Thanks, but no thanks. I disagree with you from the point you said "stealing". You lost me there.
FYI, I've paid for *TONS* of first party content, and I've copied close to 33% of my entire DVD collection, all without the use of Bittorrent or any online outlet. When I do choose to copy a DVD, it's usually from a friend, co-worker or family member who already paid for it. I was not interested in it enough to buy or rent it, so I made a copy. Does *that* hurt the entertainment industry? No, it does not. The reason is that I would have never paid for it in the first place. That's the problem with many entertainment medias; the quality is not always there. How many CDs did I buy just to get one good song? A shitload. Now I can just buy the "good" stuff only, thanks to iTunes ability to purchase single songs. Or, if I choose, I'll just copy a CD from my niece. Again, these are "lost sales" according to your RIAA pals, to me they are not.
Stealing is when I go to best buy and take something that's not mine. Copying DVDs or CDs is *not* stealing. Period. Get off your high horse and get a clue.
Even the content I paid for does not belong to me, so says the license agreement. So, I choose to copy some, but I don't need to steal. See the difference?
then Ice World, Fire World, Forest World and Cave World, then fight the big boss, view the crappy finale video and bask in the glory of a game well played.
That's the problem though, the local media spewers, and why I choose to get my news from a source that does not have to tease me, or make a mountain out of a molehill to get me to watch their slow news day. Ever notice how all your local news channels have the *exact* same stories, running at the *exact* same time and they all go to commercial at the same time. Coincidence, or are they all stuck in an endless loop:
while true
check to make sure all our stories match
make lame news sound exciting
go to commercial done
Sorry, but plenty of CEOs and other execs give to charities. Most have the decency to not crow about it, they just do it. It's unfortunate that this PR stunt is so well thought of.
Biggest dist ever seen on a floppy? Personally, I witnessed an install of Apple A/UX which came in a MASSIVE set of 50 floppies!
Yes, A/UX. Apple's *first* Unix.
Timely article, I just spent the better part of last weekend scoring boxes and boxes of old Mac floppies from storage and setting up an old SE/30 so I can migrate 800K floppies over to 1.4M ones so anything interesting (like MacPlaymate and other rarities; Rumor Monger NetBunny, etc.) can be rescued from the old disks. I was bummed when I figured out my shiny new Sony USB floppy drive can't speak 400K/800K, just the 1.4M, hence the migration of data. Now if I can just find a working SCSI hard drive I'll be set...
Why not start with the ISPs? Have them start policing their own customers and shut off their connections when a compromised system is discovered, then help that poor, unconnected shmuck clean their PC so they can rejoin the world wide pr0n.
I spent two frickin' hours cleaning and protecting my sister's and niece's XP laptops over xmas. Pain in the ass, but at least they're running clean and happy now. This is after I said I'd never help them because they made the mistake of buying XP laptops instead of a Macs. What can you do? Gotta clean it, even if it's partially the cause of the problem and the people using them are not of the highest technical ilk.
No that's thinking outside of the box! Personally, I like to do testing in the kitchen, then QA in the shower, then go production on the can... but that's just me.
I've never downloaded a single movie or song... I just copy them from friends, family and co-workers. Let's see the MPAA stop me! Come on you pussies I TRIPPLE-DOG dare you to stop me from copying DVDs. Asshats. I just counted a few days ago and estimate I have around 850 individual DVD discs, with about 60%-70% being real store purchased DVDs, the others being copies of movies, shows and the MST3K DVD collection project (every MST3K episode ever, all going to DVD).
The reason I copy is so I can take my time with the "borrowed" DVDs and to watch stuff I would never be purchasing anyway. Nor would I rent them. How the MPAA can claim that they lost a purchase from someone like myself just goes to show what a bunch of useless, greedy douchebags they are. F them, I make plenty of real purchases. Perhaps I should just copy everything and never pay for it. Their tactics make a good case for me to just go all bootleg. *Then* what? Can they ever stop sneakernet?
