"Basically, they realized that by claiming it's a national secret, there was no way the lawsuit would get anywhere. The whole situation is really unfortunate."
I find that it COULD be fortunate. Who in this protectionist day and age would allow a treaty that contains "State Secretes" to be brought to the table and given to a foreign entity.
Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]."
If the ACTA contains state secretes would that not possible, make it possible, to seriously injure the parent nation (USA). I think that it would and any person approving and releasing the ACTA document should be charged with treason.
The IRS should have just tried to require people whose office phone were paid by their employers to pay taxes on the phone service as a "fringe benefit". /sarcasm
Someone with access to the installer should leak the file so programmers can review the install to be able to remove it (assuming that it is made very hard to remove).
Then after a uninstaller is made create a dummy program to make it seem as if it is installed but not actually do any thing.
It would be like what people do to programs that HAVE TO HAVE DRM to work but do not want that junk running.
I think that is what they did but what they do not take into consideration is the IP address they received may not have been the "owner" but some one routing through them using a program like Tor.
"You hired was in fact a police man, and he got your phone number off the called ID. Why would the phone company NOT want to help?"
They would not want to help because it is not needed the police know who the perp. is and have evidence proving it from the call and the meeting that would be arranged to get payment.
"You aren't thinking. The phone number would come up, and the phone company would say "this customer has this phone number installed HERE""
You are not thinking. A phone number can be looked up easily for free with out having to contact the provider. If the phone number is not available (unlisted) and the phone company releases information about that customer they should be expecting a letter from a lawyer for breach of privacy and contract.
IPs are unlisted and should be considered private.
"No areas of the UK are banned to photographers and there's no list of buildings you can't photograph (although I imagine some of our military bases wouldn't be too welcoming, but that's not what we're talking about here)."
I do not think that is quite true. A few years ago a student from Northern Kentucky University who was on a study abroad trip in London that compared the US legal system to the parliament. When on the trip the student took pics in the subway (it is not allowed signs are posted although). When he arrived at the next stop the police were waiting for him. He was escorted to a back room for questioning and had him pictures confiscated, a little while later he was released with a warning and threat of jail if it happened again.
They really messed up from the beginning if I recall correctly the Gov started talking about the switch back in 1997. If at that time they would have just said any TV manufactured for sale in the US after 1/1/1998 must include a digital tuner.
If that would have happened most of the TVs in use would have no problem translating the signal.
I will start by saying that I am all for free speech, and think all people should be allowed to voice their opinion no matter what it is. That includes what they think of someone, religious views, advocating use of condoms, or "Bong Hits 4 Jesus".
With that said it is the schools job to run students lives when attending school, outside to school and school events thats a different case. I include school events because at things like school dances, field trips, ect. when the school is responsible for the students.
Now making comments about a school official online it should not matter if it was done in the school or at home (other than the website may have been in violation of the schools Authorized User Policy but that is a different issue). Posting something about the principal is okay saying false and/or damaging things could/has led to a law suite.
Getting lawyers involved in things should always be the last resort. In the case of the fake Myspace page the principal should have had a backup as proof that the page existed made the student remove the profile (watch it being removed) then give him one hour of after school detention on a Friday. That would have saved money by preventing going to court.
I think that it is BS and I hope that The Idaho Fry Company fights back. Like by placing a large sign that reads
Due to a law suite from Idaho Potatoes we were forced to change our name to "This State Fry Company" and will no longer be serving Idaho Potatoes. We hope you will do the same.
They would have the same physical address but should have a different "Suite" number, unless they share the same office or have one mail box and someone who sorts all the mail.
I leave my home connection open to people that want to use it and several of my friends know this if they want free access. I have blocked all of the ports on the wireless network other than ones needed to connect to the Internet so p2p programs run or any thing else. Only my MAC address has privileges on the wireless to use all ports.
If they do not want users to do things that are "illegal" or porn related then close the ports and install a net filtering program like they use at schools or the library.
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I find that it COULD be fortunate. Who in this protectionist day and age would allow a treaty that contains "State Secretes" to be brought to the table and given to a foreign entity.
Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]."
If the ACTA contains state secretes would that not possible, make it possible, to seriously injure the parent nation (USA). I think that it would and any person approving and releasing the ACTA document should be charged with treason.
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Then after a uninstaller is made create a dummy program to make it seem as if it is installed but not actually do any thing.
It would be like what people do to programs that HAVE TO HAVE DRM to work but do not want that junk running.
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They would not want to help because it is not needed the police know who the perp. is and have evidence proving it from the call and the meeting that would be arranged to get payment.
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You are not thinking. A phone number can be looked up easily for free with out having to contact the provider. If the phone number is not available (unlisted) and the phone company releases information about that customer they should be expecting a letter from a lawyer for breach of privacy and contract.
IPs are unlisted and should be considered private.
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I do not think that is quite true. A few years ago a student from Northern Kentucky University who was on a study abroad trip in London that compared the US legal system to the parliament. When on the trip the student took pics in the subway (it is not allowed signs are posted although). When he arrived at the next stop the police were waiting for him. He was escorted to a back room for questioning and had him pictures confiscated, a little while later he was released with a warning and threat of jail if it happened again.
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If that would have happened most of the TVs in use would have no problem translating the signal.
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With that said it is the schools job to run students lives when attending school, outside to school and school events thats a different case. I include school events because at things like school dances, field trips, ect. when the school is responsible for the students.
Now making comments about a school official online it should not matter if it was done in the school or at home (other than the website may have been in violation of the schools Authorized User Policy but that is a different issue). Posting something about the principal is okay saying false and/or damaging things could/has led to a law suite.
Getting lawyers involved in things should always be the last resort. In the case of the fake Myspace page the principal should have had a backup as proof that the page existed made the student remove the profile (watch it being removed) then give him one hour of after school detention on a Friday. That would have saved money by preventing going to court.
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Due to a law suite from Idaho Potatoes we were forced to change our name to "This State Fry Company" and will no longer be serving Idaho Potatoes. We hope you will do the same.
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Re: what they should have done
I never liked Sony but that is for some other time.
It would have been better to offer RIAA labels on a different add on plan.
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Any thing that is digital can be shared one way or another.
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Take responsibility
If they do not want users to do things that are "illegal" or porn related then close the ports and install a net filtering program like they use at schools or the library.
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