After all, while the cost of teaching ethics to lawyers is quite high. Imagine the cost of teaching ethics to individuals who may have no ethical abilities at all? And who can say how many of those work for the DOJ?
'the majority of people recognize him for what he truly is..' Mind you if that were generally true; no one in America would be worried about the possibility of a trump presidency
I do understand though. These are distressing issues and it's so much easier to stop your distress by hiding the issues than to try to find ways of actually addressing the problems.
Not really, you're actually just pushing the when we can't see it it isn't happening argument which is the same thing that caused the majority of abuse victims to suffer without any help or even acknowledgement for generations.
"Just because it's a book doesn't make it a fact."
His opinion is in favour of strong IP rights, so can we take it that you disagree with those?
Or is your opinion based on a complete lack of knowledge on that which you opine about?
True, DRM without this context makes no sense at all.
With it, it explains the industry willingness to part with well over a billion dollars a year on this anti-customer technology.
"The problem is that it creates an unnecessary inconvenience for consumers and violates their property rights."
Agreed, but that has not been enough to stop the companies from using it.
The fact that it also doesn't actually work to keep the people who will copy and distribute the material from doing so, should be the decisive factor for these people.
While they like to claim they are losing money to piracy, the only money that they are actually definitively quantifiably losing is the money they waste on DRM.
If attempting to do what you were attempting to do in the above post, it would be most helpful not to leave out random words, letters or to write the phrase for example both before and after the example.
Getting your grammar right would also be helpful.
Furthermore, please find some way to identify to the poster whose comment you were commenting on and any potential readers that you simply meant to have fun with an opportunity presented and are doing so without malice.
"Wolfy, Aug 27th, 2010 @ 4:59pm
Call me old fashioned, but I come from the old US of A, where we were free to do with our belonging as we chose."
How is it old fashioned to have been born somewhere?
Admittedly, being born somewhere is something even our most ancient ancestors did, but it is also current universal practice.
Please advise of the new trend you are hinting at that is more modern than the old fashioned, being accidentally born in a particular place.
The second part of your statement suggests but does not state that being free to do with one's belongings what one chooses is a good thing.
Was your intention to say that you believed that being free to do with your belongings what you like was a good thing and being thankful that you were randomly born in the United States was equally a good thing, for you, because you believe that in the pre-stated United States you are indeed free to do with your belongings what you wish.
That would indeed be comprehensible, if unfortunately untrue as you are not for example legally allowed to break drm to make a backup of a movie, for example.
Perhaps you would like to rephrase to simply state,
that you believe that when a person buys something that are morally entitled to do what they wish with said, presumably non living thing and while your own country may not be perfect on legislation about this, some countries appear to be worse.
and you're saying that's how all businesses should work now, do the stuff for free but charge for minigolf.
Obviously unworkable even to a backwards child.
Oh, I guess that isn't what you're saying.
I guess what you're saying is there are a lot of ways to make money charging for things you can control and giving away for free the stuff that you can't control anyway although it will get you known and if people enjoy it, will create demand.
And if that doesn't them millionaires then we have to remember that most musicians, performers and creative people aren't millionaires, they mostly barely scrape by and that's even if they are lucky enough to have a label/studio/gallery/whatever, sign them.
But maybe, just maybe, I want to pretend you're saying something entirely different.
Did you thank of that, did you?
I think the DOJ have something of a point.
After all, while the cost of teaching ethics to lawyers is quite high. Imagine the cost of teaching ethics to individuals who may have no ethical abilities at all?
And who can say how many of those work for the DOJ?
Umm
'the majority of people recognize him for what he truly is..'
Mind you if that were generally true; no one in America would be worried about the possibility of a trump presidency
Re: Re: Re:
I do understand though. These are distressing issues and it's so much easier to stop your distress by hiding the issues than to try to find ways of actually addressing the problems.
