i concur. i was a bit leary about it coming on my new laptop. after some a quick googling to get 8 look more like 7, i spent a mere $5 and bought start8 from stardock, which not only returns the start menu (with plenty of choices, including the ability to make custom buttons) but goes directly to the desktop. no tile bullshit, ever, but i can still run metro apps if i want. all and all, it is faster than 7. the only problem i've had was the 2-versions-behind-the-current copy of powerdvd that shipped with my blu-ray burner. it, for whatever reason, doesn't work with 8. everything else works flawlessly.
does anyone make a case for any (most likely, very specific) phones, that adds controller features either through bluetooth or said phone's data port? seems like there should be.
this. it is why they never cracked down on people trading gold for things that cost real life money (time cards, mounts, pets [before they started marketing the ones to be ah friendly]) because it all gets funneled directly to them anyways, but try and sell that same gold for straight up cash and all of a sudden it becomes a no-no.
what's worse it that hey think they can tell you to only use "authorized" images, authorized reseller or not. it'd be akin to getting ebay to cancel your auction of the gopro because you took your own pictures.
add to this, that nothing digital should EVER go out of print. sell me an.iso and the cover files, but don't think you can gouge me into paying full, physical retail prices. fuck, even $2-5 is still much better than getting nothing for something you stopped selling in the first place.
But if you are already paying for cable, satellite, etc, you shouldn't be considered a pirate for downloading a copy that you can store wherever, whenever.
"But there's no commercials in those "pirate" releases!", you might say. Well, am I a pirate for fast-forwarding commercials on my dvr? I don't think so. What about the commercials my box "sees" when I am not even home?! Should I not me recompensed for that? Is the technology still too stupid to not realize when the TV is on? Sounds like their problem to me.;P
I am certainly not going to pay additionally for something I already received through my subscription. It was fine and dandy with vhs-for-hard-copies, so neener-neener. Btw, the advancements in quality don't even enter into the argument, save for mass-scale bootlegging uses them as sources.
Even just before HD, it was trivial for the Average Joe to capture content, but now it seems more trouble than it is worth (unless there are hdcp-free hdmi capture cards that I don't know about). If the firewire port on my cable DVR box would work as intended, I could just dump the stuff myself. Big Media seems to have crippled it, so, alas, I will continue to use torrents as my recording device. After all, if I can capture something and you can capture something, logically, I could have you capture something for me and vice-versa, so long as we both have subscriptions to said content... and that's just television.
I do have a theory called the Subscriber-Capture Paradox. Basically it means that once something is aired on your subscription service, any previous/subsequent copy you have of it becomes fair use, because, after all, you could have just captured it yourself.
Lastly, before you start calling me a freeloading, good-for-nothing pirate, let me assure you, I DO buy plenty of movies (~800dvds and ~110blu-rays). TV shows...not so much, but our household does have most of what the cable provider offers (including premium channels), as well as Netflix, so I do pay my fair share.
it should always be based on first to apply, first to get. maybe the church (or any other business/charity/whatever) should have bought every domain name related to their brand/product/whatever (in this case, names of saints). sick of late to the game shortsighted fucks not wanting to pay what they think is oh so valuable. pay up, motherfuckers.
i wish most media (games, movies, music) would just ship on flash drives, or better:
go to store (if not good bandwidth), stick in usb stick, swipe card, leave. it would be the easiest system to implement and use.
oh yeah, DRM fucks customer ease yet again. i remember having this idea but with mp3s burned to cd back in 2000. still waiting for something this simple for all media.
this is why the technical aspects need to be very specific. if you can't be charged for listening to a pirate radio station, then you shouldn't be for any other broadcasting/streaming service.
Frankly, let 'em die out and lets get on with same-day-everywhere-releases.
while i do agree, i realize that once their first-run cash cows die, the prices will go up in all other areas (home video/licensing/etc).
then again, once they destroy the secondary market, what choice will we have?
i hope you realize i meant by amount of stuff made, not size.;) or maybe i am misunderstanding you. i have been drinking.
does the u.s. really manufacture more actual products?
by this i mean, a sweatshop will make way more articles of clothing per dollars spent than even a minimum wage paying factory, so we spend more (higher $) but do we actually make more?
