Katz....
None of those 'practices' would be illegal, IF THEY WERE NOT A MONOPOLY. But because they ARE, those things are illegal.
That's how antitrust works! That's the deal with monopolies! Once you become a monopoly, all the rules change.
Saying that lots of people successfully use MS products therefore it's not bad that they are a predatory monopoly means nothing... if they weren't around, they woudl be forced to cooperate. Microsoft has hindered the development of many cool things simply by keeping the barrier to entry for development of cool stuff for the world's most popular operating system high.
It's reasonable, considering that the video game and movie industries are ever more closely tied together.
Several wildly popular video games have been made into movies (mortal combat, street fighter, final fantasy, wing commander, etc...). It's reasonable for Diablo to expect to do the same.
Although... this will depend. If the movie is a sappy love story.... it might be okay. If it has anything at all to do remotely with the theme of the game.... that's bad.
Really, proper computing science courses are not about an OS or a language specifically.. they are about algorithms. Languages should be picked due to their ability to implement algorithms; some languages are better than others.
I don't think a computer science course should *ever* teach 'shell scripting' or 'perl'.
Those are things that someone with an understanding of computing can learn on their own.
Computing science is about the science of computing. Shell scripts and such are *adminsitration tasks*, and you need no degree to do them.
I don't see someone who is paying for 'unlimited network access' who actually uses it 24/7 as 'abusing' their service, or being 'unfair' to others.
Just because my idea of internet use is different than yours doesn't mean I'm 'abusing' it.
@home loves doing this. They say it's 'hundreds of time faster than dialup' and 'unlimited' and 'always on' and then they freak out if you use too much bandwidth.
The only difference now is it's significantly cheaper than it used to be, so you can build redundant links in through different paths.
Laser works well, for lower bandwidth, RF works well, but in the end, both are more prone to outage than fiber/cable, so if you can build proper redundant/meshed networks, you can approach the same reliability.
PC manufacturers? they make computers that could be used to copy copyrighted files..... therefore, by your logic, they should exercise moer caution?
Obeying the law is up to PEOPLE.
For example, the law here says I cannot carry my giant bowie knife around town. However, I can purchase as many giant bowie knives as I want in the store. Is the store negligent? No. I am responsible.
I have a CD burner. I could be pirating CD's all the time and selling them to people. Do I? No. I'm responsible. It's not the CD burner manufacturer who's at fault if it's used for illegal purposes.
I can purchase all kinds of flammable liquids and matches at any store, but I don't go aroudn burning down things for fun, because it's illegal..
Get the picture?
And.. if *everyone* doesnt' want to follow a law, like some copyright things with regards to music, then maybe that law should CHANGE or GO AWAY.
People have the right to persue profits, not the guarantee of profits.
No.. they could just issue updated clients, and make the servers only work wit updated cilents.
The flock will follow, and napster will get fat like the media whore they are.
napster is going to modify the files on us. Hmm.
I think Napster has given up the holy 'cause' they were fighting for.. people can swap files anyway... so it's time we publicly, openly did something new to get attention away from Napster. They're just going to turn into another media whore.
Releasing internally on systems owned by the copyright holder (which could be a company/organization), is not distribution, therefore, the GPL (which covers the terms under which you may distribute the code) does not apply.
though I'm sure someone will fiercly debate it, the copyright should be held by the US ARMY, and so long as the software is in use on systems owned by them, there is no problem. Nothing is being distributed.
Just as if my company develops software for internal use on our own systems based on GPL software, we are not under obligation to distribute it.
The GPL covers how you may distribute the software, not simply how you may use it.
Their 'product' is already protected by copyright law, period. Their 'copy controls, like CSS on DVD' are not 'implying' anything...though breaking those protections for the purposes of copying is illegal accordign to the DMCA.
There are really several issues at hand.
1) Napster, the company, and it's trial
2) Client-server technology
3) Peer-Peer technoogy.
1) Napster & the lawsuit. The real issue here is that Napster is a company, and as a company, was attempting to profit, knowing their service would be wildly popular because people would use it primarily to pirate music. OpenNap servers, being non-profit, might have a way around this.. it's one thign to make money off contributory infringement.. it's another to do something for free.
