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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: cahult on 8 February 2006, 13:25

Title: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: cahult on 8 February 2006, 13:25
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29462

There are idiots, windows users and so on. An then there
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 8 February 2006, 13:38
That's terrible!

I'm suprized the judge even considered it, this just shows how crap the US legal system is, and it's why I would've spent the money on emigrating.
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: Dark_Me on 8 February 2006, 14:08
Canada! Oh Canada!...
The RIAA sueing people is very ineffective. Of the several million people who do download illegally they sue what? 3, 4, 5 people per year? And these, lets be generous, 6 people, they use highly illegal (and strangly ineffective) methods to catch them.
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: Refalm on 8 February 2006, 15:30
It's far more easier to sue normal people that will be scared shitless and pay up, rather than going after 0-day crues like h8me (that do their very best not to be traced) or P2P companies (like Limewire).
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: Dark_Me on 8 February 2006, 15:56
I thought that they did go after Limewire? It's realativly easy to go after a centralised p2p network. Unless there server and webhosting is in somewhere that allows a centralised p2p network. Which is none to my knowledge. Torrents on the other hand...
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: mobrien_12 on 8 February 2006, 16:35
why is this a second thread?
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: Calum on 8 February 2006, 20:34
to confuse readers.

is ti working?
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 8 February 2006, 20:40
Code: [Select]

while (1)
{
 cout << "You cannot escape the infinite loop";
}
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 8 February 2006, 21:28
Why hasn't a mod removed thid duplicate thread? :rolleyes:
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: Calum on 8 February 2006, 22:13
this thread's kind of developed its own character now though, wouldn't you agree?
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 9 February 2006, 00:05
I suppose so, if you want it could be appended to the other one for the sake of tidiness.
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: worker201 on 9 February 2006, 02:09
Or, since it's the lounge, we could tell jokes and go waaaaay off topic.

I used Acrobat Distiller for the first time today.  What a neat program!  It was only the version from Acrobat 5, so it has probably been upgraded since then.  Very useful for mapping, because it lets you make PDFs that are larger than page size, but really small on disk.  Illustrator 10 only lets you do page-size PDFs.  All of this was in Windows, by the way, so it took for-fucking-ever.
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 9 February 2006, 03:48
Dude ... you do realize that you can do the same thing with OpenOffice for free and probobly 10x faster (assuming you're running it on Linux) ... I just made a 20" by 20" square PDF just now for example ... the tricky part ... printing it out :)
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: Orethrius on 9 February 2006, 08:10
Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H
Dude ... you do realize that you can do the same thing with OpenOffice for free and probobly 10x faster (assuming you're running it on Linux) ... I just made a 20" by 20" square PDF just now for example ... the tricky part ... printing it out :)
Methinks thou may have missed the "joke" part. :D
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: worker201 on 9 February 2006, 20:00
Quote from: Orethrius
Methinks thou may have missed the "joke" part. :D

Methinks I forgot to mention that this was an EPS file that I made a big PDF out of.  I think OO would cough and die if I handed it an 85MB EPS file.
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 9 February 2006, 20:44
Quote from: worker201
Methinks I forgot to mention that this was an EPS file that I made a big PDF out of. I think OO would cough and die if I handed it an 85MB EPS file.

Yup ... I bet it would ... unfortunately.

Hmmm ... I seem not to get a lot of jokes, I'll have to keep an eye out for em :)
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: Calum on 9 February 2006, 21:54
the invisible man goes to the doctor's and the nurse says to him "i'll just go and let the doctor know you're here". So the nurse goes in and says to the doctor "the invisible man's here" and the doctor says "the invisible man? tell him i can't see him!".
Title: Re: RIAA sues computerless woman
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 9 February 2006, 23:56
Yeah, well at least I get that one :)