Regardless, you won't find anyone stealing any form of compiled music at a p2p site. It wasn't the term "album" that didn't fit (I often use at like you do).
"People who stole this album might also enjoy stealing..."
Except I doubt any album-thieves are actually looking at p2p files. Those guys are instead down at the Tower Records at 4:00 AM heaving a brick through the window.
"I would have second thoughts about hiring any lawyer that can't distinguish between two entirely different sets of laws [stealing and intellectual]. I'd half expect Mr. Guido to charge jaywalkers with attempted murder based on his statements here."
Maybe this same attorney went to court in another case and testified about how an arson suspect raped a house. I'd better be careful or he might catch up to me and embezzle me dead.
Did the office mate actually steal it? Or did he (as is more likely) duplicate a file off of some p2p service? Also, if the study guide is a damaged one with trick answers, it certainly is not someone's intellectual property. You could not even call it copyright violation.
"That's a nice [job|house|whatever] you have there, Mr FileSharer. It would be a pity if something would happen to it should you not buy some of our music."
And then your mom notices that, despite all your efforts, someone has cracked your crystal.OGG file.
"You can't change the battery because adding a removable cover for it would make the iPod far larger than it currently is. Considering the 24+ hours available from a single charge on some models, and the much larger number of charge cycles available from lithium ion batteries today this becomes a moot point"
There are plenty of other devices that DON'T have the terrible battery design of the iPod...and many are smaller than the "regular" iPod. You are right, at least it isn't the first generation iPod: the one where the users took a high risk of destroying the thing by changing the battery. Apple actually let this one out the door!
" The interface is simple, the buttons and scroll wheel are perfect..."
Except, Apple, supposedly good at design, left out the most basic and easy-to-use of controls: the on-off switch. So it's one of those things that magically turns itself on when you merely bump it in your pocket. Then the battery gets run down, and you have to change it. Oh wait...
"hey, you have to remember that it's their store and you're just an unwanted guest in it. Don't they have a sign that says that in their window? If they don't, they should."
Which is why I learned to avoid Radio Shack and go to other stores that do not interrogate customers for even the smallest cash purchase. That's the free market.
"With oil running out in +/- 43 years we are already started very late to start working on good solutions"
I've seen this prediction-of-doom vary from 10 years to 50 years.... projected at various points over the last 30 years. Chances are, you'll be able to see some headline in 2070: "Oil Running Out in 20 Years!!!"
"I can see it now - a huge lawsuit, but McDonald's and Coca Cola will settle out of court. What the settlement will boil down to is $40,000,000 US for the attorneys, and a choice of supersizing their combo or a free apple pie for the victims..."
Or they'll settle out of court for a NICE HOT CUP OF MCDONALD'S COFFEE !!!!
"So in the eyes of the law, you can have a monopoly on cheese, if you are the only company selling cheese, even if another company sells pizza that comes with different cheese on it. Any cheese not sold or bartered in the primary market, does not in any way lesson the monopoly's ability to break the capitalist model."
Did you intend this as an analogy? In the OS world, many companies sell cheese. Some products are cheesier than others!
"By categorizing and then dismissing out-of-hand the lawsuits as "frivolous" and "punishing [Microsoft] for having too many features", your bias wrt this topic has already been displayed."
I am indeed biased against frivolous lawsuits, and companies that compete by conniving to get the government to punish their competitors (instead of merely providing better product). An example of the former is Netscape (which combined making a crappy product with filing frivolous lawsuits and presenting false testimony: what a business plan!!!). An example of the latter is Mozilla/Firefox, which succeeds by making a good browser (no frivolous lawsuits involved).
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Regardless, you won't find anyone stealing any form of compiled music at a p2p site. It wasn't the term "album" that didn't fit (I often use at like you do).
"People who stole this album might also enjoy stealing..."
Except I doubt any album-thieves are actually looking at p2p files. Those guys are instead down at the Tower Records at 4:00 AM heaving a brick through the window.
"Stealing IP would mean they are ripping the tunes off and claiming they wrote it, like with software"
Actually, that is a form of fraud. It involves misrepresentation. No stealing yet, unless the rippers are destroying the originals.
" If they says "You can't distribute things we didn't put on there" that's their choice as well."
The last thing to occur to them is to actually SELL the stuff, I guess.
"Stand back, the music industry may have just grown a brain cell."
No worry. That's nothing my ol' pal Jim Beam can't take care of in a hurry.
