COPYRIGHT MUST BE TO STIMULATE GOOD NEW WORK, NOT TO ENDLESSLY CELEBRATE PAST ONE.
copyright excuse is that it must promote the society advancement by encouraging good artist to produce more good works.
if an artist could not make enough good work paid enough to sustain himself it's unfortunate, maybe he is not good enough, not famous enough, the industry is not kind enough on him, or simply he is really not so much able to significantly improve humanity culture.
SO there are 2 possibilities: - you make the industry pay him more (attention, the industry pay more the artist NOT the user pay more the industry) - he simply is not good enough to sustain itself with his art so he must work like everyone else (at least part time) and make what it could during spare time.
it's unfortunate that maybe some good art piece could be missed, but the really good and driven artist had always worked even when starved and broke, if they were appreciated they somehow find a way to be paid, if they are not appreciated the future generation still has some of their pieces.
if a current artist that produce a single great hit is not paid enough to survive till his next hit (or is not really good enough to produce a next hit) there is no way that the society must pay him a lifetime pension!!!
REMEMBER: COPYRIGHT MUST BE TO STIMULATE GOOD NEW WORK, NOT TO ENDLESSLY CELEBRATE PAST ONE.
my respose could be inappropriate, because i do not know any of your game but maybe my VERI LONG essay could illuminate you.
i'm not a software pirate, not in the sense of creating cracks, but as everyone that i know some time i had used some made by other for various pourpouse:
- evaluation of commercial software for work before expending a lot of money on it - evaluation of private software - trying games (sometime quite current one, frequently abbandoware like). - using pirated games until legit copy was easily buyable (in many case like abandonware, download only with hard drm and other, they will never became at disposal) - using MY legittimately bought copy in a friendlyer way (lost activation code, no cd crack to use 10 games on my laptop whitout a ton of disk swapping and more).
on my experience anti pirating protection has about no good use and tipically irritate legit customer.
and about any software whort buying will be cracked sometime (earlier if is really interesting).
about any protection is an hindrance to the legit customer: - better not start talking about the old method of inserting the magic word on page 32 line 4 of the manual! imagin games with a foreign translation of the manual! and the ability of any man to lose a manual in the first x years! - long digital code to insert at install is a nuisance (and an huge problem if the code is lost!). - various drm mean an inability to easily backup my game copy and so be prone to disk damage or loss!
- the requirement of a playing disk on the dvd reader is an HUGE hindrance! expecially on a laptop: i could not use my only reader for other thinks like background copy of data, music playing an so on; it make noise, consume power and produce heat; it consume the only copy of the game disk!; it's a nightmare of disk swapping if i whant to tour many games; it require having always many disk with me instead of installing all the data in the huge modern hard disk!; i can't install a game then use it an year later on a whim because i no more have the disk near; some more that at the moment doesn't surface. - continuous internet connection is simply inacceptable! i'm not always on lyne. (i never play on lyne multiplayer games, i'm a bit old scool) - on lyne registration is a nuisance (and an huge problem if the seller go out of business and the poor buyer could no more use his game!). - linking a game sale to a specific pc hardware is madnes! i have more than one machine, and whant to be able to play it in any suitable one, not talking about reinstall of the OS for a newer version or hardware upgrade!
an example of what a not drm encumbered game could obtain (if it is good, but if you produce shit and expect people to gladly pay for it...):
- last year a friend of mine found news of a game (hearts of iron II) visited the site, liked what if showed and ordered it. in the weeks before it arrive it downloaded the iso from emule, tried it, became entusiast, showed to us, make a copy of it so that we could try it extensively, we became entusiast ourselves, make an huge order on-line, showed it to other friends, make them try it for themselves and they too bought it. the result was 12+ copy selled in a week were an hugely drm encumbered one could maybe have been showed (but not throughly played) to much less friends many week later and resulted in less copy sold much later (myself for example had overcomed 2 fears in troughly trying it, that it work on linux under wine and that it wasn't too complex to play and enjoy). the fact that the game is sold at a relatively low price (20-25 dollar at most) had obviously played his part, as is the ability to simply copy the data in the disk and the absence of a continuous disk access. a pair of people hardly played it but they buyed it because of the magnificent game and fair policy!!!
