Because 113 people "near" you (for some definition of "near") have already copied that file.
Still, this does not mean that you get 113 copies of the file.
Does it now play DVDs with "piracy" warnings?
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I found that VLC 0.9.9 ceased playback on the last seconds of a pesky "piracy" warning for two recent original DVDs (What are those warnings for anyway? It's not that I'm planning to steal any boat...). Has anyone else had this issue?
I am Lord of the Files. On my machine, at least.;)
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Are you really sure? I have read the german text, and I think the translation is quite correct. (Having german as a mother tongue helps here;)
The german law implies you may not sue anyone who does not have business with you or interferes with you in some way. Therefore, if SCO tells it will be suing people they have no business with, they are obviously wrong.
Paragraph 263 of the german "Strafgesetzbuch" (criminal code) seems to apply in this case (fraud, making false claims to extract property).
Programmers that do not want to code something that could bring harm to society, people, pets or anyone else have to stop coding now. Otherwise someone else could take his most innocent piece of software and turn it into a killer app;)
Ok, here's my serious point: A coder, as every engineer / developer / inventor / insert-likewise-profession-here can not foresee the consequences of his work. There may be numerous GPLed database applications misused for the purpose of serving child pr0n. Are the DBMSs bad? No, it's their usage that aches our morale.
IBM never foresaw the rise of PCs, the telefax was sold out from its original inventors (they believed the market was too small), and the inventors of the internet certainly didn't think of sth. like/.
In most cases you cannot foresee the consequence of your work, good nor bad. However, systems that do bad things need an admin, too...so isn't this more a question of "hacker ethics" that "coder ethics"?
Btw. I would not want to code for a system designed for military purposes. They tend to be really annoyed by bugs;)
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Because 113 people "near" you (for some definition of "near") have already copied that file. Still, this does not mean that you get 113 copies of the file.
I found that VLC 0.9.9 ceased playback on the last seconds of a pesky "piracy" warning for two recent original DVDs (What are those warnings for anyway? It's not that I'm planning to steal any boat...). Has anyone else had this issue?
I am Lord of the Files. On my machine, at least. ;)
Are you really sure? I have read the german text, and I think the translation is quite correct. (Having german as a mother tongue helps here ;)
The german law implies you may not sue anyone who does not have business with you or interferes with you in some way. Therefore, if SCO tells it will be suing people they have no business with, they are obviously wrong.
Paragraph 263 of the german "Strafgesetzbuch" (criminal code) seems to apply in this case (fraud, making false claims to extract property).
Oh, and the obligatory IANAL.
Ok, here's my serious point: A coder, as every engineer / developer / inventor / insert-likewise-profession-here can not foresee the consequences of his work. There may be numerous GPLed database applications misused for the purpose of serving child pr0n. Are the DBMSs bad? No, it's their usage that aches our morale.
IBM never foresaw the rise of PCs, the telefax was sold out from its original inventors (they believed the market was too small), and the inventors of the internet certainly didn't think of sth. like /.
In most cases you cannot foresee the consequence of your work, good nor bad. However, systems that do bad things need an admin, too...so isn't this more a question of "hacker ethics" that "coder ethics"?
Btw. I would not want to code for a system designed for military purposes. They tend to be really annoyed by bugs ;)
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