Another reason why you shouldn't care is that it only takes a single country with sane patent laws and a shipping company that doesn't mind sending you stuff you mustn't use, you bad, bad patent infringer!
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With the difference that TOR can be quite slow and doesn't work for all traffic. Plus you're dependent on the exit nodes not already been banned by the various sites you want to use for other who used them for things that pissed off the other side enough to get them blocked.
But by alienating your customer base more and more you only drive more and more of them into piracy. Allow me to use an, admittedly, anecdote example, but it illustrates well what's going on.
A person, let's call him Peter, likes computer games. He's by no means a geek, but he enjoys playing games. So he goes and buys them. Because that's what you do to get them. Peter doesn't know much about torrents or copying or even cracking, and he doesn't really care that much. Sure, 60 bucks a game is quite an amount of money, but Peter thinks that's fine. He gets quite a bit of entertainment out of it, so the price is justified.
Peter buys a game. He installs it, and then he notices that it doesn't run because the server he has to be connected all the time to play the game is overloaded. Maybe he can play for a few minutes before the connection breaks down and closes the game, frustrating Peter because he couldn't save his game. He may not even know (or care) about the always online thing, what he does know is that the game crashes every 10 minutes.
He talks with his friend Fred, who is a geek. Fred has the game too, but he didn't pay for it. He torrented it, along with the crack. And Fred tells Peter that he has no problem playing the game, it works great. He also shows Peter how to download it and crack it. And Peter realizes that, hey, that's easy. And cheaper. And most of all, it works.
And Peter joins the ranks of those that don't buy and instead copy.
Respect is not given freely. It is earned. I have exactly zero respect left for EA, UBIsoft and the like. My solution is to simply not buy their crap. I switched to other games, mostly from Indie developers who actually respect me enough to consider me a business partner instead of a potential criminal, or simply accusing me of being one without any reason other than "I want more money from you for nothing at all".
The problem is the race to the bottom. Given enough pressure, you'll get people working for less than it costs them to recover the cost, working for just enough money to cover running costs but not cover for the investment (i.e. their car in this example). Any businessman working like this WILL go out of business eventually when his machines break down and he only tried to recover running costs but never fixed costs.
People do not know that. And even if they do they cannot afford to take it into consideration because according to your model, they only have the choice between accepting that they will be starving in 2 years when their car breaks down and they cannot replace it or starve today by not accepting it.
Then make the yellow phase longer. Braking at normal traffic speeds within the time the yellow phase offers you means slamming the brakes with maximum force, ensuring a lot of rear-ending near traffic lights.
The maybe best solution ever I've seen in Austria. Here is a quick comparison between US vs. Austrian traffic lights.
Basically, their lights flash green 5 times before they go to yellow, giving you ample time to know that the green period ends. Also, before switching to green, it shows red and yellow for about a second or two to give you an idea that you should put your car into gear and prepare to accelerate, thus improving the reaction time of people and improving the usage of the green phase.
All in all, a WAY better solution. Of course their law also says that there is ZERO grace period for entering with a red light. You have ample time to know it's going red. Actually, I don't even know whether there isn't already some kind of provision that you're supposed to not enter when it goes yellow.
Mary may not be the one doing the transportation, but someone will. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter whether it's Mary, Peter or Paul who does the job.
Why the hell would I want to stop them? All I said is that people are accepting a "licensing" model if that is offered to them in a comfortable way. Saying that people WANT a licensing model is bullshit if you ask me. What they want is comfort, and for that they're willing to put up with things that are less annoying than the gain in comfort.
The fallacy is that if you take away a bad business that there will be no business. Guess what: Just because we disallowed you from having slaves doesn't mean that there was no cotton to be picked anymore. The work still has to be done, if you can't get slaves to do it, you might have to pay workers to do it.
That's the other extreme. Hell, am I the only one who doesn't think that having one foot in the freezer and the other one in the frying pan is the only way to have a comfortable warmth on average?
Right now the scales of copyright are tipped WAY over towards the side of rights holders, to the point where they pretty much dictate everything concerning their work. Including and actually especially the time after I hand over money for it.
It used to be simple. You created something, I gave you money so I could enjoy it. But that wasn't enough, now you also want to control how, when and if I may enjoy it. And this goes beyond any reason.
The point is exactly that Mary more often than not does not have that choice. Her choice is to either take a crappy gig that she knows isn't going to pay enough or to NOT have any money whatsoever.
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He with the gold makes the rule.
Another reason why you shouldn't care is that it only takes a single country with sane patent laws and a shipping company that doesn't mind sending you stuff you mustn't use, you bad, bad patent infringer!
What did you think was the reason they do it?
If Facebook pulls a stunt like that now, this would be a perfect week.
So your yellow phase is about 3-4 seconds long? Because anything shorter isn't going to allow it.
That's similar to the Greek solution: The traffic light is mostly seen as a suggestion or guideline, and whoever honks the loudest moves first.
What's that you say? You do not have a Facebook, Twitter or Instagram account yet? But you don't want to look like you're trying to hide something in your next job interview or your next trip abroad? No worries, we will provide you with a complete profile, either with a persona you choose or one that we create for you. Choose from a wide range of hobbies and volunteer activities that should impress any boss dishonest enough to snoop in your private area. We offer a variety of community services you can claim to be part of, ranging from religious to communal.
For an extra fee, we will adjust your profile to fit the profile of a prospective employer to make you more appealing to the person who will lead the interview! Some limitations apply (i.e. if you're a lardball, don't try to claim you're participating in Ironman, there's even limits to what we can fake).
