All this is, is a wrong analogy. Any OEM versioned machine I have seen so far ASK the user at first boot if they agree to the license. You don't have to agree to it.
The biggest problem with the EULA I guess (not a lawyer) is that it is an additional license (generally) only available after the initial purchase.
You are right that I'm not in the US but in the Netherlands. A place in the world where it still legal to download, therefore I am not downloading illegal movies.
And you might be wrong, while we keep hearing on./ that broadband access in the US is lower than in many asian and european nations, somehow they always rank first in total number of users and downloads. Taken from a random torrentsite with stats: Users: 1 US 2,900 4 NL 1,600 Downloads: 1 US 411.20 TB 3 NL 205.83 TB
Considering the total population differences, downloading in the US is lower per capita only.
"I can watch on my TV which has a bigger screen, better sound and a nicer chair than my computer."
In what century are you living? Modern dvd-players/recorders play MPEG-4 content, for about 50EUR you can get one with all necessary outputs for you surround system. Movies can be downloaded in different qualities: - 700Mb: 2channel mp3 with good enough picture quality -1400Mb: multichannel ac3 with good enough picture quality -4500Mb: stripped/recompressed DVD images in a good quality >7000Mb: untouched versions of originals
"thousands of audio file.... Movies aren't as versatile that way. If I'm going to watch a movie, I'm going to sit down and pay attention to it. There's no point for me having many thousands of movie titles."
You might have noticed that diskspace is dirt cheap these days. The same for DVDs on a 50cent DVD one can fit 6 movies. But if you have for example an modded xbox hookup up to your TV and a network disk it's almost the same as your music files example. With ease one can have a TB of movie data at your disposal, all you have to do is sit down and pick something.
I can't agree more. This kind of service could only work if they provide access to the movies BEFORE they are available on DVD. But from TFA: "Films will be available to download the same day the DVD is released."
If I really wanted a DVD on launch date I'd go to a good store and pre order it. But if you want it that bad you'll propably can get it a couple of weeks early at your favorite tracker/p2p
But the whole point is that one only needs to remember 1 number at anytime and anyplace for any/emergency/ (that 1 number being 911 or 999 or 112 or whatever).
If you have the time to lookup the local number it's certainly not an emergency but having to find those numbers can offcourse be a PITA. That's why eg in the Netherlands there is 1 emergency number and 1 number to get the local police department (no such number for firedepartments! etc.). I guess it was implementent to improve response time/rate.
Yes, 1 pound in the metric system is 0.5kg just like 1 ounce equals 0.1kg, (atleast in dutch) these are leftovers (adjusted to metric) from a time before S.I. became standard.
"but I must point out that IT enthusiasts over here are miserably decrying this law, and would probably be in the streets themselves if they weren't already chocablock with students demonstrating:-("
I just don't get it why there never was any major movement against the EUCD like the opposition to the recent efforts to harmonize european patent laws.
Most countries of the EU and EFTA (atleast of the "old" 15) have already adapted their "copyright laws" to incorporate the EUCD. It's only in the news after it is passed and after people realize the impact.
GCJ (4.0.3) can be a piece of crap when it comes to performance, depending on what you are doing. I found it about a factor 6 slower doing some simple disk IO/compression/hashing.
What it does do is reduce startup time on repeated use by 30%, but considering that the JVM version of that perticular CLI util only takes 0.37s, saving 0.1s isn't worth it (it's only launched about 10 times per hour).
I can assure you that this problem isn't specific to the US:)
But IMHO the worst lecturers where the ones that handed out lecture notes at the beginning of the lecture. This totally discouraged (atleast me) to actually prepare. After a few of these lectures where the prof. did a word for word lecture of the notes I simply only showed up to get the notes (and in some cases just get a copy from someone who actually went if I was to lame).
The best lecturers had their own syllabus at the start of the course, made clear what part to read for the next lecture and interact with the attendees to get feed back and an insight in the students grasp of the topic to dynamically adjust.
How is BDSM an 'incitement to violence'? BSDM is between consenting persons who (like to) get an extra kick.
IMHO one couyld consider it no different from a boxing match (or any other contact sports). Even worst violent sports are broadcasted all over the world at times children may be watching.
Offcourse it all depends what kind of copyright laws are applicable to you. But I as a person am allowed to do what you describe: I may copy works for personal use (amongst others).
