To: Free ThinkerNY
2 posted on
03/23/2009 6:04:22 PM PDT by
pnh102
(Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
To: bamahead; ShadowAce; djsherin
3 posted on
03/23/2009 6:04:44 PM PDT by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: rabscuttle385; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ..
Of course none of the cited cases dealt with the ratios sought by the RIAA: 2,100 to 425,000 times the actual damages for an MP3 file.
Libertarian ping! Click
here to get added or
here to be removed or post a message here!
5 posted on
03/23/2009 7:05:34 PM PDT by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Precedent and common sense have no place in the new Obama dictatorship. Get used to it. Eric Holder is Obama’s hitman on the Constitution.
To: Free ThinkerNY
These people stealing intellectual property, whether kids or not, whether culturally correct or not, should be tried on criminal charges and if convicted, imprisoned.
7 posted on
03/23/2009 7:19:32 PM PDT by
Mariner
To: ShadowAce; supercat
Ping for tech/drm related
9 posted on
03/23/2009 9:14:36 PM PDT by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
11 posted on
03/24/2009 5:23:37 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I’m on the fence here. First, I have no doubt Obama’s administration will follow the orders of the copyright cartel for any issues involving copyright. That’s pretty much a given.
But I am for high potential statutory damages because they serve two valid purposes.
The first is for copyright holders when they don’t know how many copies of their works have been distributed without permission. What do you do if a work is worth $1, and someone has distributed some unknown amount between 1 and 200,000 copies? You can’t put actual damages on that. So the court system gets to decide how much of the statutory damages to award up to an amount that may provide fair compensation.
Second is for developers of free software. Your software has a sale price of $0. So when Big Company starts distributing it without complying with your favorite free software license, what are you to do? Ask for damages? What damages? You would have recieved $0 for sales anyway. Statutory damages give the developer more leverage against Big Company infringing on his copyrights.
14 posted on
03/24/2009 6:49:05 AM PDT by
antiRepublicrat
(Sacred cows make the best hamburger.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
16 posted on
03/24/2009 10:44:31 AM PDT by
a fool in paradise
("I certainly hope he (Bush) doesnÂ’t succeed" - Democratic strategist James Carville 9-11-2001)
To: 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; Big Guy and Rusty 99; Brian Allen; cgk; ...
17 posted on
03/24/2009 10:45:14 AM PDT by
a fool in paradise
("I certainly hope he (Bush) doesnÂ’t succeed" - Democratic strategist James Carville 9-11-2001)
To: Free ThinkerNY
way to go college studeint ROOKIES!
suckers.
18 posted on
03/24/2009 10:46:57 AM PDT by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Ha, ha. All the libs who said that the RIAA only got away with their shenanigans because they were in bed with the Bush administration just got pwnd.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson