"They've got too much invested in their format to abandon it now."
You mean, like the PowerPC chip line? or MacOS?
In all seriousness, what do they have invested in AAC? Development costs? This is a company with, what, $8BN in net earnings? I really doubt the few million they've probably spent developing FairPlay would prevent them from adjusting to market dynamics.
Apple has a huge interest in shaping the digital music market. It makes no sense to me that a famously nimble company who is not afraid of making tough choices would stand alone behind a DRM scheme that is already broken (for audio at least) when their major competitors are moving to a less restrictive format.
I think the decisions to abandon the MacOS and PowerPC platforms--in which they had surely invested billions of dollars--paint a clear picture of a company that big enough to lead but still small enough to react.
I swear to god, your post should be hung up in the FUD museum.
You are far, far beyond the bend, my friend.
Let's do a little exercise.
Draw a Zero. Now draw a decimal point after the zero. Now draw another zero. So far you should have "0.0" Now, draw a zero, and another, and another. Keep drawing zeros until your hand is NUMB. By this point you should have something like this, only 4 or 5 times longer: 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000
Good. Now, draw a "1"
Now, draw a percent sign. That's two more zeros with a diagnol between them.
That number, the tiniest fraction of a fraction of a percent is the effect that you will have on the entertainment industry, even if you install P2P on every PC you touch from now until you choke on your last worthless breath.
The best part is, your entire premise is just as stupid as your master plan itself. You think it's easier to get a lesser law passed if nobody follows the law? Seriously? When has this _ever_ worked before? (and no, prohibition wasn't repealed because everyone ignored it. go crack open a book loser). See Also: Jane, Mary.
You, my dear friend, are a textbook example of a fanatic. You are fanatical. You are not only fanatical, but so cheap that you channel your fanatic personality into trying to get things that you want without paying for them. I mean, you would _bribe a politician._ Your parents should be so proud. Their progeny is sitting on a fricken website _complaining_ about something he can do _nothing_ about, waxing poetic about "if only I were rich" so that way you could subvert democracy and commit multiple felonies.
You say that DRM violates the spirit of the copyright law. Really? What spirit was that? The spirit where you should actually be able to blow-off copyright law if you want to without any consequence?
The truth is, DRM is the maximum and logical extension of copyright law. You don't like to hear it because it ruins your moronic plan where everything is free, but the purpose of copyright is to say that YOU HAVE NO CONTROL. It's the CONTENT OWNERS that have control. DRM took away what you never legally had to begin with. And that makes you cry like a little bitch because your cheap ass can't break out the mastercard to the tune of ONE WHOLE DOLLAR to pay for what you want.
Your little plan to subvert DRM is--no shit--like Brain trying to take over the world. Your a tiny little person who dreams of taking democracy away from Americans for the advancement of your own twisted welfare-state agenda.
DRM is going _nowhere_ my friend. It has a long and rich history and it's here to stay. There will be childish fringe elements like yourself working long hours in your parents basement downloading torrent files, meanwhile the entertainment industry will continue to roll in BILLIONS of dollars from hard-working honest people like myself, and they'll use that money to combat, sue, and jail fanatics like YOU who would just as soon take away my representation in congress.
You're a petulant child who thinks that if only you cry loud enough the world will change just for you.
Wake up asshat: your "plans" are totally fruitless and serve only as comedic fodder to _real_ Americans like me.
And one more thing: Did you actually equate 1984 with "locked files." ???? Seriously? I'm not at all surprised, but just saying that shows you didn't bother to actually read that book. There is _nothing_ in the book even remotely close to what you're attributing to it, and the things in that book are far, far worse--and worlds removed--from being able to download the newest kiddy pop song that you and your plebe friends are totally keen to download.
