And what has Government Science created? Nothing. * Finally after NASA wasted $billions, we get private space tourism. * Department of Energy never produced a single drop of oil.
Pay for it. Rosetta Stone cost thousands of dollars because quality costs money. A 'free' foreign language will waste far more money in lost opportunity cost. It is better that the child get a job, earn money, buy Rosetta Stone, and learn quickly instead of wasting time on some knee jerk free language that is not free with your time.
Stuff is free for a reason, it is poor quality junk. BitTorrent cannot guarantee integrity and authorship. Anybody can modify free content and re-upload it as trash and deception. Pity the children. Only paid content can guarantee quality. Nothing's free. * cough, Economics, cough *. Put that in your Education pipe and smoke it.
The only trusted uploader is the original owner-author-artist. The alleged trusted uploader would have to directly purchase all media from an authorized store. He is too cheap to buy it. Deal with it.
Have you ever bought a SONY gadget on the internet?? How do you know it was not fake, inferior junk, knockoff from China? You do not, not unless you buy the product from an original, authorized seller. Deal with it.
I used to download files, modify them, and upload them back up. Some of the music, books and video are un-original fraud because it it fun to dupe people. Deal with it.
There is no honor among thieves. There is no honor among pirates. You just cannot ever trust 'free'. Deal with it. LMAO!
Solving piracy is simple. Authors & owners just release junk copies of ebooks. Who will pirates complain to?? That is why collectivism fails, it has no integrity of content.
Piracy does not create infinite perfect copies. There are a lot of junk copies of media. Since ANYBODY can make a copy, pirate ebooks are corrupted. Where there is no integrity, there is no trust.
Junk copies of ebooks are released all the time. Pirates can never trust their copy is authentic. MD5 is useless. Books are made with altered versions, so the only person who knows the authentic version, is the owner / author or the honest buyer.
Piracy creates junk and wastes peoples time reading junk.
There is no free lunch. That line I read from an authentic book, so I know it is true. lol
If you read pirated ebooks, you cannot trust what is inside your head. Nothing is free.
Copyright is also confidential. It is limited access determined by the originator. Likewise Credit Card numbers are confidential.
Music songs and Credit Card numbers are both copyright protected. Credit Card numbers have legal force of law. Music should but does not.
Piracy has been around for 1000s of years. No problem, as long as worst offenders are controlled, such as, closing down music copy websites. The law is just taking time to catch up. When it does, the quality of music will be better instead of junk quality caused by current MP3 pirates.
Post child porn or bank account numbers online and let us see capitalism in action. Instead, piracy is a legal & economic issue, not a technical one. It is not a geek issue.
The quality of movies will rise again when Pirate websites are shut down and website owners are sued and lose their homes. Movie theaters should post Pirate's personal financial information for the whole world to see. It's an eye for an eye.
Why is a Movie corporation's product NOT protected but a Pirate's personal product, bank info, IS protected?? The legal side is just slowly catching up.
Why do Pirates have copyright protection but a large Movie corporation has no protection??
You refused to post your Credit Account number. You want copyright protection for YOUR data but not for OTHER people's data, articles or music. Hypocrite!
Pirates create junk media for the honest people. If you disagree, please post your Credit Card and Bank numbers with security codes. It is just electrons for all to see. I knew you would not. Pirates are hypocrites.
Hooray! This is another victory for artist's rights. I hope Tenenbaum pays & suffers the rest of his life.
It's a victory for property rights. Enforced by a jury no less. An artist or author has a right to bread and butter and not just slave wages. If it takes only a few pirates paying a larger cost, that is justice. An artist should be able to set the price for their product.
Look at every country that trashes property rights. POVERTY for all.
If you covet others, they will covet you. It's simple math. If you don't want the product at that price, don't buy it and certainly do not defraud the original artist.
A few people stealing is manageable. But illegal distribution is un-manageable and creates poor quality media. Pirates suck!
May Tenebaum be haunted for years. Property rights work! and they work quite well. Don't trespass on my lawn, thank you. Go find your own property.
Expect the quality of media to rise some, because prices can be set, not just quantity.
