You lucky b*ard, in french law, for any number of song (theorically one is enough), you can be sentenced to 3 years in jail and 300.000E fine (and that is the penal part, so the SACEM can then claim their damages in the name of the artists).
I don't know if there were guitars involved in the french case I heard of, but definitely was not a for-benefit infrigement. A few monthes ago, some children sang for the retirement celebration of a teacher (so nothing business-related), and the SACEM (french RIAA) sued the school in the name of the protection of the autors. In the end, the song author himself paid the fine to put an end to that BS (and avoid sharing the bad press). Of course, it was never planned that he may get a single cent from the fine.
I can't agree more. I once baby-sat one of my nephews (9yo at that time) during a midnight Harry Potter launch (and bought one too), and all the evening was very pleasant, kids were playing together, parents and adult fans discussing. The moods was good because people were there that night because it was the fan/kid equivalent of a great party, not not because only the 6 first ones will have a chance of buying an overpriced thing and the be beaten to death by the other rabbid zombies. If this news isn't a hoax, it's very sad. (personally, I consider buying a Wii, maybe next year)
Unfortunately, with such a vague statement it's not a problem. Depending of who you ask the question, I'm sure you can declare most of the world (or even US) population "enemy of the United States".
A few years ago, I was working in a team that was actively participating in MPEG4 standards so every couple of mounthes, one or two guys were sent to a week-long conference with a conpagny laptop. The funny part was that the team bought a couple of video games once in a while and installed them on request on those laptops to fight conference/hotel room boredom, diferent place, diferent rules... (The team members were also asked on which DVD they wanted to test the encoders and they eventually had a very good selection of movies that we could take home for the night)
Of course, but it isn't contradictory. We already receive far more solar energy that what we use from any energy source, and the only hard part about solar power is to produce the pannels in a way that is neither too expensive nor too poluting.
Don't worry, any project that have a real change of strongly reduce american addiction to cheap oil won't affect any big compagny that much. The worst thing that could happen would be a temporary raise of the blackmail, bribe and hitmen expenses, and they are tax deductible.
In a way, it is a very intersting result. Saddam asked for the killing of civilians using terrorism as an excuse (remember, the origin of this killing is that some people who may have plotted to assasinate him came from that place) and was sentenced to death for that. I don't understand how the neocons can think it is good news for them.
MP3 have indeed no real DRM, but on most phones, all you need is to set a "copyright bit" in the file header. Then, downloaded music (or ringtones) cannot be copied back from the phone. It is also always possible to create a DRMed file format using a MP3 base by simply encripting the MP3 data and then feed a regular MP3 player with the decripted data every time the DRM says it's OK.
Those who bought many song on iTunes might care when they will be faced with the choice of either lose their collection or don't be cool anymore because they don't have the new trendy player that all of their friends already have.
You are right, but forgot to say that the DVD was already one of the most successful technology introduction in history, whereas blue ray still has 50% chances of being only one more of the long list of Sony failures.
It's really sad that, when it comes to human rights, simply not being too much an a**hole rank you at the top position, while the "land of the free" considers it's OK as long as it still scores sligtly better than the axe of evil.
On the other hand, 50 years ago, they could rely on simple and therefore more reliable systems. The shuttle is just not the good choice, it was designed to be reused (and therefore be less expensive and more available) and it ended up being overpriced and dangerous. This reminds me of the Spirit of St Louis. Every other plane used to try to cross the atlantic ocean had three engines but in the end couln't fly with only two of them because of the weight of the gas, what was supposed to be an advantage can be your biggest drawback.
Moreover, with the UN, anything will be run^Hwalked by multinational comitees that could not agree on anything. 20 to 10 years ago, it would have been a disaster but now that the net is up and running thanks to the US effort, an entropy-driven status on quo might be the ideal solution.
Years ago, I heard about a big election in an african country in which a large proportion of the population was illiterate. The solution was easy, they simply ask every party to choose a distinctive sign. On the ballot, they put those signs in front of the names of the candidates (plus their photos) and it worked rather fine. Conclusion: illiteracy is absolutely not an excuse for not having correct voting procedures.
With tons of money and if the ballot were printed with thick pure lead, maybe it could be theorically possible, and maybe people won't notice the big trucks just outside. But with normal ink, I don't think you could do that without killing the targeted voter with the radiation.
OTOH, a small camera+radio transmitter correctly placed in the booth is just fine for that job and any TLA can have them by dozen.
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Since they obtained the right to do so by the government, you should call them corsairs.
You lucky b*ard, in french law, for any number of song (theorically one is enough), you can be sentenced to 3 years in jail and 300.000E fine (and that is the penal part, so the SACEM can then claim their damages in the name of the artists).
I don't know if there were guitars involved in the french case I heard of, but definitely was not a for-benefit infrigement.
