We have a 'you must be a pirate' tax on blank CDs in Canada because the government listened to the music industry's whines about pretty much this exact thing. We have a similar tax on blank tapes (or we did, I'm not sure if we still do).
I think we're already seeing some preliminary ideas of what it will be like from the fashion industry. Counterfeit goods that you buy on Mulberry St. vs. ones that you print in your basement.
I suppose the primary difference is that printing them at home is non-commercial infringement as opposed to the counterfeiters making money off the street sales.
No, I mean DVDs. When I attached my 360 to my computer monitor via HDMI/DVI, any time I put in a DVD it gave me an error about my display not having HDCP and therefore I couldn't watch DVDs on it.
... completely stopped me buying DVDs for several years because the monitor I was using with my Xbox was not HDCP compliant and therefore would not play movies at all.
I already tried voting with my wallet (switching to Teksavvy from Bell) and now it seems that didn't work. The cable provider in my area manages to be even worse than Bell so I am basically out of luck. Thanks, Bell.
I heard a bit on CBC about the woman who lost her benefits. The insurance company has stated that they will not discuss specific situations but that they don't look at Facebook for such things. I suspect there is more going on there than meets the eye and that this is a case of "let's sensationalize this because it's related to the Internet," which is disappointing because I thought CBC was a bit better than that.
I live in the Cogeco area (I'm with Bell right now but really want to leave, probably going to go to Teksavvy based on my own research).
We had Cogeco at work and it was the most unreliable service I've ever had. The biggest problem is that there is no other cable provider in this area at all. There is *no* competition.
One thing that I appreciate about Amazon's openness and interoperability is how much value it can add to other products. MediaMonkey (my preferred library organizer) uses it to acquire proper track listings and album art. It also has a tie-in where you can order music through Amazon and I think a small amount is kicked back to the MM developers.
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I suppose the primary difference is that printing them at home is non-commercial infringement as opposed to the counterfeiters making money off the street sales.
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It appears that the stock lenses were modified in at least a couple of ways and really couldn't be considered "stock" any more.
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We had Cogeco at work and it was the most unreliable service I've ever had. The biggest problem is that there is no other cable provider in this area at all. There is *no* competition.
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