"Mr. Highgate, is sharing music files on the Internet wrong?"
Certainly not, providing you have the permission of the copyright owner to do so.
Only after their next question (presumed to be, "what if you don't have that permission?"), do you then get into the 40 minute talk on the state of the mainstream music industry. You could even point out to the musically inclined that it doesn't have to be that way - that they have the right and power to control their creations unless they sign them away to a delegatee of the Big 5.
Structuring the topic that way changes the conversation quite a bit.
I saw The World Is Not Enough on a plane before I ever saw it "for real". I don't know the entire catalog of edits, but one that stuck out even at the time was in the very begining when the "Rupert Murdoch wannabe bond villian" guy was listening to his cronies rifle off the day's headlines.
"And there's been a big train crash in California."
Never mind the fact that the word "train" sounded like it had been dubbed in, you usually hear them described as "train wrecks" or "derailments" and the like. "train crash" just isn't quite what slips off the tongue.
Of course the line is "PLANE crash," but airlines never want bad news from the industry to invade the cabin, for reasonably obvious reasons. The selection of newspapers and magazines also suffers when an air travel incident is in the news. It's almost like being on a sequestered jury - your newspaper comes to you with big holes cut out of it. But I digress.
What really bothers me about content editing like that is that it's usually plainly obvious what was changed, and often it's pretty clear what used to be there. If anyone with half a brain can figure out what was there before the edit, why bother with the editing?
... Only if I were a NASA manager. The crew isn't even remotely in danger (at least, no more danger than they are generally in being in orbit). The worst case scenario here isn't death of the crew, it's abandonment of the station. If the CO2 levels get too high, they come back to Earth in the emergency descent soyuz.
What if this power supply was connected to nothing but a resistor on a heat sink? Could this artificially raise my metabolic rate? Could simply removing glucose from the blood stream lead to weight loss?
Only those words aren't really all that made-up. They refer to Coca plants and Kola nuts, which were major ingredients in the stuff at the time.
The CocaCola company back in the early part of the last century embarked on a long rash of trademark litigation with Pepsi and a few others. After much blood and treasure spent on lawyers, "Cola" was regarded as a generic term. Which is why we have Pepsi Cola (though both companies lately have concentrated on the first word, giving us "Coke" and "Pepsi").
DVDs only have SD information encoded on them (480i).
DVDs actually often contain ED (480p), not SD (480i) material. That's why there's a benefit to hooking up your DVD player to your TV's progressive inputs (if it has them).
Think of the state the world would be in if drug dealers could afford to buy legislation and law enforcement like the media cartels can?
You must be new here.
Oh, and remember: legalization is exactly what the drug cartels don't want. Without a black market to skew prices, most illicit drugs would be quite inexpensive. Law enforcement for the drug cartels is like patents for software firms: a market force that is largely anti-competitive and can sometimes hit you with costly surprises (but not too often, so long as it's carefully managed).
He has no problem with people earning money from software...
...so long as it is impossible to do so.
In his little universe, there is Free Software and Evil(tm) Software. Free Software must have its source code given away for free. If you believe that that does not imply that people cannot make money with it, you are falling for the "software support and services" straw man.
The program they no longer use will remain unethical as long as it is non-free
That's it in a nutshell: RMS says that it is unethical to license software other than under a FSF-approved license. That is, it is unethical to profit from your labor, if you are a software developer (please do not try to throw up the straw man about software support and services). Comrade Lenin would be most pleased.
Here in the SF Bay Area, KCSM-TV gave up its analog transmitter already. Viewers can only watch it now via DTV, cable or satellite. The decision for them was forced by the lease on the site of their analog transmitter (aparently they put their digitial transmitter somewhere else).
I think the only way the transition will be acomplished in a reasonable timeframe would be for the converter boxes to be subsidized. I'm ordinarily not in favor of government subsidies, but this is one time it's probably going to be necessary. Make a tuner box that connects up to an antenna, and has HDMI, firewire, S-video, component and regular analog video and stereo audio outputs and make it cost $50 retail. Remember, anyone with cable or satellite won't need one.
