And btw, if everyone is "entitled" to copy anything they want to everyone else, how is the author, artist, producer, or programmer supposed to "make a buck in a free market" when there are no buyers?
The only problem is that the words in a book, the music on a cd, and the images on a dvd are not your personal private property. You purchased the rights to enjoy that copy, not to reproduce it.
All rights belong to the authors, musicians, producers. You know, the people who actually spent their time, efforts, talent, and dollars creating the work.
And personally, I tend to respect the rights of those who actually able to create such work than I am the "rights" of a parasite who's unable to do any of those things but still thinks he's entitled to whatever it is he wants.
wholesale market for each DVD or CD title is a non-free market with only one allowed vendor
Newsflash: For any given branded product there is only one source. Only Ford makes Ford cars. Only Apple makes Apple computers. Only U2 makes U2's music.
You are however, free to buy a Chevy, a HP PC, or someone else's music. Or to make your own for that matter.
Sorry, but your history is off. Epson started selling low-priced dot-matrix printers in 1978. Apple was selling Imagewriters in 1983. The first ThinkJet wasn't shipped til 1984, same year as the first HP LaserJet, and the TJ had only so-so quality. Inkjets were also routinely dismissed by business as alternatives to dot-matix printers because they couldn't handle multipart forms.
Apple's Laserwriter appeared just a year later, in 1985, and due to the reasons mentioned above, inkjets had yet to significantly penetrate the market.
As I said, the trinity of the Mac WYSIWYG GUI, the LaserWriter, and Pagemaker (also 1985) truly launched Apple, the Mac, and the desktop publishing revolution. Eliminate or significantly delay any one of those elements, and today's industy landscape would not doubt look very different.
Which is why the laser printer was "equally important".
The laser printer gave typographic-level control to the masses. Brochures, newsletters, business cards, layout... desktop publishing was the "killer app" that truly launched the WYSIWYG interface.
And at the time, your printer choice was primarily the dot-matrix printers. Which wasn't capable at all of generating output of sufficient quality to rival phototypesetters.
The 300 DPI Laserwriter couldn't quite match it either... but it was good enough.
I would suspect that a game would come on a HD-DVD disk only if it contained HD video. The manufacturers are not going to deliberately limit their market.
Regardless of whether a new Cicso-China policy is a good idea or not, the executives are indisputably PLAYING DIRTY POOL trying to BLOCK A VOTE like this.
Yes, but to give credit where credit is due, there's a very good chance the board may have a better feel for the possible outcomes.
Say someone sells the shareholders a sob story on "human rights" while they're all worked up over the news, the shareholders get all outraged, vote, and pass the measure. That being the case, then there's a significant chance that China could dump them and, on hearing that news, the very next day the market takes out 30% of the stock's value.
Now some other countries see this, wonder when Cisco is going to interfere with them, and announce they're dropping their orders as well. Now Cisco truly tanks, the vultures rush in, and poof! No more Cisco.
So where do you think the money comes from?... It comes from the artists earnings.
Yes, it comes from the artist's earnings because, at some point, the label footed the bill to produce, manufacture, distribute, and market said artist. They made an investment and risked their money in the hopes he or she would find a market and become a commercial success.
On the other side, the artist signed a contract to get the things a label could do for them. Again, in the hope that they would become a commercial success. Both sides thought that, by signing, they'd make more money than they could alone.
The flip side of the risk is that if the artist failed to find a market, the label lost its investment. Like most everything else, there's a bell curve of hits, flops and above and below average performers.
Companies sell databases of ip addresses coupled with geographic information. So chances are if, say, you live in Denver then your visible, external IP address assigned by your ISP is listed as within a block that belongs to them in Denver.
As for civil disobedience... it consists of people openly violating the law and actively inviting the authorities to come down on them. Hence.... not skulking anonymously and trying to avoid being caught.
Nice distinction. Too many are using the "disobedience" line as rationalization, then heading down into the basement to search for an "anonymous" torrent.
Yes, the recording studio would be delighted to work for you, provided you have the money to pay for the studio time. The people who make CDs would be happy to make 100,000 of them, with cases and covers with your name on them, just write the check. There are plenty of marketing and PR people and road crews and venues just waiting to be hired... if you have the cash.
Oh. Wait. You're a new struggling band and you don't have the money for any of those things? What to do?
I know. Maybe you can convince someone that you're good and/or marketable, and as such THEY can front the money for all the things you can't afford.
Generally speaking, people tend to work for the people who can pay them. Which means that unless your lead singer has a trust fund, none of the people you mention are going to work for you...
It seems to be another no-win situation for them. Take Vista for example. One side lambasts MS for not concentrating on security and stability. When they do, and drop features that may not be ready for prime-time, the other side zaps them for doing just that.
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"the web browser's most groundbreaking user interface paradigm" I don't know what the hell that means...
The web browser's most groundbreaking user interface paradigm is the "back" button, an "undo" for navigation.
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Yeah. And if they cared about security, they would have fixed at least some of the head-banging security bugs for Beta 1.
