God, who knew that iTunes and Amazon's Unbox are illegal?
and those files will tansfer to and play on your phone as is? perhaps if you have an iphone and only buy from itunes, but for the rest of us, converting a file to avi, wmv, or mpg is likely to be a DMCA violation.
it doesn't stop me from doing it, but it's likely stop your mom and dad (the people who pay for downloads in the first place) from doing so.
Because we all know that putting TV shows on your phone or iPod/portable media player is just so fricken hard.
it's not hard to do, but if you do it the easy way it's most likely illegal. changing from one format to another often involves stripping the original formats protections which is a big no-no according to hollywood.
i think AT&T won't give up because mobile TV is big in europe and asia where lots of people take public transit.
the trouble with mobile anything in the US is that everyone drives and if you so much as think about touching a mobile phone within 100 feet of a moving vehicle then chances are you are breaking some sort of law.
so, mobile TV/movies/whatever is pretty easy to do and comes in super handy in a bunch of situations, as long as you don't mind breaking the law.
One would think that they would go out of their way to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.
this whole proceeding is a farce and underscores pretty much all of the complexities that surround the politics of file sharing.
in their race to over simplify the issue, the copyright lobby (and by proxy, their coin operated government puppets) have consistently underestimated the intelligence, passion, and tenacity of the people they are fighting.
the prevailing attitude among the content industry has been one of willful ignorance to the fact that this is a political movement that isn't going to just go away.
Minor correction: it's Henry, not Harry. Moving on now.
he was referring to harry potter. unless you are infact talking about henry potter, the erotic fanfic. but i never read those things. they are for losers.
The Infamous Joe wants rights"back" that he never created. Maybe if you spent less time on the blogs, you could create something yourself that you could then pass down to your heirs. If you had created the automobile, wouldn't you want to leave that legacy for your loved ones?
i agree. i am not interested in working for a living and would rather live off of something my family did years ago. i don't really know how to do anything but ask my mom for money so extending copyright indefinitely will really help me to live without ever doing any actual work. people like joe are destroying our dreams molly!
having copyrights last forever in the hands of publishing companies and record labels is just good business. corporations always do the right thing and always have the best interests of the artist in mind. they always want to share profits with families. this is especially true of very large, multinational corporations.
you are not a nice person joe. you should listen to good people like molly who never post to blogs (except to tell people they shouldn't post to blogs... that's ok) and love this country and the artists and the children.
the public domain was created by pirates for stealing! tell them molly!
My God...talk about talking out of both sides of one's mouth. One the one hand it is said that internet sites are a good way for law enforcement to monitor the potential for criminal activity. Now it seems that by doing so they should be deemed guilty of engaging in illegl activity.
the point isn't that the cops broke the "law". the point is that now that thanks to the judicial travesty that was the lori drew case, the cops have now broken the law.
cops setting up a sting to catch teenagers via facebook is super lame, but being lame shouldn't be illegal.
To me, ebooks take away from the physical as far as a good book is concerned. Things like the smell of the pages/ink, turning the pages, the feel of the binding, etc are missing.
ebooks are not a replacement for real books. real books are cheap, high resolution, some what waterproof, can be signed by the author, and can be considered disposable if you are not attached to them.
real books are also bulky (try carrying a few in a bookbag or moving a few thousand to a new apartment), not searchable, tough to distribute, and expensive.
yes, i said books are cheap and expensive. one paperback book is cheap to buy (compared to a computer, phone, or dedicated reading device) and easily traded/sold/donated; a few hundred books are expensive to transport, store, and distribute.
ebooks are great at doing the things that real books are not good at. ebooks are terrible at doing the things that real books are good at.
the same can be said for music and movies. according to some, there is nothing quite like vinyl or the theater.
they call my deskphone at work. i hit one to get the operator and then put them on hold. i can see the little light blink for a couple of minutes sometimes. if more people do that it might slow down their productivity.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Mike I do agree with you, but
So you can spend all your time surfing the web, finding and downloading music, belittling people who work for a living as being people who do not think for themselves.
Xanax dude, i'm telling you... and i don't download music, the government and the corporations tell me that is stealing, and stealing supports terrorism.
Unfortunately, I just have little time to listen to podcasts and I do not own an MP3 player. One thing that has been a boon is that my wife's new car has satellite radio..
i agree. i don't like to do anything for myself and prefer to have corporations and the government do my thinking for me. i am often disappointed, but i would rather be disappointed than frightened.
so i think you internet people need to stop because your music and ideas are scary. talk to your doctor about Xanax, it makes the scary ideas go away.
want proof? browse 4chan.org for ten minutes. the internet isn't safe for decent people. they would be better off doing something... anything... else.