Or perhaps the game makers should perform concerts to earn money, instead of the created product.
That is what music pirates say artists should do to make money instead of enforcing ownership law.
The young, naive pirates, but experts on marketing, have the solution. Game makers can have game playoffs, held in huge stadiums. Everyone's console all wired up in the bleachers.
Game companies make money by performing, not creating. Home consoles are banned. All games are performed in stadiums or on street corners. Then all pirates can be arrested and jailed in mass, as they exit the stadium.
Or society can simply enforce ownership law. It works flawless for banks.
Biased 'studies' with hidden agenda falsely compare single women to married men. Singles earn less than married workers.
Your other comments (brown) are false racist rants.
A free market does not discriminate because it is not profitable.
Only racists discriminate, like the history of the Democrat Party is one of institutionalizing racism for gain. From slavery, thru civil rights, Dems are always on the wrong side.
Pirates are causing poor quality games. Basic economics says fraud has consequences. Don't blame the game maker for selling low grade junk software. We are seeing an explosion of low quality movies, games, books etc. because the originator has reduced incentives.
Why waste 5 years college learning computer science only to be told you are banned practicing it in the U.S. because you are a citizen? Skip college degrees for software, they'll hire you anyways if they need and you avoid the 5 year debt to pay off.
The only exception in labor law for 'exempt' is for software. Why not doctors, managers, car mechanics etc.? It's software bigotry. Why not except State workers?
Open source usually suffers from a poor architect. Great effort from the massive programmers, but it's only as good as the leadership. eg using 'techie' words to name the UI does not attract the common lay user.
The library (& Google) stifle innovation by unjustly taking the bread money of creative authors. The library contributes no added value.
Crunch the numbers such as a new book. A city metro libraries buy 10 to 50 book copies. In one year, 2 weeks of check out time, divided by 52 weeks a year. A loss of 10 books (actually checked out), 10 times a years(many unchecked), times a 100 metro areas in USA, times 5 years, times $20 a (good quality) book. That's $1 million. Or $50k to $200k per year. Kind of what your boss pays to employ you. All stolen, free profit by libraries. But at an unintended cost. The Constitution never meant for Library greed nor the corporate greed on the other end.
Few books succeed. Nearly all are a loss or only make a few $1000s per year.
Do not write books. They do not pay. Books lose. In fact it is a huge loss to authors. Do not be an author.
Better to write 10 empty books than 1 good one, because quality loses. Same occurs in every country not respecting property. Any type property.
The Law of Unintended Consequences says something must give. There is no free lunch. The consequence is poorer quality writing and fewer authors dumb enough to write. The Library is wasting your time to read poor quality junk. But they get paid, junk or not.
Amazon at least encourages 'some' quality media because anybody can rate and comment upon media. Anyone can sample before paying. Google is just a search engine. Except where they have singly redefined copyright law. Multi national corporation have no allegiance to flag or country. The Constitution does not apply to Google. They are worse than the Library.
The ideal is still the local bookstore where buyer beware. The buyer can preview the entire product before purchase.
It's a legal issue not technical. Pirate a person's bank account money and the law comes after you. Pirate others tax refunds and the State comes after you. Crypto only slows down the crook and raises the cost of theft.
The State's main purpose is to stop fraud and force. Where ever the State wants, they halt theft. Otherwise, they are getting a cut of the action.
You cannot post a long list of bank account numbers and passwords without the State stopping you. Corporate banks have more weight than record companies.
Slashdot Mirror
It is laughable that Slashdot posters are arguing AGAINST piracy only because many are developers. Only developer piracy is immoral.
Simple. Just boycott those publishers and authors who wish to protect their creation.
Then pursue all the cheap and free books you can find.
That solution was easy.
Cory Doctorow Who??
Free books = poor quality
Near free books = still poor quality
Ask Rosetta Stone if they will sell e-books with unlimited copies.
They won't even sell as e-book because they sell higher quality.
It/is/all/junk/then/you/die
And what has Government Science created? Nothing.
* Finally after NASA wasted $billions, we get private space tourism.
* Department of Energy never produced a single drop of oil.
