Power a flashlight using toilet paper and a pear. no. yep.
“Attempted Infringement” is back on the table…
I thought this bill was dead and buried.. Story off arstechnica… Click…
One of the bill’s controversial features is the fact that people can be charged with criminal copyright infringement even if such infringement has not actually taken place. “Any person who attempts to commit an offense under paragraph (1) shall be subject to the same penalties as those prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the attempt,” says the bill.
While copyright infringement is sometimes believed to be solely a civil matter, that’s not the case. US Code 17, section 506 (a) spells out the conditions for criminal infringement under which the government can actually do the prosecuting, and they are quite modest. The infringement must be willful and the material in question must have a total retail value of over $1,000. This wouldn’t be a difficult threshold for many P2P users to clear, except for the fact that this section also requires that the infringement be done “for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain.”
The attempted infringement clause actually falls under this criminal infringement statute, meaning that it won’t apply to file-sharing unless the courts suddenly take a hugely expansive view of “commercial advantage or private financial gain,” and it’s unlikely the government has some new interest in such cases.
The statement “I intend, willfully and deliberately, to pirate Photoshop”, if this bill is passed, could now equal jail time… That’s fucking insane…
God’s Answer to YouTube
YouTube clearly has a liberal, secular bias. Thank Jesus that someone is around to start a video sharing website that can provide us with all the televangelists, Christian Rock concerts and Creationist documentaries that we so desperately need!
Some delectable samples:
New @Home Project
This is important stuff… If you have extra computing cycles on your computer (and everyone does…) help NASA look for Earth killing asteroids… Click…
(Note: This project has simply been approved by NASA and work units aren’t being distributed yet, but I’m really excited and I’m sure Carl Sagan would be as well (if you know his views on our potential demise as a species)) I’ll let everyone know as soon as I know they are sending out the units.. in the meantime, there are quite a few other @Home projects that need your cycles… (Mr. Quadcore)…
I heart Engrish
Why I need a PS3…
Well, this and of course Lair.
So, I don’t know what’s up LucasArts’ ass, but they apparently don’t want this trailer up at youtube… Man, that would be awful to allow people to see the trailer without having to visit their site…
Anyways, check the trailer out here… Click
I want it… I want it… I want it… (For that one Xbox 360 owner (who I know reads this blog), it will be available for that system as well…)
Wanna be disappointed?!?
What the fuck happened to this? (Original model shown at E3 2006)
That was a nice looking gun… Perhaps unwieldy, still cool looking… Perhaps this new one will grow on me; I’ve already decided it will probably feel nice in the hand, but still.. It looks like shit.. IMHO that is… I’m still gonna get two, and Ghost Squad when they are released.. Alright, it’s not that bad…
“You’re gonna give those kidnapping and bombing terrorists exactly what they deserve: a good, healthy zap…” I’m sure GWB thanks you for that shit… Awful, awful scripting there, btw…
Amazing…
I saw this a few weeks ago, and came across the video again tonight, so here it is… Blew me away when I saw what the program is capable of…
look out!
