2) Taking your share certificate with you, walk into their corporate headquarters with a CD burner, and demand to be allowed to make a copy of the IP you "own".
3) Be sure to bring ear plugs, as the laughter may exceed safe decibel levels!
If I own at least 1 share of AOL/Time Warner, I can legally make copies of any of their movies? Cringely, please tell me the names of the lawyers you supposedly ran this idea by...
By Cringley's logic, if me and 17 friends each chip in $1 for a CD, we should each be allowed to make a copy of it by "fair use", since we're all co-owners. Yeah, right... that'll fly in court...
If people don't pay for music, there won't be any music
Damn straight! If not for copyright, Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms would never have published any music, so none of their music would be around today, in the public domain!
What? You say there was no such thing as copyright when they were composing? Er... never mind!
You've never paid taxes, part of which go to fund libraries? Or you've never gotten a library card, which usually has a nominal fee? Gee, if nobody pays for libraries, I wonder where they get the money to build them, staff them, and fill them with copyrighted material...
Why not provide a DVD player with two drives; put a store bought DVD in one, and an "edit" list in the other. Software looks at the edit list and figures out what scenes/words to omit. Surely a bunch of pointers into frames in a copyrighted movie doesn't infringe on the copyright for that movie, does it?
Napster had 60 million users with a membership price of free (many of which were no doubt duplicates) therefore a service with a membership price of $20 should have an equal number of users? What part of "supply and demand" did you miss, Robert?
Er, if you make a habit of bragging on the net about what sluts the girls you used to date are, doesn't it make it a little difficult to get a date? Tucker must be more interested in impressing the guys in the locker room then of ever scoring with an attractive woman again! Seems like pretty self-defeating behaviour to me... on the bright side, it does decrease the chances that the jerk will breed!
Ick!!! Do the kid a favor -- buy him the Monsters Inc. DVD. Unlike most movies, it's only mildly annoying to have to watch Monsters over and over again. I beleive my daughter has memorized at least half of the dialogue by now...
What's to stop you from training a video camera at your tv screen? (Ok, so it probably requires a GenLock to sync the camera to the tv to get a decent picture.)
Personally, I'd like to see SCO get bought out by the Linux community, who then votes to oust the CEOs without a golden parachute.
Those same people you'd like to see get fired also own major shares of stock in the company. Thus the very act of buying out SCO would reward these slimeballs millions each for their actions -- which sounds like exactly what they want. This is just like negotiating with terrorists -- if you give them what they want, you'll only encourage hundreds of others to follow suite.
At what point am I no longer liable for the actions of my computer? The RIAA seems to be implying here that even if your housemate sneaks into your room and uses your computer without your permission, you are still liable. Don't they need to prove intent? Why is it that a spammer can hack into somebody's machine and use it to send out millions of emails, and the owner of the machine has no liability? Does this open up a whole new business model for copyright holders -- create a virus that downloads your IP and the shares it, then sue everybody that falls victim to the virus for copyright infringment? Seems like we've gone way past an "reasonable" criteria at this juncture.
There's another reason why all Indians speak passable English: There are so many widely varying dialects of Hindi that unless you're speaking to somebody from your hometown, you have a better chance of being understood if you speak English. So anybody who wants to do business across a wide geographical area of India is pretty much forced to use English.
Adbusters has been trying for years to run ads telling people not to buy crap... guess how much success they've had finding a network to carry the ads? Yes, they're willing to pay full rate card prices, but so far every major network has refused to air the ads. Good luck getting ant-MPAA ads on the air! (Hint: Unless you're willing to spend more on advertising the the movie studios, which spend at least $30 million promoting every new movie, media is going to follow the money and avoid pissing off bigger customers to makes a small group of "nuts" happy.)
My local library has hundreds of movies on DVD, and thousands on VHS, that they allow anybody to view for free... does this mean that sweet little old lady at the checkout desk is a PIRATE???
Spanking only teaches them not to do stuff while you're watching. Spanking her for leaving the house is actually punishing her for letting herself be found, which is the opposite of the behavior I'm trying to instill in her. I'd rather she respond when I'm searching for her and calling her name, rather than hiding for fear of a spanking.
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1) Buy one share of any RIAA member company.
2) Taking your share certificate with you, walk into their corporate headquarters with a CD burner, and demand to be allowed to make a copy of the IP you "own".
3) Be sure to bring ear plugs, as the laughter may exceed safe decibel levels!