Pay for it. Rosetta Stone cost thousands of dollars because quality costs money.
A 'free' foreign language will waste far more money in lost opportunity cost.
It is better that the child get a job, earn money, buy Rosetta Stone, and learn quickly instead of wasting time on some knee jerk free language that is not free with your time.
Stuff is free for a reason, it is poor quality junk.
BitTorrent cannot guarantee integrity and authorship. Anybody can modify free content and re-upload it as trash and deception. Pity the children.
Only paid content can guarantee quality. Nothing's free. * cough, Economics, cough *. Put that in your Education pipe and smoke it.
The only trusted uploader is the original owner-author-artist. The alleged trusted uploader would have to directly purchase all media from an authorized store.
He is too cheap to buy it.
Deal with it.
Have you ever bought a SONY gadget on the internet?? How do you know it was not fake, inferior junk, knockoff from China? You do not, not unless you buy the product from an original, authorized seller.
Deal with it.
I used to download files, modify them, and upload them back up. Some of the music, books and video are un-original fraud because it it fun to dupe people.
Deal with it.
There is no honor among thieves.
There is no honor among pirates.
You just cannot ever trust 'free'.
Deal with it. LMAO!
Solving piracy is simple. Authors & owners just release junk copies of ebooks. Who will pirates complain to?? That is why collectivism fails, it has no integrity of content.
Piracy does not create infinite perfect copies. There are a lot of junk copies of media. Since ANYBODY can make a copy, pirate ebooks are corrupted. Where there is no integrity, there is no trust.
Junk copies of ebooks are released all the time. Pirates can never trust their copy is authentic. MD5 is useless. Books are made with altered versions, so the only person who knows the authentic version, is the owner / author or the honest buyer.
Piracy creates junk and wastes peoples time reading junk.
There is no free lunch. That line I read from an authentic book, so I know it is true. lol
If you read pirated ebooks, you cannot trust what is inside your head. Nothing is free.
Copyright is also confidential. It is limited access determined by the originator. Likewise Credit Card numbers are confidential.
Music songs and Credit Card numbers are both copyright protected. Credit Card numbers have legal force of law. Music should but does not.
Piracy has been around for 1000s of years. No problem, as long as worst offenders are controlled, such as, closing down music copy websites. The law is just taking time to catch up. When it does, the quality of music will be better instead of junk quality caused by current MP3 pirates.
Post child porn or bank account numbers online and let us see capitalism in action. Instead, piracy is a legal & economic issue, not a technical one. It is not a geek issue.
The quality of movies will rise again when Pirate websites are shut down and website owners are sued and lose their homes. Movie theaters should post Pirate's personal financial information for the whole world to see. It's an eye for an eye.
Why is a Movie corporation's product NOT protected but a Pirate's personal product, bank info, IS protected?? The legal side is just slowly catching up.
Why do Pirates have copyright protection but a large Movie corporation has no protection??
You refused to post your Credit Account number.
You want copyright protection for YOUR data but not for OTHER people's data, articles or music. Hypocrite!
Pirates create junk media for the honest people.
If you disagree, please post your Credit Card and Bank numbers
with security codes. It is just electrons for all to see.
I knew you would not. Pirates are hypocrites.
There are few well written subject matters on the Web. Any expert worth much puts their text on hard paper books. That way they can get paid.
The web is mostly for entertainment. Quality learning is in books and that's not changing through empty wishes. Hopey changey. Silliness.
Hooray! This is another victory for artist's rights. I hope Tenenbaum pays & suffers the rest of his life.
It's a victory for property rights. Enforced by a jury no less. An artist or author has a right to bread and butter and not just slave wages. If it takes only a few pirates paying a larger cost, that is justice. An artist should be able to set the price for their product.
Look at every country that trashes property rights. POVERTY for all.
If you covet others, they will covet you. It's simple math. If you don't want the product at that price, don't buy it and certainly do not defraud the original artist.
A few people stealing is manageable. But illegal distribution is un-manageable and creates poor quality media. Pirates suck!
May Tenebaum be haunted for years. Property rights work! and they work quite well. Don't trespass on my lawn, thank you. Go find your own property.
