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But sir, all of these songs are under the Open Content License! atta1 writes "In an article on The Register, EasyInternetcafe has lost its court battle against British Phonographic Industry (BPI) over burning downloaded music to CD."
When last mentioned (August of last year), EasyInternetCafe was trying to avoid fines from BPI for letting Internet cafe customers burn to CD music they'd downloaded there.
After all, somebody's got to write 'em. g_adams27 writes "Several weeks ago, Larry Lessig proposed anti-spam legislation he'd like to see Congress pass -- legislation which he was willing to bet his job on. Now it looks like Washington might be taking his bet... and they want us to help out!
A congressional aide appears to be drafting legislation based on Larry's suggestions and is asking the Politech list for suggestions. The proposed law is posted here."
IP leases are nicer than telephone leases. Lots of people were interested in the story posted the other day about VoIP support in GnomeMeeting. I mentioned there that theKompany had a VoIP application for Zaurus owners; Shawn Gordon of theKompany writes with information about a forthcoming desktop version as well.
"So we released tkcPhone a few weeks ago, we found some issues with Net2Phone that we've just finished sorting out today, and we've about wrapped up the tkPhone beta, which we expect in a day or two. Having tkPhone allows us to do some things we couldn't on the Zaurus, like make use of a Speex codec which is part of the Xiph umbrella these days, we couldn't use it on the Zaurus because it requires floating point support. We also can have a system tray notifier and a roomier user interface. Because we spent so much time optimizing everything to work on the Zaurus, it means your desktop performance is going to be very good.We decided to use SIP as opposed to H323 for a lot of reasons: smaller, faster, lighter, newer, easier hardware requirements. So with our phone a regular sound card and a headset/mic will typically suffice for what you need or want to do. Our arrangement with Net2phone means that in addition to PC-to-PC calls, you can make PC-to-phone and PC-to-mobile calls as well. The prices range from free to as little as $0.02 per minute in the U.S. and $0.03 minute internationally. You're already paying for your internet access, might as well start to piggyback this stuff.
tkPhone is not free however, it is $9.95 for the electronic version of the application. We expect to have it up for sale about February 10, 2003."
And as several readers pointed out, if you're interested in VoIP on Linux, you should also check out the sites of both the Bayonne project (mentioned several times before)and asterisk (also discussed here).
You mean they're against my inalienable right to watch movies for free? geekee writes "An article on CNET states that the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) will include DRM support in the MPEG-4 open standard. Without DRM, the ISMA doesn't believe MPEG-4 will be able to compete against proprietary standards such as that provided by Microsoft since content owners 'want continually improved tools, with rights management.' For instance, Movielink, an online movie rental source, has opted to support Microsoft and RealNetwork formats because of their DRM capabilities. An interesting thing to note is that Apple is a member of the ISMA, and has previously declared its opposition to DRM."
Money talks, and sometimes it says nasty things. scubacuda writes "Since eBay removed the alleged libelous statements, Roger Grace has agreed to drop his libel lawsuit for $2.5 million in punitive damages from eBay and $100,000 from Tim Neeley (who wrote that the magazines he bought from Grace had arrived late and in a worse condition than advertised). Interestingly, eBay removed the feedback not because it was 'negative,' but rather because 'the contact information for the seller was not correct.' Chris Donlay, eBay spokesman, says, '[T]hat is one of the circumstances in which we will consider removing the feedback,' EBay attorneys even went to far as to claim that Grace's original lawsuit is 'completely without merit.'"
(Here's the Slashdot post from last Saturday, 'Attorney Sues eBay over Negative Feedback'.)
What a bastard that first poster is.
Am I right or am I right?
I'm delighted I could have the honor of moderating your first post as offtopic. If anyone deserves this distinction, I'm glad it was me. I earned it through hours of hard work and dedication. Perhaps you're wondering why I'm writing so much. I'm doing this simply to piss you off, and to parade around the fact that I could write out this whole saga faster than you could write a pathetic little "first post"! Hah hah hah, losers!
i have my own domain and i get spammed at random address that don't exist, mainly by yahoo. Does this happen a lot or is it just me?
-- OMFG = Oh My Floatse Goatse
Come on... we're all terribly curious. It's been slower than all get out recently. Why? How about letting everyone that hasn't befriended Taco know what he said in his journal about the site/features/updates? There's probably no more fitting place to have a meta-discussion about the site than in slashback, so let's do it.
Plus this site has been slot as shit lately, what's the deal?
How the hell am I able to write this much text in all caps? FOR THIS PERFORMANCE TO HAVE A DEEP, LASTING EFFECT YOU SHOULD PLAY A RECORDING OF CAT STEVENS' "ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT" DURING YOUR VIEWING EXPERIENCE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. STEP 1. OBTAIN A PIG.
STEP 2. FIND A STURDY TOILET
STEP 3. SHOVE THE PIG INTO THE TOILET HEAD-FIRST. HE WILL NOT FIT. DO THE BEST YOU CAN.
STEP 4. FUCK THE PIG IN THE ASS. HIS SHARP TEETH, FIELD OF VISION AND ABILITY TO FIGHT BACK WILL BE RESTRAINED *AS LONG AS YOU HAVE STUFFED THE PIG PROPERLY INTO THE TOILET*. FUCK THAT PIG. YEAH, FUCK IT. JESUS CHRIST THE PIG DOESN'T LIKE THIS DEAL AT ALL AND THAT'S WHAT YOU GET OFF ON BABY. FUCK THAT LITTLE PIG. MMMMMM YEAH FINISHING MMMM PIG IN TOILET MMM
STEP 5. EVENTUALLY THE PIG WILL DROWN, GET "FUCKED-OUT" AND COLLAPSE IN ON ITSELF OR OTHERWISE CEASE TO CONTINUE PERFORMING AS FUCKTOY. REPLACE WITH FRESH PIG. SEE STEP 1.
Oh my goodness me, WHAT has happened to the moderation?
I thought that they were trying to hide the whole numbers thing!
I really want to buy some pornographic materials, but the needle on my pornograph has been broken for a long time.
"Having tkPhone allows us to do some things we couldn't on the Zaurus, like make use of a Speex codec which is part of the Xiph umbrella these days, we couldn't use it on the Zaurus because it requires floating point support."
How many of those are typos and how many are actual product names?
yOu aLL comPLaiN abOUt Ms'S AttemptS at woRld DOMinanCE, bUT iApple's tHE OeE chanGIng thE iRules of GRAMMAr.
I can't get nothing done for free these days, even with all the hidden gold and porn in the basement.
Something tells me I should apologize for the whole Crusades thing to, but that wasn't my fault dammit!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.