The only thing that charge did and a litter charge on cigarettes will do, is convince people they are now entitled to commit the offence they paid a fine for.
What publishers need to do is to affect a shift in attitude. People need to be made to feel that wanton piracy is socially unacceptable. Here's what producers have done towards this goal:
1) Lobby for levies (as you mentioned) which force the guilty and innocent alike to pay 2) Push for increasingly restrictive laws and the lengthening of copyright terms 3) Laughable and insulting anti-piracy adverts included with my purchases. No, I would not steal a car, but I do not consider it wrong to download a torrent of a movie that I bought, which due to DRM, cannot be transcoded. Did you know that they actually had an anti-piracy advert in which the pirate was depicted as being a medieval torturer, with glowing red eyes and a red hot branding iron. Yeah, sure. 4) Refusal to accept that the Internet changed the game. Look at how long we waited before we could pay to download a decent selection of movies and music. 5) Lies and damned lies, such as the RIAA estimates of how much piracy costs the industry.
The industry has thrown away a lot of goodwill, and by chasing volume they've become commoditized. With some exceptions, one company is just the same as the other - it's the artists that draw people in. How many people even know the name of the company that produced their movies and music. With music, there are few record companies with a specific focus that would lead me to explore their acts. Sympathy, 4AD, Epitaph and Hellcat come to mind. Everything I have from those labels is legit, except in bootlegs and unreleased material. I like what they do, and I'm happy to pay for it.
Have an "I will open strange attachments and will share my personal details to anyone who asks" list. Spam will drastically decline if the scammers have a single list they can target. Companies can prevent a lot of fraud by refusing to provide accounts to anyone on the list. I'm pretty sure the people who need to be on such a list won't volunteer. Easy solution, send them an email asking them to provide their bank details to prizeadminstraton@dutchinternationallotery.econohosting.cn in order to collect their lottery winnings. Anyone responding goes on the list.
It must be cool living in the future. The 4:15 at Chepstow will be run hours earlier for you than it is for us. Get yourself to the bookies and make a fortune!
They got off easy. The RIAA formula for calculating losses due to piracy would yield a figure closer to $600 billion. The music industry suffers greatly at the hands of pirates, and in such a blatant case of commercial piracy I expect that the RIAA and its sister organizations will step up to demand that these pirates are punished to the full extent of the law!
I wonder if the executives of those pirate companies would steal a car? No? Well, why is stealing music any different?
Seriously, read beyond the title and post something that isn't just a childlike and generic screed against DRM. The big issue here is in how a state broadcaster and a regulator conspired to very much go against the interests of the public. In that regard it certainly is a "news at 11" situation for the more cynical ones among us.
While walking home I whistled a few tunes without first obtaining a public performance licence. By RIAA accounting that should be another few thousand on the price of EMI. Could have been far worse if I'd been whistling in a crowded room.
I struggle to find sympathy for an industry that has spent decades lobbying to reduce my legal rights. They give me unskillable accusations of thievery when I buy DVDs, and they hobble their products with DRM in order to reduce my ability to enjoy the products I buy. I could use a torrent to find shit of similar quality and without the restrictions. Fuck them. They are like the cottage weavers who smashed the looms that would threaten their livelihood, except that the music industry had the resources to adapt to use the Internet as a revenue stream. Too fucking late - no sympathy.
The could work by offering premium content alongside the free stuff. Allow subscriptions/donations services for people wanting to support their favourite angry and opinionated camwhore. Has YouTube ever tried those kinds of things?
They should definitely be liable if they set incorrect expectations with regard to their services. If however Joe's Web Design uses a service that, for the sake of argument, is clearly being sold for non-commercial use, they should only be liable to deliver that which they promised to do. Blizzard should not be held liable if Joe eschews WebEx in favour of WoW for online meetings with his clients, and complains that server downtime lost him an important client.
I wonder if there's something for Linux that's equivalent to Blizzard's Warcraft password inspector. He contacted me last week, asking to inspect my password to ensure that it's secure. It was kind of embarrassing that my account got hacked, and my credit card maxed out, shortly after I'd sent him my password. Fortunately though I was able to regain access and change my password. I forwarded the new password to the inspector and apologized if he had trouble trying to use the old one. Email the Blizzard guy to see if he knows the Linux password inspector. His address is paswordinspecter@blizzard-account-admin.shulinhost.cn
Attitudes change. I used to feel that way using mobile phones in general, and certainly self conscious when whipping out a laptop 12 years ago. These days those things are far more run of the mill. It'll take time. Voice interfaces are perfect for capturing the imagination - particularly when they are seen as being smart.
