Licensing and copyright have killed off more products and services than piracy ever could. Do copyright fanboys still think it does not affect innovation?
Good article and I pretty much agree with all of it. The Internet is so crucial to all industries that the entertainment industry's pursuit of it's own monopoly is going to destroy economies.
I especially like the loss aversion part. I never thought about it before but it sums up the entertainment industry perfectly. Their tunnel vision is so strong that they focus on what they see as losses that they completely miss the gains they have made.
If children are playing unsuitable games, you need to ask who is buying them.
Stores should not be selling these inappropriate games to kids when they are below the age threshold and I cannot see too many stores doing so and jeopardising their business. Even then, I cannot see too many children with their own money and able to buy these games themselves.
It is the parents buying these games so it is parents who need to accept the responsibility for allowing their children such indulgences.
All reasons that I will never use cloud services as my back up solutions. Hard drives are so inexpensive now that I have no use for cloud services.
My music and e-books from Amazon are in the cloud only because they go there automatically - I never go near their cloud as I have them all on local hard drives.
My music from 7 Digital is in their cloud for the same reason as Amazon and I have never went near it for the same reason.
My important files are again backed up on my hard drives because I would never trust a cloud owned by a 3rd party with my data.
I will never used cloud services to listen to my music due to data and speed caps by ISPs.
As said in a comment above, the way forward is for people to set up their own NAS where they can have 100% control over their own data and who can access it.
Quite true. Here in the UK, the nanny state keeps getting worse despite the Tories, while in opposition, calling for an end to the nanny state. Then again, I can't think of a single promise this government has kept so perhaps I shouldn't be surprised.
Parents need to man up and accept responsibility for raising their own children and stop blaming everyone else when things go wrong.
YOU bought the inappropriate video games.
YOU let them watch inappropriate films.
YOU plop them in front of the TV or computer instead of actually spending time with them.
YOU are to blame when they grow up to be emotionally stunted adults.
Stop expecting everyone else to raise YOUR kids and do it yourself.
Nail on the head. That is exactly what this event will be used for. Governments will use it to scare people into supporting every draconian piece of legislation it thinks of that erodes our freedoms in the name of security.
I live in the UK where we have a first past the post system. We had a referendum recently about the possibility of changing to proportional representation but the Tory "you're to stupid to understand" campaign won out in the end.
History has made people lazy and/or apathetic. Decades of limited choice on the ballot paper, decades of major parties who in reality are no different than each other, decades of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, decades of the country being ruled for 1% rather than 100% of the population. I could go on but I am sure you get the point.
It is understandable that people just think "fuck it, nothing will change anyway" when it comes to election time.
These parties will most likely never be anything more than a protest vote. Our entire political system is designed and set up so that the power will always go to those who can pay for it.
What corporation is going to support a pirate party that is all about freedoms for us plebs?
What corporation will support a green party who puts the environment ahead of big business?
Political parties simply cannot get elected to power without the financial backing of the corporations and corporations will not support a political party that does not match up with their interests.
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Correct, people would care more.
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I especially like the loss aversion part. I never thought about it before but it sums up the entertainment industry perfectly. Their tunnel vision is so strong that they focus on what they see as losses that they completely miss the gains they have made.
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Keep proving to the world that you are an inbred idiot who has no understanding of what he fails to read.
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Stores should not be selling these inappropriate games to kids when they are below the age threshold and I cannot see too many stores doing so and jeopardising their business. Even then, I cannot see too many children with their own money and able to buy these games themselves.
It is the parents buying these games so it is parents who need to accept the responsibility for allowing their children such indulgences.
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My music and e-books from Amazon are in the cloud only because they go there automatically - I never go near their cloud as I have them all on local hard drives.
My music from 7 Digital is in their cloud for the same reason as Amazon and I have never went near it for the same reason.
My important files are again backed up on my hard drives because I would never trust a cloud owned by a 3rd party with my data.
I will never used cloud services to listen to my music due to data and speed caps by ISPs.
As said in a comment above, the way forward is for people to set up their own NAS where they can have 100% control over their own data and who can access it.
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Extra small condoms?
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YOU bought the inappropriate video games.
YOU let them watch inappropriate films.
YOU plop them in front of the TV or computer instead of actually spending time with them.
YOU are to blame when they grow up to be emotionally stunted adults.
Stop expecting everyone else to raise YOUR kids and do it yourself.
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Politicians are so predictable.
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It is understandable that people just think "fuck it, nothing will change anyway" when it comes to election time.
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What corporation is going to support a pirate party that is all about freedoms for us plebs?
What corporation will support a green party who puts the environment ahead of big business?
Political parties simply cannot get elected to power without the financial backing of the corporations and corporations will not support a political party that does not match up with their interests.
Western democracy is such a sham.
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Re: Silly premise. First, DRM works unless circumvented.
The whole point is that it is so easily circumvented that it is pointless, moron.
Prime example is the DRM on Amazon e-books. It is so easy to strip that it may as well not even be there.
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