No, computer literacy is not necessary at all, we only have all top companies requiring online applications, all modern entertainment interacting with them, all documents of consequence being accessed and manipulated through them, and it goes on and on.
To deny basic 101 on computer architecture (basic programming, computer literacy, the basics on how programs/os works) is to deny a youth some of the most empowering knowledge available to a modern citizen.
A lack of computer knowledge is directly equivalent to a lack of consumer power and a lack of employability.
The MAFIAA's terror campaign depends on the ignorance of the common user.
If kids become adept enough with computers to know how file-sharing works (quite possible in a sub-basic 101 on computer and internet architecture) then they'll know they have a greater chance of being struck by lightning while in a crashing biplane than getting sued.
Additionally, the basic structural knowledge would teach them how inconsequential a copy is!
Further, even if their parents dismiss them, as is often the case with the assertions of children, they can still engage in p2p and hide it from their parents using this knowledge.
The MAFIAA will most assuredly find some excuse to assure this never makes it into classrooms.
As much as the RIAA wishes differently, attempted copyright infringement isn't actual copyright infringement, and isn't a crime under current copyright law. This new RIAA approach sidesteps that issue by sidestepping the courts entirely and convincing the ISPs that "Yes It Is, So Help Us Out!" While this is all blowhard garbage by the RIAA, they now have the Big Stick of your ISP to shut you down based on the RIAA wishlist of how they want the world to be.
And it will probably take a few big class action suit wins to knock this nonsense out of your ISP.
It only took a few isolated wins here and there on a small scale to put the writing on the wall for them.
A few individual actions against the RIAA for harassment (you can't nail the ISP because they can modify their TOS at any time) should kill this one too.
The problem is the majority of gun deaths in the US are the result of impulse actions.
It would cut down on gun deaths and injuries quite a bit because fewer people would carry guns, and those who did would think twice before spending 5k, even if they're pissed.
You mean the way speed and red light cams have fared poorly?
They do, after all, fail to provide any affirmative proof of the person behind the wheel, and people whose plates are caught by these cams suffer fines and insurance through the roof without due process.
Who needs due process though. Recent rulings seem to think the constitution no longer applies.
Same with the souter eminent domain ruling, among many others.
The constitution is nothing more than a piss rag now, and has been since the 50's. Whoever has the most money is magically vindicated by the constitution.
You're probably right about Canadian law. I speak of the US, where copying is a right strictly reserved for the copyright holder. Even archival copies of music and video are not allowed.
and you are full of it still.
It's called fair use.
Backup copies are allowed. Just because the device accesses someone else's computer to produce the backup doesn't make it any less a backup.
If the RIAA (or whomever) gives a report of illegal activity to an ISP but cannot prove it -- or better yet, it's demonstrably false -- could they be opening themselves up to a defamation lawsuit?
Actually, the offense is more egregious. Stalking/harassment laws come into play and it's conceivable that proving they did harm in this way could grant you a restraining order against them.
Sorry, but there is no possible "business" that can be conducted along the lines of "give it to me for nothing or I'll take it."
Oh really?
Isn't that what google does? I mean they provide FREE (as in beer) search, email, and video hosting, among other things. It's free to the end user, and they leverage that user base to charge companies for advertising.
Hmm.. which other company controls artists with huge listener bases again..
If i'm making buggy whips, and I see this here new ford, i'm going to retool my factory to make leather interiors for the ford, or leather jackets, or something else which can be produced with minimal modification.
The record companies' main job is PR and marketing. A proper exec who thinks of the future might start treating artists as free agents and charge fees for marketing services, but that would involve giving up a huge racket.
Who needs that when you can use immense amounts of cash and heavy control over the news media to twist legislative arms and destroy civil liberties en masse?
college is full of derelicts who are just there "for the experience".
republicans are rich through inheritance and cronyism, not by their own hand, but they do have the money, and it's customary for those who have the money to send their kids to college.
Also, never having to handle being at the absolute mercy of someone else breeds intolerance and selfishness bordering on psychopathy. These characteristics are typical of republicans, who would rather see people suffer and die than produce money for healthcare costs, and view war as some kind of contact sport.
So no, they are not well educated, they skipped half their classes and attended frat parties.
On the contrary, I think he has a very good idea of what it is and what it does.
I also think "re-education" has been used elsewhere.