my ideal games distribution way: - it was similar to the one used (and i fear now partly abandoned) by
if i remember well one of the possible derivation of the name were an acronim that means about "death to the francs indipendece whant" during one of the innumerable years of foreign dominance of that region of italy
It may be the 456th leading cause, but cheeseburgers and highway accidents never made me feel powerless, helpless or hopeless the way the terrorist attacks did.
that's exactly what terrorism do, spread terror.
relatively few death and lot of terror
the fact that you feel helpless is only because there are too much "information" about terrorism,
if the media were to stress every day that another family were killed by a car accident caused by an idiot on drugs you will become much much more worried of begin killed by a car accident, more intolerant of drugged people and much insecure when on the road because suddenly a perfectly normal car could divert is course and hit you, because you could never know when someone on drugs is driving near you.
following the example, you are completely impotent about begin killed by drugged idiot on car, you could only begin paranoid every time you drive and cry for more restrictive legislation versus drugs because some stoned could be so stupid to drive and kill you...
see the analogy?
it's the cry wolf of the media that make terrorism so impressive, in "western civilized" countries there have been only few terrorstic act that were more damaging that a serious car accident, the 9/11 the one or two bombing in england and the same in spain, the majorities of the others are relatively low damaging (always too much for the one involved relatives and friend for sure, but not differently by having your brother and his family wiped out by a car accident..)
i.e. the USA people always cried for the vietnam deaths, but a stats that i see many years ago tell that in the USA there were more death for car accident in a year that there were soldier death in vietnam.
the number of death it's only part of the problem, the media campaign is a lot to it, the majority of the death causes were something in which you have about no control,
cancer? maybe a lot of prevention and medical checkup would have helped curing it in time, if you had the money.
car accident? maybe more secure cars would have helped, and more attention to guide, but about the idiot in the other car? what could you have done?
stroke? the same as cancer, in the last 30-60 years much more way to limit the damage but no miracle solution that let you control your live entirely
criminal shootout? maybe wrong side of the city, but not much more that you could do to avoid it.
and so on for the 455 causes of death that placed before terrorism, little control on your side, still regrets of being so helpless, what sting of terrorism is that it is human created and unnecessary, if all humanity strived seriously to resolve the many problem of poverty and resource scarcity that helped the few real maniacs in finding tons of voluntaries for destructive suicide.
Thre problem with this position is that is only an artificial reproduction of a natural occurrence, natural insemination followed by a natural abortion, or more frequently a not spectacular uterine condition that impede the growt of a fetus.
that is what will happen when a couple with problem try the natural method.
it's only an accelerated way, that lost LESS embrions!
and that WILL BRING LIFE in the form of REAL babyes that will grow to adulthood instead of years of frustration for nothing!!!
Less expensive per gig
No they're not..
Based on Australian pricing:
WD 500 GB HDD: $128 (Or: $0.256 per GB)
50 x 4.5 GB DVDs: $16 (So, 225 GB, or $0.072) not here,
WD 500 GB HDD: 130 Euros
10 x 4.5 GB DVDs: 15 Euro
dvd cost 5 more times, if you want discout you must order them from foreign states or search rare electronic fair:(
the difference is that in your example only a few hundreds of chemistry students are interested in the program,
if it was the only chemistry program in the world ( equal to the only cd of a music author that interest millions of people in the world) then is only a question of time before someone cracked it and put it on the internet for free...
at that point only the fact that it is cheap and easily obtainable could guarantee that most of the students buy it instead of downloading it.
if the students felt the program is overpriced for their needs and it is more difficult to install and use than the pirated version cause of the DRM... then you will se the drop in sale!!!
consider we always talk of something unique and whit out competitors, as any music product is. there are similar work maybe, but it is none the less a monopoly.
with a service where you could simply re download the movie you have paid even after 10 years you are ok.
many e-book seller offer you the e-book at an acceptable price, with many (non DRMed) format available to better suit your preferences and uses and all that files are downloadable as many time you want, even after 5 year of the purchase.
if the same will be offered for music I'll immediately go to the buying.
immagine that you buy a song for, for example, 1$ than you download it in any format you want (mp3 high quality lossles format and more) if your new music player only support a new format you download the new format, if your HD crush you simply re download you entire collection of purchase!
