Which is why you make sure that your ebook reader isn't connected directly to them.
I use Calibre (great program) to handle my Sony eReader, and there is just no way that they can remove any books from me. They MIGHT be able to lock them down so that I won't be able to transfer them AGAIN to my Reader, but once it's there they can't touch it. *Hammertime*
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"Digital Movies are full of Artifacts compared to a full Blu-RAy or DVD played back on good gear."
You ARE aware of the fact that BR and DVD are digital right? What you're referring to is compression, which can be done with minimal loss of quality. In fact, when it comes to DVDs I no longer see any reason to compress them.
Re: One in the long, LONG list of reasons I avoid digital distribution as much as possible
"And the only benefit is.....being lazy. Sure seems like a lot to give up to me for being lazy."
Now now, that's not true. I've bought hundreds of games through out the ages before I got hooked on Steam. Guess how many of those I can still play. That's right, at best 5-10. The rest of them there are missing CDs/DVDs and similar problems.
While it is true that I can only play my games as long as Steam lets me, it is also true that as long as Steam lets me I will ALWAYS be able to play my games.
I know we all know about them by now, but whenever the topic comes up someone should mention Good Old Games.
I've bought several games from them, all downloaded and safely backed up. Even if GoG would go belly up, I still have my games.
Still, I mainly use Steam, because of the convenience. While I tell my self that I am aware of the fact that I can at any time loose all my games from them, I also know that it would be a gigantic shock if I did. It's a shame that we have to choose.
At the same time, they always talk about sales. Never once are they pointing out (perhaps in the legal clickwrap crap that noone reads) that it's a "license". Perhaps that's a lawsuit waiting to happen?
Your argument is based on the flawed idea that democracy is actually working, when in fact it is not.
Trust me, they will pass ACTA, because that's what their bosses are telling them. And no, I don't actually mean the copyright-lobby, I mean the people "above them" in their political parties. You see, in Europe we don't vote for specific individuals to get to parliament (at least not in most countries I think), but parties. The effect is that the people that decide if a politician gets to stay in office is the people above them in the party.
As I understand it, they noticed the mistake pretty quickly, so only two had copied the list. Most likely they don't all update their lists at the same time?
Given the fact that they are only following the law, I see no problem with it. I'm pretty sure that even though that list wasn't on the level, not adding the sites would probably have been illegal. Maybe.
"You don't think so? Ask your wonderful new hosting company why your site is either unreachable or has no stories about 10% of the time. Oh noes!"
If I found out that my site was unreachable because some schmuck at the hosting company was using the servers to play Minesweeper, then yeah, I would be pretty pissed. And not just at the numbnuts that caused havoc, but more importantly I would be pissed at the company for having a system that allows the admins to play Minesweeper on the servers, despite this bringing them down.
(And yes, I know that's not what happened, I just tried to put you analogy in place.)
"Very much like a photographer needs the authorisation of people featured in their photos before selling them, [...]"
How can this be!? How would you ever be able to do anything even remotely journalistic if you needed permission from everyone in the pictures!? Madness.
It only applies to changes to the "constitution". The same "constitution" that is completely worthless, since you can't challenge a law based on the "constitution" unless it's "obvious". As I understand it, as long as the politicians don't write "and of course this new law breaks the constitution, so suck it" in the laws, there is nothing anyone can do.
It also turns out that you can get around this by getting a 75% (I think it was) vote for the changes. Mind you, this means that 75% of the members of parliament present votes yes, not that 75% of the parliament votes yes. This difference is the reason that we ratified the Lissabon Treaty, basically they sent enough people home so that the vote passed. *sighs*
Mind you that it has been a while since I looked into these details deeply, and I am not a lawyer (although some of my "sources" are) so I may have misunderstood some things.
Ignoring the fact that it obviously IS automated; how is this better? Do you really feel that it would be better if some human decided that Techdirt needed to be censored?
He "officially" got the "job" after he had finished the "investigation" (I think I might have used up my daily allotment of quotationmarks). Plus the minister actually thinks it's a good thing, that he can "learn" from the experience.
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Re: Nooks and Kindles..
I use Calibre (great program) to handle my Sony eReader, and there is just no way that they can remove any books from me. They MIGHT be able to lock them down so that I won't be able to transfer them AGAIN to my Reader, but once it's there they can't touch it. *Hammertime*
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Re: Re: One in the long, LONG list of reasons I avoid digital distribution as much as possible
You ARE aware of the fact that BR and DVD are digital right? What you're referring to is compression, which can be done with minimal loss of quality. In fact, when it comes to DVDs I no longer see any reason to compress them.
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Re: One in the long, LONG list of reasons I avoid digital distribution as much as possible
Now now, that's not true. I've bought hundreds of games through out the ages before I got hooked on Steam. Guess how many of those I can still play. That's right, at best 5-10. The rest of them there are missing CDs/DVDs and similar problems.
While it is true that I can only play my games as long as Steam lets me, it is also true that as long as Steam lets me I will ALWAYS be able to play my games.
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GoG.com
I've bought several games from them, all downloaded and safely backed up. Even if GoG would go belly up, I still have my games.
Still, I mainly use Steam, because of the convenience. While I tell my self that I am aware of the fact that I can at any time loose all my games from them, I also know that it would be a gigantic shock if I did. It's a shame that we have to choose.
At the same time, they always talk about sales. Never once are they pointing out (perhaps in the legal clickwrap crap that noone reads) that it's a "license". Perhaps that's a lawsuit waiting to happen?
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Re: ACTA Is Dead In EU
Trust me, they will pass ACTA, because that's what their bosses are telling them. And no, I don't actually mean the copyright-lobby, I mean the people "above them" in their political parties. You see, in Europe we don't vote for specific individuals to get to parliament (at least not in most countries I think), but parties. The effect is that the people that decide if a politician gets to stay in office is the people above them in the party.
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The EU and ACTA.
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If I found out that my site was unreachable because some schmuck at the hosting company was using the servers to play Minesweeper, then yeah, I would be pretty pissed. And not just at the numbnuts that caused havoc, but more importantly I would be pissed at the company for having a system that allows the admins to play Minesweeper on the servers, despite this bringing them down.
(And yes, I know that's not what happened, I just tried to put you analogy in place.)
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The conspiracy-lover in me starts to wonder if they are preparing for a law that forces ISPs to censor everything that isn't white-listed.
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Then again, I AM overseas... on second thought: go ahead! ;-)
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Say what now!?
How can this be!? How would you ever be able to do anything even remotely journalistic if you needed permission from everyone in the pictures!? Madness.
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It only applies to changes to the "constitution". The same "constitution" that is completely worthless, since you can't challenge a law based on the "constitution" unless it's "obvious". As I understand it, as long as the politicians don't write "and of course this new law breaks the constitution, so suck it" in the laws, there is nothing anyone can do.
It also turns out that you can get around this by getting a 75% (I think it was) vote for the changes. Mind you, this means that 75% of the members of parliament present votes yes, not that 75% of the parliament votes yes. This difference is the reason that we ratified the Lissabon Treaty, basically they sent enough people home so that the vote passed. *sighs*
Mind you that it has been a while since I looked into these details deeply, and I am not a lawyer (although some of my "sources" are) so I may have misunderstood some things.
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Fun fact!
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Only goes to show; make sure you are the only one with access to your e-mail I suppose.
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Re: Did I just break the law?
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At which point they will shrug and say "sucks to be you", and continue like before.
Turns out that even if you get caught "redhanded", you will still not be punished. Case in point: Dajaz1.
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