That says a lot about you dunnit. Thief.Originally Posted by Mike.Gayner
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That says a lot about you dunnit. Thief.
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Motorcyclists - used to be we were always on the wrong side of the law...and loving it. Now they are government/big business fearing do gooders. What happened to rebelion...did it buy a Honda ?
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Loyalty..
2 way street....
Get fucked.
Mind you ....
Fuck TV
Opinions are like arseholes: Everybody has got one, but that doesn't mean you got to air it in public all the time....
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Well yes, it does. So does the massively higher prices HP, Apple, Microsoft et al charge anywhere outside the US subsidise their domestic market.You think a slightly higher price here with a population of ~4 million would have an effect on prices in a market of ~322 million?
Correct. If the market wasn't artificially distorted there'd be competing suppliers regulating the price.
The only time that happened it was an American company. And by the time they had their copy on the market it my later design made it redundant.
Patents? Who gives a fuck?
Actually I don't believe I have. Yet.
It's on the agenda though, since I have a brand new head unit in the van which won't play with any media I own, and since apparently what I originally paid for when I purchased Ogden's Nut Gone Flake on vinyl was the rights to use the artists property...
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Conversely, the likes of Microsoft sell software very cheaply in say, India, because of the massive piracy issues. Sell it so cheap people consider buying it legally. So... they know exactly how things work and simply do whatever suits them best, then cry when it doesn't go their way. Given the eye watering prices (we sell Microsoft licences to our clients) I really don't feel sorry for them (especially when each version gets worse).
Copyright, relatively easy link to follow: https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/copyright-law
Not how the entertainment industry model works. The product is completely paid for and profitable when it is released. Except for Cinema release-only movies, which is a rapidly disappearing model. Most distributors with a brain are going Cinema + VOD at the same time. What we're paying for as end users is distribution rights, and as we all know with Sky, THAT is where the real theft happens.
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If there was a subscription service that was as easy as the above, people would pay for it.
I currently have Netflix - but I still torrent the occasional show because it isn't available in Netflix, or at least it's not available in NZ (and my VPN is playing up), or it's an exclusive title licenced to a rival company.
All of which is nice, but I don't care - I want a single portal, where I can consume all the content I want to consume - I'm happy to pay a reasonable fee for such a service.
This is where the artificial barriers come into it.
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A friend of mine who is in IT spoke to a Microsoft rep a number of years ago about people using stolen versions of their OS, his response was "we don't care about the end user stealing our product, we'd rather them stealing and using ours rather than using any other OS'. However he made it clear they actively pursue the outfits selling large quantities of their property.
Bogeyman
Which is presumably why every iteration of their OS includes compatibility issues with competing app's. It's that anti-competitive behaviour that irks, and it's the usual validation for bypassing their market restrictions.
Autodesk maintained a monopoly in draughting app's for a couple of decades by continually releasing new versions that were not only incompatible with competing app's file protocols but weren't reverse compatible with their own products. The competition got gradually better and ACad got progressively mired in more and more dead-end market driven changes. You could almost see the inevitable result coming: their market share went from 60% and slowly falling to complete collapse almost overnight. Now they're almost irrelevant.
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Autocad has also moved to subscription-based revenue. Bastards. It's still used plenty in some sectors of industry... gotta work through that with a client...
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no that's just cos they're shit at code.
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Fuck, you lot waste time on watching movies AND waste even more time on KB??
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
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If any of my clients want dwgs there's at least three apps in front of me that can export them in any flavour they want. In fact at one time a significant part of my income was converting formats so my clients could read their customer's Pro-E files, (eg) in Solidworks, (eg).
That's no longer the case, the few industries still using Acad to any great extent have been a minority for years now, all of those compatibility issues built into their system are now far more of a problem for them than almost any comparable app you can buy.
Which, given the grief and extra work Autodesk has caused me over the years pleases me no end
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