Copyrights do not protect statutory law, because the text and every word are purely functional. Laws are not written as original expression, they're written purely functionally, to serve a practical purpose.
That's under federal copyright law. California could pass its own copyright law that doesn't have such limitations, but then the law would be violating 1st Amendment rights.
Basically, all of copyright law is an exception to the 1st Amendment, which is only allowed according to the Constitutional authority that Congress has to pass copyright laws. Maybe the California State government isn't bound to the 1st Amendment (people think it is, because of the 14th Amendment), but that doesn't matter, because California's own constitution declares that, "A law may not restrain or abridge liberty of speech or press."
Fascist pirate ninjas? You mean like Master Shredder?
That would make sense. And the folks at Pirate Bay never got caught because they're burrowing through the Earth in their Technodrome.
I think it'd be really important to read Judge Sabraw's opinion in this matter. Does anyone have a copy of the opinion, or else at least have the case number, or the courthouse in Alameda County where the case was filed?
I thought everyone stopped using Myspace when Rupert Murdoch took it over.
Myspace belongs in a category with Compuserve, Prodigy, America Online, Friendster, gopher, Netscape, Alta Vista, Napster, and other relics of Internet past.
Yousa people gonna try...to write and direct a good film?
No, Mr. Lucas, you'll just keep cashing in on the original fandom and rush out more crap films so you can afford to keep stuffing your face with more fois gras.
So much for the American vision. Are there any real artists left in this country?
Sure, we can eliminate lawyers and go back to settling disputes at arms. But then you still have a "lawyer" who is a knight fighting as your champion to butcher the other party's champion. But then it sucks when the RIAA hires Sir Lancelot every time and all you can afford is Ichabod Crane.
And how is one to legally provide those MP3s? Hell, I'd love to run a store where I could dump the entire CD collection to a server in flac format, and let people then burn their own custom CD from that and pay me, without me having to pay upstream because I only bought one copy. I don't think it would work that way though.
That would actually be a nice model if you could get the *AA onboard. Try selling local music. I'm sure there are plenty of local, unsigned artists that would love to have their music converted into digital files and sold in your stores. You could set it up like a coffeeshop. People come to the counter and say, "I'd like a hazelnut coffee and the first three tracks of [LOCAL BAND]'s new album, please. I'd like those without the CD today. Just give me the passcode so I can download them onto my laptop through your local WiFi network. Thanks! Oh, here's your tip."
So rather than trying to get music from musicians to the public in the best and most efficient way, self-righteous, self-serving little middlemen like you would rather force the system to go through you, even when you're obsolete, because you refuse to adapt. The music industry doesn't exist for your personal gain. If you're no longer providing a service that people need, it's time to change what you're doing. Jerk.
What's the name of your record store? You're on my blacklist.
Damn, I wish I could edit my posts on here. By "barely legitimate", I meant that iTunes' prices are barely reasonable.
Stupid Slashdot, LET ME EDIT MY POSTS!!!!!!
People go download music for free precisely because of the lack of a reasonably priced alternative. iTunes is barely legitimate, which is why people use it, but if there are any price hikes, including from taxes, everyone will go straight back to file sharing.
The New World Order is more interested in control than in money. Money is just one means of control they use. This is why, for example, they hate Google Book Search. Google Book Search is very lucrative to Random House (Bertelsmann), but it threatens big publishing's control over what information gets disseminated by the public. Giving people better tools to find older, published material has the danger of people breaking from from the NWO's brainwashing.
I generally point out that Microsoft's brand is dying because they've stopped innovating, but then, the only time Coca-Cola's brand ever weakened was when they did try to innovate (with New Coke). When they brought back the formula (Coke Classic), they recovered.
I guess Microsoft is different, though, because they're a technology company, and thus should be perpetually innovating. Instead, they've turned into a bank, and just buy up other companies and use monopoly power to control their market.
Well, there are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which form the cultural basis of this country, which would imply that the government's role is to maximize LIBERTY (and not just corporate profits). Government moves to control and restrict thought and information are anti-American, because they're anti-liberty.
You're annoyed?? Well we're annoyed that the only candidate who genuinely cares about improving the country is getting shut out of the election by the mainstream media, and that sites like this which are supposed to be the voice of freedom of information contribute to that. This country is getting ruined by media control and you're annoyed that people complain about it? Give me a break.
