Why? What if an open standard ends up costing more than a closed one (which they frequently do). This is the same open-source vs closed-source software debate, where each has its advantages and disadvantages, but blanket decisions to use one or the other are ALWAYS wrong. The best tool for the job should be used, not the one that 'feels best'.
Right. RF standards are the old ones (TCP for example). The FRAND standards used include MPEG, FAT, 802.11, x86 etc. Find me a processor architecture that is royalty free, and then start talking.
The idea that a single function or line of code can be copywritten is fundamentally flawed. Its like saying someone can copyright a word or a sentence. I can understand a copyright on an entire program if its complex enough, but single functions?
Actually, a more accurate way of looking at it than 'theres is plenty of legitimate content on TBP', is that there is NO content on TPB, legitimate or otherwise.
OK. Seeing as there are MANY more tech companies than movie studios and recording companies, each of them employing a geometrically higher number of workers, I would say thats a fair estimate. I know in most countries, high tech outnumbers entertainment more than 10 to 1 (mostly because the US has a near monopoly on world-wide entertainment products).
Although the Entertainment industry does employ a sizeable number of lobbyists, which might be the data you're looking at.
As corporations the label's first (and only) responsibility is to their shareholders, this is clearly set forth in common law. Why they get away with pretending any different is beyond me. This responsibility puts them at direct odds with artists they represent, and makes it a corporate responsibility to withhold monies from artists.
Ummmm no? If my reply comes across as angry to you, you are missing the actual target of that anger, which is Ubisoft. I thought it was a good article when I wrote my first response, I was highlighting the fact that always on DRM is a bigger problem than just requiring a pingable connection to Ubisoft, but needing a robust, open connection to even work.
It actually does more than ping a DRM server Mike, and thats an important distinction. It actually authenticates with an encrypted handshake, which means you can't play under lots of network conditions outside of the player's control. For example, you wouldn't be able to play on any connection only allowing port 80, like many public internet connections like hotels and libraries.
Also by even setting up such a service, Ubisoft most likely has another internet-facing server with access to a database containing customer information, which would be just another place where hackers could potentially steal data.
The best part about the RICO charge is that the US government for the past 30 years (or 40, however old RICO is) have claimed it takes the better part of a decade to bring a good RICO case. Something tells me this wasnt done in this case....... that something of course, being simple math.
If you could successfully argue this in court, lawyers everywhere would get together and erect a statue of you, and begin praying at your concrete feet.
Actually, Rand Paul believe restauranteers should have the right to destroy their business by refusing anyone for any reason, including white people if it so fits. Because he knows (or believes, depending on your take) that the free market will correct that mistake.
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And I think Apple lies more than most, just not about that.
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Although the Entertainment industry does employ a sizeable number of lobbyists, which might be the data you're looking at.
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Also by even setting up such a service, Ubisoft most likely has another internet-facing server with access to a database containing customer information, which would be just another place where hackers could potentially steal data.
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