Cable companies are in business to make money, they are not social service organizations. Correct, but cable companies' stated purpose is to make money by providing services that people want in a fair and consistent manner, and they don't do that. There is nothing wrong with being in business to make money. On its face, no. When you're screwing over your captive market, however...
Well, 56 million deaths to safe abortion is preferable to over 100 million deaths to backstreet abortion. Or would you actually prefer that? Do your research, dipwad.
The periodic table is public domain, which is why Josh Duck as well as you are free to make new creative works of it. If they add enough new originality, which everyone's does, that makes it eligible to be copyrighted, which everyone's is. Please review US copyright laws for further details, which clearly states that anyone may use PD works, not just you, and such use leaves the original work free for others to use as they wish. There you go, Alara. And before you start, my use of your words has 'FAIR DEALING/USE' emblazoned all over it. ;)
Wise judge: "The case law I'm looking at states that you can't use technological restrictions to lock consumers into exclusivity deals on printer cartridges. The fact that the printing occurs with a third, extra dimension doesn't create new copyrightable material, so consumers are fully entitled to jailbreak their 3D printers."
An NDA, for example, is you signing away your first amendment right. Really? Because I thought that NDAs were agreed with private companies, not the government...
Oh. Well, here's hoping he's being non-consensually pegged by 70,000 virgins in Hell. Good luck to the Singapore authorities extraditing me from the UK!
And yet... [the email warrant requirement bill] never seems to pass. That's because of modern technology, you see. If someone should choose to export their emails from their webmail account to Dropbox, for example, then the authorities can just search there, and if the user has been engaging in 'piracy' by ripping their CDs...
[T]he Sim City player who discovered a work-around against the disastrous always-online requirement [...] Really? What's the workaround? European gamers can use that on a legally purchased copy of the game.
And yet, he's facing the potential of three years in prison and many thousands of dollars in fines, based on "Penal Code Section 298", which forbids "the uttering of words that might hurt the religious feelings of any person" [...] What, Lee Kuan Yew was a god? o_O
Postal isn't (or wasn't) going to be a free game, so a password would have to inputted by responsible parents, who naturally won't when they see what their kid wants.
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Google preventing a lawsuit by standing up for fair use: priceless.
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Correct, but cable companies' stated purpose is to make money by providing services that people want in a fair and consistent manner, and they don't do that.
There is nothing wrong with being in business to make money.
On its face, no. When you're screwing over your captive market, however...
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This is why...
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There you go, Alara. And before you start, my use of your words has 'FAIR DEALING/USE' emblazoned all over it. ;)
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Does that mean politicians' analyses are wrong, then?
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Actually, that's Jeremy Cunt, former Hulture Secretary.
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Really? Because I thought that NDAs were agreed with private companies, not the government...
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That's because of modern technology, you see. If someone should choose to export their emails from their webmail account to Dropbox, for example, then the authorities can just search there, and if the user has been engaging in 'piracy' by ripping their CDs...
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Really? What's the workaround? European gamers can use that on a legally purchased copy of the game.
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What, Lee Kuan Yew was a god? o_O
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