"Regardless of said interference, what damages occur to Blizzard if any or to the consumer? I dunno."
Tonnes of people, potentially millions are pissed of by automated bots running around 24 hours a day griding while the owner is of doing something else. They complain. They have enough. They quit. They don't pay Blizzard. Blizzard feels they have suffered. Therefore the damages.
Not only is this not "interesting"; its also stupid, of course Google employees ARE NOT uploading unsanctioned duplicates of tv programmes. Google are making more money than the us tv networks legally, why on earth would they pay some people to risk it all. They wouldn't. *IF* a person or two were found to have uploaded unsanctioned duplicates AND happen to work for Google then it would be someone who happens to work for google, not a google employee asked to do so. Bank on it. Now fix Google groups 2 damn it.
"That's like a movie theater making an illegal print of a movie, showing it in their theaters, then sending a token $1 for each showing back to the theater."
Except for the part where it isn't like that at all.
"Maybe Viacom (and anyone else) want to be able to decide where their work shows"
Hence why he said they should put them on youtube.
"and how much money it makes"
No, gone are the days of greed and greed - they'll have to settle for "way to much" in the future.
That you can chose to where to install the program. That it doesn't install a permanently running update service on the side. That it doesn't install a browser helper object related to google updates and not lively. That it doesn't leave behind the services when you uninstall lively.
"Then the reviewer goes on "It is 100% centered around the mouse, this for me is a horrible defect that must be solved immediately. I happen to know every keyboard shortcut known to man kind (sic) and I absolutely hate the mouse. I am sure there are many people like me out there. " Well good for you buddy. And great research you've done there in assuming that everyone else is just like you. "
Are you 12 or just an idiot? YOU are the one who says "assuming everyone" - he didn't say any such thing! What he assumes is that he isn't the only one - which seems a fair bet.
"When you pirate a work, you must by definition make a new copy"
And stealing is removing an item so others can't use it. So its not stealing.
"In any case, you now have a copy of the software that belongs to the copyright holder."
That they can have a copyright on a sufficient mass of electrons spinning in certain directions is sick and twisted and must be purge from any sensible law.
"i suppose the trick would be to get the cars to charge fast enough and/or to last long enough on one charge that you don't have to stop every 4 hours to charge the car for 12 hours at a time, but assuming we can solve that, replacing all those gas pumps at fuel stations with extra outlets shouldn't be that big of a deal."
However when they figure out that producing all the electricity pollutes 50 times more than just using the cars as they are now - well....
The pictures Google takes are visible to all and if you are in them you can have the removed. The surveillance cameras are recording footage you are never allowed to see
"Personally, I believe that because the Chinese have stolen billions of dollars worth of software from the Americans since the earliest days of computers, the Americans have no moral, ethical, or legal obligation to pay for any software developed and sold by a Chinese company."
when they introduced stylesheets - gone were the days of scalable pages, instead all of it became absolute font sizes and to many of us unreadable font sizes.
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"Regardless of said interference, what damages occur to Blizzard if any or to the consumer? I dunno."
Tonnes of people, potentially millions are pissed of by automated bots running around 24 hours a day griding while the owner is of doing something else. They complain. They have enough. They quit. They don't pay Blizzard. Blizzard feels they have suffered. Therefore the damages.
Not only is this not "interesting"; its also stupid, of course Google employees ARE NOT uploading unsanctioned duplicates of tv programmes. Google are making more money than the us tv networks legally, why on earth would they pay some people to risk it all. They wouldn't. *IF* a person or two were found to have uploaded unsanctioned duplicates AND happen to work for Google then it would be someone who happens to work for google, not a google employee asked to do so. Bank on it. Now fix Google groups 2 damn it.
"That's like a movie theater making an illegal print of a movie, showing it in their theaters, then sending a token $1 for each showing back to the theater."
Except for the part where it isn't like that at all.
"Maybe Viacom (and anyone else) want to be able to decide where their work shows"
Hence why he said they should put them on youtube.
"and how much money it makes"
No, gone are the days of greed and greed - they'll have to settle for "way to much" in the future.
"There's going to be a showdown here, because i don't think the internet ads model generates a lot of revenue."
Last year google made more money from adds that the three american tv networks combined.
Bring on Mamma Mia! *g*
Intangible assets liberator
"And if anyone has a favorite replacement term for "piracy," in the context of electronic copyright violation, please suggest it below."
* Unauthorized magnetic pattern duplication
* Duplication
("Today 5 men were charged with unlawful duplication")
* Data liberation
"What more could you ask for???"
That you can chose to where to install the program.
That it doesn't install a permanently running update service on the side.
That it doesn't install a browser helper object related to google updates and not lively.
That it doesn't leave behind the services when you uninstall lively.
"Then the reviewer goes on "It is 100% centered around the mouse, this for me is a horrible defect that must be solved immediately. I happen to know every keyboard shortcut known to man kind (sic) and I absolutely hate the mouse. I am sure there are many people like me out there. " Well good for you buddy. And great research you've done there in assuming that everyone else is just like you. "
Are you 12 or just an idiot? YOU are the one who says "assuming everyone" - he didn't say any such thing! What he assumes is that he isn't the only one - which seems a fair bet.
That explains why you can't choose install location - its too advanced a concept for them.
"When you pirate a work, you must by definition make a new copy"
And stealing is removing an item so others can't use it. So its not stealing.
"In any case, you now have a copy of the software that belongs to the copyright holder."
That they can have a copyright on a sufficient mass of electrons spinning in certain directions is sick and twisted and must be purge from any sensible law.
if i could vote :)
"I can run Steam in offline mode. "
Good for you. I can't, it always wants to go online.
What it is is too long for people with small minds. The greed cartels are spinning it one way, someone should engineer a counter spin.
But hey, if you work for one of the amoral industries, don't let the spin stop you.
No. You just didn't get my point: Who cares about this, the government is the problem.
It wasn't flamebait, it was true. Grow up will you.
They'll introduce flying cars! It's unconfirmed but believe by many bloggers!
"i suppose the trick would be to get the cars to charge fast enough and/or to last long enough on one charge that you don't have to stop every 4 hours to charge the car for 12 hours at a time, but assuming we can solve that, replacing all those gas pumps at fuel stations with extra outlets shouldn't be that big of a deal."
However when they figure out that producing all the electricity pollutes 50 times more than just using the cars as they are now - well....
Then we can bet on who has the best doctor !
The pictures Google takes are visible to all and if you are in them you can have the removed. The surveillance cameras are recording footage you are never allowed to see
"Personally, I believe that because the Chinese have stolen billions of dollars worth of software from the Americans since the earliest days of computers, the Americans have no moral, ethical, or legal obligation to pay for any software developed and sold by a Chinese company."
Wow aren't you a fucking moron.
So who cares ;)
Obviously I thought you meant search result links.
when they introduced stylesheets - gone were the days of scalable pages, instead all of it became absolute font sizes and to many of us unreadable font sizes.