Considering the FCC requires the Cable companies own equipment to use cablecards now. I'm not sure what your getting on about.
CableCARD is the entire reason TivoHD works.
How many developer hours would it cost them to properly implement LAN play, compared to the sales they will lose?
I'd have to believe they've done research on this and came to an answer that satisfied them. I'd be willing to give them benefit of the doubt on their own market research vs. your opinion.
People will pirate regardless of LAN support or not. So why should they bother developing and testing something that only has edge use cases, when it will make no difference whether or not people pirate it. So go play on your pirate bnet with your flimsy justifications for an action that you probably would have preformed anyway, while the rest of the world enjoys regular bnet.
Honestly though, that statistic presented by the grandparent, while interesting, isn't all that useful to the conversation at hand. If it had been "percentage of households who have broadband and play PC games" that might be a more useful statistic. I believe it stands to reason that most PC gamers will probably fall in the 60% of those who have broadband, of course this is just speculation though.
If the STEAM hardware survey for July 2009 is anything to go by 2.93% of respondents have dial-up speed connections, 76.85% have better than dial-up, and the remaining 20.22% being unspecified.
Correct he couldn't distribute the driver with his app, but he doesn't have to put in a disclaimer about using a GPL driver. He's in the clear by not distributing, and by meeting the other conditions I mentioned.
Obviously IANAL, but imo this scenario is a little common sense.
If you only use JDBC interface code and are not distributing or compile against MySQL binaries, your program would not be subject to GPL. In this case you were mentioning JVM is dynamically loading a provider for the JDBC interface which just happens to be MySQL, but it could have been any implementation of JDBC, this is transparent to your application code. Saying that this interaction forces GPL on your product would be like saying Hibernate or Toplink must use GPL because it can possibly load a MySQL driver if a user tells it to. Remember GPL triggers on distribution not on runtime.
It would be ludicrous to think that someone could implement a well known service provider interface in Java (such as JDBC) with GPL'd code and that suddenly forces everyone who uses that interface to be GPL.
They may go to a "Bill the ISP" model like ESPN did. So the ISP passes along the cost to you whether you are using it or not. Pretty much exactly the same business model as cable tv. I fear this might be come the norm for Internet content providers in the future of it is successful, and there won't be a way to opt out, it will just become a new 'tax' on your internet access.
Except you might be paying for it if they go to a "Bill the ISP" model like ESPN did. So the ISP passes along the cost to you whether you are using it or not. Pretty much exactly the same business model as cable tv. I fear this might be come the norm for Internet content providers in the future of it is successful, and there won't be a way to opt out, it will just become a new 'tax' on your internet access.
As the GP pointed out, you can just do this with sock puppets, so now it only prevents honest users from modding and contributing. Does not seam like very sound reasoning at all.
With Red Hat's JBoss tools plugins for Eclipse doing web development (even just plain old static html+css) in Eclipse is pretty neat now. The best part is its all FOSS.
Except in that case they are not suing you for exercising fair use, they are in fact suing you for circumventing DRM. I realize that's an infinitely fine hair to split but its significant none the less.
I agree with your second point about the DMCA though. However that is something that needs to be taken up with your congressman.
5. It did not prevent your from donating or re-selling that software to someone else after you no longer had a use for it. (Right of First Sale.)
Doctrine of first sale is a protection against legal retaliation. It does not force the companies to design there product in such a way to help you exercise this right nor does it prevent them from putting in a technical or mechanical means of preventing you from exercising it.
I know I might go to karma hell for saying that but people need to get over this.
People scream bloody murder about fair use and doctrine of first sale, I have some sad news for you. Fair use and doctrine of first sale only prevent companies from using *LEGAL MEANS* (i.e a law suit) against you if you try to exercise that right (and actually it doesn't prevent them from suing, but they shouldn't win). It doesn't mean they have to help you exercise that right or that they can't put in a technical means to stop you.
What really needs to happen is people need to write there congressmen and senators to get better consumer rights (more updated and recent) laws passed
Also worth noting this will be nice for people like me who work in windows shop but would like to run a Linux and actually use exchange functionality from a native client.
I imagine over the course of fifty years I will be changing out the actual device as I update or add data to them.
I also think its tough to say what will be around in 50 years and what won't.
The key phrase is "their implementation". RSA the algorithm is sound as far as anyone can tell right now, but that doesn't mean they (BD+) didn't introduce a subtle flaw in their particular implementation of it.
For important stuff I use memory cards in my safe deposit box at the bank. I could see flash being a viable long term storage, some of them coming out with 10 year to lifetime warranties.
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Considering the FCC requires the Cable companies own equipment to use cablecards now. I'm not sure what your getting on about. CableCARD is the entire reason TivoHD works.
How many developer hours would it cost them to properly implement LAN play, compared to the sales they will lose?
