You highlight exactly why our trademark system is backwards. The true fraud of counterfeit goods is perpetrated on customers when they don't know the goods they bought are counterfeit. If they know what they're buying is a knockoff (like you did), no fraud takes place.
Really, it's the consumers that should be bringing trademark lawsuits, not the company with the trademark.
Based on the non-confrontational tone of the original request and your reply, I was gearing up for an interesting explanation by Caters on the issues you raised . . . but instead they just went off the rails, ignored everything you said, and spewed a bunch of irrelevant nonsense at you.
I hope they respond to this post with something more substantive.
1. We have to prevent the filesharing of movies, because otherwise people will have zero incentive to make more.
2. We have to prevent the filesharing of child pornography, otherwise people will have a massive incentive to make more.
As far as I know this is unlawful not only here in Germany, but also in the US. Everybody has the right to his own image and needs to be asked permission.
Not true in the US.
I assume you wouldn't want to be pictured picking your nose, right?
No, but I'd rather live in a free country. You take the good with the bad. ;)
This won't stop the police from "losing" footage that paints them in a bad light, but it will make it harder to harass citizens for filming them when they have their own personal camera looking right out from under their face.
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Re:
Really, it's the consumers that should be bringing trademark lawsuits, not the company with the trademark.
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Hmm
*puts on sunglasses*
A FACT in their favor.
*yeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!*
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The only one ignoring the elephant in the room is you.
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Re: Re: A Good Step
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TrueCrypt
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Re: Baaaa Baaaa
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Re: Comment Troll
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Re:
Although the business side is run by greedy, weaselly pricks, I'm actually very happy with the technical side of Verizon; it's top notch.
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Sad
I hope they respond to this post with something more substantive.
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Re: Mike, you've again shown "free" to be a mere TRICK.
I'd like to actually see a capitalist system first. Right now we have a crony corporatism, which is not the same thing at all.
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Doublethink
1. We have to prevent the filesharing of movies, because otherwise people will have zero incentive to make more.
2. We have to prevent the filesharing of child pornography, otherwise people will have a massive incentive to make more.
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Not Unexpected
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Re: Personality rights
Not true in the US.
I assume you wouldn't want to be pictured picking your nose, right?
No, but I'd rather live in a free country. You take the good with the bad. ;)
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Re: Re: Re:
I ask again: Crosses the line into what?
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A Good Step
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Re: Re: Re: Re: But this is EXACTLY what you wanted
The elephant in the room is encrypted onion routing.
I suppose you could stop it by just banning encrypted traffic on the internet. Good luck with that. ;)
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Re: Re: But this is EXACTLY what you wanted
StealthNet
i2p
Freenet
Private trackers (Demonoid, et. al)
Keep going. You'll get those filthy pirates some day.
(Yarr!)
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So . . .
It's going to be hard for them to cut people off when they don't control the pipes. What a glorious day that will be.
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Re: Let me swear for once.
My router has the ability to set up an open, segregated public network. Time to switch that on.
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