The engineers were working on a work-for-hire basis, and they knew it. What they get is no different to what an incidental musician or a member of a pub band would get: An hourly wage for their labour.

Musicians who write albums and then publish them, receiving ongoing income, are more analogous to an inventor or a startup company, who design a product and then market that product, making money off the ongoing sales.

The musicians that you refer to, who work for a few years and live the rest of their lives on the royalties from that music, are the equivalent of the guy who invented and popularized the Tetra Pak milk carton.

Oh. Whelp, I've clearly been drinking the koolaid. Thanks.

(They get bonus points in the Licensing of the Press Act for conflating "unlicensed Bookes and Pamphlets" with "seditious treasonable Bookes and Pamphlets." Still a staple for those trying to bundle legislation supporting their own interests in with legislation that "everybody should vote for.")

Barring issues with excess fat, sodium etc, is a diet that contains all the necessary micronutrients still an "unhealthy" diet?

You mean back when it was made with actual oranges, which contain Vitamin C?

Well yes, money is why companies do things. But wait, let me get this straight - because of copyright law, a company is releasing music to the public that otherwise may never have been released?

Isn't that the entire purpose of copyright law? To encourage the release of artwork? Is this not a perfect example of copyright working as intended?

...and subprime lending really DID destroy the U.S. economy.

When you study business, management, or basically anything "non-technical" you don't give a shit and just want the nerds to go sit in the back room and do whatever it is they do so the computers magically keep working.

Not in the slightest. 20 years from now China will be mining the asteroids.

Time to start learning Mandarin.

In that case, (a) they probably picked this spot because the available space was within tolerance, and (b) well now, hovering around for 30 seconds before landing is just showing off. :P

Bingo. Does anyone NOT have 'show linked images' turned off? Pretty sure most email clients have it disabled by default these days.

So how is this coin different from a "confirmation that you hold X bitcoins"? Transferability or something?

He seems like a canny enough lad, and I'd guess he knows a fair bit about cryptography. Maybe he's digitally signed the files he leaked (so that they can be verified in chunks as being part of the documents he liberated)?

The funny thing is that at this point, he could release 'evidence' that the NSA secretly implanted gnomes in Kate Middleton's butt cheeks and people would believe him. Not saying that anything he's leaked so far has been fabricated, but how would we know?

That's not the point. The point is that "3D printed X" laws are as stupid as "X on the internet" laws. We already have laws controlling X, why do we need new laws that cover the same ground? Why should the penalty for procuring an unlicensed firearm from a manual lathe be different from the penalty for procuring an unlicensed firearm from a CNC machine, or a sintering machine, or an extrusion printer?

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