To anyone who's read Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother" this will sound a lot like the Xnet from the book. It's really not a complicated or new concept although, of course, execution is important.
I tend to use the online TurboTax to do my free federal taxes (since I don't have to do the complicated form) but skip the state, which they charge for. Then, I went to do the state one at my state's website. The difference ended up being hundreds of dollars owed instead of hundreds received, so I paid the $20 to Intuit to save hundreds on my taxes.
I have direct experience with your "which appear to resolve doubts in its favor" theory.
Where has anyone said people can't make money from teaching? Teaching is a perfectly reasonable business model, as long as you can convince someone to pay you to provide it. So is writing, if you can get someone to pay you for it.
The key is that it's not realistic to expect people to pay you to let them copy something, whether by imitation or otherwise. People paying teachers is for the benefit of their knowledge and experience being passed down, not for permission to copy the teacher's style.
How is that a good idea? The state is directly impinging on free speech. That should never be applauded.
Mocking should not be illegal. There is no right to not be offended. Trying to make one puts the incentives on being offended; the people who benefit the most are those who are most easily or most greatly offended. That's a strange structure to encourage.
It would have been a far better framing if the guy had spoofed his neighbor's MAC address. Then even traffic logs would look like they came from the framed guy's computer.
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Sounds like Xnet
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Did anyone else try?
http://www.iacc.org
See "About Counterfeiting -> The Truth About Counterfeiting"
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I have direct experience with your "which appear to resolve doubts in its favor" theory.
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I, of course, do not know which agency.
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The key is that it's not realistic to expect people to pay you to let them copy something, whether by imitation or otherwise. People paying teachers is for the benefit of their knowledge and experience being passed down, not for permission to copy the teacher's style.
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I really enjoyed the first couple Duke Nukem games. I never understood the popularity of the 3D one, though.
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Mocking should not be illegal. There is no right to not be offended. Trying to make one puts the incentives on being offended; the people who benefit the most are those who are most easily or most greatly offended. That's a strange structure to encourage.
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Touche!
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There could even be meta-framing involved. The guy who owns the wireless network could spoof the neighbor's information and frame him for framing him.
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