Funny how 1010wins.com, an old-fashioned terrestrial radio station, is so absorbed in this that they had to repost that AP article. Perhaps if they bothered to make a station with some real content and worth listening to less people, like myself, would bother to actually pay for satellite radio content. Heck we might even stop using our car radios as short-range FM receivers for our satellite radios, foregoing any outside broadcasts. Not likely. Thanks for the FUD 1010wins, but your days are numbered and you could give two shits about the "recording industry" getting "stiffed" by people abusing that mean old "fair use" concept. Rather, me thinks you are hot to get some industry and government officials riled at your direct, and superiour, competition.
Not that satellite radio could ever be fair competition to crappy, watered down, commercial-full, non-digital terrestrial radio. That was unintentional and unfortunate.
"Last time I checked, Windows wasn't just a business operating system. Tons upon tons of people use it and like it.'"
Yes, but when was the last time your manager asked what kind of machine you want on your desktop? Let me guess, NEVER. You got Wintel, and that's all they can support, which is odd since the amount of extra support that Wintel boxes need to survive is heinous. I only play Unix at work, so I find it comical the trouble the lower paid Windows flunkys have to go through to keep their boxes going; monthly patching, constant running of the never-ending virus checking. Days and sometimes weeks lost to fighting a nasty virus. I patch my Solaris/AIX/Linux/HP-UX boxen maybe twice a year, if we really really want to. Seems like a giant waste of time, money and effort to keep a marginal OS running in the enterprise. At home? I have a W2K box (which needs to be rebooted whenever I try and switch a network port, great job M$) which I recently upgraded to a bootleg XP, which mostly sits idle now since it's kind of underpowered for games and I've switched to using the Mac's Citrix client for remote work access. So, I pull out the XP disk and just run Solaris 10 x86, which is far more useful.
Tons of people go with Windows on because; 1) it's cheap and so is the hardware, 2) they're afraid of not being compatible with their "work applications" like word and excel, plus most company's VPN/remote access requires the employee run a Windows box, 3) games, and 4) compatibility with their warez buddies - "Bob" uses XP, so I must too so I can get free copies of his games and pr0n.
Personally, I'm biased towards the Mac OS, since I get to have a choice at home, I don't get a choice at work, I just get whatever the IT department buys for us, and guess what, they don't know anything other than Wintel. Period. This is changing though. People who actually get to use Macs, PCs and Unix desktop and server machines on a daily basis can tell you, hands down the Mac OS has the better desktop. It's elegant, streamlined to respond quickly and does not bother me with ridiculous minor flaws that slow down my work flow and other ill behaviour. It's not that I don't give Windows a fair shake, otherwise I would have never installed it at home, or would complain much louder about my clunky work machine. I just get more done in the Mac desktop as it seems to respond better, or perhaps I'm trained to respond to it?
The future looks much better for choices though, the threat of a Linux desktop in the workplace and the onslaught of FOSS in the enterprise is finally starting to get traction with some of the more enlightened IT managers out there, with the help of people (like me) who can manage a piece of software that does not come out of a box. And aren't afraid to deploy FOSS into production without the hand-holding and expensive support from an oversized warez vendor.
Why companies continue to "pay the man" for solutions that any bright developer or admin can whip up with some cheap hardware and a well designed FOSS applications is beyond me.
Don't get me started on the value of a well engineered sendmail/pop/imap setup over Exchange...;)
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Thanks, but no thanks. I disagree with you from the point you said "stealing". You lost me there.
FYI, I've paid for *TONS* of first party content, and I've copied close to 33% of my entire DVD collection, all without the use of Bittorrent or any online outlet. When I do choose to copy a DVD, it's usually from a friend, co-worker or family member who already paid for it. I was not interested in it enough to buy or rent it, so I made a copy. Does *that* hurt the entertainment industry? No, it does not. The reason is that I would have never paid for it in the first place. That's the problem with many entertainment medias; the quality is not always there. How many CDs did I buy just to get one good song? A shitload. Now I can just buy the "good" stuff only, thanks to iTunes ability to purchase single songs. Or, if I choose, I'll just copy a CD from my niece. Again, these are "lost sales" according to your RIAA pals, to me they are not.
