Too many people are stating that as fact, but I think you might be wrong. Remember, iOS is found in iPhone, iPod Touches, iPads and Apple TV. On phone, you might be correct, but in general, iOS is probably still ahead.
When they're able to ask for it, then it's obvious they deserve it.
This is awfully absurd. Maybe they are already asking to be let out of Seaworld and all the other cages we keep them in. Perhaps we aren't capable of understanding them? Does one simply ignore all signs of intelligence because we simply enjoy their tricks? Your suggestion in many ways is how slavery was justified by stating that the slaves were somehow an inferior animal.
I don't think that is absurd at all. If they are that intelligent, then they should realise we speak a different language, and they should let us know in other ways, such as by refusing to cooperate with us. I don't know about slaves, but I was under the impression that quite a few of them became very vocal about the whole slavery thing. If you look at Africa, the so called second class people got guns and fought for independence.
What do you do on your 35 acre plot though? Honestly asking. You are really in a minority in the developed world. I live in the UK, and I cannot say I much love the small size of houses/flats here. But there ought to be a reasonable density that allows us to have space, and still mean we can have good mass transit.
When has Apple _ever_ disabled hardware that it sold to customers. Ever. The Apple that won't even ask for a registration code when installing software on its machines. Apple might do many things, but one of them isn't putting or using hardware kill switches on its machines. Apple wants you to buy their hardware. They don't really care if you don't use their software once you have done that, but you will have made them their money.
That system is unworkable. It reduces artists and other creative types to be receivers of charity. People pay them if they want to. Can you imagine working under those conditions, where you turned up at work and your employer paid you if they felt that you had done work justifying your getting paid.
Lack of respect for copyright deprives the artist _and_ society by reducing the incentive to create.
Copyrights do protect them. The protection is not perfect, but it is there. Case in point, Paramount pictures does not create copies of Warner movies and sell them. Absence of copyright would allow commercial organisations to repack other organisations' works and sell them on for (very little) profit.
Copyright was created because it democratises the process of creation of art. It is not, and should not be expected to be a perfect system. But it allows artists and creators an opportunity to create and be rewarded in the market for their art. We do not have to be dependent on benevolent patrons who dictate what art can be created because they pay for it.
I like using the example of the $200m blockbuster movie as an example. If there was no legal impediment to cinema owners just copying movies they want to show, then no one would want to spend that kind of money if their work could be freely copied without compensation. Then we would be dependent on whoever had the money to make movies to create what they think we ought to see. The profit motive at least ensures that movies are created that benefit viewers because viewers vote with their dollars.
You cannot argue that the system is fundamentally flawed because it relies on artificial scarcity. Copyrights protect the work of those who want their work to be protected. Anyone who wants their work to be licensed on completely free terms can do so. But one thing is for sure. There is no one spending big money to make movies that are freely downloadable. That is the proof that the copyright system works.
I can connect to the company's network via a VPN. I can't download anything from there to my PC. My laptop is just a dumb terminal as far as connecting to the work network is concerned. So no need to remote wipe there. Besides, the reason companies want to remote wipe your phone is because those are more easily lost or stolen.
It rewards companies that make games that people want to play. If companies make crap games, no one plays them, or even downloads them, and companies make no money.
Not all DRM punishes non-pirates more than it prevents piracy. Case in point, PS3 games, and XBOX 360 games, and Nintendo games. In fact, I daresay, given the size of the video games industry, DRM thwarts piracy more than it actually hurts users, if at all. On the PC, DRM is a challenge, definitely.
Value is not imaginary. The value of a product is the maximum you would pay for it. The value differs from person to person. The difference between the value and the price you pay is the consumer surplus.
Perception of value doesn't drop when others get it for less. People don't like being treated unfairly.
The reason countries are finding it difficult in the Euro is because they do not want to default. It's a completely bizarre situation. Investor get more yield by investing in Irish bonds compared to German ones, and that should reflect a greater risk of default. Countries that are in trouble should default, and the economic theory is that if they don't have a primary deficit (their revenues equal or exceed their spending, with the exception of interest costs) then they should probably default. But for some reason, this is politically untenable.
