Sean Parker wasn't an entrepreneur, he was an employee!!! Just because Aaron Sorkin said he made Napster, doesnt mean he did, and you'd think TechCrunch would know that!
Sean Parker wasn't an entrepreneur, he was an employee!!! Just because Aaron Sorkin said he made Napster, doesnt mean he did, and you'd think TechCrunch would know that!
Im a pretty hardcore 'pirate', I dont even pay for a cable tv sub, but I do pay for netflix. Its the first pay service I've ever thought held a candle to grabbing stuff my own way, and thats because its so fast. They proved its possible, now if the TV studios would start selling their shows like this I would sign up for them all.
If you read his comments you will clearly see that hes not actually 'reading' techdirt, just getting the titles through twitter and commenting on whatever rolls through his brain.
He only reads when it becomes necessary to quote something out of context.
interestingly about that, 1.92 million is just about the level that less than 50% of Americans will make in their entire lives. Since you need money to live, and thats every penny the average person will make in their life, is that not a death penalty?
In what way are the studios approaching 1997? I would say that by 1997 anyone with any know how already knew that anything that could be digitized would be, and infinitely copied. People were already trading mp3s on IRC back then...
If this judgment stands, then the appropriate way for any coporation to deal with criticism becomes create a mail server with a max inbox size of 1KB and sue anyone who clutters it instead of reading their concerns. Would be perfectly legal.
The CFAA was drafted to prevent data theft, which was the only conceivable way a hacker could impact a business in the early - mid 90s. Its hopelessly outdated and has no bearing on the modern world.
You dont know a lot about Spam filtering do you? Most, if not all, enterprise spam filtering is done on a firewall, then the Exchange server looks over the non-spoofed messages and does a content scan, then it submits the email to the user's inbox. If, as they claim, that the 'inbox's were being stuffed then the email system NEVER WENT DOWN. Which is funny, they just didnt have the manpower to read all the emails. Thats it. So apparently if you cause a company to have to hire more people to read paperwork, you are hacking. I guess lawyer filed motions are now illegal...
Free speech DOES allow you to yell 'fire' in a theatre, there just has to be a fire. Sounds to me like the difference here would depend on if the union were performing its duties like this, or getting revenge for something.
Because if a court order seizing google.com hit a judge's desk, Larry, Eric and Sergey would be hostile take-overing more companies than you count, and half of washington would lose their jobs. These guys are RICH.
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He only reads when it becomes necessary to quote something out of context.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/
al jazeera has a .net, also a US domain. Is Al Jazeera suddenly subject to US law?
How about my bank?
http://www.scotiabank.com
Are they suddenly subject to US banking laws because of their domain name? Get real...
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