"I know that much of Slashdot thinks that such a right should exist and I ask of you: why should such a right exist? Why should a right to consume trump a right to control the distribution of your ideas. Personally, I respect the right of creators to own their ideas more than I respect the right to consume because I respect creators more than consumers. It takes ingenuity to create but none to consume and I think that the "right to consume" culture is a by-product of having too few creators in our culture." ROFL. Creators do not get payed shit. It is the labels and such that do.
Instead of giving you a reason why we should have the right, I will ask you a question: Why is a poor kid not allowed to listen to tons of music (read = culture) and a wealthy BMW driving CEO is? It is bullshit.
There's nothing ethical about business... Welcome to the real world! It is about who's the smartest: Someone getting away with downloading and playing a game without DRM and without paying, or somebody that goes to the store, pays 50 euro's that could instead be spend on... I don't know? Donating to Canadian cancer threatment research?... and get a DRM infected PC? You tell me... I am not going to let myself be dictated by a moral hypocrit. We live in a universe with atoms and radiation and nothing else. There is no right and wrong in society, other than helping others (y/n). Period. If I want to let a friend of mine play a game then I fscking do as I please. So fsck off with you morals and laws.
I run FLOSS for that reason because I do believe in sharing. Thank you very much. I mostly pay for games and music and pirate about a movie every two months or so who cares?
You do not understand. I gave a set of honest, whether moral or not, reasons, not excuses, on why I pirate and from that I gave them examples of how to make money of it.
Although I can't realy see what moral has to do with anything. People that pay shitloads of software are the ones trying to justify the crazy amount of money spent with moral reasons, not me.
Would you call suing people and making them homeless for downloading a Britney Spears album moral? ROFL. Hypocricy to the max... PFFFFFFFFFFF
This is just the result of the industry as a whole not thinking about how to do it. If the copyright holder also halve his profit by simply requiring a percentage then the copyright holder will also in the end make more money.
I pirate because: 1) I run Linux and therefore it is illegal to have a FLOSS piece that can playback some DVD's and most Bluray discs. Ripping takes too much time so... Well then, you fscking retarted industry... If you don't like me to have legal playback so I can become a customer than I'll just FSCKING DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE?!?! 2) A series is not out on DVD yet in my country. So how about releasing games and vids simultaniously everwhere?! 3) DRM. You want me to not enjoy my games if I buy them, while you could easily for less money make me not have to activate it and you won't have to run expensive servers for it? Well then... I'll just download it! Too fscking bad... 4) Sometimes I just want to watch a video on demand and only once... And I do not want to get my ass all the way to the mall the next day so I can enjoy the video as early as the next day. 5) Sometimes games/vids are too expensive. Seriously... I buy PSP games all the time because they are 20 euro's or less. No problem. Steam showed that halving the game's price results is more than twice the sales. Which in the end means more profit. But instead it must be so goddamn expensive.
So industry... Do something about you stupidity because you are making it realy hard for me to be a customer. Removing copy protection might result in a single copy to a friend of mine, but will also result in more than twice the profit. Which means you'll satisfy you stakeholders a lot more, because they only care about money.
Humans are all more of less alike. If you take thirteen thousand humans and you do double blind research then you can be somewhat sure that if damage is done due to cellphone use a lot of other humans would suffer from it too. Sure you got different DNA maybe, but you still have the same cell structure and it is all about damage done or not done to human cells.
In general it realy depends of what subject statistics repressent reality. If you take thriteen thousan US citizens and ask them who they would vote then I'll happily go "Lol statistics" with you...
Create a company. Put together some MIT licensed software and create yet another OS. Designed computers after 70's Braun industrial design. Made it work well. Got people to buy his products due to great marketing. Decided not to want Flash. Decided it could only be programmed with their own API's.........
Made money.
So what's so revolutionary about making a sleek tablet pc? Nothing.
I like that he wants to kill Flash, but that's about it. So in the meantime I can browse the web freely with my Linux netbook and desktop and not have to worry about an electronics company.
"Why would anyone purchase a creative commons movie?" Reversed psychology: "Please Pirate this as it is legal please DO IT!" -"Nah... I will buy it!" "You are not honestly going to give us more money when you don't have to, do you?" -"Just to screw with you!" "Oh noes..."
Which is where the brackets are for and I did cite the source so you could retrieve the information to counter me.
Now here's a real life situation for you: Almost nobody drives more than a 100 kilometers on a daily basis. The car is chargeable at any AC connector, which is available at anybodies house.
So unless you go on vacation by car, which is only... I don't know... not more than three times per year, than you will never consume more than one liter of gasoline per the 100 max kilometers you drive everyday.
Now here's the deal: what if these cars become cheap enough for everyone living somewhere without a garage? How about charging from thermal breaking energy? It will not make much of a difference.
Yes it is practical, but the problem of running out of gasoline, of gasoline becomming more expensive and the climate becomming warmer (not due to-, but which can be slowed down with reducing greenhouse gasses) is of a practicle nature.
