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10 Aug 2012 | #1 |
Unable to do a clean install
I want to do a clean install of windows 7 but every time the "expanding windows files" part of the installation gets stuck on 14%! please help
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10 Aug 2012 | #2 |
If the installer is one you acquired perhaps the ISO file is bad and another will work; or if you burned it to DVD, another burn is needed, use ImgBurn at no greater than x4 speed with a verify. ImgBurn Free ISO Burning SoftwareIf the PC is capable, add the installation files to a USB stick and boot that for the install and be sure to post back with any further questions you may have and to keep us informed. USB Windows 7 Installation Key Drive - Create |
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11 Aug 2012 | #3 |
I just tried the install again, this time with a new iso burned at x4 speed. I got further along the process but still it gets stuck on a random percent. I tried the first disc again and that is also closer to 100 (often in the 80´s). However I noticed that when it stops i cant move the mouse so its basically frozen making me think it´s just the computer. Do you have any ideas what could cause this? thanks
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11 Aug 2012 | #4 |
Let's work through a few more steps:
Reset the BIOS to defaults: Clear CMOS - 3 Ways to Clear the CMOS - Reset BIOS. Look in BIOS setup for SATA controller setting, try AHCI first. Unplug all other HD's and peripherals. Boot the Installation DVD which was burned with ImgBurn at 4x speed, access Command Prompt at first screen by pressing Shift + F10 keys, then wipe the HD using Diskpart Clean Command. When it completes, close Command Box, click Install Now, follow these steps to Clean Install Windows 7. If it fails let us know at what step and exactly what happens. Next, where did you get Win7? Write the ISO to flash stick using Universal USB Installer with Win7 in dropdown menu. Boot under USB, Removable or HD"s using One-time BIOS Boot Menu key given on first BIOS screen. Set HD first to boot in BIOS setup. If that fails, unplug the DVD drive or disable it in BIOS to try flash install again. Report back on each for more steps if needed. |
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15 Aug 2012 | #5 |
Sorry for taking so long to reply, I reset the BIOS to defaults and also wiped the Hd following the onscreen instructions but still the computer freezes during installation. It always stops when expanding windows files but never at the same percentage. Unfortunately I can´t try to install using USB as i only have one that is 2gb.
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15 Aug 2012 | #6 |
Are you getting the ISO from mydigitallife.info??
Or elsewhere? |
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15 Aug 2012 | #7 |
Fill in your System Specs to be best of your abiities. This write-up will serve as a guideline. I realize that you won't be able to run the programs. Update your SevenForums System Specs User CP (located on the top menu bar) | Your Profile | Edit System Spec (left-hand column) To gather info, use Speccy (my favorite) or SIW or System Info In the System Manufacturer Block, enter: Manufacturer and Model and ADD the word laptop, desktop, netbook or tablet. For example: Toshiba Satellite L305D notebook. Provide full windows version info, for example: MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit Use the Other Info block for Optical Reader, Mouse, touchpad, wifi adapter, speakers, monitor, etc Scroll down and click on SAVE CHANGES. You will find that in Speccy, you can select info from the display using your mouse/touchpad and then paste that info into your specs. SIW is a marvelous program, but the free version does not offer this capability. |
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15 Aug 2012 | #8 |
I asked you where you got Win7? The issue is likely the installer so please be thorough and don't just pick and choose steps you reply to.
Did you burn the DVD yourself? Burn another one now from a confirmed ISO using ImgBurn at 4x speed. Borrow or buy a 4gb flash stick ($5 with free shipping on buy.com) to write the ISO to it using tool specified earlier. |
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16 Aug 2012 | #9 |
The first iso was from here: Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit (download torrent) - TPB
the second I got from here: How to get Windows 7 Ultimate for free (NO TORRENTS) - YouTube I just tried again and the computer restarted "updated registry settings" but then got stuck on the next screen where it says completing installation... I´m hopefully going to buy a flash stick later today if it continues to fail, Sorry for not co-operating as well as I could be I really appreciate you taking time to help. |
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16 Aug 2012 | #10 |
Is there any particular reason you did not download the ISO from the official and authorized source, namely:
Official Windows 7 SP1 ISO from Digital River « My Digital Life |
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Go Zero: Two Projects Make Carbon History
May 27, 2014
The Conservation Fund's Go Zero program is proud to announce North America's first two reforestation projects verified to the standards of the Climate Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCB Standards) at the Gold Level. CCB verification at Red River National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Louisiana and Marais des Cygnes NWR in Kansas ensures that both projects meet objectives related to trapping carbon, providing habitat for wildlife and creating positive benefits for nearby communities outlined five years ago when the projects were initiated.
Go Zero has five validated projects at the CCB Gold Level, more than any other group in the nation. These two new verifications demonstrate Go Zero's commitment to delivering the climate, community and biodiversity benefits our donors and partners expect.
The Standard
The CCB Standard applies specifically to land management projects and, true to the name, integrates a multi-benefit approach including three areas of consideration: climate change, community, and biodiversity. This means that beyond just trapping carbon dioxide, Go Zero reforestation projects provide benefits for people and wildlife too.
The CCB Standard achieves this in a two-step process. First, projects are validated to ensure each project's design meets all of the standard's requirements. Both restoration efforts at Red River NWR and Marais des Cygnes NWR were validated at the gold level (the highest) in 2009. The second step, verification, happens five years after initial validation and at five year increments thereafter. Verification includes a third-party audit that ensures that the project has been implemented in conformance with its validated Gold Level project design and continues to generate positive climate, community and biodiversity benefits. The Gold Level distinction was awarded to both projects because they demonstrate additional benefits beyond what is required by the standard.
