I'd imagine it to be much cheaper to run one access point, wireless, to allow many recipients service, than to pay for multiple independent connections.
Question to those who'd know: Why didn't SVG support ever get into Mozilla/Firefox? IIRC, it was always "just over the horizon", or "available, but only as a plugin". Unfortunately, with today's web user, anything that requires a seperate plugin download is pretty much moot as a mainstream usable technology.
The problem with governmentally-enforced "rating flags" is that someone still has to make the distinctions, and once distinctions are made, and content is pigeonholed, one person's "controvertial but meritous" content can easily get thrown out as someone else's "completely indecent" content.
Of course, I have no qualms with privately-enforced ratings, however, like the MPAA system, since there are still alternatives out there.
Hiring someone and not paying them has always been my preferred analogy. Although the artist doesn't lose anything in the deal, they aren't gaining what they rightfully should be. The fact that the work done can be redistributed easily via the medium does not negate the fact that work has been done.
As for the product not being available where you are: What makes you so entitled? The fact that the distributor does not want to sell you that product does not give you the right to just take it. That's the artist/seller/distributor's perogative(sp?). Some artists or distributors may give up those rights in various measures, by putting copies out to the open market, but if they don't, that's their right....
(Yeah, I did just want to get into a Copyright Fight. Any takers?)
I cite Trillian as a counterpoint, where "skinnability" has gone too far. The XML skinnability allows skin developers to completely change the UI of the program in the skin, moving, adding, and removing elements. Although I've settled on a skin now (AikonLCD), I had trouble looking through different skins, because it involved me re-learning the program after making what should have been only a minor visual change.
I would also cite something like Winamp3 skins (or other media players, but there isn't as much of a problem with wildly modified UIs there, since the scope of the program basically only consists of "Play", "Pause", "Stop", "FF", and "Rew", and it's difficult to make an unintuitive UI for that.
My Internet is Port-25-out blocked, but I'm staying with them, because other than that, they have exceptional service for the price, compared to anyone else in the area. It's TDS Metrocom DSL, 760kbps synchronous, observed rate is about 700+kbps either way, and it's roughly $40-45/mo. Good tech support, too. One of their people was actually a.) knowledgable and b.) courteous enough to go over some of the finer points of DSL networking when I was trying to diagnose what turned out to be a faulty DSL modem.
Back to the point, though...
I was talking to the tech support person about Port 25 Out blocking, and they brought up a good point: The mass of idiotry, the DSL customers of the area, were on their way to getting the IP range blacklisted from mass virus-infected spammers. Although I, and all the other customers, would be "more free" having port 25 open, realistically, I would have a much less useful service when my emails started getting bounced and spam-flagged.
The only thing I can fault them for is making it unconditional, not even letting people have access to port again if they called tech support. Other than that, they would either have to resort to a more "snooping" method of filtering, require specialized software, or end up getting blacklisted.
Luckily, my hosting provider (Just-hosting.com... they get props, too) allows port 26 SMTP connections, in anticipation of this, and everything is smooth sailing.
You'll get the data files, but not the "buy" or "create whatever you want" parts, because that would eliminate valuable business opportunities for people who never wrote or played a line of music in their lives. (emph mine.)
Oh, how much I hate this oversimplified view of things. This is not an economy of force, so until someone comes up with a better idea of why music labels still sign bands and make money (hypnosis?), I must come to the conclusion that PERHAPS, in SOME SMALL WAY, record labels... even MAJOR record labels... provide value and services beyond that which the artist is willing or able to supply on their own.
For the artist that isn't a self-promotional genius, labels do fill a role, and should be cut in on the compensation.
This is true, and my personal stance on mixtaping would probably rest similarily to yours.
It's different now, though.
Whereas a mixtape is a form of sharing that involves time and thought on the part of the (second-generation) creator, and one could argue (although not legally) that something significantly greater than the original track set was created. With the vast majority of disc-duping and filesharing, though, it's not an act of creation, it's pure consumption. Type in the name, hit "send". Sharing of that sort has little purpose outside that which is in direct opposition to the word and spirit of copyright law.
