But a class action lawsuit isn't going to do you much good if the company itself is going out of business, which would be one of the prime reasons for an authentication server to go out of business.
But the dickless wonder in TFA who claims that there should not be a DMCA exemption to remove DRM from dark stores' media isn't and doesn't represent the folks who previously owned the dark store and/or authentication servers. Him and his dickless friends will be around to sue you if you attempt to make use of the media you purchased when the store was open.
Now, nothing in US copyright law says that there is any impetus for suppliers of copyrighted works to make access to them easy. But the first amendment to the constitution says that if I figure out how to solve the puzzle, I should be allowed to tell anyone I like how I did it (don't let the fact that computer source or object code has anything to do with it confound you. Back in the day, we came within a whisker of having the Supreme Court decide whether code is speech for the purposes of the 1st amendment. The appellate courts all the way up said it was, and the only reason the supreme court didn't weigh in was that the feds mooted the case to avoid the inevitable). The DMCA says otherwise. In other words, the DMCA is a prior restraint on free speech. The courts, in general, have in the past taken a dim view of prior restraint on speech. I personally have no doubt that if the case is properly framed, the DMCA's prior restraint would be ruled unconstitutional.
Forcing copyright holders to release source code when the copyright expires doesn't really matter. If there was a really desirable piece of software whose copyright expired, it'd take a day or two for it to be promptly decompiled and thoroughly reverse engineered. Heck, it's not even always necessary for the copyright to have expired for people to do the work.
Unlike loans in the West, these will probably not go towards a down payment on an SUV or a swimming pool, but more likely will be spent on essential farming tools, or perhaps as seed capital for a small business.
So, it's easy to pooh-pooh the 1st world's spending habits, but you don't have to go too far back in time to see that that sort of spending has benefits too.
Not too long ago, Congress passed a luxury tax on expensive boats (among other things). That tax put 25,000 people out of work. That tax was eventually repealed once the plight of the marine industry and its workers came to the attention of Congress.
There are exactly 3 things you can do with money:
1. Spend it. In which case, the goods and services you buy are created and provided by other people. The money you pay them puts food on their table, which they bought from someone else and on and on without end.
2. Invest it. In which case, the investment either directly or indirectly funds a company that creates jobs, or supplies money to the credit markets, which provide money that directly or indirectly funds companies that create jobs, or for people to buy homes and such.
3. Stuff it into a mattress, in which case inflation will render it worthless over the long term.
Nope. With a few exceptions, US Amateurs are not allowed to send one-way transmissions. Most everything we do, we have to do at least in pairs. Sometimes in groups. Why, sometimes we even have contests to see who can do the most in a day. That can get tiring, I can tell ya!
Depends on how broken it is. If it's just slow or fast, it will be right much, much less than twice a day. Only analog 12 hour clocks that are actually stopped are right twice a day, and that assumes the hands are still intact and point unambiguously. Digital clocks that are blinking 12:00 could be interpreted also as being correct twice a day (providing they lack an AM/PM indicator - if not, then they're right once a day). Some digital clocks blink until set, but continue to count time, which would make them perpetually incorrect unless they just happened to be started at 12:00.
That's either an amazingly obtuse interpretation or you're just being a troll. Not sure which - which probably suggests that you're a moderately talented troll.
Pollution credits are just modern Indulgences. The last time a market for those was floated, it divided Christendom in twain (or into thirds, if you regard protestant, catholic and eastern orthodoxy as same-level peers) and rocked European political structure to its core.
Whether to regard that as a good thing or a bad thing is left as an exercise (or perhaps, exorcise) for the reader.
In 60 years, hold up a Kodachrome slide next to a compact optical disk and see which was is still usable.
You don't get it.
I used to store pictures on Zip disks. Then came CDRs. Now I store them on DVDs. Tomorrow I'll store them on BluRay. After that will come whatever the next thing is. And every time the switch happens, I take all of the disks of the previous type I have and copy them onto a much, much smaller number of the newer things. In doing so, I never lose anything. I still have all those original files because with digital copying there is no generational loss.
Want to know why digital photography is better than film?
I was at Maker Faire a couple weeks ago at the ATV booth. I was giving demonstrations of amateur digital television. I asked a passer-by to snap a picture of me in front of my equipment with my phone. I e-mailed that picture to my mother 500 miles away and then called her up to tell her what I was up to while she was looking at the pictures. She asked about a piece of gear that had been cut off in the picture, so I took another one of that item and e-mailed it to her while we were still on the phone.
If I want one of my digital pictures on paper to frame, I can just print it out. You can't e-mail your film.
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But a class action lawsuit isn't going to do you much good if the company itself is going out of business, which would be one of the prime reasons for an authentication server to go out of business.
But the dickless wonder in TFA who claims that there should not be a DMCA exemption to remove DRM from dark stores' media isn't and doesn't represent the folks who previously owned the dark store and/or authentication servers. Him and his dickless friends will be around to sue you if you attempt to make use of the media you purchased when the store was open.
