At 02:04 PM 10/18/03 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >It takes a broken P2P service to be brought down by a few unkosher binaries. >Trust accounting and agoric load levelling don't take Pd hardware.
Nice translation. Main Entry: ag7o7ra Pronunciation: 'a-g&-r& Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -ras or ag7o7rae /-"rE, -"rI/ Etymology: Greek, from ageirein to gather Date: 1589 : a gathering place; especially : the marketplace in ancient Greec >A palladium-plated turd is still a turd at its heart. A quotable quote. >Look at concentration in scientific publishing. Tell me how Palladium will >reduce the monopolist stranglehold, reduce the prices and make scientific >information available to the largerst possible audience. The Elseviers compete with the xxx.lanls. As do journals that charge the author to publish with those that don't. Etc. >A manipulated market is no longer a competitive market. Producers and >consumers do not have equivalent leverage. The invisible hand is flipping >us the bird. Of course you know that, TCPA >troll. Market manipulation is only done using violence. Only the government or other mafias manipulate markets. The rest (aquisitions, proprietary formats, bundling and giving it away free) is a perhaps more savage ecosystem than you prefer, but that's life. >There is no such thing as a weak DRM. There is no such thing as DRM for analog content. Only for machine-executable interactive content (eg games). The gamer-publisher vs. cracker war has been going on indefinately, even when it was putting a slug into a pinball machine. Either I do have the raw bits of an >open format and the according transducer to render it into direct >monkey-consumables, or not. The rights are volatile, and subject to change. >Everything enforcible will be enforced, and a good hardened Palladium makes a >great many evils possible. So? Think of it as free advertising for *nix. And it works, too, many have $witched. >What's your problem with music industry getting out of business? What's your >problem with a greatly diminished copyright enforcement, and free sharing of >information? I personally have no problem with intermediaries of any form going extinct. I have moral problems with tossing copyright out, but have learned that the only way to prevent their weakening is a police state. Unless 'trusted' stuff is *required*, people will decide, and they need not decide homogenously. If they decide foolishly, well, that's their choice, evolution never sleeps. As Schneier once wrote, offer a free hamburger for DNA samples and they'll line up around the block. >Users don't CHOOSE, you Palladium troll. They didn't knew an open format if >it bit them in the ass. Their bosses choose, the monopolist choses for them >via default-bundle and lock-in. Are there no home-Mac users who work for entities that require PC usage?
