Right. And what if "while they were still dating" she agreed to have him post the photos in any public manner he desired?
She either intended for him and/or her to view these in private, or... she and/or he are trying to pull a scam. Photos taken, fake breakup, photos posted, real lawsuit, ???, profit!!!, reconciliation, marriage, and 1200sqft $750,000 home in the burbs once the 15 minutes is over and done with.
Respect their cars? Check your local paper's blotter file for DUI arrests. Do a quick sampling of friends and families for how often they've rotated their tires compared to the recommended rotation schedule. How is it you can still find people stranded and walking to the nearest service station for a gas can because they gambled with the fuel gauge reading? Ever see some vehicle billowing smoke from the exhaust and wish you could ask them when they last had an oil change? Yeah, plenty of people respect their cars, but their is still a great number that just see it as a tool that gets them from point A to point B. Same for computers, just something that lets them email family or friends, write a letter or resume, play some games. Any recommended maintenance is in one ear and out the other.
Napster made finding mp3's easy. Before Napster, a few searches at Lycos turned up quite a few that people had socked away at all the free web/storage sites around the net.
Should Google, Hotbot, Altavista, etc. block all infringing materials from being searched for?
I don't see the wrong in it. It is a game, but it is also pay to play. When people invest time and money into the game, they place value on their characters and objects in the game.
I've seen auctions where people pay out the nose for works of art I'd never place in my home. Baseball cards, comic books, any kind of collectibles. Junk to one, treasure to another.
Regardless of the outcome of this, I'm fairly certain that the selling of characters, objects, or money cannot be suppressed outside the game anymore than you or I can be thwarted from freely swapping mp3's with each other. Sony may have the influence and bank necessary to convince Ebay and other auction places to remove the listings, but the trading cannot be stopped.
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Right. And what if "while they were still dating" she agreed to have him post the photos in any public manner he desired?
She either intended for him and/or her to view these in private, or... she and/or he are trying to pull a scam. Photos taken, fake breakup, photos posted, real lawsuit, ???, profit!!!, reconciliation, marriage, and 1200sqft $750,000 home in the burbs once the 15 minutes is over and done with.
Respect their cars? Check your local paper's blotter file for DUI arrests. Do a quick sampling of friends and families for how often they've rotated their tires compared to the recommended rotation schedule. How is it you can still find people stranded and walking to the nearest service station for a gas can because they gambled with the fuel gauge reading? Ever see some vehicle billowing smoke from the exhaust and wish you could ask them when they last had an oil change? Yeah, plenty of people respect their cars, but their is still a great number that just see it as a tool that gets them from point A to point B. Same for computers, just something that lets them email family or friends, write a letter or resume, play some games. Any recommended maintenance is in one ear and out the other.
Napster made finding mp3's easy. Before Napster, a few searches at Lycos turned up quite a few that people had socked away at all the free web/storage sites around the net.
Should Google, Hotbot, Altavista, etc. block all infringing materials from being searched for?
I don't see the wrong in it. It is a game, but it is also pay to play. When people invest time and money into the game, they place value on their characters and objects in the game.
I've seen auctions where people pay out the nose for works of art I'd never place in my home. Baseball cards, comic books, any kind of collectibles. Junk to one, treasure to another.
Regardless of the outcome of this, I'm fairly certain that the selling of characters, objects, or money cannot be suppressed outside the game anymore than you or I can be thwarted from freely swapping mp3's with each other. Sony may have the influence and bank necessary to convince Ebay and other auction places to remove the listings, but the trading cannot be stopped.