...and this is different from the problem of using bombers how exactly? Even bombers that are intended to take apart the most advanced air force on the planet still are going to have fighter cover.
> You can also do it with Apple TV and iTunes; with a lot less fiddling around, so there is even a solution for the non-trchincally inclined.
The only way the iTunes approach is going to yield "less fiddling" is if you restrict yourself entirely to what's available on iTunes and pay their prices. Unfortunately, their prices are high and their selection is inadequate.
The end result will be much like the Kaledescape. You can only play your stuff on devices from the single vendor. Although the Kaledescape allows you to shop at Target and Best Buy.
No. This is about making you pay for those things that you have already paid for. Back in the pre-digital days, this was easy. The media was the product and media formats changed. When this happened, you had to buy all new media again.
Once stuff went digital, the product became the data and that can live forever.
The need to buy the same thing in 5 different formats evaporated.
The gravy train is over. The dinosoaur just hasn't given up the ghost yet.
That cuts both ways. On the one hand, they are "unnacountable" to the voters. On the other hand, they are also "unnacountable" to members of their local political machine. That can sit above all of that and don't have to worry about what party is in power.
They can serve as a counterbalance against legislators that are always campaigning for re-election.
They can even go against their own political party.
> It is only distributed to their Japanese market.
That is "not bothering". That is not what the OP was complaining about. The OP can still import those items without Pilot trying to hunt him down. Pilot and everyone else expects First Sale to be upheld for physical goods.
This is one of those areas where Media Moguls expect it to have it both ways and there are plenty of people that will encourage them.
They want all of the up sides of physical property but none of the downsides when it comes to conflating a movie with a house or a pen.
It's pretty commonplace actually. You don't have to look in the Android market to find it. If you think it only happens there then you are some kind of mindless platform partisan.
You're not paying attention to what's been happening in the rest of the market for 30 years.
No. We should stop pretending that OS and application design choices don't matter. They can't stop everything but they can avoid the sort of nonsense that happens in Windows. When it comes to "social engineering" in Windows, the bar is simply much lower. No degree of self-delusion on yoru part will change that.
You can be smug when Android or iPhone or Linux or MacOS has the same sort of "browse this webpage get infected" problem that Windows has.
This is a different problem than the usual Windows problem. The usual Windows problem is a matter of "viewing the wrong document". It's usually the sort of activity that would have previoulsy been considered absurd as a virus attack vector.
Microsoft loves to blur the boundary between programs and data and install things without a user's consent or knowledge.
The Android problem is different. It's harder because you are trying to protect the end user from their own actions, actions that need to be permitted in order for the platform to be useful. You need to do this when the user might simply ignore or disable any extra facility you might create.
This addresses a problem with media-free content in general. How do you establish that you have the right to the files you have? What's to keep the government or Apple coming in and claiming all of a sudden that all of your stuff is pirated?
The "ownership" problem exists regardless of whether or not anyone wants to transfer that ownership.
Physical media is a nice token of exchange and proof of ownership in that regard.
The fact is that Apple would see all jailbreaking be illegal if it were up to them.
The original title is an accurate portrayal of the situation better capturing the fact that jailbreaking would otherwise be illegal. It took consumer lobbying to be declared legal and it will lapse into being illegal again without active consumer lobbying.
This has to be done repeatedly.
The RC could still declare jailbreaking illegal again despite of what the EFF does.
A watered down approach to the subject really doesn't capture the essence of the situation here.
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...and this is different from the problem of using bombers how exactly? Even bombers that are intended to take apart the most advanced air force on the planet still are going to have fighter cover.
...which is also untrue. The Model-T came in many colors.
No. Other media players "skirt the rules" by not providing the mechanism for ripping the media.
They just play files.
> Dated technology? have you touched one lately? It's far more advanced than any of the crap any geek can build at home.
No it isn't. It hasn't been for a long time.
The only value that it has is in being a "legitimate" solution.
Now of course I "haven't touched one lately". I don't have the 50K or so it would cost me to replace my $800 solution.
> You can also do it with Apple TV and iTunes; with a lot less fiddling around, so there is even a solution for the non-trchincally inclined.
The only way the iTunes approach is going to yield "less fiddling" is if you restrict yourself entirely to what's available on iTunes and pay their prices. Unfortunately, their prices are high and their selection is inadequate.