here we do not have a church tax, but someting near.
the 8/1000 of the tax we pay may be donated to a church with the excuse of charity ( in italy mainly to the catholic church who use only 23% of those money for charity) or remain to the state alwais for charity purpouse.
it does not cost you nothing, BUT!!!
if you do not specify who you donate to your money is divided between the various churches and state based on the % of those who chose.
given that about 80% of the peolple do not choose, and that maybe the 90% of those who choose are chatolich, this mean that 90% of those money go to the chatolic church.
because for book autors it takes more time to have some return from theirs books (after all the long times for copyright were invented for them) wereas many music artist have already sold theyr rights to the majors befor the first CD is sold.
The Christians that make the news (as Christians) are usually the ones that are crazy psychotics trying to enforce their own morality on other people- The Jerry Fawells, Jack Thompsons, and Clinic bombers. The Christians who don't make idiotic statements, don't try to legislate morality, understand the history of their faith, are honest about the limitations of their knowledge, and continue being Christians have my respect.
unfortunately the Pope and all the major players of the christian church here in Italy are part of the first group and in the last 3/4 years are trying to return to stone age.
what is worst is that they not only speack as retarded, but actively try to steer the entire parliament in supportin their absurd thesis (where they have any and not a simple ramble about moral etc)
and all to force a teoretically independent state to not pass laws that allow CITIZEN (not believer) to do some things if they whant, they are not certainly laws that force christians to do immoral things!
It is easily resolved, made a good game, a real RPG (Role Playing Game) where the important is not level or stats but story, dialogs, peoples and choices.
something like Planetscape Torment
the best D&D like game I ever played!
yes you start es a looser (a level 3 warrior whith no memory at all of his past) but you are immortal...
and you coul easily avoid more than half the combats whith cunning and choices
a game where you get FAR FAR FAR more experience by talking that by fighting.
a game were you could pass an our lissening a conference on the battle of the infernal planes for the sake of it.
levels = battles end early, saved time for more interesting things:)
Based on historical data derived by many articles pubblished in baen univers (www.baen-univers.com) and some others by the same autor on http://www.baen.com/library/
IF I remember them well:
the copyright problem is older than the american costitution, it derives from an old english laws,
promoted by the book printer corporation (ex scribe corporation) to force other to cease the printing of books (to conserve their monopoly in spite of the new printing tecnology),
they introduced the "copyright" and buyed them from the authors (at a cheap price) than the law forced anyone else to cease printing those books, monopoly reestablised!
and that had many dire consequences, for example, if the corporation ceased the pubblication of a real good work and everyone is forced not to publish it an entire generation of people never had occasion to know it.
What company was the last company (not SCO) that sued end users for patent violations instead of or in addition to suing the company distributing the infringing product?
> We host over 600,000 domain names almost completely on open source software - Apache, ProFTPd, Qmail, MySQL.
Isn't that the point the OP was making? Instead of paying for software you are using OSS that you got for free. So instead of providing companies with revenue to hire programmers you're doing exactly what the OP said, reducing employment for IT workers.
apache is a diffused open source program, how many programmer were licensed or not assumed because of this? some that worked on IIS maybe but hundreds were assumed to make modification and personalization to it that maybe microsoft would not assume for the same modifications...
and the thousands and thousands of NOT FULL TIME PROGRAMMERS but still IT tecnicians that every day are paid to install, configure, personalize, optimize, and simply run and mantain the milion of sites that use apache were all sacked? or were they assumed??
1. Marijuana -- The State says what you can put into your body (doing no crime to no one else), probably funded by the big medical business
3. Cocaine -- See #1. No crime committed against anyone else. Now if you kill someone (when on drugs or off), I can agree that a crime is committed, but the intoxicant shouldn't matter. Sometimes that intoxicant is adrenaline.
4. Opion/Heroin -- See #1 (doing crime to no one else).
9. Amphetamines/Meth -- See #1 (doing crime to no one else).
11. Ecstasy -- See #1 (doing crime to no one else).
all this are not a problem per se, they are a problem because an abuse of any of this "vices" (many of them hard to whitdraw once hooked) lead waste on a live, and consequentially to the lives of others (family, friends, coworkers, etc..)
also cause the society many indirect costs:
- costly medical cures for the body and the brain.