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Marais des Cygnes NWR - Located 70 miles south of Kansas City along the Marais des Cygnes River and the Kansas and Missouri border, Marais des Cygnes NWR spans 7,500 acres where the bottomland hardwoods forests of the south and the Northern prairies converge. In 2009, Go Zero restored more than 775 acres of native oak and hickory trees here. After decades of farming, much of the land across the Refuge was too degraded to support habitat for wildlife. Today, the restored forests are managed by US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for migratory birds including the yellow-breasted chat and indigo bunting. They are open to the public for wildlife-dependent recreational uses. As this forest matures, it is expected to trap an estimated 260,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Red River NWR - Flowing more than 1,300 miles through Louisiana and into the Mississippi River, the Red River's banks once grew cypress sloughs and hickory trees. Yet there are fewer trees flanking those banks than ever before—millions of acres fewer. As a result of farmland conversion, and the flood control measures that followed, more than 20 million acres of forest were lost. Our efforts at Red River NWR have resulted in the planting of 278,000 cypress, oak and hickory trees across 1,180 acres. As they mature, Go Zero trees will trap an estimated 300,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere as over the next 100 years.
"We are so glad to hear that it is now official that the Go Zero project at Red River NWR has been verified under CCBA standards. Of course we knew that this amazing project and all those involved with it would successfully reach this milestone," said Lynn Stewart, President of the Friends of Red River National Wildlife Refuge. "On behalf of the Friends of RRNWR, I offer our sincerest thanks to all responsible for the reforestation of 1,173 acres at Red River NWR. These recovered lands will provide amazing benefits to both the wildlife and the public in Northwest and Central Louisiana for generations to come."
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The work to design and monitor these two projects would not be possible without the support of our partners, donors and supporters. Companies and their customers, as well as individuals across the country, donate to Go Zero to offset emissions from a variety of sources. Those donations have resulted in the restoration of more than 25,000 acres and the planting of 10 million trees. . Here are just a few of those supporters who have contributed to Marias des Cygnes NWR and Red River NWR over the past five years: Bear Naked, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Conde Nast Publications, Dell, Delta Airlines, Emkay Incorporated, Gaiam, Indianapolis Colts, Land Rover Portland, New Jersey National Gas, Premiere TV, The Home Depot, The Timberland Company, The North Face, Travelocity, U-Haul International, United Talent Agency and Vans, Inc.
"Gaiam is proud to support this great cause and help the Go Zero restoration project provide wildlife shelter with over 150,000 trees planted on behalf of our customers in the last seven years," said Cyd Crouse, COO of Gaiam. "While many of our customers know us as a leader in yoga, we are fully committed to helping the environment and promoting a sustainable economy. Our name itself is a fusion of Gaia, the ancient Greek goddess of the earth and the phrase 'I am'—representing the interconnectivity, preservation and support of all living things."
Go Zero also relies on natural resource agency partners to accomplish our work, including the USFWS. While Go Zero focuses on the design and implementation of each project, the USFWS is the long-term land manager and steward of our restoration projects and employs well-trained biologists and environmental professionals who provide regular reports from on-the-ground activity.
Both of these projects were verified by SCS Global Services under its SCS Greenhouse Gas Verification Program.

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Troopers gave this account of the 11:33 a.m. crash:
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With a 60th birthday looming, along with the demise of her 33 year marriage, Meg Noble Peterson decided it was high time to see the world. Armed with only a backpack, open ticket, empty journals, and a camera, Peterson headed for Africa & Asia for eight months of deadline-free wandering across Africa & Asia.
Chronicling her experiences in Madam, Have You Ever Really Been Happy?, Peterson covered four continents and 12 countries from the crowded streets of Cairo, to contentious apartheid South Africa, to India's Taj Mahal, to the peaks of the Himalaya. "In 1987, after a divorce, a career, and raising five kids, I decided to escape everyday life and travel around the world," she explains. Traveling on a shoestring and making plans as she went along, Peterson ventured well off the beaten path. She rode on dilapidated buses through Egypt and Zimbabwe and squeezed into hot, crowded trains in India. In Kenya, she encountered roadblocks and Masai warriors, and in Nepal she found romance with an Austrian scientist. Abandoned at 14,000 ft. by their drunken guide, the two climb to Everest Base Camp through the snow and ice, and were almost buried by an avalanche before they reached Kala Pattar at 18,500 ft."My memoir illustrates that it's never too late to strike out for places exotic and unknown," notes Peterson, now 78. "I didn't let the fact that I was a woman approaching sixty deter me from traveling. I had some of the most exhilarating and thrilling experiences of my life."
For more on her recent travels, visit MegNoblePeterson.com. The book is available at Amazon.com.
Via The Travel Snob.
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For a podcast interview with the designer, check out L.A.Story. Find a pair at store near you at KasilJean.com.
