Where's A Business Method Patent When You Need One?
from the no-one-should-copy-this dept
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I guess my sarcasm mark got erased.
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If you...
Where did you get such a dreadful business model?
I COPIED it!
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ROTFLMAO!
*copies this.
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Random copyright insanity rant
The driving force behind it seems the be the old "you can't listen to something you didn't pay for". But that's ridiculous. That would mean that I couldn't listen to a song somebody else bought (at a friend's house, for example). Oh sure, you could claim that I'm being the ridiculous one, but consider the streaming of that song. If someone (who paid for the song) decides to stream it on the internet, he's a criminal! Even tough he paid for it. And I am a criminal for listening to it (it's a win-win scenario for the copyright holder: they get to sue 2 people).
There's the broadcasting part of it, I know. But if I play it too loud in my computer, someone could allege that I am broadcasting it. Or, if I play it at a party, I could suddenly become a criminal!
Then, there's the copying of the song. I can make backups, fine. But what if I store my backup offsite (on the cloud, for example) where it could be accessed by many people, (family and friends). Copyright infringement! What if I don't and just rip it into mp3's and store the music on my PC? Still a criminal (circumvention of copy protection)! What about watching movies on something other than the "approved" player? More circumvention of protections technology, more crimes.
So, basically, what I am trying to say is: might as well copy it. You'll be a pirate either way.
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I'll go first:
What do you call a bus full of lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A good start!
What if one of the seats was empty?
A crying shame.
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In my opinion, they aren't very amusing, they don't even rise to the level of bad political commentary.
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Your opinion might exceed negative weight if you gave us some examples of what you consider to be good humour.
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its called "pretty much all of it".
which is a refreshing breeze from that anonymous coward person who generally proves that he knows very little about it while coming off like a complete pompous ass while doing so.
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