but man they do suck when it comes to security. That's literally how you do it. Exploits against MS.
Ahhh No. A well installed Windows is rock-solid when it comes to security: Remember Windows NT 3.51 and NT 4.0? or even Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 Enterprise Server? The problem is out of box its very poor on security. Customize it a bit, and its rock solid like Linux. And no, am not an MCSE monkey. And i use an iBook Mac OS X 10.5 at home.
OK! Gordon Brown. There. Are you happy now for the insignificant faux pas? How does it matter if its Blair[witch] or [Sir]Brown? How does it matter if the chicken is blind as long as the soup tastes good?
Arrest: YES. Convicted: NO. Unlike US or Britain, Indian police can't store data on arrested people unless they are convicted. The law simply doesn't allow the police to store arrested persons' data indefinitely. Once the court releases the arrested, the data is destroyed. The files are closed, and can't be reopened for 3 months. Then destroyed forever. Even if you are arrested later, the court will NOT recognize your previous arrest, because you were released.
Reality is much different here: Like the stupid ideas of the British Parliamentarians who propose outlandish laws, these are also the same kind of crap. The constitution contains a STRONG reference to freedom of speech and expression: Porn being one of them. So the upper house will either return it back or hold it. Secondly, the police have lots of other things to do than look at each image and text as porn or not. The ratio is close to 1:1,6333 cops:people. Hence rest assured, this is one law that will not cross the door. Thirdly, The Supreme Court is a HUGE people-friendly institution here that does not shy away from arresting and imprisoning even the biggest politician here. Hell, they get a kick out of doing it just for fun. This law will be challenged by an NGO and surely be banned outright, or struck down. Lastly, the ruling party is a middle-path: Neither the right-wing BJP nor the extreme left-wing communists. Their priorities right now are the economy and Pakistan, so this law will be forgotten instantly even if passed.
Individuals: Yes. Corporates: NO. Can you claim the cost of buying Games as income tax deductions? Can you claim the cost of buying a new car or refinancing your mortgage as income tax deductibles? Better yet, can you copy a program onto you a $.02 CD and claim the program's worth $250 and claim income tax deduction? Our taxes need to reflect reality: The salary earners should get MOST benefits. Not some crappy corporate which lays off its employees at a whim.
That's the slippery slope. I appreciate wikipedia's stand. No Ads mean NO ADS. Expenses have a way of rising to mean income. One ad, if it brings excess surplus will result in more expenses, and a vicious cycle starts. Next Jan 1st your wikipedia will be greeted by a corporate sponsor aka Salon.com
inalienable and limited times are two entirely different concepts. inalienable refers to the fact that two things cannot be separated. Limited time is a varied concept: applied to this case it CAN mean its valid only for certain period of time. Making derivative works, performing the original work in public unchanged ALL arise from the same source: Right to Copy. You think derivatives are different from performing in public: they are NOT. Its like saying Sulphuric Acid, Nitric Acid and Hydrochloric Acid are ENTIRELY different liquids: They are NOT. They are acids which have the basic properties common to all acids. They react the same way to metals, water, etc. Try paying attention in school/college some time: you will be surprised how much your teachers try to teach you. When i sell my work the buyer enjoys my work. He can make ANY changes to the work so long as he does NOT sell it in the changed condition AND/OR mention me as author. I can buy a Britney CD tomorrow, rip the songs, mix it up as startup tones, etc., Britney and certainly RIAA doesn't care so long as i do NOT attempt to sell them in any condition. Please look into the history of copyright from the British Empire times. You will learn a lot instead of sitting and criticizing me just because you got the concepts wrong.
Act of God is the only clause available. Hurricanes are no excuse for NOT making a payment on your mortgage and NOT an excuse for AT&T not providing you a telephone line in lieu of compensation.
