Alternatively, Apple will have to allow any consumer in any EU member country to shop from any of the EU country stores.
In, which case they are almost certainly breaking copyright law in the country of the downloader.
Actually, that is not clear.
I can travel to france, buy a french cd and bring it back to germany with me. Perfectly legal. I bought the cd in france under french copyright law.
Now, if the server stands in france, a french credit-card-handler is used for payment, am i buying my digital music in france? If yes, it's a great day for all people, because then there will be vast competition within the EU (and allofmp3.com would be legal;-) ).
Hrmm. What I'm getting from your post is that you're cheap, you're anal and you're lazy.
You must be a huge hit with the ladies. Ah, Slashdot, where every discussion ends in name-calling.
I am cheap, yes. I am not ready to pay a hefty premium for a product with virtually no production cost.
I am lazy, yes. If there are two ways to do something, i will choose the easy one. You could also say that i will choose the better one, the userfriendly one.
I don't quite get how you deducted "anal" from my post.
Just because Apple does not like breaking the law does not excempt them from the law.
Of course Apple is not the main culprit in this case; the 3 music cartells are in there for a reason.
My prediction of what will happen:
Apple will be found at fault of breaching EU-law and will have to pay a fine and equal out all the prices. Apple in turn will sue the music cartells into offering a pan-european license. In the end, the consumer wins.
I have to disagree here.
I am one of the people who don't want to pay huge amounts of money for badly encoded DRM-music.
This announcement is a step in the right direction, but the new price is at 200% of what i am ready to pay for music (50 euro-cent per track is my sweet spot; according to an experiment by heise.de, most people will stop pirating at that cost).
AAC _is_ a hindrance; i am too heavily invested in MP3 (3 portable players, the car stereo system) to switch to another format. Players that play something other than MP3, WAV and WMA9 cost ~30% more than the rest.
I would like to be able to choose the bitrate (from 128kb/s cbr to 320kb/s VBR).
Basically, the price is too high (and the extra 30 cent EMI wants is simply an augmentation of price; it has _NOTHING_ to do with higher cost.), the format is wrong and the bitrate is a bit static.
You are allowed by law to buy a PC without an OS on it, and Dell are obligated to offer to sell you the PC without the OS on it.
Don't expect it to be so easy anywhere else, Dell gets a lot of subsidy from Microsoft for the 'Linux' games it plays. Bullshit. There is no such law here in Germany. Everybody on the world has this right; just read the damn MS-EULA the next time you reinstall; it's in there.
ok, could also be flamebait. Or the U in fud.
Honestly, the post implies that ms-exchange is open by using IMAP. This is pure bullshit, and is either completely misinformed or an attempt to troll/astroturf.
If an organization really, honestly, truly wants to not use Outlook... NOBODY is forcing them to. But it's so much easier to whine and moan.
Exchange is the best product of it's kind out there. Ever try using Notes? Yech... what a train wreck. How about Openview? Disaster. Oh wait!! Let's use Fetchmail! Troll.
It was never about the emails (who the hell uses exchange because of the emails?!); it was about the fricking calendaring functionality which is NOT available to non-MS programs.
Stop painting ODF as the big threat to Microsoft:
No-one in the administrations who demand ODF want to stop using MS Office.
Microsoft has an import/export-plugin for Office2007, and that's the end of it.
What school/college/university is NOT:
-a place to learn how to do XY (set up a VPN, configure a server, etc)
-a place to learn what the best XY is (the best way to set up a multinational VPN, the best routers, etc.)
What school/college/university teach you is the theoretical basics of most of the important IT fields and the ability to quickly adapt to different technologies. Reading the FAQs, HOWTOs, tutorials and documentation are enough to fulfill one small task. The second you change the task or the underlying technology, you will have to re-learn very much (unless you have aquired the underlying basics through experience).
Someone from the university is perfect to make the low-detail concept of something, because he not only understands the technology (VPN, Router, etc) but also knows what the components using the VPN need. Using the university guy to decide on a router-model or to actually do the configuration is wrong; he does not have the experience and knowledge to do that.
The real answer is: let me choose.
