So you won't be able to play these songs in anything but Limewire? Whether a particular DRM program gives me more abilities or not, it certainly seems like the world that contains DRM programs and content (and no ability to move songs to my mp3 player) is a less happy world than the one that contains none. I will boycott all DRM-including products, in order to discourage development of DRM-restricted content, and I encourage everyone who wishes to take the cooperative strategy in this prisoner's dilemna we call a marketplace to do the same.
PS did anyone happen to mirror this article? I'd be really interested in reading more about what they're planning to do.
No, you're looking at it from the wrong side. You're thinking about it how much it takes to produce the entire batch of programs. But price is determined by a combination of marginal cost (cost to produce the next unit AKA price to copy the CD) and the buyer's willingness to pay. Given a marginal cost of near zero, the only reasonable consideration in selecting the price of a piece of software is the demand curve.
...while a copy an important piece of software costs hundereds and is equally useful, regardless of whether you have the original or a copy.
False. Pirated software could contain viruses or trojans, and may not be eligible to recieve bug fixes or updates. And why should it cost hundreds of dollars when it's cheaper to produce a CD then it is to produce a paper book?
My point is that book writers can only boost their sales by giving free electronic copies away, while software companies not neccessarily so.
Perhaps you should think about why Adobe makes it so darn easy to copy Photoshop, or why an official Quake 3 patch disabled the CD check.
Okay, honestly, do you really think any MPAA member has lost anything worth mentioning at all from internet downloads of movies? Do you know anyone who avoided a trip to the theater, or even a trip to the video rental shop, because they spent hours and hours downloading hundreds of megs of movie that looks like crap?
That said, since all the copied movies are in lossy formats anyway, adding more resolution to the source won't make the lossy copies any bigger.
(worse spectrum usage, no doppler tolerance -> no mobile apps).
Why whould people buy it?
See McDonalds for details...
I know right! The other day I was eathing a big mac while flying my airplane, and the whole thing just turned an ugly shade of ultraviolet! WHY CAN'T I GET A DOPPLER TOLERANT HAMBURGER AROUND HERE?!!!!
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This guy is totally right. Who cares if no one can get to riaa.org?
Now, suppose there were no riaa, and DOS went after sony.com.... on second thought, I doubt that would really have much effect.
Hmm, this America suffering incompatibility for the sake of the world has a comparison to the health care sphere. Many countries have smaller price ceilings on their drugs than America (er...maybe America doesn't have any at all, for all I know). Thus drug companies pay the upfront costs to research new medications to sell to Americans. However, once the drugs are designed, they still sell them in foreign countries at the lower prices, because the marginal cost of making more medicine is lower than the price ceiling. It's concievable that if America put price ceilings on it's medicines, the state of the entire world's medicine would be hindered, even though American consumers might benefit.
Microsoft is not easily trusted, a detected breach of confidentiality would be a public relations nightmare for them. This is the single most important reason why you should not lose to much sleep over XP phoning home.
Well, there won't be much of a public relations disaster if no one's checking for a breach. It's only because their feet get held in the fire for each potential hole that they act as honest as they do--which really isn't particularly honest. I don't know how anyone can trust someone who says Palladium isn't DRM...
You did buy that license, right?
I don't have this particular software, but anyone who does paid money for a product, not a license.
only the ignorant or careless are going to get burned by this.
Right, and unless one sprang from the forehead of Zeus as a god of wisdom, everyone is or was or will be ignorant or careless at sometime in their life.
Okay, maybe porn drives CD-ROM, VCRs, VGA--but where are they on the faster CPUs/ fancy 3d cards side of things? In other words, WHERE IS MY SUPER-INTELLIGENT REAL-TIME GENERATED CYBER FRIEND?
The reason people say this a lot is because, of all the nationalities in the world, it's the Americans who tend to think that the world should be doing things their way, and that everyone else is just backwards.
This is crap. People EVERYWHERE think their way is the best way, ESPECIALLY Europeans! At least America tends to save it's sharpest condemnations for the most outrageous offenders--China, North Korea, Iraq--while accepting that Europe is for the most part a decent place, human rights wise. Sure, we'd like to see more free speech, but we don't make anywhere near as much noise as Europeans do over, say, American capital punishment.
It's also worth mentioning that the countries we scream loudest at tend to be non-democratic --therefore they cannot claim it is the will of the people they rule that human rights violations continue.
from MSNBC:
IT IS NOT yet clear whether the mice are smarter -- they were all killed soon after birth
Um, why did they do that? Did the scientists just give the mice an X-ray and say "OMG THESE MOUSES ARE SO FREEKIN SMART EWWWWWWW I DONT WANT SMARTY-SMART MICE SQUISH IT SQUISH IT SQUISH IT!!!!!!!!!!!" and then they all stood on top of lab chairs waiting for their spouses to squish the brainy mice, (but of course they had to settle for the building custodian)?
"Excuse me, I have the floor. I waited for you to finish your statements, now it is my turn"
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but did the protestors ever get the floor? If not, the civilty you call for here is unnecessary and counter-productive--if someone in power wants to ignore you there is no reason to make it easy for them.