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i concur. i was a bit leary about it coming on my new laptop. after some a quick googling to get 8 look more like 7, i spent a mere $5 and bought start8 from stardock, which not only returns the start menu (with plenty of choices, including the ability to make custom buttons) but goes directly to the desktop. no tile bullshit, ever, but i can still run metro apps if i want. all and all, it is faster than 7. the only problem i've had was the 2-versions-behind-the-current copy of powerdvd that shipped with my blu-ray burner. it, for whatever reason, doesn't work with 8. everything else works flawlessly.
the same reason david koresh wasn't arrested during his regular jogging outside the compound?
start8 rules.
does anyone make a case for any (most likely, very specific) phones, that adds controller features either through bluetooth or said phone's data port? seems like there should be.
this. it is why they never cracked down on people trading gold for things that cost real life money (time cards, mounts, pets [before they started marketing the ones to be ah friendly]) because it all gets funneled directly to them anyways, but try and sell that same gold for straight up cash and all of a sudden it becomes a no-no.
what's worse it that hey think they can tell you to only use "authorized" images, authorized reseller or not. it'd be akin to getting ebay to cancel your auction of the gopro because you took your own pictures.
add to this, that nothing digital should EVER go out of print. sell me an .iso and the cover files, but don't think you can gouge me into paying full, physical retail prices. fuck, even $2-5 is still much better than getting nothing for something you stopped selling in the first place.
it's past time to put these power and money grubbing cartel fucks into the grave
FTFY!
But if you are already paying for cable, satellite, etc, you shouldn't be considered a pirate for downloading a copy that you can store wherever, whenever.
;P
"But there's no commercials in those "pirate" releases!", you might say. Well, am I a pirate for fast-forwarding commercials on my dvr? I don't think so. What about the commercials my box "sees" when I am not even home?! Should I not me recompensed for that? Is the technology still too stupid to not realize when the TV is on? Sounds like their problem to me.
I am certainly not going to pay additionally for something I already received through my subscription. It was fine and dandy with vhs-for-hard-copies, so neener-neener.
Btw, the advancements in quality don't even enter into the argument, save for mass-scale bootlegging uses them as sources.
Even just before HD, it was trivial for the Average Joe to capture content, but now it seems more trouble than it is worth (unless there are hdcp-free hdmi capture cards that I don't know about). If the firewire port on my cable DVR box would work as intended, I could just dump the stuff myself. Big Media seems to have crippled it, so, alas, I will continue to use torrents as my recording device. After all, if I can capture something and you can capture something, logically, I could have you capture something for me and vice-versa, so long as we both have subscriptions to said content... and that's just television.
I do have a theory called the Subscriber-Capture Paradox. Basically it means that once something is aired on your subscription service, any previous/subsequent copy you have of it becomes fair use, because, after all, you could have just captured it yourself.
Lastly, before you start calling me a freeloading, good-for-nothing pirate, let me assure you, I DO buy plenty of movies (~800dvds and ~110blu-rays). TV shows...not so much, but our household does have most of what the cable provider offers (including premium channels), as well as Netflix, so I do pay my fair share.
except set a random riaa lackey on fire. i'd be fine with that.
it should always be based on first to apply, first to get. maybe the church (or any other business/charity/whatever) should have bought every domain name related to their brand/product/whatever (in this case, names of saints). sick of late to the game shortsighted fucks not wanting to pay what they think is oh so valuable. pay up, motherfuckers.
i wish most media (games, movies, music) would just ship on flash drives, or better:
go to store (if not good bandwidth), stick in usb stick, swipe card, leave. it would be the easiest system to implement and use.
oh yeah, DRM fucks customer ease yet again. i remember having this idea but with mp3s burned to cd back in 2000. still waiting for something this simple for all media.
this is why the technical aspects need to be very specific. if you can't be charged for listening to a pirate radio station, then you shouldn't be for any other broadcasting/streaming service.
why isn't this income (capital gains) then taxed as high as 'ordinary' income, or, as the comparison is about spot-on, as high as lotto winnings?
Do not fuck with other people's shit. Break that rule, and you've lost the argument and all your moral and ethical cover, all at once.
Stay on the high road. It's the only one that dependably leads anywhere.
like all those assholes on the underground railroad, right?
Or imagine if people didn't glom onto old characters constantly and instead looked for new and interesting characters and ideas.
like using a stronger-than-the-rest protagonist?
it is far more about lawsuit liability, which leads to less financial loss, which leads to having more to survive with.
Frankly, let 'em die out and lets get on with same-day-everywhere-releases.
while i do agree, i realize that once their first-run cash cows die, the prices will go up in all other areas (home video/licensing/etc). then again, once they destroy the secondary market, what choice will we have?
if you think that paying the same person, at regular intervals, for pot isn't a subscription, then you're fucking high.
there actually isn't a law against yelling fire in a crowded theater. info here
So, instead of copyright lasting "until hell freezes over," it will last until "everyone alive when the item entered copyright is dead."
so, either way, contrary to its original ideals
why aren't they going after colorado mm dispenaries?
i hope you realize i meant by amount of stuff made, not size. ;) or maybe i am misunderstanding you. i have been drinking.
does the u.s. really manufacture more actual products?
by this i mean, a sweatshop will make way more articles of clothing per dollars spent than even a minimum wage paying factory, so we spend more (higher $) but do we actually make more?
i didn't write that...oh you said uid
measuring it by dollars seems to be shady at best. it should be by volume, as you can make less stuff here for more money.