So, by cooperating with the site owner, the ISP makes itself a target of a civil suit. I agree that making IP violation a crime persecuted by the state is a problem, but this is a different problem.
In a related story, did you know that you can get into any room of a hotel just by going to the front desk and telling them that you locked your key inside and giving them room number you want. No one's EVER asked me for ID for doing that.
You need to be in a big enough hotel, so that the receptionist doesn't recognize he/she's dealing with a different person.
Anyway, don't do it too often. It's a crime (identity theft).
The problem isn't that the ISP knee-jerk responds to alledged copyright violations; the problem is that the legal system holds ISP's responsible for violations. the party held responsible should be the individual that placed copyrighted material on the internet.
It can't be so. What if somebody posts child pornography on a free hosting site, anonymously? Should we free the ISP from all responsibility?
A group of journalists in Poland managed to sneak into the airpoart and stick a label onto the plane on the runway. They could stick a bomb onto it as easily.
No kudos, sorry. The guy breaks the rules, gets fired. Period. There is no need for public humiliation. It is as low as one can get, when being in position of power (and the employer is in position of power w/r to the employee). Tom Hayes just brought damage to his institution's image and should be slapped on the wrist, too. In fact, he did more damage than this poor guy who got fired.
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But in real life, many employees require you to have a cellphone at hand, operating, even in the evening.
Great, and nobody's going to stop you from rewriting the contents from the screen on a piece of paper. It's just that they won't let you make an exact copy of it, and it's just damn fine. Pirating books is not nice.
I might lose my $HOME, but not the use of my computer or applications.
I know that you'll say "backups", but for me $HOME is the most precious part of my Linux system. I don't backups every hour, and sometimes the loss of an hour's worth of programming/writing hurts a lot.
Yes, we should. Does this group have any propositions about what to do with the sulphur extracted from burned coal fumes by the electricity plants filters?
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But there's certainly nothing wrong with Britney Spears if you're into her.
Chemists are very ingenious people, so this is one of the least problems. Sooner than later, we will grow carbon nanotubes out of, for example, cow manure. And thus one of the most pressing problems in Texas is going to be solved, finally.
Ok, maybe I'm just an ignorant American, but why is it so hard for third-world countries to get their act together and do things as well as they're done in first-world countries?
They wouldn't be thirld-world countries then. Seriously, for lots of reasons: war, lack of resources, lack of knowledge, lack of will, etc...
We have corruption here too, but you almost never see buildings collapsing because of it, and when that does happen, someone gets in trouble for it.
So, you need to have a working judicial system, which is (mostly) immune to corruption itself.
So you want to abolish the system just because YOU don't understand how it works? Wonderful. Apply this to economics, law in general, IT... Welcome to Bedrock!
To carry the point further, coffee did affect social relations in the past very strongly. Communist Poland did not import much coffee due to scarcity of foreign currency, but in western Poland (Silesia), where coffee was very popular, coffee was always sold, especially at harvest time. Even an authoritarian regime did not dare to piss off workers by taking away their coffee.
But the same can be said about every case decided by the jury. It's not patent-specific. If you don't like it, abolish the jury system and make judge decide about everything.
A senseless and expensive (lots and lots of jails for non-violent crime) effort that has completely failed to keep drugs out of white suburbia.
I thought the war on drugs was meant to keep out drugs of all suburbia. Has the US administration gave up keeping colored kids away from drugs and focused on whites only?
Europe has more money and more people than the US. What they don't have is more guns -- but they're right next door to the world's biggest arms factory, which happens to be starved for cash. Anyone who thinks this state of affairs will persist indefinitely isn't paying attention.
Like what Europe should really do is to make itself dependant on arms imports from more and more undemocratic and aggressive Russia. Besides, what are they going to sell Europe? Used AK-47s? Not needed. ICBMs? They won't. Russia is a big arms seller, but for 3rd world countries.
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So, by cooperating with the site owner, the ISP makes itself a target of a civil suit. I agree that making IP violation a crime persecuted by the state is a problem, but this is a different problem.
In a related story, did you know that you can get into any room of a hotel just by going to the front desk and telling them that you locked your key inside and giving them room number you want. No one's EVER asked me for ID for doing that.
