A good cop doing his job properly would want it to be recorded. I remember the classic Judge Judy episode where this spoiled brat of a cop's daughter got stopped for speeding and called her dad on her cell phone thinking he would get her out of the ticket. When the cop simply told her he would not take the call and proceeded to write her a ticket she made accusations that he had been rude and abusive. Regardless of how unfounded, this meant he had an undeserved report in his jacket. The girl showed up to court with her father and like the cop, Judge Judy told him that he had nothing to do with the case and asked him to step back. The brat spoke first and repeated her accusations of how horribly she had been treated. When it was the cop's turn the first thing he said was "Your honor I have a recording of the entire stop". You could almost smell the girl crapping her pants through the TV! The recording proved the cop was never disrespectful and did everything by the book. Judge Judy awarded the cop the maximum and issued a court order that the girl write a letter of apology to his captain requesting the complaint be removed from his file. Judy also had some very choice words for her father.
If the police knocked on my door and interrogated me about a film I uploaded I would lay low and stop doing anything that would make the situation worse. The prison sentence was still way out of proportion but if he hadn't mocked them brazenly and tried to set up a business selling pirated films he may have gotten off with a community service sentence like his friend. If stupidity was a crime then this dumb-ass should get life without parole.
No doubt about it, they are on their way to a federal pound me in the ass prison. It won't take long for the IRS to get them on tax evasion. Throw in extortion, perjury, fraud and money laundering for good measure. I'm sure the trials will afford much entertainment but once they get sent up the hilarity ends. The only giggles after that will be if they are in the news getting stabbed or ass raped. Don't think prisoners like lawyers much. One guy with a law degree prosecuted them and another failed to get them off.
Before I retired I had 3 ASE automotive certifications. The system they use is a strong deterrent to cheating. There are different versions of every test so even if you could memorize every question there is not much way of using it to help anyone cheat. When you go for the testing you have an assigned seat that makes sure that you are not near anyone with the same version as you. The tests include five evaluation questions that are not scored. They are used to test the difficulty of questions for future versions of the test by the percentage of correct answers. Each question presents a problem and a diagnosis by technician A and B. Your answer is whether A or B is right, both are right or both are wrong. Trust me, you have to study your ass off to pass these tests.
I think the monkey that took his own photo in the previous article is smarter than this guy. He's trying to give the "least untruthful answer", he's just not very good at it. I'm assuming Australians know bullshit when they smell it.
I first found Techdirt during the SOPA debacle. So many other issues you covered awakened my interest. I don't have hours a day to read lengthy articles from dozens of publications and your site concentrates on the most important points and makes sense of the legalize that is incomprehensible to me. Many great laughs from following ongoing stories like the downfall of Prenda and idiots who will just never learn about the Streisand effect. Most important is your coverage of the Snowden leaks and other brave whistleblowers. I'm remembering when I was just a kid listening to live coverage of the Watergate hearings on AFN radio during my Army tour in Germany. It was shocking to learn just how corrupt our government can be at the highest levels. A free press is our only hope of holding our officials accountable.
Who is this piss ant little puppet of Hollywood that thinks they have international authority anyway? They actually only have power over a tiny portion of London. City of London Police. Wow I'm really scared!
You are right. Anyone that uses Explorer instead of Firefox deserves all the vulnerabilities that exposes them to. No browser is perfect but I'll take my chances with Mozilla over Microsoft any day. Be sure you use both Ad Block and DoNotTrackMe addons.
Yes, sadly her poetry works are probably lost forever. Our library has a copy of her best known book but it cannot be checked out. A few years ago I missed a chance to buy a copy and now it is not to be found. If I were to find some of her work and post it online no one in my family would care. I would be afraid some publisher would come after me even though the last printing was probably in the 50's. Such is the evil of our copyright system. So much of our heritage is forever destroyed.
I was really just being sarcastic. I want my aunt's writings to be shared by all. Her name is Madeline Aaron. Her poetry works have been included in the Kansas historical collection.
