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- widgetmaker, on 06/20/2008, -5/+75Obligatory ***** THE RIAA!
- mithrasinvictus, on 06/20/2008, -2/+55Finally, someone gets a clue.
- dOOBiEx213, on 06/20/2008, -1/+45But if he changes his mind won't the RIAA take away the money they gave him?
- avions, on 06/20/2008, -0/+22How many copyright professors does it take...
- soupdawg30, on 06/20/2008, -1/+19Friend of the court does not equal the public.
- Yamahaha, on 06/20/2008, -0/+17Do libraries make music CD's available, or do they distribute them?
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -4/+17I don't know. Let's find out.
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Three. - YancyFryJr, on 07/13/2008, -0/+13The logic in your generalized statements is impeccable.
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -2/+14That federal judge should admit he was in the wrong, ***** the NBA!
- xino, on 06/20/2008, -0/+12Downloading music isn't illegal. You can download music from iTunes legally. Nine Inch Nails put out an album under the Creative Commons license and you can download that legally for free.
- robbiemuffin, on 06/20/2008, -1/+12no, they don't pay him.. they paid congress
- xkhaozx, on 06/20/2008, -1/+11Yeah, because the best plan is for the Judge's to use their own opinions, regardless how incorrect they are, in making judgments.
- mrsteveman1, on 06/20/2008, -0/+9You better go warn Apple and Amazon then!
- Rikkochet, on 06/20/2008, -0/+8I'm not burying you because I think you're wrong, but because your argument is incredibly vague and you don't support it.
- UberNick, on 06/20/2008, -5/+13I've got a raging clue
- 11oops, on 06/20/2008, -0/+7I would digg you up but Digg won't let me. *****, these new comments suck. Hey Digg -- stop scrolling my page you POS!
- serif69, on 06/20/2008, -1/+8I completely agree.
- dsmx, on 06/20/2008, -1/+8So the question shifts to will congress have to give the money back?
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -0/+6*****
- lolcat23, on 06/20/2008, -1/+7and you are somehow implying that the judges, now, are totally and completely independent, and not being influenced what so ever.
And yes, copyright scholars do =/= general public. - zangis, on 06/20/2008, -0/+5What's the difference between having your files available for people to grab on the internet, and available to grab from your book shelf?
- igyigyigy, on 06/20/2008, -0/+5If you burn an album onto a blank CD, make 10,000 copies and then leave them in a big pile in your garden... then your metaphor is at least a little closer to the truth, but still not quite there.
- mithrasinvictus, on 06/20/2008, -2/+6Mine is pointing this way.
- inactive, on 06/20/2008, -5/+9The people in the MPAA are dumber than a bucket of monkey spunk
- Phlag, on 06/21/2008, -0/+3Unfortunately, that doesn't really make sense. "Hackers" wasn't a documentary, you see, and it seems like that's where you've amassed most of your understanding of computers.
- robbiemuffin, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3I wish people didn't vote you down just because you're wrong... that was fun to thinnk about.
- Hamletlere, on 06/20/2008, -1/+4If I make a copy of a CD and leave it on my table, is that illegal? Even if friends can walk by and see it? Until a friend picks it up and takes it home, it is "made available" only.
The big difference in your two scenarios (balloon spread vs. garden) is that one is one your property (i.e., on your computer) and one is not (i.e., spread over the internet).
And I say this as a person without a single song file that I haven't purchased, so I am not trying to justify my lifestyle. - MWeather, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3Just do what we did in the old days: start an ftp site with the login and password as mp3. It's not your fault if someone guesses the login and password.
- nogami, on 06/21/2008, -0/+2Hmm... The law says that "making available" isn't the same as "distribution"... Sounds like some political palms will be greased with green by the RIAA and that law will be changed PDQ.
Don't you just love "democracy" by way of capitalism... - paloooz, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2I don't pay you to think, in fact, I don't pay you at all!
Count it! - mithrasinvictus, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2What if you store your legally bought digital media on a home server which is on an (at any point) unencrypted wifi network? Did you just "distribute" your collection to your neighborhood just because someone *might* have accessed it?
