> However, I agree that those making money from piracy or counterfeiting are in fact stealing. In that case, something is indeed lost.
What exactly is lost? They are making the content available for a reasonable price. For example, in the Philippines you can buy DVDs with 25 films on it, for like 2Euro. I buy that and can enjoy the films that I never heart of or films that I would never see or buy. That is good for the film-makers because now they have a new fan. So for the next film maybe I go to the cinema or buy the DVD (the legal one) or tell my friends about it.
So, I ask you again, what is lost? Is it not so, that something was gained and not lost? Piracy is free advertisement. If you want customers, make it easy to buy your stuff and enjoy the free advertisement that piracy will give you.
Now, if you do plagiarizing, then I agree that something is lost and it's moral wrong to do it.
Actually, that would be nice. Of course if the anesthetics would be side-effect free. Kind like the cruisers from The Fifth Element. You checkin, go to sleep, wake up at your destination. A 24 hour flight would be just a nice dream for you.
And all it will just be another $100 Million for each airport. Airports are truly become the most high-tech places in the world. If you have some obscure security technology, just go to the next airport, they will buy it. I think 1000 years from now archeologist will think that air travel was the most dangerous travel form of this century because they will find the most invasive and most high-tech security technology ever implemented (despite the fact it is in fact the most save form of travel).
Why wouldn't you want that people can freely re-publish your book? Just use the CC-BY-NC-SA, if people share your book more it's free advertisement for your next book. You can't have it both ways, let people share it or restrict it.
For the KDP Select, well, it was your choice to use it. I really don't see the point in using Amazon as the only distributor, if you can just upload a Pdf on your website, add Paypal, Credit-card and Bank-transfer, donations for payment and offer it to the over one billion PC users, add IPhone and Android to the list, and any other Pdf-Reader out there. I could do a site like that in Wordpress in about one month, hosting costs you maybe 10$/Month (or whatever it's very cheap), then advertisement on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, on Google etc.
You could publish your works with an open license, like the Create Commons. Then you could have more publicity for your works. I see you have a book in Amazon, why don't you create your own site and let me buy it for, say 0.99$ as a Pdf download. That way you could sell your book not only to the few selected with a Amazon Kindle device, but to the over 1 billion PC users worldwide.
Users with the system Linux, like Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, etc. are still save and still waiting for a virus to target them in the wild.
In other news, Pwn2Own will no more have any Linux systems in the competition, because it would be futile attempt anyway and the proprietary system companies looking bad in comparison.
Just sell it to the home users? WTF is wrong with the people, only because someone can share his stuff with friends, you are not able to make money with selling stuff? I have news for you: people are sharing their stuff with their friends all the time.
Copyright and DRM really don't matter in the private home. Nobody consider it immoral to share a game or music with their friends. But instead to call it free promotion and word of mouth marketing, you like to push copyright laws so far that everyone hate the music and film industry now.
Beware, the next generation will take the internet and free sharing to the next level and no law will stop that. You think that the P2P networks, TOR, Torrents, etc. are all bad now? What do you think the next generation will do? This generation can recall a time without internet and without fast DSL lines. The next generation will have no memories of "offline", they will be connected 24/7 with their cell phones and sharing music, games and films. The new copyright laws are just like someone try to stand against a tsunami.
The current legislations and politics makes a whole generation of citizens into criminals. That will have a big slashback from the generation. Look at the Occupy Wall Street movement.
I watched the film, but was totally disapointed and bored. I'm no fan of the comic, in fact I only knew about the comic when I saw the trailer for the film. There was too many characters in the film and I didn't really care about them. The film don't introduce them to me so if you don't know them you don't care. Also there were too many characters and the film was always jumping between them with no real connection.
