Not so long ago http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/02/144520 6 we all agreed that the "Make me a website for free, you will get exposure and clients" myth doesn't work and it is basically a scam to rip off geeks. Now we say the same thing "Give your music for free and people will buy your CDs" will work for musicians....maybe because you are the one benefiting from getting all the music for free and promising that you will buy their CDs if they let you listen to it first?
They are only protected so far because nobody is benefiting economically from displaying copyrighted material, just like you say, they take down user-submited material when the receive a take-down notice. The problem for them will start when they come with a revenue-generating strategy (ads/comercials before the content... whatever) because then it can be argued that they are profiting from the copyrighted material owned by someone else. In that case the "we didn't know until we received the take-down" defense will not work in court.
"The information that was provided by customers who ordered DSL-related equipment included name, address, e-mail address, phone number, credit card number and credit card expiration..."
Why is AT&T collecting credit card information for ONE-TIME transactions (equipment purchase)?
We need to remember that there is another audience that this campaing is trying to reach: Apple users. Sure, you don't get a lot of new customers by insulting their choice of a competing product, but you gain a lot of loyalty from your current customers.
It is a fact that a lot of ads are targeted to current users of the products to estabish and reinforce brand loyalty. In this case you don't have to limit yourself just to mac users, after all there are a lot more ipod users out there that I am sure Apple would like to convince to buy a mac. After all, aren't you already hip and cool with your ipod? Wouldn't you like to dump that working-stiff-white-collar-forties-guy of a PC and get you a mac to go with your ipod?
You forgot prediction number 4:
Someone will come up with a way to infect the actual card
After all, if you can infect and modify the BIOS, why not this ultra-secure card? I am sure it has some type of non-volatile memory with firmware and the ability to burn updates into it, thus making it possible to be attacked.
I am pretty sure that their licensing fees will more than cover the money they will lose for lack of customers.
The funny thing is that my very first VCR was a Philips that advertised exactly the opposite: it was capable of receiving a special signal that marked the beg. and end of commercials in order to atomatically pause recording. Of course, not a single broadcaster ever got on track with the idea....:)
Your phrased that wrong, it should read:
"If somebody else signed and NDA and passed the information to a media outlet THAT KNEW THE INFORMATION IS A TRADE SECRET, both the signer and the media did the infringment".
People in the "traditional" media are fired and their careers ruined all the time because of issues like this. If bloggers want to be treated like all other media outlets they need to play by the same game rules and follow the established code of coduct for journalism, and don't forget the most important rule: to obey the law. I feel no pity for somebody that has been doing this stuff for years, knowing that it is illegal and now goes around crying "first amendment!"
After all, Apple could have tried to make the case that the blogger released the information with the intention of benefiting economically, and seek economic relief. After all he may have expected to get more advertising revenue from the increased traffic that the release of such trade secret would cause.
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ad revenue.... you mean like putting viagra stickers on the rovers and then take pictures of them? :)
That is a load of BS and we all know it....
0 6 we all agreed that the "Make me a website for free, you will get exposure and clients" myth doesn't work and it is basically a scam to rip off geeks. Now we say the same thing "Give your music for free and people will buy your CDs" will work for musicians....maybe because you are the one benefiting from getting all the music for free and promising that you will buy their CDs if they let you listen to it first?
Not so long ago http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/02/14452
They are only protected so far because nobody is benefiting economically from displaying copyrighted material, just like you say, they take down user-submited material when the receive a take-down notice. The problem for them will start when they come with a revenue-generating strategy (ads/comercials before the content... whatever) because then it can be argued that they are profiting from the copyrighted material owned by someone else. In that case the "we didn't know until we received the take-down" defense will not work in court.
"The information that was provided by customers who ordered DSL-related equipment included name, address, e-mail address, phone number, credit card number and credit card expiration..."
Why is AT&T collecting credit card information for ONE-TIME transactions (equipment purchase)?
Are you sure? Write a check payable to Macromedia and send it to Adobe, I'm pretty sure they won't have any problems cashing it in :)
The moment I read the post this picture came to my mind:s /needatruck.jpg
http://www.nickscipio.com/funstuff/archive1/image
If you are doing Windows development and QA I have two words for you: Partition Magic.
.... We all know that if your job title is penetration engineer your name is MacGyver
We need to remember that there is another audience that this campaing is trying to reach: Apple users. Sure, you don't get a lot of new customers by insulting their choice of a competing product, but you gain a lot of loyalty from your current customers.
It is a fact that a lot of ads are targeted to current users of the products to estabish and reinforce brand loyalty. In this case you don't have to limit yourself just to mac users, after all there are a lot more ipod users out there that I am sure Apple would like to convince to buy a mac. After all, aren't you already hip and cool with your ipod? Wouldn't you like to dump that working-stiff-white-collar-forties-guy of a PC and get you a mac to go with your ipod?
You forgot prediction number 4:
Someone will come up with a way to infect the actual card
After all, if you can infect and modify the BIOS, why not this ultra-secure card? I am sure it has some type of non-volatile memory with firmware and the ability to burn updates into it, thus making it possible to be attacked.
I am pretty sure that their licensing fees will more than cover the money they will lose for lack of customers.
:)
The funny thing is that my very first VCR was a Philips that advertised exactly the opposite: it was capable of receiving a special signal that marked the beg. and end of commercials in order to atomatically pause recording. Of course, not a single broadcaster ever got on track with the idea....
Your phrased that wrong, it should read: "If somebody else signed and NDA and passed the information to a media outlet THAT KNEW THE INFORMATION IS A TRADE SECRET, both the signer and the media did the infringment". People in the "traditional" media are fired and their careers ruined all the time because of issues like this. If bloggers want to be treated like all other media outlets they need to play by the same game rules and follow the established code of coduct for journalism, and don't forget the most important rule: to obey the law. I feel no pity for somebody that has been doing this stuff for years, knowing that it is illegal and now goes around crying "first amendment!" After all, Apple could have tried to make the case that the blogger released the information with the intention of benefiting economically, and seek economic relief. After all he may have expected to get more advertising revenue from the increased traffic that the release of such trade secret would cause.
We all knew this already. If a chick like Trinity could hack into the IRS... how good could their security be?
>The bill suggests, but does not require, that .xxx serve as the domain name ending
:)
From the article:
[...]Failure to comply with those requirements would result in civil penalties as determined by the Commerce Department.[...]
Oh yeah.... and that is a suggestion...
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And it took what, less than 4 hours?