Those places/times included:
1930's germany stalinist russia any dystopian novel or movie you've seen. (I think I remember a few twilight zone episodes too)
Maybe the 99% of people 35 and lower who share files should all be shipped off to "re-education camps".
I find it incredible that these companies can continue to perpetrate the crimes against the populace and lobby for the laws they do when they produce the very films and books which show how horrific and counterproductive their efforts are.
"The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems fall through your fingers"
Let me guess, you're a megalomaniac who thinks he should control what other people buy after they buy it, dictate the design of other people's products, which ALSO happen to be based on patented intellectual property, wage ceaseless war on the internet in its entirety, and charge admission to human culture.
It really burns me up when when people feel "entitled" to receive pay for work they did years and years ago. The "effort" involved in creating music does not justify compensating someone for the rest of their life, let alone 5 years, and yet they "demand it" because it's "their right".
I have news for you: "congress shall have the power to... secure for limited times"...
SHALL HAVE THE POWER, part of the original text, should not trump the AMENDMENT guarding people's freedom of speech and right to property and due process.
Further, freedom of expression is in the universal charter of human rights.
People that buy Apple products don't care about logic or reason in any case.
People that boycott stuff would never buy from Apple for reasons of logic.
Mutually exclusive.
What about intelligent power users who want the best of proprietary and the best of OSS?
I buy apple for numerous reasons unrelated to the "cult of jobs":
1 - superior color calibration 2 - superior audio drivers 3 - unix core, and thus portability for the vast majority of unix apps. 4 - column view in file browser (never did find one of those for linux, best i got was tabbed) 5 - greater access to proprietary packages WHEN NECESSARY.
In the average day, I use 75% oss software and 25% proprietary, and I make my choices based on user experience and superiority of function, NOT platform or fashion.
Prime example: I made a point of recently buying the last of the "old" generation macbook pro 17" for the following reasons:
1 - anti-glare matte screen (HUGE! YOU DONT PUT GLOSSY ON A LAPTOP *rolls up newspaper* BAD JOBS, BAD JOBS!!!)
2 - more numerous connection ports, including some which were phased out
3 - analogue adapters (dvi to component and s-video) which are not available for the "new" macbook pro (Yet?.. I have some doubts as to whether apple will make them available at all: if they don't and i can't find a third party one, guess who never buys mac again)
, Apple and other DRM makers have done their research on how people use their music, and have tried to craft their DRM to have minimal interference with those use cases.
bull.
With the advent of considerable viral media participation through the likes of youtube and social networking sites as well as households which easily meet or exceed the 5 PC "authorization cap", people run into these restrictions all the time.
Additionally, DRM is beginning to piss off joe sixpack, even if the technical acronym of "DRM" is not in their lexicon. A co-worker of mine can't sell his PS3 on the "blu-ray" angle because people tell him they won't buy a product they can't copy and are better off with DVD.
I still don't think it's a big enough issue for most people to boycott a company unless the DRM cannot be bypassed. When it can't, though, the backlash from the public is unanimous and swift. For examples, see spore and the sluggish/retrograde "adoption" of blu-ray, even in the face of a massive marketing campaign.
This issue is unlike any other issue of individual freedom in history in that the media has a direct conflict of interest with the public.
Without news agencies willing to report against their own self-interest, it will be incredibly difficult to raise awareness. When reported upon, this issue is framed in only one way: "the poor copyright cartels" (e.g. news organizations) are being "ripped off" by "dirty filthy music/movie thieves".
When the mass media is against your cause the battle is not simply uphill, it's like scaling the cliffs of dover.
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I disagree.
Back then computers were pretty dumb, now they are much more "intelligent" in their interfaces.
People DO assume they're magic boxes.
Look at what australia is doing.. "computers will magically make all the kiddy porn go away!!!"
No, computer literacy is not necessary at all, we only have all top companies requiring online applications, all modern entertainment interacting with them, all documents of consequence being accessed and manipulated through them, and it goes on and on.
To deny basic 101 on computer architecture (basic programming, computer literacy, the basics on how programs/os works) is to deny a youth some of the most empowering knowledge available to a modern citizen.
A lack of computer knowledge is directly equivalent to a lack of consumer power and a lack of employability.
The MAFIAA's terror campaign depends on the ignorance of the common user.