I think it was totally overrated and really just not a good film.
a) A redesign of the web site would be good. Any modern Wordpress theme looks better than the site.
b) a new logo, the LGP looks very old-fashion, it's like a logo for an old book publisher.
c) the site is very slow to load;
d) they should invest in Wine development, or in the development of Play For Linux;
e) why do I have to log-in first if I want to buy a game? There are lot of sites where I can just buy their stuff without a registration. Make a basket style like in every other shop website.
f) there is no FAQ section. There should be questions answered like, what Linux distribution the games can be played, is there DRM protections, can I download the games, how long an order will take, etc;
And here comes Torrents and P2P networks into play. They have to compete with illegal downloads, if they want to or not. Also they have to compete with other forms of (legal) entertainment, like free games, free Youtube videos, etc.
Like it or not, the value of films are going down and if they don't adjust people will turn to other form of entertainment or to illegal downloads. I didn't bought a DVD in years now, and I see that other people don't buy DVDs or music CDs in stores, too. I see it every time I go to the store, I see all the DVDs are there just like the year before and the year before. People don't buy them because they are just too expensive. It's over 30Euro for a new film, and the older films are for 15Euro. A DVD pack of a series cost about 30 to 60 Euros. That's just way too expensive.
The entertainment industry is blaming it on piracy, but piracy is just a symptom not the disease. The "disease" is that the market have changed with new technology and so the value of the DVDs in the store have gone down. But instead of adjusting like it should be done in a free market, the entertainment industry is changing the laws, but it will not help. The cure would be to lower the prices and make the films available as a download.
AS a personal note: if the older film DVDs were for like 5Euro for sale, I would think about it to buy some. And there would be not racks after racks full with DVDs that don't sell in 10 years in the stores.
That is why copyright should be never used against the private use of a work. Also it should not invade the privacy of the homes of citizens.
Sadly, it is doing both and the new harder laws to protect copyright will destroy our culture.
I have to disagree. If no people do anything, than why do XS4ALL have any incentive to do anything about the court order? This time XS4ALL lost, so maybe if enough people put the pain on XS4ALL and switch to other providers, than maybe XS4ALL will be forced to get some lobbying done to change the laws and hire better lawyers to fight the court order.
That is the whole issue with the copyright-wars. Because the entertainment industry wants more profits in the changing marketplace, they lobby to change the laws in their favour. But because there is no large group that is really hurting (by "large" I mean money-wise) there is no counter-force.
The ISPs are not hurt, because the people don't care and not change the providers, Google, Amazon, Fecebook, etc. are not hurt, and so on, so there is no big counter-lobby-force against the lobby efforts of the entertainment industry. Only because we finally got to the point where the big online players are hurt with the new round of copyright laws (SOPA, PIPA) we see a counter force against it.
The music and film industry is small, but they make big waves, because they see the money well spend. Instead of competing and innovating, just buy the laws in favour for your business model. It would be really great if Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook or anyone else would just buy some big publishers and open up the content. It's in their interest anyway, because instead to be the second on the content, Google, Apple, etc. could just control the content them self. Youtube could have been the next Netflix, only bigger if Google would just buy some Hollywood studios.
Why do you need an excuse? In fact, pro-linux.de run a poll what is the most used desktop environment. KDE is with 43% the most used, Gnome3 is 12% and Gnome2 is 14% and all the others are lower.
So I would say that KDE is very much used, maybe more than Gnome.
Why does the specs matters for a tablet (or for a netbook or notebook)? As long as it does what is suppose to do, meaning playing videos and show Pdfs, I really don't care if it's have 10 CPUs or just one. What matters is the whole product and if it's useable or better then the competition. I would wait for the product and for the reviews.
Except where a agreement exists in which the EU must give the USA authorities access to the data if it's about terrorism (or whatever), like with the bank transactions. Like the Swift agreement between the EU and the USA. It's an open secret that in order to spy on the citizens the USA and the EU have agreements of data sharing. Because of strict privacy laws in the EU they just agree to share the data with the USA, so the USA can see the data and tell the EU everything in order to fight terrorism (or whatever).
Face the fact: if you put your data in the cloud, the goverment have it. There is no way around it.
