And now for the part that no one wants to hear, the anwer to the question, "But I want to give my buddy a copy!" Well you cant, because that is theft, you are stealing from the artist, you are stealing from the record company, you just flat out being a thief.
Ah but in some countries it is legal to give copies of eg. music CDs to your friends and also make personal backup copies.
Personally I don't have any ethical problems on downloading music/movies/tv series/whatnot from the Internet. Sometimes illegal copying is the only way to get some of this content as it is never going to be sold or show on TV in my country. Now, if someone downloads music and sells it to his friends or strangers, then I would say this person is stealing. He is actually getting some of the money that the record companies would(should?) have earned.
Don't try to justify your being a thief with degree, because at that point our society will unravel and it will at some point be just fine for me to decide that because you look a certain way, its OK for me to whip out my Glock and just blow your ass away.
This might be one those slippery slope arguments. It also is not a very good analogy, perhaps you should have used patents, trademarks or even borders (immaterial things) and it might have worked better.
A car that I own is my property and if you steal it majority of people will think that to theft (though atleast my law will probably say that it is illegal/unauthorized use of that car, but that is not relevant here). The problem with copyright is that it is not tangible. Many do understand and agree, that if I make a song, I have certain rights to it. They also think having some rights over it after they purchase the music from you. DRM tries to artificially remove some of those rights and that is why many think DRM to be unfair.
I might have some empathy for RIAA/MPAA/whatnot if they weren't playing with DRM and extending copyright terms. And it doesn't help that governments make laws that eg. prohibit my friendly anime store to import DVDs and manga from US unless the copyright holder has authorized importing to some EU country. Perhaps it is time for reboot the whole intellectual property system and start building a new one, one that is fair for both sides.
Humm, it is late so I'm not sure if this makes any sense, but there it is...
Sure, only very popular torrents, like perhaps latest Naruto episode, max out my connection with bittorrent. That is why I usually have 20-50 torrents downloading simultaneously. This also allows me to download at 400-800kB/s, but I only need to upload at 50-75kB/s. It seems that bittorrent's tit-for-tat system doesn't work when I connect to thousands of peers simultaneously.
Here in rural Finland I pay 69euro/month for 10/1.2Mbps ADSL2+ (I actually pay for 16M/2M connection but line quality limits me to 10M/1.2M) with no download/upload limits. (In cities you can get similar speeds for 10-20euro cheaper)
This would allow me to download 100GB per day, thus 100 HD-DVD movies at 20GB would take me 20 days. If speed would be limited to my upload speed (which it isn't with Bittorrent [in my case atleast, but I do usually connect to 2000+ peers simultaneously]) it would take less than 6 months to download. So the price of download is 69-414euro.
Five 400GB Samsungs cost 199 each, total of 595euro.
All totals to minumum of 664 euro and maximum of 1009euro.
Thus it is cheaper to download them. Also I guess that HD-DVD will cost more than 20euro per movie, as regular DVD movies cost 20-40euro each here.
Well, FUSE is not NTFS. FUSE allows you to write userspace filesystem modules via stable and fairly simple API. Thus if you had FUSE for Windows, you could add new filesystems to Windows with relative ease. Also you could port the same modules to Mac, Linux and BSD or vice versa.
Actually, the Maps application most likely isn't running in the Web-browser, instead it is just a custom application that uses Google Maps images/data. Similar programs are available for "normal" mobilephones as J2ME apps.
My dead man's switch would simply install bunch of viruses to all my windows workstations on the intranet, reconfigure corporate firewall to allow all traffic in and from internet and then make all unix servers to fill their harddisks with random data while randomizing root passwords and erasing backup tapes on the tape archiver, perhaps even upload all sensitive projects and source code to public servers. That will teach'em...
Dunno about latest Debian but I recall installing Debian 3.0 from 3 or 5 floppies and then doing a network install. And installation via BOOTP/TFTP is snappy too..