Pronunciation: 'stEl Function: verb Inflected Form(s): stole/'stOl/; sto·len/'stO-l&n/; steal·ing Etymology: Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan; akin to Old High German stelan to steal intransitive verb 1 : to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as a habitual or regular practice 2 : to come or go secretly, unobtrusively, gradually, or unexpectedly 3 : to steal or attempt to steal a base transitive verb 1 a : to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully <stole a car> b : to take away by force or unjust means <they've stolen our liberty> c : to take surreptitiously or without permission <steal a kiss> d : to appropriate to oneself or beyond one's proper share : make oneself the focus of <steal the show> 2 a : to move, convey, or introduce secretly : SMUGGLE b : to accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner <steal a visit> 3 a : to seize, gain, or win by trickery, skill, or daring <a basketball player adept at stealing the ball> <stole the election> b of a base runner : to reach (a base) safely solely by running and usually catching the opposing team off guard
The idea that you think that I was "trolling" as opposed to rightly labeling the fucktard for what he is, is bad enough. But then you go on to describe how I could have better expressed my contempt for the asshat loser who'd rather be on entertainment welfare than spring for a $1 song by somehow comparing him to a boy fucking wizard. Are you _serious_?
Slashdot moderation speaks truths. The truth is that FOSS isn't good enough to stand on its own two feet. It needs shills to maintain balance by mod'ing down any negative comments about OSS and modding up any negative comments about the competition.
And even if it genuinely is good enough to hold its own weight, you'd never know that by reading slashdot.
When armies of props and shills try to shape discussions by editorializing it really makes you question why they feel they need to do that.
After all, if I had confidence that my product was better than yours, I'd want to have as much open, free, honest debate about our products as possible.
Once again, an example, of broken slashdot moderation.
Anyone that _dare_ violates the Slashdot Sacred Cows:
Google Linux Open Source Anti-Microsoft Apple Apple Apple iPod iPhone "i*" -cisco
Get's mod'd into oblivion.
This is no better than Fox News "Fair & Balanced" tagline. They should at least go for truth in advertising and call it what it really is: The Slashdot Editorialization System
I mean, if you just utter the tiniest negative thing about Apple, Google, the OLPC, Pro-Microsoft, the iPhone not being perfect, the iPod not being perfect, the Zune not being the worst thing in history, Apple, Apple, or Apple, you're total "flamebait" around here.
The Mod system here is really a huge joke. When 2/3 of the people would consider a "full life" to be sucking on Steve Job's reality distortion ejaculate for 8.5 hours a day there's just too much editorializing being done.
I can afford it: I'm so far into Excellent Karma that I could walk right up to steve jobs and punch him in his turtleneck-warmed adams-apple and I'd still be posting new comments at +2, but there are many here that don't have that luxury and who shouldn't be shouted down by an overzealous group of consumer-whore fanboys that constitute a RABID MINORITY.
Here's some news: Apple is a _speck_ of a company in terms of market cap and profit. Its iPod sales notwithstanding, it's a 30 year history of how _NOT_ to run a company. No matter how many different iPods they sell, that will always be true.
It's ok little buddy. Some times adults use "grown up language" at the big-boy table. Someday if you eat your all your meat you'll grow up big and strong and you'll be able to sit at the big-boy table, too.
But for not it's very important that you don't ever use the grown-up language, ok? Little guys like you will get in trouble if you do. It's a no-no.
Main Entry: 1steal Pronunciation: 'stEl Function: verb Inflected Form(s): stole/'stOl/; sto·len/'stO-l&n/; steal·ing Etymology: Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan; akin to Old High German stelan to steal intransitive verb 1 : to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as a habitual or regular practice 2 : to come or go secretly, unobtrusively, gradually, or unexpectedly 3 : to steal or attempt to steal a base transitive verb 1 a : to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully <stole a car> b : to take away by force or unjust means <they've stolen our liberty> c : to take surreptitiously or without permission <steal a kiss> d : to appropriate to oneself or beyond one's proper share : make oneself the focus of <steal the show> 2 a : to move, convey, or introduce secretly : SMUGGLE b : to accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner <steal a visit> 3 a : to seize, gain, or win by trickery, skill, or daring <a basketball player adept at stealing the ball> <stole the election> b of a base runner : to reach (a base) safely solely by running and usually catching the opposing team off guard
You're a joke. I mean, you're a walking punchline. People should fall to the grown rolling around inflicted with uncontrollable laughter at your mere presence in their field of vision.
