the more money goes into it, the more it ruins everything.
hmmm needs work.
What I mean is, because so much money goes into sports nowadays, that it ruins the whole idea of sports. Same happens in the entertainment branche, and the publishing branche.
People feel entitled to something that they aren't necessarily entitled to.
"Yesterday, this made me millions, why doesn't it work today? You, there, you downloading thief, give me money!" or "You there, you reporter, you are using our facts, give me money!" etc.
On the one hand, they expect us to buy it that we should have no expectation of privacy in public places, with all those cameras around us. and then, on the other hand, the police would have had an expectation of privacy in the same place?
But I'm glad the judge made the, in my view, wise decision.
Just don't make the mistake I did, don't click the wrong download button.
Use the big green one and not the orange one. Otherwise you'll download the "Preview mode is disabled" page. :)
I guess, contextual ads are hard.
I'm getting an ad here for an ABC show that apparently premieres tonight...
ABC is not exactly a station that's aired in The Netherlands. :)
I'm just glad that the sound is default off.
More on topic. I wish Dark Helmet a lot of success in his writing career. And I look forward to the movie. :) Hopefully you'll give us Techdirt regulars a special viewing, when it comes out? *big grin*
BTW, I guess it's true what they say, that you learn more when things don't go as you'd hoped they would go.
we have a similar levy on our blank media, in The Netherlands.
But it's not to fund the illegal downloads, but to offset the "costs" of copying your discs, which they then try to make impossible with DRM crap.
"The holiday started out pretty nicely. Friendly staff on the whole, until a few days into our holiday. Management turned on us, accused us of writing a bad review and threatened to kick us out. Even called the police on us.
Avoid this hotel like the plague!"
Might she have been affected by the Twitter bug? And assumed she was the only one?
Allen seems very computer illiterate to me. So I wouldn't be at all surprised if it turns out she opened an email attachment of one of those "funny" emails, that happened to have a payload for the Mac in it.
And now she claims that she's been hacked, and wants Apple to sort it all out, because, you know, Apple knows everything that happens to any Apple computer. Steve Jobs has a special Lily Allen screen that shows him what's going on with her Mac.
Seems to me that this movie studio doesn't deserve to have any fans.
I'd think that a movie maker wants to have as many people as possible enthusiastic about their movie. Trying to stop fans from raving about a movie they'd love to see, is just ridiculous.
Imagine, if you will, that ACTA has been enacted in your country... And then look at this issue.
I agree, many countries around the world don't have the DMCA, but the sword of Damocles called ACTA is hanging above our heads, all because of the greedy asshats from the RIAA and the MPAA.
Most consumers want things to "just work," and they don't want to go through a lot of effort to copy a disc. For those people, which are currently the majority of technology consumers, DRM is effective.
For those people, DRM is totally unnecessary. Why do we need DRM, if the target group, that you claim DRM is for, doesn't do anything that goes against the DRM.
DRM was intended to stop copyright infringement, that and they wanted control over what you can and can't do with their "Intellectual ""Property""", such as "no you can't play this movie on this tv, because it isn't HDCP compatible".
It succeeds at the latter (to great annoyance of the legal buyers of the product), but fails on the former. They've spend millions of dollars in a system, that only one person have to break. They've spend countless of man-hours working on a product that's incredibly flawed, and its only result is that it pisses off their legal customers, turning them towards piracy, because the pirates can offer a superior product, and does nothing to stop piracy.
A DRM'ed product, is a product that's encrypted, and to help the users of that product to use it, they give you the key with it.
It's an 'uncrackable' safe, with the key taped to it.
"Here, have a movie, it's inside this safe. Oh and the combination is AB123BA, but ssssh mum's the word."
DRM is flawed from the very get-go, and there will NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER be a DRM system that can't be cracked. Other than a system, where even the legal users can't get at the product.
"Here, have a movie, it's inside this safe, which is locked on the inside, and there is no way for you to open it on the outside."
This is not attack at you hegemon13, because I know that you are against DRM, it's just a correction.
Re: Re: Re: what about considering the actual circumstances
I buy a second-hand bike from a store.
That store got that bike from someone else. (not knowing whether it's stolen or not, let's say in the time span between the theft and the reporting of the theft)
Later they find out, that that bike was in fact stolen, making my sale (and the shopkeepers initial purchase) unlawful.
What if I'm in The Netherlands, and the game developer isn't based in my country? You have any idea how arduous the process is then?
EULAs should have no legal standing whatsoever. There have been reports of EULAs containing such ridiculous language (such as "you sign your soul over", etc) that I can't imagine any actually have a legal leg to stand on in court, and quite frankly I'm surprised to see that this court ruling happened.
Especially when a company can change an EULA afterwards without giving you any warning that they EULA has changed. So in a way, by purchasing a shrink-wrapped licensed product, you sign a blank contract. And we all know how dangerous signing a blank contract can be.
In the olden days (and I talk about before 11 september 2001) we used to bring luggage that got left behind to the Lost&Found department at the airport/trainstation/metrostation/where ever... Why is a left suitcase now a police business?
Maybe the guy in the car was videotaping the stopped train, because he thought it was newsworthy (CNNs I-report anyone?)
