New Zealand. Regional price for a boxset of a season of "x" (where x is any reasonably popular TV programme) is around $80-$110 for DVD, or $120-$150 for blu-ray. Plus of course either going to a shop or paying $5 for shipping. Movies are $40 for DVD or $50-$60 for blu-ray. Blu-ray burners set you back $200 (readers only about $100) but the blank discs are still $30 a pop.
By contrast, Amazon charges £15 for DVD (£25 for a boxset) and £20 for a blu-ray (and the same for some boxsets, up to about £40), and has free shipping. As it comes to less than ~$700 locally, no tax is charged at the border.
Yes, but they don't tend to deliberately freeze the finances to ensure the corporation can't pay its bills so that the company's key business assets get repossessed. In this instance, they did (copied the drives so that the servers are no longer considered evidence, then froze the finances so MegaUpload can't pay its hosting bill, then send a letter to the hosting companies informing them that the government has no further need of the servers so they may be disposed of according to the company's non-payment policy).
No, not subjective at all. They create a product and offer it. Deciding you do not like the terms does not give you the right to take the product for free. Offer and acceptance. Not offer and take.
And whether or not they would or wouldn't try to pass stupid laws, you destroy all credibility for your side by also partaking in piracy. You have no right to "blame" anyone while you're on the moral low ground (with the people passing the stupid laws, might I add).
In the war of force, China would crush the US. It's been like that for years since China started gearing up (do we even know how large their standing army is? Regardless, their population is 1b+ which puts the US to shame and sure as shit gives them a larger military base in a pinch). Typical deluded American Patriot. Face it, your country is not the most powerful on earth. Has not been for a long time.
What your country excels at is exactly as I said (also, whoosh!) - large numbers of convoluted treaties no-one can understand (hell, if ACTA gets kiboshed we can just use the TPPA to do the same thing, or write another obscure treaty! And, um, national security, yeah!)
It's also specifically not protected in New Zealand either, as Parallel Importing is a specifically legal activity (which the big US mega-corps despise, as we can get their third world priced products which are identical to their first world priced products - they become their own competition!)
And you're basically the reason these scumbags pass these laws. If you aren't willing to pay, you shouldn't acquire the product either. You and those like you tank the entire cause.
yet the movie companies are still charging ass raping prices on single episodes of shows (last I checked just for a single season of a series it was over $100 and it was all DRM tastic) and have made it illegal to rip your new movie to your iPod.
When was that, 1980? iTunes charges $3 per episode in US prices, and at most ~$60 for a full series... in HD (usually less though). About the same price as DVD (or slightly cheaper). But yes, encrusted with one of the worst DRM schemes known - what's format shifting?
That's just called "being a criminal". The correct thing to do would be to say that you did in fact commit the crime, then say why it should not be illegal in the first place. And don't forget to exhaust all your appeals against the sentence (not the judgement).
While you're at it, you might want to direct your congressman's attention to ACTA's sharper fanged big brother, the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. TPPA makes ACTA look like fuzzy kittens in comparison - and that's only from the few bits we've seen leaked (the US government demands other negotiating countries protect it on National Security grounds). This particular one is particularly vicious in that it gives Big Pharma the right to sue government purchasing schemes that fail to "accurately reflect the value of the patents" in negotiations for bulk medicine supplies. It will single-handedly quadruple the cost of schemes like Medicaid in the US or PHARMAC in New Zealand (not sure of Australia's equivalent).
No, because if Firefox becomes unresponsive, it becomes unresponsive. I frequently have to sit and wait for up to a minute for Firefox to start responding to me again when it decides to lock up. Which happens no less than once an hour. Apparently it's because of Firefox's shitty garbage collection practices.
The blog is basing their assertions based on the publicly available logs of a conversation between the guy that "makes" Iron and the Chromium developers. Whether it's a scam or not, I dunno. But it's undeniable that the Iron guy only made it so that he could pick up a few bucks from Adsense for doing nothing.
