Disclaimer: While I am an Australian law student, I've only read the summary of the decision, (c'mon, it's 200 pages), nor have I studied IP Law.
However, I do have a year of Law school behind me, so:
- Australian law makes a distinction between findings of fact (i.e. John stabbed Mary) and findings of law (i.e. law x says stabbing is illegal). Findings of law can be appealed (you can argue the judge misinterpreted the law), but it's *much* harder to appeal a finding of fact. AIUI, there aren't many findings of fact in this case: the Justice found that Malone was a credible witness as a matter of fact, but the rulings on which the case was founded (i.e. that BitTorrent is the means of infringement, as opposed to the internet) are all findings of law.
* tl;dr => Most of the ruling could be overturned on appeal.
- The case was decided by a single judge of the Federal Court. That means that, IIRC, it will be appealed to the full court of the Federal Court (3+ judges). From that, it could be appealed to the High Court. (The highest court in Australia; equivalent to the Supreme Court in the US)
* tl;dr => The appeal may not be the last, there could be another.
- I'm not going to venture an opinion on the outcome of the appeal; I don't know enough. I also haven't been able to find AFACT's grounds of appeal; if I can I might be able to shed some more light on the possible success.
* tl;dr => Who knows what will happen?
- Ultimately, AFACT and their lobbyists will likely convince the politicians to change the law, whatever the outcome. This will probably suck - Aussie Communications Ministers traditionally do an average to poor job regardless of political persuasion. (examples include: mandatory filtering, "World's Greatest Luddite")
* tl;dr => What ever happens, we're probably screwed because of politics.
I don't have to Dare You To Move on copy-protection - This is Your Life, and I'm glad you choose to let us share it. *That* is sound.:-)
I love making fun of names... it's a Simple Plan:-)
This is *bad*. If everyone starts doing this, Google will get it into its head that it can make gmail non-free, and we'll all be stuffed! (at least, all of us who have gmail accounts, which seems to be about 1/2 of the geek community)
Let's hope they open it up again and every one can see that crime doesn't pay!:)
It makes you wonder. They sent out mail asking for money to make Linux 'legal', and yet they can't keep track of simple files. Hate to think where my money would have gone had I been dumb enough to actually pay up.
Actually, I read on/. that several of the clients just copy work that others have done. While I doubt that they will ever join up, there may not actually be that much duplication.
What I would really like to know is:
When will I get it in Australia?
It's like Apple's Music Store. It's a great concept, but us Aussies can't have it! (simply - you can get around it by going to the US on holiday)
It might be great for the US, but it won't affect me.
(I reckon I'll get modded down for this. See you at -1)
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Disclaimer: While I am an Australian law student, I've only read the summary of the decision, (c'mon, it's 200 pages), nor have I studied IP Law.
However, I do have a year of Law school behind me, so:
- Australian law makes a distinction between findings of fact (i.e. John stabbed Mary) and findings of law (i.e. law x says stabbing is illegal). Findings of law can be appealed (you can argue the judge misinterpreted the law), but it's *much* harder to appeal a finding of fact. AIUI, there aren't many findings of fact in this case: the Justice found that Malone was a credible witness as a matter of fact, but the rulings on which the case was founded (i.e. that BitTorrent is the means of infringement, as opposed to the internet) are all findings of law.
* tl;dr => Most of the ruling could be overturned on appeal.
- The case was decided by a single judge of the Federal Court. That means that, IIRC, it will be appealed to the full court of the Federal Court (3+ judges). From that, it could be appealed to the High Court. (The highest court in Australia; equivalent to the Supreme Court in the US)
* tl;dr => The appeal may not be the last, there could be another.
- I'm not going to venture an opinion on the outcome of the appeal; I don't know enough. I also haven't been able to find AFACT's grounds of appeal; if I can I might be able to shed some more light on the possible success.
* tl;dr => Who knows what will happen?
- Ultimately, AFACT and their lobbyists will likely convince the politicians to change the law, whatever the outcome. This will probably suck - Aussie Communications Ministers traditionally do an average to poor job regardless of political persuasion. (examples include: mandatory filtering, "World's Greatest Luddite")
* tl;dr => What ever happens, we're probably screwed because of politics.
Try http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model and http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_Boson HTH
His email address will be something like i_am_a_super_hax3r_d00d@hotmail.com - you should have no trouble finding who to send it to! :)
I don't have to Dare You To Move on copy-protection - This is Your Life, and I'm glad you choose to let us share it. *That* is sound. :-)
I love making fun of names... it's a Simple Plan :-)
They couldn't even spell cited right.
"sited" - yeah right.
CSIRO is the [Australian] Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. http://csiro.au/
This is *bad*. If everyone starts doing this, Google will get it into its head that it can make gmail non-free, and we'll all be stuffed! (at least, all of us who have gmail accounts, which seems to be about 1/2 of the geek community) Let's hope they open it up again and every one can see that crime doesn't pay! :)
It makes you wonder. They sent out mail asking for money to make Linux 'legal', and yet they can't keep track of simple files. Hate to think where my money would have gone had I been dumb enough to actually pay up.
If the US or EU put pressure on India to get rid of it, will India stand firm and risk the billions of rupees in outsourcing, or allow patents?
Actually, I read on /. that several of the clients just copy work that others have done. While I doubt that they will ever join up, there may not actually be that much duplication.
What I would really like to know is: When will I get it in Australia? It's like Apple's Music Store. It's a great concept, but us Aussies can't have it! (simply - you can get around it by going to the US on holiday) It might be great for the US, but it won't affect me. (I reckon I'll get modded down for this. See you at -1)
Great, so now we have brilliant nanotech displays. When can I get one? (And how much will I be up for?)
Mirrordot should save their logs too: it's broken there too! BTW, they say there are 22 parallel slashdottings happening at the moment!
If Apple (or Xerox) had patented the GUI, we would still be stuck with DOS!
So, if M$ patents everything it can get its hands on, what innovations would it stop?
Even though you've got a dock, I bet most people will keep using their mobile as a mobile. That's what it was designed for, after all.
REALbasic almost beat you to it, with an IDE for Mac and Windows, and building for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Pity it's not free.
The project doesn't support macs!
What a pity, that means they can't harvest the massive power of the G5s!
It doesn't support linux either, so wave goodbye to the spare cycles of super-geek's clusters.
Oh well, I suppose that the huge numbers of windoze computers should stack up to be enough anyway..
Yes, especially considering that with the orbit we're on, any one part of the earth is not always going to have line of sight to Mars.
The delays could make the 40 min radio round trip look fast!
Is this like the space shuttle, where even if 99% of the components worked, the mission would still fail?
What 1% failed here?
Are they offering rewards? I can see a large industry for dobbers...