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Well, but isn't that what the whole problem is about? Doesn't matter if it's BBC, iTunes or Spotify - it's that the country-based licensing model doesn't work in the age of Internet.
This is true - it doesn't make it right (necessarily) but it is true.

The other thing I'd say though is that most people will still operate within their own moral code. In the UK technically platform shifting (transferring music from CD to MP3 for instance) is illegal but that doesn't stop anyone as people see it as a historic oddity and not something which is even remotely morally wrong.

It's not uncommon that the same people who will pirate movies from multi-billion pound businesses will also voluntarily pay when for donationware (or when Radiohead release an album) they could get for nothing.

There are two things we need to look at:

* Availability / technology and restrictions on the ability to obtain media - for instance I torrent because I can't get it legally.

* Why people's moral code does or doesn't allow them to take certain actions?

We're moving increasingly into a trust economy where from a technical point of view people can have what they want and it's almost impossible to stop them.

In that situation your ability to extract payment from them depends on your making a case for why it's reasonable (and indeed beneficial) for them to stump up in a world where the link between what something costs to produce and what it's reasonable to charge for it is a little less obvious than in the days of purely physical product.
One of my mottos is that it is far easier to change yourself than it is to change the world, even if you've done nothing wrong yourself.

Trying to change everybody to live by that code is quite a bit harder than to adapt to the situation we're in (and, arguably, that kind of draconian view created in the first place).
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Apply a bit of filtering. One trick I use is asking a simple domain-knowledge type question in the posting. Ignore everyone who doesn't read it properly or doesn't bother answering. That will instantly cut a lot of the crud out.
What do you think of JSON for documenting data structures in this project? http://code.google.com/apis/tasks/v1/using.html (scroll down for the "Protocol" sections; there are about 10)

They're using JSON to describe sets of possible JSON instances, using conventions of "..." to represent other items in a list; and italics to represent variables (though not always: example text such as "My Task" is used for some variables).

Perhaps a shell-style convention, like $taskListID and ${My Task} would be clearer? It's going outside the JSON syntax, but so is "..." - and obviously extra-linguistic constructs help alert the reader
that it isn't part of the instance syntax (like italics).

I've looked at some "JSON schema" proposals, but they take the same meta-approach as XML Schema, which somehow seems even worse applied to JSON.

Regarding the actual format, they the kind attribute (kind="tasks#taskList") like a class. Since it defines the type of the message, maybe it would be clearer if it were distinguished in some way (like XML tags: <tasks#taskList> - invalid, I know).

disclaimer: I don't mean to rag on these guys - their focus is Google Tasks, not a schema for JSON. It's just that it's very well documented, and so it's a clear example of using JSON as a schema. This issue will become more important over time.
I gather from your comments that your moral code depends heavily on the rule of law. Many people don't base their moral code very heavily on the laws currently on the books, except as far as those laws reflect the original intent of law - to make the world a better place to live overall. It's generally agreed upon that stealing physical goods, murdering, etc. make the world a more unruly, unpleasant, inefficient, discouraging place for meek, cooperative people. Filesharing doesn't fall into the same league in those terms, so many don't really believe it's immoral, especially if one wasn't going to buy those files if there was no alternative. In that case, it's like happiness created from nothing. This other moral code makes the morality question a good bit murkier.

That's my understanding, anyway.
i can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but it takes a blog and some fu money
> It compiles directly into javascript that is very similar, readable and line for line equivalent to the input (you can beautify if you like).

that makes sense to me.. the javascript it produces is very similar to the source kaffeine code.
But with the sale of content that should be an easy fix, whereas BBC is a pretty unique situation.
I have the opposite problem. I'm a former mobile game engineer at an RoR shop, and decided to go the freelance route, recently. However, I have no idea where to start.

I initially went to the sites listed above, but eh...every job had hundreds of bids offering absurd rates (no, you are not going to build a Facebook clone for $200 dollars in 10 days).

Anyone have any tips on how to find clients who understand the market and are willing to pay for quality work?
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Don't think that CoffeeScript is much more extensive - Kaffeine has most of the features. Other advantage is that the output Javascript is very similar to the input, unlike Coffee where there's various implied closures and magic T_T
Nevermind, I found the answer. It looks like a self-balancing binary search tree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-balancing_binary_search_tr...
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Don't confuse copyright infringement, aka. pirating, to stealing. You may well believe that they are morally the same thing, but they are not legally the same thing.

