Your system sounds great. I'd love to pop around to your house and stab you to death sometime, since according to you, government has no business working to keep society orderly and your death is a private matter. I'm sure your family will be happy to spend thousands of dollars... no wait, government has no business getting involved in private matters so there's no money either. Hmm. I can't see how this will work.
(Hint, it won't work. Your idea is a crackpot theory spouted by Ron Paul supporting luddites who have no business participating society, since they loathe it so much. Even Ron Paul himself is not crazy enough to support your insane plan, and he's pretty crazy).
Noscript enabled? To ensure that Wikipedia "remains available in an emergency", they implemented their blackout in Javascript and do not do it on the Mobile sites.
It's not really acceptable in either - but Steam has had that provision since the start while it was never there with Impulse and Gamestop unilaterally altered the contract with Impulse customers to add it.
Subscribers can tick the checkbox that says "No Subscriber Bonus", which removes the asterisk and any "Subscriber" modifications people add in their discussion settings.
Apple gets the credit because it was the first one that...c) had an app store with useful apps in it on the day of launch...
No it didn't - the App Store was launched only around the time of the second-generation iPhone. The first one, Apple insisted that everyone would be OK with just HTML5 web apps.
It makes sense, given the scathing feedback Brad Wardell got over selling out to those bottom-feeding bloodsucking scumbags at Gamestop. Within days of their official takeover, they have pretty much unravelled all of the trust Stardock had built up in Impulse (e.g. by not showing DRM schemes reliably and by altering the Terms of Service to prevent refunds, give them permission to give your personal details to whoever the fuck they want, and to revoke all your purchases at any time for any or no reason). Since Stardock was Impulse-exclusive (naturally) many people swore never to buy another Stardock product again until they were available on Steam. Hence, Stardock products are now on Steam.
Only the original owner can access multiplayer without a key. Subsequent owners need to purchase a $20 "Online Pass" in order to access any multiplayer whatsoever.
If it's Windows, you could use something like Powershell Server (free for single concurrent connections) to execute your torrent client with a magnet link over SSH.
If everyone decided to rampantly download stuff based on your logic, then stuff wouldn't get made - or at least not to the same quality (even for independents, whether or not there is a chance they'll get paid determines whether they can take the risk of working on it full time or just in the 4 hours a day they aren't at work or sleeping).
It's not theft if you already have a license. Hell, I'm not convinced it's even copyright infringement.
HOWEVER: Diablo II is a pretty shit example to use - enter your CD-key into battle.net and Blizzard will let you download Diablo II and all the patches for free. No buying twice or pirating involved.
I could not agree with this more. I think half the problems with copyright would be solved simply by codifying "Abandonware" as an actual legal concept. I get why I can't freely download Commander Keen for example, as iD still sells it. But why can I not download say, Barrage, legally - despite it being impossible to purchase it while both the developer and publisher still exist?
That's nice. Now tell me what software I can use to run PPC applications on Lion? Wait, there is none? Oh, that's terrible.
Besides, 32-bit Windows 7 can and does run 16-bit DOS applications. 64-bit does not because the processor is physically incapable of running 16-bit code in 64-bit mode, and there's perfectly reasonable alternative solutions freely available (ex. DOSBox) so there's no need to write an emulation layer.
Under their system, it cannot be tied directly back to you. The vote has no way of being identified as yours, but for obvious reasons it can be identified as for a candidate, hence they use that to determine where the campaign cash goes. Of course, it's fairly obvious you're just being disingenuous, as the way the system works is blindingly goddamn obvious.
Notice and Takedown is stupid though - ideally the US should have gone with the more sane Notice and Notice system, whereby the ISP simply passes on the notice to the site owner, and they can choose to either act on it immediately (Takedown) or send a counter-notice - rather than being required to take down the content until the site owner can make that decision.
I can't really comment on that. I did get the address wrong too - it's http://gpl-violations.org/. Anyway, they claim to have a 100% success rate, with over 100 cases tried (against companies as large as D-Link, TomTom, Fujitsu-Siemens, and Gigabyte). I'd call that pretty effective.
Except that Google operates the GXBO programmes, so ultimately it's up to them to make sure that their partners and employees are not stepping out of line and damaging their reputation.
You're not entirely correct. Google's chief selling point is that you're supposed to be able to trust them - they don't do bad things. Their reputation is one of their biggest assets, and damage to that is not going to go unnoticed.
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Your system sounds great. I'd love to pop around to your house and stab you to death sometime, since according to you, government has no business working to keep society orderly and your death is a private matter. I'm sure your family will be happy to spend thousands of dollars ... no wait, government has no business getting involved in private matters so there's no money either. Hmm. I can't see how this will work.
