I don't see it as so draconian. He committed a crime with a specific device. That device was taken away. (Ignore for the moment the question of if what he did is wrong). We take cars away from drunk or reckless drivers don't we?
While France could not force sourceforge into anything, I believe the courts there do have the ability to get itr (and the places it overlords, like/.) banned in France.
No, but a lack of correlation *does* imply a lack of causation, if you can't show a correlation between DRM and a reduction in piracy, DRM must not reduce piracy. The sample size sucks in this story of course, which would be a valid complaint... excuse me while I try to formalize your fallacy.
Beliefs imprinted in someone's mind by their culture (delusional or not), do not follow the same pattern as delusions that spring up from minor sources, or self contained. If you spend your entire life living with a group of people who think the world is a sphere at the center of the universe, and become convinced that the world is flat and sits on the backs of of a turtle circling around the sun, this is not the same as if you believe the world is flat and sits on the back of a turtle because you grew up somewhere were people believe it.
A law also nails copy-left into a certain shape. Unless you want to be forced to choose between GPL and BSD style licenses, or risk having GPL redefined to be the same as the LGPL, this seems a bad idea (though less licenses in general might still be nice... I still don't get why more than 3 are needed)
To my understanding, AnyDVD contains features that are specifically illegitimate (bypassing region codes). Daemon tools, why not illegitimate on its own, is frequently used for illegitimate purposes (note that playing a game you bought with Daemon Tools is probably not allowed under the games EULA, many of the ones I've actually read say something along the lines of 'only play the game with the original CD'.
Please keep in mind I'm not saying either of them is *wrong*. The DMCA, coupled with the ridiculous notion of allowing the copyright holder to dictate what you can and can't do with a copy you paid for, tends to produce (in my completely not in any way legal advice opinion) ridiculous results, and my goal in the post was to give unbiased information about what *is*, not what should be.
Read the rest of the articles, if you look at the two filings, one was specifically about the free demo. The other appears to be about Sims 2: Bon Voyage.
According to the complaints in the Sims 2: Bon Voyage filing, it prevented the primary plantiff from using 'backup' copies of other sims games. If this is in fact intentional, and not a bug, EA may be attempting to force people who pirate some games and buy some games to buy all the games.
The courts do not see it that way. I've seen a number of cases were EULA's were deemed valid, I have yet to see one where the EULA was deemed invalid (though parts of it being unconscionable are probably common enough).
Ok, looking at the complaint over Sims 2: Bon Voyage, the same allegations of not informing the consumer of SecuROM is made (including not making the user agree to it in the EULA, which is moronic in the extreme in my completely non legal advice opinion, EA may lose this on the basis of having crappy lawyers). In this case, ambiguity as to exactly what SecuROM does is lessened, since the primary plantiff's personal experiences are listed.
Allegedly, backup CDs of other Sims 2 games stopped working. Her USB flash drive and Ipod failed (I assume this means it busted USB data transfer altogether),. Forum posts of the time indicate numerous people having the issue after installing the Bon Voyage expansion.
There is not, as far as I can tell, any hard evidence linking the problem to SecuROM, since she neglected to try and duplicate the issue after an operating system reinstall, and 'Dell tech support said so' isn't really reliable evidence. These issues could be from another program, a virus other than SecuROM, or just a bug in the game (iTunes does similar things on occasion after all). Seems like a weak case, though they could be building a better analysis of SecuROM as I speak.
Reading over the legal filing for the creature creator demo, a few very specific complaints are made.
It allegedly disables a number of semi legitimate (Any DVD, Daemon tools), and completely legitimate (Process Manager, Alchohol 120%) software tools. (10 specific programs are named) It also claims that it interferes 'in some circumstances' with having a secondary CD drive (I assume it prevents burning a copy of a CD that's in the other drive), and that all of this occurs whether the demo is running or not.
Looking at the filing, they mention process manager as its own claim, given that this is a legitimate tool used to identify rogue processes, EA can't really claim, (falsely or otherwise) that it is a piracy tool, the way they'll surely claim with the others. AnyDVD is a particularly interesting one as well, since to my knowledge, it only affects movies, and has nothing to do with any EA product at all.
I can't actually say if the claims are correct for the specific version of SecuROM in the demo game, or if a lawyer simply looked at the things SecuROM is known to do and filed those, depends on how bright s/he is I suppose.
