You mean to tell me the patent system is not for extracting money from others?
That seems to be all it is used for. Big players with big money can buy patents and sue the little guys. The little guys create their own patents and then still face a massive finical burden to claim cost recovery on the big players using it. How long and how much it is cost i4i to finally win against Microsoft? How many start-up have that kind of capital and time to engage?
The current patent system encourages stagnation as that is much more profitable in the short term.
Part of the American downfall is that the smart people, the ones who innovate are staying home or leaving. American is quickly becoming an innovation economy of stagnation.
Yes it all about the money.
With out being able to link to them or find them in a search they may as well remove their site from the internet. They effectively de-listed themselves! HA HA!
It would be like putting trademark/copyright on your city name and then refusing it to be used by map making companies. After all those map making companies are money off you just because you are there.
I think this should hopefully server a good lesson for other newspapers. Mostly like not...
I thought she would could have argued that with such close personnel contact she received from the TSA agent that she felt a intimate situation was occurring and let her enthusiasms get the better of her self control.
After all if you start getting really turn on from the TSA groping is it wrong to try to fully engage the opportunity?
They assume I guilty and Slander my good name with the ISP. I have not been found guilty of anything and yet they can slander me to the point where I can lose my ISP connection, and my job as I rely upon internet access for my job.
This need to have major consequences for false accusations. By that I mean if you prove you have been false accused 3 time then they can not accuse you any more (three strike to get you). I would also like to see $1 million penalty (split between you, your ISP, judge, and local politic's favorite charity) for a proven false accusations. The point is to make the RIAA/MPAA really think about the accusations.
I can set my voice mail to automatically work for the default phone number it is assigned to OR I can have restricted by password.
I would think the very least charges would be destroyed evidence and tampered with an actual police investigation. I could see the parents trying to sue for mental anquish or something else. In any case I hope they set an example of with News company and all those involved.
As the Republican Party has the lumbering Elephant for a mascot and the Democratic Party has the jack ass (I mean donkey) for a mascot the Sheeple party could have a sheep!
I guess is there any way one can subscribe to you movement and will there also be juice served at your monthly meetings?
Looks legit to me. Thanks for such a detailed description of the upcoming service and details. I could actually read it all in one sitting and with out navigating to countless 'linked' pages. Obvious much better than Apples hundreds of pages of detailed legalize talk.
I am sure the 'other' cloud services have comparable services but it was really refreshing to seeing Best Buy so up front about everything rather than trying to hide it all.
At least with the Al Qaeda you can at least fight back. With the TSA they can violate you can there is absolutely nothing you can do or do afterwards - it all in the policy and the TSA agent was just following orders.
The simple odds is there will be life. But absolutely nothing says that it will be intelligent. With the Universe mind boggling vast the simple statics would indicate it is possible.
If we ever find 'intelligent life' will we be able to recognize it? I already find difficult to claim 'intelligent life' already on Earth.
I wonder what the odds of the same song with the same file hash value? I doubt it would be truly unique - Maybe 1 in 10,000 or 100,000.
I have a dedicated machine that accepts the CD and automatically make an MP3 file out it (in about 10 minutes), fetches art work, and categorizes it, and saves it on an internal drive which is accessible on my home network. Now if that company sold 10,000 units like this what are the odds that two or more users buy the CD on the release date and make copy - what are the odds the hash value match?
Secondly, what if I did download it as copying the CD to an MP3 was impossible. I do have one CD that when I tried to automatically generate the MP3 it created 999 mp3 files (all empty).
If accused then I must settle or, at my own cost, prove my copy is legitimate.
Lastly (as I adjust my tin foil hat), i think the data potential for discovery is far to tempting for the RIAA. The RIAA will do their best to get their hands on all this extremely valuable data, even it the means are less then legitimate.
It is going to take a couple years to earn my trust. With all that being said. I would not mind doing it as I could have my entire digital library backed up on iTunes and as long as I could re-download the entire library end then end my contract with iTune (and still be able to play my files).
