"But if you took the book, placed it facedown on a Xerox machine, copied a single page, and distributed to someone else you would be."
Only if you don't put a bibliography entry with it... if you did that then it is protected under fair use statutes. If you were to copy the entire thing and give it to someone else then you would be infringing the copyright... That is how handouts in schools are perfectly legal... as long as it is not the entire work, and the source, and original author are properly cited, and you do not charge money for it when you distribute it there is no copyright infringment.
And technically yes... plagerism is copyright infringement, theft of ip, and what ever else the various industries can come up with.
Let me clarify real quick... I am not condoning piracy, it is breaking the law. Just pointing out that the music industry won't respond to boycotts causing revenue drops like other industries might.
" All corporations that sell directly to consumer are actually extremely vulnerable. Organize a boycott that results in even a 5% decrease in their sales, and you'll get their attention -- fast! "
No you won't... they will just sue more people and keep screaming the whole time that the lost revenue is due to file sharing. Just like they did to start the whole thing off in the first place.
Half of the problem is they started seeing their revenues drop and jumped on the piracy issue without actually taking a look at the product they are releasing... it is probably easier (although it may cost more) for them to sue people and blame lost money on piracy and file sharing than it is for them to find creative, talented artists that will produce new music that people like. Lately more and more stuff is just a new artist doing an album with 1 or maybe 2 new songs on it and everything else on the album is just remakes of songs by other artists. If they fixed this they might see their revenue increase, supposing they haven't alienated everyone to the point that it doesn't matter.
Are there any packages out there right now running on at least Windows and Linux, and preferably also Solaris, that can access a central password file?"
accessing a central password file sounds to me like they are trying to authenticate...
If I am understaning the article correctly the problem comes when you click the open option and run the file remotely, it doesn't give you the standard security blurb about files containing viruses and stuff.
Has anybody bothered to search for other specific game names in the driver code? How bout checking drivers for other cards? I am a programmer (on the unix side) and I am always optimising code for a specific os, app, hardware, what ever. From what I have seen in my company as well as those where friends of mine work, optimizing a driver for a specific app is very common. Just my 2 cents.
The thing that makes the speeding and DUI fines enforcable is not the title to your car. It is the drivers license. I purchase my car, and the drivers license gives me the right to use it on public roads. Once I have paid off the loan (not through the government) I recieve the title for my car from the loan holder. Purchasing a car is very similar to purchasing a house, you are paying for a product, not the right to use it. When you no longer want to use it you can sell it because it is yours. The government has certain criteria that the car must meet before it can be sold, however they are not the owners of the car. The title is proof of that, if I have the title and someone takes my car without my permission and knowledge it is called theft. At that point the title proves ownership, I have the title and it is in my name, therefore the car is mine, not whoever took it. The drivers license is the goverment tool for tracking who has broken the estabilished laws on the governments road system (I can not get a ticket for speeding in my own driveway, only on publicly owned roads). The only way that the government can take my car away is if I break the law on their road system, and that does not apply to every offense. In addition they also have to provide a way for me to retrieve the vehicle in the case that they do take possesion (with the exception of legally siezed possesions in something along the lines of a drug bust of theft ring bust).
Sorry about the length but we do own our vehicles, just like we do our homes, if they are still being payed for there are restrictions on how you sell them, typically any procedes from the sale must go toward paying off the debt before you see any of the money from the sale of the item.
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"But if you took the book, placed it facedown on a Xerox machine, copied a single page, and distributed to someone else you would be."
Only if you don't put a bibliography entry with it... if you did that then it is protected under fair use statutes. If you were to copy the entire thing and give it to someone else then you would be infringing the copyright... That is how handouts in schools are perfectly legal... as long as it is not the entire work, and the source, and original author are properly cited, and you do not charge money for it when you distribute it there is no copyright infringment.
And technically yes... plagerism is copyright infringement, theft of ip, and what ever else the various industries can come up with.
Let me clarify real quick... I am not condoning piracy, it is breaking the law. Just pointing out that the music industry won't respond to boycotts causing revenue drops like other industries might.
" All corporations that sell directly to consumer are actually extremely vulnerable. Organize a boycott that results in even a 5% decrease in their sales, and you'll get their attention -- fast! "
No you won't... they will just sue more people and keep screaming the whole time that the lost revenue is due to file sharing. Just like they did to start the whole thing off in the first place.
Half of the problem is they started seeing their revenues drop and jumped on the piracy issue without actually taking a look at the product they are releasing... it is probably easier (although it may cost more) for them to sue people and blame lost money on piracy and file sharing than it is for them to find creative, talented artists that will produce new music that people like. Lately more and more stuff is just a new artist doing an album with 1 or maybe 2 new songs on it and everything else on the album is just remakes of songs by other artists. If they fixed this they might see their revenue increase, supposing they haven't alienated everyone to the point that it doesn't matter.
Just my 2 cents.
Just as a matter of curiousity....what kind of hardrives do you use....
In my life the disks that have lasted the longest for me have all been WD...
Not trying to pick a fight or anything just curiuos
Did you?
Are there any packages out there right now running on at least Windows and Linux, and preferably also Solaris, that can access a central password file?"
accessing a central password file sounds to me like they are trying to authenticate...
If I am understaning the article correctly the problem comes when you click the open option and run the file remotely, it doesn't give you the standard security blurb about files containing viruses and stuff.
Just what I understand the issue to be...
btw, it is spelled correctly if you are in Britain
Has anybody bothered to search for other specific game names in the driver code? How bout checking drivers for other cards? I am a programmer (on the unix side) and I am always optimising code for a specific os, app, hardware, what ever. From what I have seen in my company as well as those where friends of mine work, optimizing a driver for a specific app is very common. Just my 2 cents.
The thing that makes the speeding and DUI fines enforcable is not the title to your car. It is the drivers license. I purchase my car, and the drivers license gives me the right to use it on public roads. Once I have paid off the loan (not through the government) I recieve the title for my car from the loan holder. Purchasing a car is very similar to purchasing a house, you are paying for a product, not the right to use it. When you no longer want to use it you can sell it because it is yours. The government has certain criteria that the car must meet before it can be sold, however they are not the owners of the car. The title is proof of that, if I have the title and someone takes my car without my permission and knowledge it is called theft. At that point the title proves ownership, I have the title and it is in my name, therefore the car is mine, not whoever took it. The drivers license is the goverment tool for tracking who has broken the estabilished laws on the governments road system (I can not get a ticket for speeding in my own driveway, only on publicly owned roads). The only way that the government can take my car away is if I break the law on their road system, and that does not apply to every offense. In addition they also have to provide a way for me to retrieve the vehicle in the case that they do take possesion (with the exception of legally siezed possesions in something along the lines of a drug bust of theft ring bust).
Sorry about the length but we do own our vehicles, just like we do our homes, if they are still being payed for there are restrictions on how you sell them, typically any procedes from the sale must go toward paying off the debt before you see any of the money from the sale of the item.