Spiderlike, sure, but IIRC Tor only obfuscates your identity from the site operator via a maze of proxies - It doesn't do anything like create an encrypted tunnel for the traffic, so eavesdroppers at the phone company can still snoop all they want.
Any market has a range of interest for "Gotta have it NOW!" to "You're going to have to write *ME* a check to even look."
I am willing to bet that a fair number of people who appear to be "pirating" this album are folks who (like me) never would have considered buying a Radiohead at any price *but* free.
There is another way to describe such people: "potential new fans".
MP3's are the new radio -- it's still all about exposure like it always was.
This is an easy one - it's economics. The cost of supporting a continuously variable platform like Linux is inherently higher than commercial proprietary software.
Let's face it, when you say "I run Linux" you may mean kernel 2.4, kernel 2.6, Ubuntu, SLES, RHEL, DSL, Slack or any of a thousand variations thereof, not to mention home-brewed custom kernel builds and DIY distros. With Windows and Mac, you have maybe a half-dozen variations of each. If a dependency fails on Windows, you run Windows Update and update an ODBC driver or your VB libraries. On Linux, maybe you need to update a driver, or maybe the alpha driver the package maintainer slipped in there is preventing the software from working and there's no way to update it or roll it back automatically because it's alpha.
The point is, Linux varies widely from install to install. Until it becomes very VERY standardized, companies will generally continue to consider it not cost effective to support. When they do support it, it's only the commercial flavors like SLES and RHEL because they are standardized enough with a large enough installed base to train support staff to troubleshoot with scripts.
P.S. I love Linux, but this is the reality. That's why Ubuntu is so important.
It sounds like a fair number of these infringements might be describing design patents, which, like trademarks, are intended to prevent consumers from confusing two products.
This reminds me of about 15 years ago when Apple launched a marketing campaign at a trade show to get everyone to pronounce "SCSI" as "sexy" instead of "scuzzy"?
The root of this whole mess is the fact that credit is soooo easy to get. Lenders ask for little more than a name and SSN to look up a credit report before they will write loans and issue credit cards. Anyone could provide that, which is what makes this information so valuable.
You want to fix the problem? Regulate the credit industry to create friction in this process and de-value the information used to identify individuals to credit reports. This certainly would mean requiring more than Name and SSN to identify an individual on a credit report, but may also mean burdening the creditor with additional requirements like direct contact with applicant to confirm confirm request, etc.
If you make it harder for creditors to issue fraudulent credit, the reason for stealing the information in the first place will evaporate.
BTW, why is the SSN even used as a credit ID? Ain't that supposed to be illegal?
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Spiderlike, sure, but IIRC Tor only obfuscates your identity from the site operator via a maze of proxies - It doesn't do anything like create an encrypted tunnel for the traffic, so eavesdroppers at the phone company can still snoop all they want.
Just sayin'.
Any market has a range of interest for "Gotta have it NOW!" to "You're going to have to write *ME* a check to even look."
I am willing to bet that a fair number of people who appear to be "pirating" this album are folks who (like me) never would have considered buying a Radiohead at any price *but* free.
There is another way to describe such people: "potential new fans".
MP3's are the new radio -- it's still all about exposure like it always was.
This is an easy one - it's economics. The cost of supporting a continuously variable platform like Linux is inherently higher than commercial proprietary software.
Let's face it, when you say "I run Linux" you may mean kernel 2.4, kernel 2.6, Ubuntu, SLES, RHEL, DSL, Slack or any of a thousand variations thereof, not to mention home-brewed custom kernel builds and DIY distros. With Windows and Mac, you have maybe a half-dozen variations of each. If a dependency fails on Windows, you run Windows Update and update an ODBC driver or your VB libraries. On Linux, maybe you need to update a driver, or maybe the alpha driver the package maintainer slipped in there is preventing the software from working and there's no way to update it or roll it back automatically because it's alpha.
The point is, Linux varies widely from install to install. Until it becomes very VERY standardized, companies will generally continue to consider it not cost effective to support. When they do support it, it's only the commercial flavors like SLES and RHEL because they are standardized enough with a large enough installed base to train support staff to troubleshoot with scripts.
P.S. I love Linux, but this is the reality. That's why Ubuntu is so important.
It sounds like a fair number of these infringements might be describing design patents, which, like trademarks, are intended to prevent consumers from confusing two products.
Oh, and IANAL.
Royalties: Everyone is charged the same, but Microsoft drinks a lot more cups of coffee than Novell.
This reminds me of about 15 years ago when Apple launched a marketing campaign at a trade show to get everyone to pronounce "SCSI" as "sexy" instead of "scuzzy"?
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Anyone else remember that?
Good times, man... good times...
Follow the money!
The root of this whole mess is the fact that credit is soooo easy to get. Lenders ask for little more than a name and SSN to look up a credit report before they will write loans and issue credit cards. Anyone could provide that, which is what makes this information so valuable.
You want to fix the problem? Regulate the credit industry to create friction in this process and de-value the information used to identify individuals to credit reports. This certainly would mean requiring more than Name and SSN to identify an individual on a credit report, but may also mean burdening the creditor with additional requirements like direct contact with applicant to confirm confirm request, etc.
If you make it harder for creditors to issue fraudulent credit, the reason for stealing the information in the first place will evaporate.
BTW, why is the SSN even used as a credit ID? Ain't that supposed to be illegal?
So what happens if you set hl.exe as your shell, and you use it to log on to Second Lif.... (* Poof *)