A Credit is NOT the same as a check. Reimbursement needs to be in the same terms of original contract. You don't give them CREDIT for providing you service. They take your money: period. Similarly, ask for a check or money order sent to your address. If they refuse, sue them in small claims court for violating a contract. Why should you accept CREDIT when they don't accept yours? A Credit is just an interest-free loan to these guys. Refuse to accept unilateral changes to your contract and demand the repayment from them in check or cash. Better yet, do the following: 1) Send a registered letter to their local office demanding financial compensation for the days not in service and quote the contract. Give them 7 calendar days to pay (not working days). 2) Wait for 7 days and when they don't respond, file a complaint with small claims court. Ask the clerk to send a notice to their local exchange in telephone directory with another 7 calendar days to respond. 3) They still wont respond for $5 or $10. 4) Enter a default judgment. Tell the judge they insulted him/her by deeming this court to be beneath their status (appeals to vanity and not logic). The judge will be furious on their own to consider MAXIMUM enforcement. 5) Get the judge to declare that AT&T is in default of a debt to you. This is very important. Because this disassociates the original contract from the debt. In other words, in the eyes of law, AT&T is indebted to you for the said amount as if they borrowed money from you (in a way true). 5) Now the judge will ask what do you want to do: Request that the judge allows you to seize their assets for payment of this debt. Get a bailiff order. 6) Call your close friends/relatives and state there (from a pay phone or get somebody else to call) to gather at the local AT&T office for a fire sale. 7) Get the Sheriff and a deputy. Go to the AT&T office and paste the order to their door stating their assets are being seized for discharging a debt. Throw every employee out. Ask any protesters to be considered as disobeying a judge's order. 8) Ask the sheriff to seize their equipment and conduct an auction at the doors with Sheriff and his officers as guards. 9) Your friends and relatives should have arrived by now. Make them bid 10 cents or 20 cents for iPhones, telephones, routers, computers, etc., and sell it to them at that price. 10) Finish the sale within 15 mins enough to collct your debt. The longer you delay, the exponential the probability that some retarded employee will call a AT&T lawyer who gets the judgment suspended. 11) Now you have a nice collection of worthy items for the $10 you were owed by AT&T. Plus AT&T credit is screwed because you had a lien and auction of their property.
If you had owed 30 cents on a mortgage that was overdue, ANY bank would do the same to you.
Nope. Does not stand in ANY court of law. A contract is a contract is a contract between humans. Any court will first overrule this piece of crap and rule AT&T is liable to compensate for loss of service contracted for. Declaration of War, Dealings with enemy and illegal items for contract are the only ones NOT enforceable by a court. All others are strictly enforceable whatever be the cause, including but not limited to storms, rains, snow, hail, sleet, fire or loss of life of employees. Not that am heartless, but a Corporation has no soul and no heart. If i was snowed in and could not make my mortgage payment, the bank will foreclose on me, notwithstanding 10-feet of snow in my town. Similarly, when dealing with corporations, leave your heart and soul at the door. Deal with logically and legally to the letter. If they make a single mistake, however small, screw them completely. They would do the same to you.
Wrong: Copy Right is the Right of copying MY work. As a creator i, and i alone have this inalienable right. I can permit others to do the copying, but i own the right: period. What you are talking about is DRM: unrelated in this discussion.
First Question of any contract: Any contract in which any of the party is unable to fulfill the terms of the contract will be is liable to either NOT collect remuneration of the said contract for that quantity, OR reimburse the amount for that period. Will AT&T send me a check for the days my service was out? Because last i checked, weather is not a cause for NOT fulfilling a contract. For the same reason i cannot claim weather for not paying my mortgage. Question is, will AT&T refund the amount for the period of outage. If not a class-action suit can be filed in coordination with other users.
The fact remains is that monetizing a work is fine, but the right to copy still remains with the original natural person. A corporation can no more draw the Nativity Scene than a 1-year old can program in COBOL. A limited copyright forces the following: 1) A corporation which exists solely to monetize them will either train or grow MORE artists since income is not infinite from one person. If frank Sinatra's right to limit copying died with him, the corporation that monetized it would not gain profits, so it makes sense for them to "farm" more such artists, which means MORE income and opportunities for many others. Disney need not suppress the "next Miley Cyrus" at all. 2) Since the right to limit copying ends with the creators death, he would be hell bent on creating more works of art before he dies. Much like beethoven or Shakespear did. No point in Akon stopping with "Lonely" since that income would be insufficient for his generations. Hence he is forced to create more beautiful songs. Both society and he are enriched in the process.
