The only people who can't come up with new ways to make money are either a: dinosaurs or b: people who wish to go out of business.
Lots of people have already found successful alternatives, the free product simply makes your other offerings more valuable. This is not a mystery or difficult. these things have worked for hundreds of artists, but it still involves hard work. It's far easier to make money now than it used to be, just not for the labels themselves. Surprise? they need to get over the gatekeeper role and stop trying to kill off anything that tries to make them more successful.
Copyright is by far not the only tried and true business in any sense of the imagination. Have you ever heard of live concerts? That's not a copyrighted thing, and that makes a whole lot more than cd's (copyright) do and has for far longer than copyright ever existed in the first place.
Doesn't the DOJ have better things to do than make themselves look like morons by trying to seize even more domains? Or did they forget that seizing domains essentially does nothing?
Actually, more like "wah! guys! please come back! we promise we won't spite the community!"
This doesn't mean shit unless they change the bylaws which give oracle complete control over openoffice with the ability to nullify the community basically.
This was the fight of the entire case, sony has no jurisdiction outside of japan from the evidence. Also there's a huge burden to make a person go far outside their home. Sony was fighting to keep it in Cali.
Durbin is so retarded I'm not even sure he knows what amazon is. He has written blatantly idiotic laws time and time again. I'm not even sure he knows how to use computers or understands laws.
The guy didn't seem to do perfectly, but to act like he's getting curbstomped by sony seems to be a bit of an overstatement for this early in the process. It's not like the mess of what happened with Tenenbaum v RIAA.
all it takes is one website that requires a name and an email address to reset a password/change email address and/or an easily guessable password and then they're in.
That is, if the user uses the same password as indicated or has an easy to guess password, then there's the ticket to anything and everything.
I got more notifications from the gawker breach (2) than from the Epsilon leak though (0).
Please, you do realize they settled before resolving the jurisdiction issue right? And that the facts show that the Sony which sued in California very likely has no standing (hasn't been ruled yet - per the class action's statements as well).
The case never moved forward into discovery, there was no actual proof of infringement or ANYTHING substantiated. Now he has a settlement saying "don't do it again".
#2 has never been proven in court as straight up illegal, although DMCA has no exceptions carved for it for now this would have been the case to challenge that.
Actually it's pretty freakin accurate. He gave up to just get the lawsuit over, and took substantial hits to his own freedoms.
Geohot essentially "won", but the settlement was a joke, especially considering it roughly translates to him accepting an unrealistic permanent injunction. Really, not supporting "PS3 infringing activities" that aren't specified? Say it ain't so!
1. Engaging in any unauthorized access to any SONY PRODUCT under the law
2. Engaging in any unauthorized access to any SONY PRODUCT under the terms of any SCEA or SCEA AFFILIATES' license agreement or terms of use applicable to that SONY PRODUCT, whether or not Hotz has accepted such agreement or terms of use, including without limitation:
1. reverse engineering, decompiling, or disassembling any portion of the Sony Product
2. using any tools to bypass, disable, or circumvent any encryption, security, or authentication mechanism in the Sony Product;
3. using any hardware or softare to cause the Sony Product to accept or use unauthorized, illegal or pirated softare or hardware; and
4. exploiting any Sony Product to design, develop, update or distribute unauthorized softare or hardware for use with the Sony Product.
* If any term of such SCEA or SCEA Affilates' license agreement or terms of use applicable to that Sony Product shall be determined by Congress or by a court of law in a final non-appealable decision in an action to which SCEA or an SCEA Affiliate is a party to be illegal and unenforceable, then such term shall not be binding on Hotz.
3. CIRCUMVENTING any of the TPMs or security in any SONY PRODUCT;
4. TRAFFICKING in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof that, at the time of Hotz's trafficking, circumvents any of the TPMs or security in any SONY PRODUCT, including but not limited to the Ellptical Curve Signature Algorithm ("ECDSA") Keys, encryption and/or decryption keys, dePKG firmware decrypter program, Signing Tools, 3.55 Firmware Jailbreak, and/or any other technologies that enable unauthorized access to and/or copying of the PS3 System and/or enable compatibility of unauthorized copies of other copyrighted works with the PS3 System.
5. Distributing or posting any SCEA or SCEA Affiliates' confidential or proprietary information relating to any SONY PRODUCT;
6. Knowingly assisting or inducing others to engage in any of the conduct set forth in A-E above solely directed at any SONY PRODUCT or that otherwise constitutes contributory liabilty under the law.
He had this case in the bag from the issues at hand, and instead settled giving Sony a major advantage. The facts were on his side bigtime unless there is something we don't know about.
Sony could help but dismiss as fast as possible once they realized they didn't even have a shred of a case in california. I'd bet money the settlement involves paying off all of Hotz's legal fees.
It cracks me up that they state that hotz accepted a permanent injunction as a "loss" but it doesn't even say what the injunction was for.
So Sony basically ran the hell away on this. I'm actually quite surprised if Hotz agreed to keep this settlement private, as it would do wonders to not have it private.
Standards are always being tweaked/change, but it's up to the companies seeking to make those changes doing it in an ethical way that matters most. While a lot of companies do a lot of unethical shit, the standards (and requirements of standards) do tend to speak for themselves. If this was some "Chrome-only" feature they wouldn't document it and/or open source it. If this is truly anti competitive you would hear the world shouting about it by now.
hey, way to go offtopic and throw the "woe is us turbohercules my name is Makomk and I have no fucking idea what went on but booo big company IBM on TH!"
the reality is that turbohercules was paid by MS, and threw that bullshit around to make bad press for IBM.