No functionality is lost, simplicity is gained, BUT speed is lost. What was once a right click context sensitive option is now up at the top of the screen buried in a menu.
I do really wonder what the point is sometimes of these advocates; what is the benefit of 'controlling the world?' Is it more just an attitude that Microsoft needs to go? What's the real priority here?
It's a matter of network effects. People don't use Windows because it's better, they use it because everyone else uses it. Hardware manufactuers support it, your friends can help you explain it, your boss will be able to read your work. If everyone else starts using Linux, that makes my Linux using experience better.
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Is it possible they're just acting like decent human beings?
Ah, but does this mean no more bug fixes for the 10.1.x series?
I guess the difference is, with MS I'm still holding on to W2k because XP frightens me, but with Apple I actually want Jaguar. ;)
It's not secondary if you can't remove it.
PS did anyone happen to mirror this article? I'd be really interested in reading more about what they're planning to do.
No, you're looking at it from the wrong side. You're thinking about it how much it takes to produce the entire batch of programs. But price is determined by a combination of marginal cost (cost to produce the next unit AKA price to copy the CD) and the buyer's willingness to pay. Given a marginal cost of near zero, the only reasonable consideration in selecting the price of a piece of software is the demand curve.
Ah, but some systems are more abusable than others...
False. Pirated software could contain viruses or trojans, and may not be eligible to recieve bug fixes or updates. And why should it cost hundreds of dollars when it's cheaper to produce a CD then it is to produce a paper book?
My point is that book writers can only boost their sales by giving free electronic copies away, while software companies not neccessarily so.
Perhaps you should think about why Adobe makes it so darn easy to copy Photoshop, or why an official Quake 3 patch disabled the CD check.
That said, since all the copied movies are in lossy formats anyway, adding more resolution to the source won't make the lossy copies any bigger.
No, silly. Dr. Taco is asking you to STEAL their software! thus no profits for antichrist and many funs for yourself its a happy world for everyone!
Why whould people buy it?
See McDonalds for details...
I know right! The other day I was eathing a big mac while flying my airplane, and the whole thing just turned an ugly shade of ultraviolet! WHY CAN'T I GET A DOPPLER TOLERANT HAMBURGER AROUND HERE?!!!!
This guy is totally right. Who cares if no one can get to riaa.org? Now, suppose there were no riaa, and DOS went after sony.com .... on second thought, I doubt that would really have much effect.
Geez no wonder I can't see the light from other stars anymore! All this time I was blaming pollutants.
It's a strange world we live in.
Well, there won't be much of a public relations disaster if no one's checking for a breach. It's only because their feet get held in the fire for each potential hole that they act as honest as they do--which really isn't particularly honest. I don't know how anyone can trust someone who says Palladium isn't DRM...
You did buy that license, right?
I don't have this particular software, but anyone who does paid money for a product, not a license.
Or maybe he just felt getting HP to suffer for HIS civil disobedience was dishonorable.
Are you trying to tell me those aren't the same thing? EFFICIENCY RULZ
Right, and unless one sprang from the forehead of Zeus as a god of wisdom, everyone is or was or will be ignorant or careless at sometime in their life.
Yeah you are totally right my sister would totally kick my ass!!!!!
Okay, maybe porn drives CD-ROM, VCRs, VGA--but where are they on the faster CPUs/ fancy 3d cards side of things? In other words, WHERE IS MY SUPER-INTELLIGENT REAL-TIME GENERATED CYBER FRIEND?
This is crap. People EVERYWHERE think their way is the best way, ESPECIALLY Europeans! At least America tends to save it's sharpest condemnations for the most outrageous offenders--China, North Korea, Iraq--while accepting that Europe is for the most part a decent place, human rights wise. Sure, we'd like to see more free speech, but we don't make anywhere near as much noise as Europeans do over, say, American capital punishment.
It's also worth mentioning that the countries we scream loudest at tend to be non-democratic --therefore they cannot claim it is the will of the people they rule that human rights violations continue.
Um, why did they do that? Did the scientists just give the mice an X-ray and say "OMG THESE MOUSES ARE SO FREEKIN SMART EWWWWWWW I DONT WANT SMARTY-SMART MICE SQUISH IT SQUISH IT SQUISH IT!!!!!!!!!!!" and then they all stood on top of lab chairs waiting for their spouses to squish the brainy mice, (but of course they had to settle for the building custodian)?
Look, I'm just guessing, okay?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but did the protestors ever get the floor? If not, the civilty you call for here is unnecessary and counter-productive--if someone in power wants to ignore you there is no reason to make it easy for them.
No functionality is lost, simplicity is gained, BUT speed is lost. What was once a right click context sensitive option is now up at the top of the screen buried in a menu.
It's a matter of network effects. People don't use Windows because it's better, they use it because everyone else uses it. Hardware manufactuers support it, your friends can help you explain it, your boss will be able to read your work. If everyone else starts using Linux, that makes my Linux using experience better.