I don't see how whether it was complete or not proves your point. In fact, I'm not quite sure what your point is at all. You didn't even address the valid points in the post you are replying to.
It hasn't slowed down yet. Over the past several years, not only has the quantity of music being made available increased, but the average quality of music has increased as well. And all signs so far point to this trend continuing.
You prove the point perfectly. The point is that Apple is making bank on iTunes. Through a combination of iPod and iTunes, Apple is making TONS of money. Now if the labels had taken advantage of the consumer needs first, they could be in the same position on probably a larger scale. Likely they would have done this by partnering with a hardware vendor. So, in addition to the shrinking CD sales they get now, they would ALSO be making pure profit (no distribution costs after all) off of iTunes and iPod (or whatever their equivalent would be had they jumped on this).
What about huge companies who threaten individuals and get them to pay up for "infringements". Or threatening a small business and getting them to settle?
The punishment has to extend outside of lawsuits somehow. Many businesses and individuals fold before a lawsuit is ever filed because they don't have the money to even begin to defend themselves. Even when they know for certain they aren't infringing, they don't have the money to go to court to prove it.
It's kinda like what people say about uploading content: that if you don't own the copyright, don't upload it. And they claim that if you don't know if you own the copyright, you probably don't. That idea there, is true.
It should be easy to know if you own the copyright. And if you don't know, FIND OUT. Hopefully before you file against someone claiming infringement.
"Though he will have to pay, the amount they are asking may not be a breach of the consumer protection policy."
Well it should be a breach of something considering that the amount of bandwidth they are accusing him of using is impossible on their network (assuming Adam is correct in how long he was data roaming).
Either way you look at this, data roaming or not, AT&T is at fault here.
So you are saying that the majority of politicians worldwide share Heritage Minister James Moore's views and excitement about technology and copyright?
James himself cautions us by saying that we shouldn't assume those that make the decisions in parliament are informed.
WoW does this pretty well. If you accidentally delete ur purples or something, the reps can do limited restores. They don't say up to how many times they'll do this, it's kinda vague.
But I haven't seen any uproar over this... well actually, when it was first started, there were many people arguing against it, lol. Personal responsibility and other such nonsense, they called it.
Not including PS3's was not a mistake. They had a reason for doing that, which was that you cannot determine whether or not the PS3 was bought as or is being used as a Blu-Ray player.
Personally, I think "express consent" for things like this should be totally opt-in if it's not directly related to the product you are purchasing. In other words, not though verbiage buried in small text where you click "I agree".
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Yeah, tell that to Apple.
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It should be easy to know if you own the copyright. And if you don't know, FIND OUT. Hopefully before you file against someone claiming infringement.
This should be common sense.
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Well it should be a breach of something considering that the amount of bandwidth they are accusing him of using is impossible on their network (assuming Adam is correct in how long he was data roaming).
Either way you look at this, data roaming or not, AT&T is at fault here.
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James himself cautions us by saying that we shouldn't assume those that make the decisions in parliament are informed.
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But I haven't seen any uproar over this... well actually, when it was first started, there were many people arguing against it, lol. Personal responsibility and other such nonsense, they called it.
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It needs to be changed, but no one is arguing that it shouldn't exist.
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