Why wait?

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

Maybe someone ELSE should re-read the words and note the difference between "inter" and "intra."

I have a great idea -- let's create a greatly restricted government so people can be free from having other people's ideas shoved down their throats.

The problem is the power itself, not who wields it, or how.

Assuming they didn't violate any laws, they aren't "cheating". Go talk to your legislator if you are upset. People enjoy keeping money hey earn.

Also, this type of article should be filed under Slashdot/NPR, as it's about harping on certain political agendas -- let's gather together and reinforce our anger/banding-together memes. AKA politics as intended.

I believe you're thinking the way Apple's thinking. It's great you're on the same page with them.

Me, I'm thinking about what it'd be like if my mum or dad died and left me their documents in a storage facility. I'd want to be able to read their recipes, look at the photo albums, read letters they'd saved. I'd expect to be able to do that with reasonable ease by providing the same level of proof I'd need to take possession of all the other goods they left to me.

Pretty much what the family has already provided.

If the vendor then chose to deny me access and insist I get a court order, I'd be unhappy, angry and deeply disappointed. And I very certainly would never use that vendor again, and I'd warn everybody I could to stay away from that vendor.

So I think we all owe Josh Grant a vote of thanks for speaking up and warning us about this heartless company. Anyone who values their family's thoughts and images should avoid buying their product, and warn their friends and family away from it as well.

You're right.

If Apple can't plan for a common contingency like this in their security model, then they shouldn't choose to be in control of other people's property.

It may be problematic for Apple, but it's not the family's responsibility to resolve it.

Apple chose to hold the keys to other people's valuables. They are responsible for making them available when needed.

The data does not belong to Apple.

The iPad does not belong to Apple.

Apple should have no skin in this game, they don't own any part of it.

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It's my understanding it's only illegal to stand there and say, "There's a drug house right over there", complete with pricing information, if I am a part of their operation, or trying to promote it.

Ya know what the solution is to this "race to the bottom"?

Government price supports. Create an artificial shortage on how fast their servers can sell and distribute games by buying hundreds of copies a second and downloading them all.

"We are the world. We are the children. We can come to make a better place so let's not givin'."

Dude's right, though -- it is kind of like Fox News on Obama.

That's why the ass said it while outgoing -- he knew he'd be fired.

"They were right to detain and hassle (journalists)". I'll side with a journalist, even yellow scumbuckets, over people deliberately building tools of tyrrany which, history shows, will inevitably be abused in the service of dictatorship.

-1: Stupid, maybe. It is impossible for the first post to be redundant.