From the same goddamn website: "On August 11, 2009, GM released their estimated EPA city fuel economy rating for the Volt of 230 mpg-US (1.0 L/100 km; 280 mpg-imp) of gasoline [...]"
Right... Seen the latest General Motores (you know... the company that produces the most inefficient cars on the planet)?
You know what they had in their labs for YEARS?! A hyrbid engine that could do 100KM on 1L. But there was no market for these 'pussy' cars. It makes me so sad.
You wanna know how it works? Simple: electric motors have a much higher efficiency when run on battery. So instead of doing it like these morons did at Toyota with that environment horror Prius (which is less efficient than a non-hybrid Volkswagen diesel ROFL), GM just made an electric engine running on battery, and a small tank for fuel that a seperate tiny engine could charge the battery with.
One. Liter. Good. For. A. Hundred. Kilometers.
And General Motors of all did this. But it wasn't ballsy enough for the USA market simply because it doesn't roar. FFS...
"Nope, I agree with him." No one will be able to prove that the AC wasn't you.
"Who are you, by the way, and what makes your posts any more credible than those written by somebody who isn't bothering to use a pseudonym?" No one knows.
Welcome to my world. My passport was stolen. I was "lucky this time", according to the officer, because they could have charged me with false identity terrorism aiding or somthing. I live in a democratic, western country and not in America and this almost happened to me. 'luckily the police officer was being nice'... jeez...
Look at it from this way: The industry is full of crap programmers.
Awesome programmers will teach themselve C and/or C++, while crappy programmers won't realy teach themselves VB that well...
If programmers with a brain can learn C on their own (they probably already know the most of CS before they even attend) why not teach stupid people (ending up doind MS shit anyway) how to at least do it right.
You do not want self-taught crap languages being performed by idiots. You want that idiots use the crap languages in such a way that it doesn't suck extremely.
Yet, given enough money that is, we might create a climate on mars. Never saw any piece of rock thinking *I want it to look like this* changed it own orbit and created a computer.
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"I know that much of Slashdot thinks that such a right should exist and I ask of you: why should such a right exist? Why should a right to consume trump a right to control the distribution of your ideas. Personally, I respect the right of creators to own their ideas more than I respect the right to consume because I respect creators more than consumers. It takes ingenuity to create but none to consume and I think that the "right to consume" culture is a by-product of having too few creators in our culture."
ROFL. Creators do not get payed shit. It is the labels and such that do.
Instead of giving you a reason why we should have the right, I will ask you a question:
Why is a poor kid not allowed to listen to tons of music (read = culture) and a wealthy BMW driving CEO is? It is bullshit.
There's nothing ethical about business... Welcome to the real world! It is about who's the smartest: Someone getting away with downloading and playing a game without DRM and without paying, or somebody that goes to the store, pays 50 euro's that could instead be spend on... I don't know? Donating to Canadian cancer threatment research?... and get a DRM infected PC? You tell me... I am not going to let myself be dictated by a moral hypocrit. We live in a universe with atoms and radiation and nothing else. There is no right and wrong in society, other than helping others (y/n). Period. If I want to let a friend of mine play a game then I fscking do as I please. So fsck off with you morals and laws.
I run FLOSS for that reason because I do believe in sharing. Thank you very much. I mostly pay for games and music and pirate about a movie every two months or so who cares?
You do not understand. I gave a set of honest, whether moral or not, reasons, not excuses, on why I pirate and from that I gave them examples of how to make money of it.
Although I can't realy see what moral has to do with anything. People that pay shitloads of software are the ones trying to justify the crazy amount of money spent with moral reasons, not me.
Would you call suing people and making them homeless for downloading a Britney Spears album moral? ROFL. Hypocricy to the max... PFFFFFFFFFFF
They considder their buisiness a service, right? So fscking serve me than. It is meant to suit my lazy, impatient, entitlement cheap ass.
And why does that even matter? What matters is getting money from pirates, eh?
This is just the result of the industry as a whole not thinking about how to do it. If the copyright holder also halve his profit by simply requiring a percentage then the copyright holder will also in the end make more money.
Keep trying to be funny. Please do it. I am laughing my ass off... Continue!
Seriously now... Do you think I am trying to trick you with reversed phycology? I don't. Have I ever lied to you? I mean... in this thread?
I pirate because:
1) I run Linux and therefore it is illegal to have a FLOSS piece that can playback some DVD's and most Bluray discs. Ripping takes too much time so... Well then, you fscking retarted industry... If you don't like me to have legal playback so I can become a customer than I'll just FSCKING DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE?!?!
2) A series is not out on DVD yet in my country. So how about releasing games and vids simultaniously everwhere?!
3) DRM. You want me to not enjoy my games if I buy them, while you could easily for less money make me not have to activate it and you won't have to run expensive servers for it? Well then... I'll just download it! Too fscking bad...
4) Sometimes I just want to watch a video on demand and only once... And I do not want to get my ass all the way to the mall the next day so I can enjoy the video as early as the next day.
5) Sometimes games/vids are too expensive. Seriously... I buy PSP games all the time because they are 20 euro's or less. No problem. Steam showed that halving the game's price results is more than twice the sales. Which in the end means more profit. But instead it must be so goddamn expensive.
