I do not agree that giving away software of music or movies IS piracy. I think selling illegitimate copies of software, music, movies, etc as if they are genuine IS piracy, but if there is no money involved, by my morals, it is not wrong.
I know the laws have been bent to treat "intellectual property" ( the term in itself is offensive to me ) as real property, but is see no harm in trading or giving it away.
I have heard the argument that it denies money to the copyright holder, but has anyone considered that some one who uses or watches something for free, may not think it is worth what is being asked by the owner?
This is not a flame post, I know there are many here that have been brainwashed, but think if all the writings of the ages were protected by permanent copyright which the Microsofts of the world want.
All knowledge owned by some one.
if this were true, farmers would still be plowing their fields with sticks.
Lots of laws need to be broken. Bad laws disobeyed get them changed. How do you feel about the 'criminal' blacks that rode in the front of the bus in Mongomery Alabama in the 60's. Clearly criminal, but was it wrong?
DRM is not about copyright infringement, it is about criminalizing not letting some one control how you use what you actually buy and pay for.
I am sick of hearing that not paying some media giant every time you hear some song, or watch some movie is piracy. I do not think it is, and I do not think there is naything wrong with sharing it for free.
What I think copyright piracy is, it to make counterfeit CD's DVD's etc and selling them for money.
I see nothing at all wrong with sharing software, movies, songs, books, etc as long as you are not representing them to be original or charging for them.
Is this the way the laws are today? , nope, cause we have corrupt politicos doing the bidding of the big media companies that finance their campaigns.
So if my conscience tells me some law is wrong, unfair, or unjust, oh well.
Bad laws need to be broken often enough to make them change.
Looks at the 09 f9 thing, people have just had enough silliness with this.
This is really total bull shit. Drug companies spend very little on R&D and most of their expenses are marketing, legal, insurance, and obscene bonuses for executives.
Eminent domain is needed for cases like this where the need of the people outweigh the need for a ceo to trim his jet interior in pure gold.
Noe Office runs fine, loads fast on my Duel G5 Powermac, of course complex DNA simulation software would too. Loading it on one of my 1st generation Mac Mini's is analogous to hitting it with a sledge hammer.
I think it is actually funny that in order to use Vista without it being maddeningly slow, you will need 4 ghz to have the same performance with a spreadsheet as you would under CP/M with 4 Mhz.
Really says a lot on what happens when you let a monopoly like Microsoft exist, and dictate what utter garbage you will use.
Just reading this patent is chilling. How can the Patent Office even consider this as new and inovative when the NSA does this to us already. Hell Xerox might have been the contractor for them using this for all we know, and now want to patent this technique.
This should not be patentable here or anywhere else.
No software should be patentable.
I wait to see the patent for chewing your food thoroughly before swallowing.
Great observation, and that makes perfect sense. This would be typical M$ behavior. Another reason that breaking up M$ should be a prime focus of the US government.
First off, this really shows who congress serves, large contributors, and not the people. "Piracy" is being defined as the use of copyrighted works for any purpose without paying some big company. This is not the case, Fair Use allows many types of copying and use of copyrighted materials without any royalty being due.
This is the problem of the RIAA and MPAA not the government.
If the &^AA thinks they find individual probles , let them take action using civil law.
Subsidizing the biased terror tactics of the &^AA's and the BSA is clearly using our government power to unjustly enrich these greedy and evil entity's.
Public Funding of elections is what is really needed to stop this.
Microsoft isnt going to have to open their code, just the format. Remember Microsoft is a CONVICTED MONOPOLIST here in the US. This is no different than a pedophile having to register their address with the police.
With true interoperability, then competitors such as Openoffice.org or Mplayer can compete on technology.
There is no reason Microsoft should be allowed to keep protocols or codecs for media secret, and absoultly no basis to charge for them.
there are not Copyright able and patents do not apply every where. Patents should not apply to software in the USA either.
No matter what OS comes on this, I will bet that the usual Microsoft Tax is still included.
We should have broken up Microsoft during the DOJ trial, but I think this could be renewed as soon as the White House switches parties. This time , put some real muscle behind it and break up Microsoft.
The USA needs to do this to even think of remaining competitive with the rest of the world.
It is not so much as a racial divide but more an " undesirable " divide.
When I was in New York, I noticed parks filled with weirdos just lurking about. I think it was Washington Park , but I am probably wrong. That would never happen in Chicago, the cops would roust out the lurkers and weirdos and send them off.
You can go to the Lake front any time of the day or night, or Lincoln Park and the New York style creepy lurkers just are not present. They aren't welcome in Millennium Park or Grant Park, or along the Magnificent mile.
When you are at the Water Tower, you will not be bothered by homeless people begging, or the New York type hustlers.
