@Travis:"you gotta love it more when your country's politics are heavily influenced by a Church"
Most countries have the same offence in law. In Canada, for instance, it's a criminal code offense to make a disturbance in a church. Canadians manage to live with it. The Pussy Rioters would end up in jail in Canada, too. No big deal.
It's interesting that Google/YouTube is taking this direction because Google (and YouTube) have the worst comments and the worst communities, of any online enterprise. There's simply no comparison with Facebook or Yahoo! Or TechDirt. They're not even on the same planet.
Sometimes there's an obvious workaround that is so obvious that it's a puzzle that nobody has noticed. Region-restricted DVDs are as common as dirt, and region-free DVD players can be purchased in Chinatown for only $59 to play your British or Australian DVDs. So what happens when region-restricted DVD players are banned? You just pop them into your BluRay player which is region-free.
The predominance of some colors in movie posters is no surprise to painters. Some colors are way more expensive than others. Red ink, for example, is horrendously expensive, so poster printers avoid it if at all possible.
@Oblate:"Haven't you heard of the problem of rising ocean levels?"
There is no problem of "rising ocean levels". It's only a postulate from the eco-boffins. It's being pushed by The Maldives as a scheme to get free money from the UN.
Anonymous Coward:"If Dan Bull stole the music, he violated copyright, plain and simple...Now, he may want to try to claim fair use, but clearly this isn't parody, but rather rapping an opinion, which is not the same thing."
But he didn't steal it. He changed it to a different end. Fair use is not just parody, it also consists of altering a work to repurpose it. This is exactly what Mac Miller did. It's clearly fair use.
This entire issue is really a non-problem since there are heavy-water reactors run nicely on NON-enriched uranium, and can also recycle nuclear waste easily. One such design is the CANDU reactor from Candu Energy in Canada. There's 29 CANDUs running peacefully around the world.
You're hopelessly naive! DoJ can seize and keep anything by alleging RICO or "dishonest services". They're totally unprincipled and corrupt. Conrad Black is still trying to get his assets back even after being acquitted by the SCOTUS.
If Kim thinks this is a good idea, he'd better invite Conrad Black for lunch. Conrad ran into the DoJ and they ambushed him with an "honest services" fraud charge and an "obstruction of justice" charge. DoJ can convict anybody on these open-ended charges, and Black was jailed for 6 years. The America federal justice system is so corrupt that DoJ can lock up anybody they set their sights on. There's no escape. Black won his appeals, yet they still locked him up.
Infringing is clearly not theft as theft is known in the common law. It's more like peeping on the topless lady next door who is parading around with her windows open. Everytime you look at her, she becomes less desirable. It's naughty, but it's not theft.
I've just patented a new language system which uses an English language plug-in in which the concepts are separate from the words. It appears to be identical to the version which you all seem to be using, so you're all going to have to pay big-time. This forum is a flagrant example of intellectual property theft. I've made note of all your names and you'll be hearing from my attorneys.
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Re: It has nothing to do with a free speach
Canada, too.
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They'd get that - and maybe more - in Canada. It's a criminal offence to make a disturbance in a church in Canada.
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Re: asylum
Don't try for asylum in Canada! The Pussies would end up behind bars in Canada, too. What they did is a criminal offence here.
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Re: Religion is a bitch
Most countries have the same offence in law. In Canada, for instance, it's a criminal code offense to make a disturbance in a church. Canadians manage to live with it. The Pussy Rioters would end up in jail in Canada, too. No big deal.
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Re: Re: Poster colors
Film studios don't do posters any more, but they used to charge more for red. Hence the palette was limited. Coca-cola didn't do movie posters.
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Region codes
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Poster colors
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rising ocean levels
There is no problem of "rising ocean levels". It's only a postulate from the eco-boffins. It's being pushed by The Maldives as a scheme to get free money from the UN.
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Re: Fair Use
But he didn't steal it. He changed it to a different end. Fair use is not just parody, it also consists of altering a work to repurpose it. This is exactly what Mac Miller did. It's clearly fair use.
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What radioactive waste?
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Re: challenging a financial seizure
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If Kim thinks this is a good idea . . .
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topless infringing
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