You've spun being too cheap to pay for the things that you desire into some sort of pseudo-populist freedom fighter welfare case.
"Funding the Enemy?"
I'm serious. The Farrelly brothers have a hard time writing comedy like that. Seriously. This line makes you sound so retarded that I imagine you catatonic drooling into your "Big Breakfasts for Big Boys" bib hoping for mom to "fly" another "airplane" of strained peas into your cleft pallet.
"Try sending money to an industry that doesn't want to destroy the internet to protect their shows."
It's like you've majored in Cheaponomics with a minor in Melodrama.
"There is no copyright on DRMed goods. You can either have unrestricted copyright and let the law (we the people protect your monopoly in trade for its future release) take over, or you can DRM it and because there's absolutely no hope of a future release, we won't protect it for you."
OK, I understand that you're reading at a fifth grade level now, but this makes no sense. I mean, says who? You? Puh-leese.
"I will do my utmost to ruin the value of any DRMed copyrighted works"
Every indication is that your "utmost" is about as scary as your average Brownie troop trying to get their "No DRM" merit badge. I'm sure the "enemy" entertainment industry is scared senseless at the prospect of your ankle-biting.
"I'd imagine DVD John feels much the same"
Awwww. How cute. Da liddle boy has sucha 'magination. Always dreaming, arent't ya buddy? Seriously, DVD Jon in 2001 when DeCSS came out said he did it for FAIR USE RIGHTS. _NOT_ so cheap welfare case free-loaders like you don't have to pay for the things that you desire.
In summary, you seem to feel you're entitled to the artistic works that you desire. You are every bit the consumer-whore as any other American, but you've used some braindead logic to try to justify STEALING the things you want. In reality, you're just another welfare case that wants what he wants but would rather let somebody else pickup the tab. There's a word for people like you: losers.
Like it or not, the "enemy" you speak of apparently still produces things that are valuable to you. So valuable, in fact, that you've invented this fake "crusade" wherein your "utmost" will be done to avoid paying a dime for your actions. So valuable that you've imagined yourself as some anti-drm super hero that's left trying to "save the internet" from the evil corporations that, apparently--according to you--are trying to destory it.
Seriously: Grow up, dude. Step away from the hyperbole and put both hands in the air.
But if you ever decide to expand your crusade to "liberate" BMWs from their Nazi Death Camps and are looking for a place to stash them before the auto industry destroys the internet, let me know.
In this world there are things like "responsibility," "grown ups," and "stealing."
I don't like the fact that my car has a chip governing it to 125MpH. But I deal with it. It doesn't give me a right to steal the car or simply stop paying the payments. "But it's not the same" you cry. "Nobody gets hurt" from stealing music, you say, except for huge corporations.
Well, nobody gets hurt in insurance fraud except for large corps. And nobody gets hurt in the backdating of stock options grants except large corps. But "that's different" you say because for some crazy reason you have this notion that music--completely owned by its creator--has some sort of intrinsic desire to be free as in beer. I can't possible express how dumb of an idea this is.
Here's a clue: every single criminal everywhere rationalizes what they do. Like a drug addict. You have come up with such tortured, convoluted value systems and logic that there's no hope in being on the level with you. You simply cannot see that you're no different than any other thief, despite how many times you try to attest otherwise.
Do I dislike the Apple DRM? Yes. Does that change the fact that it's completely and entirely wrong to steal content? Not for a second.
So GROW UP, because the REALITY is that you're STEALING. And understand that every time you post shit like that, all it does is make you look like a worthless piece of shit that is such a welfare case on society that you steal stuff that costs $1. Seriously, do you steal $0.25 packs of gum, too?
I, too, LOATHE the people that steal content and then complain about DRM.
But, the people that don't actually buy things don't give a shit about this. They'll just wait for someone else to do the hard work, and they'll download the torrents. This harms the people that DO BUY and want to make a backup copy, or want to transfer it to their VOD library, like yours truly.
