For the first time, the Windows operating system will wall off some audio and video processes almost completely from users and outside programmers, in hopes of making them harder for hackers to reach. The company is establishing digital security checks that could even shut off a computer's connections to some monitors or televisions if antipiracy procedures that stop high-quality video copying aren't in place.
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The average pay for an American music star
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Narrow it down for ya? We're talking about people with contracts under the big 5.
Every country you pointed out, except Korea which isn't a country, is completely impoverished. And they all were that way when they became communist. I really don't know of a single latin american country which is communist. I don't think North Korea can be considered communist either...
"You did no work and made no payment, yet enjoy full use."
Then mix cd's are fine, even if I didn't buy the components because I put work to make a new finished product? And ripping (changing formats) is fine, because I did work to make a new finished product?
"My guess is the only complex part is that for some people they just have not figured out a way to steal a car and get away with it, right?"
You either are unable to comprehend the difference between a tangible item and an idea, or you just refuse to.
"The honest folks are unfortunately not so honest. Should people blame the content providers or the pirates?"
When was the last time a problem was solved by blaiming a side and destroying it?
You have to understand both sides' alterior motives, and both sides honest motives and go from there. You can't just call one good and the other evil.
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Are you saying the Bolsheviks were just greedy politicians? Didn't they also have an ideology that motivated them, and iconoclastic leaders like Lenin, Stalin, etc... and Krushchev who said 'we will bury you!' They had 1/5 of world land mass, vast resources, and brought up more than 1 generation that knew nothing but their ideology and tried it for 70 years. That's a pretty good test.
But besides them, didn't you notice I pointed out Cuba, North Korea, a number of African countries, and I'll add Vietnam, many latin American countries, etc... When I was a kids people worried communism would take over the world. With so much, what were they possibly short on? It's god of self failed.
>>The average pay for an American music star, according to Free Culture by Laurence Lessig, is $40,000 a year.
I don't know them/him. Who counts as a musician (see my other post)? If you have 10 stars making $7 million and 10,000 making $40,000 and 4,000 doing a gig once or twice a month and don't call themselves musicians, the average might be high, but what is the 'most common' salary? I would not think it is evenly distributed. If you know, say.
>>The problem, as I tried to elude to, is that IP is more complex when it comes to stealing than say your car.
Half true. My guess is the only complex part is that for some people they just have not figured out a way to steal a car and get away with it, right? Let me guess. You know people who 'buy' blank cd/dvd's (because they can't steal them easily), and then steal/copy movies onto them (because they can).
An idea for a wordprocessor or a spreadsheet, is common. There are only a few ways to do cut, copy, and paste, I agree. Everyone has to 'work' though, to create or write their own code. Stealing a finished product like an audio cd, program or movie dvd, is not the same. You did no work and made no payment, yet enjoy full use.
>>>I don't think DRM is the solution at all. It doesn't make piracy any harder for the real pirates, but it adds rules for the honest folks.
The honest folks are unfortunately not so honest. Should people blame the content providers or the pirates?
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