Enforcing an artificial scarcity will never work in the free world. The only thing that can be done is turn the free world into a police state and I think that price is too high.
I'm a bachelor of science in organic chemistry, but I've been making websites for money for the past decade, because I became tired of begging for underpaid jobs in engineering.
They let education become unaffordable and then complain that they're short on engineers.
And how about the outsourcing lie: "De native population will only have to do the thinking-jobs." What bullshit that turned out to be.
In fact... if I'm not mistaken, France was the first country in which an unlocked iPhone was required to be offered as an alternative to the usual operator lock-in.
So in your reasoning: If I bought a boeing jet-line, but it only came with passenger seats and I wanted a cargo version, you could force me to buy all the passenger seats?
Vintage space-age footage makes it painfully obvious that there has been no significant progress since the 70's. Nobody has been to the moon in 30+ years.
Why can't Microsoft admit that their to slow and lumbering to react to this unexpected trend. Microsoft thought computers would keep getting bigger and faster, not smaller and mobile. They misjudged half a decade ago and now have nothing to offer.
I'd like a marketing firm to calculate how much damage the recording industry has done in terms of public relations. I think the accumulated ill-will is larger than their perceived losses.
Throttling SSL traffic is not going to make businesses happy. "I'm sorry sir, you'll have to sync your extranet databases insecurely, or it'll take about 3 weeks."
"Buy our snake-oil or we'll sue you!", how droll.
Still, this is what ISPs are facing if they are against net-neutrality and the end-user will indirectly be stuck paying the legal bills.
I can only see them maneuvering this to a destination where you would be paying double taxes. At the point of sale and at the point of purchase. Offcourse, at that point both parties will also have indirectly paid income tax over it.
Wait what? I read in the comments about campus cops, room inspections and complaining parents. It sounds to me like a cross between military school, prison and kindergarten.
What business have parents complaining about 18 year old adults?
I know I'll be coding for the "vast minority" of people still using Internet Explorer 6 while refusing to upgrade for the best part of this decade.
Why do people buy a new mobile phone every year, but keep the same browser they got with their computer back in the late 90's?
They are only serving the survival of their obsolete business model of artificial scarcity. The labels themselves have admitted that the old model is dead.
What bothers me is that this spying will cost the ISP money to implement and they will raise their prices to makes ends meet. So the end-user will get spied upon AND pay for the privilege.
"Giving up control of content and giving it away free are not rational ideas in a market economy, yet everyone's cheering."
I take offense at this gross oversimplification. What gives things value in capitalism is scarcity. What is scarce about music? It used to be the little vinyl frisbees, but surely not today's bits and bytes. It's the performance that is scarce, so find a way to cash on that, instead of trying to legislate artificial scarcity.
Intellectual property is a fantasy.
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How many dissidents are "put down" annually in Hawaii?
Maybe we could insert a "free Tibet" meta-tag in ever page served over the internet, just to spite them.
So this means that chinese companies can't abuse GPL'ed projects anymore for profit?
I'd put more effort in getting politicians and priests to have one.
At least they get to leverage this to force mandatory border checks of our laptops for "intellectual" property.
It's been hardly 60 years since millions died fighting for freedom. Does there have to be a genocide every three generations?
Enforcing an artificial scarcity will never work in the free world. The only thing that can be done is turn the free world into a police state and I think that price is too high.
I'm a bachelor of science in organic chemistry, but I've been making websites for money for the past decade, because I became tired of begging for underpaid jobs in engineering.
They let education become unaffordable and then complain that they're short on engineers. And how about the outsourcing lie: "De native population will only have to do the thinking-jobs." What bullshit that turned out to be.
In fact... if I'm not mistaken, France was the first country in which an unlocked iPhone was required to be offered as an alternative to the usual operator lock-in.
So in your reasoning: If I bought a boeing jet-line, but it only came with passenger seats and I wanted a cargo version, you could force me to buy all the passenger seats?
Vintage space-age footage makes it painfully obvious that there has been no significant progress since the 70's. Nobody has been to the moon in 30+ years.
Why can't Microsoft admit that their to slow and lumbering to react to this unexpected trend. Microsoft thought computers would keep getting bigger and faster, not smaller and mobile. They misjudged half a decade ago and now have nothing to offer.
I'd like a marketing firm to calculate how much damage the recording industry has done in terms of public relations. I think the accumulated ill-will is larger than their perceived losses.
Throttling SSL traffic is not going to make businesses happy. "I'm sorry sir, you'll have to sync your extranet databases insecurely, or it'll take about 3 weeks."
"Buy our snake-oil or we'll sue you!", how droll. Still, this is what ISPs are facing if they are against net-neutrality and the end-user will indirectly be stuck paying the legal bills.
I can only see them maneuvering this to a destination where you would be paying double taxes. At the point of sale and at the point of purchase. Offcourse, at that point both parties will also have indirectly paid income tax over it.
Wait what? I read in the comments about campus cops, room inspections and complaining parents. It sounds to me like a cross between military school, prison and kindergarten. What business have parents complaining about 18 year old adults?
I know I'll be coding for the "vast minority" of people still using Internet Explorer 6 while refusing to upgrade for the best part of this decade. Why do people buy a new mobile phone every year, but keep the same browser they got with their computer back in the late 90's?
This once again confirms that copyright only work one way... always TOWARDS large corporate interests.
They are only serving the survival of their obsolete business model of artificial scarcity. The labels themselves have admitted that the old model is dead.
Excuse me for putting it this bluntly but, the population will tolerate it all the way to the gas-chambers.
What bothers me is that this spying will cost the ISP money to implement and they will raise their prices to makes ends meet. So the end-user will get spied upon AND pay for the privilege.
Bio-fuels, grown and processed in the US, don't cause a trade-deficit. That alone makes up for a lot.
"Giving up control of content and giving it away free are not rational ideas in a market economy, yet everyone's cheering." I take offense at this gross oversimplification. What gives things value in capitalism is scarcity. What is scarce about music? It used to be the little vinyl frisbees, but surely not today's bits and bytes. It's the performance that is scarce, so find a way to cash on that, instead of trying to legislate artificial scarcity. Intellectual property is a fantasy.