tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19034584.post114230706987879309..comments2023-12-30T19:09:57.035-08:00Comments on A Curious Life: Will France Kill Their Golden Goose?Ross Prudenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14674352553567302954noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19034584.post-62737050534372369942021-06-15T00:38:48.542-07:002021-06-15T00:38:48.542-07:00Best content & valuable as well. Thanks for sh...Best content & valuable as well. Thanks for sharing this content.<br /><a href="www.acuvat.com/contact-us/" rel="nofollow"> Approved Auditor in DAFZA</a><br /><a href="www.acuvat.com/about-us/" rel="nofollow">Approved Auditor in RAKEZ </a><br /><a href="www.acuvat.com/contact-us" rel="nofollow"> Approved Auditor in JAFZA </a><br />i heard about this blog & get actually whatever i was finding. 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Thus, I always have a choice to not use that particular machine by walking 10 blocks to my bank. Instead, I choose to pay the $1.50 and shut the fuck up about it. In a perfect world, ATM fees wouldn't exist, but in the real world, companies provide an <I>optional</I> service for a fee. You pay the fee if you use the service, or choose not to use the service, but don't feel entitled to use the service and then not pay for it. In that scenario, what incentive does the business have to keep providing its service?<BR/><BR/>French people don't have to download music or movies—they can buy a DVD or CD at FNAC or Virgin, but they choose not to. Or they can download it from Warner, but Warner will charge their own fees and slap their own restrictions about how the entertainment can be listened to or shown.<BR/><BR/><B>In a perfect world, we could all buy rights to listen to a song or a movie only once and that right would follow us forever, no matter which medium we wanted to play it on.</B> But in this perfect world, education and health care would be free, too. Right? Not to mention that musicians would cut out their middle man and provide music at a fraction of the cost... and film tickets would be no more than $3, not $10... In fact, I <I>deserve</I> to have my job protected even if it means the economy becomes stagnant...<BR/><BR/>Here, in the real world, artists need distribution companies and distribution companies need to turn a profit. Currently, they've found a pretty good way to make money off of providing digital entertainment without falling victim to too much piracy. It's not a perfect system, but it's finally starting to work.<BR/><BR/>So right now we're stuck with companies providing music and movies online for a fee and we get to play by their rules by listening to it the way they tell us we can. I'm okay with that because their system makes them rich, which means more musicians and filmmakers have a very healthy incentive to keep providing them with quality work to get distributed... so we can buy more of it. If you don't like that setup, exercise your rights as a member of the free market by not using the service. It wouldn't be the first time a company changes its policies because the general public—not an elected government—spoke up.<BR/><BR/>(By the way, you will never hear me claim that I have mastered French because I've been speaking English for over 30 years and I still haven't mastered that language. So no <A HREF="http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/ad%20hominem" REL="nofollow">ad hominem</A> attacks on the blog comments, please.)Ross Prudenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14674352553567302954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19034584.post-1142395953333225562006-03-14T20:12:00.000-08:002006-03-14T20:12:00.000-08:00Apparently 8 years were not enough to master the f...Apparently 8 years were not enough to master the french language.<BR/>Anyway, this new law aims at protect ing the right for citizens to listen to the music they paid for everywhere.<BR/>If you want to have to pay 5 companies to listen to the same song on 5 different devices, it is your choice ... not mine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19034584.post-1142384819441545072006-03-14T17:06:00.000-08:002006-03-14T17:06:00.000-08:00Hmm, it seems people are getting bent on this bein...Hmm, it seems people are getting bent on this being an issue between France and Apple. Not so. This situation is the result of France trying to pass legislation reflecting EU directives, and their original take at it was a facsimile of the DMCA, essentially getting rid by legal means of anything close to "fair use".<BR/><BR/>In Apple's case, the current situation is not bad. You get a good store, and the copy protection removal, if cumbersome, can easily be removed. But how many other companies provide a service like that? And, check with your lawyer how legal it is with DMCA to remove Apple's FairPlay copy protection...<BR/><BR/>The fact that Apple is not going after its users for doing so does not guarantee others won't, given that they have the legal backing to sue you.<BR/><BR/>The reason the DADVSI law is making lots of noise is that tools like VLC (Video Lan Client) would become outlawed. Also, open-source player tools would be outlawed too because they would disclose how the protection works.<BR/><BR/>A large community of developers and users has been very much against this law as it was originally intended. The fight is about protecting fair-use and the amendment you're laughing at is one step to curb the monopoly of the music industry and their uncanny habit to decide for you how you should listen to music.<BR/><BR/>Andre (American, French and an iTunes user).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19034584.post-1142378395847037902006-03-14T15:19:00.000-08:002006-03-14T15:19:00.000-08:00Stalker!!! Yessssssssssssss!!!!!The French are a p...Stalker!!! Yessssssssssssss!!!!!<BR/><BR/>The French are a proud lot and won't buckle to pressure from anyone, especially not the Americans, so I don't see this issue resolving itself smoothly. We'll see how it plays.<BR/><BR/>There's a deeper lesson about pride, too—people are willing to make huge sacrifices, both physical and moral, to feel that what they've accomplished is <I>on their own terms</I>. Fascists, dictators and racists always regain popularity when the respective movement's leaders appeal to a person's sense of national pride. Germany's poor follows Hitler, 1934. Muslim extremists gaining support for Bin Laden in the Middle East, 2001. French anti-immigrant "patriots" bolstering Le Pen, 2002.Ross Prudenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14674352553567302954noreply@blogger.com