"The record companies don't bother determining guilt or innocence which is why they've sued dead people, grandmothers without computers and technologically inept people with their shotgun approach to litigation."
Don't forget a laser printer. To be fair, that laser printer looked damn sneaky to me.
You just need to balance your rights, with the desires of "Industry" of stripping you of your rights! A compromise would be to give up your rights willingly, so that the "Industry" would then not try to take them away! Everybody wins!
It doesn't matter if it's one monkey or a million monkeys (since having a single monkey using "near infinite time" is no different than different monkeys using even less time. It's called manpower. Or in this case, monkeypower.).
The idea that a million monkeys can write random groups of letters that can then be pasted together to become a work of Shakespeare (or several) is as bad as having a single monkey writing random groups of letters at separate intervals then having a third party pick and choose until he has a complete work (or several).
The theorem actually appears to indicate that an entire work should be typed (and any letter out of place would ruin the work, needing to start over). A single complete play should have been typed continuously.
Otherwise, it would take a TINY amount of time for a computer just generating every keypress of the keyboard (or of the alphabet. If I type the entire sequence from A to Z, numbers and punctuation a thousand times, of course I'll have At the very least written every possible work that contains a thousand letters or less). How long does it take a computer to press the entire keyboard a billion times? Now all you need is a human picking the relevant letter from each group in the right order and we have every book ever written.
(this sounds suspiciously similar to what Shakespeare would do if given a ton of letters to work and he had to arrange them in the right order).
So yeah, in other words, just more of the same caustic bashing from you.
If you wanted to steal a movie, there are already laws that cover it. For instance, just to steal their movie you'd have to break & enter the property, then probably you would force the lock of the safe containing the reels for the movie. That's some sort of unauthorized access right there. Then, of course, there are laws against the unauthorized substraction of the physical object itself.
See? No need to create additional laws that make VCR's illegal.
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Don't forget a laser printer. To be fair, that laser printer looked damn sneaky to me.
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Maybe security should screen people for hidden eyepatches instead.
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In Space!
C'mon, just a little call to the police... you know you want to...
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It doesn't matter if it's one monkey or a million monkeys (since having a single monkey using "near infinite time" is no different than different monkeys using even less time. It's called manpower. Or in this case, monkeypower.).
The idea that a million monkeys can write random groups of letters that can then be pasted together to become a work of Shakespeare (or several) is as bad as having a single monkey writing random groups of letters at separate intervals then having a third party pick and choose until he has a complete work (or several).
The theorem actually appears to indicate that an entire work should be typed (and any letter out of place would ruin the work, needing to start over). A single complete play should have been typed continuously.
Otherwise, it would take a TINY amount of time for a computer just generating every keypress of the keyboard (or of the alphabet. If I type the entire sequence from A to Z, numbers and punctuation a thousand times, of course I'll have At the very least written every possible work that contains a thousand letters or less). How long does it take a computer to press the entire keyboard a billion times? Now all you need is a human picking the relevant letter from each group in the right order and we have every book ever written.
(this sounds suspiciously similar to what Shakespeare would do if given a ton of letters to work and he had to arrange them in the right order).
So yeah, in other words, just more of the same caustic bashing from you.
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What, I'm allowed only to have my router open from 9 to 5?
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Thanks for your insight, Frito Pendejo.
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See? No need to create additional laws that make VCR's illegal.
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*gasp* a fate worse than death...
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So, if anything is being belittled, is that you can't tell if something is sarcasm or not.
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Of crows.
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