Considering that there will be asteroid mining in future, which I believe to be feasible, and that it will basically be prospected by autonomous systems (rovers or robots) I can predict a lawless situation, where group of space pirates, commanding space drones that will disable or destroy regular established company's equipment.
No law from UN nor USA will be able to legislate where there is no law enforcement.
Any attempt to use food as power resource is doomed to failure.
See the example in Brazil, we extensively use ethanol from sugar cane to fuel cars, more than 95% of cars produced in Brazil can use any mixture of ethanol and gasoline.
Since Brazil also uses sugar cane to produce sugar, and the global demand for food is increasing. Most producers of sugar cane prefer to sell their production to sugar mills, instead of to ethanol plants, raising substantially the ethanol price at a rate that it's not economically viable to use ethanol to replace gasoline.
If Apple buys Grandiente it will be a win-win situation.
Gradiente was a recognizable brand in Brazil until early 2000's. It has licensed products from Sony, Pioneer, Alpine, JVC, Nokia, Atari, Nintendo in Brazil, including Nokia 7110 (The Matrix Cellphone). This caused a very good impression on the quality of their products
On middle 2000's Gradiente went into bankrupt. The brand was sold and the new owner has put it on hold until now.
IMO Grandiente don't have a bright future ahead. Their only chance is to sell the company, or only the brand iPhone, to Apple, and hope to license other brands again.
If Apple stops selling the iPhone in Brazil, there will be massive illegal import paying no taxes for government.
Maybe this is the most intelligent movement for Apple at the moment. Brazilian government won't accept such a loss of tax income and will provide a "legal" solution for Apple.
I think you should read that article closer. Revenue was up significantly. User base was up significantly.
The losses were attributed to one time expenses related to their IPO.
The evangelic cult "Paz do Senhor Amado" does not exist. Search Google for it, you'll find nothing but phrases from other religions.
It's just a hoax from a website called bobolhando (stupid staring), never intended to be a serious post..
There is something you all need to know about Brasil (do you prefer New York or Nova Iorque?), and I can tell, I'm not any proud of it.
The congress can aprove whatever law they want in Brasil, even DMCA-like, which I think it's very unlikely. Once aproved there are no grantees that the law will be respected.
Many laws in Brasil exists only on paper, and has't any kind of regulation nor enforcement. People simply ignore them, and even police, or official fiscalization, does nothing about it, the law is completely ignored by all sectors of society.
For example. Rip a CD or a DVD is not legal in Brasil. But everybody does it, and nothing is done about it. I have discovered about this a couple of month ago.
Another example. It's not legal to sell pirated CDs or DVDs. But in any city, even the smaller ones, it's possible to buy illegal copied CDs and DVDs for as much as US$ 2,50 each movie, US$ 1,50 each CD. It's very easy to buy a XBox 360 game for US$ 10. And as easy as find someone selling this CDs and DVDs on streets is to find a policeman buying from them.
This kind of attitude is not only found in copyrighted material. It's easy for a minor to buy alcoholic beverages or cigars.
So, the congress can even aprove a DRM-like legislation, but it will certainly not leave the paper. USA hungry for copyright protection will be pleased, but the society will ignore the law and thigs will remain the same as they are today.
Try to discuss something more practical about Brasil.
In Sao Paulo we pay about US$ 45/mo for a 3 Mbps link, and about US$ 60/mo for a 6 Mbps. But the ISP only garantees 10% of the contracted link.
Another problem is that in many cities there is only one option, so the maximum link is 1 Mbps, and the price is about US$ 35/mo.
For each of these options we always pay 40% in taxes. Note that all prices already have taxes included.
While you are worry about US$ 0.15/mo. We in Brazil need to worry about 40%, that's what we pay in taxes for any kind of telecomunication service.
I wish I could pay US$ 0.15 in taxes.
Once Cubatao Valley was one of the most polluted place in the world. But it's been more than 15 years that Cubatao Valley is not the most polluted place in Brazil. In the early 80's there was plenty of health problems due to a failure in planing the valley occupation rules, which leads to so high levels of pollution that misformation fetus was pretty common at the area.
