How do you vote with your wallet when the entire market presents a united front because everyone on the production side thinks DRM is the greatest thing since sliced bread?
It's hard to win a fight if everyone else gangs up on you.
I don't give a shit WHAT rental prices are. A deal is a deal and just because it's digital doesn't magically give Amazon the right to take away something that's already been paid for.
If you want a sounder argument, invoke Amazon's ToS or something. Economics has nothing to do with the legality.
The companies using H1-B's are scoundrels that post impossible qualifications, whine to congress about how expensive it is to hire decent talent, and then mop up H1-B's in their place and probably not even screen them anyway.
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How do you vote with your wallet when the entire market presents a united front because everyone on the production side thinks DRM is the greatest thing since sliced bread?
It's hard to win a fight if everyone else gangs up on you.
They're already ganging up on us to forbid class action lawsuits starting with Sony.
Forbidding lawsuits entirely is probably not far behind.
Oh stick a fork in it.
Sadly, it's a defense article because the DoD fucking said so.
The sad news is that people are probably going to rage more about this than they would for REAL politics that choose who gets into office.
Make sure they sign an NDA before you let them see anything.
They aren't going to buy it from you if they can steal it for free.
You seem to forget that members of "the establishment" have sovereign immunity to their own bullshit.
Why the hell not?
We wouldn't take it lying down if a software bug cheated US instead of the establishment, yes?
So why should we be self entitled pricks if the glitch happens to fall in our favor instead of against us?
You can't have it both ways.
Or just charge him with cheating.
Hell, it's even a felony in Nevada.
This case should have been simple.
Charge him with cheating. This is Nevada, which makes it a felony.
There was no need to even bring the feds into this at all.
The only difference between governments and the mafia is that the government just has bigger guns.
And this isn't even sarcasm. In the earlier days of history, Right of Conquest was a legally recoginzed principle of international law.
There already is DRM in foods.
We call them gene patents.
Voting with your wallet doesn't work if they already have your money.
Some of the more serious side effects of DRM have struck only AFTER the customer has already spent the money.
I'm talking here about retroactive confiscation of already purchased goods or shutting down of servers...AFTER the money is already spent.
I do not CARE if artists are starving.
NOTHING justifies blatant disrespect for the property rights of the end user who the MAFIAA would have paid fair and square for his content.
DRM is *nothing* but a cash grab, and is abused to enforce concessions against end users above and beyond those required by copyright law.
If we're talking in percentages where's the zero point at?
Historically blacks have in fact been the most notoriously discriminated against race, so it's a good example.
Does anyone besides me find it ironic that the piracy capital of the world managed to sue a US company? And win?
Of all the places to lose a copyright infringement case as a defendant...how the hell did it happen in China of all places?
If you ever wonder how it works, you may notice that they are always repeating vertical patterns with disruptions in them.
Those "deltas" are what cause you to see them in 3D, and they exploit the same parallax-detecting mechanism used for depth perception.
I don't give a shit WHAT rental prices are. A deal is a deal and just because it's digital doesn't magically give Amazon the right to take away something that's already been paid for.
If you want a sounder argument, invoke Amazon's ToS or something. Economics has nothing to do with the legality.
Simple. You're not a corporation.
I think you missed the part where DRM nuked access to stuff that had *already been purchased*
Voting with your wallet doesn't work if they already have your money.
Quite right.
It's a shifty company trying to use the legal system for strategic reasons.
The companies using H1-B's are scoundrels that post impossible qualifications, whine to congress about how expensive it is to hire decent talent, and then mop up H1-B's in their place and probably not even screen them anyway.
It's private property.
So the definition of what is "irritating" is whatever the manager of the premesis darn well says it is.
He is also within his rights to defer to who he pleases on the matter.
It's illegal to deprive someone of a service they already paid for without advanced warning.