I tell you why. You read the sentence and then imagined this "John Kennedy, chairman and CEO of the IFPI" drooling happy just like a dog at the idea that in china there are no legal limits to the amount of abuse that the citizen can be subject to. Maybe he's already contemplating new forms of DRM or abuse to experiment on those unfortunate people before trying to export them to more civilized places.
Then you associated this already fetish image to the quality products of the german filmography that you can preview by inputting "private fetish" into google.
they have released a position paper calling Ogg 'proprietary' Sure. And Santa Claus is finnish Intellectual Property, so be careful when dressing red this year or we sue you for infringment... http://www.santaclauslive.com/
Merry Xmast!
Americans are quite sensitive when somebody reminds them of the special treatment they reserved for black people and the consideration of women in general http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjxY9rZwNGU . Kinda of like the same that happens with the Germans and the nazi stuff... I think that was the problem. It is not by electing those people that they will whitewash their collective conscience.
This is the effect of the enourmous hipocrisy that nowadays is called "Politically Correctness" and ties free expression in so called democracies and for instance allows idiots claiming creationsism as science.
I'd like to comment on your lefty reply. You forgot to mention that was a "Democratic" president (Clinton) that enhacted the DMCA Bill. A bill that as a slashdotter you should know has made difficult scientific research and lead also to temporary imprisonments of foreing scientist. A bill that causes daily headhackes for every researcher that wants to get a paper published and in the long run has proben only beneficiary to the lawyers selling consuelling to those people in need. I'd like you to see if by "coincidence" there was some strange relation between entertainment industry founding of the democratic governors that year.
I'd like also to invite you to read the subject of the conversation. In the article is clearly stated that this absurdity is being carried on by a BIPARTISAN group. BIPARTISAN means that someone external proposed them to meet and organized a bill that strangely both democrats and republican agree...
You might not like Bush and that's your right. But you can't blame just him cause that's plainly a idiot thing to do. And surely you can't expect the next one to be better. Now the first time the Democrats are choosing between a woman and a black guy called OBAMA (OSAMA?), please lose your hopes: them both have a terrible record of campaing contributions from the entertainment industry (yep, corporations)
P.S. In Europe We are in bad conditions. Maybe you just dont realize that there is the same kind of arrangments going on in Bruxelles because the media auto-censorship and the lack of a law for public access to EU documents.
We found your position within a 5000Mt precision. And the little tool was pretending I was somewhere in roma city center while I actually was around 6000 mt from the position. Not bad, I guess from the previuos alpha version that supposely was indicating me being actually on earth or within one satellite distance.
You still need a GPS receiver for positioning. And anyway anyone heard of the mtfuxx called Galileo? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_positioning_system
Doesen't the project be awaiable nowadays? Did it got a takedown notice under the DCMA?
Some Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) music providers:
Jamendo = http://www.jamendo.com/en/
Search CC = http://search.creativecommons.org/#
OpSound = http://opsound.org/
w00tw0t0 Records http://w00tw0t0.net/
and a small internet Radio only CC music
http://digilander.libero.it/freemusicstyle/
These are FREE and LEGAL. There is no need to pay anyone and sometimes, depending on the license, you are free to elaborate or even profit. So the estimated cost is "how much you want to donate". The quality is good if compared to the pieces of Britney Spears (for instance) but you won't easily find any boy band. As long as we know they are a marketing product and not real music.
I know this is slightly offtopic, but I'll be glad if someone visits those sites and gets inspiration.
Show me there are hoardes of people out there sharpening their knives to destroy civilized society. It's a bullshit lie. To me, flippant fear mongering like that is most of the problem here, not some boogyman called from thin air to support the fear-based attitude you're spreading. Listen, seriusly, with radoactive stuff (or nerve gas for what's matters) you don't actually need hoardes of people: just a pair of determined idiots would do the trick. You don't even need terrorists, for instance remember the columbine shooting for instance. If this reactor is capable of generating 27 megawatts then it must be roaded with lots of material (those russian batteries make a pale 3Kw) What the linked article says is:
When used with conventional explosives strontium-90 would cause more serious long-term damage than any ordinary bomb. The blast region would be contaminated with radiation and the population's health will be affected for many years. For your question: "Show me there are hoardes of people" given that you need just two idiots with the skills to assemble a detonator there is a answer. PROOFS: There are acutal lots of crazy people in the USA and Al-Quaeda claims some thousands of "martyrs" ready to blow themselfs up and millions of so called "extreme lefties" would enjoy any mass killings in your "evil" country just for the pleasure of tracing it back to some hidden and secret organization.