If I own at least 1 share of AOL/Time Warner, I can legally make copies of any of their movies? Cringely, please tell me the names of the lawyers you supposedly ran this idea by...
By Cringley's logic, if me and 17 friends each chip in $1 for a CD, we should each be allowed to make a copy of it by "fair use", since we're all co-owners. Yeah, right... that'll fly in court...
Damn straight! If not for copyright, Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms would never have published any music, so none of their music would be around today, in the public domain!
What? You say there was no such thing as copyright when they were composing? Er... never mind!
You've never paid taxes, part of which go to fund libraries? Or you've never gotten a library card, which usually has a nominal fee? Gee, if nobody pays for libraries, I wonder where they get the money to build them, staff them, and fill them with copyrighted material...
Why not provide a DVD player with two drives; put a store bought DVD in one, and an "edit" list in the other. Software looks at the edit list and figures out what scenes/words to omit. Surely a bunch of pointers into frames in a copyrighted movie doesn't infringe on the copyright for that movie, does it?
Napster had 60 million users with a membership price of free (many of which were no doubt duplicates) therefore a service with a membership price of $20 should have an equal number of users? What part of "supply and demand" did you miss, Robert?
They already have a public corporation that allows many users to share ownership of a copyrighted work. It's called a "library".
Er, if you make a habit of bragging on the net about what sluts the girls you used to date are, doesn't it make it a little difficult to get a date? Tucker must be more interested in impressing the guys in the locker room then of ever scoring with an attractive woman again! Seems like pretty self-defeating behaviour to me... on the bright side, it does decrease the chances that the jerk will breed!
If he didn't intend for anybody else to see it, then how did 4 students that didn't like him get a copy of it to post to the net?
Ok, all the /. readers that can actually afford this, please raise your hands... yeah, that's what I thought...
Can't you go through a proxy/redirector in the US so that it thinks you have a US IP address?
Ick!!! Do the kid a favor -- buy him the Monsters Inc. DVD. Unlike most movies, it's only mildly annoying to have to watch Monsters over and over again. I beleive my daughter has memorized at least half of the dialogue by now...
What's to stop you from training a video camera at your tv screen? (Ok, so it probably requires a GenLock to sync the camera to the tv to get a decent picture.)
For my daughter, that would be at least 60 times!
Those same people you'd like to see get fired also own major shares of stock in the company. Thus the very act of buying out SCO would reward these slimeballs millions each for their actions -- which sounds like exactly what they want. This is just like negotiating with terrorists -- if you give them what they want, you'll only encourage hundreds of others to follow suite.
At what point am I no longer liable for the actions of my computer? The RIAA seems to be implying here that even if your housemate sneaks into your room and uses your computer without your permission, you are still liable. Don't they need to prove intent? Why is it that a spammer can hack into somebody's machine and use it to send out millions of emails, and the owner of the machine has no liability? Does this open up a whole new business model for copyright holders -- create a virus that downloads your IP and the shares it, then sue everybody that falls victim to the virus for copyright infringment? Seems like we've gone way past an "reasonable" criteria at this juncture.
And in the end, no Weapons of Music Distribution will be found?
There's another reason why all Indians speak passable English: There are so many widely varying dialects of Hindi that unless you're speaking to somebody from your hometown, you have a better chance of being understood if you speak English. So anybody who wants to do business across a wide geographical area of India is pretty much forced to use English.
So, when do we start outsourcing the top managment positions to India?
Adbusters has been trying for years to run ads telling people not to buy crap... guess how much success they've had finding a network to carry the ads? Yes, they're willing to pay full rate card prices, but so far every major network has refused to air the ads. Good luck getting ant-MPAA ads on the air! (Hint: Unless you're willing to spend more on advertising the the movie studios, which spend at least $30 million promoting every new movie, media is going to follow the money and avoid pissing off bigger customers to makes a small group of "nuts" happy.)
My local library has hundreds of movies on DVD, and thousands on VHS, that they allow anybody to view for free... does this mean that sweet little old lady at the checkout desk is a PIRATE???
Uh, wouldn't the chicken result in a Colonel error???
I, for one, was hoping that Comcast would find the Microsoft TV Software "guilty"!
Spanking only teaches them not to do stuff while you're watching. Spanking her for leaving the house is actually punishing her for letting herself be found, which is the opposite of the behavior I'm trying to instill in her. I'd rather she respond when I'm searching for her and calling her name, rather than hiding for fear of a spanking.