Copyright is the right to make copies of your OWN work. Any new object you create belongs to you and only YOU have the right to duplicate the same. Anybody who does it without your knowledge or permission is violating your right. If you die, you obviously can't be around to give permissions, so the right to copy your work SHOULD be open. Unfortunately that is not so: 1) Corporations don't die. These Eternal Vampires live for ever and hence restrict the rights of others. Case for time-limited copyright for corporates based on average person's life. 2) Killing for copyright. A modern Rembrandt can be killed so that his work can be copied for profit. Punishments for such cases should be similar to anti-terrorism law.
Either, corporates should be prevented by law from owning a copyright (they are not creators, they can't walk or dance) , or limit their ownership to average human life span. So copyright for Disney's works dies with him, or upto his natural age. Or, allow only natural persons to own copyrights and specify it dies with them.
Well Said. Real gamers build their own PCs to play specific games. Mine is a kickass PC with a 9800GTX+ and a 8600GT (for PhysX) and 4GB RAM with a 64-bit dual-core processor. I built my PC for specific games like CoH: Opposing Fronts, Crysis (finally at full specs), AoE III, Galactic Civilizations II. All for $1520/- ex monitor. Upgraded every 15 months to latest. Any problems, and my local hardware company which built this for me is down at my home in 6 hours to set it right. Dell can't do that.
that making a copy from one's CD to one's computer is 'stealing'."
There are two definitions: The right to copy is the property of the owner or licensee authorised by owner to perform such acts. If you are not such a licensee, then you are breaking the contract of sale. (again highly questionable. A buyer inherits ALL rights of a Seller as per law, and the seller has NO right to post conditions on a sale once completed).
Establishing the legality of a given action is a task for the court
Again wrong. The Law establishes the legality of an action. A court ENFORCES such legality when it is brought to its attention by an "affected" party. In other words, if you take something from Walmart without paying for it, i cannot bring legal action against you. Only walmart can.
Because today they will start by charging $10 for HIGH quality. Tomorrow they will start by charging $10 for NORMAL quality. Give corporates a small chance to increase price for a select few, and they will increase the price for ALL. Treat all corporations as criminals unless proven otherwise.
why do Americans allow their Democracy to be defined by Corporations that have their own interests, and not the nation's, at heart?
Because, Corporations are loaded with money with which to buy COngresscritters. You, living on social security, do NOT have the same amount of money to buy a congresscritter. Today's rate of a congresscritter is about $2,000,000 excluding "sponsored" educational trips to Swiss Alps and Carribean.
Why does anyone who tries to exercise that right get put in gaol or executed?
Because it upsets the status quo dumbass. If you start questioning and succeed, others will rise, and ultimately the corporations will be overthrown leading to rule "by the people", "of the people". Something that neither congresscritters nor corporations want. Hence, to prevent anyone else from trying to do what you do, they make a Che Guevara out of you.
I accept that Democracy here in Australia is not what it was.
Democracy in Australia follows the Westminister model, which is why the past and present political dingos can get away with Orwellian internet, crappy telephones, a overtaxed economy, subsidies to woolworths and Coles, while beating the sydney man to death with council and state taxes.
That is very much true. All my son's pack of Scooby Doo, Tom & Jerry & Thomas Engine DVD's are scratched beyond redemption. My DVD player can play them but the day will soon come when it refuses to play. OTOH, I also own a Sony VHS Recorder/Player. I still own Star Trek Voyager in VHS. And the tapes are heavy enough, robust and still play. (to prevent fungii, i put them in sealed bags). My Son looks at me weirdly when i insert them. He did try inserting a DVD into the VHS player, but i caught him before he could damage the relic.
So sunlight is now illegal? Considering how stupid our hallowed Congress is, i would not be surprised if light bulb makers threw enough money to congressmen so that they outlaw people enjoying sunlight at day...and how illegal it is for buildings to use sunlight to "harm" its occupants...