I do not have a problem. There is no way to download Xcode 4 from the Developer Center unless you have a paid program membership. It says this in no less than 5 places. You have to go to the App Store, which only offers it for 10.7.
Jesus, I can't understand why you don't get it through your thick head that you are clearly wrong. Everypiece of information about Xcode 4 disagrees with your assertion. Including no less than three Apple sites.
Xcode runs on OS X Lion and includes the Xcode IDE, Instruments, iOS Simulator, the latest Mac OS X and iOS SDKs, and hundreds of powerful features:
The App Store won't even give it to you (barring a bug in MAS) when you don't meet the minimum requirements- the minimum requirements being OS X 10.7 Lion. I.e. not Snow Leopard, which is 10.6, a lower number than 10.7, which is the requirement.
Well, your government believes it has the right to exercise its authority anywhere on the planet, and has been caught writing laws for other countries (when it doesn't outright invade them) so in all fairness, the entire planet should get to vote in US elections.
Slight tongue in cheek aside - these people [US citizens living overseas] are still under the jurisdiction of your government, and still pay taxes (my understanding is for US citizens, federal taxes are based on worldwide income?) so why shouldn't they get input into the election process? I thought taxation without representation was the antithesis of what the US was all about?
From where, The Pirate Bay? The download link for free developer accounts (I have one) just links you to http://developer.apple.com/xcode/ - which prompts you to either get it off the App Store (which explicitly states "Requires Lion") or pay for a developer program membership. Logging into my paid developer account removes the prompt to pay but still just links to the app store. Unless you downloaded Xcode 3, which is a free download...
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The government seizes the property too, so in the event they're found innocent the suspected drug dealer can simply carry on as they were.
New Zealand. Regional price for a boxset of a season of "x" (where x is any reasonably popular TV programme) is around $80-$110 for DVD, or $120-$150 for blu-ray. Plus of course either going to a shop or paying $5 for shipping. Movies are $40 for DVD or $50-$60 for blu-ray. Blu-ray burners set you back $200 (readers only about $100) but the blank discs are still $30 a pop.
By contrast, Amazon charges £15 for DVD (£25 for a boxset) and £20 for a blu-ray (and the same for some boxsets, up to about £40), and has free shipping. As it comes to less than ~$700 locally, no tax is charged at the border.
Yes, but they don't tend to deliberately freeze the finances to ensure the corporation can't pay its bills so that the company's key business assets get repossessed. In this instance, they did (copied the drives so that the servers are no longer considered evidence, then froze the finances so MegaUpload can't pay its hosting bill, then send a letter to the hosting companies informing them that the government has no further need of the servers so they may be disposed of according to the company's non-payment policy).
No, not subjective at all. They create a product and offer it. Deciding you do not like the terms does not give you the right to take the product for free. Offer and acceptance. Not offer and take.
And whether or not they would or wouldn't try to pass stupid laws, you destroy all credibility for your side by also partaking in piracy. You have no right to "blame" anyone while you're on the moral low ground (with the people passing the stupid laws, might I add).
For what it's worth, I just buy the blu-rays off Amazon UK for half the price with free shipping to me on the other side of the planet.
In the war of force, China would crush the US. It's been like that for years since China started gearing up (do we even know how large their standing army is? Regardless, their population is 1b+ which puts the US to shame and sure as shit gives them a larger military base in a pinch). Typical deluded American Patriot. Face it, your country is not the most powerful on earth. Has not been for a long time.
What your country excels at is exactly as I said (also, whoosh!) - large numbers of convoluted treaties no-one can understand (hell, if ACTA gets kiboshed we can just use the TPPA to do the same thing, or write another obscure treaty! And, um, national security, yeah!)
It's also specifically not protected in New Zealand either, as Parallel Importing is a specifically legal activity (which the big US mega-corps despise, as we can get their third world priced products which are identical to their first world priced products - they become their own competition!)
