If you blatantly make an analog copy of the Mona Lisa, that's copyright infringement even if the target work doesn't have the exact same colour values as the original.
Wait, have they extended copyright duration again?
Cancer kills people of all ages, many prior to hitting puberty. It is not caused by long lives. 22 is not "fine" as a lifespan. A male who lives to 60 has about 5 times the breeding years to reproduce.
For the average consumer, the PS2's disc problems are as evident as the RROD
No they are fucking not.
One is an inherent desgn flaw, and the other is whacking a spinning disc onto something it should not be whacked upon.
If you buy something which is designed to work ok within certain tolerances, and it fucks up, you have a complaint. If you put it outside those tolerances, you don't.
Why must having this as your or your parents' occupation be mutually exclusive with Internet access that meets the U.S. federal standards for broadband?
It works like this : Supply 1000 factory workers with broadband for X amount, or supply 10 farmers with broadband for X amount.
Which would _you_ do, if you were supplying broadband?
The distribution, marketing and advertising of the big boys is what is preventing others coming to the table. The entire point of record companies in the past was widescale distribution - that was why they were needed. Now widescale distribution is easy.
Without distribution, record companies have marketing and advertising. That's it. They're not producing anything.
However, the marketing and advertising they do is preventing smaller, better acts coming through. They push acts, and if successful, profit off of them. That is their only point now.
2. It only appears hypocritical because, no offense, you lack the wisdom of balance: Taking any ideology to an extreme is never a good thing in the long run.
You criticise DRM. Someone says you use products with DRM, and says that's a bit hypocritical. You say they lack wisdom. Good call.
First, let me say I've not pirated anything for about 10 years.
No, being a pirate is still theft.
No it's not.
Piracy is not theft.
You're wrong.
For a more detailed explanation, here's a quote from Wikipedia. The first line says : In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
Everybody complains about region restrictions. I don't like region restrictions but the reality is different regions have different laws and some movies aren't allowed there. I think region restrictions are primarily about making sure legal behinds are covered.
Bullshit. Pure unadulterated bullshit.
The regions are broken up into such large sections that they just can't censor by region. It's impossible.
At $5 per disk, I would not have them because of the player cost, unless I find a great price on a used one somewhere.
The thing is... millions of PS3 consoles have been sold, but millions of those PS3 users aren't buying bluray, because it's more expensive, and because you can't take it round a friend's house (with certainty).
This is a bluray player for £60, which I found within 10 seconds on google.... about the same as 6 new DVDs. If you're claiming that the player cost is a problem... it's not.
True and in general I think it is a pretty dick move, but they are using images from the movies on their websites which I think is a bit of a no no.
Also, one thing to be remembered is that trademarks _must_ be defended, or you lose them. If they didn't go after this pub, they stand the risk of losing their trademark.
The law shouldn’t be based on what you like or don’t like. The people should have their own choice to pursue what they like and avoid what they don’t like.
Here's the problem. He's talking about what the law should and should not be, and not what the law is. There is not a single legal system in the world which allows people to pursue what they like. Drug laws, bestiality laws, incest laws, homosexuality laws, indecency laws, are everywhere, and are different in different places.
Free speech should be absolute, not a pick-and-choose sort of thing.
No, no it should not. Libel, slander, and "Conspiracy to commit murder" laws are restrictions on free speech.
Having said all that, I absolutely sympathise with the guy, and am astonished this case got as far as it did (though, not being able to see the images, makes independent evaluations of innocence difficult. The fact that he wasn't charged speaks for itself though). By the way, Canadian taxpayers, this is your cash funding this. If this guy spent $75000, crap knows how much your government spent on it. If this case had not gone ahead, I guess at leas 100 medium paid Canadians would not have had to pay income tax for a year.
In the UK, the only time it is legal to turn your hazards on while moving is when there is a queue up ahead, to warn those behind you. Might that be what they were doing?
Where would the apostrophe go in his? Hi's? That doesn't make sense. To make sense, "his" would actually be "hes". It's not.
ps. I know the apostrophe rules for it. Its rules depend on its situation, and if it's not been used correctly, it's annoying. However, using "his" as an example of how coherent it's, is counterproductive IMO, since the way "he" becomes "his" is non-intuitive.
There are also places where it's unwise to replace "it is" with "it's", as in my previous sentence.
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They've found me!
Unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.
The sun may not rise this morning, too.