Theft has existed as long as man, copyright infringement was invented about 100 years ago. copyright infringement varies wildly in penalties. In some countries it is a serious offense, in others it is legal.
That is clever, it's like a binary version of the old BASIC convention of numbering lines 10, 20, 30 etc, to leave space in case you want to add lines in between.

But why number them at all - why not just use the order in the list as the ordering? I haven't studied their API, so there may be a good reason.
His comment was playing on the article's analogy to make another one, that everyone should see this coming. It was a fair point, I found. Your comment, however, added absolutely nothing to the discussion.
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A shame about the name - "Kaffeine" is also a fairly popular media player for KDE. The media player has the wikipedia page (with no "_(Software)" disambiguation suffix), and takes seven of the first ten hits on Google.
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Pro tip here, I have spent a few hundred thousand in the past few years outsourcing on these sites and the simple - "please respond in the Private Message area with the phrase 'i am real'" goes very long way in filtering out these bad providers.

Additionally have them restate in their own words what they feel that you want from them. It is amazing how much miscommunications happens at that initial stage.
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Because the 'order in the list' usually is the creation order of the items. If you want to change the tasks order, you need to save the position numbers in the database.

This is not specific to Google tasks. If you tried to display a list of items that your users could reorder, you'd run into the same problem.
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Indeed, I assumed it was going to be inline base64 encoded background image or something that wasn't being stripped by MUA.

It's clever for sure.
Not true, im paying for netflix with my croatian credit card.
Wow, just wow!

I wonder how employees feel about it - is it just business as usual? For that matter, I wonder how would-be investors feel about it.

Google defeated competition from Microsoft and Yahoo with innovation and hard work, not with slimy tactics. They dazzled the world by being open, provocative, fast and effective, forward-thinking, pushing web apps to their limits, giving customers what they wanted.

Is this it? Is Facebook the next Google? How depressing.
Not in Germany. Here, we make "copies for personal use", which is not illegal. Publishing (seeding) is illegal, though.
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Well, this is just rationalizing.

Stealing something (or obtaining it illegally) just because someone doesn't want to sell it to you (or give it to you for free) is still stealing (or obtaining it illegally), regardless of the fact that you want it so bad.

As long as you own something, you have the right to choose if you want to sell it to some country, give it for free or do whatever else.
I wonder what the ex googlers who moved to FaceBook think of such slimy tactics

stock options non olet, I guess...
Facebook is the next, I don't know, Oracle probably. Google is the next Google.
With the iPlayer service, if you watch any of the live-streaming channels and you don't have a TV License you will eventually get a letter informing you that you need to pay the license fee. Fail to obtain the TV License after that point and you are subject to the normal fines.

I think the BBC must have some form of tie-in with the ISPs as I know a number of people that have had this happen to them.
I really want to like WebOS. I did when the original Pre came out, but the hardware was only so-so and the marketing was too little.

Now, the new hardware looks really slick and the Enyo framework is super powerful. Again I was happy... Until I tried to sign up in their dev center. It's a many step process during which you have to register with the IRS, for example. Then you have to email them and ask for access to the Enyo SDK. Then they send you a form letter back.
I have lost almost all interest by now.

Palm... I really want to like you. Don't make it so hard.
The levels look like a straight translation of the Lua level data into JSON, which is kind of cool.
That said, the assumption is that anonymous was responsible for the actions.

Its interesting to see how that assumptions, uttered by Sony, is now taken as fact.

More than the DRM implications, the playing out of the PR game here is interesting. Should be an interesting case of something being repated enough becoming the truth.
From here it should land up to Anonymous are credit card thieves.
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I think "restaurant" is actually to broad of a field to define an "ultimate" site for. The site I'd want to find a high-class go-to-when-someone-else-is-buying-me-a-treat restaurant is different to the one I'd use on my phone to find the nearest place in a strange town for a family meal that's good but cheap.

On the one hand I want to know who the chef is, where he's worked possibly, definitely see images of the dishes, the full menu, wine list, pictures of the interior, etc..

