windowsrefund
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Bastian,
Wow you are really confused. There is no such thing as "intellectual property". There are trademark, copyright, and patent laws of course but they really are distinct things and have little, if anything, in common with each other. "Intellectual Property" is a smoke and mirrors FUD term used by Big Content in order to blur the lines between these well defined areas of law and confuse people who are all too willing to be led around by the hype.
Even the word "protecting" (when used in the context you chose to use it in) is a hype tactic. You say that DRM is used to "protect" content but fail to realize that the content is never endangered in the first place. The content is exactly what is is regardless of the number of copies that exist. So perhaps you're not really interested in the content being "protected" and are really trying to "protect" something else? What exactly would that be?
You may want to spend some time researching the work of Richard Stallman, Laurence Lessig, and others before you go on another rant. I can see quite clearly that you've come across a few headlines and whatnot but your common knee-jerk responses make it very clear that you've only skimmed the surface of these issues.
You're looking at things from an extremely selfish and narrow point of view while showing no regard for society as a whole.
Wow you are really confused. There is no such thing as "intellectual property". There are trademark, copyright, and patent laws of course but they really are distinct things and have little, if anything, in common with each other. "Intellectual Property" is a smoke and mirrors FUD term used by Big Content in order to blur the lines between these well defined areas of law and confuse people who are all too willing to be led around by the hype.
Even the word "protecting" (when used in the context you chose to use it in) is a hype tactic. You say that DRM is used to "protect" content but fail to realize that the content is never endangered in the first place. The content is exactly what is is regardless of the number of copies that exist. So perhaps you're not really interested in the content being "protected" and are really trying to "protect" something else? What exactly would that be?
You may want to spend some time researching the work of Richard Stallman, Laurence Lessig, and others before you go on another rant. I can see quite clearly that you've come across a few headlines and whatnot but your common knee-jerk responses make it very clear that you've only skimmed the surface of these issues.
You're looking at things from an extremely selfish and narrow point of view while showing no regard for society as a whole.
Windows refund can you leave it alone? Next time you start up a thread for selling a cue I will post stating that the cue is not worth the money, does not hit good, etc, etc. Just leave it alone. Go and vent at the apple forums.