Are you worried that law enforcement, border control or even the prospective in-laws could want to take a look at your Facebook, your Twitter, your Instagram? We have the solution for you!
We whitewash your official social media pages, keep them updated with goodie-two-shoes stories (your choice how much saccharine is to be added) to make it look active and not a fake profile, while you open up your very own, private social media account where you can be yourself all you want. Your future mother-in-law wants to get access to your private Facebook pages, locked from public viewing? Your future employer wants to violate your privacy and demands you hand over your Facebook details? Now you can show them what they want to see. And decide what they should see.
We can even make it appear that you're friends with key people in your business, our SEO-professionals are standing by!
More hair and better kidney function?
In other words, it's like washing down Rogaine with beer?
With the difference that TOR can be quite slow and doesn't work for all traffic. Plus you're dependent on the exit nodes not already been banned by the various sites you want to use for other who used them for things that pissed off the other side enough to get them blocked.
But by alienating your customer base more and more you only drive more and more of them into piracy. Allow me to use an, admittedly, anecdote example, but it illustrates well what's going on.
A person, let's call him Peter, likes computer games. He's by no means a geek, but he enjoys playing games. So he goes and buys them. Because that's what you do to get them. Peter doesn't know much about torrents or copying or even cracking, and he doesn't really care that much. Sure, 60 bucks a game is quite an amount of money, but Peter thinks that's fine. He gets quite a bit of entertainment out of it, so the price is justified.
Peter buys a game. He installs it, and then he notices that it doesn't run because the server he has to be connected all the time to play the game is overloaded. Maybe he can play for a few minutes before the connection breaks down and closes the game, frustrating Peter because he couldn't save his game. He may not even know (or care) about the always online thing, what he does know is that the game crashes every 10 minutes.
He talks with his friend Fred, who is a geek. Fred has the game too, but he didn't pay for it. He torrented it, along with the crack. And Fred tells Peter that he has no problem playing the game, it works great. He also shows Peter how to download it and crack it. And Peter realizes that, hey, that's easy. And cheaper. And most of all, it works.
And Peter joins the ranks of those that don't buy and instead copy.
Respect is not given freely. It is earned. I have exactly zero respect left for EA, UBIsoft and the like. My solution is to simply not buy their crap. I switched to other games, mostly from Indie developers who actually respect me enough to consider me a business partner instead of a potential criminal, or simply accusing me of being one without any reason other than "I want more money from you for nothing at all".
The problem is the race to the bottom. Given enough pressure, you'll get people working for less than it costs them to recover the cost, working for just enough money to cover running costs but not cover for the investment (i.e. their car in this example). Any businessman working like this WILL go out of business eventually when his machines break down and he only tried to recover running costs but never fixed costs.
People do not know that. And even if they do they cannot afford to take it into consideration because according to your model, they only have the choice between accepting that they will be starving in 2 years when their car breaks down and they cannot replace it or starve today by not accepting it.
Then make the yellow phase longer. Braking at normal traffic speeds within the time the yellow phase offers you means slamming the brakes with maximum force, ensuring a lot of rear-ending near traffic lights.
The maybe best solution ever I've seen in Austria. Here is a quick comparison between US vs. Austrian traffic lights.
Basically, their lights flash green 5 times before they go to yellow, giving you ample time to know that the green period ends. Also, before switching to green, it shows red and yellow for about a second or two to give you an idea that you should put your car into gear and prepare to accelerate, thus improving the reaction time of people and improving the usage of the green phase.
All in all, a WAY better solution. Of course their law also says that there is ZERO grace period for entering with a red light. You have ample time to know it's going red. Actually, I don't even know whether there isn't already some kind of provision that you're supposed to not enter when it goes yellow.
Unfortunately not. Try to shoot Microsoft.
What's worse than no data? Poisoned data. A collection of data where you cannot tell which is legit and which is bogus.
What we need is a tool that simply opens a LOT of connections to a LOT of servers worldwide. No need to hide your browsing in VPN. Hide it in noise.
People still need to be transported.
Mary may not be the one doing the transportation, but someone will. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter whether it's Mary, Peter or Paul who does the job.
Do I get to watch?
Why the hell would I want to stop them? All I said is that people are accepting a "licensing" model if that is offered to them in a comfortable way. Saying that people WANT a licensing model is bullshit if you ask me. What they want is comfort, and for that they're willing to put up with things that are less annoying than the gain in comfort.
As said before, the work still needs to be done. The difference is that it's not going to be done by a slave driver using slaves to get it done.
The fallacy is that if you take away a bad business that there will be no business. Guess what: Just because we disallowed you from having slaves doesn't mean that there was no cotton to be picked anymore. The work still has to be done, if you can't get slaves to do it, you might have to pay workers to do it.
That's the other extreme. Hell, am I the only one who doesn't think that having one foot in the freezer and the other one in the frying pan is the only way to have a comfortable warmth on average?
Right now the scales of copyright are tipped WAY over towards the side of rights holders, to the point where they pretty much dictate everything concerning their work. Including and actually especially the time after I hand over money for it.
It used to be simple. You created something, I gave you money so I could enjoy it. But that wasn't enough, now you also want to control how, when and if I may enjoy it. And this goes beyond any reason.
Who is talking about anarchism?
Nobody is talking about government reliance. I'm talking about a job that pays decent money instead of forcing people to sell themselves into slavery.
The point is exactly that Mary more often than not does not have that choice. Her choice is to either take a crappy gig that she knows isn't going to pay enough or to NOT have any money whatsoever.
You call that choice? Are you high?