What the hell is "AP"? It's common practice to at least explain the acronym once in a text. As of now, this blurb means nothing without following the links. Is AP a person (unlikely because of the age, but still)? A company? A newspaper?
Well, you are wrong, and the article you link two demonstrates this cleary:
...whereas the Pirate Party developed on a completely parallel track and is unrelated to the other two.
The Pirate Bay started long before the pirate party, and the only thing in common is one word, which has been used for a long time by the "old media" to describe filesharers, thus it's an apt name. I'm quite sure that none of the people on trial even votes for the pirate party.
No. If my boss wouldn't pay me, I would probably not come to work. I might for a while, because it's quite fun, but eventually I would need to find some means to support myself. Just like the OP. Nothing of this contradicts what I originally wrote.
1) People have been pirating computer games on a large scale since the early 80ies. If you haven't been able to make a buck before, you never will.
2) No one is forcing you to make games. Please stop doing it. There are a lot of people ready do do it for free. If you only do it for the money, and your business model requires you to get paid every time someone copies your game and demand censorship of the internet because of this idea, then I think you're crazy.
TPB is not a business, it's a couple of guys with a lot of servers that do what they want.
The linux test is also quite retarded, since almost all linux distributions have their own trackers, there's no need to put them on TPB. It doesn't matter how much illegal content there is, the fact that you even found one "legal download" (remember, nothing is stored on TPB, they do not perform any infringement) shows that it's not meant for breaking the law, it's meant for sharing information, no matter if sharing it happens to be illegal in some country or morality.
intent is where TPB crosses this line imho. google bot just index's everything, where these guys purposely set out to create a list of infringing downloads.
False.
They are set out to create a list of information that is not censored or removed because some random guy in another country believes it to be illegal.
The reason there are a lot of torrents to content that might be illegal for the original uploader to redistribute, is that for example linux ISOs are already tracked elsewhere, there's no need to put them there.
There's good and bad regulation. Good one is a rule preventing anyone else to censor the net. Bad one is a rule to censor the net.
Generally, Slashdotters want to be able to freely choose what information to take part of, and what information to share. A duopoly of corporate networks will not give this possibility without regulation. A free market might, but there's no free market in the ISP business at the moment and the foreseeable future.
the reason the usa lags behind other countries is that the other countries are small, compact and densely populated.
Ok, so let's check the first country on your list: Sweden. The fourth largest country in Europe by area, and a population density 2/3rds of the whole United States, and that's including all your rural areas.
Somewhat the reference list you used contradicts your argument.
I'm rather surprised the cell phone companies aren't trying to jump into the residential data market.
I thought that a big part of the problem you have is that the cable company, phone company and the cellphone company are actually owned by the same corporation, thus trying its best to make sure that there will never be fair competition.
Yes, Windows is easy to port. I'm quite sure they have ported it to both PPC, mips and arm already in their labs. The applications running on top of Windows is a completely different issue, and that is what matters here. People want Windows to run Windows-only software, and unless every company will convert their programs to run on the other processors, running Windows on ARM doesn't help you a bit.
Uhm, this has happened to me personally *twice*, with different drives of course. This was back in the days where you could occasionally get speeds above 52x, but I don't remember the speed of the drives I used. At least it's not a myth.
It's a little bit like the wikipedia problem - it can cite 100 sources that all use information lifted off wikipedia, it just seems reliable and independently confirmed even though there's really only one source.
How come people still can not grasp that the grocery store will actually lose something that will cost them resources to replace, while copying a piece of information doesn't deprive anyone of anything, on the contrary.
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What the hell is "AP"? It's common practice to at least explain the acronym once in a text. As of now, this blurb means nothing without following the links. Is AP a person (unlikely because of the age, but still)? A company? A newspaper?
Argh! s/two/to/ of course. :)
Well, you are wrong, and the article you link two demonstrates this cleary:
...whereas the Pirate Party developed on a completely parallel track and is unrelated to the other two.
