Ok, so it seems like you are passionate on this subject...
Question: taking into consideration the following disclaimer that is posted on his site under a tab found on the heading of every page labelled "disclaimer", do you still have a problem with what he is doing while being unlicensed?
1) I am not a doctor, dietitian nor nutritionist. I have ZERO medical training and NO formal nutritional training. However, I am a diabetic who follows his own “diabetic diet” (backed by scientific research) and has normal Blood Glucose while taking -0- drugs and -0- insulin.
2) Personal advice will not be given on this site. This site is ONLY intended for educational purposes ONLY. Providing people with the information on a “real” diabetes diet is my goal. Creating other Diabetes Warriors…is my desire!
3) Please consult your physician regarding any health guidelines seen in this site. IF YOUR doctor does NOT support information provided on this site, I urge you to find a “low carb friendly” doctor as soon as possible.
Simple... If the legitimate version of something you paid for no longer works, you download a version that does work. Now this may not work with online games that require external server support, but you have to accept that as a possible consequence when you purchase that type of game.
Just to clarify, I don't think that you should have to do any of this, but it's easy enough and it is the solution to your question. I have a couple dozen games I purchased on Steam, and if any of them stops working because they lost the license (or for whatever stupid excuse is given at the time), I will fire up my favorite torrent client and download a version that isn't broken. And not a single moment of sleep will lost.
Reading these quotes pretty much made my head explode too. I was so stunned that after I convinced my brain to return to it's cubicle and get back to work, that I actually had to look up this Brockman guy and find out who the hell he is and why anyone would value his opinion...
My record so far is one for two... found out who he is, but still no evidence to suggest he matters... oh well.
Fair enough... without proof of the slander or libel, fighting the RIAA on this one is a shot in the dark at best.
Suing the government on the other hand should be a slam dunk case. They clearly violated the 1st amendment rights of the blog owners and now there is hard proof that they acted well outside of their own procedures. Whether or not they acted in bad faith is no longer a question... The only remaining questions are how much money do they owe Dajaz1 and who will be fired or prosecuted for their illegal actions?
I'm going to have to disagree with you on that one...
When I was in middle and high school, the internet was in it's earliest phases. Teenage girls and boys were still copying as much as they could from each other. The difference between then and now is not the amount of copying, but rather the expanded selection of what to copy. When I wanted to make a mix tape back in the day, I either had to find a friend that had the song or album I wanted (or a friend of a friend) or wait for it to be played on the radio. Now, any song out is available just about anywhere in the world. The behavior has not changed in the slightest, only the convenience and selection in which the content can be acquired.
I absolutely believe he will sell at minimum 10 times more books pricing them this way, and very possibly the 20 or 30 times more you mentioned. No one has to think about spending 0.99. Anyone interested in his book that sees this offer will purchase it without giving it a 2nd thought. If itunes hasn't proven this along with the app stores for apple and android phones with their .99 games, then I don't know what else to tell you.
While many people do mod consoles for illegitimate purposes, there are many people who mod them for perfectly legal purposes. The fact that there is substantial legitimate uses for mod chips should not make a criminal of someone selling or installing these devices. If the defendants have decent representations, I would be highly surprised if they were convicted of any crime.
Does anyone know what the potential penalty would be if they were found guilty?
I was kinda wondering the same thing... Just bought all 10 songs on Amazon but will download them later to seed them. I normally wouldn't care enough to send in the pic with the 10 songs showing purchased, but I really want to see myself in a V Mask wearing pirate garb in a music video to hear how he rhymes Franklin G Ryzzo...
Supported by Franky G Ryzzo
While sippin dark rum-syzzo
Smokin a black cuban ciggo
Stackin cream like H to da Izzo
I have to agree with the AC above me... The deep discounts on Steam make me not care that I can't resell the game. Since I will rarely spend more than 5-10 bucks on a game, I will typically always get more time out of it than if I spent the same money on gas, food, or strippers...
I'm curious as to why you feel it is dishonest to suggest something that is very probable? Much more probable in fact then the child porn suggestion given above. In fact, with all of the accusations of entitlement thrown at file sharers, why do you doubt for even a second that they would stop sharing that which they feel should be theirs freely simply because some silly law got passed allowing for disconnections, especially when it is so easy to simply hide your traffic and continue unabated?
I have to agree with Hulser... Copyright should be based on a specific timeframe and the creator's living/dead status should be irrelevant. If I create the greatest work of art known to mankind today and drop dead tomorrow, there is no reason that my family shouldn't profit from that creation for a reasonable period of time, just as I would have provided for them off the work if I had remained among the living.
The dot is optional, and either way that could be a good system to find the soundtrack of any movie intuitively. In all honesty a system like that would make too much sense for it to ever come around, but if anyone wanted to go crazy registering domains you could have .album.music, .song.music, .band.music, etc... There's a lot the **AA's could do with this, it's just imperative they don't mess it up for the rest of us which has really been my only point from the beginning. ICANN is discriminatory, and the **AA's are delusional, so even though what I proposed may not be the ultimate solution, I think it's a step in the right direction. Some TLD's have restrictions, and I see no inherent problem with using that model for these new domains. Execution is the key, and while my simplistic description may be lacking, there are plenty of bright people out there who could come up with something better. I know it's a dreamer's utopia, but what a wonderful world it would be if it was openly designed by the users...
Unfortunately the alternatives are just as troublesome if not much much more...
On the one hand you give the **AA's control like they are requesting and then independents are screwed. On the other hand, if there isn't some sort of control then anyone goes out and registers the name and then it has to be settled through legal arbitration which could be cost prohibitive for many, not to mention the time and effort involved in just trying to get a domain name.
Neither of these options is attractive for the masses. That is why I felt that a few common sense rules for registration would cut down the abuse to a manageable level. The rules I stated may not be the right ones, but if there were some basic requirements like there are for .gov/.edu/.mil then the system could work for everyone and not be riddled with lawsuits and wasted time and money.
Your example actually resolves itself... one is .music and the other is .movie, not to say that other cases wouldn't arise that weren't as simple. In all honesty I don't think there would be much demand for domains registered to an individual song, but who knows.
ICANN's current resolution process is deeply flawed, and allowing them to be the arbiter here is better then letting the **AA's, but its still biased and discriminatory.
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Question: taking into consideration the following disclaimer that is posted on his site under a tab found on the heading of every page labelled "disclaimer", do you still have a problem with what he is doing while being unlicensed?
1) I am not a doctor, dietitian nor nutritionist. I have ZERO medical training and NO formal nutritional training. However, I am a diabetic who follows his own “diabetic diet” (backed by scientific research) and has normal Blood Glucose while taking -0- drugs and -0- insulin.
2) Personal advice will not be given on this site. This site is ONLY intended for educational purposes ONLY. Providing people with the information on a “real” diabetes diet is my goal. Creating other Diabetes Warriors…is my desire!
3) Please consult your physician regarding any health guidelines seen in this site. IF YOUR doctor does NOT support information provided on this site, I urge you to find a “low carb friendly” doctor as soon as possible.
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Scrooge McDuck Money Vault!
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Just to clarify, I don't think that you should have to do any of this, but it's easy enough and it is the solution to your question. I have a couple dozen games I purchased on Steam, and if any of them stops working because they lost the license (or for whatever stupid excuse is given at the time), I will fire up my favorite torrent client and download a version that isn't broken. And not a single moment of sleep will lost.
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The things that actually motivate me to action, I find curiouser and curiouser every day.
Personally, I blame Tesla for the fact that we're all still here with "them". What I wouldn't give for a delorean!
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Re: Speaking of cabals...
My record so far is one for two... found out who he is, but still no evidence to suggest he matters... oh well.
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Re: Of course I'm for helping artists, but why do you care?
I know all of those words, it's just that they make no sense when arranged in that order... Care to try again?
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Suing the government on the other hand should be a slam dunk case. They clearly violated the 1st amendment rights of the blog owners and now there is hard proof that they acted well outside of their own procedures. Whether or not they acted in bad faith is no longer a question... The only remaining questions are how much money do they owe Dajaz1 and who will be fired or prosecuted for their illegal actions?
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When I was in middle and high school, the internet was in it's earliest phases. Teenage girls and boys were still copying as much as they could from each other. The difference between then and now is not the amount of copying, but rather the expanded selection of what to copy. When I wanted to make a mix tape back in the day, I either had to find a friend that had the song or album I wanted (or a friend of a friend) or wait for it to be played on the radio. Now, any song out is available just about anywhere in the world. The behavior has not changed in the slightest, only the convenience and selection in which the content can be acquired.
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I absolutely believe he will sell at minimum 10 times more books pricing them this way, and very possibly the 20 or 30 times more you mentioned. No one has to think about spending 0.99. Anyone interested in his book that sees this offer will purchase it without giving it a 2nd thought. If itunes hasn't proven this along with the app stores for apple and android phones with their .99 games, then I don't know what else to tell you.
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Does anyone know what the potential penalty would be if they were found guilty?
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Supported by Franky G Ryzzo
While sippin dark rum-syzzo
Smokin a black cuban ciggo
Stackin cream like H to da Izzo
lmao
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Re: Hopeless...
-Monsignor, The Boondock Saints
No matter how insurmountable the odds may seem, those who do nothing are just as much to blame as those who would steal away our rights and freedoms.
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The dot is optional, and either way that could be a good system to find the soundtrack of any movie intuitively. In all honesty a system like that would make too much sense for it to ever come around, but if anyone wanted to go crazy registering domains you could have .album.music, .song.music, .band.music, etc... There's a lot the **AA's could do with this, it's just imperative they don't mess it up for the rest of us which has really been my only point from the beginning. ICANN is discriminatory, and the **AA's are delusional, so even though what I proposed may not be the ultimate solution, I think it's a step in the right direction. Some TLD's have restrictions, and I see no inherent problem with using that model for these new domains. Execution is the key, and while my simplistic description may be lacking, there are plenty of bright people out there who could come up with something better. I know it's a dreamer's utopia, but what a wonderful world it would be if it was openly designed by the users...
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On the one hand you give the **AA's control like they are requesting and then independents are screwed. On the other hand, if there isn't some sort of control then anyone goes out and registers the name and then it has to be settled through legal arbitration which could be cost prohibitive for many, not to mention the time and effort involved in just trying to get a domain name.
Neither of these options is attractive for the masses. That is why I felt that a few common sense rules for registration would cut down the abuse to a manageable level. The rules I stated may not be the right ones, but if there were some basic requirements like there are for .gov/.edu/.mil then the system could work for everyone and not be riddled with lawsuits and wasted time and money.
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ICANN's current resolution process is deeply flawed, and allowing them to be the arbiter here is better then letting the **AA's, but its still biased and discriminatory.
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