I wouldn't know about 10-15 years... He didn't actually go out and abuse children (AFAIK!). In some circumstances you can kill someone and get away with less, do you think that watching jpegs is worse than killing people? I'd like to argue that those who *do* abuse children are the ones to punish. Putting up a hate website should not be punished; going on a beating spree against those you hate, on the other hand, should. I see this as kinda like the same thing.
Anyway mad props to the hacker, I like this guy.
Doea "adjusting my behaviour" mean that I have to start using only encypted communication channels, onion routing etc? That seems to be the most logical thing to do now.
Long live the EU, I suppose.
Are you by any chance familiar with the term "Bread and Circuses"? If you are talking about panem et circenses, yes, I am.
Technological progress does not a better state of being make; not by itself. On the contrary, it does. Because it NEVER exists by itself: it is alwasy applied to our life.
What, exactly, is wrong with having serious issues about the way we do things now? Nothing, especially when you actually go out and change the ways you do things that you don't like into ways that you like. There is a lot wrong with misrepresenting reality so that it is turned into some sensationalistic we're-all-gonna-die doom-and-gloom scenario. Either argue that life today is worse than yesterday or leave this discussion because THIS is what it is about.
Isn't dissent and debate how processes become more efficient? No, they become more efficient by being modified so that they are more efficient. At the very best, debate might be a way to come with possible alternatives and pick one. Then again as you point out it usually doesn't work.
We might actually see some [progress] seemed to imply that no progress is taking place at the moment.
So.. you're saying they are going to have us sign non-disclosure agreements?
I am saying that the gov't should not regulate the distribution of digital content: this implies that users can try to take what they like and producers can try to protect it the way they like. If you want more details about this, just look for Linus' take on DRM: I happen to share his opinion 100%. And I don't know about NDAs, I was thinking more of DRM to be honest. I agree with your last point, more copyleft would probably lead to less copyright. Kind of like you would expect MS to lower prices and open up Windows as a reaction to OSS making progress: it's not happening yet but over time I think we'll come to this.
These are interesting points for a discussion but kinda offtopic. PP was saying no progress is taking place. Your post deals with a much more restricted topic.
Anyway my take on this is that is you abolish IP laws you also have to let content producers protect their content as they see fit. That's freedom for everyone. Otheriwse, you can try to come up with some half-assed compromise. I believe that neither of these scenarios is going to happen anytime soon, though.
The success of shows like Pure Pwnage tends to prove that significant competition *is* indeed starting to exist. Of course it's just a start but I believe that over time many more shows will follow.
So you're saying that the average man's quality of life is the same today as it was in 1800 and 800 AD and 1800 BC?
And if you care so deeply about giving people access why don't you, you know, go and do it? I suppose it's much easier to sit back and whine.
You might want to take a look at this unbelievably complex world of ours and how we go about making our lives more enjoyable - we call that progress and if you can't see humankind progressing steadily from 10K+ years ago to now and onwards, then you have serious issues.
That's exactly what I did and what everybody who complains about ICANN should be doing too. Besides, ORSN's servers are quite fast: the *real* reason why I ditched my ISP's DNS servers was that they took forever to answer and THEN proceeded to show you ads to boot. Needless to say, I require to know whether the host I *actually want to connect to* is up, down or feeling sick, not their ad servers.
Small clarification: [...] play all exotic games I feel like trying out without any problems whatsoever and negligible pain during installation, by providing a FULLY EMULATED environment. 90% D3D compliance doesn't cut it, "you need to wait 18 months and maybe we'll add special support for that game that nobody but you plays... eventually" does not cut it.:D
In my case it's because of games, mostly. Give me a virtualized solution that lets me play games at 90% native speed and I'll switch.
Different people than me use specialized software for which no alternative exists, or special hardware for which no drivers exist. Besides, competing with free as in pirated when you're free as in no-apps-for-that-exist isn't easy.
My friend plays in a jazz band and says that every time they play live, thay are paid a few 100's euros; over time, that's enough to pay for instruments, transportation, etc. They all have normal day jobs but if they were pro musicians they'd be playing a heck of a lot more often and so earning much more.
They are not special. Most bands DO make money at gigs. And producing your own CDs has never been cheaper, there are recording studios all around and they don't cost too much for a couple of days' session. Throw the internet and BT into the mix... put in social sites to boot, and you realize there's no advantage in going with a big producer.
