Comments on: California sucked in by Cdigix

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 02:47:06 +0000

UC Irvine, UC Berkley, UC Riverside, UCLA, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Diego, and UC Merced (the last one is new).

please do some homework in the future.
http://universityofcalifornia.edu

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:46:52 +0000

The author of this article attempts to denegrade Cdigix by suggesting that “Neither students nor parents were consulted in the decision to take the cartels into Californian universities.” This is simply wrong. It is a flat out lie. In fact, hundreds if not thousands of students were involved in the decision making process.

Furthermore, it appears that Cdigix (like Amazon.com and hundreds of other e-retailers) intends to collect user data in order to enhance the user experience. Why is this such a bad thing?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:21:46 +0000

or just plain Microshaft

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:21:03 +0000

nope its Microshaft Winblows

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:37:53 +0000

No, as a student paying various “fees” at a UC, I’m pretty sure this will not be an opt-in system. If we’re extremely lucky, we’ll be able to request a partial refund at the end of the year after proving that we haven’t used any of the services. The burden of billing students is on the universities and they’re quite likely to just tack it on as a fee.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:27:21 +0000

It’s pronounced Microsoft ; )

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:44:08 +0000

“see-Dijiks”… like that drug cialis…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:05:22 +0000

i can’t even pronounce cdigix.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:11:09 +0000

Don’t Feed The Trolls ….

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 05:00:39 +0000

yeah, and you also had time to read all the messages and think up a “witty” (stupid, ignorant) remark.

how is BELIZE this time of year? lots of hurricanes, i believe. oh yeah…right. you aren’t there. you’re somewhere in a cornfield in iowa.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 04:54:47 +0000

i like how you people with way to much time on your hands actually think that anyone cares about your opinion. why dont you get off your lazy writers a** and start your own company so you dont have to care about cdigix, microsoft or anything for that matter. thanks for being so consumed with the unimportant and probably living above your means crying while i’m on vacation in Belieze – Suckers
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yeah right. you can’t even spell it: Belize! B-E-L-I-Z-E!

dickhead. you probably don’t even know where it is, or you think it’s a state in usa.

i guess you have just as much time as any of us to make your stupid remarks. shut up neocon. go find your crayons and colouring books and practice staying in the lines.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:49:25 +0000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:37:40 +0000

jon, it was clear to me. when i posted my capitalism message above, i didn’t think they were forced into taking it – but they aren’t given other options, as far as what you’ve shown. to me the idea is “take this or get sued. we’re going to raise tuition and housing fees to pay for the infrastructure, maintenance, and fees for professors promoting it, so you’d better sign up because it’s the only option we’re giving you.”

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:33:16 +0000

Simple but effective solution:

GNU/Linux

Try http://www.dyne.org (dynebolic 1.4.1 LiveCd) or Knoppix, and use DVDcss, Mplayer, Xine/Totem, Grip, xmms/zinf to play YOUR media.

It works, and it’s simple.

Don’t “fight” the media, “be” the media!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:31:29 +0000

I don’t know that they DO have to register. It’s what the pic implies, and it’s what I meant when I said, “But from the look of the online promo flag (top right), it seems students have a choice.”

Sorry if that wasn’t clear.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:41:34 +0000

A Quote from the article:

“But from the look of the online promo flag (top right), it seems students have a choice. They apparently have to physically put their names (and other data) on a dotted line to get Cdigix ’services’.”

This seems to imply to me they have to sign up in order to be billed.. otherwise they are not.

To me this seems nothing more like an official school endorsement style ad campaign… rather than a fore-fed situation.

But then agian.. only time will tell.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:06:42 +0000

what choice? they’re given only one option for the “legal” RENTED/TETHERED/SPYWARE-INFESTED content.

and since all the schools in the system have been blackmailed into signing up for this – and probably napster and itunes as well – what’s the choice? why weren’t the students consulted? why should housing and tuition fees be raised to cover the costs for this crud? and why are admins and professors being elbowed into promoting the scheme? kickbacks.

a wave of blackmailing schemes from coast to coast – or be sued. or both. that’s the “choice”.

nice choices, those.

freedom means freedom. this isn’t freedom. it’s fascism. the student loses freedom. the system wins.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 01:41:38 +0000

So in other words they set up infrastructure and offer it as an OPTION RATHER THAN a mandatory fee… then they advertise it. (is my reading of this article correct in that you must actively purchase it in order for it to be billed to you?)

I have no problem with this.

I highly disagree with the business model, but this is a free country. As long as they give you final say as to weather you’ll buy.. I don’t consider it an impingement on freedom of choice.