> That's a pathetic lie. Piracy happens because people are too cheap to pay for goods.
Much of my own media hoard consists of things that were created with a different set of ground rules. Were I to apply those ground rules and act within them, I might run afoul of the "new and improved" version of the law.
A lot of stuff was created with the expectation that it would be in the public domain right now. Thus perfectly legal activities have been transformed into "piracy".
There's more to the creative/torrent world than the latest idiot that thinks he's like a soldier because he can trip on stage.
That's the sad part in this. Corporations may just think they need certain measures to be in force. They may only believe that shredding my individual liberties is necessary to maintain their profits. Their assumption that raping the public domain is necessary to their bottom line may only be a delusion.
It works out the same either way.
That's kind of the point of the OP.
DRM ultimately doesn't benefit publishers. Motivated crackers WILL break it and make it irrelevant. Ultimately the only people limited by it will be paying customers. Meanwhile everyone else is having a field day on BT swarms.
The attack being described is nonsense, especially if China was supposed to be the perpetrator. Undermining the US economy is really the LAST thing the Chinese would want to do. It makes no sense from a business perspective.
North Korea would have made a much better scapegoat.
The problem with that idea is that movies from 10 or 30 or 60 years ago are just as good as the latest and greatest. You can't say that about electronics.
This is just one of many reasons you shouldn't draw stupid comparisons between physical and non-physical products.
It started with buying copies of old shows. The rules changes and more ads were allowed so even more was cut out of old shows that were already edited to allow for more commercials.
It got bad enough that I noticed that there was less of the show versus the last time I watched and that it made less sense. It was bad enough that I was disinterested in watching that version of it anymore. So I bought my own copy instead.
A lot of channels are just old reruns. Some reruns are older than others. Some are newer.
Netflix seems to be the new reruns channel. If you procrastinate long enough, you may find that some show you bought is now available "for free" on Netflix.
I would not rule out the possibility of your ISP intentionally degrading your Netflix experience.
I would blame Amazon or Netflix for the occasional problem. If it's something more pervasive, I would be inclined to blame the network provider. Sabotaging the competition...
Your comment would be relevant if all that was out there was the cheap subscription services. However, a great deal of the relevant new content is also available on multiple PPV streaming services.
So unless you have a sports fixation, there's likely nothing to miss from turning your back on cable.
There's a lot of room between $8 per month and $80.
> Wow, that's a tremendous amount of time and money expended. Why not just download what you want to watch?
It's illegal and you have to put a big fat "KICK ME" sign on your back while doing it. While #1 may not be a big deal for a lot of people, #2 certainly should be.
Wealth and affluence aren't the same thing. Even income and affluence aren't the same thing.
If I made double what I do now but lived in the "wealthy northeast", I would have LESS wealth than I do now rather than more. I probably wouldn't have any more spending power either. My "affluence" improvement would simply be a mirage.
I can live much better in a Red State than I can in the "wealthy notheast".
This kind of survey conveniently ignores the big picture in favor of the kinds out of context superficial information you typically find in news soundbites.
> It cost us about $10,000 to start that business.
10K is not a business. It's a HOBBY.
I would not be surprised that you are running this venture in such a way that you may very well find yourself trying to defend yourself against the IRS over this very issue. You don't get tax breaks for hobbies.
> As opposed to Democrats who proceed to make Christian values illegal?
Democrats do nothing of the kind.
What you are talking about are the mindless hysterics of the theocrat fringe that define oppression as the inability to impose their views on the rest of us. These are people with benign sounding names like "Famiy Research Council".
The GOP needs to stop pandering to and aligning themselves with these American Talibans.
> The constitution is up to 27 amendments now, so that's not a bar.
What's the last one you remember? I remember the attempts to pass the ERA. Do you remember how well that turned out?
By design it's not a trivial task. We wouldn't have Obamacare if it had required a constitutional amendment.
Although you generally don't see gun grabbers who are honest enough to advocate for an actual amendment. They usually just go for trying to distort the legal language of the 2nd.
> Ok, I'll call your bullshit. Do you realize the data you're pointing to does NOT validate your argument?
You're a moron if you think you are any less safe in a comparable place in the US than anywhere else in the world. We don't have a gun problem. We have a poverty problem masked as a gun problem.
Your likeliehood of being a victim of violence is related to poverty, not the availibility of guns. In those areas where violence is likely, no one needs a gun to do you harm.
There is simply no free lunch. The guy you are outsourcing to is in it for the money. He will make sure he makes his money off of you. They're not going to put up with crap that your employees normally would. They certainly won't do it for free.
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If this is really only about the latest Top 40 tripe, then why bother expanding copyrights at all? It's an entirely pointless and gratuitous measure.
If it's really irrelevant, why did anyone bother?
> That's a pathetic lie. Piracy happens because people are too cheap to pay for goods.
Much of my own media hoard consists of things that were created with a different set of ground rules. Were I to apply those ground rules and act within them, I might run afoul of the "new and improved" version of the law.
A lot of stuff was created with the expectation that it would be in the public domain right now. Thus perfectly legal activities have been transformed into "piracy".
There's more to the creative/torrent world than the latest idiot that thinks he's like a soldier because he can trip on stage.
That's the sad part in this. Corporations may just think they need certain measures to be in force. They may only believe that shredding my individual liberties is necessary to maintain their profits. Their assumption that raping the public domain is necessary to their bottom line may only be a delusion.
It works out the same either way.
That's kind of the point of the OP.
DRM ultimately doesn't benefit publishers. Motivated crackers WILL break it and make it irrelevant. Ultimately the only people limited by it will be paying customers. Meanwhile everyone else is having a field day on BT swarms.
