To play the music on your PC you have to run the player software that is on the CD.
So if you want to play music through your PC, whether autorun runs it or you run it you end up rooted. Autorun gets you rooted quicker, but even if autorun was never invented the issue still exists.
1) There's the actual copyright issues and the amounts of damages that the *AA are claiming. Lots of grey areas, lots of arguing on all sides on what is right.
2) Whether the person being sued/subpoenaed/whatever is actually the person that did the copying of the file(s).
IMHO 1. is difficult and the argument could go forever.
2. is simple. Was that the guy or not? is the proof provided good enough? etc.
The 5 or 6 (I assume you made those numbers up, but in case you didn't) weakens the *AA arguments on point 2. significantly. And thats just the ones that had the finances/strongest arguments to fight it. How many others just cut their losses and paid the settlement? Does anyone know the numbers on that?
If you had all the numbers it would be fairly easy to weight up who was guilty and was caught vs. who was innocent and was wrongly accused and decide whether they are "close enough" to right all the time. But we don't have those numbers and I would guess that the people that were innocent and just settled is a fair bit more than 5 or 6. With the "ease" of settlement and a few years of financial hardship vs. long protracted court case that could potentially financially ruin you I am pretty sure I know what I would choose even if I was innocent. What would you do?
Most people that settle of course are going to say they didn't copy anyway, but how many are telling the truth? It didn't go to court so we likely will never know.
If her lawyers are working for free I will eat my hat.
In my very limited opinion it is a grey area as to whether this is infringement or not. According to this post Rowling was planning a similar book the profits of which would go to charity, so she asked Lexicon to at least do the same which they wouldn't do.
If she is so concerned about getting money to her charity then why not make "the official" version of the book and donate the proceeds to charity, then instead of pushing the boundaries of fair use with a potentially long and expensive trial donate the money she would have spent on a trial to her charity as well?
That way at least the pile of money that would have been swallowed up by lawyers fees goes to charity. So what if Lexicon makes some money off it as well? did they not put some time and effort into this? With a trial instead of Lexicon making some money it is the lawyers on both sides that make the money that charity will never see.
This comes across less like forcing the profits of the book to go to charity and more like being bitter about someone else getting a (tiny) slice of money out of the H.P. empire.
I thought the big jump between VHS and DVD was not so much the quality of picture (and cut scenes, directors commentary etc.) as the convenience of being able to jump to whatever scene you want pretty much instantaneously and not having to rewind the bastard after you have finished watching.
Hd DVD and Blue-ray don't have any such advantage over DVD. It is DVD just a bit* better.
*OK maybe a lot better if you have the hundreds/thousands of dollars worth of equipment to tell the difference but not everyone does.
Exactly, and if I had to put my money on the cause for the recent increase it would be all the exposure Comcast received when it was caught doing this.
It raised awareness of the ability to encrypt BT traffic and provided a very good reason to do so.
So say you pay top dollar to fly first class (i.e. you paid for a fast internet connection), but the company that provides the catering for the flight (i.e. nytimes.com) didnt pay top dollar to the airline (ISP) so you get an economy class meal.
The company that provides the in-flight entertainment though (myspace) did pay top dollar to the airline (ISP) so you get top class movies, sports etc on your flight.
The company that makes the seats for your flight (google) didnt pay top dollar to the airline (ISP) so you get a fold-out chair to sit on for your flight (except when it came to this google would hopefully tell the ISP to shove it and everyone on that airline/ISP gets to stand for the whole flight).
You see how that works now? no matter how much you want to pay doesnt affect the service you get.
Good point, except if your name is on that list, and you try and legally change your name (to anything at all, let alone your SS number) then I imagine flags will be flying up all over the place. And you will get one free flight at least (one way though and you don't get to choose the destination).
Does plain old terrorism not elicit the desired response anymore? Is Joe Sixpack becoming so conditioned to the terrorism buzzword that you have to add the nuclear threat into the equation to get the desired "Oh-My-God whatever can we do? please save us from the terrible horrors! Whatever you need to do is fine just make it go away!" response?
So did they managed to crack the codes or did they spy on the US and somehow obtain the codes? I read TFA and still can't figure out which.
I expect it was they cracked the codes as seeing as "Americans knew what the Australians were doing and were intrigued by the progress they made.". I don't imagine the seppos would feel "intrigued" about being spied on.
Interesting email, about considering using their employees home IP addresses, most likely to try and get around IP blacklists.
http://jrwr.hopto.org/msg02207.html
Contains a list of a bunch of employees home IP addresses. Woops. Might see a few of them changing ISPs if they have any sense.
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Autoplay have fuck all to do with it.
To play the music on your PC you have to run the player software that is on the CD.
So if you want to play music through your PC, whether autorun runs it or you run it you end up rooted. Autorun gets you rooted quicker, but even if autorun was never invented the issue still exists.
How are you planning on paying for that?
AFAIK There are two issues at stake here.
1) There's the actual copyright issues and the amounts of damages that the *AA are claiming. Lots of grey areas, lots of arguing on all sides on what is right.
2) Whether the person being sued/subpoenaed/whatever is actually the person that did the copying of the file(s).
IMHO 1. is difficult and the argument could go forever.