Actually, rentals do. They charge an incredible amount to video shops for their rental copies, despite them being identical to regular ones.
And you're basically the reason these scumbags pass these laws. If you aren't willing to pay, you shouldn't acquire the product either. You and those like you tank the entire cause.
Large numbers of convoluted treaties that no-one understands and you aren't allowed to read?
yet the movie companies are still charging ass raping prices on single episodes of shows (last I checked just for a single season of a series it was over $100 and it was all DRM tastic) and have made it illegal to rip your new movie to your iPod.
When was that, 1980? iTunes charges $3 per episode in US prices, and at most ~$60 for a full series... in HD (usually less though). About the same price as DVD (or slightly cheaper). But yes, encrusted with one of the worst DRM schemes known - what's format shifting?
That's just called "being a criminal". The correct thing to do would be to say that you did in fact commit the crime, then say why it should not be illegal in the first place. And don't forget to exhaust all your appeals against the sentence (not the judgement).
While you're at it, you might want to direct your congressman's attention to ACTA's sharper fanged big brother, the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. TPPA makes ACTA look like fuzzy kittens in comparison - and that's only from the few bits we've seen leaked (the US government demands other negotiating countries protect it on National Security grounds). This particular one is particularly vicious in that it gives Big Pharma the right to sue government purchasing schemes that fail to "accurately reflect the value of the patents" in negotiations for bulk medicine supplies. It will single-handedly quadruple the cost of schemes like Medicaid in the US or PHARMAC in New Zealand (not sure of Australia's equivalent).
No, because if Firefox becomes unresponsive, it becomes unresponsive. I frequently have to sit and wait for up to a minute for Firefox to start responding to me again when it decides to lock up. Which happens no less than once an hour. Apparently it's because of Firefox's shitty garbage collection practices.
Yes you could, you could scroll to them because the status bar is part of the window chrome, and the status popup is not.
Yes you would, you can scroll with the status bar. Because the tooltip doesn't take up space, you can't.
The blog is basing their assertions based on the publicly available logs of a conversation between the guy that "makes" Iron and the Chromium developers. Whether it's a scam or not, I dunno. But it's undeniable that the Iron guy only made it so that he could pick up a few bucks from Adsense for doing nothing.
I do not have a problem. There is no way to download Xcode 4 from the Developer Center unless you have a paid program membership. It says this in no less than 5 places. You have to go to the App Store, which only offers it for 10.7.
Jesus, I can't understand why you don't get it through your thick head that you are clearly wrong. Every piece of information about Xcode 4 disagrees with your assertion. Including no less than three Apple sites.
No, not end of story.
The App Store won't even give it to you (barring a bug in MAS) when you don't meet the minimum requirements- the minimum requirements being OS X 10.7 Lion. I.e. not Snow Leopard, which is 10.6, a lower number than 10.7, which is the requirement.
Well, your government believes it has the right to exercise its authority anywhere on the planet, and has been caught writing laws for other countries (when it doesn't outright invade them) so in all fairness, the entire planet should get to vote in US elections.
Slight tongue in cheek aside - these people [US citizens living overseas] are still under the jurisdiction of your government, and still pay taxes (my understanding is for US citizens, federal taxes are based on worldwide income?) so why shouldn't they get input into the election process? I thought taxation without representation was the antithesis of what the US was all about?
From where, The Pirate Bay? The download link for free developer accounts (I have one) just links you to http://developer.apple.com/xcode/ - which prompts you to either get it off the App Store (which explicitly states "Requires Lion") or pay for a developer program membership. Logging into my paid developer account removes the prompt to pay but still just links to the app store. Unless you downloaded Xcode 3, which is a free download...
So, um, yeah. Stop lying.
Not end of story.
"Requirements: Mac OS X 10.7 or later".
That's the boilerplate for all App Store pages. Now if you re-read the page...
One would hope you aren't going to fabricate something with your 3D printer then just stick it in there.
10.7 gives it to you free. 10.6 does not.