I really like the Monty Python show, but a movie with the old crew? The original crew is now what, all over 70 now? I think this is really the case where you should not ruin the haritage of a good show, and just leave it in peace. It's the same with Indeaner Jones, where Harrison Ford is just too old to be a good Indianer again, so the best should have been just leave the Indeaner Jones trilogy in peace.
Thing 4. The washing machine has changed the world more than the internet has
Recent progress in telecommunications technologies is not as revolutionary as what happened in the late 19th century, in relative terms. The internet revolution has (at least as yet) not been as important as the washing machine and other household appliances, which allowed woman to enter the labour market and virtually abolished professions like domestic service.
Thing 9. We do not live in a post-industrial age
Most of the shrinkage in the share of manufacturing in total output is not due to the fall in the absolute quantity of manufactured goods produced but due to the fall in their prices, which is caused by their faster growth in productivity (output per unit of input).
The USA (and the European countries that follow sadly the USA) will slip further down as an economy if their leaders believe they can ignore the manufacturing sector and leave it to China, India or other developing countries. With the export of the manufactoring industry, you also lose expertice and know-how. Soon the developing countries will have more manufacturing power than the USA, which means they will not need the USA anymore for anything, other than dumping their cheap stuff in Walmark and Bestbuy. The service industry is nothing, if you don't have the manufacturing (aka the industry that makes real things) industry, because the manufacturing industry will create the service industry in the country where it is.
Why can't China and India, Brazil and others just create or import the banking sector, the software industry, fashion, etc. in their own country? If they already have a mature manufacturing industry, they can export the producs and get more money for the service industry. Income will only rise with the maturity of the manufacturing industry in the developing countries.
He have a point (the GP that is). We have the most advanced technology and the most easiest access to information since ever for the common people, but we are using this awesome technology not to make access to knowledge and research more easier but to watch porn and funny cats on youtube.
It's like someone finally invented the locomotive but laws are put in place to prevent anyone to ride the train without some horrible expensive fee, that only the top richest could afford.
I would love to read physics papers, but I am not in a university, I'm too poor for the fees and I'm too busy to go to the library. For the whole of mankind it would be awesome if the common people could access such papers as easy as they can access youtube or slashdot.
How about the libraries make their subscriptions to use and make the publications available online for free for everyone, like they do it now with books?
Now a freaking IDEA is protected under copyright? Great, open the gates for all the lawyers, and people wonder why we hate them so much. No need for a patent or trademark anymore, just claim you have the copyright on the whole process how you did something (which are clearly what patents are suppose to cover).
"its appearance is the product of deliberate choices and also deliberate manipulations by the author," and concluded that those aspects had been copied.'"
But those aspects are just how he did it. This is not a work of art, the same way as if I carper a table, the nailing and sawing are also "deliberate choices and also deliberate manipulations", but they cannot be copyrighted.
Fuck copyright. I never will abid to the stupid laws of copyright if I can get away with it. Sorry for all the artists that I will not give my money, but as long as the copyright laws are as such I will not recognize them. Maybe you (the artists) should get together and press to make them moral again, than I will concider to recognize them again.
Since they no longer do it with Linux, who cares. Could it be that 2008 Firefox on Ubuntu was un-hacked? It's not good advertisement if a open source system can't be hacked, while the two commercial systems are hacked in seconds?
Since when the bank care about credit risk? They didn't care about that in the morgage crises, they didn't care for Greece or Italy, they didn't care in the credig card crisis (or the credit card buble), they didn't care for American students if they can ever pay back their loans.
In fact, the more banks lend out, the more captial they have. And if they make bad loans, they just get bail out from the government. But of course they are now sitting on so much cash (also they get interest for the money they sitting on from the fed), that they don't care to make loans anymore.
a) If you are not running Debian stable, but Sid or Experimental
b) citation needed
c) ehh what?
d) who cares
e) I rather have it that the kernel hackers are hacking together a good kernel and let the distribution put together everything else. That way, the kernel hackers have lot more resources to do their stuff and the distributor can do their stuff.