Ultimately companies must realize that copying games without paying for them is going to continue irrespective of any technological advance companies make, because ultimately the same developers who produce these advances also hate the companies they work for. 1) Let the gamers download the game from any place. Rapidshare, torrent, etc. In fact it reduces the cost of hosting for the game company. 2) Let the buyer pay and get a key to unlock the Game completely. (I pirated Red Alert 3 because it was NOT available on my home country. It still is not.) 3) Avoid modifying OS files. Its the gamer's computer and if you have to secure your game only by trashing the gamer's PC, then your game will definitely be "modified." Just like you don;t like your game to be modified without your permission, so does the gamer does not like his PC to be modified without his permission. 4) Try to support the gamer is he finds it difficult to install or play. Don't treat him like a thief. The gamer is much, more intelligent than your answering drone.
Macs are not very good at running other FS in User Space. The NTFS3G user space file system is a joke. Unlike NT which loads them into Kernel, Mac does NOT trust anything not provided by Jobs. (Disclaimer: Iam agnostic to both: I own an iBook G4 and a kickass PC hardware with 9800GTX+ SLI running XP). NTFS read-write facility is slow, buggy and frequently crashes the application. I can format my disks in MacFS and use MacDrive to read write to them in XP. That's wayyy faster. The only two file systems that Mac truly supports (i mean as fast as NTFS in XP) are FAT32 and MacFS. The rest are a joke, and i couldn't care less, since most of the implementations would never make it to the real world. Have you EVER seen a Mac in production running on top of a NTFS read-write RAID?
Demanding Money, making unsolicited phone calls for unproven debt, making threats to property and freedom, preventing a citizen from doing his duty, deliberate ignorance of court orders, The injured party can pursue a civil case ex-parte, get a default judgement in Court for compensation, wait until the time limit passes for RIAA to pay (of course the court will send a letter to the RIAA local collection office and it will be ignored), approach the court again for redressal. The judge will ask what i want the court to do: I request the judge declare RIAA insolvent for failing to pay its debt. I go to RIAA, alone, paste the notice on RIAA's front door and ask the sheriff to seal the gates.
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but man they do suck when it comes to security. That's literally how you do it. Exploits against MS.
Ahhh No. A well installed Windows is rock-solid when it comes to security: Remember Windows NT 3.51 and NT 4.0? or even Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 Enterprise Server?
The problem is out of box its very poor on security.
Customize it a bit, and its rock solid like Linux.
And no, am not an MCSE monkey. And i use an iBook Mac OS X 10.5 at home.
OK! Gordon Brown. There. Are you happy now for the insignificant faux pas?
How does it matter if its Blair[witch] or [Sir]Brown?
How does it matter if the chicken is blind as long as the soup tastes good?
Finally!
It is time we hack the cabinet ministers home PCs and publish the information in slashdot.
After all they too are "residents".
Arrest: YES.
Convicted: NO.
Unlike US or Britain, Indian police can't store data on arrested people unless they are convicted. The law simply doesn't allow the police to store arrested persons' data indefinitely.
Once the court releases the arrested, the data is destroyed. The files are closed, and can't be reopened for 3 months. Then destroyed forever. Even if you are arrested later, the court will NOT recognize your previous arrest, because you were released.
Reality is much different here:
Like the stupid ideas of the British Parliamentarians who propose outlandish laws, these are also the same kind of crap.
The constitution contains a STRONG reference to freedom of speech and expression: Porn being one of them. So the upper house will either return it back or hold it.
Secondly, the police have lots of other things to do than look at each image and text as porn or not. The ratio is close to 1:1,6333 cops:people. Hence rest assured, this is one law that will not cross the door.
Thirdly, The Supreme Court is a HUGE people-friendly institution here that does not shy away from arresting and imprisoning even the biggest politician here. Hell, they get a kick out of doing it just for fun. This law will be challenged by an NGO and surely be banned outright, or struck down.
Lastly, the ruling party is a middle-path: Neither the right-wing BJP nor the extreme left-wing communists. Their priorities right now are the economy and Pakistan, so this law will be forgotten instantly even if passed.
Individuals: Yes.
Corporates: NO.
Can you claim the cost of buying Games as income tax deductions? Can you claim the cost of buying a new car or refinancing your mortgage as income tax deductibles?
Better yet, can you copy a program onto you a $.02 CD and claim the program's worth $250 and claim income tax deduction?
