I don't play games on Steam, is there a reason why buying it on Steam is worth a ten-dollar premium? (maybe just convenience, or is there something more?)
Hmmm. I don't know. That sounds like an ideological over-reaction to the current ideological over-reaction. I would prefer a balance, because I understand the arguments at both ends of this spectrum, and sympathize with them both.
There you can see, at the bottom of the article, a whole slew of "share on some other website" links, including Digg and Slashdot. The last icon is a heart, which I think is a way of adding the article to some kind of personal LVJ list of favorite articles.
I don't see a link making it trivial to copy the text of the article, though of course it's no harder than selecting it and copying it. So, if that's right, I think that would be a hindrance to this defense, because the "implied license" would be to share a link to the article on aggregation sites which exist for the purpose of sharing links, not full articles. Moreover, the implied license would probably only apply to the listed sites.
Also, there are two separate conspicuous copyright notices on the page. Of course, I can't say whether those notices were present in the past at the time of the alleged infringement.
Of course not. The time to determine that is weeks or months earlier. The time to put that into practice is when you are doing something more important, such as pursuing a personally fulfilling hobby.
I take this lesson from being a child and getting out of the bath, when my mom had some friends over. I waited for her to come dry me off, then called out to her that I was ready to get out, and her reply was "okay" and she kept on her conversation with her friend. That day I learned to dry off my own body, and I didn't go back to needing help. Thanks mom!
Luckily for his conscience, he is nevertheless acting ethically, even righteously. I'll go even farther and say that to cowtow to a bad law is unethical, which means that he is doing what is necessary to remain at peace with his sense of goodness.
Hi. I'm replying to your tagline, which I think is awesome and spot-on. It would indeed be horrible for the government to leave me alone. Who else would solve crimes against me, build roads for me, and protect my borders? Thank goodness for big government, I love almost all of it, well over 80% for sure. So, I totally absolutely agree with you: I fear that libertarians will get their way and take us back to the days when there were lots and lots of problems which, over the last century or so, we have solved with big government.
I don't know of anyone who has done it, but I've heard the claim that you can send in a damaged disc (or cassette or whatever) and they'll send you a new one. But, I actually doubt that is true.
Yes, I always think the same thing when I hear "Own it today on DVD". Oh, really? Own it today? Is that a point they are willing to concede next time they are asking a judge for a copyright settlement?
* What's the point of all this space? I dunno. You should have thought of that before buying it. * You also bought an assload of space in the form of, apparently, multiple shiny discs, conveniently pre-encoded with the media you are fretting about.
Seriously, though, I don't actually proffer either of those points, but some daft people might.
I'm not a lawyer, so I won't say this with the authority of certainty, but I'm pretty sure that it would count as a "trade secret", not as a copyrighted work; and that in fact trade secrets can't be copyrighted, by their very nature. There are certain specific protections for trade secrets, but copyright is explicitly excluded, because copyright only covers published works, and trade secrets of course can not be published.
Again, I accept any corrections on this statement, as I'm not particularly well informed.
Seriously. That fifteen-second unskippage screen is literally the number-one reason why I never watch DVDs, I only rip the contents then watch the video files. Much more than the average consumer (apparently), I am deeply bothered when an economic transaction makes me feel like a chump. I hate that feeling, and it has driven me away from making purchases I would otherwise make. (For instance, I stopped buying Apple products a couple years ago when I discovered that my new iPod wouldn't use the $2 video cords I had from my previous iPod, and now requried $50 cables from Apple. I love those shiny, easy-to-use iProducts, but I love my integrity even more.) I have never, ever purchased a DVD specifically because of the unskippable copyright screen, and now even worse there are often unskippable commercials. That is not acceptable to me.
The number-two reason I don't buy or watch DVDs is that the menu systems are often frustrating and difficult to figure out. I just want to put in the disc and have the movie start in under three seconds with no interaction, just like my VCR did in 1986, and it blows my mind that consumers in 2010 accept a lesser standard. It is a significant pain in my ass to have to rip all my Netflix DVDs, but I do it, and it also benefits me because I can time-shift my watching schedule and buffer many shows for selection later.
If you "can find" them you should show them to us, because in my opinion, which I think is shared widely, Etymonline is second only to the OED as a reliable source for etymological information.
To be absolutely clear, by "show them to us" you would need a site showing an "earliest reference" for this use of "pirate" being "the opposite" of 300 years old (as given by another nearby post). What "the opposite" means isn't obvious, but let's say that means less than, oh, a hundred years or so, and hopefully less than 75 years.
Basically, what I'm saying is that I'm aghast that you have defamed the reputation of Etymonline, which to me would be like saying Snopes is a shill site full of rumor and speculation. Etymonline is my go-to resource when I want to know the history of a word, which is pretty often because I'm a language dork. If it's a bad resource, I need to know, because I rely on it.
if they can read my e-mail account on GMail without my... password, then there is zero security
Are you the kind of person who refuses to recognize levels of gradation in things like security? Do you also refuse to recognize gradations in other things in life? Or were you just using that phrase for emphasis, and really do recognize that most things in life come in sliding scales?
Slashdot Mirror
At first I thought you were +1 Informative, but when you mentioned Zune I realized you were -1 Flamebait.
I don't play games on Steam, is there a reason why buying it on Steam is worth a ten-dollar premium? (maybe just convenience, or is there something more?)
So, you are saying they will try to release their own optical format?
Did you just cop to being a fool? Why else did you hypothetically agree to purchase those things?
It could also be a lame superhero from Marvel.
Hmmm. I don't know. That sounds like an ideological over-reaction to the current ideological over-reaction. I would prefer a balance, because I understand the arguments at both ends of this spectrum, and sympathize with them both.
