The word hacker has changed. Most likely due to the media using it (arguably) incorrectly, however since the word has changed....they now use it correctly.
if it's really not very good, why waste your time downloading it and then watching it?
Quite simply because there is nothing better to do. The same way I might channel surf and settle on something I don't really care about, I might browse torrents and download and watch something I don't really care about.
But there are plenty of people who would have paid for it but will pirate it because it's convenient
These are by and far the minority. If it were the majority, movies would simply not do as well as they do, nor record sales. Itunes wouldn't even be able to make a profit.
but the fact you are downloading it and taking up time (both to retrieve it and to watch it) and money (allocated space on your hard drive, bandwidth that you purchased from your ISP, electricity) means it has value to you
Oh come on. Time is negligible. Hard drive space costs nothing, especially if you don't keep the file. Electricity would have to be paid for anyway. Bandwidth is not generally a finite resource in most peoples minds. Downloading something means....it was worth it for me to download. That's about it. For certain other stuff like say...rosetta stone or movies I actually really really want to see, I'll either pay for it at a point that coincides with how much I think it is worth, or if I can't do that...download it.
You can refuse to call it stealing because it's not "real" and you haven't deprived anyone of anything, but that is mere sophistry.
How is that sophistry? It is sophistry to try and say it is stealing. If no one is deprived of anything, then what theft has occurred?
If it truly has little to no value - stop downloading it.
Why? I mean, I'm not hurting anyone by doing so, and may be able to enrich my own life and contribute back to society in a positive way. Which is a net win for society.
For you, who cannot afford to go to the theaters, do what other people do and go without until you can afford it, or it becomes a higher priority of what to do with your disposable income.
Why? The only reason to do that is...out of some sense of morals based on the idea that if I download something I am stealing, which I don't accept and think needs to be redefined in the modern economy.
It has nothing to do with a sense of entitled. I don't imagine that I am entitled to anything that I didn't work or pay for generally, but when things are freely available, regardless of if they should be or not, a "sense of entitlement" does not really enter into the equation.
Less ""I'm entitled to it so I'm gonna take it try and stop me" and more "Huh, I can download this and have it without hurting anybody when I wouldn't otherwise be able to watch it, cool".
The thing about Piracy is, the people who pirate are not people who would have paid for it in the first place.
That's what they don't get. It's not stealing, because there are no lost sales.
People pirate because it is convenient, or because they want to see it and don't think it is worth paying for, or can't pay for it (students/unemployed as well as other regions). That is why Piracy makes no dent, because people are happy to pay for things worth paying for. All of the super hero movies. Good comedies. Shit like Contraband or MIB3 is simply going to do marginally well because it is tripe. Popcorn entertainment that is only worth paying for if there is nothing better to see and you still want to go to the movies.
I pirate a lot, because I can't afford to go to the theaters for most movies. Conversely most movies are not worth paying for and if I could not download them, I would be absolutely fine with that. The avengers is worth seeing in a cinema, which is why I will make sure I see it in one.
If studios, artists and programmers get rid of this idiotic concept that piracy is stealing and they are losing money, and just start making stuff worth paying for at a price people are willing to pay, then they will reap a profit. It's that simple, folks.
I've always liked GSM because it is easy to swap out simcards, while CDMA seems to flash the information into the phone making it much harder to reuse...
I am Australian, grew up and left in my early 20's. I've more than seen enough. Using the electorate as an example of complex thinking is not the best example, not when we had john howard for 11 years and people voted him out just because of work choices, despite all the good he was doing.
It's not bullshit. It isn't a class thing, it's a cultural thing.
The same relaxed, take it easy, don't fix it if it aint broke thing extends to most peoples though process. If you try to suggest something that isn't obvious or the opinion shared by the majority, be prepared for a long battle to even have your point of view heard. Much more so in other countries in my experience, and i've been to 40 or so.
Far worse than the stereotype of Americans here on/.
Australians tend to be gullible, and heavily rely on group think. If you think something other than the obvious what the media says, prepare to be insulted while patiently trying to articulate your point.
Most Australians would be OK with this because they will believe it is for the greater good and serves some purpose. If this is even on their radar. Historically they are more concerned with essentially inconsequential things like tuition increases or workchoices.
