The Wannabe-Nazi asshat in charge is talking about rolling out a national fibre network, but I ask "Whats the fucking point?" if we can only access government approved content. http://nocleanfeed.com/
First we need to educate people to stop saving things in.docx bussiness users are the worst for this..doc is bad enough but at least it has been fairly extesivly revers engineered so things like open office can utilise it.
I also wish people would stop treating.pdf as a word processor document "I saved that report as PDF but now I need to make changes" arg.. PDF should be treated as a published copy. You don't edit a document you just printed out you make changes to the original then reprint, why the hell can't people do this with PDFs, it takes less time to "export to PDF" than it does to email someone a stupid question.
Forget software some education in document formats would go a long way.
I'm sure my favorite Dr. Who episodes are quite expensive to produce yet I'm still buying the boxed sets despite having every episode released to date on my pc already.
As for not having copyprotection, Firefox and Linux come to mind as being two very good pieces of software that I payed nothing for. Even mIRC does not require you to pay for it, even though I did.
I belive credit should be given where it's due, I still support the existence licenses but the whole "Without copyprotection nothing gets developed" seems a bit extreme to me.
There is only a problem here because of the service that comes with the product.
Software costs nothing to make a copy of but when you utilise a service, in this case a game server costs are incurred. Also realising a multiplayer game before the infrastructure is ready will obviously cause problems.
Y should have to prove infringement against X before P is required to take any action. P should never be held accountable for the actions of X unless Y has proven X guilty in court and P still allows the content to be uploaded.
There should always be a court order before anything is taken offline.
It means you're responsible for the comment, only if you ignore the takedown notice.
and that's what makes DMCA utter bullshit.
Who am I to remove a users comment? If I give people the right to post whatever they want on my site it just seems wrong to delete the post. Any lawsuits are between the user posting the comment and the plaintiff.
The name is cute but the site doesn't favor pirated content over legal content
That's like saying a beer and cigarette store across the street from an elementary school, that sells to anyone regardless of age, is not favoring selling beer and cigarettes to kids--
It's not their job to parent another persons child. Anyway a sale is a sale.
Because Scientists/inventors such as yourself are not world powers. The MPAA and RIAA are.
This happened because the Media industry is purely given by greed, whereas Science is the pursuit of knowledge, so financial incentive plays a smaller role.
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The Wannabe-Nazi asshat in charge is talking about rolling out a national fibre network, but I ask "Whats the fucking point?" if we can only access government approved content.
http://nocleanfeed.com/
Unfortunatly its what happens when you give the avarage paint sniffer mod points.
Whats all this talk about "guaranteed" bandwidth?
If you pay for something it should be guaranteed anyway, otherwise the merchant is a fraud.
200GB is huge.
12GB here at 1.5mbit
It's the same with the judges who oversee RIAA cases, some of them don't have a fucking clue either.
First we need to educate people to stop saving things in .docx bussiness users are the worst for this. .doc is bad enough but at least it has been fairly extesivly revers engineered so things like open office can utilise it.
I also wish people would stop treating .pdf as a word processor document "I saved that report as PDF but now I need to make changes" arg.. PDF should be treated as a published copy. You don't edit a document you just printed out you make changes to the original then reprint, why the hell can't people do this with PDFs, it takes less time to "export to PDF" than it does to email someone a stupid question.
Forget software some education in document formats would go a long way.
You'd effectively be crippling them.
Yes, how dare we avoid locking them into proprietary formats.
Surely it gets to a point where it is no longer a "model".
Yes,
I'm sure my favorite Dr. Who episodes are quite expensive to produce yet I'm still buying the boxed sets despite having every episode released to date on my pc already.
As for not having copyprotection, Firefox and Linux come to mind as being two very good pieces of software that I payed nothing for. Even mIRC does not require you to pay for it, even though I did.
I belive credit should be given where it's due, I still support the existence licenses but the whole "Without copyprotection nothing gets developed" seems a bit extreme to me.
To be honest I have noticed a slowdown when launching firefox, I only reboot once a month so I wasn't sure if I was just imagining it.
I often do download reccomendations wich is why I Know that this type of promotion works.
mIRC
Battlefield 1942
Flight Simulator X
are just 3 most memorable examples of software I have paid for after having downloaded for free.
Also when you have a copy of something there is a good chance that you will tell a friend and thus piracy is a promotional tool.
There is only a problem here because of the service that comes with the product.
Software costs nothing to make a copy of but when you utilise a service, in this case a game server costs are incurred. Also realising a multiplayer game before the infrastructure is ready will obviously cause problems.
Do they?
Show me where The Pirate Bay promotes ripping ANYONE off!
It's because IE users don't know any better. Firefox users are not going to switch to something else, at least not easily.
The person who made it available had perfectly good ethics, it is called "Sharing" the free-flow of information is a benefit to society.
I goto work and get paid, but I only get paid for it once. I don't keep getting paid for it, why should I?
The phone company links drug dealers together.
The city planners link rapists to their victims.
and it goes on.....
That's why the system is so flawed.
Y should have to prove infringement against X before P is required to take any action. P should never be held accountable for the actions of X unless Y has proven X guilty in court and P still allows the content to be uploaded.
There should always be a court order before anything is taken offline.
It means you're responsible for the comment, only if you ignore the takedown notice.
and that's what makes DMCA utter bullshit.
Who am I to remove a users comment? If I give people the right to post whatever they want on my site it just seems wrong to delete the post. Any lawsuits are between the user posting the comment and the plaintiff.
The Cult don't like their shit being published.
Especially this one: http://danscomp.net/scientology-ot-levels.pdf
That's like saying a beer and cigarette store across the street from an elementary school, that sells to anyone regardless of age, is not favoring selling beer and cigarettes to kids--
It's not their job to parent another persons child. Anyway a sale is a sale.
It's a case of simple economics. If I don't want to pay for it then it is worthless and the artist is trying to overcharge me.
So I get the work from a cheaper source such as The Pirate Bay.
No harm, no foul.
They didn't.
You don't need to break the law to goto Jail, just piss off someone with money.
Because Scientists/inventors such as yourself are not world powers. The MPAA and RIAA are.
This happened because the Media industry is purely given by greed, whereas Science is the pursuit of knowledge, so financial incentive plays a smaller role.