You could use the ODBC/JDBC/WhatNotBC loophole like Extensis does with Portfolio Server. Their Mac OS X version only works with MySQL but they don't have to GPL their application because it uses ODBC and not the GPL'd client library (and requires users to download and install MySQL/MyODBC manually).
Or how about Identity Infringement? I googled for Copyright Infringement and got this:
Copyright infringement occurs when a person copies someone else's copyrighted items without permission. This would also include public display of a copy of copyrighted work.
After small modification it actually sounds quite ok to me:
Identity infringement occurs when a person copies someone else's identity without permission. This would also include public display of a copy of identity.
Ofcourse using that copied identity to get a loan/buy something/etc wouldn't be Identity Infringement but a fraud.
Humm, if we assume that the flash size is 32GB and I write there 32GB data, then how can it load balance anything? Except using some reserved blocks that I cannot use directly?
But if you write 32GB - 1 bytes data once and then rewrite that one byte 100000 the flash would fail in just couple hours (if we assume there are no reserved blocks that can be used for remapping bad blocks). Still, if take average of our values, i'd say 4 years is plenty for a laptop hdd. And ofcourse we have backups:)
And how many 2 years old hackers do you know? I doubt that many learn to program before age of 5 or so. And to become a hacker takes probably atleast a year or two on top of that:)
Dunno about other kids but my sister's son at age 2 knew not to touch my computers or my collection of D&D miniatures without asking me first for permission.
Well, in Finland we don't throw "illegal" evidence out of court. Instead we just punish the person(s) who did this illegal activity. This keeps the government, or representatives of that government, following the rules and doesn't allow criminals to get free on technicality. Ofcourse this just might be a scandinavian thing as we generally don't think that our governments require any extra effort to keep them in line, they seem to do quite well on their own.
One reason for that might be that people usually don't speak of Microsoft spreadsheet, instead of they just call it Excel. On Microsoft Excel homepage the word 'spreadsheet' is mentioned only twice and neither of those are in the top of the page or on any header. Thus many search engine would not rank Excel page near the top when searching for 'spreadsheet'.
I searched for 'spreadsheet' in msn.com and alltheweb.com and neither of them give top links to MS Excel, but Google Spreadsheet and Wikipedia entry for spreadsheets are close to top on both search engines.
I recall reading that HDTV 1080i video as MPEG-2 would take max 20Mbps. So if we assume 6 times better compression via H.264 we get 3.3Mbps which is quite ok for 8Mbps internet connection. And 1080p should take double that, 6.6Mbps, so that is doable too. Though upload speeds for those connections are much slower, so that often limits the speed.
I still don't understand why Novell and Microsoft are swapping millions of dollars back and forth and how it relates to Ballmer's IP claims, but as long as apt-get doesn't start asking me for license codes I'm happy.
Actually it would be quite handy if apt-get did ask for license codes.. for proprietary software. It could even offer option to buy software or install trial version. It would be handy if one could just add 'proprietary' or 'commercial' to sources.list after 'contrib' and 'non-free', no need to play with tar.gz or RPM packages for commercial softwares. And if we add support for torrents to apt, we could have 'warez' repository too:)
Ah but you forgot that usually P2P programs split the files into small chunks that are then downloaded from multiple servers. So the question is, how much of the file do you need to upload for it to be counted as 1 song?
Unfortunately there are some programs that do require Intel CPUs to work or to enabled accelerated mode. I recall my friend talking about some video editor program that required Intel P4 to work and did warn you about this fact when you tried to install it to a AMD machine.
Also I think the Intel C-compiler only enableds MMX/SSE/SSE2 etc support on Intel CPUs, thus making the programs slower on AMD unless you patch the binery to bypass the CPU check.
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I would assume that the fines are in euros (wouldn't know, didn't read the article) and $32,600 is about 25000€.
Ah but in some countries it is legal to give copies of eg. music CDs to your friends and also make personal backup copies.