This is an example of how broken our patent system is. Prior art goes back to Tesla, where over 100 years ago he transmitted 100 Watts of AC power 100 miles and recovered 97 Watts of energy. Secondly all RFID chips use this to power themselves. There is NOTHING innovative or novel in this device and it never ever should have been granted a patent.
I really wonder how far our world could have advanced in the last 200 years if patents either didn't exist or were structured in such a way that they were much more limited in scope.
I live near Chicago ( Joliet ) and travel extensively through ought the USA. "Safest"? and New York do not belong in the same sentence in my opinion. To me, New York is just NASTY. I did a job just across the Brooklyn Bridge in Williamsburg at a public housing project. The guards there leave after dark for fear of being shot.
I think one of the reasons that New York politico's don't like the New York / Liberty City parallel is that it is just to close to home, and NYC really is very similar to the virtual world inside GTA.
Chicago is a much nicer, safer, cleaner and just better city than New York. Notice that game makers don't generally use it.
First off, I would never buy hardware from HP again. Secondly, I would go down to my local county court house, and file a claim in small claims court for the amount that I paid for the HP computer, then go over to the post office and send the complaint to HP by registered mail.
Total cost, about 16 bux and an hours time.
Now, HP could decided to help you, return your money, or send an attorney to BFE where you live to defend the case.
If they do nothing, you go to court and get a default judgment for the cost of they system. Another hour on your part.
So, they will honor the warranty linux or not, you just have to not lie down for their Microsoft inspired tactics.
Large corporations will try this all the time, you just have to make the effort to stop them.
I think you dont give M$ enough credit. I think they employ folks to test and evaluate how far they can push push consumers ( aka sheep ) before they actually bolt.
M$ is serving themselves, the RIAA, and the MPAA with Vista, not you.
I think they have very carefully examined this and many more yet to be discovered issues and have figured out how bad they can make it for consumers while serving their real customers, big business and the govenment.
Compressing air with a windmill is a perfect application. With enough storage capacity at home, you would truly be free of evil energy companies. The intermittent nature of wind power lends itself perfectly to compressing air.
People who work at M$ are not inherently evil, but the management is. Dirty tricks, destroying and sewing salt in the fields of any competition real or perceived, no matter how small is what brought the Justice Department to seek and convict M$ of being an illegal monopoly in the first place.
I think it is sad, how frustrated business underlings look up to these practices with gloat and envy.
In reality the business practices of M$ hurts innovation, and has slowed or stalled the entire computer industry. History will look back on this as an anomaly.
Those that look up to the practices of M$ do so out of inner frustration of life and think that allying themselves with M$ will somehow fill some sick missing part of their lives and empower them.
Without Godwinizing this post, this tactic has been used before many times by the powerfull to control the weak, weather in business or goverment.
It is a sad thing, that our government did not break up M$ under anti trust laws and I believe it will in the long run hurt our economy.
The perverted greed of Gates and Ballmer is nothing to look up to.
One thing that isn't mentioned by the Viacoms of the world is fair use. The should be no royalty needed to show clips. Google is not broadcasting TV, they are not showing movies, THEY arent even showing the short clips in low quality 3" across.
How greedy can a company such as Viacomm be?
In any case the people that post this have a right to because the videos are generally excerpts which are protected under fair use and no royalties are owned to anyone, 2nd I think this format ( low quality small size ) should be protected under fair use as well, but we will see on that.
I think this whole thing is just baseless greed on Viacom's part.
I travel to Canada quite a bit, and one thing I find there is a general respect for the law. But, respect works both ways and fair use is fair use.
Just because the US was pressured into these silly ideas of Intellectual Property Owners can rule your mind, doest make them right.
I think what the Riaa and Mpaa are worried about is that Canadians are still customers to be sold, not consumers to be culled.
There are very few places on earth that are as fair and law abiding as Canada, but when we ask them to enact silly DMCA like laws, they might just not agree they want them.
Remember, there is no such thing as Intellectual Property ownership, just a limited monopoly on the rights of distribution, excepting fair use.
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I am not supprised at all be the rovers discovery of multiple sets of Banth tracks. I had expected this.
I really was expecting Thoat prints, as they have been assumed to be much more common in both wild and domestic species.
I hope the next rover mission lands near the lost sea of Korus, where the mysterious river Iss empties.
Cheers
I do not agree that giving away software of music or movies IS piracy. I think selling illegitimate copies of software, music, movies, etc as if they are genuine IS piracy, but if there is no money involved, by my morals, it is not wrong.
I know the laws have been bent to treat "intellectual property" ( the term in itself is offensive to me ) as real property, but is see no harm in trading or giving it away.
I have heard the argument that it denies money to the copyright holder, but has anyone considered that some one who uses or watches something for free, may not think it is worth what is being asked by the owner?
