If OS/2 had won and driven MS out of Windows, and If OS/2 had a legally determined monopoly (as the courts have already ruled in the case of Windows), and If IBM forced OEMs to exclusively distribute OS/2, then, yes, MS could sue IBM for the illegal exercise of monopoly power.
Be literally could not give it's OS away because of MS's license agreements - they offered BeOS for free to any OEM who would distribute it. Only one (Fujitsu, I believe) took them up on it, and Fj was told by MS that, because of their license, they could not let the PC boot to anything other that windows, and could not make BeOS visible at all to the user. As I recall, they shipped a pamphlet with instructions for how to enable the dual-boot capability, but really, how many folks do you think are going to go in and muck with their BIOS?
What MS has done is NOT legal. When you have a monopoly, you have to play "nicer". The fact is, under current market conditions it is virtually impossible to market a commercial OS for x86. Linux doesn't count - it isn't commercial.
Unpopular opinion? No. Ignorance. Plain and simple.
Presumably nobody accessing the audio on the disc using the above three methods could be charged with using a "circumvention device"
IANAL, but all of your methods involve accessing the unencrypted versions of the songs. Therefore, DMCA doesn't apply because you are not defeating the copy prevention on the encrypted MP3 files.
"This is corrupting our young, by making them sexualized at a younger age."
Younger than what? 18? It wasn't too long ago in the course of human history that people married at 16, or 14, or younger. The body's production of hormones sexualizes, not the internet.
The sublimation of sexual urges, and corresponding encouragement of violence - that's corrupting our kids.
A libertarian society distributes power to those who possess property. No checks and balances, no way to reduce or eliminate abuses of that power (such as, say, industrial pollution)
>If someone has money, they either do one of two things with it. They spend it, funding other people's salaries, or they invest it Yes, but how do they spend it? The wealthy have the money to spend on political donations, PACs, advertising/propoganda/brainwashing. The poor are buying food, and paying rent (because the wealthy invest in real estate). >That's what annoys me about all this inequitable distribution of wealth crap. Money is power. Inequitable distribution of wealth is inequitable distribution of power.
I am so damn tired of hearing about the McDonalds coffee lawsuit from people who don't know the facts of the case. The judgement in that case was entirely justified. Check the facts: http://pages.prodigy.net/gaglenn/lawoffice/coffee/ truth.html
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If OS/2 had won and driven MS out of Windows, and If OS/2 had a legally determined monopoly (as the courts have already ruled in the case of Windows), and If IBM forced OEMs to exclusively distribute OS/2, then, yes, MS could sue IBM for the illegal exercise of monopoly power.
Be literally could not give it's OS away because of MS's license agreements - they offered BeOS for free to any OEM who would distribute it. Only one (Fujitsu, I believe) took them up on it, and Fj was told by MS that, because of their license, they could not let the PC boot to anything other that windows, and could not make BeOS visible at all to the user. As I recall, they shipped a pamphlet with instructions for how to enable the dual-boot capability, but really, how many folks do you think are going to go in and muck with their BIOS?
What MS has done is NOT legal. When you have a monopoly, you have to play "nicer". The fact is, under current market conditions it is virtually impossible to market a commercial OS for x86. Linux doesn't count - it isn't commercial.
Unpopular opinion? No. Ignorance. Plain and simple.
Presumably nobody accessing the audio on the disc using the above three methods could be charged with using a "circumvention device"
IANAL, but all of your methods involve accessing the unencrypted versions of the songs. Therefore, DMCA doesn't apply because you are not defeating the copy prevention on the encrypted MP3 files.
So if you hire private security guards to protect your house, do you expect them to forcibly keep out the FBI when they have a warrant?
No, but I would expect them to keep the FBI out of my house if they did not have a warrant...
Sounds like the "killer app" for the PS2 HD...
"This is corrupting our young, by making them sexualized at a younger age." Younger than what? 18? It wasn't too long ago in the course of human history that people married at 16, or 14, or younger. The body's production of hormones sexualizes, not the internet. The sublimation of sexual urges, and corresponding encouragement of violence - that's corrupting our kids.
<I>Name me one market that, when the demand for its product rises dramatically, doesn't respond with increased supply.</I>
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OK. How about diamonds?
http://www.salon.com/business/feature/2000/09/2
A libertarian society distributes power to those who possess property. No checks and balances, no way to reduce or eliminate abuses of that power (such as, say, industrial pollution)
>If someone has money, they either do one of two things with it. They spend it, funding other people's salaries, or they invest it Yes, but how do they spend it? The wealthy have the money to spend on political donations, PACs, advertising/propoganda/brainwashing. The poor are buying food, and paying rent (because the wealthy invest in real estate). >That's what annoys me about all this inequitable distribution of wealth crap. Money is power. Inequitable distribution of wealth is inequitable distribution of power.
I am so damn tired of hearing about the McDonalds coffee lawsuit from people who don't know the facts of the case. The judgement in that case was entirely justified. Check the facts: http://pages.prodigy.net/gaglenn/lawoffice/coffee/ truth.html
He pointed out that Black people are imprisoned more than whites. This is not the same thing as saying that black people commit most of the crime.