Consider the proof of the rejoicing moment the three major faith have taken to explain hurricane Kathrina: Cristians - Jews - Muslins. To be fair we need to add a +2 modifier for religious zealotry for the muslins cause they manage already to "manifest" aganist the USA and still claim peacefulness. To be extra fair I'd leave a -1 modifier to the cristians for their inconsistent line about the event wich doesnt surprise me much (being inconsistent).
Now if you give to a blessed by any god zealot the tool for a mass murder you'd likely to get problems. My conclusion is that since you can't clean radioactivity I say that prevention is mandatory. This has nothing to do with FUD unless you are a zealot yourself among those that pretend the WTC was taken down by a couple of UFOs disguised as Planes controlled by the illuminati. In that case I'd reccomend you to take a tour of saudi arabia, bible in hand, and dressed like a rabin, it's all FUD anyway so why to be scared?
Suggestions: Take a look at this brilliant man actually is suggest you take a look at all of his videos and prove him wrong
I loved allofmp3:) It's not whitewashing! It was one of the few online shops with reasonably priced DRM free music! That not only convinced me but I am sure several others dropped P2P during the period.
Also if you break down the PRICE of a DRM-Free Itunes download and compare it to a former allofmp3 download you see a 1400% difference (1,70 to 0,12) how can Apple justify the difference? (Please do not pretend the difference really goes to the artist!!! We know it doesn't http://downhillbattle.org/itunes/ ).
Then you can argue that the extra money is needed by the majors to produce actual commercial music. So go on and digest one of Madonna CDs or Britey Hits... and compare against the perfectly free music composed without a major that is awayable here legally: http://www.jamendo.com/en/
So summing up: The price of allofmp3 was fair to me and is possibly enought to compensate the artists. The majors are unneeded because good music comes out of itself and jamendo is the proof.
I see no actual problem in backing up all of mp3: I see problems not for backing it up! The allerged economists at the WTO should think about enforcing free trade instead of blocking exports from Russian Websites. Several "institutions" as the DVD REGIONAL CSS are obviuosly devised to erode consumer suplus and stop trade, those should not be tolerated by the WTO but indeed they get enforced by the very same organization. By IP right enforcement the south of the world is incapacitated to produce cheap drugs for the population and the result is death.
So open your eyes, realize that copyright legislation is extremely bad, it is rotten to the bone by the lobbying of several pigopolist american corporations. Allofmp3 is just a indicator of the bad things to come and standing for it means standing for the rights of humanity against corporativity.
I used to buy music online...DRM Free and legally. But the RIAA lobbyed the US President to make him ask the Russian President to close allofmp3 or else... I suppose Putin was kinda of relief. Can you imagine? He's planning to rebuild and strengthen all the nuclear arsenal and Bush instead of questioning on that matter goes on and ask to close a small internet store! FUNNY to the brim of ridicolous!
Since then I stopped buying Mp3s legally online, note that they were on piracy before and after the above mentioned events. And of course later on the charges against allofmp3 were dropped because they were inconsistent http://www.allofmp3.ru/press.shtml
The RIAA has closed a market opportunity with lobbying (at least one lost a consumer) Those in charge there are really IDIOTS. They just are donkey heads that can't do the math.
Here is the math: I spend 15$ online get 8 albums = 50% profits estimated (And I suppose they go to Russia, anyway RIAA is known not to be fairer to the artists, see the article below) I spend 0$ anywhere because of high prices = profits?