"I would have second thoughts about hiring any lawyer that can't distinguish between two entirely different sets of laws [stealing and intellectual]. I'd half expect Mr. Guido to charge jaywalkers with attempted murder based on his statements here."
Maybe this same attorney went to court in another case and testified about how an arson suspect raped a house. I'd better be careful or he might catch up to me and embezzle me dead.
"You get what you pay for, errr steal."
Did the office mate actually steal it? Or did he (as is more likely) duplicate a file off of some p2p service? Also, if the study guide is a damaged one with trick answers, it certainly is not someone's intellectual property. You could not even call it copyright violation.
"That's a nice [job|house|whatever] you have there, Mr FileSharer. It would be a pity if something would happen to it should you not buy some of our music."
.OGG file.
And then your mom notices that, despite all your efforts, someone has cracked your crystal
"You can't change the battery because adding a removable cover for it would make the iPod far larger than it currently is. Considering the 24+ hours available from a single charge on some models, and the much larger number of charge cycles available from lithium ion batteries today this becomes a moot point"
There are plenty of other devices that DON'T have the terrible battery design of the iPod...and many are smaller than the "regular" iPod. You are right, at least it isn't the first generation iPod: the one where the users took a high risk of destroying the thing by changing the battery. Apple actually let this one out the door!
" The interface is simple, the buttons and scroll wheel are perfect..."
Except, Apple, supposedly good at design, left out the most basic and easy-to-use of controls: the on-off switch. So it's one of those things that magically turns itself on when you merely bump it in your pocket. Then the battery gets run down, and you have to change it. Oh wait...
"So they admit that filesharers are the active music audience."
....and they admit that their audience is their enemy, oh foe of mine.
"Michael Guido --'While peer-to-peer users are stealing the intellectual property, they are also the active music audience"
Wrong-o, Guido the Killer Pimp. Nothing has ever been stolen via p2p. The words you are looking for is "users are violating the copyright of...".
OT, but is part of your SIG missing? Or is the incompleteness part of the joke?
Do they even SELL a 4 gig flash drive (the only thing that would compare to a DVD)?
But can they impersonate a T-Rex and mystify John Locke?
"easier to make a bomb with Diesel"
After XXX, Riddick and A Man Apart, Hollywood knows how easy it is.
"hey, you have to remember that it's their store and you're just an unwanted guest in it. Don't they have a sign that says that in their window? If they don't, they should."
Which is why I learned to avoid Radio Shack and go to other stores that do not interrogate customers for even the smallest cash purchase. That's the free market.
"With oil running out in +/- 43 years we are already started very late to start working on good solutions"
I've seen this prediction-of-doom vary from 10 years to 50 years.... projected at various points over the last 30 years. Chances are, you'll be able to see some headline in 2070: "Oil Running Out in 20 Years!!!"
Which would easily be the case if you had bothered to make one in the first place.
Maybe if it was on the sports forum.
Certainly there is room for someone to corner the market with a FPS where you run around the football field throwing hookers at the players.
"I can see it now - a huge lawsuit, but McDonald's and Coca Cola will settle out of court. What the settlement will boil down to is $40,000,000 US for the attorneys, and a choice of supersizing their combo or a free apple pie for the victims..."
Or they'll settle out of court for a NICE HOT CUP OF MCDONALD'S COFFEE !!!!
At least the McDonald's deep-fried MP3 sticks did not come with a finger.exe command.
"So in the eyes of the law, you can have a monopoly on cheese, if you are the only company selling cheese, even if another company sells pizza that comes with different cheese on it. Any cheese not sold or bartered in the primary market, does not in any way lesson the monopoly's ability to break the capitalist model."
Did you intend this as an analogy? In the OS world, many companies sell cheese. Some products are cheesier than others!
"Why don't they start selling their own software. Why didn't they move into other product areas. What's stopping them"
What does this have to do with anything?
"By categorizing and then dismissing out-of-hand the lawsuits as "frivolous" and "punishing [Microsoft] for having too many features", your bias wrt this topic has already been displayed."
I am indeed biased against frivolous lawsuits, and companies that compete by conniving to get the government to punish their competitors (instead of merely providing better product). An example of the former is Netscape (which combined making a crappy product with filing frivolous lawsuits and presenting false testimony: what a business plan!!!). An example of the latter is Mozilla/Firefox, which succeeds by making a good browser (no frivolous lawsuits involved).