He's driving traffic to their site! Companies spend thousands of dollars to get hits to their sites. Some even resort to dreadful spam campaigns....and here, 2600 is driving traffic to their site without even recieving payment from Ford. Where's the beef?
BS are the same ones that can stop it. --- For those of you who haven't accepted that corporations are the fourth unelected branch of the government you can stop reading.
You can't do much about the 4th unelected branch of government -- but you can work on the elected legislative branch. They need to see these kinds of articles and know that their constiuents are completely opposed to them, and other abused that will stem from the DMCA's wording. Perhaps it's time to lobby for a consumers bill of rights. Either way -- 99% of email directed towards politicians is simply ignored. Nothing beats calling your reps on the phone and the good ol' pen and paper. It doesn't hurt to email too -...but definitely write & call. We already have literally hundreds of laws dealing with piracy in addition to the DMCA... The provisions in the DMCA simply aren't needed. As long as they stand we are going to see a lot more of this. Are you ready for a graphics card with a user license that you don't actually own?...How about a hard drive with built in censoring of media types?.... I'm sure it's crossed the minds of someone in 4th branch....
Though I'm not in the IT industry (I work in health care), my employer handles oncall at the rate of $75 a night for Pharmacist, and $50 a night for everyone else....and if I get called out, the hours from when I leave my house till when I actually get home are billable. I consider this a fair practice and adequate compensation.
Tim'
I think it's less that users don't care, and more that users are not aware, nor are the fixes always simple. What do you expect you when you make a GUI interface that gets people onto the net with little technical skill, but then wont allow them to edit these types of privacy settings with the same lack of technical skill? You get what we have know. Some of it's probably there by design (evil conspiracy?), and some of it purely uninteded consequence of trying to add new features to the web.
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He's driving traffic to their site! Companies spend thousands of dollars to get hits to their sites. Some even resort to dreadful spam campaigns....and here, 2600 is driving traffic to their site without even recieving payment from Ford. Where's the beef?
BS are the same ones that can stop it. --- For those of you who haven't accepted that corporations are the fourth unelected branch of the government you can stop reading. You can't do much about the 4th unelected branch of government -- but you can work on the elected legislative branch. They need to see these kinds of articles and know that their constiuents are completely opposed to them, and other abused that will stem from the DMCA's wording. Perhaps it's time to lobby for a consumers bill of rights. Either way -- 99% of email directed towards politicians is simply ignored. Nothing beats calling your reps on the phone and the good ol' pen and paper. It doesn't hurt to email too -...but definitely write & call. We already have literally hundreds of laws dealing with piracy in addition to the DMCA... The provisions in the DMCA simply aren't needed. As long as they stand we are going to see a lot more of this. Are you ready for a graphics card with a user license that you don't actually own? ...How about a hard drive with built in censoring of media types? .... I'm sure it's crossed the minds of someone in 4th branch....
Though I'm not in the IT industry (I work in health care), my employer handles oncall at the rate of $75 a night for Pharmacist, and $50 a night for everyone else. ...and if I get called out, the hours from when I leave my house till when I actually get home are billable. I consider this a fair practice and adequate compensation.
Tim'
I think it's less that users don't care, and more that users are not aware, nor are the fixes always simple. What do you expect you when you make a GUI interface that gets people onto the net with little technical skill, but then wont allow them to edit these types of privacy settings with the same lack of technical skill? You get what we have know. Some of it's probably there by design (evil conspiracy?), and some of it purely uninteded consequence of trying to add new features to the web.