Well, that's apples and oranges..gov belongs to the U.S. Federal government, so an Iranian court would have no jurisdiction. Just as our courts would have no jurisdiction over.ir..com is a bit different because it is multinational. I suspect the courts in the country of the registrar would have jurisdiction, which no doubt will encourage more international registrars to pop up.
Alas, it appears at the moment (at least from where I sit) that spamhaus.org.uk != spamhaus.org - at least in the sense that sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org.uk doesn't appear to be giving out any answers, like sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org does.
YouTube cannot automatically verify the non-pr0n or copyright status of a video. When you report either to them, they take action. So long as they continue to act on infringement reports, the DMCA will continue to insulate them from claims of contributory infringement. If Hollywood doesn't like that, then they need to buy a better DMCA (which I don't put past them, by any means).
I guess we never learned anything from the mid 80s.
Software copy protection and DRM don't work. You annoy legitimate users who have a corner case (usually enough for them to buy a competitor's product) and the h4x0rz work around it. The few pennies you save are more than made up for with bad publicity.
The DMCA actually has one bright spot. It defines a take-down procedure for copyright holders to use. YouTube complies with such takedown requests as they get them (I have actually sent a few of them, so I know), which means that they are not liable to claims of infringement or contributory infringement.
At the California Western School of Law in downtown San Diego, there is a framed woodcut in the main staircase. It is titled "The Lawsuit." It shows a cow. The plaintiff is pulling on the horns, the defendent is pulling on the tail, and a lawyer is milking it.
I have a 2006 VW Passat. I love the car, but if I had known the the iPod integration was going to be as bad as it is, I wouldn't have bothered.
The iPod is, effectively, treated as a 6 disk analog CD changer, with the first five playlists (alphabetically) and the whole library comprising the virtual "disks." No track info is displayed, just numbers. And if a playlist (or the library) has more than 100 tracks, then you only get the track%100, which makes skipping around (which you do a track at a time with the FF/REW buttons) worthless.
It's enough to make me want to just burn CDs and use the CD changer. Thank God for XM!
For a less extreme example, consider the people who advocated for the repeal of Prohibition in the 1930s; history has shown that they were probably doing the right thing, but at the time they could have easily been accused of "advocating illegal behavior."
I was at the airport here a few days ago and they had a sign out that said the security alert level was orange. All I could think of in that moment was the Controller's voice and the image of Rover rising from the bottom of the sea.
I played wolf3d, and I did consider it, but Doom was far and away a better game than wolf3d was. I would say that wolf3d was a dress rehearsal for Doom.
1. If I purchase a CD and it is subsequently stolen (along with my 5 disc changer *@$#!!) do I retain any rights to listen to that music?
. a. Are the.mp3 files of that CD on my computer legal or do they now belong to the thief too?
. b. Can I re-burn a CD from the.mp3s and is that legal?
. c. Does me having a backup copy of the files on my computer mean I can't make an insurance claim?
. d. What if it is destroyed (for example by a fire) rather than stolen?
The answers here are largely governed by the American Home Recording Act. This law was the DMCA's grandfather. They managed to ram through the AHRA and bcause of that, we now have the DMCA. But it's not all bad news. The AHRA does grant you the right to rip CDs, so long as you don't distribute the copies to others.
So...
A. The MP3s are legal because at the time you ripped them, they were legal. The intervening act was not your own, so I'd be hard pressed to see how a competent trier of fact would rule it infringement.
Also, don't think of the thief as "owning" your CDs. They're still yours. Title does not transfer upon a successful theft.
B. Since you have legal MP3s, then the AHRA says that the answer is "yes."
C. You can certainly make an insurance claim for the value you have lost - the physical CD, which represents the ultimate backup copy, and the album art, etc.
D. The manner in which you have been deprived of the original CD doesn't matter.
2. If I purchase a CD and it is subsequently scratched or broken to the point where it is not playable, can I legally download the songs from that CD from a file-sharing network?
No.
