Comments on: Don’t Waste the Money http://webgazette.co.uk/2007/05/05/dont-waste-the-money/ Change is the only constant... Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:24:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: webmasterneo http://webgazette.co.uk/2007/05/05/dont-waste-the-money/#comment-33727 webmasterneo Tue, 22 May 2007 07:40:10 +0000 http://webgazette.co.uk/2007/05/05/dont-waste-the-money/#comment-33727 Very well written. Couldn't agree more. Very well written. Couldn’t agree more.

]]> By: Runa http://webgazette.co.uk/2007/05/05/dont-waste-the-money/#comment-33134 Runa Tue, 08 May 2007 17:14:21 +0000 http://webgazette.co.uk/2007/05/05/dont-waste-the-money/#comment-33134 @ainslie: In Italy we've got about the same law, but there's a graduation of penal consequences between the "self-consumption" of downloaded software and the commercial purpose of download. @ainslie: In Italy we’ve got about the same law, but there’s a graduation of penal consequences between the “self-consumption” of downloaded software and the commercial purpose of download.

]]> By: Ainslie http://webgazette.co.uk/2007/05/05/dont-waste-the-money/#comment-32950 Ainslie Sun, 06 May 2007 11:34:22 +0000 http://webgazette.co.uk/2007/05/05/dont-waste-the-money/#comment-32950 It all seems a bit like King Canute sitting on his throne, on the sea shore, commanding the tide not to come in. He could no more control the sea than the industry can control their consumers. I'm not saying they shouldn't make money, they should, they are a business after all but there must be a better way without wasting obscene amounts of money and pissing off the consumer. It just seems unfair to punish the average 'honest' person who legitimately want to use the media. We are not all pirates trying to rip them off! Most of us just want to have the right to play the stuff how we choose. Here in the UK it is technically illegal to rip a CD I have bought into Mp3s to put on my Mp3 player - how mad is that? It all seems a bit like King Canute sitting on his throne, on the sea shore, commanding the tide not to come in. He could no more control the sea than the industry can control their consumers.

I’m not saying they shouldn’t make money, they should, they are a business after all but there must be a better way without wasting obscene amounts of money and pissing off the consumer.

It just seems unfair to punish the average ‘honest’ person who legitimately want to use the media. We are not all pirates trying to rip them off! Most of us just want to have the right to play the stuff how we choose.

Here in the UK it is technically illegal to rip a CD I have bought into Mp3s to put on my Mp3 player - how mad is that?

]]> By: rob http://webgazette.co.uk/2007/05/05/dont-waste-the-money/#comment-32911 rob Sun, 06 May 2007 03:18:34 +0000 http://webgazette.co.uk/2007/05/05/dont-waste-the-money/#comment-32911 I am a linux used I would never put up with a ANYTHING that dosn't respect my ownership of my computer just because I have copy righted media on my computer it dosen't mean that the owner of the copy right has more rights to my computer than I do all sceems to enforce copy rights assumes that this enforcement over rides my right to control my computer It's a question of WHO's computer is it that is plaing the media this question more than any thing else is what has linux users pissed off at DRM I am a linux used I would never put up with a ANYTHING
that dosn’t respect my ownership of my computer
just because I have copy righted media on my computer
it dosen’t mean that the owner of the copy right has
more rights to my computer than I do
all sceems to enforce copy rights assumes that this enforcement over rides my right to control my computer

It’s a question of WHO’s computer is it that is plaing the media

this question more than any thing else is what has linux users pissed off at DRM

]]> By: Robbie http://webgazette.co.uk/2007/05/05/dont-waste-the-money/#comment-32901 Robbie Sat, 05 May 2007 23:29:06 +0000 http://webgazette.co.uk/2007/05/05/dont-waste-the-money/#comment-32901 I couldn't agree more. Maybe one day they'll invent something for preventing stuff like this, but in my opinion we're very very far from that... but that's just my opinion. I couldn’t agree more.

Maybe one day they’ll invent something for preventing stuff like this, but in my opinion we’re very very far from that… but that’s just my opinion.

]]> By: Runa http://webgazette.co.uk/2007/05/05/dont-waste-the-money/#comment-32885 Runa Sat, 05 May 2007 19:33:26 +0000 http://webgazette.co.uk/2007/05/05/dont-waste-the-money/#comment-32885 I strongly agree with you, but if I was a musician or a movie director maybe I wouldn't. At the same time I think it's not easy to find new ways to earn from rippable softwares: if one can choose between priced and free he normally choose the second. I strongly agree with you, but if I was a musician or a movie director maybe I wouldn’t.

At the same time I think it’s not easy to find new ways to earn from rippable softwares: if one can choose between priced and free he normally choose the second.

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