The end result will be much like the Kaledescape. You can only play your stuff on devices from the single vendor. Although the Kaledescape allows you to shop at Target and Best Buy.
No. This is about making you pay for those things that you have already paid for. Back in the pre-digital days, this was easy. The media was the product and media formats changed. When this happened, you had to buy all new media again.
Once stuff went digital, the product became the data and that can live forever.
The need to buy the same thing in 5 different formats evaporated.
The gravy train is over. The dinosoaur just hasn't given up the ghost yet.
That cuts both ways. On the one hand, they are "unnacountable" to the voters. On the other hand, they are also "unnacountable" to members of their local political machine. That can sit above all of that and don't have to worry about what party is in power.
They can serve as a counterbalance against legislators that are always campaigning for re-election.
They can even go against their own political party.
The "new model" has more than enough built-in efficiency to absurb a local sales tax and wonder "what's for dessert".
No. It looks like they didn't have what he was looking for at all.
That's the main advantage of an online store like Amazon. It's not "price" or "lack of sales taxes".
No. Romney is part of the GOP that sponsored the bill to begin with.
Facts are sometimes inconvenient when you have a clear political bias.
> It is only distributed to their Japanese market.
That is "not bothering". That is not what the OP was complaining about. The OP can still import those items without Pilot trying to hunt him down. Pilot and everyone else expects First Sale to be upheld for physical goods.
This is one of those areas where Media Moguls expect it to have it both ways and there are plenty of people that will encourage them.
They want all of the up sides of physical property but none of the downsides when it comes to conflating a movie with a house or a pen.
Luxury good. Elastic demand. Zero price. Infinity.
You can't relate the point of "infinite demand" to any situation with a non-zero price, not even 25 cents.
There is a gap between what the Media Moguls want and what the paying public is willing to tolerate.
Piracy confuses the situation by giving these Moguls a false impression of the market value of their work.
It's pretty commonplace actually. You don't have to look in the Android market to find it. If you think it only happens there then you are some kind of mindless platform partisan.
You're not paying attention to what's been happening in the rest of the market for 30 years.
When do we get to raid Blizzard?
No. We should stop pretending that OS and application design choices don't matter. They can't stop everything but they can avoid the sort of nonsense that happens in Windows. When it comes to "social engineering" in Windows, the bar is simply much lower. No degree of self-delusion on yoru part will change that.
You can be smug when Android or iPhone or Linux or MacOS has the same sort of "browse this webpage get infected" problem that Windows has.
This is a different problem than the usual Windows problem. The usual Windows problem is a matter of "viewing the wrong document". It's usually the sort of activity that would have previoulsy been considered absurd as a virus attack vector.
Microsoft loves to blur the boundary between programs and data and install things without a user's consent or knowledge.
The Android problem is different. It's harder because you are trying to protect the end user from their own actions, actions that need to be permitted in order for the platform to be useful. You need to do this when the user might simply ignore or disable any extra facility you might create.
This addresses a problem with media-free content in general. How do you establish that you have the right to the files you have? What's to keep the government or Apple coming in and claiming all of a sudden that all of your stuff is pirated?
The "ownership" problem exists regardless of whether or not anyone wants to transfer that ownership.
Physical media is a nice token of exchange and proof of ownership in that regard.
Sounds like the shrill cry of a wounded fanboy.
The fact is that Apple would see all jailbreaking be illegal if it were up to them.
The original title is an accurate portrayal of the situation better capturing the fact that jailbreaking would otherwise be illegal. It took consumer lobbying to be declared legal and it will lapse into being illegal again without active consumer lobbying.
This has to be done repeatedly.
The RC could still declare jailbreaking illegal again despite of what the EFF does.
A watered down approach to the subject really doesn't capture the essence of the situation here.
To sum up:
The prosecutor knows best.
If someone takes a plea, it's because they are guilty.
With attitudes like that, it's little wonder Google took the plea.
The first rule of corporate law is that you don't talk about corporate law.
It refers to both.
Don't be such an obvious apologist for hypocrites.
Why should I care?
What am I missing by not having ICS on my device?
Be specific.
The same applies to Apple.
It's just the way the modern "free market" works.
My Galaxy S has been a quite adequate replacement for the iPhone it replaced.
If you find your Android is sluggish, try seeing if anything has been left running. This is the downside of multi-tasking.
You may not need to go to extreme measures.
Just close the apps that are still running.