The reason Ron Paul's support hasn't translated to as many primary votes as it should is that the majority of the country still gets its news from TV and mass-media newspaper sources, rather than the Internet, so news sources like the writer of this article are blocking Ron Paul from reaching the public. His supporters are "fanatical" because he's the first non-corrupt Presidential candidate in more than one generation. He's a candidate who could be a great leader for this country, and he has a lot of support. That's something this country desperately needs, and there is something people SHOULD be fanatical about.
Wait, but it doesn't get backed up. The new iTunes rentals are only for 30 days, right?
Unless someone were to develop a means of circumventing their technological protection measures in order to get at the copyright protected content and copy, distribute, and publicly perform it, and maybe even make derivative works thereof...
We used to have a solution for genetic defects in this country. It's called sterilization. After war, it's the best way to keep the nation's gene pool sanitary. I'm not talking about ambiguous genetic anomolies, like those causing autism, but rather I'm talking about genetic mutations that result in clear defects, like blindness or retardation.
"Three generations of imbeciles is enough." - Oliver Wendall Holmes, in a 1927 Supreme Court opinion upholding eugenics laws.
Antigua: Future site of new piratebay and Kazaa servers.
I hope they digitize every book every written that is still under copyright and offer it worldwide for free.
Oh, and I'll bet China's pissed off. Now Antigua will have a competing counterfeit manufacturing economy. Sorry Canal Street, but Antigua doesn't have to pay to fight copyright lawsuits, so they'll be undercutting you in prices. How the tables have turned.
The RIAA is trying to maintain control over content distribution. That control is more important to them than the bottom line. But that control does not serve the purposes of the Copyright Act or the Constitutional authority thereto, which is to increase the public's access to content. The evil cabal controlling the mainstream media doesn't want to lose their precious monopoly for fear that the human spirit will rebel against them. But their Machiavellian approach will be their undoing. They treat people like cattle, and as a result, they'll be destroyed themselves in the end.
The scientific aspects of evolution are irrelevant. The world is merely Nature being experienced by Self, and affected by Will. Evolution is the affect of Will upon Nature. Without Will being exerted, the material and mundane returns to Chaos. On the human level, this begins with degeneration of civilization, a cyclical event that has unfortunately affected us for the past fifty years.
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Copyrights do not protect statutory law, because the text and every word are purely functional. Laws are not written as original expression, they're written purely functionally, to serve a practical purpose. That's under federal copyright law. California could pass its own copyright law that doesn't have such limitations, but then the law would be violating 1st Amendment rights. Basically, all of copyright law is an exception to the 1st Amendment, which is only allowed according to the Constitutional authority that Congress has to pass copyright laws. Maybe the California State government isn't bound to the 1st Amendment (people think it is, because of the 14th Amendment), but that doesn't matter, because California's own constitution declares that, "A law may not restrain or abridge liberty of speech or press."
Fascist pirate ninjas? You mean like Master Shredder? That would make sense. And the folks at Pirate Bay never got caught because they're burrowing through the Earth in their Technodrome.
I think it'd be really important to read Judge Sabraw's opinion in this matter. Does anyone have a copy of the opinion, or else at least have the case number, or the courthouse in Alameda County where the case was filed?
I thought everyone stopped using Myspace when Rupert Murdoch took it over. Myspace belongs in a category with Compuserve, Prodigy, America Online, Friendster, gopher, Netscape, Alta Vista, Napster, and other relics of Internet past.
Oh, excellent! This will make it much easier for me to find the cool, violent games whose level of violence automatically make the games more fun.
Maybe that's why Blizzard is working on a World of Diablo, or so the rumors go.
Yousa people gonna try...to write and direct a good film? No, Mr. Lucas, you'll just keep cashing in on the original fandom and rush out more crap films so you can afford to keep stuffing your face with more fois gras. So much for the American vision. Are there any real artists left in this country?
Sure, we can eliminate lawyers and go back to settling disputes at arms. But then you still have a "lawyer" who is a knight fighting as your champion to butcher the other party's champion. But then it sucks when the RIAA hires Sir Lancelot every time and all you can afford is Ichabod Crane.
So rather than trying to get music from musicians to the public in the best and most efficient way, self-righteous, self-serving little middlemen like you would rather force the system to go through you, even when you're obsolete, because you refuse to adapt. The music industry doesn't exist for your personal gain. If you're no longer providing a service that people need, it's time to change what you're doing. Jerk.
