Well, technically there is. It is called prosecutorial discretion. The executive branch can choose who they prosecute and the assumption is that the executive branch will use that power to make such cost / benefits calculations.
The RIAA and the MPAA are just a bunch of pirates. BREIN is working hard in order to take down those file sharers exposing themselves to legal prosecution and the RIAA and the MPAA just steal the benefits of lesser file sharing. They should be ashamed of themselves! ICE should seize the assets of those pirate organizations in order to protect the business model of BREIN and other such hard working Americans. (Or Dutch... Who cares?)
Meh. Maybe if the cert lobby gives him money he won't need money from the RIAA. I don't mind lobbyists bribing (I mean contributing to the campaigns of) elected officials. I just have a preference for some lobbyists doing it and not others.
OK, everyone, let's do the same here. We can meet over at the RIAA headquarters. Dress code is suits, white shirts, black tie and sunglasses. I'll be Agent Johnson. Bring plastic sheriff badges. We go in and inform them that unless they hand over all their paperwork, they will be arrested for fraud and anti-trust violations. If they refuse, we'll inform them that their domains are being seized for distributing music.
Jail-time? Really? Honestly, I think that guy clearly deserves some punishment, but jail-time seems a tad excessive. I would feel a fine would be more appropriate.
Section 2:
This statute shall not apply to cases where the modification is part of a system which is called "Digital Rights Management" as long as somebody yells either:
i) We must protect American jobs! or
ii) Think of the children!
Actually, that's bullshit. The GPL can be honored by simply having the application provide a link to the source. If the app does not do that, posting it on the app store is in violation of the application's license AND copyright. So, if a GPL app that does not provide a link is found on the app store, a DMCA takedown is sent to Microsoft who takes the app down just as it would have to do for any other copyright violation.
Let's just try to make sure these 5 people don't get elected. In fact, the best thing would be to not elect anyone to any post in governement and just have a single guy flipping coins on every decision. At least he might get it right sometimes.
Aparently when Obama opposed the torture of pows in gitmo he actually meant he was going to spread the torture around. Now that is change I can believe in...
I think your reading makes the most sense. The book violates Wikipedia's copyright and the copy violates the author's copyright. Though it may be that a judge would order author and publisher to comply with the CC license and give the pdf creator a slap on the wrist.
Your comparison with SCO is bit inaccurate though. A proprietary license says you cannot redistribute period. Not that you can redistribute only if conditions x y z are met. So giving Linux to SCO would not remedy the violation. Placing the book under CC would.
If you look long enough at enough unrelated datasets, you will find a statistically significant correlation eventually. Given the number of people looking at those data sets, it is bound to happen often. That leads to a lot of stupid headlines.
Religion having lost versus the hard sciences is now trying its hand versus economics. Pretty soon it will be down to religion v gender studies. Finally a foe worthy of religious nonsense.
Many of us have "at-will" contracts. Which means baring specialy protected classes (ethnicity, handicap, sexual orientation) they don't need any reason.
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i) We must protect American jobs! or
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Your comparison with SCO is bit inaccurate though. A proprietary license says you cannot redistribute period. Not that you can redistribute only if conditions x y z are met. So giving Linux to SCO would not remedy the violation. Placing the book under CC would.
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