Didn't email and pgp prove once and for all that WoT and convenience is pretty much direct opposites? You don't get a straight answer, you get a bunch of complicated information and choices on who to trust. Also, many people need to do it in order for it to function and most people won't so people won't think twice about downloading a torrent with no trust. Those who try will have huge problems with malware makers and MAFIAA goons trying to poison the well. Not only can they create as many fake identities as they want, for example they can upload versions that aren't obviously borked, people will vote them good at first then get marked bad by others even though they were honestly trying to contribute. They can give good trust information a while making others trust them, then turn into crap so you need some form of trust revocation.
All in all, it's ugly to make it work. Not that it can't be made to work technically, but those who manage to work with this probably have no problem finding good sources of material anyway. But you'd lose 90% of the file sharers who'd probably just be lost and download just as much crap as on a trustless P2P network.
Ah, but couldn't it just as easily be considered your civic duty to fund the jury? It would make everyone share the burden, not just those who do end up sitting on juries.
Norway is much of the same fucked up stuff, wine and liquor only in government stores, beer up to 4.7% is sold in normal stores until 8 PM on weekdays and 6 PM on saturday. And there's no such thing as a carryout, after those times you can only get opened bottles/cans at licensed salesplaces to drink on the premises, that is bars or nightclubs. The only thing this encourages is to buy and have a sixpack or three standing around.
On top of that it's expensive as fuck, even though everyone that wants to be an alcoholic always can afford enough. I got 5 liters of liquor around here because it's a $50 savings per liter if I ever get around to drinking them up. On top of that there's restrictions on the bars too, so everyone has to close at the same time causing massive food and taxi queues. This country is so stupid. I wish we could be more like Germany, where it's cheap, available and you party as long as *you* want. But that's way too much to hope for.
Watching porn doesn't make me interested in making porn, but it does make me want some pussy. I'm pretty sure there's an analogy here, and it doesn't involve cars...
We've all learned from the RIAA and MPAA that downloading destroys the industry, so downloading CP should be a good thing.
Not even on "America's dumbest criminals" would you find a child pornographer trying to enforce his copyright so you're beating down an open door. Besides if would-be customers downloaded instead that would have an effect, but "download just to download" makes as little sense as trying to bankrupt Microsoft by downloading Windows over and over again.
You are not dealing with a mass market product, for a small number of customers you can do stuff like individual encodes, throwing out customers who leak what they get, deliver exclusive/custom content, that sort of thing. Like how they do with the copies they send out for Oscar reviews, they can pretty easily be traced to the source unless you pretty much destroy the movie. And with these you can go a little further, like adding or dropping an extra 0.2 seconds on scenes making each almost unique. You'll be a good customer if you want to stay a customer.
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Honestly, I think it's practical and less clutter if there's one cable for video and sound and some control/USB signals just to have the flexibility. Music has lost the DRM and it's quite probably not coming back, what good was the movie sound track without the picture anyway? Many things about BluRay is overkill, you didn't technically need 50 GB H.264 to deliver HDTV but that's what you got so you just ramp up the bitrates until it's full. Like, why not when you're pressing the disc I don't think it matters at all how much is on it, the cost is the same anyway. Why drop the tiniest bit of picture or sound quality if it comes free? In their mind it's never going to be anywhere else than the disc. Not everything they do is an extension of DRM, in this case I think it was simply completely irrelevant to them. As for trying to do away with VGA, well doh. Monitors and TVs are now also digital devices. Why would you convert 1920x1080 digital pixels to analog then back to digital? It adds cost, it adds product complexity, it adds power usage and the auto-adjustment still sometimes fail to get it right or flickers as you change mode. Apart from HDCP, pretty much everything was better when they moved from VGA to DVI in my opinion. Clearly they have a DRM agenda but it's not *all* about doing it just for the DRM.
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I fear that even DisplayPort monitors likely wouldn't work unless they have the latest (HDCP 2012 or whatever they will call it) standard.
DPCP actually. I'm sure'll they'll want to push everyone there now that HDMI is utterly broken.