I'd have to believe they've done research on this and came to an answer that satisfied them. I'd be willing to give them benefit of the doubt on their own market research vs. your opinion.
People will pirate regardless of LAN support or not. So why should they bother developing and testing something that only has edge use cases, when it will make no difference whether or not people pirate it. So go play on your pirate bnet with your flimsy justifications for an action that you probably would have preformed anyway, while the rest of the world enjoys regular bnet.
Honestly though, that statistic presented by the grandparent, while interesting, isn't all that useful to the conversation at hand. If it had been "percentage of households who have broadband and play PC games" that might be a more useful statistic. I believe it stands to reason that most PC gamers will probably fall in the 60% of those who have broadband, of course this is just speculation though.
If the STEAM hardware survey for July 2009 is anything to go by 2.93% of respondents have dial-up speed connections, 76.85% have better than dial-up, and the remaining 20.22% being unspecified.
Source: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Correct he couldn't distribute the driver with his app, but he doesn't have to put in a disclaimer about using a GPL driver. He's in the clear by not distributing, and by meeting the other conditions I mentioned. Obviously IANAL, but imo this scenario is a little common sense.
If you only use JDBC interface code and are not distributing or compile against MySQL binaries, your program would not be subject to GPL. In this case you were mentioning JVM is dynamically loading a provider for the JDBC interface which just happens to be MySQL, but it could have been any implementation of JDBC, this is transparent to your application code. Saying that this interaction forces GPL on your product would be like saying Hibernate or Toplink must use GPL because it can possibly load a MySQL driver if a user tells it to. Remember GPL triggers on distribution not on runtime. It would be ludicrous to think that someone could implement a well known service provider interface in Java (such as JDBC) with GPL'd code and that suddenly forces everyone who uses that interface to be GPL.
They may go to a "Bill the ISP" model like ESPN did. So the ISP passes along the cost to you whether you are using it or not. Pretty much exactly the same business model as cable tv. I fear this might be come the norm for Internet content providers in the future of it is successful, and there won't be a way to opt out, it will just become a new 'tax' on your internet access.
Except you might be paying for it if they go to a "Bill the ISP" model like ESPN did. So the ISP passes along the cost to you whether you are using it or not. Pretty much exactly the same business model as cable tv. I fear this might be come the norm for Internet content providers in the future of it is successful, and there won't be a way to opt out, it will just become a new 'tax' on your internet access.
As the GP pointed out, you can just do this with sock puppets, so now it only prevents honest users from modding and contributing. Does not seam like very sound reasoning at all.
I, for one, would welcome our new alien overlords.
Welcome to many years ago? Slashdot has been doing that since I started reading it.
They do in a sense because they use these patents in GPL software which they publish.
With Red Hat's JBoss tools plugins for Eclipse doing web development (even just plain old static html+css) in Eclipse is pretty neat now. The best part is its all FOSS.
Except in that case they are not suing you for exercising fair use, they are in fact suing you for circumventing DRM. I realize that's an infinitely fine hair to split but its significant none the less. I agree with your second point about the DMCA though. However that is something that needs to be taken up with your congressman.
I meant to reply to fellow who replied to me, and not to myself. My apologies.
I agree with you completely. We need an updated law for consumer rights to go with the updated creator rights (DMCA).
5. It did not prevent your from donating or re-selling that software to someone else after you no longer had a use for it. (Right of First Sale.)
Doctrine of first sale is a protection against legal retaliation. It does not force the companies to design there product in such a way to help you exercise this right nor does it prevent them from putting in a technical or mechanical means of preventing you from exercising it.
DRM isn't illegal.
I know I might go to karma hell for saying that but people need to get over this.
People scream bloody murder about fair use and doctrine of first sale, I have some sad news for you. Fair use and doctrine of first sale only prevent companies from using *LEGAL MEANS* (i.e a law suit) against you if you try to exercise that right (and actually it doesn't prevent them from suing, but they shouldn't win). It doesn't mean they have to help you exercise that right or that they can't put in a technical means to stop you.
What really needs to happen is people need to write there congressmen and senators to get better consumer rights (more updated and recent) laws passed
Also worth noting this will be nice for people like me who work in windows shop but would like to run a Linux and actually use exchange functionality from a native client.
Most people just say IANAL (I am not a lawyer). Instead of proving it so dramatically as you just did.
Same thing, different name. No thanks.
I imagine over the course of fifty years I will be changing out the actual device as I update or add data to them. I also think its tough to say what will be around in 50 years and what won't.
The key phrase is "their implementation". RSA the algorithm is sound as far as anyone can tell right now, but that doesn't mean they (BD+) didn't introduce a subtle flaw in their particular implementation of it.
For important stuff I use memory cards in my safe deposit box at the bank. I could see flash being a viable long term storage, some of them coming out with 10 year to lifetime warranties.