Uh, no, copying copyrighted works and getting their pants sued off is what would put them out of business. You must enjoy harassing employees who are asked to make correct judgements based on copyright law upon penalty of termination. The fine line between fair use and copyright is something the legal system has a tough time deciding, and yet you expect an underpaid, overworked person to bend over backwards because you think of yourself as an intellectual property expert.
Why do people assume that someone getting paid barely over minimum wage is going to risk their job just because a customer wants a color photo for their school report? These aren't law school graduates and you shouldn't expect them to be, they are doing their jobs.
Hmm, let's see... you have obviously put a lot of thought into this position, so I guess you have probably already reconciled these points I am about to make.
If you ran Kinko's, I suppose you would decide that it was better to allow your workers to make copies of copyrighted material, thereby opening you up to a bevy of lawsuits (which happened to Kinko's previously, and in a big way) and running the whole operation into the ground, than it would be to follow the law and deny requests to make copies illegally.
And, I guess that if you worked there, you would be ready to get fired because someone was too cheap to pay for a print of their professional photograph or too lazy/stupid to figure out how to copy a book at the self-serve copiers. It wouldn't matter to you that you would be out of a job, because you got to make a copy of a book for someone.
But you aren't and you don't. Oh, and guess what? Kinko's has nothing to do with copyright law either, so boycotting them won't have much effect. They don't like it as much as you don't, they lost a large part of their business when they had to stop making course packets for colleges from copyrighted textbooks.
I just bought a MiniDisc player instead of an MP3 player and I couldn't be happier. I could go on and on about how it is superior to every MP3 player I looked at, but there's plenty of info out there already. The best part is that I don't have to worry about how much memory it has, the discs are only $2 and hold 150 minutes of music with compression, 75 without.
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Take a look at NT 4.0 Terminal Server and its long list of incompatible software and you will see you are correct. Not even newly released MS apps work correctly without a lot of tweaking.
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Uh, no, copying copyrighted works and getting their pants sued off is what would put them out of business. You must enjoy harassing employees who are asked to make correct judgements based on copyright law upon penalty of termination. The fine line between fair use and copyright is something the legal system has a tough time deciding, and yet you expect an underpaid, overworked person to bend over backwards because you think of yourself as an intellectual property expert.
Why do people assume that someone getting paid barely over minimum wage is going to risk their job just because a customer wants a color photo for their school report? These aren't law school graduates and you shouldn't expect them to be, they are doing their jobs.
Hmm, let's see... you have obviously put a lot of thought into this position, so I guess you have probably already reconciled these points I am about to make.
If you ran Kinko's, I suppose you would decide that it was better to allow your workers to make copies of copyrighted material, thereby opening you up to a bevy of lawsuits (which happened to Kinko's previously, and in a big way) and running the whole operation into the ground, than it would be to follow the law and deny requests to make copies illegally.
And, I guess that if you worked there, you would be ready to get fired because someone was too cheap to pay for a print of their professional photograph or too lazy/stupid to figure out how to copy a book at the self-serve copiers. It wouldn't matter to you that you would be out of a job, because you got to make a copy of a book for someone.
But you aren't and you don't. Oh, and guess what? Kinko's has nothing to do with copyright law either, so boycotting them won't have much effect. They don't like it as much as you don't, they lost a large part of their business when they had to stop making course packets for colleges from copyrighted textbooks.
I just bought a MiniDisc player instead of an MP3 player and I couldn't be happier. I could go on and on about how it is superior to every MP3 player I looked at, but there's plenty of info out there already. The best part is that I don't have to worry about how much memory it has, the discs are only $2 and hold 150 minutes of music with compression, 75 without.
Take a look at NT 4.0 Terminal Server and its long list of incompatible software and you will see you are correct. Not even newly released MS apps work correctly without a lot of tweaking.