I don't like the feces stuff of the post before but please consider:
How's china? Ask the thousands of guys sentenced to death (well suppose that they can't speak anymore). So go on and ask the rural population or the dalai lama... And yes, have a ride in Cuba and wonder why they aren't allowed to leave the country or travel town to town. For your information: Venezuela has no indipendent TV anymore and it is likely to turn into a totalitarian regime. North Korea is served here: http://www.torrentz.com/04253f6d2fb37fce9be538826d3558876baf94a5 but the torrents to a good use
That's the commonist way, so stop bullshitting people
Enrico
P.S. The proposed french law is simply a idiocy. In exchange of nothing they threaten the consumers, no real democratic governmente would approve that.
Air Transportation Companies are already fined automatically if they overbook. Why shouldn't Telecom Providers be fined as well?
Can you imagine the staff at the check in of a airport complaining with the passengers because they are freeriding the plane? I can't. This Cuban guy is against the consumer and in any way he shouldn't be elected to any public position (and I am thinking about the rubbish collector industry)
Sorry for the harsh title. But let me explain the point. As quoted:
I wouldn't really mind being one of the experts while freeing up a large portion of the population to do whatever they want. We've got that allready and it is called unemployment. You can substitize a little but it won't work on a long term with the current world economy. So sorry to interrupt this candid vision with reality:
* Mobile Phones also meant work can reach you anywhere
* Email and lotus notes give your bosses the unheard power to assign you tasks to work on weekends
* Globalization makes white collars work around the clock (you start working with asian markets and end up late in the evening waiting for the americans to wake up).
* Any advanced economy has attracked masses poor migrants looking to exploit the welfare.
* Along with immigration comes added unemployemt rates, degradation of salaries, rise on taxes for maintaining the welfare and the worsening of work conditions.
This is already happened in complete ignorance of our and your politicians. Now if a robotic society is going to develop I can't see a way to get benefits in this economic and politic scenario. Unemploed people will be kept at the brim of starvation and employed ones will be exploited to the limits.
Nevertheless reading the full article you can see that the guy who sued works for a Consumer Association and on his side there were not legal expenses. This is a win/win situation. If he wins he gets the money and attorneys get paid + pubblicity for the association - If he loses noone gets hurt.
The WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is dedicated to developing a balanced and accessible international intellectual property (IP) system, which rewards creativity, stimulates innovation and contributes to economic development while safeguarding the public interest. The IFPI is know to be a RIAA like conglomerate of the music industry. So why stealing artist's revenue streams and suing the public for ejoying music has to do with a organization namely built to promove creativity and innovation while safeguarding the public interest?
This question has some answer but the main reason behind it is to make you think.
"a software program installed on tens of millions of Windows computers worldwide" This is a direct measure of how many people run computers without any actual knowledge and sense of security/efficiency.
The last time I was forced to install the RealPlayer just to watch a piece on a website I was subjugated into a series of humiliating requests: screen after screen the installation process was going to possess all my media, substitute all the other legit players and link all the way possible into some shitty music download service.
As soon as I recorded the piece in another DRM free format I disinstalled that stinky crap and run several scan for spyware because ultimately reaplayer is more a posses-my-pc-experience than a player.
Conclusion: Those people running Realplayer showed they like to be abused by the same act of agreeing to the installation process. They thus deserve to be exploited by hackers. Anyway I guess those same people have been allready running bonzi buddy all this time.
This explains why does the business market is refusing to adopt Windows Vista. "Where are those TPS reports???? Did you copy them?" BTW I recall the old days when I had a Disk Operating System instead of windows I'd took for granted that vista had to be an improvement over that but I was wrong.
Well OS X 1.5 will be priced much less and looks more stable to me, at least more stable than XP.(I am running also a Mac).
Also to the update process is more straightforward and, I suppose, clean - no shit in the registry and no infinite entries for updated patches in the add/remove apps panel.
The problem of course is that it runs on apple hardware and most of the times it requests you to pay for overpriced additional services (.MAC anyone?)
The IFPI. I hate them. They tend to play in europe the same role as the RIAA in USA. With the difference that in Europe States have actual laws that private firms are bound to respect: trivial things like privacy and the concept that the State actually runs the law instead of mediadefender.
So far their intimidating letters and scary tactics have fired back all the way. (I have seen one they sent to the guy at the Network managment of my uni a few years ago). I can just hail to the new domain!