1) is provided by RSS for technical folks, if you follow a series or is waiting for a movie it's typically downloaded before you even knew it was available. Also there's no cost to downloading movies that you might consider watching, so you always have some waiting for a rainy day. Though if you get a really sudden urge to watch something, I suppose.
4) There's a number of prebuilt solutions and media players/streamers for this, it's not like you have to build your own MythTV box. More and more all computers have the power to decode HD, a HDMI out and TVs a HDMI in then you just hook it up with a cable and away you go too. Yes it's a strength but it's also not that complicated anymore.
Yes obviously it's a good service. If only they'd lose the idea of regions, maybe it'd be useful. The media companies still live in the 20th century where people talked mostly over the water cooler, but online I talk to people from everywhere. You get two classes of people, the haves and the havenots based on where we live because of some antiquated distribution method that's completely irrelevant to us. It's the best recruitment campaign for torrents I've ever seen.
It's worth noting, though, that the Falcon 9 / Dragon platform is probably not going to be the one taking us to the moon or elsewhere outside of Earth orbit; it was designed to be cheap and fast to develop, which is exactly why SpaceX was able to fly this mission whilst Orion got cancelled. It would take some really heavy modification to even do a lunar flyby.
Why not? If it can reach GTO, it's 90% of the way to escape velocity and with another 10% on top of that again it can go pretty much anywhere. That's enough for the moon and if you have lots of time even Mars - I think the slowest and most fuel-efficient orbit takes two years. For a manned mission you need something a lot stronger, but then NASA doesn't have that either.
It used to be that if you wanted to work on space technology (in North America), you had to work at NASA.
Or Boeing or Lockheed Martin or any of the other huge subcontractors NASA has had. It might have been a government contract and not a commercial one, but it's not like NASA has been the only place to work.
I wouldn't be surprised if many other countries just don't have the concept of "sick day" - if you're sick, you stay home and that's it. It doesn't eat in to your vacation time because, of course, we don't want you coming in to work when you're going to get everyone else infected, and if you abuse it you get fired.
Probably beause the answer is "it's complicated". Here in Norway you get four sick leaves of up to three days, if you are gone longer or get sick again within a 16 day period you need a sick notice from a doctor. If you work in an "inclusive work environment" - mostly public sector - you can have up to 24 days but no more than eight consecutive days, also they can be all single day. In addition there are sick days for caring for children, either 10 or 15 per parent depending on number of children. If you have a doctor's notice that you're unfit for work you may be on sick leave for up to a year, after that it's disability pension. However, the company will only need to cover for the first 16 days, afterwards the government will pay. They can still be complicated for employers though because people on sick leave have special protection in law and are hard to fire. None of it eats into the vacation time, which I think by law is at least four weeks but most companies have five weeks.
If everyone did as slashdot wanted, you wouldn't see much of.NET around either, but somehow I doubt slashdot commends the IT industry. The reality is that all the biggest software houses - Micrsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, CA etc. are an oligopoly, sure you may shuffle the users around a little as they move from one uncooperative money-hungry giant to the other but they don't leave. While PostgreSQL might be an okay alternative to just SQL Server or Oracle the database, they just don't deliver the whole range of tools and services. I know Oracle is now everyone's favorite hate object as they kill off the open source, but I doubt they're going away any time soon.
Intel's low-end parts tend are typically lower performing (or higher priced, depending on how you look at it) than the AMD counterparts, I thik you pay a minimum just for the brand. In the performance ranges AMD can't touch you get far better performance, but at an ugly price premium. Personally I've found that Intel is competing most intensly around AMD's high-end where AMD starts to cheat a little and Intel wants to "cut off" AMD. Intel is of course trying to choke the chips that give AMD good margins, which makes the bang for the buck not that bad.
Well yes, but 2560x1600 will take a solid chunk out of your budget. Not for the graphics card, but for the monitor... you can get a 50" 1080p LCD for the price of a 2560x1600 30" LCD.
Currently all applications except Calligra Words will be maintained by their respective KOffice developers.
