Copyright's purpose is to bribe the creative with an incentive to create and not keep it to themselves or to those who pay an arm and a leg.
The intended result is a finite amount of time for copyright holders to monopolize their creations for profit, but still allow those creations to enter the public domain eventually.
Unfortunately, that wasn't enough for the greedy content producers, who coopted the democratic process and bought laws to extend that limit indefinitely.
Hell, the public domain isn't even sacred anymore, since SCOTUS allowed Congress to retroactively claw back stuff that had ALREADY entered the public domain. So don't kid yourself into thinking SCOTUS is here to protect us.
DRM is not inherently bad per se as much as the companies that opportunistically use it to turn media purchases into EaaS just because DRM allows them to get away with it.
DRM stops you from infringing copyright, and ostensibly that is all it is used for so the feds won't put a leash on it.
Since DRM is basically a control tool to rob you of power and put it in the hands of the vendor, and makes you subject to their whims, it also gives them power over the market.
DRM abuse should be attacked on a consumer protection front, as on a copyright protection front we have already lost.
If you have a hardass above you in the chain of command that not only insists on being unreasonable, but threatens to fire anyone who even SUGGESTS doing things differently, how do you handle that?
It sounds to me like TFA was submitted by someone looking for an escape from a hostile management environment.
It's all well and good to know that you need to change expectations. But if you have a hardass pulling rank on you, you're kinda fucked.
Fix the economy so that bosses can't get away with fucking over their workers because there's nowhere better to go.
Your bosses know damn well they are forcing you to make bricks without straw here. Don't overestimate how much power you have over this situation.
Since you say quitting isn't an option it appears you are captive to the situation and are going to have to put up with it. Still, now would be a good time to build references and find another employer.
If not for the people already stuck, then for fortunate individuals who have yet to get hooked.
If it was made clear that smokers would get shafted, fewer people would start.
They might remove the punishment aspect by grandfather clauses, but the deterrent effect on outsiders is still there.
And we don't need the government to punish smokers, when insurance companies can jack up the rates on them and it's already a crime to lie about it. It's called insurance fraud.
You can't always leave a company either if they're the only employer in town.
I see government as a monopoly, enforced by onerous border crossing policies that make life hell for anyone that *does* try to vote with their feet and move somewhere less restrictive.
Hearing that the TSA ass-ra--er, probes travelers at the border tends to make you willing to put up with more.
And like any monopolist, the government probably damn well knows this.
I wonder if you could sue the feds for spying on you, and use the lawsuit to get a subpoena against the federal agency in question. When the subpoena is inevitably challenged on grounds of national security, rebut that with the fact that your constitutional rights are provided by the constitution which supercedes any laws that make the information secret in the first place (supremacy clause).
Of course, this is doomed to failure since the feds have shown they'll do whatever the hell they want to anyway.
I find that having things opted-in to the commit rather than glomming everything together by default encourages modular commits that area easier to bisect.
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Nice veiled reference to obamacare, even though I happen to agree with it.
But we have decided as a society that competition is a good thing, even if consumers maintain the right of rejection.
Therefore we punish anti-trust violations.
Write a new system from scratch, and transfer payroll from the old one to the new one.
Once everyone's migrated, chuck the old system in the bitbucket.
Such a contrived language that has such dependency on the movies in question would probably qualify as a derived work of both.
Bribery keeps the guard dogs on leashes held tight by their corporate string pulled puppets.
Copyright's purpose is to bribe the creative with an incentive to create and not keep it to themselves or to those who pay an arm and a leg.
The intended result is a finite amount of time for copyright holders to monopolize their creations for profit, but still allow those creations to enter the public domain eventually.
Unfortunately, that wasn't enough for the greedy content producers, who coopted the democratic process and bought laws to extend that limit indefinitely.
Hell, the public domain isn't even sacred anymore, since SCOTUS allowed Congress to retroactively claw back stuff that had ALREADY entered the public domain. So don't kid yourself into thinking SCOTUS is here to protect us.
