avg citizen racks $12mil in copyright infringements daily

Illegal omlettes.Sinfully delicious.
 
I am sure if you have the documentation of said purchases of your Transformer stickers and all that other junk, you have no problem. But it was like I said, if you aren't using those items for profit, I don't think you really have anything to worry about. However, if that TV with the Transformer stickers on it was in a public location on which you displayed to customers you charged to watch it, then yeah, you have an issue.

I do agree that some copyright laws are completely ridiculous, but they are there for a reason. Intellectual properties, whether put into writing or not should be just that, property. There are many pieces of work I myself have written and copywritten and I would hate to see that piece of work developed or expanded upon for commercial use unless I was the one doing it. In fact, I always allowed my professors in college to keep my writings as examples, but only after I had my scripts/treatments copywritten. Yes, that may be a bit of a stretch, but no way in hell do I want a professor taking my work and doing something with it lol

Anyways, tangent off, what this research dude says probably is correct, and while most think it is a little ridiculous, I would rather be protected with ridiculous than left wide open with nothing.
 
Lanien said:
I do agree that some copyright laws are completely ridiculous, but they are there for a reason. Intellectual properties, whether put into writing or not should be just that, property. There are many pieces of work I myself have written and copywritten and I would hate to see that piece of work developed or expanded upon for commercial use unless I was the one doing it.
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There's a fantastic gray area here that the demons may focus on next.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9218
Another possible avenue of legal action for the RIAA is the pursuit of businesses that play unauthorized music in stores. The Performing Rights Society (PRS), Britain's version of the RIAA, may give the RIAA some possible ideas with its pending litigation. The PRS is suing the Kwik Fit Group, a car repair shop in Edinburgh, for £200,000 in damages. The case revolves around the complaint that Kwik Fit employees brought in personal radios which they played while working on cars, which could be heard by colleagues and customers. The PRS says this amounts to a public "performance" and should have entailed royalties.
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I dunno about you guys, but when I go to an autoshop I do it just for the music. I don't even bring my car. I just go there for a few hours every day, sit in the waiting area, reading their newspapers and grooving to their l33t radio. If I could listen to radio at home for free then y'know I just might, bu-

...please standby. I'm receiving information that... yes folks, this is a breakthrough. I can listen to radio at home for free.

This changes things.
 
I love how the RIAA/MPAA and their ilk have this business philosophy that alienating their current consumer base and the up and coming consumer base is somehow going to improve their sales and profit margins.

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
 
Think in my case they will rule out monetary fines and go strait to the firing squad.
 
I thought it was okay to have copies of the files, and not okay to disseminate them all over the internet without paying royalties to the artist?

It's such a load of crap too, because the artists themselves get barely anything from royalties anyway. I support my favorite artists by going to their shows, and buying stuff there.

I hope that after these cases gain infamy and more of the ridiculous lawsuits are brought to light, some intelligent group of people will rewrite and update those laws >.>
 
hows battle star galactica working out for you these days dire?
 
Xalioniaf said:
The more you know>>>☆
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lmao XD that was some funny shit. nice illustration as well

Lanien said:
Anyways, tangent off, what this research dude says probably is correct, and while most think it is a little ridiculous, I would rather be protected with ridiculous than left wide open with nothing.
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Now you see, I personally wouldn't. I would rather the government stay out of my business and let me protect myself. And certainly this opinion is re-enforced by the extreme nature of this paticular situation. Protect me with ridiculous? No fuckin way. That's like declaring martial law to find a lost cat. I would rather no one declare martial law to help me find my cat and just let me find it myself.
 
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Excalibur said:
lmao XD that was some funny shit. nice illustration as well



Now you see, I personally wouldn't. I would rather the government stay out of my business and let me protect myself. And certainly this opinion is re-enforced by the extreme nature of this paticular situation. Protect me with ridiculous? No fuckin way. That's like declaring martial law to find a lost cat. I would rather no one declare martial law to help me find my cat and just let me find it myself.
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Purely situational. Last I checked, this thread was about copyrights.
 
So, if you write something, anything ... a song, a movie, anything really ... and someone somehow got a hold of it and published it and began making millions off it, you would be fine with that?
 
Lanien said:
So, if you write something, anything ... a song, a movie, anything really ... and someone somehow got a hold of it and published it and began making millions off it, you would be fine with that?
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No, I wouldn't be fine with it, but I'd rather deal with it myself.
 
And you would do ... what?
 
Oh, well aren't you just a big tough guy...

If you didn't catch it, that was me being condescending.

I hope to one day steal something of yours, seeing as you would rather risk losing something than allowing the government to create laws.
 
Lanien said:
I hope to one day steal something of yours, seeing as you would rather risk losing something than allowing the government to create laws.
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Laws aren't ever gonna stop people from doing something if they wanna do it bad enough. The only thing to stop people from murder or theft etc is their conscience.
 
I swear to god you are all sorts of retarded. Are you really that ignorant to think laws don't work? Of course there are always those people that will commit crimes because they can, but those are usually the people that get caught.
 
I'm not saying the existance of a law never prevents crime, I'm just saying they aren't foolproof. If people want to break the law, they will, and there's nothing to stop them, only retribution after the crime has already been committed.
 
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