Had to log in and get this computer registered to play the only MP3 I've ever paid for. I was informed I would be allowed permission on only 5 computers, so eventually (If computers continue to become obsolete and I have to keep getting new ones) the MP3 I bought and paid for will be useless. While all the illegal ones will continue to work just fine.
So i've learned my lesson, don't bother paying for things from the Apple store, or any kind of software really. They don't appreciate it, they assume you must be a complete moron and act accordingly.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Can't see that happening though. They can't shut down the peer to peer networks, at best they can blackmail the people who put out the software that connects us to the networks, to engineer the software to censor what people can exchange.
So I guess we might have to be careful about what updates we agree to download.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas
At 4:29 AM -0700 17/4/09, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8003799.stm
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>Looks like monopoly capital won this round, but the is no way they
>will win the war against "piracy." If I understand the torrent
>system correctly, shutting down one operator has zero effect on the
>system itself, which is a network of connections.
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>I am surprised, though, that an European court sided with
>American-dominated cartels making dubious claims to defend their
>monopoly profits. If I understand the case correctly, they wanted
>to punish defendants for mere posting information that someone else
>may use to steal intellectual property. This is tantamount to, say,
>a blog operator posting information where to buy equipment to grow
>weed in a basement or how to make a car bomb, or for that matter,
>how to board and held hostage a merchant vessel. I do not think
>such cases would stand in the US courts, right?
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>What is the politics behind it?
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>Fuck monopoly capital - support your local pirate. Am I risking a
>jail term for saying that?
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>Wojtek
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