I was wondering about the "copy this article" claim, so I went to the LVJ website. I went to the first news article which was
http://www.lvrj.com/news/bill-scott-anticipates-attempt-to-clear-police-in-costco-slaying--trash-his-dead-son-s-name-103510074.html
There you can see, at the bottom of the article, a whole slew of "share on some other website" links, including Digg and Slashdot. The last icon is a heart, which I think is a way of adding the article to some kind of personal LVJ list of favorite articles.
I don't see a link making it trivial to copy the text of the article, though of course it's no harder than selecting it and copying it. So, if that's right, I think that would be a hindrance to this defense, because the "implied license" would be to share a link to the article on aggregation sites which exist for the purpose of sharing links, not full articles. Moreover, the implied license would probably only apply to the listed sites.
Also, there are two separate conspicuous copyright notices on the page. Of course, I can't say whether those notices were present in the past at the time of the alleged infringement.
Disclaimers:
Of course not. The time to determine that is weeks or months earlier. The time to put that into practice is when you are doing something more important, such as pursuing a personally fulfilling hobby.
I take this lesson from being a child and getting out of the bath, when my mom had some friends over. I waited for her to come dry me off, then called out to her that I was ready to get out, and her reply was "okay" and she kept on her conversation with her friend. That day I learned to dry off my own body, and I didn't go back to needing help. Thanks mom!
Instead of typing that query into Slashdot, next time try typing it into Google. I bet Google will give you less smart-ass answers.
Oh, thanks for asking, but I don't want to review all of human history through the prism of your ideology.
you mean, amass am army and invade Normandy, then move inland and eventually liberate the concentration camps? once again, government to the rescue!
Yeah I'm not talking about Watch Instantly, I'm talking about the regular DVDs which arrive in the mail.
It occurs to me that "Plugging The Analog Hole" would be a brilliant name for nerd-themed porno.
Probably the guy who leaked the code.
I'm not surprised it was leaked, but I would have been shocked if it had been discovered by brute force.
Luckily for his conscience, he is nevertheless acting ethically, even righteously. I'll go even farther and say that to cowtow to a bad law is unethical, which means that he is doing what is necessary to remain at peace with his sense of goodness.
Hi. I'm replying to your tagline, which I think is awesome and spot-on. It would indeed be horrible for the government to leave me alone. Who else would solve crimes against me, build roads for me, and protect my borders? Thank goodness for big government, I love almost all of it, well over 80% for sure. So, I totally absolutely agree with you: I fear that libertarians will get their way and take us back to the days when there were lots and lots of problems which, over the last century or so, we have solved with big government.
I don't know of anyone who has done it, but I've heard the claim that you can send in a damaged disc (or cassette or whatever) and they'll send you a new one. But, I actually doubt that is true.
Yes, I always think the same thing when I hear "Own it today on DVD". Oh, really? Own it today? Is that a point they are willing to concede next time they are asking a judge for a copyright settlement?
Devil's advocate here:
* What's the point of all this space? I dunno. You should have thought of that before buying it.
* You also bought an assload of space in the form of, apparently, multiple shiny discs, conveniently pre-encoded with the media you are fretting about.
Seriously, though, I don't actually proffer either of those points, but some daft people might.
I'm not a lawyer, so I won't say this with the authority of certainty, but I'm pretty sure that it would count as a "trade secret", not as a copyrighted work; and that in fact trade secrets can't be copyrighted, by their very nature. There are certain specific protections for trade secrets, but copyright is explicitly excluded, because copyright only covers published works, and trade secrets of course can not be published.
Again, I accept any corrections on this statement, as I'm not particularly well informed.
Seriously. That fifteen-second unskippage screen is literally the number-one reason why I never watch DVDs, I only rip the contents then watch the video files. Much more than the average consumer (apparently), I am deeply bothered when an economic transaction makes me feel like a chump. I hate that feeling, and it has driven me away from making purchases I would otherwise make. (For instance, I stopped buying Apple products a couple years ago when I discovered that my new iPod wouldn't use the $2 video cords I had from my previous iPod, and now requried $50 cables from Apple. I love those shiny, easy-to-use iProducts, but I love my integrity even more.) I have never, ever purchased a DVD specifically because of the unskippable copyright screen, and now even worse there are often unskippable commercials. That is not acceptable to me.
The number-two reason I don't buy or watch DVDs is that the menu systems are often frustrating and difficult to figure out. I just want to put in the disc and have the movie start in under three seconds with no interaction, just like my VCR did in 1986, and it blows my mind that consumers in 2010 accept a lesser standard. It is a significant pain in my ass to have to rip all my Netflix DVDs, but I do it, and it also benefits me because I can time-shift my watching schedule and buffer many shows for selection later.
If you "can find" them you should show them to us, because in my opinion, which I think is shared widely, Etymonline is second only to the OED as a reliable source for etymological information.
To be absolutely clear, by "show them to us" you would need a site showing an "earliest reference" for this use of "pirate" being "the opposite" of 300 years old (as given by another nearby post). What "the opposite" means isn't obvious, but let's say that means less than, oh, a hundred years or so, and hopefully less than 75 years.
Basically, what I'm saying is that I'm aghast that you have defamed the reputation of Etymonline, which to me would be like saying Snopes is a shill site full of rumor and speculation. Etymonline is my go-to resource when I want to know the history of a word, which is pretty often because I'm a language dork. If it's a bad resource, I need to know, because I rely on it.
Wow, you should set up a business and sell those services to other people!
Except... then we'd have to trust you... hmmm...
if they can read my e-mail account on GMail without my ... password, then there is zero security
Are you the kind of person who refuses to recognize levels of gradation in things like security? Do you also refuse to recognize gradations in other things in life? Or were you just using that phrase for emphasis, and really do recognize that most things in life come in sliding scales?