Correct. Six companies, in this case, are a cartel.
Nope, not necessarily. A cartel is a group of organizations that conspire to manipulate a market in some way. You'd have to prove that these companies are conspiring to do something before they're technically a cartel. They're just a group of companies which each have a whole lot of power.
I think the key word in that definition of entrapment is "inducing" not "encouraging." I remember several years ago a case in New York City where cops set up a situation where they'd put a shiny gold necklace on some seemingly passed out or unconscious bum. As soon as someone nabbed the valuable item off the guy, the police would arrest him.
None of the people who stole these items went to jail, and the court had to order the NYPD to stop doing this because it was ruled entrapment. This happened despite the fact that nobody encouraged the thieves in any way to steal the stuff.
That aside, I still do not feel that downloading mp3s can be viewed as entrapment. You know whether or not you own the copyright to a song (by owening the cd) and therefore whether you have the right to download it as a backup copy or whatever. We have to assume the downloader is innocent until proven guilty.
I sincerely hope the alternative most are referring to using linux is Windows NT. Development in a windows 9x enviroment was really never meant to take place. If we're talking about reasons not to develop in in win9x, the answer is incredibly obvious: No kernel space. Oops, my programs has clobbered kernel32.dll's memory space, time for a reboot.
Even in Windows NT however, the things that have bothered me most about MSVC++ are the way the IDE and compiler are really inseperable. In FreeBSD I can look at the makefile (which has nothing to do with the code to be compiled) and figure out why something's broken. In MSVC, I can think of at least one point where a linking error was traced to some obscure error in the MSVC itself, and to which the only solution was to build in Release mode instead of Debug mode. Great solution, Microsoft.
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Correct. Six companies, in this case, are a cartel.
Nope, not necessarily. A cartel is a group of organizations that conspire to manipulate a market in some way. You'd have to prove that these companies are conspiring to do something before they're technically a cartel. They're just a group of companies which each have a whole lot of power.
I think the key word in that definition of entrapment is "inducing" not "encouraging." I remember several years ago a case in New York City where cops set up a situation where they'd put a shiny gold necklace on some seemingly passed out or unconscious bum. As soon as someone nabbed the valuable item off the guy, the police would arrest him.
None of the people who stole these items went to jail, and the court had to order the NYPD to stop doing this because it was ruled entrapment. This happened despite the fact that nobody encouraged the thieves in any way to steal the stuff.
That aside, I still do not feel that downloading mp3s can be viewed as entrapment. You know whether or not you own the copyright to a song (by owening the cd) and therefore whether you have the right to download it as a backup copy or whatever. We have to assume the downloader is innocent until proven guilty.
I sincerely hope the alternative most are referring to using linux is Windows NT. Development in a windows 9x enviroment was really never meant to take place. If we're talking about reasons not to develop in in win9x, the answer is incredibly obvious: No kernel space. Oops, my programs has clobbered kernel32.dll's memory space, time for a reboot.
Even in Windows NT however, the things that have bothered me most about MSVC++ are the way the IDE and compiler are really inseperable. In FreeBSD I can look at the makefile (which has nothing to do with the code to be compiled) and figure out why something's broken. In MSVC, I can think of at least one point where a linking error was traced to some obscure error in the MSVC itself, and to which the only solution was to build in Release mode instead of Debug mode. Great solution, Microsoft.