Despite having a pretty leak-proof Terms of Service, there are still ways to get to GoDaddy in extreme circumstances. Last year GoDaddy took a hit in court for wrongfully transferring a domain name.
Prior to the 1984 ban on music rentals, we had a small store in Grants Pass, OR that rented albums. Being about 16, it was most awesome. I rented whatever rock or punk they had. They ultimately closed, which I think was a combination of wrong market (small town), and later the ban.
Oh, and if I really liked an album I had rented ... er, I bought it. Choke on that.
I suppose Google Docs is next? I pay for extra storage; that's where I store all my research; and the home page gives me a list of it...
I want to see Courts stop being weenies about statutory attorney-fee shifting against the frivolous plaintiffs (which of course requires defendants who can afford to stay in the game through trial).
And yet ... I still have family that accuses me of being "pro terrorist" because I was against the Iraq war. There's no paucity of stupid people to fall for false dilemmas/analogies.
...TrueCar could open the door to unscrupulous dealers trying to sell a more expensive car or more options once they get the customers in the door ...
because that is the actual job description of the Finance Manager who writes up the loan. Often his/her entire income is commissions off the "back end" items they try to add on to the total (read: TruCoat from Fargo).
Like Honda doesn't know that ... (I imagine they have a fee for disingenuousness removal too.)
The formerly plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas?
Maybe after a decade of patent litigation there, the jury pool has become collectively versed enough in patent law that they ain't takin' so kindly to bogus claims anymore.
I'd be interested to see why the later courts "declined to follow" the earlier decisions that porn did not promote progress. They generally can't just decline to follow binding precedent -- they have to do a workaround, like say that the facts of the current case are "distinguishable" from the facts of the precedential case. That's why courts issue narrow decisions, to avoid unintended consequences, and leave facts to be distinguishable.
Otherwise, it's a super interesting argument, not likely to gain any traction. It would turn the courts into arbiters of art ... and they've been down that road before (wasn't Brando's "Last Tango in Paris" called porn?).
This is very similar to some old-school agreements I have seen in legal forms guides. Part of the issue was a trespass to chattel claim where an aggregator was enjoined from using bots to aggregate info from eBay. eBay, Inc. v Bidder's Edge, Inc. (ND Cal 2000) 100 F Supp 2d 1058. (That's right, 2000.)
Probably someone at Lowe's legal (apparently without an email address or Internet knowledge) thought this was a good way to set the stage for potential copyright claims for links (although case law has since killed any chance of that), or potential trademark claims (although ways to actually infringe TM via links are severely limited).
Mostly, it's just insane. (Oh, and good for your SEO too, if by "good" you mean hobbling your page rank by limiting the number of unique inbound links.) Yeah. Insane.
Disdain for "selling" out is a fleeting privilege of youth and the envious rationalization of those who have never been paid for their creative output.
... If they actually learn to play guitar, that first bar gig where the manager tells them to play one slow song a set, and they do -- well, it's all over from there out. Sold.
I think the larger problem is that for 30+ age groups, network news is still the predominate way they receive pertinent information. Old habits die hard.
They do indeed. Now however, we older folks watch the news to yell at it for being just speculation or opinion, or spun hard left or right, then check the coffee table laptop for the real story. (Or we grouse about how stuff we knew about for weeks: the Wisconsin union debacle, Occupy and SOPA, even the Wiki blackout, were all apparently NOT news until they became so big they couldn't be ignored - like NBC not reporting the Wiki blackout at all until they realized they looked complicit.)
He's right, mp3s suck. But ... here's a little mixing trick used by many famous producers/musicians: Once you get a good mix, you play it on everything you can find, especially the car stereo, boombox, and crappy earbuds. Then you remix accordingly. Meaning, much popular music is mixed specifically to work on crappy sound systems in the first place. (OMG, you shoulda heard it on the studio monitors though ...)
So they're taking a page from California's wholly awful Proposition process, in which folks stand on the street collecting petition signatures (for pay-per-sig) to get a bill to "save the children" on the ballot, which the public then passes at the next election, only to find that the only children saved were those of the special interests who funded the petition drive, through bolstered profits and lowered accountability the new law gave the special interests at the expense of citizens' pocketbooks and civil liberties. Whew...
Let's not forget the loss to America over this. I've "destroyed" ...er partied, with British tourists before and boy did they know how to destroy. Like to make Marilyn Monroe spin in her grave (which we would have to dig up to substantiate).
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Re: Reparations?
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2011/05/ohio_appeals_co_1.htm
... and sometimes, just sometimes, one can get at the government too (but no opinion on this case).
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What's in a name?
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Outlawed Music Rentals ...
Oh, and if I really liked an album I had rented ... er, I bought it. Choke on that.
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I want to see Courts stop being weenies about statutory attorney-fee shifting against the frivolous plaintiffs (which of course requires defendants who can afford to stay in the game through trial).
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because that is the actual job description of the Finance Manager who writes up the loan. Often his/her entire income is commissions off the "back end" items they try to add on to the total (read: TruCoat from Fargo).
Like Honda doesn't know that ... (I imagine they have a fee for disingenuousness removal too.)
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The formerly plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas?
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Otherwise, it's a super interesting argument, not likely to gain any traction. It would turn the courts into arbiters of art ... and they've been down that road before (wasn't Brando's "Last Tango in Paris" called porn?).
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Old-School Legal Templates ...
Probably someone at Lowe's legal (apparently without an email address or Internet knowledge) thought this was a good way to set the stage for potential copyright claims for links (although case law has since killed any chance of that), or potential trademark claims (although ways to actually infringe TM via links are severely limited).
Mostly, it's just insane. (Oh, and good for your SEO too, if by "good" you mean hobbling your page rank by limiting the number of unique inbound links.) Yeah. Insane.
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... If they actually learn to play guitar, that first bar gig where the manager tells them to play one slow song a set, and they do -- well, it's all over from there out. Sold.
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Re: Re: The Internet has become
They do indeed. Now however, we older folks watch the news to yell at it for being just speculation or opinion, or spun hard left or right, then check the coffee table laptop for the real story. (Or we grouse about how stuff we knew about for weeks: the Wisconsin union debacle, Occupy and SOPA, even the Wiki blackout, were all apparently NOT news until they became so big they couldn't be ignored - like NBC not reporting the Wiki blackout at all until they realized they looked complicit.)
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Re: Really?
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... but we're mixing to the LCD anyway
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