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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX What if they pirate BBC shows they can't get in a timely manner in the US. Like today's Top Gear episode? Thanks for reminding me! For what it's worth pirating BBC shows that are shown via BBC America…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Macky the Macky Borsht! I buy a shit-ton of used music from Amazon for pennies. People who pirate anymore are just asshats. In addition, many CD have only one or two great songs. If I buy those two songs from iTune…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX I have my doubts but we'll see how it goes. PS: That pro-Chrome OS article writes, "The cloud-based operating system is booming as Google." I think this is a bad sign for the future of Chrome OS. That…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jlandd But then nothing anyone does matters. I don't see how piracy becomes more of the equation here. People who don't pay for their music are completely oblivious to such things as exclusive content or not. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark There has always been exclusive items/content if you buy it at one place. Target does this with some CDs/DVDs ; GameStop does it with games w DLC. Hell, Amazon has exclusive shit too. Sure, and look how…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX I barely use my iPad because I want something more robust so I imagine I'd not use a Chromebook when I have a Retina MBP at my disposal. My iPad mini get used for tethering my MBP and when on a plane. Ev…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton Why would exclusive platform content drive people towards piracy? Here's why I think you are wrong: iTunes' success was predicated on eliminating barriers to buying music legally. It assumes (correc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX I had forgotten about that. I think that was a foolish move on their part because I think Chromebooks are still too obscure for the general public that mentioning them at all will work against MS. For…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin According to Gatorguy, security companies aren't credible so anything they say has to be dismissed as suspect. You can't just pick out the statements you like and ignore the ones you don't. Clearly whatever …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Macky the Macky It could be that the demographics are against the music industry. A good chunk of the population are baby boomers and have all the music they ever wanted. Agreed, there are also subscription base…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Yeah, I’m sure¡ Stealing music because you don’t have the money to buy it… IS. I actually don't really care either way about piracy, in theory it is wrong but in practice it doesn't seem to impac…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Why does Google do such high-priced acquisitions as Motorola, Nest, and so forth (and the ones where the deal luckily didn't happen for them, such as WhatsApp and Snapchat), that scream a complete la…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SudoNym Prove it. Apple's methods change the world, while Google just sells personal information to the highest bidder. How can I buy personal information from Google? I can bid highly, but they won't seem to se…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Benjamin Frost Hope you're over your flu. The Mac Pro is nothing special?? Come, come now. Yeah took two bloody weeks. The Mac Pro is just a PC, yes it has a cool 3 board layout, but if that's the level of …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram That's very impressive. Yeah Google Now is scifi tech really, but it depends on you sharing a lot of information. I don't share my search history, nor do I tend to use my Gmail as my primary one. …
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Apple on the other hands, has reinvented three major consumer electronic categories in the past decade and are about to reinvent one or two more (watch and itv). Apple is on the cusp of changing the means by which consumers buy things with ibea…
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Exclusive content is a mistake. People will simply turn to piracy. The extra effort to pirate music is so minimal that few people would resist it. Also I laughed quite hard at 'get a job'. As if not buying enough music is the consumer's fault inst…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Lots of Microsoft and Android users were affected - they got really excited by Apple having a problem. The bug is only useful for targeted attacks where the attacker has a privileged network position. Not a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin But you have no stats to back that up, that's just what you assume to be the case. It's a lot like the assumptions people make about jailbreakers not doing it for the piracy. There's no stats to back it up s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Do you have any stats to back that up or are you assuming this? Some of the malware came from the Google Play Store. What percentage of the 7 million infections last quarter are from Google Play and what per…