So someone making a piece of artwork, by not allowing others to copy and sell it, is a monopoly?
How, then, is that person to make *any* money?
These protections are in place for a reason. The terms and length of such protections may need some work, but ther reason for them is just.
If you stole the McDonald's recipie and began selling them, yes, you are depriving McDonalds. If you grill your own? Hell, even with McD's recipie, go for it. So long as you are not making money off of it.
If you make a betetr reciepie? No problem. You're not infringing on McD's copyright.
You seem to be confusing being able to make a competing product and being able to copy and sell the *exact* same product.
Competition, with innovation, is a great thing. Competition based on no merit other than someone *stole* your product and is now selling it themselves is not.
Not transform. And while you are talking *physical* property one actually owns, we're talking about *intellectual* property you've only purchased the right to personal use.
Sure, Circuit City is going to face a lawsuit, but it is one they have a good chance of winning.
How did you come to *that* conclusion?
Copyright laws suddenly get repealed while I was at lunch?
The are changing the product. (Any transcoding does so) This is not allowed under current copyright laws without the express consent of the copyright owners.
This has nothing to do with whether or not they own the product. CC is making money off of someone else's product without the permission of the copyight hodler, and without compensating them.
This is not allowed under our current copyright laws without explicit permission from the copyright holder.
Are current copyright laws f*cked up? You bet. Does that make it legal? Hell no.
Therein lies the problem. If they were doing this for free, it *might* fall under fair use. They aren't. They are making a profit. This comes down to selling a copy in adifferent format without protections, and without any royalties.
Circuit City is going to lose their asses on this one.
If they did it for free, it would be a value-added service. No royalties to be paid. Instead, they've turned it into a money-making operation with no compensation to the copyright owners.
I agree 100% that *we* should be allowed to do this, and that CC should be allowed to do it as a value-added service, but they should *not* be able to charge for it.
More features, more abilities, heavier, more power hungry.
Sadly, there are ways to get the first two without the second two, but the market simply won't bear the cost ATM.
Give it another 2 years. Solid state laptops / super-PDAs weighing in at under 2lbs (well under ofr the PDAs). 12 hour battery life, as feature rich as what's currently on the market, and probably a bit faster as well.;)
AMD chipsets? Oh yeah...I think I heard something about them ages ago...;)
This isn't eliminating competition, it's bolstering it. AMD was never really a market competitor in the chipset arena. AMD producing ATi Chipsets will improve (hopefully) ATi's offerings making them *more* competitive.
Right now, if you want a decent AMD system, you're stuck with an (albeit good) nForce chipset. That's not quite what I would consider a wide array of options. Adding ATi/AMD to the mix with their own chipsets could *only* be a good thing..IMO.
You cannot stop for one second and think logically about what they are doing, why they are doing it, and why they are *not* caving in to these ridiculous demands....just stating facts.
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No. It wouldn't.
It would, in fact, be completely different.
Are you a corporation? Are you *selling* the end result?
No?
Allrighty, then...
??
So someone making a piece of artwork, by not allowing others to copy and sell it, is a monopoly?
How, then, is that person to make *any* money?
These protections are in place for a reason. The terms and length of such protections may need some work, but ther reason for them is just.
If you stole the McDonald's recipie and began selling them, yes, you are depriving McDonalds. If you grill your own? Hell, even with McD's recipie, go for it. So long as you are not making money off of it.
If you make a betetr reciepie? No problem. You're not infringing on McD's copyright.
You seem to be confusing being able to make a competing product and being able to copy and sell the *exact* same product.
Competition, with innovation, is a great thing. Competition based on no merit other than someone *stole* your product and is now selling it themselves is not.
Keyword:
repair.
Not transform. And while you are talking *physical* property one actually owns, we're talking about *intellectual* property you've only purchased the right to personal use.
So it's civil disobediance when you deny someone their rights and income?
Funny...
lmao...
Wow.
So an artist deserves to make *nothing* from their works, eh?
Nice.
Me making a COPY of his novel is not wrong,
Sure, so long as you legally own a copy and are not *selling* the copy you made.
Sure, Circuit City is going to face a lawsuit, but it is one they have a good chance of winning.
How did you come to *that* conclusion?
Copyright laws suddenly get repealed while I was at lunch?
The are changing the product. (Any transcoding does so) This is not allowed under current copyright laws without the express consent of the copyright owners.