I was quite pleased the Pope passed away; he truly deserved that.
Deserved what? To live to a ripe old age and die of natural causes and be mourned by a quarter of the planet's population when he was gone? Hell, I'll take a helping of that too, please.
I own an EyeTV 500. And Senator, the EyeTV 500 is no TiVo.
At the heart of the EyeTV 500 it really only does timed recordings. It has some integration with TitanTV, but at the end of the day, it's half-assed - nothing even close to the reliability and flexibility of a TiVo season pass.
To top it all off, about 10-20% of the time I ask it to record something, it fails.
Yes, it is broadcast flag safe and has no DRM, but it still has a long way to go to be a TiVo.
[...]what the change will do is make web apps better able to use native computer resources
Hmm. Something about the prospect of Microsoft making it easier for web apps to use local resources is downright horrifying.
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Panther has it too. Just select the "jail bars" column view in a finder window and click on a file. A preview will, for most types, show up in the right-most column.
I've only once started from a completely clean drive -- and that's because I replaced the system drive with a larger capacity unit.
I've even upgraded to bigger drives without having to do a full install. Carbon Copy Cloner will quite happily copy your boot disk to another drive that you can have sitting, say, temporarily in an external USB or FW enclosure. When it's done, you power off, replace the boot drive with the new one and you're done.
Say you get a nice audio setup but you were going to put in your own speakers afterward, you don't go back to the dealership and demand a refund.
Your analogy-fu is weak.
If part of the purchase contract for the car includes a clause that says that you may not play operas in pig-latin over the speakers (the precise restriction makes no difference, it merely has to be something to which you do not agree), and if you don't agree to that restriction you can return the speakers for a full refund, then yes, you are entitled to such a refund.
Ok, so if I decide to steal CherryOS and market it as GrapeOS, can CherryOS sue me?
They sure can. Just because they stole section A from someone else does not negate their rights over section B they wrote themselves.
The author (or copyright holder) of section A can sue them, but that's not saying the same thing.
The GPL says that in order to distribute section A they must distribute the source code for section B for free, but if they choose not to do that, it doesn't give you the right to distribute section B.
Of course, if the copyright holder of section A distributed section B under the terms of the GPL and then said "So sue me" to the author of section B and indemnified anyone they gave the code to, that would put the screws to the section B author - sort of "put up or shut up," as it were.
The hard part is getting the source code for section B without committing a felony.
You may have been joking when you replied, but it wasn't modded 'funny', so how might I have known?:-)
Of course, even if I were a lawyer, I wouldn't be your lawyer, so none of the above should be construed as legal advice.
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Certainly not, providing you have the permission of the copyright owner to do so.
Only after their next question (presumed to be, "what if you don't have that permission?"), do you then get into the 40 minute talk on the state of the mainstream music industry. You could even point out to the musically inclined that it doesn't have to be that way - that they have the right and power to control their creations unless they sign them away to a delegatee of the Big 5.
Structuring the topic that way changes the conversation quite a bit.
"And there's been a big train crash in California."
Never mind the fact that the word "train" sounded like it had been dubbed in, you usually hear them described as "train wrecks" or "derailments" and the like. "train crash" just isn't quite what slips off the tongue.
Of course the line is "PLANE crash," but airlines never want bad news from the industry to invade the cabin, for reasonably obvious reasons. The selection of newspapers and magazines also suffers when an air travel incident is in the news. It's almost like being on a sequestered jury - your newspaper comes to you with big holes cut out of it. But I digress.
What really bothers me about content editing like that is that it's usually plainly obvious what was changed, and often it's pretty clear what used to be there. If anyone with half a brain can figure out what was there before the edit, why bother with the editing?
I'd start getting a little nervous....
I'm only half kidding with this.
What if this power supply was connected to nothing but a resistor on a heat sink? Could this artificially raise my metabolic rate? Could simply removing glucose from the blood stream lead to weight loss?
Fine.
The CocaCola company back in the early part of the last century embarked on a long rash of trademark litigation with Pepsi and a few others. After much blood and treasure spent on lawyers, "Cola" was regarded as a generic term. Which is why we have Pepsi Cola (though both companies lately have concentrated on the first word, giving us "Coke" and "Pepsi").
