Legitimate question and sorry, I didn't RTFA, but was wondering how do you fund an operation such as this? I guess you can't serve ads as no-one 'browses' your web page.
Someone must pay for the 180Mb/s bandwidth, and the servers. There are clearly costs involved but I can't see how any of those costs get recovered.
I've often wondered the same thing with NZB indexes (the open ones), or other services that you can use freely without ad serving.
The post by 'Windowsisoldnews' quite clearly lists 'can download for free' in the 'pros' section right at the top of his review.
What makes you think they are sanitizing these?
If people cannot make money from their creative work, then they will find another job. Because if it's no longer possible to make a zillion bucks from their creative work, they are suddenly no longer keen to pursue their so called 'art'.
I know people who make very little money from their art but they continue creating it anyway. It sounds crazy but they claim to enjoy and be passionate about what they do in their spare time!
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To correct your analogy; if you managed to duplicate my computer and my cannabis and shared them around with your friends, I'd say knock yourself out bro!
I still don't quite understand how 'illegal uses' is not considered 'criminal misconduct'. If something is not a criminal act then surely it is not an illegal use. Don't these logically go hand in hand?
One thing that disturbs me a lot about this thread is the amount of posters who believe anyone 'deserves to die'. Particularly if it is merely based on a persons intelligence.
Geez, those Phantom geezers seem to be slightly behind the eightball. They say:
"The Phantom Game Service is anticipated to be the first end-to-end, on-demand game service..."
I have no idea if patents are treated similar to copyright law but in my limited understanding, intellectual property owners have a responsibility to defend their rights when they know of infringing activity. If they neglect to defend their rights then they may end up forfeiting those rights.
For example this would prevent the scenario of someone deliberately holding off action so that the infringing activity increased before going to town with law suits.
In other words, you use them or lose them. And MS seems to be saying, we know patent infringment is occuring but they are not doing anything about it.
They never really bothered me but when I read the wikipedia article it pointed out that they are very bad for the vision impaired. Obviously people relying on screen readers would generally be stonewalled by the standard visual type.
Another reason to find an alternative method I guess.
For backing up large amounts of data I agree. Now that 700GB SATA drives are available and 200-300GB drives are pretty inexpensive I'd recommend RAID-1 in your severs/desktops and USB attached drives for backing up.
The real benefit of optical storage is ease of transport and durability when you accidently drop it on the floor.
Now we've got "fair use" in Australia does that mean I can legally shift my Region locked DVDs to region free?
Sorry to nitpick but Australia does not have "fair use". The system being adopted is legally quite different from the US "Fair Use" in that there will only be very specific exceptions made for time shifting and format shifting etc.
Check Weatherall's blog for detailed legal commentary.
Skulls and bones might be ok for now but in the future when we lazy humans have advanced to the stage where we have discarded our cumbersome skeletons it will just confuse us.
Yeah, and when did babies get so stupid that we now have to put protective covers on electrical outlets? Talk about lost toddlerhood, man they've stolen everything.
I'm glad you raised that often overlooked point. Of course it is also a pure fantasy that every single downloader would have otherwise paid real money for the product, but that's how they create these crazy numbers.
My gut feeling is a lot of downloading is purely opportunistic.
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Legitimate question and sorry, I didn't RTFA, but was wondering how do you fund an operation such as this? I guess you can't serve ads as no-one 'browses' your web page. Someone must pay for the 180Mb/s bandwidth, and the servers. There are clearly costs involved but I can't see how any of those costs get recovered. I've often wondered the same thing with NZB indexes (the open ones), or other services that you can use freely without ad serving.
...and I'm sure internet users in the US will be up in arms if super fast access to NZ servers isn't delivered as promised.
Kilroy?
The post by 'Windowsisoldnews' quite clearly lists 'can download for free' in the 'pros' section right at the top of his review. What makes you think they are sanitizing these?
What do you people do to your computers?
Use them. What do you do with yours?
Most people who ever attempted pro wrestling moves on their younger sibling would probably tend to agree with you.
To correct your analogy; if you managed to duplicate my computer and my cannabis and shared them around with your friends, I'd say knock yourself out bro!
How naive!
Answered from my Blackberry at a lavish film festival.
FTFA: "We know that crooks generally are crooks because they didn't do well in school..."
I guess that's why his bio describes him as "one of the most recognized commentators on tech", although I'm unsure if that is complimentary.
I still don't quite understand how 'illegal uses' is not considered 'criminal misconduct'. If something is not a criminal act then surely it is not an illegal use. Don't these logically go hand in hand?
Well by that logic wouldn't a watermark itself add suckiness?
One thing that disturbs me a lot about this thread is the amount of posters who believe anyone 'deserves to die'. Particularly if it is merely based on a persons intelligence.
I must be new here.
Geez, those Phantom geezers seem to be slightly behind the eightball. They say:
"The Phantom Game Service is anticipated to be the first end-to-end, on-demand game service..."
Yet this has already been around for some time:
http://www.gamenow.com.au/
The quote is not from the article but something Doug Morris has been quoted as saying.
It seems to have come from a Nov 10 Billboard piece:s p?vnu_content_id=1003380831
http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.j
I have no idea if patents are treated similar to copyright law but in my limited understanding, intellectual property owners have a responsibility to defend their rights when they know of infringing activity. If they neglect to defend their rights then they may end up forfeiting those rights.
For example this would prevent the scenario of someone deliberately holding off action so that the infringing activity increased before going to town with law suits.
In other words, you use them or lose them. And MS seems to be saying, we know patent infringment is occuring but they are not doing anything about it.
Somebody set me straight if I'm way off here.
Gee, I hope you never get a job working on Windows source code.
They never really bothered me but when I read the wikipedia article it pointed out that they are very bad for the vision impaired. Obviously people relying on screen readers would generally be stonewalled by the standard visual type. Another reason to find an alternative method I guess.
Maybe this IBM Millipede thing would float your boat. It uses nanotechnology to push indentations into a plastic card.
I think they're working on the translucent green part now.
For backing up large amounts of data I agree. Now that 700GB SATA drives are available and 200-300GB drives are pretty inexpensive I'd recommend RAID-1 in your severs/desktops and USB attached drives for backing up. The real benefit of optical storage is ease of transport and durability when you accidently drop it on the floor.
Sorry to nitpick but Australia does not have "fair use". The system being adopted is legally quite different from the US "Fair Use" in that there will only be very specific exceptions made for time shifting and format shifting etc.
Check Weatherall's blog for detailed legal commentary.
http://weatherall.blogspot.com/
Skulls and bones might be ok for now but in the future when we lazy humans have advanced to the stage where we have discarded our cumbersome skeletons it will just confuse us.
Yeah, and when did babies get so stupid that we now have to put protective covers on electrical outlets? Talk about lost toddlerhood, man they've stolen everything.
I'm glad you raised that often overlooked point. Of course it is also a pure fantasy that every single downloader would have otherwise paid real money for the product, but that's how they create these crazy numbers. My gut feeling is a lot of downloading is purely opportunistic.