I like to picture a bunch of you copytards sitting around the lunchroom at Dying Publisher Inc. and laughing at these stories. You smile at each other as you post these "scathing" comments, and occasionally high five.
Yet you fail to notice the day when your nice lunchroom table and chairs are replaced with white plastic lawn furniture. Or when Sally and Joe from accounting (the biggest department) just stop showing up to join in the laughs, mostly because they are no longer employed at the office.
Your days are numbered, and the numbers are looking pretty small.
You really consider a second trip to the store, after paying for the content, is a reasonable solution? If I boguht the discs, I consider that a license to download for the convenience.physical media is such a pain in the ass to use.
If a student started appearing in lecture halls without tuition, nobody would notice. They just wouldn't be able to submit assignments for mars, write exams or get a degree at the end.
This is happening at a ton of major institutions across Canada, and I'm glad to see the schools finally fighting back. Hopefull time will only reveal more schools going this way.
And read news. And talk to family. And participate in your local democratic system. And perform professional or scholastic research. And have a phone system. And log in to the office VPN to do work.
Seeing any problems yet? Perhaps the internet connection is used for more than the minor infraction of potential copyright infringement.
You have no right to determine who gets to keep or lose internet access. Your accusations are meaningless with evidence presented and accepted in court. There are so so many way to have the wrong person blamed, letting alone thedisproportionality of disconnection,that the method of IP or even MAC address should be laughed out of court without extensive investigation and validation.
This is why we need more countries declaring net access to be a basic righ.
I like the part where the typical representative of the record industry thinks their profits take precedent over privacy, due process, free market economics, government for and by the people and the (much larger) profits of the technology industry.
Pretty much this. If licensed methods were MORE convenient than pirate methods, most people would be willing to pay a reasonable price. The exact number varies by person, but I would peg it betweeb $2 and $6 per album, delivered electronically, with the higher prices including some automatic cloud backups etc.
I'm not sure how anyone reasonable could argue against TechDirt's fair use -- it was reporting on the story _about_ the image, to which the image in question is relevant information. It was not merely reporting the image for artistic effect.
Fair Use in the US is pretty explicit about the exception for reporting/news gathering.
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Yet you fail to notice the day when your nice lunchroom table and chairs are replaced with white plastic lawn furniture. Or when Sally and Joe from accounting (the biggest department) just stop showing up to join in the laughs, mostly because they are no longer employed at the office.
Your days are numbered, and the numbers are looking pretty small.
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Seems drunk, not "sick"
If he was only getting worse, it makes sense for the band to keep him offstage rather than coming out as an embarassment.
That was my impression. Maybe he was just sick...
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Crystal Ball disappearing act?
I'm hoping this is just some maintenance downtime, but I wanted to check if it was just me...
Even better, I hope we're about to see he long awaited new round of cwf/rtb opions...
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Re: fairs fair
Feel free to attend the classes for free.
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Re: Happening all over
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Happening all over
Queen's: http://library.queensu.ca/copyright/teaching/queens#access
Waterloo: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/copyright/update.html
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A low rate of use/abuse does not justify the continued existence of a terrible system.
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Seeing any problems yet? Perhaps the internet connection is used for more than the minor infraction of potential copyright infringement.
You have no right to determine who gets to keep or lose internet access. Your accusations are meaningless with evidence presented and accepted in court. There are so so many way to have the wrong person blamed, letting alone thedisproportionality of disconnection,that the method of IP or even MAC address should be laughed out of court without extensive investigation and validation.
This is why we need more countries declaring net access to be a basic righ.
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Oh... no, wait. I hate that part. Right.
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Re: wait a minute
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Preferably without any hyperbole or law stretching.
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great stuff
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Re: This is staged
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I'm not sure how anyone reasonable could argue against TechDirt's fair use -- it was reporting on the story _about_ the image, to which the image in question is relevant information. It was not merely reporting the image for artistic effect.
Fair Use in the US is pretty explicit about the exception for reporting/news gathering.
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