If someone had a copy of the CD then went and downloaded it because say your 2 year old nephew STEPPED ON IT AND BROKE IT... and downloaded it off the internet thats technically not a crime.
In this case, I'd say you aren't being immoral in accepting Bob's t-shirt, but you are still breaking the law. At least you legally obtained the music at some point; however, this does not grant you the right to illegally obtain it any time you want in the future.
Of course, most people who are "stealing" music never owned a legal copy in the first place.
You cannot steal something that is given away for free (IE. I've heard this song a million times on the radio, its been used to pimp phones and cars and what have you).
Yes you can. If I give you a t-shirt for free, does that give you the right to steal it from anywhere you happen to find it?
This wouldn't be millions in development. It would take one guy 10 minutes to e-mail the hardware specs (which they'd have to have available somewhere for them to have written their own driver) to the OpenBSD team and be done with it.
Apparantly, they do not have access to the documentation, because it does not exist. All they have is the source code. I can't find a link to theo's post but here is what he said:
I have received information from a few sources that indicates that
Adaptec does not have documentation on their management interface
in-house. They only have a source-code implimentation, for a variety
of models.
So that is perhaps why they are so slow.
That does however speak rather badly. I have not encountered a
vendor without even internal documentation for their products in
quite a while.
Companies you've probably rarely heard of like Zydas, Atmel, Symbol
have documentation for their wireless chipsets.
The Adaptec SCSI chipset documentation that we dragged out of Adaptec
about 8 years ago or so was 12 books.
I hope this is not true. Any ex-Adaptec employees want to set the
record straight (and please tell the truth..)
I worked at Sam's club last summer as a cashier. The door checkers are instructed to look through the cart and match up everything in the cart to something on the receipt.
This serves three purposes:
a) to make sure cashiers don't mess up like the grandparent mentioned b) to make sure people aren't shoplifting c) to provide a visible deterrant for shoplifters
I was never explicitily told the true purpose of the door checkers, but I'd bet its a little bit of both.
Now all theory aside, in practice the vast majority of people who would work at the doors would hardly check at all. If they did, a huge line would build up of people waiting to leave. Of course some people were real careful, but most of us simply didn't care. Whenever they put me on the door, I would pretend like I was checking everything, look up and down at the receipt a couple times, and then after 10 seconds or so let them go on. I really only checked for very expensive items.
Even if no one actually checked if people were stealing, it still provided a deterrant for people who might be thinking about shoplifting. The average shoplifter doesn't know that most things aren't checked, so seeing someone at the door checking things might persuade them into not stealing.
There was one funny instance where a kid that had just started was working the door, checking receipts, and I was helping this guy who had just bought a huge flat-screen TV. I helped get it from inventory, rang it up at my register, and then helped him put it in his car. On the way out the door, the new kid asked to see the man's receipt, and the man said, "Oh no, I just won this TV" and kept on walking with the TV. He had already paid for it of course, but we had a good laugh as I was helping him get it into his car.
Who says you are storing it all at once? Whats to stop someone from downloading Dogs Gone Wild, watching it, and deleting it, all while downloading the sequel?
Not everybody only downloads specific files. Applications like freenet which are constantly uploading/downloading content that you don't specifically request would fill the cap (provided they are downloading fast enough).
Besides, 100+ DVDRs of crap a month that I'll never use/view just isn't enough.
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If someone had a copy of the CD then went and downloaded it because say your 2 year old nephew STEPPED ON IT AND BROKE IT... and downloaded it off the internet thats technically not a crime.
Actually, it is.
In this case, I'd say you aren't being immoral in accepting Bob's t-shirt, but you are still breaking the law. At least you legally obtained the music at some point; however, this does not grant you the right to illegally obtain it any time you want in the future.
Of course, most people who are "stealing" music never owned a legal copy in the first place.
You cannot steal something that is given away for free (IE. I've heard this song a million times on the radio, its been used to pimp phones and cars and what have you).
Yes you can. If I give you a t-shirt for free, does that give you the right to steal it from anywhere you happen to find it?
File-sharing isn't illegal. Stealing is.
I'm still waiting for google's calandar offering. Unfortuneatly, I'll have to keep missing appointments and deadlines in the meantime...
This wouldn't be millions in development. It would take one guy 10 minutes to e-mail the hardware specs (which they'd have to have available somewhere for them to have written their own driver) to the OpenBSD team and be done with it.
Apparantly, they do not have access to the documentation, because it does not exist. All they have is the source code. I can't find a link to theo's post but here is what he said:
I have received information from a few sources that indicates that Adaptec does not have documentation on their management interface in-house. They only have a source-code implimentation, for a variety of models. So that is perhaps why they are so slow. That does however speak rather badly. I have not encountered a vendor without even internal documentation for their products in quite a while. Companies you've probably rarely heard of like Zydas, Atmel, Symbol have documentation for their wireless chipsets. The Adaptec SCSI chipset documentation that we dragged out of Adaptec about 8 years ago or so was 12 books. I hope this is not true. Any ex-Adaptec employees want to set the record straight (and please tell the truth..)
I worked at Sam's club last summer as a cashier. The door checkers are instructed to look through the cart and match up everything in the cart to something on the receipt.
This serves three purposes:
a) to make sure cashiers don't mess up like the grandparent mentioned
b) to make sure people aren't shoplifting
c) to provide a visible deterrant for shoplifters
I was never explicitily told the true purpose of the door checkers, but I'd bet its a little bit of both.
Now all theory aside, in practice the vast majority of people who would work at the doors would hardly check at all. If they did, a huge line would build up of people waiting to leave. Of course some people were real careful, but most of us simply didn't care. Whenever they put me on the door, I would pretend like I was checking everything, look up and down at the receipt a couple times, and then after 10 seconds or so let them go on. I really only checked for very expensive items.
Even if no one actually checked if people were stealing, it still provided a deterrant for people who might be thinking about shoplifting. The average shoplifter doesn't know that most things aren't checked, so seeing someone at the door checking things might persuade them into not stealing.
There was one funny instance where a kid that had just started was working the door, checking receipts, and I was helping this guy who had just bought a huge flat-screen TV. I helped get it from inventory, rang it up at my register, and then helped him put it in his car. On the way out the door, the new kid asked to see the man's receipt, and the man said, "Oh no, I just won this TV" and kept on walking with the TV. He had already paid for it of course, but we had a good laugh as I was helping him get it into his car.
And thats if the packets get processed at the speed of light as well. Expect 2-3 times that in practical terms.
Who says you are storing it all at once? Whats to stop someone from downloading Dogs Gone Wild, watching it, and deleting it, all while downloading the sequel?
Not everybody only downloads specific files. Applications like freenet which are constantly uploading/downloading content that you don't specifically request would fill the cap (provided they are downloading fast enough). Besides, 100+ DVDRs of crap a month that I'll never use/view just isn't enough.
Is that 193 kB/s or kb/s? KiloBytes or Kilobits?
No service with a monthly cap is a good deal...