But as soon as you let manufacturers do as they wish with the devices they sell that is the natural progression. That is why in many countries in the world the buyer have rights that conflict with this idea. Here in Brazil, for example it is illegal to lock cellphone devices to specific carriers, for example, and personally I think that is right. Once you buy something you should be entitled to do whatever you wish with it.
You pay U$ 50 plus service. You are an idiot if you think the difference, or at least a good part of it, isn't included in the service fees. Cellphone manufacturers are not exactly charity foundations.
Laws take a long time to change, and unfortunately are subjected to other interests and power besides public will, but rest assured that sooner or later they will get aligned with people's will. It may take a long while though. In the meantime there will be increasing amounts of civil disobedience no matter how much US tries to force his way. Piracy will only increase, until there is no point in fighting it anymore. You can pretend it won't happen and that you can control it, like the MAFIAA lawyers try to sell to their masters, but you can't. Nobody can.
The best way to understand people's thoughts is by their actions. You just have to watch the steady increase in p2p traffic and piracy. Today 90% of all internet traffic is p2p, and piracy has been only increasing.
In Europe the Pirate Party is one of the political parties that has most grown in the last years.
The majority of people judges copyright as unfair, especially the abusive copyright we have this days. Most people are stupid, but even stupid people get it across at some point, when it hurts, and copyright has been hurting pretty much everybody for a long time.
Only those that unconditionally defend their abusers. I have yet to see any user of OS, programs or any product with a fanatical devotion anywhere near that which Apple users have.
Laws are not absolute. Laws are obeyed by most people when they do it willingly, because there is general agreement they are fair, or when some institution can force these people to obey them, otherwise they are just words written in a piece of paper. There is no way to force people to obey copyright laws, and it seems they don't think it is fair, so laws are useless here. In time laws tend to catch up with people's feelings in democratic regimens, but meanwhile people will do what they feel is fair, because nobody can force them to do otherwise.
Furthermore in my country there are no laws against endusers sharing copyrighted material. It is not a crime and you can't even be sued by civil law for downloading or uploading music without commercial ends. Or copyright laws are much more lax than those in US, we don't have patents for IP, and I don't see it changing anytime soon.
Oh, just Google for MPAA and RIAA statements about rampant piracy. You will see that twice the world population has been engaging on it for sometime, denying them hundreds of trillions of dollars in profits.
A lot of them didn't do anything wrong, or at least nothing that would incarcerate them in other saner countries. If you watch the video I linked above you will see that there are around 10K federal laws alone they can use against you. Add that to state laws and you double that. You will be hard pressed to find a single person that is innocent of all of them, especially if there is interest to make it stick to you.
You think it is wrong, and you are entitled to do so. Most of us do not, though, and in a democracy that is what matters. The majority forcing his way over minorities is not always a good thing, but it is what democracy is about, it is the price you pay to live in a democratic country. The other way around, when minorities force their way over the majority, is more often than not much worse.
Right and Wrong are subjective concepts. If most people want to get done with copyright, and it is more obvious everyday that this is the case, copyright must go away, and it is the right thing to do.
There is federal law, and as soon as you are accused of anything in any state the federal government can make further accusations. It is remarkably easy to find something that you may have done that may be considered a federal crime. If you don't believe me I suggest that you watch this:
US law is made to allow the government to manipulate it to its own ends and it can easily ruin innocent people's lives if it really wants to.
Chinese people keep moving to US because US economy is still better. The same motive why Mexican people do the same. It has very little to do with politics or governments.
So, the Chinese government jailing or oppressing people for expressing themselves on common topics, such as politics, is the same as Americans expressing themselves freely?
US incarceration rate is the highest in the world. It far surpasses China's:
"While Americans only represent about 5 percent of the world's population, nearly one-quarter of the entire world's inmates have been incarcerated in the United States in recent years"
As I said you have been fed propaganda and disinformation. Your country does basically the same things China do, but in more subtle ways.
The problem is, once the guy is extradited to anywhere else within US he can end in Minnesota or Texas, or whatever place they decide to send him in.
