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MPAA Fights Pirates with Gentle Threats
Gillious writes "Wow! It seems the MPAA has learned from the RIAA's mistakes. It seems we aren't going to get mass-lawsuits for grandmothers and 12-year-old kids. I find this quote most interesting: 'The movie industry, he said, has to ask itself what the music industry should have asked years ago: 'Why do they want to steal from us?' The answer, he said, is simple: 'Because you won't sell them what they want.' The technologists say that what went wrong with the music industry can easily go wrong for movie companies, too.'"
seriously, it sounds like you are not in america and decentric idealizing the costs.. it's a few hours pay here for most people too..
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Privacy VS Transparency
"There are two worlds we can live in. One where, in the end, we have no privacy, and one where, in the end, we do."
Personally, I'd prefer the world where there is NO privacy. But this means no privacy for anyone, the individual, the government, and businesses. And a world where everything is self-regulated and recorded, and enforced.
Imagine a world like that described my George Orwell in his book 1984 (I haven't actually read it myself, so if I'm a bit off, forgive me). But instead of the government watching everyone, everyone is watching everyone. A place with there is no escape from video camera, continually recording, randomly being monitored by humans, law enforcement, and even AI.
Any crime that would ever been committed would be caught and dealt with, no crime, no lying, no theft, no privacy. At first some would find it bad & Scary, but eventually people would get used to people watching them in the shower, having sex, watching TV etc.
People worried about perverts, sure they MAY watch you at the start (But think there is 6 billion to watch, so you have a very small chance of being watched), but after they got used to it, it wouldn't interest people anymore.
One of the biggest problems with such a society is who makes the laws, and the punishments? They would become absolute, you'd never been wrongly convicted, but you'd never get away with anything either. Do will continue making J-walking illegal, or make it legal? Pot, and other drugs, if you smoke it, your busted. Should we make it legal, or keep it illegal.
But, if we could reach an equilibrium, a perfect balance.
I would much prefer total transparency than total privacy.
Perhaps you should switch to crack..
If you can't afford your hobby, it may be time to get a cheaper hobby.. The entire, I can't afford what I want so I'll steal philosophy is pathetic..
Death and poverty like me so much, they've brought friends!
I don't understand the point of your post. Notice how above I wrote out USD? Its just three little letters, "GBP". Of course on slashdot even a tip is something to argue about I guess.
Close-minded jackasses.