2) Napster is based on the client-server model.... lots of clients, few servers... you take out the servers, you shut down the model. It has an easily-attackable point. OpenNap servers also suffer this same problem.
3) In the peer-to-peer model (god I hate that buzzword though..) we merely use the bandwidth and computing power available to us to all share things with each other, in a decentralized fashion. This is really how things MUST go in the future; it leaves no single point of attack. Evenetualy I predict that Instant-messaging clients (icq) and other technologies will al come under legal attack simply because there is a way to do so.
Seems to me Sun doesn't offer a.iso for download, they don't offer their $20 single-user license pack for personal use, and the closest thing they have now is a 'starter kit' or some such thing for $80
The main reason was because, although congress agreed that widespread sale of equipment solely for the purpose of copying digital audio would harm the music industry unfairly, that there should be no reason any regulations such as this should hurt the infantile home computing industry.
Practical? If it doesn't fit your business model, don't use it. There's more to society than money.
I'd say a great many younger peopel for the past few years have had their lives greatly enriched due to free software....
And there's more to OSS than 'companies making money off them'.
Free software doesn't exist so people can make money off it, though they are free to if they can.... it exists because people wanted to create software....
It seems like the same old tired misunderstanding. They think any software written to run in userland under the linux kernel must itself be GPL'd.. and we all know this isn't the case.
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Katz....
None of those 'practices' would be illegal, IF THEY WERE NOT A MONOPOLY. But because they ARE, those things are illegal.
That's how antitrust works! That's the deal with monopolies! Once you become a monopoly, all the rules change.
Saying that lots of people successfully use MS products therefore it's not bad that they are a predatory monopoly means nothing... if they weren't around, they woudl be forced to cooperate. Microsoft has hindered the development of many cool things simply by keeping the barrier to entry for development of cool stuff for the world's most popular operating system high.
Yeah. But I can't resist...
"Broadband" does not mean "Fast" or "High Speed", it simply has to do with the transmission mechanism.
Gigabit ethernet is not Broadband.
Cable is.
DSL isn't.
Fiber isn't, usually.
Let's start calling it 'high speed' and quit calling it 'broadband'.
SO everything would be dones in base3?
You are right. The person being defamed could very well have taken him to civil court for libel or some such thing.
They were TOTALLY wrong to interfere with his taxpayer funded education though. This had nothing to do with his behavior at school, or his studies.
A school administrator cannot use the power vested in them as an administrator to punish students outside the scope of the school itself.
You are still, if I recall correctly, permitted to personally import blank media for personal use.
This levy only applies to manufacturers and those importing for resale. It is not a customs 'duty' and is not a 'tax'.
You can still order a shipment of CD's from the US, and pay normal prices for them.
It's reasonable, considering that the video game and movie industries are ever more closely tied together.
Several wildly popular video games have been made into movies (mortal combat, street fighter, final fantasy, wing commander, etc...). It's reasonable for Diablo to expect to do the same.
Although... this will depend. If the movie is a sappy love story.... it might be okay. If it has anything at all to do remotely with the theme of the game.... that's bad.
There was an article here a while back on exactly that.
Yeah... but how are you gonna wire transfer out 26 million dollars if you don't have the funds? You *can't*
Really, proper computing science courses are not about an OS or a language specifically.. they are about algorithms. Languages should be picked due to their ability to implement algorithms; some languages are better than others.
I don't think a computer science course should *ever* teach 'shell scripting' or 'perl'.
Those are things that someone with an understanding of computing can learn on their own.
Computing science is about the science of computing. Shell scripts and such are *adminsitration tasks*, and you need no degree to do them.
I don't see someone who is paying for 'unlimited network access' who actually uses it 24/7 as 'abusing' their service, or being 'unfair' to others.
Just because my idea of internet use is different than yours doesn't mean I'm 'abusing' it.
@home loves doing this. They say it's 'hundreds of time faster than dialup' and 'unlimited' and 'always on' and then they freak out if you use too much bandwidth.
This tech has been around for several years now.
The only difference now is it's significantly cheaper than it used to be, so you can build redundant links in through different paths.