Why doesn't fiction count? If it's obvious enough to a person who is writing 'fiction' why should a patent be awarded. I could trawl through old Star Trek movies looking for ideas, and patent the concepts I get from there.
How can a place you don't want to escape from be a prison. Prison is a place you are held in against your will. The moment you are not held against your will, you cease to me in prison. Even if the sign on the wall says "prison".
I have thought through it. For regular password changes to be effective, you have to change your password before the attacker has a reasonable chance of having cracked it, which would mean a fraction of the time it would take to brute force it. It would be silly to change it at a time when the attacker has, for example, a 1 in 3 chance of having found your password. So in effect, you are trying to make brute forcing about as effective as guessing, so you have to change the password frequently enough such that the attacker may as well be guessing them, rather than trying to brute force it. Now, I believe an attacker is going for the low hanging fruit. If it is going to take 2 years to brute force your password, the attacker is not even going to try.
If you lose your token, then you inform your admin and get it blocked. It's easier to notice that your token has been stolen than that your password has been compromised.
That sort of assumes that when you change your password, you change it to some combination he had already tried. Chances are he hasn't tried an significant number of possible combinations, so it's more security theatre than good security. In fact, the better the password, the more likely regularly changing the password is not useful.
I think you are conflating issues here. The cost of distribution is a complete red herring. What matters is how much the public are willing to pay for content, and how much the rights holders are willing to supply it for. Rights holders want to maximise profit, so will sell at the profit maximising price.
You are still supposed to pay for the copy you download. You have to obtain the copy legally. Fair use only governs what you can do with your legally acquired copy of the song.
I don't think Apple was going for domination of the smartphone. Apple wants to sell lots of expensive smartphones, and they are not going to sell 100m of those year to year.
Actually, movies are just about unaffected by the recession. People can't buy their big luxuries n a recession, but they will still treat themselves to small luxuries, like sweets and a movie ticket. This is actually a very good time to make a 3D push.
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Too many people are stating that as fact, but I think you might be wrong. Remember, iOS is found in iPhone, iPod Touches, iPads and Apple TV. On phone, you might be correct, but in general, iOS is probably still ahead.
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When they're able to ask for it, then it's obvious they deserve it. This is awfully absurd. Maybe they are already asking to be let out of Seaworld and all the other cages we keep them in. Perhaps we aren't capable of understanding them? Does one simply ignore all signs of intelligence because we simply enjoy their tricks? Your suggestion in many ways is how slavery was justified by stating that the slaves were somehow an inferior animal.
I don't think that is absurd at all. If they are that intelligent, then they should realise we speak a different language, and they should let us know in other ways, such as by refusing to cooperate with us. I don't know about slaves, but I was under the impression that quite a few of them became very vocal about the whole slavery thing. If you look at Africa, the so called second class people got guns and fought for independence.
What do you do on your 35 acre plot though? Honestly asking. You are really in a minority in the developed world. I live in the UK, and I cannot say I much love the small size of houses/flats here. But there ought to be a reasonable density that allows us to have space, and still mean we can have good mass transit.
When has Apple _ever_ disabled hardware that it sold to customers. Ever. The Apple that won't even ask for a registration code when installing software on its machines. Apple might do many things, but one of them isn't putting or using hardware kill switches on its machines. Apple wants you to buy their hardware. They don't really care if you don't use their software once you have done that, but you will have made them their money.
That system is unworkable. It reduces artists and other creative types to be receivers of charity. People pay them if they want to. Can you imagine working under those conditions, where you turned up at work and your employer paid you if they felt that you had done work justifying your getting paid.
Lack of respect for copyright deprives the artist _and_ society by reducing the incentive to create.
Copyrights do protect them. The protection is not perfect, but it is there. Case in point, Paramount pictures does not create copies of Warner movies and sell them. Absence of copyright would allow commercial organisations to repack other organisations' works and sell them on for (very little) profit.
Copyright was created because it democratises the process of creation of art. It is not, and should not be expected to be a perfect system. But it allows artists and creators an opportunity to create and be rewarded in the market for their art. We do not have to be dependent on benevolent patrons who dictate what art can be created because they pay for it.