Since the 80's plenty of new regulations and incentives made possible to the city to receive the ONU prize for Environment Recuperation Symbol City in 1992. Today, although poluted, Cubatao is very far from being one of the most poluted places in Brazil.
More information can be found at Wikipedia, in Portuguese, or in English (Google Translated)
Another misinformation is about Tiete river and Cubatao river, although close to each other (about 50 miles) Tiete river flows into the continent, while Cubatao river flows into the sea.
I'd argue point 2 is rather interesting too, could it possibly be hinting at the download of MP3s, movies and the like?
In Brazil very few consider downloading MP3s and movies a crime, it's easy to find policeman buying pirate products. You can buy unauthorized copies of any CD at any corner and pay 1/3 the price of a regular CD (about US$ 3). When they (from Hackerteen) say about avoid youngs to commit crimes they are talking about phishing, and internet scams.
The point is not about paying or no fees for accessing internet. I also think that internet access for the cost of a bottle of water, or even two, is very cheap. But being arrested for sending and receiving radio waves that are being broadcasted?
C'mon, if your equipment is broadcasting you can't complain if somebody receives it. And if your equipment is receiving broadcasted signals, you have no right of complaining about it, simply setup your equipmento to not receive broadcasted signals.
I understand why are you so ashamed.
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Considering that there will be asteroid mining in future, which I believe to be feasible, and that it will basically be prospected by autonomous systems (rovers or robots) I can predict a lawless situation, where group of space pirates, commanding space drones that will disable or destroy regular established company's equipment.
No law from UN nor USA will be able to legislate where there is no law enforcement.
Any attempt to use food as power resource is doomed to failure.
See the example in Brazil, we extensively use ethanol from sugar cane to fuel cars, more than 95% of cars produced in Brazil can use any mixture of ethanol and gasoline.
Since Brazil also uses sugar cane to produce sugar, and the global demand for food is increasing. Most producers of sugar cane prefer to sell their production to sugar mills, instead of to ethanol plants, raising substantially the ethanol price at a rate that it's not economically viable to use ethanol to replace gasoline.
I DO think that brazilian legislators are as corrupt as they were 10 years ago (2003) or 15 years ago (1998).
They will sell themselves so they can have their own Apple iPhones without having to struggle into "popular prices shoppings"
And Brazil IS still a "Banana Republic". Do you really think that rich people will ever be arrested for driving drunk?
If Apple buys Grandiente it will be a win-win situation.
Gradiente was a recognizable brand in Brazil until early 2000's. It has licensed products from Sony, Pioneer, Alpine, JVC, Nokia, Atari, Nintendo in Brazil, including Nokia 7110 (The Matrix Cellphone). This caused a very good impression on the quality of their products
On middle 2000's Gradiente went into bankrupt. The brand was sold and the new owner has put it on hold until now.
IMO Grandiente don't have a bright future ahead. Their only chance is to sell the company, or only the brand iPhone, to Apple, and hope to license other brands again.
Although brazilians laws can be compared to most developed countries in world the execution is rarely satisfactory.
Suing a company such as Apple could take up to 10 years, and the value will be not much higher then the cost of the fake iPhone.
If Apple stops selling the iPhone in Brazil, there will be massive illegal import paying no taxes for government. Maybe this is the most intelligent movement for Apple at the moment. Brazilian government won't accept such a loss of tax income and will provide a "legal" solution for Apple.
Are we back to 1999?
I remember very well. In the remote year of 2011 Zynga was accusing Vostu of cloning some of their game.
Also in 2009 Zynga was sued for Copyright infringement, this time the settlement was filled by Psycho Monkey, due to the game Mafia Wars.
It seems that there is something very supicious happening with Zynga.
But the most important reason: Considerable tax reduction (as translated by Google Translate)
Leaving a hole in the wall. That's how they steal ATMs in Brazil.
