Except that a UK judge had already thrown out the case on the basis that it's not against the law in the UK. The second judge handling the extradition hearing found the complete opposite, despite it not even being an appeal hearing. Pity the UK apparently doesn't have Double Jeopardy laws.
I was addressing the misconception that one or two studies "prove" that pirates buy more music. Even the first of your two studies claimed it couldn't prove that. The second one of your studies is one of the "one or two" that claim it.
Then he's breaching copyright by installing the software without a license though. The default under copyright law is deny, not allow. (This isn't to be confused with using the software where the courts tend to be a bit hit and miss about whether the license is needed - installing is clearly making a copy of the software that would require a license. Whether it should require a license is beside the point).
I work for a government department. Guess how many open source products we use? If you guessed "zero" - well, you'd actually be wrong. We're using open source for content management. But everything else? Proprietary. And the university we're partnered with? Also proprietary all over the place.
You did. You managed to miss Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 OSR2, Windows NT 4, and Windows 98 SE. (To exclude NT, you have to remove 2000 from your list too as that wasn't a consumer OS).
You know the plural of anecdote is not data right? Anecdotal evidence from one or two studies that showed that on this specific instance pirated versions being available increased sales does not mean that this is true in all cases.
That in mind, I actually do produce products, and generally take a passive-aggressive approach to piracy - I'll ignore it, and stab back if they get in my face with it. (Here's a tip, pirate sites - don't link to the marketing material on the developer's site from your rls page, especially if there's a big video). This has to me resulted in a very minimal loss to piracy. Though I suppose my stubborn refusal to provide support to the pirates when they ask helps a bit.
They've also prevented him from paying his company's bills, which has effectively destroyed it - even if found not guilty and the request denied, it'd cost him millions to set MegaUpload back up, and that's only if there's a web host on Earth that would even consider talking to him. His assets in the US, Hong Kong and Europe have also been frozen. And most importantly John Key wants a Free Trade Agreement with the United States (fuck knows why) so Kim doesn't really have a chance of the extradition being rejected. And Kim can't even complain to his MP, because his representative in parliament is the Prime Minister.
Delusional much? That wouldn't work, at all. Contracts have to be agreed to by both parties, so if you change the contract your changes don't apply unless the company is provided the contract and agrees to it. And no, anonymously mailing it back so they can't reply would not work either. Obviously.
You guys should really get out more, and remove the Outlook rule you clearly have to delete every email from your customers. And check your voicemail and clear the letterbox sometime, because I can't imagine there's any contact method that hasn't been used to tell you that Blackboard sucks donkey balls.
You know, I've never understood that. My disillusioned manager once explained it as having something to do with shifting expenses from the OPEX budget to the CAPEX budget, but even that doesn't make sense to me. Surely it's the same money, and more of it, being used?
Haha, you're funny. Everyone knows that governments and academia are guaranteed to standardise on a proprietary closed-source system within the gates of a single company.
You may not like it (hell, no-one likes it), but it's the reality.
Bzzt, wrong. A UK court had already ruled that there was no UK law violated in his actions, at which point the US government demanded he be extradited. Also, let's address several other mistakes you've made.
1. Interpol doesn't enforce this, or any other, law. The treaties (Berne Convention, TRIPS, etc) are enforced on countries themselves by WTO, and domestically by domestic law enforcement. 2. You haven't seen the IRS statements on "worldwide income" have you? They hold that they have the power to tax US citizens no matter where they are no matter where the money came from. Also, the US has statutes which allow the arrest of US citizens who commit crimes while abroad, no matter whether it is a crime in the country they were in. (Commonly used to arrest people who go to Thailand for "sex holidays")
Not elevated at all - bots only need to get in at the user level, and a moron can just as easily infect a Linux machine in the same way. The problem is the users, not the OS.
Actually, Windows Phone has permissioning much like Android. You need permission to access the internet, the camera, the address book, location services. It's really not as bad as you Anti-"M$" fanbois like to claim.
The Apple sandbox that can be defeated by a fucking web page rooting the device.
No thanks. (And I do in fact own an iPhone by the way, and I do happen to like it. I'm simply not deluded into thinking it magically protects me from those "evil nasties" that Android has).
The fixed charges are likely in advance. I.e. your base plan (you know, the "$30/month" bit or whatever). It's not magic to know you're going to pay your plan's base fees.
Changing prices counts as a material change to the contract, which cannot be made unilaterally. The customer can then opt not to accept the new contract and void the agreement without incurring ETF penalties.
It's in everyone's rights to draft a law, just that only your government can pass it. Why, we have non government organisations, such as the United States Government, draft laws for us allllll the time!
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Ever have to chase down an issue running PHP with IIS?
Yes, with v7. It was really easy - the hardest part was deciphering PHP's shitty error messages.
Except that a UK judge had already thrown out the case on the basis that it's not against the law in the UK. The second judge handling the extradition hearing found the complete opposite, despite it not even being an appeal hearing. Pity the UK apparently doesn't have Double Jeopardy laws.