It's more than a renaming, they split. However, when the dust cleared only the KWord developers went with the other group, the rest of the KOffice projects joined what's now Calligra. As far as I can tell the KWord guys wanted to focus on competing with MS Office and OpenOffice for the desktop, while the Calligra Words guys wanted to focus more on mobile. With enough different agendas going on in the same project they had conflict and eventually split. That's at least as far as I've caught the story.
Well if they drop it completely. But I assume what they get paid is related to their market share or hits generated, if Google can move 1% from Firefox to Chrome they pay "themselves" instead of paying Mozilla and that's money saved. And they get people using a Google product strengthening their brand, while Mozilla is someone else's brand. They also have the freedom to direct development and link Chrome harder to Google services in ways Mozilla might not accept, like pushing H.264 support for the video tag which Chrome supports and Mozilla doesn't (I'm ignoring WebM since that's irrelevant to the point). In all honesty, do you honestly think Google would mind if Chrome became the single dominant browser for web applications? You greatly overestimate how much companies like competition.
Besides, if you think a little tactics there's not many places for Firefox to go. Nobody outside China will want Baidu and Bing would create all sorts of hate from the anti-M$ faction of open source. There's really just Yahoo and a few <1% obscure search engines to pick from. Personally I suspect the funding has been higher than strictly necessary in order to speed development and bring about the fall of IE, which has been good business for Google. If they now see Chrome as the means to do that and offer just enough to win over the competition, Firefox development could get rather anemic.
WoW is an amazing life-sink that you justify because of the other 20-40 other people in your guild wasting their lives away playing a game that never ends.
What kind of hobby really "ends"? Like say all sports, you're never going to win anything of significance at the hobby level - not significant to anyone but you anyway. Same goes for playing any form of instrument. I got one in the family that likes to paint, where does that end? He's not heading for the Louvre, I can tell you that much. How much real "useful" or "meaningful" things do you really learn outside your own little self-referential world view? If you play the guitar you learn to play the guitar, but does anyone really care any more or less than if you're an 85th level something in WoW?
The only reason I play games that do end and not stuff like WoW is because I get addicted and that's my control, at some point it'll end and when I'm ready I'll start a new game. It never really ends for me either, ultimately what do I get for it? Well I could pretend I get a little action/multitasking/strategy/planning/whatever skill out of it, but it's really more coincidental, an excuse to play. I play because it's fun, does it really mean less than the people that are talking about running/biking/skiing X distance in less than Y time? Good for you, you're now ranked 1578456th in the world in that sport, yay for you.
Perhaps there is a difference between "file sharers" and "the operators of a top 100 most visited website". Just saying that they aren't very representative of file sharers or even people operating a little server or hub in pretty much any regard.
The company has been struggling recently as Firefox steadily loses share to Google Chrome.
Near as I can tell, Firefox market share has been at a standstill. Chrome has grown at around the pace IE has dropped. Whether that means users have gone IE -> Chrome or IE -> Firefox and Firefox -> Chrome is a bit open, but they're not losing. However with Chrome in the 10-15% range you have to ask how long they'll keep backing Firefox and just go all out on developing Chrome.
GTA IV had a copy-protection prank too: the pirated game plays fine until you get in to a car, which then accelerates uncontrolably while handling as if the character has been drinking. Pretty funny, but it did bite a lot of legit, paying customers, contributing to the general verdict that the game was much too buggy at release.
Ah, so that's the reason it was acting all fucked up and I had to reinstall it (and yes, I have a legit DVD). Another reason to ban DRM has a customer-hostile piece of shit.
This left FSF with the choice of producing their ideal licence, and few people using it, or producing a licence that was an improvement compared to GPLv2, and more people using it.
Not to mention that it isn't an either-or. They DID create both the GPLv3 and the AGPLv3. I also think a large influence was the wish that people continue to use the "or any later version" on GPL code. The more radically you altered it, the more likely people would start creating "GPLv2 only" or "GPLv3 only" code. Anything people would consider a mass relicensing of their code rather that an upgraded GPL would kill all trust in future GPL versions.
