I think you are spot on. We often empathize with other species without any real idea of how they perceive the world. I'm reminded of the phenomenon of 'blindsight' where a sufferer perceives no visual stimuli yet can still react to it. One study indicated that the brains of sufferers had activated a secondary visual pathway where visual information is still processed, but an image is never perceived. This pathway was found to be similar to the visual pathway of pigeons (probably other birds as well) which would suggest that they may walk around, reacting to things in their environments, but may not actually 'see' anything.
I agree with your first statement and your last, but your second is completely wrong. DRM primarily targets casual copying. Large criminal operations with access to million dollar duplication equipment is a whole other ball game and aren't affected by consumer grade DRM. But I agree that simply owning the equipment does not constitute a crime of any kind.
More news from the SCO front: Recent revelations that SCO copyrights did not extend to the NUMA, SMP and RCU code in Linux has lead to a new copyright audit by SCO's legal team to investigate the copyright status of Synchronous Queue Utilization Auto Tracking code (SQUAT).
"It appears from our latest audit that we may not have aquired SQUAT when we purchased AT&T's System V code."
When asked how this would effect SCO's plan to license the Linux kernel, "We never really believed that SQUAT had been copied from the UnixWare source code into Linux, so the fact that we don't own SQUAT has little bearing on our plans to sell Linux kernel licensing"
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Goddammit, for the last time, Al Gore did NOT invent the Internet, he invented Global Warming.
I think you are spot on. We often empathize with other species without any real idea of how they perceive the world. I'm reminded of the phenomenon of 'blindsight' where a sufferer perceives no visual stimuli yet can still react to it. One study indicated that the brains of sufferers had activated a secondary visual pathway where visual information is still processed, but an image is never perceived. This pathway was found to be similar to the visual pathway of pigeons (probably other birds as well) which would suggest that they may walk around, reacting to things in their environments, but may not actually 'see' anything.
And congratulations to Sony! Now the Blu-ray format should become much more attractive and take off with consumers.
I agree with your first statement and your last, but your second is completely wrong. DRM primarily targets casual copying. Large criminal operations with access to million dollar duplication equipment is a whole other ball game and aren't affected by consumer grade DRM. But I agree that simply owning the equipment does not constitute a crime of any kind.
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More news from the SCO front: Recent revelations that SCO copyrights did not extend to the NUMA, SMP and RCU code in Linux has lead to a new copyright audit by SCO's legal team to investigate the copyright status of Synchronous Queue Utilization Auto Tracking code (SQUAT).
"It appears from our latest audit that we may not have aquired SQUAT when we purchased AT&T's System V code."
When asked how this would effect SCO's plan to license the Linux kernel, "We never really believed that SQUAT had been copied from the UnixWare source code into Linux, so the fact that we don't own SQUAT has little bearing on our plans to sell Linux kernel licensing"