Well, you do have a valid point. However, the difference "post-KaZaA" would be that people are aware of the bulk of material out there and are used to having it, so they'd be more willing to jump through the hoops to keep the stuff coming. We might even see teenage girls mustering the brainpower to log onto IRC instead of AIM...the horror!
Well, they still can't stamp out the CD burner and the "analog hole". Sales of CD-Rs should pick up after measures that serious are put into place, and nothing beats the bandwidth of handing your buddy a spindle of CD-Rs. Also, I don't know much about encryption, but couldn't someone and their friends agree on an arbitrarily huge key in person and trade their little hearts out?
Well, under your theory, any work can be treated as number, albeit a huge one. I'd have to say that numbers have to be copyrightable for copyright to exist as we know it. Maybe the number, as interpreted by X type of software? Pretty soon we'll be sued for counting too high...
Probably because encryption could be implemented, foiling the snoopware. The snoopers couldn't decompile P2P apps to extract the key or something because that'd be illegal.:)
Hm...How long DID the NES warranty last? Was it the same 90-day warranty that we have today, or was it something that actually reflected some pride in craftsmanship and/or durability? Methinks that the Xbox "extended warranty" a)was an admission that the thing had a good chance of breaking long before the "expected" (as in it'll work with some coaxing in 15 years like the NES) lifetime, or even the "reasonable" lifetime (it'll work through the "Xbox 2"'s lifespan), and therefore should've been publicized more so that people would realize the things weren't exactly bullet-proof and b)should be standard.
By the way, I love my Xbox, just not its lack of durability. (It works fine, but my friends' boxen sure don't)
Hey, cut me some slack here; I said it wasn't a perfect analogy. Actually, I agree with you. If owning cars was like owning [the rights to] software, you'd buy the Ferrari, which would be all the design specs, technical drawings, and so on. If you bought a Ferrari, it'd be like having a software license, where you were entitled to use the car. Software is different from tangible media.
A better analogy might be music. If you really bought a song, you could do whatever you wanted with it (sell, give away, parody, shamelessly steal lyrics, etc.) because you would be the owner of said song. If, however, you bought a recording of the song, you are subject to copyright and all that because you are not the owner of the song itself.
Well, NASA is part of the government, isn't it? And they're responsible for space launchy things like probes, aren't they? Therefore, this was a government endeavour. Note that this is the only part of my post I'm willing to defend...^^;
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No... 22/7 = 3.142857 repeating pi = 3.14159, rounded I think you need a new calculator =P
Well, it won't be WINE, since WINE Is Not an Emulator, as we all know. =P
That WAS an aversion of disaster. Think how many more people that'd be in about 10 generations. Way to fight overpopulation!
Well, you do have a valid point. However, the difference "post-KaZaA" would be that people are aware of the bulk of material out there and are used to having it, so they'd be more willing to jump through the hoops to keep the stuff coming. We might even see teenage girls mustering the brainpower to log onto IRC instead of AIM...the horror!
That site seems to support the theory that you can't copyright a number...
But...they provide Internet service to their students, who are their clients (they paid to go there, didn't they?). How are they NOT ISPs?
Well, they still can't stamp out the CD burner and the "analog hole". Sales of CD-Rs should pick up after measures that serious are put into place, and nothing beats the bandwidth of handing your buddy a spindle of CD-Rs. Also, I don't know much about encryption, but couldn't someone and their friends agree on an arbitrarily huge key in person and trade their little hearts out?
Well, under your theory, any work can be treated as number, albeit a huge one. I'd have to say that numbers have to be copyrightable for copyright to exist as we know it. Maybe the number, as interpreted by X type of software? Pretty soon we'll be sued for counting too high...
Ok, can you recommend a good one? :)
Probably because encryption could be implemented, foiling the snoopware. The snoopers couldn't decompile P2P apps to extract the key or something because that'd be illegal. :)
What about FTPs? Direct file sending over IM clients? Usenet? IRC? Good luck, RIAA...
Public school in America. 'Nuff said.
Wow...obscure! :)
Hm...How long DID the NES warranty last? Was it the same 90-day warranty that we have today, or was it something that actually reflected some pride in craftsmanship and/or durability? Methinks that the Xbox "extended warranty" a)was an admission that the thing had a good chance of breaking long before the "expected" (as in it'll work with some coaxing in 15 years like the NES) lifetime, or even the "reasonable" lifetime (it'll work through the "Xbox 2"'s lifespan), and therefore should've been publicized more so that people would realize the things weren't exactly bullet-proof and b)should be standard.
By the way, I love my Xbox, just not its lack of durability. (It works fine, but my friends' boxen sure don't)
IANAL, but those patents don't look like they cover the whole Internet to me...just database stuff. What gives? O_o
So, Microsoft makes Unreal? No way!!
They probably meant to say that stuff that isn't usually considered "transparent" actually is when dealing with terahertz radiation.
Another quick note: a terabyte (as in Linux, and as in the terahertz as a measurement of computer clock speed) is actually 2^40 bytes.
I predict the #1 use for this technology will eventually be peeking through woman's clothes.
Hey, cut me some slack here; I said it wasn't a perfect analogy. Actually, I agree with you. If owning cars was like owning [the rights to] software, you'd buy the Ferrari, which would be all the design specs, technical drawings, and so on. If you bought a Ferrari, it'd be like having a software license, where you were entitled to use the car. Software is different from tangible media. A better analogy might be music. If you really bought a song, you could do whatever you wanted with it (sell, give away, parody, shamelessly steal lyrics, etc.) because you would be the owner of said song. If, however, you bought a recording of the song, you are subject to copyright and all that because you are not the owner of the song itself.
That was obvious? I feel dumb then, since I had to look it up. >_
Well, NASA is part of the government, isn't it? And they're responsible for space launchy things like probes, aren't they? Therefore, this was a government endeavour. Note that this is the only part of my post I'm willing to defend...^^;
If anything, it'd be an intrasystem war, since it'd be within this single solar system.
No need - I'm 15, and I know engineering. ;)