This guy didn't make money, or gain anything else of value, from selling the songs and being a real distributor. This leads any reasonable person to the conclusion that he didn't violate distribution rights in a traditional fashion, and laws need to be changed to address this gap.
Then he should pay for one copy of the song for each copy he distributed. $1.29 for each copy is enough to cover the real lost sales. He didn't make any money off of the copy, so he isn't liable for a legitimate "distribution rights violation" everyone brings up. It's false to apply that when there's no money being made by him; the law is to prevent you from making money off of someone's work (selling bootlegs of a production CD), not to prevent you from giving a copy to your friend (so they can hear that awesome new song).
Even if they're doing this outside the school, they may want to offer help to the parent and/or student in the form of counseling. But they shouldn't have carte blanche in terms of their power.
Please shoot yourself if you think that private education doesn't do the same thing, even home schooling is mostly based on indoctrination.
I graduated from a private school. I left public school because they were both indoctrinating, and discriminating against students based on their socio-economic background.
Because every private school is benevolent and doesn't care whether you pay them? They say "You're the poorest, join us for free!"? They don't have any agenda, religious or otherwise? They don't have a mission to make you think that they're the coolest school, and make your parents think that they're the best school, so they keep paying?
No, you pay property taxes regardless as to whether you go to public or private school, so you either pay for school once or twice depending on where your kid goes.
The small amount of extra for cat6 is worth it when you consider that some day you may wish to use 10GBASE-T or sell the house in a time (like 10 years) when that's common to have on computers.
If you make a game where being a client and not a pirate is a large disadvantage as it is with these 2 releases, you're pushing for people to pirate your game, and being irresponsible to the shareholders.
Carbon monoxide, not considered a pollutant, even though there's meters inside houses with natural gas to check if the stuff is there so it doesn't suffocate you?
are the result of genetically-inferior parents who chose to have a child or couldn't offer an acceptable prenatal environment
Yes, they chose both of these options with a "yes" or "no" terminal in the womb.
elected to see a quack doctor who committed malpractice on them
This is also completely their fault. Since the doctor knows buzzwords and can fool someone who isn't a surgeon into believing they're qualified, it's their fault.
were on the road at 2am
Holy shit, driving at 2am is a bad decision when you're perfectly sober?
decided to play football
Damn, it's a touch football player's fault that the retard defending him ran into him, eh?
What about the people too lazy to rehab? Or chose to ride without a seatbelt
I actually think those are the only two instances where you're right 100% of the time, assuming that they're actually too lazy to rehab, and don't have some other legit reason to not do it. There's a whole bunch of gray area you don't even consider. I'm not shocked, because you posted AC too, despite thinking you're superior in every way to everyone who has ever made a choice, regardless as to the severity of the consequences.
Oh, and by the way, I hope you realize that making the choice to leave a party 30 seconds early, having not had anything to drink, is a choice that can lead to you getting hit by a car that happens to be careening down the sidewalk. Food for thought.
I'm still unclear on the definition. If a center has a PUE of 2.5, does that (still) mean 1 watt is used for equipment, with 1.5 watts going to support systems?
No, it won't work. The lawyer is an up-and-comer working pro bono to make a name for himself. He has everything to gain by fighting this out to the end.
Michael Jackson purchased the distribution rights to 200 Beatles songs for $47 million. $235,000 per work is significantly higher than the statute allows, but let's consider that an upper limit for a fair market value. Statutory damages in the range of half actual damages certainly don't seem out of line under Gore or State Farm.
One thing to consider is that by selling pirated copies of songs, you're not actually depriving someone of ownership of the copyright. This isn't a case of "You took a Beatles song worth $235k away from MJ, and MJ no longer has the Beatles song." It's a case of "You distributed X copies of a song that you had no right to distribute." In reality, the damages should be (# of copies given out [directly and indirectly]) times (highest price the song sells for) times (decent penalty multiplier, maybe 3-6 times).
Legal fights are all about money: ever seen the lower-class people on Judge Judy fighting over $100? How long do those cases last
They actually get paid to be there for the days of filming, something around $75 a day for a 3-day stretch. Both parties make out like bandits in a case like that.
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This guy didn't make money, or gain anything else of value, from selling the songs and being a real distributor. This leads any reasonable person to the conclusion that he didn't violate distribution rights in a traditional fashion, and laws need to be changed to address this gap.
Then he should pay for one copy of the song for each copy he distributed. $1.29 for each copy is enough to cover the real lost sales. He didn't make any money off of the copy, so he isn't liable for a legitimate "distribution rights violation" everyone brings up. It's false to apply that when there's no money being made by him; the law is to prevent you from making money off of someone's work (selling bootlegs of a production CD), not to prevent you from giving a copy to your friend (so they can hear that awesome new song).
