the first thought that comes to mind is when the US was in vietnam, sure they had the money, but who knew the territory best and had all the tactics for fighting in that arena?
"provided that a reasonable person could have anticipated that the act would have caused such an effect."
so all those idiots who open exe attachments and get infected with klez or whatever and cause a degradation of mail service are now *criminaly* stupid? i'd love to see that stick
oh yes, they're opening a whole other can of worms with this one, and its gonna bite them in the ass for sure..
the music copyright holders (most of whom are too fried from years of drug abuse) vs. the computer geeks of the world, where the battle ground is the internet? now who shall i bet my money on?
hmm.. a very good point, now if you combine the wages of the programmers, cost of advertizing, losses due to bugs and piracy, it seems like the software industry has an anual income profit of negative 3 billion... which if im not misstaken, puts them just ahead of the music industry in gross income.. am i right?
Cmon here, yea so i know about computers, and i can burn cd's and so on, but so can all the dumb people i know who think the big metal case with the power switch on it is their hard drive. Face it, it takes an iq of 4 to download an mp3 and burn it to cd.
not to mention, at 50 cents for the cd, plus my valuable time to download, and the limited realestate in my apartment are all the things i consider before pirating music, and i can tell you i didnt even bother to download his album.. now what does THAT say?
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with everything done by machines that are controled by computers, do you think a physical mold is even needed? i assume the "mold" would just be a set of instructions on disk, or whatever.
and as for the prototype, it could easily be just a larger chip, then scaled down once its encoded as instructions
they try to keep it a closed system cause they're losing money on each console sale
so if they make their console easy to run free software that anybody can write, basicaly in the end all they are doing is making a really inexpensive PC, and if they cant even force you to run their own software (and ONLY their software) they wont make a cent.. and to microsoft, even the suggestion of doing something that may bite into their profits is a sacrilige and a punishable offence.. what are all those black vans doing parked outside your house all of a sudden?
If any innovation be forced into free/public use (or at least for non-profit applications) once the patent holder earns a reasonable amount off it. i dont know if that makes any sense.. but it does to me... take it or leave it..
"What's needed is a change in the way MS developers think, with this I mean the people using Visual Studio etc to build solutions for the MS platform"
or would that just result in another stipulation in the license aggreement that you cannot use VS to develop open source? ok i know that sounds far fetched, but i for one am not surprised at how far ms goes already to stifle competition.
because the average consumer is becomming confused with what is better/newer than what.. if they keep changing the name of the ram, people wont know what to buy. by calling it ddr2, the consumer knows its the "sequel" to ddr, and if their motherboard supports it, they can then have an easier time deciding what ram they want...
now i feel better.. i had bought an ata133 last week but the order messed up and gave me an ata100, but being the impatient geek that i am, i took the 100 and a decent refund in its place, but all the while imagining the lightning fast speeds i would be missing out on now.. but now from what i can tell, the 133 is somewhere in the 2 - 5% better range, and i can handle losing only 5% over the 33% advertized...
then it could be argued that most people dont *need* a videocard at all, or even a computer. but economics aren't based on what we need, but rather a percieved need, hence those who need a top of the line system, like my grandmother who needs P4 2.2 to check her hotmail twice a week.
yes, most people might not need 3d, but 90% of the people who dont, end up buying a decent new computer that contains a very good video card in it... why? because the stores know that people "need" fast 3d, and rather than try to sell "good enough" computers, they aproach it by the question of what the "average" user thinks they need, because you never know who is going to walk through the door: someone who wants to play quake on it, or someone who wants to check his email once a month...
ok i hear the big companies whining about piracy and how the cost of piracy and protection is responsible for the cost in software, and the pirates saying that if the games/programs weren't so expensive, they wouldnt be pirating them..
how about some open software team work to create a robust cd-protection scheme, with a licence agreement saying its free to use for any product that does not exceed whatever price, thus helping the software companies crack down on piracy, helping them keep their costs down researching cd protection, while holding them legally obligated to keep their price down.
3 (Conclusion 1:2): The BnetD server system circumvents a protection mechanism as defined by the DMCA
um.. but they could always return with: "yes the cd key auth is a mechanism to prevent people from playing pirated wc3 on battlenet, but bnetd is not battlenet, and it is not helping these people get on battlenet, so thus blizzard's servers are still free of wc3 pirates, and the protection from pirates remains effective on battlenet"
furthermore, if the argument that the key is meant to prevent pirates from playing online multiplayer versions of the game, its rendered pointless, since blizzard games can be played via tcp/ip for peer-to-peer play without using any CDkey auth..
"So now BNetD is responsible for what Vivendi thinks they may do in the future?"
could this "maybe might do in the future" (possible) precident be used against the DMCA to sue those who made it for what this law might do to us in the future in some dooms-day prediction?
hmm so looking at a car driving by, and seeing how to make your own car by analyzing how it works would be ilegal as well? i think not.. someone has to draw the line somewhere before it comes to the point where you cant do anything without breaking some law....
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but where the battleground is the internet?
the first thought that comes to mind is when the US was in vietnam, sure they had the money, but who knew the territory best and had all the tactics for fighting in that arena?
