Fine, if you feel they have made human rights violations or threaten your particular countries sovereignty, then declare war on them and liquefy the country. Until then, its really none of your business and you don't have the right to interferer. ( you can bitch all you like, sure.. that's your right )
Your only *obligation* is to butt the hell out of their internal affairs.
What if I'm deaf and don't listen to music? What if i don't buy music from the music industry, and only directly from artists i support, as a general moral protest? Even more, why should my $ go to support groups that offend me, or music i don't even like? it doesn't now, so why am i being penalized?
That is not adapting to a new market like they should be doing, it sounds like buying your way into blackmailing.
"Should we" is the better question. They are a sovereign nation and wishes should be respected. How you would you feel about a bunch of outsiders pushing their agenda on your fellow citizens, which is exactly what this entails if you boil it down to the basics?
Regardless of my disagreement that using your own hardware as you like is a crime this has dangerous connotations.
What if i decide i want to do research on a subject like the history of illegal drug use ( more of a black and white case )? Does that mean i get the feds beating down my door just because i did a search or read something? How about researching effects of child abuse? Am i now considered a contributor and can expect a visit?
What if i write a book about something that is declared illegal later... am i now considered a criminal and everyone that bought my book?
I don't own a ps3 either. But that wont stop sony from getting a subpoena and having the cops kick down my door looking for it, with no investigation first. Just the fact that you (may) have knowledge makes you a criminal and you will be treated as one. You will have your belongs destroyed, taken and your financial ( and perhaps professional ) life ruined as you try to fight for your innocence. And if you prove ou are innocent, you wont even get a 'oops, our bad'. you get to rebuild your life on your own dime.
They wont 'come knocking' as you know using your own hardware for what you want is worse than being a terrorist.
Why do you think there has been a push for it in the first place when 99% of the IPs out there could be using NAT just fine?
You will soon have to get your block of addresses from the government and use them to make ANYTHING work, even your toaster as god forbid you make some toast in another persons home that wasn't authorized to have toast.
Slander is illegal regardless of medium, but you have a protected right to express your opinion, even if the subject doesn't like it and feels 'criticized'..
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Means assumed guilt.
Great. So when do the black vans just start picking up people randomly?
Question to web 2.0 companies: Why are you keeping logs of which user logged in from which IP address in the first place?
Marketing.
When you run the world, you craft everything to support your wealth.
Well, is it broke yet? Dont want to lose everything i have.
It will happen, burnout will find you. It finds us all.
Isnt this how they already do it?
It will just cause data rates to go up even more ( or be capped earlier with larger overage fees )
So people are copying data that they cant afford to buy. Who would have thought?
How much as spent for this 'study'?
You might get lucky and come out ok in spite of them, but you still cant trust them.
Dont forget the embedded devices running windows too.
Fine, if you feel they have made human rights violations or threaten your particular countries sovereignty, then declare war on them and liquefy the country. Until then, its really none of your business and you don't have the right to interferer. ( you can bitch all you like, sure.. that's your right )
Your only *obligation* is to butt the hell out of their internal affairs.
...line is between a "sovereign nation" and a disintegrating failed nation in a state of civil war...
As far as I'm concerned, its one in the same and is their own problem to work out.
we have enough of our own problems here to not be running around butting our noses into where they dont belong.
Access to who's truth? Mine? Yours? Theirs?
And i never said that knowledge isn't a right, only that the *internet* is not. I don't see a technological vehicle as being a human right.
Can you afford to be a martyr? I cant. I bet most cant.
What if I'm deaf and don't listen to music? What if i don't buy music from the music industry, and only directly from artists i support, as a general moral protest? Even more, why should my $ go to support groups that offend me, or music i don't even like? it doesn't now, so why am i being penalized?
That is not adapting to a new market like they should be doing, it sounds like buying your way into blackmailing.
"Should we" is the better question. They are a sovereign nation and wishes should be respected. How you would you feel about a bunch of outsiders pushing their agenda on your fellow citizens, which is exactly what this entails if you boil it down to the basics?
'Internet' isn't a basic human right.
Regardless of my disagreement that using your own hardware as you like is a crime this has dangerous connotations.
What if i decide i want to do research on a subject like the history of illegal drug use ( more of a black and white case )? Does that mean i get the feds beating down my door just because i did a search or read something? How about researching effects of child abuse? Am i now considered a contributor and can expect a visit?
What if i write a book about something that is declared illegal later... am i now considered a criminal and everyone that bought my book?
I don't own a ps3 either. But that wont stop sony from getting a subpoena and having the cops kick down my door looking for it, with no investigation first. Just the fact that you (may) have knowledge makes you a criminal and you will be treated as one. You will have your belongs destroyed, taken and your financial ( and perhaps professional ) life ruined as you try to fight for your innocence. And if you prove ou are innocent, you wont even get a 'oops, our bad'. you get to rebuild your life on your own dime.
They wont 'come knocking' as you know using your own hardware for what you want is worse than being a terrorist.
There i fixed it.
Seriously, this is not a 'sony problem', its a industry problem.
Why do you think there has been a push for it in the first place when 99% of the IPs out there could be using NAT just fine?
You will soon have to get your block of addresses from the government and use them to make ANYTHING work, even your toaster as god forbid you make some toast in another persons home that wasn't authorized to have toast.
We have just crossed over where mere curiosity or even an accidental landing can get you a visit by an attorney at best, or your home raided at worst.
Never thought id see us dip so low in my life time. Gotta love a world run by attorneys.
CentOS is playing by the rules. Oracle is not.
if you read the EULA's when you activate your device i do believe there are some age restrictions in there too.
As far as this age requirement, that is BS. They are just covering their legal ass. Noting more nothing less.
They don't want to get sued by some parent due to something their child did/viewed.
Slander is illegal regardless of medium, but you have a protected right to express your opinion, even if the subject doesn't like it and feels 'criticized'..