[Dellinsp531]

nonseq, on 03 October 2011 - 12:22 PM, said:

leech / lēCH/

Noun: An aquatic or terrestrial annelid (class Hirudinea) with suckers at both ends. Many species are bloodsucking parasites, esp. of vertebrates, and others are predators.

Verb: Habitually exploit or rely on: "he's leeching off the abilities of others".

I tried to tell the mail person not to put things in the mail box that are not mine. The mail person said that anything in the mail box is my property and they have to deliver to the address that is there. I tired with the companies and they just crossout the name and send it back with Current resident on it. So how am i leeching? I tried to stopped them freom sending things to the wrong address but they do not care.

bcappel, on 03 October 2011 - 12:44 PM, said:

You can not get any of that information from junk mail. A credit card statement is not junk mail, and has absolutely nothing to do with this discussion. As for new credit card offers, anyone can get a credit card application from anywhere and use someone elses name on it. There's nothing magical about the applications you get in the mail, you can get as much information from the phone book as are contained in those.

Well all the mail has info. Like the wedding regisrty send a congratuate to the person that she got married. Had her married last name. A magazine for brides cames with her maiden name. Iparty sand an remidner that birthday is coming up. Had the guy's birthday date and his name. Got info aout college looking for money. Have info what school they went to. Got a kids store mag, which means she was pregant (why wedding happen) or someone on family was having a kid. Got reminder to renew license had great info. etc. etc. this is some of the info that has come to this current condo. I stil think if I will stay of move out once lease expires. The same info happen at my dorm appertment.

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Really? Then the bill would have come to your address also, which you would have had to pay. Companies don't send magazines that aren't paid for, and if you told it to renew at the current address then you would have have received a bill for it and had to pay it at that address.

Regardless, this isn't relevant to the rest of this discussion either.

It does not come to the condo. The mag does with the old leaser name. But ok, since your saying that is it off topic I will let it go.

[waldojim]

Evildave, on 06 October 2011 - 03:15 PM, said:

It's always nice to have software capable of pirating, but never using it to pirate anything. 'Cuz dat would be wrong.

I use it to remove DRM from content I have purchased. No, I do not find anything wrong with that. Especially when you cannot make backups, or even download the content again (looking at you specifically AMAZON).

[fortunato711]

If you port the netflix movie to a dvr recorder you can record the movie on the dvr and then, depending on the kind of recorder you have, go from there.

[nonseq]

waldojim, on 08 October 2011 - 04:23 PM, said:

Evildave, on 06 October 2011 - 03:15 PM, said:

It's always nice to have software capable of pirating, but never using it to pirate anything. 'Cuz dat would be wrong.

I use it to remove DRM from content I have purchased. No, I do not find anything wrong with that. Especially when you cannot make backups, or even download the content again (looking at you specifically AMAZON).

The problem Jim is that you have not purchased the content. You purchased media with content on it. If, in your opinion, you indeed purchased the content, does that mean that you have the right to edit and/or modify that content and then distribute it? The notice on films plainly states that is illegal to copy, edit, modify etc under the copyright laws of the US and other nations. What, in your opinion, are the limits? In your opinion is it permissible to make copies and have two groups of folks watch them simultaneously? Nobody owns the content that they buy or rent. That's the current state of the law. Yes you can duplicate but it's illegal to distribute the duplicate. Please enlighten me. Thanks

[LiveBrianD]

Here's my opinion - for instance, if I purchase a DVD, I should be able to rip that so that I can watch it on my netbook, or any other device I own. (that doesn't have a DVD drive) If I purchase, say, a movie online that's been DRM'd, I should be able to remove the DRM so that I can watch it on any of my devices for personal use. I'm not saying I should be able to put it on torrent sites and distribute it to friends. Yes, that would be wrong. But removing DRM from stuff I purchased for my own use? Seems fine to me. I think that's what waldojim is doing.

[Evildave]

And the law is behind you, so long as you KEEP the originals, and don't share what you 'crack'.

The legal problems all really begin when people 'share' what they have.

"Oops", forgot to set a password on that internet share. Someone spots it, now you're in deep doo-doo with MPAA/RIAA/BSA/etc.

You can rip all the tracks off YOUR CDs, but if you get rid of the CD, you lose the 'license' to have those songs. Even a broken CD is a license. Keep more than half of it. If you bought and downloaded 'em, keep the receipts, and (if possible) keep the account alive.

If you rip a CD/DVD/BD, then give away the original, you've effectively 'shared' it, just as if you had ripped it and given away the copy.

You're supposed to delete those MP3s/videos/etc. if you get rid of the original.

The same applies to any media.

Backup/archive for personal use is just fine. Otherwise, my 'Time Capsule' would be full of 'illegal copies' of the legitimately licensed software and data from my computer, rather than be backup media. Offline backups would be illegal as well.

Just keep the original, and don't replicate it to 'share' or otherwise give away or sell.

[nonseq]

Evildave, on 17 September 2011 - 09:48 PM, said:

http://www.weasels.d...weasel/kiki.png

Hey Dave, is that a blackfooted ferret?

[Evildave]

That's Kiki.
http://sluggy.com/

Caution: Woe to the person who finds a net comic with fifteen years of back-story.