Countries will make it illegal to disable pirated OSes? Really?
I would hope those same countries have made it illegal to remotely disable stolen cars, as that makes it harder for someone to get where they are going in a car they didn't purchase and have no legal right to use....
There are different ways of defending it - this is the dumbest. Quietly amending the licensing agreement would have been smarter. Like it or not, J&J sells its products to people who just *might* be a little put off by them suing the Red Cross. This is a PR disaster. And yes, it is making the mainstream news. I guarantee you the average Mom who buys J&J products won't grasp the subtleties of the case - but I'd count on some serious J&J boycotts over this.
RTFA. J&J tried to work out an agreement. They tried to go to mediation. The ARC shot them down both times. This "dumbest" way of defending their trademark is the only one they had left.
"At present this situation falls under the Fair Use exemption of the Copyright Act in the US. Broadcasters are claiming however that sharing media between devices over the air constitutes a grey area that needs to be more strictly controlled to fight piracy."
So if I don't use wireless, it isn't going over the air, right? Or will the air the sound or video travels through to reach me count as over the air?
They aren't being charged for "winning" money. They MAY face charges for not giving the money back when the error was found.
Say you go to check your bank statement and find $10,000 that isn't supposed to be there. Maybe a teller mis-typed an account number on deposit. You close out the account and take the money and blow it on a car or vacation, or at the casino. You get a letter from the bank two weeks later informing you of the error and demanding the money back.
Hey, they're a big rich bank, they can afford to lose ten grand right? Sure. But what you did was still illegal and you will be charged if you refuse outright to give the money back. It is theft, plain and simple.
Is the license 'GPL v2' or 'GPL v2 or later'?
Version 2, Changed by RANDY SMITH on 7/21/2007
Created by: RANDY SMITH
GPL v2. Later versions will be reviewed, when final, for future consideration.
I had a bit of trouble figuring that out myself, from the text provided...
Skype because of GPL injury condemns Regional court Munich I: GPL must be kept accurately
Once more confirmed a German court the validity of the GPLv2. The regional court Munich condemned Skype because of the injury of the GPL, which above all is interesting, because it concerns thereby a foreign enterprise. However the VoIP software of Skype was not the center of attention, on the contrary it concerned the VoIP telephone SMCWSKP 100 from SMC, which is sold Skype over its Website and which is delivered without the appropriate Linux source texts, was based it nevertheless on the free operating system. On the other hand Netfilter developer Harald Welte had complained, which holds at parts of the Linux Kernel copyright and with its project gpl-violations.org for years against GPL injury proceeds.
Apart from the fact that the regional court Munich I (Az. The judgement condemned, does not turn off 7 O 5245/07, yet validly) with Skype a Luxemburger company also very clearly to an exact adherence to the GPL. A supplement was attached to the equipment later, which referred to the used GPL software and contained URL, where the source texts are callable - nevertheless this are sufficient the court in the available case, not. This possibility plans the GPL only for software, which is supplied over Internet. Besides the text of the GPL also on the supplement, which likewise offends against the license obligations, was missing.
Beside the procedure against Skype at present also one legal proceedings are pending against the Vertreiber of the telephone, SMC network. Dr. Julia Küng on the sides Institut for legal questions of the free ones and open SOURCE software (ifrOSS) published, also to the attorney Dr. Till hunter belonged to details for the background of the procedure, that represented the plaintiff Harald Welte in the law case against Skype. (ji)
I do not want to buy a song from iTunes for a buck that I already have on disk, just to listen to it on my iPod, or better yet, I don't have an iPod, so iTunes is useless to me
I am tired of this argument. It is just plain incorrect.
1. You do not have to buy music from the iTunes store in order to listen to it on your iPod. If you rip the music into iTunes from your CD, it will be in the AAC/MP4 standard sans DRM.
Only if the CD isn't....(gasp) A DRM-crippled CD. Which, since TFA is about Sony's DRM-crippled CD's and the ensuing drama, only serves to make you 100% wrong.
- Got my 360 before release through the Pepsi promotion. - Read the manual where it said to put neither the 360 nor the power brick on the carpet or fully enclosed in an entertainment center. - Took that advice. - Still on my original 360, no issues whatsoever.
I've also got a friend who tucked it into his fully enclosed, poorly circulated entertainment center. 3 red disks.
Sometimes it really is the simple things, isn't it?
