I don't think you guys are reading the website correctly, or understanding what is going on. The release is a BETA one, i.e. it is for testing purposes only: access to encrypted data expires after two months possibly because in later BETAs and perhaps the final version, changes might be made that would render the encrypted data incompatible with the final version; and also because they do not want you to go on using the beta after the final version is released.
Of course, to look at it from this perspective, it might be a ploy on their part so that people don't get away without paying by simply using the beta instead of paying for the final version: but coming from a closed-sourced, profit-making company, that seems like a typical, perhaps even rational thing that they might do.
The United States relies heavily on
something known as 'impact jurisdiction',
to deal with stuff happening outside
its area of sovereign control if it has
adverse impact within the United States;
their extraterritorial antitrust law is
a classical example of this.
-paraphrased from "Intervention and
International Law" by Rosalyn Higgins.
Just thought you guys might like to know:)
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I don't think you guys are reading the website correctly, or understanding what is going on. The release is a BETA one, i.e. it is for testing purposes only: access to encrypted data expires after two months possibly because in later BETAs and perhaps the final version, changes might be made that would render the encrypted data incompatible with the final version; and also because they do not want you to go on using the beta after the final version is released.
Of course, to look at it from this perspective, it might be a ploy on their part so that people don't get away without paying by simply using the beta instead of paying for the final version: but coming from a closed-sourced, profit-making company, that seems like a typical, perhaps even rational thing that they might do.
So whats the hullabaloo all about?
No shit, man. Whats up with this?
The United States relies heavily on something known as 'impact jurisdiction', to deal with stuff happening outside its area of sovereign control if it has adverse impact within the United States; their extraterritorial antitrust law is a classical example of this.
:)
-paraphrased from "Intervention and International Law" by Rosalyn Higgins. Just thought you guys might like to know
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