RE: Locklizard

I have to disagree David. And I'll give you a level headed explanation...

China, other countries, blatantly infringe on intellectual property copyrights. Their entire economy and culture is built on breaking the rules...

In Beijing, if you are corrupt politician - you had better be playing for "the right side."
In NYC, you have FBI agents at your door at 6am as we saw last week when they grabbed a few more democrat NYS senators in Queens :) Aha loved to say that... good riddens...

In Beijing if you counterfeit CD's & DVD's - you have a green light to do so.
In NYC if you counterfeit Louis Vuitton handbags - you get like a 17 year jail sentence in the Federal lock up.

American culture values intellectual property. The time, resources and materials the entrepreneur invested into his product, business or service deserves a system where his investment is protected. For the same reason a Military general can't seize your home to build an Olympic stadium without due process. Or his son cant rape your daughter without the fear of doing hard jail time. In America, if you take something that doesn't belong to you there are harsh consequences...

Now, we all know without calling a duck the guy quacking at the end of the bar, many CCIE candidates happen to be from counties where copyright enforcement has a pretty piss poor history.

Why should Narbik be forced to give his product away for free because someone is too lazy or stupid to comply with DRM?

You own DVD's or Bluerays right? Those are encrypted. If you broke the encryption to clone or copy the DVD that's on you. Keep doing it and see what happens when the lawyers of Universal and Fox News Subpoena your Fios IP. Got $500,000 in legal fees handy against a $500,000 settlement. Take your pick...

In the end the royalties paid to Narbik for his time and hard work will improve his family's quality of life, put his grandkids through college (he's like 97, right?), help him pay his taxes, fix his teeth, keep new fresh Michy's on his car so he doesn't have an accident, buy his health insurance so he can stay healthy and teaching CCIE lab courses...

If you are not in favor of his DRM - then perhaps with your newly minted CCIE you can work for $35 an hour and send me the cash???

Joe Brunner
C/O Borgata High Roller's Tables, with the 5' 4" Dominican hottie on his arm
1 Borgata Way
Atlantic City, NJ 08401

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of David Rothera
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:46 AM
To: Narbik Kocharians
Cc: CCIE Groupstudy
Subject: Re: Locklizard

As per usual with DRM controlled media the only people you are hurting are your customers and I hate to say it Narbik but the fact that you use this crap is why I would never consider your products.

People will always find a way to pirate things and at the end of the day as I have already said the only people that get hurt by this are your real customers.

Regards

David Rothera
CCIE #38338
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Please excuse any mistakes and brevity.

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