Paranoia / Politics News Comments 2006-10-06
Damn apple is really using it’s iron fist. If they think they can win, sue, if not, bribe, but if they don’t take the bribe, then they sue anyway. The ‘engadget store’ is a more valid trademark violation. Apple is leveraging its lawyers against free content podcasts. They seem to be just downloadable .mp4 files (sometimes you have to hack through raw xml to get .urls to feed to GetRight (a download manager), other times it is direct), but Itunes probably can just ferry it directly and automatically to the Ipod and has automated publicity in the Itunes store. Some of these guys are so scared that they ask permission to scan the legal letters and put them online! The pirate bay doesn’t bother, and they ridicule them too. They probably make paper airplanes or other funny things if once they have scanned to paper threats he he…
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Looks like the MPAA is emphasizing ‘jobs’ and ‘tax revenue’ now. If they want judicial and legislative decisions in their favor, then need to try to research and pre-choose judges, house reps, and senators, who aren’t themselves downloading all kinds of Moviez, Muzic, Bookz, and Warez (or even clazzified secretz) themselves at home he he… if they can (I don’t know how the courts work). Goerge W Bush seems to do this well with is congressional posse (even has a minority of democrats!). P2P filesharing in itself, specially ones with open source authorship, is a threat to capitalism at its foundations. Capitalism works well when volume capable home personal production factories (Today, the PC, way future tomrrow, nanofacs or even trekky replicators) with cheap raw materials (network bandwidth or blank writable media) is not feasable. P2P is far more socialist than capitalist, but people-centric and libertarian rather than goverment centric and totalitarian (communism).
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Yeah, Sony can take their hack-job battery factories and shove it up their ass. Sony laptops break twice as often as HP and Dell laptops at work. Sony Tivos’ modems break within 6 months. Sony has a subsidiary movie company that is a member of the evil MPAA. Sony is also has a subsidiary that is a member of the ultra-evil RIAA that also tried to put viral DRM in their music CDs. The PlayStation 3 also appears to have a looming major DRM fiasco. They want to sell gutted PS3 games and then charge your huge sums for the content (with a somewhat cost effective bundle being included in a premium edition). Then watch the PS3s have exploding batteries, flaky RAM chips, and Blue Laser LEDs that last an average of 6 months (Blue LEDs in LED Christmas lights start going out after 3 onths of always-on and 2/3 of them will be out within a year, while the rest last like the redder LEDs).
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Hey the crinimals will have the hackers tools anyway. There is no sense in completely banning them. The crinimals will have more defensless victims to attack. It is just like the guns. At the very least, allow legal possesion with a license and make up a good working system with consistent and clear, but not too restrictive, criteria in obtaining and keeping such a license. That may reduce the fringe script-kiddie hackers, but not criminalize the security review firms and good-natured hackers.
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The ZDNet is twisting Vista activation to be like a WGA ‘kill switch’. The XP activation had a much harder ‘kill switch’ than what is planned with Vista. What Vista is doing is integrating WGA into the activation process. Adobe Photoshop has done this long ago, with less information to the consumer! It checks the validity/stolen tag of the serial upon initial activation if it is done online and not via ‘phone’,which most activation keygens exploit, and also periodically whenever the machine is connected online. XP w/ WGA and Vista will inform you if your serial is rejected. Photoshop just devalidates the activation if you used a serial-keygen and a phone-activation-keygen (which is why warez-archives with bundled activation cracks are better than activation keygens – bundled or separate) and makes you activate again and will immediatly expire the trial period if it hasn’t elapsed yet. Photoshop has a ‘kill switch’ and I don’t hear any bitching about it. You should either get coding with the crack or just switch to linux or just eat it.
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Apple is threatening to stop selling DVDs if the studio lets Apple and it’s DRM undercut DVDs? Why doen’t the studios just make DVD supply-costs cheaper? They don’t wanna do that… Isn’t lowering prices and undercutting competitors supposed to be the wal-mart way? It sounds hypocritical when they bitch and whine when somebody may undercut them. I want my $4-6 new-release hollywood DVDs at my local Walmart! Old DVDs for $1-3! The package is already over-elaborate. Slim platic cases with basic labels (like music CDs without the credit/lyric books inside) are just fine with me. Wal-Mart does have $1 DVDs, package is just fine though the content really sucks. Most of Wal-Mart $5 DVDs suck too (B and C often family/educational movies). The good non-new release movies are $10-14. Superman Returns is being sold at an MSRP of $1.75 (basic) or $2.75 (special) in China. It is to be $30 or $35 in America. I want Wal-mart to have it for $5! Profitably!!
I hate the MPAA! “Customers who throw a disc in their shopping carts spend an average of $75 per trip to the store “. I fit this category of customers, though I probably wouldn’t buy less if I didn’t get any DVDs. I am a major single-store (per trip with loyalty tendancies) deal hunter and sale-leprechaun (big sale — really cheap price as opposed to a gimmicky yellow tag on an elevated regular price = major stock up). I am mildly prone to impulse shopping, which is the worst at Wal-Mart. The MPAA charges Wal-Mart $17 per disc!. That means Wal-Mart sells many DVDs at a significant loss! Fuck the MPAA!! I can’t enjoy wal-mart cheapness without knowing that they are losing money over it! Smart cheapness is being cheap with profit! Wal-Mart can stop selling DVDs for all I care! I can get my movies from Emule!!
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Sue Sue Rob Streal Lawyer Litigation. The United States is crumbling. Sue everybody you can imagine as even remotely connected, taking example from the RIAA and the other big corporation USA falls into great depression and mass bickering and rioting, and China is just waiting to pounce and pounce. Oil Oil Oil gimme gimme gimme mine mine mine (i’m like that with file sharing I admin but I don’t need to kill, rape, or rob to get my files). You do what I say or I’ll sue or bomb you. No only if the communist goverment can fall and the country become more christian (non-religion-currupt) before the Chinese do rule the world so the world won’t be under iron hand rule. This music is over 20 years old and the statute of limitations is only 3 years! ‘I never heard of the music (lie), I’m sueing anyway!’.