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> However, I agree that those making money from piracy or counterfeiting are in fact stealing. In that case, something is indeed lost.
What exactly is lost? They are making the content available for a reasonable price. For example, in the Philippines you can buy DVDs with 25 films on it, for like 2Euro. I buy that and can enjoy the films that I never heart of or films that I would never see or buy. That is good for the film-makers because now they have a new fan. So for the next film maybe I go to the cinema or buy the DVD (the legal one) or tell my friends about it.
So, I ask you again, what is lost? Is it not so, that something was gained and not lost? Piracy is free advertisement. If you want customers, make it easy to buy your stuff and enjoy the free advertisement that piracy will give you.
Now, if you do plagiarizing, then I agree that something is lost and it's moral wrong to do it.
You should try Linux with KDE. I'm using Linux now for 5 years and I don't miss Windows for my work. KDE is pretty similar to Windows 7.
Actually, that would be nice. Of course if the anesthetics would be side-effect free. Kind like the cruisers from The Fifth Element. You checkin, go to sleep, wake up at your destination. A 24 hour flight would be just a nice dream for you.
And all it will just be another $100 Million for each airport. Airports are truly become the most high-tech places in the world. If you have some obscure security technology, just go to the next airport, they will buy it. I think 1000 years from now archeologist will think that air travel was the most dangerous travel form of this century because they will find the most invasive and most high-tech security technology ever implemented (despite the fact it is in fact the most save form of travel).
Why wouldn't you want that people can freely re-publish your book? Just use the CC-BY-NC-SA, if people share your book more it's free advertisement for your next book. You can't have it both ways, let people share it or restrict it.
For the KDP Select, well, it was your choice to use it. I really don't see the point in using Amazon as the only distributor, if you can just upload a Pdf on your website, add Paypal, Credit-card and Bank-transfer, donations for payment and offer it to the over one billion PC users, add IPhone and Android to the list, and any other Pdf-Reader out there. I could do a site like that in Wordpress in about one month, hosting costs you maybe 10$/Month (or whatever it's very cheap), then advertisement on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, on Google etc.
You could publish your works with an open license, like the Create Commons. Then you could have more publicity for your works. I see you have a book in Amazon, why don't you create your own site and let me buy it for, say 0.99$ as a Pdf download. That way you could sell your book not only to the few selected with a Amazon Kindle device, but to the over 1 billion PC users worldwide.
Users with the system Linux, like Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, etc. are still save and still waiting for a virus to target them in the wild.
In other news, Pwn2Own will no more have any Linux systems in the competition, because it would be futile attempt anyway and the proprietary system companies looking bad in comparison.
Just sell it to the home users? WTF is wrong with the people, only because someone can share his stuff with friends, you are not able to make money with selling stuff? I have news for you: people are sharing their stuff with their friends all the time.
Copyright and DRM really don't matter in the private home. Nobody consider it immoral to share a game or music with their friends. But instead to call it free promotion and word of mouth marketing, you like to push copyright laws so far that everyone hate the music and film industry now.
Beware, the next generation will take the internet and free sharing to the next level and no law will stop that. You think that the P2P networks, TOR, Torrents, etc. are all bad now? What do you think the next generation will do? This generation can recall a time without internet and without fast DSL lines. The next generation will have no memories of "offline", they will be connected 24/7 with their cell phones and sharing music, games and films. The new copyright laws are just like someone try to stand against a tsunami.
The current legislations and politics makes a whole generation of citizens into criminals. That will have a big slashback from the generation. Look at the Occupy Wall Street movement.
I watched the film, but was totally disapointed and bored. I'm no fan of the comic, in fact I only knew about the comic when I saw the trailer for the film. There was too many characters in the film and I didn't really care about them. The film don't introduce them to me so if you don't know them you don't care. Also there were too many characters and the film was always jumping between them with no real connection.
I think it was totally overrated and really just not a good film.