2. is simple. Was that the guy or not? is the proof provided good enough? etc.
The 5 or 6 (I assume you made those numbers up, but in case you didn't) weakens the *AA arguments on point 2. significantly. And thats just the ones that had the finances/strongest arguments to fight it. How many others just cut their losses and paid the settlement? Does anyone know the numbers on that?
If you had all the numbers it would be fairly easy to weight up who was guilty and was caught vs. who was innocent and was wrongly accused and decide whether they are "close enough" to right all the time. But we don't have those numbers and I would guess that the people that were innocent and just settled is a fair bit more than 5 or 6.
With the "ease" of settlement and a few years of financial hardship vs. long protracted court case that could potentially financially ruin you I am pretty sure I know what I would choose even if I was innocent. What would you do?
Most people that settle of course are going to say they didn't copy anyway, but how many are telling the truth? It didn't go to court so we likely will never know.
No no no. You missed a couple of steps.
Ship, treasure map, island, shovel, dig, booty.
Real pirates don't keep their booty on their ship.
If her lawyers are working for free I will eat my hat.
In my very limited opinion it is a grey area as to whether this is infringement or not. According to this post Rowling was planning a similar book the profits of which would go to charity, so she asked Lexicon to at least do the same which they wouldn't do.
If she is so concerned about getting money to her charity then why not make "the official" version of the book and donate the proceeds to charity, then instead of pushing the boundaries of fair use with a potentially long and expensive trial donate the money she would have spent on a trial to her charity as well?
That way at least the pile of money that would have been swallowed up by lawyers fees goes to charity. So what if Lexicon makes some money off it as well? did they not put some time and effort into this? With a trial instead of Lexicon making some money it is the lawyers on both sides that make the money that charity will never see.
This comes across less like forcing the profits of the book to go to charity and more like being bitter about someone else getting a (tiny) slice of money out of the H.P. empire.
Are you suggesting chess could be even more exciting?!
I thought the big jump between VHS and DVD was not so much the quality of picture (and cut scenes, directors commentary etc.) as the convenience of being able to jump to whatever scene you want pretty much instantaneously and not having to rewind the bastard after you have finished watching.
Hd DVD and Blue-ray don't have any such advantage over DVD. It is DVD just a bit* better.
*OK maybe a lot better if you have the hundreds/thousands of dollars worth of equipment to tell the difference but not everyone does.
Exactly, and if I had to put my money on the cause for the recent increase it would be all the exposure Comcast received when it was caught doing this.
It raised awareness of the ability to encrypt BT traffic and provided a very good reason to do so.
Nice work Comcast!
You mean here? http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/26/1917259
Bad Analogy here we come!
So say you pay top dollar to fly first class (i.e. you paid for a fast internet connection), but the company that provides the catering for the flight (i.e. nytimes.com) didnt pay top dollar to the airline (ISP) so you get an economy class meal.
The company that provides the in-flight entertainment though (myspace) did pay top dollar to the airline (ISP) so you get top class movies, sports etc on your flight.
The company that makes the seats for your flight (google) didnt pay top dollar to the airline (ISP) so you get a fold-out chair to sit on for your flight (except when it came to this google would hopefully tell the ISP to shove it and everyone on that airline/ISP gets to stand for the whole flight).
You see how that works now? no matter how much you want to pay doesnt affect the service you get.
As well as 40% of the worlds uranium deposits.
You sure you're not looking at the dates the forum users joined rather than the post dates?
Good point, except if your name is on that list, and you try and legally change your name (to anything at all, let alone your SS number) then I imagine flags will be flying up all over the place. And you will get one free flight at least (one way though and you don't get to choose the destination).
What threat of nuclear terrorism exactly?
Does plain old terrorism not elicit the desired response anymore? Is Joe Sixpack becoming so conditioned to the terrorism buzzword that you have to add the nuclear threat into the equation to get the desired "Oh-My-God whatever can we do? please save us from the terrible horrors! Whatever you need to do is fine just make it go away!" response?
If every ID in the USA was stolen then only criminals will have IDs....
or something like that.
If you want to quickly compare the difference in maps between :
Google Maps
Microsoft VE
Yahoo maps
Ask.com
OpenLayers
and NASA Terra
then http://www.flashearth.com/ is pretty cool. Go to a location and toggle between the different map layers.
and my preview button.
the nastiest came out and broke your grammar checker.
from here: http://bash.org/?464385
and a diet Coke.
So did they managed to crack the codes or did they spy on the US and somehow obtain the codes? I read TFA and still can't figure out which.
I expect it was they cracked the codes as seeing as "Americans knew what the Australians were doing and were intrigued by the progress they made.". I don't imagine the seppos would feel "intrigued" about being spied on.
no, asstunnel is only when you want to say asshole.
what he meant to say was asssombrero.
And a free trip to Gitmo every time you try to get on a plane.
Sweet! They can bust out that banner again.
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_02/georgebushAP2604_468x306.jpg
Interesting email, about considering using their employees home IP addresses, most likely to try and get around IP blacklists. http://jrwr.hopto.org/msg02207.html Contains a list of a bunch of employees home IP addresses. Woops. Might see a few of them changing ISPs if they have any sense.