Basically, the NCAA is acting like the MPAA in an attempt to limit access to try to restrict the transmission of information with respect to its events, with an onward eye toward selling exclusive access rights to the highest bidder in the MSM.
Hardly surprising from Myles Brand, the guy who made his claim to fame as the guy who fired Bobby Knight at Indiana...as many would say: "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
These are much more powerful than a mere laser pointer.
I think they should consider themselves lucky to only be facing a fine and some time in a PMITA prison. After all,.gov could try to make the case that the two of them are terrorists and send 'em to Gitmo or something...
It has to be much, much easier to overclock machines when you never have to worry about overheating. Who needs liquid cooling when you can have polar cooling?
I think it's quite likely that the threat of these sorts of attacks will be used as justification by the governments of more and more countries to try to wall off their part of the internet, the erection of things like the Great Firewall of China, and so forth.
They probably made more money off their album doing it this way than they ever would have made off the same album going through a record company. By the time you account for all the middlemen, marketing, and so forth, they might even have lost money on the album based on the level of sales, downloads, and so on.
Syndication. Unless, of course, this is what you meant when you said 'repeat fees'...
However, I can't see this one lasting long enough to reach syndication, because it looks to me to be a thinly veiled attempt to see how much revenue Lucas can milk out of the Star Wars franchise.
All China really has to do in order to control information flow nationwide is to deregulate the media and force them to compete vigorously against one another. They'll be so cost-pressured that they can't really do any journalism; instead, they'll end up so short-staffed that all they can do is publish the stuff that the government wants them to publish.
Barring that, the internet will simply detect the censorship and route around it, just like it always does...
M$ is aware that the medical industry is home to some of the strongest privacy and security regulations, are they not? Or are they going to use a few campaign contributions to relax or otherwise eliminate provisions in HIPAA and other regulations associated with medical records?
Color me crazy, but with M$'s track record in the area of security, I wouldn't be so certain my medical records would be handled in accordance with US law...
We talk about shutting down any unnecessary services and closing ports down by default in operating systems and firewalls. Why wouldn't one want to do the same with Web browsing? Lock down (or lock out) anything that can cause harm to corporate systems, and then open up things only as required.
Not only does it improve productivity, it also improves security at the same time...
Inflation is not caused by so-called greedy companies; it is, in fact, caused by the Federal Reserve. Inflation is, quite simply, the printing of additional money (as opposed to replacement of worn or destroyed notes).
If the developer decides to insert malware, or other forms of code not acceptable to you, the GPL gives you the freedom to modify it to suit your own needs. If that means you have to fork the project, so be it - that's within your rights under the GPL.
OTOH, the idea of using FOSS (good!) as a venue for spyware (bad!) is enough to make a guy's head explode...
I won't debate Interscope being based on Bell Atlantic v. Twombly; however, whether or not the RIAA's boilerplate meets the plausibility standard of Twombly is a matter subject to adjudication in the various jurisdictions. It will provide lots of opportunities to have the RIAA complaints dismissed, and that's something I think both of us can agree would be a Good Thing(tm).
Thank you for the discussion and the opportunity to improve the argument that I'm trying to make - I apologize for being a little less than clear in the GP post.
Although it may be true that Interscope v. Rodriguez may be valid in the jurisdiction for which it was issued, there's no obligation upon any other jurisdiction to follow it. This battle against RIAA complaints is far from over, and is likely to result in a visit to the S. Ct. in ~10-15 years as these cases wind their way through the appellate process.
There is a distinct possibility that Elektra v. Schwartz will come up with a different result - and this could actually be a good thing. Remember, it takes conflicting holdings between circuits for the S. Ct. to hear most cases...
I was given this rule prior to my first overseas trip, and I've found it to be generally accurate for the UK:
Take an item in the US, and it will probably cost the same in GBP in the UK as it does in USD in the US. With the current exchange rate, this means that most items cost a little over twice as much in the UK vis-a-vis the US.
Various establishments (hotels, restaurants, etc) have been taking CAD at par for many years, although most of them stopped doing so once 1 CAD dropped below 0.75 USD (and there have been times in the past 10-12 years where it was as long as 0.59 USD/CAD. The only difference now is that soon those establishments that take CAD at par will start making money from the forex conversion instead of losing it...
Also, here in Minnesota, Canadian coins have always been easy to spend as if they were US coins...
the head of the US Copyright Office considers the DCMA to be an important tool for copyright owners
I didn't realize that the Defense Contract Management Agency dealt with copyrights. Obviously, the US government is even more screwed up than I originally thought...
It's all well and good to have the tech locked down; however, the system is only as good as its weakest link - the humans. There's only so much you can do when a luser decides to keep all of his passwords on a post-it note...
I thought this sort of tinkering was already barred. With that in mind, this is likely to be at most a Pyrrhic victory; remember, the 9th Circuit is traditionally the most overturned circuit in cases that end up being heard by the S. Ct....
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Basically, the NCAA is acting like the MPAA in an attempt to limit access to try to restrict the transmission of information with respect to its events, with an onward eye toward selling exclusive access rights to the highest bidder in the MSM.
Hardly surprising from Myles Brand, the guy who made his claim to fame as the guy who fired Bobby Knight at Indiana...as many would say: "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
These are much more powerful than a mere laser pointer.
.gov could try to make the case that the two of them are terrorists and send 'em to Gitmo or something...
