Well, newsflash: If you incorporate quotes in a statement on a news article, and then you misquote (and believe it or not, stating a different meaning than the quote used even when not quoting verbatim is a misquote), that's crappy journalism. The slashdot editors should have noted it in your summary.
Here is the full quote, since you left out some:
"According to the complaint [PDF] SeeqPod 'deliberately refrains' from adding simple yet ineffective content filters to screen out copyright infringing materials, presumably by not buying those filters from label-affiliated companies."
You give source material and a quote from the document, and then have your "oh I'm clever" misstatement of what it actually says in the document. Don't worry, though, you didn't make the editors here seem any less professional.
DVDs have region coding to censor content in accordance with regional customs and laws.
STEAM has region coding to protect Valve's (the ARTIST) bottom line. They decided to make their games available legally and super-cheap to areas in which it would otherwise be unavailable. Personally, I think we should commend them for letting their software be available in an area for basically no profit instead of busting their asses about not letting people who can afford to pay a more legitimate price trying to screw them.
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Well, newsflash: If you incorporate quotes in a statement on a news article, and then you misquote (and believe it or not, stating a different meaning than the quote used even when not quoting verbatim is a misquote), that's crappy journalism. The slashdot editors should have noted it in your summary. Here is the full quote, since you left out some: "According to the complaint [PDF] SeeqPod 'deliberately refrains' from adding simple yet ineffective content filters to screen out copyright infringing materials, presumably by not buying those filters from label-affiliated companies." You give source material and a quote from the document, and then have your "oh I'm clever" misstatement of what it actually says in the document. Don't worry, though, you didn't make the editors here seem any less professional.
I'm not going to bother reading the legal document. Instead, I'm going to assume the slashdot editors are being sloppy as always.
Should read simple/effective, as in something they would encourage a company to use.
Versus simple/ineffective, which would mean something that is easily implemented and yet somehow manages to still do nothing.
DVDs have region coding to censor content in accordance with regional customs and laws.
STEAM has region coding to protect Valve's (the ARTIST) bottom line. They decided to make their games available legally and super-cheap to areas in which it would otherwise be unavailable. Personally, I think we should commend them for letting their software be available in an area for basically no profit instead of busting their asses about not letting people who can afford to pay a more legitimate price trying to screw them.
It's pretty clearly obvious that they did not give him $15,000. What they ACTUALLY did was give him a free song download *valued at $15,000*
Jesus, please read the article before writing summaries!