Best Buy wouldn't let us return an UNOPENED video camera for one that was 250 dollars more. Why? Because of a 15-day return policy on it. They also got huffy and said that the return policy was extended to 15 days after christmas. Problem was, we had a very late christmas out of state, and just returned.
Seems pretty illogical when we wanted to buy a more expensive one.
Planting both feet at the head of the line in the exchange aisle, and refusing to move, talking our way up the manager list is what it took for us to spend more money.
One might think, "Why spend your money there", but what I really was doing was cashing in on about $250 worth of gift cards, which I had been asking for the last 2 years worth of b-day and x'mas's.
Best Buy is very expensive now. No good deals. Customer service sucks. We no longer shop there. I don't miss it at all, because there's really no great gadgets to shop for in there. CompUSA has more gadgetry, you can get high end stuff at newegg, and there are better deals at target/shopko/walmart.
So you buy this DVD, and you're actually renting it? Sounds a lot like the old DIVX. Which, by the way, proves my point that it no longer exists. Imagine having bought all those DIVX discs, and are now taking up room at the land fill.
There HAVE been a lot of posts in this thread about how "stupid the sheep" are. This was not intended as such, bad wording on my part. People do not know what Digital Rights Media is. Have never heard of it. Might never hear of it. It doesn't make them any lesser of an individual.
There should be an arc when the MPAA coral him into their bidding. Since he's indiscriminate, they have to try and shield him from other crimes going on in the area, and continually point him in the direction of downloaders.
It's all foiled by issue #25, when the Indiscriminator finds the executives price fixing and lobbying senators illegally. Things get a bit crazy in the D.C. issue, taking him straight to the White House!
Why bother? DOn't you know from the anti-piracy ads at the theaters, that the hard working stiffs like YOU are the ones that get hit hardest by piracy.
As a screen writer, you're not going to get diddly squat, because some/.er downloaded your first film. There just isn't enough money to go around anymore.
Sounds good and all, but it really hasn't helped much against the music industry. As long as most consumers use shelftop DVD players, I don't think they'll be complaining. Or voting for their wallets. Or even know how to spell DRM
Having to deal with customers all over the nation, I have to admit that that is the same exact excuse I came up with to explain the idiots from California.
I'm sure some/.er from CA will be outraged at this stereotype, but hey, whenever some idiot driver almost crashes into me, it's almost always an Asian chick. Some stereotypes are just true!
The part I don't understand (and I did read the article) is what the point is of only 5 days? Does it take 6 days to become a pirate? 7 days to rule the internet? I don't really understand.
The best I can come up with is it will force the consumer to continue to upgrade the software required, which of course, some day will not exist. Anything online will not last. What happens when the movie company merges again (obviously it will). Will the they bother to keep up to date on all these little things?
I used to have this mindset. Well, I still do. But at the moment, I've gotten to the point where it's really starting to be a pain in the ass as a ligitimate consumer. The FBI warnings are twice as long now. I'm getting annoying warning messages when I pop a DVD in my computer to watch. I'm at the point where I've found it more enjoyable to have DIVX versions on my hard drive.
I don't necessarily believe you work for a MMORG, however, what you said about the log is very likely, so it doesn't much matter.
However, why even do that? Do you seriously encrypt any key commands from the client to the server? I doubt it. So why would an agency even need a back door in? When wiretapping someone's connection to their IP, they should be able to filter out the exact conversation going on!
LOL. I'm not going to argue with you, because I'm a Delphi fan as well. But I think the reason we're not 'good at remembering every little syntax detail' is because of the nuances of Pascal that you'll only find in pascal. It's a bitch to program all night at home in Delphi, and come back in to work and ask your cube neighbor what the syntax to an 'IF statement' is in Java.:)
And on top of that, even if somehow weird dimension where you live where that might even be true, Civil Lawsuits require you to to prove your innocence. You would still have to go to court, pay out the nose, to prove you innocence. And based on some crap you heard on the internet. Which isn't true, btw.
I've always found the levies interesting. I know we have them in america, but they're so tiny no one complains. Canadian levies are crazy! And when they started looking at hard drives... holy cow.
In a similar topic, can you imagine going to college, and finding in your tuition a $90 fee to pay for the "free Napster" that the schools were suckered in to? Not only that, but most people have iPods, and would rather go with iTunes.
What bugs me the most about these costs: levies, ASCAP, lawsuits, etc, is that NONE of it is tagged for the artists. ALL of this is only for the corporation.
I mean sure, theoretically if the music industry has a banner year, they'll trickle down the money to the artists with big bonuses... Yea, I think not.