When I'm using an IMAP server, I do all my filtering on the server so that I'm not dependent on my client running to handle filtering. Seems that would be the best method for handling filtering when the mail doesn't end up on my local machine.
A better version of your better version of that analogy would have been, "My bank accidentally transfered money to my account and, when I refused to return it because I closed the account, threatened to call the Police to arrest me".
Of course, in my scenario, you DO legally owe that money to the bank.
Isn't imposing a restriction on what someone can do with your code violating the freedoms that Stallman advocates and demands, or are we supposed to do as he says and not as he does where DRM is concerned?
You can not say that your side of an issue is the PUBLIC interest and the other side is a SPECIAL interest. It's basic common sense. LOBBYISTS FROM EITHER SIDE ARE SPECIAL INTERESTS. Let's pin down a concrete example.
The NRA wants everyone to have the right to carry a concealed weapon. Some of us feel less safe knowing that there are people out there carrying guns in public. The NRA is a special interest. Those that oppose concealed weapons and lobby in that manner are a special interest. Why is that?
Because there is no ONE answer to what is public interest.
And if you can't understand that, you're too far gone.
American Heritage Dictionary special interest n.
A person, group, or organization attempting to influence legislators in favor of one particular interest or issue.
Looks like pro-ODF members would also be special interests. Nowhere does the dictionary say there must be personal gain.
It looks to me like it took almost 3 years for the iPod to become a solid revenue stream, based on the brown line and dots (coincidence?) that represents iPod sales and revenue...
But in the interest of not nitpicking, you are correct. The iPod wasn't the instant success everyone seems to think it was.
You said: "Resisting arrest requires some active participation designed to prevent an arrest from occuring [sic], either through physical action or threat of physical action. Physical inaction is not resisting arrest, nor is mouthing off to an officer resisting arrest."
And you are entitled to your opinion.
Funny, I saw them lift him under the arms and he began flailing and kicking his feet in an attempt to make it to the ground again. Don't believe me? Look at 3:14 in that video.
Between that and someone coincidentally having a full DV camera (unless you can show me a cell phone that takes 7 minutes of hi-res video), it looks like someone was out to stir shit up in the hippiest of places.
Slashdot Mirror
Countries will make it illegal to disable pirated OSes? Really?
I would hope those same countries have made it illegal to remotely disable stolen cars, as that makes it harder for someone to get where they are going in a car they didn't purchase and have no legal right to use....
Don't forget that Apple gets a percentage of the charges from AT&T, unless they allowed AT&T to screw them on that end of the contract....
Federal judge = lifetime appointment, barring impeachment and removal by Congress
RTFA. J&J tried to work out an agreement. They tried to go to mediation. The ARC shot them down both times. This "dumbest" way of defending their trademark is the only one they had left.
"At present this situation falls under the Fair Use exemption of the Copyright Act in the US. Broadcasters are claiming however that sharing media between devices over the air constitutes a grey area that needs to be more strictly controlled to fight piracy."
So if I don't use wireless, it isn't going over the air, right? Or will the air the sound or video travels through to reach me count as over the air?
Didn't you get the memo? Apparently, people bought gamer mags FOR THE DEMO DISCS.
Didn't they?
They aren't being charged for "winning" money. They MAY face charges for not giving the money back when the error was found.
Say you go to check your bank statement and find $10,000 that isn't supposed to be there. Maybe a teller mis-typed an account number on deposit. You close out the account and take the money and blow it on a car or vacation, or at the casino. You get a letter from the bank two weeks later informing you of the error and demanding the money back.
Hey, they're a big rich bank, they can afford to lose ten grand right? Sure. But what you did was still illegal and you will be charged if you refuse outright to give the money back. It is theft, plain and simple.
No you can't.
I had a bit of trouble figuring that out myself, from the text provided...
Skype because of GPL injury condemns
Regional court Munich I: GPL must be kept accurately
Once more confirmed a German court the validity of the GPLv2. The regional court Munich condemned Skype because of the injury of the GPL, which above all is interesting, because it concerns thereby a foreign enterprise.
However the VoIP software of Skype was not the center of attention, on the contrary it concerned the VoIP telephone SMCWSKP 100 from SMC, which is sold Skype over its Website and which is delivered without the appropriate Linux source texts, was based it nevertheless on the free operating system. On the other hand Netfilter developer Harald Welte had complained, which holds at parts of the Linux Kernel copyright and with its project gpl-violations.org for years against GPL injury proceeds.