Personally I don't have any ethical problems on downloading music/movies/tv series/whatnot from the Internet. Sometimes illegal copying is the only way to get some of this content as it is never going to be sold or show on TV in my country. Now, if someone downloads music and sells it to his friends or strangers, then I would say this person is stealing. He is actually getting some of the money that the record companies would(should?) have earned.
This might be one those slippery slope arguments. It also is not a very good analogy, perhaps you should have used patents, trademarks or even borders (immaterial things) and it might have worked better.
A car that I own is my property and if you steal it majority of people will think that to theft (though atleast my law will probably say that it is illegal/unauthorized use of that car, but that is not relevant here). The problem with copyright is that it is not tangible. Many do understand and agree, that if I make a song, I have certain rights to it. They also think having some rights over it after they purchase the music from you. DRM tries to artificially remove some of those rights and that is why many think DRM to be unfair.
I might have some empathy for RIAA/MPAA/whatnot if they weren't playing with DRM and extending copyright terms. And it doesn't help that governments make laws that eg. prohibit my friendly anime store to import DVDs and manga from US unless the copyright holder has authorized importing to some EU country. Perhaps it is time for reboot the whole intellectual property system and start building a new one, one that is fair for both sides.
Humm, it is late so I'm not sure if this makes any sense, but there it is...
Sure, only very popular torrents, like perhaps latest Naruto episode, max out my connection with bittorrent. That is why I usually have 20-50 torrents downloading simultaneously. This also allows me to download at 400-800kB/s, but I only need to upload at 50-75kB/s. It seems that bittorrent's tit-for-tat system doesn't work when I connect to thousands of peers simultaneously.
Here in rural Finland I pay 69euro/month for 10/1.2Mbps ADSL2+ (I actually pay for 16M/2M connection but line quality limits me to 10M/1.2M) with no download/upload limits. (In cities you can get similar speeds for 10-20euro cheaper)
This would allow me to download 100GB per day, thus 100 HD-DVD movies at 20GB would take me 20 days. If speed would be limited to my upload speed (which it isn't with Bittorrent [in my case atleast, but I do usually connect to 2000+ peers simultaneously]) it would take less than 6 months to download. So the price of download is 69-414euro.
Five 400GB Samsungs cost 199 each, total of 595euro.
All totals to minumum of 664 euro and maximum of 1009euro.
Thus it is cheaper to download them. Also I guess that HD-DVD will cost more than 20euro per movie, as regular DVD movies cost 20-40euro each here.
Well, FUSE is not NTFS. FUSE allows you to write userspace filesystem modules via stable and fairly simple API. Thus if you had FUSE for Windows, you could add new filesystems to Windows with relative ease. Also you could port the same modules to Mac, Linux and BSD or vice versa.
Actually, the Maps application most likely isn't running in the Web-browser, instead it is just a custom application that uses Google Maps images/data. Similar programs are available for "normal" mobilephones as J2ME apps.
My dead man's switch would simply install bunch of viruses to all my windows workstations on the intranet, reconfigure corporate firewall to allow all traffic in and from internet and then make all unix servers to fill their harddisks with random data while randomizing root passwords and erasing backup tapes on the tape archiver, perhaps even upload all sensitive projects and source code to public servers. That will teach'em...
Dunno about latest Debian but I recall installing Debian 3.0 from 3 or 5 floppies and then doing a network install. And installation via BOOTP/TFTP is snappy too..
Actually, the minimum is 2. (for dynamic content or user interaction)
:)
1) HTML
2) some programming language
Or you could do with just HTML, eg. writing an adventure game with only HTML isn't that difficult
(I still sometimes have to write some webapps for Netscape 3.x *sigh*)
You could use the ODBC/JDBC/WhatNotBC loophole like Extensis does with Portfolio Server. Their Mac OS X version only works with MySQL but they don't have to GPL their application because it uses ODBC and not the GPL'd client library (and requires users to download and install MySQL/MyODBC manually).
