The decision for this case was written in 2000, and I believe that the concept of digital media has significantly changed since then. One of the primary points made by the Judge was that making digital copies of music purchased on CD was not covered by fair use, and that the Record Company maintains the right to licence digital copies of their work. Fast-forwarding to 2011, most users of the service would be uploading digital copies of their music instead of 'copying' from CD. As long as the user has rights to a digital copy that can be transfered to several devices (e.g. DRM free digital copies), then I think the service should be legitimate. Amazon could probably protect itself with some terms of service language making that a condition of use.

The Legal Decision:
http://www.law.uh.edu/faculty/cjoyce/copyright/release10/UGM.html

First off in response to the person that responded to your post I'm a independent not a Republican, now as for facts:
So what if the President's top contributors only added up at $14m, add up the list of McCain's 'Top Contributors' and the number is much smaller. It really doesn't have any bearing on my argument. Instead lets look at some other statistics from that same webpage:

Agribusiness:
M: $3,289,774
O: $2,265,258

Communications/Electronics:
M: $4,607,216
O: $25,487,934

Construction:
M: $5,496,922
O: $5,465,083

Defense:
M: $694,148
O: $1,034,697

Energy & Natural Resources:
M: $4,090,435
O: $2,782,904

Finance, Insurance & Real Estate:
M: $29,005,313
O: $39,663,073

Health:
M: $7,409,123
O: $19,507,812

Lawyers & Lobbyists:
M: $11,153,996
O: $43,755,917

Transportation:
M: $2,690,078
O: $1,672,242

Misc Business:
M: $16,052,729
O: $37,006,524

Labor:
M: $34,500
O: $534,711

Ideological/Single-Issue:
M: $10,093,442
O: $23,521,118

Other:
M: $37,739,674
O: $82,250,231

From this list you'll notice a few industries contributing significantly more to McCain than to President Obama. Most noticeably Energy (read Oil). Transportation, and Agriculture. However Finance, Communications, Health, Labor, and 'Misc' Business were all heavily backing the President. Clearly both Candidates were heavily supported by "Big Business." And I would tend to say the President was more so than Senator McCain.

Take a quick look at the campaign finances of President Obama and see if you can still make this comment with a straight face. He raised more than three times as much money as Senator McCain in 2008, including rather large contributions from: Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Google, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Time Warner, General Electric, Morgan Stanley, and IBM. Granted I wouldn't call some of these new companies the 'Old Guard' but there are plenty on that list that fit the bill.

Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=n00009638

True irony would be if the above post was made from a mobile device.

I can't agree with you that he would have been 'covering up' or 'protecting' the crimes of his government. He actively sought out this information because he had a grudge against his command. If he had instead observed his leadership commit war crimes or give illegal orders and he reported on those events I would call him a whistle blower and support him. All he did was try to get 'revenge' on the Military in general.

These are the nefarious tactics of the PsyOps I know. Certainly not anything that could be compared to:

"t's no different than if a soldier pointed his rifle at a visiting politician and said, "Senator, vote for the new defense appropriations bill or I'll blow your head off."

Thank you for an actually informative post.

Technically the Hatch act doesn't apply to these Soldiers either. Based on the link above, they follow DoDD 1344.10 instead, which basically says you can't force your subordinates to vote for something, and you can't officially endorse a candidate in your role as an Officer. Either way id doesn't apply to whats going on in the article.

Yes I did read the whole article? Would you care to point out which broken law you are referring to and which other 'Psy-Ops' techniques are forcing our Senators to vote a specific way? In the article, they only refer to getting background information on the Senators and adjusting their presentations. The article implies that they are doing something more nefarious but in reality there is nothing else added to the article to back up this claim.

What Crime? Basically they were asked to look up voting records of the visiting senators and help adjust the General's presentations to make increasing troops and funding appear as the best course of action. This is no different than anything a business would do before going into negotiations, and definitely no different that what the media outlets do. Also, there is two sides to every story, so is the Married man sensationalizing orders from his boss because he was caught cheating, or is the General digging up dirt his subordinate because he was caught... doing his job?

Yes because we all used Game Genies with our Nintendo Entertainment Systems hooked up to ARPANET through a 2400bps modem. It's exactly equivalent.

MUCH better speech-reading skills.

Fixed it.

Lots of 'Get Linux' or 'Get OS X' responses. But Windows doesn't mean that you have to have bloatware. Build your computer yourself, buy from a manufacturer that doens't include bloatware (you'll be supporting small business to boot!), or buy the cheap big brand computer and wipe the drive/reinstall the OS.

People hate bloatware, but computer companies love money. If a software company gives them money to provide bloatware pre-installed, then of course they are going to take the money. Small computer companies usually don't have as much bloatware because they don't provide the same audience as the big computer companies do, but they also can't match the prices of the big companies. So the choice is really up to you, pay more for a small company that matches your ideology, or pay less for the big companies with bloatware. Or you could always buy the cheaper computer, wipe it, and install a new OS on it.

Consider this:

A Yamaha GS500 has a 47hp engine at 439lbs (9:1 Weight to HP ratio). It pulls a 0-60 in around 5.7 seconds.
(Point: Light vehicles need less HP)

The Honda Civic EX has a 140hp engine 2820lbs (20:1 Weight to HP ratio). It pulls a 0-6 in around 9.6 seconds.
(Point: notice how acceleration scales with this ratio)

This car is 838lbs fully fueled with a 39hp engine (21:1 Weight to HP ratio).
(Point: The Honda Civic is no sports car but its not terrible either. This new car is not going to be screaming fast, but that 39hp is gonna go much further than you'd expect with such a light vehicle.)

I wouldn't call it pathetic without first seeing his contract. For all we know he could be getting $37,500 to work minimal hours from home.