It is easier to switch to C# from Java than PHP, which is an ugly hack on top of ugly hacks. Classes, namespaces, type safety, all these are tacked on poorly to PHP, and native in Java or C#.
Just use ASP.NET if you want to use something familiar to Java.
I think people are judgemental because it's Adobe. I'm surprised it doesn't bug every third web site visitor to call the sys-admin and ask them to run Adobe Update, and have 4 security vulns a day.
It's simply that the honour system sort of works, but the whole thing tips over when you introduce people who aren't honourable. This applies equally everywhere - I'd bet that if you tried this same experiment in the US, you'd have similar results. Some will be honourable, some will be unsure of what to do and give up, and some will take full advantage of it. I expect we'd see the same result with DRM-free movie downloads (except that the confused group wouldn't exist - they'd probably split with the majority going to the honourable side). A large number of people would go legit, and a large number of people would continue to pirate - or even pirate more.
(And the idiot thing refers to the fact that there was more than one self-checkout lane, and they all got locked up by alcohol purchasers, and this is even taking into account that it's illegal to sell alcohol on public holidays here - they should have known better, and they definitely should have got the message after the first one).
Actually no. The law says a private company by the name of Re:Sound collects the royalties, and hands the money (minus "collection" and "distribution" costs of course) to the original performer of the tracks. The board simply supervises the licensing arrangement between "every man and his dog" and Re:Sound. It's identical to the shitty arrangement with SoundExchange in the USA.
The word you're looking for is "pyramid scheme". Your payments are funding the retirement of rich baby boomers, not yours. And now that the baby boomers are retiring, they're pulling the ladder behind them to ensure you don't get to use it. Keep watch of your local law changes. I bet there's lots of push to "raise the age of retirement" and shit like that...
Make a CD yourself. Take it to a venue. Play said CD. Believe it or not, if you're in the US or Canada you'll get hit up by SoundExchange or Re:Sound to pay fees for playing music in public. If you point out that you are the holder of the copyright in question, they'll rightfully* point out that this is irrelevant, and you have to pay anyway. You then have to request your money back from them, which will be minus collection and distribution costs.
* in the sense that this is what the law says, not that it even resembles morally right.
That's not actually entirely true. Like SoundExchange in the USA, Re:Sound can collect money from you even for playing entirely original tracks, which you then have to claw back as the artist - minus actual collection and distribution costs, of course. The exception is if you actually perform it live. In that case, Re:Sound can't get a cent, even if you're playing Britney Spears songs (since you're paying SOCAN for the composer's rights, and you are the performer).
I suspect that was introduced by a piece of client side kiddyproofing software, because the word "locuntur" is present right there, and only became"*lo*censored*ur" after a particular edit by an anonymous user (since banned, and the change reverted).
Not fraud, per se, but it violates the ISBN standard, and the ISBN agencies frown on it (would they revoke your ISBNs? Not sure). There must be absolutely no changes to the work for it to still qualify to use the same ISBN number, barring a cover change or a price change.
That's only in the US. For example, in New Zealand ISBNs are issued at no charge by the National Library, provided you supply a copy of your work to the National Library for archiving (which you are required to by law - it's our equivalent of the Library of Congress). In the UK, Nielsen (yes, the TV people) give you ISBNs, and charge you £118.68 for 10 of them. In Canada, Collections Canada (their equivalent of the Library of Congress) issues them for free when you deposit your work (again, which you must do by law).
So yeah, "ridiculous fees" only applies when you're in the USA. Everywhere else it ranges from "a completely sane free system" to "a bit expensive, but not completely insane".
This. I bought a first run book by a big name author with Harper Collins. There was an entire chapter where the author had transposed the wrong character name through the whole thing, making a later chapter make no fucking sense. Really immersion destroying.
Lest anyone think this is just another example of why publishers are unnecessary and we should all just buy books self-published by the author, I emailed Harper Collins and got an email back the next day saying "yes, we did see that. A new revised copy has been despatched to you". Four days later, I got a new copy of the book delivered to my door directly by the publisher at their expense. They didn't try to palm me off to the retailer, or give me a coupon so I'd have to go to a bookseller and get a copy on my own time, or anything like that - they just sent me a new copy. I can virtually guarantee that I would not get that sort of service from a self-publisher, because they'd go broke if they had to do that since they don't have the economies of scale necessary to absorb the cost of such a fuckup.
