From the archive...Apple II Piracy
What is beautiful about this video is that it covers so much history in only 7 minutes.
truly floppy disks,
CPM
WordStar
Interface cards
640K
Apple II
I was loving it, what is highly amusing is that recently I'm very into the idea of social responsibility.
This is the argument behind the success of the iTunes Store, it wasn't the first paid for service, but it was possibly the fairest, whether that is the fair play DRM or the cost of the tracks. Compared to what is happening now with movies whereby the entertainment industry rather than the computing industry wants to charge larger sums for less products. Electronic distributions costs a fraction of shipping DVDS to stores and kiosks etc. Quality could be better yes, however that does not excuse the ridiculous markups that they want - and that can be blamed for Movie piracy continuing despite the alternatives, we shall have to see.
I do think I agree that on the whole people will do the right thing if they can and given the choice. This article from Mr. Stamatiou illustrates this point. He doesn't feel ripped off, the price is fair. Personally I think now for the price the quality should be better. This is versus the people in the video who were asking, retail, $650 for CPM.
Don't get me wrong Gary Killdall made and excellent application, as did the inventors of Visicalc - but even now I balk at paying three figures for Office. Hence I love working in education and not doing so.
Finally a link to something in British politics, the Conservative party in the UK has adopted an idea of Social Responsibility and is allegedly going to place "Trusting people to do the right thing" at the heart of their policies. Whether you believe any politician is another matter, but maybe if the Republicans used a similar mantra rather than cozying up to the big wigs in the media and entertainment lobby they'd be slightly less worried at next months midterms.
Child abuse allegations aside of course.
truly floppy disks,
CPM
WordStar
Interface cards
640K
Apple II
I was loving it, what is highly amusing is that recently I'm very into the idea of social responsibility.
That if a body, industry or the state trusts an individual they on the whole do the right thing ?
This is the argument behind the success of the iTunes Store, it wasn't the first paid for service, but it was possibly the fairest, whether that is the fair play DRM or the cost of the tracks. Compared to what is happening now with movies whereby the entertainment industry rather than the computing industry wants to charge larger sums for less products. Electronic distributions costs a fraction of shipping DVDS to stores and kiosks etc. Quality could be better yes, however that does not excuse the ridiculous markups that they want - and that can be blamed for Movie piracy continuing despite the alternatives, we shall have to see.
I do think I agree that on the whole people will do the right thing if they can and given the choice. This article from Mr. Stamatiou illustrates this point. He doesn't feel ripped off, the price is fair. Personally I think now for the price the quality should be better. This is versus the people in the video who were asking, retail, $650 for CPM.
Don't get me wrong Gary Killdall made and excellent application, as did the inventors of Visicalc - but even now I balk at paying three figures for Office. Hence I love working in education and not doing so.
Finally a link to something in British politics, the Conservative party in the UK has adopted an idea of Social Responsibility and is allegedly going to place "Trusting people to do the right thing" at the heart of their policies. Whether you believe any politician is another matter, but maybe if the Republicans used a similar mantra rather than cozying up to the big wigs in the media and entertainment lobby they'd be slightly less worried at next months midterms.
Child abuse allegations aside of course.
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