Reminds me of a Monty Python test for a witch logic.
Crowd: How do you know she is a terrorist? TSA: She looks like one. [Crowd indistinctly shouts] TSA: Bring her forward! Old Lady: I'm not a terrorist. TSA: But you are dressed as one... Old Lady: They dressed me up like this. [Crowd murmurs] Old Lady: And this isn't my nose. This is a false one. TSA: [inspects the nose and confirms] Well? Crowd: Well, we did do the nose. TSA: The nose? Crowd: And the hat. She's a terrorist! Crowd: Burn her! TSA: Did you dress her up like this? Crowd: No, no, no! [beat] Yes, yes. A bit. But she's got a wart. TSA: Why do you think that she is a terrorist? Crowd: Well, she turned me into a newt. [Crowd gives him a disbelieving look] TSA: A newt? [Silence] TSA: To be sure lets groping her anyways… after all it is the policy!
Ownership of anything is me saying it is mine and other people believing it is so.
Ask any two year old and they will claim everything is theirs.
Look at many military conquests. Look at the Europeans coming to America who basically claimed the land for their home country and everyone accepted it (but not all the local inhabitants though). Even some people, still to day, claim they own their wife (as in property).
A US level of government or business can scream and claim all they like someone in Canada owe them money but Canadians are under no obligation to.
I have seen a tax cases where the IRS tried claimed claim revenue, an over seas casino attempt to collect, etc. The list goes own... Canada does not enforce an external claim of allegedly owed money (even back taxes from another country).
As this owed money is typically a civil action it does not mean squat. In rare cases, when the US federal government is involved it might impact your ability to enter the US.
Now if they could actually dream up some International commerce rule related to porn then the police would be evolved and the individual might get arrested but in the end he still does not need to fork over a dime to the copyright holder.
In this case the copyright holder just wasted their money on their lawyer as the possible net return is zero.
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That seems to be all it is used for. Big players with big money can buy patents and sue the little guys. The little guys create their own patents and then still face a massive finical burden to claim cost recovery on the big players using it. How long and how much it is cost i4i to finally win against Microsoft? How many start-up have that kind of capital and time to engage?
The current patent system encourages stagnation as that is much more profitable in the short term.
Part of the American downfall is that the smart people, the ones who innovate are staying home or leaving. American is quickly becoming an innovation economy of stagnation.
On the post: Newspapers Win Suit Against Google, Get Their Wish To Be Delisted, Then Complain
With out being able to link to them or find them in a search they may as well remove their site from the internet. They effectively de-listed themselves! HA HA!
It would be like putting trademark/copyright on your city name and then refusing it to be used by map making companies. After all those map making companies are money off you just because you are there.
I think this should hopefully server a good lesson for other newspapers. Mostly like not...
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After all if you start getting really turn on from the TSA groping is it wrong to try to fully engage the opportunity?
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obscurity
What people do not know will not hurt them.
or
ignorance is bliss
Sticking your head in the sand and ignoring the world around you has always worked - right?
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Unclear Copyright
To me the kind letter is obvious a personnel request to remove something that someone does not like.
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This need to have major consequences for false accusations. By that I mean if you prove you have been false accused 3 time then they can not accuse you any more (three strike to get you). I would also like to see $1 million penalty (split between you, your ISP, judge, and local politic's favorite charity) for a proven false accusations. The point is to make the RIAA/MPAA really think about the accusations.
On the post: Rupert Murdoch's Journalists Accused Of Hacking Into Murdered Girl's Voicemails, Deleting Some
Re: Re:
I would think the very least charges would be destroyed evidence and tampered with an actual police investigation. I could see the parents trying to sue for mental anquish or something else. In any case I hope they set an example of with News company and all those involved.
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Re: Angry sheeple = still sheeple
As the Republican Party has the lumbering Elephant for a mascot and the Democratic Party has the jack ass (I mean donkey) for a mascot the Sheeple party could have a sheep!
I guess is there any way one can subscribe to you movement and will there also be juice served at your monthly meetings?
On the post: Details Emerge On Best Buy's 'Music Cloud' Service
I am sure the 'other' cloud services have comparable services but it was really refreshing to seeing Best Buy so up front about everything rather than trying to hide it all.
On the post: When You're About To Fly, Who Do You Fear More: Al Qaeda... Or The TSA?
TSA
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If we ever find 'intelligent life' will we be able to recognize it? I already find difficult to claim 'intelligent life' already on Earth.
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Could be an interesting bidding war to watch.
On the post: Could Apple's MusicMatch Be A Tool To Identify Infringers?
Lots of if's.
I have a dedicated machine that accepts the CD and automatically make an MP3 file out it (in about 10 minutes), fetches art work, and categorizes it, and saves it on an internal drive which is accessible on my home network. Now if that company sold 10,000 units like this what are the odds that two or more users buy the CD on the release date and make copy - what are the odds the hash value match?
Secondly, what if I did download it as copying the CD to an MP3 was impossible. I do have one CD that when I tried to automatically generate the MP3 it created 999 mp3 files (all empty).
If accused then I must settle or, at my own cost, prove my copy is legitimate.
Lastly (as I adjust my tin foil hat), i think the data potential for discovery is far to tempting for the RIAA. The RIAA will do their best to get their hands on all this extremely valuable data, even it the means are less then legitimate.
It is going to take a couple years to earn my trust. With all that being said. I would not mind doing it as I could have my entire digital library backed up on iTunes and as long as I could re-download the entire library end then end my contract with iTune (and still be able to play my files).
On the post: TSA Says Groping A Dying 95-Year-Old Woman, Forcing Her To Remove Diaper, Is Ok Because It Followed Standard Procedure
Reminds me of a Monty Python test for a witch logic.
TSA: She looks like one.
[Crowd indistinctly shouts]
TSA: Bring her forward!
Old Lady: I'm not a terrorist.
TSA: But you are dressed as one...
Old Lady: They dressed me up like this. [Crowd murmurs]
Old Lady: And this isn't my nose. This is a false one.
TSA: [inspects the nose and confirms] Well?
Crowd: Well, we did do the nose.
TSA: The nose?
Crowd: And the hat. She's a terrorist!
Crowd: Burn her!
TSA: Did you dress her up like this?
Crowd: No, no, no! [beat] Yes, yes. A bit. But she's got a wart.
TSA: Why do you think that she is a terrorist?
Crowd: Well, she turned me into a newt.
[Crowd gives him a disbelieving look]
TSA: A newt?
[Silence]
TSA: To be sure lets groping her anyways… after all it is the policy!
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On the post: MPAA Directly Lobbies Law Enforcement To Be Its Own Private Police Force
Or does it not count when it the department instead of the regular flat foot?
On the post: George Clinton Explains How Bridgeport Allegedly Faked Documents To Get His Music Rights
possession and ownership
Ask any two year old and they will claim everything is theirs.
Look at many military conquests. Look at the Europeans coming to America who basically claimed the land for their home country and everyone accepted it (but not all the local inhabitants though). Even some people, still to day, claim they own their wife (as in property).
On the post: US Porn Company Wins Default Judgment Against File Sharer In Canada; Guy Told To Pay $64k
Good luck collecting it
I have seen a tax cases where the IRS tried claimed claim revenue, an over seas casino attempt to collect, etc. The list goes own... Canada does not enforce an external claim of allegedly owed money (even back taxes from another country).
As this owed money is typically a civil action it does not mean squat. In rare cases, when the US federal government is involved it might impact your ability to enter the US.
Now if they could actually dream up some International commerce rule related to porn then the police would be evolved and the individual might get arrested but in the end he still does not need to fork over a dime to the copyright holder.
In this case the copyright holder just wasted their money on their lawyer as the possible net return is zero.
On the post: ICE Declares 'Mission Accomplished' On Domain Seizures
With terrorism taking such a hard hit everyone can sleep better tonight.
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