If that's not acceptable to the content providers, they are free not to serve me their content and I'm happy with their decision. It's a deal I'm perfectly happy with and I consider it in no way cutting off my nose to spite my face. The price of the implied contract is too high, neither party wants to enter into it.
If you look at the escalating war between ads and ad-blockers, it's obvious people want to see sites without ads that the owners don't want to offer without ads. Very few sites allow you to opt out of their advertising, that your ad blocker works is much the same way you can buy a newspaper and have someone go over it with a magic marker blacking out all the ads before you read it. It can be done, but the newspaper producer obviously doesn't want you to. It is rather disingenuous to say that "because they still serve me content even if I block the ads, they're cool with it", when it's pretty much the same as "because the newspaper doesn't prevent me from using a magic marker, the publisher is cool with it."
Copyright is a contract between artists and society, they create work and we grant them a temporary monopoly on distribution, what's happened is they still have their monopoly but are refusing to let the work fall into the public domain. The market is adjusting accordingly.
Sure you can claim people are pirating music because Beatles and Elvis isn't in the public domain, but I doubt many would believe you. Most people do it simply because they can and they don't care. It's not like the world's going to collapse or go without music. It's not like famous musicians are going to stop making music because they make a little less, when they still make more far more money on music than they would on anything else.
The crack groups etc. don't release virus or trojan infected shit. If you get it from those networks, you'll be fine.
On the web and P2P though tons of sites and peers specialize in taking these cracks, adding their viruses and trojans, spam their way to the top of search hits and feed you their garbage. They'll probably throw in a few browser exploit attempts and whatnot too, before you even get to download anything. Going to these with full patches, antivirus and whatnot is crazy and even if you did, half the stuff there will be infected. The other half is probably just what your anti-virus didn't detect. As "l33t" as the first group is, the last group makes up for 90%+ of the people out there.
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Didn't email and pgp prove once and for all that WoT and convenience is pretty much direct opposites? You don't get a straight answer, you get a bunch of complicated information and choices on who to trust. Also, many people need to do it in order for it to function and most people won't so people won't think twice about downloading a torrent with no trust. Those who try will have huge problems with malware makers and MAFIAA goons trying to poison the well. Not only can they create as many fake identities as they want, for example they can upload versions that aren't obviously borked, people will vote them good at first then get marked bad by others even though they were honestly trying to contribute. They can give good trust information a while making others trust them, then turn into crap so you need some form of trust revocation.
All in all, it's ugly to make it work. Not that it can't be made to work technically, but those who manage to work with this probably have no problem finding good sources of material anyway. But you'd lose 90% of the file sharers who'd probably just be lost and download just as much crap as on a trustless P2P network.
Ah, but couldn't it just as easily be considered your civic duty to fund the jury? It would make everyone share the burden, not just those who do end up sitting on juries.
Norway is much of the same fucked up stuff, wine and liquor only in government stores, beer up to 4.7% is sold in normal stores until 8 PM on weekdays and 6 PM on saturday. And there's no such thing as a carryout, after those times you can only get opened bottles/cans at licensed salesplaces to drink on the premises, that is bars or nightclubs. The only thing this encourages is to buy and have a sixpack or three standing around.
On top of that it's expensive as fuck, even though everyone that wants to be an alcoholic always can afford enough. I got 5 liters of liquor around here because it's a $50 savings per liter if I ever get around to drinking them up. On top of that there's restrictions on the bars too, so everyone has to close at the same time causing massive food and taxi queues. This country is so stupid. I wish we could be more like Germany, where it's cheap, available and you party as long as *you* want. But that's way too much to hope for.
Watching porn doesn't make me interested in making porn, but it does make me want some pussy. I'm pretty sure there's an analogy here, and it doesn't involve cars...
We've all learned from the RIAA and MPAA that downloading destroys the industry, so downloading CP should be a good thing.
Not even on "America's dumbest criminals" would you find a child pornographer trying to enforce his copyright so you're beating down an open door. Besides if would-be customers downloaded instead that would have an effect, but "download just to download" makes as little sense as trying to bankrupt Microsoft by downloading Windows over and over again.
