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On the New York Times Technology News Section This came in:
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WASHINGTON, June 27 - The Supreme Court handed a major victory to the entertainment and recording industries on Monday by reinstating a copyright-infringement suit against two file-sharing services.
In a unanimous opinion, the court strongly suggested that the services, Grokster and StreamCast Networks, should be found liable for the vast copyright infringement committed by those using their software to download music and movies."
Read the full article HERE
Copyright infringement and software piracy are strongly discouraged and I
hope to contribute in raising the awareness of the computer technology users to
refrain from acts of the like.
Read on...
It is so amazing that copyright-infringement is older than the computer age,
when expensive books were copied and distributed as extremely bad quality
low-priced monochromatic "clones". The remedy to that problem was the
insight of major publishers to produce books in the form of a step-price
publication, such as hard paperback, soft paperback, student edition, and golden
edge editions with silk-ribbon page markers. Those who could afford the best
quality found what they wished for and those who were short on income had the cheapest
versions available from legal publishers. That policy almost killed the
book-piracy business.
Software makers did not learn the lesson and instead of that they charge
exaggerated prices for buggy products and charge for updates too while adding ridiculous
features while changing the version number and the GUI to charge for more. As
long as this manipulative policy is held by SW producers, SW piracy shall hardly
stop on various levels. Audiovisual products too can play on quality by offering
different prices for different resolution formats and colour depth, such that
entertainment becomes proportional to the price and pushes the technology to
improve. If home users did not feel that the prices are exaggerated they will
never risk crossing the law at cheap price.
While I strongly discourage breaking the law for any reason good or bad, I
also plead the industries to be considerate and revise their pricing policies
that might be unfair. |
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