> What rights you have depends on what rights the copyright holder wishes to give you when you hand over your money
WRONG. I have certain rights based on ancient notions of personal property.
DRM is an attempt to deny rights to individuals.
Corrupt laws that help enforce DRM are more of the same. They unjustly turn a purely technological limitation into a legal one.
The attack being described is nonsense, especially if China was supposed to be the perpetrator. Undermining the US economy is really the LAST thing the Chinese would want to do. It makes no sense from a business perspective.
North Korea would have made a much better scapegoat.
The problem with that idea is that movies from 10 or 30 or 60 years ago are just as good as the latest and greatest. You can't say that about electronics.
This is just one of many reasons you shouldn't draw stupid comparisons between physical and non-physical products.
This is the genesis of my own cord cutting.
It started with buying copies of old shows. The rules changes and more ads were allowed so even more was cut out of old shows that were already edited to allow for more commercials.
It got bad enough that I noticed that there was less of the show versus the last time I watched and that it made less sense. It was bad enough that I was disinterested in watching that version of it anymore. So I bought my own copy instead.
A lot of channels are just old reruns. Some reruns are older than others. Some are newer.
Netflix seems to be the new reruns channel. If you procrastinate long enough, you may find that some show you bought is now available "for free" on Netflix.
YOU are the only person talking about "stealing" anything here.
I would not rule out the possibility of your ISP intentionally degrading your Netflix experience.
I would blame Amazon or Netflix for the occasional problem. If it's something more pervasive, I would be inclined to blame the network provider. Sabotaging the competition...
I had forgotten about popovers. God I hated those.
"TV stations pretty much crapped the bed they sleep in,"
Pretty much...
Your comment would be relevant if all that was out there was the cheap subscription services. However, a great deal of the relevant new content is also available on multiple PPV streaming services.
So unless you have a sports fixation, there's likely nothing to miss from turning your back on cable.
There's a lot of room between $8 per month and $80.
> Wow, that's a tremendous amount of time and money expended. Why not just download what you want to watch?
It's illegal and you have to put a big fat "KICK ME" sign on your back while doing it. While #1 may not be a big deal for a lot of people, #2 certainly should be.
> The geek is quick to impose his own solutions on others, whether they fit or not.
The geek is far more likely to know whether something fits or not. The geek actually has half a clue and can see through the nonsense and branding.
This includes evaluating the mother's fixation on a particular brand of word processor to the exclusion of all others.
That fixation is likely due to years of constant propaganda denigrating anything that's not Microsoft.
Vista in particular is probably the single worst thing someone could be irrationally clinging to.
Wealth and affluence aren't the same thing. Even income and affluence aren't the same thing.
If I made double what I do now but lived in the "wealthy northeast", I would have LESS wealth than I do now rather than more. I probably wouldn't have any more spending power either. My "affluence" improvement would simply be a mirage.
I can live much better in a Red State than I can in the "wealthy notheast".
This kind of survey conveniently ignores the big picture in favor of the kinds out of context superficial information you typically find in news soundbites.
It's a perfect example of abusing statistics.
The "more favorable outcome" is counterintuitive.
> It cost us about $10,000 to start that business.
10K is not a business. It's a HOBBY.
I would not be surprised that you are running this venture in such a way that you may very well find yourself trying to defend yourself against the IRS over this very issue. You don't get tax breaks for hobbies.
> As opposed to Democrats who proceed to make Christian values illegal?
Democrats do nothing of the kind.
What you are talking about are the mindless hysterics of the theocrat fringe that define oppression as the inability to impose their views on the rest of us. These are people with benign sounding names like "Famiy Research Council".
The GOP needs to stop pandering to and aligning themselves with these American Talibans.
Look at the butthurt Republican mad that someone called out the GOP for the flaming hypocrites that they are.
Saying that you stand for something and actually standing for it are two ENTIRELY different things.
It's a damn shame that the Republicans don't actually measure up to their rhetoric.
> The constitution is up to 27 amendments now, so that's not a bar.
What's the last one you remember? I remember the attempts to pass the ERA. Do you remember how well that turned out?
By design it's not a trivial task. We wouldn't have Obamacare if it had required a constitutional amendment.
Although you generally don't see gun grabbers who are honest enough to advocate for an actual amendment. They usually just go for trying to distort the legal language of the 2nd.
> And how would the residents of Dresden have fared during the Allied firebombing of their city if they had their small arms?
They might have prevented the 12 million that their own regime killed in deathcamps.
> Ok, I'll call your bullshit. Do you realize the data you're pointing to does NOT validate your argument?
You're a moron if you think you are any less safe in a comparable place in the US than anywhere else in the world. We don't have a gun problem. We have a poverty problem masked as a gun problem.
Your likeliehood of being a victim of violence is related to poverty, not the availibility of guns. In those areas where violence is likely, no one needs a gun to do you harm.
You're just a sheltered idiot.
> Forking/Fragmenting is good when it solves a problem. Not when the differences are between using different conventions.
Fork? What fork? I don't see a fork. I see something that is about as far away from Debian as MythBuntu is.
This is Debian+Steam in a can. You might as well call it SteamBuntu.
They probably don't want to hear any square pegs complaining that they only get 2 fps out of the AMD drivers.
There is simply no free lunch. The guy you are outsourcing to is in it for the money. He will make sure he makes his money off of you. They're not going to put up with crap that your employees normally would. They certainly won't do it for free.
> Exactly. It is a shame that the writer does not seem to be able to understand the process of picking a vendor appropriate for the task at hand.
That's fine for only as long as your requirements don't change.Then you're screwed apparently.