You can be pro piracy and not against paying for stuff. Those who will pay, or think it is worth paying for will pay. Those who can't or don't think something is worth paying for, won't.
You can't change that.
So instead focus on making better music or movies, and accept that people may share your shit and you can't stop it.
You can be comforted by the fact that a)those people are spreading your work bring in potential paying customers and b) the free cultural exchange of ideas benefits society.
It's about marketshare. IT has only ever been worthwhile for virus writers to target a platform that is popular enough to warrant a return on investment, whether that be fame or clandestine botnet software.
People always used to use half baked arguments trying to claim that OS X was mroe secure because it was "unix" or some crap, despite OS X being very insecure for most of it's run.
Aside from being common sense this is supported with some pretty solid mathematics, not least an article in an IEEE journal showing there is a certain percentage of marketshare that would attract malware. We are now seeing this with OS X and we have seen it previously with Android.
What will be interesting is how Apple react. Will they tighten the grip they have on their users and restrict them even more, or actually get off their buts and increase their security and respond to problems in a mature and timely manner.
Got a cite? It's not what the wiki says. VM's and the billing system is just a common implementation. The "cloud" just means uploading it somewhere you can access from anywhere == computer on the internet.
I have a pretty bad grasp/understanding of this stuff, but if two atoms are entangled, changing the state in one affects the other, right? In which case that could be manipulated to....send information? Besides, they are working on this now, so it hardly seems futile?
Because you will be automatically approved 99% of the time and requires no special approval or documentation. Name other visas that don't require a spage in your passport or have near instant approval for $11.
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That's the dumbest shit I've read in a while. Congratulations.
Which is a shame, as there ideals at least should be the model for many countries. Especially Europe.
Arresting people for holocaust denial, for an idea, is atrocious.
The word hacker has changed. Most likely due to the media using it (arguably) incorrectly, however since the word has changed....they now use it correctly.
Sorry.
This reasoning is specious, at best. It assumes that someone who pirates a copy would also have paid for a copy, which is generally not the case.
if it's really not very good, why waste your time downloading it and then watching it?
Quite simply because there is nothing better to do. The same way I might channel surf and settle on something I don't really care about, I might browse torrents and download and watch something I don't really care about.
But there are plenty of people who would have paid for it but will pirate it because it's convenient
These are by and far the minority. If it were the majority, movies would simply not do as well as they do, nor record sales. Itunes wouldn't even be able to make a profit.
but the fact you are downloading it and taking up time (both to retrieve it and to watch it) and money (allocated space on your hard drive, bandwidth that you purchased from your ISP, electricity) means it has value to you
Oh come on. Time is negligible. Hard drive space costs nothing, especially if you don't keep the file. Electricity would have to be paid for anyway. Bandwidth is not generally a finite resource in most peoples minds. Downloading something means....it was worth it for me to download. That's about it. For certain other stuff like say...rosetta stone or movies I actually really really want to see, I'll either pay for it at a point that coincides with how much I think it is worth, or if I can't do that...download it.
You can refuse to call it stealing because it's not "real" and you haven't deprived anyone of anything, but that is mere sophistry.
How is that sophistry? It is sophistry to try and say it is stealing. If no one is deprived of anything, then what theft has occurred?
If it truly has little to no value - stop downloading it.
Why? I mean, I'm not hurting anyone by doing so, and may be able to enrich my own life and contribute back to society in a positive way. Which is a net win for society.
For you, who cannot afford to go to the theaters, do what other people do and go without until you can afford it, or it becomes a higher priority of what to do with your disposable income.
Why? The only reason to do that is...out of some sense of morals based on the idea that if I download something I am stealing, which I don't accept and think needs to be redefined in the modern economy.
It has nothing to do with a sense of entitled. I don't imagine that I am entitled to anything that I didn't work or pay for generally, but when things are freely available, regardless of if they should be or not, a "sense of entitlement" does not really enter into the equation.
Less ""I'm entitled to it so I'm gonna take it try and stop me" and more "Huh, I can download this and have it without hurting anybody when I wouldn't otherwise be able to watch it, cool".