That's why the RIAA, et al aren't suing person-to-person mixtapers. It's mostly superpeers and commercial traders.
The idea that re-viewing the same, already taken pictures somehow re-offends against the subject is farfetched, save for the edge cases where extremely wide dissemination makes the victim a "celeberity".
I think we're just quibbling over semantics, though.
I'd put forth that if someone is looking at an empty "scene", they would have more of a chance of identifying the location than they would if there was a distracting and out-of-place block-out in the middle of the picture.
Would Superman be effective if he had to get a search warrant before each and every time he used his x-ray vision?
Would we have cheered at Murtaugh if he honored that guy's "Diplomatic Immunity" in Lethal Weapon? (or was it LW2?)
Perhaps in the fictional world of well-defined villains and innocents, but in the real world of misconceptions, mistakes, gray areas, and lies, "Kill first, ask questions later" is by no means a reasonable policy of justice.
I'll give you some ground on Washington, although the final outcome of revolution was against the system of justice itself.
Adult-child sex is illegal because it is the overwhelming opinion of the law-drafting masses that children do not posess the mental or emotional faculties to make a rational decision about their sex lives. Hence, the child's "consent" is void in sexual situations, and the action is being done "to" the child, not "with" the child (since s/he cannot consent).
Vigilantes tend not to follow the "due process of law", or have the necessary abilities of second-guessing and discrimination that a government's licensed-and-regulated legal system has.
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I'd imagine it to be much cheaper to run one access point, wireless, to allow many recipients service, than to pay for multiple independent connections.
Not that I think the Gov't should be backing it.
You're right! After reading your well reasoned and delivered counterpoint, I completely understand and agree with your stated position.
Question to those who'd know: Why didn't SVG support ever get into Mozilla/Firefox? IIRC, it was always "just over the horizon", or "available, but only as a plugin". Unfortunately, with today's web user, anything that requires a seperate plugin download is pretty much moot as a mainstream usable technology.
The problem with governmentally-enforced "rating flags" is that someone still has to make the distinctions, and once distinctions are made, and content is pigeonholed, one person's "controvertial but meritous" content can easily get thrown out as someone else's "completely indecent" content.
Of course, I have no qualms with privately-enforced ratings, however, like the MPAA system, since there are still alternatives out there.
Okay, I'm a little late on the reply, but still...
Because I believe I am. Its that simple. If you won't give me a chance to have what I want in a reasonable way, I will take it.
So you'd have no problem with me breaking into your car at night and driving it away after you refused to sell it to me for a fiver, right?
If you don't want to share your car with everyone, don't bother doing the work to afford it.
The trick is not to go into the room.
Hiring someone and not paying them has always been my preferred analogy. Although the artist doesn't lose anything in the deal, they aren't gaining what they rightfully should be. The fact that the work done can be redistributed easily via the medium does not negate the fact that work has been done.
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As for the product not being available where you are: What makes you so entitled? The fact that the distributor does not want to sell you that product does not give you the right to just take it. That's the artist/seller/distributor's perogative(sp?). Some artists or distributors may give up those rights in various measures, by putting copies out to the open market, but if they don't, that's their right.
(Yeah, I did just want to get into a Copyright Fight. Any takers?)
...do something about it that doesn't involve breaking the law.
Or at least break the law creatively and demonstratively (civil disobedience), then suck it up and take your knocks when you get caught.
Now that's convenient!
The normal task of using a credit card:
1.) Get out your wallet.
2.) Get out the card.
3.) Place the card in the reader
4.) Swipe downward
That Step 4 was just killing me!
Aaaaand... the merchant gets screwed.
Downloaded: winrar_3.24_REGISTERED.rar
Wait...
I cite Trillian as a counterpoint, where "skinnability" has gone too far. The XML skinnability allows skin developers to completely change the UI of the program in the skin, moving, adding, and removing elements. Although I've settled on a skin now (AikonLCD), I had trouble looking through different skins, because it involved me re-learning the program after making what should have been only a minor visual change.
I would also cite something like Winamp3 skins (or other media players, but there isn't as much of a problem with wildly modified UIs there, since the scope of the program basically only consists of "Play", "Pause", "Stop", "FF", and "Rew", and it's difficult to make an unintuitive UI for that.