I like using the example of the $200m blockbuster movie as an example. If there was no legal impediment to cinema owners just copying movies they want to show, then no one would want to spend that kind of money if their work could be freely copied without compensation. Then we would be dependent on whoever had the money to make movies to create what they think we ought to see. The profit motive at least ensures that movies are created that benefit viewers because viewers vote with their dollars.
You cannot argue that the system is fundamentally flawed because it relies on artificial scarcity. Copyrights protect the work of those who want their work to be protected. Anyone who wants their work to be licensed on completely free terms can do so. But one thing is for sure. There is no one spending big money to make movies that are freely downloadable. That is the proof that the copyright system works.
You can email your backup key to yourself. So you could have a backup key backed-up as it were.
I can connect to the company's network via a VPN. I can't download anything from there to my PC. My laptop is just a dumb terminal as far as connecting to the work network is concerned. So no need to remote wipe there. Besides, the reason companies want to remote wipe your phone is because those are more easily lost or stolen.
It rewards companies that make games that people want to play. If companies make crap games, no one plays them, or even downloads them, and companies make no money.
Banks will just call them "overdraft arrangement charges" and happily go on their way.
Not all DRM punishes non-pirates more than it prevents piracy. Case in point, PS3 games, and XBOX 360 games, and Nintendo games. In fact, I daresay, given the size of the video games industry, DRM thwarts piracy more than it actually hurts users, if at all. On the PC, DRM is a challenge, definitely.
Value is not imaginary. The value of a product is the maximum you would pay for it. The value differs from person to person. The difference between the value and the price you pay is the consumer surplus. Perception of value doesn't drop when others get it for less. People don't like being treated unfairly.
The reason countries are finding it difficult in the Euro is because they do not want to default. It's a completely bizarre situation. Investor get more yield by investing in Irish bonds compared to German ones, and that should reflect a greater risk of default. Countries that are in trouble should default, and the economic theory is that if they don't have a primary deficit (their revenues equal or exceed their spending, with the exception of interest costs) then they should probably default. But for some reason, this is politically untenable.
Why doesn't fiction count? If it's obvious enough to a person who is writing 'fiction' why should a patent be awarded. I could trawl through old Star Trek movies looking for ideas, and patent the concepts I get from there.
How can a place you don't want to escape from be a prison. Prison is a place you are held in against your will. The moment you are not held against your will, you cease to me in prison. Even if the sign on the wall says "prison".
I have thought through it. For regular password changes to be effective, you have to change your password before the attacker has a reasonable chance of having cracked it, which would mean a fraction of the time it would take to brute force it. It would be silly to change it at a time when the attacker has, for example, a 1 in 3 chance of having found your password. So in effect, you are trying to make brute forcing about as effective as guessing, so you have to change the password frequently enough such that the attacker may as well be guessing them, rather than trying to brute force it. Now, I believe an attacker is going for the low hanging fruit. If it is going to take 2 years to brute force your password, the attacker is not even going to try.
If you lose your token, then you inform your admin and get it blocked. It's easier to notice that your token has been stolen than that your password has been compromised.
That sort of assumes that when you change your password, you change it to some combination he had already tried. Chances are he hasn't tried an significant number of possible combinations, so it's more security theatre than good security. In fact, the better the password, the more likely regularly changing the password is not useful.
I think you are conflating issues here. The cost of distribution is a complete red herring. What matters is how much the public are willing to pay for content, and how much the rights holders are willing to supply it for. Rights holders want to maximise profit, so will sell at the profit maximising price.
You are still supposed to pay for the copy you download. You have to obtain the copy legally. Fair use only governs what you can do with your legally acquired copy of the song.
I don't think Apple was going for domination of the smartphone. Apple wants to sell lots of expensive smartphones, and they are not going to sell 100m of those year to year.
Actually, movies are just about unaffected by the recession. People can't buy their big luxuries n a recession, but they will still treat themselves to small luxuries, like sweets and a movie ticket. This is actually a very good time to make a 3D push.