I may be misinterepereting things, but my impression was that the problem was one of guilt rather than one of legality. The laws are different, but does that change the morality of the issue?
The LinSpot software is a free download that configures automatically upon installation and features end-to-end encryption, automatic self-updates, and the ability to accept PayPal as well as all major credit cards.
Call me paranoid, but I don't like the sound of that bit about updates.
I never said it's okay to pirate whatever you want, I was simply pointing out that the parent's comparison of pirating Windows to breaking the GPL was rather skewed. There are instances where I think it's okay to pirate stuff, and there are instances where I think it's not, but that isn't the point I was making.
That's not really the same thing though. By pirating Windows, you're simply choosing not to support MS. On the other hand, using GPL'd code in a commercial, closed source product involves making money off of other people's work. If you made copies of Windows on CDRs and sold those out on the street, that would be a bit more comparable to breaking the GPL.
Obviously, the final release or even the beta releases will not consume this much of the system resources.
You don't think Microsoft can figure out 10 more things to implement in the next 2 years to consume any ram they happen to free up through optimization?
You know, that's really funny that you should say that. I used to think the exact same thing, but what changed my mind was Final Fantasy III.
I'll try not to give too much away, but near the end, the villian has become immortal, and he's asking the heroes "Why do you bother? Sooner or later you'll just die and nothing you've done will matter!". The answer they give is that what matters is not the end result, but rather the journey. You can't pin a purpose to life because life is a purpose unto itself.
Yeah, and if being lonely makes you want to use the internet, will it in fact make you feel better? I would think it's possible that extensive internet usage will make you feel worse in the long run.
So... if we want people to not be isolated... we need to gouge out their eyes?
Even IF we had a good reason to believe that books and computers caused isolation and lonliness, there are an awful lot of better ways to get people to stop using books and computers than "gouging out their eyes", aren't there? Is there something I'm missing here?
This is slightly off-topic, but could someone please enlighten me as to what's wrong with so-called "karma whoring"? I'm sure I must be missing something here, but as far as I can figure out, a Karma Whore is someone who posts helpful, informative comments. Why should they be modded down for that?
I'm pretty sure that in every iTunes sale, Apple keeps something around thirty cents and passes the rest to the label. The thing that can vary is the amount of money that's passed through the label and on to the artist.
With the major labels for instance, the artist might get something like ten cents per song sold. On the other end of the spectrum, an artist selling their music through CDBaby gets something around 60 cents per song sold.
That's what I originally suspected myself, but I later found that it's not true. If you pull the song back off of the iPod after the transfer, it's still encrypted.
How do you know that the Dell DJ has a longer battery life? Nobody has said anything at all about the new iPod's battery life, and I see no reason to assume that it's going to be the same as current iPods.
I believe people have already cracked the Windows Media format. I don't remember where I saw that though, so I could be wrong.
Regardless, keep in mind that the iTMS has more marketshare than every other online music store put together. Maybe he could have cracked Windows Media, but he decided to attack the iTunes DRM instead simply because it would have a greater impact.
If you get in touch with Apple tech support, inform them of your plight, and politely ask them to let you redownload the songs, they will authorize your account to download new copies of the song files.
You do have an excellent point, and I realize now that my original post sounded a bit too cocky. In my original post, I basically said that people shouldn't be worried, and that was a stupid thing to say.
However, this case is unlike the DMCA in one important way. In the case of the DMCA, it basically helps most companies and hurts most consumers. In the case of Linux-locked hardware though, it doesn't just hurt consumers, it also hurts every company that sells Linux, and every company/organization/government that uses Linux.
Well it's not like the Linux community is completely helpless in the legal department.
If MS did try and bully hardware manufacturers into altering hardware to lock out Open Source systems, I would think that Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake, etc. would all be after them with lawsuits, and if MS tried to get a law passed requiring DRM in the hardware or whatever, I'm guessing there would be at least several thousand letters sent to politicians from Angry Linux Users protesting such a law. And then there are all those companies that use Open Source Software who'd be pissed off if they were forced to switch to MS software just 'cause MS said so. Not to mention the fact that the government itself is starting to switch to Linux.
Seriously folks, we're not just gonna wake up one day and find that all our favorite OS's have been outlawed.
If I recall correctly, there actually was a company a while back that tried to sell a G4 upgrade card called the G-Spot. I don't remember any details though, except that it failed miserably.
If people start using this extensively, and the DNS servers start getting clogged up by this, we'll just have to come up with a way to send DNS information over BitTorrent! That way, everything will balance out, right?