- a citizen that consume but do nothing for the society itself.
- robbery (and murder) for sustain the costly vices.
- death by accidents provoked by altered state of consciusness.
to cite some of the mayor.
and, given that the state is theoretically here to make the good for the majority of the people (and not for the lonesome criminal) it must intervene, how is all to discuss.
Try explaining to anyone outside the Linux community that they can't install a particular program because the RPM they just downloaded wasn't created for their distro, kernel version, glib version and has dependencies on a dozen or so libraries that are either missing on their machine or are incompatible with the ones already installed
this phrase remind me of a time when I had to devire a frined's winXp from the blaster virus, and the patch that I previously downloaded at home does not install because it is the English version and not the Italian one!!! ant it is a patch for system level thing not the user interface for gods sake!!!!!
you could read the rationale of the publisher and many of his autors who offer free e-book to boost the selling of other e-book/books of the same author.
trying to summarize: to them downloading a book when you are young and have few money could be the same that havig one from the local library, if you like the autor then, in the future when the money for some book will be a no-problem you will buy a lot.
Hacking computers is not a "civil tort" circumstance. They make "an arrangement" with "the lawful authorities" to "take care of it"
here in italy we have a law against hacking a computer that commit a 8 year of prison! the same penance of raping!
does sony selled those cd here? it could be a good starting point for a penal cause.
I don't know if it's ever been "proved," in the sense of a large-scale study of the correlation between right-wing political beliefs and the belief in religion as the source of morality
I'm not saying that religion isn't a source of morality for some, but you said that right wingers insist you can't ave morality without religion. I have never seen anyone, right or left, proclaim that morality can not exist without religion. That's the proof I'm looking for.
you could wiew some italian news, you will find that some right wing politician (about second/third charge of the state) tell exactly this in conjunction whith the pope.
in america there is an huge bigotrism on the base, but sadly here in italy there is a STRONG church whit some ideas a little MEDIEVAL and a lot of brainwashed peoples who do not even admit the possibility that the state allow something that they (the church heads really) declare not good for a good christian.
ie no abortion could be allowed because a good christian do not only avoid it (at least on the daylight), but he work to avoid those murders, iven if it is done for safety of the mother and bot the (non christian) would be parents decide for it.
the problem is not the single case, but the continuous interference of the churd hierarchy in the state's affairs.
some resemblance to what appened here in italy, only these new politicians concentrated in legal inpunity, self enrichment and destroying of the state.
The Roman empire some two thousands year ago developed paved inter-nation roads,
they build one every time they go to war, so that the next time they have to punish a rebellious country they could return in a little fraction of the time.
Actually Martin Mystery is based on Italian comic. Martin Mystery in comic is around 35 year old
more 40/45 years at the start of the series, at least 50/55 now I think (after about 20 years of pubblication).
also known as "good old uncle martin"!
, in cartoon he is teenager, lets stop at this point.
yes better stop;-)
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COPYRIGHT MUST BE TO STIMULATE GOOD NEW WORK, NOT TO ENDLESSLY CELEBRATE PAST ONE.
copyright excuse is that it must promote the society advancement by encouraging good artist to produce more good works.
if an artist could not make enough good work paid enough to sustain himself it's unfortunate, maybe he is not good enough, not famous enough, the industry is not kind enough on him, or simply he is really not so much able to significantly improve humanity culture.
SO there are 2 possibilities:
- you make the industry pay him more (attention, the industry pay more the artist NOT the user pay more the industry)
- he simply is not good enough to sustain itself with his art so he must work like everyone else (at least part time) and make what it could during spare time.
it's unfortunate that maybe some good art piece could be missed, but the really good and driven artist had always worked even when starved and broke, if they were appreciated they somehow find a way to be paid, if they are not appreciated the future generation still has some of their pieces.
if a current artist that produce a single great hit is not paid enough to survive till his next hit (or is not really good enough to produce a next hit) there is no way that the society must pay him a lifetime pension!!!
REMEMBER: COPYRIGHT MUST BE TO STIMULATE GOOD NEW WORK, NOT TO ENDLESSLY CELEBRATE PAST ONE.
do not forget a linux rescue disk (floppy, CD or DVD) :)
it could transfer file, reset a bad disk and much more...
