Hey, given the normal proportion of hot sexy wives to the usual kind, I'd say slashdotters are much more likely to at least have a picture of someone's hot sexy wife.
How about when you hang around with a group very smart, technically oriented, socially inadept drug abusers?
Socially inadept and individualistic are traits that equally well lend themselves both to drug use/abusers and geeks. They may look like cultural opposites, but when compared to 'the mainstream' they're just two sides of the same coin. Just depends to what degree you value experimentation and entertainment over a normal life.
Ah, 'harmonization'. The word striking the most fear into independent and unamerican countries across the world. The fact is that in EVERYWHERE in the world where you are likely to be reading this IP laws have been harmonized to the point where the basics are the same. - and the reason why? Pressure from one of the most powerful economies in the world. Can you honestly suggest that countries have spontaneouslypassedUS type copyright legislation? Bullshit.
The original poster's point, that one of the RIAA's precepts is that 'The US's laws apply to everyone in the world, and are superior to every other law' is accurate. As long as the RIAA is able to buy law in the US, it will exert all possible pressure to ensure that the US's laws are exported to the rest of the world.
If stores saw an amount of shoplifting equivalent to the level of piracy game developers suffer from, you probably would have to go through a criminal record check to shop.
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Cost is the way to go about it. Home users aren't comparing TCO's, and if they can get a computer for 200 less that they can use then thats a major step towards making linux mainstream. People buying their first computer can't tell one interface from another, won't be thrown by the ways in which linux may not act like windows, but if they see a price tag thats lower on a well marketed machine, then Linux starts to become a serious option.
Well, that would be a good response if it wasn't already the situation in Australia. Broadband is bloody expensive, ADSL connections and cable connections are capped at different speeds and priced accordingly, with download limits.
For a connection with 256k download speed and 64k upload, with 8 gig a month download limit, I pay AUS$90, and thats not too bad a deal. The maximum connection speeds available in metropolitan areas are usually 1.5mbp down/ 512k up. Not to mention the fact that, with ADSL, I have to heavily limit my uploading in P2P apps because one person saturating the 64k uplink kills my downloading.
In short, it'd be hard to throttle back uploading much more without preventing getting anything through
Here it has been promoted as being due to problems controlling peadophillia, with a few recent incidents referred to. I hadn't realised it was global until I read it here.
Thanks to our 50% government owned monopoly, broadband and bandwidth in any form is horribly expensive. Most ISP's that have lasted more than 6 months here impose caps of some form or another on data transfer (for AU$90 a month, I get 8 gigabytes of data download and free upload at 256/64k, not a bad deal). ISP's have sometimes tried implementing rolling limits, usually along the lines of 'your transfers must not exceed 25% of the last three days average transfer', but these generally have a bad name due to the difficulty involved in working out exactly how much you can shift.
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First lesson for American international travellers: the world doesn't like America.
I'm going to be laughing so hard when you get arrested for attempting to raise funds to aid in the commission of a crime...
Hey, given the normal proportion of hot sexy wives to the usual kind, I'd say slashdotters are much more likely to at least have a picture of someone's hot sexy wife.
How about when you hang around with a group very smart, technically oriented, socially inadept drug abusers? Socially inadept and individualistic are traits that equally well lend themselves both to drug use/abusers and geeks. They may look like cultural opposites, but when compared to 'the mainstream' they're just two sides of the same coin. Just depends to what degree you value experimentation and entertainment over a normal life.
Ah, 'harmonization'. The word striking the most fear into independent and unamerican countries across the world.
The fact is that in EVERYWHERE in the world where you are likely to be reading this IP laws have been harmonized to the point where the basics are the same. - and the reason why? Pressure from one of the most powerful economies in the world. Can you honestly suggest that countries have spontaneously passed US type copyright legislation? Bullshit.
The original poster's point, that one of the RIAA's precepts is that 'The US's laws apply to everyone in the world, and are superior to every other law' is accurate. As long as the RIAA is able to buy law in the US, it will exert all possible pressure to ensure that the US's laws are exported to the rest of the world.
Personally, I welcome our hypothetical overlords!
If stores saw an amount of shoplifting equivalent to the level of piracy game developers suffer from, you probably would have to go through a criminal record check to shop.
Cost is the way to go about it. Home users aren't comparing TCO's, and if they can get a computer for 200 less that they can use then thats a major step towards making linux mainstream. People buying their first computer can't tell one interface from another, won't be thrown by the ways in which linux may not act like windows, but if they see a price tag thats lower on a well marketed machine, then Linux starts to become a serious option.
Well, that would be a good response if it wasn't already the situation in Australia. Broadband is bloody expensive, ADSL connections and cable connections are capped at different speeds and priced accordingly, with download limits.
For a connection with 256k download speed and 64k upload, with 8 gig a month download limit, I pay AUS$90, and thats not too bad a deal. The maximum connection speeds available in metropolitan areas are usually 1.5mbp down/ 512k up. Not to mention the fact that, with ADSL, I have to heavily limit my uploading in P2P apps because one person saturating the 64k uplink kills my downloading.
In short, it'd be hard to throttle back uploading much more without preventing getting anything through
Here it has been promoted as being due to problems controlling peadophillia, with a few recent incidents referred to. I hadn't realised it was global until I read it here.
Thanks to our 50% government owned monopoly, broadband and bandwidth in any form is horribly expensive. Most ISP's that have lasted more than 6 months here impose caps of some form or another on data transfer (for AU$90 a month, I get 8 gigabytes of data download and free upload at 256/64k, not a bad deal). ISP's have sometimes tried implementing rolling limits, usually along the lines of 'your transfers must not exceed 25% of the last three days average transfer', but these generally have a bad name due to the difficulty involved in working out exactly how much you can shift.