Oh, right. So making a sweeping generalisation isn't good enough for you. We actually have to precede it with "All" just to hammer the point for idiots like you.
"Anonymous Cowards are idiots, and never add anything to the discussion". Hey, I was only talking about you, not all the ACs.
Don't you think that's more of a comparison than an analogy, though. I mean, it's obvious to us that 16MB flash card approximates 16 floppy disks. But they're effectively the same thing! It's not an analogy at all!
When plausible ignorance is claimed, sometimes a lesser sentence will be handed down, it really depends on whether the person can reasonably claim ignorance.
As far as running pirated software on a computer goes, it would be almost impossible to convince your judge of ignorance.
So I agree with you pretty much, I just have to make the point that while ignorance is no excuse for misdemeanour, it has been used to afford a lesser sentence in some cases.
Ahh, how nice. I'm still vulnerable, but at least Microsoft are focussing on it. A 3rd party releases a patch, but that's not good enough for me. I want the "focussed" one from Microsoft.
The trick for someone like you is to find someone else who does go outside, and let them take your watch for a little while. How long between signals until your watch wears runs far out of sync?
Where's that in their business model?
They'll just assume the loss of your business is due to piracy. Not due to honest folks who'd actually become disgusted with their slimy underhand tactics. Ultimately they'll probably turn on radio as well, and we'll need to licence FM reception from them.
You gotta hand it to them, they've done so well for so long making money out of nothing. Not everybody can do that.
No matter which way you turn, they'll be there doing anything they can so as not to be deprived of their slice.
Yes, but I haven't got the time. My money goes to the man who finds what I want, sticks whatever profit I'll bear on in, and makes the actual transaction as simple as possible. I'm not planning on keeping up with which labels use which DRM and so on, and if it has to go on record that thanks to Sony, I won't now buy a CD from any label, so be it.
Even if I'm wrong when I state "Sony has fucked the music industry for me as a consumer, never mind the artists" it doesn't matter, because that's the honest belief of a once-paying customer. If they think that people like me will only be a small percentage of the demographic then they're either:
correct, and they'll keep on creaming it off those who are like what I used to be, and not stop piracy. or:
wrong, and they'll get just what they deserve. And not stop piracy.
As many others have said here, the business of taking something, adding nothing but an obscene margin to it and ultimately doing the exact same thing as the pirates are (copying the CDs en masse) has died. All they were ever doing was loaning their CD burners to us until such a time we could do it ourselves.
Sorry guys, the ride's over and it's as simple as that. You're lucky it lasted this long.
I think copy protection on music CDs is a _great_ thing.
I used to buy 80% of my CDs, pirate the rest, and fell a little guilty about it. Now there's no _point_ in me buying CDs. They're useless to me. So I pirate every single one now.
Why do I think copy protection is great (for me) ?
NcFTP has a cool 'tar' mode. When you connect with a similarly capable FTP server, and recursively put or get a folder, each end pipes it through the local 'tar' program, and only one transaction takes place. It's really cool.
Anyway, what self-respecting nerd would need compression. Everybody knows pr0n won't compress one little bit, unless it's ASCII.
Exactly. I don't see how, as a consumer, I'm supposed to think otherwise. I'm _supposed_ to buy Music CDs, not download them. That was fine when buying music CDs was easy. It no longer is, it's now easier for me to download songs than it is to buy a CD I know will work for me when I get home.
I'm assuming you are the mod who modded -1 Overrated... if you really thought I was 'Offtopic', wouldn't that have been the better choice?
Nah, it's better to use "Overrated" when mod-bombing folks. If you mod something as "offtopic", and it wasn't that far off the topic, you might get metamodded "Unfair". Some people metamod negative M1s anyway.
That's why Taco created Over and Under-Rated, to allow mod-bombing to continue.
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"Anonymous Cowards are idiots, and never add anything to the discussion". Hey, I was only talking about you, not all the ACs.
Bullshit. Analogies with cars will always fall down. And anyway, people don't understand cars any better.
hahahaha!!! Thanks mate.
Come on mods. My point is: What dictionary.com define monopoly as has nothing to do with what a monopoly is legally defined as.
I don't think I, or anybody else here, care what Disctionary.com define 'monopoly' as.
As far as running pirated software on a computer goes, it would be almost impossible to convince your judge of ignorance.
So I agree with you pretty much, I just have to make the point that while ignorance is no excuse for misdemeanour, it has been used to afford a lesser sentence in some cases.
Ahh, how nice. I'm still vulnerable, but at least Microsoft are focussing on it. A 3rd party releases a patch, but that's not good enough for me. I want the "focussed" one from Microsoft.
...in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
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The trick for someone like you is to find someone else who does go outside, and let them take your watch for a little while. How long between signals until your watch wears runs far out of sync?
Good God, there'll be something about it on Wikipedia next...
What do they call a whopper?
You must have missed the link at the bottom of the article, where they list all the undiscovered vulnerabilites...
Especially interesting for me is this page.
You gotta hand it to them, they've done so well for so long making money out of nothing. Not everybody can do that.
No matter which way you turn, they'll be there doing anything they can so as not to be deprived of their slice.
Even if I'm wrong when I state "Sony has fucked the music industry for me as a consumer, never mind the artists" it doesn't matter, because that's the honest belief of a once-paying customer. If they think that people like me will only be a small percentage of the demographic then they're either:
Sorry guys, the ride's over and it's as simple as that. You're lucky it lasted this long.
I used to buy 80% of my CDs, pirate the rest, and fell a little guilty about it. Now there's no _point_ in me buying CDs. They're useless to me. So I pirate every single one now.
Why do I think copy protection is great (for me) ?
Because I don't feel guilty anymore.
Or you end up fixing a bug...
NcFTP has a cool 'tar' mode. When you connect with a similarly capable FTP server, and recursively put or get a folder, each end pipes it through the local 'tar' program, and only one transaction takes place. It's really cool. Anyway, what self-respecting nerd would need compression. Everybody knows pr0n won't compress one little bit, unless it's ASCII.
Great way to solve the problem, Sony.
Can you seriously not tell the difference between an anonymous posting on a website, and a televised news bulletin?
And, of course, they'll need to pay to host the files, making it just a little more prohibitive.
Nah, it's better to use "Overrated" when mod-bombing folks. If you mod something as "offtopic", and it wasn't that far off the topic, you might get metamodded "Unfair". Some people metamod negative M1s anyway.
That's why Taco created Over and Under-Rated, to allow mod-bombing to continue.