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A recent spate of articles in the popular media have focused on how sexy Halloween, and, in particular, Halloween costumes seem to have become. However, research by Youth Trends indicates that earnest & well-meaning writers may have missed the humor - and the boat - altogether. "Like many other youth-focused topics covered by the mainstream media, this looks to be another mis-guided effort, because I can tell with a very high confidence level that 90% of the feedback we received from our panelists concerning Halloween, Halloween costumes and Halloween parties, is the polar opposite of what the so called "experts" are being quoted as saying in most of those articles," explains Josh Weil, CEO of Youth Trends in a piece on his GenDigital blog. "For young people today (for many whose dress code would be considered racy on a normal Tuesday morning) Halloween is a "theme" party to dress up and pretend to be something they're not, to get a few laughs out of their friends, and party."- Lesley Scott(photos: HalloweenMart.com)
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Just in time to capitalize on holiday shopping madness, diminutive disco diva Kylie Minogue will be dropping her new fragrance, Darling, coinciding with the start of her Showgirl Homecoming Tour in Sydney, Australia on November 11. A collaboration with Coty Beauty, the fragrance will be launched in the U.K., Ireland & Australia, and be available in Europe and the Americas in the spring; distribution will be a mix of chi chi department stores and mass retailers – mirroring the crossover appeal of Minogue. "She's a democratic entertainer," Steve Mormoris, senior vice president of global marketing for Coty Beauty, told WWD. "[Darling will] be in different channels of distribution, as consumers shopping in both prestige and mass channels know Kylie Minogue and want to buy a fragrance by her."
Because of the millions of dollars at stake creating, launching & marketing a celebrity fragrance, a vast amount of market research is always the first step in the process to verify that the celeb indeed has global appeal. "Kylie Minogue has proven to be one of the leading celebrity entertainers," explains Mormoris about the star's A-list status in the U.K., Australia, Asia, Europe, Canada, and select U.S. cities. "She's a celebrity who reaches people of all socioeconomic specifications…She has strong appeal with three generations: women and men in their 20s, 30s and 40s. This is rare in the celebrity marketplace. Kylie is a musical artist, she's a beautiful woman, she's accessible and charismatic. All of these characteristics we know translate well into a fragrance."
Priced in the 15 to 35 Euro range ($20-$45), insiders guesstimate that the fragrance, shower gel & body lotion will rake in a cool $50 million in retail sales the first year. Because of her large & devoted gay following, a men's fragrance is not surprisingly in the works. "Some men have asked about it already, as they know Darling is coming out," says Minogue about the fragrance which is named for her pet moniker for friends & loved ones. "To have interest is such a luxury." (via WWD)
The deets on Darling – a chypre-floriental scent created by Thierry Wasser of Firmenich:
TOP NOTES: passion fruit, freesia & lycheeHEART: lily and boronia (an Australian flower)BASE: sandalwood, amber wood and vanilla
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Great options for workin' it Luella style on a non-Luella budget:
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Costco may be very generous with the free food samples and might have a very forgiving return policy, but when it comes to paying with a credit card at the warehouse club, customers have only one option: American Express. But a new report claims that we could be seeing the end of Costco customers being forced to use their AmEx when buying 872 lbs. of steak and enough toilet paper to keep a small nation clean. [More]
Study: Credit Card Applications Becoming More User Friendly, But Still Lack Valuable Informaton
Credit card companies love to advertise all the perks of being a cardholder — rewards points, cash back, airline miles, etc. — but card issuers have historically hidden the not-as-good stuff in the fine print of card applications. A new study finds that banks are doing a better job of making things more transparent — but not about everything. [More]
Capital One Sends Customer A New Orange-Juiceless Keyboard So He Can Pay His Bill
We are living in a digital world, which means many things we used to do offline, like paying bills, are now handled online. But what's a good customer to do when he can't pay his credit card bill due to a keyboard infiltrated with orange juice? Speak up — and maybe get a free keyboard out of it. [More]
Bank Of America Agrees To Scan For Illegal Payday Lenders In NY
Payday lending is illegal in more than a dozen states, including New York, but some lenders manage to fly under the radar by operating online or hiding their loans as part of another business. In an effort to crackdown on loans that violate state laws, New York has created a database for banks to use to help identify sketchy lenders, and Bank of America — no stranger to the issue of questionable loans — is the first to sign on. [More]
Card Canceled After Target Data Breach Hit With Fraudulent Charge Anyway
The massive holiday season Target data breach is the gift that just keeps on giving consumers more headaches. Replacing a compromised card may not be enough to prevent fraud, it turns out: criminals may still be able to charge purchases to your old account even if you thought it was closed. [More]
Capital One Isn't Coming To Visit You, Probably
A few weeks ago, Capital One sent customers a contract update that told them that it could drop by their home or workplace whenever they feel like it, and call them up without disclosing their identity. Capital One must not have predicted the response from customers, since now the company really, really want them to know that debt collectors are not going to stop by for a chat. Unless it's about your snowmobile. [More]
Capital One Contract Update Gives Company Ability To Visit You At Home
Maybe they should change their slogan from "What's in your wallet?" to "Who's knocking at your door?" Capital One recently updated its contract for credit card customers, and the new language is giving some cardholders concern that Cap One may just pop in for tea and scones some afternoon. [More]
Capital One Is The Most Complained-About Credit Card Company
Since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened its credit card complaint portal in Sept. 2010, more than 25,000 complaints have been filed with the CFPB. And while the 10 largest credit card issuers account for 93% of all those complaints, one company is responsible for more than 1-in-5 of all complaints filed with the Bureau: Capital One. [More]
Capital One Sends Me Across London To Get My Debit Card To Work
