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Article 19

The copies are stated to be copies, and it should be plenty obvious from the fact that these 'dollar bills' are just bits. AFAIK, it's perfectly legal to pass around an image of a bill so long as it...

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I know, and nothing that I posted contradicts that. The laws against counterfeiting also quite a bit looser than copyright. For example, it's legal to make play money that use the image of a dollar...

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Article 17

I would think that it's already illegal, but if it's not, it certainly should be.

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Perhaps Copy is the Wrong Word

I have to disagree. Copying is a pretty broad word and it applies to the arrangement of matter or fields (ie., data or information). Even the copyright maximalists are missing out on some forms of...

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This case should even be a case

Well, the criminal punishment is pretty similar (~10 years either way), and the civil penalties are lighter for murder (actual damages, perhaps trebled, vs $500,000 statutory)

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Article 14

If you came up with a foolproof way for a manufacturer of a physical good to reduce their manufacturing and distribution costs by 99%, would the price to the customer go up or down? If that producer...

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Re: Is the tech sector slowly dying?

About 30 years ago, the common opinion in the tech sector was the computer code was not copyrightable, as they were just a bunch of instructions and equations. My, how times have changed :(

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Article 12

"I want to know how the court found that a site that doesn't host any content had 90% of its content devoted to infringing." If one wants to get mathematical, any percentage (including percentages...

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Article 11

"I want to know how the court found that a site that doesn't host any content had 90% of its content devoted to infringing." If one wants to get mathematical, any percentage (including percentages...

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Article 10

Yup - 0/0 only has meaning as a limit, and that's how I'm interpreting the court's statement. Since the site didn't actually host any content, we have no way of knowing which function was used to...

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How is this legal?

Pretty much any EULA I've ever seen for software, with the exception of open source, prohibits reverse engineering? Why does this troll get to do it, but normal people can't (at least not legally)?

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Re: Relativity...!

There should be no effect - liquids are usually thoroughly stirred before fermentation so that the bacteria/fungi are evenly distributed. Even if there were, the effect would be to slow down any...

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Re: Smart?

China probably isn't that happy. If they wanted the censorship to be in-your-face to this extent, they wouldn't be using a 404 error when a naughty term is spotted, but would instead redirect the user...

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It's just what Marxist economics predicts. A reserve army of the unemployed to beat down those who are employed. It doesn't just come in the form of wages (which are declining), but in the form of the...

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I'm pretty sure US anti-trust law and probably some US free trade agreements disallow this kind of discriminatory pricing and practices. It's just that it's never enforced or selectively interpreted to...

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Article 4

"A condition of the contract is that two electronic chips in each machine, which hold information on how the equipment works, are destroyed." Somehow I smell a cover-up here. If the systems are not fit...

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Article 3

It feels that we have a glut of skilled labor, not a shortage. I'm trained in computer science (have a BS in the field), am quite skilled in it, but have left the field because of the perennially lousy...

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Yup. I'm a New Yorker and my experiences are with the NY job market. Silicon Valley is just a tiny portion of the country. If that small locale is having a labor shortage, then start advertising...

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An Anecdote

This effect can be see very clearly if you look at the dates for a lot of the biology-related images in Wikipedia. An awful lot date from the early 1900s, from various now-public domain textbooks and...

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Article 0

What I find odd is what is the Red Cross doing provisioning belligerents? I thought they were supposed to be a humanitarian and transnational organization and not supporting militarism or nationalism....

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