- TechCF, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2I dugg you up, but the difference is that you lock your door and choose who you let in to your home.
- locojones, on 06/21/2008, -0/+2Library's do neither. The operation of a library, video store, etc. falls under the first sale doctrine, which says that a person who buys a legally produced copyrighted work may "sell or otherwise dispose" of the work as he sees fit, subject to some important conditions and exceptions. They are "otherwise dispos"ing of the book, movie, etc. by means of loaning it to the patron.
- cjhandley, on 06/20/2008, -1/+2Shouldn't you be getting ready for this fall's softball season, UVA troll?
- kirat, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1The problems with that idea are
1) get me a list of the RIAA IP addresses - current blocklists are pretty useless - You need to analyse the most popular peers across multiple trackers to get an about 80-90% accurate lists of such trap peers (i'm just quoting a study by the Univ. Of Washington here).
2) It is feasible to download one/two/100 files, but after that, the user notices hard-drive space consumption - If random files were to be downloaded, then deleted, all that would reallya chieve is a slow internet for the rest of us. I firmly stand for net neutrality, but unfortunately the fact remains that the CURRENT ISP networks are not built for even 50% usage by all users simultaneously.
3) Time - takes time to write such code - no direct monetary gain + you can't brag about it at the next tech conference - well, maybe at blackhat... ;)
but hey, don't let me stop you :) - Ne007, on 06/20/2008, -1/+2Yeh...and that will happen when pigs come flying out of my ass. Money has these people by the balls and logic or advice will not help...just lay back and watch it all unfold....money prevails....
- kirat, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1However much racist/etc/etc may that sound, as an INdian, let me just say that this is true - 90% of (young) people in India get stuff over P2P. Also you can get Windows XP SP2 with a valid key (that still passes validation after 3 years) for $2 :). So yeah - we're getting pushed around for nothing.
- OPR8R, on 06/20/2008, -2/+3LOL @ the Hardly Boys...
- kirat, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1Obligatory (insert cuss word of choice here) the RIAA
Now, that I got that out of the way,
"I trust the professors, but there are a lot of scenarios where this kind of logic would seem counterintuitive. "
unfortunately, Law is about semantic arguments about phrasing - not about logic - otherwise, this world would be quite a different place ..... - kirat, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1I REALLY REALLY REALLY hope people from the RIAA read Digg :)
- tvanwyk, on 06/21/2008, -0/+11) I'd imagine the RIAA's servers get ping flooded so often that they drop incoming pings.
2) The RIAA got cracked and DoS'd not long ago. It was amusing, but it didn't take them long to revert to a backup and get back in the saddle as the masters of the IP sabre-rattling racket.
The best way to put the RIAA out of "business" (read: racket) is not hacktivism, but to reform or abolish ridiculous IP law. Preferably the latter. - mithrasinvictus, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1The point is that there is no end user.
The file needs to be transferred to the machine of someone that has no (fair use) right to obtain the file in order for there to be infringement. - anonydigg, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1His payment didn't go through. Now he's reversing it.
- TinternAbbot, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1I'm not affiliated with UVA whatsoever.
- zangis, on 06/20/2008, -0/+0True, but it can be applied to almost anything.
- Betrayer, on 06/21/2008, -2/+2why doesnt someone just create a VIRUS that turns on filesharing and then spoof/pings the RIAA?
wouldnt that kindof end all the cases?
- inactive, on 06/21/2008, -1/+1DO NOT dis Zero Cool!
- mdude85, on 06/20/2008, -2/+1What is the difference between leaving them in a big pile in my garden and having them strewn across the countryside? Just a matter of how far one is spread out from another? If in either case nobody picks them up and "possesses" them, then according to the professors neither is distribution.
- TakeMyCrabs, on 06/20/2008, -6/+5As much as I like the content of what the hearing is on (and I agree with it), I am somewhat worried that if courts get public input, they aren't really independent, are they?
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