It can melt a non-connection into a connection which auto-tweets the message. Or it cah have a light which is looked at by an internet-enabled webcam. Or smoke signals...
It's not safe to assume qanything, especially if you struggle with reading comprehension. No-one here is suddenly saying 'copying is theft', or doing 180s. Most people here do respect copyright somewhat, just not the abuses. If Inman had gone full-on lawyer, there would be a lot of disappointed fans on here. But he didn't. The worst he's guilty of is using the copying=stealing meme, and even that's more understandable when we are talking about files WITH THE ATTRIBUTION STRIPPED OFF.
What's annoying us as a group is Carreon's cluelessness, from the original $20k demand a year later (wtf?) to then starting to attack legitimate charity fundraising.
Stop trying to support your bias by assuming things here have changed totally from one post. If the MPAA went after a criminal DVD gang, we'd probably cheer on the MPAA. If they go after grandmothers and laser printers - we call their idiocy like it is.
Considering the hate for Faux 'News' I've seen on this site from regular commenters, you really aren't doing too well here... like all your other FAIL comments and attempts to make up some wackoid consipiracy.
And no, I don't give a flying monkey if there was a second gunman. Not caring is nowhere close to 'buying into'.
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It's also a function that most of the Earth's (smaller) landmass is part of the Northern Hemisphere, so the Southern Hemisphere is a much higher proportion of water.
What's even worse is they take perfectly good books in one market (Harry Potter in the UK, say), and totally bastardise their language for other (clueless) markets (US).
I mean, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", honestly!
If I legally buy a 52-year-old record in Australia (where the copyright has expired), it is a legal (public domain) copy. If I bring that to the US as part of my property, that is legal too.
It appears that somehow the crux of this insane ruling is that if I try and sell this (legally bought) copy to someone in the US, it would somehow be miraculously 'infringing'. However, my friend who had bought the same record in the US could sell it perfectly well.
Except if it had been manufactured abroad...?
It's a global world. Learn to live in it!
Otherwise expect to see all kinds of cheap imports vanishing, and all kinds of cheap (normally home-made) stuff being imported. China will love you!
If 'clonging' them would be more like "smacking them upside the head until they do what they are paid to do by the public, not private contributors" then I'd be happy.
I must confess, as a UK taxpayer, I do enjoy reading the BBC news that I've paid for. And this of course, being 'free' to the rest of the world does rather skew things.
Once again, it's about the rarities - reputation and interesting/thoughtful/challening opinions are where newspapers of the future can make their mark.
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Seriously, someone so 'atheist' that they accuse Dawkins of 'religion' (gnosticism)?
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What's annoying us as a group is Carreon's cluelessness, from the original $20k demand a year later (wtf?) to then starting to attack legitimate charity fundraising.
Stop trying to support your bias by assuming things here have changed totally from one post. If the MPAA went after a criminal DVD gang, we'd probably cheer on the MPAA. If they go after grandmothers and laser printers - we call their idiocy like it is.
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And it's pretty endemic in the Maritimes as well. Go PEI & Nova Scotia!
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And no, I don't give a flying monkey if there was a second gunman. Not caring is nowhere close to 'buying into'.
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But then, you probably love Justin and wonder why we all slag him :)
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Reading Fail :)
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I mean, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", honestly!
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If I legally buy a 52-year-old record in Australia (where the copyright has expired), it is a legal (public domain) copy. If I bring that to the US as part of my property, that is legal too.
It appears that somehow the crux of this insane ruling is that if I try and sell this (legally bought) copy to someone in the US, it would somehow be miraculously 'infringing'. However, my friend who had bought the same record in the US could sell it perfectly well.
Except if it had been manufactured abroad...?
It's a global world. Learn to live in it!
Otherwise expect to see all kinds of cheap imports vanishing, and all kinds of cheap (normally home-made) stuff being imported. China will love you!
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Once again, it's about the rarities - reputation and interesting/thoughtful/challening opinions are where newspapers of the future can make their mark.
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