A simple and elegant solution to this problem and the problem that could arise if your phone was stolen would be if the operators combined pre paid with montly billing.
This way, if you order a service via sms or making a call it would deduct money from your pre paid part of the account and if you make normal calls it would end up on the bill.
And if you're out on money in the pre paid part of the service. And if people needed to fill the pre paid part it should be possible using to transfer from the montly billing to the pre paid with some code as authorization.
I live in sweden and have read the proposed law directly from the source (ie. the swedish government) and nowhere did I see this $4 per cd-r that the some people talk about. It does however say things about putting some sort of fee on cd-r, dvd, tapes and mp3-players.
The law, if enforced as it's only a proposal as we speak and I doubt it will ever be anything more then that, will indeed make it more difficult to download things even if you own them. The paradox is that you're still allowed to make personal copies of thins you own, but not to download a copy from the internet that anybody else has made.
And it's not all bad, I agree that the part where it limits downloading is a bit harsh imho but it makes it easier for people that are functionally hindered and schools to convert/copy copyrighted material into media into which they can use.
And as pointed out it is indeed proposed to make it illegal to sell hardware/software to circumcise copy protections so mod-chips and the likes will be illegal to sell.
If anybody here can read swedish and are interested to read the real proposed law, here is the link: http://www.regeringen.se/galactica/service=irnews/ owner=sys/action=obj_show?c_obj_id=52571
Everytime somebody mentions silent PC:s ppl write about how silent the Macs were but nobody seem to remember that the Amiga computers were very silent too.
Sure, with the Amiga 1200, 2000, 3000 and 4000 1200 you had harddrives but thease never made much of a noice.
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A simple and elegant solution to this problem and the problem that could arise if your phone was stolen would be if the operators combined pre paid with montly billing.
This way, if you order a service via sms or making a call it would deduct money from your pre paid part of the account and if you make normal calls it would end up on the bill.
And if you're out on money in the pre paid part of the service. And if people needed to fill the pre paid part it should be possible using to transfer from the montly billing to the pre paid with some code as authorization.
Simple and elegant solution to both problems imo.
I live in sweden and have read the proposed law directly from the source (ie. the swedish government) and nowhere did I see this $4 per cd-r that the some people talk about. It does however say things about putting some sort of fee on cd-r, dvd, tapes and mp3-players.
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The law, if enforced as it's only a proposal as we speak and I doubt it will ever be anything more then that, will indeed make it more difficult to download things even if you own them. The paradox is that you're still allowed to make personal copies of thins you own, but not to download a copy from the internet that anybody else has made.
And it's not all bad, I agree that the part where it limits downloading is a bit harsh imho but it makes it easier for people that are functionally hindered and schools to convert/copy copyrighted material into media into which they can use.
And as pointed out it is indeed proposed to make it illegal to sell hardware/software to circumcise copy protections so mod-chips and the likes will be illegal to sell.
If anybody here can read swedish and are interested to read the real proposed law, here is the link: http://www.regeringen.se/galactica/service=irnews
Everytime somebody mentions silent PC:s ppl write about how silent the Macs were but nobody seem to remember that the Amiga computers were very silent too. Sure, with the Amiga 1200, 2000, 3000 and 4000 1200 you had harddrives but thease never made much of a noice.