The Pirate Bay started long before the pirate party, and the only thing in common is one word, which has been used for a long time by the "old media" to describe filesharers, thus it's an apt name. I'm quite sure that none of the people on trial even votes for the pirate party.
I clicked the links, what about them? They are random filler sites with ads.
No, the defense is that what they are doing is not illegal in any way under Swedish law. Who is in charge of a legal website is not very interesting.
I use AmigaOS, you insensitive clod.
Windows security patches are free for pirated versions of Windows. Don't ask me how I know this...
This is why you should use example.org in all your examples.
The last time I used Windows XP with service pack 3, I got a requester whenever some program wanted to add itself to the firewall exceptions.
No. If my boss wouldn't pay me, I would probably not come to work. I might for a while, because it's quite fun, but eventually I would need to find some means to support myself. Just like the OP. Nothing of this contradicts what I originally wrote.
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1) People have been pirating computer games on a large scale since the early 80ies. If you haven't been able to make a buck before, you never will.
2) No one is forcing you to make games. Please stop doing it. There are a lot of people ready do do it for free. If you only do it for the money, and your business model requires you to get paid every time someone copies your game and demand censorship of the internet because of this idea, then I think you're crazy.
TPB is not a business, it's a couple of guys with a lot of servers that do what they want.
The linux test is also quite retarded, since almost all linux distributions have their own trackers, there's no need to put them on TPB. It doesn't matter how much illegal content there is, the fact that you even found one "legal download" (remember, nothing is stored on TPB, they do not perform any infringement) shows that it's not meant for breaking the law, it's meant for sharing information, no matter if sharing it happens to be illegal in some country or morality.
intent is where TPB crosses this line imho. google bot just index's everything, where these guys purposely set out to create a list of infringing downloads.
False.
They are set out to create a list of information that is not censored or removed because some random guy in another country believes it to be illegal.
The reason there are a lot of torrents to content that might be illegal for the original uploader to redistribute, is that for example linux ISOs are already tracked elsewhere, there's no need to put them there.
who the hell decided that such a short article needed to be split into two pages?
The guy who wants to get a lot of ad revenue by making you see more ads.
Linux doesn't have a 4GB file size limit, or what do you mean has the limit?
There's good and bad regulation. Good one is a rule preventing anyone else to censor the net. Bad one is a rule to censor the net.
Generally, Slashdotters want to be able to freely choose what information to take part of, and what information to share. A duopoly of corporate networks will not give this possibility without regulation. A free market might, but there's no free market in the ISP business at the moment and the foreseeable future.
The good thing is that you can go back to an old revision and read what it said.
the reason the usa lags behind other countries is that the other countries are small, compact and densely populated.
Ok, so let's check the first country on your list: Sweden. The fourth largest country in Europe by area, and a population density 2/3rds of the whole United States, and that's including all your rural areas.
Somewhat the reference list you used contradicts your argument.
I'm rather surprised the cell phone companies aren't trying to jump into the residential data market.
I thought that a big part of the problem you have is that the cable company, phone company and the cellphone company are actually owned by the same corporation, thus trying its best to make sure that there will never be fair competition.
Yes, Windows is easy to port. I'm quite sure they have ported it to both PPC, mips and arm already in their labs. The applications running on top of Windows is a completely different issue, and that is what matters here. People want Windows to run Windows-only software, and unless every company will convert their programs to run on the other processors, running Windows on ARM doesn't help you a bit.
Uhm, this has happened to me personally *twice*, with different drives of course. This was back in the days where you could occasionally get speeds above 52x, but I don't remember the speed of the drives I used. At least it's not a myth.
It's a little bit like the wikipedia problem - it can cite 100 sources that all use information lifted off wikipedia, it just seems reliable and independently confirmed even though there's really only one source.
citation needed.
Except of course for your mom.
How come people still can not grasp that the grocery store will actually lose something that will cost them resources to replace, while copying a piece of information doesn't deprive anyone of anything, on the contrary.