The file-sharing theft usually committed is one of profit-deprivation; users download and share for personal enjoyment, depriving the industry of sales money.
File sharing is not theft, precisly because it is not a given conclusion that anyone is loosing money. Filesharing is a copyright violation.
Most people just treat it like radio, and just like you don't buy EVERYHING you hear on radio, they don't play to buy everything here. Money lost is insignificaiton.
The theft committed by artists, publishers, recording studios, authors, and the like in unauthorized use of other's works in their own, as much as it may be argued to be a form of innovation, aims to boost one's own profits.
While they are not stealing either, and also violating copyright law, it is somewhat closer to stealing since they are directly profiting by it.
In Mac OS X, you can drag the Flash and QuickTime (which plays Flash, too) plugs out from the/Library/Internet Plugins - folder.
From Mircosofts internet explorer folder? If its another browser your reply is irrelevant.
You can remove them from the folder her as well, but they get reinstalled when you visit a page that needs flash, or at the very least you have to click NO to have it installed on every page.
I know all that hence the words "I know its not supposed to", its also irrelevant. When people put stuff on the net that can't reflow - it suckss. And who cares what someone might be able to do, if they havent' done so.
PDF sucks too. Too many sites just use it do display stuff instead of using HTML. And PDF *NEVER* reflows to fit the page (I know its not supposed to, but its bloody well supposed to on the web), so this gets fucking anoying. If you want to watch the whole line its so small you can't read it, and if you zoom in, you have to drag the page left and right to read all of it!
And what, pray tell, PDF plugins exsist for MSIE apart from Adobes junk?
(Note to adobe: I don't agree with your licensen junk! I just click the button to read some stuff in that format!)
Obviously it won't help you see pages what REQUIRE you to use Flash, but if you use MSIE and don't wanna see all those Flash commercials all over the place, this bit will prevent Flash from loading. tart regedit, find
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Software Microsoft Interne t Explorer ActiveX Compatibility {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-4445535400 00}
And add as a dword:
"Compatibility Flags"= 1024
This sets the "Kill bit" for Flash, meaning that MSIE won't install it if it isn't installed, and wont load it if it already is installed. (if you don't have the {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} bit, then add it - but be sure to get all the numbers right. One digit wrong and you are casting a curse on something else)
If you don't trust the magic of others, don't click the button Luke *G*
Usual caveats reply; if you machine blows up, your harddrive fries, your wife leaves you... tough luck buddy;)
Praecisly. Activtion is when you can't use the program you bought untill someone external gives you a code that makes the program work. A CD key is fine if its done in a none intrusive way like ID did. You could always play LAN and singleplayer(such as it is), and even when you tried to play online it would err on the side of the user, if it couldn't validate the key you would still be allowed to play (perhaps on servers who did not require validation?)
Forget the P5, it sounds like you won't be playing HL2 online since it features something similar to "Activation" -- a unique SteamID, authenticated every time you play online, that also prevents you from running the same copy of HL2 on multiple PC's. Sort of like WinXP:)
I take it you guys have seen the ingame movies? Looks very nice, and seems to take game physics to a whole new level, but at the same time it looks as if you need a Pentium 5 to get it to run properly!
The RIAA owns no copyrights to songs. The member companies of the RIAA own the copyrights. Unless the RIAA has a power of attorney to make a commitment on behalf of its members, then you're confessing your sins to somebody who doesn't have the power to forgive you...
"Taking $2,000 from a 12 year old girl who couldn't possibly have known better?"
In case it hasn't been made clear, the names on the list were provided to the RIAA by the ISPs as a result of being subpoenaed.. If the child's name was provided by the ISP, that means that the Internet service was signed for in the child's name. The money was not taken from the 12-year-old. I think we're all taking this ball and running with it a bit too much. If the family had decided to be wacky and signed up for Internet service in their dog's name, would people be shrieking "They took $2,00 from a poor dog!" ? Okay, that was a rhetorical question. On/., we would. But it would be just as disingenuous.
So a human gets a $2000 fine, but the dog only $200 fine?! What kind of speciesism is that?!
Tools->Internet options->Accessibility->Ignore font sizes specified on web pages
Except the incompetent morons at microsoft only ignore the font size, but not the line spacing (in CSS) which means that most pages become unreadable because the letters stack up on top of each other - of course the webdesigners are lousy too, but that's the web these days.
The Audio Home Recording Act only allows first-generation recordings - not making copies of copies of copies of copies.
So? If download an mp3 you are not making a second generation copy, you are making a copy of the first generation copy, which is still a first generation copy. The splendour of digital;)
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It doesn't matter.
The file-sharing theft usually committed is one of profit-deprivation; users download and share for personal enjoyment, depriving the industry of sales money.
File sharing is not theft, precisly because it is not a given conclusion that anyone is loosing money. Filesharing is a copyright violation.
Most people just treat it like radio, and just like you don't buy EVERYHING you hear on radio, they don't play to buy everything here. Money lost is insignificaiton.
The theft committed by artists, publishers, recording studios, authors, and the like in unauthorized use of other's works in their own, as much as it may be argued to be a form of innovation, aims to boost one's own profits.
