Because peoples votes don't count anymore. It's the almighty Dollar $ign that is important to politicians now. And they are beholden to those that elect them into office. Unfortunately it's not the public anymore, but corporations.
Really? When someone makes a game that is on the same level as Call of Duty Black OPs and sells it for $.99 then they can bitch and moan about it. Not before then. Maybe they should make some $.99 games of their own that compliment their products instead of whining.
You have been flagged for re-education. Please report with your family to Edutainment Pod R-5622. Also you will need to bring a list of all friends and family members, even acquaintances. They will need re-education as well.
Remember, it is every citizen's duty to report Entertainment License Violations to their local RIAA or MPAA office. If you hear it in a public place, it's probably illegal. Don't let the terrorists win. Do your duty!
You have been flagged for re-education. Please report with your family to Edutainment Pod R-5622. Also you will need to bring a list of all friends and family members, even acquaintances. They will need re-education as well.
Remember, it is every citizen's duty to report Entertainment License Violations to their local RIAA or MPAA office. If you hear it in a public place, it's probably illegal. Don't let the terrorists win. Do your duty!
So the ends justify the means? There is no 100% foolproof method for detecting dangerous objects. More common sense needs to be applied here.
Our freedoms are being eroded. Where will you draw the line? When you get patted down when getting on a train or a boat? What about entering the Capitol building or a museum on the National Mall?
Better yet, who is doing the infringing? Is it the tattoo artist or is it the person getting the tattoo? Was Andy Warhol infringing when he painted the Campbell's soup can? What if I get a tattoo of that painting? Who am I infringing on, Andy Warhol or Campbell's?
That's not the tack he is taking, but to answer the implied question in your reply, if pirates had indeed downloaded their music 100,000 times then yes the pirates are doing them a favor. But since no one thought enough of the band in question to even make a torrent, the point is moot.
People download what interests them. Period.
If the band were smart, and they're not, they would have merchandise or at least a link to iTunes. It's their own damn fault if they aren't successful. They don't even have a way for their 417 Twitter followers to express themselves, like T-shirts or posters. This defies common sense. They should fire their manager.
I predict that by the end of the year there will be a EULA published in the back of the NYT stating that if you pick up a discarded newspaper out of a trash bin or off the floor of a city bus, and read more than 10 items, then you are in violation and are stealing their content. However, if a friend hands you the paper when they are done with it then everything is okay.
Yes the analogy is flawed. I knew that when I wrote it. However, the entertainment industry refuses to accept it. If they are going to equate filesharing with theft, then by their logic, the rest of the rules should apply too, hence the analogy.
Not of you are the one that actually needs the medicine to live.
They could always grant a short-term license to another manufacturer to make more of the medicine until stocks are adequate.
What's amazing, and maybe this is hindsight, is why there aren't ANY safeguards to let the patent holders out of their exclusive agreements if there isn't enough product being made, like now.
Sorry, but you are wrong. You know very little actually.
Child porn uploaders are arrested, but not all of them. Only the dumb ones. And no amount of government control or hardware will ever prevent someone from uploading child porn.
Websites are hosted on physical servers. You got that right. But those servers are based all over the world and some are even mirrored in different countries. If a website is taken down what prevents it from going back up? Nothing.
WeFi based Internet? You mean local wifi? That's easy too. Just geta T1 line and share it with off-the-shelf equipment. Easy.
And unfortunatley, idiot AC's like you are the norm, and that's really unfortunate.
The Jack Thompson? As in video games are murder simulators Jack Thompson?
On another note, how do we get ourselves into messes like this? Why do we assume that getting stronger patent laws in other countries will benefit us? Where is the logic here?
I've always wondered at how a police officer somehow feels threatened when being recorded while at the same time having a camera mounted om their dashboard recording everything they do in the front of their car. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy if you are a police officer on the job.
Also, if it is illegal to record a police officer then doesn't that make any news cameraman that records an officer guilty too? Where does it stop?
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I am willing to settle however. I demand that you pay me $10 per infringing letter, or I will sue you for $1,000 per infringing letter.
Don't you know that ever time you infringe someone's copyrighted material a terrorist boils a puppy? Why would you do that?
Now report to your assigned re-education pod or things will get double-plus bad for you.
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Remember, it is every citizen's duty to report Entertainment License Violations to their local RIAA or MPAA office. If you hear it in a public place, it's probably illegal. Don't let the terrorists win. Do your duty!
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Remember, it is every citizen's duty to report Entertainment License Violations to their local RIAA or MPAA office. If you hear it in a public place, it's probably illegal. Don't let the terrorists win. Do your duty!
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Our freedoms are being eroded. Where will you draw the line? When you get patted down when getting on a train or a boat? What about entering the Capitol building or a museum on the National Mall?
We need to fight these ridiculous laws now.
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Get's really messy really quick.
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Oh but it's okay because it was an American company stealing from the Japanese...
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People download what interests them. Period.
If the band were smart, and they're not, they would have merchandise or at least a link to iTunes. It's their own damn fault if they aren't successful. They don't even have a way for their 417 Twitter followers to express themselves, like T-shirts or posters. This defies common sense. They should fire their manager.
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Not of you are the one that actually needs the medicine to live.
They could always grant a short-term license to another manufacturer to make more of the medicine until stocks are adequate.
What's amazing, and maybe this is hindsight, is why there aren't ANY safeguards to let the patent holders out of their exclusive agreements if there isn't enough product being made, like now.
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Child porn uploaders are arrested, but not all of them. Only the dumb ones. And no amount of government control or hardware will ever prevent someone from uploading child porn.
Websites are hosted on physical servers. You got that right. But those servers are based all over the world and some are even mirrored in different countries. If a website is taken down what prevents it from going back up? Nothing.
WeFi based Internet? You mean local wifi? That's easy too. Just geta T1 line and share it with off-the-shelf equipment. Easy.
And unfortunatley, idiot AC's like you are the norm, and that's really unfortunate.
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Jack Thompson?
On another note, how do we get ourselves into messes like this? Why do we assume that getting stronger patent laws in other countries will benefit us? Where is the logic here?
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Also, if it is illegal to record a police officer then doesn't that make any news cameraman that records an officer guilty too? Where does it stop?
Kudos to Senator Looney!
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