I know a director who ran into a similar problem with one of his movies.
Canadian copyright lasts 50 years after the artists death, while in America, I believe it is 70 years.
The CRIA came after him for copyright infringement, because he put a 51 year old song in one of his movies, and he had to argue to the Canadian Recording Association that Canada is not a province of the United States.
This is more evidence why copyright law is foolish, and hindering the very people it is supposedly protecting.
It would appear that we Canadians have watched too much South Park, and are actually starting to believe that we are not a real country.
I'm an artist myself, and when I'm dead, I want everyone to steal my shit right away and use it for anything they can think of. when they come after you, direct the layers to this comment, and promptly tell them where they should go, and what they can go do with themselves.
This is exactly why I download everything I listen too. Paying a small tax on blank CDs isn't so bad, because it means i can legally pirate all the music I want to. because of that CD tax, my 8.4GB mp3 collection is perfectly legal.
if SOCANs blank CD tax is 21 cents per disk, how is it that I am able to buy 50 blank CDs for $12?
does that mean that $10.50 are taxes and a 50 pack of CDs should only cost $1.50? if that is the case, the rest of the world is being grossly rippped off for blank CD prices.
another big problem I have with SOCAN: I used to work retail, and I would often play CDs my friend had put out over the store speakers. a SOCAN representative just happend to come in, and warn the manager that playing music without purchacing a liscenece would result in a rather large fine.
I replied that my friend's made the music in their home studio, and they are entirely independant. not only that, but the band also paid the SOCAN tax on the CD.
But none of that mattered to the SOCAN guys, aparently, you need a SOCAN liscense to play ANY recorded Canadian music, whether they are signed to a major or not.
I ignored their request, and luckilly, they never returned.
the problem is not with viacom offering the shows on their website. that is a good thing.
the problem is the stupidity of it all.
watching the daily show on youtube means that youtube pays for the bandwidth.
watching the daily show on viacom's website means that viacom pays for the bandwidth.
because they seem determined to hold on to the distribution of their content with an iron fist, they have to PAY money, when a completly free alternative exists.
the problem is not viacom's service, its more of a question, "why the hell are you spending money to do something, when people were already doing all the work for you, on a system that cost you nothing?"
i guess viacom wants more detailed demographics on its viewers than youtube can provide.
I agree that the korean (0r ) alphbet is extreamly easy to learn, (I picked it up in 3 days) individual words are also quite easy to learn, as most words are short and easy to pronounce.
But when it comes to speaking Korean fluently, and being able to engage in conversation, it is like hitting a brick wall.
aside from , there are no sounds in Korean that we dont have in English. all you have to do is turn into two seperate symbols and sounds, say 'R' and 'L', and add an 'F' and a 'V', and your set.
also, in Korean, each block is one syllable, so you know exactly how to say a word by how it is written. '' is 'han-guk', there is no confusion with 'hang-uk' you know how to say it quite easily.
i'm not even going to go into detail of how each character representes the movement of the tounge inside the mouth. it is so logical and efficient, I'm surprized the Germans don't use it.:P
unfortunatly, multiple consonance tother just dont work. My land name, Clements, either becomes 'cle-men-te-su' or 'cle-men-chu'.
while it is a great example of a logical language in its written form, it does have its limitations.
I've been a GNU/Linux user for 2 weeks now. My new computer came with vista, and i found it to be unusable, so i figured now is as good a time as any to make the switch. I really don't understand how people get the impression that installing linux is hard.
Installing Ubuntu couldn't possibly be easier:
1)insert cd 2) ??? 3) profit (since a dollar saved is a dollar earned, and Linux is free)
I do find that installing programs on linux can sometimes be a choir. Flash and mp3 support installed itself, while installing java and blender are giving me some trouble.
I am surprized that so few people have mentioned gimpshop. stop complaining and try it. Gimpshop is MUCH easier to use than gimp.
As a professional Artist (not a pro-photographer, but an artist) I am constantly photographing my work in many different environments and lighting situations, and i need to crop and colour correct many jpegs. and for that, GimpShop works fine. But I can rarely get a shot lined up right, and Photoshop has an excellent rotate/distort/scale feature that Gimp lacks. this reason alone makes gimp mostly useless to me.
I'll stick with my pirated photoshop 7 for the time being. maybe in 5 years, when i need to upgrade, gimp will be ready.
Since I am currently employed as an English Teacher in Korea, does that make me part of the problem?
I don't see it as a big issue if a language dies off because no one chooses to speak it anymore. I think it is important to record and document the languages before they are gone forever, but when a language dies due to a lack of interest, who cares?
