Since France seems to be another country causing Google real problems, with their backwards interpretations of IP law (for French companies), I wonder if they'd be next. Good for Google.
"The point of DRM ... to stop the less determined from doing what they want."
That is incredibly insightful. The problem is the market is determined by what people want, and what they want to do with their purchases. If you don't provide a solution, then others will create one.
I RIP DVDs for the same reason that I RIP mp3's, it's easier to access all my movies in a list on my media center, than it is to search through a book case of DVDs and insert the one I want to watch. Let alone the fact that if you have kids, they tend to leave discs laying around to get scratched up and become unusable.
The existing DRM is broken, so stopping RealVD does what exactly?
How about we make a strike a legal judgment in a court with a Jury, and I'll be all for a three strikes rule here. Of course, there would need to be a $5000 filing fee per case to cover costs, to be paid by the loosing party.
When Napster v1 was popular, I was purchasing about 2-3 CDs a week. Since they've been shut down, I've purchased less than 10. The statement has some merit, though I have only personal anecdotal evidence.
I am afraid I don't understand this strange new form of sarcasm you are speaking, as I don't see that anyone can possibly be that ignorant and unaware.
MySpace/iMeem is now placing ads on peoples sites without paying those sites for said placement. If I give permission to put a campaign poster on my lawn, that doesn't give them permission to later replace the poster with a large commercial billboard.
@John, wow, an insightful post with a counter-argument. I think Anti-Mike should pay attention. I know this sounds sarcastic, but I'm actually serious here.
Amazon may not be selling below cost, but can still undercut retail shops, because they don't have a store front to maintain. Are you suggesting that online retailers should charge as much as store fronts? Wouldn't that mean they are able to be evil, and make excess amounts of money?
In most ISP cases, the congestion isn't that they are oversold so much as they will artificially limit traffic based on usage numbers, not on current usage factored by overall use. If ISPs implemented a rule, that on congestion, it would QOS users by the inverse of they prior month's bandwidth that would probably be fine. Essentially, I would put things in this order...
1: mail ports to ISP mail,
2: mail ports to other mail, aside from SMTP,
3: http requests for the first 20KB
4: low bandwidth users
5: mid bandwidth users
6: high bandwidth users
This would let mail, and general web use flow, and give a higher QOS for low bandwidth users, then mid, then high for requests not specifically in 1-3. That would be general enough for QOS to work, without artificially limiting the bandwidth of a given user at a given time.
If you post a work that is under copyright to a message board, such as this, you don't own the right to assign to the message board. That is the issue with YouTube, their TOS already states you aren't to post material you don't have rights to post, it doesn't magically stop people from posting it. It also doesn't magically tell Google/YouTube the material is infringing.
I'm pretty sure there's prior art to this. Beyond even that, there shouldn't even be software patents. I can't think of anything in software for the past 20 years that's been worthy. If this patent were in say 1980, I could maybe see it as innovative, but by now it would be expired. Beyond this, software patents shouldn't last for more than 5 years, even if they are truly worthy, since that is a couple of lifetimes in software terms.
The irony here is, The Constitution doesn't say anything about separation of Church and State... it mainly makes the point of not having a State sanctioned religion. The separation was a point of dealing with lawsuits at the government level.
@Ryan, some phone services won't allow you to selectively block incoming text messages, and some plans charge per message, inbound as well as outbound. Essentially, if you are causing damages (in costs) incurred to an individual or company they can sue. Probably not under certain conditions, but just the same. As to safe harbors, you could be at least sued to obtain customer information, and for not properly identifying customers and usage for information that gets transmitted over the airwaves, which could mean FCC involvement.
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What about France now?
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That is incredibly insightful. The problem is the market is determined by what people want, and what they want to do with their purchases. If you don't provide a solution, then others will create one.
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The existing DRM is broken, so stopping RealVD does what exactly?
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The Anti-Mike
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I smell a class action lawsuit
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1: mail ports to ISP mail,
2: mail ports to other mail, aside from SMTP,
3: http requests for the first 20KB
4: low bandwidth users
5: mid bandwidth users
6: high bandwidth users
This would let mail, and general web use flow, and give a higher QOS for low bandwidth users, then mid, then high for requests not specifically in 1-3. That would be general enough for QOS to work, without artificially limiting the bandwidth of a given user at a given time.
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Nuke the software patents.
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Church and State
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