This is not a flame post, I know there are many here that have been brainwashed, but think if all the writings of the ages were protected by permanent copyright which the Microsofts of the world want.
All knowledge owned by some one.
if this were true, farmers would still be plowing their fields with sticks.
Cheers
Lots of laws need to be broken. Bad laws disobeyed get them changed. How do you feel about the 'criminal' blacks that rode in the front of the bus in Mongomery Alabama in the 60's. Clearly criminal, but was it wrong?
DRM is not about copyright infringement, it is about criminalizing not letting some one control how you use what you actually buy and pay for.
I am sick of hearing that not paying some media giant every time you hear some song, or watch some movie is piracy. I do not think it is, and I do not think there is naything wrong with sharing it for free.
What I think copyright piracy is, it to make counterfeit CD's DVD's etc and selling them for money.
I see nothing at all wrong with sharing software, movies, songs, books, etc as long as you are not representing them to be original or charging for them.
Is this the way the laws are today? , nope, cause we have corrupt politicos doing the bidding of the big media companies that finance their campaigns.
So if my conscience tells me some law is wrong, unfair, or unjust, oh well.
Bad laws need to be broken often enough to make them change.
Looks at the 09 f9 thing, people have just had enough silliness with this.
Cheers
This is really total bull shit. Drug companies spend very little on R&D and most of their expenses are marketing, legal, insurance, and obscene bonuses for executives.
Eminent domain is needed for cases like this where the need of the people outweigh the need for a ceo to trim his jet interior in pure gold.
Good for Brazil
Noe Office runs fine, loads fast on my Duel G5 Powermac, of course complex DNA simulation software would too. Loading it on one of my 1st generation Mac Mini's is analogous to hitting it with a sledge hammer.
Go sun , I would love native OO.org on my Mac's
Cheers
I think it is actually funny that in order to use Vista without it being maddeningly slow, you will need 4 ghz to have the same performance with a spreadsheet as you would under CP/M with 4 Mhz.
Really says a lot on what happens when you let a monopoly like Microsoft exist, and dictate what utter garbage you will use.
Cheers
No, they are stupid and / or lazy. The same goes for people that use AOL. There is no way to sugar coat it. They are simply dumb.
It's like the 2 main reasons to use Windows.
1: You are to cheap to buy a Mac
or
2: You are to stupid to use Linux.
Try as you might, there really is no excuse.
Cheers
True, I was being to PC for here
Just reading this patent is chilling. How can the Patent Office even consider this as new and inovative when the NSA does this to us already. Hell Xerox might have been the contractor for them using this for all we know, and now want to patent this technique.
This should not be patentable here or anywhere else.
No software should be patentable.
I wait to see the patent for chewing your food thoroughly before swallowing.
Cheers
Great observation, and that makes perfect sense. This would be typical M$ behavior. Another reason that breaking up M$ should be a prime focus of the US government.
It should have happened before.
Cheers
First off, this really shows who congress serves, large contributors, and not the people. "Piracy" is being defined as the use of copyrighted works for any purpose without paying some big company. This is not the case, Fair Use allows many types of copying and use of copyrighted materials without any royalty being due.
This is the problem of the RIAA and MPAA not the government.
If the &^AA thinks they find individual probles , let them take action using civil law.
Subsidizing the biased terror tactics of the &^AA's and the BSA is clearly using our government power to unjustly enrich these greedy and evil entity's.
Public Funding of elections is what is really needed to stop this.
Cheers
Microsoft isnt going to have to open their code, just the format. Remember Microsoft is a CONVICTED MONOPOLIST here in the US. This is no different than a pedophile having to register their address with the police.
With true interoperability, then competitors such as Openoffice.org or Mplayer can compete on technology.
There is no reason Microsoft should be allowed to keep protocols or codecs for media secret, and absoultly no basis to charge for them.
there are not Copyright able and patents do not apply every where. Patents should not apply to software in the USA either.
Cheers
No matter what OS comes on this, I will bet that the usual Microsoft Tax is still included.
We should have broken up Microsoft during the DOJ trial, but I think this could be renewed as soon as the White House switches parties. This time , put some real muscle behind it and break up Microsoft.
The USA needs to do this to even think of remaining competitive with the rest of the world.
Cheers
It is not so much as a racial divide but more an " undesirable " divide.
When I was in New York, I noticed parks filled with weirdos just lurking about. I think it was Washington Park , but I am probably wrong. That would never happen in Chicago, the cops would roust out the lurkers and weirdos and send them off.
You can go to the Lake front any time of the day or night, or Lincoln Park and the New York style creepy lurkers just are not present. They aren't welcome in Millennium Park or Grant Park, or along the Magnificent mile.
