Yes, just what our society needs. So we get these "invisibility cloaks" and what is next? Use in law enforcement? Cops can spy on us from behind these cloaks? An amendment to the Patriot Act? I'm not saying these are necessarily bad things, but we sure as hell have to weigh the possible negative uses of such a technology.
Following suit with that article about the RIAA pushing for pretexting in California, I could just see them getting their hands on invisibility cloaks. Be careful pirating music, the RIAA could be in the corner watching!
From what I read it's just a name change. AOL prevented the development team (kinda) from releasing anything but betas. You can get more information on what's been going on on the main GAIM Sourceforge page.
I hate to sound calloused, but that's the way this society works. Now I'm not saying I've never pirated music before, but there is an unstoppable shift towards an internet culture (people just don't want to go to a record store when they could download off the internet--this is especially true of teenagers and young adults). Because of this, stores aren't getting enough business and have to close.
The RIAA has to stop worrying about stupid things like suing grandma for downloading songs that Trent Reznor released on purpose and start figuring out how to incorporate music downloading into their vast money-making machine.
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Yes, just what our society needs. So we get these "invisibility cloaks" and what is next? Use in law enforcement? Cops can spy on us from behind these cloaks? An amendment to the Patriot Act? I'm not saying these are necessarily bad things, but we sure as hell have to weigh the possible negative uses of such a technology.
Following suit with that article about the RIAA pushing for pretexting in California, I could just see them getting their hands on invisibility cloaks.
Be careful pirating music, the RIAA could be in the corner watching!
From what I read it's just a name change. AOL prevented the development team (kinda) from releasing anything but betas. You can get more information on what's been going on on the main GAIM Sourceforge page.
Gaim was shorter >_>
AOL needs to crash and burn. End of story.
I hate to sound calloused, but that's the way this society works. Now I'm not saying I've never pirated music before, but there is an unstoppable shift towards an internet culture (people just don't want to go to a record store when they could download off the internet--this is especially true of teenagers and young adults). Because of this, stores aren't getting enough business and have to close.
The RIAA has to stop worrying about stupid things like suing grandma for downloading songs that Trent Reznor released on purpose and start figuring out how to incorporate music downloading into their vast money-making machine.