This also, oddly enough, explains why marijuana is illegal.
Perhaps we could set aside say 1% of the money used to prosecute and incarcerate marijuana offenders this year to develop and clinically trial his drug?
Invisible processes battling each other for CPU, RAM, disk space and Internet bandwidth resources.
And all I want to do is send some resumes, check the news and email and browse some sites.
Ubuntu just got a much larger partition. Screw this crap, seriously.
An EEG monitor from a Popular Science magazine.
A Blue Box from an Esquire magazine (and ATT docs in the library).
A Heathkit Ham transmitter, transceiver (HW101), keyer and the first electronic calculator Heathkit IC-2008-A.
(The calculator still works S/N 01224)
A 2kW PEP Linear RF amplifier and 4 element 15m Yagi antenna from QST magazine.
(Neighbors with electronic music organs weren't happy about it but I was into DX at the time so only up at 1-5 AM)
A low power AM transmitter from LaFayette electronics (and a very long illegal antenna).
In 1974.
Better yet ban corporate campaign contributions.
Only people who can vote can contribute.
Opensecrets.org would dry up but so would the best gov't money can buy.
The copyright holder's exclusive right to make copies was infringed upon.
And when copyright holders engage in price fixing and STEALING from the public domain by purchasing laws (DMCA, copyright extension ad infinitum) that defy, ignore and subvert the intent of the copyright clause in the Constitution then perhaps they deserve to have their rights defied, ignored and subverted.
Copyright is a bargain between the creator and the public and the middlemen (publishers/distributors) have broken that bargain to their advantage and everyone elses loss.
Like I do. A half dozen SVHS tapes, 150 VHS tapes and two prosumer VCR's have served me well for 20 years. The good stuff I copy to DVD. The random stuff fills my 5 400GB hard drives. I used to copy my vinyl to reel to reel tapes to save wear. Now they are mp3's. Now I copy my S/VHS stuff to Divx on DVD or hard drive. But the vinyl/tapes are still there for when the modern media shits the bed.
What the authors of the DMCA didn't realize is that you enforce copyright at your own peril in todays world.
The RIAA pissed away a $10B+ opportunity by not blanket licensing the original Napster. Now they're on their last lap around the bowl. The MPAA will suffer a similar fate if they try and push their bought and paid for copyright nonsense too much further. Google knows exactly what its doing and exposing the absurdity of DMCA is a great first step.
I think Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert and the execs at Comedy Central are smart enough to realize that having short low quality clips of their shows is really free advertising and viral marketing. They get a larger audience, more exposure and sell more DVD's/whatever because YouTube exposes their product to many people who wouldn't otherwise have watched. Nobody is selling YouTube clips on DVD-R's at the flea market or on the street.
In fact one of the most valuable services GooTube could offer us is a list of companies who, in their "piracy is theft, we lost $100B, the world is coming to an end, waaaaaaaaaaah" paranoia, actually send takedown notices. It would let us know who the clueless idiots (most of MPAA/RIAA) are.
I would be very surprised if Comedy Central ever sends a takedown notice to YouTube. They strike me as a reasonable bunch. (Funny too.) The rest of the asshats can shoot themselves in the foot all they want as far as I'm concerned.
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Justice, my ass.
Mary Bono, actually.
How about before 9/11? The surveillance started in MARCH 2001.
" An Anaconda would deliver an output power of 1MW (enough to power 2,000 houses). " Me no think so.
to remove their rootkit.
Mumbo jumbo all you want.
Intellectual property still only exists in the minds of lawyers.
And it only exists to make lawyers money. Period.
And yet, here we are.
MAD may have kept us only one RCH away from hell but that was all that was required.
This also, oddly enough, explains why marijuana is illegal.
Perhaps we could set aside say 1% of the money used to prosecute and incarcerate marijuana offenders this year to develop and clinically trial his drug?
Naaah, makes too much sense.
I look forward to reading Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse 5" on that material.