The thing about Piracy is, the people who pirate are not people who would have paid for it in the first place.
That's what they don't get. It's not stealing, because there are no lost sales.
People pirate because it is convenient, or because they want to see it and don't think it is worth paying for, or can't pay for it (students/unemployed as well as other regions). That is why Piracy makes no dent, because people are happy to pay for things worth paying for. All of the super hero movies. Good comedies. Shit like Contraband or MIB3 is simply going to do marginally well because it is tripe. Popcorn entertainment that is only worth paying for if there is nothing better to see and you still want to go to the movies.
I pirate a lot, because I can't afford to go to the theaters for most movies. Conversely most movies are not worth paying for and if I could not download them, I would be absolutely fine with that. The avengers is worth seeing in a cinema, which is why I will make sure I see it in one.
If studios, artists and programmers get rid of this idiotic concept that piracy is stealing and they are losing money, and just start making stuff worth paying for at a price people are willing to pay, then they will reap a profit. It's that simple, folks.
Those countries are mixed, not predominately CDMA like the US is, AFAIK
I mean, with probably a few exceptions?
I've always liked GSM because it is easy to swap out simcards, while CDMA seems to flash the information into the phone making it much harder to reuse...
I am Australian, grew up and left in my early 20's. I've more than seen enough. Using the electorate as an example of complex thinking is not the best example, not when we had john howard for 11 years and people voted him out just because of work choices, despite all the good he was doing.
It's not bullshit. It isn't a class thing, it's a cultural thing.
The same relaxed, take it easy, don't fix it if it aint broke thing extends to most peoples though process. If you try to suggest something that isn't obvious or the opinion shared by the majority, be prepared for a long battle to even have your point of view heard. Much more so in other countries in my experience, and i've been to 40 or so.
Far worse than the stereotype of Americans here on /.
Australians tend to be gullible, and heavily rely on group think. If you think something other than the obvious what the media says, prepare to be insulted while patiently trying to articulate your point.
Most Australians would be OK with this because they will believe it is for the greater good and serves some purpose. If this is even on their radar. Historically they are more concerned with essentially inconsequential things like tuition increases or workchoices.
Written as an Aussie expat.
You can be pro piracy and not against paying for stuff. Those who will pay, or think it is worth paying for will pay. Those who can't or don't think something is worth paying for, won't.
You can't change that.
So instead focus on making better music or movies, and accept that people may share your shit and you can't stop it.
You can be comforted by the fact that a)those people are spreading your work bring in potential paying customers and b) the free cultural exchange of ideas benefits society.
I don't see the conclusion your post seems to be implying. Could you clarify?
It's about marketshare. IT has only ever been worthwhile for virus writers to target a platform that is popular enough to warrant a return on investment, whether that be fame or clandestine botnet software.
People always used to use half baked arguments trying to claim that OS X was mroe secure because it was "unix" or some crap, despite OS X being very insecure for most of it's run.
Aside from being common sense this is supported with some pretty solid mathematics, not least an article in an IEEE journal showing there is a certain percentage of marketshare that would attract malware. We are now seeing this with OS X and we have seen it previously with Android.
What will be interesting is how Apple react. Will they tighten the grip they have on their users and restrict them even more, or actually get off their buts and increase their security and respond to problems in a mature and timely manner.
smplayer plays everything that vlc plays, has nicer features and uses less resources.
Got a cite? It's not what the wiki says. VM's and the billing system is just a common implementation. The "cloud" just means uploading it somewhere you can access from anywhere == computer on the internet.
Because "cloud" is a meaningless buzzword which means "computer on the internet"
Because cloud is a meaningless buzzword which means "computer on the internet".
Thanks for explaining that!
Thanks!
Yet when installing on an AD domain, needs admin rights? I don't understand this, just pointing it out.
I have a pretty bad grasp/understanding of this stuff, but if two atoms are entangled, changing the state in one affects the other, right? In which case that could be manipulated to....send information? Besides, they are working on this now, so it hardly seems futile?
Probably a bit late to reply now, but I would be very interested in any sources you might have here.
Because you will be automatically approved 99% of the time and requires no special approval or documentation. Name other visas that don't require a spage in your passport or have near instant approval for $11.