Re: Re:
Not really, you're actually just pushing the when we can't see it it isn't happening argument which is the same thing that caused the majority of abuse victims to suffer without any help or even acknowledgement for generations.
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Duh! Because... Piracy!
Re: Re:
Because we are Legion.
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Why do you think that talking about other print media that also failed to adapt sensibly and is also sinking, in some way makes his point less valid?
Why do you think he mentioned craigslist.?
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Can't wait for the headlines
Piracy killing DRM industry
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Probably should have signed in for that one.
Re: Intellectual Property is Theft
Faulty meter
Re:
"Just because it's a book doesn't make it a fact."
His opinion is in favour of strong IP rights, so can we take it that you disagree with those?
Or is your opinion based on a complete lack of knowledge on that which you opine about?
Wasn't the Industry Canada study the one that concluded that P2P file sharing tended to increase music purchasing?
Actually it seems far more likely
that the internet was turned off in an attempt to disrupt organisation of anti Mubarak protests.
While it may be that it was turned back on, in an attempt to aid the organisation of pro Mubarak protesters
Re: Technical effectiveness is not the point
True, DRM without this context makes no sense at all.
With it, it explains the industry willingness to part with well over a billion dollars a year on this anti-customer technology.
"The problem is that it creates an unnecessary inconvenience for consumers and violates their property rights."
Agreed, but that has not been enough to stop the companies from using it.
The fact that it also doesn't actually work to keep the people who will copy and distribute the material from doing so, should be the decisive factor for these people.
While they like to claim they are losing money to piracy, the only money that they are actually definitively quantifiably losing is the money they waste on DRM.
Re: Re:
Note to self,
If attempting to do what you were attempting to do in the above post, it would be most helpful not to leave out random words, letters or to write the phrase for example both before and after the example.
Getting your grammar right would also be helpful.
Furthermore, please find some way to identify to the poster whose comment you were commenting on and any potential readers that you simply meant to have fun with an opportunity presented and are doing so without malice.
Re:
"Wolfy, Aug 27th, 2010 @ 4:59pm
Call me old fashioned, but I come from the old US of A, where we were free to do with our belonging as we chose."
How is it old fashioned to have been born somewhere?
Admittedly, being born somewhere is something even our most ancient ancestors did, but it is also current universal practice.
Please advise of the new trend you are hinting at that is more modern than the old fashioned, being accidentally born in a particular place.
The second part of your statement suggests but does not state that being free to do with one's belongings what one chooses is a good thing.
Was your intention to say that you believed that being free to do with your belongings what you like was a good thing and being thankful that you were randomly born in the United States was equally a good thing, for you, because you believe that in the pre-stated United States you are indeed free to do with your belongings what you wish.
That would indeed be comprehensible, if unfortunately untrue as you are not for example legally allowed to break drm to make a backup of a movie, for example.
Perhaps you would like to rephrase to simply state,
that you believe that when a person buys something that are morally entitled to do what they wish with said, presumably non living thing and while your own country may not be perfect on legislation about this, some countries appear to be worse.
Or perhaps I have misunderstood.
Minigolf
Honestly Mike, Minigolf!
and you're saying that's how all businesses should work now, do the stuff for free but charge for minigolf.
Obviously unworkable even to a backwards child.
Oh, I guess that isn't what you're saying.
I guess what you're saying is there are a lot of ways to make money charging for things you can control and giving away for free the stuff that you can't control anyway although it will get you known and if people enjoy it, will create demand.
And if that doesn't them millionaires then we have to remember that most musicians, performers and creative people aren't millionaires, they mostly barely scrape by and that's even if they are lucky enough to have a label/studio/gallery/whatever, sign them.
But maybe, just maybe, I want to pretend you're saying something entirely different.
Did you thank of that, did you?
Re: Old technology, you only know about it NOW ?
oh dear.
Re: Just an observation.
Berners-Lee is credited with being the father of the web, not the internet.
Vint Cerf might qualify as father of the internet, or one of the fathers anyway.