because people are illegally downloading music they don't like?
No. They are downloading music they do not like enough to pay for it.
Maybe they find the cost prohibitive. Maybe they download stuff they only listen to once or twice.
My girlfriend has enough MP3s to last her a whole month of non-stop playing, if not more. I'm not all that sure she's ever listened to it all.
It is easy to hoard stuff, especially in digital format, since it does not occupy additional physical space.
Besides, as argued in Baen Library, it's just free marketing. If the cost is reasonable, people will buy the books, the music and the movies they like. As soon as you start treating them as people, not as thieves. The MAFIAA come off as greedy bastards, and fairness is an instinct in all great apes. That's why nobody likes them very much, and why people will not stop pirating stuff.
Instead of forcing people to pay, make them want to give you money. You do catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Unless they are fruit flies.
If a movie *didn't* ship with that garbage at the front then if you did copy it (or use it in a manner in which you're not supposed to), then it may be possible to argue, in court, that because there was no notice saying that you couldn't do what you did, you were therefore entitled to do it.
Well, the movie might ship with that garbage printed on the cover.
This idea was invented by Shampoo.
Bad logic, is bad. The reason a typical wight cannot be recorded on film, is the same as the reason it cannot be recorded digitally.
Ah. Thank you for the explanation.
I'd thought it works just like with the MP3s of songs with backmasked subliminal messages. I mean, think of it logically: if you have a backmasked subliminal message, it is not something readily apparent â" just the kind of stuff compression algorithms remove.
Is it really necessary to delay people's enjoyment of a movie on a DVD they legally purchased, just to tell them not to copy a movie that they don't need to copy since they already own the DVD?
Of course it is.
After all, some people may have learned to read since the last DVD they saw.
Additionally, won't somebody please think of the children? If these notices were removed, how would the children learn about the possibility of copying?
... I watch a DVD at someone else's place and I realize there's all kinds of wanings against copying and commercials at the beginning. At home, I just use VLC and immediatelly get the main menus.
I have long believed that those warnings only serve to make pirated copies a better-quality product, and thus more desirable.
Now you tell me VLC is adding to the value of the legally marketed copies, making them equal in value as the pirated ones.
There seems to be something wrong in this picture, but I can't put my finger on it...
This is what I've been saying for a while now... The Year of Linux on the Desktop is often touted (and even more often mocked), but it is becoming the wrong concept.
Sure, desktops will not go away so soon. But we are most definitely moving towards more mobile devices. The shift from the desktop to the laptop is quite significant, though the platform is much the same. I'm thinking about the transition from the phone to the mobile phone: netbooks will gain popularity, and who knows which other devices will evolve.
Linux need not conquer the desktop. It doesn't really stand a chance because it is neither a gaming platform nor an established office platform. But if Linux gains a foothold in the netbook market, I don't think the desktop will matter so much.
However, we may see more Linux on the desktop as a side effect of spreading to many different fronts.
I should say your whole system is seriously broken.
Really, right now the only difference between the American system and the Sharia law is that under Sharia law, you are at least dealt with fairly quickly.
Hey, while they're at it, they should send those pictures to everyone they know. And rat on them all.
Put the pics on a web-site, then e-mail everyone links. When they open the page, nearly everyone will inadvertently keep a copy in their cache, which is enough for a conviction.
And IMO this is exactly what should be done to the teacher in question. And some others, too.
In fact, imagine a... say, a worm. Propagating through Windows computers, doing nothing much – except downloading a bit of child porn here and there. Then sending an e-mail to the police, reporting the crime, then deleting itself.
Slashdot Mirror
Natural language? Natural for who?
Will we have to have versions for the West Coast, East Coast, down South...Ebonics?
I can see it now "Yo Yo Yo...show me the mother fuckin' U.I. site...Word!"
No, not Word. OpenOffice.org Writer. Microsoft has trademarked the word 'Word'.
Besides, Word doesn't work on all supported platforms, so it would be considered discrimination against AAVE speakers running Linux. Or BSD.
Couldn't we do both?
IIRC, it does not default to that if it finds another OS installed.
Kind of like saying religious people are atheists because of all the gods they do not believe in.
What? You'd watch it free of charge?
I don't think diapers are for barfing. Did you submit a bug report?