I mean, the people that download movies are more or less used to the fact that the downloads are of lower quality than the DVD. This is almost universally true. So the fact that they can't get HD content thru Pirate Bay is probably not making them cry in their cornflakes.
No, this doesn't hurt the freeloaders. It hurts the guy that spent $2200 on a TV, $600 on an HD-DVD player, and $25 per movie.
Flamebait because of all the APPLE FANBOIS ON HERE.
Three days ago you couldn't get anyone to admit that the iPhone wasn't absolutely PERFECT.
You people are rabid.
Get a life. Apple is a corporate giant every bit as heartless as Sony or Microsoft. I'm sorry to burst your little consumer-whore bubble but it's true.
Cingular is moving to an all GSM network. They even make CDMA customers pay an additional monthly fee just to stay on the old network. So i'm sure it's GSM. And don't all GSM phones have SIMM cards?
I've never taken a phone to Europe before, but isn't that what you're talking about?
Slashdot Mirror
"I work for the devil" ...I'm confused.
They run Unix in hell?
I would've thought it would be ME with a CGA monitor.
And an old-fashioned ball mouse that sticks & stutters.
"I'm looking into adopting a few like Brad and Angelina and letting them make my sneakers for me, but I'm not sure if my neighbors would go for that."
Isn't that basically what Michael Jordan did?
You should fit right in....
Be careful.
;p
Objectivity like that might just get you banned from this place
"They've got too much invested in their format to abandon it now."
You mean, like the PowerPC chip line? or MacOS?
In all seriousness, what do they have invested in AAC? Development costs? This is a company with, what, $8BN in net earnings? I really doubt the few million they've probably spent developing FairPlay would prevent them from adjusting to market dynamics.
Apple has a huge interest in shaping the digital music market. It makes no sense to me that a famously nimble company who is not afraid of making tough choices would stand alone behind a DRM scheme that is already broken (for audio at least) when their major competitors are moving to a less restrictive format.
I think the decisions to abandon the MacOS and PowerPC platforms--in which they had surely invested billions of dollars--paint a clear picture of a company that big enough to lead but still small enough to react.
I swear to god, your post should be hung up in the FUD museum.
You are far, far beyond the bend, my friend.
Let's do a little exercise.
Draw a Zero. Now draw a decimal point after the zero. Now draw another zero. So far you should have "0.0" Now, draw a zero, and another, and another. Keep drawing zeros until your hand is NUMB. By this point you should have something like this, only 4 or 5 times longer: 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000
Good. Now, draw a "1"
Now, draw a percent sign. That's two more zeros with a diagnol between them.
That number, the tiniest fraction of a fraction of a percent is the effect that you will have on the entertainment industry, even if you install P2P on every PC you touch from now until you choke on your last worthless breath.
The best part is, your entire premise is just as stupid as your master plan itself. You think it's easier to get a lesser law passed if nobody follows the law? Seriously? When has this _ever_ worked before? (and no, prohibition wasn't repealed because everyone ignored it. go crack open a book loser). See Also: Jane, Mary.
You, my dear friend, are a textbook example of a fanatic. You are fanatical. You are not only fanatical, but so cheap that you channel your fanatic personality into trying to get things that you want without paying for them. I mean, you would _bribe a politician._ Your parents should be so proud. Their progeny is sitting on a fricken website _complaining_ about something he can do _nothing_ about, waxing poetic about "if only I were rich" so that way you could subvert democracy and commit multiple felonies.
You say that DRM violates the spirit of the copyright law. Really? What spirit was that? The spirit where you should actually be able to blow-off copyright law if you want to without any consequence?
The truth is, DRM is the maximum and logical extension of copyright law. You don't like to hear it because it ruins your moronic plan where everything is free, but the purpose of copyright is to say that YOU HAVE NO CONTROL. It's the CONTENT OWNERS that have control. DRM took away what you never legally had to begin with. And that makes you cry like a little bitch because your cheap ass can't break out the mastercard to the tune of ONE WHOLE DOLLAR to pay for what you want.
