"In the internet age where someone wants to claim ownership to various bitflows, it just simply doesn't work. The whole definition of storing and copying bitflows invalidates the entire system of intellectual property because of it's given nature. In this environment IP and Copyright is an outdated system blocking innovation. "
In this environment GPL is an outdated system blocking innovation, in your own words.
" If you think about current library practices, nobody makes more money if 100 people borrow a book then if 2 people do."
If a library buys 100 books, the publisher makes more money than if the library muys 20 books. No copyright is violated since copying of the books by the library does not occur. If you buy one copy of an audio book, and copy it 100 times, whether your audio book started as a cd or an mp3 file is irrelevent. You have violated copyright either way, and the publisher only got paid for one copy.
"Let those people get paid for their time, just like everyone else whose job is providing a service. Set their hourly rate to the total amount they currently earn per item (book, song, etc.) divided by the number of hours of work they put into each item. Let customers group together to hire people to create new items, rather than paying for copies of items that have already been made."
Who sets the rate? The whole point of free trade is to get paid for something what someone thinks it's worth. You can't turn an entrepeneur into an employee of the state by legislating some arbitrary writer's salary. That's a serious attack on basic rights.
" Since when has the right to profit been a fundamental right anywhere in the world?"
Since when do you have the right to someone elses creation without paying for it. Trade has been in existence since the origins of humanity. So has theft, which is what you propose as your right, just because the technology exists to make theft easy.
" I hate this constant use of the word "hacker" when the correct usage of the word should be "cracker"."
Hacking has been used to mean breaking into a computer system for decades. People are trying to change this term to cracker, not the other way around, as you suggest with "It is the media that is poisoning the word"
" This is exactly what the record companies don't get. If albums sold for $5 a piece, I'd buy 4 a week. But since they coust $15-$20, I only buy 1 or 2 a month. 4x4x$5 = $80. 1.5*$20 = $30. Volume sales can replace the money lost from reducing prices. I wish record companies would realize that."
Maybe they make more profit from $30 for 1.5 albums, than from $80 for 16 albums.
"However, Fitzback said a completely independent comparison between the two platforms could be possible, and the OSDL should probably conduct such a study if possible, but once again he conceded that the results could still be suspect."
How the hell can a Linux proponet such as OSDL conduct "a ompletely independent comparison between the two platforms"? What an idiot.
"I was working at CompUSA when Windows 95 came out. One of the Mac guys gave me a button, that I still have. I still find it to be accurate.
Windows 95 = MacIntosh 88"
MacOS in 95 had no preemptive multitasking, no memory management, and no memory protection. Win95 was far superior to MacOS until MacOS X. The sad thing is that: MacIntosh 88 == MacIntosh 98
"But those customers expecting Windows 95 to be a great technological leap forward may be disappointed. International Business Machines Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. already have operating systems on the market that sport the features - greater memory management, the ability to perform several tasks at once and enhanced user-friendliness - now being hailed in Windows 95."
MacOS had no preemptive multitasking, no memory management, and no memory protection at the time. Whomever wrote the above has no idea what he's talking about. Win95 was a huge leap above MacOS at the time.
when the US caves and begins universal health care. The doctors will suffer, because their salaries will be determined by govt. healthcare payouts. The govt. will cut these payments as much as possible to keep taxes low.
whether they're teaching the latest right wing religious doctrin or the latest left wing politically correct history. When you institute public schools, the govt decides the curriculum. When you institute public schools, you also make it very difficult for private schools to compete since public schools are largely tax payer funded, and therefore much cheaper. Therefore, having a public school system gives the govt. free reign to indoctrinate most children into their belief system.
"Linux strikes me as more the OS of choise for tech types (engineers, IT pros, etc), as its much more robust at those type of applications than Windows."
In general, whether it's under windows or linux, CAD software is much more unstable than either OS. You don't need Linux to run cad software.
It seems/.ers love to throw the term monopoly around whenever there's competition between a large company and a small company. In reality, there are 5 major labels in competition with songs for you to hear, as well as hundreds of smaller labels, and large numbers of garage bands. There is no monopoly on music. In fact popular artists often start on smaller labels, and then, sign with the one of the big 5 when they make it big (REM for instance). Yes, the internet is a good tool for exposure for unknown artists, but why does/. portray healthy competition as some sort of good vs evil thing. There's room for everyone to compete, and consumers ultimately decide (for better or worse) what's popular.
"It's not what the technician should have done, but what the police should have done. They should have obtained a warrant to continue searching the computer. This is simply a matter of incorrect police procedures. Somebody guilty of a crime can walk away free from court on these sorts of technicalities."
I believe the EFF does not even want the technician to have the ability to tell the police what he saw.
