To my shame, I worked at Wal-Mart for a significant time period, but I expect that most retailers do this as well: A store wide inventory is performed once a year, and anything "missing" is generally categorized as shrinkage, and is counted as a loss on the books. I don't claim to know anything about the way the music/movie industry does their book-keeping, but I wouldn't be even mildly surprised to learn that they have an inordinately large shrinkage line item. Furthermore, I would bet money that shrinkage reduces your tax liability in some manner. In this way they could theoretically be claiming "theft" as losses. I sure wouldn't put it past them.
According to Neil's post on his own blog (link shown way further down if you're threaded), he didn't initiate the legal battle on this one, Todd did. That sheds a whole different light on things.
"""How could you miss the fact that these were south african models hired by the brewery?"""
And your point is? Is it illegal for South African models to attend a sporting event?
"""And they were in the stadium useing non transfereable free tickets that did not belong to them."""
Then the stadium would be justified in kicking them out, not having them detained by police and threatened with jail time. It would be a civil contract dispute, not a criminal case.
Now a counter-question for you: How could you miss the fact that the stadium/FIFA/cops overreacted in every way?
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As you must know, you are wrong from a legal perspective. There really can't be an argument about that.
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Actually there can be an argument: YOU are wrong, no law was broken. See how that works? Naming a couch after a long dead celebrity does not fall under the auspices of naming rights, IMO. Nobody in their right mind thinks that Bogie is endorsing this couch from beyond the grave. As far as the family, who cares? They are not the famous ones, no one cares about their opinion. Since you are arguing the point, how long will it be before someone could conceivably name their couch 'Bogart' without inviting a lawsuit?
And a side note: Mike, this guy is so far disassociated from reality that he probably really believes his own babble. I learned long ago that you just can't argue with crazy.
Sane people are automatically at a disadvantage because they have a strong tendency to attempt to stick with logic and facts.
One of the frequent posters here called himself "The Anti-Mike", and that was a pretty accurate name considering that he basically just took the opposing position for every story that Mike Masnick posted, usually flying in the face of all logic and even facts. Very rarely he would actually add something to the discussion, but more often than not he was comical at best, offensive and annoying at worst. We're all pretty sure he still comments here still, but he's gone back to being an Anonymous Coward, so you can only tell it's him from the alternate-reality style logic of his posts.
Dude, don't be dense. You know exactly what he means. With movies and music, for WAY too long we've all been forced to buy a pig-in-a-poke. Everyone has gone to see a movie based on ads that turned out to be a complete piece of trash. (OMG, Tank Girl, get it out of my mind!!!) Everyone (well, everyone over 25 anyway) has bought a CD or tape or album or eight track based on a song they heard on the radio only to find out that was the only song they liked on that album!
Now people don't have to just suck it up anymore. They can try before they buy. And yes, lots of people just don't buy. Well too damn bad. I can't even begin to count all the money I could have saved by not puchasing media that turned out to be garbage.
Totally agree with AC above regarding your status as a moron. Wouldn't it be awesome if the comment system allowed you to rename an AC on the fly, and then all of that AC's posts would retroactively receive the name change? Slightly tricky on the technical side, since all you'd really have to work with would be the IP address, and you wouldn't want to save modification data on the client side.
But I digress. Bozzo said he had almost no exposure before the first film was shared, and he got lots of exposure after. So yes, we DO know what would have happened without file sharing.
Also, bringing "rape" in is a different flavor of Godwin-ing this thread, but just as bad as bringing up Nazis. Minus two internets for you.
I agree, it *is* pathetic for a developer to blame its users for the developer's incredibly poor security implementation of the developer's bonus currency system. Did you notice how many times the word 'developer' was in there? That's because it is THEIR responsibility to safeguard their gameworld and currency.
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The "reward" is moving up in the Emperor's secret council, the tattoo is an indicator of how far up you are. There was a pretty cool cut-scene of the Emperor burning the mark into your arm each time he upgraded you for completing the Bonus missions, a couple of which are COMPLETELY diabolical (I had to replay one of them 40+ times before beating it!)
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And last, the player agreed to the rules before playing the game.
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C'mon Rose, be realistic. No one reads the EULA, and frankly there shouldn't even be one for slots. You put your money in, and you -might- win some money back, simple as that for the end-user.
Now if they very plainly state the maximum jackpot for the machine somewhere on the "front" of each machine, then I think the casino's liablility should be limited to THAT amount, not necessarily $25k. Yes yes, I know, laws, rules, blah blah blah, but as has been pointed out already in the comments, all of that is stacked WELL in favor of the casino.
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In fact, he then notes that there are plenty of examples of authors using such publicity to their advantage...
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How long before we see the line "Most downloaded book on the Internet!" on a dead-tree book's cover?
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Also, good job Iceland, you've just won a lot of respect from me.
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And your point is? Is it illegal for South African models to attend a sporting event?
"""And they were in the stadium useing non transfereable free tickets that did not belong to them."""
Then the stadium would be justified in kicking them out, not having them detained by police and threatened with jail time. It would be a civil contract dispute, not a criminal case.
Now a counter-question for you: How could you miss the fact that the stadium/FIFA/cops overreacted in every way?
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As you must know, you are wrong from a legal perspective. There really can't be an argument about that.
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Actually there can be an argument: YOU are wrong, no law was broken. See how that works? Naming a couch after a long dead celebrity does not fall under the auspices of naming rights, IMO. Nobody in their right mind thinks that Bogie is endorsing this couch from beyond the grave. As far as the family, who cares? They are not the famous ones, no one cares about their opinion. Since you are arguing the point, how long will it be before someone could conceivably name their couch 'Bogart' without inviting a lawsuit?
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And a side note: Mike, this guy is so far disassociated from reality that he probably really believes his own babble. I learned long ago that you just can't argue with crazy.
Sane people are automatically at a disadvantage because they have a strong tendency to attempt to stick with logic and facts.
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/
ffdshow can decode almost anything.
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Now people don't have to just suck it up anymore. They can try before they buy. And yes, lots of people just don't buy. Well too damn bad. I can't even begin to count all the money I could have saved by not puchasing media that turned out to be garbage.
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But I digress. Bozzo said he had almost no exposure before the first film was shared, and he got lots of exposure after. So yes, we DO know what would have happened without file sharing.
Also, bringing "rape" in is a different flavor of Godwin-ing this thread, but just as bad as bringing up Nazis. Minus two internets for you.
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P.S. Did you ever get the full tattoo in Tie Fighter?
P.P.S. I feel bad that I never finished The Longest Journey :(
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And last, the player agreed to the rules before playing the game.
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C'mon Rose, be realistic. No one reads the EULA, and frankly there shouldn't even be one for slots. You put your money in, and you -might- win some money back, simple as that for the end-user.
Now if they very plainly state the maximum jackpot for the machine somewhere on the "front" of each machine, then I think the casino's liablility should be limited to THAT amount, not necessarily $25k. Yes yes, I know, laws, rules, blah blah blah, but as has been pointed out already in the comments, all of that is stacked WELL in favor of the casino.
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