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as linked below, someone needs to ask apple what the hell they're doing too.
so they're closed because they won't release honeycomb until it's ready, but they're open (almost entirely) otherwise?
Do you see how fucking backwards that is?
If you replace honeycomb with "windows 8" and reverse the terms, do you realize how wrong the statement is?
hahahaha. This needs to be modded up.
While I get the humor of your trolling, how does any of that say that GPL is or isn't free, or how is that even part of the discussion?
The only people who can't come up with new ways to make money are either a: dinosaurs or b: people who wish to go out of business.
Lots of people have already found successful alternatives, the free product simply makes your other offerings more valuable. This is not a mystery or difficult. these things have worked for hundreds of artists, but it still involves hard work. It's far easier to make money now than it used to be, just not for the labels themselves. Surprise? they need to get over the gatekeeper role and stop trying to kill off anything that tries to make them more successful.
Copyright is by far not the only tried and true business in any sense of the imagination. Have you ever heard of live concerts? That's not a copyrighted thing, and that makes a whole lot more than cd's (copyright) do and has for far longer than copyright ever existed in the first place.
there's always a nice, simple, straightforward command line
Tons of developers from oracle's openoffice have already been jumping ship to libre office, so really, not at all like you protray on that.
eh, my thinking was:
Doesn't the DOJ have better things to do than make themselves look like morons by trying to seize even more domains? Or did they forget that seizing domains essentially does nothing?
also, yes, this is a different product listed, but the same scenario.
Actually, more like "wah! guys! please come back! we promise we won't spite the community!"
This doesn't mean shit unless they change the bylaws which give oracle complete control over openoffice with the ability to nullify the community basically.
Actually, this has to do with Warner music group holding back spotify with retarded licensing..
Is this supposed to be a problem though? I don't really see it as one, honestly.
It's called: here is your market, you make money this way -> X
and then becomes: your market has changed, your old way of making money is now free, find a new way.
nothing really problematic, that's just a market shift.
a market change isn't negative to the market, it's only negative to that industry.
People spend their money elsewhere. It doesn't mean music is dying.
This was the fight of the entire case, sony has no jurisdiction outside of japan from the evidence. Also there's a huge burden to make a person go far outside their home. Sony was fighting to keep it in Cali.
Durbin is so retarded I'm not even sure he knows what amazon is. He has written blatantly idiotic laws time and time again. I'm not even sure he knows how to use computers or understands laws.
The guy didn't seem to do perfectly, but to act like he's getting curbstomped by sony seems to be a bit of an overstatement for this early in the process. It's not like the mess of what happened with Tenenbaum v RIAA.
At least to some degree, I assume that disparity went away when he started getting legal funding and an actual lawyer? Donations? Etc?
all it takes is one website that requires a name and an email address to reset a password/change email address and/or an easily guessable password and then they're in.
That is, if the user uses the same password as indicated or has an easy to guess password, then there's the ticket to anything and everything.
I got more notifications from the gawker breach (2) than from the Epsilon leak though (0).
Please, you do realize they settled before resolving the jurisdiction issue right? And that the facts show that the Sony which sued in California very likely has no standing (hasn't been ruled yet - per the class action's statements as well).
The case never moved forward into discovery, there was no actual proof of infringement or ANYTHING substantiated. Now he has a settlement saying "don't do it again".
#2 has never been proven in court as straight up illegal, although DMCA has no exceptions carved for it for now this would have been the case to challenge that.
Actually it's pretty freakin accurate. He gave up to just get the lawsuit over, and took substantial hits to his own freedoms.
Geohot essentially "won", but the settlement was a joke, especially considering it roughly translates to him accepting an unrealistic permanent injunction. Really, not supporting "PS3 infringing activities" that aren't specified? Say it ain't so!
He had this case in the bag from the issues at hand, and instead settled giving Sony a major advantage. The facts were on his side bigtime unless there is something we don't know about.
Or you know, get a computer, turn on magic packet/wake on lan, and get it done cheaper.
Sony could help but dismiss as fast as possible once they realized they didn't even have a shred of a case in california. I'd bet money the settlement involves paying off all of Hotz's legal fees.
It cracks me up that they state that hotz accepted a permanent injunction as a "loss" but it doesn't even say what the injunction was for.
So Sony basically ran the hell away on this. I'm actually quite surprised if Hotz agreed to keep this settlement private, as it would do wonders to not have it private.
Where the hell do you come up with this?
Standards are always being tweaked/change, but it's up to the companies seeking to make those changes doing it in an ethical way that matters most. While a lot of companies do a lot of unethical shit, the standards (and requirements of standards) do tend to speak for themselves. If this was some "Chrome-only" feature they wouldn't document it and/or open source it. If this is truly anti competitive you would hear the world shouting about it by now.
hey, way to go offtopic and throw the "woe is us turbohercules my name is Makomk and I have no fucking idea what went on but booo big company IBM on TH!"
the reality is that turbohercules was paid by MS, and threw that bullshit around to make bad press for IBM.
and what is your imaginary sinister mission?