"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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I think it's called the "I have an army of lawyers and you don't" law.
Re: "It's surely no accident that this novel relaxed attitude to sharing materials covered by copyright concerns academic papers."
I guess we can define "piracy", "comercially valuable", "advance" and "progress" in whatever way suits you. But what would be te point?
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"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."
Then I feel really sorry for you.
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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.
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Just more stuff made of something authors don't own.
Want a good story for your movie - go ahead, write your own.
Is that what's called "creativity" today?
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Sorry, this was intended to be a reply to "They also pretend to have invented the mouse, the GUI and several other things."
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Yeah, rounded corners.
"Of course, politicians are notoriously fickle"
And that's what it all boils down to.
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"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.
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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.
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According to the EFF's post "the phishing domain has been reported for abuse–though it is still active". I guess it just takes some time.
Did the FBI not did something like this some time ago? For the right reasons, of course.
Simpson is being deceptive and unfair when he says thet Google is offering a basic privacy tool to millions of users across Europe.
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.
Let me guess. The bulk data collection will last until copyright on Mickey Mouse expires, won't it?
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They call it "getting in the zone". Just spend 30 years in the zone and see what happens...
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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.
"ebook retailers in Germany can now only sell adult ebooks between 10 pm and 6 am local time (4 pm and midnight, eastern US)."
Can somebody please think of american children?
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...
It's Madrid
So that stupid giant robot can't tell apart Tokio from Madrid?
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"Music is free. It's just less convenient in free form."
Actually the music publishing industry is making sure that's not the case.