Yeah, we should be grateful for $15.00/mo free music.
Because before all this happened, there was no legitimate free music. Just like software, music is something that "if you didn't pay for it, it's stolen".
So, somebody explain this to me. What am I missing here?
DMCA prevents the creation or distribution of a tool that defeats access control measures for the purpose of gaining unauthorized access to protected content.
Or something like that.
The white balance information is part of the image data. It's unique to each photo. It's the data that's created when the photographer takes the photo.
The person who will be gain access via a white balance plugin is the person who has the raw image data--typically the photographer, unless he gives the file to someone else.
The photographer can hardly be accused of using such a tool to gain access outside of his rights.
Further, since the tool is freely available to any "bona fide software developer" for the asking, it can hardly be described as an access control measure.
In short, it's the photographer's freakin' creation. Who the hell is Nikon or anybody else to say what he can or cannot do what he produced?
You can use a 5/7/9 pass DOD overwrite.
Or a 39-step Gutmann overwrite.
Or the ultrasuperduperTFH method of...
You get the idea. It takes a looonng time.
HDDs are cheap, especially one you've used so long you're going to sell the computer.
Take it apart & melt the disks.
If you have a lot of them, just use a fish cooker.
Use a pass phrase--a sentence, with punctuation, spaces, etc.
Something not relevant to your daily life today. Something you've never had occasion to write down. Something you'd never have occasion to say to anyone.
I have not found it particularly hard to come up with memorable, but completely irrelevant statements.
2 - If you want someone to check your ID when you sign your card, please hand it to the cashier with your credit card. I don't want someone to check my ID when I use my credit card.
I want them to check the ID of the thief who will steal my credit card, determine that the thief is not me, and confiscate the card.
Been planning a new system for a while. Got a dual PIII from 1998 right now, and waiting for the prices to drop. Just needed the next "trendy new marketing development that really adds nothing" from Intel or AMD to push down the price of the chips I really want.
The EULA is not a contract. It's a license. It states the terms under which you may be allowed to use the copyrighted work.
The EULA does not prohibit the original purchaser from transferring the medium, registration key, etc. In fact, this is specifically allowed.
However, the EULA does not say that the key can be used more than once--by the original purchaser or by a secondary purchaser.
If the original purchaser were to sell the whole ball of wax prior to ever having used the key, then the secondary purchaser would find that he has exactly the same rights and priveledges as the original purchaser.
And, if the original purchaser were to sell the whole shootin' match after using the key, then the secondary purchaser would find that he has exactly the same rights and priveledges as the original purchaser. Namely, a key that cannot be used a second time.
At this point, the only way that the original purchaser can effectively exercise the right of first sale is by transferring the single account that is allowed to be created using the key.
And that's specifically disallowed in the EULA.
So, your legal rights are preserved. You just have no legal way to effectively exercise them.
From the Linux point of view, you have 3 things happening:
Number One:
A de-facto standard operating system that is easy enough for any idiot to install. Which leads to...
The general public now able to be convinced to buy one of these "computer" thingies. Which leads to...
A large consumer market for general-purpose computers, and the economies of scale resulting from a large consumer market.
Number Two: A group of hard-core enthusiasts who develop their own OS as many more-or-less related projects:
The GNU project
The Linux kernel
A multitude of other projects, which I will not list here (if you're offended, go sit in the corner & cry).
And number three--the result:
The first item makes hardware available to the general public. The second item makes software and development tools available to the general public. At this point, the free software movement has an environment in which it can be self-propogating.
It can be argued that the first condition is inevitable due to the natural greed of corporations and their tendency to want to control everything and sell it to everyone.
The second condition can only be viewed as fate if you believe in the natural creativity, diligence, and genius of a significant number of people in every generation. History appears to bear this belief as true.
It is reasonable to conclude then, that had Microsoft not completed Windows 3.1, absolutely nothing would have changed. Well, the names, but that's it.
In making a business decision, it's unlikely for anyone to take responsibility. The larger the business, the smaller the likelyhood. It's not an issue of cowardice; the risks simply don't outweigh the rewards.
So, the question "who do you blame" is a legitimate question. System fails, Clients sue company, company pays clients, insurance company pays company; insurance company sues vendor.
In business, those who take chances are the people who create the great successes and the great failures. These people exist. They are not the norm.
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." The point is not that this is true. The point is that people say (or said) this. They're saying that if you're working for someone and you want to keep your job, you make the safe decision.
The correct question is "Why should this be illegal." Well, at least in one country.
The premise here is that things are pretty much legal by default. Do whatever you want, folks. It's a free country.
Again, not for everyone, but in at least one nation-state, to make something illegal, you need two things to happen:
A sufficient majority agrees that it should be illegal.
That's "Democracy". In its purest form, it's a very scary thing: formalized mob rule.
The document that specifies the functions and limitations of government says "The people, are allowed to regulate this activity.".
Now you have a "Constitutional Democracy". In this scenario, the Constitution is the thing that stands in the way of the tyranny of the majority.
Again--with respect for those who prefer monarchist, oligarchist, fascist, religious or other types of government, this is just one way of doing things--you don't have to do the same.
But we like it. And we're sure that once you try it, you will, too...
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Because before all this happened, there was no legitimate free music. Just like software, music is something that "if you didn't pay for it, it's stolen".
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So, somebody explain this to me. What am I missing here?
DMCA prevents the creation or distribution of a tool that defeats access control measures for the purpose of gaining unauthorized access to protected content.
Or something like that.
The white balance information is part of the image data. It's unique to each photo. It's the data that's created when the photographer takes the photo.
The person who will be gain access via a white balance plugin is the person who has the raw image data--typically the photographer, unless he gives the file to someone else.
The photographer can hardly be accused of using such a tool to gain access outside of his rights.
