Comments on: Vista: better than expected

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:57:20 +0000

Stating that file sharing, in and of itself, is or is not a crime can not be proven to be either true or false. File sharing with permission from the rights holder is not a crime. However, since the NET act of 1997, non-commercial infringement of copyrighted works without permission of the rights holder in the United States IS a crime. It just happens that the NET act is only enforced by the government in raids, and the act is usually only referenced in trials of warez groups and similar organized infringements. Unorganized non-commercial infringement, although still illegal under the same act and able to subject the infringer to criminal liability, is not typically punished by the government directly. Rather, the government typically leaves it up to rights holders to enforce civil liability upon unorganized non-commercial infringers.

Nevertheless, you are right in that a small minority of those targeted b the lawsuits have actually been prosecuted and convicted of infringment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NET_Act

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:22:28 +0000

Because according to the paper below, future hardware will be less capable than the present hardware, unless something extraordinary happens:

http://p2pnet.net/story/10823

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:19:04 +0000

NPD analysts are now busy trying to undo the effects caused by the following:

http://p2pnet.net/story/10823

http://p2pnet.net/story/10982

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:03:40 +0000

I don’t make money, lots of money, through “studies’ purporting to be accurate, unbiased representations.

Nor am I trying to sell my “expertise” to vested interests with a powerful need to present a distinctly distorted view.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:01:56 +0000

‘Everyone is an expert, didn’t you know that? Me too, simply by posting anonymous comments on your site.’

yes you are an expert, in the field of trolling.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:40:46 +0000

“Back in 2003, when NPD first started producing reports on file sharing, and so on, we emailed them asking how many years’ experience they’d had in the field.”

And how much experience did you have, Jon, when you first started p2pnet? Everyone is an expert, didn’t you know that? Me too, simply by posting anonymous comments on your site. This entitles me to an opinion (to be taken as fact) that matters. Oh, it doesn’t? Never mind then…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:19:00 +0000

Frankly there’s nothing in Vista I need at present. I’ve no driving need to even consider the OS.

Just as with all OSs in the past, you can bet this one is as buggy as a bee hive. It was rushed to the market after one turmoil and delay after another. It’s already set up to be the next XP for patches alone.

As the other poster mentioned, I’m not ready to accept the conditions of inclusive DRM, the watchdog. I’ve always had an aversion to protection schemes and that’s never changed. It has increased my dislike over the OS to have it forced into the package.

Then there’s the cost of moving up. A totally new computer system will be required to meet the operation requirements. Since my old computers are working just fine at the moment, I’ve no need to do that sort of purchase. Plus any old hardware I have now won’t work in the new computer. I don’t really want to start over rebuying hardware. I’ve found in the past that most of what I really like in hardware I could move from computer to computer till it either wore out or became so aged that it was worthless for the benefits. But that won’t be allowed in a protected environment such as Vista that must watch everything within its signal path. Mainly because those pieces of hardware don’t have the latest greatest protection systems on them.

So it all sums up to being no driving need to have the new OS and plenty of cash reasons not to go that way.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:40:18 +0000

Is that a smirk on her face?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:29:49 +0000

I don’t care HOW well it does, frankly, I would not want to touch it and the 12 different kinds of DRM in it with a stick!

Mabye someone will come along with a “clean vista”…but until then, I am sticking with XP and SP2….they still work so why should I switch right now?

In the future, we’ll see just how many people get locked out of their computers because of vista once it is released and then mabye we can know how many lawsuits will come because of it.