How about lobbying your congressman to get the monopoly given to Time Warner / AT&T / Comcast / Sprint or whatever split up as anti-competitive and not just taking a big rubbery one up the wrong'un?
Lobby as in write letters?
Check.
Lobby as in send 'contributions' in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year like time warner does?
Not so much. All though if you let me borrow that amount, I will do exactly that with it. Just paypal it to me!
Sadly I have discovered they do not accept monopoly money:{
First off, there's no legitimate reason iTunes has to use QuickTime for MP3/AAC decoding. There are plenty of other options. If Apple insists on eating their own dogfood, there's no excuse for installing more than is necessary. Installing iTunes doesn't mean I want their stupid, crippled movie player or plugins.
First I just want to say I am not defending how apple handles their windows versions of apps. Personally, I've never installed iTunes on windows, only use it under OSX. However every person I know that has used iTunes on windows reacts in one of two ways, A) just like people here, pissed it installs quicktime and bonjour and all that stuff, or B) are the type of user who always leaves all default options on, and their machine is quickly a mess and they don't care. Far far more people are in column A in my experience.
But the only thinking I can come up with, why mac users don't seem to complain at all or have problems, is that basically all of those 'extras' (except the ipod helper stuff) is already included and part of OSX.
Bonjour is part of the network stack. Quicktime is basically as much a part of the OS as IE is in Windows. But on OSX, those things never get in the way. They really do 'just work' there. My bet is that the method they shoehorned them into the Windows installer is still doing so in a more mac way, which would naturally upset people used to the windows way of doing things, as one would correctly expect on a windows machine.
As for trying to install Safari, yea that one is quite inexcusable. Even on OSX, safari and webkit are separate parts, at least enough where you can fully remove Safari.app and it does not affect webkit libs at all, nor breaks other apps in doing that type of removal. So clearly it should be possible to install just the lib and have apps needing that lib work fine.
Bad apple for that one. And bad apple for not trying to port apps further, to make them fit with windows better. I don't just mean the brushed metal 'theme' (though that too), but you are right in that there is no real reason other than laziness, to not just install the libs with iTunes and leave the front ends out of the picture unless a user chooses to install them.
I can forgive an installer that picks stupid defaults for its settings, as long as you can change them easily. (I know, that is rarely done correctly too, and I can't express how much I despise installers whos defaults are so different from mine. Thats one of the main reasons I used to love debian, their defaults matched what I would choose, at least at one point in time)
There has always been a strange love/hate relationship between Apple and Microsoft, so some rivalry is expected. But this type of thing is just petty. Microsoft has done the same thing in the past with Office on macs, as well as other software, but that is no excuse for Apple to lower themselves to that level, let alone piss off the very people you would think they are trying to convert to mac/OSX users!
If my first experience with Apple software was similar to what a Windows user gets with iTunes, I would probably lather on the hate as well.
Jobs is usually so anal about quality and all that when it comes to these things. Does he never walk through the Windows division there or something? I always have a hard time believing a person as smart as that could possibly think this type of thing is in any way a Good Thing, so WTF was he thinking I wonder. (Jobs or anyone else in the chain of command down to the windows developers.. seems to be the definition of a yes-man-cluster-fuck if I ever saw one)
We do not need an unwinnable "war on copyright violation" in the vein of the "war on drugs". The only sensible solution is to understand that the world has changed, and that some business models are not viable anymore.
That must explain why the war on drugs only lasted a few months and ended back in 1920 when... oh wait;}
Yea, expecting sensible solutions from a government force is kinda a heartache waiting to happen sadly.
While you are totally right that we don't need such a war (or any such wars I should say), you have to remember that those in charge of creating the war on drugs actually believe they are winning it. I have no lack of cynicism to believe the people at Disney and the congress people they purchased will not think the same thing about a war on copying.
It should be noted that now 80 years after the start of the war on drugs, it is not only common place, but supported and expected behavior, for the police force to pull deadly weapons on, and even kill, harmless pot smokers in the privacy of their own home.
If things don't change for the better in this country, and FAST, I fully expect in even less time (Since president is set already) that deadly weapons will be used against people who copy just the same.
" News story, 11 o'clock, October 21st 2030 - An elderly couple was accidentally shot to death in a police raid, when officers inadvertently stormed and entered the wrong home this morning. An alleged file sharer was suspected of having a flash drive with 7 bytes of copyrighted material on it, who lived next door was the target of the raid. After a full investigation, authorities deemed the officers did not intentionally do anything wrong, and thus their duties will be resumed this evening. "
Trillions of FLOPs yet can't establish a simple lookup table or sed script to be able to speak contractions! And about as well explained as in the story line.