Apart from the fact that the regional court Munich I (Az. The judgement condemned, does not turn off 7 O 5245/07, yet validly) with Skype a Luxemburger company also very clearly to an exact adherence to the GPL. A supplement was attached to the equipment later, which referred to the used GPL software and contained URL, where the source texts are callable - nevertheless this are sufficient the court in the available case, not. This possibility plans the GPL only for software, which is supplied over Internet. Besides the text of the GPL also on the supplement, which likewise offends against the license obligations, was missing.
Beside the procedure against Skype at present also one legal proceedings are pending against the Vertreiber of the telephone, SMC network. Dr. Julia Küng on the sides Institut for legal questions of the free ones and open SOURCE software (ifrOSS) published, also to the attorney Dr. Till hunter belonged to details for the background of the procedure, that represented the plaintiff Harald Welte in the law case against Skype. (ji)
Ludo Lullabi has talent. HE does he drawing. Sandra Hope just traces. She's a tracer.
My TV doesn't scan my DVR to serve ads to me.
Only if the CD isn't....(gasp) A DRM-crippled CD. Which, since TFA is about Sony's DRM-crippled CD's and the ensuing drama, only serves to make you 100% wrong.
Gee, I would have thought admitting to owning and liking the 360 would have taken care of that.
- Got my 360 before release through the Pepsi promotion.
- Read the manual where it said to put neither the 360 nor the power brick on the carpet or fully enclosed in an entertainment center.
- Took that advice.
- Still on my original 360, no issues whatsoever.
I've also got a friend who tucked it into his fully enclosed, poorly circulated entertainment center. 3 red disks.
Sometimes it really is the simple things, isn't it?
"in 20 years we'll be connecting over the Super double wide ultra fast inter tubes of doom "
They'll put the switching stations in trailer parks?
http://www.enzyte.com/
When I'm using an IMAP server, I do all my filtering on the server so that I'm not dependent on my client running to handle filtering. Seems that would be the best method for handling filtering when the mail doesn't end up on my local machine.
A better version of your better version of that analogy would have been, "My bank accidentally transfered money to my account and, when I refused to return it because I closed the account, threatened to call the Police to arrest me".
Of course, in my scenario, you DO legally owe that money to the bank.
That would fall under the argument that states should be given limited autonomy. You know, that part of the Constitution?
Why not just have the federal government annex all state governments? It would be much easier to have one government than two or more for most of us.
Isn't imposing a restriction on what someone can do with your code violating the freedoms that Stallman advocates and demands, or are we supposed to do as he says and not as he does where DRM is concerned?
Looking beyond, isn't that the same argument the **AA uses regarding theft?
"If you download it from someone, that's a sale we aren't making."
You can not say that your side of an issue is the PUBLIC interest and the other side is a SPECIAL interest. It's basic common sense. LOBBYISTS FROM EITHER SIDE ARE SPECIAL INTERESTS. Let's pin down a concrete example.
The NRA wants everyone to have the right to carry a concealed weapon. Some of us feel less safe knowing that there are people out there carrying guns in public. The NRA is a special interest. Those that oppose concealed weapons and lobby in that manner are a special interest. Why is that?
Because there is no ONE answer to what is public interest.
And if you can't understand that, you're too far gone.
American Heritage Dictionary
special interest
n.
A person, group, or organization attempting to influence legislators in favor of one particular interest or issue.
Looks like pro-ODF members would also be special interests. Nowhere does the dictionary say there must be personal gain.
It looks to me like it took almost 3 years for the iPod to become a solid revenue stream, based on the brown line and dots (coincidence?) that represents iPod sales and revenue...
But in the interest of not nitpicking, you are correct. The iPod wasn't the instant success everyone seems to think it was.
You said: "Resisting arrest requires some active participation designed to prevent an arrest from occuring [sic], either through physical action or threat of physical action. Physical inaction is not resisting arrest, nor is mouthing off to an officer resisting arrest."
And you are entitled to your opinion.
Funny, I saw them lift him under the arms and he began flailing and kicking his feet in an attempt to make it to the ground again. Don't believe me? Look at 3:14 in that video.
Between that and someone coincidentally having a full DV camera (unless you can show me a cell phone that takes 7 minutes of hi-res video), it looks like someone was out to stir shit up in the hippiest of places.