Word documents? I use Beyond Compare. Works perfectly fine with Word docs. And PDFs even.
(And our government produces laws in HTML. With built in History and revisions functions. Yours produces them in plain text does it not? Finally, something the government does that should be followed!)
So long as the draconian bullshit doesn't affect my ability to enjoy unauthorised paid-for access to the same services the Americans whine aren't good enough, I don't care. Seriously - you Americans whine about how Hulu is crap and Netflix are crap and you want better options, but those are fucking nirvana compared to the non-existent options the rest of the world has.
Seriously, industry. Improve what you already have, and fucking make it more available. Currently I'm having to go to some pretty fucking byzantine lengths just to give you money. Just make it so I can give you that money and get what I want. Tell the local networks to go fuck themselves and just make the content available directly on the same schedule as the place it came from. People who don't want to pay can just watch it on the TV on the archaic network schedule.
There are certain types of foreign debit cards which Hulu for some reason recognises as American. Alternatively, services like Entropay work as the virtual card is likely issued by an American entity.
I think a better example is when a supermarket in NZ with self-service checkouts accidentally opened on a public holiday last year. Of 50 people, about 12 of them actually paid for their groceries. The rest of them either loaded up their trolleys and stole the food, or abandoned their trolleys and left with nothing. (Admittedly, halfway through the day it became impossible to pay for the groceries, because some idiot scanned a bottle of alcohol and the self-service checkouts locked up waiting for a supervisor to validate the customers' ID to purchase it - which was impossible as no staff were present).
Ah, see? There's the problem. No matter what they do (short of driving to your house and giving you the movie and $500), people like you will always be able to find a new justification for piracy. Frankly, I reckon they should simply ban people like you from even having the internet, and focus on providing the product that people whose desires can be met will go for. Basically, meet the wants of those whose wants can be met, and the rest can go fuck themselves.
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I dunno whether I'd prefer my programming language trying to crush me or trying to poison me.
Touche.
It is easier to switch to C# from Java than PHP, which is an ugly hack on top of ugly hacks. Classes, namespaces, type safety, all these are tacked on poorly to PHP, and native in Java or C#.
Just use ASP.NET if you want to use something familiar to Java.
I think people are judgemental because it's Adobe. I'm surprised it doesn't bug every third web site visitor to call the sys-admin and ask them to run Adobe Update, and have 4 security vulns a day.
Go tell that to Python.
There's no way Gmail is Java. Google is a PHP and Python shop.
It's simply that the honour system sort of works, but the whole thing tips over when you introduce people who aren't honourable. This applies equally everywhere - I'd bet that if you tried this same experiment in the US, you'd have similar results. Some will be honourable, some will be unsure of what to do and give up, and some will take full advantage of it. I expect we'd see the same result with DRM-free movie downloads (except that the confused group wouldn't exist - they'd probably split with the majority going to the honourable side). A large number of people would go legit, and a large number of people would continue to pirate - or even pirate more.
(And the idiot thing refers to the fact that there was more than one self-checkout lane, and they all got locked up by alcohol purchasers, and this is even taking into account that it's illegal to sell alcohol on public holidays here - they should have known better, and they definitely should have got the message after the first one).
Actually no. The law says a private company by the name of Re:Sound collects the royalties, and hands the money (minus "collection" and "distribution" costs of course) to the original performer of the tracks. The board simply supervises the licensing arrangement between "every man and his dog" and Re:Sound. It's identical to the shitty arrangement with SoundExchange in the USA.
The word you're looking for is "pyramid scheme". Your payments are funding the retirement of rich baby boomers, not yours. And now that the baby boomers are retiring, they're pulling the ladder behind them to ensure you don't get to use it. Keep watch of your local law changes. I bet there's lots of push to "raise the age of retirement" and shit like that...
Ah, but here's where it gets shit.
Make a CD yourself. Take it to a venue. Play said CD. Believe it or not, if you're in the US or Canada you'll get hit up by SoundExchange or Re:Sound to pay fees for playing music in public. If you point out that you are the holder of the copyright in question, they'll rightfully* point out that this is irrelevant, and you have to pay anyway. You then have to request your money back from them, which will be minus collection and distribution costs.
* in the sense that this is what the law says, not that it even resembles morally right.