You are not dealing with a mass market product, for a small number of customers you can do stuff like individual encodes, throwing out customers who leak what they get, deliver exclusive/custom content, that sort of thing. Like how they do with the copies they send out for Oscar reviews, they can pretty easily be traced to the source unless you pretty much destroy the movie. And with these you can go a little further, like adding or dropping an extra 0.2 seconds on scenes making each almost unique. You'll be a good customer if you want to stay a customer.
Honestly, I think it's practical and less clutter if there's one cable for video and sound and some control/USB signals just to have the flexibility. Music has lost the DRM and it's quite probably not coming back, what good was the movie sound track without the picture anyway? Many things about BluRay is overkill, you didn't technically need 50 GB H.264 to deliver HDTV but that's what you got so you just ramp up the bitrates until it's full. Like, why not when you're pressing the disc I don't think it matters at all how much is on it, the cost is the same anyway. Why drop the tiniest bit of picture or sound quality if it comes free? In their mind it's never going to be anywhere else than the disc. Not everything they do is an extension of DRM, in this case I think it was simply completely irrelevant to them. As for trying to do away with VGA, well doh. Monitors and TVs are now also digital devices. Why would you convert 1920x1080 digital pixels to analog then back to digital? It adds cost, it adds product complexity, it adds power usage and the auto-adjustment still sometimes fail to get it right or flickers as you change mode. Apart from HDCP, pretty much everything was better when they moved from VGA to DVI in my opinion. Clearly they have a DRM agenda but it's not *all* about doing it just for the DRM.
I fear that even DisplayPort monitors likely wouldn't work unless they have the latest (HDCP 2012 or whatever they will call it) standard.
DPCP actually. I'm sure'll they'll want to push everyone there now that HDMI is utterly broken.
1) is provided by RSS for technical folks, if you follow a series or is waiting for a movie it's typically downloaded before you even knew it was available. Also there's no cost to downloading movies that you might consider watching, so you always have some waiting for a rainy day. Though if you get a really sudden urge to watch something, I suppose.
4) There's a number of prebuilt solutions and media players/streamers for this, it's not like you have to build your own MythTV box. More and more all computers have the power to decode HD, a HDMI out and TVs a HDMI in then you just hook it up with a cable and away you go too. Yes it's a strength but it's also not that complicated anymore.
Yes obviously it's a good service. If only they'd lose the idea of regions, maybe it'd be useful. The media companies still live in the 20th century where people talked mostly over the water cooler, but online I talk to people from everywhere. You get two classes of people, the haves and the havenots based on where we live because of some antiquated distribution method that's completely irrelevant to us. It's the best recruitment campaign for torrents I've ever seen.
It's worth noting, though, that the Falcon 9 / Dragon platform is probably not going to be the one taking us to the moon or elsewhere outside of Earth orbit; it was designed to be cheap and fast to develop, which is exactly why SpaceX was able to fly this mission whilst Orion got cancelled. It would take some really heavy modification to even do a lunar flyby.
Why not? If it can reach GTO, it's 90% of the way to escape velocity and with another 10% on top of that again it can go pretty much anywhere. That's enough for the moon and if you have lots of time even Mars - I think the slowest and most fuel-efficient orbit takes two years. For a manned mission you need something a lot stronger, but then NASA doesn't have that either.
It used to be that if you wanted to work on space technology (in North America), you had to work at NASA.
Or Boeing or Lockheed Martin or any of the other huge subcontractors NASA has had. It might have been a government contract and not a commercial one, but it's not like NASA has been the only place to work.
Can you name a good free cross-plaform office suit?
From the first hit on "plaform":
Plaform is an integrated and sustainable corrugated cardboard packaging system for fruits and vegetables
While I suppose you could make a suit out of it, I'm not sure why you'd want to...
I wouldn't be surprised if many other countries just don't have the concept of "sick day" - if you're sick, you stay home and that's it. It doesn't eat in to your vacation time because, of course, we don't want you coming in to work when you're going to get everyone else infected, and if you abuse it you get fired.
