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DRM Causes Piracy
igorsk recommends an essay by Eric Flint, editor at Baen Publishing and an author himself, over at Baen's online SF magazine, Baen Universe. In it Flint argues that, far from curbing piracy of copyrighted materials, DRM actually causes it. Quoting: "Electronic copyright infringement is something that can only become an 'economic epidemic' under certain conditions. Any one of the following: 1) The products they want... are hard to find, and thus valuable. 2) The products they want are high-priced, so there's a fair amount of money to be saved by stealing them. 3) The legal products come with so many added-on nuisances that the illegal version is better to begin with. Those are the three conditions that will create widespread electronic copyright infringement, especially in combination. Why? Because they're the same three general conditions that create all large-scale smuggling enterprises. And... Guess what? It's precisely those three conditions that DRM creates in the first place. So far from being an impediment to so-called 'online piracy,' it's DRM itself that keeps fueling it and driving it forward."
I'm hoping that it doesn't mean what I think it means. It's often used as a disparaging term for a Jew. I have a lovely wife and two beautiful girls who are Jewish. I would hope that this is a mistake and not a concerted effort to slur.
Yeah, I'm as old as my UID would suggest.
Given enough females, I'm sure I could do better than 150 in the course of a year. I might need to take some vacation time when that year is up, however.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Of course he gets modded down. I mean isn't calling someone a Jew a great insult in suburban America? its not anti semitic, its just denoting how they handle money, or how they strive to gain money.
Yes, I was being sarcastic, before someone reads that wrong.
You mad
And if it is an effort to slur, the best course of action is to get over it, realize you're not going to be able to "convert" anyone, and understand that he can call you or your race whatever and it does absolutely nothing to harm you in any way. Unless of course your sense of security regarding who you are depends on the approval of others, it's silly to pretend like this harms you -- he's not denying you a job, or a loan, or access to a country club, and he has not advocated that any action be taken against you. Yes, I feel this way when my own ethnicity is insulted as well because the only way to stop it is to use the police power of government to suppress speech, and that's a cure that is worse than the disease. Don't let idiots like this convince you to go down that path.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Are you anti-semitic? Not only do show no respect for Jewish beliefs, but you want his son to get HIV?
Freedom is assumed. Then they try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.
I don't respect anyone's beliefs, if "respect" means "not opposing a blatant violation of human rights".
About HIV, there's thing called "condom", haven't you heard of it?
Circumcision is child abuse.