Re: Re: Re: Re: GOOD NEWS! "Safe harbors" not for pirates!
Actually, Fed Ex, UPS and the USPS don't do anything more than scan the labels. Maybe if you worked for them at one point in your life, or worked at all, you'd know that.
I've been online since... The early 90s, about 1994 or 1995.
Playing Descent, Quake and Doom at school with friends via LAN, looking up information on shows, printing off fanfiction (didn't know what the term was at the time) to read later, looking up information on how to find all the items on various video games, information on movies, video games that were coming out, email, chatting with complete strangers.
Remembering how Geocities was the awesome webhosting website, the dotcom boom of 1996-1997.
Um, one of the first things that the internet was used for was creating chat rooms for people to chat and discuss things with each other, followed by fanfiction and gamefaqs.
Movies and music came along much, MUCH later than that, mostly due to technical restraints.
In fact, if not for the internet, I guarantee you that anime would not be anywhere near as popular in the West as it is today. Nevermind such anime like One Piece, while absolutely huge in Japan, it has a far more modest following in the West (still big though), however, most people wouldn't bother with it outside of Japan if not for the internet scanning the manga and posting it up online.
I'm sorry, but if something is under Copyright from before I'm born until well after I will likely be alive, then, it doesn't matter if there *IS* a limit, for me, it's eternal.
And that is why I do not support copyright, it is eternal, regardless of what is said.
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But, don't South Koreans...
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So...
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Re: I've got it!
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So...
I'd like to play some Japanese games without buying a Japanese system.
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Um...
Muckrock who?
Muckrock a zoo?
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So...
What is this? The Wizard of Oz?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: GOOD NEWS! "Safe harbors" not for pirates!
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Yoga fad?
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Playing Descent, Quake and Doom at school with friends via LAN, looking up information on shows, printing off fanfiction (didn't know what the term was at the time) to read later, looking up information on how to find all the items on various video games, information on movies, video games that were coming out, email, chatting with complete strangers.
Remembering how Geocities was the awesome webhosting website, the dotcom boom of 1996-1997.
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Like I said before...
Unless a person is listening in on the conversation directly, you should have an expectation of privacy with your phone calls.
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So...
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Syndrome said it best...
No one is.
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Re: So.. where do they draw the line?
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Taking all bets guys!
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Re: Re: Re: A half-truth
Most video games are played in the living room.
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On the post: MPAA Head Chris Dodd: I'm Willing To Discuss Copyright Reform As Long As Nothing Changes
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On the post: MPAA Head Chris Dodd: I'm Willing To Discuss Copyright Reform As Long As Nothing Changes
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Movies and music came along much, MUCH later than that, mostly due to technical restraints.
In fact, if not for the internet, I guarantee you that anime would not be anywhere near as popular in the West as it is today. Nevermind such anime like One Piece, while absolutely huge in Japan, it has a far more modest following in the West (still big though), however, most people wouldn't bother with it outside of Japan if not for the internet scanning the manga and posting it up online.
On the post: MPAA Head Chris Dodd: I'm Willing To Discuss Copyright Reform As Long As Nothing Changes
Limited time...
And that is why I do not support copyright, it is eternal, regardless of what is said.
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