Oh yeah, definitely destroy a couple of parent's lives with a million dollar judgment because they didn't have a degree in network administration to know what was going on with all the blinking lights on their router. I see bankruptcy, loss of home, kid winding up in foster care... Nice. Good job industry. Kudos. Your virtual sales you think you missed out on just destroyed a family.
OMG, you broke their EULA? You thieving dishonorable pirate. Don't let PoSmedley hear that. Of course, if you ask me, the software you PAID FOR, was broken, and all you did was fix it. I can't imagine a court holding you liable for just getting what you already bought to work.
"The problem with all this perception of 'entitlement' is that WHEN a "consumer" [note the quotes] has issue with restrictive covenant instead of saying "fuck the man...I am not going to buy his product" he says "fuck the man...I will pirate his product instead"." Nope. The product already pretty much sucks. Its a luxury and a trivial one at that. You see a great number of pirates and assume they were potential customers. They aren't. Instead of your product, I'll buy
I see the seller/buyer relationship as a negotiation. I'm negotiating. I'm telling you (well, media companies) that if you want my money you need to stop acting like I'm not really buying anything of substance from you - a limited license to do something some of the time if you feel I should be allowed to and its not too much trouble for you. Fortunately, you (Jafo) are not the person I'm really negotiating with. And I'm already not buying from companies with restrictive licenses. And
Yeah, Nesrie, you have it exactly right. PoSmedley will now accuse you of promoting piracy or being 'the rare case' that is not representative of the normal person who plays PC games, who is a thief and a scoundrel.
The laws don't work as they are, Smedley. Why do you think making them even more restrictive is going to accomplish anything. All you're doing is pissing off normal people who are actually willing to pay you a fair price for your work. But thats not good enough. The free market isn't good enough. You need laws to make your business model viable, because otherwise, nobody would fall for the scam of remarketing the same thing in a different package.
Oh give it a rest Smedley. If you want to accuse me of something, besides debating reasonably well and being just as stubborn as you, at least try to make it something I actually did, not something I simply think is an abomination of civil law. I'm probably squeakier clean than you and your 'closet'. I know I've never produced a derivative work and published it that my fair use rights were even in question, and the only torrents I've participated in were for Linux distros.
An analogy is a comparison. You made a comparison between turning an engine over and viewing a photo. So yes, your analogy. My comparison was different. Are we having fun with semantics yet? Viewing a photo is essentially a reperformance. Something that you are not allowed to do with many types of digital media without paying royalties. For example, playing a tape of a football game in a sports bar.
[quote]You NOW can very easily buy a CD...duplicate it in secons...or transfer it to an MP3 player, etc. and YOUR Laws typically allow that to happen or do nothing to prohibit it.[/quote] You were already wrong about the above quote. If I duplicate a protected CD, even for the purposes of converting it to another format, I'm violating the anti-circumvention provisions in the DMCA. The fact that you don't see the comparison between moving an engine between one car and a
If everybody did what you claim is a valid business model, everybody would produce a few things of value, stop, and live off the royalties and subscription fees - essentially what the execs at the media conglomerates are doing. Service economy. Like they say, let me know how thats been working out for you. Copyright was great until they started lobbying congress to change the original deal. This has very little to do with piracy. It has everything to do with the way IP holders view th
"Why would I bother to EVER PRODUCE ANYTHING if the 'State' simply took it away from me? Look out, boys...we are getting close to debates re socialism vs capitalism." Gee, thats not what I'm arguing. I'm saying why is it, if I produce a widget, I get paid once. You produce a photograph, and you get paid forever. How does that happen. Maybe I should get paid everytime someone uses my widget. Everytime they turn the key and start their engine I automatic
I will never agree with you on that. Sorry. You haven't added anything new by changing the media, which you've already told me is not what I'm buying with the license. And I understand there is additional labor involved in upconversion - digital editing, etc. Thats fine. But how does it come out to be more expensive than producing the media was originally? Yes yes, your ideas are what everybody needs. I've just stopped consuming media. Period.