What's the name of your record store? You're on my blacklist.
Damn, I wish I could edit my posts on here. By "barely legitimate", I meant that iTunes' prices are barely reasonable. Stupid Slashdot, LET ME EDIT MY POSTS!!!!!!
People go download music for free precisely because of the lack of a reasonably priced alternative. iTunes is barely legitimate, which is why people use it, but if there are any price hikes, including from taxes, everyone will go straight back to file sharing.
Be careful analyizing the situation objectively, or with "humanity" in mind, or trusting nature to take its course. There are factions at work.
The New World Order is more interested in control than in money. Money is just one means of control they use. This is why, for example, they hate Google Book Search. Google Book Search is very lucrative to Random House (Bertelsmann), but it threatens big publishing's control over what information gets disseminated by the public. Giving people better tools to find older, published material has the danger of people breaking from from the NWO's brainwashing.
Dasani? Are you seriously making the point that selling water is innovative? Seems more reactionary to me. It's like paying for the right to piss.
I generally point out that Microsoft's brand is dying because they've stopped innovating, but then, the only time Coca-Cola's brand ever weakened was when they did try to innovate (with New Coke). When they brought back the formula (Coke Classic), they recovered. I guess Microsoft is different, though, because they're a technology company, and thus should be perpetually innovating. Instead, they've turned into a bank, and just buy up other companies and use monopoly power to control their market.
Well, there are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which form the cultural basis of this country, which would imply that the government's role is to maximize LIBERTY (and not just corporate profits). Government moves to control and restrict thought and information are anti-American, because they're anti-liberty.
You're annoyed?? Well we're annoyed that the only candidate who genuinely cares about improving the country is getting shut out of the election by the mainstream media, and that sites like this which are supposed to be the voice of freedom of information contribute to that. This country is getting ruined by media control and you're annoyed that people complain about it? Give me a break. The reason Ron Paul's support hasn't translated to as many primary votes as it should is that the majority of the country still gets its news from TV and mass-media newspaper sources, rather than the Internet, so news sources like the writer of this article are blocking Ron Paul from reaching the public. His supporters are "fanatical" because he's the first non-corrupt Presidential candidate in more than one generation. He's a candidate who could be a great leader for this country, and he has a lot of support. That's something this country desperately needs, and there is something people SHOULD be fanatical about.
ANOTHER invasion of the Middle East? This is getting as played out and unoriginal as Episodes 1-3 of Star Wars.
Wait, but it doesn't get backed up. The new iTunes rentals are only for 30 days, right? Unless someone were to develop a means of circumventing their technological protection measures in order to get at the copyright protected content and copy, distribute, and publicly perform it, and maybe even make derivative works thereof...
We used to have a solution for genetic defects in this country. It's called sterilization. After war, it's the best way to keep the nation's gene pool sanitary. I'm not talking about ambiguous genetic anomolies, like those causing autism, but rather I'm talking about genetic mutations that result in clear defects, like blindness or retardation. "Three generations of imbeciles is enough." - Oliver Wendall Holmes, in a 1927 Supreme Court opinion upholding eugenics laws.
Antigua: Future site of new piratebay and Kazaa servers. I hope they digitize every book every written that is still under copyright and offer it worldwide for free. Oh, and I'll bet China's pissed off. Now Antigua will have a competing counterfeit manufacturing economy. Sorry Canal Street, but Antigua doesn't have to pay to fight copyright lawsuits, so they'll be undercutting you in prices. How the tables have turned.
The RIAA is trying to maintain control over content distribution. That control is more important to them than the bottom line. But that control does not serve the purposes of the Copyright Act or the Constitutional authority thereto, which is to increase the public's access to content. The evil cabal controlling the mainstream media doesn't want to lose their precious monopoly for fear that the human spirit will rebel against them. But their Machiavellian approach will be their undoing. They treat people like cattle, and as a result, they'll be destroyed themselves in the end.
The scientific aspects of evolution are irrelevant. The world is merely Nature being experienced by Self, and affected by Will. Evolution is the affect of Will upon Nature. Without Will being exerted, the material and mundane returns to Chaos. On the human level, this begins with degeneration of civilization, a cyclical event that has unfortunately affected us for the past fifty years.
Congress spends our money on one ridiculously stupid thing after another. Why is money for Mars any different?