"Fortunately I have never had an opportunity to test it to see how well it works."
That's the big problem. You can't test it to make sure it works beforehand. What if you find out in the heat of the moment that some other app is making a fuss?
Then again, THAT would be an easy problem to solve by building in a test-function in the app, that would upload to a different server that actually erases the data daily.
"it was to submit a complaint to google about websites that are posting lyrical content that is falsely described as Inspection 12 lyrics in order to sell ringtones."
As you say, the perjury part only applies to the claim that you own the copyright. But if you send notices against things that you admit you don't own the copyright on, then you ARE committing perjury.
Re: Re: Re: Re: So, Mike, now you've gone TOTAL AD HOM.
Actually, all Hitler proved was that it's easy to increase the standard of living for some if you do it by stealing everything of value from someone else, and then use them as slaves. Who would have thought huh?
When I first heard about this lawsuit I got the impression that the difference between her real age and her stated age was closer to 15-20 years. While I can understand wanting to pretend to be under 30 for a while longer, by now those 7 years can't make that much difference, can they?
"[...] (and, one imagines, more likely to be blocked in those countries)."
Actually I'd say that they are LESS likely to be blocked. Google (Reader) is a HUGE target. If people using Google Reader start using different replacements, the result would be a big number of alternatives, which would be harder to keep up with for the censorship-happy morons.
The big flaw in your analogy is that shoplifting carries a very real loss - you loose your product. You stop someone and you keep your product - you have stopped the loss.
The loss, if any, with piracy is a loss of sale. So if they don't get that back, then they don't win anything on fighting it. They still loose, only now they loose the money invested in fighting piracy as well.
And no, it's not the fear of getting caught that keeps us on the straight and narrow, for the most part the risk is minimal.
I remember several years ago when my mom was (very) pregnant with my littlesister. We were shopping, and
I wanted a comicbook. She put it in her pocket since she had nowhere else to put it, and forgot about it. She didn't realize until we were at the car. Guess what she did, with her gigantic pregnancy-belly? She went back inside and payed for it. Not because she had to, not because she could get caught, not because it was easy (did I mention that she was pregnant?) - because it was the right thing to do.
I also remember realizing several years ago that it would be ridiculously easy to murder someone and get away with it - for the most part it's your connection to the victim that gives you away. But we don't do it, because we don't want to.
The difference would be that Steam might have a good argument that loaning the game as originally described would be analogous with loaning a physical copy of the game, and thus defensible in court.
Your suggestion would most likely end in a VERY large settlement to the publishers.
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"Fortunately I have never had an opportunity to test it to see how well it works."
That's the big problem. You can't test it to make sure it works beforehand. What if you find out in the heat of the moment that some other app is making a fuss?
Then again, THAT would be an easy problem to solve by building in a test-function in the app, that would upload to a different server that actually erases the data daily.
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Re: Time to change job?
He would just try to change the whole menu and screw it up!
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What about Deaner?
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That's perjury alright!
As you say, the perjury part only applies to the claim that you own the copyright. But if you send notices against things that you admit you don't own the copyright on, then you ARE committing perjury.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: So, Mike, now you've gone TOTAL AD HOM.
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7 years!?
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Re: Okay; at least sweep QUICKLY on to the next anomaly.
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Prank!?
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Actually...
Actually I'd say that they are LESS likely to be blocked. Google (Reader) is a HUGE target. If people using Google Reader start using different replacements, the result would be a big number of alternatives, which would be harder to keep up with for the censorship-happy morons.
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The loss, if any, with piracy is a loss of sale. So if they don't get that back, then they don't win anything on fighting it. They still loose, only now they loose the money invested in fighting piracy as well.
And no, it's not the fear of getting caught that keeps us on the straight and narrow, for the most part the risk is minimal.
I remember several years ago when my mom was (very) pregnant with my littlesister. We were shopping, and
I wanted a comicbook. She put it in her pocket since she had nowhere else to put it, and forgot about it. She didn't realize until we were at the car. Guess what she did, with her gigantic pregnancy-belly? She went back inside and payed for it. Not because she had to, not because she could get caught, not because it was easy (did I mention that she was pregnant?) - because it was the right thing to do.
I also remember realizing several years ago that it would be ridiculously easy to murder someone and get away with it - for the most part it's your connection to the victim that gives you away. But we don't do it, because we don't want to.
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Then again - why use Microsoft products?
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VPN isn't free...
When I felt that I had to start use a VPN, I sure took that money from the money I would otherwise spend on movies.
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Re: Here is the next big Mega idea
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Then again, she hasn't been a politician since before the turn of the millennium.
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Re: Re: Crampons for cramps.
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Re: Um...
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Your suggestion would most likely end in a VERY large settlement to the publishers.
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