3. If I purchase the DVD for a movie, could I legally download songs from the soundtrack for that movie from a file-sharing network?
No.
4. If I purchase a CD that our entire family listens to, and then my daughter leaves for College, can she legally take a copy of an.mp3 ripped from that CD with her on her computer? or - similarly - could she take the disc and could I keep the.mp3 on my computer?
Yes. This falls within the rights granted by the AHRA. You both are in the same household, so it doesn't rise to the level of infringement.
Not that my opinion is worth a damn, but it's free.
bzflag, because it remains the premiere open-source 3d multiplayer game, in my view.
Doom, because it practically reinvented the FPS, both in terms of originality of gameplay and graphics quality.
Tempest, because it represents the pinacle of the vector game. No, it wasn't the most advanced one, but best in terms of gameplay, look, adictiveness, and quite frankly, unit sales.
Robotron, because it is the best adrenaline pumping game ever made. Retire the cup.
Pac-Man, because of its sheer iconic status. There were games before Pac-Man, and games after Pac-Man. But anyone can look at any game and immediately be able to say with certainty which group it belongs in. No other game of its time can say that.
Honorable mention goes to Myst, which, like Doom to the FPS, represented a redefinition of the adventure game.
My favorite line for police type charities (usually selling tickets to charity events or raffle tickets or what not) is, "Thanks, but I get enough tickets from cops without buying more of them."
That card is $250 and gives you UNcompressed HD streams ("You get to drink from the FIRE HOSE!"). If you seriously expect to build a DVR with that, then you'll be spending ten times the price of the series 3 TiVo on hard disks alone.
The other security implementations would be like asking Unix to allow replacement of Sudo
The irony here is delicious. sudo is, in fact, a third-party replacement for the su command. You may not think so because Linux distros have been including it for a long time, but of course Linux (or GNU/Linux, if you insist) != Unix(tm).
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Well, that's apples and oranges. .gov belongs to the U.S. Federal government, so an Iranian court would have no jurisdiction. Just as our courts would have no jurisdiction over .ir. .com is a bit different because it is multinational. I suspect the courts in the country of the registrar would have jurisdiction, which no doubt will encourage more international registrars to pop up.
Alas, it appears at the moment (at least from where I sit) that spamhaus.org.uk != spamhaus.org - at least in the sense that sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org.uk doesn't appear to be giving out any answers, like sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org does.
And the obvious point of the GP is that Illinois' courts shouldn't have that power either.
YouTube cannot automatically verify the non-pr0n or copyright status of a video. When you report either to them, they take action. So long as they continue to act on infringement reports, the DMCA will continue to insulate them from claims of contributory infringement. If Hollywood doesn't like that, then they need to buy a better DMCA (which I don't put past them, by any means).
I guess we never learned anything from the mid 80s.
Software copy protection and DRM don't work. You annoy legitimate users who have a corner case (usually enough for them to buy a competitor's product) and the h4x0rz work around it. The few pennies you save are more than made up for with bad publicity.
No. They can't do either in an automated way. They depend on such abuses (if you call pr0n that) to be reported to them, then they take action.
The DMCA actually has one bright spot. It defines a take-down procedure for copyright holders to use. YouTube complies with such takedown requests as they get them (I have actually sent a few of them, so I know), which means that they are not liable to claims of infringement or contributory infringement.
In my day, if we wanted to play PS/2 it was pronounced "Odyssey 2."
At the California Western School of Law in downtown San Diego, there is a framed woodcut in the main staircase. It is titled "The Lawsuit." It shows a cow. The plaintiff is pulling on the horns, the defendent is pulling on the tail, and a lawyer is milking it.
I have a 2006 VW Passat. I love the car, but if I had known the the iPod integration was going to be as bad as it is, I wouldn't have bothered.
The iPod is, effectively, treated as a 6 disk analog CD changer, with the first five playlists (alphabetically) and the whole library comprising the virtual "disks." No track info is displayed, just numbers. And if a playlist (or the library) has more than 100 tracks, then you only get the track%100, which makes skipping around (which you do a track at a time with the FF/REW buttons) worthless.