Google wouldn't get such rights over here. And a library is simply not copying works by having books on their shelfs.
"That said, I don't trust Google either... I just distrust them less."
Why would you distrust them less? For example why does google put an ID in their preferences cookie? That "feature" isn't on the preferences page (neither on hte help page)! And the reason I have to set preferences is because google.com redirects me to the localized version in the local language which I don't want to use on google. Why!!! It's not for loadbalancing purposes since they are the same machine.
"For anything more important I use Eraser with 50+ passes"
Well if the data is that important it shouldn't have been stored in a "readable" form anyway. Any sensible OS has crypto support these days to prevent just that (be sure encrypt places where eg temporary/spool files are stored).
That appears to be correct under both DCMA and EUCD.
But "fair use" still lets you make a copy even though the "original" is encrypted/whatever. You just can't make an digital/exact copy, for example you are always free to capture the analog output and encode that in whatever form you feel comforable with (for personal use).
You should really brush up on your trolling skills. This one is to obvious: - A and B are simply not true for the stuff you describe you are comfy with. - man pages are fine, only thing (IMHO) they might be lacking are decent examples. - the need to prove yourself - posting as an AC
Copyrights may have and perhaps they still do serve a legitimate benefit to society but the benefits have been lost or forgotten.
Hmmmm, the benefit of the (to me applicable) copyrightlaws is that it is those that give me permission to freely copy works for my own personal and private use.
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"no one will keep the Linux OS"
Bingo! Not even most Linux users will keep the installed distro. They already have a copy of their favorite distro ready to install.
A really blank machine should even be cheaper. The only added value I can imagine is that a preinstalled distro means the hardware will work 100%.
How is this informative?
All this is, is a wrong analogy. Any OEM versioned machine I have seen so far ASK the user at first boot if they agree to the license. You don't have to agree to it.
The biggest problem with the EULA I guess (not a lawyer) is that it is an additional license (generally) only available after the initial purchase.
You are right that I'm not in the US but in the Netherlands. A place in the world where it still legal to download, therefore I am not downloading illegal movies.
./ that broadband access in the US is lower than in many asian and european nations, somehow they always rank first in total number of users and downloads. Taken from a random torrentsite with stats:
And you might be wrong, while we keep hearing on
Users:
1 US 2,900
4 NL 1,600
Downloads:
1 US 411.20 TB
3 NL 205.83 TB
Considering the total population differences, downloading in the US is lower per capita only.
"I can watch on my TV which has a bigger screen, better sound and a nicer chair than my computer."
In what century are you living? Modern dvd-players/recorders play MPEG-4 content, for about 50EUR you can get one with all necessary outputs for you surround system. Movies can be downloaded in different qualities:
- 700Mb: 2channel mp3 with good enough picture quality
-1400Mb: multichannel ac3 with good enough picture quality
-4500Mb: stripped/recompressed DVD images in a good quality
>7000Mb: untouched versions of originals
"thousands of audio file.... Movies aren't as versatile that way. If I'm going to watch a movie, I'm going to sit down and pay attention to it. There's no point for me having many thousands of movie titles."
You might have noticed that diskspace is dirt cheap these days. The same for DVDs on a 50cent DVD one can fit 6 movies. But if you have for example an modded xbox hookup up to your TV and a network disk it's almost the same as your music files example. With ease one can have a TB of movie data at your disposal, all you have to do is sit down and pick something.
I can't agree more. This kind of service could only work if they provide access to the movies BEFORE they are available on DVD. But from TFA:
"Films will be available to download the same day the DVD is released."
If I really wanted a DVD on launch date I'd go to a good store and pre order it. But if you want it that bad you'll propably can get it a couple of weeks early at your favorite tracker/p2p
So they define own just like owning the DVD!
You own the container but not the contents.
But the whole point is that one only needs to remember 1 number at anytime and anyplace for any /emergency/ (that 1 number being 911 or 999 or 112 or whatever).
If you have the time to lookup the local number it's certainly not an emergency but having to find those numbers can offcourse be a PITA. That's why eg in the Netherlands there is 1 emergency number and 1 number to get the local police department (no such number for firedepartments! etc.). I guess it was implementent to improve response time/rate.
Yes, 1 pound in the metric system is 0.5kg just like 1 ounce equals 0.1kg, (atleast in dutch) these are leftovers (adjusted to metric) from a time before S.I. became standard.