A few monthes ago, some children sang for the retirement celebration of a teacher (so nothing business-related), and the SACEM (french RIAA) sued the school in the name of the protection of the autors. In the end, the song author himself paid the fine to put an end to that BS (and avoid sharing the bad press). Of course, it was never planned that he may get a single cent from the fine.
I can't agree more. I once baby-sat one of my nephews (9yo at that time) during a midnight Harry Potter launch (and bought one too), and all the evening was very pleasant, kids were playing together, parents and adult fans discussing. The moods was good because people were there that night because it was the fan/kid equivalent of a great party, not not because only the 6 first ones will have a chance of buying an overpriced thing and the be beaten to death by the other rabbid zombies.
If this news isn't a hoax, it's very sad.
(personally, I consider buying a Wii, maybe next year)
Unfortunately, with such a vague statement it's not a problem. Depending of who you ask the question, I'm sure you can declare most of the world (or even US) population "enemy of the United States".
In court, they do not even try to equate them, their figure is more in the line of 1 download = 100 to 1000 lost sales.
It's how much they pay politician to pass laws in their favor and losy tech firms to invent crappy DRMs, maybe that's where the 361M$ comes from.
A few years ago, I was working in a team that was actively participating in MPEG4 standards so every couple of mounthes, one or two guys were sent to a week-long conference with a conpagny laptop.
The funny part was that the team bought a couple of video games once in a while and installed them on request on those laptops to fight conference/hotel room boredom, diferent place, diferent rules...
(The team members were also asked on which DVD they wanted to test the encoders and they eventually had a very good selection of movies that we could take home for the night)
Of course, but it isn't contradictory.
We already receive far more solar energy that what we use from any energy source, and the only hard part about solar power is to produce the pannels in a way that is neither too expensive nor too poluting.
Don't worry, any project that have a real change of strongly reduce american addiction to cheap oil won't affect any big compagny that much. The worst thing that could happen would be a temporary raise of the blackmail, bribe and hitmen expenses, and they are tax deductible.
In a way, it is a very intersting result.
Saddam asked for the killing of civilians using terrorism as an excuse (remember, the origin of this killing is that some people who may have plotted to assasinate him came from that place) and was sentenced to death for that.
I don't understand how the neocons can think it is good news for them.
MP3 have indeed no real DRM, but on most phones, all you need is to set a "copyright bit" in the file header. Then, downloaded music (or ringtones) cannot be copied back from the phone.
It is also always possible to create a DRMed file format using a MP3 base by simply encripting the MP3 data and then feed a regular MP3 player with the decripted data every time the DRM says it's OK.
Those who bought many song on iTunes might care when they will be faced with the choice of either lose their collection or don't be cool anymore because they don't have the new trendy player that all of their friends already have.
Yes, of course...
Plan B would be to stand outside the shop with a baseball bat.
1- buy a PS3 and tear it appart
2- sell the blue laser to Sony
3- profit
You are right, but forgot to say that the DVD was already one of the most successful technology introduction in history, whereas blue ray still has 50% chances of being only one more of the long list of Sony failures.
It's really sad that, when it comes to human rights, simply not being too much an a**hole rank you at the top position, while the "land of the free" considers it's OK as long as it still scores sligtly better than the axe of evil.
Sorry, I thought Three Letter Agency (NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS...) was an accepted acronym in the tinfoil community.
On the other hand, 50 years ago, they could rely on simple and therefore more reliable systems.
The shuttle is just not the good choice, it was designed to be reused (and therefore be less expensive and more available) and it ended up being overpriced and dangerous.
This reminds me of the Spirit of St Louis. Every other plane used to try to cross the atlantic ocean had three engines but in the end couln't fly with only two of them because of the weight of the gas, what was supposed to be an advantage can be your biggest drawback.
Moreover, with the UN, anything will be run^Hwalked by multinational comitees that could not agree on anything. 20 to 10 years ago, it would have been a disaster but now that the net is up and running thanks to the US effort, an entropy-driven status on quo might be the ideal solution.
Years ago, I heard about a big election in an african country in which a large proportion of the population was illiterate. The solution was easy, they simply ask every party to choose a distinctive sign. On the ballot, they put those signs in front of the names of the candidates (plus their photos) and it worked rather fine.
Conclusion: illiteracy is absolutely not an excuse for not having correct voting procedures.
With tons of money and if the ballot were printed with thick pure lead, maybe it could be theorically possible, and maybe people won't notice the big trucks just outside. But with normal ink, I don't think you could do that without killing the targeted voter with the radiation.
OTOH, a small camera+radio transmitter correctly placed in the booth is just fine for that job and any TLA can have them by dozen.
Maybe it could block a few of the jackass wanabee videos by mistaking pain screams for Celine Dion.
Not that I care anyway. When they are trying to remove themself from the gene pool, at least, they're not playing M-rated videogames.
I just had an horrible vision of this guy being crucified to a windmill by some other player.
Exactly, and from what I understood, they may have submitted it only to annoy MS.