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Re:Won't last long
Um, MP3s are definitely not a perfect digital copy.
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Re:Where's the content?
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Hooray!
Right now the entertainment industry is trying hard to reduce the power of fair-use exceptions to copyright law, and thereby expand their own power.
Rant mode on.
Right, and it's quite convenient for them to be able to point to the large number of technologies developed specifically to allow greedy technophiles to cheat the artists out of even the pittance they receive from the sale of their albums.
Crowing about "fair use" in an article devoted to figuring out an even more succesful scheme for copyright infringement is insulting to people who really care about fair use. It's openly dishonest -- "Well, fair use, nyah nyah nyah." Garbage like this tells the record mafia -- and the government -- that we're a bunch of irresponsible children who can't be trusted to use technology legally. It tells them that the only way to ensure that copyright (without which I'd be out of a job, and the GPL would be useless) can continue to be enforceable at all is with digital rights management mandatory in all hardware for which it is meaningful.
"DRM will never work blah blah Turing machine blah blah compilers would be protected technology blah freenet blah." Infeasibility doesn't stop the War on Drugs from ruining thousands of lives a year. It doesn't stop China's murderous war on Falun Gong, either. Laws are not subject to regression testing or quality control -- they're just passed, and enforced. Usually with a ruthlessness that is proportional to their futility.
Don't like the record mafia? Quit playing into their hands. Look here. Plenty of free-as-in-speech mp3s for your legal downloading pleasure. Most of them are shitty; the same problem exists, I hear, on Sourceforge... I found Sparky and the Wipers and Blues Motel to be fairly good, but that's just me. Hell, even mp3.com has some stuff that's not half bad. But advocating the sane-ification of copyright law by illegally copying music is about like supporting free software by pirating Windows.
"I like Jimmy Buffett, anyone got any Jimmy Buffett? I'll trade it for some Wayne Newton."
Fair use. Fantastic. There are artists out there who fucking agree with your ideas about copyright, Jamie -- and you're not listening to them, because you're busy advertising for the ones that don't. -
Hooray!
Right now the entertainment industry is trying hard to reduce the power of fair-use exceptions to copyright law, and thereby expand their own power.
Rant mode on.
Right, and it's quite convenient for them to be able to point to the large number of technologies developed specifically to allow greedy technophiles to cheat the artists out of even the pittance they receive from the sale of their albums.
Crowing about "fair use" in an article devoted to figuring out an even more succesful scheme for copyright infringement is insulting to people who really care about fair use. It's openly dishonest -- "Well, fair use, nyah nyah nyah." Garbage like this tells the record mafia -- and the government -- that we're a bunch of irresponsible children who can't be trusted to use technology legally. It tells them that the only way to ensure that copyright (without which I'd be out of a job, and the GPL would be useless) can continue to be enforceable at all is with digital rights management mandatory in all hardware for which it is meaningful.
"DRM will never work blah blah Turing machine blah blah compilers would be protected technology blah freenet blah." Infeasibility doesn't stop the War on Drugs from ruining thousands of lives a year. It doesn't stop China's murderous war on Falun Gong, either. Laws are not subject to regression testing or quality control -- they're just passed, and enforced. Usually with a ruthlessness that is proportional to their futility.
Don't like the record mafia? Quit playing into their hands. Look here. Plenty of free-as-in-speech mp3s for your legal downloading pleasure. Most of them are shitty; the same problem exists, I hear, on Sourceforge... I found Sparky and the Wipers and Blues Motel to be fairly good, but that's just me. Hell, even mp3.com has some stuff that's not half bad. But advocating the sane-ification of copyright law by illegally copying music is about like supporting free software by pirating Windows.
"I like Jimmy Buffett, anyone got any Jimmy Buffett? I'll trade it for some Wayne Newton."
Fair use. Fantastic. There are artists out there who fucking agree with your ideas about copyright, Jamie -- and you're not listening to them, because you're busy advertising for the ones that don't. -
Hooray!