My reply comes late and will be short. By reading the article you can get clear hints that iTunes is going to be the market leader for a very long time. I summarize them:
"Sony said recently that it would abandon its proprietary ATRAC copy-protection technology, and add Microsoft's Windows Media... close its Connect Music Store". Translation - Fucking customers who bought previous players and registered the service.
"MTV Networks said it would abandon its own digital music service, called Urge, and pool its efforts with RealNetworks' Rhapsody" They fare even better, close the store screwing registered users and then as if this was not enought join forces with the most unsuccessful, worse DRMd and worse marketed player of all times
"get hardware makers to absorb the cost of a $5 monthly subscription" Selling hardware that works only on a rent basis!!! This is funny, I don't know anyone willing to buy somethin like that.
"CEO of Universal Music's [says] the share of revenue that Apple collects for each song sold on iTunes is "indecent,"" Labelling competition bad names instead of competing.
"the labels would like to charge different prices for new and older music" Now in economics this has actually a name. It is called market segmentation and is the most known way of screwing costumers by raping their surplus.
"nurture the adoption of other music players such as Microsoft's Zune": History teaches us that any business that made deals with microsoft has to face 2 quests. The first is to win the market. The second is avoiding MS to take over using anticompetitive practices and lawyers. By judging how they are dealing to the iTunes quest I guess those idiotic CEOs are deemed to fail both.
The real question is: who put them in charge? Their proposed exit strategy for media distribution sounds as "shoot us in the leg". If I had any stok or option on those companies I would consider selling them now before is too late.
'You would not believe the number of routers that had "admin" or "Cisco0" as passwords on them,' If it works don't try to fix it!;) This is what most computer/network operators are taught at the beginning of their careers - All of this story is just the result.
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I tell you why. You read the sentence and then imagined this "John Kennedy, chairman and CEO of the IFPI" drooling happy just like a dog at the idea that in china there are no legal limits to the amount of abuse that the citizen can be subject to. Maybe he's already contemplating new forms of DRM or abuse to experiment on those unfortunate people before trying to export them to more civilized places.
Then you associated this already fetish image to the quality products of the german filmography that you can preview by inputting "private fetish" into google.
Americans are quite sensitive when somebody reminds them of the special treatment they reserved for black people and the consideration of women in general http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjxY9rZwNGU . Kinda of like the same that happens with the Germans and the nazi stuff... I think that was the problem. It is not by electing those people that they will whitewash their collective conscience.
This is the effect of the enourmous hipocrisy that nowadays is called "Politically Correctness" and ties free expression in so called democracies and for instance allows idiots claiming creationsism as science.
I am way pissed off with that.
Whoever modded this as troll did it on behalf of political opinions and thus is a idiot.
I'd like to comment on your lefty reply. You forgot to mention that was a "Democratic" president (Clinton) that enhacted the DMCA Bill. A bill that as a slashdotter you should know has made difficult scientific research and lead also to temporary imprisonments of foreing scientist. A bill that causes daily headhackes for every researcher that wants to get a paper published and in the long run has proben only beneficiary to the lawyers selling consuelling to those people in need. I'd like you to see if by "coincidence" there was some strange relation between entertainment industry founding of the democratic governors that year.
I'd like also to invite you to read the subject of the conversation. In the article is clearly stated that this absurdity is being carried on by a BIPARTISAN group. BIPARTISAN means that someone external proposed them to meet and organized a bill that strangely both democrats and republican agree...
You might not like Bush and that's your right. But you can't blame just him cause that's plainly a idiot thing to do. And surely you can't expect the next one to be better. Now the first time the Democrats are choosing between a woman and a black guy called OBAMA (OSAMA?), please lose your hopes: them both have a terrible record of campaing contributions from the entertainment industry (yep, corporations)
P.S. In Europe We are in bad conditions. Maybe you just dont realize that there is the same kind of arrangments going on in Bruxelles because the media auto-censorship and the lack of a law for public access to EU documents.
We found your position within a 5000Mt precision. And the little tool was pretending I was somewhere in roma city center while I actually was around 6000 mt from the position. Not bad, I guess from the previuos alpha version that supposely was indicating me being actually on earth or within one satellite distance. You still need a GPS receiver for positioning. And anyway anyone heard of the mtfuxx called Galileo? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_positioning_system Doesen't the project be awaiable nowadays? Did it got a takedown notice under the DCMA?