Fair use, you say?
Sure. If they weren't making any money off of it.
This has nothing to do with whether or not they own the product. CC is making money off of someone else's product without the permission of the copyight hodler, and without compensating them.
This is not allowed under our current copyright laws without explicit permission from the copyright holder.
Are current copyright laws f*cked up? You bet. Does that make it legal? Hell no.
Making money off of someone else's work without their permission and without compensation is 'reasonable use'?
Huh... Interesting theory.
For a good laugh call the whitehouse?
oh...yeah. I get it.
If only Circuit City were doing this for free.
Therein lies the problem. If they were doing this for free, it *might* fall under fair use. They aren't. They are making a profit. This comes down to selling a copy in adifferent format without protections, and without any royalties.
Circuit City is going to lose their asses on this one.
If they did it for free, it would be a value-added service. No royalties to be paid. Instead, they've turned it into a money-making operation with no compensation to the copyright owners.
I agree 100% that *we* should be allowed to do this, and that CC should be allowed to do it as a value-added service, but they should *not* be able to charge for it.
Heh...
Well, I can't guarantee that there won't be feature creep to take advantage of all the extra goodies...
Why would they *ever* need to make another PDA?
You couldn't buy solid-state storage by the GB in 1999. ;)
Welcome to progress.
;)
More features, more abilities, heavier, more power hungry.
Sadly, there are ways to get the first two without the second two, but the market simply won't bear the cost ATM.
Give it another 2 years. Solid state laptops / super-PDAs weighing in at under 2lbs (well under ofr the PDAs). 12 hour battery life, as feature rich as what's currently on the market, and probably a bit faster as well.
I know...you can't wait. Neither can I. *grins*
Never expected it to be, and I doubt MS did either. It's an expansion on the PDA device.
I'd expect this kind of 'stating the obvious' from a pundit, but from the head of Lenovo?
Even in the web-mercials we saw of the device, it was web-vertised as being used in conjuction *with* workstations, Media-PCs, etc...
or perhaps it could be exploited in some nefarious way by some nefarious person.
... ... ... ... everything.
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This is exactly why we NEED to outlaw
Someone might use it for
[mermaid man]
*EVIL*!!!!
[/mermaid man]
So much for using a 5-yr old motherboard then...
Unless they make the flash chips replaceable.
Even though they've improved the number of writes dramatically, flash memory is still limited. Once they hit that barrier, the flash becomes useless.
Then it's a question on whether they've allowed for that fact by making it so the controller is still useable even if the flash is toast.
Still, I'd prefer a pluggable / replaceable module somewhere on the system instead of built in to *any* device.
What's the return on investment though?
Most malware folks aren't out to "wreak havoc". They're out there to make money. If it's only out there for a few days, limited to one extension....
I just don't see what the motivation to do that would be.
No. It's not.
Any extension downloaded from addons.mozilla.org has been tested, is widely used, and subject to an enormous amount of user feedback.
Now, if you download an extension from kickme.to/malware, you get what you deserve.
(razors, soap, lube etc.)
Odd group of "necessities" there...
You weren't perhaps an inmate in the German prison system, were you?
Meh...
;)
AMD chipsets? Oh yeah...I think I heard something about them ages ago...
This isn't eliminating competition, it's bolstering it. AMD was never really a market competitor in the chipset arena. AMD producing ATi Chipsets will improve (hopefully) ATi's offerings making them *more* competitive.
Right now, if you want a decent AMD system, you're stuck with an (albeit good) nForce chipset. That's not quite what I would consider a wide array of options. Adding ATi/AMD to the mix with their own chipsets could *only* be a good thing..IMO.
My God...matrox is still around?
I'll have to look 'em up.
...nVidia doing a hostile takeover of them both.
Gotta wonder if the SEC would allow the merger of the two top GPU providers on the market.
Can you name (off the top of your head) 3 other GPU manufacturers? (Not just card, but the actuall GPU).
It's not an easy task...
I think NVidia needs to get into the processor market themselves.
:p
GPU = Graphics Processing Unit.
AFAIK, they've been in the processor business since they launched their first graphics card.
Sounds like more a parenting issue than a problem with 'kids today'...
Oh, well...in that case...
...just stating facts.
You're an idiot.
You cannot stop for one second and think logically about what they are doing, why they are doing it, and why they are *not* caving in to these ridiculous demands.