Dark Helmet:
How many Assholes we got on this ship, any how?
Everyone:
Yo!
Dark Helmet:
I knew it. I'm surrounded by Assholes. *closes helmet* Keep firing, Assholes!

But then, are they TAKING things from the Public Domain, or are they taking steps to PREVENT things from moving to the public domain? Has there been any examples of things that moved into public domain, but then retroactively became private again after legislation changes?

Cos if they're just preventing things from going into public domain, then thats not the same as taking things from the public domain.

If we're going to argue semantics, that is.

Not a good idea to let the youth of the nations know that their heroes ate LSD like candy back in the days.

I don't know which nations you're living in, but none of the young people I know consider the Beatles to be heroes...

Sweet idea, not just for elderley, but for anyone visiting a new supermarket?

the only problem is you'd have to make sure the "markers" get moved around properly - wouldnt leave it up to the 16 year olds who are mostly responsible for packing shelves...

Yeah, but can it stay up all night looking up wikipedia for names of obscure early-90s dance acts and then scour all the torrent sites for full albums instead of just "Best of 90's Dance You Like Me Now?" compilations, and then stare at bittorrent, begging more seeders to come online to increase the speed from 0.01KB/s, and then say "screw it" and download the latest metallica and eminem albums on principle, delete them without listening to them, because it doesnt really like metallica or eminem, and then wander off to youtube to watch old WCW videos?

If not, it can't truly duplicate my torrent experience.

And if you were a recording company, you would sue the torrent sites that make all the copying possible?

Sounds familiar...

Except its not more information, its just the same information, repeated ad nauseum. Once you have written something, and someone takes a direct copy, how does the average user discern who wrote it, and who copied it?

They're keeping the offsite backup distributed around the Internet, using the World-Wide Web to store it in real time.

I heard that sometimes the backup even gets updated BEFORE the proper archive? As much as two months before!

Whats up with that?

I swear to god, if IANALBIHBAJ becomes a new internet slang, it will be the greatest day ever.

except it doesnt really work like that, does it?

after saving 2 minutes a day, five days a week for a year, you'd have saved 520 minutes, or nearly nine hours.

But you could only use those hours in one block if you were now leaving and arriving home from work nine hours earlier than you had been before.

You're more likely to just waste that extra minute in minutae at the beginning / end of the day.

If it were up to me, the right to anonymous free speech would greatly outweigh the right to sue someone for libel.

Except, you dont have a right to ANONYMOUS free speech, do you? I'm not American, but I thought the constitution protected free speech, not anonymous free speech. Therefore, if you have something you want to say, you better be willing to back it up...

The average person only has one email address, their work email address

[Citation needed]

picks up where the live-action movie leaves off, allowing players to re-create and re-live the greatest moments from the film

Make up your mind, does it pick up after the movie, or is it set during the movie?

Most people don't know how to copy a CD, so the presumption that I'm returning a Jonas Brothers CD (christmas gift), because I illegally copied it is a minority assumption. Instead of presuming guilt, the stores should presume innocent dissatisfaction, because in 95-99% of cases that's true.

Citation needed.

In any case, since I was not allowed to return the Jonas Brothers CD, I'm now stuck with 15 wasted dollars and a coffee coaster. In what possible way is that fair to the customer? Answer: It isn't. It's pisspoor customer service.

Did the store promise it was going to be the best cd you ever had, or even listenable? No. You may have an expectation that you can return something just because you didnt like it, but thats never been the case with music. Did you ask to listen to the cd in store? Many stores will allow you to do that now.

And you can stop comparing music to food now. The industry is different, the business model is different, the method of production is different, the costs are different and the method of consumption is different.