And while you can do this online, changing your subscription or cancelling it can only be done over the phone. You can't even change your method of payment online.
Hm, I could have sworn I read about it a few years back that it was introduced. Also, it might have been only Germany? Can't find anything as google has the worst result for that search I've ever seen.
Funny thing is, the article is there, I just deleted all the paywall elements in chrome then turned off the display:none styling on the blog-post__text element
I'm not a fan of paywalls and believe a user should be allowed to do what they want with the data the browser downloads - but in general "if they really cared, they'd do more to stop me" is not how you should approach questions of legality.
I've paid for my internet connection and content that they willingly put on their server without any security protection has been downloaded to my computer. Now that I have that content I'll read it if I want to.
Try that with money accidentally put into your bank account.
You can keep repeating it over your shoulder to the judge as you are marched to prison for theft if you take it and can’t replace it.
Try that with a piece of mail that was sent to your house on accident. It’s a federal crime to open that envelope. The law doesn’t care that it was delivered to you.
Try removing the DRM from your DVD and making a copy of ‘your data’ on the disk you bought. A federal crime has been committed.
In this instance I would guess no laws are broken because no one powerful enough to make it illega has cared enough about the tiny fraction of people able to get around their tricks yet.
I think you're sort of comparing chalk with cheese there. I see what you're saying to a point but we're talking about a bit of text on a web page that's in the public domain, not money or copyrighted media. Last time I checked, it's legal to make a copy for personal use anyway isn't it? If I bought a DVD and wanted to convert it for playback on my iPad I'm pretty sure I wouldn't go to jail for it.
Absolutely - and in the given case, it's perfectly fine to do so because it's in fact legal (to my knowledge).
However, if you e.g. wanted to record a Netflix stream from the EME applet on their website, you could argue the same moral justifications - however, now you'd be breaking a law (circumvention of protection devices) and it wouldn't be legal, no matter how stupid the law is.
Haha fair point... recording a Netflix stream from the EME applet is quite a bit different to simply clicking on a link to visit a url though isn't it, in the same way that breaking into a bank vault is a bit different to finding a £1 coin on on the floor.
yes, well, at least where I live it is. you can just go "view source" and read the article in raw text. You can use anything to make the http request really. Completely up to you what tools on your computer you want to use to render it.
I'm a little confused by the average speed reported in their speed index. Not sure about the others, but I know Comcast and AT&T both offer several speed tiers. Is their average speed reported here affected by the percentage of customers who purchase the lowest tier?
This is exactly what happened here in Ireland in 2000. The market was deregulated overnight and there was a flood of new taxis on the roads.
Needless to say existing taxi drivers weren't very happy as a lot of them had paid around €100,000 for their license. They were effectively worthless after deregulation.
All this was great news for consumers of course. Before deregulation it was practically impossible to get a taxi in Dublin on weekend nights. I can recall queuing for hours in the cold and wet for the privilege of being dropped home.
The taxi drivers mightn't like deregulation but you can't hold the general public to ransom by operating a closed market. Of course the government should have handled the whole thing better by doing some sort of deal with the drivers who'd paid so much for licences thinking it was a long term investment.
Productivity and sheer balls. My on-the-side projects are pathetic compared to what this guy does. Even a quick glance at one of those LTE specs is enough to scare me a million miles away from a project like this.
Knowing how many people it takes to develop a eNodeB is even more impressive. Normally it would be n * 100 engineers (or even n * 1000) working on these projects.
Reminds me of the Irish TV series Hands, http://www.irelandstraditionalcrafts.com/ . These programs were shot during the seventies and eighties and record traditional craftsmen at work. It was perfect timing because they were probably the last generation who lived off their trade.