Your little plan to subvert DRM is--no shit--like Brain trying to take over the world. Your a tiny little person who dreams of taking democracy away from Americans for the advancement of your own twisted welfare-state agenda.
DRM is going _nowhere_ my friend. It has a long and rich history and it's here to stay. There will be childish fringe elements like yourself working long hours in your parents basement downloading torrent files, meanwhile the entertainment industry will continue to roll in BILLIONS of dollars from hard-working honest people like myself, and they'll use that money to combat, sue, and jail fanatics like YOU who would just as soon take away my representation in congress.
You're a petulant child who thinks that if only you cry loud enough the world will change just for you.
Wake up asshat: your "plans" are totally fruitless and serve only as comedic fodder to _real_ Americans like me.
And one more thing: Did you actually equate 1984 with "locked files." ???? Seriously? I'm not at all surprised, but just saying that shows you didn't bother to actually read that book. There is _nothing_ in the book even remotely close to what you're attributing to it, and the things in that book are far, far worse--and worlds removed--from being able to download the newest kiddy pop song that you and your plebe friends are totally keen to download.
I'm glad th
Pronunciation: 'stEl /'stOl/; sto·len /'stO-l&n/; steal·ing
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): stole
Etymology: Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan; akin to Old High German stelan to steal
intransitive verb
1 : to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as a habitual or regular practice
2 : to come or go secretly, unobtrusively, gradually, or unexpectedly
3 : to steal or attempt to steal a base
transitive verb
1 a : to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully <stole a car> b : to take away by force or unjust means <they've stolen our liberty> c : to take surreptitiously or without permission <steal a kiss> d : to appropriate to oneself or beyond one's proper share : make oneself the focus of <steal the show>
2 a : to move, convey, or introduce secretly : SMUGGLE b : to accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner <steal a visit>
3 a : to seize, gain, or win by trickery, skill, or daring <a basketball player adept at stealing the ball> <stole the election> b of a base runner : to reach (a base) safely solely by running and usually catching the opposing team off guard
Read it and _learn_ asswipe.
Your a moron. AllOfMp3 is based in a foreign country. The RIAA cannot just snap their fingers and make it so.
But you are very much committing copyright infringment by downloading from that site if you are not in Russia.
It even says as much ON THE SITE ITSELF.
Jesus christ, were you born this stupid or did you have to take some special class?
oooohhhh no, da pooor baby made me a "foe." How will I ever live?
You take this shit wwaaaaya to seriously fuck face.
You must've been sucking on way to much Steve Jobs Smegma or otherwise you'd smell the bullshit as plainly as I do.
Morgoth? Scandinavian folklore?
Who are you? Harry fucking potter?
Please. Save us all from your inane drivel.
The idea that you think that I was "trolling" as opposed to rightly labeling the fucktard for what he is, is bad enough. But then you go on to describe how I could have better expressed my contempt for the asshat loser who'd rather be on entertainment welfare than spring for a $1 song by somehow comparing him to a boy fucking wizard. Are you _serious_?
Slashdot moderation speaks truths. The truth is that FOSS isn't good enough to stand on its own two feet. It needs shills to maintain balance by mod'ing down any negative comments about OSS and modding up any negative comments about the competition.
And even if it genuinely is good enough to hold its own weight, you'd never know that by reading slashdot.
When armies of props and shills try to shape discussions by editorializing it really makes you question why they feel they need to do that.
After all, if I had confidence that my product was better than yours, I'd want to have as much open, free, honest debate about our products as possible.
Once again, an example, of broken slashdot moderation.
Anyone that _dare_ violates the Slashdot Sacred Cows:
Google
Linux
Open Source
Anti-Microsoft
Apple
Apple
Apple
iPod
iPhone
"i*" -cisco
Get's mod'd into oblivion.
This is no better than Fox News "Fair & Balanced" tagline. They should at least go for truth in advertising and call it what it really is: The Slashdot Editorialization System
Yes I know editorialization isn't a word.
Allofmp3 is not legal. They have no rights to sell in the US. Keep dreaming.
