They don't care about their fan base, they just care about control of the market. They see pirates as unwanted competition and copyright infringement law is just a loophole to do to them legally what they cannot legally do to lawful competition.
And all this case proves is that the studios are greedy fucks that care about how much blood they'll squeeze out of this turnip, and not how much blood they themselves have lost from the defendant's actions.
I love how you're biased in calling linux a hassle to program and saying that one must know how to script to use it properly.
There are actually, contrary to rumor, a few user friendly distros out there that don't require a PhD in computer science to make use of.
And Microsoft at least HAS been caught hiding APIs that gives its own programs a performance advantage.
My comment isn't about which is better, anyway. It's about which ones cheat on their benchmarks by giving themselves a proprietary boost not available to the competition.
See also the scandal of either nvidia or ati making its own hardware's performance deliberately go down the crapper when it detected the competition's chips.
They have an interest in reserving the courts for the benefit of the elite.
If they really wanted to unclog them, they'd put a stop to bullshit lawsuits in the first place, instead of allowing the playing field to simply tilt in favor of big business.
And by bullshit lawsuit, I especially include any legal threat backed by nothing more than the plaintiff's superior legal budget. Yes, MAFIAA, that means you. Ditto for patent trolls.
An airline is a private entity and unlike with the TSA (a government agency) there is no first amendment protection.
You are on private property and the airline reserves the right to refuse service for any or indeed no reason.
The TSA did right by not detaining him for what is clearly a free speech issue.
However, the airline was not legally in the wrong to boot him, either.
Now, if they kicked him off the flight and kept his ticket money, THAT would be wrong. But simply exercising your property rights as a private business doesn't cut the mustard as far as violating your civil rights goes.
How much of it is apathy, and how much of it is grudging acceptance of the fact that they've got us by the balls as gatekeepers between us and the flights we need?
Even AFTER the tsa boards the guy, the pilot, lord of his personal fiefdom, can expel a passenger just for wearing a t-shirt, and even after he already paid for his plane ticket?
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what really pisses me off is the retroactive removal of works from public domain.
Just proves who is really in charge of the country, since otherwise that would have been slammed out the door as an ex post facto violation.
It's because corporations are of a higher social class and thus permitted to get away with more.
They don't care about their fan base, they just care about control of the market. They see pirates as unwanted competition and copyright infringement law is just a loophole to do to them legally what they cannot legally do to lawful competition.
And all this case proves is that the studios are greedy fucks that care about how much blood they'll squeeze out of this turnip, and not how much blood they themselves have lost from the defendant's actions.
I love how you're biased in calling linux a hassle to program and saying that one must know how to script to use it properly.
There are actually, contrary to rumor, a few user friendly distros out there that don't require a PhD in computer science to make use of.
And Microsoft at least HAS been caught hiding APIs that gives its own programs a performance advantage.
My comment isn't about which is better, anyway. It's about which ones cheat on their benchmarks by giving themselves a proprietary boost not available to the competition.
See also the scandal of either nvidia or ati making its own hardware's performance deliberately go down the crapper when it detected the competition's chips.
Apple hardware performs better when run by Apple device drivers.
News at 11.
In the adult world, business just replaces fists with lawsuits, so it's not really all that different at all.
They have an interest in reserving the courts for the benefit of the elite.
If they really wanted to unclog them, they'd put a stop to bullshit lawsuits in the first place, instead of allowing the playing field to simply tilt in favor of big business.
And by bullshit lawsuit, I especially include any legal threat backed by nothing more than the plaintiff's superior legal budget. Yes, MAFIAA, that means you. Ditto for patent trolls.
The way we bend over and take it, it is certainly not the home of the brave, either.
Does being a dumbass magically give bullies the right to beat him up, or merely deny him the privilege of bitching about it?
If the TSA made a stink about it, that's government abuse and that's one thing.
The airline however is a private business.
An airline is a private entity and unlike with the TSA (a government agency) there is no first amendment protection.
You are on private property and the airline reserves the right to refuse service for any or indeed no reason.
The TSA did right by not detaining him for what is clearly a free speech issue.
However, the airline was not legally in the wrong to boot him, either.
Now, if they kicked him off the flight and kept his ticket money, THAT would be wrong. But simply exercising your property rights as a private business doesn't cut the mustard as far as violating your civil rights goes.
Him being stupid and chumming the waters while swimming among sharks does not make it ok for there to be sharks there.
How much of it is apathy, and how much of it is grudging acceptance of the fact that they've got us by the balls as gatekeepers between us and the flights we need?
Great way to end up on the no fly list.
Texas state government btw tried to prevent this by making it illegal to grope.
The feds backed them off by threatening to add Texas to a federal no fly zone.
For starters, if they grope you, you could probably sue them without the inconvenient bit of sovereign immunity getting in the way.
Which is fine and dandy.
Except that I doubt they gave the guy a refund for the ticket he bought.
When you refuse service to someone, you don't keep their money.
So let me get this straight.
Even AFTER the tsa boards the guy, the pilot, lord of his personal fiefdom, can expel a passenger just for wearing a t-shirt, and even after he already paid for his plane ticket?
The violation may have been intentional, but the malice may still not have been there.
Voting with your wallet only works in a competitive environment.
There's probably also that violating your privacy is worth it in terms of higher premiums commanded on ad dollars.
Protecting a walled garden isn't easy when there's oil under it.
Considering that it's the government I'm surprised they didn't simply try to classify and bury it.
Who wants to bet that the company doing the certification has a friend at the company building the computers?
Google pissed off the politicians.
That is why everyone does it but only google gets in trouble.
The right thing to do is not to test our diligence.
We are consumers, not QA.
For greedy companies like ubisoft, piracy and second hand sales are both seen as unwanted competition.