Considering intellectual property is artificial scarcity created by law and there are no supply concerns regarding the resources in question, there isn't a need to provide a mechanism for renting these resources. The compensation is already guaranteed by giving the owner the rights of selling copies. Allowing him to rent copies instead of selling is actually deleterious to society and to fair use.
Renting has only meaning when something is a limited resource and by using it you are depriving someone else of doing it.
Sorry, but car accidents generate an order of magnitude more coffins per year than the "war against terror" in which you choose to believe. By any definition it is silly to define this farce as a war, including by your own.
Encryption in anything that needs to be decrypted to be used and which is sold with this intention to general users is indeed pointless and offer exactly zero data protection. That is the case with any content you may think about. DRM will always be broken and soon, and once broken a DRM-free copy that anyone can use will be distributed.
Encryption used to transfer data between two specific parties, to identify parties, or to store data is another story completely. It can be a very effective mean of protecting data, and saying that "anyone dedicated to cracking it will succeed" is ridiculously absurd in this case. Some kinds of encryption require more time than Earth has of life even with all the dedication and computer power in the World.
You can in some cases exploit failures in key safekeeping and deployment and implementation failures, but encryption itself is not to blame for that.
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Indeed they are. I am happy you can finally see the truth.
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All DRM is bad. DRM is not and never was about protecting content, it is about control. Protecting content from pirates is impossible. Controlling apathetic legal users is feasible and profitable, on the other hand.
Firstly because he has a name that is worth a lot more than what he took so he has all the interest in the word in delivering the game.
Secondly because his company managed to deliver several games already, so he is obviously capable of doing so.
And last but not least because he already announced a solution. He will deliver the game in two parts. The first part will be available at about the expected date and the sells will be used to finance the second time. Kickstarter backers and whoever buys the first part will receive the second part for free when it is ready.
Even if this lesson was something worth to be learned it wouldn't be learned from this example as the people who financed it on Kickstarter will have their product in the end, mismanagements aside.
They dismiss his accusations of wrong doing and surveillance by the government as false, and are prosecuting him from revealing "state secrets" to the Chinese. This "state secrets" revealed are most likely fabricated "crimes" conveniently created in order to smear his integrity and make gullible people like you dismiss his cause.
NOTHING that has been done by Snowden could possibly cause more damage than the US government (and a lot of other "democratic" governments) have been doing to their own people by using the advances in technology to progressively turn our countries in surveillance states.
I think this apathy comes from the fact that, due to advances in technology there are far less people starving and without shelter than in the past, at least in the more developed countries. When a person is not starving and is living a reasonably comfortable life it is less likely for him to risk this life and fight for abstract values like freedom and privacy. Only when the lack of those forfeited rights start to affect him directly he will likely start to move, and by then, unfortunately, it is usually too little and too late.
Nah, they are making more and more users hostile to their cause to the point of grudge. If they keep going, and I really hope they do, they will only lose more and more control as time goes.
Nah, technology adapts far easier and quicker against them than at their favor. Visa and Mastercard are hardy the only ways in existence to exchange money and as they become more and more restrictive other options are sure to fill the void.
More efficiency would increases the current and allow for brighter or more leds, not more autonomy. More autonomy would require a LOT more efficiency, a battery and a charge circuit, at which point a dynamo or solar cells would be much better solutions as sources of energy to charge the battery. Even running at a much greater efficiency there isn't much energy to take from the system before the body and flashlight temperatures reach equilibrium and unlike dynamos the energy amount is highly dependent on the external weather.
The longevity can't be "fixed", it depends exclusively on environment and for a given environment it won`t change, Google prize money or not. It is an interesting idea for a high school science project but it is not really a viable product.
If you want to convert body energy into light there are dynamo based flashlights that are far more efficient to do this and do not lack this design hindrances.
No new technology is cheap or popular at launch. Electric cars are relatively new and many of their biggest problems have only been solved very recently, while others are still be solved.
The incarceration rates are absurd and all, and US justice system is rotten to the core, but these are far from being an effective method of population control. Even though US justice system is indeed abusive, you can`t compare it to the justice system of authoritarian regimes like these. Propaganda is and always were the bulk of US control system, unlike China and USSR where it is (or was in USSR case) just part of much more rigid control system.
I agree wholehearted with your last paragraph, though.
Well, in the end you have to trust in something. Personally I feel much more comfortable trusting people like the piratebay guys and associates than I feel about trusting Google and MS, especially after the last NSA shenanigans of late.
Sorry my friend, but most of the VPN services used for this end do not keep records and are in places where they are not required to. Who the hell would use a VPN in US, land of the corporations?
If they'd be fucking dead that would make it VERY stupid to do it, not courageous.
But in the end these are only your fantasies about Russia and China. Both countries are completely content in just claim whatever they want no matter what evidence exists against it. US is the only country in the world that goes postal when its "good" image is threatened, because, unlike in these two other countries, US government control over its citizens is based on propaganda alone.
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Considering intellectual property is artificial scarcity created by law and there are no supply concerns regarding the resources in question, there isn't a need to provide a mechanism for renting these resources. The compensation is already guaranteed by giving the owner the rights of selling copies. Allowing him to rent copies instead of selling is actually deleterious to society and to fair use.