Either is likely to result in data loss. Most people do not have the resources or the knowledge to handle a virus not caught by their scanner. And of the handful of technical support providers who support the software at all, I don't know any who will help with viruses beyond wiping and starting over.
How could Clinton have had this? The internet was not publicly available in 92 when he made his transition, and there was no HTML, or similar technology, that would have made a page usable by the general public.
Given the number of crap postings that have no details about the job requirements, *good*, I'm sick of talking to some idiot who has no idea what the job he's representing is and posted the ad because he gets payed per referral, instead of actually wanted a specific set of skills.
Sound cards don't go obsolete nearly as fast as other computer devices. (I'm still using the same emu10k1 based card as when I started with Linux), so creative likes to force upgrades by not updating drivers to newer OSes (as they admitted publicly). Looks like they now want to recover some of the good will they lost when they sued the kid for improving their drivers.
Bit of advise, Scalia, the federalist society, and the constitutionality party, are historical revisionists that claim the constitution says the US is a solely Christian nation, and believe in the divine right of the US government. You only reaffirm Scalia's insanity if the federalist society endorsed him.
Every windows release has come with a fairly current and comprehensive driver list. Every device you can buy has a windows driver included with it.
My computer will not run windows. Yes all the hardware has windows drivers, but those drivers span from windows 98 to Vista. Some of them are not available to download at all, the manufacturer having decided I should buy a new device that costs 5 times as much.
The GFDL actually gives a lot more options than CC ever will. None of those options are actually relevant to wikipedia though.
It would also, frankly, be easier to have a copyright notice that says 'all content CC-by-SA except the book cover which belongs to $artist' than to screw around the the GFDL terms (With more legalistic wording obviously)
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So we have a guy whose known to do crazy stuff under pressure. Thats soooo much better than someone who supports censorship.
Screw selling books, I want to be able to buy them used.
I don't see it as so draconian. He committed a crime with a specific device. That device was taken away. (Ignore for the moment the question of if what he did is wrong). We take cars away from drunk or reckless drivers don't we?
Since when does 4th edition allow for creative uses of spells?
While France could not force sourceforge into anything, I believe the courts there do have the ability to get itr (and the places it overlords, like /.) banned in France.
No, but a lack of correlation *does* imply a lack of causation, if you can't show a correlation between DRM and a reduction in piracy, DRM must not reduce piracy. The sample size sucks in this story of course, which would be a valid complaint... excuse me while I try to formalize your fallacy.
(((A --> B), & (A)), --> (A&B)) --> !necessarily ((A&B) --> (A --> B))
Which is the formal for correlation does not equal causation, but you use this to reach, though steps I do not understand:
((A&!B) --> possibly (A --> B))
Which does not make sense in *any* context. Hmm, anyone know if this fallacy has a name? Or is it just proving the antecedent?
(apologies if you were responding to an idea DRM increases piracy, in which case you are correct)
I do something similar, for some reason, whenever there's a commercial for Captain Morgan, I buy coke.
Robots are not yet sophisticated enough to maintain satellites. Unless you intend to also give up on projects like hubble, you need people in space.
Beliefs imprinted in someone's mind by their culture (delusional or not), do not follow the same pattern as delusions that spring up from minor sources, or self contained. If you spend your entire life living with a group of people who think the world is a sphere at the center of the universe, and become convinced that the world is flat and sits on the backs of of a turtle circling around the sun, this is not the same as if you believe the world is flat and sits on the back of a turtle because you grew up somewhere were people believe it.
A law also nails copy-left into a certain shape. Unless you want to be forced to choose between GPL and BSD style licenses, or risk having GPL redefined to be the same as the LGPL, this seems a bad idea (though less licenses in general might still be nice... I still don't get why more than 3 are needed)
That is incredibly awesome info. Thank you.
To my understanding, AnyDVD contains features that are specifically illegitimate (bypassing region codes). Daemon tools, why not illegitimate on its own, is frequently used for illegitimate purposes (note that playing a game you bought with Daemon Tools is probably not allowed under the games EULA, many of the ones I've actually read say something along the lines of 'only play the game with the original CD'.
Please keep in mind I'm not saying either of them is *wrong*. The DMCA, coupled with the ridiculous notion of allowing the copyright holder to dictate what you can and can't do with a copy you paid for, tends to produce (in my completely not in any way legal advice opinion) ridiculous results, and my goal in the post was to give unbiased information about what *is*, not what should be.