They'll weep if the precedent is now set closer to 35 cents a song and not $150,000.....
Thanks for the abbreviation that really doesn't just pop like alot of others do.
Even if they're doing this outside the school, they may want to offer help to the parent and/or student in the form of counseling. But they shouldn't have carte blanche in terms of their power.
Please shoot yourself if you think that private education doesn't do the same thing, even home schooling is mostly based on indoctrination.
I graduated from a private school. I left public school because they were both indoctrinating, and discriminating against students based on their socio-economic background.
Because every private school is benevolent and doesn't care whether you pay them? They say "You're the poorest, join us for free!"? They don't have any agenda, religious or otherwise? They don't have a mission to make you think that they're the coolest school, and make your parents think that they're the best school, so they keep paying?
Keep dreaming.
Anarchy = big people beating the living shit out of smaller people on the streets.
Representative democracy = big people beating the shit out of little people either on the streets or in the marketplace.
They do the same thing. You just get to pick which game to play in a system like the US.
The real question isn't "if", as you imply in your also-cleverly-worded response, but "when".
No, you pay property taxes regardless as to whether you go to public or private school, so you either pay for school once or twice depending on where your kid goes.
The small amount of extra for cat6 is worth it when you consider that some day you may wish to use 10GBASE-T or sell the house in a time (like 10 years) when that's common to have on computers.
What the hell were you playing ME in VMWare for?
If you make a game where being a client and not a pirate is a large disadvantage as it is with these 2 releases, you're pushing for people to pirate your game, and being irresponsible to the shareholders.
No, it uses a giant spacelaser, hence "Starforce".
Yes, the amount of CO2 one person puts out isn't even remotely close to the amount a tank of propane will put out once burned.
Carbon monoxide, not considered a pollutant, even though there's meters inside houses with natural gas to check if the stuff is there so it doesn't suffocate you?
Considering Apple actually announced and demoed the iPad, you don't have to worry about the name changing anymore.
are the result of genetically-inferior parents who chose to have a child or couldn't offer an acceptable prenatal environment
Yes, they chose both of these options with a "yes" or "no" terminal in the womb.
elected to see a quack doctor who committed malpractice on them
This is also completely their fault. Since the doctor knows buzzwords and can fool someone who isn't a surgeon into believing they're qualified, it's their fault.
were on the road at 2am
Holy shit, driving at 2am is a bad decision when you're perfectly sober?
decided to play football
Damn, it's a touch football player's fault that the retard defending him ran into him, eh?
What about the people too lazy to rehab? Or chose to ride without a seatbelt
I actually think those are the only two instances where you're right 100% of the time, assuming that they're actually too lazy to rehab, and don't have some other legit reason to not do it. There's a whole bunch of gray area you don't even consider. I'm not shocked, because you posted AC too, despite thinking you're superior in every way to everyone who has ever made a choice, regardless as to the severity of the consequences.
Oh, and by the way, I hope you realize that making the choice to leave a party 30 seconds early, having not had anything to drink, is a choice that can lead to you getting hit by a car that happens to be careening down the sidewalk. Food for thought.
I'm still unclear on the definition. If a center has a PUE of 2.5, does that (still) mean 1 watt is used for equipment, with 1.5 watts going to support systems?
It's British, obviously.
Since when is this force a "secret"???
By imagining it's sprained?
I really do wonder, how did you get a mod of insightful?
No, it won't work. The lawyer is an up-and-comer working pro bono to make a name for himself. He has everything to gain by fighting this out to the end.
Michael Jackson purchased the distribution rights to 200 Beatles songs for $47 million. $235,000 per work is significantly higher than the statute allows, but let's consider that an upper limit for a fair market value. Statutory damages in the range of half actual damages certainly don't seem out of line under Gore or State Farm.
One thing to consider is that by selling pirated copies of songs, you're not actually depriving someone of ownership of the copyright. This isn't a case of "You took a Beatles song worth $235k away from MJ, and MJ no longer has the Beatles song." It's a case of "You distributed X copies of a song that you had no right to distribute." In reality, the damages should be (# of copies given out [directly and indirectly]) times (highest price the song sells for) times (decent penalty multiplier, maybe 3-6 times).
Legal fights are all about money: ever seen the lower-class people on Judge Judy fighting over $100? How long do those cases last
They actually get paid to be there for the days of filming, something around $75 a day for a 3-day stretch. Both parties make out like bandits in a case like that.