I'm pretty sure someone will have realised this before but it's new to me.
Damages are supposed to be punitive based on potential losses times a factor. So in a grab off a shelf the damage is one for one. In file-sharing it is supposed to me tens or hundreds of thousands to one because of the nature of peering.
But, if you consider that every person who shares and uploads a portion of the file is guilty, then the potential damages are either going to be millions of times more than the actual commercial harm or just that same one for one.
I understand that that's not how the law works but, if you're going to work out how much you lost because of peering, shouldn't you take into account the fact that the infringement was also peered? If a million people upload a film, the actual potential loss should be shared between them, BECAUSE for every case brought to court, and as the per cent of cases brought to court approaches 100%, the actual loss, if all parties bought the film instead of downloading it, can be tallied. And ultimately, you would have a million people being sued for the cost of the movie. What we have right now is unrepresentative.
TBH I didn't think you could ever install cameras to watch your employees. In the UK the generally accepted wisdom was that all cameras were installed "for security" reasons and if they happened to catch someone slacking that was an "unintended consequence".
Well, you convinced me. However I think that as far as forums go it should be okay to ADD a moderated comment to posts, eg something along the lines of "We have, in fact, checked the birth records and John's parents WERE married to each other at the time of his birth and, furthermore, his penis is about average."
Hmm. Your dad, an average Joe, will only need "20 different screwdrivers" if he's taking apart modern gizmos.
You, as a geek, should be the one requiring Torx or Triforce screwdrivers.
I think your dad is geekier than you.
And you're a pussy.
Seeya!
Where do I start the petition to get your geek dad to start posting on/.? His opinions I want to read.
Here's a different adage: you snooze, you lose.
Anyway, Google IS the second mouse, it's just that most people don't remember the internet, where it wasn't an early bird.
Okay. Not second. Maybe... fifth? It's a Big List.... hahaha. Seriously.
Does it tarnish your opinion of making money?
Depending on whether you feel as if you're suffering under a shower of shit, or basking in a shower of money, may affect whether you invest in their stock, or not.
It'll come, regardless of the current response. The alternative is... soylent green, and that ain't happening. Bio-engineering? Meh. I've been reconciled to this since Nemesis the Warlock from 2000AD. Then there was Farscape, and later Battlestar Galactica.
What's the problem? We eat meat, we dress in meat by-products, most of our sports' stars have meat between their ears... easy adjust.
Kotick stated that Activision would 'very aggressively' support the likes of HP and Dell in any attempt at making an easy 'plug-and-play' PC that would hook up directly to the TV."
If half of the 20K seeds feel the same way then their budget just got a TON bigger...
Half? Maybe 5% or less would be my guess. Personally, I found it un-watchable but I'm moving away from the dreck on TV and don't really need Internet dreck to take its place.
The suit brought against HTC by Apple didn't include anything to do with multitouch, AFAIK. The multitouch patents aren't even relevant outside the US for the most part and nothing but the most precise implementation will likely survive any scrutiny with-in the US.
Even the top tier plan with a 10Gb cap may not seem very good compared to the all you can eat pricing in the USA but those data plans look cheap compared to what's currently available in the UK. The second from top, fifteen quid a month for 3Gb cap isn't bad. If you were trying to troll that 5p per Mb charge for ad hoc or excess usage then sorry but I RTFA and clicked on the TINY thumbnail they had with the plan prices.
Um, I'd say Baen's prices, particularly the Webscription service, offers some of the lowest prices for books by recognised authors, and as mentioned No DRM. They were years ahead of the game with their Free Library as well. I just hope that Apple's e-book boutique doesn't ruin it for readers everywhere.
Hmm. It's not like Microsoft and HTC have formed some sort of coalition. HTC cut a deal with Microsoft to avoid ANOTHER drag out fight, this time over potential/perceived infringement of MS IP. MS won't be going up against Apple because of this.
