Why should the manufacturer get to authorize it? Maybe it should be illegal to modify the car in any way that would make it fail to pass a standard vehicle safety and road worthiness inspection.
In a sense, you're right. It SHOULD have nothing to do with copyright.
But in a sense you're wrong. Copyright is the favorite tool everyone reaches for to prevent you from doing things that have nothing to do with copyright. Refilling ink cartridges. Working on your own car. Coffee machine refills. Removing unflattering posts about a person or product. Keeping laws secret unless you pay for a copy from a third party that has copyrighted the law (or part of it that is actually used when interpreting the law). And much more.
Leaving software and copyright completely out of the question, there are many ways I can tamper with my car that make it unsafe to other people on the public roads.
For example, I could tamper with my brakes.
Why is software tampering somehow different or uniquely new?
Without copyright to protect their software, automobile manufacturers would have ABSOLUTELY NO INCENTIVE to use software to control automobile functions.
By having software control various automobile functions, cars are cleaner, safer and cheaper to build. Large bundles of wires become simple network or fiber optic connections. Would you have us give up these advantages and go back to how cars once were designed?
As you say it may be reasonable that this guy be investigated as much as Hillary.
The reality is, regardless of political party, congress only spends millions of dollars on an investigation, such as Hillary, when one party makes congress begin the investigation, and the action is against someone of an opposing party, or somehow considered an enemy.
Blame it all on that fact that in the late 1980's and very early 1990's a certain highly inferior operating system from Redmond could only handle three character extensions in file names.
The fact that the OS I am thinking of even required extensions in order to identify what was in a file was another example of how far behind the times it was. Even back then.
the RTBF law doesn't get rid of the original articles, it only removes the links to those articles from online search engines.
Kind of defeats the whole purpose.
Maybe the porpoise could be un-defeated if the EU would pass a law that: * not only must Google remove certain links * but for links that Google can keep, those articles, which are not located on Google's servers, must not be reachable by your browser.
Yes, Google should somehow magically be able to prevent your browser from connecting directly to 'forgotten' articles that you find by other indirect means.
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But in a sense you're wrong. Copyright is the favorite tool everyone reaches for to prevent you from doing things that have nothing to do with copyright. Refilling ink cartridges. Working on your own car. Coffee machine refills. Removing unflattering posts about a person or product. Keeping laws secret unless you pay for a copy from a third party that has copyrighted the law (or part of it that is actually used when interpreting the law). And much more.
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Don't existing laws cover this?
For example, I could tamper with my brakes.
Why is software tampering somehow different or uniquely new?
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The importance of Copyright
By having software control various automobile functions, cars are cleaner, safer and cheaper to build. Large bundles of wires become simple network or fiber optic connections. Would you have us give up these advantages and go back to how cars once were designed?
(this concludes today's twisted copyright contortions)
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Hey, your 2 year old . . .
Best to let the government have him. They can do a better job.
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Re: Like A Personal Email Server
The reality is, regardless of political party, congress only spends millions of dollars on an investigation, such as Hillary, when one party makes congress begin the investigation, and the action is against someone of an opposing party, or somehow considered an enemy.
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Pharmacy2U
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The LOL comment
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Re: He failed question #1...
Maybe getting an AOL account was the easiest way to get AOL to stop sending him floppy disks?
Then CDs came along, but he didn't have any use for them since his vacation homes were already fully tiled in the decorative floppy disks.
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(or should I have said Eric Snowden?)
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Misprint in the Reuters article headline?
CIA to make sweeping changes, focus more on cyber ops
Intended?
CIA to make sweeping changes, focus more on cyber Ooops
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The fact that the OS I am thinking of even required extensions in order to identify what was in a file was another example of how far behind the times it was. Even back then.
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Bigger than the national debt.
So big they are getting up there near the amount of money that the RIAA is losing due to piracy.
US $ 10 ^ 500
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(One of the prime numbers is very very large, the other one is 7.)
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Maybe the porpoise could be un-defeated if the EU would pass a law that:
* not only must Google remove certain links
* but for links that Google can keep, those articles, which are not located on Google's servers, must not be reachable by your browser.
Yes, Google should somehow magically be able to prevent your browser from connecting directly to 'forgotten' articles that you find by other indirect means.
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Re: Re: Response to: S. T. Stone on Oct 14th, 2015 @ 4:04pm
Misguided. But when has that ever stopped anyone.
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