Exactly! It's the same reason why the engineer who can knock-up a world-changing doohickey from paper clips and gum is not necessarily the person one would want trying to sell the thing.
Occam's razor is concerned with the simplest explanation in the sense of making the least number of assumptions. Introducing God in to an argument tends to require a great number of unevidenced assumptions. A man getting struck by lightning twice in a year is normally quite unlikely. A naturalistic explanation may appear complicated by comparison to invoking the wrath of an angry god, but the latter requires far more assumptions.
There is not a world of difference. I will agree though that people having sex with children are a subset of paedophiles. I'll clarify that: Adults having sex with children far too young to give informed consent is pretty evil.
Speaking as an atheist, I have no problem with "In God We Trust" on currency. It's religion-agnostic, not pushing any particular religion.
Religion-agnostic would need to be far more vague. It's Keary showing a preference for monotheism. I think we agree that these are not the most serious issues. The problem we face is that failure to oppose has been used to invent the grandfather clauses that allow clear violations to remain. The pledge and motto will be dealt with after the more serious issues.
You can tell how condescending this site is because their response is written by a former "police chief" the demographic probably most likely to condemn all drugs.
Yeah, and Josh fucking DuBois responding to the requests to remove god junk from the pledge and currency. Of course his response was a firm no, pointing out religion's important role in America. What other kind of response were we to expect from the Pentacostalist head of faith based iinitiatives? DuBois' office is a glaring example of the intrusion of religion in to government, yet he's the one chosen to respond. So much hand waving and bullshit.
In the C64 era there were two things that reduced the number of updates.
1) These devices were far simpler. A low-end Sndroid phone has far greater utility and capabilities than a C64. 2) There were in fact updates in the form of revisions made to chips in later units. Replacing a ROM was not cheap, so generally it'd only be done for something serious that can't easily be worked around in software.
It's like comparing an Epson LX 86 9 pin dot matrix with a LaserWriter 8500, wondering why the latter is more complicated to service?
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The only thing that charge did and a litter charge on cigarettes will do, is convince people they are now entitled to commit the offence they paid a fine for.
What publishers need to do is to affect a shift in attitude. People need to be made to feel that wanton piracy is socially unacceptable. Here's what producers have done towards this goal:
1) Lobby for levies (as you mentioned) which force the guilty and innocent alike to pay
2) Push for increasingly restrictive laws and the lengthening of copyright terms
3) Laughable and insulting anti-piracy adverts included with my purchases. No, I would not steal a car, but I do not consider it wrong to download a torrent of a movie that I bought, which due to DRM, cannot be transcoded. Did you know that they actually had an anti-piracy advert in which the pirate was depicted as being a medieval torturer, with glowing red eyes and a red hot branding iron. Yeah, sure.
4) Refusal to accept that the Internet changed the game. Look at how long we waited before we could pay to download a decent selection of movies and music.
5) Lies and damned lies, such as the RIAA estimates of how much piracy costs the industry.
The industry has thrown away a lot of goodwill, and by chasing volume they've become commoditized. With some exceptions, one company is just the same as the other - it's the artists that draw people in. How many people even know the name of the company that produced their movies and music. With music, there are few record companies with a specific focus that would lead me to explore their acts. Sympathy, 4AD, Epitaph and Hellcat come to mind. Everything I have from those labels is legit, except in bootlegs and unreleased material. I like what they do, and I'm happy to pay for it.
Does doubling its size count as an optimization?
Have an "I will open strange attachments and will share my personal details to anyone who asks" list. Spam will drastically decline if the scammers have a single list they can target. Companies can prevent a lot of fraud by refusing to provide accounts to anyone on the list. I'm pretty sure the people who need to be on such a list won't volunteer. Easy solution, send them an email asking them to provide their bank details to prizeadminstraton@dutchinternationallotery.econohosting.cn in order to collect their lottery winnings. Anyone responding goes on the list.
It must be cool living in the future. The 4:15 at Chepstow will be run hours earlier for you than it is for us. Get yourself to the bookies and make a fortune!
They got off easy. The RIAA formula for calculating losses due to piracy would yield a figure closer to $600 billion. The music industry suffers greatly at the hands of pirates, and in such a blatant case of commercial piracy I expect that the RIAA and its sister organizations will step up to demand that these pirates are punished to the full extent of the law!
I wonder if the executives of those pirate companies would steal a car? No? Well, why is stealing music any different?
Amen, my friend, unfortunately.
Seriously, read beyond the title and post something that isn't just a childlike and generic screed against DRM. The big issue here is in how a state broadcaster and a regulator conspired to very much go against the interests of the public. In that regard it certainly is a "news at 11" situation for the more cynical ones among us.
