I'm not disagreeing that some creators bottom lines won't be harmed, but that's no reason to try to turn back the clock of history.
My father used to own a small plastics factory, but he was forced to close it, mainly because he could no longer compete with large automated production lines and globalisation.
That doesn't mean we should try to ban robots, or international trade, just so that he can make a dime. That would be absurd. Austerely budgeted films will continue make money from cinema screenings, but there is no place in a reasonably managed economy for billion dollar productions. Tell me what exactly gets achieved by spending that much money? The same goes for the ludicrously expensive (to develop) games, like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which despite widespread piracy went on to make over a billion dollars in sales. Add to that the fact that it's technically impossible to prevent file sharing, without reverting into a truly horrifying police state, and legal abolishment of copyright is just a formality.
Nonsense, before mass communication was even possible, and before the printing press was invented, books were written, music was composed and paintings were painted, and mostly through philanthropy.
The art that copyright funds is mostly low-brow and unoriginal entertainment anyway, copyright provides little funding for high art because most consumers aren't sophisticated enough to enjoy it. The hedonistic and wasteful Hollywood blockbuster is dead, but it was a temporary anomaly of the times anyway. Movie theaters will survive, but their main selling point will be the big screen, and not the content. Software "licencing" will be replaced with SaaS and support contracts, or in the case of consumer electronics, funded by hardware manufacturers. Audio recording will be a secondary source of revenue for musicians, after their "meatspace" performances. That's way I see it anyway, irrespective of any attempts at moralisation or legislation.
You're building a library, and so it kind fits with what the GP is saying; you can't predict what book you'll need/want to read in the future, so you select a variety. The Internet has many more pages than I'll ever be able to read, and yet I still want access to all of them.
Ultimately it just boils down to the fact that people with statist attitudes, such as yourself, are cowards. People with a spine will agree that a govts open nature may well interfere with its a ability to wage wars both figuratively and literally, but that's a price we're willing to pay for real democracy.
Same thing, both my debit and credit physical cards were stolen, and I had no problem getting chargebacks for either of them, I doubt the PSN subscribers have much to worry about, other than the inconvenience of filling out some forms.
Really, I dig privacy and all that, but people do get freaked out too easily.
Perhaps it's because very few people are experts in data mining; and when you look at the conglomerate of data that is collected about you from various sources, to tell what is "safe" to release and what isn't, you really need to be. So it's best to opt out of tracking even when it is apparently anonymous/harmless/unimportant information, if you want to preserve your privacy.
Or, perhaps you ignore the factory workers because they're inconvenient to your point, the fact of the matter is that apples suppliers pay their workers peanuts, so there is little incentive in keeping trade secrets, secret. Apple has made their own bed, and now they should sleep in it, rather than relying on a totalitarian police state to "incentivise" their employees into obedience.
I do pay for my own services. And if my neighbor is too cheap to pay for theirs, I don't care. Let them have at it.
Whats all this talk of 'leeching'? Who really cares? I don't need to hoard the portion of my monthly bandwidth allotment that I never use. If I've got it, someone should be using it.
Agreed, if I had a wireless network I'd do the same, although I would throttle the bandwidth to some extent.
You also aren't allowed to call it Red Hat unless you pay for it:). You must have been meaning to say PNAELV (Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor).
Unions are simply a form of cartel, if you support antitrust regulation then you shouldn't support unregulated unions. Unions have done a lot for the worker in the past, but there are certain kinds of unions (ie SAG) that simply punish new entrants to the workforce and entrench their members position. It's also unacceptable to be forced into paying into a union by Govt. mandate.
I find the whole idea of demonizing the hordes that you kill to be uncompelling, even if they are an actual demon, a good villain needs to gain sympathy from the player.
Using US soldiers as enemies would be one way to do this, suppose the Federal Govt. had turned into an Orwellian nightmare, and the protagonists state had seceded from the rest of the US, supposing that one of the "villains" that the protagonist has to kill is their own brother. Far more interesting plot wise than just mowing down wave after wave of Russian stereotypes.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4cd_1228911752
But won't someone think of the sea kittens!
I'm not disagreeing that some creators bottom lines won't be harmed, but that's no reason to try to turn back the clock of history.
My father used to own a small plastics factory, but he was forced to close it, mainly because he could no longer compete with large automated production lines and globalisation.