Read the rest of the articles, if you look at the two filings, one was specifically about the free demo. The other appears to be about Sims 2: Bon Voyage.
According to the complaints in the Sims 2: Bon Voyage filing, it prevented the primary plantiff from using 'backup' copies of other sims games. If this is in fact intentional, and not a bug, EA may be attempting to force people who pirate some games and buy some games to buy all the games.
The courts do not see it that way. I've seen a number of cases were EULA's were deemed valid, I have yet to see one where the EULA was deemed invalid (though parts of it being unconscionable are probably common enough).
Ok, looking at the complaint over Sims 2: Bon Voyage, the same allegations of not informing the consumer of SecuROM is made (including not making the user agree to it in the EULA, which is moronic in the extreme in my completely non legal advice opinion, EA may lose this on the basis of having crappy lawyers). In this case, ambiguity as to exactly what SecuROM does is lessened, since the primary plantiff's personal experiences are listed.
Allegedly, backup CDs of other Sims 2 games stopped working. Her USB flash drive and Ipod failed (I assume this means it busted USB data transfer altogether),. Forum posts of the time indicate numerous people having the issue after installing the Bon Voyage expansion.
There is not, as far as I can tell, any hard evidence linking the problem to SecuROM, since she neglected to try and duplicate the issue after an operating system reinstall, and 'Dell tech support said so' isn't really reliable evidence. These issues could be from another program, a virus other than SecuROM, or just a bug in the game (iTunes does similar things on occasion after all). Seems like a weak case, though they could be building a better analysis of SecuROM as I speak.
Reading over the legal filing for the creature creator demo, a few very specific complaints are made.
It allegedly disables a number of semi legitimate (Any DVD, Daemon tools), and completely legitimate (Process Manager, Alchohol 120%) software tools. (10 specific programs are named) It also claims that it interferes 'in some circumstances' with having a secondary CD drive (I assume it prevents burning a copy of a CD that's in the other drive), and that all of this occurs whether the demo is running or not.
Looking at the filing, they mention process manager as its own claim, given that this is a legitimate tool used to identify rogue processes, EA can't really claim, (falsely or otherwise) that it is a piracy tool, the way they'll surely claim with the others. AnyDVD is a particularly interesting one as well, since to my knowledge, it only affects movies, and has nothing to do with any EA product at all.
I can't actually say if the claims are correct for the specific version of SecuROM in the demo game, or if a lawyer simply looked at the things SecuROM is known to do and filed those, depends on how bright s/he is I suppose.
Either is likely to result in data loss. Most people do not have the resources or the knowledge to handle a virus not caught by their scanner. And of the handful of technical support providers who support the software at all, I don't know any who will help with viruses beyond wiping and starting over.
Wait, I'm wrong on that, the internet went public in 92, still no html though, and probably hard for most of the country to get.
How could Clinton have had this? The internet was not publicly available in 92 when he made his transition, and there was no HTML, or similar technology, that would have made a page usable by the general public.
Given the number of crap postings that have no details about the job requirements, *good*, I'm sick of talking to some idiot who has no idea what the job he's representing is and posted the ad because he gets payed per referral, instead of actually wanted a specific set of skills.
Sound cards don't go obsolete nearly as fast as other computer devices. (I'm still using the same emu10k1 based card as when I started with Linux), so creative likes to force upgrades by not updating drivers to newer OSes (as they admitted publicly). Looks like they now want to recover some of the good will they lost when they sued the kid for improving their drivers.
Bit of advise, Scalia, the federalist society, and the constitutionality party, are historical revisionists that claim the constitution says the US is a solely Christian nation, and believe in the divine right of the US government. You only reaffirm Scalia's insanity if the federalist society endorsed him.
Every windows release has come with a fairly current and comprehensive driver list. Every device you can buy has a windows driver included with it.
My computer will not run windows. Yes all the hardware has windows drivers, but those drivers span from windows 98 to Vista. Some of them are not available to download at all, the manufacturer having decided I should buy a new device that costs 5 times as much.
The GFDL actually gives a lot more options than CC ever will. None of those options are actually relevant to wikipedia though.
It would also, frankly, be easier to have a copyright notice that says 'all content CC-by-SA except the book cover which belongs to $artist' than to screw around the the GFDL terms (With more legalistic wording obviously)