I must
agree with Jim!
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All
the discussen about that everything should be open source and that no one can
own a piece of code, is for me just plain bullshit! If you want to make a piece
of code available for everyone (like Linux), then fine. Go for it. But what is
the different between spending time and money to, let's say, make a car and
writing a software code/music/movie ? Nothing. It's still something you made and
you have every right to earn money on it!
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Yeah,
companies might do what they can to maximaize profits....but DUH!, that's the
whole point. You can't create jobs for 100000 people if you give out everything
for free. Most of us wouldn't have jobs if the whole point for a companie wasn't
to earn money.
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No, if
a private person gets hold of an illegal copy of Microsoft Office, then I would
scream out loud, but helping or participating in doing actual hardware changes
to a product so that it allows a person to make tons of illegal copies is
illegal and should be punished!
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Mounir
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choaglin,
>> Not to be the wuz in the
group, but looking at how hard
>> the
movie-industry
>
>
> Shutting up about it amounts to
basically giving those
> corrupt, greedy f**ks what they
want.
Why is it greedy to want to protect ones own
intellectual
property.
> They want to control everything they
possibly can to
> maximize profit
I suppose that anything
creative that you would create you
would just
give away. What is
obtained for free often is worth the
price.
> ,will control
everything, including freedom of speech, but
> only if people sit by and
LET them.
The free speech argument doesn't wash. Another freedom
we
exercise is that of being able to profit from the fruit of
ones
labor. Admittedly sometimes those who are already
profiting most from their
output are most able to guard
against? pirating. But actions the
protect intellectual
property in general protect the little guy too. When
such
property goes unprotected much of the products we most want
will
disappear. Only the junk, produced in such mass
quantities that even with
pirating a profit will be made
will continue to be produced. We have enough
junk in the
entertainment industry as is.
> The idea of looking
up patents to figure out how they add
> error introduction capabilities
to burners and figuring
> out modifications is a good one, and
publicizing such
> information should be highly encouraged.
What
generally happens is that anti copy measures must be
invoked to protect
those rights, those most affected are
those who probably would not make
copies for profit. The new
protection that MS is invoking on the XP os is
an example.
Many, myself included, will not upgrade because of
the
hassle. I regularly reformat my drive and reinstall
everything
because the crappy os just gets slower and
slower. It's bad enough to have
to enter a thousand digit
code just to use a product I paid good money
for.
> It may lead to unauthorized copying of horrendously
>
overpriced discs, but I really have no sympathy for people
> who think
they can tell someone how they can and can't
> watch a disc they just
forked over good money for.
It's a free market. Instead of trying to
stop copy
protection why not try to stop the illegal acts that make
it
necessary. You sound like the burglar who says, "Stop
putting locks
on your doors, they make my job so much
more
difficult."
Jim
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