In Portugal, your rights end where the other people rights start.
As for protection of rights and punishment of wrongs it is due to the courts and the authorities, not to the individual personnes.
As for the 5000tons gorillas... it is all very cool, but they can kill you with just legal paperwork... and you can't do nothing to protect yourself against that.
As someone said... justice is has a blind eye, but it weights the pockets of both sides... and the scale is never leveled...
Not really copy protected...
Those CD's are just pre-damaged cd's...
So you are actually buying low-grade cd's with crap music... instead of just crap music...
Those CD's copy protection doesn't comply with the DMCA requirements as it doesn't constitue a copy protection... it is just a play restriction on some devices.
To constitue a copy protection and thrus become protected by DMCA, the protection schema MUST forfeit the copies... which isn't what those CD's protections do... (they just add errors in the cd content, which apart from be a infringement of CD patents, licences and brands, is also an infringement on comsumer rights and the like... they are robbing people into beleaving that they are buying a similar to CD product when they are buying a low grade music media).
Cheers...
What is an american?
To be able to make a distinction between you and the others... i must know first what "one american" is...
No offense mean... but... semanticly...
Cheers...
I think i prefered pre-glasnost URSS to nowadays USA...
At least they where fair... you where always guilty! No questions asked... In today USA it depends on who you are, how much money do you have and in the prossecutors interpretation of a lot of misleading and badly worded laws!
P.S.- Of course... numbers are worth just what "they" want them to mean... (i would suggest an analysis of cpu productions with the production of branded machines... due to low rate of cpu failure... you can grook the number of white boxes produced).
But they are very prone to scratch damage... both the pressed and the burned ones (burned are more susceptible).
Read the "performance" data from the suppliers with a "huge" amount of salt...
CD's where supposed to last at least 10 years... but place it in a cd from time to time and if you still can play it 4 years later... then... you are lucky!
Cheers...
P.S.- I personnally prefer all my content digital... that way i can make as much backups as i need...
As for long term storage... try paper... if produced properlly, it can stand the test of time... several centuries!
Why not avoid the need for people to "copy" your software in teh first place?
Have you checked what is the price people are willing to give for the program and the like?
A copy protection can't disable or destroy anything... it can only prevent non licenced use of the work...
Why not just add a "internet" license verification at runtime? Would be easier... nasty to avoid... and also on the way you could upgrade/correct bugs in the users program...
Have you thinked of how much money will you waste in "protecting" your work and how much "real" money will you derive from those users that where trully "robbing" you from the dividends of your work (the users that if couldn't access a copy would buy one anyway)?
It seams to me that the majority of the "pirates" aren't actually "buyers" but just "testers"... people who grabs a program to try, train and the like and then use the program (not the copyed, but a original) in a job.
Most will fall in the categories of casual users, students and users from sub-developed economies...
And you will end failing to protect against those that you really need protection... the "big pirates" that have cd and dvd foundries...
The potential users of the program will just think that the program just doesn't work and will try a concurrent one...
The companies if in a developed country, will buy the program anyway... if not... well they wouldn't have the money for it anyway...
Cheers...
P.S.- The world turns in a economical way... and listening to the current media crap regarding the copyright and piracy problems makes one forget the reason for all that... You warrantie that there isn't a reason and you end up with a vestigial piracy problem... (and please... never make your clients mad... they can have the last word!)...
I don't know, but anything that has a "DVD" signal makes me creaps... and is crap...
At least until the content is published as it is nowadays (encripted, zone protected, copyrighted and all - i'm not against copyrights and provisions for protecting the copyrights mind... just that they just should work as they are expected... and DVD's don't work as I EXPECT)...
I will keep in the CDR-RW for now... DVDR/DVDRam will be here somewhere someday... eventually... but as i don't publish DVD's, i don't need them for producing content... and as the published content is not usable by me [God know why... mayhappen he doesn't support copyright!]...
Free market is a very nice thought if you can get bread in the table every day!
Get real... how can you expect to compare a deregulation in a developed countrie like US and a thrieving African countrie like Ghana?
Free market is nice, but isn't the solution for everything!
Cheers...
P.S.- Specially because for it to work you must warrantie free access to the market and a even playing ground for everyone in the long run... something that today is absent in most of developed economies!
