I read the Claim specifications. IAAL.
It isn't right to say that apple have patented portrait-landscape rotation.
It has patented a finger gesture, a view lock based on that and the info from various sensors.
A subtle distinction, I appreciate. But probably novel, and thereby patentable.
Lets just say that a baker has 13 loaves of bread, and I steal one.
The baker now has only a conventional dozen, and will be angry because of that, as he is now only able to sell 12, not the original 13. Loss in potential profits of about 8%.
Imagine the bread is digital, and I copy one of those loaves.
The baker still has 13 loaves, and can still sell them. Repeatedly. His anger is now because his marketplace has diminished by one. Loss in potential profits of 0.000000001%
It is still wrong, from the baker's perspective, but it's less damaging.
Given that 1% of any population are criminals, the sheer size of the population of pirates tells you that the current business models are broken.
It must be true that there is a market between the current crazy prices for media, and nothing. I'd buy a "pirate bundle" off my ISP that lets me pirate my ass off, so that some royalties went the right way.
Came here to say this.
It was used in Australia in a place called Robe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robe,_South_Australia
I can imagine that drowning mariners would have been disheartened to find people on the shore firing rockets at them...
What happens if you accidentally drop the bazooka in the water?
no, no! its total lack of movement is due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk
I worked in the coal mine near there when cyclone Joy wrecked the place. That livened things up for a while.
Oh yes.
Champagne comedy.
Well done, sir.
Well... He ain't obscure no more.
Given this book appears to be 10 years old, I'd write another book...
I'm a lawyer, and I'm getting a kick out of these replies, etc.
A technique that defence lawyers use is to attack the legitimacy of the gathering of the evidence. Succeed there, and it all becomes inadmissible, and the prosecution fails.
Never mind your fucking Venn diagrams.
That, I believe, settles the matter.
Because those people using 'sploits are then open to criminal sanctions. Or, more likely open to the civil claim brought by ARIA. They become targets. Ripe for the harvest.
I for one welcome the Minister for BroCaDE, and pledge to obey faithfully, and not hide my shit behind 7 proxies.
ARIA
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