What was it fahrenheit was measured by? 32 F = water freezes, 100 F = body temperature, 212 F = water boils?
For reference, 0F is when salt water freezes, 32F is when fresh water freezes, and 100F is human body temperature (or at least that of Dan Fahrenheit.) The boiling point of water was not taken into account for creating the scale, it was just placed upon the scale later on.
I will grant that your point remains intact however.
One neat detail about the Celsius scale making more sense: Originally it was reversed, as in 0C was the boiling point of water, and 100C was the freezing point. It was only 'reversed' years later and against his will (Well, I believe he was dead by then, but still.)
It should also be kept in mind that both Fahrenheit and Celsius scales were created before 'temperature' was really understood. At that point in history, heat and cold were both forces that were believed to exist separately. Today we know there is only heat and lack of heat, but at the time it was believed there wasn't really an upper OR lower bound on temperature, and the scales were made accordingly.
Once the concept of heat as energy was realized, and there was a lower bound (absolute zero) but still no real upper bound, a new scale for scientific purposes was made to match, called Kelvin.
I think one of the hindrances for businesses to move to Linux on the desktop is the lack of programs for Linux that allow the complete lock-down of the desktop.
Lack of? It comes with every base distro, even floppy disk versions!
Hate to break it to you, but left and right sound like political terms.
At least I have never heard of left or right being terms given to heterosexual or homosexual.
And I think that perfectly fits the definition. In fact I nearly quoted it. So thanks for backing that point up.
But we are talking about bigots here. People who can't stand when others don't do exactly what they do, and (as the article suggests) even try to pass laws to stop others from not following their own gods plan or whatever excuse of the month they use to say gays and single people should not have the same rights as married couples.
Is there something so horrible about people wanting equal treatment under the law?
It is to a bigot. I'd venture a guess that not being able to force their will on those that do not want it is a great offense to those people (That is how they respond each and every time at least) and thusly is horrible.
I think such behavior is disgusting, but believe that is an answer to your question.
I wonder why the plaintiff is not suing some obvious companies.
I don't know if this is actually the case or not, but one reason might be that Cisco had some previous license arrangement with 3com from before the patents were sold.
It is possible Cisco and the other high end companies actually have a valid license, either directly, or from the past with 3com which might still have some effect in such a case today.
It is also possible that the way they read the patent, it is more limited than just 'ethernet' which is most likely the case. Might as well get the companies that sell products closest matching to their interpretation first, and go after the 'maybe' ones later.
Being a litigation company (or so it would seem at first glance) they might just not realize Cisco exists just yet.
I have no reason to believe any of the above are actually true, but those are a few reasons why it might be the case.
Do it with 48kbps AAC vs. 160kbps AAC, or 48kbps OGG vs. 160kbps OGG, and you might have something meaningful.
Have something meaningful? Such a test would fully destroy the results they are looking for!
They are comparing online service one, which uses only 48k AAC, with online service two which only uses 160k OGG. Let me repeat and stress that. They are comparing TWO ONLINE SERVICES.
Why on earth would you compare 48k OGG or 160k AAC against anything, when neither of those two online services provide those codecs and bitrates?
They are comparing two existing services. Not one existing service and your imagination, or worse two services from your imagination. Nor are they comparing codecs or bitrates.
I'm sorry to sound like a jerk, but how hard could this possibly be?
I would be more impressed if the same encoding format was used. I think both samples should have been ogg or aac and not a mix. If comparing aac at 48 and 160 are the results different? Same goes for ogg at 48 and 160?
That would only make any sense if the point of the test was to compare a particular bitrate and codec to another.
If you had read the article, or even the summary, you will see they are comparing one online music service to another online music service.
In THAT test, using any bitrate and codec combination that is NOT used by the online service you are comparing would not make any sense.
Service one uses one codec at one bitrate. Service two uses another codec at another bitrate. To compare those two services, you must compare the exact codec and bitrate each uses.
So yes, you are correct in that they did not perform the test you want. That hardly makes their results pointless, especially as it is a perfect comparison for the test they were doing.
"it leaks something radioactive so it must be very dangerous" - well, except it's not, as you will be irradiated more by decaying potassium-40 in the body of a girl you're sleeping with than by most tritium leaks
Those of us not sleeping with a girl take exception to that comparison.
Could you please put that in time of CRT exposure? Or some other more comprehensible metric?