Now, nothing in US copyright law says that there is any impetus for suppliers of copyrighted works to make access to them easy. But the first amendment to the constitution says that if I figure out how to solve the puzzle, I should be allowed to tell anyone I like how I did it (don't let the fact that computer source or object code has anything to do with it confound you. Back in the day, we came within a whisker of having the Supreme Court decide whether code is speech for the purposes of the 1st amendment. The appellate courts all the way up said it was, and the only reason the supreme court didn't weigh in was that the feds mooted the case to avoid the inevitable). The DMCA says otherwise. In other words, the DMCA is a prior restraint on free speech. The courts, in general, have in the past taken a dim view of prior restraint on speech. I personally have no doubt that if the case is properly framed, the DMCA's prior restraint would be ruled unconstitutional.
Forcing copyright holders to release source code when the copyright expires doesn't really matter. If there was a really desirable piece of software whose copyright expired, it'd take a day or two for it to be promptly decompiled and thoroughly reverse engineered. Heck, it's not even always necessary for the copyright to have expired for people to do the work.
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Unlike loans in the West, these will probably not go towards a down payment on an SUV or a swimming pool, but more likely will be spent on essential farming tools, or perhaps as seed capital for a small business.
So, it's easy to pooh-pooh the 1st world's spending habits, but you don't have to go too far back in time to see that that sort of spending has benefits too.
Not too long ago, Congress passed a luxury tax on expensive boats (among other things). That tax put 25,000 people out of work. That tax was eventually repealed once the plight of the marine industry and its workers came to the attention of Congress.
There are exactly 3 things you can do with money:
1. Spend it. In which case, the goods and services you buy are created and provided by other people. The money you pay them puts food on their table, which they bought from someone else and on and on without end.
2. Invest it. In which case, the investment either directly or indirectly funds a company that creates jobs, or supplies money to the credit markets, which provide money that directly or indirectly funds companies that create jobs, or for people to buy homes and such.
3. Stuff it into a mattress, in which case inflation will render it worthless over the long term.
I suspect the #1 question will wind up being, "What are you wearing?"
Then the same error has been propagated on every metric scale I've ever seen in my entire life. My original point still stands.
Since they started making scales calibrated in kg instead of Newtons.
Oh, come on, mods! How is completing the 4 Yorkshiremen gag of Monty Python fame off topic?!
I appreciate your sentiment, but you come off sounding like a raving loon.
You must be new here.
But that's sexist to assume it's a him.
I'm interested with what they did with the other 27% of her.
Well, he was a he, before he had that 27% removed.
He was also quite well endowed, apparently.
No, but there's an app for that.
And you try and tell that to the young people of today, and they won't believe you!
Nope. With a few exceptions, US Amateurs are not allowed to send one-way transmissions. Most everything we do, we have to do at least in pairs. Sometimes in groups. Why, sometimes we even have contests to see who can do the most in a day. That can get tiring, I can tell ya!
Anyone who offers valid criticisms of your theory with data to back them up should be heard.
Tell that to Pons and Fleischmann.
They might get a Nobel yet.
Depends on how broken it is. If it's just slow or fast, it will be right much, much less than twice a day. Only analog 12 hour clocks that are actually stopped are right twice a day, and that assumes the hands are still intact and point unambiguously. Digital clocks that are blinking 12:00 could be interpreted also as being correct twice a day (providing they lack an AM/PM indicator - if not, then they're right once a day). Some digital clocks blink until set, but continue to count time, which would make them perpetually incorrect unless they just happened to be started at 12:00.
That's either an amazingly obtuse interpretation or you're just being a troll. Not sure which - which probably suggests that you're a moderately talented troll.
The new breed will grow faster, taste good, have resistance to disease and will totally kick your ass if you cross them.
Uh, does jabbing them in the mouth with a barbed hook not count as "crossing them?" I don't think that's what the tuna fishermen would want.
Pollution credits are just modern Indulgences. The last time a market for those was floated, it divided Christendom in twain (or into thirds, if you regard protestant, catholic and eastern orthodoxy as same-level peers) and rocked European political structure to its core.
Whether to regard that as a good thing or a bad thing is left as an exercise (or perhaps, exorcise) for the reader.
And that's exactly what Wikimedia Commons is for, isn't it?
You didn't read the summary, did you?
I could go buy an xlink or other Bluetooth-to-POTS solution, but that takes money for equipment.
In 60 years, hold up a Kodachrome slide next to a compact optical disk and see which was is still usable.
You don't get it.
I used to store pictures on Zip disks. Then came CDRs. Now I store them on DVDs. Tomorrow I'll store them on BluRay. After that will come whatever the next thing is. And every time the switch happens, I take all of the disks of the previous type I have and copy them onto a much, much smaller number of the newer things. In doing so, I never lose anything. I still have all those original files because with digital copying there is no generational loss.
Historians in 250 years time will be very interested in your holiday snaps.
I can assure you that that interest will not be mutual.
Want to know why digital photography is better than film?
I was at Maker Faire a couple weeks ago at the ATV booth. I was giving demonstrations of amateur digital television. I asked a passer-by to snap a picture of me in front of my equipment with my phone. I e-mailed that picture to my mother 500 miles away and then called her up to tell her what I was up to while she was looking at the pictures. She asked about a piece of gear that had been cut off in the picture, so I took another one of that item and e-mailed it to her while we were still on the phone.
If I want one of my digital pictures on paper to frame, I can just print it out. You can't e-mail your film.
Checkmate.
Digital photos also do not degrade with the passage of time.
Too true. They're perfect until the media holding them degrades just enough to make them completely disappear.
Well, whatever's left of him still exists.