Bullshit. Only people with a vested interest in "intellectual property" call it theft. Not even the law considers it theft, but you keep on insisting it is.
When the FBI raided those computer networks for the Half-Life 2 source code, they were raiding for intellectual property theft.
Yes, it is theft--both legally, logically, and ethically. Go ahead and justify your piracy though.
When you take intellectual property without paying for it, you have stolen intellectual property. Same reason Slashdot reports on "GPL theft" (violating the copyright of the GPL), not to mention identity theft.
Why Slashbots continue to be hung up on the use of this simple word which describes a simple violation of the law amazes me. Anything to argue, I guess. Or remove the stigma of "thief" from an online pirate (which is the topic where this argument comes from).
You're saying in all of the bible, one word--"behometh"--is now refers to the giant lizardsthat walked the earth alongside man? Just one single reference?!
What a stretch. You're looking for things to fit the description, and you find "behometh" and say, "There! It's describing a dinosaur." Not convincing.
The Hebrew meaning for the word behometh was "giant, kingly beast." Do you realize how many of those we have around? The word "Behemoth" is not a direct translation; it is a transliteration. Which means that the original Hebrew letters were substituted with the equivalent English letters to enable us to pronounce it, because translators didn't know what to do with the word when they came across it.
Instead of creating "secret" networks whose sole use will be outright copyright violation, why not just use what we have that's legal? They sell CDs for 11.99 a pop at my store, they sell CD singles for even less, there's a radio and online radio that lets you "sample" things, and we've got countless music services now including the popular iTunes music store.
Sorry, kids, but just because you don't like DRM, or you don't like the price of something, or you think it's "heavy-handed tactics" (actual phrase used elsewhere in this discussion) to sue people infringing on your own copyright, doesn't mean the copyright magically transfers over to you for you to pirate endlessly across the Internet.
Why is it we all get up in arms when a company dares violate the copyright of the GPL, but when it comes to violating the rights of those who aren't on "our side," it's suddenly a "gray area?"
Finding Nemo was the most adult movie Pixar has made. The mother dies in a scary scene, and all the babies are eaten but one. I remember people gossiping about it online, wondering why they would have such a scary scene in a "kid's movie."
The whole film is about parenthood. You seriously didn't get that? To a kid, it's a fun flick about colorful fish, but to an adult, it touches on adult emotions as well. I thought Finding Nemo was the most strangely tragic of all their films--the guy loses his wife, all his other kids, and has to raise one all by himsef, and he's freaked out about anything happening to him.
Toy Story 2 touched on growing older and losing childhood. I mean, come on. Pixar's movies aren't really "geared" toward anybody. They just are what they are. An adult film doesn't mean it has guns, blood, or serious drama. It can just as well be a comedy with a bunch of CG animated fish and still be adult-enjoyable as ever. People who think otherwise are just embarrassed that they watch movies with CG animated fish and want to be cool.
(2) God put it there as some kind of sneaky plan to fool most of us into thinking creationism is ignorant nonsens
"Does it bother anyone else that God...just might be fucking with our heads? 'Huhuhuh...I'm a prankster god! I kill me.'" -- Bill Hicks on the theory that fossils are a test of faith
I've seen at least 10 of the same jokes in these first 30 comments about what McBride "really" meant. Okay, we get it. You're trying to get a Funny. Darl must have been referring to the basis for his case, or his stock quote. Haha.
This is Slashdot, where we must meet our daily quota of something to bitch about. If it wasn't an SCO article, it would be a Microsoft or RIAA article in its place. This site has become a brick wall where people spraypaint their geek frustrations all over it and revel in the shared agreement they find with others here, because outside of Slashdot nobody cares all that much. "RIAA who?"
I guess the point of this article is to get Slashdot pirates to nod their heads with the flock and say, "SEE, PIRACY HELPS SALES!"
I mean, seriously. This has to be the most pointless article posted today. It has no other reason than to incite RIAA-bashing for no reason. "The RIAA cites piracy as a loss of sales! How dare they!" The only logical reason one would say that is because they support illegal piracy...which Slashdot doesn't...does it?
I think some people don't understand that AIDS is a syndrome, while HIV is the actual virus that causes it. AIDS means the immune system has reached a certain point of ineffectiveness due to HIV. That's why it can take years to be diagnosed with AIDS--HIV is destroying the immune system during that time. The period of time after HIV infection causes AIDS varies with each case.
