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Comment What about leaked government data (Score 3, Interesting) 294

I loved this section, as found on the BBC:

The pay-off for tough penalties against persistent file-sharers would be a more relaxed copyright regime, Mr Mandelson said. The details of it would need to be hammered out at European level but it would take account of the use of copyright material "at home and between friends", he said. It would mean that, for example, someone who has bought a CD would be able to copy it to their iPod or share it with family members without acting unlawfully.

So now we just need to find three instances that an MP shared any copyright material with a friend or colleague. Presumably accidentaly leaking millions of instances of personal details held in government databases doesnt count?

Submission + - UK to 'get tough on file sharers' (bbc.co.uk)

boethius78 writes: The BBC has another story relating to Peter Mandelson's plans to 'get tough on file sharers'. This time, he's trying seduce us with the suggestion that the "pay-off for tough penalties against persistent file-sharers would be a more relaxed copyright regime", which means that "someone who has bought a CD would be able to copy it to their iPod ... without acting unlawfully". Sweet!

Comment Re:A bad summary makes bad responses (Score 4, Informative) 237

If the summary is laughably wrong, then you might also want to try and fix the Google cache.

To quote your good self : "My reaction to seeing other Apress books getting the free, electronic version treatment is: Im good with you pirating my book! Now, of course, I cant actively participate in pirating my book but, heck, its around on plenty of free e-book sites and on RapidShare. There are even links on Twitter to torrents like this. I am happy for you to pirate my book, but Im NOT A LAWYER, and I cant guarantee what Apress would do about it so youd be doing it off your own back! So, uhm, dont pirate it? The only condition, of course, if you do is that if you like the book and you think a print copy would be swell to own, please buy one even if its just for someone you know who wants to learn to program!"

Redirecting your page is like closing the barn door once the horse has bolted unfortunately.

Oh, and congrats on your first child :)

Comment Missions (Score 2, Funny) 159

I cant even begin to imagine how many hours my younger brother and I put into this game on the C64. I was hooked from the start, with the fabulous novella that came in the instruction manual. I pity those that only ever had a pirate version, the box set/manual/novella were a huge help in fuelling the imagination.

I still remember the day though when I came back home and my brother said 'oh I was playing Elite and it said something about 'Do you want to accept this mission' so I said no'
He still has imprints of my hands around his neck. I never ever saw a mission appear when I was playing.

Anyone else get through the missions? They still remain one of the greatest mysteries around that game to me.

Comment Re:ahh good times (Score 1) 193

I was once taking a taxi home after a night out and the taxi driver offered me a couple of Dreamcast games on CDRs. Thats when I knew that piracy had killed the Dreamcast. Sourcing the games was admittedly not for the general public, but once they were on CDr it was relatively easy for any old taxi driver to work out how to use Diskjuggler to copy from drive E to F.

Comment Re:Why is it... (Score 1) 257

Both do, but the difference is that private corporations have no direct authority over you.

Indirect authority is even worse because you never know when it comes at you. At least the government is more or less limited by the constitution and also predictable, a corporation is only limited by what the execs think they can get away with.

Companies are limited by the law just like any other citizen. By stopping Google from taking pictures in public how are you not selectively interfering with their first amendment rights? What about the precedent you set by doing that?

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