Um, neck injuries are orthopedic. And if it's not due to the bones/joints, then you clearly qualify under either neurological or neuro-muscular conditions. Your doctor sucks if they can't justify that.
Who cares? They're not parked in a handicapped spot, they're parked in a "DO NOT PARK HERE, RESERVED FOR ADJOINING CAR'S ACCESS RAMP" spot. Which for obvious reasons you shouldn't park in. And he gets the right to damage that property because it's where his access ramp needs to open into so that he can get into his own vehicle - via the space reserved just for his access ramp.
But I find it amusing being called one by someone defending the industry that uses copyright law to extract rents on intellectual property for corporations that by definition can't actually create anything, while depriving the actual creators any benefits from their work, and continuing to do so long after the original creators are dead.
"Disney Corporation" didn't create mickey mouse. Who ever did is dead. And it should have been in the public domain decades ago.
Amusing, but at no point did I ever say anything in defense of the companies. And you failed to explain why you aren't a hypocrite. In fact, your entire post simply made it clear that you are a fucking gigantic hypocrite.
And apparently I need to clarify points I never said, because you like to read too much into things so you can find them objectionable. But fuck it, I'm not going to.
Er, you mistake me. The healthcare providers are the ones being sold to that are buying into these tactics, not the public. It's the sort of strategy that results in things like critical business applications being outsourced to GoDaddy (as an example, I hope this doesn't actually happen).
Which will certainly net the $50 million that it cost to produce the game (ever looked at the credits on a AAA title? There's usually upward of 200 names, all working on the game for a year or so, 13 years in DNF's case).
Yeah, but Steam doesn't necessarily mean that the game has no shitty DRM. For example, Tropico 4 ($5 on Steam sale this week) before it starts has a launcher screen, that requires a registration and login with the publisher. And that's even with the Steam DRM. And if you ask them, they claim it's needed for DLC and Updates, both functions performed by Steam.
It's simple, actually. They don't give a flying fuck about stopping piracy, they care about stopping piracy during week one sales. That's the kicker - once a week or so has gone, sales drop quite dramatically naturally anyway, so the piracy is just another blip in the statistics (which they'll whine mercilessly about). The whole idea is stopping piracy from cannibalising sales during that crucial week.
As the developer of a Patient Management System, I agree completely there. Our code is littered with location dependent workarounds for individual business units doing things differently one way or another for no apparent reason.
But did they give out shiny pens and have scantily clad women doing the presentation? That seems to be how most healthcare vendors sell their products these days.
(Disclaimer: I actually work in healthcare. I've seen some of the shit solutions that come of this sales methodology).
Microsoft (or rather Bing) does tend to launch counters to pretty much every Google service and then proceed to refuse to close them when Google closes theirs. Translate API is another example of that.
No, you're wrong there. Google sells access (for advertisers) to an extremely large pool of people whom use Google services. Google does not sell anything to that pool of people. While it might be slightly disingenuous to say that the pool of people is the product, they most certainly are not the customers.
Not true. The Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 changed the rules so that only applied to US works. By law, a foreigner can bring suit and apply for statutory damages without a registration.
With one exception - foreign entities. If a UK citizen has their copyright infringed in the US, and brings suit in the US, they are entitled to statutory damages despite not having registered their copyright in the US.
Actually, all you'd do there is suddenly create a huge resurgence in retainers. The net cost of prosecuting a case would become zero for BigCorp because the legal team are a division within the company - and you can't just use a portion of their salary as the "legal cost" as they also do other stuff for the company like research, contract filings, etc.
Libraries usually actually pay more for their copies to cover the fact that people will copy the book. And beside that fact, fair use dictates that copying some of a book for certain purposes (studying for an assignment maybe?) is completely legitimate. And yes, I do think that Fair Use should be explicitly stated and immortalised in law.
Actually, since it was filmed in New Zealand, a metric fuckton was very likely lost to taxes and unionised labour. An imperial fuckton was likely lost to paying local authorities to use the land.
Who's "they"? I bet you're just as happy to pirate off indie artists and software houses as you are to pirate Windows - even though they have about as much say on copyright law as you do (which is to say close to none).
Actually, you miss one potential advantage to making it criminal - the requirement that the crime be proven beyond reasonable doubt. Currently, as a civil issue, it's merely "which is more likely?" and that tends to turn out way too much in the plaintiff's favour (we won't mention Jammie Thomas, it was pretty obvious she was guilty, even if the award was stupid large).
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Wait, so people who like Apple are fanatics but people who like Microsoft are paid shills? Way to be fucking objective. Stay classy, slashdot.
Um, neck injuries are orthopedic. And if it's not due to the bones/joints, then you clearly qualify under either neurological or neuro-muscular conditions. Your doctor sucks if they can't justify that.
