First of all, not everything you can tack up on a wall is legal. Child porn, for example. And not everything you can get on such a wall is legal either. Child porn, for example.
No offence, but I cannot really express how blatantly stupid seems to me what you just wrote.
In Spain you can make private copies of copyrighted material. The trick is you don't even have to own the original copy. So copying a CD and giving it to a friend is legal; borrowing a CD from a friend is legal; downloading a song from a P2P system is legal... etc.
Although they said those are "future" plans, I really would like to see them standarize.
The ones I would really like to see standarize are those developing distros. I got friends who regularly use ubuntu and still 'wtf' when you show them a fedora.
Why his and not her? Everyone is a singular identifier but, afaic, the neutral posseive determiner in English coincides with the plural one; that is: their.
So you say "he took his turn", "she took her turn" and "everyone took their turn".
If in doubt, Google for it and check if it sounds wrong.
We're in the same boat, man. What I was doing is posing an example to show how insane this law is and its null applicability. And yet, we've been paying this tax (not by law, but by SGAE-manufacturers agreement) for quite a long time now. This why we all complain, because my previous post couldn't make an ounze of sense and still is how it is supposed to work.
Business are not allowed to carry out a private copy, and so the tax won't be applied to them. Hell, find someone who works for his own (my father does) and ask them to buy media for you;)
You'd have to be signed up with your correspondant copyright holding association, or start your own. Of course, since the losses can't be estimated, your share will only depend on your popularity. This means that if you are not well known (or not affiliated to any association) you may not receive a dime. Even if the whole country makes their own copy of your material.
The tax will be charged indiscriminately to manufacturers who, according to SGAE (our particular RIAA), are the ones taking advantage of all this """illegal""" copying (private copying for personal use with no money involved is still legal in Spain), and will mostly be given to this same organization. Problem is manufacturers are gonna pass the tax on to customers, and so the cycle of life closes.
And SGAE, of course, will use the money not to pay the authors, but to spread the word through adoctrination lectures, or to pay for lobbies to bully Brussels, or to cry louder about how bad people is and how poor authors are getting (despite SGAE's doubling benefits every year...).
The one improvement of this law is that now the tax has to be proportional to the cost of the medium; currently when we buy a DVD+R, the tax is higher than the price of the DVD itself... And stupidity didn't get to add DSL and Cable lines to the list, though they were in the top 10...
The title should read "Spanish politicians surrender to stupidity" (which wouldn't be so new, either), or sth similar...
Actually, the sentence in the ad is totally correct. It means "They'd download it [if they were still alive | if they have to use an office suite | etc... ]".
"They'd would have downloaded it" is gramatically incoherent and, if you meant "They'd had downloaded it", then it makes no sense since the Internet was no place to download anything (heck, no place at all:P) at the time of these gentlemen's lives.
In common law, habeas corpus is the name of several writs which may be issued by a judge ordering a prisoner to be brought before the court. More commonly, the name refers to a specific writ known in full as habeas corpus ad subjiciendum, a prerogative writ ordering that a prisoner be brought to the court so it can be determined whether or not the prisoner is being imprisoned lawfully.
So yeah, you have the right to not be put under arrest if there is no cause.
Remember the happy days when you could buy a cassette or a CD and play it using any player that you wanted? God, like you could take it to your girlfriend's and both of you could listen to it without having to acquire a new license, and maybe she would think it was great and buy herself another copy... It was like, you know, you bought the Cassette/CD and you owned it, and you played it like it was yours, and things like WarningThisCDMayNotBePlayableInComputers were nowhere to be seen, and...
Gosh, I didn't hear so much complaining about 'piracy' in the past, when you could borrow or lend a whole music collection from a friend and even copy it. Now that they can broaden their target audience and boost their benefit margin (the internet is magical, isn't it?...), their greed ruins everything by suing costumers (biting the hand that feeds them) and applying new kinds of DRM whenever they have the chance.
Yay! Just like dogs! In case they get lost, any vet could read the RFID chip of your favorite immigrant/guest worker, and you could have him or her home in a matter of minutes!
BTW, that was sarcasm... NSA rapes your phones, and now this... makes me sick...
Divide et impera (Divide & Konquer)
Or you can strip the latin off, if you want:P
For IE there's a load of options, ranging from "Never use IE" to "Switch to Firefox or Opera".
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They could be acussed of being an accesory to the criminals, if they are deliberately concealing information that could help find them.
I don't know where to start.
First of all, not everything you can tack up on a wall is legal. Child porn, for example.
