Yeah, I'm just going to jump on the bandwagon, since I see that it has already been addressed above:
Jury nullification... nullifyin' bad laws for 200+ years and counting.
And judges HATE when anyone knows about it or tells other people about it. You want to get out of jury duty? Just utter those two words and I'll be shocked if you're not on your way home in a New York second.
Dude, what world do you live in? Do you not get the concept that the site that brought on this discussion was PERFECTLY LEGAL in Spain? If so, how then do you feel justified injecting 'piracy' into the debate?
Fun fun analogy time: You went and got your lip pierced. Some random guy comes up to you and says, "I don't like that piercing, take it out." You say, "It's my lip, and I like it this way." Random guy rips out your piercing anyway, just because he can.
I'm sure someone else can come up with a better analogy though, any takers?
I can vouch for pre-Calc in high school, it was an AP course at my Mississippi high school, along with a decent bundle of other pretty good AP college prep courses.
Excellent, EXCELLENT post. Can't click 'Insightful' enough. I was going to say something similar, but you put it much more eloquently that I would have.
Bottom line for me: fearful people are much easier to herd and control. This is why 'they' implemented the color-coded turrist alert system, and why 'they' will keep beating the cyberwar drum.
'they' = media, government, paranoid delusionals, pick your poison
I disagree. I feel like their mentality just doesn't allow for the possibility of "piracy" ever being any kind of benefit at all, ever, period. They just cannot wrap their heads around the possibility. Furthermore, copying = theft = less money in their pockets = bad, and no amount of studies or statistics will ever get them to admit differently.
"""It's possible that the museum could own the copyright on some of the pieces in the museum, but apparently much of the work in the museum is quite old, and any copyright would clearly now be in the public domain."""
Oh, and you must be joking with that signature. Do you really believe that any of us here believe that you are all that important when you spend half of your day trolling TechDirt's forums?
I read in the newspaper recently (yes, really, a newspaper!) about a thriving grey/black market for pseudoephedrine products. People go to store after store and buy up to the 'limit', then resell the products to the drug manufacturers at something like 500% markup!!! A real business opportunity there.
Mississippi recently enacted the "prescription for Aleve Cold and Sinus" law too.
"""It appears the lesson that the USTR learned from all the complaints about a total lack of transparency on ACTA was that it could get away with basically refusing to include the public (the biggest stakeholder here) entirely."""
Yeah, if only there was an easy place to go, maybe like a wiki website, where documents could be made available for downloading, or "leaked", to the general public in situations where governments are unreasonably hiding material.
Re: Re: Re: Good idea, if you cant dispute it in 5 years, you should be told to go away.. you are never going to dispute it.
"""Of course we see the abuse here, big companies launching wave after wave of unjustified challenges against inventors, their purpose being to bankrupt the inventor."""
Dude, you are the living incarnation of facepalm.
By the way, if the "inventors" were actually selling a "product" rather than just sitting around waiting to sue someone, they might be more financially stable in the first place.
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Re:
Jury nullification... nullifyin' bad laws for 200+ years and counting.
And judges HATE when anyone knows about it or tells other people about it. You want to get out of jury duty? Just utter those two words and I'll be shocked if you're not on your way home in a New York second.
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Re:
Fun fun analogy time: You went and got your lip pierced. Some random guy comes up to you and says, "I don't like that piercing, take it out." You say, "It's my lip, and I like it this way." Random guy rips out your piercing anyway, just because he can.
I'm sure someone else can come up with a better analogy though, any takers?
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Re: Re: Double Standards
Are you frickin' serious??? That's not just scummy, that's scummalicous!
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Re: I can't decide which part is funniest...
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Lemme clear it up even more
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Not The Only Example
On the post: OECD: Concept Of Cyberwar Is Overhyped
Re: Re: Re: dammit!
Bottom line for me: fearful people are much easier to herd and control. This is why 'they' implemented the color-coded turrist alert system, and why 'they' will keep beating the cyberwar drum.
'they' = media, government, paranoid delusionals, pick your poison
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Re: Re:
Oooh, oooh, I know one, I know one! I read about it in the news once!
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Re: Re: Monty Python
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Re: Methinks
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What's that?
What is this 'public domain' of which you speak?
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Re: Don't worry
- located on planet Earth
Although 'certain genres' was an excellent catchall ;)
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Re: Spiked for Incompetence
Methinks you doth protest too much.
Oh, and you must be joking with that signature. Do you really believe that any of us here believe that you are all that important when you spend half of your day trolling TechDirt's forums?
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Re: Waste of time that is necessary
TOTALLY disagree with you that software should be copyrightable in any form whatsoever. That just opens too big a can of worms, as we are seeing now.
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A related side-note
Mississippi recently enacted the "prescription for Aleve Cold and Sinus" law too.
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Re: Free Speech
Just like pornography!
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If only...
Yeah, if only there was an easy place to go, maybe like a wiki website, where documents could be made available for downloading, or "leaked", to the general public in situations where governments are unreasonably hiding material.
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Re: Re: Re: Good idea, if you cant dispute it in 5 years, you should be told to go away.. you are never going to dispute it.
Dude, you are the living incarnation of facepalm.
By the way, if the "inventors" were actually selling a "product" rather than just sitting around waiting to sue someone, they might be more financially stable in the first place.
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