Well OK, "replace" was a bad choice of words. But in a mixed environment, it definitely seems more popular.
Maybe it just seems that way to me when it isn't true. I can admit that. But if nothing else, that is part of the reason for my poor choice of words, and where I was coming from.
But you are totally right. Two unix systems, or unix and nas/san, would work great under NFS and much easier.
I can even think of a few remote booting processes I've used that pretty much required NFS, and samba wouldn't have been an option there to work. So it is not dead by far or anything, which I didn't mean to imply.
It just seems when you go windows to windows, or windows to unix, samba seems to be the easier option to get windows to play with.
The idea of having to buy a 3rd party NFS client (and maybe server) for windows, while an option, is usually not the one chosen for personal or small business use, mainly based on price. While I don't conciser that a fault with NFS at all, it was the reality for me.
A home user probably wouldn't even bother pirating a NFS client for windows, and just setup samba sharing, as long as a windows machine is in the equation somewhere.
He most likely granted the publisher an exclusive license.
On one hand, the author himself, who was there for the signing of the contract, states he did not give them an exclusive license on the text, but states he didn't create the covers, toc, or index thus can't give permission to copy that.
On the other hand, someone on slashdot states what the author _most likely_ did, in their overly well informed opinion.
Well that settles it!
Actually I sorta like that idea. Personally, I think he most likely never even spoke to a book publisher, and not only wants his book to be free, but will pay us to read it! I'm sure that is the case.
*Goes off to download an ebook and wait for my check in the mail*
I am guessing you are going for a funny mod. I just don't see the humor however.
You don't by chance believe what you just typed do you?
The DHCP RFC was written and published in 1997, by a guy at bucknell university (bucknell.edu ?) in Pennsylvania. Windows JUST got a built in IP stack in 1995, and even then it was only a copy of the BSD IP stack. They didn't rewrite their own for a couple years later, long after DHCP was rolled out. Microsoft had nothing to do with it, other than again copying the BSD dhcp code and adding it to their IP stack.
Microsoft also never wrote samba. They attempted to sue samba to make them stop releasing software, but thankfully they didn't get away with it. Now if you mean the file sharing protocol itself of SMB, then yes Microsoft made that. However Microsoft never wanted anyone else to use it. So even if they 'did it right', you still can't thank them for that if you use it on a non-windows system today. Samba was created in response to Microsoft not sharing their protocol, which is how it ended up on unix systems to replace NFS.
It is also worth pointing out that the samba project was started long before SMB or even windows 95 existed, back in 1992, and provided the same type of service for DEC file sharing, that it provides for SMB windows sharing today and LAN Manager support previously. And before you ask, Microsoft had nothing to do with DEC (aside from possibly aiding their going out of business)
Basically you are giving credit to Microsoft for inventing something they didn't, and for giving something to unix that they fought tooth and nail to keep from being on unix.
Phone code, citing that they are "waiting for their developers to provide it."
Too bad that doesn't work.
"Yes your honor, I downloaded all of that music, but I emailed the artists asking how I could send them money, and are just waiting on them to license it to me properly!"
Not exactly fitting I know, but still.
Every other closed source shop has to hold off on release of their product until all licensing issues are taken care of (at least if they don't want to be taken to court.) This license is no different.
Okay, but I have a serious point too: The "Big Content" and other companies are the ones that have a stake in anti-counterfeiting legislation, of course they are going to have primary input.
Hate to break it to you, but not a single "Big Content" company would even exist in the first place without citizens of a country.
That places us citizens at the top of the food chain when it comes to what is best for us.
So no, it's not 'of course' they get primary input. They get LAST input. That is why the outrage.
Remember, you might be a big media shill, but there are still more of us than you.
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How about lobbying your congressman to get the monopoly given to Time Warner / AT&T / Comcast / Sprint or whatever split up as anti-competitive and not just taking a big rubbery one up the wrong'un?
Lobby as in write letters?
Check.
Lobby as in send 'contributions' in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year like time warner does? :{
Not so much. All though if you let me borrow that amount, I will do exactly that with it. Just paypal it to me!
Sadly I have discovered they do not accept monopoly money
First off, there's no legitimate reason iTunes has to use QuickTime for MP3/AAC decoding. There are plenty of other options. If Apple insists on eating their own dogfood, there's no excuse for installing more than is necessary. Installing iTunes doesn't mean I want their stupid, crippled movie player or plugins.
