As soon as I read "windows home server" my first thought was all the bad press about the file corruption problems and tbh that's one of the worse things that could happen, to loose all your family photos.
The GP never said he was pirating and it's perfectly easy to legally download content for free.
- For software there is Ubuntu and open source. - Music there is as the GP says, indy artists that distribute their work for free. - There are numerous TV feeds out there you can watch for free over the web.
even though you're the one ripping off the artist.... he industries have already adopted internet distribution models through iTunes, Steam, and so forth. What more do you want?
To answer both your points, I want the artists to get the money, not the publisher. If we are the ones ripping the artists off then why have they formed their own union against publishers?
Lawrence Lessig's book Free Culture goes into detail about this subject and comes to the conclusion that it's a load of bullshit made up by the media companies.
I'm assuming you also don't want your ISP inserting adverts into your slashdot?
You might not mind but I do mind, encrypting all traffic means no advert inserting, no network neutrality problems, no US government reading my email, etc.
Yeah, they might break the encryption, but so what? Just plug the security hole and continue.
That's not really the point though. It raises the bar of work needed to implement these snooping systems and can prevent ISPs from placing their own adverts into webpages.
Yeah, but I'd rather be in gitmo then a Malaysian prison, or worse its neighbour, a Thai prison. In a Thai prison the guards will give you a chance to run for freedom and get shot rather then spend your sentence there eating cockroaches for nutrition (no I am not exaggerating).
The rights for performers should be improved to bring them more into line with those granted to authors (songwriters, lyricists and composers). Authorâ(TM)s rights are much stronger because their rights model was developed 100 years before performers' rights. Some key differences: - if an artist's recording is used in a TV advertisement in the UK, the author gets paid (via PRS) every time it is broadcast but the performers do not - if an artist's record is played on free-to-air radio in the US the author gets paid public performance income (via ASCAP or BMI) but the performers do not - if an artist's recording is used in a feature film, the author but not the performer gets paid public performance income every time the film is shown in a UK cinema.
and there you have it ladies and gentlemen. The recording industries bullshit lies. Piracy be damned. The reason artists make squat is because the publishes have stolen all the money!
Perhaps someone could educate me here but how accurate is this because surely we've never done any study into the effects of gravity at the speed of light. Doesn't gravity act differently at this speed?
If the Linux version is gimped then of course it's getting returned. If they put a decent distribution on it that "just worked" they wouldn't be getting as many returns. After reading the story that doesn't seem to be the case.
If you installed a gimped version of windows which didn't work it too would getting as many returns. It's basic lack of testing which is causing this although the summary makes a lame attempt that somehow Linux is an inferior product and that's why it's getting as many returns which is just stupid.
None of that says anything about how much money they make!!
I said..
These guys have put a lot of work into this. They have to run servers, back ups, defend themselves in court and to some extent put their lives on the line to defend their country's laws.
Don't do your research on slashdot, if you want to know how much money they make, read their blogs!
As someone who has personally donated to TPB website I think you're wrong.
These guys have put a lot of work into this. They have to run servers, back ups, defend themselves in court and to some extent put their lives on the line to defend their country's laws.
Just browse the legal page on TPB and it'll give you some idea of how these lawyers think that US law == world law. Even on slashdot we have articles that go on and on about software patents but it's irrelevant to me. In some ways I wish there was a "piratebay" for software patents in the UK to highlight these points. Why doesn't Ubuntu just put whatever software patents it wants in. It's all UK based right? what's the fear? It's US oppression on the rest of the world and someone is standing up to it.
with us now having currently had over 250K + full album downloads removed from torrent sites, has almost bankrupted our company and sadly the artist and myself personally, not to mention many other small independent labels and artists worldwide.
and then the exact same guy says this in the last email..
I am a millionaire and do not claim to be bankrupt.
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It's because you haven't configured your memory settings in OOo correctly otherwise it'd load almost instantly.
As soon as I read "windows home server" my first thought was all the bad press about the file corruption problems and tbh that's one of the worse things that could happen, to loose all your family photos.
I think the article is talking about a different D programming language, not the one from Digital Mars.
The GP never said he was pirating and it's perfectly easy to legally download content for free.
- For software there is Ubuntu and open source.
- Music there is as the GP says, indy artists that distribute their work for free.
- There are numerous TV feeds out there you can watch for free over the web.
You're wrong, if you read free culture it provides more then enough evidence to show that equating every pirated instance to a lost sale is not true.
To answer both your points, I want the artists to get the money, not the publisher. If we are the ones ripping the artists off then why have they formed their own union against publishers?
Lawrence Lessig's book Free Culture goes into detail about this subject and comes to the conclusion that it's a load of bullshit made up by the media companies.
What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with Google. The fact that the title mentions Google is a dumb mistake.
For the same reason ISPs want you to pay a premium package and kill network neutrality.
One of the main points of this is that it's faster, however you didn't mention any comparison.
I'm assuming you also don't want your ISP inserting adverts into your slashdot?
You might not mind but I do mind, encrypting all traffic means no advert inserting, no network neutrality problems, no US government reading my email, etc.
Yeah, they might break the encryption, but so what? Just plug the security hole and continue.
That's not really the point though. It raises the bar of work needed to implement these snooping systems and can prevent ISPs from placing their own adverts into webpages.
What's to be scared of the news has been reported a day AFTER it actually happened.
Yeah, but I'd rather be in gitmo then a Malaysian prison, or worse its neighbour, a Thai prison. In a Thai prison the guards will give you a chance to run for freedom and get shot rather then spend your sentence there eating cockroaches for nutrition (no I am not exaggerating).
and there you have it ladies and gentlemen. The recording industries bullshit lies. Piracy be damned. The reason artists make squat is because the publishes have stolen all the money!
Perhaps someone could educate me here but how accurate is this because surely we've never done any study into the effects of gravity at the speed of light. Doesn't gravity act differently at this speed?
Well, it's obvious that you don't know what Loonix is.
...you know this? How?
Which doesn't really answer my question, does it?
If the Linux version is gimped then of course it's getting returned. If they put a decent distribution on it that "just worked" they wouldn't be getting as many returns. After reading the story that doesn't seem to be the case.
If you installed a gimped version of windows which didn't work it too would getting as many returns. It's basic lack of testing which is causing this although the summary makes a lame attempt that somehow Linux is an inferior product and that's why it's getting as many returns which is just stupid.
According to Amazon the linux version is an 8.9" screen whereas the Windows XP version is a 10".
If the Linux version is a gimped version then it's not a fair comparison.
Actually it's because I just didn't bother to come back and read his reply.
You said..
I said..
Don't do your research on slashdot, if you want to know how much money they make, read their blogs!
As someone who has personally donated to TPB website I think you're wrong.
These guys have put a lot of work into this. They have to run servers, back ups, defend themselves in court and to some extent put their lives on the line to defend their country's laws.
Just browse the legal page on TPB and it'll give you some idea of how these lawyers think that US law == world law. Even on slashdot we have articles that go on and on about software patents but it's irrelevant to me. In some ways I wish there was a "piratebay" for software patents in the UK to highlight these points. Why doesn't Ubuntu just put whatever software patents it wants in. It's all UK based right? what's the fear? It's US oppression on the rest of the world and someone is standing up to it.
My personal favourite is this series of letters.
More specifically..
and then the exact same guy says this in the last email..
So there you go..
When I heard that news story I was actually thinking, "What the hell does Kenya need with a boat load of tanks?!".
I guessing this is what the funds bono raises gets spent on..
I don't know myself. Well lets get back to discussing the story about a rich pilot that died in a small aeroplane crash..