(Hint, it won't work. Your idea is a crackpot theory spouted by Ron Paul supporting luddites who have no business participating society, since they loathe it so much. Even Ron Paul himself is not crazy enough to support your insane plan, and he's pretty crazy).
Noscript enabled? To ensure that Wikipedia "remains available in an emergency", they implemented their blackout in Javascript and do not do it on the Mobile sites.
It's not really acceptable in either - but Steam has had that provision since the start while it was never there with Impulse and Gamestop unilaterally altered the contract with Impulse customers to add it.
Subscribers can tick the checkbox that says "No Subscriber Bonus", which removes the asterisk and any "Subscriber" modifications people add in their discussion settings.
Apple gets the credit because it was the first one that ...c) had an app store with useful apps in it on the day of launch ...
No it didn't - the App Store was launched only around the time of the second-generation iPhone. The first one, Apple insisted that everyone would be OK with just HTML5 web apps.
It makes sense, given the scathing feedback Brad Wardell got over selling out to those bottom-feeding bloodsucking scumbags at Gamestop. Within days of their official takeover, they have pretty much unravelled all of the trust Stardock had built up in Impulse (e.g. by not showing DRM schemes reliably and by altering the Terms of Service to prevent refunds, give them permission to give your personal details to whoever the fuck they want, and to revoke all your purchases at any time for any or no reason). Since Stardock was Impulse-exclusive (naturally) many people swore never to buy another Stardock product again until they were available on Steam. Hence, Stardock products are now on Steam.
Only the original owner can access multiplayer without a key. Subsequent owners need to purchase a $20 "Online Pass" in order to access any multiplayer whatsoever.
Frankly, if your choice is between buying it new or buying it used at Gamestop/EB, you're better off buying it new.
If it's Windows, you could use something like Powershell Server (free for single concurrent connections) to execute your torrent client with a magnet link over SSH.
That's not bartering, that's haggling. Bartering is when you exchange non-monetary compensation for the product.
Jesus fuck that's convoluted!
I'm just that more tempted to try it now...
If everyone decided to rampantly download stuff based on your logic, then stuff wouldn't get made - or at least not to the same quality (even for independents, whether or not there is a chance they'll get paid determines whether they can take the risk of working on it full time or just in the 4 hours a day they aren't at work or sleeping).
Only if we can also deprive you of your salary. That's what you're advocating doing to the real independents (as opposed to the corporate producers).
It's not theft if you already have a license. Hell, I'm not convinced it's even copyright infringement.
HOWEVER: Diablo II is a pretty shit example to use - enter your CD-key into battle.net and Blizzard will let you download Diablo II and all the patches for free. No buying twice or pirating involved.
I could not agree with this more. I think half the problems with copyright would be solved simply by codifying "Abandonware" as an actual legal concept. I get why I can't freely download Commander Keen for example, as iD still sells it. But why can I not download say, Barrage, legally - despite it being impossible to purchase it while both the developer and publisher still exist?
Are you referring to WinZip in general, or your own specific evaluation copy?
That's nice. Now tell me what software I can use to run PPC applications on Lion? Wait, there is none? Oh, that's terrible.
Besides, 32-bit Windows 7 can and does run 16-bit DOS applications. 64-bit does not because the processor is physically incapable of running 16-bit code in 64-bit mode, and there's perfectly reasonable alternative solutions freely available (ex. DOSBox) so there's no need to write an emulation layer.
Under their system, it cannot be tied directly back to you. The vote has no way of being identified as yours, but for obvious reasons it can be identified as for a candidate, hence they use that to determine where the campaign cash goes. Of course, it's fairly obvious you're just being disingenuous, as the way the system works is blindingly goddamn obvious.
Notice and Takedown is stupid though - ideally the US should have gone with the more sane Notice and Notice system, whereby the ISP simply passes on the notice to the site owner, and they can choose to either act on it immediately (Takedown) or send a counter-notice - rather than being required to take down the content until the site owner can make that decision.
I can't really comment on that. I did get the address wrong too - it's http://gpl-violations.org/. Anyway, they claim to have a 100% success rate, with over 100 cases tried (against companies as large as D-Link, TomTom, Fujitsu-Siemens, and Gigabyte). I'd call that pretty effective.
In addition to, not because of.
Yes, Google has issued a statement and apology.
Of course, and Google apologises when they did nothing wrong.
I find that even less likely then your "likely" possibilities.
Except that Google operates the GXBO programmes, so ultimately it's up to them to make sure that their partners and employees are not stepping out of line and damaging their reputation.
You're not entirely correct. Google's chief selling point is that you're supposed to be able to trust them - they don't do bad things. Their reputation is one of their biggest assets, and damage to that is not going to go unnoticed.