Dear game developer:
my respose could be inappropriate, because i do not know any of your game but maybe my VERI LONG essay could illuminate you.
i'm not a software pirate, not in the sense of creating cracks, but as everyone that i know some time i had used some made by other for various pourpouse:
- evaluation of commercial software for work before expending a lot of money on it
- evaluation of private software
- trying games (sometime quite current one, frequently abbandoware like).
- using pirated games until legit copy was easily buyable (in many case like abandonware, download only with hard drm and other, they will never became at disposal)
- using MY legittimately bought copy in a friendlyer way (lost activation code, no cd crack to use 10 games on my laptop whitout a ton of disk swapping and more).
on my experience anti pirating protection has about no good use and tipically irritate legit customer.
and about any software whort buying will be cracked sometime (earlier if is really interesting).
about any protection is an hindrance to the legit customer:
- better not start talking about the old method of inserting the magic word on page 32 line 4 of the manual! imagin games with a foreign translation of the manual! and the ability of any man to lose a manual in the first x years!
- long digital code to insert at install is a nuisance (and an huge problem if the code is lost!).
- various drm mean an inability to easily backup my game copy and so be prone to disk damage or loss!
- the requirement of a playing disk on the dvd reader is an HUGE hindrance! expecially on a laptop: i could not use my only reader for other thinks like background copy of data, music playing an so on; it make noise, consume power and produce heat; it consume the only copy of the game disk!; it's a nightmare of disk swapping if i whant to tour many games; it require having always many disk with me instead of installing all the data in the huge modern hard disk!; i can't install a game then use it an year later on a whim because i no more have the disk near; some more that at the moment doesn't surface.
- continuous internet connection is simply inacceptable! i'm not always on lyne. (i never play on lyne multiplayer games, i'm a bit old scool)
- on lyne registration is a nuisance (and an huge problem if the seller go out of business and the poor buyer could no more use his game!).
- linking a game sale to a specific pc hardware is madnes! i have more than one machine, and whant to be able to play it in any suitable one, not talking about reinstall of the OS for a newer version or hardware upgrade!
an example of what a not drm encumbered game could obtain (if it is good, but if you produce shit and expect people to gladly pay for it...):
- last year a friend of mine found news of a game (hearts of iron II) visited the site, liked what if showed and ordered it. in the weeks before it arrive it downloaded the iso from emule, tried it, became entusiast, showed to us, make a copy of it so that we could try it extensively, we became entusiast ourselves, make an huge order on-line, showed it to other friends, make them try it for themselves and they too bought it.
the result was 12+ copy selled in a week were an hugely drm encumbered one could maybe have been showed (but not throughly played) to much less friends many week later and resulted in less copy sold much later (myself for example had overcomed 2 fears in troughly trying it, that it work on linux under wine and that it wasn't too complex to play and enjoy).
the fact that the game is sold at a relatively low price (20-25 dollar at most) had obviously played his part, as is the ability to simply copy the data in the disk and the absence of a continuous disk access. a pair of people hardly played it but they buyed it because of the magnificent game and fair policy!!!
my ideal games distribution way:
- it was similar to the one used (and i fear now partly abandoned) by
if i remember well one of the possible derivation of the name were an acronim that means about "death to the francs indipendece whant" during one of the innumerable years of foreign dominance of that region of italy
that's exactly what terrorism do, spread terror.
relatively few death and lot of terror
the fact that you feel helpless is only because there are too much "information" about terrorism,
if the media were to stress every day that another family were killed by a car accident caused by an idiot on drugs you will become much much more worried of begin killed by a car accident, more intolerant of drugged people and much insecure when on the road because suddenly a perfectly normal car could divert is course and hit you, because you could never know when someone on drugs is driving near you.
following the example, you are completely impotent about begin killed by drugged idiot on car, you could only begin paranoid every time you drive and cry for more restrictive legislation versus drugs because some stoned could be so stupid to drive and kill you...
see the analogy?
it's the cry wolf of the media that make terrorism so impressive, in "western civilized" countries there have been only few terrorstic act that were more damaging that a serious car accident, the 9/11 the one or two bombing in england and the same in spain, the majorities of the others are relatively low damaging (always too much for the one involved relatives and friend for sure, but not differently by having your brother and his family wiped out by a car accident..)
