Agree - the court submission clearly states he bought the coffin and so should retain the ownership of it. The only thing I can think of is when LHO was reburied with a new casket whether his brother signed something to trade coffins.
Why should it matter whether you've regularly used >500MB/month?
It seems they are making a change to the contract under their "reasonable notice" clause so that you can't break the contract without penalties. The way they can walk away or change the original deal by giving a short period of notice but the subscriber can't seems to suggest that the original contract is rather one sided. Isn't there some legal argument about such contracts being non-enforceable?
Of course I'm not a lawyer, and chances are hiring one to kick up a fuss with T-Mobile would cost more than paying the penalty fees ...
Wish they'd done this a month earlier - I just switched to T-Mobile! Fortunately I'm on PAYG so all I'll lose is the £20 I paid for 6 months data access when I switch to someone else.
I don't know why people are bashing someone trying to enforce copyright on Schindler's List.
After all, if it wasn't for copyright and the ability to collect royalties on his list after the war, Schindler would never have written it and subsequently saved over 1,000 jews. Do you want those jews to have died? Are you a nazi??
Plus, while you can't fool all of the people all of the time, you can fool enough of the people for the couple of weeks up to an election to get elected. I think having some method to revisit the result where a position was fraudulently misrepresented is a good thing. Either courts, some sort of cooling off period, vote of confidence, etc?
Of course there has to be some line as otherwise every politician would be kicked out within weeks of each election. Bunch of lying parasites the lot of them!
Of course the problem with governments being fined, is there is really no such thing as "government money" or "public funds" - it's all just tax revenue from the public.
As such a government fine is a levy shared among the entire (tax paying) population.
Fining an individual or a company works as they can't just unilaterally make more money to cover the fine (as if they could have made more money, they would have done so regardless of the fine)
Fining a government only works to the extent that someone now has hassle to decide how to recoup the fine - higher tax, more debt or even print money (I doubt that budgets would be cut). Not quite a problem on the same scale of an individual/corporate fine.
Of course, enough fines of decent size and people will start to get annoyed with government incompetence - but likely as not the government would head that off by somehow exempting themselves from the fines.
That's my understanding - the 21m down to 2m is for unique hits on the front page, which is still free. There's less than 200,000 still going through to read stories now.
21m down to 0.2m is a drop of 99% in my book ... RIP.
I do like the way that they claim that the problem is that on teh internet "users get all sorts of content free--even information from newspapers that they would have to pay for in the real world" and that some creators "further complicated the situation by giving their music away" ...
In the UK, Sir Alex Ferguson (manager of Manchester United, who you've probably heard of on the other side of the pond) hasn't give any interviews to the BBC since 2004. Reason being he took offence to a documentary they did about his son who was working as a football agent.
Of course, the documentary team who caused the loss of access are separate to the sports team who were hit with it. Plus it is in the Premier League contracts that he has to give interviews to the broadcast rights holders (something that was tightened up especially to try and force him to end his boycott) and so the club is now being threatened with fines.
Presumably a reference to the coalition government in the UK - Conservative (blue) and Liberal Democrats (yellow). Because the BBC is a public broadcaster the government has various levers to use on the BBC, such as setting the level of the licence fee which funds the BBC.
Agreed. Maybe for example they should disconnect themselves from the internet whenever they get accused of breaching copyright, and hope that the rest of the world "gets the hint"
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Quite, they're banking that the case will be heard by a member of the judiciary ...
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It seems they are making a change to the contract under their "reasonable notice" clause so that you can't break the contract without penalties. The way they can walk away or change the original deal by giving a short period of notice but the subscriber can't seems to suggest that the original contract is rather one sided. Isn't there some legal argument about such contracts being non-enforceable?
Of course I'm not a lawyer, and chances are hiring one to kick up a fuss with T-Mobile would cost more than paying the penalty fees ...
Wish they'd done this a month earlier - I just switched to T-Mobile! Fortunately I'm on PAYG so all I'll lose is the £20 I paid for 6 months data access when I switch to someone else.
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Another instance of Cpoyright being good!
After all, if it wasn't for copyright and the ability to collect royalties on his list after the war, Schindler would never have written it and subsequently saved over 1,000 jews. Do you want those jews to have died? Are you a nazi??
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Or to put it another way, the idea is only 1% of the invention and putting into practice is the other 99%
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Of course there has to be some line as otherwise every politician would be kicked out within weeks of each election. Bunch of lying parasites the lot of them!
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I assume Mike tries to avoid such links, in the same way he seems to avoid paywalled news sites?
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As such a government fine is a levy shared among the entire (tax paying) population.
Fining an individual or a company works as they can't just unilaterally make more money to cover the fine (as if they could have made more money, they would have done so regardless of the fine)
Fining a government only works to the extent that someone now has hassle to decide how to recoup the fine - higher tax, more debt or even print money (I doubt that budgets would be cut). Not quite a problem on the same scale of an individual/corporate fine.
Of course, enough fines of decent size and people will start to get annoyed with government incompetence - but likely as not the government would head that off by somehow exempting themselves from the fines.
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21m down to 0.2m is a drop of 99% in my book ... RIP.
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Plus being blocked from computers with scanning or Trojan software means he'll be forced to stop playing DRMed games.
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It's a treaty!
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Completely agree - it is perfidious sites like http://www.scoutingmagazine.org/ and http://scouts.org.uk/magazine that insist on giving away their content for free which are the problem. Something should be done to protect the children!
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Good old Rumsfeld's unknown unknowns!
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Not all reports are afraid of losing access
Of course, the documentary team who caused the loss of access are separate to the sports team who were hit with it. Plus it is in the Premier League contracts that he has to give interviews to the broadcast rights holders (something that was tightened up especially to try and force him to end his boycott) and so the club is now being threatened with fines.
http://thefc100.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/ferguson-vs-the-bbc-round-two-fight/
http://ww w.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/aug/22/alex-ferguson-premier-league-bbc
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