It's not surprising, because most online videos are clips, or at best small-screened streaming shows. It's basically a question of time versus availability - I may only have 2 hours a day where I can game/watch TV etc, and if I did want to watch a show that I don't own/isn't on DVD, I'd have to download it on BT, which prevents me using the 2 hours there and then.
It's quite a non-article as well. Games vs short clips & Myspace? Eh. Let the big players allow me to purchase (by microfee hopefully, although I doubt they'd be so generous) the ability to stream and watch something right away, and then measure that against using the net for gaming, and then there might be an article worth reading.
Another possibility - lock the 'adult' content on the console version (the way Duke Nukem 3D was released in Australia) and have the gamer call in/log on and prove their age with a CC number or something along those lines to unlock the gore/sex/what have you. Not foolproof, but probably no worse than a kid getting their older brother to buy an AO game (if they could find one) or the store clerk not asking for ID.
It's all about winning votes. The internet is a good one right now because the majority of voters only know that they can get email from it, and that tens of thousands of child molesters are grooming their children right now. Wait a couple of decades and the 'censor the internet' hue and cry won't work so well. They'll have moved on to something else by then, but at least our pr0n will be safe.
Which makes sense, it's a much better idea to let the police find out that the torrents don't have child porn than for TPB to download them themselves, find that they actually do and then get busted for it.
Google actively works to filter out child porn. It's not perfect, but they are making an effort. The Pirate Bay, meanwhile, has not been.
I think the whole basis for TPB's existence is the fact that they don't host anything, illegal or not. Therefore, they don't care what's listed on there. It's probably not perfect, but if pedophiles are willing to download child porn from public trackers, all the better...way easier to track them than trawling a darknet or chatrooms.
Having just finished God of War II, I've finally had the vague stirrings toward the view that having a PS3 might be a good thing....at least when God of War III comes out.
As well....seeing as Bittorrent downloads a file piece by piece in no particular order, how are they going to scan random 128k-2mb files to see whether they are copyrighted or not?
If the band has been backed by a label, they've already been paid by the label to license their music and sell it.
They may have been paid, depending on their deal. Courtney Love did an interesting article a while back giving the artist's account of how the record labels control the finances and payments.
*Disclaimer: article has probably been posted many times on/. However, I've linked to the ad-free-all-on-one-page version, so it cancels out;)*
I'm happy for the RIAA to get anything and everything that's coming to them, but I don't think it will change their litigation-happy behaviour at all. The problem is that the RIAA is just a faceless body representing the big labels, and until people start bitching about Sony, Universal Music, EMI etc, then what does the RIAA care if people hate them? They're not selling the products, they exist solely as a trade group, and if they take all the flak that rightfully belongs to the labels, they'll still do it.
It's the puppeteers, not the puppet, that needs to be demonized.
It could be that they were planning on using the bullets against hippies;)
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They were exploiting a loophole in Russian law and they knew it.
Upstart Russian website exploiting a loophole in law = filthy communist thieves.
Established tax-paying middleman business exploiting a loophole in law = good business practices?
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What the artists do need is recording studios and expertise. When an industry solely catering to that - without the binding contracts, points-per-production, excess marketing and and shady business practices - springs up, then artists can be freer to record then release their work online.
Unfortunately, the biggest and best studios and probably most of the good sound engineers work within the recording industry, so many artists find that the services that they need in order to produce albums are owned by the RIAA/MPA etc. That and the fact that far too many 'artists' out there are mediocre at best in relation to talent/creativity, and so could probably only make some kind of living within the RIAA model. Hopefully, they'll be the first against the wall, etc etc.
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Especially as seeing as the RIAA wasn't collecting the royalties that Allofmp3.com claimed to be setting aside, the artists weren't getting paid anyway
You may as well just download the various format torrents from TPB....the artist will get the same as they were anyway, your CC will be safe and you won't have to maintain the pretence that paying tuppence to a pseudo-legal site was legitimately buying the music;)
Maybe some perspective is needed. Half of Slashdot sees the hand of God in the iPhone, and the other half wants it to fail miserably. But at the end of the day, it's still just a phone. If it makes calls and texts, then it's fine. Anything else is just window dressing (which admittedly is the main selling point for it).
I'd be more interested in hearing reviews/complaints after people have actually had the phone for a few weeks, as first impressions tend to be coloured by the owner's predisposition towards it.
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It's not surprising, because most online videos are clips, or at best small-screened streaming shows. It's basically a question of time versus availability - I may only have 2 hours a day where I can game/watch TV etc, and if I did want to watch a show that I don't own/isn't on DVD, I'd have to download it on BT, which prevents me using the 2 hours there and then.
