Suppose I murder your family. I write a story about exactly how I did it, including every grisly detail. Then, just for fun, I steal all of your credit cards, drivers license, SSN, and your Best Buy frequent buyers card. I include all of that info in my story, hand it to a "journalist" friend, and he publishes it. Police aren't able to come up with any suspects, but they can tell from this published story's details that the writer must be the criminal. How about your precious free flow of information now?
I'm guessing that it's meant to be more of a live instrument than a studio instrument. As far as I know, the only way to destroy a Korg board is to launch it into the sun. Try letting the roadies throw your Mac Mini and the 21" lcd into the back of a van...
Holy fucking fuck. I love how everyone bitches about losing their constitutionally protected freedom of speech. This isn't about freedom of speech. This isn't the government oppressing dissenters. This is about a company trying to find out which of it's contractually bound, NDA signing employees it needs to slap down. And for the record, I'm an Apple fan, but I'd hate to see them win this. Contract law is a civil matter, and I don't think that journalists should be sued into revealing their sources. At the same time, if thinksecret was posting information that they knew to be trade secret and that their source was breaking an NDA, it'd be pretty shitty of them to post it.
While I agree with your sentiment, just for clarity's sake I have to point out that Maroon5 has been around for quite a few years, previously by the name of Kara's Flowers.
Mary Jane, probably only because it was never legal, never enjoyed the same social acceptance and is of course seen as immoral.
Party's at this guys house! He's got the good shit!
Try this
for starters (hint: it was made illegal in the U.S. in 1937). Then, you can move on to this for some more history on the therapeutic uses of cannabis that were taking place centuries before the U.S. government made it illegal (or for that matter, centuries before the U.S. government *existed*)...
Is defacing a website any different from spraying graffiti on someones walls?
Yeah, one is a felony, punishable by up to twenty years in a federal prison, and the other is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine and/or some community service. A career arsonist could burn down your brick-and-mortar store and do less time than the 13 yr old who 0wz0r3d j00r w3b5173.
Actually, asshole, I'm Canadian and a musician, and 99% of the cds I burn are of MY OWN MUSIC (the remaining 1%, give or take a point, is data). So I'm paying the Canadian Music Industry for the right to burn my own music onto cd. And since the monies are distributed based on airplay and charts, I'm essentially paying money to my competitors every single time I make a new recording. Sound fair to you?
I have no problem with MS blocking modded xboxes from using Live - anything to keep the game honest and fun for everyone is fine by me. The problem I have is with the lawsuits. People *should* be allowed to do with their hardware as they see fit. If you don't like that your ipod can't play your Real files, don't update the firmware. If the new features in the update are beneficial enough to you, you'll install it. You have the choice. If the benefits of modding your xbox are great enough, you'll do it and not worry about Live - that too is your choice. Everybody acts like corporations are all pure evil for trying to make money. Don't like it? Don't buy their products.
This doesn't harm consumers. The hack that Real used to make this work was a security hole in in the Fairplay DRM. They fixed it. Fairplay isn't Apple's product to let everyone use however they want. They license the DRM tech. If Real can hack the DRM, there's a chance anyone else could do the same to more nefarious ends. Just because you like the implications of a security breach, doesn't mean the vendor has any obligation to leave it unfixed. Maybe if they hadn't patched this in firmware they would have lost their Fairplay license. You know damn well the RIAA won't let them sell songs without DRM. Fairplay is pretty lax as it is, but I'd hate to see Apple have to switch to something else because they decided to be nice and let Real ride their coat tails for free. Apple having to switch to another DRM that's more restrictive WOULD be harmful to consumers - the paying ITMS customers that Apple has a reason to care about.
Apple has a monopoly on digital audio players? I think the anti-Apple crowd around here is worse than the anti-MS crowd. At least the MS bashers seem to keep their heads out of their asses. Apple is nowhere near a monopoly. There are dozens of "digital audio players" on the market, if not hundreds. Just because Apple makes one of the better ones, does not make them a monopoly. And your analogy of MS bundling browsers is plain retarded. This has nothing to do with bundling. Real was trying to make money off of Apple's brand name, plain and simple. Apple, the terrible monopoly that they are, lets you play ANY mp3 or aac or wav file on the ipod, but restricts DRM to their own. Real, in their infinite stupidity, was selling (for money) music that was DRMed with a hack to work around that limitation. If they don't come up with a new trick, it's their own fault that their customers got fucked. So, if you bought music from Real, you can still play it on your pc and on whatever other devices are supported. You could probably even burn it, rip it, and put the rip on your ipod. So how is it that Apple is evil again?
"thousands of people paid hundreds of dollars each for their iPods, with the expectation that they would be able to play the music that they legally bought and paid for on it"
Yeah, and they can. But may *I* remind *you* that Apple never ONCE claimed that you could play your legally purchased music with non-Apple DRM on the ipod. If you want to bitch at anyone here, bitch at Real. They could have sold naked mp3 or aac which would have played just fine on the ipod. They CHOSE to try to find a work around so that they could use DRM on the ipod, and they knew damn well that it could backfire. If I were a customer of Real's music store, I'd be pissed at them right now since they're selling music that they claim works on the ipod, and they have no right to do that if they're using hacks and workarounds that aren't officially supported by the hardware vendor.
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I don't know how this got to (Score 3, Insightful), but the genius mod responsible is my new fucking hero.
That'd be J-to-tha-R-O-C, mothafuckah, knowha'm'sayin'?