First I just want to say I am not defending how apple handles their windows versions of apps. Personally, I've never installed iTunes on windows, only use it under OSX.
However every person I know that has used iTunes on windows reacts in one of two ways, A) just like people here, pissed it installs quicktime and bonjour and all that stuff, or B) are the type of user who always leaves all default options on, and their machine is quickly a mess and they don't care. Far far more people are in column A in my experience.
But the only thinking I can come up with, why mac users don't seem to complain at all or have problems, is that basically all of those 'extras' (except the ipod helper stuff) is already included and part of OSX.
Bonjour is part of the network stack. Quicktime is basically as much a part of the OS as IE is in Windows.
But on OSX, those things never get in the way. They really do 'just work' there.
My bet is that the method they shoehorned them into the Windows installer is still doing so in a more mac way, which would naturally upset people used to the windows way of doing things, as one would correctly expect on a windows machine.
As for trying to install Safari, yea that one is quite inexcusable. Even on OSX, safari and webkit are separate parts, at least enough where you can fully remove Safari.app and it does not affect webkit libs at all, nor breaks other apps in doing that type of removal. So clearly it should be possible to install just the lib and have apps needing that lib work fine.
Bad apple for that one.
And bad apple for not trying to port apps further, to make them fit with windows better.
I don't just mean the brushed metal 'theme' (though that too), but you are right in that there is no real reason other than laziness, to not just install the libs with iTunes and leave the front ends out of the picture unless a user chooses to install them.
I can forgive an installer that picks stupid defaults for its settings, as long as you can change them easily. (I know, that is rarely done correctly too, and I can't express how much I despise installers whos defaults are so different from mine. Thats one of the main reasons I used to love debian, their defaults matched what I would choose, at least at one point in time)
There has always been a strange love/hate relationship between Apple and Microsoft, so some rivalry is expected.
But this type of thing is just petty.
Microsoft has done the same thing in the past with Office on macs, as well as other software, but that is no excuse for Apple to lower themselves to that level, let alone piss off the very people you would think they are trying to convert to mac/OSX users!
If my first experience with Apple software was similar to what a Windows user gets with iTunes, I would probably lather on the hate as well.
Jobs is usually so anal about quality and all that when it comes to these things. Does he never walk through the Windows division there or something?
I always have a hard time believing a person as smart as that could possibly think this type of thing is in any way a Good Thing, so WTF was he thinking I wonder. (Jobs or anyone else in the chain of command down to the windows developers.. seems to be the definition of a yes-man-cluster-fuck if I ever saw one)
We do not need an unwinnable "war on copyright violation" in the vein of the "war on drugs". The only sensible solution is to understand that the world has changed, and that some business models are not viable anymore.
That must explain why the war on drugs only lasted a few months and ended back in 1920 when... oh wait ;}
Yea, expecting sensible solutions from a government force is kinda a heartache waiting to happen sadly.
While you are totally right that we don't need such a war (or any such wars I should say), you have to remember that those in charge of creating the war on drugs actually believe they are winning it. I have no lack of cynicism to believe the people at Disney and the congress people they purchased will not think the same thing about a war on copying.
It should be noted that now 80 years after the start of the war on drugs, it is not only common place, but supported and expected behavior, for the police force to pull deadly weapons on, and even kill, harmless pot smokers in the privacy of their own home.
If things don't change for the better in this country, and FAST, I fully expect in even less time (Since president is set already) that deadly weapons will be used against people who copy just the same.
" News story, 11 o'clock, October 21st 2030 - An elderly couple was accidentally shot to death in a police raid, when officers inadvertently stormed and entered the wrong home this morning. An alleged file sharer was suspected of having a flash drive with 7 bytes of copyrighted material on it, who lived next door was the target of the raid. After a full investigation, authorities deemed the officers did not intentionally do anything wrong, and thus their duties will be resumed this evening. "
You remind me of Data from Star Trek.
Trillions of FLOPs yet can't establish a simple lookup table or sed script to be able to speak contractions!
And about as well explained as in the story line.
What was it fahrenheit was measured by? 32 F = water freezes, 100 F = body temperature, 212 F = water boils?
For reference, 0F is when salt water freezes, 32F is when fresh water freezes, and 100F is human body temperature (or at least that of Dan Fahrenheit.) The boiling point of water was not taken into account for creating the scale, it was just placed upon the scale later on.
I will grant that your point remains intact however.
One neat detail about the Celsius scale making more sense: Originally it was reversed, as in 0C was the boiling point of water, and 100C was the freezing point. It was only 'reversed' years later and against his will (Well, I believe he was dead by then, but still.)