Where's my "Flamebait" mod?
C'mon... i'm waiting...
I mean, if you just utter the tiniest negative thing about Apple, Google, the OLPC, Pro-Microsoft, the iPhone not being perfect, the iPod not being perfect, the Zune not being the worst thing in history, Apple, Apple, or Apple, you're total "flamebait" around here.
The Mod system here is really a huge joke. When 2/3 of the people would consider a "full life" to be sucking on Steve Job's reality distortion ejaculate for 8.5 hours a day there's just too much editorializing being done.
I can afford it: I'm so far into Excellent Karma that I could walk right up to steve jobs and punch him in his turtleneck-warmed adams-apple and I'd still be posting new comments at +2, but there are many here that don't have that luxury and who shouldn't be shouted down by an overzealous group of consumer-whore fanboys that constitute a RABID MINORITY.
Here's some news: Apple is a _speck_ of a company in terms of market cap and profit. Its iPod sales notwithstanding, it's a 30 year history of how _NOT_ to run a company. No matter how many different iPods they sell, that will always be true.
It's ok little buddy. Some times adults use "grown up language" at the big-boy table. Someday if you eat your all your meat you'll grow up big and strong and you'll be able to sit at the big-boy table, too.
But for not it's very important that you don't ever use the grown-up language, ok? Little guys like you will get in trouble if you do. It's a no-no.
Ok buddy?
Now go eat your jello and be a good little tike.
Guess again jackass:
/'stOl/; sto·len /'stO-l&n/; steal·ing
Main Entry: 1steal
Pronunciation: 'stEl
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): stole
Etymology: Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan; akin to Old High German stelan to steal
intransitive verb
1 : to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as a habitual or regular practice
2 : to come or go secretly, unobtrusively, gradually, or unexpectedly
3 : to steal or attempt to steal a base
transitive verb
1 a : to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully <stole a car> b : to take away by force or unjust means <they've stolen our liberty> c : to take surreptitiously or without permission <steal a kiss> d : to appropriate to oneself or beyond one's proper share : make oneself the focus of <steal the show>
2 a : to move, convey, or introduce secretly : SMUGGLE b : to accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner <steal a visit>
3 a : to seize, gain, or win by trickery, skill, or daring <a basketball player adept at stealing the ball> <stole the election> b of a base runner : to reach (a base) safely solely by running and usually catching the opposing team off guard
You're a joke. I mean, you're a walking punchline. People should fall to the grown rolling around inflicted with uncontrollable laughter at your mere presence in their field of vision.
You've spun being too cheap to pay for the things that you desire into some sort of pseudo-populist freedom fighter welfare case.
"Funding the Enemy?"
I'm serious. The Farrelly brothers have a hard time writing comedy like that. Seriously. This line makes you sound so retarded that I imagine you catatonic drooling into your "Big Breakfasts for Big Boys" bib hoping for mom to "fly" another "airplane" of strained peas into your cleft pallet.
"Try sending money to an industry that doesn't want to destroy the internet to protect their shows."
It's like you've majored in Cheaponomics with a minor in Melodrama.
"There is no copyright on DRMed goods. You can either have unrestricted copyright and let the law (we the people protect your monopoly in trade for its future release) take over, or you can DRM it and because there's absolutely no hope of a future release, we won't protect it for you."
OK, I understand that you're reading at a fifth grade level now, but this makes no sense. I mean, says who? You? Puh-leese.
"I will do my utmost to ruin the value of any DRMed copyrighted works"
Every indication is that your "utmost" is about as scary as your average Brownie troop trying to get their "No DRM" merit badge. I'm sure the "enemy" entertainment industry is scared senseless at the prospect of your ankle-biting.
"I'd imagine DVD John feels much the same"
Awwww. How cute. Da liddle boy has sucha 'magination. Always dreaming, arent't ya buddy? Seriously, DVD Jon in 2001 when DeCSS came out said he did it for FAIR USE RIGHTS. _NOT_ so cheap welfare case free-loaders like you don't have to pay for the things that you desire.
