I'm vaguely reminded of Brass Eye and its satirical criticism of video games (for the non-initiated, they got a bunch of easily-bought celebrities to come on camera and say that a cartoon dog's eyes on a game could be used as a webcam by a paedophile).
In addition (correct me if I'm wrong here), Apple has made absolutely no move against those who have cracked the FairPlay DRM, such as the move that RealNetworks made a short while back.
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Done right? Pah.
Using iTunes to manage a decent sized music collection is like shooting yourself in the head with a gun that looks like a candy cane. Sure it looks nice, and it's really glossy on the surface, but at the end of the day you're still blowing your brains out.
The slowness of iTunes notwithstanding, the utter lack of any decent playlisting features, the ability to sync to 1 (one) music player, the pisspoor MP3 encoder included, the terrible UI which doesn't fit in with Windows and won't even let you change the UI font to something different, did I mention the slowness?
It's really, really awful. I always find it funny to hear people screaming about Windows Media Player being the devil, because it's a fucking paragon of virtue compared to iTunes (at least WMP's DRM scheme works with more than one audio player).
Given my comical experience trying to play Half Life 2 (a game which has been out for at least a year, for an OS platform that is already extant and in wide use) through Wine (it runs, but with appallingly slow frame rates, even compared to the one time I tried to run it on a box with only onboard graphics), I honestly doubt that Wine devs will come anywhere close to being able to support Halo 2 within a week.
OK, so they COULD release security fixes for their copy protection software......or perhaps they could not install their shitware on unsuspecting peoples' PCs in the first place, and have a CD just be a CD.
Put it this way. Record off the radio: fine. Give that tape to a friend: fine. Share that tape over the Internet with someone you don't fucking know: no, not fine.
If you don't want to pay for X, the solution is simple. Choose not to partake of X, make your own X, or convince someone to give you X for free. Stealing X is stealing, no matter what X is.
Thank you so much. I've been looking for a neat way to say this, and you found it.
I hate this idea that some have that you're entitled to free music or whatever.
He still hates casual software piracy; the only difference is now he has much more influence...
This is a bad thing? I didn't realise software piracy was some kind of fundamental right. Nor did I realise that, you know, not liking software piracy made you some kind of bully.
You didn't explicitly say that, no, but that's the impression I got.
What a stupid idea. That's like saying that if people buy condoms, they'll just have lots of unprotected sex and get HIV because they think they'll be protected, so it's best not to buy condoms.
Any decent virus scanner worth its salt should pick up email viruses anyway.
The point is not to have it completely unbreakable, it's to obfuscate things so copying is a pain in the arse.
The grandparent was right though, if these twats weren't pirating so much do you really think anti-piracy measures would be necessary? Businesses generally don't do things for the hell of it.
I've played that fucker through at least 5 times now, and always found something new. A little ammo cache, a small supply of health, a subtle thing the characters do that'es easy to miss...
As opposed to Half Life 1, which was so painful I don't want to repeat it.
For goodness sake! The people who populate those boards of inquiry you mention are just as much mind-controlled to believe the lies as anybody else. Or they are controlled on a higher level wherein they deliberately work to create a false impression of justice in order to keep the people distracted from the truth of the matter; that Television exists for the primary purpose of population mind-control.
Do you even know what the Hutton Inquiry was about? The BBC accused the government of lying over the Iraq War; The Hutton Inquiry said the BBC was wrong. Quite simple.
As for the rest of your post, what the fuck are you on about? That has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
Bullshit. I guess you didn't hear about that whole Hutton Inquiry dealie. Or that whole "impartial by law" thing. Or the Ofcom codes which slap down partial broadcasters.
The idea of the BBC being propaganda is utterly ludicrous.
I'm not saying everyone should be forced to listen to music they dislike. Just that people who use supposed "shitness" of modern music as an excuse for whoring it from P2P are dicks.
Oh yeah, and let's not forget "All the music today is shitty, so I download it and listen to it instead of buying it." (In what fucked up universe would that make any sense?)
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I'm vaguely reminded of Brass Eye and its satirical criticism of video games (for the non-initiated, they got a bunch of easily-bought celebrities to come on camera and say that a cartoon dog's eyes on a game could be used as a webcam by a paedophile).
In short; utter fucking bollocks.
In addition (correct me if I'm wrong here), Apple has made absolutely no move against those who have cracked the FairPlay DRM, such as the move that RealNetworks made a short while back.
You're wrong.
Done right? Pah.
Using iTunes to manage a decent sized music collection is like shooting yourself in the head with a gun that looks like a candy cane. Sure it looks nice, and it's really glossy on the surface, but at the end of the day you're still blowing your brains out.