Offer me
-a lossless format
-low-quality mp3 (192 kb/s)
-high quality mp3 (320kb/s VBR)
-low quality OGG Vorbis
-high quality OGG Vorbis
He began his crusade when he founded the security-team:
He wants a secure PHP. He left the security-team out of frustration that the main devs didn't care about security (leaving security-critical bugs unfixed for ages).
This month of PHP-bugs is his effort to put pressure on the devs to finally make security a priority.
Sure, we hear very minor instances of rape in Iraq and torture in Abu Grab, but again this is a minor blemish to the men and women in uniform.
The difference is that Abu Guraib and Guantanamo Bay are/were both planned. Guantanamo is constant, governmental violation of the basic human rights. That's way worse than some 100 guys who go crazy and rape through some villages.
Maybe you should do a little research on mans past wars. How about the massive rape, enslavement, pillaging, painful slaughter of millions of innocent women and children attributed to other nations in the past during times of war?
Oh thank you, instead of killing me painfully with a rusty spoon you have the decency to use a gun.
In the modern world, the military is a tool for bring justice and the opportunity for freedom in parts of the world that have had none before. Why is that a bad thing? Should we not call the fire department when there's a fire to put out too? Yeah, you CALL tha fire-department. Last thing i heard, nobody called for three additional wars.
Mac OSX tiger has most GNU software - gcc g++ emacs make wget nano.. etc. Does that make it a GNU distribution with mach microkernel?
The way you put it: no. gcc, emacs, nano, wget also run under windows. It's the usage of the GNU-tools for the basic system functionality that makes a system a GNU-system.
Java is fricking great. It is terrible for Desktop-Applikations (simply because the VM needs too long to be loaded), but server-side it rocks. I have been working on Java-servers which serve more than 200'000 clients, and it has been pleasant work.
Get of your high horse; Java is used for way more than just slow Applets.
Yes, as demonstrated by anti free speech laws and 50% income tax. Definitely respectful of individual freedom! Would you kindly point out the anti-"Free Speech"-laws Germany has?
This isn't Germany and we do not have anything resembling a socialist work structure. Last time I looked, i didn't live in a socialist country.
It's a federal liberal (not in your political sense) democratic republic whose economic model is called "social market economy", which (as the american system) is considered one of the "middle"-systems.
Germany (well, the BRD) has _nothing_ to do with socialism.
Vista will even do the image for you. In the new backup utility included with the OS there is an option for a full system backup. Of course, the backup-utility is only available in Vista Ultimate (which is th emost expensive version of Vista).
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In, which case they are almost certainly breaking copyright law in the country of the downloader.
Actually, that is not clear.I can travel to france, buy a french cd and bring it back to germany with me. Perfectly legal. I bought the cd in france under french copyright law.
Now, if the server stands in france, a french credit-card-handler is used for payment, am i buying my digital music in france? If yes, it's a great day for all people, because then there will be vast competition within the EU (and allofmp3.com would be legal
You must be a huge hit with the ladies. Ah, Slashdot, where every discussion ends in name-calling.
I am cheap, yes. I am not ready to pay a hefty premium for a product with virtually no production cost.
I am lazy, yes. If there are two ways to do something, i will choose the easy one. You could also say that i will choose the better one, the userfriendly one.
I don't quite get how you deducted "anal" from my post.
Just because Apple does not like breaking the law does not excempt them from the law.
Of course Apple is not the main culprit in this case; the 3 music cartells are in there for a reason.
My prediction of what will happen:
Apple will be found at fault of breaching EU-law and will have to pay a fine and equal out all the prices. Apple in turn will sue the music cartells into offering a pan-european license. In the end, the consumer wins.
I have to disagree here.
I am one of the people who don't want to pay huge amounts of money for badly encoded DRM-music. This announcement is a step in the right direction, but the new price is at 200% of what i am ready to pay for music (50 euro-cent per track is my sweet spot; according to an experiment by heise.de, most people will stop pirating at that cost).
AAC _is_ a hindrance; i am too heavily invested in MP3 (3 portable players, the car stereo system) to switch to another format. Players that play something other than MP3, WAV and WMA9 cost ~30% more than the rest.
I would like to be able to choose the bitrate (from 128kb/s cbr to 320kb/s VBR).
