Ha, at least TiVo doesn't watch you back (yet). The worst part about this whole privacy situation is that the public doesn't know and doesn't give a fuck. America is selling itself, and no one (with the power to change how things work) has the balls to do anything about it.
It's freaky. Hell, I bought a Chapters card without realizing it the other day, now they can track my buying habits. And all cause I'm so cheap I'm willing to sell my info for 10% off.
The only problem is that when the only demand for a linux player consists of a small group of hardcore computer users, there is probably way less money to be made from a linux player than from a windows player.
Without a large enough profit incentive, no corporation is going to be willing to make the leap into linux.
You'd think that the DVD consortium would appreciate the favour that the open source community would be doing them by creating a dvd player; after all, the consortium would still make all it's cash from the sale of (overpriced) DVDs....
Since writing a thesis is not a work for hire, wouldn't rights to a thesis revert back to the author after X (30 or something I think) years? So once this period of time has passed, anything they still have for sale would be a clear-cut copyright violation.
And this whole database thing? That's total BS. Outlook keeps a list of my email contacts. Does that mean that those people can't use their own email addresses? How about a playlist of legally owned mp3s? Since all mp3's are originally legal, does this mean that the bands don't have the copyright anymore, so it's a moot point?
From the general tone of your message, sounds to me like you're probably a supported of the DMCA (ugh), and so a firm believer in IP. Which means anything I store on your computer, even if it is random trash, is my IP, and if you touch it, we're talking sever penalties here. If you distribute it, well, that's copyright infringment, which is punishable by fines of thousands of dollars per infringment.
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Ha, at least TiVo doesn't watch you back (yet). The worst part about this whole privacy situation is that the public doesn't know and doesn't give a fuck. America is selling itself, and no one (with the power to change how things work) has the balls to do anything about it.
It's freaky. Hell, I bought a Chapters card without realizing it the other day, now they can track my buying habits. And all cause I'm so cheap I'm willing to sell my info for 10% off.
The only problem is that when the only demand for a linux player consists of a small group of hardcore computer users, there is probably way less money to be made from a linux player than from a windows player.
Without a large enough profit incentive, no corporation is going to be willing to make the leap into linux.
You'd think that the DVD consortium would appreciate the favour that the open source community would be doing them by creating a dvd player; after all, the consortium would still make all it's cash from the sale of (overpriced) DVDs....
Damn the man.
Since writing a thesis is not a work for hire, wouldn't rights to a thesis revert back to the author after X (30 or something I think) years? So once this period of time has passed, anything they still have for sale would be a clear-cut copyright violation.
And this whole database thing? That's total BS. Outlook keeps a list of my email contacts. Does that mean that those people can't use their own email addresses? How about a playlist of legally owned mp3s? Since all mp3's are originally legal, does this mean that the bands don't have the copyright anymore, so it's a moot point?
From the general tone of your message, sounds to me like you're probably a supported of the DMCA (ugh), and so a firm believer in IP. Which means anything I store on your computer, even if it is random trash, is my IP, and if you touch it, we're talking sever penalties here. If you distribute it, well, that's copyright infringment, which is punishable by fines of thousands of dollars per infringment.