Nobody's buying "protection." They're buying a download service so that the students don't go illegally pirating artists' materials and rip them off, and can instead download music legally where people get compensated for their works (gasp, the horror!).
Your obvious implication is that the RIAA is like the Mafia. What propaganda.
What has the RIAA done wrong by suing downloaders? And artists willingly sign their contracts. Nobody is holding a gun to their heads.
It's just become accepted truth that the RIAA is evil around here. People assume it's true because others assume it's true, and others before them. Sure, there are cases where artists get unhappy with their contracts, but that happens in any industry centered on contracts, and it's not the norm.
It's really, really simple. Slashdotters try to justify piracy as some sort of movement, but when things like the RIAA suits happen they get up in arms. It just goes to show you the real concern is just getting things for free. As you pointed out, Slashdotters were saying the RIAA should do that very thing, sue individual downloaders, then they do and suddenly that's evil too--protecting your own copyrights.
I'll remember that the next time a GPL violation article gets posted, and some company is accused of being evil for daring violate the copyright of the GPL, when thousands of Slashdotters violate the copyrights of people they've never met every day.
Uh, if the RIAA is suing you, it's because you are illegally infringing their copyright, and they have full right to sue you. How are you one of their customers if you're not paying for their content?
The RIAA doesn't sue customers, it sues pirates who are avoiding paying for their copyrighted materials, violating copyright holder rights. If you're a customer, you've legally paid for the material in some way and aren't on Kazaa ripping artists off.
The answer is no. Students won't pay $3 when they can just fire up Kazaa or eMule for free. Piracy is that much of an epidemic. People simply want things for free, and it has nothing to do with culture movements, anti-RIAA movements, or any other justifications pirates give.
Yeah, it's hard to imagine why, in the year since its announcement, no one has made any significant progress on Y.
No one has made any significant progress? Have you visited the IRC channel? Did you know they release patches constantly, and that they plan a 1.0 release within a year? The developers are concentrating on widgets right now.
Or not. Maybe developing a new window system from scratch is both hard and pointless at this point in history?
You're right, let's stick to copying and sticking with the same 20+ year old technology, while Apple, Microsoft, and everyone else starts anew with modern tech.
It's a bit hard to do awesome realism when you're running on an NES or an SNES, isn't it? Cartoon looks is the best you're going to get due to limited colors.
Ocarina of Time was a mix of realistic cartoonish, a bit like the PSX Final Fantasy games--which is exactly what this new Zelda looks like.
To think the extremely toon-shaded Wind Waker graphics had a look similar to that of Ocarina of Time is stretching it.
Binary installation/uninstallation API. Adobe's not gonna give you RPMs, sorry. Give them a desktop installer so that you can pop in an Autoplay CD and get to work.
Innovation. People here bitch about Microsoft, then rip them off by stealing their taskbar, "start menu", integrated filesystem and net browser, and so forth. Taskbars are one of the most horrible developments in application design that it sickens me that Linux desktop developers think you "have" to have it because Microsoft has it. Start menu? That's even worse. God, please come up with something new and intuitive! We don't have to keep having a penis-size match with Microsoft all the time. They will always win in this area if all we do is keep chasing their tails. "Integrated browser? We'll have an integrated browser with 20 different sidebar buttons! Taskbar? We'll have a taskbar with 20 different panel applets!"
One sane programming library. Having choice when programming desktop APIs absolutely is detrimental to desktop progress. This idealistic, absolutist attitude that whenever you have endless choices, it is good, is BAD. We need an API on the level of Cocoa or.NET, because developers love those APIs.
The removal of X. X has been a thorn in the side of desktop development for two long. The Y-Windows paper describes why, and why they are creating a replacement from scratch. It will also be network-transparent and integrated. This hack of emulating a desktop on top of a library on top of a window manager on top of a graphics server is completely amateur and unprofessional.
Finally, an ATTITUDE CHANGE. Linux zealots kill Linux adoption, and have done more damage to the community than ever realized. This is absolute truth. You anti-social people out there who take out your insecurities on newbies who dare try out your beloved religion--I mean, operating system--need to get a life.
All in all, the Linux desktop need cut back on the information overload. People don't have time to keep track of all the knowledge required to use Linux as a desktop, and the horrible ways people emulate desktops on Linux actually contributes to the difficulty of Linux, not its ease-of-use. It's fine for Granny who will do nothing but use e-mail and the internet, because you can set everything up for her, but the average user who actually buys news hardware and drivers, installs new applications and removes them, does homework, and all the other things the average computer user does these days will have tough times compared to the much easier Windows XP.