Throughout the website they write their emails as "Lumiere at Degban.com", "Chopin at Degban.com" and "Gutenberg at Degban.com". I wonder why they don't just use lumiere@degban.com, chopin@degban.com, or gutenberg@degban.com?
I consider all my information very confident what do I do?
I'm not sure, is your information aggressive and/or overbearing, too?
I do apologize for the inconvenience, we have been victim of a phishing/hacking attack, which was aimed at reducing our credibility
among clients and the public as you can see how, I truly am sorry
that you were effected as such, but allow to humbly suggest that
you channel a part of your anger at those holier than thou hackers
who effect users like yourself by such irresponsible actions
we are working hard to fix the matter, but alas we can not do much
as the size of the attack was larger than we could have expected
I am hoping you can manage to get back your traffic and are never
affected by such issue ever again
Yours
Taban Panahi
Degban Ltd.
I don't even know where to start with this.... so many targets. I was going to put (sic)'s in, but I gave up after the second line. It looks like it has gone through a spellchecker, I'll say that much.
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If you blatantly make an analog copy of the Mona Lisa, that's copyright infringement even if the target work doesn't have the exact same colour values as the original.
Wait, have they extended copyright duration again?
Cancer kills people of all ages, many prior to hitting puberty. It is not caused by long lives. 22 is not "fine" as a lifespan. A male who lives to 60 has about 5 times the breeding years to reproduce.
For the average consumer, the PS2's disc problems are as evident as the RROD
No they are fucking not.
One is an inherent desgn flaw, and the other is whacking a spinning disc onto something it should not be whacked upon.
If you buy something which is designed to work ok within certain tolerances, and it fucks up, you have a complaint. If you put it outside those tolerances, you don't.
Every original PS2 I've seen has had problems with the DVD drive, no exceptions.
The PS2 disc problems were not as prevalent. Also, the PS2 problems were from what the user did to them to some degree - ie. you could avoid them.
My original PS2 runs everything fine on it now.
Your statistics are useless without time.
SquareTrade published an examination of 1040 Xbox 360's and said that they suffered from a failure rate of 16.4% (one in six).
One in six per what?
The fact is no-one can pinpoint what the failure rate was
And that's the main problem. Come clean or don't shill. Everyone knows the 360's got red rings quite often, while the PS3 didn't break down much*
When there is overwhelming evidence of things breaking more often than other things, it's silly to ignore it.
*ps. Mine did... it was just the drive motor for the the bluray, which I could have fixed myself.... but I got a replacement, which I have now.
Bullshit.
Which companies got burned during that time and did less than Microsoft? Which exact major league companies did that?
Microsoft did _not_ sort the problem quickly... not if you had a defective unit, at that time.
he'd quite like to do a sandbox space trading game like Elite, 'except done right.'
Please step away from the buikding, Minecraft developers.
Seriously, go fuck up something else if you like - don't try to fuck up elite.
If you have a trademark, you've got to defend it, even in Europe - it's not ok just sitting on it if you know other people out there are using it.
Moreover, you can give anyone a license to use your marks without making a charge.
I agree - which is almost what they've eventually done in this case - a license for $100.
The Hobbit is a trademark.
Why must having this as your or your parents' occupation be mutually exclusive with Internet access that meets the U.S. federal standards for broadband?
It works like this : Supply 1000 factory workers with broadband for X amount, or supply 10 farmers with broadband for X amount.
Which would _you_ do, if you were supplying broadband?
The distribution, marketing and advertising of the big boys is what is preventing others coming to the table. The entire point of record companies in the past was widescale distribution - that was why they were needed. Now widescale distribution is easy.
Without distribution, record companies have marketing and advertising. That's it. They're not producing anything.
However, the marketing and advertising they do is preventing smaller, better acts coming through. They push acts, and if successful, profit off of them. That is their only point now.
2. It only appears hypocritical because, no offense, you lack the wisdom of balance: Taking any ideology to an extreme is never a good thing in the long run.
You criticise DRM. Someone says you use products with DRM, and says that's a bit hypocritical. You say they lack wisdom. Good call.
First, let me say I've not pirated anything for about 10 years.
No, being a pirate is still theft.
No it's not.
Piracy is not theft.
You're wrong.
For a more detailed explanation, here's a quote from Wikipedia. The first line says : In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
Everybody complains about region restrictions. I don't like region restrictions but the reality is different regions have different laws and some movies aren't allowed there. I think region restrictions are primarily about making sure legal behinds are covered.