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Nah, I doubt it. I remember seeing a sig somewhere once that said "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity" ;-)
That's not true. Authorization is on a per-machine basis. Once you authorize a machine, it's authorized for every user on that machine.
Pigeons are actually surprisingly fast birds, and have been know to fly at speeds exceeding 60 MPH.
But doesn't Debian have MP3 support?
I may be misinterepereting things, but my impression was that the problem was one of guilt rather than one of legality. The laws are different, but does that change the morality of the issue?
The LinSpot software is a free download that configures automatically upon installation and features end-to-end encryption, automatic self-updates, and the ability to accept PayPal as well as all major credit cards.
Call me paranoid, but I don't like the sound of that bit about updates.
I never said it's okay to pirate whatever you want, I was simply pointing out that the parent's comparison of pirating Windows to breaking the GPL was rather skewed. There are instances where I think it's okay to pirate stuff, and there are instances where I think it's not, but that isn't the point I was making.
That's not really the same thing though. By pirating Windows, you're simply choosing not to support MS. On the other hand, using GPL'd code in a commercial, closed source product involves making money off of other people's work. If you made copies of Windows on CDRs and sold those out on the street, that would be a bit more comparable to breaking the GPL.
You don't think Microsoft can figure out 10 more things to implement in the next 2 years to consume any ram they happen to free up through optimization?
I think the original poster was being sarcastic ;)
I'll try not to give too much away, but near the end, the villian has become immortal, and he's asking the heroes "Why do you bother? Sooner or later you'll just die and nothing you've done will matter!". The answer they give is that what matters is not the end result, but rather the journey. You can't pin a purpose to life because life is a purpose unto itself.
Yeah, and if being lonely makes you want to use the internet, will it in fact make you feel better? I would think it's possible that extensive internet usage will make you feel worse in the long run.
Even IF we had a good reason to believe that books and computers caused isolation and lonliness, there are an awful lot of better ways to get people to stop using books and computers than "gouging out their eyes", aren't there? Is there something I'm missing here?
This is slightly off-topic, but could someone please enlighten me as to what's wrong with so-called "karma whoring"? I'm sure I must be missing something here, but as far as I can figure out, a Karma Whore is someone who posts helpful, informative comments. Why should they be modded down for that?
With the major labels for instance, the artist might get something like ten cents per song sold. On the other end of the spectrum, an artist selling their music through CDBaby gets something around 60 cents per song sold.
That's what I originally suspected myself, but I later found that it's not true. If you pull the song back off of the iPod after the transfer, it's still encrypted.
Sorry, my mistake. I missed that.
How do you know that the Dell DJ has a longer battery life? Nobody has said anything at all about the new iPod's battery life, and I see no reason to assume that it's going to be the same as current iPods.
Regardless, keep in mind that the iTMS has more marketshare than every other online music store put together. Maybe he could have cracked Windows Media, but he decided to attack the iTunes DRM instead simply because it would have a greater impact.
If you get in touch with Apple tech support, inform them of your plight, and politely ask them to let you redownload the songs, they will authorize your account to download new copies of the song files.
However, this case is unlike the DMCA in one important way. In the case of the DMCA, it basically helps most companies and hurts most consumers. In the case of Linux-locked hardware though, it doesn't just hurt consumers, it also hurts every company that sells Linux, and every company/organization/government that uses Linux.
If MS did try and bully hardware manufacturers into altering hardware to lock out Open Source systems, I would think that Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake, etc. would all be after them with lawsuits, and if MS tried to get a law passed requiring DRM in the hardware or whatever, I'm guessing there would be at least several thousand letters sent to politicians from Angry Linux Users protesting such a law. And then there are all those companies that use Open Source Software who'd be pissed off if they were forced to switch to MS software just 'cause MS said so. Not to mention the fact that the government itself is starting to switch to Linux.
Seriously folks, we're not just gonna wake up one day and find that all our favorite OS's have been outlawed.
If I recall correctly, there actually was a company a while back that tried to sell a G4 upgrade card called the G-Spot. I don't remember any details though, except that it failed miserably.
Are you sure he meant Coke as in the drink? ;-) Who knows what Steve's life was like before Apple...
But kinda cool in a really bizarre sorta way...
And it tastes good...
I wonder if it's possible to get high on lip balm...
If people start using this extensively, and the DNS servers start getting clogged up by this, we'll just have to come up with a way to send DNS information over BitTorrent! That way, everything will balance out, right?