Further, since the tool is freely available to any "bona fide software developer" for the asking, it can hardly be described as an access control measure.
In short, it's the photographer's freakin' creation. Who the hell is Nikon or anybody else to say what he can or cannot do what he produced?
Since the installation process for anything on a Mac has always been "You plug it in and it works."
Unplug it & wash it in the sink!
After reading the article, I was prompted to hunt up a link, and found this...
It glows!
If the deep fryer will raise the media above its curie temperature. And then you have to hold it there for a while.
But I'd use the fish cooker without a pot--just the butane flame.
(Actually, where I come from it's called a crawfish boiler)
Where in the hell is my flying car?!
You can use a 5/7/9 pass DOD overwrite. Or a 39-step Gutmann overwrite. Or the ultrasuperduperTFH method of... You get the idea. It takes a looonng time.
HDDs are cheap, especially one you've used so long you're going to sell the computer.
Take it apart & melt the disks. If you have a lot of them, just use a fish cooker.
With Knoppix.
Use a pass phrase--a sentence, with punctuation, spaces, etc.
Something not relevant to your daily life today.
Something you've never had occasion to write down.
Something you'd never have occasion to say to anyone.
I have not found it particularly hard to come up with memorable, but completely irrelevant statements.
Actually, it would require darwine.
It's about arcane knowledge, authority of the indoctrinated, special powers over man and nature, and intimidation of the ignorant.
This is an upstart religion, and it competes with established religion.
Not what you put in front of the public if you want to keep your contributions flowing.
I don't want someone to check my ID when I use my credit card.
I want them to check the ID of the thief who will steal my credit card, determine that the thief is not me, and confiscate the card.
The telephone companies have created the spamming companies to kill VOIP, thus assuring the continued profitability of their current business model.
Unless it has twisty grooves going down the barrel.
A man called horse
Been planning a new system for a while. Got a dual PIII from 1998 right now, and waiting for the prices to drop.
Just needed the next "trendy new marketing development that really adds nothing" from Intel or AMD to push down the price of the chips I really want.
The EULA is not a contract. It's a license. It states the terms under which you may be allowed to use the copyrighted work.
The EULA does not prohibit the original purchaser from transferring the medium, registration key, etc. In fact, this is specifically allowed.
However, the EULA does not say that the key can be used more than once--by the original purchaser or by a secondary purchaser.
If the original purchaser were to sell the whole ball of wax prior to ever having used the key, then the secondary purchaser would find that he has exactly the same rights and priveledges as the original purchaser.
And, if the original purchaser were to sell the whole shootin' match after using the key, then the secondary purchaser would find that he has exactly the same rights and priveledges as the original purchaser. Namely, a key that cannot be used a second time.
At this point, the only way that the original purchaser can effectively exercise the right of first sale is by transferring the single account that is allowed to be created using the key.
And that's specifically disallowed in the EULA.
So, your legal rights are preserved. You just have no legal way to effectively exercise them.
Do you understand what a certificate does?
It's one person (verisign) vouching for the other person (purchaser of the cert).
If you don't trust the both the good will and competence of the one person, then what they have to say about the other person's is meaningless.
I'm hoping verisign will screw this up so royally that people begin to understand that they can get *exactly* the same security by either:
A. Ignonring certificates altogether.
B. Using other tools to build a web of trust within your working group.
a very professional and disciplined corporate image...BSD Babes
Number One:
A de-facto standard operating system that is easy enough for any idiot to install. Which leads to...
The general public now able to be convinced to buy one of these "computer" thingies. Which leads to...
A large consumer market for general-purpose computers, and the economies of scale resulting from a large consumer market.
Number Two:
A group of hard-core enthusiasts who develop their own OS as many more-or-less related projects:
The GNU project
The Linux kernel
A multitude of other projects, which I will not list here (if you're offended, go sit in the corner & cry).
And number three--the result:
The first item makes hardware available to the general public. The second item makes software and development tools available to the general public. At this point, the free software movement has an environment in which it can be self-propogating.
It can be argued that the first condition is inevitable due to the natural greed of corporations and their tendency to want to control everything and sell it to everyone.
The second condition can only be viewed as fate if you believe in the natural creativity, diligence, and genius of a significant number of people in every generation. History appears to bear this belief as true.
It is reasonable to conclude then, that had Microsoft not completed Windows 3.1, absolutely nothing would have changed. Well, the names, but that's it.
+/- 3 orders of magnitude is considered precise.
No matter which way you turn...it goes in.
In making a business decision, it's unlikely for anyone to take responsibility. The larger the business, the smaller the likelyhood. It's not an issue of cowardice; the risks simply don't outweigh the rewards.
So, the question "who do you blame" is a legitimate question. System fails, Clients sue company, company pays clients, insurance company pays company; insurance company sues vendor.
In business, those who take chances are the people who create the great successes and the great failures. These people exist. They are not the norm.
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." The point is not that this is true. The point is that people say (or said) this. They're saying that if you're working for someone and you want to keep your job, you make the safe decision.
The premise here is that things are pretty much legal by default. Do whatever you want, folks. It's a free country.
Again, not for everyone, but in at least one nation-state, to make something illegal, you need two things to happen:
A sufficient majority agrees that it should be illegal.
That's "Democracy". In its purest form, it's a very scary thing: formalized mob rule.
The document that specifies the functions and limitations of government says "The people, are allowed to regulate this activity.".
Now you have a "Constitutional Democracy". In this scenario, the Constitution is the thing that stands in the way of the tyranny of the majority.
Again--with respect for those who prefer monarchist, oligarchist, fascist, religious or other types of government, this is just one way of doing things--you don't have to do the same.
But we like it. And we're sure that once you try it, you will, too...