Probably beause the answer is "it's complicated". Here in Norway you get four sick leaves of up to three days, if you are gone longer or get sick again within a 16 day period you need a sick notice from a doctor. If you work in an "inclusive work environment" - mostly public sector - you can have up to 24 days but no more than eight consecutive days, also they can be all single day. In addition there are sick days for caring for children, either 10 or 15 per parent depending on number of children. If you have a doctor's notice that you're unfit for work you may be on sick leave for up to a year, after that it's disability pension. However, the company will only need to cover for the first 16 days, afterwards the government will pay. They can still be complicated for employers though because people on sick leave have special protection in law and are hard to fire. None of it eats into the vacation time, which I think by law is at least four weeks but most companies have five weeks.
If everyone did as slashdot wanted, you wouldn't see much of .NET around either, but somehow I doubt slashdot commends the IT industry. The reality is that all the biggest software houses - Micrsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, CA etc. are an oligopoly, sure you may shuffle the users around a little as they move from one uncooperative money-hungry giant to the other but they don't leave. While PostgreSQL might be an okay alternative to just SQL Server or Oracle the database, they just don't deliver the whole range of tools and services. I know Oracle is now everyone's favorite hate object as they kill off the open source, but I doubt they're going away any time soon.
Intel's low-end parts tend are typically lower performing (or higher priced, depending on how you look at it) than the AMD counterparts, I thik you pay a minimum just for the brand. In the performance ranges AMD can't touch you get far better performance, but at an ugly price premium. Personally I've found that Intel is competing most intensly around AMD's high-end where AMD starts to cheat a little and Intel wants to "cut off" AMD. Intel is of course trying to choke the chips that give AMD good margins, which makes the bang for the buck not that bad.
Well yes, but 2560x1600 will take a solid chunk out of your budget. Not for the graphics card, but for the monitor... you can get a 50" 1080p LCD for the price of a 2560x1600 30" LCD.
The real hint is this:
Currently all applications except Calligra Words will be maintained by their respective KOffice developers.
It's more than a renaming, they split. However, when the dust cleared only the KWord developers went with the other group, the rest of the KOffice projects joined what's now Calligra. As far as I can tell the KWord guys wanted to focus on competing with MS Office and OpenOffice for the desktop, while the Calligra Words guys wanted to focus more on mobile. With enough different agendas going on in the same project they had conflict and eventually split. That's at least as far as I've caught the story.
Well if they drop it completely. But I assume what they get paid is related to their market share or hits generated, if Google can move 1% from Firefox to Chrome they pay "themselves" instead of paying Mozilla and that's money saved. And they get people using a Google product strengthening their brand, while Mozilla is someone else's brand. They also have the freedom to direct development and link Chrome harder to Google services in ways Mozilla might not accept, like pushing H.264 support for the video tag which Chrome supports and Mozilla doesn't (I'm ignoring WebM since that's irrelevant to the point). In all honesty, do you honestly think Google would mind if Chrome became the single dominant browser for web applications? You greatly overestimate how much companies like competition.
Besides, if you think a little tactics there's not many places for Firefox to go. Nobody outside China will want Baidu and Bing would create all sorts of hate from the anti-M$ faction of open source. There's really just Yahoo and a few <1% obscure search engines to pick from. Personally I suspect the funding has been higher than strictly necessary in order to speed development and bring about the fall of IE, which has been good business for Google. If they now see Chrome as the means to do that and offer just enough to win over the competition, Firefox development could get rather anemic.
WoW is an amazing life-sink that you justify because of the other 20-40 other people in your guild wasting their lives away playing a game that never ends.
What kind of hobby really "ends"? Like say all sports, you're never going to win anything of significance at the hobby level - not significant to anyone but you anyway. Same goes for playing any form of instrument. I got one in the family that likes to paint, where does that end? He's not heading for the Louvre, I can tell you that much. How much real "useful" or "meaningful" things do you really learn outside your own little self-referential world view? If you play the guitar you learn to play the guitar, but does anyone really care any more or less than if you're an 85th level something in WoW?