It might be if you agree to a contract saying you won't, which is likely the case.
My Internet is Port-25-out blocked, but I'm staying with them, because other than that, they have exceptional service for the price, compared to anyone else in the area. It's TDS Metrocom DSL, 760kbps synchronous, observed rate is about 700+kbps either way, and it's roughly $40-45/mo. Good tech support, too. One of their people was actually a.) knowledgable and b.) courteous enough to go over some of the finer points of DSL networking when I was trying to diagnose what turned out to be a faulty DSL modem.
... they get props, too) allows port 26 SMTP connections, in anticipation of this, and everything is smooth sailing.
Back to the point, though...
I was talking to the tech support person about Port 25 Out blocking, and they brought up a good point: The mass of idiotry, the DSL customers of the area, were on their way to getting the IP range blacklisted from mass virus-infected spammers. Although I, and all the other customers, would be "more free" having port 25 open, realistically, I would have a much less useful service when my emails started getting bounced and spam-flagged.
The only thing I can fault them for is making it unconditional, not even letting people have access to port again if they called tech support. Other than that, they would either have to resort to a more "snooping" method of filtering, require specialized software, or end up getting blacklisted.
Luckily, my hosting provider (Just-hosting.com
Well you confirm that not only are you a fucking moron, but also functionally illiterate...
You are an inspiration to us all.
You'll get the data files, but not the "buy" or "create whatever you want" parts, because that would eliminate valuable business opportunities for people who never wrote or played a line of music in their lives. (emph mine.)
Oh, how much I hate this oversimplified view of things. This is not an economy of force, so until someone comes up with a better idea of why music labels still sign bands and make money (hypnosis?), I must come to the conclusion that PERHAPS, in SOME SMALL WAY, record labels... even MAJOR record labels... provide value and services beyond that which the artist is willing or able to supply on their own.
For the artist that isn't a self-promotional genius, labels do fill a role, and should be cut in on the compensation.
This is true, and my personal stance on mixtaping would probably rest similarily to yours.
It's different now, though.
Whereas a mixtape is a form of sharing that involves time and thought on the part of the (second-generation) creator, and one could argue (although not legally) that something significantly greater than the original track set was created. With the vast majority of disc-duping and filesharing, though, it's not an act of creation, it's pure consumption. Type in the name, hit "send". Sharing of that sort has little purpose outside that which is in direct opposition to the word and spirit of copyright law.
That's why the RIAA, et al aren't suing person-to-person mixtapers. It's mostly superpeers and commercial traders.
Let's just hope those puppies aren't Roundup Ready.
Fair 'nuff.
(Note to self: Remember to RTFGPP from now on.)
The nice thing is that now you can tailor your gasbag to your specific likes and dislikes.
I'll agree with that.
The idea that re-viewing the same, already taken pictures somehow re-offends against the subject is farfetched, save for the edge cases where extremely wide dissemination makes the victim a "celeberity".
I think we're just quibbling over semantics, though.
I'd put forth that if someone is looking at an empty "scene", they would have more of a chance of identifying the location than they would if there was a distracting and out-of-place block-out in the middle of the picture.
Would Superman be effective if he had to get a search warrant before each and every time he used his x-ray vision?
Would we have cheered at Murtaugh if he honored that guy's "Diplomatic Immunity" in Lethal Weapon? (or was it LW2?)
Perhaps in the fictional world of well-defined villains and innocents, but in the real world of misconceptions, mistakes, gray areas, and lies, "Kill first, ask questions later" is by no means a reasonable policy of justice.
I'll give you some ground on Washington, although the final outcome of revolution was against the system of justice itself.
Adult-child sex is illegal because it is the overwhelming opinion of the law-drafting masses that children do not posess the mental or emotional faculties to make a rational decision about their sex lives. Hence, the child's "consent" is void in sexual situations, and the action is being done "to" the child, not "with" the child (since s/he cannot consent).
Vigilantes tend not to follow the "due process of law", or have the necessary abilities of second-guessing and discrimination that a government's licensed-and-regulated legal system has.