Right now the entertainment industry is trying hard to reduce the power of fair-use exceptions to copyright law, and thereby expand their own power.
Rant mode on.
Right, and it's quite convenient for them to be able to point to the large number of technologies developed specifically to allow greedy technophiles to cheat the artists out of even the pittance they receive from the sale of their albums.
Crowing about "fair use" in an article devoted to figuring out an even more succesful scheme for copyright infringement is insulting to people who really care about fair use. It's openly dishonest -- "Well, fair use, nyah nyah nyah." Garbage like this tells the record mafia -- and the government -- that we're a bunch of irresponsible children who can't be trusted to use technology legally. It tells them that the only way to ensure that copyright (without which I'd be out of a job, and the GPL would be useless) can continue to be enforceable at all is with digital rights management mandatory in all hardware for which it is meaningful.
"DRM will never work blah blah Turing machine blah blah compilers would be protected technology blah freenet blah." Infeasibility doesn't stop the War on Drugs from ruining thousands of lives a year. It doesn't stop China's murderous war on Falun Gong, either. Laws are not subject to regression testing or quality control -- they're just passed, and enforced. Usually with a ruthlessness that is proportional to their futility.
Don't like the record mafia? Quit playing into their hands. Look here. Plenty of free-as-in-speech mp3s for your legal downloading pleasure. Most of them are shitty; the same problem exists, I hear, on Sourceforge... I found Sparky and the Wipers and Blues Motel to be fairly good, but that's just me. Hell, even mp3.com has some stuff that's not half bad. But advocating the sane-ification of copyright law by illegally copying music is about like supporting free software by pirating Windows.
"I like Jimmy Buffett, anyone got any Jimmy Buffett? I'll trade it for some Wayne Newton."
Fair use. Fantastic. There are artists out there who fucking agree with your ideas about copyright, Jamie -- and you're not listening to them, because you're busy advertising for the ones that don't. -
MP3.COM vs pimp daddy welfare
My friend and I make music under his alias of "Pimp Daddy Welfare". I should note that it is vulgar, offensive, awful music. But we're doing this for fun, and care more about having listeners than having CD buyers....
We've had our own personal webpage for almost 2 years, and early on during the summer of 1999, we signed up with mp3.com. At first it was great... our songs were rapidly climbing the charts, we were getting lots of exposure. Even a few CD sales...
until one day, our song "I Fucked Her" broke the top 100 on the charts. It made it up to #87. We were very pleased with ourselves for the next few days until MP3.com had a sudden change of mind about censorship over musicians. They decided to remove all songs listed under the "Hardcore Rap" section from the listings in all the other charts. (which includes ALL of Pimp Daddy Welfare's music)
"I Fucked Her" dropped from 250 downloads per day to 40 in one night. We've emailed MP3.com about this, and they wont reason with us at all. We tried to re-upload songs into different categories, but the watchful vultures at mp3.com quickly deleted them. They've been deleting songs ever since, and last time i bothered to look there were only 3 of our songs left.
our own personal site is doing better than ever though. We probably sell between 10-20 cds per month, and get around 150 hits per day. Not too shabby for a couple of white boys from Ohio.
so yeah....screw mp3.com. it's good for exposure, but you're better of doing your own thing, or dealing with a down-to-earth mp3 site such as the wonderfully non-commercialized Free-Music.com.
ok...i'm done venting now....whew...
if you'd like to see our crappy little site, then come check it out. =)
hdj jewboy -
Possible Solution
I have had problems with some MP3's under OS/2. There's a utility (for OS/2) called UNCOOK that fixed the problem. I suspect some incoding software puts bogus info in the MP3 file and UNCOOK takes it out.
I tracked down a few versions:
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Possible Solution
I have had problems with some MP3's under OS/2. There's a utility (for OS/2) called UNCOOK that fixed the problem. I suspect some incoding software puts bogus info in the MP3 file and UNCOOK takes it out.
I tracked down a few versions: