I think the BBC will just drop the current Stig and have him replaced with a new one. Probably dressed in red and maybe female, for a change. Thus we would see a red Stig with blonde hairs from under her helmet. :-)
Well, a girl can hope, can't she? ;-)
It generates additional publicity for Facebook, so that's not bad. It makes Facebook look bad, though, which is bad. I can understand them avoiding the Streisand effect with this movie, though.
I think it's a matter of the opinions from the critics. There are plenty of movies created every year and this movie seems to be one which will soon disappear from movie theaters to be sold in the discount section of any random DVD shop. It's not worth much attention and the publicity it generates isn't all bad...
I think the younger generation will be willing to pay. They're just not interested into paying the industry itself, preferring to see their money to go straight to the artists who deserve it, not the bossy middle-men who just sit on their arses collecting lots of royalties while the artists continue to struggle financially.
The new generation is willing to pay, indeed. But they prefer to pay the artist directly.
I wonder if TechDirt would be blocked in even more locations if we not only mention sex and porn but also cialis, viagra and other common spam words. Anyway, it's a dumb move since those who want to view porn will do anything to bypass those filters and those who don't want to see porn will just end being blocked from many useful sites. It's just going to hurt the wrong persons...
There is a very important difference between the naked cowboy and the naked cowgirl. The cowboy walks around topless (not naked) while the cowgirl even keeps her top on.
Still, doesn't equal rights mean that the cowgirl should be allowed to walk topless too? Or is the cowboy violating some indecency laws because he walks around topless where this is not allowed? I'm in favor of equal rights and so far, they don't seem to make use of this. :-)
Btw, "naked"? I'm naked when I'm at the nudism beach, which means I'm not wearing underwear either. I'd consider this false advertising from both!
Actually, for this WK tournament, South Africa created a special WK-court to deal with hooligans and other misbehaving visitors. This court is created to uphold the rules as set by the FIFA and the FIFA doesn't allow any commercial outings from non-sponsoring companies.
These women were hired by Bavaria, btw. They didn't do this on their own but they got paid to stand there to dance in those orange dresses.
In the mean time, the Dutch government has asked the SA ambassador about this whole case and is definitely outraged about these arrests. Unfortunately, the whole case cannot be downplayed anymore simply because of the Streisand effect. Everyone in the whole World now know about those orange dresses and how they're related to Bavaria. (But not many will realise that Orange is the official color for the Netherlands, since "Oranje" (orange in Dutch) happens to be part of the family name of the Dutch queen. Officially, her name is Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard of the Netherlands, of Orange-Nassau and of Lippe-Biesterfeld.
The SA government and FIFA are trying to make it sound okay what they're doing, not realising they're making things just worse. Even if these arrests were justified, this whole case is getting over the top and the whole World just starts feeling sorry for Bavaria, while a growing dislike of FIFA is rising.
Am glad TechDirt wrote an article about this. It's the Streisand effect in action so it's a perfect case here. Will FIFA learn from this? Nope, since FIFA just wants money from their sponsors and is attempting to appear tough against these violators. They know that soccer-fans won't really care about this, except for that little monarchy in Europe. Well, let's ban FIFA!
In the Netherlands, I think it's likelier to be even less than 30%... The Dutch court doesn't give much in compensation when IP's get violated. Even in the FTD case, the judge ordered a compensation of slightly more than €10.000 from FTS, to compensate the legal costs of Eyeworks. (And Eyeworks has to prove those costs!)
I fear that even if the judge and lawyer hadn't specialized in IP, the chance would still be very likely that they would still meat each other in court, even though they work together outside the court giving lectures. I did a quick check on Google and there are about 1700 judges in the Netherlands, divided over 19 districts. So a single district would have less than 100 judges. And although every judge will have some specializations, it's still required for them to be able to handle any case. Though when things could become complex, an expert on the topic would always be most welcome.
It's not an IP court per se, it's just that the judge and lawyer have both specialized in this matter, up to a point where they work together to share their knowledge with other lawyers and judges. The judge in the appeal case, which will follow next, could well be a former student of this judge or lawyer. Or he might have worked with them in some other educational program.
Btw, on the site of Arnoud Engelfriet I've read an interesting suggestion. Apparently, the movie had been leaked to the Usenet before it was available in the shops and before people could rent it. It had been online for a week already, from the moment the distributors have received the DVD's to distribute amongst all shops until a week later when it became officially published for the generic public. Someone suggests that this could mean that a distributor has leaked the movie online. This could have been part of his distribution plan, and therefor the upload could have been legal. The funny part of this case is that Eyeworks never proved that the original upload was uploaded without their consent. They just assumed it was illegal, and so did the FTD team. This might add an interesting twist to the case, though. But I don't think FTD will use this in their defence...
The Netherlands has about 17 million people, most of them non-judges. The number of judges is therefore reasonable small and they tend to know each other. The same is true about lawyers, although we do have a bit more of them, though. In this case, both lawyer and Judge have specialized in Intellectual Property. This is a very uncommon topic in the Dutch courts, since most tend to deal with petty crimes up to some larger issues. Thus, with an already low number of judges and lawyers here, the IP specialization tends to make this group even smaller. Chances of lawyers and judges having worked together in some way or another is therefor quite large.
