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  • On the post: Recording Industry Asks ISPs To Shut Down Accounts Of File Sharers

    flamsmark ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2006 @ 06:52am

    Re: 'aiding and abetting'

    I'm not a lawyer but it sounds like aiding and abeting to me

    not quite: carriers in the us or the eu [where the state is a signatory to the relavant treaty, which the uk is] are not responsible for the content passed accross their networks. no matter what criminal activity occurs as a result of the packets that they pass, they are not liable.

  • On the post: Judge Explores Why Telco Mergers Were Allowed

    flamsmark ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2006 @ 06:45am

    Partisan News

    BestNetTech is a partisan news source. it is read by those who want a partisan news source with this bias. if you would prefer a news source with a different or less noticable bias, then i suggest that BestNetTech is not an appropriate news source for you.

  • On the post: Advertisers Use DVR Data To Demand Lower Ad Prices

    flamsmark ( profile ), 16 May, 2006 @ 12:25pm

    Re: Real Viewing habits

    i'm a brit, and i can only speak for my family.

    since getting sky plus, none of us have watched an ad. we never watch live tv, only recorded, and we always skip [fast-forward through] the ads. if we want to watch something 'live' we wait until half an hour after it has started, then watch the rocording ad-free.

    one type of ad still defeats us though: since we can only fast-forward at human precision, the adverts that are right before each segment of the show tend to get seen, if they're five seconds or less, becuase it's just not worth getting that accurate with the fast-forward buttons.

  • On the post: Will Software As Services Wipe Out The Software Piracy Question?

    flamsmark ( profile ), 01 May, 2006 @ 09:42am

    Re: theft != unauthorised copying != piracy

    theft [n] [abs]
    the act of unlawfully taking the property of another with intent to permanently deprive the other of such property.

    piracy [n] [abs]
    taking a seafaring vessel, by force, on the high seas, without the authority of a soverign state.


    it is not *possible* to commit software theft or piracy. they simply cannot exist.
    when was the last time you heard of a group of merciless armed men overpowering the crew of a piece of software, and sailing it to an unknown port?

  • On the post: Another False Alarm Prompts Another Mass Evacuation

    flamsmark ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2006 @ 04:17pm

    Re: On The Job Training?

    it's not training. the system insers random bags to keep the attention of the security personnel, and to make the job interesting.

  • On the post: Big Words Make You Look Dumb?

    flamsmark ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2006 @ 05:26am

    as i always say: never use a long word when a diminuative one will do.

  • On the post: Shocker — Kids Get Around Web Filters

    flamsmark ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2006 @ 02:32pm

    Standard of Education

    at least the current generation knows the difference between ''your'' and ''you're''

  • On the post: Software Piracy, A Win-Win For China And Microsoft

    flamsmark ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2006 @ 06:09pm

    Re: More tationalizing

    steal [v] [legal]:

    to wilfully take unauthorized possession of another's property with intent to permanently deprive the owner of that property.



    since when does the copying of IP by someone who has no intent to purchase it deprive anyone of anything?

  • On the post: Software Piracy, A Win-Win For China And Microsoft

    flamsmark ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2006 @ 06:04pm

    No

    That is false.

    When customers buy products is there is an implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose [in this case, running a computer]. There is an implied contract that goes a lot like 'we give you an OS, and you give us $'. If the product is unfit for the purpose for which it was provided, the vendor is reneging on its side of the contract, and has to work until it is once again fulfilled.

    If you give something away for free, there is no contract of that sort. Therefore, you don't have to do anything. You might get people calling you, but you'd be totally justified telling them to go away.

  • On the post: Apple Lawyers Try The Ever Popular Morons In A Hurry Test

    flamsmark ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2006 @ 05:53am

    Re: Digital Remastering

    Transcoding, reformatting, copying and applying rights prohibition are all examples of things which do not change the content.

    Digital remastering is actively improving a pieve of music. It's equivalent to retouching and airbrushing a picture in photoshop. What apple is doing is effectively equivalent to resizing, and saving in a propriatery format. It does not change the copyright.