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Bullshit. Only people with a vested interest in "intellectual property" call it theft. Not even the law considers it theft, but you keep on insisting it is.
When the FBI raided those computer networks for the Half-Life 2 source code, they were raiding for intellectual property theft.
Yes, it is theft--both legally, logically, and ethically. Go ahead and justify your piracy though.
When you take intellectual property without paying for it, you have stolen intellectual property. Same reason Slashdot reports on "GPL theft" (violating the copyright of the GPL), not to mention identity theft.
Why Slashbots continue to be hung up on the use of this simple word which describes a simple violation of the law amazes me. Anything to argue, I guess. Or remove the stigma of "thief" from an online pirate (which is the topic where this argument comes from).
You're saying in all of the bible, one word--"behometh"--is now refers to the giant lizardsthat walked the earth alongside man? Just one single reference?!
What a stretch. You're looking for things to fit the description, and you find "behometh" and say, "There! It's describing a dinosaur." Not convincing.
The Hebrew meaning for the word behometh was "giant, kingly beast." Do you realize how many of those we have around? The word "Behemoth" is not a direct translation; it is a transliteration. Which means that the original Hebrew letters were substituted with the equivalent English letters to enable us to pronounce it, because translators didn't know what to do with the word when they came across it.
What did she do, beam herself away with a transporter?
Big predator comes. Heads for eggs and wife. Fish blacks out, comes to, and eggs and wife are gone in an unusually dark plotline for Pixar.
Instead of creating "secret" networks whose sole use will be outright copyright violation, why not just use what we have that's legal? They sell CDs for 11.99 a pop at my store, they sell CD singles for even less, there's a radio and online radio that lets you "sample" things, and we've got countless music services now including the popular iTunes music store.
Sorry, kids, but just because you don't like DRM, or you don't like the price of something, or you think it's "heavy-handed tactics" (actual phrase used elsewhere in this discussion) to sue people infringing on your own copyright, doesn't mean the copyright magically transfers over to you for you to pirate endlessly across the Internet.
Why is it we all get up in arms when a company dares violate the copyright of the GPL, but when it comes to violating the rights of those who aren't on "our side," it's suddenly a "gray area?"
It's bullshit, is what that is.
The same reason Brits write "colour" even though it's not pronounced "col-hour." It's how your culture writes it.
Any person who calls the cultural differences of another society stupid is ignorant. Stop being a trendy counterculturalist.
Finding Nemo was the most adult movie Pixar has made. The mother dies in a scary scene, and all the babies are eaten but one. I remember people gossiping about it online, wondering why they would have such a scary scene in a "kid's movie."
The whole film is about parenthood. You seriously didn't get that? To a kid, it's a fun flick about colorful fish, but to an adult, it touches on adult emotions as well. I thought Finding Nemo was the most strangely tragic of all their films--the guy loses his wife, all his other kids, and has to raise one all by himsef, and he's freaked out about anything happening to him.
Toy Story 2 touched on growing older and losing childhood. I mean, come on. Pixar's movies aren't really "geared" toward anybody. They just are what they are. An adult film doesn't mean it has guns, blood, or serious drama. It can just as well be a comedy with a bunch of CG animated fish and still be adult-enjoyable as ever. People who think otherwise are just embarrassed that they watch movies with CG animated fish and want to be cool.
(2) God put it there as some kind of sneaky plan to fool most of us into thinking creationism is ignorant nonsens
"Does it bother anyone else that God...just might be fucking with our heads? 'Huhuhuh...I'm a prankster god! I kill me.'" -- Bill Hicks on the theory that fossils are a test of faith
...we get to hear even more hilarious tap-dancing explanations for this new evidence from Christian Scientists.
I think they're still dancing over the fact that dinosaurs were never mentioned in the Bible.
I've seen at least 10 of the same jokes in these first 30 comments about what McBride "really" meant. Okay, we get it. You're trying to get a Funny. Darl must have been referring to the basis for his case, or his stock quote. Haha.
Now, no more, please?
This is Slashdot, where we must meet our daily quota of something to bitch about. If it wasn't an SCO article, it would be a Microsoft or RIAA article in its place. This site has become a brick wall where people spraypaint their geek frustrations all over it and revel in the shared agreement they find with others here, because outside of Slashdot nobody cares all that much. "RIAA who?"