DRM is not inherently bad per se as much as the companies that opportunistically use it to turn media purchases into EaaS just because DRM allows them to get away with it.
DRM stops you from infringing copyright, and ostensibly that is all it is used for so the feds won't put a leash on it.
Since DRM is basically a control tool to rob you of power and put it in the hands of the vendor, and makes you subject to their whims, it also gives them power over the market.
DRM abuse should be attacked on a consumer protection front, as on a copyright protection front we have already lost.
If you have a hardass above you in the chain of command that not only insists on being unreasonable, but threatens to fire anyone who even SUGGESTS doing things differently, how do you handle that?
It sounds to me like TFA was submitted by someone looking for an escape from a hostile management environment.
It's all well and good to know that you need to change expectations. But if you have a hardass pulling rank on you, you're kinda fucked.
Fix the economy so that bosses can't get away with fucking over their workers because there's nowhere better to go.
Your bosses know damn well they are forcing you to make bricks without straw here. Don't overestimate how much power you have over this situation.
Since you say quitting isn't an option it appears you are captive to the situation and are going to have to put up with it. Still, now would be a good time to build references and find another employer.
Ironically, the incentives you flag are the very reason it may continue.
It's called an incentive.
If not for the people already stuck, then for fortunate individuals who have yet to get hooked.
If it was made clear that smokers would get shafted, fewer people would start.
They might remove the punishment aspect by grandfather clauses, but the deterrent effect on outsiders is still there.
And we don't need the government to punish smokers, when insurance companies can jack up the rates on them and it's already a crime to lie about it. It's called insurance fraud.
You can't always leave a company either if they're the only employer in town.
I see government as a monopoly, enforced by onerous border crossing policies that make life hell for anyone that *does* try to vote with their feet and move somewhere less restrictive.
Hearing that the TSA ass-ra--er, probes travelers at the border tends to make you willing to put up with more.
And like any monopolist, the government probably damn well knows this.
My guess is the tobacco industry quit paying its bribe mo^W^W^Wlobbying fees and this is fallout.
Indeed, the problem is that the tax code is too complicated.
I'm fine with job security for accountants and lawyers, except for the fact that a complicated tax code makes things *harder* for everyone else.
The key part of pareto optimizations is you don't screw over anyone else in the process.
Cry me a river, buggy whip makers.
This is what capitalism and competition is all about.
Whichever one pisses off the legal system the most, and by extension those who bought it.
If you're an introvert you probably *are* alone.
Any federal law that contradicts the constitution is still unconstitutional, even without the supremacy clause (which you are correct that I miscited)
This principle was established in Marbury v. Madison.
I wonder if you could sue the feds for spying on you, and use the lawsuit to get a subpoena against the federal agency in question. When the subpoena is inevitably challenged on grounds of national security, rebut that with the fact that your constitutional rights are provided by the constitution which supercedes any laws that make the information secret in the first place (supremacy clause).
Of course, this is doomed to failure since the feds have shown they'll do whatever the hell they want to anyway.
Well that was a non sequitor.
Of course his unions sucked.
They gave him shitty advice and it burned him.
He still put himself in harm's way by giving his vindictive co-worker the perfect opportunity to retaliate.
Lesson learned?
Don't throw stones if you're in a glass house.
Namely, if you're in a precarious position, don't piss off someone that can shove you off the edge of the cliff.
Your friend put himself in a position where his coworker had him by the balls, and it got him castrated.
It's not really an either or proposition.
I think managers AND unions are BOTH evil.
Either side would happily cheat and rob you blind if they could get away with it.
Ostensibly that would be an illegal tying arrangement.
In practice, the corporate elite have such a deathgrip on the government this cushy arrangement is probably going to be given a blind eye.
Being able to choose how gently you get screwed is hardly a choice.
In some cases you can't opt out. RTFS.
I find that having things opted-in to the commit rather than glomming everything together by default encourages modular commits that area easier to bisect.