"Those who infringe copyright are stealing because they are breaking the law to get their content, and thus deriving a benefit without paying for it."
Not everything need be paid for. You have glossed over the issue of harm to others in favour of some kind of moral dualism. If it did artists harm to have their songs heard and their movies watched, then they simply would not release them. I guess i believe that if you are wanting to be heard, then I am going to try and listen.
More fundamentally, I will not support profit from artificial scarcity, period. Thats the death of the kind of future that I want to see.
"The attitude of indifference to the law is what makes it [morally] wrong."
How amazingly shortsighted. But I agree with your words in that being indifferent to certain laws, hopefully and should have the effect of proving them to be wrong. I know you meant that the person (morally) is wrong not that the law is wrong, but i couldnt help it. To me it seems that most moral problems have more than one meaningful solution, and those words illustrate that nicely.
Thank you i came here to make this comment. There is a future of-for the paywall. Many people pay, WE say grumble grumble, cached -- pagedown page down.
Normal users with a broken computer PAY! Pay here 9 dollars a month or whatever and you get a subscription to a technical resource full of people begging to solve your problems. I am sure they make money from doing it. Murdoch knows how to make money Im sure. It will make things more expensive for most, and the technical ruling classes will roll their eyes and click page down.
annoying and should be stopped before it gets out of control... but it wont be.
"I could see it causing you issues if you were trying to rip DVDs or Blu-rays, but most of us won't be affected by it."
I was with you untill that point. I had not heard baout this "feature" but i have heard alot of good reviews of windows 7. That would really be a dealbreaker for me. I also cannot imagine that "most users" do not rip dvds. I know plenty of officefolk, accountants, secrataries marketting people, etc.. who ALL want to watch dvds on some sort of computer (media player, iphone, projector..).
So i wouldn't say that DVD ripping has no legitimate uses. Who the hell wants to fuck around with plastic discs? its 2009! 1tb is like 70 bucks.
Do you have any confirmed facts that that is even true? I know a few people with the windows 7 expireware version and they report no such issues.
Id rather use anything other than an iphone personally. Why should i have to constantly hack something that i presumably own and be "in jail" unless i break the law?
I am sure motorola - when they get off their ass in q4 - will release a real competitor. Apple can only survive on hype and exclusivity for so long. Smartphones wont be apples game forever, and for whatever reason that currently seems to be 'thinking different' to everyone.
I mean the guy runs internment camps in 35*c heat. He goes out of his way to fuck with brown people becuase he doesnt like them. Hes one of those people who should be strung up.
The article actually has alot of background on the politics between this county and the sheriffs office. I believe he has some problem with the mayors wife? but i may be thinking of one of the many other people that this nazi has problems with.
no offense, but someone like a surveyor needs to keep those sorts of notes as well. kind of hard to bring a printer and laptop into a swamp. Then theres rain, snow.. paper is still very useful!
Sometimes the ignorance of others professions on slashdot is mind blowing.
Some of you are perhaps missing some information regarding this case.
The id's were being taken not because of age issues, it was due to a rash of gang violence in vancouver and the lower mainland of BC. The bars decided to start scanning peoples IDs and running them against a police/RCMP database. This in turn, it was hoped, would keep people with active warrants and such from frequenting bars and causing a ruckus.
As other have pointed out, it has been somewhat effective as there has not been any shooting in clubs downtown (insert tiger rock analogy here). The downside is that all these innocent people have to submit to police state type actions in order to go to MOST bars in downtown vancouver (mostly on granville st, club district).
I myself have been denied entrance for asking too many questions regarding data storage policies and complaining about the system. Most people do not seem to care and will hand over their DL as well as be photographed. I have watched many people hand over ID without a second thought. They scan the mag stripe and put it into their private database. How long do they keep the data? I do not know, as I was escorted out for asking that and other questions.
THis is a real win for privacy in BC. If you read the CBC fourms however, you can see that many so called citizens do not care two shits about privacy as long as they have their preacious illusion of security.
Its not a war to be won. Its the case of the most intelligent solution being written into law. IT policies are a few decades old at best. Affirmative action has nothing to do with anything, open formats only unfair advantage is that they are better in EVERY way than propietary formats. ESPECIALLY when dealing with yours and my governments data, which i assume i own and have used taxes to pay for.