On the other I'd just trust for a good rating by a few dozen people (who mention dining with kids preferably), couple of example dishes and prices.

I think you could combine these different use cases but I doubt you can make the ultimate tool that addresses both.
I hope facebook has a good excuse for this. A note from Zuck saying "we apologize" won't suffice.
Wait. This is YCombinator right? Why on earth does no-one create a startup to make buying digital copies easier wherever you live? Why is that so hard?
I'm regularly tunnelling all my traffic through a UK VPS (not for geolocation regions, I'm in the UK myself anyway), and never had any issues watching iPlayer.

And if I watched to avoid it, I could always use something like www.tvcatchup.com to watch the live content, and just go onto the iPlayer for VOD content (for which you don't need a license).

I wonder - traditionally a TV license is per household, not per person, meaning that if I want to watch on a TV in a friend's house, they need to have a license, not me. With internet access, how does that work. For example, say they were able to prove I had been watching iPlayer live streams in my house, what if it was a friend watching on their laptop, and they own a license? What if you're watching from a public WiFi or a 3G connection on a train? The "license for the house" doesn't quite translate.
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I kind of agree with this philosophy, to a point. However would you leave your house without locking the front door?
International copyright laws are a bit of a mess.Also, in lots of countries you have to pay a fee if you're "performing" publicly. And according to some agencies, Youtube videos do count as such. If I remember correctly, one such agency, the German GEMA wanted to collect 12 Euro cents each time a major label video was watched on youtube.
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He still has a serial key system, so he has a lock. He's just not bothering with the bear traps, electric fences and guard dogs.
You realise that's a year before iPhone 1 was released

My bad. So 4 years ago it was the best, despite lacking 3G. 4 years later and next to nothing has changed. I honestly think it warrants being labeled "dated".

Untrue and inflamatory trolling. The app store or specific apps, iTunes store integration, familiarity, preference for iOS, loyalty to Apple corporation, integration with Apple TV, fashion,

The app store is in my opinion inferior to Android Market. And the constant changes which Steve goes about with ensures that fewer and fewer developers will put up with it. The iTunes integration and requirement is for most people a bug, not a feature.

Preference for iOS is like you said, a preference, but it's hardly warranted. This thing haven't moved an inch since launch.

Loyalty to Apple corporation is a mental handicap to everyone not bitten by Steve Jobs RDF. Why on earth would you be loyal to a corporation? I'm loyal to me and my needs, and I want the best. The iPhone isn't.

Integration with Apple TV, a product useless in most parts of the world. Gee thanks. I'll consider it once Apple opens its TV/Movie store where I live, something they haven't done 3 years after they launched the music store.

Fashion? Are you serious? It may have been fashion a year ago, but right now everyone are getting Android phones. Apple haven't gotten any successor to the iPhone 4 out, and most Android phones in sale now, not to mention the dual-core models coming out as we speak, surpass the iPhone 4 on every metric.

The iPhone was a success based on it being the king of the smartphone game, and now it is slowly but surely lagging behind. Unless Apple does something unheard of with the iPhone 5 (including a near-complete rewrite of iOS) they will still be lagging when it comes out. They will release a device with dated software on day one and then they have lost. They will no longer be the better or premium option, they'll just have a glossy look.

I realize I'm an iPhone owner gone Android-fanatic. Yes. I am biased. But right now, the iPhone objectively has very little appeal unless you are burdened with the loyalty-handicap.
No, but would you sell the homes you build with locks that require you to be present to open them?
Thanks - this is a more informative article than the TechCrunch post which was on the front page.
Legally speaking you are correct but that is irrelevant to any serious discussion on the topic.

Laws should be the strictest manifestation of societies expectations. This is clearly not the case here, most people consider this kind of privacy to be about as bad as crossing the street at a red light.

As long as expectations don't change and they clearly won't, people will continue to resort to piracy as long as it is the most convenient way to fulfill their needs.

If people could easily buy music in a lossless format and videos without artificial geographical restrictions at a reasonable price, I seriously doubt that piracy would still be such a "serious" problem.

I'm not a total fanatic, I have no problem with DRM systems if they make sense for e.g. renting movies. I buy all my games via Steam which I consider an awesome platform. However piracy is still the most convenient way to get music/videos quickly in (most of) Europe and it seems very clear who is to blame for that.
Not every game can have a multiplayer aspect. And for those games I'd prefer to pay for games that are multiplayer designed from scratch rather than the functionality being bolted on.