It should also be kept in mind that both Fahrenheit and Celsius scales were created before 'temperature' was really understood. At that point in history, heat and cold were both forces that were believed to exist separately. Today we know there is only heat and lack of heat, but at the time it was believed there wasn't really an upper OR lower bound on temperature, and the scales were made accordingly.
Once the concept of heat as energy was realized, and there was a lower bound (absolute zero) but still no real upper bound, a new scale for scientific purposes was made to match, called Kelvin.
I think one of the hindrances for businesses to move to Linux on the desktop is the lack of programs for Linux that allow the complete lock-down of the desktop.
Lack of? It comes with every base distro, even floppy disk versions!
You should probably check man chmod
Even this fine outstanding developer knows chmod!
Hate to break it to you, but left and right sound like political terms.
At least I have never heard of left or right being terms given to heterosexual or homosexual.
And I think that perfectly fits the definition. In fact I nearly quoted it. So thanks for backing that point up.
But we are talking about bigots here. People who can't stand when others don't do exactly what they do, and (as the article suggests) even try to pass laws to stop others from not following their own gods plan or whatever excuse of the month they use to say gays and single people should not have the same rights as married couples.
Why can't I just use my iPhone?
Didn't read the manual? Fingers all thumbs? Is it turned on?
Without further information, I will be unable to diagnose further why you are unable to use your iPhone.
Is there something so horrible about people wanting equal treatment under the law?
It is to a bigot. I'd venture a guess that not being able to force their will on those that do not want it is a great offense to those people (That is how they respond each and every time at least) and thusly is horrible.
I think such behavior is disgusting, but believe that is an answer to your question.
I wonder why the plaintiff is not suing some obvious companies.
I don't know if this is actually the case or not, but one reason might be that Cisco had some previous license arrangement with 3com from before the patents were sold.
It is possible Cisco and the other high end companies actually have a valid license, either directly, or from the past with 3com which might still have some effect in such a case today.
It is also possible that the way they read the patent, it is more limited than just 'ethernet' which is most likely the case. Might as well get the companies that sell products closest matching to their interpretation first, and go after the 'maybe' ones later.
Being a litigation company (or so it would seem at first glance) they might just not realize Cisco exists just yet.
I have no reason to believe any of the above are actually true, but those are a few reasons why it might be the case.
Do it with 48kbps AAC vs. 160kbps AAC, or 48kbps OGG vs. 160kbps OGG, and you might have something meaningful.
Have something meaningful? Such a test would fully destroy the results they are looking for!
They are comparing online service one, which uses only 48k AAC, with online service two which only uses 160k OGG. Let me repeat and stress that. They are comparing TWO ONLINE SERVICES.
Why on earth would you compare 48k OGG or 160k AAC against anything, when neither of those two online services provide those codecs and bitrates?
They are comparing two existing services. Not one existing service and your imagination, or worse two services from your imagination. Nor are they comparing codecs or bitrates.
I'm sorry to sound like a jerk, but how hard could this possibly be?
I would be more impressed if the same encoding format was used. I think both samples should have been ogg or aac and not a mix. If comparing aac at 48 and 160 are the results different? Same goes for ogg at 48 and 160?
That would only make any sense if the point of the test was to compare a particular bitrate and codec to another.
If you had read the article, or even the summary, you will see they are comparing one online music service to another online music service.
In THAT test, using any bitrate and codec combination that is NOT used by the online service you are comparing would not make any sense.
Service one uses one codec at one bitrate. Service two uses another codec at another bitrate.
To compare those two services, you must compare the exact codec and bitrate each uses.
So yes, you are correct in that they did not perform the test you want. That hardly makes their results pointless, especially as it is a perfect comparison for the test they were doing.
America will no longer accept it from our business leaders.
For how long?
Until the next season of TV starts up in about a month :{
Tell me again about PA's awesomeness.
But it IS awesome! Once configured correctly, it will do your dishes and give great head! (Still no sound though)
"it leaks something radioactive so it must be very dangerous" - well, except it's not, as you will be irradiated more by decaying potassium-40 in the body of a girl you're sleeping with than by most tritium leaks
Those of us not sleeping with a girl take exception to that comparison.
Could you please put that in time of CRT exposure? Or some other more comprehensible metric?
Huh? In what world did Samba ever replace NFS?
Well OK, "replace" was a bad choice of words. But in a mixed environment, it definitely seems more popular.