US may not be as bad as North Korea, but it is every bit as bad as China these days. Both are countries were justice is unreachable for common people, and where dominant groups do basically whatever they want. China censures information, US floods it in an ocean of propaganda and disinformation. In the end all is the same.
The difference is that in one case it is the right use of the word, in the other it is not and therefore you fail to transmit information correctly. Language objective is to transmit information between two or more people, when you fail to do so it is not how language works.
And since then an end user sharing files is committing a criminal act? There is nothing criminal about it even in US, unless you are selling the stuff, that is.
The most that can happen to a person for sharing files is being in the receiving end of civil suits.
His opinions are welcomed to me and to a lot of people. Don't confuse your prejudices to other people's. Stallman's opinions may be too radical in many issues to the tastes of many people, but he defends above all else the right of anyone to have his own opinion and to think for himself.
The total absence of quality content has been greater in the age of copyright than ever before. Copyright does not guarantee quality. Actually it works against it.
It is simple, you copy because many many times there is no way around doing anything but copying parts of other things, or at least making things that produce similar results.
Copyright is bad enough, because it gives authors way too much power over ideas and concepts they "created". Patents are considerably worse, because they give their owners rights over practically anything remotely associated with what they registered just because the results are similar.
What you wrote is exactly what I pointed. Your inability to accept it just proves that you are either unable to express yourself (stupidity) or you are unable to admit you made a mistake (stubbornness and stupidity). So basically although you can't determine if I am stupid or a troll I can safely assume you are stupid.
Yes I do. Everything is a copy of many many things with a little bit of originality (if any). It is ridiculously arrogant to think that your little bit of originality is so important that you have a divine mandate to exclusivity over it.
It is common belief that iPad has market dominance, but that has nothing to do with what you said.
You clearly state that iPad shortages have nothing to do with supply and are due exclusively to high demand, in opposition to the Galaxy Tab, which could be in shortage exclusively because of low supply although its demand remains neglectable.
That is basically what you said. You required a proof for the refutation of the second statement, but failed to provide a proof of the first statement yourself.
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But as soon as you let manufacturers do as they wish with the devices they sell that is the natural progression. That is why in many countries in the world the buyer have rights that conflict with this idea. Here in Brazil, for example it is illegal to lock cellphone devices to specific carriers, for example, and personally I think that is right. Once you buy something you should be entitled to do whatever you wish with it.
You pay U$ 50 plus service. You are an idiot if you think the difference, or at least a good part of it, isn't included in the service fees. Cellphone manufacturers are not exactly charity foundations.
Laws take a long time to change, and unfortunately are subjected to other interests and power besides public will, but rest assured that sooner or later they will get aligned with people's will. It may take a long while though. In the meantime there will be increasing amounts of civil disobedience no matter how much US tries to force his way. Piracy will only increase, until there is no point in fighting it anymore. You can pretend it won't happen and that you can control it, like the MAFIAA lawyers try to sell to their masters, but you can't. Nobody can.
The best way to understand people's thoughts is by their actions. You just have to watch the steady increase in p2p traffic and piracy. Today 90% of all internet traffic is p2p, and piracy has been only increasing.
In Europe the Pirate Party is one of the political parties that has most grown in the last years.
The majority of people judges copyright as unfair, especially the abusive copyright we have this days. Most people are stupid, but even stupid people get it across at some point, when it hurts, and copyright has been hurting pretty much everybody for a long time.
Only those that unconditionally defend their abusers. I have yet to see any user of OS, programs or any product with a fanatical devotion anywhere near that which Apple users have.
Laws are not absolute. Laws are obeyed by most people when they do it willingly, because there is general agreement they are fair, or when some institution can force these people to obey them, otherwise they are just words written in a piece of paper. There is no way to force people to obey copyright laws, and it seems they don't think it is fair, so laws are useless here. In time laws tend to catch up with people's feelings in democratic regimens, but meanwhile people will do what they feel is fair, because nobody can force them to do otherwise.
Furthermore in my country there are no laws against endusers sharing copyrighted material. It is not a crime and you can't even be sued by civil law for downloading or uploading music without commercial ends. Or copyright laws are much more lax than those in US, we don't have patents for IP, and I don't see it changing anytime soon.
