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• It took you two hours to download bug fixes from Apple? For Snow Leopard??? Have they even released a software update for that yet? In reply to: "Oh my computer is actually SLOWER!"

  August 28, 2009

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• Let me get this straight. Your logic is "I want it, but I can't afford it, so I'm going to take it anyway". And then you justify it because an "artist is being paid millions for dollars for just one work" (which, by the way, is the rare exception and not the rule for most artists). Does this mean that you can go down and steal a car just because the company's CEO makes a few million a year? Or perhaps more analogous, walk into an art store, remove a print from a famous painting off the wall, take it home, copy it and then distribute it to all your friends, just because the artist has already made a lot of money off it? Yet for some bizarre reason we think we have some sort of right to reproduce music or files without compensating the artists who spent hundreds of hours writing, recording, filming, etc. the work to begin with. What they earn off it is beside the point. What they charge for it is beside the point. What the record companies make is beside the point. The point is, you did not make it, you had no hand in it's creation or distribution, it does not belong to you, and therefore you have to abide by the copyright rules applied to that product, whether you like them or not. The good news is that, if one day you created a recording or film that suddenly became popular, the same rules would protect you and your work as well. In reply to: "New Firefox extension turns Amazon.com into illegal free-for-all"

  December 4, 2008

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• Actually, making a photocopy of an entire book, from a library or anywhere, is an infringement of the copyright act and is against the law, so it is not "cool". The copyright act does allow, under certain circumstances (for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research), an individual to make limited copies of portions of the book, but to just go down to the library and copy the book wholesale is illegal and would almost certainly be against library policy. My local library definitely forbids such activities in their policies manual. So the only thing out of place is your logic and knowledge of the law. In reply to: "New Firefox extension turns Amazon.com into illegal free-for-all"

  December 4, 2008

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