So if a supermarket advertised that it sold food that you could cook at home, would Clearcast ban that commercial because it "constituted denigration" of the restaurant market? What the fuck is happening in this world?
I read that editorial yesterday and can't believe it that the Globe and Mail published it.
The best part is that, while they say that privacy rights are important, their own website creates at least 12 cookies. What the Globe and Mail meant to say was that "our privacy rights" as in the Globe and Mail's was important.
Don't you have to be found guilty of infringement before you can become a repeat-infringer? Accusing someone is much different then being found guilty.
DRM is completely pointless. My wife recently got into the whole Resident Evil movie series, so while she was out one day she bought a bunch of Resident Evil DVDs. 3 of the 4 discs played fine in our desktop computer. The fourth wouldn't play.
Opened DVDFab and ripped a DRM-Free Region-Free DVD, burned that to a blank DVD (for the time being it's just easier to do it this way for my wife) and voila, she could watch the movie on the computer.
The only thing DRM achieved in this case is frustrating my wife, inconveniencing me and using up a blank DVD.
How does a jury go from infringing on two claims to 1.17 billion dollars? There are 28 claims in the 6201839 patent. If we assume that half of the award is for this patent, then this patent is worth at least $16 billion.
I like how EA says it's OK for my 8-year old to play Black Ops 2 Campaign Mode but he can't play online because he is under 13 (even though I do not ever recall entering in his birth date when creating an EA Origin account).
Why do I need to create a separate EA Origin account to play a game on my PS3? I already have a PSN account - and that should be enough. My son's online EA account thinks he is under 13 - he isn't - so won't let him play EA games online. There is no way to override this and I don't ever recall entering his birth date in - leaving me to create another PSN and EA Origin account.
Re: Re: Yet again, Mike is FOR commercial scale infringing.
All people want is simple access to content at reasonable prices. They don't want DRM. They don't want regions. They don't want windows. Apple has shown it can make hundreds of millions of dollars from selling 99 cent apps and songs.
Instead of giving consumers what they want, the media gatekeepers lobby for more complex laws and regulations and demand that the government enforce those laws and regulations. Throw in old contracts that determine royalties and you end with crap like the DVD release of WKRP in Cincinnati - where songs were removed or replaced, lines dubbed over and scenes deleted.
Hey media gatekeepers, I was really looking forward to buying WKRP on DVD, but when I heard that contracts, royalties and copyright 'forced' you to alter the show, I didn't buy it. The entertainment business has no one but themselves to blame for this mess.
Glynn, you can't hardly be surprised by the tactics of law enforcement. The overall crime rate has been falling in most western democracies. Police are bored and they have to justify their ever growing budgets. Enforcing out-of-date business models is their new bread and butter.
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The best part is that, while they say that privacy rights are important, their own website creates at least 12 cookies. What the Globe and Mail meant to say was that "our privacy rights" as in the Globe and Mail's was important.
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Opened DVDFab and ripped a DRM-Free Region-Free DVD, burned that to a blank DVD (for the time being it's just easier to do it this way for my wife) and voila, she could watch the movie on the computer.
The only thing DRM achieved in this case is frustrating my wife, inconveniencing me and using up a blank DVD.
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Re: Re: NO harm in NOT having "unauthorized access to copyright materials,"
...all because someone ALLEGEDLY copied some 1's and 0's
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Re: NO harm in NOT having "unauthorized access to copyright materials,"
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Origin is Horrible
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Re: Re: Yet again, Mike is FOR commercial scale infringing.
Instead of giving consumers what they want, the media gatekeepers lobby for more complex laws and regulations and demand that the government enforce those laws and regulations. Throw in old contracts that determine royalties and you end with crap like the DVD release of WKRP in Cincinnati - where songs were removed or replaced, lines dubbed over and scenes deleted.
Hey media gatekeepers, I was really looking forward to buying WKRP on DVD, but when I heard that contracts, royalties and copyright 'forced' you to alter the show, I didn't buy it. The entertainment business has no one but themselves to blame for this mess.
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