Lucky reader Twila is enjoying a European vacation right now. Only she has one sort of inconvenient problem: her Capital One debit card won't work in many of the places she's visiting. Like her hostel. And entire parts of London. [More]
Consumer-Friendly Checking Account Practices Vary Wildly From Bank To Bank
Unless you've been hiding under a bed for the last six years, you probably know that the banking industry isn't exactly beloved by many American consumers. As a reaction to public sentiment (and threats of regulation), a number of banks have begun phasing in some more consumer-friendly practices, but a new study shows these changes are not industry-wide and that several banks are still years behind. [More]
Worst Company In America Round 1: Bank Of America Vs. Capital One
Your NCAA bracket might already be busted, but how are you doing with your WCIA predictions? Starting off today's bloodshed is a showdown featuring the tournament's perennial bridesmaid. [More]
Watch Your Credit Card Statement: Refunds Arriving Soon From AmEx, Capital One, Discover
Getting money back from a credit card issuer doesn't happen every day, so plenty of Discover, American Express and Capital One customers are in for a treat in the form of refunds hitting their accounts soon. Those three companies were ordered to pay up a total of $435 million to almost six million customers after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau took action against deceptive credit card practices. [More]
Capital One Android App Traps My Phone In Infinite Updateless Loop
David's Android smartphone, a Galaxy S, is still working just fine. It just has one problem: he can't upgrade it to a newer version of the Android operating system. He's stuck on 2.2. So what? It doesn't affect him all that much except for how his bank's app requires a newer version of Android than that. His phone gets stuck in a loop of being unable to update. [More]
ING Direct To Become 'Capital One 360,' But Promises To Remain The Same
It's been more than a year since ING Direct customers got news that their online bank was being bought by perennial Worst Company In America contender Capital One. But the last vestiges of ING will soon disappear after its name changes to Capital One 360. [More]
Data Shows Bank Of America Is Also Bad At Dealing With Credit Card Complaints
Earlier this year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launched a complaint portal for people with credit card-related issues. Banks and card companies are not obliged to provide a happy ending to the complainant, but they are obliged to reply in a timely manner. And even with the bar lowered that much, Bank of America still manages to disappoint. [More]
My $17 Is Stuck With Sharebuilder Forever Thanks To Stupid Fees
Chip wanted to take the money in his Sharebuilder account elsewhere. He had rolled over a 401(k), but not a very big one. Whether he didn't have it long or the one security in it had lost value, he didn't say, but the balance is only $17. The thing is, he needs to add another $73 in order to move the account anywhere. Sharebuilder's fees to move your account to another institution are $75 per account (he has multiple accounts) and $15 per security. He asked whether the $75, at least, could be waived in the case of an account with such a tiny balance. They said no. [More]


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This whole fall I was pretty sure that I would be in Sölden racing, when that did not happen I though I would be in London hitting a big air kicker but that did not happen either. So instead I was stuck infront of the TV watching the race in Sölden, seeing skiers that I I have skied even with all fall doing very well. When that was over I got to watch the videos from Freeze big air and to top that off I found a blog draft from London as Oskar had already made it there when I missed my flight.
So the week end was not what I had planned for but I guess that happens. Have lived on the gym instead and built up on my motivation. More stoked then ever to get this ski season started and get back into race mode.
Things never turn out the way you plan so you just have to adopt as well as you can! Was however amazing to watch Ted kill it today in Sölden, taking the win with 2.75 secs, the biggest winning margin since the late 1970s… Nothing short of super impressive!
I am right now trying to figure out if I should head north to Scandinavia to train or if I should head to Sölden, need the next few weeks to be good so that I am 100% rady for the EC opening in Levi!
Here's a link to a few more photos just to rub it in what you missed hopefully see you there this year? – http://www.jonmorganphotography.co.uk/blog/event/freeze-festival-london/
Makes sense now why I didn't see you around… Missed Oskar also… You missed a good weekend…
Jon lika med Swedbank ekorren hihi
Are you driving a Rambo-Lambo this winter?
Send pics from finland
shame everything didn't work out dude – but you have a great mindset when dealing with such situations – onwards & upwards!
go to the place with the steepest runs and the best coaches with real world gates to practice gates and then make sure you can ski flat courses well too
Better conditioning so you are not even winded after 5 races down same hill
and coaches that time you etc and try to beat everybody by 6 seconds(smile)
we love you no matter what
You are in the drivers seat
Game up
Jon, is it possible, that in the nearest future we will hear something about rebellion?


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The Intellectual Property Renaissance in Cyberspace: Why Copyright Law Could Be Unimportant on the Internet
B. No Meaningful Marginal Costs of Reproduction or Distribution
C. Ability to Act Anonymously
D. Uneducated Users
E. Conclusion IV. ECONOMICS AND THE INTERNET
B. Cross-subsidization of Intellectual Property Creation
C. Importance of Attribution
D. Conclusion V. SOCIOLOGY OF THE INTERNET
B. Internet Culture and Micro-Infringements
C. Conditioning to Expect Freebies VI. TECHNOLOGIES AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
B. Metering
C. Post-Infringement
D. Additional Problems Under Copyright Law Possibly Solvable by Technology
E. Is Technology a Substitute for Copyright Law? VII. CONCLUSION
Influential futurist Ithiel de Sola Pool wrote:
Unlike Professor Pool, we have the benefit of a few years of empirical evidence to draw upon in analyzing the effects of electronic networks on intellectual property. This article analyzes some of the lessons we have learned in the commercial Internet's toddler years to glean some insights into the implications for copyright law and Internet-based commerce. After analyzing recent economic, business, sociological and technological developments, this article concludes that, while copyright law has a role to play on the Internet, other developments overshadow copyright law as a tool for conforming behavior such that copyright law may be unimportant to the Internet. The public policy implications are clear: the business models, sociology and technology of the Internet are evolving so rapidly that efforts to conform copyright law to this environment would be detrimental.