i.e. the USA people always cried for the vietnam deaths, but a stats that i see many years ago tell that in the USA there were more death for car accident in a year that there were soldier death in vietnam.
the number of death it's only part of the problem, the media campaign is a lot to it, the majority of the death causes were something in which you have about no control,
cancer? maybe a lot of prevention and medical checkup would have helped curing it in time, if you had the money.
car accident? maybe more secure cars would have helped, and more attention to guide, but about the idiot in the other car? what could you have done?
stroke? the same as cancer, in the last 30-60 years much more way to limit the damage but no miracle solution that let you control your live entirely
criminal shootout? maybe wrong side of the city, but not much more that you could do to avoid it.
and so on for the 455 causes of death that placed before terrorism, little control on your side, still regrets of being so helpless, what sting of terrorism is that it is human created and unnecessary, if all humanity strived seriously to resolve the many problem of poverty and resource scarcity that helped the few real maniacs in finding tons of voluntaries for destructive suicide.
that is what will happen when a couple with problem try the natural method.
it's only an accelerated way, that lost LESS embrions!
and that WILL BRING LIFE in the form of REAL babyes that will grow to adulthood instead of years of frustration for nothing!!!
at that point only the fact that it is cheap and easily obtainable could guarantee that most of the students buy it instead of downloading it.
if the students felt the program is overpriced for their needs and it is more difficult to install and use than the pirated version cause of the DRM... then you will se the drop in sale!!!
consider we always talk of something unique and whit out competitors, as any music product is. there are similar work maybe, but it is none the less a monopoly.
Why do you need a warranty?
with a service where you could simply re download the movie you have paid even after 10 years you are ok.
many e-book seller offer you the e-book at an acceptable price, with many (non DRMed) format available to better suit your preferences and uses
and all that files are downloadable as many time you want, even after 5 year of the purchase.
if the same will be offered for music I'll immediately go to the buying.
immagine that you buy a song for, for example, 1$ than you download it in any format you want (mp3 high quality lossles format and more) if your new music player only support a new format you download the new format, if your HD crush you simply re download you entire collection of purchase!
here we do not have a church tax, but someting near.
the 8/1000 of the tax we pay may be donated to a church with the excuse of charity ( in italy mainly to the catholic church who use only 23% of those money for charity) or remain to the state alwais for charity purpouse.
it does not cost you nothing, BUT!!!
if you do not specify who you donate to your money is divided between the various churches and state based on the % of those who chose.
given that about 80% of the peolple do not choose, and that maybe the 90% of those who choose are chatolich, this mean that 90% of those money go to the chatolic church.
because for book autors it takes more time to have some return from theirs books (after all the long times for copyright were invented for them) wereas many music artist have already sold theyr rights to the majors befor the first CD is sold.
unfortunately the Pope and all the major players of the christian church here in Italy are part of the first group and in the last 3/4 years are trying to return to stone age.
what is worst is that they not only speack as retarded, but actively try to steer the entire parliament in supportin their absurd thesis (where they have any and not a simple ramble about moral etc)
and all to force a teoretically independent state to not pass laws that allow CITIZEN (not believer) to do some things if they whant, they are not certainly laws that force christians to do immoral things!
something like Planetscape Torment
the best D&D like game I ever played!
yes you start es a looser (a level 3 warrior whith no memory at all of his past) but you are immortal...
and you coul easily avoid more than half the combats whith cunning and choices
a game where you get FAR FAR FAR more experience by talking that by fighting. a game were you could pass an our lissening a conference on the battle of the infernal planes for the sake of it.
levels = battles end early, saved time for more interesting things :)
IF I remember them well: the copyright problem is older than the american costitution, it derives from an old english laws,
promoted by the book printer corporation (ex scribe corporation) to force other to cease the printing of books (to conserve their monopoly in spite of the new printing tecnology),
they introduced the "copyright" and buyed them from the authors (at a cheap price) than the law forced anyone else to cease printing those books, monopoly reestablised!
and that had many dire consequences, for example, if the corporation ceased the pubblication of a real good work and everyone is forced not to publish it an entire generation of people never had occasion to know it.
