Somebody went to a Blockbuster?
I swear, reading the news nowadays makes me feel like 100% of everyone in power is either corrupt, stupid, or a moderate combination of the two. It's nice to hear stuff like this
Mike's so gonna get arrested for just writing the "sky high" thing.
Just kidding.
Half way.
Not to mention, the marginally higher cost (from digital to physical) to simply purchase a Beatles CD and import it into iTunes has never exactly been a huge barrier.
Not to mention, anyone performing that specific search probably already knows about the movie. Otherwise, why would they randomly Google that.
And if they Googled it because they randomly heard her name coupled with "pedophile" somewhere and wanted to learn more about it, she would only be absolved, as the person searching for the terms would learn, "Oh, that's just from a movie."
Ah, if only people gave these things some thought before suing.
or why there were Google results on it
?? Google will return results for practically anything. I doubt there's any combination of [name] + "pedophile" that would return 0 results.
You know, I recently noticed that CBS did sort of the same thing with YouTube. They just took down all of their full Star Trek episodes (which the company itself had uploaded, with commercials) from YouTube. Now they're only available on CBS's website (as they had previously been along with YouTube), also with commercials. What kind of sense does it make to take them off of the internet's biggest stop for video content? Especially considering YouTube's search/browse interface, as imperfect as it is, is still eons better than that of CBS.
These television networks. They confuse me.
what's amazing to me is that the state's attorney office was willing to issue that subpoena without realizing that it appeared to be more of a personal vendetta, and without any concern for the First Amendment anonymity rights of the blogger.
I wish I could say I was amazed as well.
I read Mike's article quickly, so he may have mentioned it, but another lesson here is that copyright laws are unnecessary. Regardless of whether CS's actions were legal (and they clearly weren't), they got hammered extremely hard by the community. That is their punishment, and it will definitely be felt financially, as opposed to being sued in a court of law. (And the original author's compensation, as Mike did say, is the publicity.)
And you get these SWEET computerized wristbands.
Hahaha, that's exactly what I was thinking.
Also, "Please don't abuse the privilege"? What privilege? Since they've explicitly said that no one can read their articles without paying, they haven't offered any privilege.
So, if you invest in a company and they don't make money for you, now the answer is to sue them! It's a win-win scenario, guys.
Obviously this individual needs to learn a little about the basics of investing.
I think he knows that. He's just pointing out Mike's humorous mis-wording of his statement.
No, Jesus didn't write the Bible until he invented the internet first.
I gotta say I have very little reaction to this article. What would REALLY have me interested is if Beck were to say something sensible.
Well, considering that the act of writing, not just obtaining knowledge, is part of what is involved in composing a paper, even if you do have previous knowledge, you still learn by developing your writing skills in forgoing so-called self plagiarization.
I've met people with masters degrees and even PHDs who have no common sense and all the book-learning in the world won't help them to function in society.
That's not news. Many, many PhDs, in my experience, lack common sense and social skills. That's not what the academic program is meant to develop.
Yeah, I actually did this once in college, using just a paragraph or so from one paper in another paper, not realizing it was even considered "self-plagiarization" until I read about it a few months later in the MLA handbook.
Guess I got a way with it.
I can actually see the argument against this for academic purposes, though -- that it lessens the student's ability to learn from the class. But, as the article says, people do this frequently in the professional world, so I would think it should ultimately be considered okay for students, since part of college is preparing students for careers.
This reminds me of someone I know who was babysitting and somehow didn't know that the kids had gotten on the computer to look up "weiner dogs." The parents came home, and, yeah.....