Ever heard of Right to Hire? It means you can be fired at any time, no reason given. You can try to sue if you think you were terminated for an illegal reason, but good luck.
Also, there is a Ministry in St. Louis who has a requirement that all employees and contractors be active in their respective church. What about atheists/agnostics? No protection under th law for those without faith?
Send a bunch of legitimate links on the pirate bay, and allow them to be filtered and reported. Maybe some manager somewhere will get annoyed enough to actually check out the filter, and allow legit content to pass. Prolly not, but it's worth a try.
You are so right. If I have a couch and it starts to smell like my ass, I have the right to make an exact copy of that couch, no questions asked.
"But," says the copyright idiots, "you have purchased a license for the data contained on the media, therefore you can't copy the media."
Fine, I say, I own a license for the data, the media is near valueless. Therefore, if I damage the media, it should be replaced at cost. (manufacturing a CD costs less than 10 cents, a DVD less than 20 cents).
"No," says copyright idiots, "if you want to replace the media you must also purchase another license."
So, basically, I have no rights and own nothing. I have paid you money to rent a piece of plastic until said plastic degrades or is damaged.
The term, "cap" is a misnomer. I had Verizon, and it's a "ration at your monthly rate." A "cap" would imply that something happens when you hit the limit, which it doesn't. If you use more than 5 gig a month, you just pay more. Much more. As in $1 for every 4 meg.
Oh, yeah, to check your usage you have a utility you can run (which fails 1 out of 5 times) or you can disconnect and check the log (which doesn't necessarily mesh with their records) It's a very fast connection, which means that you can use up your entire 5 gig in a 36 hour period if you leave your browser on a streaming news site, or if your kid decides to leave the browser on MySpace with a streaming video in the background.
We really need some consumer advocates. My discussions with the Verizon help desk has led me to believe they nail people like this all the time.
I canceled my service after this fiasco. Screwing your customers is not a sustainable business model.
I think that a panel used at the time of patent review would not only be able to accurately deny "obvious" patents, but would also easily identify "prior art" that many of the bogus patents derive from.
The problem is, of course, that the legal definition of "obvious" and "prior art" is different from the definition that Homo Sapiens use.
The reason they would not cover the song, is that making a hit using that song would make more money for the others who had already covered the song. And-since this is a zero sum game-that would be money that this artist would NOT get.
It's really quite simple. Flawed, completely wrong, but simple.
I have a 15-year-old, and neither he nor any of his generation seem to have any concept of digital copyright. The content industry has entirely failed at educating the masses, and their ultimate demise is completely assured. You can't put 90% or even 30% of the people in jail. We learned that during prohibition. If everyone is breaking the law, the law must be struck down.
Sorry, copyright maximalists, but you will fail under the weight of the masses!
Re: Nice theory...but it doesn't work that way in the real world !!
Damn, those copyright/patent laws worked great, didn't they!
I would bet that, had he KEPT innovating, he wouldn't have gone out of business. And, had he not trusted in the promise of copyright/patent, I bet he would have.
Sorry, your story just shows how stupid copyright/patent laws are now.
It seems that the tool is being blamed for the actions of it's users. As well stated above, the top 100 news articles on guns would all be killings, so we should ban guns, right Harold? Any other NRA supporters want to chime in?
We consumers will kick this to the curb. Licenses have been legally questionable from the beginning, but as they have been generally reasonable and used in reasonable ways,(basically to limit their liability if the software had a bug) they have not had an issue. Now that companies are trying to control their products after purchase using licensing, we WILL see a backlash.
Seriously? I guess you believe that microwave ovens cause radioactive isotopes to form, sitting too close to the TV makes your eyes go bad, and (my favorite) eating corn gives you large breasts. (That one courtesy of a Japanese tabloid)
Well, don't worry, all the kids will be wearing their hats made out of silver paper, which is good because it also keeps the government from reading their minds AND keeps the aliens from controlling them.
There are lots of good movies in the public domain which they could show (provided that they can find a print.) You really don't have to use a recent film. It's fer charity, fer Cliff's sake!
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Murder is a state crime, not a Federal one.
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Also, there is a Ministry in St. Louis who has a requirement that all employees and contractors be active in their respective church. What about atheists/agnostics? No protection under th law for those without faith?
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Flood 'em
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Actually, with any luck, there won't be much difference between a motorcycle and a car in the future, Except when it rains. :)
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Re: Data breach
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"But," says the copyright idiots, "you have purchased a license for the data contained on the media, therefore you can't copy the media."
Fine, I say, I own a license for the data, the media is near valueless. Therefore, if I damage the media, it should be replaced at cost. (manufacturing a CD costs less than 10 cents, a DVD less than 20 cents).
"No," says copyright idiots, "if you want to replace the media you must also purchase another license."
So, basically, I have no rights and own nothing. I have paid you money to rent a piece of plastic until said plastic degrades or is damaged.
Is this correct, or am I missing something?
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Not a cap
Oh, yeah, to check your usage you have a utility you can run (which fails 1 out of 5 times) or you can disconnect and check the log (which doesn't necessarily mesh with their records) It's a very fast connection, which means that you can use up your entire 5 gig in a 36 hour period if you leave your browser on a streaming news site, or if your kid decides to leave the browser on MySpace with a streaming video in the background.
We really need some consumer advocates. My discussions with the Verizon help desk has led me to believe they nail people like this all the time.
I canceled my service after this fiasco. Screwing your customers is not a sustainable business model.
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Prior art
The problem is, of course, that the legal definition of "obvious" and "prior art" is different from the definition that Homo Sapiens use.
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Obvious
It's really quite simple. Flawed, completely wrong, but simple.
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Copyright Education
Sorry, copyright maximalists, but you will fail under the weight of the masses!
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Wow, you are a US lawyer? I thought you were Canadian.
Perhaps you should pass the bar BEFORE you give legal opinions.
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Re: Nice theory...but it doesn't work that way in the real world !!
I would bet that, had he KEPT innovating, he wouldn't have gone out of business. And, had he not trusted in the promise of copyright/patent, I bet he would have.
Sorry, your story just shows how stupid copyright/patent laws are now.
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Re: Bad Song?
Wait!
Damn...
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Gosh, I'm so sad Obama shot down the close-shore drilling!
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Harold Hates Guns
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I really need to learn to post like you. And no, this is NOT sarcasm.
Kudos!
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But...
(Well, someone had to say it!)
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Re: Mobile phones?
Well, don't worry, all the kids will be wearing their hats made out of silver paper, which is good because it also keeps the government from reading their minds AND keeps the aliens from controlling them.
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