Some Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) music providers: Jamendo = http://www.jamendo.com/en/ Search CC = http://search.creativecommons.org/# OpSound = http://opsound.org/ w00tw0t0 Records http://w00tw0t0.net/ and a small internet Radio only CC music http://digilander.libero.it/freemusicstyle/ These are FREE and LEGAL. There is no need to pay anyone and sometimes, depending on the license, you are free to elaborate or even profit. So the estimated cost is "how much you want to donate". The quality is good if compared to the pieces of Britney Spears (for instance) but you won't easily find any boy band. As long as we know they are a marketing product and not real music. I know this is slightly offtopic, but I'll be glad if someone visits those sites and gets inspiration.
Consider the proof of the rejoicing moment the three major faith have taken to explain hurricane Kathrina: Cristians - Jews - Muslins. To be fair we need to add a +2 modifier for religious zealotry for the muslins cause they manage already to "manifest" aganist the USA and still claim peacefulness. To be extra fair I'd leave a -1 modifier to the cristians for their inconsistent line about the event wich doesnt surprise me much (being inconsistent).
Now if you give to a blessed by any god zealot the tool for a mass murder you'd likely to get problems. My conclusion is that since you can't clean radioactivity I say that prevention is mandatory. This has nothing to do with FUD unless you are a zealot yourself among those that pretend the WTC was taken down by a couple of UFOs disguised as Planes controlled by the illuminati. In that case I'd reccomend you to take a tour of saudi arabia, bible in hand, and dressed like a rabin, it's all FUD anyway so why to be scared? Suggestions: Take a look at this brilliant man actually is suggest you take a look at all of his videos and prove him wrong
I loved allofmp3 :) It's not whitewashing! It was one of the few online shops with reasonably priced DRM free music! That not only convinced me but I am sure several others dropped P2P during the period.
Also if you break down the PRICE of a DRM-Free Itunes download and compare it to a former allofmp3 download you see a 1400% difference (1,70 to 0,12) how can Apple justify the difference? (Please do not pretend the difference really goes to the artist!!! We know it doesn't http://downhillbattle.org/itunes/ ).
Then you can argue that the extra money is needed by the majors to produce actual commercial music. So go on and digest one of Madonna CDs or Britey Hits... and compare against the perfectly free music composed without a major that is awayable here legally: http://www.jamendo.com/en/
So summing up: The price of allofmp3 was fair to me and is possibly enought to compensate the artists. The majors are unneeded because good music comes out of itself and jamendo is the proof.
I see no actual problem in backing up all of mp3: I see problems not for backing it up! The allerged economists at the WTO should think about enforcing free trade instead of blocking exports from Russian Websites. Several "institutions" as the DVD REGIONAL CSS are obviuosly devised to erode consumer suplus and stop trade, those should not be tolerated by the WTO but indeed they get enforced by the very same organization. By IP right enforcement the south of the world is incapacitated to produce cheap drugs for the population and the result is death.
So open your eyes, realize that copyright legislation is extremely bad, it is rotten to the bone by the lobbying of several pigopolist american corporations. Allofmp3 is just a indicator of the bad things to come and standing for it means standing for the rights of humanity against corporativity.
Enrico
I used to buy music online...DRM Free and legally. But the RIAA lobbyed the US President to make him ask the Russian President to close allofmp3 or else... I suppose Putin was kinda of relief. Can you imagine? He's planning to rebuild and strengthen all the nuclear arsenal and Bush instead of questioning on that matter goes on and ask to close a small internet store! FUNNY to the brim of ridicolous!
Since then I stopped buying Mp3s legally online, note that they were on piracy before and after the above mentioned events. And of course later on the charges against allofmp3 were dropped because they were inconsistent http://www.allofmp3.ru/press.shtml
The RIAA has closed a market opportunity with lobbying (at least one lost a consumer) Those in charge there are really IDIOTS. They just are donkey heads that can't do the math.
Here is the math:
I spend 15$ online get 8 albums = 50% profits estimated (And I suppose they go to Russia, anyway RIAA is known not to be fairer to the artists, see the article below)
I spend 0$ anywhere because of high prices = profits?
