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McRat
join:2009-09-09
Corona, CA | reply to roc5955
Re: Oh great! Not a problem. Have the RIAA/MPAA just pay for it. Assume a millisec for processing a file move/open transaction (anything could be copyright theft), and 1000 transactions a day per computer. So 1 second per day times 300,000,000 computers times whatever Screen Actors Guild union rate is. $25/hr? In my head that would be about $800,000,000/yr for leasing time on our computers.
Of course I'm making up those numbers, but the cost to the public will be far more than just lost time and increased costs of devices, services, and software needed to appease them. Remember Macrovision and other failed attempts as security that caused a poor quality or unreadable media to legitimate buyers? There will be bugs, there always is, and there will be hacks, there always is. So all it will do is anger law abiding customers and steal from them.
Funny, if RIAA/MPAA members sell me data that will not work as advertised, and they KNOW it will happen on X% of devices, then why isn't that theft? If I take $20 out of their desk when their back is turned, why is that a crime, and when they sell me a product with a no-returns policy that they know might not be valid, it's a legal way to make money? | | |
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| said by McRat:Funny, if RIAA/MPAA members sell me data that will not work as advertised, and they KNOW it will happen on X% of devices, then why isn't that theft? If I take $20 out of their desk when their back is turned, why is that a crime, and when they sell me a product with a no-returns policy that they know might not be valid, it's a legal way to make money? Just do a chargeback 
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said by McRat:Remember Macrovision and other failed attempts as security that caused a poor quality or unreadable media to legitimate buyers? Yep!!
And people STOPPED buying software that used it..
Do you remember what the fix was??
LOWER PRICES!!!
When the price came down for the software, people chose to buy it, and the accompanying documentation rather than copy it..
Amazing how when a certain price point is found, people BUY your product.. 
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said by McRat:Not a problem. Have the RIAA/MPAA just pay for it. Assume a millisec for processing a file move/open transaction (anything could be copyright theft), and 1000 transactions a day per computer. So 1 second per day times 300,000,000 computers times whatever Screen Actors Guild union rate is. $25/hr? In my head that would be about $800,000,000/yr for leasing time on our computers. That's a great idea! If they do this, I will generate and send them a new invoice every day until they block my email address, then change and start over with a new one. If we all did this either electronically, or by snail mail, we'd bury them. "OMG! We got 4 million invoices today alone! If this keeps up, we'll have no room on our servers. We can't delete them fast enough!"
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