"provided that a reasonable person could have anticipated that the act would have caused such an effect."
so all those idiots who open exe attachments and get infected with klez or whatever and cause a degradation of mail service are now *criminaly* stupid? i'd love to see that stick
and you're surprised?
i mean, is this not bashdot.org?
oh yes, they're opening a whole other can of worms with this one, and its gonna bite them in the ass for sure..
the music copyright holders (most of whom are too fried from years of drug abuse) vs. the computer geeks of the world, where the battle ground is the internet? now who shall i bet my money on?
hmm.. a very good point, now if you combine the wages of the programmers, cost of advertizing, losses due to bugs and piracy, it seems like the software industry has an anual income profit of negative 3 billion... which if im not misstaken, puts them just ahead of the music industry in gross income.. am i right?
I wonder where all that money goes?
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will it work in an Xbox?
Cmon here, yea so i know about computers, and i can burn cd's and so on, but so can all the dumb people i know who think the big metal case with the power switch on it is their hard drive. Face it, it takes an iq of 4 to download an mp3 and burn it to cd.
not to mention, at 50 cents for the cd, plus my valuable time to download, and the limited realestate in my apartment are all the things i consider before pirating music, and i can tell you i didnt even bother to download his album.. now what does THAT say?
with everything done by machines that are controled by computers, do you think a physical mold is even needed? i assume the "mold" would just be a set of instructions on disk, or whatever.
and as for the prototype, it could easily be just a larger chip, then scaled down once its encoded as instructions
embraced and extended the amatuer maybe?
they try to keep it a closed system cause they're losing money on each console sale
so if they make their console easy to run free software that anybody can write, basicaly in the end all they are doing is making a really inexpensive PC, and if they cant even force you to run their own software (and ONLY their software) they wont make a cent.. and to microsoft, even the suggestion of doing something that may bite into their profits is a sacrilige and a punishable offence.. what are all those black vans doing parked outside your house all of a sudden?
so?
i'm pretty sure that not paying homage to bill gates before and after meals violates the MS EULA, so whats your worry?
maybe... but if all they're gonna do is run away, i think i can handle that.
If any innovation be forced into free/public use (or at least for non-profit applications) once the patent holder earns a reasonable amount off it. i dont know if that makes any sense.. but it does to me... take it or leave it..
"What's needed is a change in the way MS developers think, with this I mean the people using Visual Studio etc to build solutions for the MS platform"
or would that just result in another stipulation in the license aggreement that you cannot use VS to develop open source? ok i know that sounds far fetched, but i for one am not surprised at how far ms goes already to stifle competition.
because the average consumer is becomming confused with what is better/newer than what..
if they keep changing the name of the ram, people wont know what to buy. by calling it ddr2, the consumer knows its the "sequel" to ddr, and if their motherboard supports it, they can then have an easier time deciding what ram they want...
now i feel better.. i had bought an ata133 last week but the order messed up and gave me an ata100, but being the impatient geek that i am, i took the 100 and a decent refund in its place, but all the while imagining the lightning fast speeds i would be missing out on now.. but now from what i can tell, the 133 is somewhere in the 2 - 5% better range, and i can handle losing only 5% over the 33% advertized...
then it could be argued that most people dont *need* a videocard at all, or even a computer. but economics aren't based on what we need, but rather a percieved need, hence those who need a top of the line system, like my grandmother who needs P4 2.2 to check her hotmail twice a week.
yes, most people might not need 3d, but 90% of the people who dont, end up buying a decent new computer that contains a very good video card in it... why? because the stores know that people "need" fast 3d, and rather than try to sell "good enough" computers, they aproach it by the question of what the "average" user thinks they need, because you never know who is going to walk through the door: someone who wants to play quake on it, or someone who wants to check his email once a month...
Welcome to the Advanced windows XP setup.
With this new version of Windows you now have the choice of which modules you install on your system.
Which components would you like to install?
- Windows core files (Required)
- Desktop "enhancements" (Required)
- Internet Explorer 6.0 (Required)
- Fatal exception core files (Required)
- Illegal Operation Scripting Engine(tm)(Required)
- Security Backdoor Enhancements (Required)
what i dont understand is why they don't use that money to hire *real* programmers and make a *stable* os that doesnt take 256mb of ram.
get an army of asm programmers and recode windows from scratch.. just for fun.. i would if i had that much money...
ok i hear the big companies whining about piracy and how the cost of piracy and protection is responsible for the cost in software, and the pirates saying that if the games/programs weren't so expensive, they wouldnt be pirating them..
how about some open software team work to create a robust cd-protection scheme, with a licence agreement saying its free to use for any product that does not exceed whatever price, thus helping the software companies crack down on piracy, helping them keep their costs down researching cd protection, while holding them legally obligated to keep their price down.
3 (Conclusion 1:2): The BnetD server system circumvents a protection mechanism as defined by the DMCA
um.. but they could always return with:
"yes the cd key auth is a mechanism to prevent people from playing pirated wc3 on battlenet, but bnetd is not battlenet, and it is not helping these people get on battlenet, so thus blizzard's servers are still free of wc3 pirates, and the protection from pirates remains effective on battlenet"
furthermore, if the argument that the key is meant to prevent pirates from playing online multiplayer versions of the game, its rendered pointless, since blizzard games can be played via tcp/ip for peer-to-peer play without using any CDkey auth..
period
"So now BNetD is responsible for what Vivendi thinks they may do in the future?"
could this "maybe might do in the future" (possible) precident be used against the DMCA to sue those who made it for what this law might do to us in the future in some dooms-day prediction?
hmm so looking at a car driving by, and seeing how to make your own car by analyzing how it works would be ilegal as well? i think not.. someone has to draw the line somewhere before it comes to the point where you cant do anything without breaking some law....
sigh..