That doesn't mean we should try to ban robots, or international trade, just so that he can make a dime. That would be absurd. Austerely budgeted films will continue make money from cinema screenings, but there is no place in a reasonably managed economy for billion dollar productions. Tell me what exactly gets achieved by spending that much money? The same goes for the ludicrously expensive (to develop) games, like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which despite widespread piracy went on to make over a billion dollars in sales. Add to that the fact that it's technically impossible to prevent file sharing, without reverting into a truly horrifying police state, and legal abolishment of copyright is just a formality.
Nonsense, before mass communication was even possible, and before the printing press was invented, books were written, music was composed and paintings were painted, and mostly through philanthropy.
The art that copyright funds is mostly low-brow and unoriginal entertainment anyway, copyright provides little funding for high art because most consumers aren't sophisticated enough to enjoy it. The hedonistic and wasteful Hollywood blockbuster is dead, but it was a temporary anomaly of the times anyway. Movie theaters will survive, but their main selling point will be the big screen, and not the content. Software "licencing" will be replaced with SaaS and support contracts, or in the case of consumer electronics, funded by hardware manufacturers. Audio recording will be a secondary source of revenue for musicians, after their "meatspace" performances. That's way I see it anyway, irrespective of any attempts at moralisation or legislation.
You're building a library, and so it kind fits with what the GP is saying; you can't predict what book you'll need/want to read in the future, so you select a variety. The Internet has many more pages than I'll ever be able to read, and yet I still want access to all of them.
Yeah I imagine it would be something really dirty like:
Reformist Shi'ite women show some knee, Vol. 3.
WARNING: furry porn
Ultimately it just boils down to the fact that people with statist attitudes, such as yourself, are cowards. People with a spine will agree that a govts open nature may well interfere with its a ability to wage wars both figuratively and literally, but that's a price we're willing to pay for real democracy.
>Jesper M. Johansson, Ph.D. [YES, HE'S A DOCTOR], CISSP, MCSE, MCP+I
Even more impressively, he's A MICROSOFT CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL ;).
Maybe a less elaborate theory would be that English is often a second language for malware authors? Or woosh for me?
Sound familiar?
Why is there no dislike button on facebook?
Same thing, both my debit and credit physical cards were stolen, and I had no problem getting chargebacks for either of them, I doubt the PSN subscribers have much to worry about, other than the inconvenience of filling out some forms.
Really, I dig privacy and all that, but people do get freaked out too easily.
Perhaps it's because very few people are experts in data mining; and when you look at the conglomerate of data that is collected about you from various sources, to tell what is "safe" to release and what isn't, you really need to be. So it's best to opt out of tracking even when it is apparently anonymous/harmless/unimportant information, if you want to preserve your privacy.
Weta Digital, also.
Or, perhaps you ignore the factory workers because they're inconvenient to your point, the fact of the matter is that apples suppliers pay their workers peanuts, so there is little incentive in keeping trade secrets, secret. Apple has made their own bed, and now they should sleep in it, rather than relying on a totalitarian police state to "incentivise" their employees into obedience.
You're missing the point, presumption of innocence until proof of guilt is a vital civil liberty. That's what this is really about.
All I can say is; grow a pair.
I do pay for my own services. And if my neighbor is too cheap to pay for theirs, I don't care. Let them have at it.
Whats all this talk of 'leeching'? Who really cares? I don't need to hoard the portion of my monthly bandwidth allotment that I never use. If I've got it, someone should be using it.
Agreed, if I had a wireless network I'd do the same, although I would throttle the bandwidth to some extent.
So the moral is; before you get into the shower with your neighbour you should check your wife's GPS location?
I don't think you know what liberal means, gun control is illiberal.
Or use your modification to trigger a thermal runaway in the Li-ion battery >:-).
You also aren't allowed to call it Red Hat unless you pay for it :). You must have been meaning to say PNAELV (Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor).
Unions are simply a form of cartel, if you support antitrust regulation then you shouldn't support unregulated unions. Unions have done a lot for the worker in the past, but there are certain kinds of unions (ie SAG) that simply punish new entrants to the workforce and entrench their members position. It's also unacceptable to be forced into paying into a union by Govt. mandate.
I find the whole idea of demonizing the hordes that you kill to be uncompelling, even if they are an actual demon, a good villain needs to gain sympathy from the player.
Using US soldiers as enemies would be one way to do this, suppose the Federal Govt. had turned into an Orwellian nightmare, and the protagonists state had seceded from the rest of the US, supposing that one of the "villains" that the protagonist has to kill is their own brother. Far more interesting plot wise than just mowing down wave after wave of Russian stereotypes.