And thus the need for a meteor! Or a miracle that makes people settled for a middle ground that benefits everybody. I believe the meteor has a higher chance of happening in the next millenia.
BUT, BUT... WE'D BE EARNING TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IF IT WASN'T FOR PIRACY!! Our math proves it. - Hollywood.
And the whining persists for another five years when the figures on losses due to piracy reach quadrillions of dollars despite being nearly extinct due to external forces dragging the MAFIAA, kicking and screaming, to the future. Stay tuned!
Because there aren't open source software out there that terrorists can't simply set up their own Terrorgram and still do whatever they want while all the rest of us are screwed and forced to use less secure alternatives because the 'legislatives' of the world seem to be populated by idiots.
Or let's ignore the fact that there are engineers, doctors and other specialists in their ranks so they could go and write their own stuff. And let's further ignore the fact that they could and will disguise such applications as some inoffensive Tinder knock-off or a solitaire game.
Meanwhile let's hope the world-ending meteor comes as soon as possible.
Hmmm. It's funny, I don't mind waiting 4 months to test the full thing before throwing money at it. And if it doesn't get unlocked then I don't buy unless I can get my impressions somewhere else. So basically file sharing actually enables sales in my case and the successful prevention of it means guaranteed "lost sales". Or I will buy it years later in the used market or in the discount bin for a fraction of the price.
It's us the consumers who have to educate the companies with our wallets. It's not like they are Comcasts of the world that hold the effective monopoly on service providing.
Well, most teenagers should be vegetables incapable of doing the most basic tasks (except for masturbating it seems) by that definition since between ~10 to well over 18 most guys have enough fun to suck the entirety of their brains out.
According to some 'sources' (use the term loosely) most teenagers are also mass murderer having committed large scale genocide and having killed 4 to 5 times the earth population before they reach adulthood. So, yeah. Idiocy.
So he's installing an internet connection blocker on computers an charging $20 to unblock? Because that's the only way to be 'shielded' from obscene content online.
I'd be all for the punishments they want for infringement if it was applied backwards with double the intensity if the complaint is bogus. Of course not only this ain't happening but we can also expect things to get worse when the next reform comes.
And this is actually possible because 1- the market is a natural monopoly/duopoly where the other player is just as bad or even worse than Comcast and 2- the government doesn't give a fuck about the citizenry as long as the lobby money flow in. So in the future Comcast will be able to just ignore the media as well. And the marvelous competitive world Mr Pai says is already here will be even less real.
That's good. We should be opening up intellectual property as a whole. The benefits of having a totally free system outweigh any perceived incentives. We haven't reached the progress we enjoy today by keeping things locked behind artificial monopolies. It was exactly the opposite.
I've been involved with justice in 3 occasions. In one of them it was regarding federal taxes. When you fill in your earnings report there was part of the earnings that should not incur in any tax deduction and this was both my, the company that paid me and a lawyer's understanding. Still my papers were held and I was summoned to clarify it. The government woman told me it was a mess because there were judges in the same circuit delivering opposite rules on the exact same cases with different people. In the end since there was no regulatory certainty the government employees were the ones deciding and people had to go to the justice if they disagreed. The woman that had my case let me go but she said I was lucky, some employees were adopting the exact opposite approach much like the judges.
The second case was regarding an employee/employer dispute with a family member regarding work related diseases. In this relative case it was depression. I'm not sure you have it there but we receive help from the government if we get sick and can't work for extended periods of time but for that you need to be evaluated by both your doctor and a specialized one from the government. In this relative's case the government itself determined her condition was due to a bad environment at work and gave her 4 months. In any case, after a while the person decided to start a lawsuit against the company. The lawyer warned: it's a lottery. She had seen the exact same cases losing and winning depending on the judge and that usually female judges tend to be more sympathetic to those cases.
Then in a third case another relative applied to a government job, undertook a test and was qualified. This relative's technical course had the exact description and study load required by the position but the name of the course was different. Everybody sane, including two lawyers believed it was an easy win. But the judge disagreed.
So I'm sorry but I'll have to disagree with you. I have plenty of personal experience since I was directly involved in these cases either by being the affected party of by providing support (the depression case was problematic so I was always with the person doing most of the talk/work for instance). I agree with the initial comment: it's clear that there was retaliation and the judge is clueless on that front.
"when is everyone gonna actually wake up and see that everything that is going on with the Internet atm is all caused by the insatiable desire of the entertainments industries to control everything that happens on it!"
It's the question we are dealing with here in TD and other sane places for quite a few years now.
Reminds me of that landscape issue where people started to remove buildings and other things in images of some landscape because of copyright. These things effectively disappeared. We are disappearing our culture plain and simple.
Or, Europe is. If they wanna keep moving into irrelevance then it's the right path. If I were any site owner in Europe I'd avoid Europe like the plague.
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And the whining persists for another five years when the figures on losses due to piracy reach quadrillions of dollars despite being nearly extinct due to external forces dragging the MAFIAA, kicking and screaming, to the future. Stay tuned!
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Or let's ignore the fact that there are engineers, doctors and other specialists in their ranks so they could go and write their own stuff. And let's further ignore the fact that they could and will disguise such applications as some inoffensive Tinder knock-off or a solitaire game.
Meanwhile let's hope the world-ending meteor comes as soon as possible.
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It's us the consumers who have to educate the companies with our wallets. It's not like they are Comcasts of the world that hold the effective monopoly on service providing.
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According to some 'sources' (use the term loosely) most teenagers are also mass murderer having committed large scale genocide and having killed 4 to 5 times the earth population before they reach adulthood. So, yeah. Idiocy.
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I call this the "we-the-government-are-damn-lazy-and-reek-of-totalitarianism" option.
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Re: Disgusting yes, surprising no
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Re: based on the trend...
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Re: Very Simple
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The second case was regarding an employee/employer dispute with a family member regarding work related diseases. In this relative case it was depression. I'm not sure you have it there but we receive help from the government if we get sick and can't work for extended periods of time but for that you need to be evaluated by both your doctor and a specialized one from the government. In this relative's case the government itself determined her condition was due to a bad environment at work and gave her 4 months. In any case, after a while the person decided to start a lawsuit against the company. The lawyer warned: it's a lottery. She had seen the exact same cases losing and winning depending on the judge and that usually female judges tend to be more sympathetic to those cases.
Then in a third case another relative applied to a government job, undertook a test and was qualified. This relative's technical course had the exact description and study load required by the position but the name of the course was different. Everybody sane, including two lawyers believed it was an easy win. But the judge disagreed.
So I'm sorry but I'll have to disagree with you. I have plenty of personal experience since I was directly involved in these cases either by being the affected party of by providing support (the depression case was problematic so I was always with the person doing most of the talk/work for instance). I agree with the initial comment: it's clear that there was retaliation and the judge is clueless on that front.
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It helps if companies out there do their job too.
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Re: Purely coincidental timing I'm sure
And from personal experience AND from reading about judicial decisions (including here on TD) this is quite precise.
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It's the question we are dealing with here in TD and other sane places for quite a few years now.
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Or, Europe is. If they wanna keep moving into irrelevance then it's the right path. If I were any site owner in Europe I'd avoid Europe like the plague.
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