While walking home I whistled a few tunes without first obtaining a public performance licence. By RIAA accounting that should be another few thousand on the price of EMI. Could have been far worse if I'd been whistling in a crowded room.
I posted as the AC, and I'd like to add that I now totally disagree with what I wrote. I eat babies.
You see the problem inherent in ascribing uniform beliefs to amorphous groups?
I struggle to find sympathy for an industry that has spent decades lobbying to reduce my legal rights. They give me unskillable accusations of thievery when I buy DVDs, and they hobble their products with DRM in order to reduce my ability to enjoy the products I buy. I could use a torrent to find shit of similar quality and without the restrictions. Fuck them. They are like the cottage weavers who smashed the looms that would threaten their livelihood, except that the music industry had the resources to adapt to use the Internet as a revenue stream. Too fucking late - no sympathy.
The could work by offering premium content alongside the free stuff. Allow subscriptions/donations services for people wanting to support their favourite angry and opinionated camwhore. Has YouTube ever tried those kinds of things?
They should definitely be liable if they set incorrect expectations with regard to their services. If however Joe's Web Design uses a service that, for the sake of argument, is clearly being sold for non-commercial use, they should only be liable to deliver that which they promised to do. Blizzard should not be held liable if Joe eschews WebEx in favour of WoW for online meetings with his clients, and complains that server downtime lost him an important client.
I wonder if there's something for Linux that's equivalent to Blizzard's Warcraft password inspector. He contacted me last week, asking to inspect my password to ensure that it's secure. It was kind of embarrassing that my account got hacked, and my credit card maxed out, shortly after I'd sent him my password. Fortunately though I was able to regain access and change my password. I forwarded the new password to the inspector and apologized if he had trouble trying to use the old one. Email the Blizzard guy to see if he knows the Linux password inspector. His address is paswordinspecter@blizzard-account-admin.shulinhost.cn
Attitudes change. I used to feel that way using mobile phones in general, and certainly self conscious when whipping out a laptop 12 years ago. These days those things are far more run of the mill. It'll take time. Voice interfaces are perfect for capturing the imagination - particularly when they are seen as being smart.
Exactly! It's the same reason why the engineer who can knock-up a world-changing doohickey from paper clips and gum is not necessarily the person one would want trying to sell the thing.
Occam's razor is concerned with the simplest explanation in the sense of making the least number of assumptions. Introducing God in to an argument tends to require a great number of unevidenced assumptions. A man getting struck by lightning twice in a year is normally quite unlikely. A naturalistic explanation may appear complicated by comparison to invoking the wrath of an angry god, but the latter requires far more assumptions.
There is not a world of difference. I will agree though that people having sex with children are a subset of paedophiles. I'll clarify that: Adults having sex with children far too young to give informed consent is pretty evil.
Paedophiles and Scientology aren't evil? Christ, you must be from a rough neighborhood.
Speaking as an atheist, I have no problem with "In God We Trust" on currency. It's religion-agnostic, not pushing any particular religion.
Religion-agnostic would need to be far more vague. It's Keary showing a preference for monotheism. I think we agree that these are not the most serious issues. The problem we face is that failure to oppose has been used to invent the grandfather clauses that allow clear violations to remain. The pledge and motto will be dealt with after the more serious issues.
Yeah, Obama can't be completely radical, but where has he actually stood firm and remained true to a controversial election pledge?
You can tell how condescending this site is because their response is written by a former "police chief" the demographic probably most likely to condemn all drugs.
Yeah, and Josh fucking DuBois responding to the requests to remove god junk from the pledge and currency. Of course his response was a firm no, pointing out religion's important role in America. What other kind of response were we to expect from the Pentacostalist head of faith based iinitiatives? DuBois' office is a glaring example of the intrusion of religion in to government, yet he's the one chosen to respond. So much hand waving and bullshit.
(Should I put GNU/Linux to please RMS? Bollocks! He's not reading this, as apparently his principles extend to not using the WWW!)
You go, rebel girl!
Beaten to death in a federal prison after being sent there for releasing software to allow people to backup their DVDs.
In the C64 era there were two things that reduced the number of updates.
1) These devices were far simpler. A low-end Sndroid phone has far greater utility and capabilities than a C64.
2) There were in fact updates in the form of revisions made to chips in later units. Replacing a ROM was not cheap, so generally it'd only be done for something serious that can't easily be worked around in software.
It's like comparing an Epson LX 86 9 pin dot matrix with a LaserWriter 8500, wondering why the latter is more complicated to service?
Making a similar product is not the same as a concerted effort to copy products.