I guess the point of this article is to get Slashdot pirates to nod their heads with the flock and say, "SEE, PIRACY HELPS SALES!"
I mean, seriously. This has to be the most pointless article posted today. It has no other reason than to incite RIAA-bashing for no reason. "The RIAA cites piracy as a loss of sales! How dare they!" The only logical reason one would say that is because they support illegal piracy...which Slashdot doesn't...does it?
I think some people don't understand that AIDS is a syndrome, while HIV is the actual virus that causes it. AIDS means the immune system has reached a certain point of ineffectiveness due to HIV. That's why it can take years to be diagnosed with AIDS--HIV is destroying the immune system during that time. The period of time after HIV infection causes AIDS varies with each case.
After all, if SCO does it, gets sued, and settles, it's funny and bad and an illustration of how evil SCO is.
But when a pirate does it, gets sued, and settles, somehow it's evil that the RIAA sued in the first place and the pirate is the good guy martyr.
Nobody's buying "protection." They're buying a download service so that the students don't go illegally pirating artists' materials and rip them off, and can instead download music legally where people get compensated for their works (gasp, the horror!).
Your obvious implication is that the RIAA is like the Mafia. What propaganda.
Laws for what?
What has the RIAA done wrong by suing downloaders? And artists willingly sign their contracts. Nobody is holding a gun to their heads.
It's just become accepted truth that the RIAA is evil around here. People assume it's true because others assume it's true, and others before them. Sure, there are cases where artists get unhappy with their contracts, but that happens in any industry centered on contracts, and it's not the norm.
It's really, really simple. Slashdotters try to justify piracy as some sort of movement, but when things like the RIAA suits happen they get up in arms. It just goes to show you the real concern is just getting things for free. As you pointed out, Slashdotters were saying the RIAA should do that very thing, sue individual downloaders, then they do and suddenly that's evil too--protecting your own copyrights.
I'll remember that the next time a GPL violation article gets posted, and some company is accused of being evil for daring violate the copyright of the GPL, when thousands of Slashdotters violate the copyrights of people they've never met every day.
Uh, if the RIAA is suing you, it's because you are illegally infringing their copyright, and they have full right to sue you. How are you one of their customers if you're not paying for their content?
The RIAA doesn't sue customers, it sues pirates who are avoiding paying for their copyrighted materials, violating copyright holder rights. If you're a customer, you've legally paid for the material in some way and aren't on Kazaa ripping artists off.
Yeah, after the 20,000th time I heard that joke, it stopped being a little funny.
The answer is no. Students won't pay $3 when they can just fire up Kazaa or eMule for free. Piracy is that much of an epidemic. People simply want things for free, and it has nothing to do with culture movements, anti-RIAA movements, or any other justifications pirates give.
Turns out Slashdot was wrong--XP SP2 will not install on pirated copies of Windows.
So much for all that "dominance through piracy" conspiracy crap. This is completely off-topic.
Yeah, it's hard to imagine why, in the year since its announcement, no one has made any significant progress on Y.
No one has made any significant progress? Have you visited the IRC channel? Did you know they release patches constantly, and that they plan a 1.0 release within a year? The developers are concentrating on widgets right now.
Or not. Maybe developing a new window system from scratch is both hard and pointless at this point in history?
You're right, let's stick to copying and sticking with the same 20+ year old technology, while Apple, Microsoft, and everyone else starts anew with modern tech.
It's a bit hard to do awesome realism when you're running on an NES or an SNES, isn't it? Cartoon looks is the best you're going to get due to limited colors.
Ocarina of Time was a mix of realistic cartoonish, a bit like the PSX Final Fantasy games--which is exactly what this new Zelda looks like.
To think the extremely toon-shaded Wind Waker graphics had a look similar to that of Ocarina of Time is stretching it.
And what about JuK?
All in all, the Linux desktop need cut back on the information overload. People don't have time to keep track of all the knowledge required to use Linux as a desktop, and the horrible ways people emulate desktops on Linux actually contributes to the difficulty of Linux, not its ease-of-use. It's fine for Granny who will do nothing but use e-mail and the internet, because you can set everything up for her, but the average user who actually buys news hardware and drivers, installs new applications and removes them, does homework, and all the other things the average computer user does these days will have tough times compared to the much easier Windows XP.