Our taxes need to reflect reality: The salary earners should get MOST benefits. Not some crappy corporate which lays off its employees at a whim.
That's the slippery slope.
I appreciate wikipedia's stand.
No Ads mean NO ADS.
Expenses have a way of rising to mean income.
One ad, if it brings excess surplus will result in more expenses, and a vicious cycle starts.
Next Jan 1st your wikipedia will be greeted by a corporate sponsor aka Salon.com
inalienable and limited times are two entirely different concepts.
inalienable refers to the fact that two things cannot be separated.
Limited time is a varied concept: applied to this case it CAN mean its valid only for certain period of time.
Making derivative works, performing the original work in public unchanged ALL arise from the same source: Right to Copy. You think derivatives are different from performing in public: they are NOT. Its like saying Sulphuric Acid, Nitric Acid and Hydrochloric Acid are ENTIRELY different liquids: They are NOT. They are acids which have the basic properties common to all acids. They react the same way to metals, water, etc. Try paying attention in school/college some time: you will be surprised how much your teachers try to teach you.
When i sell my work the buyer enjoys my work. He can make ANY changes to the work so long as he does NOT sell it in the changed condition AND/OR mention me as author. I can buy a Britney CD tomorrow, rip the songs, mix it up as startup tones, etc., Britney and certainly RIAA doesn't care so long as i do NOT attempt to sell them in any condition.
Please look into the history of copyright from the British Empire times. You will learn a lot instead of sitting and criticizing me just because you got the concepts wrong.
Act of God is the only clause available.
Hurricanes are no excuse for NOT making a payment on your mortgage and NOT an excuse for AT&T not providing you a telephone line in lieu of compensation.
Most people accept corporate overlordship without questioning. Iam not one of them.
A Credit is NOT the same as a check.
Reimbursement needs to be in the same terms of original contract.
You don't give them CREDIT for providing you service. They take your money: period.
Similarly, ask for a check or money order sent to your address. If they refuse, sue them in small claims court for violating a contract.
Why should you accept CREDIT when they don't accept yours?
A Credit is just an interest-free loan to these guys.
Refuse to accept unilateral changes to your contract and demand the repayment from them in check or cash.
Better yet, do the following:
1) Send a registered letter to their local office demanding financial compensation for the days not in service and quote the contract. Give them 7 calendar days to pay (not working days).
2) Wait for 7 days and when they don't respond, file a complaint with small claims court. Ask the clerk to send a notice to their local exchange in telephone directory with another 7 calendar days to respond.
3) They still wont respond for $5 or $10.
4) Enter a default judgment. Tell the judge they insulted him/her by deeming this court to be beneath their status (appeals to vanity and not logic). The judge will be furious on their own to consider MAXIMUM enforcement.
5) Get the judge to declare that AT&T is in default of a debt to you. This is very important. Because this disassociates the original contract from the debt. In other words, in the eyes of law, AT&T is indebted to you for the said amount as if they borrowed money from you (in a way true).
5) Now the judge will ask what do you want to do: Request that the judge allows you to seize their assets for payment of this debt. Get a bailiff order.
6) Call your close friends/relatives and state there (from a pay phone or get somebody else to call) to gather at the local AT&T office for a fire sale.
7) Get the Sheriff and a deputy. Go to the AT&T office and paste the order to their door stating their assets are being seized for discharging a debt. Throw every employee out. Ask any protesters to be considered as disobeying a judge's order.
8) Ask the sheriff to seize their equipment and conduct an auction at the doors with Sheriff and his officers as guards.
9) Your friends and relatives should have arrived by now. Make them bid 10 cents or 20 cents for iPhones, telephones, routers, computers, etc., and sell it to them at that price.
10) Finish the sale within 15 mins enough to collct your debt. The longer you delay, the exponential the probability that some retarded employee will call a AT&T lawyer who gets the judgment suspended.
11) Now you have a nice collection of worthy items for the $10 you were owed by AT&T. Plus AT&T credit is screwed because you had a lien and auction of their property.
If you had owed 30 cents on a mortgage that was overdue, ANY bank would do the same to you.
Nope. Does not stand in ANY court of law.
