It'd be kinda like jaywalking - impossible to police.

I hope the Canadian gov't doesn't jump on this as well. 😜

badmofo wrote:

It'd be kinda like jaywalking - impossible to police.

I've actually jaywalked in front of police before. They don't really care. 🤣

and pretty soon a loaf of bread will include a EULA "in purchasing this bread the purchaser agrees not not share, sell, loan or bequeath this bread or any portion of this bread to any other person or persons." All in the name of the "intelectual rights" movement and other corporate strong arm maneovers to use the courts as market enforcers...

badmofo wrote:

It'd be kinda like jaywalking - impossible to police.

A mate of mine got fined by the police for jaywalking, in the middle of the CBD. It was $88
He wasn't going to pay it and then he got a notice in the mail threatening to cancel his licence if he didn't pay the fine plus interest

those 'copyright infringement' is false charges as theres no 'illegal duplication of the same goods'
were take place in first place, in that case.

it should be read as 'profits infringement' though,
the company coveting their own imaginary profits if those books were First-hand sales.

I read about that a couple week ago, it started with a stupid story about book imported from Thailand.

I think this has no chance of really getting through as this is complete nonsense and would basically create a general riot.
I buy almost everything second hand, i consider it to be part of a healthy sustainable lifestyle that everyone should adopt.

...to mention it would undermine several thousand years of accepted commercial practice.

Just when I thought things couldn't get even stranger...😜

Cause for major LOLs.

There's always bartering...

a mere tweak to the EULA will cover that, and if they start poking into sales taxes for bartering...

I think the article is a little on the paranoid side.

The case in question is about textbooks. Some publishers will take the fancy hard-cover textbook they sell for an outrageous price in the US and print it as a softcover on cheap paper for sale in Asia. I've bought one of those before myself.

Several outcomes strike me as more likely:
-Import restrictions are set up for particular editions of textbooks.
-Publishers stop gouging US students and start making the same softcover editions available to US students.
-Publishers stop publishing cheap Asian editions.

The second option sort of makes sense in that there may be more money in selling two cheap copies (which might be in unsellable condition by the time the semester is over) than there is in selling one hardcover (that will be resold by the campus bookstore). But then again, some students might prefer new textbooks, others might prefer to hold on to them forever instead of selling them in the delusion that they might be useful again some day ( 😊 ), and of course the publisher can always come out with a new edition and make the previous edition redundant and effectively unsellable.

Jorpho wrote:

But then again,... others might prefer to hold on to them forever instead of selling them in the delusion that they might be useful again some day ( 😊 ),

*Looks at the bookshelves nearby...* 😦

MaxWar wrote:

Jorpho wrote:

But then again,... others might prefer to hold on to them forever instead of selling them in the delusion that they might be useful again some day ( 😊 ),

*Looks at the bookshelves nearby...* 😦

*Shuffles a pile of unused textbooks under the bed with foot*

>_>

<_<

What does that make me? I just picked up a bunch of NT4/Backoffice 4.5 books off the street 😊

chinny22 wrote:

What does that make me? I just picked up a bunch of NT4/Backoffice 4.5 books off the street 😊

You just won, because you didn't actually pay for them 🤣.

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I hope the Canadian gov't doesn't jump on this as well. 😜

badmofo wrote:

It'd be kinda like jaywalking - impossible to police.

I've actually jaywalked in front of police before. They don't really care. 🤣

Here in New York City, they jaywalk with you.

As for the case, I will be surprised if it comes out in favor of the publisher since that would go against 80+ years of precedent... not that the current Court has been against that when it suits it.

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I hope the Canadian gov't doesn't jump on this as well. 😜

badmofo wrote:

It'd be kinda like jaywalking - impossible to police.

I've actually jaywalked in front of police before. They don't really care. 🤣

So have I. My parents have told me that when they were kids back in the 60s, though, the police were apparently cracking down on jaywalking. 😖

Guilliani revived the practice - fines for jaywalking, riding your bike in the park, or riding in the wrong direction, public gatherings without a permit, fines based on weird long forgotten laws and ordinances, etc. etc. He's long gone but the practice hasn't changed. Still a jaywalking fine is pretty rare in my experience - bikers get most of the crap fines I think..