The Catholic church probably owns the rights to her religious writings. She co-wrote them with a priest. No one in our family has even suggested pursuing copyright claims. I'm sure she would have wanted it that way.
I just remembered that I had a great aunt who was a renowned poet and religious writer. She died about 40 years ago. I should hire a lawyer to find out if anyone is using her works. The Catholic church still has deep pockets even after settling all the suits for pedophile priests. I'm sure they are still using her books. Why shouldn't I cash in on dear old aunt Madeline just because I was only a kid the last I knew her?
I have always relished articles about Prenda. I have laughed my ass off so many times as I read about their steady downfall. Until they finally were exposed for their fraud they actually were often successful in extorting butt loads of money. This idiot has never filed a lawsuit that had any chance. His copyright suit against Baldwin at least made it to court but these recent suits just show he has really gone off the deep end. Great comedy though.
You are right. I would not be surprised to see them change. I found this info about WKRP in Cincinnati: In the 1990s, reissues of the syndication of WKRP had nearly all music played by the DJs changed. While the original run of the series prided itself in both writing and acting by using current hit songs, it was later deemed too expensive to keep the rights for the originals in syndication (hundreds of thousands of dollars were at stake). Instead, songs were removed and replaced with "generic" studio music; even original "generic" music was replaced to avoid any possibility of later lawsuits. Because the actors often spoke over the music, voice impersonators were hired to emulate the actors in those scenes. In some cases this meant revising lines so that jokes about the song just played were removed, and changed to often-meaningless new titles.
Again, news to me. Took them long enough. Maybe since most of the music hasn't made a dime except from the oldies radio stations and a few "best of" releases in 30 or 40 years the price finally came down.
I was not aware that Wonder Years was available on Netflix but this series is not the only one that will not ever make it to DVD because of the music. There have even been series released in syndication that have had the original music replaced with lesser known artists and covers. Even shows about famous artists cannot afford the music. The movie "Backbeat" about the early Beatles only used their cover songs because Lennon/McCartney songs just cost too much. I seem to remember there was a mini series about Paul McCartney that did not use any of his music.
Have you ever noticed that the majority of songs that you hear on TV series and movies are not major hits by big name artists? The price demanded is just too much for most productions. I have a friend that has had his songs featured in dozens of movies and TV episodes. He has only had one song ever charted yet he does very well on his royalties. Many great series of the past like "The Wonder Years" will never make it to DVD because they just can't afford the music rights. When "Married With Children" was released on DVD the theme song "Love and Marriage" was replaced with an instrumental because a nearly 50 year old Frank Sinatra song was just too expensive.
The point is the copyright holders are stiffening the artists they represent by pricing them out of the market. When Ferris Bueller's Day Off used the Beatles song "Twist and Shout" nearly 25 years after the first hit it was back on the charts for 7 weeks. Who knows how many times artists could have made more money like this for their works if the rights were more affordable.
Yeah, I don't think he ever said "Shout it from the mountain top Let freedom ring, but you are going to have to pay my grandchildren until half way through the next century if you want to use my speeches!"
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The Catholic church probably owns the rights to her religious writings. She co-wrote them with a priest. No one in our family has even suggested pursuing copyright claims. I'm sure she would have wanted it that way.
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In the 1990s, reissues of the syndication of WKRP had nearly all music played by the DJs changed. While the original run of the series prided itself in both writing and acting by using current hit songs, it was later deemed too expensive to keep the rights for the originals in syndication (hundreds of thousands of dollars were at stake). Instead, songs were removed and replaced with "generic" studio music; even original "generic" music was replaced to avoid any possibility of later lawsuits. Because the actors often spoke over the music, voice impersonators were hired to emulate the actors in those scenes. In some cases this meant revising lines so that jokes about the song just played were removed, and changed to often-meaningless new titles.
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The point is the copyright holders are stiffening the artists they represent by pricing them out of the market. When Ferris Bueller's Day Off used the Beatles song "Twist and Shout" nearly 25 years after the first hit it was back on the charts for 7 weeks. Who knows how many times artists could have made more money like this for their works if the rights were more affordable.
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