Stealing is when I go to best buy and take something that's not mine. Copying DVDs or CDs is *not* stealing. Period. Get off your high horse and get a clue.
Even the content I paid for does not belong to me, so says the license agreement. So, I choose to copy some, but I don't need to steal. See the difference?
Nice! I only read this to find the one true comment which mentions the sybian. My quest is at an end. Goodnight and baba-booey to you all.
then Ice World, Fire World, Forest World and Cave World, then fight the big boss, view the crappy finale video and bask in the glory of a game well played.
CRo T. Satellite
Of course, on said ocean planets inhabited by cetaceans one could exclaim:
"Admiral, there be whales here."
But only in Romania and China. :P
Valtrex! I don't know what it does, but some hot chicks take it, so it must be alrighty then!!!1!
I gots to gets mes mines!
That's the problem though, the local media spewers, and why I choose to get my news from a source that does not have to tease me, or make a mountain out of a molehill to get me to watch their slow news day. Ever notice how all your local news channels have the *exact* same stories, running at the *exact* same time and they all go to commercial at the same time. Coincidence, or are they all stuck in an endless loop:
while true
check to make sure all our stories match
make lame news sound exciting
go to commercial
done
Make Your Time!
I, for one, welcome our Aqua Teen Hunger Force overlords!
Hopefully I will not get blown up, as I'm more of a Ren & Stimpy type. Seasons 1 and 2 only please.
haha!
Sorry, but plenty of CEOs and other execs give to charities. Most have the decency to not crow about it, they just do it. It's unfortunate that this PR stunt is so well thought of.
Biggest dist ever seen on a floppy? Personally, I witnessed an install of Apple A/UX which came in a MASSIVE set of 50 floppies!
Yes, A/UX. Apple's *first* Unix.
Timely article, I just spent the better part of last weekend scoring boxes and boxes of old Mac floppies from storage and setting up an old SE/30 so I can migrate 800K floppies over to 1.4M ones so anything interesting (like MacPlaymate and other rarities; Rumor Monger NetBunny, etc.) can be rescued from the old disks. I was bummed when I figured out my shiny new Sony USB floppy drive can't speak 400K/800K, just the 1.4M, hence the migration of data. Now if I can just find a working SCSI hard drive I'll be set...
I still stand by my new sig:
Microsoft's new tag line for 2007: Pilfer, Plagiarize, Patent.
I love this story, it should make an interesting made-for-tv-movie, one question though; which one is the white spy and which one is the black spy?
8^P
Why not start with the ISPs? Have them start policing their own customers and shut off their connections when a compromised system is discovered, then help that poor, unconnected shmuck clean their PC so they can rejoin the world wide pr0n.
I spent two frickin' hours cleaning and protecting my sister's and niece's XP laptops over xmas. Pain in the ass, but at least they're running clean and happy now. This is after I said I'd never help them because they made the mistake of buying XP laptops instead of a Macs. What can you do? Gotta clean it, even if it's partially the cause of the problem and the people using them are not of the highest technical ilk.
No that's thinking outside of the box! Personally, I like to do testing in the kitchen, then QA in the shower, then go production on the can... but that's just me.
I've never downloaded a single movie or song... I just copy them from friends, family and co-workers. Let's see the MPAA stop me! Come on you pussies I TRIPPLE-DOG dare you to stop me from copying DVDs. Asshats.
I just counted a few days ago and estimate I have around 850 individual DVD discs, with about 60%-70% being real store purchased DVDs, the others being copies of movies, shows and the MST3K DVD collection project (every MST3K episode ever, all going to DVD).