Blue Screen of Death will be replaced by Blue Splash of Death, probably chemical.
The evangelic cult "Paz do Senhor Amado" does not exist. Search Google for it, you'll find nothing but phrases from other religions. It's just a hoax from a website called bobolhando (stupid staring), never intended to be a serious post..
There is something you all need to know about Brasil (do you prefer New York or Nova Iorque?), and I can tell, I'm not any proud of it.
The congress can aprove whatever law they want in Brasil, even DMCA-like, which I think it's very unlikely. Once aproved there are no grantees that the law will be respected.
Many laws in Brasil exists only on paper, and has't any kind of regulation nor enforcement. People simply ignore them, and even police, or official fiscalization, does nothing about it, the law is completely ignored by all sectors of society.
For example. Rip a CD or a DVD is not legal in Brasil. But everybody does it, and nothing is done about it. I have discovered about this a couple of month ago.
Another example. It's not legal to sell pirated CDs or DVDs. But in any city, even the smaller ones, it's possible to buy illegal copied CDs and DVDs for as much as US$ 2,50 each movie, US$ 1,50 each CD. It's very easy to buy a XBox 360 game for US$ 10. And as easy as find someone selling this CDs and DVDs on streets is to find a policeman buying from them.
This kind of attitude is not only found in copyrighted material. It's easy for a minor to buy alcoholic beverages or cigars.
So, the congress can even aprove a DRM-like legislation, but it will certainly not leave the paper. USA hungry for copyright protection will be pleased, but the society will ignore the law and thigs will remain the same as they are today.
Try to discuss something more practical about Brasil.
In Sao Paulo we pay about US$ 45/mo for a 3 Mbps link, and about US$ 60/mo for a 6 Mbps. But the ISP only garantees 10% of the contracted link. Another problem is that in many cities there is only one option, so the maximum link is 1 Mbps, and the price is about US$ 35/mo. For each of these options we always pay 40% in taxes. Note that all prices already have taxes included.
While you are worry about US$ 0.15/mo. We in Brazil need to worry about 40%, that's what we pay in taxes for any kind of telecomunication service. I wish I could pay US$ 0.15 in taxes.
... people simply don't care about P2P blocking. It's faster to buy a CD for US$ 3, or a DVD for US$ 6, in any corner through any city.
Once Cubatao Valley was one of the most polluted place in the world. But it's been more than 15 years that Cubatao Valley is not the most polluted place in Brazil. In the early 80's there was plenty of health problems due to a failure in planing the valley occupation rules, which leads to so high levels of pollution that misformation fetus was pretty common at the area.
Since the 80's plenty of new regulations and incentives made possible to the city to receive the ONU prize for Environment Recuperation Symbol City in 1992. Today, although poluted, Cubatao is very far from being one of the most poluted places in Brazil.
More information can be found at Wikipedia, in Portuguese, or in English (Google Translated)
Another misinformation is about Tiete river and Cubatao river, although close to each other (about 50 miles) Tiete river flows into the continent, while Cubatao river flows into the sea.
Since November, a brazilian brewer, Germania, is offering bottled free (as in speech) beer. The version is 3.4, and it seems to be good.
... ha
No way I'll spend a week downloading just to sell. I prefer to buy a CD right around the next corner, copy and sell it here anyway.
Note: I do not pirateThe point is not about paying or no fees for accessing internet. I also think that internet access for the cost of a bottle of water, or even two, is very cheap. But being arrested for sending and receiving radio waves that are being broadcasted? C'mon, if your equipment is broadcasting you can't complain if somebody receives it. And if your equipment is receiving broadcasted signals, you have no right of complaining about it, simply setup your equipmento to not receive broadcasted signals. I understand why are you so ashamed.
Thank god I don't live in US. So I don't need to handle such stupidity.
I won't worry anymore. I'm leaving to China, where I can even make copies of Merceds Benz design.
I would by at local piracy tend in front of my job, for US$ 5, anyway.