"There is no forcing anyone to use iTunes. You don't have to wait for hell to freeze over to learn about the product, however. The restriction is on music purchased from iTunes, not on must loaded on to the iPod. Don't like the DRM on iTunes? Don't buy the music - copy it over from CD or another source without DRM."
Why do people get modded up for saying that it's reasonable that the only alternative to mainstream online music from Apple for iPod is buying CDs. Too bad Apple doesn't follow the "Don't be evil" rule. Then others could sell music online for iPod, and consumers would have more choices.
So who will be the first to figure out an easy way to recover whole books using enough google print keyword searches, thereby obtaining entire copies of books for free.
Wasn't time shifting audio invented a century ago?
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Why is the ability to put it on a portable digital player making such big news?
"In breaking the iPod DRM (reverse engineering with the purpose of breaking it) they are no better than the cracker's who slash at Microsoft's Windows. (DMCA politics makes STRANGE bedfellows.)"
So you think reverse engineering DeCSS was wrong? Do you think it's wrong for OO to reverse engineer.doc,.xls.ppt? Did you think it was wrong for Compaq to reverse engineer IBM's BIOS to create the first IBM PC clone?
"Making that equivalent with your typical MSFT strategy for sewing up a market is way out in left field. "
MS was sued in the US for using Windows to leverage IE. Apple is now using their monopoly on mp3 players to leverage iTMS sales. Real isn't "monkeying" with the DRM. They reverse engineered it, and they want to sell iPod users songs with the same DRM format (which Apple refused to license to them because they are trying to leverage their monopoly).
"Similarly, it's your iPod, and you should be able to fill it with music from anyone who can supply it to you. If Apple wants you to come back to them for a "refill" of music, they can compete fairly by providing a better selection or lower prices... and if they can't compete fairly, they deserve to fail as their customers switch to other music stores."
Customers can't switch to other stores because no other store can sell mainstream music that plays on iPod.
I don't think Real was whining about the DMCA then."
This has nothing to do with the DMCA. Apple doesn't have a case any more than SCO has a case against Linux. Real reverse engineered Apple's DRM without using Apple source code. Real is not using this technology to circumvent any copyright protection.
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"In the internet age where someone wants to claim ownership to various bitflows, it just simply doesn't work. The whole definition of storing and copying bitflows invalidates the entire system of intellectual property because of it's given nature. In this environment IP and Copyright is an outdated system blocking innovation.
"
In this environment GPL is an outdated system blocking innovation, in your own words.
" If you think about current library practices, nobody makes more money if 100 people borrow a book then if 2 people do."
If a library buys 100 books, the publisher makes more money than if the library muys 20 books. No copyright is violated since copying of the books by the library does not occur. If you buy one copy of an audio book, and copy it 100 times, whether your audio book started as a cd or an mp3 file is irrelevent. You have violated copyright either way, and the publisher only got paid for one copy.
"Let those people get paid for their time, just like everyone else whose job is providing a service. Set their hourly rate to the total amount they currently earn per item (book, song, etc.) divided by the number of hours of work they put into each item. Let customers group together to hire people to create new items, rather than paying for copies of items that have already been made."
Who sets the rate? The whole point of free trade is to get paid for something what someone thinks it's worth. You can't turn an entrepeneur into an employee of the state by legislating some arbitrary writer's salary. That's a serious attack on basic rights.
" Since when has the right to profit been a fundamental right anywhere in the world?"
Since when do you have the right to someone elses creation without paying for it. Trade has been in existence since the origins of humanity. So has theft, which is what you propose as your right, just because the technology exists to make theft easy.
" I hate this constant use of the word "hacker" when the correct usage of the word should be "cracker"."
Hacking has been used to mean breaking into a computer system for decades. People are trying to change this term to cracker, not the other way around, as you suggest with "It is the media that is poisoning the word"
"Isn't that "open it up to sell more" argument the one poor Ms. Rosen went down in flames fighting against?"
No.
allofmp3.com has no contracts with US record labels. Therefore, selling you songs by US record labels is a violation of US copyright law.
" This is exactly what the record companies don't get. If albums sold for $5 a piece, I'd buy 4 a week. But since they coust $15-$20, I only buy 1 or 2 a month. 4x4x$5 = $80. 1.5*$20 = $30. Volume sales can replace the money lost from reducing prices. I wish record companies would realize that."
Maybe they make more profit from $30 for 1.5 albums, than from $80 for 16 albums.
"However, Fitzback said a completely independent comparison between the two platforms could be possible, and the OSDL should probably conduct such a study if possible, but once again he conceded that the results could still be suspect."
How the hell can a Linux proponet such as OSDL conduct "a ompletely independent comparison between the two platforms"? What an idiot.
"I was working at CompUSA when Windows 95 came out. One of the Mac guys gave me a button, that I still have. I still find it to be accurate.