The slowness of iTunes notwithstanding, the utter lack of any decent playlisting features, the ability to sync to 1 (one) music player, the pisspoor MP3 encoder included, the terrible UI which doesn't fit in with Windows and won't even let you change the UI font to something different, did I mention the slowness?
It's really, really awful. I always find it funny to hear people screaming about Windows Media Player being the devil, because it's a fucking paragon of virtue compared to iTunes (at least WMP's DRM scheme works with more than one audio player).
You know, you could post that in reply to just about any story on Slashdot and get an instant +5 Insightful...
Dunno about you, but I think it's bacon time. Yay!
Bacon sarnies for all! (Freedom sandwiches?)
I was using Cedega. It was still pisspoor.
Given my comical experience trying to play Half Life 2 (a game which has been out for at least a year, for an OS platform that is already extant and in wide use) through Wine (it runs, but with appallingly slow frame rates, even compared to the one time I tried to run it on a box with only onboard graphics), I honestly doubt that Wine devs will come anywhere close to being able to support Halo 2 within a week.
OK, so they COULD release security fixes for their copy protection software... ...or perhaps they could not install their shitware on unsuspecting peoples' PCs in the first place, and have a CD just be a CD.
Just a thought.
Well, I would have put it less swearily than that but yes...neither of the grandparent posts were trolls at all, they seemed fair criticism to me.
Since when has sharing other peoples' work/taking other people's work from thousands of anonymous people ever been "private copying"?
And I thought the mantra was "we use P2P legally"?
Well, yes. Copying software is ultimately just a form of speech, and therefore in principle should be considered a right.
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Right. Copyright infringement is free speech. Of course.
Put it this way. Record off the radio: fine. Give that tape to a friend: fine. Share that tape over the Internet with someone you don't fucking know: no, not fine.
Same goes with CDs, tapes, whatever.
Back then, Bill was on roughly the same scale; a hobbyist.
True, he's not that now, but when he wrote that letter he was.
If you don't want to pay for X, the solution is simple. Choose not to partake of X, make your own X, or convince someone to give you X for free. Stealing X is stealing, no matter what X is.
Thank you so much. I've been looking for a neat way to say this, and you found it.
I hate this idea that some have that you're entitled to free music or whatever.
He still hates casual software piracy; the only difference is now he has much more influence...
This is a bad thing? I didn't realise software piracy was some kind of fundamental right. Nor did I realise that, you know, not liking software piracy made you some kind of bully.
You didn't explicitly say that, no, but that's the impression I got.
What a stupid idea. That's like saying that if people buy condoms, they'll just have lots of unprotected sex and get HIV because they think they'll be protected, so it's best not to buy condoms.
Any decent virus scanner worth its salt should pick up email viruses anyway.
The point is not to have it completely unbreakable, it's to obfuscate things so copying is a pain in the arse.
The grandparent was right though, if these twats weren't pirating so much do you really think anti-piracy measures would be necessary? Businesses generally don't do things for the hell of it.
You joking? This is sofa throwing material, dude.
I think he meant Income Support, which is a whole different kettle of fish.
I've played that fucker through at least 5 times now, and always found something new. A little ammo cache, a small supply of health, a subtle thing the characters do that'es easy to miss...
As opposed to Half Life 1, which was so painful I don't want to repeat it.
For goodness sake! The people who populate those boards of inquiry you mention are just as much mind-controlled to believe the lies as anybody else. Or they are controlled on a higher level wherein they deliberately work to create a false impression of justice in order to keep the people distracted from the truth of the matter; that Television exists for the primary purpose of population mind-control.
Do you even know what the Hutton Inquiry was about? The BBC accused the government of lying over the Iraq War; The Hutton Inquiry said the BBC was wrong. Quite simple.
As for the rest of your post, what the fuck are you on about? That has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
Yes. *claps* That was the joke.
Anything else that's stunningly obvious for us? Anything juicy about bears or the Pope that we might already know about?
Bullshit. I guess you didn't hear about that whole Hutton Inquiry dealie. Or that whole "impartial by law" thing. Or the Ofcom codes which slap down partial broadcasters.
The idea of the BBC being propaganda is utterly ludicrous.
I'm not saying everyone should be forced to listen to music they dislike. Just that people who use supposed "shitness" of modern music as an excuse for whoring it from P2P are dicks.
Oh yeah, and let's not forget "All the music today is shitty, so I download it and listen to it instead of buying it." (In what fucked up universe would that make any sense?)