yeah, I was really wondering what the deal is with the child porn investigation, etc.
On the same note, *tinfoil hat on* one wonders if this was intentional timing or something to brand the piratebay and demonize them as a party. *tinfoil hat off*
PUH-LEASE. I'd bet anything you're with the industry or paid to write for them.
Banks have handled hundreds of millions more transactions more accurately than the RIAA ever has. Sure hasn't been too hard for them, has it? Then again, they have an incentive for accuracy while the RIAA has every incentive for inaccuracy: they get to keep the difference.
I'm pretty sure a college kid with a finance background could do more accurate accounting handling the RIAA's transactions than the RIAA in a month. There's software, established tools, and established businesses to do so.
lack of foresight here. apparently they don't realize what will happen if someone is employed and later all these evidence photos are found of past history/etc. Or, I don't know, making a "work-only" profile?
Not to mention the legal implications of asking for account passwords.
Honestly, it's a freeper. They don't even deserve article coverage. The rest of the article was all "is that what you voted for/your tax dollars at work/see what obama does" etc.
Every time major changes occur we get huge resistance. So how can we change this to prevent idiotic situations like we have right now (sanctity of marriage, internet, video games, all the other talking point issues)?
a 3 week FULL demo (not limited in features) would be acceptable for most games and would erase the need to pirate, for the most part. Meanwhile, publishers like EA think "lets make the demo better" which is still not understanding. I think all they've realized is that demonizing your customers is both time consuming and costs you customers.
I've not heard a lot of times where a TOS is deemed not legally enforceable . This flies right in the face of that. So why is the judge overshooting his influence in trying to say that it is?
Truly there is bad lawyering, or the judge is unfamiliar with the internet.
Many customer service people go to a few common levels of customer-service-ness. One: the fanatic who fights for the customer even if the request might be well beyond unreasonable. Two: the one who argues with the customer. Three: the one that doesn't even listen. Four: the one who is grossly incompetent, or new, or generally is not cognizant of anything. Five: the one that goes over the top where appropriate.
This encompasses a majority of customer service people, easily. So to find most stupid ones.
wasn't there an article where they said "you can't criticize if you don't work for xyz"? I think you covered it about a week back, Mike. Which way do they want it? So apparently we just can't criticize at all?
Wouldn't AP be quite a bit liable for making a false legal representation like that? Not to mention it can give twitter an even easier dismissal citing a bias.
people sneak things back into laws. There aren't "version trackers" in a way that people could look and say "ah, look what he put into this law" etc etc. without a copy of the new and the old text to review. As you may note many times when laws are brought into the public light such an idea has been covered on groklaw for example.
Words like lawful content would unfortunately but easily be glossed over in a multi-page letter such as the telecom package.
Video game soundtracks are hugely popular and pretty good sellers, some more than others. Just like soundtracks for movies. Of course in rock band music = the game, but only to a certain point if you were allowed to load your own music/tracks/etc similar to trackmania.
I think our concern is that Palm didn't exactly run the shop well when it came to the old palm touchscreens. So for them to have all these awesome improvements, and sounding nice per reviews, many hold their skepticism.
I'm a big phone/techie review guy myself (I've probably reviewed by hand 100 phones this year) and I still am waiting to see how it works from a practical perspective of the crap that reviewers didn't do:
aka: how will it handle java, flash (or will it)? How's the battery life under real world use, hows the bandwidth utilization, hows the battery life with features on, all the crap that hasn't been tested. example, engadget review: "a Flash plugin is supposed to be available for the phone by the end of the year." End of the freakin year? etc.
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child porn thing
On the same note, *tinfoil hat on* one wonders if this was intentional timing or something to brand the piratebay and demonize them as a party. *tinfoil hat off*
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Banks have handled hundreds of millions more transactions more accurately than the RIAA ever has. Sure hasn't been too hard for them, has it? Then again, they have an incentive for accuracy while the RIAA has every incentive for inaccuracy: they get to keep the difference.
I'm pretty sure a college kid with a finance background could do more accurate accounting handling the RIAA's transactions than the RIAA in a month. There's software, established tools, and established businesses to do so.
It's not hard at all to be accurate with sales.
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foresight
Not to mention the legal implications of asking for account passwords.
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we need german law on this one
Consequently, what do you know? AP would probably be liable for crap like this.
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Re: Anti-American?
Honestly, it's a freeper. They don't even deserve article coverage. The rest of the article was all "is that what you voted for/your tax dollars at work/see what obama does" etc.
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how do we get around this stuff?
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1-3 week demo
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People might not even need DTV in a few years at the rate we're going.
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Re: uh?
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uh?
Truly there is bad lawyering, or the judge is unfamiliar with the internet.
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customer service people are typically incompetent
This encompasses a majority of customer service people, easily. So to find most stupid ones.
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waaait
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couldn't twitter sue AP?
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TwoOne Seat In EU ParliamentRe: Re: Will they keep it?
Words like lawful content would unfortunately but easily be glossed over in a multi-page letter such as the telecom package.
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Re: Agree With Everything You Said Except
Video game soundtracks are hugely popular and pretty good sellers, some more than others. Just like soundtracks for movies. Of course in rock band music = the game, but only to a certain point if you were allowed to load your own music/tracks/etc similar to trackmania.
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shh
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well
I'm a big phone/techie review guy myself (I've probably reviewed by hand 100 phones this year) and I still am waiting to see how it works from a practical perspective of the crap that reviewers didn't do:
aka: how will it handle java, flash (or will it)? How's the battery life under real world use, hows the bandwidth utilization, hows the battery life with features on, all the crap that hasn't been tested. example, engadget review: "a Flash plugin is supposed to be available for the phone by the end of the year." End of the freakin year? etc.
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