The RIAA != law enforcement. Cops have all those rights legally. The RIAA lawyers have no more rights than you or I do. If I brought hundreds of false or frivolous lawsuits against people, I would expect those same people to come after me for compensation. Why should the RIAA be any different?
I believe you need to be making some sort of profit by selling unauthorized material before it is a criminal offense. The street vendors selling bootleg DVDs is what comes to mind...
Those Pointmaster sticks were the best. I had probably gone through about 4-5 of the regular old standard Atari joysticks before I picked one up. Pretty sure the Pointmaster is still in a box downstairs somewhere with my old Atari 800 and I'm almost positive it still works fine.
"The Pro line of apple laptops has been about the same, too (that's what I use). I wouldn't dream of taking the sub-$1000 boxes around with me all day.
What? Apple makes a sub-$1000 laptop? I just checked their site and their macbooks start out at $1099. Where is this mythical sub-$1000 machine you speak of?
This is Slashdot, so here is the 'car' analogy. If you were having engine problems with your car, would you remove the transmission before you brought it to the shop to have it worked on? Because if something happened to your transmission while the engine was being worked on, it wouldn't be the fault of the repair shop.
Administered by whom? The United Nations? Do you really want them to be in charge of the entire internet? If the entire world were one giant socialist country, you idea would work great. But it breaks down when all the "who pays for what?" and "who benefits more?" questions start...
Or it means the university doesn't want to listen to people bitch about spending public money on things they don't support. Yeah, the university that is self-sufficient on private funds instead of wasting public money is certainly "corrupted". The purpose of the university is education and companies funding research privately is providing just that. Research money is soley used for, wait for it - research. The university is not "dependent" on this money for normal operation. If they don't get private research money, they don't do the research. It's not like they spend the university operating budget on research. If there is no research money, there is no research. I think your tinfoil hat is a little tight today...
Because they are students and are poor. Most universities provide internet access without charging the students anything additional. And as the discussion proves, students are cheap and if something is free they will take it over something that isn't.
I work at a university and from what I understand most of the patents/patent research is not done with public money - most research money is private. At least in my department and related departments. Actually about 90% of our department's entire funding is from private research money.
So if the US Customs agents make copies of all my MP3s, isn't that "stealing" the music, as defined by the RIAA? Are they going to end up paying $7,000 per song they have copied when they are brought to court??
"You can hurt their economy BIG way, and you dont have to come even close to them, all you need is sub or ship and knowledge of cable locations. Neither is very hard to come by.
Investment of few mil$ dollars, results priceless."
Not only that, but if it was the Islamic isolationists, they would also get the side benefit of having people think that it WAS the US who did it. Talk about a win-win. They get to make themselves into a virtual martyr.
Yeah, my Windows 3.11 is still working great, and I am getting tons of mileage out of Mac OS 7. I mean, what new features could upgraded versions possibly add?
If you are stupid enough to not realize that climbing over the 3' fence to get closer than you are supposed to to the tiger, and then taunting the tiger, while intoxicated, is a bad idea, then I hope something takes your DNA out of the gene pool. Darwinism at work here people! I mean honestly, trying to make a tiger made is NEVER a good idea. Guess they never heard the expression about not pulling on the tiger's tail.
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Game over man.
The RIAA != law enforcement. Cops have all those rights legally. The RIAA lawyers have no more rights than you or I do. If I brought hundreds of false or frivolous lawsuits against people, I would expect those same people to come after me for compensation. Why should the RIAA be any different?
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Jesus, that hurt my eyes just reading it. Can you actually read text and such on such a small screen at that high of a resolution?
I believe you need to be making some sort of profit by selling unauthorized material before it is a criminal offense. The street vendors selling bootleg DVDs is what comes to mind...
Those Pointmaster sticks were the best. I had probably gone through about 4-5 of the regular old standard Atari joysticks before I picked one up. Pretty sure the Pointmaster is still in a box downstairs somewhere with my old Atari 800 and I'm almost positive it still works fine.
"The Pro line of apple laptops has been about the same, too (that's what I use). I wouldn't dream of taking the sub-$1000 boxes around with me all day.
What? Apple makes a sub-$1000 laptop? I just checked their site and their macbooks start out at $1099. Where is this mythical sub-$1000 machine you speak of?
This is Slashdot, so here is the 'car' analogy.
If you were having engine problems with your car, would you remove the transmission before you brought it to the shop to have it worked on? Because if something happened to your transmission while the engine was being worked on, it wouldn't be the fault of the repair shop.
Administered by whom? The United Nations? Do you really want them to be in charge of the entire internet? If the entire world were one giant socialist country, you idea would work great. But it breaks down when all the "who pays for what?" and "who benefits more?" questions start...
Because slasdotters generally can either only afford to pay for the porn site, or pay for the girl, but not both.
"Oh my God, it smells like stars!"
Lighten up Francis.
Exactly. As I said, they aren't charged anything additionally. I didn't mean to imply they were not charged at all.
Or it means the university doesn't want to listen to people bitch about spending public money on things they don't support. Yeah, the university that is self-sufficient on private funds instead of wasting public money is certainly "corrupted". The purpose of the university is education and companies funding research privately is providing just that. Research money is soley used for, wait for it - research. The university is not "dependent" on this money for normal operation. If they don't get private research money, they don't do the research. It's not like they spend the university operating budget on research. If there is no research money, there is no research.
I think your tinfoil hat is a little tight today...
Because they are students and are poor. Most universities provide internet access without charging the students anything additional. And as the discussion proves, students are cheap and if something is free they will take it over something that isn't.
I work at a university and from what I understand most of the patents/patent research is not done with public money - most research money is private. At least in my department and related departments. Actually about 90% of our department's entire funding is from private research money.
Actually, stagehands are represented by the IATSE - or the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes.
Yeah. You also forgot to add BSD is dead, Microsoft is on the way out also, and this will finally be the year of "Linux on the Desktop".
So if the US Customs agents make copies of all my MP3s, isn't that "stealing" the music, as defined by the RIAA? Are they going to end up paying $7,000 per song they have copied when they are brought to court??
Well, no. Stealing cable from Vietnam != tapping into/cutting the US undersea cable.
Once again, if it is so "easy" why hasn't it been done already?
"You can hurt their economy BIG way, and you dont have to come even close to them, all you need is sub or ship and knowledge of cable locations. Neither is very hard to come by.
Investment of few mil$ dollars, results priceless."
If it is so easy, why hasn't it been done before?
Not only that, but if it was the Islamic isolationists, they would also get the side benefit of having people think that it WAS the US who did it. Talk about a win-win. They get to make themselves into a virtual martyr.
""A communications disruption can mean only one thing - invasion."
Who the hell thinks this comment is funny? "
Lighten up Francis. It's a quote from Star Wars, Episode 1.
Yeah, my Windows 3.11 is still working great, and I am getting tons of mileage out of Mac OS 7. I mean, what new features could upgraded versions possibly add?
"trying to make a tiger mad" not made. my bad.
If you are stupid enough to not realize that climbing over the 3' fence to get closer than you are supposed to to the tiger, and then taunting the tiger, while intoxicated, is a bad idea, then I hope something takes your DNA out of the gene pool. Darwinism at work here people! I mean honestly, trying to make a tiger made is NEVER a good idea. Guess they never heard the expression about not pulling on the tiger's tail.