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...want our communities to be safe and clean. In order for that to happen, prompt, reasonable assistance must be offered to those citizens who lack the resources or ability to meet basic needs without the assistance of others...
However, the finest business model, be it online or “bricks and mortar” cannot take root and flourish if it is expected to compete with somebody giving away the same product for free. It simply defies logic and the reality of basic economics. The average motion picture costs $102 million to make and market. If the illegal swapping of movies online is allowed to reach the levels that nearly devastated the music industry, who will invest such sums to create movies in the future...
It’s important as a first observation to note that Wirehog itself, like most such applications, is probably not an illegal piece of software. The basic standard for legality amongst peer-to-peer file sharing clients, according to the courts, has been that the software has “substantial non-infringing uses,” and wirehog.com proudly proclaims that you can use the software to “share pictures and other media with friends.” Pictures, presuming you took them yourself, are probably fine. “Other media” are what...
...These people are saying that [they] are not asking the state to give [them] anything except that basic dignity,” Ginsburg said, describing the concerns of homosexual marriage supporters...
This is the basic idea behind YellowArrow, a project with roots in performance art that started in New York this summer and has since spread across the country and throughout the world. From Berlin to California, people are enlivening cities with these bright yellow stickers and with the forum for communication they provide. Anyone can get involved by going to the website or by simply text-messaging the code whenever they spot yellow arrow. It’s been called a game, a form of graffiti, and the largest performance art piece ever attempted. More than just a scattering...