"and the fact that you are using this cumbersome "deniable" system will make you look pretty bad. But they can't prove anything."
But this brings you back to square one... which is where you could have just refused to give the key in the first place...making you look bad. But they can't prove a thing.
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It comes with both. The WMV is simply an "extra" feature. I also remember this as old news, but did not remember about the 5-day license.
Seems pretty illogical when we wanted to buy a more expensive one.
Planting both feet at the head of the line in the exchange aisle, and refusing to move, talking our way up the manager list is what it took for us to spend more money.
One might think, "Why spend your money there", but what I really was doing was cashing in on about $250 worth of gift cards, which I had been asking for the last 2 years worth of b-day and x'mas's.
Best Buy is very expensive now. No good deals. Customer service sucks. We no longer shop there. I don't miss it at all, because there's really no great gadgets to shop for in there. CompUSA has more gadgetry, you can get high end stuff at newegg, and there are better deals at target/shopko/walmart.
It's a shame you sucked all the lead paint off your crib when you were born. That was the worst case I've ever seen anyone make.
So you buy this DVD, and you're actually renting it? Sounds a lot like the old DIVX. Which, by the way, proves my point that it no longer exists. Imagine having bought all those DIVX discs, and are now taking up room at the land fill.
There HAVE been a lot of posts in this thread about how "stupid the sheep" are. This was not intended as such, bad wording on my part. People do not know what Digital Rights Media is. Have never heard of it. Might never hear of it. It doesn't make them any lesser of an individual.
It's all foiled by issue #25, when the Indiscriminator finds the executives price fixing and lobbying senators illegally. Things get a bit crazy in the D.C. issue, taking him straight to the White House!
As a screen writer, you're not going to get diddly squat, because some /.er downloaded your first film. There just isn't enough money to go around anymore.
Sounds good and all, but it really hasn't helped much against the music industry. As long as most consumers use shelftop DVD players, I don't think they'll be complaining. Or voting for their wallets. Or even know how to spell DRM
I'm sure some /.er from CA will be outraged at this stereotype, but hey, whenever some idiot driver almost crashes into me, it's almost always an Asian chick. Some stereotypes are just true!
The best I can come up with is it will force the consumer to continue to upgrade the software required, which of course, some day will not exist. Anything online will not last. What happens when the movie company merges again (obviously it will). Will the they bother to keep up to date on all these little things?
I used to have this mindset. Well, I still do. But at the moment, I've gotten to the point where it's really starting to be a pain in the ass as a ligitimate consumer. The FBI warnings are twice as long now. I'm getting annoying warning messages when I pop a DVD in my computer to watch. I'm at the point where I've found it more enjoyable to have DIVX versions on my hard drive.
And that's the moment when danheskett and taustin figured out they were friends in RL. "Dude, you're on /.!"
Riiiiight... right after books are dead.
Not according to alt.binaries.svcd
I see the quote often when people bitch about Valenti's Boston Strangler quote about VHS.
So you can play for 5 minutes, and then get punted offline to spend the next 10 minutes making another one time pad?
However, why even do that? Do you seriously encrypt any key commands from the client to the server? I doubt it. So why would an agency even need a back door in? When wiretapping someone's connection to their IP, they should be able to filter out the exact conversation going on!
LOL. I'm not going to argue with you, because I'm a Delphi fan as well. But I think the reason we're not 'good at remembering every little syntax detail' is because of the nuances of Pascal that you'll only find in pascal. It's a bitch to program all night at home in Delphi, and come back in to work and ask your cube neighbor what the syntax to an 'IF statement' is in Java. :)
And then.... Google.... goes.... public.
it's never been easier for everyone, !!EVARYONE!!, to publish.
Googlezon!
Googlezilla!
And on top of that, even if somehow weird dimension where you live where that might even be true, Civil Lawsuits require you to to prove your innocence. You would still have to go to court, pay out the nose, to prove you innocence. And based on some crap you heard on the internet. Which isn't true, btw.
All members of Moveon.Org please report to Guantanemo Bay!
In a similar topic, can you imagine going to college, and finding in your tuition a $90 fee to pay for the "free Napster" that the schools were suckered in to? Not only that, but most people have iPods, and would rather go with iTunes.
I mean sure, theoretically if the music industry has a banner year, they'll trickle down the money to the artists with big bonuses... Yea, I think not.
It's bad enough that we take food out of the starving artists in America, now we're doing it to Canadians. Just in time for a cold, cold winter.
But this brings you back to square one... which is where you could have just refused to give the key in the first place...making you look bad. But they can't prove a thing.