While they are not stealing either, and also violating copyright law, it is somewhat closer to stealing since they are directly profiting by it.
How about opening your mind instead.
In Mac OS X, you can drag the Flash and QuickTime (which plays Flash, too) plugs out from the /Library/Internet Plugins - folder.
From Mircosofts internet explorer folder? If its another browser your reply is irrelevant.
You can remove them from the folder her as well, but they get reinstalled when you visit a page that needs flash, or at the very least you have to click NO to have it installed on every page.
Redundant stuff snippe
I know all that hence the words "I know its not supposed to", its also irrelevant. When people put stuff on the net that can't reflow - it suckss. And who cares what someone might be able to do, if they havent' done so.
PDF sucks too. Too many sites just use it do display stuff instead of using HTML. And PDF *NEVER* reflows to fit the page (I know its not supposed to, but its bloody well supposed to on the web), so this gets fucking anoying. If you want to watch the whole line its so small you can't read it, and if you zoom in, you have to drag the page left and right to read all of it!
And what, pray tell, PDF plugins exsist for MSIE apart from Adobes junk?
(Note to adobe: I don't agree with your licensen junk! I just click the button to read some stuff in that format!)
Obviously it won't help you see pages what REQUIRE you to use Flash, but if you use MSIE and don't wanna see all those Flash commercials all over the place, this bit will prevent Flash from loading.
e t Explorer0 00}
;)
tart regedit, find
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Software
Microsoft
Intern
ActiveX Compatibility
{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540
And add as a dword:
"Compatibility Flags"= 1024
This sets the "Kill bit" for Flash, meaning that MSIE won't install it if it isn't installed, and wont load it if it already is installed.
(if you don't have the {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} bit, then add it - but be sure to get all the numbers right. One digit wrong and you are casting a curse on something else)
If you don't trust the magic of others, don't click the button Luke *G*
Usual caveats reply; if you machine blows up, your harddrive fries, your wife leaves you... tough luck buddy
Praecisly. Activtion is when you can't use the program you bought untill someone external gives you a code that makes the program work. A CD key is fine if its done in a none intrusive way like ID did. You could always play LAN and singleplayer(such as it is), and even when you tried to play online it would err on the side of the user, if it couldn't validate the key you would still be allowed to play (perhaps on servers who did not require validation?)
1. If its such a problem, how come spammers always manged to hide?
2. In Denmark for instance, you can specify you wanted an "unlisted" address, and the whois server doesn't release your information.
So does the original Half-Life.
Nope.
Quake 3 had an activation code like this too, get over it.
No it didn't. It works straight out of the box and will continue to do so.
Forget the P5, it sounds like you won't be playing HL2 online since it features something similar to "Activation" -- a unique SteamID, authenticated every time you play online, that also prevents you from running the same copy of HL2 on multiple PC's. Sort of like WinXP :)
What a pity.
I take it you guys have seen the ingame movies? Looks very nice, and seems to take game physics to a whole new level, but at the same time it looks as if you need a Pentium 5 to get it to run properly!
Why should that make him feel better?
What is "Teen Angst"?
The RIAA owns no copyrights to songs. The member companies of the RIAA own the copyrights. Unless the RIAA has a power of attorney to make a commitment on behalf of its members, then you're confessing your sins to somebody who doesn't have the power to forgive you...
You mean just like a priest?
Why is this +5 Insightful? It's common sense.
No it isn't - its a prejudice among criminals.
"Taking $2,000 from a 12 year old girl who couldn't possibly have known better?"
/., we would. But it would be just as disingenuous.
In case it hasn't been made clear, the names on the list were provided to the RIAA by the ISPs as a result of being subpoenaed.. If the child's name was provided by the ISP, that means that the Internet service was signed for in the child's name. The money was not taken from the 12-year-old. I think we're all taking this ball and running with it a bit too much. If the family had decided to be wacky and signed up for Internet service in their dog's name, would people be shrieking "They took $2,00 from a poor dog!" ? Okay, that was a rhetorical question. On
So a human gets a $2000 fine, but the dog only $200 fine?! What kind of speciesism is that?!
You are supposed to moderate items UP! Not wasted time modding stuff down - fools.
Yeah yeah, we all know what kind of books you *read* in the toilet!
Tools->Internet options->Accessibility->Ignore font sizes specified on web pages
Except the incompetent morons at microsoft only ignore the font size, but not the line spacing (in CSS) which means that most pages become unreadable because the letters stack up on top of each other - of course the webdesigners are lousy too, but that's the web these days.
The Audio Home Recording Act only allows first-generation recordings - not making copies of copies of copies of copies.
;)
So? If download an mp3 you are not making a second generation copy, you are making a copy of the first generation copy, which is still a first generation copy. The splendour of digital
The very people who benefit most from the College are those who would have to remove it.
What, the majority? Yeah, down with the bastards!
Bush received 50,456,169 popular votes.
Gore received 50,996,116 popular votes.
About 57 million Americans use file-sharing services...
I think the winner is pretty clear.
So P2P is going to be the new president?
*cough*