Bullshit. Pure unadulterated bullshit.
The regions are broken up into such large sections that they just can't censor by region. It's impossible.
At $5 per disk, I would not have them because of the player cost, unless I find a great price on a used one somewhere.
The thing is... millions of PS3 consoles have been sold, but millions of those PS3 users aren't buying bluray, because it's more expensive, and because you can't take it round a friend's house (with certainty).
This is a bluray player for £60, which I found within 10 seconds on google.... about the same as 6 new DVDs. If you're claiming that the player cost is a problem... it's not.
Note - I own a PS3 and no bluray videos.
The entire argument about intellectual content being the product is completely borked by the pricing scheme.
If the content were the product, then the price of a DVD and Bluray would be almost identical.
I've had a PS3 running through HD capable screens since release. The number of Bluray films I've bought : 0.
True and in general I think it is a pretty dick move, but they are using images from the movies on their websites which I think is a bit of a no no.
Also, one thing to be remembered is that trademarks _must_ be defended, or you lose them. If they didn't go after this pub, they stand the risk of losing their trademark.
Obligatory.
The Linux kernel guys show that constant steady
I agree... 1 sec.
frequent releases are the way forwards, note
Argh... just got to...
to GNOME and KDE
update firefox...
guys, you
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comment.
Italics from linked statement
The law shouldn’t be based on what you like or don’t like. The people should have their own choice to pursue what they like and avoid what they don’t like.
Here's the problem. He's talking about what the law should and should not be, and not what the law is. There is not a single legal system in the world which allows people to pursue what they like. Drug laws, bestiality laws, incest laws, homosexuality laws, indecency laws, are everywhere, and are different in different places.
Free speech should be absolute, not a pick-and-choose sort of thing.
No, no it should not. Libel, slander, and "Conspiracy to commit murder" laws are restrictions on free speech.
Having said all that, I absolutely sympathise with the guy, and am astonished this case got as far as it did (though, not being able to see the images, makes independent evaluations of innocence difficult. The fact that he wasn't charged speaks for itself though). By the way, Canadian taxpayers, this is your cash funding this. If this guy spent $75000, crap knows how much your government spent on it. If this case had not gone ahead, I guess at leas 100 medium paid Canadians would not have had to pay income tax for a year.
That definition is fatally flawed though.
An example : Species A can breed with Species B, B can breed with C, C can breed with D, however D cannot bree with A.
This is a ring species.
In the UK, the only time it is legal to turn your hazards on while moving is when there is a queue up ahead, to warn those behind you. Might that be what they were doing?
Where would the apostrophe go in his? Hi's? That doesn't make sense. To make sense, "his" would actually be "hes". It's not.
ps. I know the apostrophe rules for it. Its rules depend on its situation, and if it's not been used correctly, it's annoying. However, using "his" as an example of how coherent it's, is counterproductive IMO, since the way "he" becomes "his" is non-intuitive.
There are also places where it's unwise to replace "it is" with "it's", as in my previous sentence.
From Degban Ltd's website terms of use :
This website uses cookies to monitor browsing preferences. If you do allow cookies to be used, the following personal information may be stored by us for use by third parties: [insert list of information].
They've found me!
Unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.
The sun may not rise this morning, too.
Throughout the website they write their emails as "Lumiere at Degban.com", "Chopin at Degban.com" and "Gutenberg at Degban.com". I wonder why they don't just use lumiere@degban.com, chopin@degban.com, or gutenberg@degban.com?
I consider all my information very confident what do I do?
I'm not sure, is your information aggressive and/or overbearing, too?
This seems to be their defence :
Hello Dave
I do apologize for the inconvenience, we have been victim of a phishing/hacking attack, which was aimed at reducing our credibility
among clients and the public as you can see how, I truly am sorry
that you were effected as such, but allow to humbly suggest that
you channel a part of your anger at those holier than thou hackers
who effect users like yourself by such irresponsible actions
we are working hard to fix the matter, but alas we can not do much
as the size of the attack was larger than we could have expected
I am hoping you can manage to get back your traffic and are never
affected by such issue ever again
Yours
Taban Panahi
Degban Ltd.
I don't even know where to start with this.... so many targets. I was going to put (sic)'s in, but I gave up after the second line. It looks like it has gone through a spellchecker, I'll say that much.