It's enough to make me want to just burn CDs and use the CD changer. Thank God for XM!
I can imagine a world where my taxes are lower because the money isn't spent on garbage like "Piss Christ".
If you listen closely to the record, right after "out," you'll hear the background vocalists sing "in."
Or NORML today.
I was at the airport here a few days ago and they had a sign out that said the security alert level was orange. All I could think of in that moment was the Controller's voice and the image of Rover rising from the bottom of the sea.
YOU! You behind the grandstand! Stand still, laddy!
I'm surprised those HeadOn retards didn't try it first.
Now that I think of it, their current add has so little motion in it, it's more or less a similar outcome.
The fact that it's hard to prove doesn't alter the basic facts of the situation - facts on which the answers I gave were predicated.
I played wolf3d, and I did consider it, but Doom was far and away a better game than wolf3d was. I would say that wolf3d was a dress rehearsal for Doom.
. b. Can I re-burn a CD from the .mp3s and is that legal?
. c. Does me having a backup copy of the files on my computer mean I can't make an insurance claim?
. d. What if it is destroyed (for example by a fire) rather than stolen?
The answers here are largely governed by the American Home Recording Act. This law was the DMCA's grandfather. They managed to ram through the AHRA and bcause of that, we now have the DMCA. But it's not all bad news. The AHRA does grant you the right to rip CDs, so long as you don't distribute the copies to others.
So...
A. The MP3s are legal because at the time you ripped them, they were legal. The intervening act was not your own, so I'd be hard pressed to see how a competent trier of fact would rule it infringement.
Also, don't think of the thief as "owning" your CDs. They're still yours. Title does not transfer upon a successful theft.
B. Since you have legal MP3s, then the AHRA says that the answer is "yes."
C. You can certainly make an insurance claim for the value you have lost - the physical CD, which represents the ultimate backup copy, and the album art, etc.
D. The manner in which you have been deprived of the original CD doesn't matter.
2. If I purchase a CD and it is subsequently scratched or broken to the point where it is not playable, can I legally download the songs from that CD from a file-sharing network?
No.
3. If I purchase the DVD for a movie, could I legally download songs from the soundtrack for that movie from a file-sharing network?
No.
4. If I purchase a CD that our entire family listens to, and then my daughter leaves for College, can she legally take a copy of an .mp3 ripped from that CD with her on her computer? or - similarly - could she take the disc and could I keep the .mp3 on my computer?
Yes. This falls within the rights granted by the AHRA. You both are in the same household, so it doesn't rise to the level of infringement.
Not that my opinion is worth a damn, but it's free.
bzflag, because it remains the premiere open-source 3d multiplayer game, in my view.
Doom, because it practically reinvented the FPS, both in terms of originality of gameplay and graphics quality.
Tempest, because it represents the pinacle of the vector game. No, it wasn't the most advanced one, but best in terms of gameplay, look, adictiveness, and quite frankly, unit sales.
Robotron, because it is the best adrenaline pumping game ever made. Retire the cup.
Pac-Man, because of its sheer iconic status. There were games before Pac-Man, and games after Pac-Man. But anyone can look at any game and immediately be able to say with certainty which group it belongs in. No other game of its time can say that.
Honorable mention goes to Myst, which, like Doom to the FPS, represented a redefinition of the adventure game.
You're welcome.
My favorite line for police type charities (usually selling tickets to charity events or raffle tickets or what not) is, "Thanks, but I get enough tickets from cops without buying more of them."
That card is $250 and gives you UNcompressed HD streams ("You get to drink from the FIRE HOSE!"). If you seriously expect to build a DVR with that, then you'll be spending ten times the price of the series 3 TiVo on hard disks alone.
The irony here is delicious. sudo is, in fact, a third-party replacement for the su command. You may not think so because Linux distros have been including it for a long time, but of course Linux (or GNU/Linux, if you insist) != Unix(tm).