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  1. Re:Watermarking doesn't prevent plagarism by pimpimpim · · Score: 1 · on Watermarking to Replace DRM?

    With Universal's products, you can selectively scare the kids of your lawn, or attract them. For this, they use an ingenious system based on the age/frequency-dependent brain impulse generation in humans.

  2. That's Tencent, not to be confused with.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on A Chinese Virtual Currency Challenges the Yuan

    That's Tencent, not to be confused with 50 cent.

  3. Re:So by game+kid · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Sets Value Of Pirated Windows: $1
    Twice what it's worth, huh?

    How DARE you insult rappers like that!?!

  4. Nothing beats... by Jakeypants · · Score: 5, Funny · on Router Built for Gamers

    Nothing beats playing my favorite EA games over my SBC Yahoo! DSL connection using my D-Link DGL-4300 Wireless 108G Gaming Router with a cool, refreshing Pepsi in one hand, my Logitech mouse in the other, wearing my Nike clothes and blasting a ClearChannel affiliate, my source for great new hits from 50 Cent and A Simple Plan.

    Whoops, I meant to post that as an article.

  5. Re:damn pirates!-my story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Bootlegged Music in Russia

    those godless communist bastards are preying on our innocent capitalism aryan heros like 50 cent, eminem, and britney... think of the children!!!


    Uh, 50 Cent is not Aryan--apologies to Mr. Goodwin and 50 Cent.

    Anyway, I have a small number of bootleg CDs in my sizable collection (almost all movie OSTs) myself. Some of them, I got the legit version as soon as it came out as well. On one occasion, I deliberately passed up a 'box set' of Final Fantasy music that was offered for auction on eBay. As far as I know, the only legit title in that set was the Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) OST -- the rest of the set was bootleg (likely Son May) because the price for the set was too low--proper import CDs from Japan run $25.00-$30.00 or more while Son May CDs and their ilk are around $10.00 apiece.

    Sometime before that, I unknowingly got the GunBuster (1988) OST in Son May when I was rather new to anime at the time. I liked it so much, I was able to get a legit copy (at twice the price I must add) and show my support for Koohei Tanaka, the composer, who crafted a musical work in the same league as John William's Star Wars (1977 - 2005) music soundtracks.

    Guess what--both versions sound identical.

    This is what the record companies are up in arms about: "Who gives a sh!t about packaging--just lemme download the fvcking MP3s and burn 'em on a CD-R!" is the attitude of the day in this post-Napster music realm--look at all the P2P applications that are out there that are surely used almost solely to move infringed content around the internet....

    As for me, I'd rather have the originals music CDs -- so I got pratically all of mine from eBay, the world's largest flea market/tag sale. Unfortunately, the CD creators did not get anything from me for these used CD sales. I would have bought them brand new whenever possible if the prices were more reasonable.

    The record labels could easily make a mint if they had a Stateside version of allofmp3 with reasonable prices, music available by the song and the album it came on (if any), and ABSOLUTELY NO DRM! I'd like to build a legit MP3 'archive' of all my favorite tunes (that I can still remember) I used to hear years ago on MTV BEFORE they sh!tcanned Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, Martha Quinn, Anita Blackwood, and the late J.J. Jackson and started to 'play' anything and everything but music videos!.... It'd cost me a small fortune to buy all the CDs used from eBay just to get the 1 or 2 tracks I want off each CD to build my archive.

    "Ha, ha! Dream on!" sez the lables as they continue to release their copy-protected, mass-market pablum and plan out their latest round of lawsuits against infringing music downloaders.

    One day, the tide of public sentimate will turn against them and they will effectively go out of business sitting on a gold mind that is their catalog of audio records that no one will buy from them at any price--the animosity against them is too great for sustainable commerce to take place....
  6. Re:damn pirates! by commodoresloat · · Score: 1 · on Bootlegged Music in Russia
    How hard would it be to provide links to the obscure references you make? Not everyone in the world listens to your country's popular music. Try this:

    those godless communist bastards are preying on our innocent capitalism aryan heros like 50 cent, eminem, and britney... think of the children!!!

  7. Re:How to support independent musicians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Higher Education Committee Releases Report on P2P

    Musicians who are signed with major labels only get 42 cents when they sell a CD(...)

    Even 50 Cent?

  8. Re:How to support independent musicians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Higher Education Committee Releases Report on P2P

    Musicians who are signed with major labels only get 42 cents when they sell a CD(...)

    Even ?

  9. Re:not all music is .79cent by dr_dank · · Score: 1 · on Buy.Com Debuts Music Download Site

    Its funny that they say songs cost .79 cents but I haven't found one artist yet who's songs are that price

    here's one artist that lives up to his advertising.

  10. Re:Boy, Am I out of Touch by microbob · · Score: 1 · on Declaring War on Mobile Phone Spam

    Here 'ya go:

    -> http://www.50cent.com/

    M.B.

    PS - You need some teenage kids, they will keep you in the loop...