Suppose I murder your family. I write a story about exactly how I did it, including every grisly detail. Then, just for fun, I steal all of your credit cards, drivers license, SSN, and your Best Buy frequent buyers card. I include all of that info in my story, hand it to a "journalist" friend, and he publishes it. Police aren't able to come up with any suspects, but they can tell from this published story's details that the writer must be the criminal. How about your precious free flow of information now?
Shouldn't the Viagra ads go on the thrusters?
I'm more interested in how they use an email account to view internet sites...
good news: You could actually print a picture of Natalie Portman that tastes like hot grits.
bad news: someone could slip a pic of the goatse guy into your sandwich when you're not looking.
The worst that these clowns risk by sticking their thumbs up their asses is poking out an eye. Oh no, not a Nintendo Thumb epidemic!
Wow, you're gonna miss those?
<AOL>ME TOO!</AOL>
I'm guessing that it's meant to be more of a live instrument than a studio instrument. As far as I know, the only way to destroy a Korg board is to launch it into the sun. Try letting the roadies throw your Mac Mini and the 21" lcd into the back of a van...
Well good, if she can manage to humiliate herself for another 600 mV she'll hit the requisite 1 Vanilli and end her career.
Holy fucking fuck. I love how everyone bitches about losing their constitutionally protected freedom of speech. This isn't about freedom of speech. This isn't the government oppressing dissenters. This is about a company trying to find out which of it's contractually bound, NDA signing employees it needs to slap down. And for the record, I'm an Apple fan, but I'd hate to see them win this. Contract law is a civil matter, and I don't think that journalists should be sued into revealing their sources. At the same time, if thinksecret was posting information that they knew to be trade secret and that their source was breaking an NDA, it'd be pretty shitty of them to post it.
I can see it now. I'll be 850 yrs old and yelling at those damn kids (the 120 yr olds) to get off my lawn.
While I agree with your sentiment, just for clarity's sake I have to point out that Maroon5 has been around for quite a few years, previously by the name of Kara's Flowers.
In soviet union, communist free culture overlords welcome YOU!
Mary Jane, probably only because it was never legal, never enjoyed the same social acceptance and is of course seen as immoral.
Party's at this guys house! He's got the good shit!
Try this for starters (hint: it was made illegal in the U.S. in 1937). Then, you can move on to this for some more history on the therapeutic uses of cannabis that were taking place centuries before the U.S. government made it illegal (or for that matter, centuries before the U.S. government *existed*)...
There are no other solutions. This, like all other things, essentially boils down to "he who has the biggest dick wins".
Does that $499 include an OS?
Is defacing a website any different from spraying graffiti on someones walls?
Yeah, one is a felony, punishable by up to twenty years in a federal prison, and the other is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine and/or some community service. A career arsonist could burn down your brick-and-mortar store and do less time than the 13 yr old who 0wz0r3d j00r w3b5173.
No beliefs for you!
Actually, asshole, I'm Canadian and a musician, and 99% of the cds I burn are of MY OWN MUSIC (the remaining 1%, give or take a point, is data). So I'm paying the Canadian Music Industry for the right to burn my own music onto cd. And since the monies are distributed based on airplay and charts, I'm essentially paying money to my competitors every single time I make a new recording. Sound fair to you?
I have no problem with MS blocking modded xboxes from using Live - anything to keep the game honest and fun for everyone is fine by me. The problem I have is with the lawsuits. People *should* be allowed to do with their hardware as they see fit. If you don't like that your ipod can't play your Real files, don't update the firmware. If the new features in the update are beneficial enough to you, you'll install it. You have the choice. If the benefits of modding your xbox are great enough, you'll do it and not worry about Live - that too is your choice. Everybody acts like corporations are all pure evil for trying to make money. Don't like it? Don't buy their products.
This doesn't harm consumers. The hack that Real used to make this work was a security hole in in the Fairplay DRM. They fixed it. Fairplay isn't Apple's product to let everyone use however they want. They license the DRM tech. If Real can hack the DRM, there's a chance anyone else could do the same to more nefarious ends. Just because you like the implications of a security breach, doesn't mean the vendor has any obligation to leave it unfixed. Maybe if they hadn't patched this in firmware they would have lost their Fairplay license. You know damn well the RIAA won't let them sell songs without DRM. Fairplay is pretty lax as it is, but I'd hate to see Apple have to switch to something else because they decided to be nice and let Real ride their coat tails for free. Apple having to switch to another DRM that's more restrictive WOULD be harmful to consumers - the paying ITMS customers that Apple has a reason to care about.
Apple has a monopoly on digital audio players? I think the anti-Apple crowd around here is worse than the anti-MS crowd. At least the MS bashers seem to keep their heads out of their asses. Apple is nowhere near a monopoly. There are dozens of "digital audio players" on the market, if not hundreds. Just because Apple makes one of the better ones, does not make them a monopoly. And your analogy of MS bundling browsers is plain retarded. This has nothing to do with bundling. Real was trying to make money off of Apple's brand name, plain and simple. Apple, the terrible monopoly that they are, lets you play ANY mp3 or aac or wav file on the ipod, but restricts DRM to their own. Real, in their infinite stupidity, was selling (for money) music that was DRMed with a hack to work around that limitation. If they don't come up with a new trick, it's their own fault that their customers got fucked. So, if you bought music from Real, you can still play it on your pc and on whatever other devices are supported. You could probably even burn it, rip it, and put the rip on your ipod. So how is it that Apple is evil again?