In summary, you seem to feel you're entitled to the artistic works that you desire. You are every bit the consumer-whore as any other American, but you've used some braindead logic to try to justify STEALING the things you want. In reality, you're just another welfare case that wants what he wants but would rather let somebody else pickup the tab. There's a word for people like you: losers.
Like it or not, the "enemy" you speak of apparently still produces things that are valuable to you. So valuable, in fact, that you've invented this fake "crusade" wherein your "utmost" will be done to avoid paying a dime for your actions. So valuable that you've imagined yourself as some anti-drm super hero that's left trying to "save the internet" from the evil corporations that, apparently--according to you--are trying to destory it.
Seriously: Grow up, dude. Step away from the hyperbole and put both hands in the air.
But if you ever decide to expand your crusade to "liberate" BMWs from their Nazi Death Camps and are looking for a place to stash them before the auto industry destroys the internet, let me know.
Go fuck yourself, loser.
In this world there are things like "responsibility," "grown ups," and "stealing."
I don't like the fact that my car has a chip governing it to 125MpH. But I deal with it. It doesn't give me a right to steal the car or simply stop paying the payments. "But it's not the same" you cry. "Nobody gets hurt" from stealing music, you say, except for huge corporations.
Well, nobody gets hurt in insurance fraud except for large corps. And nobody gets hurt in the backdating of stock options grants except large corps. But "that's different" you say because for some crazy reason you have this notion that music--completely owned by its creator--has some sort of intrinsic desire to be free as in beer. I can't possible express how dumb of an idea this is.
Here's a clue: every single criminal everywhere rationalizes what they do. Like a drug addict. You have come up with such tortured, convoluted value systems and logic that there's no hope in being on the level with you. You simply cannot see that you're no different than any other thief, despite how many times you try to attest otherwise.
Do I dislike the Apple DRM? Yes. Does that change the fact that it's completely and entirely wrong to steal content? Not for a second.
So GROW UP, because the REALITY is that you're STEALING. And understand that every time you post shit like that, all it does is make you look like a worthless piece of shit that is such a welfare case on society that you steal stuff that costs $1. Seriously, do you steal $0.25 packs of gum, too?
I, too, LOATHE the people that steal content and then complain about DRM.
But, the people that don't actually buy things don't give a shit about this. They'll just wait for someone else to do the hard work, and they'll download the torrents. This harms the people that DO BUY and want to make a backup copy, or want to transfer it to their VOD library, like yours truly.
I mean, the people that download movies are more or less used to the fact that the downloads are of lower quality than the DVD. This is almost universally true. So the fact that they can't get HD content thru Pirate Bay is probably not making them cry in their cornflakes.
No, this doesn't hurt the freeloaders. It hurts the guy that spent $2200 on a TV, $600 on an HD-DVD player, and $25 per movie.
Arrrhhh... Ye can revoke my device key, but ye can never revoke my FREEEEEEEDOOOMMMM
"it would feel great to know that somewhere out there is the twin of that machine that some other child is using"
Or--not to be cynical--some other war lord or terrorist or future war lord or terrorist.
So the OLPC has WiFi?
Laptops != Internet Infrastructure.
Tru Dat.
The idea that Apple is any different than any corporate giant is laughable. Any fanboy of a company that size is just another consumer whore.
Flamebait because of all the APPLE FANBOIS ON HERE.
Three days ago you couldn't get anyone to admit that the iPhone wasn't absolutely PERFECT.
You people are rabid.
Get a life. Apple is a corporate giant every bit as heartless as Sony or Microsoft. I'm sorry to burst your little consumer-whore bubble but it's true.
Sure there is!
All you need to do is spend $$$$$ to buy an "iTV" and then your problems are solved.
What? You don't think you should have to spend hundreds of dollars just to watch content you've already bought? Psh...
Cingular is moving to an all GSM network. They even make CDMA customers pay an additional monthly fee just to stay on the old network. So i'm sure it's GSM. And don't all GSM phones have SIMM cards?
I've never taken a phone to Europe before, but isn't that what you're talking about?