It's quite a non-article as well. Games vs short clips & Myspace? Eh. Let the big players allow me to purchase (by microfee hopefully, although I doubt they'd be so generous) the ability to stream and watch something right away, and then measure that against using the net for gaming, and then there might be an article worth reading.
Untrue. For example, the Nokia N95 has an integrated GPS receiver, and more phones are being produced with them built in.
Whether they can be individually zeroed in on is another matter, but GPS would be far more accurate than triangulation.
As if suicidal people need to know that there's another thing they suck at : P
Wow, we could have a virtual Guys and Dolls, with avatars singing and dancing and shooting crap!
Another possibility - lock the 'adult' content on the console version (the way Duke Nukem 3D was released in Australia) and have the gamer call in/log on and prove their age with a CC number or something along those lines to unlock the gore/sex/what have you. Not foolproof, but probably no worse than a kid getting their older brother to buy an AO game (if they could find one) or the store clerk not asking for ID.
Completely made up for dramatic and political-FUD purposes :)
I personally agree with your view there, and believe that the whole 'net-predator' thing is rather a beat-up.
It's all about winning votes. The internet is a good one right now because the majority of voters only know that they can get email from it, and that tens of thousands of child molesters are grooming their children right now. Wait a couple of decades and the 'censor the internet' hue and cry won't work so well. They'll have moved on to something else by then, but at least our pr0n will be safe.
Neat idea, or more proof that the music industry has jumped the shark?
Good points, the Office programs are quite decent, although on the other hand are you really so ready to forgive Clippy?
Actually, it was the Lost World. In Jurassic Park they just used tranquillizer guns.
Which makes sense, it's a much better idea to let the police find out that the torrents don't have child porn than for TPB to download them themselves, find that they actually do and then get busted for it.
I think that's the problem ;)
I think the whole basis for TPB's existence is the fact that they don't host anything, illegal or not. Therefore, they don't care what's listed on there. It's probably not perfect, but if pedophiles are willing to download child porn from public trackers, all the better...way easier to track them than trawling a darknet or chatrooms.
Having just finished God of War II, I've finally had the vague stirrings toward the view that having a PS3 might be a good thing....at least when God of War III comes out.
First the OLGA, now guitar teachers being fairly innovative in getting lessons across.
It's like the RIAA don't actually want up-and-coming musicians. Saying something about the goose who lays the golden eggs would be appropriate here.
Dear God, I hope that doesn't mean that MG will bring out a cartoon equivalent to Daikatana ;)
As well....seeing as Bittorrent downloads a file piece by piece in no particular order, how are they going to scan random 128k-2mb files to see whether they are copyrighted or not?
They may have been paid, depending on their deal. Courtney Love did an interesting article a while back giving the artist's account of how the record labels control the finances and payments.
*Disclaimer: article has probably been posted many times on
I'm happy for the RIAA to get anything and everything that's coming to them, but I don't think it will change their litigation-happy behaviour at all. The problem is that the RIAA is just a faceless body representing the big labels, and until people start bitching about Sony, Universal Music, EMI etc, then what does the RIAA care if people hate them? They're not selling the products, they exist solely as a trade group, and if they take all the flak that rightfully belongs to the labels, they'll still do it.
It's the puppeteers, not the puppet, that needs to be demonized.
Not everyone I SMS/MMS can receive emails on their phones though...
It could be that they were planning on using the bullets against hippies ;)
Upstart Russian website exploiting a loophole in law = filthy communist thieves.
Established tax-paying middleman business exploiting a loophole in law = good business practices?
What the artists do need is recording studios and expertise. When an industry solely catering to that - without the binding contracts, points-per-production, excess marketing and and shady business practices - springs up, then artists can be freer to record then release their work online.
Unfortunately, the biggest and best studios and probably most of the good sound engineers work within the recording industry, so many artists find that the services that they need in order to produce albums are owned by the RIAA/MPA etc. That and the fact that far too many 'artists' out there are mediocre at best in relation to talent/creativity, and so could probably only make some kind of living within the RIAA model. Hopefully, they'll be the first against the wall, etc etc.
Especially as seeing as the RIAA wasn't collecting the royalties that Allofmp3.com claimed to be setting aside, the artists weren't getting paid anyway
;)
You may as well just download the various format torrents from TPB....the artist will get the same as they were anyway, your CC will be safe and you won't have to maintain the pretence that paying tuppence to a pseudo-legal site was legitimately buying the music
Maybe some perspective is needed. Half of Slashdot sees the hand of God in the iPhone, and the other half wants it to fail miserably. But at the end of the day, it's still just a phone. If it makes calls and texts, then it's fine. Anything else is just window dressing (which admittedly is the main selling point for it).
I'd be more interested in hearing reviews/complaints after people have actually had the phone for a few weeks, as first impressions tend to be coloured by the owner's predisposition towards it.