> We host over 600,000 domain names almost completely on open source software - Apache, ProFTPd, Qmail, MySQL. Isn't that the point the OP was making? Instead of paying for software you are using OSS that you got for free. So instead of providing companies with revenue to hire programmers you're doing exactly what the OP said, reducing employment for IT workers. apache is a diffused open source program, how many programmer were licensed or not assumed because of this? some that worked on IIS maybe but hundreds were assumed to make modification and personalization to it that maybe microsoft would not assume for the same modifications... and the thousands and thousands of NOT FULL TIME PROGRAMMERS but still IT tecnicians that every day are paid to install, configure, personalize, optimize, and simply run and mantain the milion of sites that use apache were all sacked? or were they assumed??
3. Cocaine -- See #1. No crime committed against anyone else. Now if you kill someone (when on drugs or off), I can agree that a crime is committed, but the intoxicant shouldn't matter. Sometimes that intoxicant is adrenaline.
4. Opion/Heroin -- See #1 (doing crime to no one else).
9. Amphetamines/Meth -- See #1 (doing crime to no one else).
11. Ecstasy -- See #1 (doing crime to no one else).
all this are not a problem per se, they are a problem because an abuse of any of this "vices" (many of them hard to whitdraw once hooked) lead waste on a live, and consequentially to the lives of others (family, friends, coworkers, etc..)
also cause the society many indirect costs:
- costly medical cures for the body and the brain.
- a citizen that consume but do nothing for the society itself.
- robbery (and murder) for sustain the costly vices.
- death by accidents provoked by altered state of consciusness.
to cite some of the mayor.
and, given that the state is theoretically here to make the good for the majority of the people (and not for the lonesome criminal) it must intervene, how is all to discuss.
for a company that abor DRM you could try www.baen.com for FS e-books no drm, 7-8 various format and you could re download the books even after years.
this phrase remind me of a time when I had to devire a frined's winXp from the blaster virus, and the patch that I previously downloaded at home does not install because it is the English version and not the Italian one!!! ant it is a patch for system level thing not the user interface for gods sake!!!!!
that I cannot explain!
a good article is at http://www.baen.com/library/
you could read the rationale of the publisher and many of his autors who offer free e-book to boost the selling of other e-book/books of the same author.
trying to summarize: to them downloading a book when you are young and have few money could be the same that havig one from the local library, if you like the autor then, in the future when the money for some book will be a no-problem you will buy a lot.
Hacking computers is not a "civil tort" circumstance. They make "an arrangement" with "the lawful authorities" to "take care of it" here in italy we have a law against hacking a computer that commit a 8 year of prison! the same penance of raping! does sony selled those cd here? it could be a good starting point for a penal cause.
I don't know if it's ever been "proved," in the sense of a large-scale study of the correlation between right-wing political beliefs and the belief in religion as the source of morality I'm not saying that religion isn't a source of morality for some, but you said that right wingers insist you can't ave morality without religion. I have never seen anyone, right or left, proclaim that morality can not exist without religion. That's the proof I'm looking for. you could wiew some italian news, you will find that some right wing politician (about second/third charge of the state) tell exactly this in conjunction whith the pope. in america there is an huge bigotrism on the base, but sadly here in italy there is a STRONG church whit some ideas a little MEDIEVAL and a lot of brainwashed peoples who do not even admit the possibility that the state allow something that they (the church heads really) declare not good for a good christian. ie no abortion could be allowed because a good christian do not only avoid it (at least on the daylight), but he work to avoid those murders, iven if it is done for safety of the mother and bot the (non christian) would be parents decide for it. the problem is not the single case, but the continuous interference of the churd hierarchy in the state's affairs.
some resemblance to what appened here in italy, only these new politicians concentrated in legal inpunity, self enrichment and destroying of the state.
The Roman empire some two thousands year ago developed paved inter-nation roads, they build one every time they go to war, so that the next time they have to punish a rebellious country they could return in a little fraction of the time.
Actually Martin Mystery is based on Italian comic. Martin Mystery in comic is around 35 year old more 40/45 years at the start of the series, at least 50/55 now I think (after about 20 years of pubblication). also known as "good old uncle martin"! , in cartoon he is teenager, lets stop at this point. yes better stop ;-)