DVDs actually often contain ED (480p), not SD (480i) material. That's why there's a benefit to hooking up your DVD player to your TV's progressive inputs (if it has them).
But nobody would be there to see it.
You must be new here.
Oh, and remember: legalization is exactly what the drug cartels don't want. Without a black market to skew prices, most illicit drugs would be quite inexpensive. Law enforcement for the drug cartels is like patents for software firms: a market force that is largely anti-competitive and can sometimes hit you with costly surprises (but not too often, so long as it's carefully managed).
"Steve's views were so discredited" = chicken
"M$ agree[s] with him now" = egg
In his little universe, there is Free Software and Evil(tm) Software. Free Software must have its source code given away for free. If you believe that that does not imply that people cannot make money with it, you are falling for the "software support and services" straw man.
That's it in a nutshell: RMS says that it is unethical to license software other than under a FSF-approved license. That is, it is unethical to profit from your labor, if you are a software developer (please do not try to throw up the straw man about software support and services). Comrade Lenin would be most pleased.
Here in the SF Bay Area, KCSM-TV gave up its analog transmitter already. Viewers can only watch it now via DTV, cable or satellite. The decision for them was forced by the lease on the site of their analog transmitter (aparently they put their digitial transmitter somewhere else).
I think the only way the transition will be acomplished in a reasonable timeframe would be for the converter boxes to be subsidized. I'm ordinarily not in favor of government subsidies, but this is one time it's probably going to be necessary. Make a tuner box that connects up to an antenna, and has HDMI, firewire, S-video, component and regular analog video and stereo audio outputs and make it cost $50 retail. Remember, anyone with cable or satellite won't need one.
Oh?
Deserved what? To live to a ripe old age and die of natural causes and be mourned by a quarter of the planet's population when he was gone? Hell, I'll take a helping of that too, please.
I own an EyeTV 500. And Senator, the EyeTV 500 is no TiVo.
At the heart of the EyeTV 500 it really only does timed recordings. It has some integration with TitanTV, but at the end of the day, it's half-assed - nothing even close to the reliability and flexibility of a TiVo season pass.
To top it all off, about 10-20% of the time I ask it to record something, it fails.
Yes, it is broadcast flag safe and has no DRM, but it still has a long way to go to be a TiVo.
At least this is an improvement on their past behavior.
Hmm. Something about the prospect of Microsoft making it easier for web apps to use local resources is downright horrifying.
Panther has it too. Just select the "jail bars" column view in a finder window and click on a file. A preview will, for most types, show up in the right-most column.
You mean like this?
I've even upgraded to bigger drives without having to do a full install. Carbon Copy Cloner will quite happily copy your boot disk to another drive that you can have sitting, say, temporarily in an external USB or FW enclosure. When it's done, you power off, replace the boot drive with the new one and you're done.
We suspect that someone posted the URL to /.
Your analogy-fu is weak.
If part of the purchase contract for the car includes a clause that says that you may not play operas in pig-latin over the speakers (the precise restriction makes no difference, it merely has to be something to which you do not agree), and if you don't agree to that restriction you can return the speakers for a full refund, then yes, you are entitled to such a refund.
They sure can. Just because they stole section A from someone else does not negate their rights over section B they wrote themselves.
The author (or copyright holder) of section A can sue them, but that's not saying the same thing.
The GPL says that in order to distribute section A they must distribute the source code for section B for free, but if they choose not to do that, it doesn't give you the right to distribute section B.
Of course, if the copyright holder of section A distributed section B under the terms of the GPL and then said "So sue me" to the author of section B and indemnified anyone they gave the code to, that would put the screws to the section B author - sort of "put up or shut up," as it were.
The hard part is getting the source code for section B without committing a felony.
You may have been joking when you replied, but it wasn't modded 'funny', so how might I have known? :-)
Of course, even if I were a lawyer, I wouldn't be your lawyer, so none of the above should be construed as legal advice.
There are so few of them merely by definition. When there aren't few, they're not "early" anymore.