Slight correction: The whole of the article including first paragraph and headline is still under copyright protection and not public domain, but it may be used by others as part of fair use. (quoting in general is considered fair use)
Something else that gets lost in translation of "Leistungsschutzrecht", is that we're nottalking aboiut the authors rights, as the news and newspapers sites usually aren't the authors. What comes closest to the proposed law is the "sweat of the brow" construct, as we're talking about compiling and providing samples from pages that usually contain compilitions of texts themselves.
Why should they vote in favour? The result would be those big companys paying their taxes in the US or Cayman Islands - not much to win for those 25. They'd rather had to stand in for the additional debts Ireland has to make to compensate for that "little" money Google left there as tax...
money is only half of what those publishers want. The other half is forcing Google to list their pages using anti-trust laws. That may be possible as Google is big enough to be a de-facto monopoly (that's ok under EU law as it was achieved without unfair means. It's using that position to activly suppress competition that not allowed. De-listing other sites may be seen as such an unfair attack, as it is not far fetched to see Google News as a direct competitor to other news sites as newspapers)
Because one can safely assume that being listed in Googles index is what website operaters want. The existance of all those black- white- grey- and donkey-hat SEOs supports that assumption.
But I partly agree, if someone would re-invent the internet and write specifications from scratch, opt-in should be the norm. But once again. THAT's NOT THE POINT here!
Google offered those publishers who are pushing for that law, to ignore their pages, so they wouldn't even have to opt-out, but the following outcry "Google threatens to unlist us!!!!" was even louder than the former one "Google indexes our pages without paying compensation"
This is NOT about indexing or being found by google news. Everybody wants to be indexed by Google!
This time it's the news publishers who want to squeeze money from google, not an entity that would profit if that money dripped out as tax money.
In related news: banning those tricks isn't possible. They will stay possible as long as long as the involved countries profit from that too. With those tricks in place, those companies lieave little tax money in Ireland and the Netherlands. Without that, they would pay big tax money to some other country and none at all to Ireland and Netherlands.
So there is no incentive to change those policies.
Google removes those sites from their results, removed page sues because of anti-trust unfair competition.
It's not about beeing indexed or not. it's about getting money from Google cause Google has money. And with all that money lying around, there has to be a way to get some of it.
Blue ray requires specific components be installed in order to play blue ray movies
They would not be "required" in a was that they are neccessarry to decode and display a BR movie, but the BR players insist on havin those components available b4 playing anything, if there is no actual requirement why they would be needed to watch a blueray movie,
I gather from Wikipedia that a smartphone is defined as a PDA with cellular voice, SMS, and Internet access. This means any mobile phone that does at least everything that a Newton or Palm or Pocket PC PDA did is a smartphone.
While I don't trust definitions on Wikipedia, let's stick with that for the sake of the argument.
A feature phone is defined as more than voice and SMS but less than a smartphone
But what should that be? Even my second cellphone had an addressbook and a calendar integrated, and thus the full feature set of my PalmIII (that was definitly an PDA)
So a Smartphone is a PDA plus phone and a feature Phone is a Phone plus PDA?
For example, if third-party applications cannot access the Internet, it's a feature phone because it's less capable than a PDA. Often, U.S. carriers demand hooks in the operating system to downgrade a low-end smartphone to feature-phone capability.
Come on... installing apps and having those apps access the internet was par for said PalmIII 15 years ago..... I doubt that the ability of running apps and block internet access for those apps in return should earn a phony any title but "crap".
Well, Apple denies even running to any app not signed by apple
Your argument proofs that it is possible to build a useless dumbphone that runs on JavaME, but thats no contradiction to the argument that you might szill be able to build a usefull smartphone with it, and without Android or iOS
That still leaves open the question? what IS a smartphone? And what the &%&%& is a "featurephone" and what idiot came up with that word?
Why should said company do so instead of holding that contest over email? No money to pay to a useless service, even more potential users as they don#t need to sign up for instawhatever.
"First-mover-advantage" for sending photos would have been a valid point for email, but not for instagramm. That goes to show that we don't have a traditional market here. Somehow Instagram was successfull DESPITE not offering any added value.
Linkedin DOES make money from your account. Not your money, but the money of headhunters looking for job candidates. And they couldn't do that without user profiles, in use or not.
Saw someone using the oven method once. (actually it was a hair dryer, but whatever...)
The indication for that method is a drive that worked without problems for a very long time (and without any funny sounds!) but refuses to power up again after a shutdown. The lubrication became too hard during cool down(*) to start it up again. Heating took care of that.
(*) Due to letting a desktop drive running nonstop in a server-like environment. But then, it was an experimental setting with no important data on it.
Sorry, but nowadays most of the money is not in actual markets but in derivatives. And buying or selling does not give you any ownership in some actual value (including stocks) and has no effect on the actual value. Like in your casino.
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Courts aren't stupid... They would still recognize that as an equally unfair action against competitors.
Slight correction: The whole of the article including first paragraph and headline is still under copyright protection and not public domain, but it may be used by others as part of fair use. (quoting in general is considered fair use)
Something else that gets lost in translation of "Leistungsschutzrecht", is that we're nottalking aboiut the authors rights, as the news and newspapers sites usually aren't the authors. What comes closest to the proposed law is the "sweat of the brow" construct, as we're talking about compiling and providing samples from pages that usually contain compilitions of texts themselves.