Windows 95 = MacIntosh 88"
MacOS in 95 had no preemptive multitasking, no memory management, and no memory protection. Win95 was far superior to MacOS until MacOS X. The sad thing is that:
MacIntosh 88 == MacIntosh 98
No significant improvements in a decade.
"But those customers expecting Windows 95 to be a great technological leap forward may be disappointed. International Business Machines Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. already have operating systems on the market that sport the features - greater memory management, the ability to perform several tasks at once and enhanced user-friendliness - now being hailed in Windows 95."
MacOS had no preemptive multitasking, no memory management, and no memory protection at the time. Whomever wrote the above has no idea what he's talking about. Win95 was a huge leap above MacOS at the time.
when the US caves and begins universal health care. The doctors will suffer, because their salaries will be determined by govt. healthcare payouts. The govt. will cut these payments as much as possible to keep taxes low.
whether they're teaching the latest right wing religious doctrin or the latest left wing politically correct history. When you institute public schools, the govt decides the curriculum. When you institute public schools, you also make it very difficult for private schools to compete since public schools are largely tax payer funded, and therefore much cheaper. Therefore, having a public school system gives the govt. free reign to indoctrinate most children into their belief system.
"Linux strikes me as more the OS of choise for tech types (engineers, IT pros, etc), as its much more robust at those type of applications than Windows."
In general, whether it's under windows or linux, CAD software is much more unstable than either OS. You don't need Linux to run cad software.
It seems /.ers love to throw the term monopoly around whenever there's competition between a large company and a small company. In reality, there are 5 major labels in competition with songs for you to hear, as well as hundreds of smaller labels, and large numbers of garage bands. There is no monopoly on music. In fact popular artists often start on smaller labels, and then, sign with the one of the big 5 when they make it big (REM for instance). Yes, the internet is a good tool for exposure for unknown artists, but why does /. portray healthy competition as some sort of good vs evil thing. There's room for everyone to compete, and consumers ultimately decide (for better or worse) what's popular.
"It's not what the technician should have done, but what the police should have done. They should have obtained a warrant to continue searching the computer. This is simply a matter of incorrect police procedures. Somebody guilty of a crime can walk away free from court on these sorts of technicalities."
I believe the EFF does not even want the technician to have the ability to tell the police what he saw.
"Who was the DUMBASS from this school's administration that decided to sell 1000 laptops for less than 1/15th of what they could have fetched on eBay?
Hell, even a rip-off joint like Computer Rennaisance would have given them about $200 a pop for those things."
Why should he care? It's just taxpayer money.
"There is no forcing anyone to use iTunes. You don't have to wait for hell to freeze over to learn about the product, however. The restriction is on music purchased from iTunes, not on must loaded on to the iPod. Don't like the DRM on iTunes? Don't buy the music - copy it over from CD or another source without DRM."
Why do people get modded up for saying that it's reasonable that the only alternative to mainstream online music from Apple for iPod is buying CDs. Too bad Apple doesn't follow the "Don't be evil" rule. Then others could sell music online for iPod, and consumers would have more choices.
So who will be the first to figure out an easy way to recover whole books using enough google print keyword searches, thereby obtaining entire copies of books for free.
Why is the ability to put it on a portable digital player making such big news?
"In breaking the iPod DRM (reverse engineering with the purpose of breaking it) they are no better than the cracker's who slash at Microsoft's Windows. (DMCA politics makes STRANGE bedfellows.)"
.doc, .xls .ppt? Did you think it was wrong for Compaq to reverse engineer IBM's BIOS to create the first IBM PC clone?
So you think reverse engineering DeCSS was wrong? Do you think it's wrong for OO to reverse engineer
"Making that equivalent with your typical MSFT strategy for sewing up a market is way out in left field.
"
MS was sued in the US for using Windows to leverage IE. Apple is now using their monopoly on mp3 players to leverage iTMS sales. Real isn't "monkeying" with the DRM. They reverse engineered it, and they want to sell iPod users songs with the same DRM format (which Apple refused to license to them because they are trying to leverage their monopoly).
"Similarly, it's your iPod, and you should be able to fill it with music from anyone who can supply it to you. If Apple wants you to come back to them for a "refill" of music, they can compete fairly by providing a better selection or lower prices... and if they can't compete fairly, they deserve to fail as their customers switch to other music stores."
Customers can't switch to other stores because no other store can sell mainstream music that plays on iPod.
" Since when is Apple a monopoly?"
Since when is Microsoft a monopoly?
" Anyone remember Streambox?
I don't think Real was whining about the DMCA then."
This has nothing to do with the DMCA. Apple doesn't have a case any more than SCO has a case against Linux. Real reverse engineered Apple's DRM without using Apple source code. Real is not using this technology to circumvent any copyright protection.