After just a single day in the trial of Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi and Carl Lundstorm for running a wildly successful torrent tracker site, The Pirate Bay, prosecutors have dropped half the charges.
The prosecution's problems started nearly immediately when they began presenting their case. After listening to the prosecutor explain how BitTorrent works ... [ read the full article ]
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Here's a vote for Pirate Bay to totally win. As for MS, they tire me with their patches, updates and insecurities. After trying many flavors, Ubuntu 8.1 seems to work fine and can anyone tell me is there backup software for Linux? Burning dvds-yes. Never used Pirate Bay but more power to them. NOW PASS THE GROG, MATE.
Originally posted by wazzat: Never used Pirate Bay but more power to them. NOW PASS THE GROG, MATE.
if you've downloaded a public torrent file from any database site, and checked the trackers almost every single torrent has a link to TPB which has seeds
Downloaded some files years back with Azureus then got scared when Riaa started busting individuals and removed bit torrent from my computers. CHICKEN!! Besides I turn my DSL off and didn't feel it was fair to not run my computer all the time. And at that early time, tweaking Azureus was a job in itself.
When a person buys software all they bot was a set of 1's and0's placed in a specific order to do a common job right
so i someone were to make a program on there own with no connection to a licensed program that ended up with the 1's and 0's in the same place to do the same job but passes it out for FREE does that make them liable for copyright infringement
all a program is is 1's and 0's anyone with a programing mind can create the same thing??????????
if a programmer uses Microsoft software to create a program does Microsoft own that program??????????????
if a program is altered after purchase from the format it was purchased in to fit a users preference does that constitute copyright infringement because the copyright was paid for when purchased all the user did was add in 1&0's or does this become the users program
Originally posted by powerhack: When a person buys software all they bot was a set of 1's and0's placed in a specific order to do a common job right
so i someone were to make a program on there own with no connection to a licensed program that ended up with the 1's and 0's in the same place to do the same job but passes it out for FREE does that make them liable for copyright infringement
all a program is is 1's and 0's anyone with a programing mind can create the same thing??????????
why that may have been true in the 80's. the one and zero clauses are not entirely accurate any longer as processor's can process chunks instead of bits.
Quote:if a programmer uses Microsoft software to create a program does Microsoft own that program??????????????.
No as Microsoft sold you that program. to make the program you had in mind. its licensing
Quote:if a program is altered after purchase from the format it was purchased in to fit a users preference does that constitute copyright infringement because the copyright was paid for when purchased all the user did was add in 1&0's or does this become the users program
No one ever buys a copyright only the license to use the said program as the copyright holders say you may use it. so Yes, it fits nicely in the reverse engineering clause.
S/N Copyright laws are extremely messed up, so is licensing. Copyright has become a sword instead of the shield it was intended for.
