Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 18, 2002 12:00 PM
You know, I have never purchased a movie that didn't contain a statement prohibiting the copying and distributing of it. Movies and Music are not released under the GPL or any other such license; so you have no "right" to copy this content and give it to all of your budies, regardless of what Richard Stallman thinks.
I also read in the article where P2P should be supported because "that's what consumers want". Hmmm, too bad that most (maybe not all, but most) of what users of P2P "share" with each other is commercial music, movies and software. I guess people feel better about breaking the law when they call it sharing instead of what it really is: stealing.
Yes it is unfortunate that these big companies are stonewalling their own customers about these issues. I am confident that it will come back to bite them in the ass in the end though. Please remember that these companies have no obligation at all to their customers other than what the terms of the purchase were. Free markets are great; if a company treats enough customers like crap for long enough, they will quickly find themselves out of business when the customers leave. This is one of the reasons why more and more people are walking away from Microsoft towards Open Source Software.
This is how things are supposed to work, stop complaining about how your rights are somehow being violated and start taking your money elsewhere. They will eventually get the message. If not, let them rot in bankruptcy.
Could somebody please post a link to where it is written that Linux has been singled out as being unable to have a legal DVD player developed for it? Not a smartass question, I would seriously like to know.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 18, 2002 12:00 PMI also read in the article where P2P should be supported because "that's what consumers want". Hmmm, too bad that most (maybe not all, but most) of what users of P2P "share" with each other is commercial music, movies and software. I guess people feel better about breaking the law when they call it sharing instead of what it really is: stealing.
Yes it is unfortunate that these big companies are stonewalling their own customers about these issues. I am confident that it will come back to bite them in the ass in the end though. Please remember that these companies have no obligation at all to their customers other than what the terms of the purchase were. Free markets are great; if a company treats enough customers like crap for long enough, they will quickly find themselves out of business when the customers leave. This is one of the reasons why more and more people are walking away from Microsoft towards Open Source Software.
This is how things are supposed to work, stop complaining about how your rights are somehow being violated and start taking your money elsewhere. They will eventually get the message. If not, let them rot in bankruptcy.
Could somebody please post a link to where it is written that Linux has been singled out as being unable to have a legal DVD player developed for it? Not a smartass question, I would seriously like to know.
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