I do have a problem with languages being forced out of people. My grandmother was beaten if she spoke Gaelic in school. Now they invest millions to support the language. go figure.
When I learned that google was doing a street view of Canada, I rushed out and bought a red and white striped shirt, a hat, blue pants, a cane, and glasses.
I was going to dress up and hide in a crowd. But now that i know google will just blur my face, whats the point? no one wants to ask "Where's blury Waldo in Canada". thanks for ruining my fun, google.
i just bought a new laptop in seoul, south korea, and every single computer i found came with vista pre-installed, but shop keepers were more than willing to format your computer and install XP for 40,000 won ($40)
but being the cheep bastard that I am, I said no to XP, went home, and downloaded Ubuntu.
have these scientists not watched a single sci-fi movie. Military machines that can predict human behavior always lead to human enslavement. and the only way to stop them is by sending those machines back in time to stop us from building the machines in the first place.
"There are some things that Windows does pretty well"
Windows certainly does prove that a company CAN compete with 'free'
someone should go tell the RIAA to look at how Microsoft runs things. You can make money, even when a superior, and free alternative exists.
I am currently in the process of patenting a simple invention.
I am doing this because the device is so extremely simple, someone would be able to figure it out just by looking at it.
I am worried that someone else will see, and patent it. Then i would be unable to use my own idea without having to pay someone else, who stole my own idea.
I would love to not waste the time any money involved in the whole patent process. is there any way to get around the whole patent process completely, and not have to risk someone stealing your thunder?
"CRIAA is just making money off you for no reason"
not if you keep your movies/music on USB keys, flash cards or hard drives, which aren't taxed (yet)
you have to burn stuff to over-priced CD's to be a legal pirate in Canada.
As much as I enjoy CDs, i think the move to downloadble formats is a good one. think of the environmental impact of a CD, drilling for the oil, shipping it to the polycarbonate plant, processing the plastic, shipping, recording, shipping, storage in a warehouse, more shipping, heating/lighting at the store, fuel used for staff memebers to get to the store, fuel used by the consumer, etc.... mp3s just use some electricity, so from an environmenatal standpoint, MP3s are probably a good thing. plus they are free, which is a great bonus.
As a Canadian artist myself, I am strongly against this bill.
and like any good Canadian, I am going to complain about it endlessly to anyone who will listen.
But, just like every other Canadian out there, i'm not going to actually do anything about it.
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I know a director who ran into a similar problem with one of his movies. Canadian copyright lasts 50 years after the artists death, while in America, I believe it is 70 years. The CRIA came after him for copyright infringement, because he put a 51 year old song in one of his movies, and he had to argue to the Canadian Recording Association that Canada is not a province of the United States. This is more evidence why copyright law is foolish, and hindering the very people it is supposedly protecting. It would appear that we Canadians have watched too much South Park, and are actually starting to believe that we are not a real country. I'm an artist myself, and when I'm dead, I want everyone to steal my shit right away and use it for anything they can think of. when they come after you, direct the layers to this comment, and promptly tell them where they should go, and what they can go do with themselves.
This is exactly why I download everything I listen too. Paying a small tax on blank CDs isn't so bad, because it means i can legally pirate all the music I want to. because of that CD tax, my 8.4GB mp3 collection is perfectly legal. if SOCANs blank CD tax is 21 cents per disk, how is it that I am able to buy 50 blank CDs for $12? does that mean that $10.50 are taxes and a 50 pack of CDs should only cost $1.50? if that is the case, the rest of the world is being grossly rippped off for blank CD prices. another big problem I have with SOCAN: I used to work retail, and I would often play CDs my friend had put out over the store speakers. a SOCAN representative just happend to come in, and warn the manager that playing music without purchacing a liscenece would result in a rather large fine. I replied that my friend's made the music in their home studio, and they are entirely independant. not only that, but the band also paid the SOCAN tax on the CD. But none of that mattered to the SOCAN guys, aparently, you need a SOCAN liscense to play ANY recorded Canadian music, whether they are signed to a major or not. I ignored their request, and luckilly, they never returned.
the problem is not with viacom offering the shows on their website. that is a good thing. the problem is the stupidity of it all. watching the daily show on youtube means that youtube pays for the bandwidth. watching the daily show on viacom's website means that viacom pays for the bandwidth. because they seem determined to hold on to the distribution of their content with an iron fist, they have to PAY money, when a completly free alternative exists. the problem is not viacom's service, its more of a question, "why the hell are you spending money to do something, when people were already doing all the work for you, on a system that cost you nothing?" i guess viacom wants more detailed demographics on its viewers than youtube can provide.
I agree that the korean (0r ) alphbet is extreamly easy to learn, (I picked it up in 3 days) individual words are also quite easy to learn, as most words are short and easy to pronounce.