The reason for all that is very simple... The developed economies (US+EU) dont provide fair exchange on communications trafic and that just means that for a communication to go to or to come to African countries, the African must pay full value of the communication as there isn't any kind of "split-cost" and "compensation" schema in place... Talks about a more fair communication trade rules have been made but... hadn't produced much from what i could accertain...
I think African Countries should roll out they own communication infraestructure and charge everyone for interconnecting it...
Keep it to the legal framework present here... in this case, its German Law, not United States law... So what the is Free Speach in US has nothing to do with it!
Yes... and nothing avoids the existence of other inventors of the same stuff...
After all, after "discovered", a good quantity of "patents" are so trivial, that anyone with medium education in the sector can replicate and improve it!
Let's see... Copyright and IP are grants by the several states. In essence... the works are already in public domain. Only there is a catch... the grant that is base of all copyright and IP legal turmoils.
The grant effectivelly forbids anyone else except the granted to search for profits thru the marketing of the granted Copyright/IP.
Even if the grant is automatic as it happend in most countries with copyright, it still is a grant.
Slashdot Mirror
There are a lot more linux/unix servers out there then windows servers?
I mean servers, not domains mind me...
Cheers...
There is a huge diference in copyright and intelectual property owners... and more over the rights of both and artists...
It is too complex to explain, but... they are diferent kinds of kettle...
Cheers...
p.s.- it is time to sleep... not to divagate about legal details like that...
In Portugal, your rights end where the other people rights start.
As for protection of rights and punishment of wrongs it is due to the courts and the authorities, not to the individual personnes.
As for the 5000tons gorillas... it is all very cool, but they can kill you with just legal paperwork... and you can't do nothing to protect yourself against that.
As someone said... justice is has a blind eye, but it weights the pockets of both sides... and the scale is never leveled...
Cheers...
Not really copy protected... Those CD's are just pre-damaged cd's... So you are actually buying low-grade cd's with crap music... instead of just crap music... Those CD's copy protection doesn't comply with the DMCA requirements as it doesn't constitue a copy protection... it is just a play restriction on some devices. To constitue a copy protection and thrus become protected by DMCA, the protection schema MUST forfeit the copies... which isn't what those CD's protections do... (they just add errors in the cd content, which apart from be a infringement of CD patents, licences and brands, is also an infringement on comsumer rights and the like... they are robbing people into beleaving that they are buying a similar to CD product when they are buying a low grade music media). Cheers...
What is an american? To be able to make a distinction between you and the others... i must know first what "one american" is... No offense mean... but... semanticly... Cheers...
Just demand a refund!
are illegal under commercial law...
And by the look of things will never be there!
I think i prefered pre-glasnost URSS to nowadays USA...
At least they where fair... you where always guilty! No questions asked... In today USA it depends on who you are, how much money do you have and in the prossecutors interpretation of a lot of misleading and badly worded laws!
Cheers...
Diferent kind of steel... diferent amounts of diferent materials added...
Steel is made of iron, carbon and some minimal quantities of other materials like thungstenium...
If you want good tools, for instance, don't search for just steel... but a special kind of steel with some of this elements...
As someone said... The good tools makes the artisan...
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It counts for more then 75% of the market!
Cheers...
P.S.- Of course... numbers are worth just what "they" want them to mean... (i would suggest an analysis of cpu productions with the production of branded machines... due to low rate of cpu failure... you can grook the number of white boxes produced).
That is as usual a FUD (and a bit of trollish news also...)...
Like always... you just hear FuDs from the "Copyright Knights" of the "Round Coin"... of "King Eisner"...
Cheers...
There are two skills that are always missing everywhere:
The skill of learning... (it is supposed to be taught... but to no availe...)
The skill to teach... (also supposed to be taught...)
If you have the first, you will always get a job anywhere! If you possess both... you are trully an enlighted one...
Cheers...
P.S.- Those skills aren't teached anywhere... technics used by these skills are...
But they are very prone to scratch damage... both the pressed and the burned ones (burned are more susceptible).
Read the "performance" data from the suppliers with a "huge" amount of salt...
CD's where supposed to last at least 10 years... but place it in a cd from time to time and if you still can play it 4 years later... then... you are lucky!
Cheers...
P.S.- I personnally prefer all my content digital... that way i can make as much backups as i need...
As for long term storage... try paper... if produced properlly, it can stand the test of time... several centuries!
Try that with any "digital" media...
You would be sued for damages...