So all that would happen is the cost centres would shift to the US where the corporation was paying no tax, but the jobs and production would stay in other countries with lower wages. Except the corporation would be paying no taxes, so you'd be removing a revenue stream from the low tax countries that previously hosted the cost centre. Poor countries are unstable countries so that's going to lead to an increase in terrorism. Even the companies in the previously low tax countries will move their head quarters to the US to avoid paying tax. It'd lead to a high demand for office space, increasing property prices in general and jacking up the mortgages of ordinary Joes and Janes that don't even have jobs any more because all those jobs are too expensive to fill in the US because of the increased personal taxation resulting from the loss of corporate tax. Meanwhile the rush of immigrant labour from across the border with Mexico, to fill the demand for new office buildings, will bring with it Drug gangs, human slavers and Mariachi bands - or as the US authorities will refer to them, our new investment partners, so desperate will they be for any signs of inward investment.
Is that what you want, cos that's what will happen.
but sometimes, I just want to read something written after my great-grandfather was born.
Like your original post? That would make him cry. In your great-grand-father's day books weren't just magical, they were ubiquitous and democratic.
Knowledge, it's not just for oligarchs and tyrants any more...
And maybe google ripit4me to find out about a wizard-based all in one solution to using DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink for discs with modern protection methods. I think ripit4me-AIO is the total package that has everything you need but it's elusive.
It isn't. And that's the real problem.
We have a situation where a high profile (as opposed to Big) company is looking to settle in. That can create quite a stir in a small to medium sized town. But now we have local laws getting passed which look to exclusively affect the newly arrived company. That's the real problem. ie It looks like Google has landed and the local Government is trying to make life as easy as possible for the newly landed cash cow. Now obvioulsy I have no knowledge that this is the case but that's how it looks (this is the Smart Troll defense - say what you want about anybody but don't leave yourself open for a lawsuit...) though of course this would be unlikely because it makes Google look like a 2 bit crook if it was true.
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Damages are supposed to be punitive based on potential losses times a factor. So in a grab off a shelf the damage is one for one. In file-sharing it is supposed to me tens or hundreds of thousands to one because of the nature of peering.
But, if you consider that every person who shares and uploads a portion of the file is guilty, then the potential damages are either going to be millions of times more than the actual commercial harm or just that same one for one.
I understand that that's not how the law works but, if you're going to work out how much you lost because of peering, shouldn't you take into account the fact that the infringement was also peered? If a million people upload a film, the actual potential loss should be shared between them, BECAUSE for every case brought to court, and as the per cent of cases brought to court approaches 100%, the actual loss, if all parties bought the film instead of downloading it, can be tallied. And ultimately, you would have a million people being sued for the cost of the movie. What we have right now is unrepresentative.
TBH I didn't think you could ever install cameras to watch your employees. In the UK the generally accepted wisdom was that all cameras were installed "for security" reasons and if they happened to catch someone slacking that was an "unintended consequence".
Well, you convinced me. However I think that as far as forums go it should be okay to ADD a moderated comment to posts, eg something along the lines of "We have, in fact, checked the birth records and John's parents WERE married to each other at the time of his birth and, furthermore, his penis is about average."
Hmm. Your dad, an average Joe, will only need "20 different screwdrivers" if he's taking apart modern gizmos. You, as a geek, should be the one requiring Torx or Triforce screwdrivers. I think your dad is geekier than you. And you're a pussy. Seeya! Where do I start the petition to get your geek dad to start posting on /.? His opinions I want to read.
Sounds pseudo-intellectual to me
You're unfamiliar with the new game journalism, eh?
There was a recent school shooting (in Germany I think it was) where there were 9 people killed, with nine shots fired, and 9 headshots.
No there wasn't...
"Maybe we can attach some netbooks, and extend the internet to the clouds."
Really? That's the best way to summarise record-breaking solar flight? A stupid, and basically illogical, pun?
Here's a different adage: you snooze, you lose. Anyway, Google IS the second mouse, it's just that most people don't remember the internet, where it wasn't an early bird. Okay. Not second. Maybe... fifth? It's a Big List.... hahaha. Seriously.
Amazon what now? Ugh. Whoever lets me slap you awake first wins the internet. Um, in my opinion.