A contract is a contract is a contract between humans.
Any court will first overrule this piece of crap and rule AT&T is liable to compensate for loss of service contracted for.
Declaration of War, Dealings with enemy and illegal items for contract are the only ones NOT enforceable by a court.
All others are strictly enforceable whatever be the cause, including but not limited to storms, rains, snow, hail, sleet, fire or loss of life of employees.
Not that am heartless, but a Corporation has no soul and no heart. If i was snowed in and could not make my mortgage payment, the bank will foreclose on me, notwithstanding 10-feet of snow in my town.
Similarly, when dealing with corporations, leave your heart and soul at the door.
Deal with logically and legally to the letter.
If they make a single mistake, however small, screw them completely. They would do the same to you.
Wrong: Copy Right is the Right of copying MY work. As a creator i, and i alone have this inalienable right. I can permit others to do the copying, but i own the right: period.
What you are talking about is DRM: unrelated in this discussion.
First Question of any contract: Any contract in which any of the party is unable to fulfill the terms of the contract will be is liable to either NOT collect remuneration of the said contract for that quantity, OR reimburse the amount for that period.
Will AT&T send me a check for the days my service was out?
Because last i checked, weather is not a cause for NOT fulfilling a contract. For the same reason i cannot claim weather for not paying my mortgage.
Question is, will AT&T refund the amount for the period of outage.
If not a class-action suit can be filed in coordination with other users.
The fact remains is that monetizing a work is fine, but the right to copy still remains with the original natural person.
A corporation can no more draw the Nativity Scene than a 1-year old can program in COBOL.
A limited copyright forces the following:
1) A corporation which exists solely to monetize them will either train or grow MORE artists since income is not infinite from one person. If frank Sinatra's right to limit copying died with him, the corporation that monetized it would not gain profits, so it makes sense for them to "farm" more such artists, which means MORE income and opportunities for many others. Disney need not suppress the "next Miley Cyrus" at all.
2) Since the right to limit copying ends with the creators death, he would be hell bent on creating more works of art before he dies. Much like beethoven or Shakespear did. No point in Akon stopping with "Lonely" since that income would be insufficient for his generations. Hence he is forced to create more beautiful songs. Both society and he are enriched in the process.
Copyright is the right to make copies of your OWN work.
Any new object you create belongs to you and only YOU have the right to duplicate the same. Anybody who does it without your knowledge or permission is violating your right.
If you die, you obviously can't be around to give permissions, so the right to copy your work SHOULD be open.
Unfortunately that is not so:
1) Corporations don't die. These Eternal Vampires live for ever and hence restrict the rights of others. Case for time-limited copyright for corporates based on average person's life.
2) Killing for copyright. A modern Rembrandt can be killed so that his work can be copied for profit. Punishments for such cases should be similar to anti-terrorism law.
Either, corporates should be prevented by law from owning a copyright (they are not creators, they can't walk or dance) , or limit their ownership to average human life span. So copyright for Disney's works dies with him, or upto his natural age.
Or, allow only natural persons to own copyrights and specify it dies with them.
Well Said.
Real gamers build their own PCs to play specific games.
Mine is a kickass PC with a 9800GTX+ and a 8600GT (for PhysX) and 4GB RAM with a 64-bit dual-core processor.
I built my PC for specific games like CoH: Opposing Fronts, Crysis (finally at full specs), AoE III, Galactic Civilizations II.
All for $1520/- ex monitor. Upgraded every 15 months to latest.
Any problems, and my local hardware company which built this for me is down at my home in 6 hours to set it right. Dell can't do that.
that making a copy from one's CD to one's computer is 'stealing'."
There are two definitions: The right to copy is the property of the owner or licensee authorised by owner to perform such acts. If you are not such a licensee, then you are breaking the contract of sale. (again highly questionable. A buyer inherits ALL rights of a Seller as per law, and the seller has NO right to post conditions on a sale once completed).
Establishing the legality of a given action is a task for the court
Again wrong. The Law establishes the legality of an action. A court ENFORCES such legality when it is brought to its attention by an "affected" party. In other words, if you take something from Walmart without paying for it, i cannot bring legal action against you. Only walmart can.
