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  1. Already Covered on RIAA Now Filing Suits Against Consumers Who Rip CDs · · Score: 1
    This has already been covered in this slashdot article http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/11/0436215
    From that discussion, a comment by scooter.higher

    The Fair Use argument was negated when he shared them on KaZaA - RTFA, and look at page 15 that is even mentioned in the summary.
    But let me point out what I believe ruins the Fair Use argument (IANAL):
    Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs' recording into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder, they are no longer the authorized copies distributed by Plaintiffs. Moreover, Defendant had no authorization to distribute Plaintiffs' copyrighted recordings from his KaZaA shared folder. Each of the 11 sound recordings on Exhibit A to Plaintiffs' Complaint were stored in the .mp3 format in the shared folder on Defendant's computer hard drive, and each of these eleven files were actually disseminated from Defendant's computer.

    And the brief he's referring to http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDF.asp?filename=atlantic_howell_071207RIAASupplementalBrief
  2. Re:bug? on Anti-Virus Bug Briefly Identified Windows Explorer as Malware · · Score: 1

    but it says INFORMED consent

  3. What about ads that are also content? on Web Ads Work Better Than TV Ads · · Score: 1

    Biggest example I can think of... Will it Blend? http://www.willitblend.com/
    It is an ad campaign, but it is also video content. You don't get those kind of advertisements on TV. Maybe that's why online ad watchers are more engaged? The online ads are actually engaging?
    Of course, I didn't read TFA. Is it referring to commercials within videos of TV shows online? Perhaps it's that viewers can't change the channel?

  4. bug? on Anti-Virus Bug Briefly Identified Windows Explorer as Malware · · Score: 0, Redundant

    according to wikipedia, "Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent."

    Sounds like windows to me...

  5. Teaching Workshop on Your Worst IT Workshop? · · Score: 1

    It's not an IT story, but it's every bit as much a waste of time as what others are talking about. I'm a music teacher. In my first year, all elementary "specialist" teachers (music, art, PE, etc) were required to attend a six hour course on how to teach the new reading curriculum, because, you know... that's what we teahch... Talk about a waste of time. The classroom teachers that were there seemed bored enough, and basically conversed through the whole presentation. And then, the specialists got split up because we were being too distracting.

  6. Re:OB Big Bang Theory on Cloned, Glow in the Dark Cats · · Score: 1

    Ooo, that's pretty cool, but not quite what I'm looking for. Awesome link though!

  7. OB Big Bang Theory on Cloned, Glow in the Dark Cats · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does that mean I can finally get a goldfish night light?

  8. Re:Blue, definitely on Team Fortress 2 Stats Confirm Every Suspicion · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or, you could just change wikipedia so the definitions are swapped. Then you would have been right in the first place.

  9. Re:Blue, definitely on Team Fortress 2 Stats Confirm Every Suspicion · · Score: 1
    Isn't it the proletariat that does the rising?

    The proletariat (from Latin proles, "offspring") is a term used to identify a lower social class; a member of such a class is proletarian. (Wikipedia.org)
  10. Re:When's the next one come out? on Futurama Returns! · · Score: 1

    Yes, Comedy Central ordered 16 episodes to be released as 4 straight to dvd movies, which will also be aired on comedy central.

  11. But they'll settle.... on Nigerian Company Sues OLPC · · Score: 2, Funny

    They'll call off the lawsuit if they receive 20 laptops within the next 2 weeks, and will pay OLPC $5000 on receipt of said laptops...

  12. This should come about 2142 on DARPA Looks To Adaptive Battlefield Wireless Nets · · Score: 1

    So are they getting their ideas from EA games now? Because this is basically the "NetBat system" that is used in Battlefield 2142.

  13. Re:And this Is Sadder on The New Moon Race · · Score: 1

    I was going for funny, i had put a comment about putting on my tinfoil hat, but it was inside "" so it disappeared because i forgot to set it to plain old text.

  14. Re:And this Is Sadder on The New Moon Race · · Score: 1

    What are you all talking about? Won't this be the first time the US gets to the moon?

  15. Optimum Online on Comcast Slightly Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use Policy · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know if there's such a limit on optimum online? I know they've at least in the past used the word "unlimited" in their ads. I use a decent amount of bandwidth, though I wouldn't think I "abuse" my connection, but I don't really know if they have a policy of cutting off customers after a certain limit. In 10 years, it hasn't been an issue.

  16. Re:gestapo on German Police Arrest Admin of Tor Anonymity Server · · Score: 1

    Isn't part of Godwin's law that, as soon as a nazi reference is made, the discussion should stop? If so, I guess I'm in just as much violation as the rest of you.

  17. When's the last time on DOS 5 Upgrade Video · · Score: 1

    When's the last time upgrading an M$ Product to a new version actually saved memory?

  18. Re:If your favorite is C|NET on What Your Favorite Web Sites Say About You · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should make it a poll on the main page. That would be a great scientific survey of all /.ers

  19. Re:In other news.... on G.I. Joe No Longer the Real American Hero? · · Score: 1

    To add to what "I(rispee_I(reme" said, when the cartoon series in the 80s became extremely popular, it was brought overseas to the UK. When brought to the UK, it was renamed "Action Force." Producers were concerned that with such an american oriented title, it wouldn't be successful overseas. When writing the movie, they had the same concern -- that it wouldn't be successful internationally. So that is the reason for much of the multiculturalization the article talks about. As long as they don't do G.I Joe: War On Drugs. Remember, Knowing is half the battle!

  20. Re:Nukes on *a* plane? on Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America · · Score: 1

    I've had it with these motherfuckin nukes on this motherfuckin plane

  21. Re:We got some flyin' to do on Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America · · Score: 1

    So, by profit do you mean claiming the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iran? That's where the government screwed up. There would have been weapons of mass destruction if only they had planted them...

  22. Higher than average economic success? on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1

    If we have higher than average economic success, then why do so many of us spend our lives in our mother's basement until we're 40 watching Star Trek reruns? Or is that just the leftists...

  23. Re:They have no idea? on Storm Hits Blogger Network · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I disagree. I don't think that's incompetence. It's an honest admission that more investigating is needed to determine the way these blogs are being infected. Would you prefer them to make up an incorrect hypothesis as to how they're doing this?

  24. Obligatory Futurama on Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe · · Score: 1

    Oh, how convenient. A theory about God that doesn't require looking through a telescope. Get back to work.

  25. Re:Simple solution... on AT&T Arbitration Clause Ruled Unconscionable · · Score: 1

    >(Do people actually still use AT&T for anything other than iPhones?) Yes. Since AT&T's purchase of SBC, (basically returning themselves to their pre-trust size) and the lack of any other local phone company in the area, many people have no choice but to use AT&T as the local provider of their land-line. This problem isn't as large as it would have been a few years ago before VOIP, but a lot of people don't like VOIP