The appeal will attract a new judge, but it's very likely that this new judge and the Eyeworks legal team will know each other quite well too.
Close enough. I do understand Dutch though, since it's my primary language. The lawyer doesn't own this business. It's an educational institute for legal representatives who owns the business. The lawyer is just the leader of a bunch of lawyers and judges who all give lectures about copyright, patents and, above all, Intellectual Property.
Information about the case itself can be found here: http://jure.nl/bm6729
Arnoud Engelfriet who helps FTD in this legal case has a few blog items about this case at http://blog.iusmentis.com/
Unfortunately, both sites are in Dutch but Jure can provide translations in any language. Google Translate can deal reasonable well with the other site.
And to make things clear: the judge and lawyer don't run an anti-privacy business together. They provide lectires about Intellectual Property together. Since the Netherlands doesn't have many IP-related lawyers and judges, so it's no surprise that they meet each other during an IP case.
Maybe the Times should ask their writers on which side of the PayWall they would like to have their articles. Thus, some could opt to stay outside the wall, thus be available for all the public. Others might decide to stay within the walled area, thus they're only read by anyone who is subscribed. By having writers outside the PayWall, the times would still have some interesting content for those who're not willing to pay. By having content on both sides, they will please some "freeloaders" while also keeping the paying subscribers happy.
@IOError, would it really have any effect? Or might it just have a reverse effect, since the Canadian Court might feel a bit offended by some US company trying to apply US justice in Canada...
US courts tend to award ridiculously high amounts for damages, which many outsiders just consider just out of touch with reality. Such judgements are often seen as frivolous or plain silly, because it's very unlikely that any sane person would even be able to pay such a large amount. It's completely out of touch with the Reality outside the US, thus the case in Canada would already start with something to ridicule.
...more and more spammers are not even in the US...
Just had to pick up my ass, after it fell off while laughing too loud...
Basically, it's a funny story on how Facebook is trying to apply an US court decision on someone who doesn't even live in the USA. As if the Whole World has to accept any orders from the US court. This is just plain stupidity.
So, Facebook started a costly case in the USA against some spammer, getting a verdict that should satisfy them a lot, yet in reality they've won nothing. All they did was increase their own expenses in a facade of trying to show the World that they take this spam-problem serious. They've failed. And now they're trying to convince a Canadian judge to get a similar result...
I even wonder if Canada would ever award an equal amount of damage to Facebook. It seems to me that such ridiculous amounts are just reserved for the US courts...
> so I'm wondering how she had access to his existing password...
Well, it's simple... The son probably has a password manager active with his web browser. This would just fill in the old password automatically, so he won't have to remember it.
With a web browser like Google Chrome, it's also possible to view all those passwords, if you know how.
About the case itself... It just shows bad parenting, for which the mother has been punished with a fine and suspended sentence. It's fair, considering she's mentally abusing her own child. (Who is still a minor, btw.)
It seems to me that it makes more sense to put some hardware inside prisons that can pinpoint the exact locations of all mobile phones in the area. It could then be used to catch the prisoners who are hiding their mobile phones and to give them an additional fine/punishment for keeping contraband in their prison cell.
It shouldn't be too difficult to put such hardware in place.
It might be a small amount of adults who behave this way, but it would still be enough for this cybersquatter, especially since those adults are on the hunt for porn.
[Quote]this time for typosquatting on domain names that kids were likely to visit[/Quote]
This appears to be some kind of sick behavior but I can understand why he does this. And realising this just makes me want to puke. Sites that are likely visited by children are also visited by adults with a certain sexual preference towards children. These are probably the visitors that he's targeting with his cybersquatting. He's not interested in the real kids but in the sick guys on the Internet who are looking for childporn and other nasty stuff. These sicko's might be interested in the porn he offers, although -if I understood correctly- the porn by Zuccarini is adults only. Still, he's luring sexual perverts to his sites and it seems to make a profit for him.
Let's think... The chimps were given a camera to film things. They were trained even for this purpose. And in return for sweets and praises, they started to do their work. So it's work-for-hire which included additional education in return for the work done by the chimps. So the chimps don't own it.
It was made by the BCC but the BCC isn't a private company. It's a government-owned institution and technically, everything they produce belongs to the British people. So, the British people own the copyrights and apparently, they're free to share it with other British people.
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A Red Stig?
Well, a girl can hope, can't she? ;-)
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I think it's a matter of the opinions from the critics. There are plenty of movies created every year and this movie seems to be one which will soon disappear from movie theaters to be sold in the discount section of any random DVD shop. It's not worth much attention and the publicity it generates isn't all bad...
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I think they're right.
The new generation is willing to pay, indeed. But they prefer to pay the artist directly.
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An important difference...