Or how about Identity Infringement? I googled for Copyright Infringement and got this:
Copyright infringement occurs when a person copies someone else's copyrighted items without permission. This would also include public display of a copy of copyrighted work.
After small modification it actually sounds quite ok to me:
Identity infringement occurs when a person copies someone else's identity without permission. This would also include public display of a copy of identity.
Ofcourse using that copied identity to get a loan/buy something/etc wouldn't be Identity Infringement but a fraud.
Humm, if we assume that the flash size is 32GB and I write there 32GB data, then how can it load balance anything? Except using some reserved blocks that I cannot use directly?
But if you write 32GB - 1 bytes data once and then rewrite that one byte 100000 the flash would fail in just couple hours (if we assume there are no reserved blocks that can be used for remapping bad blocks). Still, if take average of our values, i'd say 4 years is plenty for a laptop hdd. And ofcourse we have backups :)
And how many 2 years old hackers do you know? I doubt that many learn to program before age of 5 or so. And to become a hacker takes probably atleast a year or two on top of that :)
Dunno about other kids but my sister's son at age 2 knew not to touch my computers or my collection of D&D miniatures without asking me first for permission.
A boot ROM with Windows and Office on it would be sufficent for many people.
Well, in Finland we don't throw "illegal" evidence out of court. Instead we just punish the person(s) who did this illegal activity. This keeps the government, or representatives of that government, following the rules and doesn't allow criminals to get free on technicality. Ofcourse this just might be a scandinavian thing as we generally don't think that our governments require any extra effort to keep them in line, they seem to do quite well on their own.
Ah, but I could just plugin a memory cardridge on my C64 and would be instantly playing a game or running a Simon's Basic or Forth64 "IDE".
So Microsoft is Google's father... and.. in the end, Microsoft will turn to the light side??
One reason for that might be that people usually don't speak of Microsoft spreadsheet, instead of they just call it Excel. On Microsoft Excel homepage the word 'spreadsheet' is mentioned only twice and neither of those are in the top of the page or on any header. Thus many search engine would not rank Excel page near the top when searching for 'spreadsheet'.
I searched for 'spreadsheet' in msn.com and alltheweb.com and neither of them give top links to MS Excel, but Google Spreadsheet and Wikipedia entry for spreadsheets are close to top on both search engines.
I recall reading that HDTV 1080i video as MPEG-2 would take max 20Mbps. So if we assume 6 times better compression via H.264 we get 3.3Mbps which is quite ok for 8Mbps internet connection. And 1080p should take double that, 6.6Mbps, so that is doable too. Though upload speeds for those connections are much slower, so that often limits the speed.
And I am happy with my 1MHz Commodore 64...
I still don't understand why Novell and Microsoft are swapping millions of dollars back and forth and how it relates to Ballmer's IP claims, but as long as apt-get doesn't start asking me for license codes I'm happy.
Actually it would be quite handy if apt-get did ask for license codes.. for proprietary software. It could even offer option to buy software or install trial version. It would be handy if one could just add 'proprietary' or 'commercial' to sources.list after 'contrib' and 'non-free', no need to play with tar.gz or RPM packages for commercial softwares. And if we add support for torrents to apt, we could have 'warez' repository too :)
Ah but you forgot that usually P2P programs split the files into small chunks that are then downloaded from multiple servers. So the question is, how much of the file do you need to upload for it to be counted as 1 song?
Unfortunately there are some programs that do require Intel CPUs to work or to enabled accelerated mode. I recall my friend talking about some video editor program that required Intel P4 to work and did warn you about this fact when you tried to install it to a AMD machine.
Also I think the Intel C-compiler only enableds MMX/SSE/SSE2 etc support on Intel CPUs, thus making the programs slower on AMD unless you patch the binery to bypass the CPU check.