You dont have to like the government to demand they share with you the information they have gathered on your behalf. THats common investment sense.
"Piracy is nothing more than selfish humans leeching other people's work and not wanting to lose the free ride."
So content distribution is piracy? unlike the time warners and universals, at least internet pirates, at least the honourable ones, are not profiting from it. DJ's buy the records, people hit the concerts. Look at all them lego starwars videos that kids make for nothing but the note (hint: not a cash note).
Culture doesnt end. People profiting off of others work, can will and should end.
what the fuck happened to the slashdot homepage? it has up down buttons, all this extra 'cruft' and also these giant blank white pop overs that say press to pause
"To be fair, cellular bandwidth is fundamentally limited, and has been extremely costly to deploy. It's not particularly surprising that the carriers want to recoup their investment."
I dont know much about cel tower placement, but if they are anything like the old school phone companies, their "pipes" run on public land. Im kinda tired of companies selling my assets back to me at a profit. They are not there to make money they are there to provide a service. Companies, especially mostly monopolies, do not have the right or my obligation, to profit!
Sure its a "person" decision. So is securing your game with anti cd copying.
Besides, no one was deprived of the game by pirates. Quite the opposite as it has more exposure than if it were to rely on pay copies alone. Besides, the game was on the internets on the 30th of oct. So yes, the cd secure rom crap does mroe harm than good. I would have been inspired by the lack of DRM and baught the game. Thats one of the first things i look for.
I will say its a great game though, and everyone should check it out. Basically it has lived up to everyone of my expectations...
So your from england. How do you know that they are being biased? The conservatives do have a disregard of public opinion because they skew to the smaller rural areas. All the cities are liberal and ndp. Popular vote was NOT won by conservatives. You are complaing for slashdot calling a spade a spade. Like creationism, not all sides are created equal and deserve equal levels of non bias.
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Not everything need be paid for. You have glossed over the issue of harm to others in favour of some kind of moral dualism. If it did artists harm to have their songs heard and their movies watched, then they simply would not release them. I guess i believe that if you are wanting to be heard, then I am going to try and listen.
More fundamentally, I will not support profit from artificial scarcity, period. Thats the death of the kind of future that I want to see.
How amazingly shortsighted. But I agree with your words in that being indifferent to certain laws, hopefully and should have the effect of proving them to be wrong. I know you meant that the person (morally) is wrong not that the law is wrong, but i couldnt help it. To me it seems that most moral problems have more than one meaningful solution, and those words illustrate that nicely.
Get a shop vac then. Cats and woodworkers also have gummy computers. BOY! some pussy ass techs at apple!
You havent fixed computers if you havent fixed dirty computers!!
Thank you i came here to make this comment. There is a future of-for the paywall. Many people pay, WE say grumble grumble, cached -- pagedown page down.
Normal users with a broken computer PAY! Pay here 9 dollars a month or whatever and you get a subscription to a technical resource full of people begging to solve your problems.
I am sure they make money from doing it. Murdoch knows how to make money Im sure. It will make things more expensive for most, and the technical ruling classes will roll their eyes and click page down.
annoying and should be stopped before it gets out of control... but it wont be.
I was with you untill that point. I had not heard baout this "feature" but i have heard alot of good reviews of windows 7. That would really be a dealbreaker for me. I also cannot imagine that "most users" do not rip dvds. I know plenty of officefolk, accountants, secrataries marketting people, etc.. who ALL want to watch dvds on some sort of computer (media player, iphone, projector..).
So i wouldn't say that DVD ripping has no legitimate uses. Who the hell wants to fuck around with plastic discs? its 2009! 1tb is like 70 bucks.
Do you have any confirmed facts that that is even true? I know a few people with the windows 7 expireware version and they report no such issues.
lol! John Nike, is that you?
You clearly don't work for nike in an alternate timeline!
Grandparent is the fool.
Id rather use anything other than an iphone personally. Why should i have to constantly hack something that i presumably own and be "in jail" unless i break the law?
I am sure motorola - when they get off their ass in q4 - will release a real competitor. Apple can only survive on hype and exclusivity for so long. Smartphones wont be apples game forever, and for whatever reason that currently seems to be 'thinking different' to everyone.
hes a fascist.
I mean the guy runs internment camps in 35*c heat. He goes out of his way to fuck with brown people becuase he doesnt like them. Hes one of those people who should be strung up.