And here comes Torrents and P2P networks into play. They have to compete with illegal downloads, if they want to or not. Also they have to compete with other forms of (legal) entertainment, like free games, free Youtube videos, etc.
Like it or not, the value of films are going down and if they don't adjust people will turn to other form of entertainment or to illegal downloads. I didn't bought a DVD in years now, and I see that other people don't buy DVDs or music CDs in stores, too. I see it every time I go to the store, I see all the DVDs are there just like the year before and the year before. People don't buy them because they are just too expensive. It's over 30Euro for a new film, and the older films are for 15Euro. A DVD pack of a series cost about 30 to 60 Euros. That's just way too expensive.
The entertainment industry is blaming it on piracy, but piracy is just a symptom not the disease. The "disease" is that the market have changed with new technology and so the value of the DVDs in the store have gone down. But instead of adjusting like it should be done in a free market, the entertainment industry is changing the laws, but it will not help. The cure would be to lower the prices and make the films available as a download.
AS a personal note: if the older film DVDs were for like 5Euro for sale, I would think about it to buy some. And there would be not racks after racks full with DVDs that don't sell in 10 years in the stores.
That is why copyright should be never used against the private use of a work. Also it should not invade the privacy of the homes of citizens. Sadly, it is doing both and the new harder laws to protect copyright will destroy our culture.
I have to disagree. If no people do anything, than why do XS4ALL have any incentive to do anything about the court order? This time XS4ALL lost, so maybe if enough people put the pain on XS4ALL and switch to other providers, than maybe XS4ALL will be forced to get some lobbying done to change the laws and hire better lawyers to fight the court order.
That is the whole issue with the copyright-wars. Because the entertainment industry wants more profits in the changing marketplace, they lobby to change the laws in their favour. But because there is no large group that is really hurting (by "large" I mean money-wise) there is no counter-force.
The ISPs are not hurt, because the people don't care and not change the providers, Google, Amazon, Fecebook, etc. are not hurt, and so on, so there is no big counter-lobby-force against the lobby efforts of the entertainment industry. Only because we finally got to the point where the big online players are hurt with the new round of copyright laws (SOPA, PIPA) we see a counter force against it.
The music and film industry is small, but they make big waves, because they see the money well spend. Instead of competing and innovating, just buy the laws in favour for your business model. It would be really great if Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook or anyone else would just buy some big publishers and open up the content. It's in their interest anyway, because instead to be the second on the content, Google, Apple, etc. could just control the content them self. Youtube could have been the next Netflix, only bigger if Google would just buy some Hollywood studios.
Why do you need an excuse? In fact, pro-linux.de run a poll what is the most used desktop environment. KDE is with 43% the most used, Gnome3 is 12% and Gnome2 is 14% and all the others are lower.
So I would say that KDE is very much used, maybe more than Gnome.
Why does the specs matters for a tablet (or for a netbook or notebook)? As long as it does what is suppose to do, meaning playing videos and show Pdfs, I really don't care if it's have 10 CPUs or just one. What matters is the whole product and if it's useable or better then the competition. I would wait for the product and for the reviews.
Except where a agreement exists in which the EU must give the USA authorities access to the data if it's about terrorism (or whatever), like with the bank transactions. Like the Swift agreement between the EU and the USA. It's an open secret that in order to spy on the citizens the USA and the EU have agreements of data sharing. Because of strict privacy laws in the EU they just agree to share the data with the USA, so the USA can see the data and tell the EU everything in order to fight terrorism (or whatever).
Face the fact: if you put your data in the cloud, the goverment have it. There is no way around it.
I really like the Monty Python show, but a movie with the old crew? The original crew is now what, all over 70 now? I think this is really the case where you should not ruin the haritage of a good show, and just leave it in peace. It's the same with Indeaner Jones, where Harrison Ford is just too old to be a good Indianer again, so the best should have been just leave the Indeaner Jones trilogy in peace.
I just quote 2 things from this great book: 23 things they don't you about capitalism, from Ha-Joon Chang, (from Wikipedia) he was a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the European Investment Bank as well as to Oxfam and various United Nations agencies. He is also a fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C.