Part II summarizes a few basic points of U.S. copyright law. Part III describes specific threats that the Internet poses to the enforcement of rights under copyright law. Part IV analyzes the economics of electronic networks to identify why intellectual property might be created even in a putatively anarchistic, piracy-infested environment such as the Internet. Part V discusses sociological attitudes towards intellectual property on the Internet, identifying why it will be difficult to conform behavior on the Internet to the strict letter of existing copyright laws. Part VI discusses technologies that copyright holders can use in the battle over works subject to copyright. Finally, part VII concludes with thoughts about how we can live in a world where copyright laws are not the primary influence on our behavior towards intellectual property.
The Constitution authorizes Congress to establish a legislative scheme "to promote Science and the useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors . . . the exclusive right to their . . . writings . . . ."7 In response, Congress enacted the Copyright Act of 1909, which it later replaced with the Copyright Act of 1976 (the "Copyright Act").8
The Copyright Act governs original works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression. While the standard for originality is low, facts and ideas may not be copyrighted.9 For copyrightable works, the owner has the following exclusive rights:
(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;
(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and
(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.10
Second, these exclusive rights are subject to the doctrine of fair use, which may permit the infringement of an exclusive right of a copyright owner if its conditions are met. The Copyright Act enumerates four factors that are to be considered to determine whether or not a use is fair:
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.12
There are numerous other statutory exceptions and limitations to copyright owners' rights, generally set out in Sections 108 to 120 of the Copyright Act.
Other intellectual property rights in U.S. law often also apply to works for which copyright protection is sought, including trade secret rights, trademark rights, patent rights, rights of publicity, and rights of privacy. While these other forms of intellectual property are not addressed in this paper, collectively they form an important additional basket of rights available to creators of intellectual property.
B. No Meaningful Marginal Costs of Reproduction or Distribution
However, anonymous activity is not a copyright-specific problem; it applies to all crimes and torts that can be committed on-line. Therefore, it may be more appropriate to address the harm caused by anonymity generally, rather than drafting a specific resolution applicable only to losses suffered by copyright owners. Furthermore, there is a built-in limitation to the scope and size of anonymous actions, particularly if any element of the activity is commercial; at a certain point the activity should become large enough to leave at least shreds of evidence, both in physical space and cyberspace, sufficient to allow attribution.15
A. Price-Setting Behavior in a Nearly Efficient Marketplace When Marginal Costs Are Meaningfully Zero
In an efficient marketplace, a firm's profit-maximizing price is the price where marginal revenue from each sale of the product equals the marginal costs of the product.20 If marginal costs are zero, what is the profit maximizing price?
1. Marginal Costs on the Internet
2. Optimal Pricing
(i) A zero-revenue pricing strategy may persist only in the short run; but, ultimately, because no profits are being made, all producers will exit this business. This is fundamentally the assertion of those who believe that intellectual property owners must be paid directly for their creative efforts, or else they will not produce.22
(ii) The only sustainable pricing strategy may be a scheme involving price discrimination, where prices are set in accordance with users' willingness to pay. In this situation, intellectual property will be offered at varying prices, including possibly free, depending on the user.23
(iii) Traditional economic theory may break down on the Internet so that intellectual property will not be offered for free despite the absence of marginal variable costs. If this were true, the profit-maximizing price may not be where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. This would be a rather profound result, implicating large chunks of existing economic theory.
(iv) Finally, the profit-maximizing price on the Internet may be where marginal revenue equals marginal cost because intellectual property will be cross-subsidized by other products in a manner sufficient to cover the fixed costs associated with intellectual property creation and distribution. If this is true, a market price of zero for intellectual property can still create long-term economic profits attributable to intellectual property creation.
Of the four possible explanations, as explained in the remainder of this part IV, the author believes that the last proposition best explains why the production and distribution of intellectual property will continue even in the absence of marginal revenues directly attributable to users of the intellectual property.
The remainder of this part IV will discuss why the last theory is at least supportable when it comes to many categories of intellectual property on the Internet.
An intellectual property owner can use a myriad of alternative business models to extract value from the free distribution of intellectual property. If successful, these business models will permit the cross-subsidization of intellectual property creation. Internet entrepreneurs will be induced to create intellectual property if they are able to use it to make a profit from alternative revenue sources.25
The remainder of part IV.B provides a survey of Internet-based cross-subsidization models that may support the production of intellectual property designed to be given away freely.
1. Advertising
However, the slow increase in Internet advertising dollars suggests that, in the short run, advertising revenue may be insufficient to support the level of free distribution of intellectual property that exists today.30 Because the supply of advertisement placement opportunities exceeds the demand of advertisers, advertisers are becoming more demanding.31 Moreover, Internet users have grown weary of the often annoying banner advertisements. Nevertheless, the results obtainable from on-line advertising can be so compelling that certain advertisers have strong incentives to choose Internet advertising over other media.32
Furthermore, other media industries indicate that multi-billion dollar industries can be built primarily on advertising. For example, the multi-billion dollar broadcast TV industry effectively gives away its intellectual property to viewers, supporting itself almost exclusively on advertising. The television broadcasting model is consistent with the contention that Internet users will not be required to pay for intellectual property, and that the production of intellectual property can be entirely supported by advertising.