Maybe it just seems that way to me when it isn't true. I can admit that. But if nothing else, that is part of the reason for my poor choice of words, and where I was coming from.
But you are totally right. Two unix systems, or unix and nas/san, would work great under NFS and much easier.
I can even think of a few remote booting processes I've used that pretty much required NFS, and samba wouldn't have been an option there to work. So it is not dead by far or anything, which I didn't mean to imply.
It just seems when you go windows to windows, or windows to unix, samba seems to be the easier option to get windows to play with.
The idea of having to buy a 3rd party NFS client (and maybe server) for windows, while an option, is usually not the one chosen for personal or small business use, mainly based on price.
While I don't conciser that a fault with NFS at all, it was the reality for me.
A home user probably wouldn't even bother pirating a NFS client for windows, and just setup samba sharing, as long as a windows machine is in the equation somewhere.
Let me know when you figure out how to make HTML plain text.
Well, isn't it good enough that HTML is made OF plain text? ;}
Or on a slightly more correct note, lynx?
Now of course if you mean make HTML into nice looking plain text that is readable and usable, then yes we are all doomed.
He most likely granted the publisher an exclusive license.
On one hand, the author himself, who was there for the signing of the contract, states he did not give them an exclusive license on the text, but states he didn't create the covers, toc, or index thus can't give permission to copy that.
On the other hand, someone on slashdot states what the author _most likely_ did, in their overly well informed opinion.
Well that settles it!
Actually I sorta like that idea.
Personally, I think he most likely never even spoke to a book publisher, and not only wants his book to be free, but will pay us to read it! I'm sure that is the case.
*Goes off to download an ebook and wait for my check in the mail*
Bah
Samba was created in response to Microsoft not sharing their protocol, which is how it ended up on unix systems to replace NFS.
I meant to say, _that feature_ of samba was created in response to microsoft not sharing.
Wow.
I am guessing you are going for a funny mod. I just don't see the humor however.
You don't by chance believe what you just typed do you?
The DHCP RFC was written and published in 1997, by a guy at bucknell university (bucknell.edu ?) in Pennsylvania. Windows JUST got a built in IP stack in 1995, and even then it was only a copy of the BSD IP stack. They didn't rewrite their own for a couple years later, long after DHCP was rolled out. Microsoft had nothing to do with it, other than again copying the BSD dhcp code and adding it to their IP stack.
Microsoft also never wrote samba. They attempted to sue samba to make them stop releasing software, but thankfully they didn't get away with it. Now if you mean the file sharing protocol itself of SMB, then yes Microsoft made that. However Microsoft never wanted anyone else to use it. So even if they 'did it right', you still can't thank them for that if you use it on a non-windows system today. Samba was created in response to Microsoft not sharing their protocol, which is how it ended up on unix systems to replace NFS.
It is also worth pointing out that the samba project was started long before SMB or even windows 95 existed, back in 1992, and provided the same type of service for DEC file sharing, that it provides for SMB windows sharing today and LAN Manager support previously. And before you ask, Microsoft had nothing to do with DEC (aside from possibly aiding their going out of business)
Basically you are giving credit to Microsoft for inventing something they didn't, and for giving something to unix that they fought tooth and nail to keep from being on unix.
Phone code, citing that they are "waiting for their developers to provide it."
Too bad that doesn't work.
"Yes your honor, I downloaded all of that music, but I emailed the artists asking how I could send them money, and are just waiting on them to license it to me properly!"
Not exactly fitting I know, but still.
Every other closed source shop has to hold off on release of their product until all licensing issues are taken care of (at least if they don't want to be taken to court.) This license is no different.
Robert Malcolm McDowell ... the head of the FCC?
Way to give them the answer. Now he will just repeat that instead of learning about what he is mindlessly repeating. :P
Many Bush appointees are still entrenched in the govt. Perhaps you are the one who needs to read some news once in a while.
Name one of them that is in the FCC.
Okay, but I have a serious point too: The "Big Content" and other companies are the ones that have a stake in anti-counterfeiting legislation, of course they are going to have primary input.
Hate to break it to you, but not a single "Big Content" company would even exist in the first place without citizens of a country.
That places us citizens at the top of the food chain when it comes to what is best for us.
So no, it's not 'of course' they get primary input. They get LAST input.
That is why the outrage.
Remember, you might be a big media shill, but there are still more of us than you.
But they fail to understand that in the Martian language, time is a critical component of meaning!
The only martins we are interested in speaking with are generally speaking English, Chinese, or Russian. So that will not be a concern.