I would encourage you to read the new yorker article on him although i guess it is no longer available online? must be new... http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/07/william-finnegan-on-sheriff-joe-arpaio.html
The article actually has alot of background on the politics between this county and the sheriffs office. I believe he has some problem with the mayors wife? but i may be thinking of one of the many other people that this nazi has problems with.
no offense, but someone like a surveyor needs to keep those sorts of notes as well. kind of hard to bring a printer and laptop into a swamp. Then theres rain, snow.. paper is still very useful!
Sometimes the ignorance of others professions on slashdot is mind blowing.
Some of you are perhaps missing some information regarding this case.
The id's were being taken not because of age issues, it was due to a rash of gang violence in vancouver and the lower mainland of BC. The bars decided to start scanning peoples IDs and running them against a police/RCMP database. This in turn, it was hoped, would keep people with active warrants and such from frequenting bars and causing a ruckus.
As other have pointed out, it has been somewhat effective as there has not been any shooting in clubs downtown (insert tiger rock analogy here). The downside is that all these innocent people have to submit to police state type actions in order to go to MOST bars in downtown vancouver (mostly on granville st, club district).
I myself have been denied entrance for asking too many questions regarding data storage policies and complaining about the system. Most people do not seem to care and will hand over their DL as well as be photographed. I have watched many people hand over ID without a second thought. They scan the mag stripe and put it into their private database. How long do they keep the data? I do not know, as I was escorted out for asking that and other questions.
THis is a real win for privacy in BC. If you read the CBC fourms however, you can see that many so called citizens do not care two shits about privacy as long as they have their preacious illusion of security.
did you watch the demos and come to that conclusion? if so why?
your statement says nothing. what do you want, a new engine?
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.16594
I am a wage earner!
Its not a war to be won. Its the case of the most intelligent solution being written into law. IT policies are a few decades old at best. Affirmative action has nothing to do with anything, open formats only unfair advantage is that they are better in EVERY way than propietary formats. ESPECIALLY when dealing with yours and my governments data, which i assume i own and have used taxes to pay for.
You dont have to like the government to demand they share with you the information they have gathered on your behalf. THats common investment sense.
One day, sometime soon, he will realize how pointless wow is. The constant grind, endless upping of the level cap, and of course the 8 hour raids.
It will be at that time, that you need to get him addicted to eve online.
trust me, its much MUCH better.
and with that, the facebook takes its next victim.
well played facebook. You almost have to admire the cunning.
So content distribution is piracy? unlike the time warners and universals, at least internet pirates, at least the honourable ones, are not profiting from it. DJ's buy the records, people hit the concerts. Look at all them lego starwars videos that kids make for nothing but the note (hint: not a cash note).
Culture doesnt end. People profiting off of others work, can will and should end.
end of lesson.
what the fuck happened to the slashdot homepage? it has up down buttons, all this extra 'cruft' and also these giant blank white pop overs that say press to pause
WTF?
You are impressed by selling out? At the expense of your customers?
I dont know much about cel tower placement, but if they are anything like the old school phone companies, their "pipes" run on public land. Im kinda tired of companies selling my assets back to me at a profit. They are not there to make money they are there to provide a service. Companies, especially mostly monopolies, do not have the right or my obligation, to profit!
You greatly underestimate how "creative" users can be.
People like this are the reason the world is so fucked.
You would be surprised how much info companies have on you. Its always nice to have it explained, thanks.
tag heur!
Sure its a "person" decision. So is securing your game with anti cd copying.
Besides, no one was deprived of the game by pirates. Quite the opposite as it has more exposure than if it were to rely on pay copies alone. Besides, the game was on the internets on the 30th of oct. So yes, the cd secure rom crap does mroe harm than good. I would have been inspired by the lack of DRM and baught the game. Thats one of the first things i look for.
I will say its a great game though, and everyone should check it out. Basically it has lived up to everyone of my expectations...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=998841&cid=25410251
So your from england. How do you know that they are being biased? The conservatives do have a disregard of public opinion because they skew to the smaller rural areas. All the cities are liberal and ndp. Popular vote was NOT won by conservatives. You are complaing for slashdot calling a spade a spade. Like creationism, not all sides are created equal and deserve equal levels of non bias.