Michael Moore is the exception that proves the rule. How many of us have access to the kind of audience that Michael Moore has? And how many Michael Moores are there?
But -- we are headed back in the right direction. What with traditional journalism quickly being overtaken by blogs, THIS is where the modern-day soapbox/street corner is. Only problem is that it's still an elite few who have access to the internet.
the PlayFair program is against the express provisions of our Information
Technology Act, 2000 and the Copyright Act, 1957 and you are equally
liable as accessories, being the means through which the offending program
is available for download at the Sarovar site at the following URL:
http://sarovar.org/projects/playfair/.
I'm no expert in Indian copyright law; I don't know whether the laws cited are the Indian versions of the DMCA, or whether there is in fact accessory liability as Apple's lawyer seems to claim.
But the fact is, as the original poster stated, that the iTunes music store wouldn't exist if Apple didn't have the ability to act against programs like PlayFair. And it will cease existing if Apple doesn't continue to be aggressive in this regard.
Apple's certainly not entirely innocent -- why, e.g., is there no iTunes player for my Palm? (A: because then Apple would sell fewer iPods.) But the solution to this sort of problem isn't to just allow cracks of Apple's DRM to float around. That'll just mean the end of online music, and the beginning of widespread copy-protected CDs.
So is this good or bad for the environment? Can these disks be recycled? Can they be made from recycled paper? Do they contribute less to landfills, or do they result in more trees getting chopped?
Cambridge? Try New Haven. And, while the Yale CS department sends its fair share of CS undergrads to Microsoft, I'm not aware of any evidence that the faculty is too cozy with the company. (Disclosure: I graduated the Yale CS department six years ago, and went to work for Microsoft for a few years.)
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Michael Moore is the exception that proves the rule. How many of us have access to the kind of audience that Michael Moore has? And how many Michael Moores are there? But -- we are headed back in the right direction. What with traditional journalism quickly being overtaken by blogs, THIS is where the modern-day soapbox/street corner is. Only problem is that it's still an elite few who have access to the internet.
I'm no expert in Indian copyright law; I don't know whether the laws cited are the Indian versions of the DMCA, or whether there is in fact accessory liability as Apple's lawyer seems to claim.
But the fact is, as the original poster stated, that the iTunes music store wouldn't exist if Apple didn't have the ability to act against programs like PlayFair. And it will cease existing if Apple doesn't continue to be aggressive in this regard.
Apple's certainly not entirely innocent -- why, e.g., is there no iTunes player for my Palm? (A: because then Apple would sell fewer iPods.) But the solution to this sort of problem isn't to just allow cracks of Apple's DRM to float around. That'll just mean the end of online music, and the beginning of widespread copy-protected CDs.
So is this good or bad for the environment? Can these disks be recycled? Can they be made from recycled paper? Do they contribute less to landfills, or do they result in more trees getting chopped?
Cambridge? Try New Haven. And, while the Yale CS department sends its fair share of CS undergrads to Microsoft, I'm not aware of any evidence that the faculty is too cozy with the company. (Disclosure: I graduated the Yale CS department six years ago, and went to work for Microsoft for a few years.)