So industry... Do something about you stupidity because you are making it realy hard for me to be a customer. Removing copy protection might result in a single copy to a friend of mine, but will also result in more than twice the profit. Which means you'll satisfy you stakeholders a lot more, because they only care about money.
But no... That would be waaaaaay too easy...
Depends...
Humans are all more of less alike. If you take thirteen thousand humans and you do double blind research then you can be somewhat sure that if damage is done due to cellphone use a lot of other humans would suffer from it too. Sure you got different DNA maybe, but you still have the same cell structure and it is all about damage done or not done to human cells.
In general it realy depends of what subject statistics repressent reality. If you take thriteen thousan US citizens and ask them who they would vote then I'll happily go "Lol statistics" with you...
First they ignore you
Then laugh at you
Then hate you
Then they fight you
Then you win - you are here
"Another reskinned sequal in exactly three second after the currentl product is launched" -Pure Pwnage
Create a company. .... ....
Put together some MIT licensed software and create yet another OS.
Designed computers after 70's Braun industrial design.
Made it work well.
Got people to buy his products due to great marketing.
Decided not to want Flash.
Decided it could only be programmed with their own API's.
Made money.
So what's so revolutionary about making a sleek tablet pc? Nothing.
I like that he wants to kill Flash, but that's about it. So in the meantime I can browse the web freely with my Linux netbook and desktop and not have to worry about an electronics company.
Next...
You mean Windows can't run on a Tegra? It is an OS you know, designed to Operate a System, yo... 'n stuff...
"Why would anyone purchase a creative commons movie?"
Reversed psychology:
"Please Pirate this as it is legal please DO IT!"
-"Nah... I will buy it!"
"You are not honestly going to give us more money when you don't have to, do you?"
-"Just to screw with you!"
"Oh noes..."
Which is where the brackets are for and I did cite the source so you could retrieve the information to counter me.
Now here's a real life situation for you:
Almost nobody drives more than a 100 kilometers on a daily basis. The car is chargeable at any AC connector, which is available at anybodies house.
So unless you go on vacation by car, which is only... I don't know... not more than three times per year, than you will never consume more than one liter of gasoline per the 100 max kilometers you drive everyday.
Now here's the deal: what if these cars become cheap enough for everyone living somewhere without a garage? How about charging from thermal breaking energy? It will not make much of a difference.
Yes it is practical, but the problem of running out of gasoline, of gasoline becomming more expensive and the climate becomming warmer (not due to-, but which can be slowed down with reducing greenhouse gasses) is of a practicle nature.
GM makes the Chevy Volt... Whoooooosh
Google the Chevy Volt Wikipedia article as it is in there. Also read my fscking sig.
From the same goddamn website:
"On August 11, 2009, GM released their estimated EPA city fuel economy rating for the Volt of 230 mpg-US (1.0 L/100 km; 280 mpg-imp) of gasoline [...]"
Right... Seen the latest General Motores (you know... the company that produces the most inefficient cars on the planet)?
You know what they had in their labs for YEARS?! A hyrbid engine that could do 100KM on 1L. But there was no market for these 'pussy' cars. It makes me so sad.
You wanna know how it works? Simple: electric motors have a much higher efficiency when run on battery. So instead of doing it like these morons did at Toyota with that environment horror Prius (which is less efficient than a non-hybrid Volkswagen diesel ROFL), GM just made an electric engine running on battery, and a small tank for fuel that a seperate tiny engine could charge the battery with.
One. Liter. Good. For. A. Hundred. Kilometers.
And General Motors of all did this. But it wasn't ballsy enough for the USA market simply because it doesn't roar. FFS...
Are you implying that I do not dissaprove the current situation in which my country is in today?
It's not the UK... I live in the Netherlands. It is common practise, sadly...
Works perfectly here in Rekonq with WebKit too, but that should be no suprise ;)
"Nope, I agree with him."
No one will be able to prove that the AC wasn't you.
"Who are you, by the way, and what makes your posts any more credible than those written by somebody who isn't bothering to use a pseudonym?"
No one knows.
Welcome to my world. My passport was stolen. I was "lucky this time", according to the officer, because they could have charged me with false identity terrorism aiding or somthing. I live in a democratic, western country and not in America and this almost happened to me. 'luckily the police officer was being nice'... jeez...
Sais you. No one will agree with you on that.
Look at it from this way: The industry is full of crap programmers.
Awesome programmers will teach themselve C and/or C++, while crappy programmers won't realy teach themselves VB that well...
If programmers with a brain can learn C on their own (they probably already know the most of CS before they even attend) why not teach stupid people (ending up doind MS shit anyway) how to at least do it right.
You do not want self-taught crap languages being performed by idiots. You want that idiots use the crap languages in such a way that it doesn't suck extremely.
Right?
Yet, given enough money that is, we might create a climate on mars. Never saw any piece of rock thinking *I want it to look like this* changed it own orbit and created a computer.
Insignificant, but very interesting.