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Comment Re:False right (Score 1) 474

It's pretty unreasonable to obligate someone to make something available in every format every individual requests, because that places undue burden on the copyright holders and distributors.

However, it is pretty reasonable to be allowed to convert the data into a format that is more accessible to you yourself. We already have intermediate copies and conversions made in the process of playing something, so why not copy something over the net with the net effect of changing the format of original? Or what about when the net effect is to repair the original?

Maybe it would end up being legally acceptable if it weren't for the masses of people who just leech.

Comment Re:FUCK ARTISTS (Score 4, Insightful) 317

Hate yourself more for your failures, and show some humility.

It doesn't work like that, at least for me. Love yourself more. There's a difference between loving oneself and trying really hard to think of oneself highly. If you love yourself you'll accept your shortcomings, and find it more easy to examine and learn from them.

I'd rather somebody say something obvious, if it were true. To a child it may be less obvious, and there have been countless times growing up where I've wondered why people didn't just point something out. And once someone knows something is obvious (because other people are constantly talking about it), then they can take it one step further and maybe reach something less obvious more quickly.

I agree with you on the moderation. I find myself using +1 Insightful for a post I believe is true, and +1 Interesting for a post I don't think is true but which raises a point. There's always some information about the moderator in a moderation, because terms such as 'insightful' and 'interesting' depend upon the opinion of the moderator.

Comment Re:Ethernet (Score 1) 464

He means look at every single wall socket in your house and the vast majority will not have an accompanying ethernet socket, meaning you can't just plug it into the socket you never use at the top of the stairs or something.

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