Invisible processes battling each other for CPU, RAM, disk space and Internet bandwidth resources. And all I want to do is send some resumes, check the news and email and browse some sites. Ubuntu just got a much larger partition. Screw this crap, seriously.
Yeah, win 4.0 was so much better than 3.11 that nobody has ever heard of it.
So instead of coding properly to eliminate buffer overflows they throw more crap on. Wonderful.
An EEG monitor from a Popular Science magazine. A Blue Box from an Esquire magazine (and ATT docs in the library). A Heathkit Ham transmitter, transceiver (HW101), keyer and the first electronic calculator Heathkit IC-2008-A. (The calculator still works S/N 01224) A 2kW PEP Linear RF amplifier and 4 element 15m Yagi antenna from QST magazine. (Neighbors with electronic music organs weren't happy about it but I was into DX at the time so only up at 1-5 AM) A low power AM transmitter from LaFayette electronics (and a very long illegal antenna). In 1974.
'These Recycle Bins are just repositories for our music, and they all know it. So it's time to get paid for it.'
For the last time, not one of the 20,000 lawsuits ever mentions stealing. Nothing was stolen. Nothing was taken. Stop being a tool.
Better yet ban corporate campaign contributions. Only people who can vote can contribute. Opensecrets.org would dry up but so would the best gov't money can buy.
just a reminder ..... nothing was "taken".
The copyright holder's exclusive right to make copies was infringed upon.
And when copyright holders engage in price fixing and STEALING from the public domain by purchasing laws (DMCA, copyright extension ad infinitum) that defy, ignore and subvert the intent of the copyright clause in the Constitution then perhaps they deserve to have their rights defied, ignored and subverted.
Copyright is a bargain between the creator and the public and the middlemen (publishers/distributors) have broken that bargain to their advantage and everyone elses loss.
Like I do.
A half dozen SVHS tapes, 150 VHS tapes and two prosumer VCR's have served me well for 20 years.
The good stuff I copy to DVD. The random stuff fills my 5 400GB hard drives.
I used to copy my vinyl to reel to reel tapes to save wear. Now they are mp3's.
Now I copy my S/VHS stuff to Divx on DVD or hard drive. But the vinyl/tapes are still there for when
the modern media shits the bed.
Was it the colon clinching writing style ?
Or the sense that the writer didn't know what the fsck he was talking about that annoyed you?
More like "Shitty week huh?"
"yet noone does anything about that"
Seat belts? Air bags? Crumple zones? ABS? Better tires? Better roadways?
I think Ralph Nader and a few thousand automotive engineers would argue with that statement.
Theft does not mean what you think it means.
You are an idiot and a troll.
Yeah, I read about it a few hours after posting.
I guess all good things must come to an end when lawyers get involved.
A decision they will regret though.
What the authors of the DMCA didn't realize is that you enforce copyright at your own peril in todays world.
The RIAA pissed away a $10B+ opportunity by not blanket licensing the original Napster. Now they're on their last lap around the bowl. The MPAA will suffer a similar fate if they try and push their bought and paid for copyright nonsense too much further. Google knows exactly what its doing and exposing the absurdity of DMCA is a great first step.
I think Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert and the execs at Comedy Central are smart enough to realize that having short low quality clips of their shows is really free advertising and viral marketing. They get a larger audience, more exposure and sell more DVD's/whatever because YouTube exposes their product to many people who wouldn't otherwise have watched. Nobody is selling YouTube clips on DVD-R's at the flea market or on the street.
In fact one of the most valuable services GooTube could offer us is a list of companies who, in their "piracy is theft, we lost $100B, the world is coming to an end, waaaaaaaaaaah" paranoia, actually send takedown notices.
It would let us know who the clueless idiots (most of MPAA/RIAA) are.
I would be very surprised if Comedy Central ever sends a takedown notice to YouTube. They strike me as a reasonable bunch. (Funny too.)
The rest of the asshats can shoot themselves in the foot all they want as far as I'm concerned.