A photograph is not an idea. I don't know UK law, but I know that in the US, ideas are not subject to copyright protection, the expression of one is. As I wrote that, I discovered I had misinterpreted your point. I don't think this ruling would happen, or at least be upheld by a higher court, in the US. Clearly the "copy" is going after the same idea, but it's a completely different image, mostly because of the angle, and would be considered not a copy here in the US. As to some of the responses calling this a derivative work. I'm pretty sure a derivative work is one that is in a different medium than the original. I'll get the answer to that question on Monday though (currently in a law school class on copyright. Have taken basic IP and an Entertainment law course that cover copyright). A real world example of what I know to be derivative works: movies based on comic books. Oh, and to the idiot below who said that photo's are barely copyrightable? Not true, at least not in the US. These two photos would both be subject to copyright protection in the US, and not just what we call "thin copyright."

I agree that military secrets are important. The thing is, many of the things that he released, that I have heard about (I haven't done much research), shouldn't have been military secrets. Other things that I have heard that he released should definitely been kept secret. So, my point: 1) Bad to release classified information. 2) There needs to be a change in how things are deemed classified, as some of the things that have been released the public had a right, at least in my opinion and many other people's opinion, to know, and wouldn't have endangered people in the field any more than any other negative reports about the US military would.

Why build such fast internet when no one will have anything to use it for? They are filtering so much stuff out that by the time this is available people won't need over a 1Mb/s connection. Hell maybe by that time they will only need a 256Kb/s connection for basic web surfing only. Seems pointless to me. Let people use the bandwidth you provide, otherwise why waste all that money?

on my phone later would be, lets see 3 keys for the l8r then the usual send key, etc.

You know Oregon gas prices are usually lower than both Washington and California, so your not paying extra for someone to fill your tank. It provides jobs andsupposedly keeps things safe. Its really quite nice, if its raining and windy and crap, you don't have to get out of your car (unless its a pay inside place).

I don't know, I think if groups of people went out and did this with governmental plates, hell find the cars of the judges, then something will change.

Yes, I do hope that Arkansas gets hacked to all hell. Conservative bastards . . .

Yeah, I'll avoid disk keeper software from now on. I think it came with my thinkpad though, ugh. Religions, all of the, make me scared for humanity, this one is just silly.

If your serving someone, you are supposed to find them and give them the notice in person if they haven't responded to the mail notice. Either way, being really fucking sick in a hospital is a fairly good reason to not respond in time. I wish someone with a ton of money would sue the RIAA for something, let me work on what the legal argument would be.

I know that there is a potential for a lot of negative things to happen if we don't bailout these companies, but I still say we don't. If any money goes to them it should be in a governmental take over (which I wouldn't agree with either) in which we fire all the officials making over 100k a year.

Finally someone is going to take the RIAA's lawyers to trial. Maybe its happened before but all i hear about are cases where the defendant bows down before the RIAA and agrees to pay an ungodly sum of money for a few hundred/thousand songs. My self, I feel quite secure, because I only download tv shows, and there isn't really a huge coalition of huge companies going after people that Torrent a tv show, watch it, share it to a 1-1 ratio, and then delete it. Speaking of downloading torrents, does anyone know how to get passed a total block on torrent downloading? My school recently uped its torrent blocking, to where you can't download a .torrent file (but Demonoid.com allows one to download them as .txt files), but now when I start uTorrent my internet gets shut off for a few minutes. Anyone got any ideas how to get around this? I'm just a college student that wants to be able to watch tv, most of the shows I watch are network tv as well, and can't afford a TV. Also the school internet is so slow during the day that I can't stream even the low quallity shit they have out there, which is why I preferred torrents. Any help is welcome.