PayPal is my preferred payment system because its fast and secure, but when I'm selling I want to offer people alternatives and ebay shoulden't have a say over how payments are done, thats between me and my customers.
Sounds like a very reasonable way of promoting and selling music. You get to hear a song as much as you like for 10 cents, if you like it enough you get to take it away, DRM free, for another 79 cents. What have you been smoking?
Think about it, if copyright only lasted 7 years, do you think Microsoft would dare release something as crap as Vista? They'd have to make something significantly better than Windows 2000. Vista is the best OS Microsoft has ever released try it before you hop on the anti-vista band wagon.
The music industry around here are talking about that they want to start an experiment with voluntary broadband-tax, starting this autumn, which will allow you to, for a small fee, download all the music you want from Pirate Bay or wherever. Uploading will still be illegal. In otherwords no bittorrent.
I would only pay if I got non-interupted downloads. That means the RIAA has to stop harrassing Bob in the United States so I can get files from him.
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PayPal is my preferred payment system because its fast and secure,
but when I'm selling I want to offer people alternatives and ebay shoulden't have a say over how payments are done, thats between me and my customers.
I support Google's submission to the ACCC.
Seriously, Does it fucking matter?
Prince seems a little desperate for spotlight attention these days.
Your bandwidth?
How about the bandwidth they paid for?
You do have a good point.
I call it standing up because it is a way of showing them that we are sick of their shit.
But the real solution is in legislation. (Never thought I'd say that.)
It's about time people started standing up to fraudulent ISPs.
$49 = 1000 SMS
Sure it's not as cheap as email but its allot cheaper than it used to be.
Oh look some Apple Fanboy modded me down for praising a Microsoft product.
Cancer doesn't give the government power, Terrorism does.
But then how would telco's make money?
Have you ever wondered why phone calls and SMS is so cheap?
It's because phone companies have found other avenue's of profit and now use cheap phone calls as a marketing tool instead of a profit tool.
Messing with someone's domain is hardly a "harmless" activity.
SO your saying its ok to break the law when you disagree with something?
Go back to kindergarden.
They won't investigate their own boss that would piss them off. The United States REAL capital is hollywood.
I would only pay if I got non-interupted downloads. That means the RIAA has to stop harrassing Bob in the United States so I can get files from him.
At the end of the day does it matter what is and isn't appropriate?
I thought free speech would allow the word "cult" anyway.
A taser should suffice for shutting her up.
So we should never ban anything?
Where can I buy a box of hand grenades?
Owning a device frequently used to endanger aircraft !
Why on earth should that be illegal?
Why would they want people to be able to make free calls?
Why would they want to screw their customers?
Don't tell me you Actually believe the Anti-Terrorism laws are to do with terrorists.
That's extortion!
I would never use an RBL that resorted to those kind of tactics.
It's important that we steer away from that direction.
You should never have to pay anyone other than your email provider to send mail.
Because I check all my spam email when my schedule allows it.