I did, but I can tell you haven't.
Oh, just Google for MPAA and RIAA statements about rampant piracy. You will see that twice the world population has been engaging on it for sometime, denying them hundreds of trillions of dollars in profits.
As all Apple customers he has battered wife syndrome...
A lot of them didn't do anything wrong, or at least nothing that would incarcerate them in other saner countries. If you watch the video I linked above you will see that there are around 10K federal laws alone they can use against you. Add that to state laws and you double that. You will be hard pressed to find a single person that is innocent of all of them, especially if there is interest to make it stick to you.
You think it is wrong, and you are entitled to do so. Most of us do not, though, and in a democracy that is what matters. The majority forcing his way over minorities is not always a good thing, but it is what democracy is about, it is the price you pay to live in a democratic country. The other way around, when minorities force their way over the majority, is more often than not much worse.
Right and Wrong are subjective concepts. If most people want to get done with copyright, and it is more obvious everyday that this is the case, copyright must go away, and it is the right thing to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
US law is made to allow the government to manipulate it to its own ends and it can easily ruin innocent people's lives if it really wants to.
Chinese people keep moving to US because US economy is still better. The same motive why Mexican people do the same. It has very little to do with politics or governments.
So, the Chinese government jailing or oppressing people for expressing themselves on common topics, such as politics, is the same as Americans expressing themselves freely?
US incarceration rate is the highest in the world. It far surpasses China's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate
A little excerpt from the article above:
"While Americans only represent about 5 percent of the world's population, nearly one-quarter of the entire world's inmates have been incarcerated in the United States in recent years"
As I said you have been fed propaganda and disinformation. Your country does basically the same things China do, but in more subtle ways.
The problem is, once the guy is extradited to anywhere else within US he can end in Minnesota or Texas, or whatever place they decide to send him in.
US may not be as bad as North Korea, but it is every bit as bad as China these days. Both are countries were justice is unreachable for common people, and where dominant groups do basically whatever they want. China censures information, US floods it in an ocean of propaganda and disinformation. In the end all is the same.
The difference is that in one case it is the right use of the word, in the other it is not and therefore you fail to transmit information correctly. Language objective is to transmit information between two or more people, when you fail to do so it is not how language works.
If copyright is extinct, GPL won't be necessary. Anything can be reversed engineered if needed to be.
And since then an end user sharing files is committing a criminal act? There is nothing criminal about it even in US, unless you are selling the stuff, that is. The most that can happen to a person for sharing files is being in the receiving end of civil suits.
His opinions are welcomed to me and to a lot of people. Don't confuse your prejudices to other people's. Stallman's opinions may be too radical in many issues to the tastes of many people, but he defends above all else the right of anyone to have his own opinion and to think for himself.
The total absence of quality content has been greater in the age of copyright than ever before. Copyright does not guarantee quality. Actually it works against it.
If you don't want to use the necessary number of words to correctly express yourself just refrain from using the wrong term and stay quiet.
It is simple, you copy because many many times there is no way around doing anything but copying parts of other things, or at least making things that produce similar results. Copyright is bad enough, because it gives authors way too much power over ideas and concepts they "created". Patents are considerably worse, because they give their owners rights over practically anything remotely associated with what they registered just because the results are similar.
What you wrote is exactly what I pointed. Your inability to accept it just proves that you are either unable to express yourself (stupidity) or you are unable to admit you made a mistake (stubbornness and stupidity). So basically although you can't determine if I am stupid or a troll I can safely assume you are stupid.
Yes I do. Everything is a copy of many many things with a little bit of originality (if any). It is ridiculously arrogant to think that your little bit of originality is so important that you have a divine mandate to exclusivity over it.
It is common belief that iPad has market dominance, but that has nothing to do with what you said.
You clearly state that iPad shortages have nothing to do with supply and are due exclusively to high demand, in opposition to the Galaxy Tab, which could be in shortage exclusively because of low supply although its demand remains neglectable.
That is basically what you said. You required a proof for the refutation of the second statement, but failed to provide a proof of the first statement yourself.
There were ALWAYS big guys.
You force the market to change in many ways, and innovation is just part of the equation, and not even a mandatory one.