In reality, many intellectual property owners will combine the advertising model with other forms of ancillary revenues.33 Nevertheless, advertising remains a critically important component of Internet cross-subsidization business models.
2. Sponsorships
Sponsorship is emerging as a strong alternative to banner advertising, at least partly due to advertisers' dissatisfaction with the results from banner advertising.36 However, sponsored content also raises difficult issues about editorial integrity as the line between advertisement and editorial information becomes blurred.
3. "Try Before You Buy"
4. Sales of Upgrades
5. Sale of Complementary Technology
6. Sales of Physical Goods
7. Sales of Services
A notable example of the use of cross-subsidization to sell services is the free distribution of software as an avenue to sell technical support. For example, Microsoft gives away its Internet Explorer browser without a licensing fee, but users must purchase technical support. The sale of technical support unbundled from the underlying software has become increasingly popular.
Companies can then exploit this information for commercial gain in a number of ways, such as selling email mailing lists to other companies or selling advertising space to companies that want to provide users with customized product offerings or page views based on their perceived preferences.47 Although the commercial use of this personal information can create some significant privacy issues,48 such use is generally not subject to legal restrictions in the United States.
9. Communities
The formation of Internet communities offers one of the most promising Internet business opportunities. If an Internet site can successfully attract like-minded people to interact with each other on the site, it will have a number of ways to extract value from these relationships.49 In addition to the obvious methods, such as selling the demographics to advertisers and selling the mailing list to merchants interested in reaching the target audience, the Internet site can extract value by enhancing the community members' ability to communicate with each other. The site could accomplish this by providing proprietary tools to facilitate onsite communication and tools and methods to facilitate and enrich physical-space meetings between members.
For example, WebGenesis <http://www.theglobe.com> provides chat rooms oriented primarily towards young adults. While the general public can access the chat rooms for free, subscribers receive "bonus" onsite privileges, including an onsite home page to which all their onsite chat postings are hypertext linked automatically, access to private chat rooms available only to other subscribers (who presumably are also dedicated chatters), and the ability to use tools such as Java that enhance the chatting experience. In other words, by providing the chat rooms for free, WebGenesis is able to identify those members of the communities who desire a greater relationship to the community and target these people for the sale of advanced onsite communications products.
Companies could also derive revenue opportunities from Internet communities by organizing conferences and other events of interest to the community. A site that forms a community dedicated to river rafting, for example, could sell river rafting trips to its members, an endeavor that would have the added value of creating an opportunity to meet other members of the community in physical space.
10. Reinforcement of Physical-Space Messages
Alternatively, some companies use Internet sites to increase customer loyalty or provide branding opportunities.50 For example, the websites prepared by Zima <http://www.zima.com> and Miller Genuine Draft <http://www.mgdtaproom.com/> contain offerings designed to allow their consumers to feel like the part of a community and to encourage brand loyalty. The Internet market has been described as a "relationship" market;51 free intellectual property can be the way to initiate, build or reinforce the relationship.
U.S. copyright law affords no "right of attribution" to owners of intellectual property distributed on the Internet.52 While some trademark, unfair competition, or right of publicity theories may limit the ability of users of intellectual property to falsely represent the origin of the intellectual property, there is no copyright obligation of attribution.53
In some cases, attribution may be the only right that matters on the Internet. In fact, an intellectual property owner seeking cross-subsidization may encourage people to "infringe" the intellectual property through wide distribution, so long as attribution is given.54 Thus, existing copyright law lacks an important right, the absence of which could hinder the deployment of key business models on the Internet.
The NII White Paper recognized that attribution could be important and therefore recommended that copyright law be amended to "prohibit the provision, distribution or importation for distribution of copyright management information known to be false and the unauthorized removal or alteration of copyright management information."55 The White Paper defines copyright management information as the name of the copyright owner and the terms and conditions for use of the work.56
While not adopted into law in the United States, a virtually identical proposal was adopted at the proceedings of the World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO").57 Time will tell if the treaty will be adopted without changes in the United States.
The White Paper proposal and the WIPO treaty represent an important step toward the recognition of the right of attribution in the United States. However, the proposed law could have profound effects on some current Internet practices.58 First, website operators commonly incorporate content maintained on remote servers into the pages delivered to users through a direct hypertext link to the remote content.59 Intellectual property owners whose files are linked this way may object (1) because these direct-linked users do not actually visit their site, and (2) because the file may be displayed so as to suggest that the site providing the link is the source of the file. Does this form of direct linking run afoul of the White Paper's proposal? Should it? Would it matter if the linked-to site provided a notice denying access to others who attempted to link to the site? 60
Second, robots and agents can, for example, survey multiple search engines and display the search results to the end user in summary form, without displaying any advertising contained on the search engine's site (or, for that matter, giving any attribution to the search engine).61 As a result, the search engine sites must bear the costs of providing the service without getting the anticipated benefits from the consumers of the information. Does this type of robot behavior run afoul of White Paper's proposal? Should it? Would it matter if the search engine's site contained a notice that notified others that robots and agents were not welcome?
The impact of this concept is powerful: if even one person is able to produce and freely distribute a type of intellectual property through cross-subsidization, why would consumers continue to pay for an equivalent work? While each copyrightable creation is theoretically unique, many types of intellectual property have substitutes which consumers would readily choose if they were available for free.62 In other words, if the Internet is a relatively efficient market and intellectual property is somewhat fungible, then the free availability of a type of work should establish the market price for that type of intellectual property at zero.63
The implications of this proposition are truly profound. It suggests that intellectual property owners who expect to be paid directly by end users will face extreme competitive pressures. A single entrepreneur able to cross-subsidize the production of substitute intellectual property should theoretically drive the market price to zero and eliminate all prospects that end users will directly pay for the intellectual property. Given the plethora of methods an entrepreneur could use to achieve this result, zero pricing may be inevitable for many classes of intellectual property.
However, some categories of intellectual property almost certainly will not be given away for free.64 For those categories that will support user payments, entrepreneurs can deploy various technologies to protect their intellectual property and increase the likelihood of payment. These technologies are discussed in part VI.
1. Information Wants to be Free
2. Right of Attribution
3. Limited Use of Works Subject to Copyright
4. Moral Rights
5. Strong Intellectual Property Rights
From a policy perspective, it is useful to think about how our copyright laws can conform the behavior of people who subscribe to the perspectives outlined above. Importantly, people who subscribe to the "information wants to be free" theory may very well abuse copyright restrictions regardless of the strength of intellectual property laws, in which case strengthening copyright laws to conform their behavior serves little purpose.69 To the extent that the Internet culture has increased the number of people unsupportive of strong intellectual property rights, new copyright laws designed to increase creators' rights are unlikely to produce the desired results.
Take, for example, people under the age of thirty. During most or all of their life, they have had easy access-often in their home-to a number of devices they could use to infringe copyrights: audio cassette recorders (and cheap blank tapes); video cassette recorders (and again cheap blank tapes); high quality, low cost photocopy machines; fax machines; and perhaps the most powerful copying device of all, the personal computer (and cheap blank disks and hard drives). As a result, the under-thirty generation has grown up being able to freely expropriate intellectual property easily and at little cost.71 As college students, how many of them bought most (or even some) of the software on their computer, rather than "borrowing" it from their folks or from a friend down the hall? How many of them put together a compilation tape of their favorite songs? How many of them made a cassette tape of someone else's music album? What mechanisms are in place-or could be put into place-to effectively convince these people that these acts are impermissible under the existing system?
The early Net users and the under-thirty crowd appear to have combined to create an interesting psychology on the Internet. The Internet community reacts with widespread disbelief when someone tries to assert that web browsing is an infringement,72 that linking to a third party's materials is an infringement,73 that forwarding an email to a mail list could be copyright infringement,74 or that setting up a fan site could be an infringement.75 Conceivably, the Internet community could be educated to understand why these actions implicate copyright rights, but changing the state of the Internet to conform to expansive readings of the copyright law would cause major upheaval. Furthermore, the logistics involved in trying to police these "micro-infringements" are daunting, and perhaps not efficient from a social cost versus social benefit standpoint.76 Indeed, such an approach could ultimately prove economically counterproductive for intellectual property owners as well.77
More generally, the combination of the Internet culture and the general effect of technological evolution may be affecting our collective attitudes toward intellectual property. We have become a culture largely comfortable with serial micro-infringements. Generally, we want to respect other people's intellectual property rights, but we also want to run our lives in a way that ultimately results in numerous minor, almost trivial, but still theoretically actionable infringements.78 The effect of trying to try to apply copyright laws (or worse, to try to strengthen them) to overcome this attitude would likely be regressive.
VI. Technologies and Methods For Controlling Intellectual Property
Some people believe that the availability of the technologies described in this section will lead to the development of a micropayment economy, where even minor uses of intellectual property will result in micropayments to the intellectual property owners. In addition to this result being unlikely for the reasons described in part IV, micropayments raise other difficult issues. In particular, the transaction costs of micropayments can be relatively large-and any customer support is likely to be too costly to provide.79
Clearly no single technology or method can prevent all forms of infringement. However, it is both theoretically and practically possible that a combination of technologies and other methods will provide significant protection against unwanted infringement throughout the productive life of the intellectual property. By setting up impediments to infringement, the intellectual property owner can conform the behavior of those who are unwilling to invest the extra effort to infringe. Furthermore, while the pirates will have plenty of incentive to defeat the technology, "technology does tend to favor the good guys because the good guys are better funded."80
1. Limited functionality
2. Date bomb
3. Copy Protection
4. Encryption Envelopes
5. Contracts
1. Access codes
2. Rights-Management Envelopes
3. Hardware Devices
4. Downloadable Executables
5. Centralized Computing
6. Digital Certificates
7. Copyright Clearinghouses
8. Sale of Physical Copies
1. Agents
2. Steganography
3. Copyright Litigation
D. Additional Problems Under Copyright Law Possibly Solvable by Technology
When the technologies available for controlling linking and caching are combined with the technologies and methods described in parts VI.A-C, supra, the mosaic of the overall set of protection technologies and methods available to intellectual property owners becomes clearer. This clarity will lead to the question, discussed in part VI.E, infra, of whether situations exist the intellectual property owner should have the obligation-if he or she wants to exercise it-to prevent users from infringing before the owner is given the right to claim infringement.
1. Linking
While the plain language of the copyright statute suggests the above conclusion, commentators, to ensure that linking is not copyright infringement, have argued that uploading intellectual property to the Internet grants an "implied license"104 to link. Alternatively, linking might be considered fair use.