An interesting nick, I must say...
because people are illegally downloading music they don't like?
No. They are downloading music they do not like enough to pay for it.
Maybe they find the cost prohibitive. Maybe they download stuff they only listen to once or twice.
My girlfriend has enough MP3s to last her a whole month of non-stop playing, if not more. I'm not all that sure she's ever listened to it all.
It is easy to hoard stuff, especially in digital format, since it does not occupy additional physical space.
Besides, as argued in Baen Library, it's just free marketing. If the cost is reasonable, people will buy the books, the music and the movies they like. As soon as you start treating them as people, not as thieves. The MAFIAA come off as greedy bastards, and fairness is an instinct in all great apes. That's why nobody likes them very much, and why people will not stop pirating stuff.
Instead of forcing people to pay, make them want to give you money. You do catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Unless they are fruit flies.
If a movie *didn't* ship with that garbage at the front then if you did copy it (or use it in a manner in which you're not supposed to), then it may be possible to argue, in court, that because there was no notice saying that you couldn't do what you did, you were therefore entitled to do it.
Well, the movie might ship with that garbage printed on the cover.
This idea was invented by Shampoo.
I don't know him. But maybe NewYorkCountryLawyer can help.
Bad logic, is bad. The reason a typical wight cannot be recorded on film, is the same as the reason it cannot be recorded digitally.
Ah. Thank you for the explanation.
I'd thought it works just like with the MP3s of songs with backmasked subliminal messages. I mean, think of it logically: if you have a backmasked subliminal message, it is not something readily apparent â" just the kind of stuff compression algorithms remove.
Is it really necessary to delay people's enjoyment of a movie on a DVD they legally purchased, just to tell them not to copy a movie that they don't need to copy since they already own the DVD?
Of course it is.
After all, some people may have learned to read since the last DVD they saw.
Additionally, won't somebody please think of the children? If these notices were removed, how would the children learn about the possibility of copying?
Oh, don't worry. We'll just upload it to various P2P networks and torrents mistitled. Disguised as porn, more likely than not.
... I watch a DVD at someone else's place and I realize there's all kinds of wanings against copying and commercials at the beginning. At home, I just use VLC and immediatelly get the main menus.
I have long believed that those warnings only serve to make pirated copies a better-quality product, and thus more desirable.
Now you tell me VLC is adding to the value of the legally marketed copies, making them equal in value as the pirated ones.
There seems to be something wrong in this picture, but I can't put my finger on it...
Sadly, the typical Wight cannot be seen on film.
That's why they will record them digitally.
No. In Soviet Russia, memes kill you.
That would be a possessive.
This is what I've been saying for a while now... The Year of Linux on the Desktop is often touted (and even more often mocked), but it is becoming the wrong concept.
Sure, desktops will not go away so soon. But we are most definitely moving towards more mobile devices. The shift from the desktop to the laptop is quite significant, though the platform is much the same. I'm thinking about the transition from the phone to the mobile phone: netbooks will gain popularity, and who knows which other devices will evolve.
Linux need not conquer the desktop. It doesn't really stand a chance because it is neither a gaming platform nor an established office platform. But if Linux gains a foothold in the netbook market, I don't think the desktop will matter so much.
However, we may see more Linux on the desktop as a side effect of spreading to many different fronts.
Always remember Rule One.
Oh, don't worry. Here in Croatia, we'd never got round to actually upholding our laws.
Well, I was asking about Windows.
I should say your whole system is seriously broken.
Really, right now the only difference between the American system and the Sharia law is that under Sharia law, you are at least dealt with fairly quickly.
Hey, while they're at it, they should send those pictures to everyone they know. And rat on them all.
Put the pics on a web-site, then e-mail everyone links. When they open the page, nearly everyone will inadvertently keep a copy in their cache, which is enough for a conviction.
And IMO this is exactly what should be done to the teacher in question. And some others, too.
In fact, imagine a... say, a worm. Propagating through Windows computers, doing nothing much – except downloading a bit of child porn here and there. Then sending an e-mail to the police, reporting the crime, then deleting itself.
How long would it take until the nation rebeled?
I forsee a rise in adolescents' awareness of the techno-wonder called cryptography. They obviously need mobile phone encryption.