Publishers, however, are happy to give lip-service to respect for IP when they consider piracy just as unwanted competition and also treat indies the same way.
The acid test: If piracy stopped, would DRM stop too?
What you are legally allowed to do, and what you can actually get away with, are often not the same thing, especially if you have a beefy legal department.
And sadly the PHB will have walked away with a big fat bonus long before his short sighted mandates have left a steaming mess for IT to get stuck with being blamed for.
Just part of being above the peons in the food chain, you get to eat the goodies and everyone below you has to take your shit.
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I hate pirates.
I hate greedy publishers even more.
At least the pirates are honest.
Publishers, however, are happy to give lip-service to respect for IP when they consider piracy just as unwanted competition and also treat indies the same way.
The acid test: If piracy stopped, would DRM stop too?
It's by being friends with the local politicians.
Internet service is not an open market.
Yes, everything SHOULD have failed.
Experience does not guarantee superiority.
Personally I think you're more concerned about preserving the status quo and enjoying your seniority.
What you are legally allowed to do, and what you can actually get away with, are often not the same thing, especially if you have a beefy legal department.
This is a case of apple exercising their reserved right to be an asshole.
Part of owning a walled garden is that you get to decide what is a weed and what is not.
The only purpose to encrypting such communications is to protect a monopoly.
Same reason that game consoles are so locked down.
Good luck surviving voir dire.
Lawyers don't usually like geniuses in the pool. They want impressionable sheeple that will swallow their lies whole.
God forbid someone with a brain actually thinks about the verdict.
And Apple probably knows that.
Maybe they think they have the UK economy by the balls and can get away with it.
Apple is blatantly defying a court order.
Why are things even being removed from the LOC in the first place?
This is blatant censorship.
And that is exactly why statutory damages are bullshit.
The minute we can choose between someone besides tweedle dee and tweedle dum, I'll blame the voters.
Until then, I'm not going to pin on them the natural results of a rigged system.
Interesting notions but you assume that the lawmakers actually care about common sense.
They don't. They care about keeping their palms greased.
The problem is abuse of the law.
Just do friggin vote by mail and be done with it.
No lines, no problems with bad weather thanks to the postal oath of rain and snow, and people can vote in the privacy of their own homes.
And since screwing with the mail is a federal offense, you get the USPIS protecting the process.
They also bring transparency.
The fact that we CAN audit people after the fact and at least in theory burn anyone for cheating is itself a deterrent.
Voting machine tampering is harder to detect.
exercise and vitamins and good food.
Best antidote yet known.
And sadly the PHB will have walked away with a big fat bonus long before his short sighted mandates have left a steaming mess for IT to get stuck with being blamed for.
Just part of being above the peons in the food chain, you get to eat the goodies and everyone below you has to take your shit.
That engineering is like every other field where the chain of command prevails.
The guys at the top get all the goodies and glory and the guys at the bottom get stuck with the blame when shit goes wrong.
It can also prevent people named Terry Childs from taking your network hostage.
The most important security, is watching the watchers. Can the top boss still get into the system?
If it's a loop of earning and spending they'd better be giving uncle sam their cut.
When someone other than you controls what code gets published, you buckle down and do what the fuck he tells you.
And that includes kowtowing to their preferences on coding style.
So if you're coding on someone else's turf, do what the fuck you are told.
Kinda like how microsoft woos PHBs into shoving their crap down IT's throat.
The compiler doesn't care how you format the code.
Your boss, however, might.