I thought Jeff Vogel made rpgs anyway, so no dice for him there.
Fair enough, and agreed.
Copies for personal use don't come into play when you are, for example, using torrents. Downloading copies which obviously infringe copyrights has been made illegal in 2008 (http://www.medienrecht-urheberrecht.de/urheberrecht/101-neue...).
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Did you really misunderstand your parent? Strictly speaking "without knowing..." should refer to the subject of the main clause, but it is clear that he (your parent) intendend himself to be understood as the potentially ignorant person.
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I think that's a bit of an oversimplification.

You can use bittorrent to download and watch a film that's been released on DVD. This deprives the content created of a sale/hire/watch on demand, so in theory they lose out on revenue.

You can also use bittorrent to download and watch a TV show that was broadcast in another country the night before and that will never be shown on your country's TV network. Think about NBC or Comedy Central - 30 Rock and Colbert aren't going to be broadcast in the UK any time soon, and their content owners refuse to let international users watch online. Torrenting this content is therefore a victimless crime.
No, that would leave me open for robbery.

This is where the distinction between copyright infringement and theft becomes important.
I disagree a bit:

"Whenever you find yourself starting a sentence with, "I don't want people to pirate my game, so I am going to ..." you are very close to making a big mistake."

There's one way to end that sentence that isn't a mistake:

I don't want people to pirate my game, so I am going to... Make it such a good game that they want to pay for it.

It actually works! Some pirates aren't convertible because they are complete jerks, or don't have money, or any number of other reasons that make conversion impossible. But quite a few are actually decent people who have needs that aren't being met. They -will- pay for a product that has value and meets their needs.

This article is a good example of failing to meet those needs. His piracy prevention tactics actually make it easier to pirate the game than buy it!

True story: I have a friend who bought some software and liked it. Then he reinstalled Windows and it wouldn't install. He contacted tech support and tried for 2 weeks to get them to fix the problem. He gave up, pirated it, and then emailed them telling him that he pirated it instead. Yes, a product he already owned. The next day they sent him a new registration code that fixed the problem. Ridiculous.
Remove "email:" to make it more minimal :)
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Fascism, the boot that keeps on stomping on your face.

No wonder there is no competition in local markets for internet access or cable.

America, the founding fathers took corporations rights away, whore lawyer Lincoln gave them back in spades, and people have been getting screwed ever since.
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I disagree. When they make XYZ 7, they are counting on loyal XYZ customers to buy it just because it's the next one. I'm sure they also try to make a great game, but the budget for development and marketing were based on the sales of XYZ 6 and that many of those customers will be back for the next one.

Brand loyalty is real and companies do count on it.
Thanks. You could also recreate the list with the new ordering; or record the changes in list order and replay them on server (e.g. insert the 5th one after the 2nd one), perhaps even reducing it to the simplest change if the user played around with the order a lot.

But I guess for RDB (and other DB?), the "physical" order isn't meant to be used as a "logical" order, and it might not even be reliable - so you need some other ordering mechanism, like position numbers. Also, not good if anything in the system depends on that physical ordering.

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Email is broken and ugly. We are constantly trying to bend email to be a useful productivity tool - to me the idea of filtering emails by text found in the subject for example as a way of organizing/categorizing emails demonstrates just one of the sheer inadequacies of email.

Email is also incredibly insecure, how many people have sent emails to the wrong people? you mistype an email address, or select the wrong 'John Smith' from the address book and you've just sent top-secret confidential files outside of the company walls.

Attaching files should be a thing of the past, we should simply reference files within email text - again, much better for security because only authorized people will actually be able to access the files, rather than with attachements where all recipients (even erroneous recipients) can a). view the document, and b). very easily distribute the document to unauthorized persons.

I am astonished that corporations continue to use email as the basis for internal communication.

I really hoped that Google Wave could have killed email - or at least replaced gmail with something more useful. However, the failure of Google Wave demonstrates again that Google are not 'inventive' - they just take existing ideas/products and improve on them. shame.

...maybe the people that replace email with something appropriate will be the next Google...