Quite apart from the economics of child labor, there's also a pack of very finicky customers who will turn up their noses at Apple if they don't crack down on this.
Sales that are poisoned by bad PR can outweigh cost savings quite easily.
With credit cards you own it at purchase however the credit card company usually retains a security interest in the goods until you pay the balance, and in theory if you stiff the bank, they can repo the goods.
The 99 percent police crackdown proved that the elite are willing and able to use force to silence their critics. Said elite also hold a collective monopoly on the mass media that wanna-be politicians need to get elected.
Finally, the elite use their money to support whichever candidate will kiss their ass, and they threaten to support the opposition if they don't. You either kiss their ass or get sold out to someone who will.
The only way you will get into a federal office is with the backing of the power elite. If they don't like you, they will:
a) Bankroll your opponent's campaign b) Refuse you air time entirely c) Violently suppress your wanna-be constituents
The power elite already have the country by the balls and they know it.
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The physics leads the economics.
Criminals may break the law, but we still need them on the books to punish them afterward.
Actually seven bills per politician sounds damn good!
You see, there's this thing called selective prosecution.
Oh wow, you mean that regulation actually keeps customers from getting raped in the ass?
Gee, I wonder why we suck so bad here in the states.
The DMCA was actually very well written. You just weren't the intended beneficiary of it.
Make no mistake, these laws are written the way they are on purpose.
I think his point was that there is no such thing as a free market.
Left on their own businesses will form monopolies and buy out the government.
It's still good business sense to drop them.
Quite apart from the economics of child labor, there's also a pack of very finicky customers who will turn up their noses at Apple if they don't crack down on this.
Sales that are poisoned by bad PR can outweigh cost savings quite easily.
You missed my question.
What about unlocking a phone makes the DMCA apply in the first place?
Can I whine if the carrier is part of a cartel that forces everyone to pick from a limited set of choices?
With credit cards you own it at purchase however the credit card company usually retains a security interest in the goods until you pay the balance, and in theory if you stiff the bank, they can repo the goods.
It depends on your mortgage!
In the case of a mortgage, there will be a lien.
What I'd like to know is how unlocking a phone has copyright implications that make the DMCA relevant in the first place.
I love how DMCA and CDMA are anagrams :)
I'd call it a cartel, to be honest.
A derived work can still be infringed.
Only if they're putting cream in the cider.
No, but after signing it, the *workers* are forced to go along with it even thought they have NOT signed it.
I'm all for giving workers the right to choose if they want a union or not.
I'm pro worker choice.
Closed shops and union shops are bad because they force employees to support unions.
I wouldn't call it collusion if Apple used the threat of a patent lawsuit to coerce Palm.
I call that duress.
How would the US feel if a pakistani company was using the same sort of creative license to lampoon the NSA and the CIA?
Surprisingly that doesn't prove anything.
At best it's a case of *inductive* reasoning that assumes among other things that everyone has done dumbass things.
Darn straight it's not a source of privacy.
Dratted IP addresses gaping like goatse out in the open.
That is why everyone should torrent via Tor.
You don't have a choice.
The 99 percent police crackdown proved that the elite are willing and able to use force to silence their critics. Said elite also hold a collective monopoly on the mass media that wanna-be politicians need to get elected.
Finally, the elite use their money to support whichever candidate will kiss their ass, and they threaten to support the opposition if they don't. You either kiss their ass or get sold out to someone who will.
The only way you will get into a federal office is with the backing of the power elite. If they don't like you, they will:
a) Bankroll your opponent's campaign
b) Refuse you air time entirely
c) Violently suppress your wanna-be constituents
The power elite already have the country by the balls and they know it.
Once they buy the laws it isn't a crime anymore.