This can pose a real threat to iTunes Music Store if Dell Music Store uses the same format as buymusic.com. That is, music "bought" from both stores can be used/played on one computer, in one portable player, seamlessly. And once the format catches on, here will come a windfall of many many music stores that use the same DRM encumbered format.
Of course Apple has a better, more sensible solution. But it will not be able to take an onslaught of many online stores that use the same format.
It's Mac vs PC all over again. This time it is important for Apple to dominate the online music market. Or licenses its ACC to other online music stores and portable players...
Why is it that when it comes to OS, everyone is bitching and screaming how bad monoculture created by Microsoft Windows is, but otherwise feeling warm and fuzzy and swear to god Google is and always be the only search engine they use?
The point is, are you really comfortable to have one, and only one, effective search engine? No matter how well it searches?
Actually, Nutch has no ambitions to dethrone Google. It's just trying to provide an open source reference implementation of search to help keep Google and other search engines honest, by letting people compare the results of an engine whose algorithms and methodologies are transparent and accessible. It also aims to give a platform for people outside of the search heavyweights to research new search algorithms.
But the cost of creating the *original* code is not zero. More often than not, the development cost of software is huge.
Sure, copying bits on a hard disk uses negligible resource and technically does not deprive the author of his original code. But to say it costs the author notihng is at best hypocritical.
We should be able to have a software industry that is based on an honor system. If the author makes a living selling software and he decides to sell the software at a price, he should be justly compensated. If you don't want to pay, don't buy it. But you still need the functionality? Get something else or write your own code. But you know what? You can get a copy of whatever you want too easily on the Internet, right? That is because there is always someone who does not respect the effort of software developer or whatsoever and just download and post up everthing that he comes across, regardless of their need.
That's where DRM comes in and it maybe justifiable. But do we realy need DRM? No. What is needed is more awareness that what you are doing is wrong. (I have no problem with you posting your own files and share them with your friends, P2P or not. But it's another matter entirely when you start posting someone else's files without their permission.)
Like someone says, piracy is not a technological problem, it is a behavioral problem.
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This can pose a real threat to iTunes Music Store if Dell Music Store uses the same format as buymusic.com. That is, music "bought" from both stores can be used/played on one computer, in one portable player, seamlessly. And once the format catches on, here will come a windfall of many many music stores that use the same DRM encumbered format.
Of course Apple has a better, more sensible solution. But it will not be able to take an onslaught of many online stores that use the same format.
It's Mac vs PC all over again. This time it is important for Apple to dominate the online music market. Or licenses its ACC to other online music stores and portable players...
Why is it that when it comes to OS, everyone is bitching and screaming how bad monoculture created by Microsoft Windows is, but otherwise feeling warm and fuzzy and swear to god Google is and always be the only search engine they use?
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The point is, are you really comfortable to have one, and only one, effective search engine? No matter how well it searches?
O'Reilly put it best
Actually, Nutch has no ambitions to dethrone Google. It's just trying to provide an open source reference implementation of search to help keep Google and other search engines honest, by letting people compare the results of an engine whose algorithms and methodologies are transparent and accessible. It also aims to give a platform for people outside of the search heavyweights to research new search algorithms.
3 models, all available in August :
1.6 GHz, 256 MB, 80 GB $1999
1.8 GHz, 512 MB, 160 GB $2399
Dual 2.0 GHz, 512 MB, 160 GB $2999 (Wow!)
But the cost of creating the *original* code is not zero. More often than not, the development cost of software is huge.
Sure, copying bits on a hard disk uses negligible resource and technically does not deprive the author of his original code. But to say it costs the author notihng is at best hypocritical.
We should be able to have a software industry that is based on an honor system. If the author makes a living selling software and he decides to sell the software at a price, he should be justly compensated. If you don't want to pay, don't buy it. But you still need the functionality? Get something else or write your own code. But you know what? You can get a copy of whatever you want too easily on the Internet, right? That is because there is always someone who does not respect the effort of software developer or whatsoever and just download and post up everthing that he comes across, regardless of their need.
That's where DRM comes in and it maybe justifiable. But do we realy need DRM? No. What is needed is more awareness that what you are doing is wrong. (I have no problem with you posting your own files and share them with your friends, P2P or not. But it's another matter entirely when you start posting someone else's files without their permission.)
Like someone says, piracy is not a technological problem, it is a behavioral problem.