You'de be surprised at what marketing will get you. A few people above responded with any geek who has seen an ms commercial will yell "Lies."
Well my dad won't jump from his chair presumably as every geek will to lunge at his television and then petition the tv stations to get the commercials removed from the line up.
Marketing will win the masses. It always does.
Heck G-Dub got elected TWICE. You can't tell me that 100 million in marketing good or bad won't make Microsuck, Dell, Gateway, HP, Compaq, and every other multi billion dollor multi nation conglomoco a few more billion dollars.
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You make is sound like DRM is going to eat our children. Yes it would suck if our DRM tags expired for great works, but this is not 1901. We now have the capabilities of mass data transfer at almost no cost. You're saying that DRM is evil because it doesn't allow us to keep something we buy forever. Well when you buy a DRM protected CD you are agreeing to it's TOS. Which means that you agree to only listen to it for X amount of time, Or on X number of systems.
Yes limiting what you can do with something you buy is not right. I don't like DRM in that sence, BUT thats also why i don't purchase DRM protected media. It's that simple if it's protected via DRM i won't listen to it.
It's the same way i feel about software, why would i go buy microsoft office if i can't use it on linux...
But for librarys who OWN A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL WORK... and don't want to distribute illigal copies going through a DRM protection just makes sence. The original still exists someone still owns it, if your computer DRM runs out you can still check it out again. If DRM flops, the Library still has the orginal.
Lesson learned DRM won't eat your children.
Thats not what this article was about. The reason it sounds better is becuase it's a fair use system. Presumably the library bought the book, and therefore own a copy of the book. You then agree to borrow the book for a certian amount of time. Whereas when you DRM protect a CD, you cannot let your friend borrow the DRM protected content because you not your friend own the DRM. You cannot sell the DRM to your friend because thats not how it works. The reason this sounds better is because it's an actual fair use agreement.
You must not have read news during the time where you could get a gun at that bank... it was not staged... that was a real offer, i saw the ad in newsweek.
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You'de be surprised at what marketing will get you. A few people above responded with any geek who has seen an ms commercial will yell "Lies." Well my dad won't jump from his chair presumably as every geek will to lunge at his television and then petition the tv stations to get the commercials removed from the line up. Marketing will win the masses. It always does. Heck G-Dub got elected TWICE. You can't tell me that 100 million in marketing good or bad won't make Microsuck, Dell, Gateway, HP, Compaq, and every other multi billion dollor multi nation conglomoco a few more billion dollars. 3 media
You make is sound like DRM is going to eat our children. Yes it would suck if our DRM tags expired for great works, but this is not 1901. We now have the capabilities of mass data transfer at almost no cost. You're saying that DRM is evil because it doesn't allow us to keep something we buy forever. Well when you buy a DRM protected CD you are agreeing to it's TOS. Which means that you agree to only listen to it for X amount of time, Or on X number of systems. Yes limiting what you can do with something you buy is not right. I don't like DRM in that sence, BUT thats also why i don't purchase DRM protected media. It's that simple if it's protected via DRM i won't listen to it. It's the same way i feel about software, why would i go buy microsoft office if i can't use it on linux... But for librarys who OWN A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL WORK... and don't want to distribute illigal copies going through a DRM protection just makes sence. The original still exists someone still owns it, if your computer DRM runs out you can still check it out again. If DRM flops, the Library still has the orginal. Lesson learned DRM won't eat your children.
Thats not what this article was about. The reason it sounds better is becuase it's a fair use system. Presumably the library bought the book, and therefore own a copy of the book. You then agree to borrow the book for a certian amount of time. Whereas when you DRM protect a CD, you cannot let your friend borrow the DRM protected content because you not your friend own the DRM. You cannot sell the DRM to your friend because thats not how it works. The reason this sounds better is because it's an actual fair use agreement.
A perfect use for DRM tech. DRM always catches a bad rep. I for one am glad to see that technology still has a place in everyday america.
So the FCC couldn't just force Nextel to stop useing the bandwidth that was used for emergeny channels?
You must not have read news during the time where you could get a gun at that bank... it was not staged... that was a real offer, i saw the ad in newsweek.
Still haven't gotten to see Gmail in action wouldn't mind getting to test the service myself... could someone send me an invite so i can check it out?
The Azureus Java Bit Torrent client allready has an add on for remote webadmin http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php? plugin=webui