Does it tarnish your opinion of making money? Depending on whether you feel as if you're suffering under a shower of shit, or basking in a shower of money, may affect whether you invest in their stock, or not.
What's the problem? We eat meat, we dress in meat by-products, most of our sports' stars have meat between their ears... easy adjust.
Kotick stated that Activision would 'very aggressively' support the likes of HP and Dell in any attempt at making an easy 'plug-and-play' PC that would hook up directly to the TV."
Perhaps they could call it an X-Box.
Or the Ape Extreme
Yup. I doubt he's really going to quake with fear about it. That would be unreal.
If you didn't, or this wasn't in them, well... I'd be incredibly surprised.
If half of the 20K seeds feel the same way then their budget just got a TON bigger...
Half? Maybe 5% or less would be my guess. Personally, I found it un-watchable but I'm moving away from the dreck on TV and don't really need Internet dreck to take its place.
You have a strange idea of "voluntary" when it comes to High School.
The suit brought against HTC by Apple didn't include anything to do with multitouch, AFAIK. The multitouch patents aren't even relevant outside the US for the most part and nothing but the most precise implementation will likely survive any scrutiny with-in the US.
Even the top tier plan with a 10Gb cap may not seem very good compared to the all you can eat pricing in the USA but those data plans look cheap compared to what's currently available in the UK. The second from top, fifteen quid a month for 3Gb cap isn't bad. If you were trying to troll that 5p per Mb charge for ad hoc or excess usage then sorry but I RTFA and clicked on the TINY thumbnail they had with the plan prices.
Um, I'd say Baen's prices, particularly the Webscription service, offers some of the lowest prices for books by recognised authors, and as mentioned No DRM. They were years ahead of the game with their Free Library as well. I just hope that Apple's e-book boutique doesn't ruin it for readers everywhere.
Hmm. It's not like Microsoft and HTC have formed some sort of coalition. HTC cut a deal with Microsoft to avoid ANOTHER drag out fight, this time over potential/perceived infringement of MS IP. MS won't be going up against Apple because of this.
Sounds like somebody is angling for some free samples to "test".
So all that would happen is the cost centres would shift to the US where the corporation was paying no tax, but the jobs and production would stay in other countries with lower wages. Except the corporation would be paying no taxes, so you'd be removing a revenue stream from the low tax countries that previously hosted the cost centre. Poor countries are unstable countries so that's going to lead to an increase in terrorism. Even the companies in the previously low tax countries will move their head quarters to the US to avoid paying tax. It'd lead to a high demand for office space, increasing property prices in general and jacking up the mortgages of ordinary Joes and Janes that don't even have jobs any more because all those jobs are too expensive to fill in the US because of the increased personal taxation resulting from the loss of corporate tax. Meanwhile the rush of immigrant labour from across the border with Mexico, to fill the demand for new office buildings, will bring with it Drug gangs, human slavers and Mariachi bands - or as the US authorities will refer to them, our new investment partners, so desperate will they be for any signs of inward investment.
Is that what you want, cos that's what will happen.
but sometimes, I just want to read something written after my great-grandfather was born.
Like your original post? That would make him cry. In your great-grand-father's day books weren't just magical, they were ubiquitous and democratic. Knowledge, it's not just for oligarchs and tyrants any more...
And maybe google ripit4me to find out about a wizard-based all in one solution to using DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink for discs with modern protection methods. I think ripit4me-AIO is the total package that has everything you need but it's elusive.
It isn't. And that's the real problem. We have a situation where a high profile (as opposed to Big) company is looking to settle in. That can create quite a stir in a small to medium sized town. But now we have local laws getting passed which look to exclusively affect the newly arrived company. That's the real problem. ie It looks like Google has landed and the local Government is trying to make life as easy as possible for the newly landed cash cow. Now obvioulsy I have no knowledge that this is the case but that's how it looks (this is the Smart Troll defense - say what you want about anybody but don't leave yourself open for a lawsuit...) though of course this would be unlikely because it makes Google look like a 2 bit crook if it was true.