Renting has only meaning when something is a limited resource and by using it you are depriving someone else of doing it.
Sorry, but car accidents generate an order of magnitude more coffins per year than the "war against terror" in which you choose to believe. By any definition it is silly to define this farce as a war, including by your own.
Please, don't compare fictitious "wars" with the real thing. It is beyond silly.
Encryption in anything that needs to be decrypted to be used and which is sold with this intention to general users is indeed pointless and offer exactly zero data protection. That is the case with any content you may think about. DRM will always be broken and soon, and once broken a DRM-free copy that anyone can use will be distributed.
Encryption used to transfer data between two specific parties, to identify parties, or to store data is another story completely. It can be a very effective mean of protecting data, and saying that "anyone dedicated to cracking it will succeed" is ridiculously absurd in this case. Some kinds of encryption require more time than Earth has of life even with all the dedication and computer power in the World.
You can in some cases exploit failures in key safekeeping and deployment and implementation failures, but encryption itself is not to blame for that.
Indeed they are. I am happy you can finally see the truth.
All DRM is bad. DRM is not and never was about protecting content, it is about control. Protecting content from pirates is impossible. Controlling apathetic legal users is feasible and profitable, on the other hand.
Since its founding his company released every game it started. It can fail, as no company is immune to failure, but up till now it is holding steady.
Sure, but Tim Schafer isn't everybody. I don't want to repeat myself so I advise you to refer to my previous post in this same thread .
Firstly because he has a name that is worth a lot more than what he took so he has all the interest in the word in delivering the game.
Secondly because his company managed to deliver several games already, so he is obviously capable of doing so.
And last but not least because he already announced a solution. He will deliver the game in two parts. The first part will be available at about the expected date and the sells will be used to finance the second time. Kickstarter backers and whoever buys the first part will receive the second part for free when it is ready.
Even if this lesson was something worth to be learned it wouldn't be learned from this example as the people who financed it on Kickstarter will have their product in the end, mismanagements aside.
They dismiss his accusations of wrong doing and surveillance by the government as false, and are prosecuting him from revealing "state secrets" to the Chinese. This "state secrets" revealed are most likely fabricated "crimes" conveniently created in order to smear his integrity and make gullible people like you dismiss his cause.
NOTHING that has been done by Snowden could possibly cause more damage than the US government (and a lot of other "democratic" governments) have been doing to their own people by using the advances in technology to progressively turn our countries in surveillance states.
I think this apathy comes from the fact that, due to advances in technology there are far less people starving and without shelter than in the past, at least in the more developed countries. When a person is not starving and is living a reasonably comfortable life it is less likely for him to risk this life and fight for abstract values like freedom and privacy. Only when the lack of those forfeited rights start to affect him directly he will likely start to move, and by then, unfortunately, it is usually too little and too late.
BTC is far from perfect but it does not have these "so many serious flaws" you seem to believe it has and was quite competently designed.
Nah, they are making more and more users hostile to their cause to the point of grudge. If they keep going, and I really hope they do, they will only lose more and more control as time goes.
Nah, technology adapts far easier and quicker against them than at their favor. Visa and Mastercard are hardy the only ways in existence to exchange money and as they become more and more restrictive other options are sure to fill the void.
More efficiency would increases the current and allow for brighter or more leds, not more autonomy. More autonomy would require a LOT more efficiency, a battery and a charge circuit, at which point a dynamo or solar cells would be much better solutions as sources of energy to charge the battery. Even running at a much greater efficiency there isn't much energy to take from the system before the body and flashlight temperatures reach equilibrium and unlike dynamos the energy amount is highly dependent on the external weather.
I mean "lack these design hindrances".
The longevity can't be "fixed", it depends exclusively on environment and for a given environment it won`t change, Google prize money or not. It is an interesting idea for a high school science project but it is not really a viable product.
If you want to convert body energy into light there are dynamo based flashlights that are far more efficient to do this and do not lack this design hindrances.
No new technology is cheap or popular at launch. Electric cars are relatively new and many of their biggest problems have only been solved very recently, while others are still be solved.
The incarceration rates are absurd and all, and US justice system is rotten to the core, but these are far from being an effective method of population control. Even though US justice system is indeed abusive, you can`t compare it to the justice system of authoritarian regimes like these. Propaganda is and always were the bulk of US control system, unlike China and USSR where it is (or was in USSR case) just part of much more rigid control system.
I agree wholehearted with your last paragraph, though.
Well, in the end you have to trust in something. Personally I feel much more comfortable trusting people like the piratebay guys and associates than I feel about trusting Google and MS, especially after the last NSA shenanigans of late.
Well, maybe because the said person would want to access stuff outside his own anonymous network...
Sorry my friend, but most of the VPN services used for this end do not keep records and are in places where they are not required to. Who the hell would use a VPN in US, land of the corporations?
If they'd be fucking dead that would make it VERY stupid to do it, not courageous.
But in the end these are only your fantasies about Russia and China. Both countries are completely content in just claim whatever they want no matter what evidence exists against it. US is the only country in the world that goes postal when its "good" image is threatened, because, unlike in these two other countries, US government control over its citizens is based on propaganda alone.
Nope, they were a failure because of Tablets, but very small PCs, like those USB android devices are actually a big success.