In the absence of prominent explanation, we concluded that the ad misleadingly implied it was acceptable to copy CDs, vinyl and cassettes without the permission of the copyright owner.
Not misleading at all. It's perfectly acceptable. What isn't acceptable is a law that makes this kind of format shifting illegal to begin with.
I wonder how many MP's have used iTunes to copy their own CD's onto their iPod's, surely more than none.
To paraphrase Douglas Adams: "The day someone finds out the meaning of reality, reality will be replaced with something more inexplicable and bizarre. There are indications this has already happened."
"Our lives are getting more and more complicated. We are increasingly connected to the world by the power of emerging technologies, but at the same time we seem to be increasingly disconnected from each other by the same technology and stream of information and distractions."
emerging technologies like the Internet? Talk about being behind the times...
Re: IP Enforcement will go the way of Prohibition..
And even if things go the wrong way, someone will figure out something legal to share which if left sitting turns into restricted content (cf. bricks of wine).
They're choosing what to republish and you have to indemnify them? Only to a lawyer would that make sense. Why don't they just go ahead and skip articles they think will cause them problems.
Just run the 'scanner' in a VM so your computer knows and sends the correct secret handshake, do your real work outside of it.
The question also arises what they'd classify as a computer. Would a phone (development board) at e.g. Samsung also need to have this software installed?
When robots start acting like Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or Orphu of Io and Mahnmut the European in Ilium & Olympos, then I think we've come to the point where we'd be considering granting them personhood.
These are the new creators, building off of older works. And it sounds amazing.
I think humans have probably been in the remixing game since one of them used to pieces of wood to make fire and accidentally discovered that banging them together in certain ways sounded kinda nice.
Consider the rest of knowledge similarly shared and remixed to figure out ever better ways to make fire (and make music) and all manner of other unrelated discoveries by happenstance.
If early humans had started out with ACTA, we'd probably have died out a long time ago for failing to come up with better ways to get our basic staple foods sorted.
It's probably a good thing it looked more like PD (CC0) or CC{-By}-SA until relatively recently in our history.
The law in this case seems to have gone through some revisions and is at best ambiguous. Not ambiguous enough that I'd agree with the ruling.
If the law unequivocally supported the judge's decision, I'd have to very much disagree with the law in question, in fact.
For the time being I'll have to modify the firmware on my router so that even if you defeat the encryption, if you actually go out on the interwebs from it, you'll end up downloading something off of a honeynet in the same network -- which would then of course actually be illegal. ;)
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Not misleading at all. It's perfectly acceptable. What isn't acceptable is a law that makes this kind of format shifting illegal to begin with.
I wonder how many MP's have used iTunes to copy their own CD's onto their iPod's, surely more than none.
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Maybe he'll regale us with the Massive Memes of Mixed-Up Metaphor-Man!
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emerging technologies like the Internet? Talk about being behind the times...
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Re: IP Enforcement will go the way of Prohibition..
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Strange logic
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Re: alternate OSes
The question also arises what they'd classify as a computer. Would a phone (development board) at e.g. Samsung also need to have this software installed?
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Achy diodes
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Re: Two things at work regarding piracy...
I think humans have probably been in the remixing game since one of them used to pieces of wood to make fire and accidentally discovered that banging them together in certain ways sounded kinda nice.
Consider the rest of knowledge similarly shared and remixed to figure out ever better ways to make fire (and make music) and all manner of other unrelated discoveries by happenstance.
If early humans had started out with ACTA, we'd probably have died out a long time ago for failing to come up with better ways to get our basic staple foods sorted.
It's probably a good thing it looked more like PD (CC0) or CC{-By}-SA until relatively recently in our history.
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If the law unequivocally supported the judge's decision, I'd have to very much disagree with the law in question, in fact.
For the time being I'll have to modify the firmware on my router so that even if you defeat the encryption, if you actually go out on the interwebs from it, you'll end up downloading something off of a honeynet in the same network -- which would then of course actually be illegal. ;)
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