I was addressing the misconception that one or two studies "prove" that pirates buy more music. Even the first of your two studies claimed it couldn't prove that. The second one of your studies is one of the "one or two" that claim it.
Then he's breaching copyright by installing the software without a license though. The default under copyright law is deny, not allow. (This isn't to be confused with using the software where the courts tend to be a bit hit and miss about whether the license is needed - installing is clearly making a copy of the software that would require a license. Whether it should require a license is beside the point).
Your example of a movie about a hospital adds extra amusement - the organisation I work for is indeed a hospital.
I work for a government department. Guess how many open source products we use? If you guessed "zero" - well, you'd actually be wrong. We're using open source for content management. But everything else? Proprietary. And the university we're partnered with? Also proprietary all over the place.
It's called Windows Live Messenger, not MSN Messenger. The correct acronym is actually WLM now.
Inadvertently? The problem is the users doing it deliberately.
You did. You managed to miss Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 OSR2, Windows NT 4, and Windows 98 SE. (To exclude NT, you have to remove 2000 from your list too as that wasn't a consumer OS).
You know the plural of anecdote is not data right? Anecdotal evidence from one or two studies that showed that on this specific instance pirated versions being available increased sales does not mean that this is true in all cases.
That in mind, I actually do produce products, and generally take a passive-aggressive approach to piracy - I'll ignore it, and stab back if they get in my face with it. (Here's a tip, pirate sites - don't link to the marketing material on the developer's site from your rls page, especially if there's a big video). This has to me resulted in a very minimal loss to piracy. Though I suppose my stubborn refusal to provide support to the pirates when they ask helps a bit.
They've also prevented him from paying his company's bills, which has effectively destroyed it - even if found not guilty and the request denied, it'd cost him millions to set MegaUpload back up, and that's only if there's a web host on Earth that would even consider talking to him. His assets in the US, Hong Kong and Europe have also been frozen. And most importantly John Key wants a Free Trade Agreement with the United States (fuck knows why) so Kim doesn't really have a chance of the extradition being rejected. And Kim can't even complain to his MP, because his representative in parliament is the Prime Minister.
Delusional much? That wouldn't work, at all. Contracts have to be agreed to by both parties, so if you change the contract your changes don't apply unless the company is provided the contract and agrees to it. And no, anonymously mailing it back so they can't reply would not work either. Obviously.
You guys should really get out more, and remove the Outlook rule you clearly have to delete every email from your customers. And check your voicemail and clear the letterbox sometime, because I can't imagine there's any contact method that hasn't been used to tell you that Blackboard sucks donkey balls.
You know, I've never understood that. My disillusioned manager once explained it as having something to do with shifting expenses from the OPEX budget to the CAPEX budget, but even that doesn't make sense to me. Surely it's the same money, and more of it, being used?
I don't see how a press-release from 2001 is even slightly related.
Haha, you're funny. Everyone knows that governments and academia are guaranteed to standardise on a proprietary closed-source system within the gates of a single company.
You may not like it (hell, no-one likes it), but it's the reality.
Yes, at the extradition hearing. Look at the original prosecution by the UK government, and you will see you are wrong.
... or lose it, and get crushed into oblivion.
Bzzt, wrong. A UK court had already ruled that there was no UK law violated in his actions, at which point the US government demanded he be extradited. Also, let's address several other mistakes you've made.
1. Interpol doesn't enforce this, or any other, law. The treaties (Berne Convention, TRIPS, etc) are enforced on countries themselves by WTO, and domestically by domestic law enforcement.
2. You haven't seen the IRS statements on "worldwide income" have you? They hold that they have the power to tax US citizens no matter where they are no matter where the money came from. Also, the US has statutes which allow the arrest of US citizens who commit crimes while abroad, no matter whether it is a crime in the country they were in. (Commonly used to arrest people who go to Thailand for "sex holidays")
Not elevated at all - bots only need to get in at the user level, and a moron can just as easily infect a Linux machine in the same way. The problem is the users, not the OS.
Actually, Windows Phone has permissioning much like Android. You need permission to access the internet, the camera, the address book, location services. It's really not as bad as you Anti-"M$" fanbois like to claim.
The Apple sandbox that can be defeated by a fucking web page rooting the device.
No thanks. (And I do in fact own an iPhone by the way, and I do happen to like it. I'm simply not deluded into thinking it magically protects me from those "evil nasties" that Android has).
The fixed charges are likely in advance. I.e. your base plan (you know, the "$30/month" bit or whatever). It's not magic to know you're going to pay your plan's base fees.
Changing prices counts as a material change to the contract, which cannot be made unilaterally. The customer can then opt not to accept the new contract and void the agreement without incurring ETF penalties.
It's in everyone's rights to draft a law, just that only your government can pass it. Why, we have non government organisations, such as the United States Government, draft laws for us allllll the time!