:Its just too funny watching you guys, who would foam at the mouth about the violation of a GPL'd copyright, well, foam at the mouth when these other guys try to protect their copyright.
The difference is, is that the GPL exists so that when you have something(bought/given/downloaded) It is YOURS and you can do what you want with it, and to make sure that that happens, we must copyright it and use the GPL or something like it.
What the record labels and everyone else that releases copyrighted material want to do, is to control how you use that thing that you bought. Thay want to say when/where and how you can use it as if they still owned it.
People seem to forget, that although there are tons of pirates and others just stealing this stuff, these court decisions affect how the internet will grow and change, and if we want the internet to stay open and really be a conduit of information and free ideas, then we must take heed to these happenings and statements and court decisions.
(sorry, fell into a bit of a rant there for a sec.)
This is ridiculous, this isnt about the right thing, its about politics, and agendas.
Jackson is only trying to send it to the supreme court, because he knows that MS has a better chance of getting a decision diffrent than what HE wants, in the appeals court.
I think that it would be nice if they slimmed the software boxes down abit, but Software catches my eye alot diffrently than music does....
For the most part, If I like something I Hear on the radio, I go and buy the CD, On the other hand, I buy software cause it has pretty pictures or a nice big shiny box.
As unfortunate as it is that they pack the stuff this way, it is the way to attract people to thier software, who otherwise would have walked on by.
I think that the most efficent place to do something like this would be at the search engine level. When you are at a companies page, they should have thier own software to do that, not some central 40tb database, thats just a waste. But if each search engine company put something along the lines of this into place (i.e. check a link when someone uses it. is it good? then good. good. Is the link bad? then put it in a test again later queue.
I work for a very large retail chain ( Think yellow tag ), and we have been running a test. We are selling Norton A/V with the manuals for $39.99, and without the manual ( but with a.PDF version on the CD ) for $19.99. People are going with the cheaper one at an amazing rate, I doubt that we have even sold 10 of the one with the printed manual this month, and we have sold ~600 of the.PDF one.
It seems as if this is the way that everyone is going, and it has the support of retail and consumers, so it will be the future.
Slashdot Mirror
Everyone just needs to bite the bullet and learn Esperanta. It is very easy to learn, even for a dumb American like me.
.mincus
:Its just too funny watching you guys, who would foam at the mouth about the violation of a GPL'd copyright, well, foam at the mouth when these other guys try to protect their copyright.
The difference is, is that the GPL exists so that when you have something(bought/given/downloaded) It is YOURS and you can do what you want with it, and to make sure that that happens, we must copyright it and use the GPL or something like it.
What the record labels and everyone else that releases copyrighted material want to do, is to control how you use that thing that you bought. Thay want to say when/where and how you can use it as if they still owned it.
People seem to forget, that although there are tons of pirates and others just stealing this stuff, these court decisions affect how the internet will grow and change, and if we want the internet to stay open and really be a conduit of information and free ideas, then we must take heed to these happenings and statements and court decisions.
(sorry, fell into a bit of a rant there for a sec.)
.mincus
This is ridiculous, this isnt about the right thing, its about politics, and agendas.
Jackson is only trying to send it to the supreme court, because he knows that MS has a better chance of getting a decision diffrent than what HE wants, in the appeals court.
bah
.mincus
I think that it would be nice if they slimmed the software boxes down abit, but Software catches my eye alot diffrently than music does....
For the most part, If I like something I Hear on the radio, I go and buy the CD, On the other hand, I buy software cause it has pretty pictures or a nice big shiny box.
As unfortunate as it is that they pack the stuff this way, it is the way to attract people to thier software, who otherwise would have walked on by.
.mincus
I think that the most efficent place to do something like this would be at the search engine level. When you are at a companies page, they should have thier own software to do that, not some central 40tb database, thats just a waste. But if each search engine company put something along the lines of this into place (i.e. check a link when someone uses it. is it good? then good. good. Is the link bad? then put it in a test again later queue.
at least, thats what I think.
.mincus
I think what they ment to say is, if it goes against the norms of that society, not against the laws.
If they are just gonna pull off material because the originating country said to, there is no point in them being off in Sealand.
As if it isn't hard enough to get a limited edition of a game, let alone when it gets slashdotted with only 100 copies of something.
bah.
.allen
I had an account on an ISP, that I stopped using/paying for/was closed.
I year after that I reopened it, to an immediate flood of SPAM, that to this day ( three months later ) will not go away.
I think that I have done the most sensible thing that one can do, have more than one email address.
.mincus
Oh, and I almost forgot.
You can print out an electronic version of a manual.
You can lose that, spill coffee all over it, and not have to go through the manufacturer to get a new one. You can just reprint it.
.mincus
I work for a very large retail chain ( Think yellow tag ), and we have been running a test. We are selling Norton A/V with the manuals for $39.99, and without the manual ( but with a .PDF version on the CD ) for $19.99. People are going with the cheaper one at an amazing rate, I doubt that we have even sold 10 of the one with the printed manual this month, and we have sold ~600 of the .PDF one.
It seems as if this is the way that everyone is going, and it has the support of retail and consumers, so it will be the future.