Just like, you know, you could update your PS3 firmware, and kiss OtherOS goodbye, or you could choose not to update your PS3 firmware and get banned from PSN and newer games.
You are correct that it's not going to help fix copyright, but not for the reason you say it will.
The problem is that the current system of exploitation is filling the pockets of the entertainment industry to bursting, and they have plenty to spare to pay off their congress critters to keep the gravy train coming in, and *still* have enough money to retire in the Bahamas with a private yacht and jet. That is why nothing but hurting them in their pocketbooks is going to change anything. Not as long as political payoffs are part of their budget right next to golden parachutes and fat bonuses.
The system is self perpetuating. Crooked companies make money, and use it to bribe the politicians into giving them more ways to screw us over. And we're right back at square one, with new laws in their favor that let them squeeze the consumer even harder the next time around, so that they can by more laws. And so on.
And that includes abusive DMCA laws that make it illegal to use such tools at all. Ergo, the only ones who would use it on a routine basis would be the pirates who already don't give a shit about the law anyway, and for the same reason that outlawing guns would make sure that only thugs would have them.
It mostly applies in cases where you're suspected.
The part that makes you a terrorist (sarcasm warning) is the part where your unusual operating system choice interferes with the investigative tools favored by the cops.
It still has to taste good enough not to make you sick.
MREs should be bland in your case. If they taste foul, the instinctive reaction is to puke or spit. And a meal that doesn't stay down is a wasted meal.
Also, there's scientific evidence that savoring your food actually improves how efficiently you digest it.
Get back to me when innocent bystanders aren't being "accidentally" swept up in the process.
Even people who use Linux are getting raided, stripped of property, and jailed.
I don't know if the Russian authorities have been bamboozled into believing that only MS software is legal to have on a PC, but given the happy side effect of squashing political dissent I doubt they care.
MS can't help "pirates" without putting themselves in the crosshairs. Innocent or guilty, they are still politically inconvenient and anyone who helps them, ESPECIALLY a company whose roots are in the evil capitalist western yankees, will find themselves in trouble very quickly.
In this case, it's not going to help, not even if everyone switched to linux.
The government itself is the one that hates them, MS is just along for the ride to give them more ammunition.
The reality is that piracy is just a pretense. I'm sure the government would poison their computers with kiddy porn if piracy claims were out of the question.
And of course, no due process means that once they confiscate your stuff and throw you in jail, they've already won.
The ISP knows what IP address they've assigned your modem, and they know the mac address of the modem because it has to be registered with your account before they will provision it. Your account with the ISP has your billing information, which includes your name and address.
Having your children do it on your behalf makes the child your agent, and you are responsible, both as a parent responsible for their actions, and as a principal with an agent acting on his or her own behalf.
Obviously the fnord agency is trying to get our youth preprogrammed and conditioned to accept monitoring as a normal part of membership in our society.
Write to your congress critter, and have them make it easier for mentally disabled folks like me to get training and get a job, preferably without having to compete with a bazillion other positions that are in short supply thanks to the economy being in the toilet and the minimum wage being too high for businesses to profitably expand their payrolls and keep folks like me from having to go on the public dole in the first place.
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Just like, you know, you could update your PS3 firmware, and kiss OtherOS goodbye, or you could choose not to update your PS3 firmware and get banned from PSN and newer games.
You have a choice here too, right?
I'm pretty sure they're already compressed on the original disc.
You are correct that it's not going to help fix copyright, but not for the reason you say it will.
The problem is that the current system of exploitation is filling the pockets of the entertainment industry to bursting, and they have plenty to spare to pay off their congress critters to keep the gravy train coming in, and *still* have enough money to retire in the Bahamas with a private yacht and jet. That is why nothing but hurting them in their pocketbooks is going to change anything. Not as long as political payoffs are part of their budget right next to golden parachutes and fat bonuses.
The system is self perpetuating. Crooked companies make money, and use it to bribe the politicians into giving them more ways to screw us over. And we're right back at square one, with new laws in their favor that let them squeeze the consumer even harder the next time around, so that they can by more laws. And so on.
And that includes abusive DMCA laws that make it illegal to use such tools at all. Ergo, the only ones who would use it on a routine basis would be the pirates who already don't give a shit about the law anyway, and for the same reason that outlawing guns would make sure that only thugs would have them.
http://xkcd.com/488/
This is why airport security is so abusive.
You are waiting to board, most likely have already purchased your ticket, and are in no position to resist without completely ruining your day.
Exactly.
It took a genius like Linus to do it.
Through eminent domain, in which case they still have to pay you what a judge deems to be fair market value.
Not really.
It mostly applies in cases where you're suspected.
The part that makes you a terrorist (sarcasm warning) is the part where your unusual operating system choice interferes with the investigative tools favored by the cops.
Which is precisely the reason you're automatically considered a terrorist if you *don't* use it.
It still has to taste good enough not to make you sick.
MREs should be bland in your case. If they taste foul, the instinctive reaction is to puke or spit. And a meal that doesn't stay down is a wasted meal.
Also, there's scientific evidence that savoring your food actually improves how efficiently you digest it.
Get back to me when innocent bystanders aren't being "accidentally" swept up in the process.
Even people who use Linux are getting raided, stripped of property, and jailed.
I don't know if the Russian authorities have been bamboozled into believing that only MS software is legal to have on a PC, but given the happy side effect of squashing political dissent I doubt they care.
MS can't help "pirates" without putting themselves in the crosshairs. Innocent or guilty, they are still politically inconvenient and anyone who helps them, ESPECIALLY a company whose roots are in the evil capitalist western yankees, will find themselves in trouble very quickly.
In this case, it's not going to help, not even if everyone switched to linux.
The government itself is the one that hates them, MS is just along for the ride to give them more ammunition.
The reality is that piracy is just a pretense. I'm sure the government would poison their computers with kiddy porn if piracy claims were out of the question.
And of course, no due process means that once they confiscate your stuff and throw you in jail, they've already won.
It's unfair competition for the regular joe who might be interested.
You can't really compete with a federal budget, especially one as large as that of the DoD.
That won't help.
The ISP knows what IP address they've assigned your modem, and they know the mac address of the modem because it has to be registered with your account before they will provision it. Your account with the ISP has your billing information, which includes your name and address.
Why cure a disease when you can simply treat it indefinitely?
If you cure a disease, you're out of business.
The jury isn't qualified because all the wise guys get stricken during voir dire.
The Supreme Court can't overturn something they don't even grant certiorari to.
I'm curious if scalpers sell more or less tickets than the original vendors would have sold had they used the scalper's prices to begin with.
The question is, do the scalpers inflate the prices artificially by monopolizing the supply?
Won't work.
Having your children do it on your behalf makes the child your agent, and you are responsible, both as a parent responsible for their actions, and as a principal with an agent acting on his or her own behalf.
Simple.
Paypal knows they have market power, a practical monopoly over digital cash transactions.
What's the alternative?
They act nice just often enough not to lose major business.
That's what you get when you have a practical monopoly on e-cash.
Paypal knows that they are the 800 pound gorilla in the room that everyone has to deal with. So they know they can get away with being asses.
If they had to compete, they'd straighten up right quick.
Obviously the fnord agency is trying to get our youth preprogrammed and conditioned to accept monitoring as a normal part of membership in our society.
Yes.
Write to your congress critter, and have them make it easier for mentally disabled folks like me to get training and get a job, preferably without having to compete with a bazillion other positions that are in short supply thanks to the economy being in the toilet and the minimum wage being too high for businesses to profitably expand their payrolls and keep folks like me from having to go on the public dole in the first place.