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Comment Re:Watermarked mp3s (Score 1) 215

is there ANY case, where watermarks on digital music were accepted as an proof?
Just imagine ... i cannot tell what amazon writes into my mp3s. Maybe its an id, which points to me as a person. maybe their software is faulty and it describes YOUR account. So when someone tells me "a mp3 with your amazon id was found", they still need to prove, that the only possiblity of this is, that i released it somewhere. And thats not the case, anyone can write anything in files.

Comment Re:what about resales? (Score 1) 215

ah, sorry ... i did not consider the whole thing. The amazon case IS special:

you buy a combo pack: CD+MP3s. So you can sell one of them keeping the other part, as you may sell one CD of a collection of 6 CDs. Noone can forbid you to split your possession and selling only a part of it.

Comment Re:what about resales? (Score 1) 215

why do you need to discuss this? Its just the same as if you would have ripped the CD yourself.

And what's then the case, is not sooo easy to say. The first approach would be, that you need to delete the copy, as you're selling your license. But then you have the right to make seven private copies, and even give them to friends. So you may be able to declare your copy as one of the private copys (just think of giving it to someone (private copy law), who gives it back to you (without leaving a copy at his pc)).

Comment Re:Nice, but that raises a new question. (Score 1) 215

No, its not. You drop the price not after a week, but after you sold 1000 copies OR after half a year. So either the people who can pay much want the book now and pay 20 eur, or they just are not there, then you sell it for cheap after half a year (which should be enough time, that no one has the patience to wait just for a few bucks, if they can affort it to the bigger price). Of course this is a tradeoff and you can try to play with the threshold of price/copys to sell before dropping the price/wait time in which noone buys the book.

Comment Re:Nice, but that raises a new question. (Score 1) 215

its the same argument as saying "hey, books cost money, because someone had to type them".
no, thats a fraction of the price. most money is for the content. So, go and add 5 cent per book and then add the ebook to the purchase. Its okay. Or stay with the current price and see the ebook as additional very cheap marketing.

Comment The point why removing code is so hard (Score 1) 384

The point why removing code is so hard is not, that its hard to restore. We have VCS for this.
But its hard to discover, the code ever existed. Who goes to the VCS and searches for old commits, when implementing a new function? If you weren't there when the code were in use, its unlikely you find it in the VCS instead of rewriting it.
So removing code is a decision about making it hard to find, that it ever existed.

One solution would be to remove and leave a comment behind "here was code, which was removed in a commit at $DATE". What other solutions are there, for this dilemma?

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