Still, doesn't equal rights mean that the cowgirl should be allowed to walk topless too? Or is the cowboy violating some indecency laws because he walks around topless where this is not allowed? I'm in favor of equal rights and so far, they don't seem to make use of this. :-)
Btw, "naked"? I'm naked when I'm at the nudism beach, which means I'm not wearing underwear either. I'd consider this false advertising from both!
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Two women have been arrested!
These women were hired by Bavaria, btw. They didn't do this on their own but they got paid to stand there to dance in those orange dresses.
In the mean time, the Dutch government has asked the SA ambassador about this whole case and is definitely outraged about these arrests. Unfortunately, the whole case cannot be downplayed anymore simply because of the Streisand effect. Everyone in the whole World now know about those orange dresses and how they're related to Bavaria. (But not many will realise that Orange is the official color for the Netherlands, since "Oranje" (orange in Dutch) happens to be part of the family name of the Dutch queen. Officially, her name is Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard of the Netherlands, of Orange-Nassau and of Lippe-Biesterfeld.
The SA government and FIFA are trying to make it sound okay what they're doing, not realising they're making things just worse. Even if these arrests were justified, this whole case is getting over the top and the whole World just starts feeling sorry for Bavaria, while a growing dislike of FIFA is rising.
Am glad TechDirt wrote an article about this. It's the Streisand effect in action so it's a perfect case here. Will FIFA learn from this? Nope, since FIFA just wants money from their sponsors and is attempting to appear tough against these violators. They know that soccer-fans won't really care about this, except for that little monarchy in Europe. Well, let's ban FIFA!
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It's not an IP court per se, it's just that the judge and lawyer have both specialized in this matter, up to a point where they work together to share their knowledge with other lawyers and judges. The judge in the appeal case, which will follow next, could well be a former student of this judge or lawyer. Or he might have worked with them in some other educational program.
Btw, on the site of Arnoud Engelfriet I've read an interesting suggestion. Apparently, the movie had been leaked to the Usenet before it was available in the shops and before people could rent it. It had been online for a week already, from the moment the distributors have received the DVD's to distribute amongst all shops until a week later when it became officially published for the generic public. Someone suggests that this could mean that a distributor has leaked the movie online. This could have been part of his distribution plan, and therefor the upload could have been legal. The funny part of this case is that Eyeworks never proved that the original upload was uploaded without their consent. They just assumed it was illegal, and so did the FTD team. This might add an interesting twist to the case, though. But I don't think FTD will use this in their defence...
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The appeal will attract a new judge, but it's very likely that this new judge and the Eyeworks legal team will know each other quite well too.
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Re: Re: Again, what's your point?
Information about the case itself can be found here: http://jure.nl/bm6729
Arnoud Engelfriet who helps FTD in this legal case has a few blog items about this case at http://blog.iusmentis.com/
Unfortunately, both sites are in Dutch but Jure can provide translations in any language. Google Translate can deal reasonable well with the other site.
And to make things clear: the judge and lawyer don't run an anti-privacy business together. They provide lectires about Intellectual Property together. Since the Netherlands doesn't have many IP-related lawyers and judges, so it's no surprise that they meet each other during an IP case.
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US courts tend to award ridiculously high amounts for damages, which many outsiders just consider just out of touch with reality. Such judgements are often seen as frivolous or plain silly, because it's very unlikely that any sane person would even be able to pay such a large amount. It's completely out of touch with the Reality outside the US, thus the case in Canada would already start with something to ridicule.
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...more and more spammers are not even in the US...
Basically, it's a funny story on how Facebook is trying to apply an US court decision on someone who doesn't even live in the USA. As if the Whole World has to accept any orders from the US court. This is just plain stupidity.
So, Facebook started a costly case in the USA against some spammer, getting a verdict that should satisfy them a lot, yet in reality they've won nothing. All they did was increase their own expenses in a facade of trying to show the World that they take this spam-problem serious. They've failed. And now they're trying to convince a Canadian judge to get a similar result...
I even wonder if Canada would ever award an equal amount of damage to Facebook. It seems to me that such ridiculous amounts are just reserved for the US courts...
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> so I'm wondering how she had access to his existing password...
With a web browser like Google Chrome, it's also possible to view all those passwords, if you know how.
About the case itself... It just shows bad parenting, for which the mother has been punished with a fine and suspended sentence. It's fair, considering she's mentally abusing her own child. (Who is still a minor, btw.)
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It shouldn't be too difficult to put such hardware in place.
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RegistrarRegistry Is LocatedThere's some sick logic for this...
This appears to be some kind of sick behavior but I can understand why he does this. And realising this just makes me want to puke. Sites that are likely visited by children are also visited by adults with a certain sexual preference towards children. These are probably the visitors that he's targeting with his cybersquatting. He's not interested in the real kids but in the sick guys on the Internet who are looking for childporn and other nasty stuff. These sicko's might be interested in the porn he offers, although -if I understood correctly- the porn by Zuccarini is adults only. Still, he's luring sexual perverts to his sites and it seems to make a profit for him.
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It was made by the BCC but the BCC isn't a private company. It's a government-owned institution and technically, everything they produce belongs to the British people. So, the British people own the copyrights and apparently, they're free to share it with other British people.
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