Your comment did not say "player that phones home, with spyware, rootkits and executables", your comment said "rootkit". This is a discussion about an EMI statement, not a Sony/BMG/Columbia statement.
iTunes purchases are alright if you don't really give a damn about audio quality (which, considering I rip all my music into 128 AAC, I don't) and you don't mind not being able to play them at full quality on a loud stereo if the mood takes you (which is why I like CDs better). The DRM doesn't really affect me all that much, to be frank; I must have reinstalled Windows about twice and have never gone over the 5-PC limit (deauthorising and reauthorising helps).
When the main motivation for piracy (semantics nazis get off my back) is that piracy involves almost no direct cost to the consumer, it won't do much else.
The funny thing about your question is that in some ways, users are about two clicks from this scenario every time they run Windows XP: from the Start menu, select Set Program Access and Defaults. And it's not limited to the browsers you list, but any browser that they can download.
That's a bit of a silly thing to say. The question was if users were, on install, without downloading beforehand, given a choice, would they choose IE? This scenario requires one to actively download a new browser first.
E17 was under active development, last I heard. Just because there's no news for a topic doesn't mean that topic should be turned into something else...
Don't get your hopes up on anything changing though...it takes the/. editors about 2 years to change anything regarding those icons...lots of committees and meetings and such I expect:^)
Retailers buying products from suppliers tend to have contracts with said suppliers, based around terms of sale, cuts of the profits, when the products can be sold, where, who to... It's just a done thing.
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The prevailing attitude seems to be "FUD's alright if we're the ones spewing it"; that is, it's OK if it's in the name of the cause
Personally I think it's rubbish, and that maybe nobody should spew FUD, but, hey...
That's quite alright tbh, I mean, even the public domain doesn't want Cliff Richard's records...
(jokes aside, it's more Sir Cliff's fault for living so long...)
The IPPR is very very close to the governing Labour party, a fact which was in the submission of this exact same story which I made a few hours ago. :)
Now now, the UK Government is competent at some things.
Those things being failure, recklessness and brazen stupidity.
Because as we all know, people are always honest with themselves and others when they fill out web based surveys.
That's why Mariah Carey made "Glitter", you bastards. She was hurt.
Nah, other way around: I think she made it to hurt the world. But, they did well: they made a film nobody pirated.
Or bought, or saw, for that matter.
Indeed; any kind of download can't really match a properly made CD.
Your comment did not say "player that phones home, with spyware, rootkits and executables", your comment said "rootkit". This is a discussion about an EMI statement, not a Sony/BMG/Columbia statement.
Maybe you ought to make your comments less vague.
EMI didn't ship a rootkit.
Please check your facts before you post idiotic crap like this.
iTunes purchases are alright if you don't really give a damn about audio quality (which, considering I rip all my music into 128 AAC, I don't) and you don't mind not being able to play them at full quality on a loud stereo if the mood takes you (which is why I like CDs better). The DRM doesn't really affect me all that much, to be frank; I must have reinstalled Windows about twice and have never gone over the 5-PC limit (deauthorising and reauthorising helps).
When the main motivation for piracy (semantics nazis get off my back) is that piracy involves almost no direct cost to the consumer, it won't do much else.
Sad, really.
The funny thing about your question is that in some ways, users are about two clicks from this scenario every time they run Windows XP: from the Start menu, select Set Program Access and Defaults. And it's not limited to the browsers you list, but any browser that they can download.
That's a bit of a silly thing to say. The question was if users were, on install, without downloading beforehand, given a choice, would they choose IE? This scenario requires one to actively download a new browser first.
Mobile YouTube?! Jesus christ. YouTube is bad enough when people DON'T have it in public places...
No, really, just...mods on crack...
P2P lawsuits and such are just that, done through lawyers. The police don't come into it.
E17 was under active development, last I heard. Just because there's no news for a topic doesn't mean that topic should be turned into something else...
/. editors about 2 years to change anything regarding those icons...lots of committees and meetings and such I expect :^)
Don't get your hopes up on anything changing though...it takes the
Sony is a monopolist w.r.t. Sony products
Please don't tell me that's meant to be a pejorative. That a company is a monopolist over their own products. Please.
Retailers buying products from suppliers tend to have contracts with said suppliers, based around terms of sale, cuts of the profits, when the products can be sold, where, who to... It's just a done thing.
Stop using the Enlightenment icon for unrelated stories, kdawson. I don't think it means what you think it means.
That's nothing. The GP can blow it out of other places too.
Had just finished downloading FreeBSD 5.4. On a shitty shitty SHITTY PC, using Wget for Windows, over a very slow Internet connection.
Then I looked on Slashdot and found that FreeBSD 6.0 had just come out. Literally 20 seconds after the discs had finished burning.
I'm still pissed about that now.
How about "drank the coffee".
If you email Apple they'll let you download all your music again through iTunes.
You mean like noise cancelling headphones?
More than 50% of Slashdot uses Windows, according to Wikipedia. So...