:P
But when it comes to speaking Korean fluently, and being able to engage in conversation, it is like hitting a brick wall.
aside from , there are no sounds in Korean that we dont have in English. all you have to do is turn into two seperate symbols and sounds, say 'R' and 'L', and add an 'F' and a 'V', and your set.
also, in Korean, each block is one syllable, so you know exactly how to say a word by how it is written. '' is 'han-guk', there is no confusion with 'hang-uk' you know how to say it quite easily.
i'm not even going to go into detail of how each character representes the movement of the tounge inside the mouth. it is so logical and efficient, I'm surprized the Germans don't use it.
unfortunatly, multiple consonance tother just dont work. My land name, Clements, either becomes 'cle-men-te-su' or 'cle-men-chu'.
while it is a great example of a logical language in its written form, it does have its limitations.
I've been a GNU/Linux user for 2 weeks now. My new computer came with vista, and i found it to be unusable, so i figured now is as good a time as any to make the switch. I really don't understand how people get the impression that installing linux is hard.
Installing Ubuntu couldn't possibly be easier:
1)insert cd
2) ???
3) profit (since a dollar saved is a dollar earned, and Linux is free)
I do find that installing programs on linux can sometimes be a choir. Flash and mp3 support installed itself, while installing java and blender are giving me some trouble.
I am surprized that so few people have mentioned gimpshop. stop complaining and try it. Gimpshop is MUCH easier to use than gimp.
As a professional Artist (not a pro-photographer, but an artist) I am constantly photographing my work in many different environments and lighting situations, and i need to crop and colour correct many jpegs. and for that, GimpShop works fine. But I can rarely get a shot lined up right, and Photoshop has an excellent rotate/distort/scale feature that Gimp lacks. this reason alone makes gimp mostly useless to me.
I'll stick with my pirated photoshop 7 for the time being. maybe in 5 years, when i need to upgrade, gimp will be ready.
Since I am currently employed as an English Teacher in Korea, does that make me part of the problem? I don't see it as a big issue if a language dies off because no one chooses to speak it anymore. I think it is important to record and document the languages before they are gone forever, but when a language dies due to a lack of interest, who cares? I do have a problem with languages being forced out of people. My grandmother was beaten if she spoke Gaelic in school. Now they invest millions to support the language. go figure.
When I learned that google was doing a street view of Canada, I rushed out and bought a red and white striped shirt, a hat, blue pants, a cane, and glasses. I was going to dress up and hide in a crowd. But now that i know google will just blur my face, whats the point? no one wants to ask "Where's blury Waldo in Canada". thanks for ruining my fun, google.
i just bought a new laptop in seoul, south korea, and every single computer i found came with vista pre-installed, but shop keepers were more than willing to format your computer and install XP for 40,000 won ($40) but being the cheep bastard that I am, I said no to XP, went home, and downloaded Ubuntu.
have these scientists not watched a single sci-fi movie. Military machines that can predict human behavior always lead to human enslavement. and the only way to stop them is by sending those machines back in time to stop us from building the machines in the first place.
I wonder if the boards in these laptops will succumb to capacitor plague? how long until this becomes the 6LPC project?
"There are some things that Windows does pretty well" Windows certainly does prove that a company CAN compete with 'free' someone should go tell the RIAA to look at how Microsoft runs things. You can make money, even when a superior, and free alternative exists.
I am currently in the process of patenting a simple invention. I am doing this because the device is so extremely simple, someone would be able to figure it out just by looking at it. I am worried that someone else will see, and patent it. Then i would be unable to use my own idea without having to pay someone else, who stole my own idea. I would love to not waste the time any money involved in the whole patent process. is there any way to get around the whole patent process completely, and not have to risk someone stealing your thunder?
"CRIAA is just making money off you for no reason" not if you keep your movies/music on USB keys, flash cards or hard drives, which aren't taxed (yet) you have to burn stuff to over-priced CD's to be a legal pirate in Canada.
As much as I enjoy CDs, i think the move to downloadble formats is a good one. think of the environmental impact of a CD, drilling for the oil, shipping it to the polycarbonate plant, processing the plastic, shipping, recording, shipping, storage in a warehouse, more shipping, heating/lighting at the store, fuel used for staff memebers to get to the store, fuel used by the consumer, etc.... mp3s just use some electricity, so from an environmenatal standpoint, MP3s are probably a good thing. plus they are free, which is a great bonus.
As a Canadian artist myself, I am strongly against this bill. and like any good Canadian, I am going to complain about it endlessly to anyone who will listen. But, just like every other Canadian out there, i'm not going to actually do anything about it.