Wait... priority queue conflicts... working... working... BSOD.
I'm not so one-dimensional. I can applaud them for approaching conformance, while at the same time I can chastize them for taking so long to do so.
Police still seem to give out tickets and levy fines for jay-walking, unsafe-stops, and other "trivial" offenses. Who says it won't be worth it?
And btw, if everyone is "entitled" to copy anything they want to everyone else, how is the author, artist, producer, or programmer supposed to "make a buck in a free market" when there are no buyers?
The only problem is that the words in a book, the music on a cd, and the images on a dvd are not your personal private property. You purchased the rights to enjoy that copy, not to reproduce it.
All rights belong to the authors, musicians, producers. You know, the people who actually spent their time, efforts, talent, and dollars creating the work.
And personally, I tend to respect the rights of those who actually able to create such work than I am the "rights" of a parasite who's unable to do any of those things but still thinks he's entitled to whatever it is he wants.
Newsflash: For any given branded product there is only one source. Only Ford makes Ford cars. Only Apple makes Apple computers. Only U2 makes U2's music.
You are however, free to buy a Chevy, a HP PC, or someone else's music. Or to make your own for that matter.
Apple's Laserwriter appeared just a year later, in 1985, and due to the reasons mentioned above, inkjets had yet to significantly penetrate the market.
As I said, the trinity of the Mac WYSIWYG GUI, the LaserWriter, and Pagemaker (also 1985) truly launched Apple, the Mac, and the desktop publishing revolution. Eliminate or significantly delay any one of those elements, and today's industy landscape would not doubt look very different.
Which is why the laser printer was "equally important".
Thank you for that insightful look at Apple finances. Or were you at one of Apple's board meetings?
Because we all know the profit margins on electronics are much higher than those of a single plastic cd/dvd rom.
That explains why so people go to movies, buy dvds and cds, and download so many songs and movies. They're undesirable and no one wants them...
It all makes sense now.
And wish to inflict their particular sense of same on everyone else.
And at the time, your printer choice was primarily the dot-matrix printers. Which wasn't capable at all of generating output of sufficient quality to rival phototypesetters.
The 300 DPI Laserwriter couldn't quite match it either... but it was good enough.
But you're correct. Given sufficient resources up front, an artist can hire someone to do any or all of those things for themselves.
The question is, do they have those resources?
If not, who foots the bill?
I would suspect that a game would come on a HD-DVD disk only if it contained HD video. The manufacturers are not going to deliberately limit their market.
Yes, but to give credit where credit is due, there's a very good chance the board may have a better feel for the possible outcomes.
Say someone sells the shareholders a sob story on "human rights" while they're all worked up over the news, the shareholders get all outraged, vote, and pass the measure. That being the case, then there's a significant chance that China could dump them and, on hearing that news, the very next day the market takes out 30% of the stock's value.
Now some other countries see this, wonder when Cisco is going to interfere with them, and announce they're dropping their orders as well. Now Cisco truly tanks, the vultures rush in, and poof! No more Cisco.
What are they supposed to do, cripple the software so it can't be misused? And would China buy it if they did?
Yes, language bigots always think THEY ARE language is perfect.
I guess that depends. The vast majority of people who don't have HD-TVs just for their kids to play games on could probably care less.
Yes, it comes from the artist's earnings because, at some point, the label footed the bill to produce, manufacture, distribute, and market said artist. They made an investment and risked their money in the hopes he or she would find a market and become a commercial success.
On the other side, the artist signed a contract to get the things a label could do for them. Again, in the hope that they would become a commercial success. Both sides thought that, by signing, they'd make more money than they could alone.
The flip side of the risk is that if the artist failed to find a market, the label lost its investment. Like most everything else, there's a bell curve of hits, flops and above and below average performers.
Companies sell databases of ip addresses coupled with geographic information. So chances are if, say, you live in Denver then your visible, external IP address assigned by your ISP is listed as within a block that belongs to them in Denver.
Nice distinction. Too many are using the "disobedience" line as rationalization, then heading down into the basement to search for an "anonymous" torrent.
I suppose that when a bunch of people show up early so they can find good seats they could sit there and stare at a blank screen for ten mintues...
I have several companies that I consult with that have been running ColdFusion and SQL Server for 5-6 years now.
Yeah, there's almost no third-party support for what has to be one of the most popular commercial databases out there....
Oh. Wait. You're a new struggling band and you don't have the money for any of those things? What to do?
I know. Maybe you can convince someone that you're good and/or marketable, and as such THEY can front the money for all the things you can't afford.
Generally speaking, people tend to work for the people who can pay them. Which means that unless your lead singer has a trust fund, none of the people you mention are going to work for you...
It seems to be another no-win situation for them. Take Vista for example. One side lambasts MS for not concentrating on security and stability. When they do, and drop features that may not be ready for prime-time, the other side zaps them for doing just that.
The web browser's most groundbreaking user interface paradigm is the "back" button, an "undo" for navigation.