Exactly right. It seems the only succesful weapon they actually have is fear. Instead of pursuing a change to their moral (i.e. pirating is theft), which is obviously a very hard task, they opt for the much easier solution: we know what you're doing online.
I think people need to realize that they're not using their democratic right cleverly, when their vote goes to protect the rights and riches of the few. This is exactly what copyrights on media is these days and it's a symptom of a democracy that is not working for the better of the majority.
This might not be the intention either; it just might be that most people think it's great that the wealth isn't shared equally. Afterall, this does create popstars, idols, dreams etc. for the ordinary people. I don't think it's worth it though. Why shouldn't everybody have cheap access to culture? There's plenty incentive to be a musician even without the millions of dollars, just look at old geezers like Tom Waits and Bob Dylan.
If you're spitting out html-code, then Zope has a very powerful approach to keeping things separated. Rendering html from content usually involves very few types of operations, the most important being a database search query and looping through the resulting arrays (and subarrays etc.). For this Zope has the TAL macro language and it embeds very naturally in xhtml-code. You actually can't avoid outputting correct xhtml. As a content management layer, Plone does end up being rather convoluted, but once you get to know where everything is located and how it's put together, the application logic is very... well, logical.
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Exactly right. It seems the only succesful weapon they actually have is fear. Instead of pursuing a change to their moral (i.e. pirating is theft), which is obviously a very hard task, they opt for the much easier solution: we know what you're doing online.
Well in that case, I think it's a pretty crappy situation for the poor guy. Maybe there's gonna be a counter-counter-attack... : )
I think people need to realize that they're not using their democratic right cleverly, when their vote goes to protect the rights and riches of the few. This is exactly what copyrights on media is these days and it's a symptom of a democracy that is not working for the better of the majority.
This might not be the intention either; it just might be that most people think it's great that the wealth isn't shared equally. Afterall, this does create popstars, idols, dreams etc. for the ordinary people. I don't think it's worth it though. Why shouldn't everybody have cheap access to culture? There's plenty incentive to be a musician even without the millions of dollars, just look at old geezers like Tom Waits and Bob Dylan.
Maybe it was a stolen laptop; in that case it seems the measures taken are quite unjustifiable.
If you're spitting out html-code, then Zope has a very powerful approach to keeping things separated. Rendering html from content usually involves very few types of operations, the most important being a database search query and looping through the resulting arrays (and subarrays etc.). For this Zope has the TAL macro language and it embeds very naturally in xhtml-code. You actually can't avoid outputting correct xhtml. As a content management layer, Plone does end up being rather convoluted, but once you get to know where everything is located and how it's put together, the application logic is very... well, logical.