>. include ones that describe Brad Pitt's reaction to certain movie cuts". If you read the email (God forbid), it seems the content is somewhere in-between personal and private and 80% of it is summarizing an email/text/conversation/whatever that, if anything, would be copyrighted by Brad Pitt

It describes a party contracted with Sony Pictures threatening to breach that contract; a contract to make and publicize a Sony Pictures product. It then addresses what Sony Pictures has done (reassured the other party) and what else Sony needs to do about it (nothing yet). I'm not sure how you can say that a discussion among Sony people about handling a Sony contract dispute isn't a business email.

The copyright goes to the author. If I write about what you did yesterday, I'm the author, and I have copyright. In California, you might have publicity rights, but no copyright on my words. Brad Pitt didn't write the email, so he has no copyright claim.

You asked about a post which DOES quote another offer. Would I have any say as to removal if _your_ post was infringing? Under current law, that's exactly the same as if a breakfast cereal contained oats, honey, and strychnine. It contains something unlawful, and can be removed from distribution. The fact that the unlawful stuff has some lawful stuff mixed in doesn't matter.

As much as piracy is difficult to justify. It is rulings like this that make it hard to ultimately argue against.

And what will all our fine corporate interests do when they run out of wage slaves?

Expect a thank you for lifting the undeveloped world out of poverty?

Think about it. Why are people wage slaves? Because they're paid what we in developed nations would consider to be less-than-starvation wages. Why do they stop being wage slaves? Because the industrialization those wage slave jobs brought modernized the country and kick-started their economy, causing wages to rise until they were no longer considered wage slaves.

That's how a market economy eliminates poverty. It interprets low wages in a region as an economic inefficiency, and sends jobs there until the resulting development causes wages to rise to match wages in other regions. A minimum wage works in an already-developed country, but forcing a minimum wage on an undeveloped country just guarantees they'll remain undeveloped until they can lift themselves out of poverty on their own (a process that took hundreds of years in the West). That's why China has been artificially keeping the value of the Yuan low - to effectively lower the wages its citizens are making, which attracts more western investment and development, which helps their economy industrialize and grow even faster. The fact that they're losing jobs to other countries with lower wages means this strategy has worked.

They're more common than you'd think. This isn't the first movie to be sent to North Korea. These groups (many of them staffed and financially backed by North Korean defectors) have been sending a steady diet of South Korean dramas and K-pop to North Korea for several years now. It's actually what convinced many of them to defect - it made them realize their government had been lying to them about South Korea being a pauper nation.

Reporting on the emails is classic fair use.

Not really. The fair use provision here is if the copyrighted work is newsworthy. The fact that the emails have been leaked is big news, but the emails themselves are not necessarily newsworthy.

If the emails are just boring everyday emails of people at work, then copyright would still apply. Ironically, if the email were scandalous or embarrassing to Sony, then it would be fair use to publish them because the revelation would be newsworthy. So all a DMCA notice accomplishes is forcing people to dig through the emails for dirt before publishing. Not necessarily the effect Sony wants.

Yes, but... Global Warming! Oil is EVIL! Cheap Oil Will Kill Us All!

You forgot the part about bombing the crap out of the rest of the world, and handing half of it over to Commies who kept their workers out of the global economic system.

Let me startbby saying, "rootkit" Sony sucks. With that out of the way:

The emails mentioned in TFA appear to be business emails from Sony people. Did they send a DMCA notice about any personal emails? Did I miss that somewhere?

Regarding perjury, the DMCA doesn't say that any erroneous or improper notice is perjury. The perjury clause refers to identifying yourself. If I were to send a DMCA notice about content owned by Dice, claiming to be a representative of Dice, that claim that I am Dice's representative would be under penalty of perjury. I'd be in trouble because I'm not actually a representative of Dice.

Any other deficiency in a DMCA notice is likely to be grounds for a civil suit, only, based on damages. It might be tortiuous interference, for example. It wouldn't be perjury.

You say I'm wrong without saying why. Offer a reason or you don't have a reason.

Even then they're not a problem so long as you understand them. Consider again the age of sail with the privateers. The privateers greatly outnumbered the official navies of their host nations. These privateers didn't go raiding their home ports or attacking allied ships... UNTIL the wars stopped and they had no justification to attack anyone.

THEN there was a problem because their whole livelihood was being a privateer at that point.

How do you stop having a war with all these privateers? Spoils. The English especially had trouble controlling their privateers because they didn't share the loot with the men that won the war. Large portions of the new world conquests should have gone to them. Under English law, paying English taxes, but still THEIR land and their profits.

Instead too much of the land went to English nobility and political interests in England that risked nothing and did nothing to win the wars. And that lead to privateers without any means of income besides piracy.

And so they did piracy. First against their old enemies such as the Spanish. Just keep fighting as if the war never ended.

But then their host nation declared them pirates and outlaws in accordance with their treaties with the aggrieved nation. Which meant they could no longer harbor in once friendly ports. They were hunted by their own people as criminals. And once that happened... well... might as well prey upon the English ships too, no?

Moral of the story, don't breed an army of attack dogs, have them win a war for you, and then leave them to starve to death.

Had the privateers been given sufficient tracts of land in the new world. The majority of the English Caribbean islands for a start... there would have been no trouble. And again, they would have operated under english law and paid English taxes. But... instead it went to English nobles and other well placed interests. Which meant the ships of those nobles and interests got boarded by pirates and looted.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Please rephrase and elaborate.

In regards to hiring them for pay, you are forgetting that in most cases these would be Americans getting hired to do the job.

You have your head filled with some crap about the way mercs work that is inaccurate. They do not generally go against their host country. We have thousands of years of merc history to go through and what you have to understand is that most of them are actually rather patriotic.

They just don't want to die and they want to get paid what they're worth. That is not unreasonable.

I could go over the wars between the italian city states which I bet you're generally pretty ignorant of as well as the specifics of the european privateers during the age of sail. Which I bet you also don't know much about either.

Both situations involved large highly active mercenary armies and navies that by and large were both very effective and very loyal.

There were exceptions. Both of these sets have a hard time dealing with peace time because they only get paid during war time. Peace means they get paid nothing and so they often resort to banditry or piracy respectively.

That is the primary threat I'd see in establishing something like this... but you deal with that by keeping them on the pay roll whether there is a war or not. And that keeps them happy whether or not there is a war.

No issue with that either so long as it is the most effective means. Often there is a certain amount of corporate bloat that might be intolerable. But assuming they run their shops mean and lean... sounds good.

If you click on the link to the article and ctrl-f sata, you'll find the thirteen that have sata, of the forty mentioned in the article. Some desktop standard sata, some are msata or esata.

You can of course use Google to find hundreds or thousands of example projects. They tend to fall into two categories: low power, fanless PCs, and interfacing with real, physical objects.

Examples of the first group include media PCs / DVRs, because you don't want loud CPU, case, and power supply fans in your living room, and network appliances such as network storage, high deluxe SOHO router / firewall boxes, etc.

The other group involves automating and programming the physical world, by connecting motors, relays, etc. That includes autopilots for RC planes and drones and all of the "smart house" stuff. If you wanted a programmable device to feed and water your cat while you're on vacation, while running the self-cleaning litter box, these are the right platform to build something like that.