That's not actually entirely true. Like SoundExchange in the USA, Re:Sound can collect money from you even for playing entirely original tracks, which you then have to claw back as the artist - minus actual collection and distribution costs, of course. The exception is if you actually perform it live. In that case, Re:Sound can't get a cent, even if you're playing Britney Spears songs (since you're paying SOCAN for the composer's rights, and you are the performer).
Thank fuck that most sane countries still consider that sort of thing illegal then. You guys really need to reign in your government.
This particular copy was uploaded by Superior Formatting Publishing (oh the irony). Now onto the shaming.
The publishers are permitted to make whatever changes they want by contract.
I suspect that was introduced by a piece of client side kiddyproofing software, because the word "locuntur" is present right there, and only became"*lo*censored*ur" after a particular edit by an anonymous user (since banned, and the change reverted).
Wikipedia does not filter. Its users may try.
Not fraud, per se, but it violates the ISBN standard, and the ISBN agencies frown on it (would they revoke your ISBNs? Not sure). There must be absolutely no changes to the work for it to still qualify to use the same ISBN number, barring a cover change or a price change.
That's only in the US. For example, in New Zealand ISBNs are issued at no charge by the National Library, provided you supply a copy of your work to the National Library for archiving (which you are required to by law - it's our equivalent of the Library of Congress). In the UK, Nielsen (yes, the TV people) give you ISBNs, and charge you £118.68 for 10 of them. In Canada, Collections Canada (their equivalent of the Library of Congress) issues them for free when you deposit your work (again, which you must do by law).
So yeah, "ridiculous fees" only applies when you're in the USA. Everywhere else it ranges from "a completely sane free system" to "a bit expensive, but not completely insane".
This. I bought a first run book by a big name author with Harper Collins. There was an entire chapter where the author had transposed the wrong character name through the whole thing, making a later chapter make no fucking sense. Really immersion destroying.
Lest anyone think this is just another example of why publishers are unnecessary and we should all just buy books self-published by the author, I emailed Harper Collins and got an email back the next day saying "yes, we did see that. A new revised copy has been despatched to you". Four days later, I got a new copy of the book delivered to my door directly by the publisher at their expense. They didn't try to palm me off to the retailer, or give me a coupon so I'd have to go to a bookseller and get a copy on my own time, or anything like that - they just sent me a new copy. I can virtually guarantee that I would not get that sort of service from a self-publisher, because they'd go broke if they had to do that since they don't have the economies of scale necessary to absorb the cost of such a fuckup.
You're using SAP. They aren't problems, they're undocumented negative features.
Word documents? I use Beyond Compare. Works perfectly fine with Word docs. And PDFs even.
(And our government produces laws in HTML. With built in History and revisions functions. Yours produces them in plain text does it not? Finally, something the government does that should be followed!)
So long as the draconian bullshit doesn't affect my ability to enjoy unauthorised paid-for access to the same services the Americans whine aren't good enough, I don't care. Seriously - you Americans whine about how Hulu is crap and Netflix are crap and you want better options, but those are fucking nirvana compared to the non-existent options the rest of the world has.
Seriously, industry. Improve what you already have, and fucking make it more available. Currently I'm having to go to some pretty fucking byzantine lengths just to give you money. Just make it so I can give you that money and get what I want. Tell the local networks to go fuck themselves and just make the content available directly on the same schedule as the place it came from. People who don't want to pay can just watch it on the TV on the archaic network schedule.
There are certain types of foreign debit cards which Hulu for some reason recognises as American. Alternatively, services like Entropay work as the virtual card is likely issued by an American entity.
Check your retirement funds. There's a good chance that despite being one of those pirates, you're also one of those shareholders.
I think a better example is when a supermarket in NZ with self-service checkouts accidentally opened on a public holiday last year. Of 50 people, about 12 of them actually paid for their groceries. The rest of them either loaded up their trolleys and stole the food, or abandoned their trolleys and left with nothing. (Admittedly, halfway through the day it became impossible to pay for the groceries, because some idiot scanned a bottle of alcohol and the self-service checkouts locked up waiting for a supervisor to validate the customers' ID to purchase it - which was impossible as no staff were present).
Ah, see? There's the problem. No matter what they do (short of driving to your house and giving you the movie and $500), people like you will always be able to find a new justification for piracy. Frankly, I reckon they should simply ban people like you from even having the internet, and focus on providing the product that people whose desires can be met will go for. Basically, meet the wants of those whose wants can be met, and the rest can go fuck themselves.