"but I must point out that IT enthusiasts over here are miserably decrying this law, and would probably be in the streets themselves if they weren't already chocablock with students demonstrating :-("
I just don't get it why there never was any major movement against the EUCD like the opposition to the recent efforts to harmonize european patent laws.
Most countries of the EU and EFTA (atleast of the "old" 15) have already adapted their "copyright laws" to incorporate the EUCD. It's only in the news after it is passed and after people realize the impact.
GCJ (4.0.3) can be a piece of crap when it comes to performance, depending on what you are doing. I found it about a factor 6 slower doing some simple disk IO/compression/hashing.
What it does do is reduce startup time on repeated use by 30%, but considering that the JVM version of that perticular CLI util only takes 0.37s, saving 0.1s isn't worth it (it's only launched about 10 times per hour).
YMMV
I can assure you that this problem isn't specific to the US :)
But IMHO the worst lecturers where the ones that handed out lecture notes at the beginning of the lecture. This totally discouraged (atleast me) to actually prepare. After a few of these lectures where the prof. did a word for word lecture of the notes I simply only showed up to get the notes (and in some cases just get a copy from someone who actually went if I was to lame).
The best lecturers had their own syllabus at the start of the course, made clear what part to read for the next lecture and interact with the attendees to get feed back and an insight in the students grasp of the topic to dynamically adjust.
How is BDSM an 'incitement to violence'? BSDM is between consenting persons who (like to) get an extra kick.
IMHO one couyld consider it no different from a boxing match (or any other contact sports). Even worst violent sports are broadcasted all over the world at times children may be watching.
Would somebody please think of the children!
Offcourse it all depends what kind of copyright laws are applicable to you. But I as a person am allowed to do what you describe: I may copy works for personal use (amongst others).
Google wouldn't get such rights over here. And a library is simply not copying works by having books on their shelfs.
"That said, I don't trust Google either... I just distrust them less."
Why would you distrust them less? For example why does google put an ID in their preferences cookie? That "feature" isn't on the preferences page (neither on hte help page)! And the reason I have to set preferences is because google.com redirects me to the localized version in the local language which I don't want to use on google. Why!!! It's not for loadbalancing purposes since they are the same machine.
"For anything more important I use Eraser with 50+ passes"
Well if the data is that important it shouldn't have been stored in a "readable" form anyway. Any sensible OS has crypto support these days to prevent just that (be sure encrypt places where eg temporary/spool files are stored).
Other than that most trackers and "The WWW" share the same communications protocol: HTTP
Stop! Don't use these links, by using them you will not get the benefits of the low cost, high speed dstrubuted network used to move this content.
Silly me was just thinking that a bunch of PBS owned seeds distributed over the net would lower their upload costs and speedup anyones download.
The current "solution" makes sure there are no seeders at all, ever. A brilliant solution for the possibility of no seeders for old stuff.
The net effect is that the average download is 5kb/s
That appears to be correct under both DCMA and EUCD.
But "fair use" still lets you make a copy even though the "original" is encrypted/whatever. You just can't make an digital/exact copy, for example you are always free to capture the analog output and encode that in whatever form you feel comforable with (for personal use).
(IANAL)
[grabs a drive from desk]8 p/Jumpers.htm
It's a dead Quantum Atlas IV (SCSI):
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/684
[search of other drives]
Found some more dead IDE drives, which all lack a WP jumper.
You appear to be a smart person, so you could prob fill in the dots when someone writes:
"... the Simpsons more closely"
[non standard quotingstyle]
So please enlighten me an tell me how!
[Did Homer Simpson review these games? Five thumbs up for everything!]
What the Simpsons (like most cartoon?) more closely, then you'd know that if Homer did the ratings it would be "four thumbs up for everything"
You should really brush up on your trolling skills. This one is to obvious:
- A and B are simply not true for the stuff you describe you are comfy with.
- man pages are fine, only thing (IMHO) they might be lacking are decent examples.
- the need to prove yourself
- posting as an AC
Using luke warm water as an admin is indeed incompatant. He should have a dedicated UPS hooked up to the coffiemachine for these kinds of emergencies.
Hmmmm, the benefit of the (to me applicable) copyrightlaws is that it is those that give me permission to freely copy works for my own personal and private use.
YMMV