Here is the math of Courtney Love online since 2000: http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/index.html
Have a good read
I don't like the feces stuff of the post before but please consider:
How's china? Ask the thousands of guys sentenced to death (well suppose that they can't speak anymore). So go on and ask the rural population or the dalai lama... And yes, have a ride in Cuba and wonder why they aren't allowed to leave the country or travel town to town. For your information: Venezuela has no indipendent TV anymore and it is likely to turn into a totalitarian regime. North Korea is served here: http://www.torrentz.com/04253f6d2fb37fce9be538826d3558876baf94a5 but the torrents to a good use
That's the commonist way, so stop bullshitting people
Enrico
P.S. The proposed french law is simply a idiocy. In exchange of nothing they threaten the consumers, no real democratic governmente would approve that.
Air Transportation Companies are already fined automatically if they overbook. Why shouldn't Telecom Providers be fined as well?
Can you imagine the staff at the check in of a airport complaining with the passengers because they are freeriding the plane? I can't. This Cuban guy is against the consumer and in any way he shouldn't be elected to any public position (and I am thinking about the rubbish collector industry)
Enrico
Of course you will not get cancer. If you smoke pot it's way more likely you'll die in a car accident while driving high.
* Mobile Phones also meant work can reach you anywhere
* Email and lotus notes give your bosses the unheard power to assign you tasks to work on weekends
* Globalization makes white collars work around the clock (you start working with asian markets and end up late in the evening waiting for the americans to wake up).
* Any advanced economy has attracked masses poor migrants looking to exploit the welfare.
* Along with immigration comes added unemployemt rates, degradation of salaries, rise on taxes for maintaining the welfare and the worsening of work conditions.
This is already happened in complete ignorance of our and your politicians. Now if a robotic society is going to develop I can't see a way to get benefits in this economic and politic scenario. Unemploed people will be kept at the brim of starvation and employed ones will be exploited to the limits.
This article is outdated. As a matter of fact one of they governor is a terminator from the future! :D
Nevertheless reading the full article you can see that the guy who sued works for a Consumer Association and on his side there were not legal expenses. This is a win/win situation. If he wins he gets the money and attorneys get paid + pubblicity for the association - If he loses noone gets hurt.
Enrico
Nevertheless we are ruled by idiots.
This question has some answer but the main reason behind it is to make you think.
The last time I was forced to install the RealPlayer just to watch a piece on a website I was subjugated into a series of humiliating requests: screen after screen the installation process was going to possess all my media, substitute all the other legit players and link all the way possible into some shitty music download service.
As soon as I recorded the piece in another DRM free format I disinstalled that stinky crap and run several scan for spyware because ultimately reaplayer is more a posses-my-pc-experience than a player.
Conclusion: Those people running Realplayer showed they like to be abused by the same act of agreeing to the installation process. They thus deserve to be exploited by hackers. Anyway I guess those same people have been allready running bonzi buddy all this time.
This explains why does the business market is refusing to adopt Windows Vista. "Where are those TPS reports???? Did you copy them?"
BTW I recall the old days when I had a Disk Operating System instead of windows I'd took for granted that vista had to be an improvement over that but I was wrong.
Well OS X 1.5 will be priced much less and looks more stable to me, at least more stable than XP.(I am running also a Mac).
Also to the update process is more straightforward and, I suppose, clean - no shit in the registry and no infinite entries for updated patches in the add/remove apps panel.
The problem of course is that it runs on apple hardware and most of the times it requests you to pay for overpriced additional services (.MAC anyone?)
The IFPI. I hate them. They tend to play in europe the same role as the RIAA in USA. With the difference that in Europe States have actual laws that private firms are bound to respect: trivial things like privacy and the concept that the State actually runs the law instead of mediadefender.
So far their intimidating letters and scary tactics have fired back all the way. (I have seen one they sent to the guy at the Network managment of my uni a few years ago). I can just hail to the new domain!
The real question is: who put them in charge? Their proposed exit strategy for media distribution sounds as "shoot us in the leg". If I had any stok or option on those companies I would consider selling them now before is too late.
A small bullet for a man, a giant leap for mankind. (The Mob)
Enrico