Because today they will start by charging $10 for HIGH quality. Tomorrow they will start by charging $10 for NORMAL quality.
Give corporates a small chance to increase price for a select few, and they will increase the price for ALL.
Treat all corporations as criminals unless proven otherwise.
why do Americans allow their Democracy to be defined by Corporations that have their own interests, and not the nation's, at heart?
Because, Corporations are loaded with money with which to buy COngresscritters. You, living on social security, do NOT have the same amount of money to buy a congresscritter. Today's rate of a congresscritter is about $2,000,000 excluding "sponsored" educational trips to Swiss Alps and Carribean.
Why does anyone who tries to exercise that right get put in gaol or executed?
Because it upsets the status quo dumbass. If you start questioning and succeed, others will rise, and ultimately the corporations will be overthrown leading to rule "by the people", "of the people". Something that neither congresscritters nor corporations want. Hence, to prevent anyone else from trying to do what you do, they make a Che Guevara out of you.
I accept that Democracy here in Australia is not what it was.
Democracy in Australia follows the Westminister model, which is why the past and present political dingos can get away with Orwellian internet, crappy telephones, a overtaxed economy, subsidies to woolworths and Coles, while beating the sydney man to death with council and state taxes.
That is very much true.
All my son's pack of Scooby Doo, Tom & Jerry & Thomas Engine DVD's are scratched beyond redemption.
My DVD player can play them but the day will soon come when it refuses to play.
OTOH, I also own a Sony VHS Recorder/Player. I still own Star Trek Voyager in VHS.
And the tapes are heavy enough, robust and still play. (to prevent fungii, i put them in sealed bags).
My Son looks at me weirdly when i insert them.
He did try inserting a DVD into the VHS player, but i caught him before he could damage the relic.
So sunlight is now illegal?
Considering how stupid our hallowed Congress is, i would not be surprised if light bulb makers threw enough money to congressmen so that they outlaw people enjoying sunlight at day...and how illegal it is for buildings to use sunlight to "harm" its occupants...
Ultimately companies must realize that copying games without paying for them is going to continue irrespective of any technological advance companies make, because ultimately the same developers who produce these advances also hate the companies they work for.
1) Let the gamers download the game from any place. Rapidshare, torrent, etc. In fact it reduces the cost of hosting for the game company.
2) Let the buyer pay and get a key to unlock the Game completely. (I pirated Red Alert 3 because it was NOT available on my home country. It still is not.)
3) Avoid modifying OS files. Its the gamer's computer and if you have to secure your game only by trashing the gamer's PC, then your game will definitely be "modified." Just like you don;t like your game to be modified without your permission, so does the gamer does not like his PC to be modified without his permission.
4) Try to support the gamer is he finds it difficult to install or play. Don't treat him like a thief. The gamer is much, more intelligent than your answering drone.
Macs are not very good at running other FS in User Space.
The NTFS3G user space file system is a joke.
Unlike NT which loads them into Kernel, Mac does NOT trust anything not provided by Jobs.
(Disclaimer: Iam agnostic to both: I own an iBook G4 and a kickass PC hardware with 9800GTX+ SLI running XP).
NTFS read-write facility is slow, buggy and frequently crashes the application.
I can format my disks in MacFS and use MacDrive to read write to them in XP. That's wayyy faster.
The only two file systems that Mac truly supports (i mean as fast as NTFS in XP) are FAT32 and MacFS.
The rest are a joke, and i couldn't care less, since most of the implementations would never make it to the real world.
Have you EVER seen a Mac in production running on top of a NTFS read-write RAID?
Demanding Money,
making unsolicited phone calls for unproven debt,
making threats to property and freedom,
preventing a citizen from doing his duty,
deliberate ignorance of court orders,
The injured party can pursue a civil case ex-parte, get a default judgement in Court for compensation, wait until the time limit passes for RIAA to pay (of course the court will send a letter to the RIAA local collection office and it will be ignored), approach the court again for redressal.
The judge will ask what i want the court to do: I request the judge declare RIAA insolvent for failing to pay its debt.
I go to RIAA, alone, paste the notice on RIAA's front door and ask the sheriff to seal the gates.