And not everything you can get on such a wall is legal either. Child porn, for example.
No offence, but I cannot really express how blatantly stupid seems to me what you just wrote.
In Spain you can make private copies of copyrighted material. The trick is you don't even have to own the original copy. So copying a CD and giving it to a friend is legal; borrowing a CD from a friend is legal; downloading a song from a P2P system is legal... etc.
I didn't really thought you would do it, but you did!
"Coke and Kleenex" sounds a little nose-centric...
Take out that dog, shoot it and bury it 6 feet under. It's a madness trying to erradicate it from all of my friends' computers day after day.
Ten? Eleven and rising...
Why his and not her? Everyone is a singular identifier but, afaic, the neutral posseive determiner in English coincides with the plural one; that is: their.
So you say "he took his turn", "she took her turn" and "everyone took their turn".
If in doubt, Google for it and check if it sounds wrong.
We're in the same boat, man. What I was doing is posing an example to show how insane this law is and its null applicability. And yet, we've been paying this tax (not by law, but by SGAE-manufacturers agreement) for quite a long time now. This why we all complain, because my previous post couldn't make an ounze of sense and still is how it is supposed to work.
Business are not allowed to carry out a private copy, and so the tax won't be applied to them. Hell, find someone who works for his own (my father does) and ask them to buy media for you ;)
You'd have to be signed up with your correspondant copyright holding association, or start your own. Of course, since the losses can't be estimated, your share will only depend on your popularity. This means that if you are not well known (or not affiliated to any association) you may not receive a dime. Even if the whole country makes their own copy of your material.
This includes all blank media of such kind. No matter what the purpose. Even if you're recording your holiday photos, or your gnew ubuntu. Whatever.
... given to a my ass...
The tax will be charged indiscriminately to manufacturers who, according to SGAE (our particular RIAA), are the ones taking advantage of all this """illegal""" copying (private copying for personal use with no money involved is still legal in Spain), and will mostly be given to this same organization. Problem is manufacturers are gonna pass the tax on to customers, and so the cycle of life closes.
And SGAE, of course, will use the money not to pay the authors, but to spread the word through adoctrination lectures, or to pay for lobbies to bully Brussels, or to cry louder about how bad people is and how poor authors are getting (despite SGAE's doubling benefits every year...).
The one improvement of this law is that now the tax has to be proportional to the cost of the medium; currently when we buy a DVD+R, the tax is higher than the price of the DVD itself... And stupidity didn't get to add DSL and Cable lines to the list, though they were in the top 10...
The title should read "Spanish politicians surrender to stupidity" (which wouldn't be so new, either), or sth similar...
Actually, the sentence in the ad is totally correct. It means "They'd download it [if they were still alive | if they have to use an office suite | etc... ]".
:P) at the time of these gentlemen's lives.
"They'd would have downloaded it" is gramatically incoherent and, if you meant "They'd had downloaded it", then it makes no sense since the Internet was no place to download anything (heck, no place at all
There's an Air and Space Museum!
So yeah, you have the right to not be put under arrest if there is no cause.
Habeas corpus, anyone?
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Police raid in Rosen's house in 3... 2... 1...
Remember the happy days when you could buy a cassette or a CD and play it using any player that you wanted? God, like you could take it to your girlfriend's and both of you could listen to it without having to acquire a new license, and maybe she would think it was great and buy herself another copy... It was like, you know, you bought the Cassette/CD and you owned it, and you played it like it was yours, and things like WarningThisCDMayNotBePlayableInComputers were nowhere to be seen, and...
Gosh, I didn't hear so much complaining about 'piracy' in the past, when you could borrow or lend a whole music collection from a friend and even copy it. Now that they can broaden their target audience and boost their benefit margin (the internet is magical, isn't it?...), their greed ruins everything by suing costumers (biting the hand that feeds them) and applying new kinds of DRM whenever they have the chance.
Yay! Just like dogs! In case they get lost, any vet could read the RFID chip of your favorite immigrant/guest worker, and you could have him or her home in a matter of minutes!
BTW, that was sarcasm... NSA rapes your phones, and now this... makes me sick...
Divide et impera (Divide & Konquer) :P
Or you can strip the latin off, if you want
For IE there's a load of options, ranging from "Never use IE" to "Switch to Firefox or Opera".
Sure. You can go and check any time it is violated...
From the country that criminalized privacy:
I also heard that something called TPC or TCP is widely used by hax0rs to pwn remote servers. Wait till the UK Government can get their hands on it...