The only reason I play games that do end and not stuff like WoW is because I get addicted and that's my control, at some point it'll end and when I'm ready I'll start a new game. It never really ends for me either, ultimately what do I get for it? Well I could pretend I get a little action/multitasking/strategy/planning/whatever skill out of it, but it's really more coincidental, an excuse to play. I play because it's fun, does it really mean less than the people that are talking about running/biking/skiing X distance in less than Y time? Good for you, you're now ranked 1578456th in the world in that sport, yay for you.
Perhaps there is a difference between "file sharers" and "the operators of a top 100 most visited website". Just saying that they aren't very representative of file sharers or even people operating a little server or hub in pretty much any regard.
The company has been struggling recently as Firefox steadily loses share to Google Chrome.
Near as I can tell, Firefox market share has been at a standstill. Chrome has grown at around the pace IE has dropped. Whether that means users have gone IE -> Chrome or IE -> Firefox and Firefox -> Chrome is a bit open, but they're not losing. However with Chrome in the 10-15% range you have to ask how long they'll keep backing Firefox and just go all out on developing Chrome.
GTA IV had a copy-protection prank too: the pirated game plays fine until you get in to a car, which then accelerates uncontrolably while handling as if the character has been drinking. Pretty funny, but it did bite a lot of legit, paying customers, contributing to the general verdict that the game was much too buggy at release.
Ah, so that's the reason it was acting all fucked up and I had to reinstall it (and yes, I have a legit DVD). Another reason to ban DRM has a customer-hostile piece of shit.
This left FSF with the choice of producing their ideal licence, and few people using it, or producing a licence that was an improvement compared to GPLv2, and more people using it.
Not to mention that it isn't an either-or. They DID create both the GPLv3 and the AGPLv3. I also think a large influence was the wish that people continue to use the "or any later version" on GPL code. The more radically you altered it, the more likely people would start creating "GPLv2 only" or "GPLv3 only" code. Anything people would consider a mass relicensing of their code rather that an upgraded GPL would kill all trust in future GPL versions.
If that's not acceptable to the content providers, they are free not to serve me their content and I'm happy with their decision. It's a deal I'm perfectly happy with and I consider it in no way cutting off my nose to spite my face. The price of the implied contract is too high, neither party wants to enter into it.
If you look at the escalating war between ads and ad-blockers, it's obvious people want to see sites without ads that the owners don't want to offer without ads. Very few sites allow you to opt out of their advertising, that your ad blocker works is much the same way you can buy a newspaper and have someone go over it with a magic marker blacking out all the ads before you read it. It can be done, but the newspaper producer obviously doesn't want you to. It is rather disingenuous to say that "because they still serve me content even if I block the ads, they're cool with it", when it's pretty much the same as "because the newspaper doesn't prevent me from using a magic marker, the publisher is cool with it."
Copyright is a contract between artists and society, they create work and we grant them a temporary monopoly on distribution, what's happened is they still have their monopoly but are refusing to let the work fall into the public domain. The market is adjusting accordingly.
Sure you can claim people are pirating music because Beatles and Elvis isn't in the public domain, but I doubt many would believe you. Most people do it simply because they can and they don't care. It's not like the world's going to collapse or go without music. It's not like famous musicians are going to stop making music because they make a little less, when they still make more far more money on music than they would on anything else.
Well, there's really two worlds here:
The crack groups etc. don't release virus or trojan infected shit. If you get it from those networks, you'll be fine.
On the web and P2P though tons of sites and peers specialize in taking these cracks, adding their viruses and trojans, spam their way to the top of search hits and feed you their garbage. They'll probably throw in a few browser exploit attempts and whatnot too, before you even get to download anything. Going to these with full patches, antivirus and whatnot is crazy and even if you did, half the stuff there will be infected. The other half is probably just what your anti-virus didn't detect. As "l33t" as the first group is, the last group makes up for 90%+ of the people out there.