Why not avoid the need for people to "copy" your software in teh first place?
Have you checked what is the price people are willing to give for the program and the like?
A copy protection can't disable or destroy anything... it can only prevent non licenced use of the work...
Why not just add a "internet" license verification at runtime? Would be easier... nasty to avoid... and also on the way you could upgrade/correct bugs in the users program...
Have you thinked of how much money will you waste in "protecting" your work and how much "real" money will you derive from those users that where trully "robbing" you from the dividends of your work (the users that if couldn't access a copy would buy one anyway)?
It seams to me that the majority of the "pirates" aren't actually "buyers" but just "testers"... people who grabs a program to try, train and the like and then use the program (not the copyed, but a original) in a job.
Most will fall in the categories of casual users, students and users from sub-developed economies...
And you will end failing to protect against those that you really need protection... the "big pirates" that have cd and dvd foundries...
The potential users of the program will just think that the program just doesn't work and will try a concurrent one...
The companies if in a developed country, will buy the program anyway... if not... well they wouldn't have the money for it anyway...
Cheers...
P.S.- The world turns in a economical way... and listening to the current media crap regarding the copyright and piracy problems makes one forget the reason for all that... You warrantie that there isn't a reason and you end up with a vestigial piracy problem... (and please... never make your clients mad... they can have the last word!)...
I don't know, but anything that has a "DVD" signal makes me creaps... and is crap...
At least until the content is published as it is nowadays (encripted, zone protected, copyrighted and all - i'm not against copyrights and provisions for protecting the copyrights mind... just that they just should work as they are expected... and DVD's don't work as I EXPECT)...
I will keep in the CDR-RW for now... DVDR/DVDRam will be here somewhere someday... eventually... but as i don't publish DVD's, i don't need them for producing content... and as the published content is not usable by me [God know why... mayhappen he doesn't support copyright!]...
Cheers...
I would like to know is why they didn't just used the crawler mechanisms existing to handle where can and can't crawlers go peek...
...And issue the normal link provisions as seen everywhere...
Cheers...
After your biometric records become compromised (there will be ways, everyone can be sure of it!) how can you change your eyes?
When a password is compromised, you can change it at will... You can even deactivate the user login and create a fresh and diferent one...
With biometrics... you are doomed to keep or have your records linked... because you can't change biometrics!
Cheers...
Free market is a very nice thought if you can get bread in the table every day!
Get real... how can you expect to compare a deregulation in a developed countrie like US and a thrieving African countrie like Ghana?
Free market is nice, but isn't the solution for everything!
Cheers...
P.S.- Specially because for it to work you must warrantie free access to the market and a even playing ground for everyone in the long run... something that today is absent in most of developed economies!
The reason for all that is very simple... The developed economies (US+EU) dont provide fair exchange on communications trafic and that just means that for a communication to go to or to come to African countries, the African must pay full value of the communication as there isn't any kind of "split-cost" and "compensation" schema in place... Talks about a more fair communication trade rules have been made but... hadn't produced much from what i could accertain...
I think African Countries should roll out they own communication infraestructure and charge everyone for interconnecting it...
Cheers...
Keep it to the legal framework present here... in this case, its German Law, not United States law... So what the is Free Speach in US has nothing to do with it!
Cheers...
In the old days, every netcitizen had a vote.
Those days have finished!
Cheers...
P.S.- I know that the plans haven't been aproved yet... but they will because money (and power) talks too loud for the common citizen!
If you commite a crime, you are nailed, and may get away with suspended prison time... If you commite two crimes, you go to the slammer...
If you are M$ you get a pat at your back... and a public admonition for you "don't do that again... please."
And i thought that justice worked in the US... How wrong i was...
Cheers...
Yes... and nothing avoids the existence of other inventors of the same stuff...
After all, after "discovered", a good quantity of "patents" are so trivial, that anyone with medium education in the sector can replicate and improve it!
Cheers...
Let's see... Copyright and IP are grants by the several states. In essence... the works are already in public domain. Only there is a catch... the grant that is base of all copyright and IP legal turmoils.
The grant effectivelly forbids anyone else except the granted to search for profits thru the marketing of the granted Copyright/IP.
Even if the grant is automatic as it happend in most countries with copyright, it still is a grant.
Cheers...
Not really... the bad game design and the bad business practices are the major contributors to PC Game industry downfalls!
Must i nominate Loki?
Cheers...