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Piracy on the IPsIs it OK to just make a quick copy of a music CD, just for me to use?
How about a DVD? Or, how about a piece of software?
I have spoken about
software piracy before and because I feel quite strongly about he
matter, I
’
m going to repeat myself.
Goodies To Go readers are, I
’
m quite sure, types with a strong sense of
morality and fair play, and would never participate in piracy
themselves.
It is quite likely, however, that they know somebody who
does, and so, in the hope of helping them persuade those folks of the
wrongs of their wicked ways, I offer these thoughts on the subject of
piracy.
Say
"
pirates
"
and you think of the swashbuckling types seen at
Disneyland
’
s
"
Pirates of the Caribbean
"
and their like. Over the years
pirates have been glamorized by books, comic books, film and TV until
they almost hold hero status, especially in the minds of boys. Public
drunkenness, gunfire in public places, brutality, theft, pillaging, rape
and murder are not, however, generally considered socially acceptable
behavior. In modern times, pirates are a very dangerous threat to
smaller sea-going pleasure craft. Those I know who take boats like that
out usually carry with them an armory well enough equipped to give me
pause and make me think that a cruise ship, or even an airplane, is a
close as I
’
d like to be to those waters! It seems to me strange, all
things considered, that we have chosen this type of character to
glamorize.
It is perhaps partly a result of this strange duality that so many
consider software piracy to be something less than a crime. Perhaps,
instead of calling it software piracy, we should call it like it is
—
theft. The people who do it are then not
"
pirates
"
but thieves. Nothing
glamorous there
—
just criminal!
Another justification heard is that when something is only copied you
don
’
t take it away from the owner, so how can that be theft? If I stay
the night in a hotel and leave the next day without taking the room with
me, can I then not pay the bill? How about if I rent a car or ride on a
bus or train?
The Internet, of course, enables copying at an incredible pace. Where in
times past somebody would have to sit with some duplicating device and
then physically distribute the copied items, the net allows one copy to
be read and copied by a thousand, each of which can be read by a
thousand and in two steps there are a million copies spread all over the
world.
We all know how difficult it is to prevent somebody from copying our
work and taking the benefits of it for themselves. It
’
s expensive too
—
and it
’
s a price we all pay. That copy of Windows that came with your
newest computer (i.e., its cost was included in the price) included some
money to cover the revenue lost to a software thief and a portion of the
cost of tracking them down and prosecuting them. You paid for it.
Think also of the music and film industries. Would you risk $100
million+ to create a film if there was a likelihood of it being
reproduced and seen by a large portion of your potential audience before
you could recover your costs? I certainly wouldn
’
t (that
’
s actually more
than I have in my bank account
—
how about you?!!) This kind of theft
has the potential of severely damaging the music and film industries as
much as it does of driving up the cost of software. That would not be
fun at all. I like going to the movies and I like watching them at home
with my family. Ditto for music. As for software and the like produced
by other programmer types
–
"
do unto others as you would have them do
unto you
"
is my motto there.
Wonderful as it also is, the Internet can be a big bad place.
Let
’
s try
at least to keep our own little corners of it clean.
Thanks for reading!
–
Vince Barnes
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VALUE=
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html
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<
head
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<
title
>
Open new window
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/title
>
<
script LANGAUAGE=
"
javascript
"
>
function OpenWin(linkid)
{
MessageWin=window.open
(linkid,
"
newwin
"
,config=
"
location=no,status=no,directories=no,toolbar=no,scroll
bars=no,menubar=no,resizable=no
"
);
}
<
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<
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this folder is another webpage.
I want to use the images from the
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My File
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>
This tells the browser to look up into another folder named
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images
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[
The two dots mean
"
my parent folder
"
–
Ed
]
.
If the page were in a folder named
"
folder2
"
and this folder was in the
folder named
"
pages
"
the reference could look like this:
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img src=
"
../../images/my_image.jpg
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>
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"
images
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.
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linked to your local computer.
[
See also the discussion about incorrect pathnames here:
—
Ed.
]
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Using Visual Studio .NET Wizards to Create an N-Tiered Application –In the first part of his series on using Visual Studio .NET Wizards to
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1793La Louvre Art Museum Opened
Originally a palace, the Louvre was begun by King Frances I on the site
of an older fortress (built by Phillip II in the 12th century) to house
his court and his art collection.
Almost all subsequent French Kings
made additions to both the Louvre and the royal art collection.
By the
eighteenth century, however, the French people were calling for the
collection to be made accessible to the public.
With the French
Revolution in 1789 came the first real opportunity to bring about the
change and turn the palace into a museum and on this day in 1793 the
revolutionary government opened the Musee Central des Arts in the Grande
Gallerie of La Louvre.
Both the buildings and the collection have grown considerably since that
time, most notably perhaps, with the addition all the art and
archeological items seized by Napoleon during his campaigns, and the
steel and glass pyramid built by I.M Pei in 1993 for the museum
’
s 200th
anniversary.
Today was also the day that in:
1789Elijah Craig in Kentucky
distilled the first Bourbon Whiskey (distilled from corn);
1864Abraham Lincoln was elected to a second term as US President;
1895Wilhelm Rontgen discovered X-rays;
1892Grover Cleveland was
elected US President;
1904Thedore Roosevelt was elected US
President;
1932Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected US
President;
1960John F. Kennedy was elected US President;
1966actor Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California;
1968Cynthia Lennon was granted a divorce from John;
1980the Voyager
I space probe discovered the 15th of Saturn
’
s moons;
1987an
Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at the Ulster Remembrance Day
Service, killing eleven;
1988an earthquake killed 900 in China;
George Bush (senior) was elected US President;
1990Saddam Hussein fired his military chief and threatened to destroy the
Arabian peninsular;
Born today were: in
1656astronomer Sir Edmund Halley;
1900writer Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind);
1914actor Norman
Lloyd;
1916actress June Havoc;
1921actor Gene Saks;
South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard (first heart
transplant);
1927singer Patti Page;
1931TV newsman
Morley Safer;
1949singer Bonnie Raitt;
1951TV hostess
Mary Hart;
1952Playboy CEO Christie Heffner;
1954singer
Rickie Lee Jones;
1956actress Randi Brooks;
1961singer
Leif Garrett;
1967actress Courtney Thorne-Smith;
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