Thing 4. The washing machine has changed the world more than the internet has
Recent progress in telecommunications technologies is not as revolutionary as what happened in the late 19th century, in relative terms. The internet revolution has (at least as yet) not been as important as the washing machine and other household appliances, which allowed woman to enter the labour market and virtually abolished professions like domestic service.
Thing 9. We do not live in a post-industrial age
Most of the shrinkage in the share of manufacturing in total output is not due to the fall in the absolute quantity of manufactured goods produced but due to the fall in their prices, which is caused by their faster growth in productivity (output per unit of input).
The USA (and the European countries that follow sadly the USA) will slip further down as an economy if their leaders believe they can ignore the manufacturing sector and leave it to China, India or other developing countries. With the export of the manufactoring industry, you also lose expertice and know-how. Soon the developing countries will have more manufacturing power than the USA, which means they will not need the USA anymore for anything, other than dumping their cheap stuff in Walmark and Bestbuy. The service industry is nothing, if you don't have the manufacturing (aka the industry that makes real things) industry, because the manufacturing industry will create the service industry in the country where it is.
Why can't China and India, Brazil and others just create or import the banking sector, the software industry, fashion, etc. in their own country? If they already have a mature manufacturing industry, they can export the producs and get more money for the service industry. Income will only rise with the maturity of the manufacturing industry in the developing countries.
He have a point (the GP that is). We have the most advanced technology and the most easiest access to information since ever for the common people, but we are using this awesome technology not to make access to knowledge and research more easier but to watch porn and funny cats on youtube.
It's like someone finally invented the locomotive but laws are put in place to prevent anyone to ride the train without some horrible expensive fee, that only the top richest could afford.
I would love to read physics papers, but I am not in a university, I'm too poor for the fees and I'm too busy to go to the library. For the whole of mankind it would be awesome if the common people could access such papers as easy as they can access youtube or slashdot.
How about the libraries make their subscriptions to use and make the publications available online for free for everyone, like they do it now with books?
Now a freaking IDEA is protected under copyright? Great, open the gates for all the lawyers, and people wonder why we hate them so much. No need for a patent or trademark anymore, just claim you have the copyright on the whole process how you did something (which are clearly what patents are suppose to cover).
"its appearance is the product of deliberate choices and also deliberate manipulations by the author," and concluded that those aspects had been copied.'"
But those aspects are just how he did it. This is not a work of art, the same way as if I carper a table, the nailing and sawing are also "deliberate choices and also deliberate manipulations", but they cannot be copyrighted.
Fuck copyright. I never will abid to the stupid laws of copyright if I can get away with it. Sorry for all the artists that I will not give my money, but as long as the copyright laws are as such I will not recognize them. Maybe you (the artists) should get together and press to make them moral again, than I will concider to recognize them again.
Since they no longer do it with Linux, who cares. Could it be that 2008 Firefox on Ubuntu was un-hacked? It's not good advertisement if a open source system can't be hacked, while the two commercial systems are hacked in seconds?
And with the current politics it may never go into public domain.
Yupp. Fuck GEMA. Make sure to never buy any GEMA music, instead you could just pirate the music and give the musicians a donation.
Since when the bank care about credit risk? They didn't care about that in the morgage crises, they didn't care for Greece or Italy, they didn't care in the credig card crisis (or the credit card buble), they didn't care for American students if they can ever pay back their loans.
In fact, the more banks lend out, the more captial they have. And if they make bad loans, they just get bail out from the government. But of course they are now sitting on so much cash (also they get interest for the money they sitting on from the fed), that they don't care to make loans anymore.
a) If you are not running Debian stable, but Sid or Experimental b) citation needed c) ehh what? d) who cares e) I rather have it that the kernel hackers are hacking together a good kernel and let the distribution put together everything else. That way, the kernel hackers have lot more resources to do their stuff and the distributor can do their stuff.