I realize it may be desirable to have a device that worked completely offline, but I don't see any reason to care that the company knows that your living room is however many feet long as that thing drives back and forth between walls.
The company knows that somewhere out there, not even probably personally identifiable but just some random hardware ID, is traversing a space that is x by y. Or encountering obstacles at n frequency.
This doesn't seem like private protected data is being leaked
"For someone who claims to be a died-in-the-wool free market capitalism supporter and who insists that socialism is "immoral," I can't help but note that this appears to be Rupert Murdoch asking for successful companies to subsidize his failing companies in the interest of "social value.""
Yup!! You'll find these values are always flexible. Individual rights unless it is a woman, or states rights unless they do something involving net neutrality, or weed, or whatever. There's nothing BUT exceptions to these values.
I encourage any developer that is told to break their product, to leave the company and start their own product that doesn't suck. Seriously, we'll support you. There's no reason to block hulu because I am using a bigger monitor or like to sit on my sofa than an office chair.
Hulu wants to be your TV provider and replace Cable & Co. And don't think there won't be ads just because you're paying for it -- you pay for newspapers, magazines, and TV today and still have ads.
I don't know about most of you, but our corporate security blocks almost all ads, we don't have flash installed or the right to install it, and even above that, most web pages that serve ads are blocks. They have our net access on an "allow list" rather than a "deny list". We must travel to the bowels of bureaucracy just to get access to a site we might need.
Yeah, if I could find somewhere to pay for music but still be able to play it on all my devices and get it at a good sounding bit-rate. Read my lips: locked-down DRM is stupid.
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I don't get the concern much
I realize it may be desirable to have a device that worked completely offline, but I don't see any reason to care that the company knows that your living room is however many feet long as that thing drives back and forth between walls. The company knows that somewhere out there, not even probably personally identifiable but just some random hardware ID, is traversing a space that is x by y. Or encountering obstacles at n frequency. This doesn't seem like private protected data is being leaked
"For someone who claims to be a died-in-the-wool free market capitalism supporter and who insists that socialism is "immoral," I can't help but note that this appears to be Rupert Murdoch asking for successful companies to subsidize his failing companies in the interest of "social value.""
Yup!! You'll find these values are always flexible. Individual rights unless it is a woman, or states rights unless they do something involving net neutrality, or weed, or whatever. There's nothing BUT exceptions to these values.
I sympathize with this author, but...
Facebook has exactly the same policy. Their Terms require you to use your full, real, legal name.
So quit blaming Google for starting it.
Developers, Developers, Developers...
I encourage any developer that is told to break their product, to leave the company and start their own product that doesn't suck. Seriously, we'll support you. There's no reason to block hulu because I am using a bigger monitor or like to sit on my sofa than an office chair.
They want to restrict it until they can charge for it
Hulu wants to be your TV provider and replace Cable & Co. And don't think there won't be ads just because you're paying for it -- you pay for newspapers, magazines, and TV today and still have ads.
who can see the ads?
I don't know about most of you, but our corporate security blocks almost all ads, we don't have flash installed or the right to install it, and even above that, most web pages that serve ads are blocks. They have our net access on an "allow list" rather than a "deny list". We must travel to the bowels of bureaucracy just to get access to a site we might need.
prior art?
doesn't this infringe on santa's patent on making a list and checking it?
Sounds like ca-ching to me
"Music you pay for always sounds better"
Yeah, if I could find somewhere to pay for music but still be able to play it on all my devices and get it at a good sounding bit-rate. Read my lips: locked-down DRM is stupid.