Perhaps the ultimate laws that charged Lori were "twisted", but justice was done in the end.
no, it wasn't. megan is dead because her parents didn't teach her how to protect herself online. internet mob justice would have seen to it that lori drew's life was ruined without any help from the law. and if that failed there is always the great american past time: the civil suit.
using the law in this way is reprehensible, not because it is wrong, but because it is an absolute waste of time and resources. lori drew got busted, and these laws might stop a couple of people in the beginning, but then the real trouble will start.
The ultimate problem is that we don't have enough laws (very clearly defined) regulating the internet. If someone wants to harass someone online they should have the guts to say who they are, and the person being harassed should be able to obtain their information to defend themselves.
no, the ultimate problem is that people are painfully ignorant about just how dangerous the internet is. it's way more dangerous than the real world and it's way harder to protect yourself. no amount of laws will prevent that. idiots like megan's parents need to take some responsibility for themselves and their children.
if someone the sufficient skill and motivation wants you to suffer, you WILL suffer. there is no force on earth that can prevent that. all the law will do produce unintended consequences.
In any event, we are lacking some serious laws online. People can disparage others online, post false information or shocking pictures and hide behind anonymity while taking no responsibility for the ultimate outcome to someone's reputation - or in this case emotional distress which led to suicide.
you have no idea how the internet works or how the people that use it operate, do you? censorship and regulation will always be circumvented. always. so go ahead and endorse a bunch of laws, but they will do you no good.
we passed a bunch of laws against spam, how's that working out for you? all it did was drive the spammers further underground, making it even harder for service providers to fight them. good job congress!
the chinese can't contain the internet and they have the resources and motivation to do so, what makes you think the federal government has any chance of success?
laws against bullying will not work. they will waste taxpayer funds and deliver absolutely no results other than inconveniences to legitimate users, and maybe a re-election.
i guarantee you the only "bullies" caught and punished with this law will be some grandmothers and a couple of 10 year olds who are victims of unintended consequences.
We have a long way to go in regulating people's privacy and conduct online, but the Cyberbullying Law is certainly a start.
regulating anything on the internet is physically impossible. it simply cannot be done.
for every step that you take and every measure that you implement if it doesn't fail on it's own, there WILL be a workaround within minutes. that is a mathematical certainty.
the government can't even protect it's own secrets from the chinese, what on earth makes you think they can protect you or your children from bullies?
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Re: Re: Re:
and those files will tansfer to and play on your phone as is? perhaps if you have an iphone and only buy from itunes, but for the rest of us, converting a file to avi, wmv, or mpg is likely to be a DMCA violation.
it doesn't stop me from doing it, but it's likely stop your mom and dad (the people who pay for downloads in the first place) from doing so.
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Re:
it's not hard to do, but if you do it the easy way it's most likely illegal. changing from one format to another often involves stripping the original formats protections which is a big no-no according to hollywood.
i think AT&T won't give up because mobile TV is big in europe and asia where lots of people take public transit.
the trouble with mobile anything in the US is that everyone drives and if you so much as think about touching a mobile phone within 100 feet of a moving vehicle then chances are you are breaking some sort of law.
so, mobile TV/movies/whatever is pretty easy to do and comes in super handy in a bunch of situations, as long as you don't mind breaking the law.
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could they? absolutely.
have they? most likely.
should they? absolutely not.
On the post: Person In Charge Of Determining If Pirate Bay Judge Is Biased... May Be Biased
Re:
this whole proceeding is a farce and underscores pretty much all of the complexities that surround the politics of file sharing.
in their race to over simplify the issue, the copyright lobby (and by proxy, their coin operated government puppets) have consistently underestimated the intelligence, passion, and tenacity of the people they are fighting.
the prevailing attitude among the content industry has been one of willful ignorance to the fact that this is a political movement that isn't going to just go away.
On the post: But How Would Steinbeck Feel About The Public Domain?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Rights?
he was referring to harry potter. unless you are infact talking about henry potter, the erotic fanfic. but i never read those things. they are for losers.
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Re: Re: Rights?
i agree. i am not interested in working for a living and would rather live off of something my family did years ago. i don't really know how to do anything but ask my mom for money so extending copyright indefinitely will really help me to live without ever doing any actual work. people like joe are destroying our dreams molly!
having copyrights last forever in the hands of publishing companies and record labels is just good business. corporations always do the right thing and always have the best interests of the artist in mind. they always want to share profits with families. this is especially true of very large, multinational corporations.
you are not a nice person joe. you should listen to good people like molly who never post to blogs (except to tell people they shouldn't post to blogs... that's ok) and love this country and the artists and the children.
the public domain was created by pirates for stealing! tell them molly!
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Re:
the point isn't that the cops broke the "law". the point is that now that thanks to the judicial travesty that was the lori drew case, the cops have now broken the law.
cops setting up a sting to catch teenagers via facebook is super lame, but being lame shouldn't be illegal.