[quote] It's "their" content. Why the fuck can't they be allowed to determine how they are paid, and when?[/quote] Read what Jefferson said about natural rights. You really think an economy can run when people just stop producing and rest on republishing the same stuff over and over and over expecting to get paid for it again? How the hell is your resting on your laurels encouraging innovation. I have to produce new *things* or I don't get paid. Why are you so special
Oh right, because they need an excuse. Give me a break. Its bad, not because I am exercising my right to complain about what the rights holders are doing, but because you can't control your distribution and suing people isn't working very well. And yet you are still in business. How is that? Why are you harping about minor EULA violations when you know that warez kiddies don't have any clue what an EULA is. The only people you have traction with on the whole 'You should OBEY THE EULA'
[quote]People would rather get it for free than pay for it at all, it's that simple. Like I said, you all may have a valid argument, but if you think you are the majority in the world of EULA violations you're naive.[/quote] And the content creators would like to get paid in perpetuity for not doing any additional work or creating any additional value.... I can make broad generalizations too. I know piracy is a problem.
[quote]I don't see the extreme similarity that you see. There's the general similarity of two larger landmasses connected by a land bridge, but the mountain lines are significantly different. For instance, Arda's western mass is nearly completely boxed in with mountains on the edges.[/quote] Considering all the fantastic maps out there, I'm not surprised that its possible to find a similar one. Shoot a lot of arrows, you see one that falls near the bullseye, and go 'aha! see? A ver
[quote]And that is why I mentioned they have the ability to adjust the brightness, which makes a big difference.[/quote] [quote]It's unbelievable the number of people who dismiss book reading on the iPad (based upon the specious E ink argument) without even trying it.[/quote] Have it on my laptop and ipod. Not much fun. Tried once reading my iPod in bed using Stanza. What a headache I got. So ... I can read my kindle in direct sunlight, and your eyes may get
I think it would be safe to assume that the river that originates in the mountains is actually two separate bodies of water that flow to the ocean on either side from collected snowmelt. However, nothing says that the lake can't be an inland sea filled with saltwater at sea level that occasionally gets some runoff from the mountains. Or, the whole thing could be a giant chasm filled with saltwater that splits the continent. Your choice. Giant Crack in Afri
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[quote]I happen to disagree with and view as the same as stealing or piracy which the law has interpreted the same way on some occasions as well as not[/quote] Yes, any minor infringement on the author's legal right to control the distribution of his work, even after his demise as a corporate entity, in order to recover what you, the customer supposedly own, and what the author was distinctly and explicitly ALREADY PAID FOR is exactly the same as putting a hacked/deserialed co
[quote]I live in world where I continually feel powerless. [/quote] Ah, the real world. How quaint. [quote]Collectivism is my goal now.[/quote] Oh, nevermind then.
I thought we weren't talking about piracy - I'm talking about the right to use a product I paid for in reasonable ways. I don't know what you are talking about anymore since you're conflating that with piracy which would be unlicensed distribution and use. Several other people here have gotten it, particularly the part about not being able to resell the media yet having to buy new media if yours breaks. If software companies don't actually want to sell anything, because th
[quote]Liability ends when you sign the EULA agreeing not to install the tire on any other car and chose to violate it[/quote] Lemon laws prevent you from abandoning your customers, forcing you to support your products (cars). Especially if they are buggy. And you can tell it to the judge when your product used in a reasonable way kills somebody. I'm sure the EULA will protect you from your stupid customers who expected a tire to behave like a tire regardless of what br
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/clean-install-with-windows-7-upgrade-media-get-the-facts/1505 [quote] If you qualify for an upgrade license, then yes, you can use any number of workarounds to install the operating system legally ... The overwhelming majority of PCs are sold with Windows preinstalled by an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). The rules are in the license agreement that you see when you first turn on that PC. You can find any
[quote]How could it then be the governments or consumers right to tell you you have to distribute it for all cars, change the EULA, and honor your warranty no matter what?"[/quote] Oh, I don't know. Product liability laws? Lemon laws? Vague notions of gaining customer loyalty by not being a Randian Overlord. Another nice straw man you've constructed, since that clearly isn't what anyone is asking for. If I'm running Vista under Emulation on Ubuntu I hardly expect MS technical