It wouldn't be such a problem if the interest rate wasn't 8%. That's a rate for an unsecured loan, not a government backed loan. We moved a family members student loan onto a HELOC at 3%. Now she can make progress paying it off.
Who implied that is what is going on. Netflix US is presumably getting paid for US content, by Canadians. Netflix is entirely capable of preventing a Canadian Netflix account working on a US server. If they don't limit access in that way then they are explicitly supporting the practice.
I've said it elsewhere in this discussion. The Berne Convention is a treaty that protects the rights of individuals to import individual goods for personal use. It is the reason you can fly to Canada, buy a CD and fly home with it. There is a WIPO treaty that prevents signatory countries making laws that prevent that.
> You're importing copyrighted content from someone without the legal authority to distribute said content in Canada.
I thought both the US and Canada were signatories of the Berne Convention. So you're good to go paying for and importing individual works for personal consumption.
It's not only not illegal. It's protected by treaty.
All I see are Debbie Downers posting... Can someone at least be happy for the mediagoblin people?
I think it's pretty awesome.
After reading 30 comments and finally getting an idea of what it is, yes it seems nice. I am happy for them an appreciate their work. I could host videos on our (very small) company website and they might not behave horribly. This is something I would do to bypass youtube for instructional videos.
I still don't get what's decentralized though. What does that mean?
Yes. However the firmware update was trivial. I googled the model number reported by the hardware, downloaded the updater, ran it and rebooted. That's all.
VLC doesn't let you play through a region locked DVD. At least it didn't for me and my DVD drive.
I had to reflash the DVD drive firmware downloaded from the internets. The risk of nuking it wasn't a big deal. I have no US DVD media I would play. I can Netflix/Roku/Stream that. It's all foreign DVDs that I would actually play and/or rip to my NAS. I'm partial to some Japanese bands. So without the region-unlock it was useless to me.
No. Fallout. Little pixelated man with crap falling from the sky in 8 bit glory. I'll dig it out when I get home from work. I strongly suspect that they (apple 2 Fallout and PC Fallout) are not connected. I think I got it from a BASUG distribution in the 1981-1982 timeframe. It wasn't a big name title like Wasteland.
I do have Wasteland, but is isn't called Fallout, so I didn't mention it.
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There is beauty in the liberal arts and it's a shame we don't invest more money into that field.
There's a good reason. For the most part, art would be crap not an investment.
Most tech is crap too. What's your point?
>built with HTML and CSS
Like trying to hammer a nail with a rope.
It wouldn't be such a problem if the interest rate wasn't 8%. That's a rate for an unsecured loan, not a government backed loan.
We moved a family members student loan onto a HELOC at 3%. Now she can make progress paying it off.
you can get used volts for around 11-16k with good miles.. really volt is a deal and i can travel to see family w/o stopping 3 times.
I can get 9 volts for $1.50 from many stores.
>This only works for physical copies that you obtain legally.
Who says?
Who implied that is what is going on. Netflix US is presumably getting paid for US content, by Canadians. Netflix is entirely capable of preventing a Canadian Netflix account working on a US server. If they don't limit access in that way then they are explicitly supporting the practice.
They are not stealing.
They are illegally importing.
I am sick and tired of shmucks that rip people off trying to 'upgrade' the crime of not being ripped off into 'theft'.
They are not illegally importing. Search this discussion for 'Berne Convention' to see why.
>Netflix cannot legally sell you the content that is licensed for US distribution if you are in Canada.
Netflix is selling it in the US. The Canadian is purchasing it in the US and importing it. The Canadian is legally protected in doing so.
I've said it elsewhere in this discussion. The Berne Convention is a treaty that protects the rights of individuals to import individual goods for personal use. It is the reason you can fly to Canada, buy a CD and fly home with it. There is a WIPO treaty that prevents signatory countries making laws that prevent that.
> You're importing copyrighted content from someone without the legal authority to distribute said content in Canada.
I thought both the US and Canada were signatories of the Berne Convention. So you're good to go paying for and importing individual works for personal consumption.
It's not only not illegal. It's protected by treaty.
All I see are Debbie Downers posting...
Can someone at least be happy for the mediagoblin people?
I think it's pretty awesome.
After reading 30 comments and finally getting an idea of what it is, yes it seems nice. I am happy for them an appreciate their work. I could host videos on our (very small) company website and they might not behave horribly. This is something I would do to bypass youtube for instructional videos.
I still don't get what's decentralized though. What does that mean?
Dafuq does the summary actually say?
I think it's a transcript of a D&D game.
Then where are the Cheetos?
Cheetos2.0 has been superseded.
Dafuq does the summary actually say?
I think it's a transcript of a D&D game.
Did that. Didn't work. Didn't care. Reflashing the drive worked.
I could not get the windows 8 to play the DVD. I found no program that could do it. Media player certainly couldn't.
I downloaded VLC.
And then what happened? I need closure on this anecdote!
I posted on Slashdot
I have a NAS and a house full of computers, most of which don't have a DVD drive. So I rip DVDs to my NAS so I can watch them on my devices.
Yes. I now have them via steam.
Yes.
However the firmware update was trivial. I googled the model number reported by the hardware, downloaded the updater, ran it and rebooted. That's all.
VLC doesn't let you play through a region locked DVD. At least it didn't for me and my DVD drive.
I had to reflash the DVD drive firmware downloaded from the internets. The risk of nuking it wasn't a big deal. I have no US DVD media I would play. I can Netflix/Roku/Stream that. It's all foreign DVDs that I would actually play and/or rip to my NAS. I'm partial to some Japanese bands. So without the region-unlock it was useless to me.
I tried to do that two days ago after I de-regioned my PC's DVD player so I could actually play the DVDs I had paid for.
I could not get the windows 8 to play the DVD. I found no program that could do it. Media player certainly couldn't.
I downloaded VLC.
Arse. It cut out my less_than sign
Not as new as you.
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I'm not quite getting the logic of the troll rating.
No. Fallout.
Little pixelated man with crap falling from the sky in 8 bit glory.
I'll dig it out when I get home from work. I strongly suspect that they (apple 2 Fallout and PC Fallout) are not connected. I think I got it from a BASUG distribution in the 1981-1982 timeframe. It wasn't a big name title like Wasteland.
I do have Wasteland, but is isn't called Fallout, so I didn't mention it.
launches December 31st. I think you have time to finish a couple of other games first.
My habit is to wait a few months for the weekend special at 50%.
There are plenty of other games to choose from. Fallout 3 springs to mind.