When you are at the Water Tower, you will not be bothered by homeless people begging, or the New York type hustlers.
There is a real difference.
Cheers
The public housing project was named Marcy House. I may have had the wrong bridge, but the place was scary.
Cheers
This is an example of how broken our patent system is. Prior art goes back to Tesla, where over 100 years ago he transmitted 100 Watts of AC power 100 miles and recovered 97 Watts of energy. Secondly all RFID chips use this to power themselves. There is NOTHING innovative or novel in this device and it never ever should have been granted a patent.
I really wonder how far our world could have advanced in the last 200 years if patents either didn't exist or were structured in such a way that they were much more limited in scope.
Another bad day for us for 17 years.
Cheers
I live near Chicago ( Joliet ) and travel extensively through ought the USA. "Safest"? and New York do not belong in the same sentence in my opinion. To me, New York is just NASTY. I did a job just across the Brooklyn Bridge in Williamsburg at a public housing project. The guards there leave after dark for fear of being shot.
I think one of the reasons that New York politico's don't like the New York / Liberty City parallel is that it is just to close to home, and NYC really is very similar to the virtual world inside GTA.
Chicago is a much nicer, safer, cleaner and just better city than New York. Notice that game makers don't generally use it.
Cheers
First off, I would never buy hardware from HP again. Secondly, I would go down to my local county court house, and file a claim in small claims court for the amount that I paid for the HP computer, then go over to the post office and send the complaint to HP by registered mail.
Total cost, about 16 bux and an hours time.
Now, HP could decided to help you, return your money, or send an attorney to BFE where you live to defend the case.
If they do nothing, you go to court and get a default judgment for the cost of they system. Another hour on your part.
So, they will honor the warranty linux or not, you just have to not lie down for their Microsoft inspired tactics.
Large corporations will try this all the time, you just have to make the effort to stop them.
Cheers
I think you dont give M$ enough credit. I think they employ folks to test and evaluate how far they can push push consumers ( aka sheep ) before they actually bolt.
M$ is serving themselves, the RIAA, and the MPAA with Vista, not you.
I think they have very carefully examined this and many more yet to be discovered issues and have figured out how bad they can make it for consumers while serving their real customers, big business and the govenment.
Give them more credit, they are good at this.
Cheers
Compressing air with a windmill is a perfect application. With enough storage capacity at home, you would truly be free of evil energy companies. The intermittent nature of wind power lends itself perfectly to compressing air.
Wow, this could really work!
Cheers
People who work at M$ are not inherently evil, but the management is. Dirty tricks, destroying and sewing salt in the fields of any competition real or perceived, no matter how small is what brought the Justice Department to seek and convict M$ of being an illegal monopoly in the first place.
I think it is sad, how frustrated business underlings look up to these practices with gloat and envy.
In reality the business practices of M$ hurts innovation, and has slowed or stalled the entire computer industry. History will look back on this as an anomaly.
Those that look up to the practices of M$ do so out of inner frustration of life and think that allying themselves with M$ will somehow fill some sick missing part of their lives and empower them.
Without Godwinizing this post, this tactic has been used before many times by the powerfull to control the weak, weather in business or goverment.
It is a sad thing, that our government did not break up M$ under anti trust laws and I believe it will in the long run hurt our economy.
The perverted greed of Gates and Ballmer is nothing to look up to.
Cheers
One thing that isn't mentioned by the Viacoms of the world is fair use. The should be no royalty needed to show clips. Google is not broadcasting TV, they are not showing movies, THEY arent even showing the short clips in low quality 3" across.
How greedy can a company such as Viacomm be?
In any case the people that post this have a right to because the videos are generally excerpts which are protected under fair use and no royalties are owned to anyone, 2nd I think this format ( low quality small size ) should be protected under fair use as well, but we will see on that.
I think this whole thing is just baseless greed on Viacom's part.
Cheers
In the united States, because of Diebold, we don't even need 20%.
Cheers
Well, CUSTOMERS would know the difference, consumer sheep probably wont know any better. Is this a surprise that M$ profits from the ignorant?
Cheers
I travel to Canada quite a bit, and one thing I find there is a general respect for the law. But, respect works both ways and fair use is fair use.
Just because the US was pressured into these silly ideas of Intellectual Property Owners can rule your mind, doest make them right.
I think what the Riaa and Mpaa are worried about is that Canadians are still customers to be sold, not consumers to be culled.
There are very few places on earth that are as fair and law abiding as Canada, but when we ask them to enact silly DMCA like laws, they might just not agree they want them.
Remember, there is no such thing as Intellectual Property ownership, just a limited monopoly on the rights of distribution, excepting fair use.
The whole world could learn from Canada on this.
Cheers