There is a BIG difference between verbally disagreeing with someone and threatening to kill someone. As many times as this kind of thing happens today, yes, we have to investigate these kinds of threats. Now see, I've disagreed, told you my points and not threatened anything. Free speech.
Completely agree. It takes time for anyone to become respected. People have to get to know you and trust has to be built. The good thing is, young people always get older, so if the respect is deserved, it will come. Patience.
Libraries lend out video tapes and one could argue that it would be much cheaper for libraries to buy one and make copies for the branches, but they don't. If the books are on media like CD's, I don't see a library burning copies. They will purchase books on media just like they purchase the videos now. (or get donation copies, but those are originals and have been paid for).
You feel more sorry for 6 college kids that spend a night in jail and have stories for thier grandkids than you do for 10 dead kids? I do care if kids are killed in other states because tomorrow it could be mine.
Right on... With the apprehention of several students planning "Columbine copy-cat" type attacks, this kind of thing is going to happen. I am not even sure we would want it to stop, at least investigating something that seems like it could be a problem. To you and I this web-site is just a StarCraft website, but to non-techies it has a lot of features that would make them nervous. While law enforcement is already jumpy from all the school attacks, we can expect them to be a little cautious. I would rather them be a little cautious than read about 10 dead students tommorow. Hopefully the boys in this story will have all their stuff returned quickly and get back to life as usual.
This is just propaganda put out so the next time the government wants a backdoor key put in encryption algorithms, John Q. Public won't worry so much about their privacy.
As I remember, he had to stitch his address into the sleaves of his clothes so when he went for a walk and got lost he could ask directions back to his place. Wish I were that stupid.
That goes along with what I was trying to say. If the end user doesn't get some value from a new method they won't buy into it. Tapes offered recordablity, and a compact size. There weren't many turntables in cars, but tapes were easily listened to in cars. When CD's were introduced, the argument was lifetime durability and superior quality. Consumers felt there was value. If record companies introduce a new standard whose only new feature is copy-protection, people will not buy it. Now, if there is a new system out that offers some compelling new feature that makes it take hold, it will only be a matter of time before copy protection is broken. It may not be right away, but everything can be broken anyway. I completely agree with you though, a secure system that offers nothing else will not be the "next" audio format. It will be the next DivX.
This is exactly what will happen. When technology get prohibitively difficult to use people will not buy it. Record companies are going to sell what people want to buy, that's how the free market works. If every CD maker out there now goes to some format nobody buys, a new company will emerge that sells what people want to buy. If memory is correct there was a spreadsheet company in the early years of computing that owned the spreadsheet market but because of some dongle protection scheme lost out because they were just too difficult to use. I seriously think this will be Microsoft's undoing also. When copy protection starts to get in the way of the regular user, they will seek out something easier.
How is this any different than in the past? Vinyl records gave way to cassette tape. All of a sudden we had this NEW feature of recording. Cassette tapes gave way to CD's. Nobody had CD recorders but that didn't stop them from becoming mainstream. They offered something to people; better performance. Now we can record again and everyone is saying that "they" will just force another format on us. It won't sell unless it has something to offer and if it does become mainstream, then 10 years from now chances are we will be able to copy it.
To quote: "If Windows had to be bought separately, some people would share it for free over the Internet instead of paying for it, just as if it were a song on Napster. "
This shouldn't sound far-fetched. It is happening already.
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There is a BIG difference between verbally disagreeing with someone and threatening to kill someone. As many times as this kind of thing happens today, yes, we have to investigate these kinds of threats. Now see, I've disagreed, told you my points and not threatened anything. Free speech.
Completely agree. It takes time for anyone to become respected. People have to get to know you and trust has to be built. The good thing is, young people always get older, so if the respect is deserved, it will come. Patience.
Libraries lend out video tapes and one could argue that it would be much cheaper for libraries to buy one and make copies for the branches, but they don't. If the books are on media like CD's, I don't see a library burning copies. They will purchase books on media just like they purchase the videos now. (or get donation copies, but those are originals and have been paid for).
You feel more sorry for 6 college kids that spend a night in jail and have stories for thier grandkids than you do for 10 dead kids? I do care if kids are killed in other states because tomorrow it could be mine.
That is what they did. Granted their methods are different then ours, but so is their profesion.
Right on... With the apprehention of several students planning "Columbine copy-cat" type attacks, this kind of thing is going to happen. I am not even sure we would want it to stop, at least investigating something that seems like it could be a problem. To you and I this web-site is just a StarCraft website, but to non-techies it has a lot of features that would make them nervous. While law enforcement is already jumpy from all the school attacks, we can expect them to be a little cautious. I would rather them be a little cautious than read about 10 dead students tommorow. Hopefully the boys in this story will have all their stuff returned quickly and get back to life as usual.
This is just propaganda put out so the next time the government wants a backdoor key put in encryption algorithms, John Q. Public won't worry so much about their privacy.
As I remember, he had to stitch his address into the sleaves of his clothes so when he went for a walk and got lost he could ask directions back to his place. Wish I were that stupid.
That goes along with what I was trying to say. If the end user doesn't get some value from a new method they won't buy into it. Tapes offered recordablity, and a compact size. There weren't many turntables in cars, but tapes were easily listened to in cars. When CD's were introduced, the argument was lifetime durability and superior quality. Consumers felt there was value. If record companies introduce a new standard whose only new feature is copy-protection, people will not buy it. Now, if there is a new system out that offers some compelling new feature that makes it take hold, it will only be a matter of time before copy protection is broken. It may not be right away, but everything can be broken anyway. I completely agree with you though, a secure system that offers nothing else will not be the "next" audio format. It will be the next DivX.
This is exactly what will happen. When technology get prohibitively difficult to use people will not buy it. Record companies are going to sell what people want to buy, that's how the free market works. If every CD maker out there now goes to some format nobody buys, a new company will emerge that sells what people want to buy. If memory is correct there was a spreadsheet company in the early years of computing that owned the spreadsheet market but because of some dongle protection scheme lost out because they were just too difficult to use. I seriously think this will be Microsoft's undoing also. When copy protection starts to get in the way of the regular user, they will seek out something easier.
How is this any different than in the past? Vinyl records gave way to cassette tape. All of a sudden we had this NEW feature of recording. Cassette tapes gave way to CD's. Nobody had CD recorders but that didn't stop them from becoming mainstream. They offered something to people; better performance. Now we can record again and everyone is saying that "they" will just force another format on us. It won't sell unless it has something to offer and if it does become mainstream, then 10 years from now chances are we will be able to copy it.
To quote: "If Windows had to be bought separately, some people would share it for free over the Internet instead of paying for it, just as if it were a song on Napster. "
This shouldn't sound far-fetched. It is happening already.