Also, printing say 1000 CDs costs about 1000 euros, if you sell them on the cheap (say, 6 euros?) over the course of 3 gigs, you net 5000 euros: less than 1000 go to the studio, that means 1000 euros/person. Not bad.
The problem is not with disk space, but with unnecessary duplication of functions, which leads to having different versions of the same libs on your system, some of which might have security holes. Besides, it's totally unelegant and contrary to all concepts of modularization. Might as well ship a VM for every app.
You can keep mixing up the wants and needs of a society and a government. You don't seem to understand that the two things are completely separated and do not communicate with each other, work toward different goals and generally have little or nothing to do with each other.
If you really think a government is there to "take care" of a social contract (next time, just use this expression instead of wasting two paragraphs searching for words you don't know) you are terribly wrong.
Don't worry, it takes much more to confuse me. "Every society has its regulations that limit the freedom of the individuum, based on whatever is concidered to be "obscene" or "not tolerable".", you say? That's cute, really. Kinda like asserting that the gov't regulates life in order to promote freedom and happiness, or that what it does somehow represents what people want. Besides, a gov't (NOT a society, they're totally different things) that regulates the freedom of the individual IS obscene and not tolerable.
No, what's funny is how you assumed I am from the USA simply because I criticized a European country. That alone speaks volumes about your line of thought. But I guess that's to be expected from ACs.
I'd be happy with H.264/AC3 mkvs with a few subs thrown in. I watch movies on my PC anyway. BitTorrent technology would be the obvious choice, if only it were not intrinsically unsuitable for streaming. WRT to the price point, I think I'd pay up to 2$ for a movie, 10$ for an anime series. I realize I'm being cheap but, given decent adoption, distribution costs approach 0 in this scenario. That, and the distributors must understand they are competing with *free*.
However, such scenario would never see the light of day for the simple reason that dedicated teams would pop out and buy movies and redistribute them for free (or ultra cheap). I can pay 6$ a month for unlimited FTP access to a huge pirate anime repository. I've got the bandwidth, and many series are not being distributed officially and in japanese w/subs anytime soon in Europe. The reason why this happens is that we're talking about un-DRM'ed files here: without serious DRM, the kind of scenario I'm talking about would fail quickly.
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I wouldn't know about 10-15 years... He didn't actually go out and abuse children (AFAIK!). In some circumstances you can kill someone and get away with less, do you think that watching jpegs is worse than killing people? I'd like to argue that those who *do* abuse children are the ones to punish. Putting up a hate website should not be punished; going on a beating spree against those you hate, on the other hand, should. I see this as kinda like the same thing.
Anyway mad props to the hacker, I like this guy.
Doea "adjusting my behaviour" mean that I have to start using only encypted communication channels, onion routing etc? That seems to be the most logical thing to do now.
Long live the EU, I suppose.
So.. you're saying they are going to have us sign non-disclosure agreements?
I am saying that the gov't should not regulate the distribution of digital content: this implies that users can try to take what they like and producers can try to protect it the way they like. If you want more details about this, just look for Linus' take on DRM: I happen to share his opinion 100%. And I don't know about NDAs, I was thinking more of DRM to be honest.
I agree with your last point, more copyleft would probably lead to less copyright. Kind of like you would expect MS to lower prices and open up Windows as a reaction to OSS making progress: it's not happening yet but over time I think we'll come to this.
These are interesting points for a discussion but kinda offtopic. PP was saying no progress is taking place. Your post deals with a much more restricted topic.
Anyway my take on this is that is you abolish IP laws you also have to let content producers protect their content as they see fit. That's freedom for everyone. Otheriwse, you can try to come up with some half-assed compromise. I believe that neither of these scenarios is going to happen anytime soon, though.
Yeah I feel so bad about checking who enters my house.
The success of shows like Pure Pwnage tends to prove that significant competition *is* indeed starting to exist. Of course it's just a start but I believe that over time many more shows will follow.
So you're saying that the average man's quality of life is the same today as it was in 1800 and 800 AD and 1800 BC?
And if you care so deeply about giving people access why don't you, you know, go and do it? I suppose it's much easier to sit back and whine.