Expect the quality of media to rise some, because prices can be set, not just quantity.
Or perhaps the game makers should perform concerts to earn money, instead of the created product.
That is what music pirates say artists should do to make money instead of enforcing ownership law.
The young, naive pirates, but experts on marketing, have the solution. Game makers can have game playoffs, held in huge stadiums. Everyone's console all wired up in the bleachers.
Game companies make money by performing, not creating. Home consoles are banned. All games are performed in stadiums or on street corners. Then all pirates can be arrested and jailed in mass, as they exit the stadium.
Or society can simply enforce ownership law. It works flawless for banks.
* yes, it is sarcasm :-) *
Incorrect. Women make more money than men.
Biased 'studies' with hidden agenda falsely compare single women to married men. Singles earn less than married workers.
Your other comments (brown) are false racist rants.
A free market does not discriminate because it is not profitable.
Only racists discriminate, like the history of the Democrat Party is one of institutionalizing racism for gain. From slavery, thru civil rights, Dems are always on the wrong side.
Height earns more, that is all, but not by much.
Pirates are causing poor quality games. Basic economics says fraud has consequences. Don't blame the game maker for selling low grade junk software. We are seeing an explosion of low quality movies, games, books etc. because the originator has reduced incentives.
Fabricated nonsense. Google logical fallacy ie appeal to emotion.
Why waste 5 years college learning computer science only to be told you are banned practicing it in the U.S. because you are a citizen? Skip college degrees for software, they'll hire you anyways if they need and you avoid the 5 year debt to pay off.
The only exception in labor law for 'exempt' is for software. Why not doctors, managers, car mechanics etc.? It's software bigotry. Why not except State workers?
Open source usually suffers from a poor architect. Great effort from the massive programmers, but it's only as good as the leadership. eg using 'techie' words to name the UI does not attract the common lay user.
The library (& Google) stifle innovation by unjustly taking the bread money of creative authors. The library contributes no added value.
Crunch the numbers such as a new book. A city metro libraries buy 10 to 50 book copies. In one year, 2 weeks of check out time, divided by 52 weeks a year. A loss of 10 books (actually checked out), 10 times a years(many unchecked), times a 100 metro areas in USA, times 5 years, times $20 a (good quality) book. That's $1 million. Or $50k to $200k per year. Kind of what your boss pays to employ you. All stolen, free profit by libraries. But at an unintended cost. The Constitution never meant for Library greed nor the corporate greed on the other end.
Few books succeed. Nearly all are a loss or only make a few $1000s per year.
Do not write books. They do not pay. Books lose. In fact it is a huge loss to authors. Do not be an author.
Better to write 10 empty books than 1 good one, because quality loses. Same occurs in every country not respecting property. Any type property.
The Law of Unintended Consequences says something must give. There is no free lunch. The consequence is poorer quality writing and fewer authors dumb enough to write. The Library is wasting your time to read poor quality junk. But they get paid, junk or not.
Amazon at least encourages 'some' quality media because anybody can rate and comment upon media. Anyone can sample before paying. Google is just a search engine. Except where they have singly redefined copyright law. Multi national corporation have no allegiance to flag or country. The Constitution does not apply to Google. They are worse than the Library.
The ideal is still the local bookstore where buyer beware. The buyer can preview the entire product before purchase.
Copyright (c) 2009 me :-)
It's a legal issue not technical. Pirate a person's bank account money and the law comes after you. Pirate others tax refunds and the State comes after you. Crypto only slows down the crook and raises the cost of theft.
The State's main purpose is to stop fraud and force. Where ever the State wants, they halt theft. Otherwise, they are getting a cut of the action.
You cannot post a long list of bank account numbers and passwords without the State stopping you. Corporate banks have more weight than record companies.
Legal not technical.
Bank Account Number 2753 9482 6732
Routing Number 103000143
Password gep493m
Social Security Number 428636487
Credit Card Number 4268 1664 7623 9264
These belong to user name Opportunity02
Weak copyright is beneficial.
Feel free to copy this information
and use it.
DOH! The antenna also requires replacing.
The old analog antenna + new digital converter
= equals few stations