You need to be in a big enough hotel, so that the receptionist doesn't recognize he/she's dealing with a different person.
Anyway, don't do it too often. It's a crime (identity theft).
The problem isn't that the ISP knee-jerk responds to alledged copyright violations; the problem is that the legal system holds ISP's responsible for violations. the party held responsible should be the individual that placed copyrighted material on the internet.
It can't be so. What if somebody posts child pornography on a free hosting site, anonymously? Should we free the ISP from all responsibility?
Why? It isn't as if they lave any liability.
Can they afford to lose a client so easily?
A group of journalists in Poland managed to sneak into the airpoart and stick a label onto the plane on the runway. They could stick a bomb onto it as easily.
No kudos, sorry. The guy breaks the rules, gets fired. Period. There is no need for public humiliation. It is as low as one can get, when being in position of power (and the employer is in position of power w/r to the employee). Tom Hayes just brought damage to his institution's image and should be slapped on the wrist, too. In fact, he did more damage than this poor guy who got fired.
But in real life, many employees require you to have a cellphone at hand, operating, even in the evening.
Great, and nobody's going to stop you from rewriting the contents from the screen on a piece of paper. It's just that they won't let you make an exact copy of it, and it's just damn fine. Pirating books is not nice.
Or gmail.com... why not mail.google.com ?
What???? FRENCH words spoken on US soil? Change it to "FFOSS" = Freedom Fries Oopen Source Sofware.
I might lose my $HOME, but not the use of my computer or applications.
I know that you'll say "backups", but for me $HOME is the most precious part of my Linux system. I don't backups every hour, and sometimes the loss of an hour's worth of programming/writing hurts a lot.
Yes, we should. Does this group have any propositions about what to do with the sulphur extracted from burned coal fumes by the electricity plants filters?
But there's certainly nothing wrong with Britney Spears if you're into her.
No, it's something wrong with you, then.
Hey, looks as if we have attented the same meeting... Lindau 2001 ?
Chemists are very ingenious people, so this is one of the least problems. Sooner than later, we will grow carbon nanotubes out of, for example, cow manure. And thus one of the most pressing problems in Texas is going to be solved, finally.
Ok, maybe I'm just an ignorant American, but why is it so hard for third-world countries to get their act together and do things as well as they're done in first-world countries?
They wouldn't be thirld-world countries then. Seriously, for lots of reasons: war, lack of resources, lack of knowledge, lack of will, etc...
We have corruption here too, but you almost never see buildings collapsing because of it, and when that does happen, someone gets in trouble for it.
So, you need to have a working judicial system, which is (mostly) immune to corruption itself.
I'm trying to say that patent system should be corrected when necessary, not abolished.
So you want to abolish the system just because YOU don't understand how it works? Wonderful. Apply this to economics, law in general, IT... Welcome to Bedrock!
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90% of any working population I'd wager.
To carry the point further, coffee did affect social relations in the past very strongly. Communist Poland did not import much coffee due to scarcity of foreign currency, but in western Poland (Silesia), where coffee was very popular, coffee was always sold, especially at harvest time. Even an authoritarian regime did not dare to piss off workers by taking away their coffee.
But the same can be said about every case decided by the jury. It's not patent-specific. If you don't like it, abolish the jury system and make judge decide about everything.
Can't you subvert the said patent, as being overly broad?
A senseless and expensive (lots and lots of jails for non-violent crime) effort that has completely failed to keep drugs out of white suburbia.
I thought the war on drugs was meant to keep out drugs of all suburbia. Has the US administration gave up keeping colored kids away from drugs and focused on whites only?
An inventor with his new shiny invention and a few tens of thousands of dollars to spare goes to the patent office and gets a patent.
He can as well spare a few thousand bucks more to find out, whether his invention infringes other parties' patents.
Europe has more money and more people than the US. What they don't have is more guns -- but they're right next door to the world's biggest arms factory, which happens to be starved for cash. Anyone who thinks this state of affairs will persist indefinitely isn't paying attention.
Like what Europe should really do is to make itself dependant on arms imports from more and more undemocratic and aggressive Russia. Besides, what are they going to sell Europe? Used AK-47s? Not needed. ICBMs? They won't. Russia is a big arms seller, but for 3rd world countries.