Basically, the price is too high (and the extra 30 cent EMI wants is simply an augmentation of price; it has _NOTHING_ to do with higher cost.), the format is wrong and the bitrate is a bit static.
damnit, i hoped i could get it onto the frontpage. ;-)
you have ruined the joke!
Don't expect it to be so easy anywhere else, Dell gets a lot of subsidy from Microsoft for the 'Linux' games it plays. Bullshit. There is no such law here in Germany.
Everybody on the world has this right; just read the damn MS-EULA the next time you reinstall; it's in there.
ok, could also be flamebait. Or the U in fud.
Honestly, the post implies that ms-exchange is open by using IMAP. This is pure bullshit, and is either completely misinformed or an attempt to troll/astroturf.
If an organization really, honestly, truly wants to not use Outlook... NOBODY is forcing them to. But it's so much easier to whine and moan.
Exchange is the best product of it's kind out there. Ever try using Notes? Yech... what a train wreck. How about Openview? Disaster. Oh wait!! Let's use Fetchmail! Troll. It was never about the emails (who the hell uses exchange because of the emails?!); it was about the fricking calendaring functionality which is NOT available to non-MS programs.
Stop painting ODF as the big threat to Microsoft: No-one in the administrations who demand ODF want to stop using MS Office. Microsoft has an import/export-plugin for Office2007, and that's the end of it.
What school/college/university is NOT: -a place to learn how to do XY (set up a VPN, configure a server, etc) -a place to learn what the best XY is (the best way to set up a multinational VPN, the best routers, etc.) What school/college/university teach you is the theoretical basics of most of the important IT fields and the ability to quickly adapt to different technologies. Reading the FAQs, HOWTOs, tutorials and documentation are enough to fulfill one small task. The second you change the task or the underlying technology, you will have to re-learn very much (unless you have aquired the underlying basics through experience). Someone from the university is perfect to make the low-detail concept of something, because he not only understands the technology (VPN, Router, etc) but also knows what the components using the VPN need. Using the university guy to decide on a router-model or to actually do the configuration is wrong; he does not have the experience and knowledge to do that.
The real answer is: let me choose. Offer me -a lossless format -low-quality mp3 (192 kb/s) -high quality mp3 (320kb/s VBR) -low quality OGG Vorbis -high quality OGG Vorbis
Yes. And obviously the spanish did too.
Ah, yes. BTW, i hereby call all native americans to reclaim their country from the US-Invaders!
He began his crusade when he founded the security-team: He wants a secure PHP. He left the security-team out of frustration that the main devs didn't care about security (leaving security-critical bugs unfixed for ages). This month of PHP-bugs is his effort to put pressure on the devs to finally make security a priority.
An assload is the equivalent to a metric fuckton.
The difference is that Abu Guraib and Guantanamo Bay are/were both planned. Guantanamo is constant, governmental violation of the basic human rights. That's way worse than some 100 guys who go crazy and rape through some villages. Maybe you should do a little research on mans past wars. How about the massive rape, enslavement, pillaging, painful slaughter of millions of innocent women and children attributed to other nations in the past during times of war?
Oh thank you, instead of killing me painfully with a rusty spoon you have the decency to use a gun. In the modern world, the military is a tool for bring justice and the opportunity for freedom in parts of the world that have had none before. Why is that a bad thing? Should we not call the fire department when there's a fire to put out too? Yeah, you CALL tha fire-department. Last thing i heard, nobody called for three additional wars.
The way you put it: no. gcc, emacs, nano, wget also run under windows. It's the usage of the GNU-tools for the basic system functionality that makes a system a GNU-system.
Java is fricking great. It is terrible for Desktop-Applikations (simply because the VM needs too long to be loaded), but server-side it rocks. I have been working on Java-servers which serve more than 200'000 clients, and it has been pleasant work. Get of your high horse; Java is used for way more than just slow Applets.
You seem to have missed the release of the JRE and SDK udner the GPLv2.
Yeah, i am pretty touchy on the subject. Sorry about that; it's the whole DDR-story backfiring.
Expiration for the free Support through patches and updates is 2014.
I misread an article about the automatic backup-feature. You can manually create a backup.