"Is any significant information lost if that video isn't available to me, or is unable to play on my mobile device at the time? The answer is not really as much as she thinks."
Of course the problem is different. You only can access a DRM'd file using some piece of propietary software which decides what you can an cannot do. Attemps to access the file in any other way may be illegal due to anti-circunvention laws even if what you want to do is lawful.
With an encrypted, non DRM'd file, you do not have that kind of issues.
"What is the NASA supposed to do with ten thousands of astronaut helmets" Space travel, as stated when the money was asked for and granted. If they wanted helmets to use as wastebaskets, that's what they should have asked for.
"There are not enough terrorists around for all the IMSI catchers." Then they should not have bought so many ISMI catchers in the first place. At least not with money granted for antiterrorist fight. And doing so still looks to me as a misuse of funds.
Nope. It is like the NASA being granted funds to buy a bunch of astronaut helmets for space travel and then using them as waste baskets. It looks like a misuse of funds, no matter how suitable the astronaut helmets are as waste baskets.
If the IMSI are useful to catch terrorists they do not need to go to waste. Just use them to catch the damn terrorists.
Had google called Java to its version of the Java API, Oracle might have sued Google for trademark infringement, and this time on much firmer ground than the ridiculous copyright claim.
Now, independent implementation of APIs and languages is quite common. Wine implements (a subset of) the Windows API and they call it Wine, not Windows. There is also Mono implementing Microsoft .NET.
Of course Facebook is going to play the role of the arbitrary editor if they think it is in their interest. When you give a lot of power to someone you can expect them to use it.
It may be true that a huge percentage of people currently get their news via Facebook, but that does not give Facebook journalism any credibility to call into question now that they deleted a random post from a random photojournalist. That's not the issue here. If you give Facebook a power comparable to mainstream media, you will get from Facebook the same you get from mainstream media. What else would you expect?
Stallman has been saying "see what could happen if you rely on someone else's platform, avoid it" for a long time, but he is just an extremist...
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Then I feel really sorry for you.
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With an encrypted, non DRM'd file, you do not have that kind of issues.
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Want a good story for your movie - go ahead, write your own.
Is _that_ what's called "creativity" today?
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And that's what it all boils down to.
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Space travel, as stated when the money was asked for and granted. If they wanted helmets to use as wastebaskets, that's what they should have asked for.
"There are not enough terrorists around for all the IMSI catchers."
Then they should not have bought so many ISMI catchers in the first place. At least not with money granted for antiterrorist fight. And doing so still looks to me as a misuse of funds.
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If the IMSI are useful to catch terrorists they do not need to go to waste. Just use them to catch the damn terrorists.
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Google is just being forced by the law to comply with certain requirements in certain countries. That has nothing to do with offering a privacy tool.
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Now, independent implementation of APIs and languages is quite common. Wine implements (a subset of) the Windows API and they call it Wine, not Windows. There is also Mono implementing Microsoft .NET.
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Can somebody please think of american children?
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It may be true that a huge percentage of people currently get their news via Facebook, but that does not give Facebook journalism any credibility to call into question now that they deleted a random post from a random photojournalist. That's not the issue here. If you give Facebook a power comparable to mainstream media, you will get from Facebook the same you get from mainstream media. What else would you expect?
Stallman has been saying "see what could happen if you rely on someone else's platform, avoid it" for a long time, but he is just an extremist...
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It's Madrid
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Actually the music publishing industry is making sure that's not the case.
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