Laser works well, for lower bandwidth, RF works well, but in the end, both are more prone to outage than fiber/cable, so if you can build proper redundant/meshed networks, you can approach the same reliability.
I'd think it's obvious.
IF you are young, single, have no social life, and career advancement is your top priority, then you don't care about social life, perhaps.
If you have a spouse, a family, or simply think there is more to life than work, then of COURSE you consider where you go to work.
You should always weigh what you get out of work against what you get out of life outside work...
PC manufacturers? they make computers that could be used to copy copyrighted files..... therefore, by your logic, they should exercise moer caution?
Obeying the law is up to PEOPLE.
For example, the law here says I cannot carry my giant bowie knife around town. However, I can purchase as many giant bowie knives as I want in the store. Is the store negligent? No. I am responsible.
I have a CD burner. I could be pirating CD's all the time and selling them to people. Do I? No. I'm responsible. It's not the CD burner manufacturer who's at fault if it's used for illegal purposes.
I can purchase all kinds of flammable liquids and matches at any store, but I don't go aroudn burning down things for fun, because it's illegal..
Get the picture?
And.. if *everyone* doesnt' want to follow a law, like some copyright things with regards to music, then maybe that law should CHANGE or GO AWAY.
People have the right to persue profits, not the guarantee of profits.
No.. they could just issue updated clients, and make the servers only work wit updated cilents.
The flock will follow, and napster will get fat like the media whore they are.
napster is going to modify the files on us. Hmm.
I think Napster has given up the holy 'cause' they were fighting for.. people can swap files anyway... so it's time we publicly, openly did something new to get attention away from Napster. They're just going to turn into another media whore.
Releasing internally on systems owned by the copyright holder (which could be a company/organization), is not distribution, therefore, the GPL (which covers the terms under which you may distribute the code) does not apply.
though I'm sure someone will fiercly debate it, the copyright should be held by the US ARMY, and so long as the software is in use on systems owned by them, there is no problem. Nothing is being distributed.
Just as if my company develops software for internal use on our own systems based on GPL software, we are not under obligation to distribute it.
The GPL covers how you may distribute the software, not simply how you may use it.
Their 'product' is already protected by copyright law, period. Their 'copy controls, like CSS on DVD' are not 'implying' anything...though breaking those protections for the purposes of copying is illegal accordign to the DMCA.
There are really several issues at hand.
1) Napster, the company, and it's trial
2) Client-server technology
3) Peer-Peer technoogy.
1) Napster & the lawsuit. The real issue here is that Napster is a company, and as a company, was attempting to profit, knowing their service would be wildly popular because people would use it primarily to pirate music. OpenNap servers, being non-profit, might have a way around this.. it's one thign to make money off contributory infringement.. it's another to do something for free.
2) Napster is based on the client-server model.... lots of clients, few servers... you take out the servers, you shut down the model. It has an easily-attackable point. OpenNap servers also suffer this same problem.
3) In the peer-to-peer model (god I hate that buzzword though..) we merely use the bandwidth and computing power available to us to all share things with each other, in a decentralized fashion. This is really how things MUST go in the future; it leaves no single point of attack. Evenetualy I predict that Instant-messaging clients (icq) and other technologies will al come under legal attack simply because there is a way to do so.
Seems to me Sun doesn't offer a .iso for download, they don't offer their $20 single-user license pack for personal use, and the closest thing they have now is a 'starter kit' or some such thing for $80
The main reason was because, although congress agreed that widespread sale of equipment solely for the purpose of copying digital audio would harm the music industry unfairly, that there should be no reason any regulations such as this should hurt the infantile home computing industry.
How do you 'open-source' something that isn't source code? Usenet archives are not 'source'.. they are documents.
Practical? If it doesn't fit your business model, don't use it. There's more to society than money.
I'd say a great many younger peopel for the past few years have had their lives greatly enriched due to free software....
And there's more to OSS than 'companies making money off them'.
Free software doesn't exist so people can make money off it, though they are free to if they can.... it exists because people wanted to create software....
It seems like the same old tired misunderstanding. They think any software written to run in userland under the linux kernel must itself be GPL'd.. and we all know this isn't the case.