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  The new data transmission permissions [for Firefox addons] seem to be misleading to users

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  Licenses are a copyright concept, but this isn’t a copyright issue. You’re buying a copy of a game, and you should own the copy after the purchase (which of course, means the company who sold it to you shouldn’t be able to revoke your access at will). That’s the part that sony is apparently not willing to do. But copyright-wise, it would be a license either way, so I don’t think it’s a good idea to confuse people with only tangentially related concepts here.

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  What makes you say that? As far as I can tell, the only actual downside of it is having to type longer addresses sometimes, but one should really just use the DNS for that. And a bigger address space *was* needed. Everything else seems better or at least simpler. Autoconfiguration (SLAAC), only one loopback address (which is shorter than any of IPv4's loopback addresses), subnetting, no need for NAT, proper support for multiple addresses per interface… In practice, most problems with IPv6 p...

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  Can't be too sure about that: The whole patent system should just be abolished. And if we can't achieve that, at least software patents.