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- JephirDromulus, on 10/05/2008, -1/+26When will companies learn that DRM reduces sales, rather than increasing sales? By using DRM, you are increasing the value of pirated software because you don't need to activate/put a CD in to use it. DRM only hurts legitimate purchasers of software, since pirates are using a cracked version anyway.
- vfreak2, on 10/05/2008, -2/+19I wonder how much RIAA pays to put these advertisements in student university bulletins.
I can just imagine, a few hundred bucks tucked in the shirt pocket of an IT guy who doesn't care about embarrassing himself (or might even be a moron like the RIAA people anyway). - conglomerator, on 10/05/2008, -3/+19RIAA will burn in hell... eventually...
- identitymatrix, on 10/06/2008, -2/+10I'm a student at a university, and the university lets us install various common programs (like Matlab, Maple, etc) over the campus network for free, which is great. For one class I needed to use Matlab, so I installed that over the network without too many problems (just had to do some registry editing and rebooting to get it to work). For a separate class I needed to find the roots of a 3rd degree polynomial, so I figured I would use Matlab for it.
So I start up Matlab, figure out how to use the solve command, and type in the equation I want to solve, only to receive the message: "Unable to checkout a license for the Symbolic Toolbox."
So while the university was nice enough to let me use the software for free, the license is so limited I cannot use it to do my homework due to license problems. So I downloaded a pirated copy of Mathematica to solve that equation.
Unfortunately my first class requires that I use Matlab, and my license expires in 26 days, so I'm hoping I will be able to reinstall it over the network again, but just to be sure I don't get held up on homework I'm planning to download a pirated copy to use regardless of whether or not the network license feels like working.
Also just as a side note I'm not the only one with license problems on campus. My professor, who sometimes likes to do Matlab demonstrations in class, sometimes has to cut his demonstrations short because the license is not happy and automatically closes the program while he's trying to teach us something. While it's comical when it happens in class, it goes to show that these licenses and DRM restrictions are literally bringing classes to a halt all for the purposes of maximizing profits. - Juaquin, on 10/06/2008, -2/+8Oh I get it.
It's a pun.
... - inactive, on 10/06/2008, -2/+7Universities/Colleges don't care, as long as they get your money.
- Zippo, on 10/06/2008, -2/+7Whatever it takes to make an easy buck, the RIAA and MPAA will do it. Making honest money just doesn't bring in as much raw profit as a lawsuit.
- soccerman90, on 10/06/2008, -1/+5When I am connected to the internet in my dorm at penn state and I download some music, how do they differentiate between music i downloaded legally or illegally?
- PoopOnPaul, on 10/06/2008, -2/+4I'm not a huge piracy advocate or anything like a lot of diggers, and I buy stuff or watch it legally with ads a lot. But I have been torrenting The X-Files season by season on my university connection, with no problem. I'd gladly watch it online with ads, but that's not an option, and I'm not paying a couple hundred dollars and buying the whole series (although who knows, maybe I will some day, I've grown to love it). So I torrent.
Although to be fair, our school is pretty good in regards to the whole piracy thing and compliance with the **AA, I believe. The video we're supposed to watch when we first activate our connection is called, "Attack of the 50 Foot RIAA!" or something like that - dsmx, on 10/06/2008, -0/+2That doesn't mater to them they see DRM as a way of stopping second hand sales the whole piracy thing is to distract people from that. By trying to kill of second hand sales though all they'll succeed in doing is killing off the pay music market.
- brodiquine, on 10/06/2008, -2/+3I think I'm gonna go browse Demonoid.
- glenSM, on 10/06/2008, -1/+2seedbox anyone?
- swraman, on 10/06/2008, -0/+1Volume licencing is a pain in the ass. the student BS version of matlab (and probably other software) are a load of crap, we had labs that the student version wasnt even capable of doing because it was too dumbed down.
And yes, I have tried to use many volume licenced software over my school's network, and it has never gone well. There is only one easy solution...and it isnt walking 30 minutes uphill to get into the labs... - inactive, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1I tell you what reduces sales - thieving!
- swraman, on 10/06/2008, -1/+1college students dont want to pay, especially when we're on an internet connection that is faster than a seed box would be.
- swraman, on 10/06/2008, -2/+2Here at Cal they definatley use FUD, they not only try to scare everyone by inferring that everyone who fileshares will get caught, but they straight up lie about other things...and it does work on the average humanities major.
I remember in a test they give us, tehy actually lie about the answers, telling us that local bandwidth counts and that we will get caught if we fileshare anything. And they tell you that local bandwidth counts against you (to try to get people not to use the local filesharing network), when it even says on their site that it doesnt.
They say they don't monitor us, however Ive heard strong evidence to the contrary, and they say they dont attempt to access our machines in any way, while at the same their policies say they acess our computers to see if we meet campus requirements.
They feed us a heap of *****, but hey they provide us with a 100Mbit/second net connection which I used to its max :) - bootup, on 10/07/2008, -1/+1Yea, that is exactly what they've done. I was angry that my campus was advertising bogus information. P2P is not illegal even if it is used by a majority of people for copyright infringement. Colleges then state to people who complain that they MUST forward the threatening letters that these groups send them. In reality they have no legal obligation to track down what student used what IP. If these groups bring a civil case the only obligation would be in the event the logs were subpoenaed. I had suggested they stop logging to protect students privacy- since they don't have a legal obligation to log in the first place. Of course the lawyers know best! The lawyers didn't know squat- and it didn't make any difference. Then they had the nerve to complain that they had to take action against P2P users to reduce the number of letters they had to forward due to how expensive it was to track users down. Of course they could have just dropped them in the trash since they were under no obligation to forward them to begin with. Of course the excuse is "we want to protect our students" is non-sense. If students break the law let the law catch up with them if it can- it shouldn't infringe on my use of the network. Fortunately I wasn't ever a student living on campus so I didn't have these issues. The closest I came to the network was using the part of the network not censored (the academic network, we had a residential network too).
- nc60659, on 10/07/2008, -1/+1Countering FUD with FTR (***** THE RIAA)
oh, and free stuff - BicBall, on 10/07/2008, -1/+1Probably too late to get in on this but I got in trouble last wee at my school (University of Albany) for file sharing. My internet connection was shut off until I went to a meeting and signed a piece of paper saying I received a DMCA complaint and I won't share again it etc. Instead of pasting the entire scare tactic email here, I'll like to The Pirate bay forums where I posted it and asked for advice:
http://suprbay.org/showthread.php?t=33050
FYI: You can be found. It's another story if they'll subpoena your ISP for your info and if they can prove it was you who did it. Not sure how they'll get around the argument of "I have a roommate who brings lots of friends around and leaves the door unlocked and my computer has no password." But the moral of this post is that you can be found. There were several other people at the weekly meeting I had to attend to sign the sheet. Universities are a target. - inactive, on 10/07/2008, -2/+1Hop you get disconnected you selfish *****
- raada, on 10/06/2008, -2/+1The universities needs to protect its students/customers better. Letting private companies roam the grounds of the school to find (questinable) ways to make money on the students, is crazy to me. Let students use their Internet for what they want and let the police do police work if needed, but not some private company with money interest in catching people...
- rushjaycarr, on 10/06/2008, -3/+1FU- Fun University. And no, that's not original.
- dragis101, on 10/06/2008, -5/+1Burda Burda Burda Cite some actual data to back up your sweeping claims or gtfo my economic notions.
- cyrusuncc, on 10/06/2008, -10/+5College students are usually hungry, so i can see how FUD might help.
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008 ... - photozz, on 10/06/2008, -6/+1Damn penguins. All they are good at is fishing.
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