Maybe he thought that the train was being hi-jacked, since there was a mosque nearby.
Should a stopped train be reported? There was nothing illegal going on, right?
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I think this could be a law
hmmm needs work.
What I mean is, because so much money goes into sports nowadays, that it ruins the whole idea of sports. Same happens in the entertainment branche, and the publishing branche.
People feel entitled to something that they aren't necessarily entitled to.
"Yesterday, this made me millions, why doesn't it work today? You, there, you downloading thief, give me money!" or "You there, you reporter, you are using our facts, give me money!" etc.
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it would've been a weird case
On the one hand, they expect us to buy it that we should have no expectation of privacy in public places, with all those cameras around us. and then, on the other hand, the police would have had an expectation of privacy in the same place?
But I'm glad the judge made the, in my view, wise decision.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: DH Contacted
Use the big green one and not the orange one. Otherwise you'll download the "Preview mode is disabled" page. :)
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On ads
I'm getting an ad here for an ABC show that apparently premieres tonight...
ABC is not exactly a station that's aired in The Netherlands. :)
I'm just glad that the sound is default off.
More on topic. I wish Dark Helmet a lot of success in his writing career. And I look forward to the movie. :) Hopefully you'll give us Techdirt regulars a special viewing, when it comes out? *big grin*
BTW, I guess it's true what they say, that you learn more when things don't go as you'd hoped they would go.
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Re: Re: Music Industry NOT asking for 45%
Don't lower yourself to the idiots' level, they'll beat you with experience.
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Re: Re: Good point
But it's not to fund the illegal downloads, but to offset the "costs" of copying your discs, which they then try to make impossible with DRM crap.
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I can see the review now:
Avoid this hotel like the plague!"
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Re: Re:
It's like rai-ee-ain on your wedding day...
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Re:
Allen seems very computer illiterate to me. So I wouldn't be at all surprised if it turns out she opened an email attachment of one of those "funny" emails, that happened to have a payload for the Mac in it.
And now she claims that she's been hacked, and wants Apple to sort it all out, because, you know, Apple knows everything that happens to any Apple computer. Steve Jobs has a special Lily Allen screen that shows him what's going on with her Mac.
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Re: Re:
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Afraid of having too many fans?
I'd think that a movie maker wants to have as many people as possible enthusiastic about their movie. Trying to stop fans from raving about a movie they'd love to see, is just ridiculous.
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Re: OHHHHHH canada
I agree, many countries around the world don't have the DMCA, but the sword of Damocles called ACTA is hanging above our heads, all because of the greedy asshats from the RIAA and the MPAA.
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Re: Incompetence experts
Heh, I guess it takes one to know one?
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Re:
Then up is down, left is right, black is white, and you get yourself killed at the next zebra crossing.
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Re: Keeps "honest" people "honest"...
For those people, DRM is totally unnecessary. Why do we need DRM, if the target group, that you claim DRM is for, doesn't do anything that goes against the DRM.
DRM was intended to stop copyright infringement, that and they wanted control over what you can and can't do with their "Intellectual ""Property""", such as "no you can't play this movie on this tv, because it isn't HDCP compatible".
It succeeds at the latter (to great annoyance of the legal buyers of the product), but fails on the former. They've spend millions of dollars in a system, that only one person have to break. They've spend countless of man-hours working on a product that's incredibly flawed, and its only result is that it pisses off their legal customers, turning them towards piracy, because the pirates can offer a superior product, and does nothing to stop piracy.
A DRM'ed product, is a product that's encrypted, and to help the users of that product to use it, they give you the key with it.
It's an 'uncrackable' safe, with the key taped to it.
"Here, have a movie, it's inside this safe. Oh and the combination is AB123BA, but ssssh mum's the word."
DRM is flawed from the very get-go, and there will NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER be a DRM system that can't be cracked. Other than a system, where even the legal users can't get at the product.
"Here, have a movie, it's inside this safe, which is locked on the inside, and there is no way for you to open it on the outside."
This is not attack at you hegemon13, because I know that you are against DRM, it's just a correction.
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Re: Re: Re: what about considering the actual circumstances
That store got that bike from someone else. (not knowing whether it's stolen or not, let's say in the time span between the theft and the reporting of the theft)
Later they find out, that that bike was in fact stolen, making my sale (and the shopkeepers initial purchase) unlawful.
Do I get to keep the bike?
If not, who compensates me?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Licenses are Contracts
EULAs should have no legal standing whatsoever. There have been reports of EULAs containing such ridiculous language (such as "you sign your soul over", etc) that I can't imagine any actually have a legal leg to stand on in court, and quite frankly I'm surprised to see that this court ruling happened.
Especially when a company can change an EULA afterwards without giving you any warning that they EULA has changed. So in a way, by purchasing a shrink-wrapped licensed product, you sign a blank contract. And we all know how dangerous signing a blank contract can be.
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Re: disc's
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Re:
Maybe the guy in the car was videotaping the stopped train, because he thought it was newsworthy (CNNs I-report anyone?)
Maybe he thought that the train was being hi-jacked, since there was a mosque nearby.
Should a stopped train be reported? There was nothing illegal going on, right?
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