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Filesharing Traffic Drops After RIAA Threats
bryan writes "According to CNN, facing the threat of lawsuits from a music industry trade group, fewer people are using online filesharing applications to swap songs. Internet audience measurement service Nielsen Net Ratings said traffic on Kazaa, the leading filesharing platform, fell 15 percent in the week ended July 6 from the previous week. It was during that prior week, on June 25, that the Recording Industry Association of America said it would track down the heaviest users of "peer-to-peer" services like Kazaa and sue them for damages of up to $150,000 per copyright violation." This follows earlier reports, from the filesharing companies themselves, that traffic was actually increasing.
GNAA ownz your white ass.
GNAA sux teh c0ck! (I mean this in a good way. C0ck sucking rox!)
If Pat Robertson were to tell the truth, he might loose some of his marketshare.
How do you loose marketshare? Is that the opposite of tightening marketshare? But what does that mean? Hmmmmmm.
Kazaa leading platform?
Kazaa leading platform?
Kazaa leading platform?
Kazaa leading platform?
Thanks for the modding - it's not for the karma, I'm capped already.
But each time we get a link modded up on Slashdot, we get lots of offers of help, which speeds things up a whole load. Thanks, mods.
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Forget about those forged Iraq documents, just move on.
Yee-hah, we are now witnessing the beginning of
the impeachment of George W. Bush et al.
Cheers,
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Please Taco and co., please!, will you ever think about making Anonymous Cowards unable to post ?
*sigh*
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Wow, this guy must be god-like if he can see what every developer with an account on SourceForge looks like.
Not to sound racist... no, actually, I will try to sound racist on purpose... but,
Perhaps the reason you don't see them making any contributions is due to their lack of talent or interest in that field? Those that happen to contribute have no control over who chooses to add Open Source. Did it ever occur to you that rather than bitch about it and sitting on YOUR racist fat ass, you go take classes in programming, software engineering, database management and the like, and join in what you feel is lacking in blacks... since you put yourself forward as a black, otherwise you're just blowing some hot air, which really doesn't surprise me one iota. Of course, asking you to get an education is probably too much to hope for.
The other AC that replied to you also has a point. You have no way of knowing the identities of the people that contribute to SourceForge, you moron. Just do us all a favor and go rot under the rock you crawled out from under...
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I'm not a fan of Pat Robertson, but I'm a Christian. Until you can explain to me how the "backwards-wired" vertebrate eye and marsupial pouches came to be in tiny evolutionary steps, let's quit assuming that Creationists are all just a bunch of stubborn fools, and that evolution is perfect.
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Um... ok. Hate to post to these, (esp so far off topic) but I can't help it. My brother was once a Christian. Asked him once how all those dynosaur bones came to be about. He said "God is testing our faith". "Um, ok" I said, and stopped trying to convince. That seems to be the beauty of brain washing. Hard to fight a loss of logic.
No man is an island... But I wouldn't mind having a bigger moat.
How exactly do Dinosaurs go against any Christian dogma?
Username taken, please choose another one.
The more devout believers of certain segments of Christianity believe that the Earth is less than 6000 years old, if I remember it correctly. Dinosaurs are usually said to be older than that, and they therefore contradict certain Christian teachings.
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
Forgot to mention this, but I do apologize. I don't know enough about the history of marsupials or the development of the eye to directly comment on either.
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
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Fuck the lameness filter
Television evangelist Pat Robertson was overheard stating that the process of natural evolution was impossible, given that it's findings lie outside the idea of Christian creation dogma. All the while scientists the world over continue to compile and test bodies of evidence for it's many intricate workings. Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, Pat Robertson's opinion remains firm.
Evolution is fairly obvious on a micro scale, but few people seem to admit it has serious problems at a macro scale. If you look at evolution of all species over time, a lot of statistical anomalies appear. Some special evolve simultaneously, rather than participate in an evolutionary arms race that "pure evolution" would imply. Other species have evolved in statistically abnormal ways -- in statistically significant numbers.
So. When considered from a statistical perspective, both pure creationism and pure evolution are both implausible. Chew on that.
A parting shot. When I mentioned this to a die-hard creationist, he related to me the ultimate loophole: God makes the rules. Therefore, God can (did?) create a universe where evolution is considered fact rather than theory.
Are you saying that both the Earth was created in 6 days (what is usually meant by the term "creationism"), and that the Universe has existed for over 10 billion years, and life took billions of years to evolve to its current form, using evolution? As I see it, those are mutually exclusive concepts, and, as such, are not orthogonal.
Ewige Blumenkraft.