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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
Your comment made me google that. A very progressive system, that. Your entertainment industry must hate it.
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When was the last time you saw a Swiss movie? Or read a Swiss book?
(The "Swiss Family Robinson" doesn't count!)
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Originally Posted by JimKal
An interesting point Harry. But, I believe that in most jurisdictions in the US the law is different. Anyone is free to look in someone else's trash and take something because the "owner" has abandoned it. I would point to a well know situation here where a former candidate for President was involved in the making of a sex tape. A former employee claimed that he came into possession of the tape when the mistress discarded it. She later claimed that she had not discarded it, thus claiming it as her possession. In the US, for the most part, you want to be careful what you throw away. (Hence, the popularity of shredders.)
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The rules are different from police, though, and vary a little from state to state depending on the constitution. Under the federal constitution, it's okay for police to look through your trash because you abandoned it and gave up any reasonable expectaion of privacy by setting it out on the curb for someone else to pick up.
Under the constitution of my state, police can't do that because it violates my state's constitutional requirement that police searches be "reasonable;" our supreme court held that it was unreasonable for police to go rooting through people's garbage.
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Originally Posted by xg4bx
i've taken to soaking my paperbacks in a bucket of paint before dumping them in the trash. i wouldn't want a garbage man or dumpster diver to accidentally steal knowledge with their eyes. no sir, i won't be a party to theft.
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Throwing away paint in ordinary trash may violate a hazardous waste ordinance...