Why should they vote in favour? The result would be those big companys paying their taxes in the US or Cayman Islands - not much to win for those 25. They'd rather had to stand in for the additional debts Ireland has to make to compensate for that "little" money Google left there as tax...
money is only half of what those publishers want. The other half is forcing Google to list their pages using anti-trust laws. That may be possible as Google is big enough to be a de-facto monopoly (that's ok under EU law as it was achieved without unfair means. It's using that position to activly suppress competition that not allowed. De-listing other sites may be seen as such an unfair attack, as it is not far fetched to see Google News as a direct competitor to other news sites as newspapers)
Because one can safely assume that being listed in Googles index is what website operaters want. The existance of all those black- white- grey- and donkey-hat SEOs supports that assumption.
But I partly agree, if someone would re-invent the internet and write specifications from scratch, opt-in should be the norm. But once again. THAT's NOT THE POINT here!
Google offered those publishers who are pushing for that law, to ignore their pages, so they wouldn't even have to opt-out, but the following outcry "Google threatens to unlist us!!!!" was even louder than the former one "Google indexes our pages without paying compensation"
This is NOT about indexing or being found by google news. Everybody wants to be indexed by Google!
They simply want money!
This time it's the news publishers who want to squeeze money from google, not an entity that would profit if that money dripped out as tax money.
In related news: banning those tricks isn't possible. They will stay possible as long as long as the involved countries profit from that too. With those tricks in place, those companies lieave little tax money in Ireland and the Netherlands. Without that, they would pay big tax money to some other country and none at all to Ireland and Netherlands.
So there is no incentive to change those policies.
Google removes those sites from their results, removed page sues because of anti-trust unfair competition.
It's not about beeing indexed or not. it's about getting money from Google cause Google has money. And with all that money lying around, there has to be a way to get some of it.
Unless Google are force to index them and also forced to pay, but that would in essence be a tax against a single company.
Yep, that's what they want.
If those sites just wanted Google to stop indexind their pages, a robots.txt would be enough.
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Blue ray requires specific components be installed in order to play blue ray movies
They would not be "required" in a was that they are neccessarry to decode and display a BR movie, but the BR players insist on havin those components available b4 playing anything, if there is no actual requirement why they would be needed to watch a blueray movie,
I gather from Wikipedia that a smartphone is defined as a PDA with cellular voice, SMS, and Internet access. This means any mobile phone that does at least everything that a Newton or Palm or Pocket PC PDA did is a smartphone.
While I don't trust definitions on Wikipedia, let's stick with that for the sake of the argument.
A feature phone is defined as more than voice and SMS but less than a smartphone
But what should that be? Even my second cellphone had an addressbook and a calendar integrated, and thus the full feature set of my PalmIII (that was definitly an PDA)
So a Smartphone is a PDA plus phone and a feature Phone is a Phone plus PDA?
For example, if third-party applications cannot access the Internet, it's a feature phone because it's less capable than a PDA. Often, U.S. carriers demand hooks in the operating system to downgrade a low-end smartphone to feature-phone capability.
Come on... installing apps and having those apps access the internet was par for said PalmIII 15 years ago..... I doubt that the ability of running apps and block internet access for those apps in return should earn a phony any title but "crap".
What a waste of bandwidth!
A sad day for the clever minds who invented multicast so you don't need to care about 700Gb/s
Well, Apple denies even running to any app not signed by apple
Your argument proofs that it is possible to build a useless dumbphone that runs on JavaME, but thats no contradiction to the argument that you might szill be able to build a usefull smartphone with it, and without Android or iOS
That still leaves open the question? what IS a smartphone? And what the &%&%& is a "featurephone" and what idiot came up with that word?
What makes the phone itself dumber, actually.
iPhone: Apps strictly gates by Apple
javaME: I can install any ME app I can find...
try again.
And now say with a straight face that apps on android and iPhone aren't running sandboxed.
posting to some app or site that you have to signup for.... like instagram for example?!?!
compared to email that's already on my phone?
Why should said company do so instead of holding that contest over email? No money to pay to a useless service, even more potential users as they don#t need to sign up for instawhatever.
"First-mover-advantage" for sending photos would have been a valid point for email, but not for instagramm. That goes to show that we don't have a traditional market here. Somehow Instagram was successfull DESPITE not offering any added value.
Linkedin DOES make money from your account. Not your money, but the money of headhunters looking for job candidates. And they couldn't do that without user profiles, in use or not.
It's hard to monetize 80 million users of a service that doesn't do more than any other free picture posting site out there.
I bet if someone tries to charge for that, sending photos by email will become popular again.
Saw someone using the oven method once. (actually it was a hair dryer, but whatever...)
The indication for that method is a drive that worked without problems for a very long time (and without any funny sounds!) but refuses to power up again after a shutdown. The lubrication became too hard during cool down(*) to start it up again. Heating took care of that.
(*) Due to letting a desktop drive running nonstop in a server-like environment. But then, it was an experimental setting with no important data on it.
Sorry, but nowadays most of the money is not in actual markets but in derivatives. And buying or selling does not give you any ownership in some actual value (including stocks) and has no effect on the actual value. Like in your casino.
My car is a spanish brand with german engine, assambled in Spain, bought in germany. And I bet it has a great deal of Czech parts in it too.
My guess ist that Windows simply ignored it, so there never was a 61st second in a minute.
Beeing correct, on the other hand, might come as a surprise to more than one pieces of software.
Then most likely one of those fingers were broken in the one I had...