You might want to take a look at this unbelievably complex world of ours and how we go about making our lives more enjoyable - we call that progress and if you can't see humankind progressing steadily from 10K+ years ago to now and onwards, then you have serious issues.
That's exactly what I did and what everybody who complains about ICANN should be doing too. Besides, ORSN's servers are quite fast: the *real* reason why I ditched my ISP's DNS servers was that they took forever to answer and THEN proceeded to show you ads to boot. Needless to say, I require to know whether the host I *actually want to connect to* is up, down or feeling sick, not their ad servers.
Small clarification: [...] play all exotic games I feel like trying out without any problems whatsoever and negligible pain during installation, by providing a FULLY EMULATED environment. 90% D3D compliance doesn't cut it, "you need to wait 18 months and maybe we'll add special support for that game that nobody but you plays... eventually" does not cut it. :D
In my case it's because of games, mostly. Give me a virtualized solution that lets me play games at 90% native speed and I'll switch.
Different people than me use specialized software for which no alternative exists, or special hardware for which no drivers exist. Besides, competing with free as in pirated when you're free as in no-apps-for-that-exist isn't easy.
In other news, vendors are likely to drop prices when in fear of losing customers.
Someone give these guys something to do, STAT! :D
My friend plays in a jazz band and says that every time they play live, thay are paid a few 100's euros; over time, that's enough to pay for instruments, transportation, etc. They all have normal day jobs but if they were pro musicians they'd be playing a heck of a lot more often and so earning much more.
They are not special. Most bands DO make money at gigs. And producing your own CDs has never been cheaper, there are recording studios all around and they don't cost too much for a couple of days' session. Throw the internet and BT into the mix... put in social sites to boot, and you realize there's no advantage in going with a big producer.
Also, printing say 1000 CDs costs about 1000 euros, if you sell them on the cheap (say, 6 euros?) over the course of 3 gigs, you net 5000 euros: less than 1000 go to the studio, that means 1000 euros/person. Not bad.
The problem is not with disk space, but with unnecessary duplication of functions, which leads to having different versions of the same libs on your system, some of which might have security holes. Besides, it's totally unelegant and contrary to all concepts of modularization. Might as well ship a VM for every app.
You can keep mixing up the wants and needs of a society and a government. You don't seem to understand that the two things are completely separated and do not communicate with each other, work toward different goals and generally have little or nothing to do with each other.
If you really think a government is there to "take care" of a social contract (next time, just use this expression instead of wasting two paragraphs searching for words you don't know) you are terribly wrong.
Don't worry, it takes much more to confuse me. "Every society has its regulations that limit the freedom of the individuum, based on whatever is concidered to be "obscene" or "not tolerable".", you say? That's cute, really. Kinda like asserting that the gov't regulates life in order to promote freedom and happiness, or that what it does somehow represents what people want. Besides, a gov't (NOT a society, they're totally different things) that regulates the freedom of the individual IS obscene and not tolerable.
No, what's funny is how you assumed I am from the USA simply because I criticized a European country. That alone speaks volumes about your line of thought. But I guess that's to be expected from ACs.
until they say how much it costs. Seeing as Telecom's service sucks consistently, I expect this "phone" to fail miserably.
He's not a troll. Windows will not charge my RAZR unless the correct drivers are loaded. I know it's ridiculous but that's just the way it is.
I'd be happy with H.264/AC3 mkvs with a few subs thrown in. I watch movies on my PC anyway. BitTorrent technology would be the obvious choice, if only it were not intrinsically unsuitable for streaming. WRT to the price point, I think I'd pay up to 2$ for a movie, 10$ for an anime series. I realize I'm being cheap but, given decent adoption, distribution costs approach 0 in this scenario. That, and the distributors must understand they are competing with *free*.
However, such scenario would never see the light of day for the simple reason that dedicated teams would pop out and buy movies and redistribute them for free (or ultra cheap). I can pay 6$ a month for unlimited FTP access to a huge pirate anime repository. I've got the bandwidth, and many series are not being distributed officially and in japanese w/subs anytime soon in Europe. The reason why this happens is that we're talking about un-DRM'ed files here: without serious DRM, the kind of scenario I'm talking about would fail quickly.
Multiplatform compatibility, different codecs, faster downloads, better interface (à la last.fm, for example)
Am I the only one who lands on this article "Who really won during the Super Bowl?"? Is the link wrong?