Of course, given the alternative business models discussed earlier, in many cases Internet sites eagerly seek out linking as an entree to generate ancillary values. In fact, a nascent business of providing links has developed.105 However, if an Internet site does desire to keep others from linking to some or all of its pages, a number of technologies are available to inhibit linking:
• If the sysop desires to prevent a specific site from linking to a page, the sysop may code the page in such a way that it refuses browsers who access the site from the forbidden linking site.106
• In the case of automatic linking performed by robots and spiders (such as those used by the search engines), the sysop may load information into the header of the page that instructs the robots and spiders not to index the page.
• The page can be password protected, although this practice inhibits the page's free accessibility to people browsing the Internet.
• To address the problem of unattributed graphics being incorporated into pages on a remote system, the graphic may contain a program that automatically causes a notice to appear to users who access it that the graphic is the copyrighted work of the intellectual property owner.107
2. Caching
Although different concepts, similar issues to caching arise with mirroring (establishing an identical copy of an Internet site on a different server), archiving (providing an historical repository for information, such as with newsgroups and mail lists, where the proceedings would otherwise be evanescent), and full-text indexing (the copying of a document for loading into a full text or nearly full-text database which is searchable for key words or concepts).
Caching is an integral part of the Internet's operation, in part because it speeds the user's access to files and in part because it reduces the infrastructure required for operation of the Internet (by reducing the number of files that must be transferred using the infrastructure). Without caching, our already taxed infrastructure would be even more clogged, to the point where it may become unworkable. As a result, a number of serious business plans have been predicated on using caching.108
However, caching could cause harm because the copies in the cache are not necessarily the most current and up-to-date copies.109 For example, users relying on the cached copy may unwittingly use out-of-date material; similarly, harms such as defamation or infringement that existed on the original page may propagate for years until flushed from each cache where they have been replicated.110 Also, since caching is an infringement under a literal reading of U.S. copyright law, either caching must be the subject of an implied license or fair use defense or it is (at least theoretically) actionable.
Internet sites can deploy a number of technologies to restrict or prevent caching:
• Sysops may place information on the page's header which tells the party trying to cache the page when to replace the copy in the cache with a new copy (this is called an "expiry header"). In the case of a sysop who does not want the page cached at all, the sysop merely sets the expiry date as a date before the date on which the information is loaded. Unfortunately, no technology standards presently exist under which caching entities can read and manage this process automatically, so a sysop's instructions may well be ignored or not processed.
• The page can be password protected, although again this inhibits the page's free accessibility to Internet browsers.
In some ways, this argument is unprecedented. No other situation come to mind where a copyright owner's failure to use technological protective controls has the effect of diminishing their rights under copyright law.111 Why should the Internet create a new paradigm?
On the other hand, the normal functioning of the Internet is predicated on multiple infringements of copyright rights. If we want the Internet to work as it currently operates and as it can operate in the future, we must reduce the chilling effect of the threat of copyright litigation by changing the rules (or interpreting them differently) or placing some burden on intellectual property owners to "opt out" of the system by deploying technology controls.
Given that many intellectual property owners' business models are based on encouraging "infringement" by users, and that many users believe (innocently but mistakenly) that intellectual property found on the Internet is free for the taking, a trend is emerging toward increasing the burden placed on intellectual property owners to adopt technology controls rather than relying on copyright infringement litigation. Interestingly, this trend is incompatible with the efforts of those seeking to increase the scope of the copyright laws.112
• The economics of the Internet dictate that, in many cases, businesses must find a way to generate revenues without charging users for intellectual property.
• A wide variety of sustainable business models permit businesses to accomplish that end.
• Users are becoming increasingly unwilling to pay directly for intellectual property.
• The elimination of all infringements is an impossible and possibly undesirable goal.
• A cadre of entrepreneurs and existing companies are introducing a wide variety of technologies that intellectual property owners can use to manage the process of infringements.
• The perception is increasing that intellectual property owners should be required to use the available technological tools rather than relying on the threat of litigation over micro-infringements.
Concluding that copyright law's unimportance on the Internet suggests that copyright law should be abolished generally would be inaccurate. The fact that the existing copyright laws may have no effect on the way creators and consumers operate on the Internet does not mean that we no longer need these laws. Existing copyright laws are critically important to the world of physical space.113 This holds true even though the Internet may become the preeminent vehicle for the dissemination of intellectual property.
However, except in the possible case of attribution rights, no new laws designed to increase the rights of intellectual property owners on the Internet are currently needed. Any such legislation would most likely destroy the delicate balance being struck in the marketplace right now. Furthermore, any anomaly in the existing laws is likely to be resolved by technological and business innovation, which is occurring at a dizzying rate.
We live in an energizing information age, where we are beginning to realize many of yesterday's dreams about information exchange on a global scale. We should facilitate this environment by letting the marketplace reach its own equilibrium. We can do this best by pursuing legislation which regulates only the most extreme behavior, leaving the rest of the spectrum of behavior for marketplace solutions.


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Ask the Devs Round 11 answers your healing questions
As a raider, I think the best answer came for the question about raid healing being hard for healers and why it sometimes feels like damage is unhealable. The devs commented that raids are not meant to be unhealable, and in most circumstances when the fight seems unhealable, players might be taking the wrong approach to the mechanics. Translated: It might not always be the healer's fault.
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