Who cares? They're not parked in a handicapped spot, they're parked in a "DO NOT PARK HERE, RESERVED FOR ADJOINING CAR'S ACCESS RAMP" spot. Which for obvious reasons you shouldn't park in. And he gets the right to damage that property because it's where his access ramp needs to open into so that he can get into his own vehicle - via the space reserved just for his access ramp.
Based on comments on the WindowBreak site, "Homebrew" is code for "Pirated". Such as "I tested it by sideloading NFS Unlimited for free".
Yes, jailbreaking is about homebrew. Pffft.
We'll go with "official app sucks ass". Trust me, I have one. It's getting better though.
Microsoft does collect money on iPhones - they contain no small amount of Microsoft tech as well (Exchange ActiveSync licensing, etc).
You don't disagree however that you aren't Google's customer, and that what Google sells is access to you (among billions of others)?
But I find it amusing being called one by someone defending the industry that uses copyright law to extract rents on intellectual property for corporations that by definition can't actually create anything, while depriving the actual creators any benefits from their work, and continuing to do so long after the original creators are dead.
"Disney Corporation" didn't create mickey mouse. Who ever did is dead. And it should have been in the public domain decades ago.
Amusing, but at no point did I ever say anything in defense of the companies. And you failed to explain why you aren't a hypocrite. In fact, your entire post simply made it clear that you are a fucking gigantic hypocrite.
And apparently I need to clarify points I never said, because you like to read too much into things so you can find them objectionable. But fuck it, I'm not going to.
Er, you mistake me. The healthcare providers are the ones being sold to that are buying into these tactics, not the public. It's the sort of strategy that results in things like critical business applications being outsourced to GoDaddy (as an example, I hope this doesn't actually happen).
Which will certainly net the $50 million that it cost to produce the game (ever looked at the credits on a AAA title? There's usually upward of 200 names, all working on the game for a year or so, 13 years in DNF's case).
Funnily enough, Wii games tend to retail at a lower price too.
Yeah, but Steam doesn't necessarily mean that the game has no shitty DRM. For example, Tropico 4 ($5 on Steam sale this week) before it starts has a launcher screen, that requires a registration and login with the publisher. And that's even with the Steam DRM. And if you ask them, they claim it's needed for DLC and Updates, both functions performed by Steam.
It's simple, actually. They don't give a flying fuck about stopping piracy, they care about stopping piracy during week one sales. That's the kicker - once a week or so has gone, sales drop quite dramatically naturally anyway, so the piracy is just another blip in the statistics (which they'll whine mercilessly about). The whole idea is stopping piracy from cannibalising sales during that crucial week.
As the developer of a Patient Management System, I agree completely there. Our code is littered with location dependent workarounds for individual business units doing things differently one way or another for no apparent reason.
But did they give out shiny pens and have scantily clad women doing the presentation? That seems to be how most healthcare vendors sell their products these days.
(Disclaimer: I actually work in healthcare. I've seen some of the shit solutions that come of this sales methodology).
Microsoft (or rather Bing) does tend to launch counters to pretty much every Google service and then proceed to refuse to close them when Google closes theirs. Translate API is another example of that.
No, you're wrong there. Google sells access (for advertisers) to an extremely large pool of people whom use Google services. Google does not sell anything to that pool of people. While it might be slightly disingenuous to say that the pool of people is the product, they most certainly are not the customers.
Not true. The Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 changed the rules so that only applied to US works. By law, a foreigner can bring suit and apply for statutory damages without a registration.
With one exception - foreign entities. If a UK citizen has their copyright infringed in the US, and brings suit in the US, they are entitled to statutory damages despite not having registered their copyright in the US.
Actually, all you'd do there is suddenly create a huge resurgence in retainers. The net cost of prosecuting a case would become zero for BigCorp because the legal team are a division within the company - and you can't just use a portion of their salary as the "legal cost" as they also do other stuff for the company like research, contract filings, etc.
Sounds like an argument for appropriately scaling the damages, not making it legal.
Libraries usually actually pay more for their copies to cover the fact that people will copy the book. And beside that fact, fair use dictates that copying some of a book for certain purposes (studying for an assignment maybe?) is completely legitimate. And yes, I do think that Fair Use should be explicitly stated and immortalised in law.
Actually, since it was filmed in New Zealand, a metric fuckton was very likely lost to taxes and unionised labour. An imperial fuckton was likely lost to paying local authorities to use the land.
Who's "they"? I bet you're just as happy to pirate off indie artists and software houses as you are to pirate Windows - even though they have about as much say on copyright law as you do (which is to say close to none).
Actually, you miss one potential advantage to making it criminal - the requirement that the crime be proven beyond reasonable doubt. Currently, as a civil issue, it's merely "which is more likely?" and that tends to turn out way too much in the plaintiff's favour (we won't mention Jammie Thomas, it was pretty obvious she was guilty, even if the award was stupid large).
Granted, that's the only advantage... but yeah.