The reason I copy is so I can take my time with the "borrowed" DVDs and to watch stuff I would never be purchasing anyway. Nor would I rent them. How the MPAA can claim that they lost a purchase from someone like myself just goes to show what a bunch of useless, greedy douchebags they are. F them, I make plenty of real purchases. Perhaps I should just copy everything and never pay for it. Their tactics make a good case for me to just go all bootleg. *Then* what? Can they ever stop sneakernet?
no.
and Google will open up a new data center near you, and they're hiring like crazy this year, or so said a recent /. posted article. Problem SOLVED!1!!
Your welcome!
Sounds painful. Oh, Had-ron... nevermind.
Funny how 1010wins.com, an old-fashioned terrestrial radio station, is so absorbed in this that they had to repost that AP article. Perhaps if they bothered to make a station with some real content and worth listening to less people, like myself, would bother to actually pay for satellite radio content. Heck we might even stop using our car radios as short-range FM receivers for our satellite radios, foregoing any outside broadcasts. Not likely. Thanks for the FUD 1010wins, but your days are numbered and you could give two shits about the "recording industry" getting "stiffed" by people abusing that mean old "fair use" concept. Rather, me thinks you are hot to get some industry and government officials riled at your direct, and superiour, competition.
Not that satellite radio could ever be fair competition to crappy, watered down, commercial-full, non-digital terrestrial radio. That was unintentional and unfortunate.
"Last time I checked, Windows wasn't just a business operating system. Tons upon tons of people use it and like it.'"
;)
Yes, but when was the last time your manager asked what kind of machine you want on your desktop? Let me guess, NEVER. You got Wintel, and that's all they can support, which is odd since the amount of extra support that Wintel boxes need to survive is heinous. I only play Unix at work, so I find it comical the trouble the lower paid Windows flunkys have to go through to keep their boxes going; monthly patching, constant running of the never-ending virus checking. Days and sometimes weeks lost to fighting a nasty virus. I patch my Solaris/AIX/Linux/HP-UX boxen maybe twice a year, if we really really want to. Seems like a giant waste of time, money and effort to keep a marginal OS running in the enterprise. At home? I have a W2K box (which needs to be rebooted whenever I try and switch a network port, great job M$) which I recently upgraded to a bootleg XP, which mostly sits idle now since it's kind of underpowered for games and I've switched to using the Mac's Citrix client for remote work access. So, I pull out the XP disk and just run Solaris 10 x86, which is far more useful.
Tons of people go with Windows on because; 1) it's cheap and so is the hardware, 2) they're afraid of not being compatible with their "work applications" like word and excel, plus most company's VPN/remote access requires the employee run a Windows box, 3) games, and 4) compatibility with their warez buddies - "Bob" uses XP, so I must too so I can get free copies of his games and pr0n.
Personally, I'm biased towards the Mac OS, since I get to have a choice at home, I don't get a choice at work, I just get whatever the IT department buys for us, and guess what, they don't know anything other than Wintel. Period. This is changing though. People who actually get to use Macs, PCs and Unix desktop and server machines on a daily basis can tell you, hands down the Mac OS has the better desktop. It's elegant, streamlined to respond quickly and does not bother me with ridiculous minor flaws that slow down my work flow and other ill behaviour. It's not that I don't give Windows a fair shake, otherwise I would have never installed it at home, or would complain much louder about my clunky work machine. I just get more done in the Mac desktop as it seems to respond better, or perhaps I'm trained to respond to it?
The future looks much better for choices though, the threat of a Linux desktop in the workplace and the onslaught of FOSS in the enterprise is finally starting to get traction with some of the more enlightened IT managers out there, with the help of people (like me) who can manage a piece of software that does not come out of a box. And aren't afraid to deploy FOSS into production without the hand-holding and expensive support from an oversized warez vendor.
Why companies continue to "pay the man" for solutions that any bright developer or admin can whip up with some cheap hardware and a well designed FOSS applications is beyond me.
Don't get me started on the value of a well engineered sendmail/pop/imap setup over Exchange...
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