Microsoft set to be fined $2.4m a day.. Options

[Dr Strum]

Give an example of a lawsuit involving a non-profit recreation/duplication of a copyrighted item.

[Rosetta]

It's happening with the RIAA, MPAA, etc. You haven't heard of the websites with free, non profit song lyrics and guitar tabs, being shut down, and the owners being considered for jail time?

[Swiyth]

what?! thats insane!!!

[Dr Strum]

That's different. The obfuscated DMCA muddies everything.

[Rosetta]

Yet, the copyright information of the original artists and such were there, which the DMCA requires to make a site 'appropriate' enough to display the content, if I recall correctly.

[Swiyth]

hmm........where did that happen? and when? i've never heard or seen it on the news

[Rosetta]

What! You haven't heard about this? A few popular sites have been shut down, and the recording corporation representitives made a comment about that the owners of the sites should have jail time.

[Swiyth]

oh man....that sucks.

i don't think people should even be jailed to post lyrics when its not even a crime or harmful.

[Leyviur]

BLAH BLAH BLAH MS IS CORRUPT AND EVIL EVEN THOUGH THEY DONATE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO CHARITY.

Jesus, some of you kids don't know anything and just spout off conspiracy or 'go against the big guys' because it's 'cool' or 'hip.' It's not cool or hip, it's fucking retarded. I wish some of you would get a God damn clue before you start spouting utter bullshit from your pie holes. Get on the clue train, already, morons.

[Rosetta]

Exucse me, I was talking about Microsoft's BUSINESS PRACTISES. Their donations to charity have nothing to do with it.

[Swiyth]

man, you must really like getting angry, thus your avatar....

well, anyways, we don't "go against the big guys" cause its "cool" or "hip". i barely even godamn care about coolness or hip trends.

for one, MS has been making a fuss about EVERY single thing that might threaten it. piracy, Terms and Conditions, this that this that. okay, piracy, i get it. no one should have their hard earned stuff stole from them. but then, look at the cases of South Korea where they threatened not to allow MS products to be shipped there because of some stupid terms and agreements.

yeah, fine, this might not even be true. but heck, really.

besides. we don't sound like that.

[Leyviur]

Well, let's say you were working for Microsoft. Would you rather them be less 'evil' at the price of you possibly being laid off, or vice versa?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[Rosetta]

I do know what you mean, Leyviur. However, like Swiyth explains, I too am not doing it to be 'cool' or 'hip'. Nothing is black and white, just many shades of grey.

[Swiyth]

its not really about being 'evil' and us being laid off in the process.

its about not being so uptight about their stuff.

man, they're like parents. "no soda, no jumping on the bed, no going out, no football" nag nag nag nag nag nag nag nag.

just replace parents with MS and no with shpping and blah blah blah with every other country.

[Leyviur]

Yes, except you complain about Microsoft because it's a big company. These things happen in small companies too but nobody gives a damn because they're small. Microsoft's huge and that's why anything and everything they do is "OMG CORRUPT" "OMG LAWS" "OMG MONOPOLY" while anything just as bad or worse done by a small company is acceptable because they're 'the underdog.' Then the small company becomes big and the process repeats all over again.