If kids become adept enough with computers to know how file-sharing works (quite possible in a sub-basic 101 on computer and internet architecture) then they'll know they have a greater chance of being struck by lightning while in a crashing biplane than getting sued.
Additionally, the basic structural knowledge would teach them how inconsequential a copy is!
Further, even if their parents dismiss them, as is often the case with the assertions of children, they can still engage in p2p and hide it from their parents using this knowledge.
The MAFIAA will most assuredly find some excuse to assure this never makes it into classrooms.
"What's your billing address?"
That's not exactly an unequivocal rejection.
read up on your politics.
The diaRIAA has been insisting to lawmakers that ISPs are intentionally uncooperative trying to get "3 strikes" laws shoved down their throats.
This sidesteps the issue in the same way the MAFIAA are trying to sidestep the courts. "pay us, just a modest fee of 10,000 per user"
As much as the RIAA wishes differently, attempted copyright infringement isn't actual copyright infringement, and isn't a crime under current copyright law. This new RIAA approach sidesteps that issue by sidestepping the courts entirely and convincing the ISPs that "Yes It Is, So Help Us Out!" While this is all blowhard garbage by the RIAA, they now have the Big Stick of your ISP to shut you down based on the RIAA wishlist of how they want the world to be.
And it will probably take a few big class action suit wins to knock this nonsense out of your ISP.
It only took a few isolated wins here and there on a small scale to put the writing on the wall for them.
A few individual actions against the RIAA for harassment (you can't nail the ISP because they can modify their TOS at any time) should kill this one too.
The problem is the majority of gun deaths in the US are the result of impulse actions.
It would cut down on gun deaths and injuries quite a bit because fewer people would carry guns, and those who did would think twice before spending 5k, even if they're pissed.
You mean the way speed and red light cams have fared poorly?
They do, after all, fail to provide any affirmative proof of the person behind the wheel, and people whose plates are caught by these cams suffer fines and insurance through the roof without due process.
Who needs due process though. Recent rulings seem to think the constitution no longer applies.
Same with the souter eminent domain ruling, among many others.
The constitution is nothing more than a piss rag now, and has been since the 50's. Whoever has the most money is magically vindicated by the constitution.
You're probably right about Canadian law. I speak of the US, where copying is a right strictly reserved for the copyright holder. Even archival copies of music and video are not allowed.
and you are full of it still.
It's called fair use.
Backup copies are allowed. Just because the device accesses someone else's computer to produce the backup doesn't make it any less a backup.
If the RIAA (or whomever) gives a report of illegal activity to an ISP but cannot prove it -- or better yet, it's demonstrably false -- could they be opening themselves up to a defamation lawsuit?
Actually, the offense is more egregious. Stalking/harassment laws come into play and it's conceivable that proving they did harm in this way could grant you a restraining order against them.
Sorry, but there is no possible "business" that can be conducted along the lines of "give it to me for nothing or I'll take it."
Oh really?
Isn't that what google does? I mean they provide FREE (as in beer) search, email, and video hosting, among other things. It's free to the end user, and they leverage that user base to charge companies for advertising.
Hmm.. which other company controls artists with huge listener bases again..
If i'm making buggy whips, and I see this here new ford, i'm going to retool my factory to make leather interiors for the ford, or leather jackets, or something else which can be produced with minimal modification.
The record companies' main job is PR and marketing. A proper exec who thinks of the future might start treating artists as free agents and charge fees for marketing services, but that would involve giving up a huge racket.
Who needs that when you can use immense amounts of cash and heavy control over the news media to twist legislative arms and destroy civil liberties en masse?
or a clone of the french bill to force customers to pay anyway.
I support the pro-downloading crowd, but I didn't know ripping groups went out of their way to provide access for the hearing impaired : /
no, most of the time it doesn't.
college is full of derelicts who are just there "for the experience".
republicans are rich through inheritance and cronyism, not by their own hand, but they do have the money, and it's customary for those who have the money to send their kids to college.
Also, never having to handle being at the absolute mercy of someone else breeds intolerance and selfishness bordering on psychopathy. These characteristics are typical of republicans, who would rather see people suffer and die than produce money for healthcare costs, and view war as some kind of contact sport.
So no, they are not well educated, they skipped half their classes and attended frat parties.
On the contrary, I think he has a very good idea of what it is and what it does.
I also think "re-education" has been used elsewhere.
