So in your words, the company didn't violate the CC-NC license?

    Look, the artist has photography with a clear license agreement attached to the images. If a company goes off, and takes those images, replicates them for commercial use, and even "includes" the CC license in the 'pirated' images, then... the company itself already violated the agreed contract when they siphoned the images off the internet. (whether agreeing or not to the CC terms, they clearly knew about it, and just ignored the terms)

    To me, small claims court would instantly rule in favor of the plaintive because the commercial use was a violation of the original use of the imagery.

    Plus if you send the invoice to the company (certified letter), they don't respond within 30 days, you have the right to sue them. Whether they disagreed to the CC license terms, they took and used the artists imagery without permission.

  If a company can outright sue me for doing the same to them, then so be it. the same level of protections for those assholes should be afforded to the individual as well.

  Just like recent articles where independent musicians have caught the Music industry not paying them for their royalties or for the fair use of their music without agreeing to the terms of the original artist. I've already read about how the RIAA basically gives the big middle finger to the little unsigned bands. Even if they(RIAA) steal the music and sell it on compiled demo discs, the independent artists have the right to counter sue the industry for their copyrighted material.

  The law in effect backfired for the RIAA and the music production companies that misused small band's materials. The law can't only be used by the big boys in the industry. which was why I jumped for joy when I read about a small band winning a court case to C&D a music publishers business because the company made thousands in profit but never paid a dime to the band.

DAMNIT... I was adding my odds of getting picked.

    1. Nerd... (check)
    2. Outdoors... (love camping for months)... (check)
    3. Broke as shit... (check)
    4. Can go by any name... (double check)
    5. slashdot user... (check) thus meaning I can't be away from a computer for too long.

  we'll I'm off the list for the four picked.

and I don't believe any backlash will ever occur because the users/management don't know how the network works. So its a win win situation for the IT Pros.

      Management "I can't access facebook, however I noticed you can access that slashdot website of yours."
    Me "Yep, because I get news about IT related stuff... facebook is just a waste of productivity time... its your policy!"
      Management "oh, yeah. your right... could you add me to the list of allowed users..."
    Me "Nope... policy"

      Users "aaawwwwwhhh we can't access myspace!"
    Me "suck it!"
      Users "grumble grumble"

Either way, neither of the other two groups outside of the IT Admin team should be allowed to do anything.... extreme with the network access... and by extreme, social networking. :-)

So pirates are more honest than bankers/stock investers/politicians?

    That i can believe in!

sleeps with loads of cash under the bed. Then using the money for political means, to seem like a humanitarian...

    Somehow its offset somewhere in the equation, but loads of cash under, on, or covering the bed makes it easy to sleep at night.

Plus through my experience, I've seen people use cellphone cameras in court to contest/show proof of their argument. Video is typically video, unless it was obtained through a un-certified means. By this I mean, friend of cellphone owner, downloaded the video, and placed it on a DVD to play in court. Since it was retrieved by a unlicensed professional, the DVD would be inadmissible. But when the owner had the cellphone with her in court, and allowed the judge to review the footage directly, the judge accepted the video verbatim.

    In the case of someone owning the video equipment in the car, what is the difference between a police officer's dash cam, versus someone who has their own camera system? (the officer has a License, and is of the Law)

The other day I watched on YouTube how a Sheriff's deputy lied in court over what happened when he arrested a motorist. His word was wrong versus what his dashcam showed. If it wasn't for the woman who hired an attorney and then had the case brought up in court, I think the woman would have lost. Either way. video typically is admissible

HAHAHAHA. So for all those years when I sold AT&T phones and when it came time to have the customer sign the contract terms, I always said... "Basically your signing your soul away to AT&T for two years." Would you like to go over the details of your contract?. Everyone would have a small laugh at my comment, but how true it was...

    Now AT&T has made it a fact.

I used to work for the Rat Shack, I understand the corporate people not understanding wtf they are doing. I'm used to it. Worked for Rat Shack for over 5 years, even during my working for other companies periods I would go back to my old store, and just see what new was happening.

  I agree with most other people, Rat Shack has gone from being a reliable parts & knowledge store to a shitty no one has a fucking clue WTF they are doing, selling DVDS/BD and candy store. The quality of the products are the same since 10 -15 years ago. Just new packaging, and plastic. The prices have skyrocketed for stuff that they manufacture on a dimes cost.

    The District Management is just a laughing joke. Before I left the last time I left, They had replaced a DM because he was having an affair with a manager in another district... then replaced him with a woman who had no clue how to run a store. (trust me... when a DM asks you (a store employee) why sales are bad, and you give them the logical explanation as to why... then ignores the whole conversation to just say. "We'll your not selling enough cell phones"...

    Really... really, I'm not selling enough cell phones compared to the 150% profit gains I make in just helping people by getting them what they came in to the store to get in the first place. Parts and Accessories. Upper management at RadioShack (Tandy... whatever the fuck they wish to call themselves now) have no damn clue... because no one wants to lift a damn finger to get the truth from the people on the ground floor. They spend more time worrying about how the plan-o-gram should look, compared to why they leave expensive items near the front door, and wonder why stuff gets stolen so easily.

true but that is why we have satellites. the global communication network may slow down, but it will still exist.

I propose we create a government agency to be another agency part of the NSA supervision. While doing so, we can save and monitor the costs structures using our own train financial watchdogs. That way no over spending occurs for this new agency.

all hail Orbo!

Umm Capt? Do we know how to stop this once we are a GO? or you know how to get around that galaxy once we get there?

I haven't changed my desktop from Vista to Linux yet, because I might return my laptop.

    Ahhh... beat that argument. (I still have 3 weeks left on my 30-day return policy)

But seriously... I love my usb ubuntu. Its customized with everything I need when I'm without a computer and need necessary applications. I use mozilla, and openoffice on my ubuntu and windows machines because I can sync the data, bookmarks, etc.

I just have to make sure not to lose the memory key.

"I'm sorry Dave, but I cannot do that".

Dave "I gotta really pee right now HAL, please open the pod bay doors!"

"I'm sorry I cannot do that Dave."

Dave " you suck HAL, but boy is it warm in this body suit."

I LoL'd.

    But yes, Human or Animal nature is Survival first, then Procreation.

    Yup, I would have died had I focused on the wrong points first. But then again...