On the post: China Has Invented Miraculous Hack-Proof Processor And Operating System?
i have one of those
On the post: One More Reminder That You Don't Own The Books On Your Kindle
Re:
ebooks are not a replacement for real books. real books are cheap, high resolution, some what waterproof, can be signed by the author, and can be considered disposable if you are not attached to them.
real books are also bulky (try carrying a few in a bookbag or moving a few thousand to a new apartment), not searchable, tough to distribute, and expensive.
yes, i said books are cheap and expensive. one paperback book is cheap to buy (compared to a computer, phone, or dedicated reading device) and easily traded/sold/donated; a few hundred books are expensive to transport, store, and distribute.
ebooks are great at doing the things that real books are not good at. ebooks are terrible at doing the things that real books are good at.
the same can be said for music and movies. according to some, there is nothing quite like vinyl or the theater.
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Re: Re:
On the post: Duke Nukem Forever Wins The True Lifetime Achievement Award For Vaporware: Coming Out Never
Re: Re: Hmm seems to me
or that the DNF source code is like the hope diamond.
On the post: Newspaper Folks Go Crying To Congress For Help
Re: Told you
get back to work!
these taxes aren't going to pay themselves you know.
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i just waste time
do non-voip companies offer whitelisting service?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Mike I do agree with you, but
Xanax dude, i'm telling you... and i don't download music, the government and the corporations tell me that is stealing, and stealing supports terrorism.
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Re:
how about never? does never work for you?
And how long does it take before companies start reigning in their legal teams?
yeeahh, i'm going to have to go with never.
On the post: Guy Convicted Of Hacking For Uploading Naked Picture Of Himself
hacking laws will always be twisted
On the post: Lack Of Indie Music On The Radio Perhaps A Matter Of Economics More Than Payola
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Mike I do agree with you, but
i agree. i don't like to do anything for myself and prefer to have corporations and the government do my thinking for me. i am often disappointed, but i would rather be disappointed than frightened.
so i think you internet people need to stop because your music and ideas are scary. talk to your doctor about Xanax, it makes the scary ideas go away.
On the post: Congressional Rep Wants To Put Internet Trolls In Jail
Re: Re: Re:
On the post: Congressional Rep Wants To Put Internet Trolls In Jail
Re:
prison rape is no laughing matter.
unless it happens to a clown. then it's hilarious.
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absolutely.
the internet destroyed our humanity years ago.
want proof? browse 4chan.org for ten minutes. the internet isn't safe for decent people. they would be better off doing something... anything... else.
Perhaps the ultimate laws that charged Lori were "twisted", but justice was done in the end.
no, it wasn't. megan is dead because her parents didn't teach her how to protect herself online. internet mob justice would have seen to it that lori drew's life was ruined without any help from the law. and if that failed there is always the great american past time: the civil suit.
using the law in this way is reprehensible, not because it is wrong, but because it is an absolute waste of time and resources. lori drew got busted, and these laws might stop a couple of people in the beginning, but then the real trouble will start.
The ultimate problem is that we don't have enough laws (very clearly defined) regulating the internet. If someone wants to harass someone online they should have the guts to say who they are, and the person being harassed should be able to obtain their information to defend themselves.
no, the ultimate problem is that people are painfully ignorant about just how dangerous the internet is. it's way more dangerous than the real world and it's way harder to protect yourself. no amount of laws will prevent that. idiots like megan's parents need to take some responsibility for themselves and their children.
if someone the sufficient skill and motivation wants you to suffer, you WILL suffer. there is no force on earth that can prevent that. all the law will do produce unintended consequences.
In any event, we are lacking some serious laws online. People can disparage others online, post false information or shocking pictures and hide behind anonymity while taking no responsibility for the ultimate outcome to someone's reputation - or in this case emotional distress which led to suicide.
you have no idea how the internet works or how the people that use it operate, do you? censorship and regulation will always be circumvented. always. so go ahead and endorse a bunch of laws, but they will do you no good.
we passed a bunch of laws against spam, how's that working out for you? all it did was drive the spammers further underground, making it even harder for service providers to fight them. good job congress!
the chinese can't contain the internet and they have the resources and motivation to do so, what makes you think the federal government has any chance of success?
laws against bullying will not work. they will waste taxpayer funds and deliver absolutely no results other than inconveniences to legitimate users, and maybe a re-election.
i guarantee you the only "bullies" caught and punished with this law will be some grandmothers and a couple of 10 year olds who are victims of unintended consequences.
We have a long way to go in regulating people's privacy and conduct online, but the Cyberbullying Law is certainly a start.
regulating anything on the internet is physically impossible. it simply cannot be done.
for every step that you take and every measure that you implement if it doesn't fail on it's own, there WILL be a workaround within minutes. that is a mathematical certainty.
the government can't even protect it's own secrets from the chinese, what on earth makes you think they can protect you or your children from bullies?
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