQL engine free (as in beer) will motivate at least a few developers to decide to release open source instead of proprietary. It's not the best situation, but it's still a much better deal than a proprietary license.
Not me. I did take a code and register, but I still have the same complaints I always have - the window layout system is buggy (particularly the progress bar, which never comes up when the dialog box says it should), and the keystrokes are too different from IE and Firefox (yes, I could change them, but that'd be a lot of extra work that they should have done for me).
I can't think of any conceivable circumstance where I would have actually registered Opera, so no money was lost on me. What they might have bought themselves is more compatibility on the sites I develop, since it's a lot more comfortable to test without the flashing ad on top of the window.
No, they'd be a disinterested third party who swears to render an impartial verdict. Hmm, that sounds something like a jury.
Oh, look, the great-grandparent thought the same thing:
Or how about this: we already press citizens into jury duty yes? Why not press them into reviewing patent applications? It could be like scientific journal peer review. If a large enough group was surveyed, you shouldn't need to worry about self approval too much. Review a patent? Get a tax break (money that otherwise would have funded patent review anyway).
The problem is that the law is outdated. While IANAL, I think the point of a $150,000 statuatory fine per infringement is really to dissuade profit-making organizations from infringing and chalking up the fine to "the price of doing business." I don't think it was ever designed to be used against individuals.
What if you can't afford to leave (no car), and there are no services helping you evacuate?
Blame your government. Our local bus system has an evacuation plan. In the event of a disaster, the buses will pick up anyone, free of charge, along with necessary supplies like food and water, anywhere along the route (not only at stops). Here, at least, there is no excuse for not evacuating when told.
But it very clearly does.
No, it excludes non-PCs, or devices running an embedded operating system. Laptops clearly don't fit in either restriction.
Of course, IANAL, and only they truly understand what it says.
Even with Office XP's preloader turned off, it still loads 13 seconds faster than OpenOffice.org on this 1.6 GHz Pentium III with 560 MB RAM. (I timed it.)
<?php
for ($submissions as $s) {
if (($s->news_for_nerds && $s->stuff_that_matters && $s->dupe_count <= 1) || ($s->category == 'Google') || (rand(1,10) > 5)) {
$s->make_inflammatory();
$s->add_random_speling_errors();
$s->post();
sleep(86400);
$s->post();
}
}
?>