They want the default home page to be google. They want the default search engine in the search box to be google.
Quite useful if you don't want MSN search to take away your market share.
I don't think they would force you to install firefox to use Google. That would be a stupid idea from a business point of view. I'm pretty sure they want IE users to use Google as well.
Skype comes from the same people that brought you Kazaa, and unlike Kazaa, it comes with the full approval of the telecoms regulators in Europe, who consider it to be a good thing.
Even where people use open source and free software, they probably aren't going to want to sit and compile it all themselves. They would much rather have it ready compiled for them by someone who knows how to package and compile software properly. - Gentoo isn't that popular.
It also picks up some of the registry entries for emule as belonging to edonkey, and says that this is spyware.
Edonkey is spyware, and the registry entries that make ed2k:// links work are much the same for both, but you would hope that it could tell the difference.
> Something is wrong with your emule. Right now I'm downloading at 200kB/s.
I was talking about latency on emule, not speed.
You have to wait your turn in the queue before you can start downloading at 200kB/s. For a 700MB.iso, that isn't too much of a problem, it is going to take some time anyway. For a 4kB web page, it is a problem, as you will spend a lot longer waiting than you do downloading.
When I tried it, speed was not too bad. Latency was a big problem, but still faster than the likes of emule. But as you are using a web browser and browsing what looks like web sites, you expect something a lot faster.
If they see you scanning every item before you put it in the bag, they probably won't think anything is up. They aren't going to be close enough to actually see the item on the computer screen and compare it to what you are scanning. Even if they were, they will most likely have more than one lane to watch, otherwise they may as well do the scanning themselves.
It is already the case in the legal field. The law is public domain, but you pay large sums of money for legal journals and databases that pick out the relevant stuff.
You are required to distribute any modifications as a separate file, which is acceptable to the open source movement, but not to the free software movement who would prefer that you were allowed to distribute compiled rpm/deb/whatever packages of the modified software.
Except that the US national debt is in US$, whereas the Argentinian national debt was in US$.
That means that if the US$ nosedives, the national debt will nosedive with it, whereas when the Argentinian Peso nosedived, their debt didn't.
In the future, however, it would make it a lot more difficult for the US to borrow money in it's own currency, so at that point, the government would have to put together a balanced budget pretty quickly.
The whole idea of copyright is to give the author a temporary monopoly on their work so they can make more money out of it without fear of competition.
The prospect of this temporary monopoly is supposed to encourage the author to produce more creative works.
The original reason for introducing copyright was nothing to do with stopping "infringement" or "theft" or "piracy" or anything like that, it was to introduce a greater financial incentive to create.
It does work to a certain extent in some cases, but it also creates a huge legal barrier to derivative works and to newer, more efficient methods of distribution. The fact that copyright terms keep getting extended doesn't help here.
They release a particular film. Nobody else can distribute this film without their permission. Therefore they have a monopoly over this distribution.
This monopoly is state controlled becase the state enforces this monopoly with copyright laws.
You may think this is a good thing. I may not, in certain circumstances, disagree with you. Nevertheless you do have to recognise that this is a state controlled monopoly.
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You could set damages to a maximum of $1 if the copyright isn't registered.
If the book isn't being published by the copyright holder, the "harm" done to them is probably a lot less than that anyway.
or even openoffice.org, the largest open source / free software project alive.
Well if yahoo was paying the salary of the main developer now, do you think that would continue?
What do Google want with Firefox?
They want the default home page to be google. They want the default search engine in the search box to be google.
Quite useful if you don't want MSN search to take away your market share.
I don't think they would force you to install firefox to use Google. That would be a stupid idea from a business point of view. I'm pretty sure they want IE users to use Google as well.
There is no RIAA of telecom.
Skype comes from the same people that brought you Kazaa, and unlike Kazaa, it comes with the full approval of the telecoms regulators in Europe, who consider it to be a good thing.
And in the dead tree newspapers round here ...
Boy wears fancy dress to fancy dress party.
The person who sold you the car doesn't have any rights to stop you doing these things.
Even where people use open source and free software, they probably aren't going to want to sit and compile it all themselves. They would much rather have it ready compiled for them by someone who knows how to package and compile software properly. - Gentoo isn't that popular.
Gator / Claria sue people who call their program spyware "because even though it does spy on them, they agreed to it".
It would be much more diffult to sue for calling it potentially unwanted software. People might potentially not want their copy of Gator any more.
Indeed the same could be said for Microsoft Windows.
It also picks up some of the registry entries for emule as belonging to edonkey, and says that this is spyware.
Edonkey is spyware, and the registry entries that make ed2k:// links work are much the same for both, but you would hope that it could tell the difference.
Their main competitor in this field is ARM, who seem to be a fairly reasonable company.
http://undeadly.org/
$28,000 per user * 90% of the internet population is quite a lot of money.
> Something is wrong with your emule. Right now I'm downloading at 200kB/s.
.iso, that isn't too much of a problem, it is going to take some time anyway. For a 4kB web page, it is a problem, as you will spend a lot longer waiting than you do downloading.
I was talking about latency on emule, not speed.
You have to wait your turn in the queue before you can start downloading at 200kB/s. For a 700MB
The person/people who actually did it.
You may as well just use Freenet for the .iso/.mpg files.
When I tried it, speed was not too bad. Latency was a big problem, but still faster than the likes of emule. But as you are using a web browser and browsing what looks like web sites, you expect something a lot faster.
If they see you scanning every item before you put it in the bag, they probably won't think anything is up. They aren't going to be close enough to actually see the item on the computer screen and compare it to what you are scanning. Even if they were, they will most likely have more than one lane to watch, otherwise they may as well do the scanning themselves.
If it was a Dutch company, it would be Yeahronimo Media Ventures NV, not Yeahronimo Media Ventures Inc.
It is already the case in the legal field. The law is public domain, but you pay large sums of money for legal journals and databases that pick out the relevant stuff.
Yes. Trademark infringement is generally considered to be more serious by the courts around the world.
The difference is that people are under the impression they are buying from the person who created the software or someone authorised by them.
Qmail is one such example.
You are required to distribute any modifications as a separate file, which is acceptable to the open source movement, but not to the free software movement who would prefer that you were allowed to distribute compiled rpm/deb/whatever packages of the modified software.
Except that the US national debt is in US$, whereas the Argentinian national debt was in US$.
That means that if the US$ nosedives, the national debt will nosedive with it, whereas when the Argentinian Peso nosedived, their debt didn't.
In the future, however, it would make it a lot more difficult for the US to borrow money in it's own currency, so at that point, the government would have to put together a balanced budget pretty quickly.
The whole idea of copyright is to give the author a temporary monopoly on their work so they can make more money out of it without fear of competition.
The prospect of this temporary monopoly is supposed to encourage the author to produce more creative works.
The original reason for introducing copyright was nothing to do with stopping "infringement" or "theft" or "piracy" or anything like that, it was to introduce a greater financial incentive to create.
It does work to a certain extent in some cases, but it also creates a huge legal barrier to derivative works and to newer, more efficient methods of distribution. The fact that copyright terms keep getting extended doesn't help here.
They release a particular film. Nobody else can distribute this film without their permission. Therefore they have a monopoly over this distribution.
This monopoly is state controlled becase the state enforces this monopoly with copyright laws.
You may think this is a good thing. I may not, in certain circumstances, disagree with you. Nevertheless you do have to recognise that this is a state controlled monopoly.