Can we get this straight please? "Spamming" wasn't "illegal" before CAN-SPAM so CAN-SPAM couldn't have "legalized" it. True, there were a number of state laws that RESTRICTED the practice (and even one that prohibited, but that law was never tested and was likely unconstitutional as a blanket prohibition on commercial speech via e-mail).
NO. It absolutely is not. It drives me crazy and I've been trying to withhold my comment on this but since you spoke up, here I am!
To "beg the question" means to base your queston on a conclusion that you have already reached (with respect to future or past events). For example, if I ask someone the following question...
"So, do you still beat your wife?"
...I have included in my question the conclusion that the questionee HAS beat his wife in the past. THAT is "begging the question."
What the original poster surely meant was "...this forces me to wonder whether..." or "I am compelled to ask whether..."
The content at this point is irrelevant. Apple's message that switching to MacOS X is a good thing is out there already--most potential "switchers" already now about the campaign and its purposes. The Will Ferrell-type switch ads are primarily to maintain buzz/mindshare. I seems to be working, at least here on/.
Having read the author's description of events carefully, it is clear to me that there are no issues in this case that would fall under the provisions of the DMCA. I think he included the DMCA in the title as a red herring, to distract readers from the fact that he failed to spend the $20 or so dollars it would have taken to register his copyright.
At the end of his article, he answers the question, "what does this have to do with the DMCA?" His answer, and I take the liberty of paraphrasing here, was that the DMCA was just another law that failed to protect him.
First, the DMCA was not meant to deal with situations like this (and I am speaking of each of the five titles). Second, the DMCA is completely irrelevant. He invokes the "that company is a bad guy and the DMCA failed me" mantra is misleading. He mights as well have said, "the voter registration laws failed to help me protect my copyrighted material!--we should all be outraged!"
Get real. Learn about the issues. Don't rely on buzzwords. Don't spout off on substantive issues if you're not willing to be fair in your treatment of them.
WBS
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Can we get this straight please? "Spamming" wasn't "illegal" before CAN-SPAM so CAN-SPAM couldn't have "legalized" it. True, there were a number of state laws that RESTRICTED the practice (and even one that prohibited, but that law was never tested and was likely unconstitutional as a blanket prohibition on commercial speech via e-mail).
I want my own signature on an iPod, and not with a sharpy marker wiseguy, engraved, juuuuuuust like Madonna's!
To "beg the question" means to base your queston on a conclusion that you have already reached (with respect to future or past events). For example, if I ask someone the following question...
"So, do you still beat your wife?"
...I have included in my question the conclusion that the questionee HAS beat his wife in the past. THAT is "begging the question."
What the original poster surely meant was "...this forces me to wonder whether..." or "I am compelled to ask whether..."
Get it? Got it? Good.
The content at this point is irrelevant. Apple's message that switching to MacOS X is a good thing is out there already--most potential "switchers" already now about the campaign and its purposes. The Will Ferrell-type switch ads are primarily to maintain buzz/mindshare. I seems to be working, at least here on /.
Having read the author's description of events carefully, it is clear to me that there are no issues in this case that would fall under the provisions of the DMCA. I think he included the DMCA in the title as a red herring, to distract readers from the fact that he failed to spend the $20 or so dollars it would have taken to register his copyright. At the end of his article, he answers the question, "what does this have to do with the DMCA?" His answer, and I take the liberty of paraphrasing here, was that the DMCA was just another law that failed to protect him. First, the DMCA was not meant to deal with situations like this (and I am speaking of each of the five titles). Second, the DMCA is completely irrelevant. He invokes the "that company is a bad guy and the DMCA failed me" mantra is misleading. He mights as well have said, "the voter registration laws failed to help me protect my copyrighted material!--we should all be outraged!" Get real. Learn about the issues. Don't rely on buzzwords. Don't spout off on substantive issues if you're not willing to be fair in your treatment of them. WBS
Yes they can. It's binding on the non-minor party and voidable by the minor.