Magic "Gate" is an appropriate thing to call it. Because once any DRM succeeds in the market, it'll be a gateway to more intrusive schemes such as those made possible with TCPA/Palladium/NGCSB/whatever the lockdown scheme is called this week.
LOL, the nudie juice bar business model comes to mind. Give "free" WiFi, but have a bouncer go around and make sure all the "patrons" have a fresh cup of coffee every few minutes. Not that I've ever, um, been to a nudie juice bar.
Political speech, whether you think is "good" satire or not, needs to continue to be protect from the misuse of intellectual "property" to stifle free expression.
I know what they're doing is unacceptable, but if you want to view the page from Safari, just Debug, User Agent, Windows MSIE 6.0 long enough to check it out.
My employer is an OEM customer. The other day, a programmer's machine with the volume license version of XP started whining that it couldn't verify the activation or some such. Since it thought it was an infringing copy, it logged him off each time he would log on. The MS Premier resolution? Reinstall. So 1 FTE's time is wasted while this is done. Lower TCO my ass.
Had the organization stayed with Win2K, this never would have come up.
Realistically, Windows 98 is probably the last version of Windows that can be reasonably kept from calling home, and has a higher probability of not having some kind of government back door. You think MS got a slap on the wrist in the antitrust action for free?
If trademark and other intellectual "property" thugs are the "pillars of our community," then we need some new pillars.
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An amusing little twist of the OP's words, but you fall into the same trap as all the other intellectual "property" toadies by comparing a good or service not easily reproduced with bits. If physcians' care could be copied like music or movies or slashdot trolls, it wouldn't be worth anything, either.
Consider the guy that's drunk in the theatre and gets a little bit obnoxious. So he's facing (rightly) a misdemeanor drunk and disorderly charge. But when they take him downtown to the lockup and empty his pockets, they find his camera phone. Since he wasn't sufficiently subservient to the cop, he's now facing a felony charge.
So the guy was an asshole and made some noise in the theatre, and now he's a felon.
You might consider writing a daemon that smacks down the application after some period of inactivity--maybe that looks at keyboard activity or the lack thereof for some period of time, then sends the keystrokes necessary to quit the app.
Or you could systematically hunt down and eat the employees that leave the application open:).
No, they shouldn't, and they don't. You'll notice a line item on those students' bill: a computing fee. Those students have a property right in the access UF is screwing with. Maybe they'll figure that out when their enrollment drops like a stone.
Good to hear that DSL's unlimited. If I were capped at 6GB here, I'd go back to dialup (free through work). Ironically, the telco monopolies here in the U.S. are driving better deals all around with DSL.
Don't most of the ISPs there charge by the bit for off-continent traffic, though? Would make most of the copyright infringement happening where there's flat rate net access inpractical. (Of course, there are always universities:).)
You're half right--those companies would go out of business. That fact, though, by no means guarantees they would be replaced with companies that are well-behaved.
If they took a forensic copy of your PC and discovered they were all legal songs or static, they'd rely on their "expert" witnesses that would swear under oath that you must have been sharing infringing files and overwritten them before the image was taken. Remember that the standard of proof in civil court is only "preponderance of the evidence," so reasonable doubt does the defendant no good.
Yep. Great idea. Because a judge and jury would never believe the slick, well-trained lawyers of the RIAA over the word of a teenager or young adult. Hell, they might just find you liable because they're ticked at your trying to "jack the system" and wasting their time.
Wrong-o, reindeer. Google the NET (No Electronic Theft Act). If you live in the U.S., you can face felony charges for having made a few copies of Adobe software:
if the infringer has made, in any 180-day period, ten or more copies of one or more copyrighted works with a total retail value of $2,500, the crime is a felony entailing up to five years imprisonment and/or a fine of up to $250,000 for individuals and $500,000 for organizations.
And do you know the "Justice" Department will use the full "retail value" that no one actually pays, right?
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Maybe the ISP shouldn't advertise the "$500 service" for $50, then.
Magic "Gate" is an appropriate thing to call it. Because once any DRM succeeds in the market, it'll be a gateway to more intrusive schemes such as those made possible with TCPA/Palladium/NGCSB/whatever the lockdown scheme is called this week.
Then you just DMCA them, like the (few) savvy companies that had embarrasing information in archive.org. They'll take it down.
Does Microsoft's TCO figure for Linux include the $699/CPU SCO license?
LOL, the nudie juice bar business model comes to mind. Give "free" WiFi, but have a bouncer go around and make sure all the "patrons" have a fresh cup of coffee every few minutes. Not that I've ever, um, been to a nudie juice bar.
Political speech, whether you think is "good" satire or not, needs to continue to be protect from the misuse of intellectual "property" to stifle free expression.
It was called mp3.com (before the first RIAA lawsuit). It's gone now.
I know what they're doing is unacceptable, but if you want to view the page from Safari, just Debug, User Agent, Windows MSIE 6.0 long enough to check it out.
Had the organization stayed with Win2K, this never would have come up.
Realistically, Windows 98 is probably the last version of Windows that can be reasonably kept from calling home, and has a higher probability of not having some kind of government back door. You think MS got a slap on the wrist in the antitrust action for free?
Or run a few Athlons, then it won't matter if the furnace goes out :).
Shame the "high bandwidth" video is in RealSpyware format. If there's an mpeg somewhere, please post a link and I'll have a look.
Infringement, my ass. The mark was in use prior to SSC's hijacking of it. And I don't give a fiddly fig about OSS being seen as "legitimate."
If trademark and other intellectual "property" thugs are the "pillars of our community," then we need some new pillars.
An amusing little twist of the OP's words, but you fall into the same trap as all the other intellectual "property" toadies by comparing a good or service not easily reproduced with bits. If physcians' care could be copied like music or movies or slashdot trolls, it wouldn't be worth anything, either.
So the guy was an asshole and made some noise in the theatre, and now he's a felon.
Or you could systematically hunt down and eat the employees that leave the application open :).
No, they shouldn't, and they don't. You'll notice a line item on those students' bill: a computing fee. Those students have a property right in the access UF is screwing with. Maybe they'll figure that out when their enrollment drops like a stone.
Good to hear that DSL's unlimited. If I were capped at 6GB here, I'd go back to dialup (free through work). Ironically, the telco monopolies here in the U.S. are driving better deals all around with DSL.
Don't most of the ISPs there charge by the bit for off-continent traffic, though? Would make most of the copyright infringement happening where there's flat rate net access inpractical. (Of course, there are always universities :).)
That's OK, there's the EUCD! Or are you outside Europe, too?
You're half right--those companies would go out of business. That fact, though, by no means guarantees they would be replaced with companies that are well-behaved.
Let me know how it works out for you.
If they took a forensic copy of your PC and discovered they were all legal songs or static, they'd rely on their "expert" witnesses that would swear under oath that you must have been sharing infringing files and overwritten them before the image was taken. Remember that the standard of proof in civil court is only "preponderance of the evidence," so reasonable doubt does the defendant no good.
Yep. Great idea. Because a judge and jury would never believe the slick, well-trained lawyers of the RIAA over the word of a teenager or young adult. Hell, they might just find you liable because they're ticked at your trying to "jack the system" and wasting their time.
And do you know the "Justice" Department will use the full "retail value" that no one actually pays, right?