I think they should consider themselves lucky to only be facing a fine and some time in a PMITA prison. After all,
It has to be much, much easier to overclock machines when you never have to worry about overheating. Who needs liquid cooling when you can have polar cooling?
This method will not create passwords that are strong enough. A truly strong password should have at least three of the following, if not all four:
Uppercase letters
Lowercase letters
Numbers
Non-Latin characters (i.e. symbols)
Every password I use has at least three, even for free-registration-required sites...
I think it's quite likely that the threat of these sorts of attacks will be used as justification by the governments of more and more countries to try to wall off their part of the internet, the erection of things like the Great Firewall of China, and so forth.
Gotta stop those so-called terrorists, after all.
They probably made more money off their album doing it this way than they ever would have made off the same album going through a record company. By the time you account for all the middlemen, marketing, and so forth, they might even have lost money on the album based on the level of sales, downloads, and so on.
I thought the internet was deregulated by nature, and that censorship is something that's simply routed around.
I'd think that website discrimination would work much the same way, although I could be wrong...
Syndication. Unless, of course, this is what you meant when you said 'repeat fees'...
However, I can't see this one lasting long enough to reach syndication, because it looks to me to be a thinly veiled attempt to see how much revenue Lucas can milk out of the Star Wars franchise.
All China really has to do in order to control information flow nationwide is to deregulate the media and force them to compete vigorously against one another. They'll be so cost-pressured that they can't really do any journalism; instead, they'll end up so short-staffed that all they can do is publish the stuff that the government wants them to publish.
Barring that, the internet will simply detect the censorship and route around it, just like it always does...
M$ is aware that the medical industry is home to some of the strongest privacy and security regulations, are they not? Or are they going to use a few campaign contributions to relax or otherwise eliminate provisions in HIPAA and other regulations associated with medical records? Color me crazy, but with M$'s track record in the area of security, I wouldn't be so certain my medical records would be handled in accordance with US law...
I hope it's Capitol v. Thomas, not Captiol v. Thomas...I have no idea who Captiol is!
We talk about shutting down any unnecessary services and closing ports down by default in operating systems and firewalls. Why wouldn't one want to do the same with Web browsing? Lock down (or lock out) anything that can cause harm to corporate systems, and then open up things only as required. Not only does it improve productivity, it also improves security at the same time...
Inflation is not caused by so-called greedy companies; it is, in fact, caused by the Federal Reserve. Inflation is, quite simply, the printing of additional money (as opposed to replacement of worn or destroyed notes).
If the developer decides to insert malware, or other forms of code not acceptable to you, the GPL gives you the freedom to modify it to suit your own needs. If that means you have to fork the project, so be it - that's within your rights under the GPL.
OTOH, the idea of using FOSS (good!) as a venue for spyware (bad!) is enough to make a guy's head explode...
I won't debate Interscope being based on Bell Atlantic v. Twombly; however, whether or not the RIAA's boilerplate meets the plausibility standard of Twombly is a matter subject to adjudication in the various jurisdictions. It will provide lots of opportunities to have the RIAA complaints dismissed, and that's something I think both of us can agree would be a Good Thing(tm).
Thank you for the discussion and the opportunity to improve the argument that I'm trying to make - I apologize for being a little less than clear in the GP post.
Although it may be true that Interscope v. Rodriguez may be valid in the jurisdiction for which it was issued, there's no obligation upon any other jurisdiction to follow it. This battle against RIAA complaints is far from over, and is likely to result in a visit to the S. Ct. in ~10-15 years as these cases wind their way through the appellate process.
There is a distinct possibility that Elektra v. Schwartz will come up with a different result - and this could actually be a good thing. Remember, it takes conflicting holdings between circuits for the S. Ct. to hear most cases...
I was given this rule prior to my first overseas trip, and I've found it to be generally accurate for the UK:
Take an item in the US, and it will probably cost the same in GBP in the UK as it does in USD in the US. With the current exchange rate, this means that most items cost a little over twice as much in the UK vis-a-vis the US.
Various establishments (hotels, restaurants, etc) have been taking CAD at par for many years, although most of them stopped doing so once 1 CAD dropped below 0.75 USD (and there have been times in the past 10-12 years where it was as long as 0.59 USD/CAD. The only difference now is that soon those establishments that take CAD at par will start making money from the forex conversion instead of losing it... Also, here in Minnesota, Canadian coins have always been easy to spend as if they were US coins...
the head of the US Copyright Office considers the DCMA to be an important tool for copyright owners
I didn't realize that the Defense Contract Management Agency dealt with copyrights. Obviously, the US government is even more screwed up than I originally thought...
It's all well and good to have the tech locked down; however, the system is only as good as its weakest link - the humans. There's only so much you can do when a luser decides to keep all of his passwords on a post-it note...
One of their own, Dr Dre, will have said it best: "We have your...record company surrounded. Put down the candy and let the little boy go."
I thought this sort of tinkering was already barred. With that in mind, this is likely to be at most a Pyrrhic victory; remember, the 9th Circuit is traditionally the most overturned circuit in cases that end up being heard by the S. Ct....
I suspect that this is little more than a veiled attempt to scream "We're working on interoperability - now government, leave us the hell alone!"
It seems to me that we should be expecting little Craters about, oh, 9 months from now...
Oh, wait. This is how the feds set up their kiddy porn honeypots...