Those places/times included:
1930's germany
stalinist russia
any dystopian novel or movie you've seen. (I think I remember a few twilight zone episodes too)
Maybe the 99% of people 35 and lower who share files should all be shipped off to "re-education camps".
I find it incredible that these companies can continue to perpetrate the crimes against the populace and lobby for the laws they do when they produce the very films and books which show how horrific and counterproductive their efforts are.
"The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems fall through your fingers"
Let me guess, you're a megalomaniac who thinks he should control what other people buy after they buy it, dictate the design of other people's products, which ALSO happen to be based on patented intellectual property, wage ceaseless war on the internet in its entirety, and charge admission to human culture.
It really burns me up when when people feel "entitled" to receive pay for work they did years and years ago. The "effort" involved in creating music does not justify compensating someone for the rest of their life, let alone 5 years, and yet they "demand it" because it's "their right".
I have news for you: "congress shall have the power to... secure for limited times"...
SHALL HAVE THE POWER, part of the original text, should not trump the AMENDMENT guarding people's freedom of speech and right to property and due process.
Further, freedom of expression is in the universal charter of human rights.
how do those mangled pseudo-http packets not cause havoc on the other end?
I think it's time for you to consider educating them or associating with people who don't drink the kool-aid whole.
It's obvious they simply listen mindlessly to the news.
The thing about P2P that's not the same for the rest of the internet is that it's the same as the rest of the internet, which is fundamentally p2p
In other words, he's declared war on the entire internet. He may as well quit with the pussy-footing and shut the whole lot down.
Blizzard will introduce a new achievement: death to the labour party.
A million aussies will charge the halls of parliament on horseback screaming "FOR THE HORDE!"
So this is why apple's new line of macbook pros black any external monitors when you launch an HD movie?
I think that letter is yesterday's news.
People that buy Apple products don't care about logic or reason in any case.
People that boycott stuff would never buy from Apple for reasons of logic.
Mutually exclusive.
What about intelligent power users who want the best of proprietary and the best of OSS?
I buy apple for numerous reasons unrelated to the "cult of jobs":
1 - superior color calibration
2 - superior audio drivers
3 - unix core, and thus portability for the vast majority of unix apps.
4 - column view in file browser (never did find one of those for linux, best i got was tabbed)
5 - greater access to proprietary packages WHEN NECESSARY.
In the average day, I use 75% oss software and 25% proprietary, and I make my choices based on user experience and superiority of function, NOT platform or fashion.
Prime example: I made a point of recently buying the last of the "old" generation macbook pro 17" for the following reasons:
1 - anti-glare matte screen (HUGE! YOU DONT PUT GLOSSY ON A LAPTOP *rolls up newspaper* BAD JOBS, BAD JOBS!!!)
2 - more numerous connection ports, including some which were phased out
3 - analogue adapters (dvi to component and s-video) which are not available for the "new" macbook pro (Yet? .. I have some doubts as to whether apple will make them available at all: if they don't and i can't find a third party one, guess who never buys mac again)
Read my reply title. LOOK, it's no longer exclusive! Free software can access it! : )
, Apple and other DRM makers have done their research on how people use their music, and have tried to craft their DRM to have minimal interference with those use cases.
bull.
With the advent of considerable viral media participation through the likes of youtube and social networking sites as well as households which easily meet or exceed the 5 PC "authorization cap", people run into these restrictions all the time.
Additionally, DRM is beginning to piss off joe sixpack, even if the technical acronym of "DRM" is not in their lexicon. A co-worker of mine can't sell his PS3 on the "blu-ray" angle because people tell him they won't buy a product they can't copy and are better off with DVD.
I still don't think it's a big enough issue for most people to boycott a company unless the DRM cannot be bypassed. When it can't, though, the backlash from the public is unanimous and swift. For examples, see spore and the sluggish/retrograde "adoption" of blu-ray, even in the face of a massive marketing campaign.
This issue is unlike any other issue of individual freedom in history in that the media has a direct conflict of interest with the public.
Without news agencies willing to report against their own self-interest, it will be incredibly difficult to raise awareness. When reported upon, this issue is framed in only one way: "the poor copyright cartels" (e.g. news organizations) are being "ripped off" by "dirty filthy music/movie thieves".
When the mass media is against your cause the battle is not simply uphill, it's like scaling the cliffs of dover.