I dont completely disagree, but if a company just says, "Here's all their information," I can't help but yell WTF. No network is completely secure, but just taking the lock off the door completely and saying , "here ya go, take whatever you want, just give us money for whatever information you take" is ridiculous. How about, lower my bill or give me some profit sharing, if you're selling my information, my activities, my life. The net is here to stay, but we shouldn't have to completely eliminate our privacy to use it.
So what's the difference here between the illegal wiretapping that mr. bush is doing now, and recording all of your activity and voip calls over the net. Looks like we now have a new invasion of privacy called, virtual wiretapping. It's not like we have a choice of internet providers that we can select from; it's already a monopoly in most areas, and it's not being deregulated, to give us competitions and lower prices, because the government is happy being able to go to one warehouse to get all their information. Slowly but surely, our liberties fade. I use to think the people ran the government, but it's clearly a society of people run by the government(*cough* corporations).
First. Guitar tabs is hosting individual interpretations of the songs. How accurate they are is up for discussion(there's usually 2,3,4 different published ways to play it.) Unless they are actually copying, note for note, from the artists published music transcriptions, I don't see a problem with this.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Guitartabs has to stand up on this one. Watch what happens if it becomes illegal to transcribe music into tabs. Next your local cover band wont be able to play a cover song of your favorite band, without having to pay the artist because other people are listening to it. These cover bands exist, because they love the artist, and they are out there promoting the artist for free, because they love it, and others listen to it. Wouldn't you be flattered if everyone wanted to play your song? Would you demand these people stop playing your song, because you're not getting paid when they play it? Or your local music store, guitar instructor, wont be able to show you how to play a song, because you have to hire the artist to teach you how to play it, and then pay him an additional fee for actually playing it in front of other people. Then it will be illegal to play music in your own house, without a "RIAA" representative present to monitor your musical talents.
The band didn't invent the A,C,D,E chord. They didn't find a new way of strumming it. They played a rythm or a beat that's been played 1000000 times over, threw in an extra instrument or background track, and added their lyrics to it. Sure that's an oversimplification, but really break it down. Are you honestly telling me I can't sit in front of my stereo and write down the notes to a song and say, hey Jim(my buddy) I figured it out, here I wrote it down. I see us 50 years from now with our electronic debit cards hooked up to the radio, and we're paying $5 a song, just to listen to it on the radio.
So violations of State tobacco law may result in fines of up to $4,000, plus a $50 surcharge for each violation. Violations can lead to the loss of the business's State retail sales registration and Lottery license.
What's more dangerous to a "minor"? Cigarettes or a video game?
So although this will sound completely ridiculous and un-necessary to a normal human being; if you're going to regulate the gaming industry, then regulate it with a state license(or strip the existing retailers license) to sell video games, and game content. Then start fining them, with the possibility to have their license removed or revoked, which ultimately puts them out of business if it continues.
Doesn't that seem more reasonable? Does attaching "felony" with "video game" seem reasonable?
Pretty soon it's going to be a felony to sell potato chips to kids, because the food contains fat, and the minor is smart enough to realize that fat will make him fat.
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I dont completely disagree, but if a company just says, "Here's all their information," I can't help but yell WTF. No network is completely secure, but just taking the lock off the door completely and saying , "here ya go, take whatever you want, just give us money for whatever information you take" is ridiculous. How about, lower my bill or give me some profit sharing, if you're selling my information, my activities, my life. The net is here to stay, but we shouldn't have to completely eliminate our privacy to use it.
So what's the difference here between the illegal wiretapping that mr. bush is doing now, and recording all of your activity and voip calls over the net. Looks like we now have a new invasion of privacy called, virtual wiretapping. It's not like we have a choice of internet providers that we can select from; it's already a monopoly in most areas, and it's not being deregulated, to give us competitions and lower prices, because the government is happy being able to go to one warehouse to get all their information. Slowly but surely, our liberties fade. I use to think the people ran the government, but it's clearly a society of people run by the government(*cough* corporations).
First. Guitar tabs is hosting individual interpretations of the songs. How accurate they are is up for discussion(there's usually 2,3,4 different published ways to play it.) Unless they are actually copying, note for note, from the artists published music transcriptions, I don't see a problem with this. This is absolutely ridiculous. Guitartabs has to stand up on this one. Watch what happens if it becomes illegal to transcribe music into tabs. Next your local cover band wont be able to play a cover song of your favorite band, without having to pay the artist because other people are listening to it. These cover bands exist, because they love the artist, and they are out there promoting the artist for free, because they love it, and others listen to it. Wouldn't you be flattered if everyone wanted to play your song? Would you demand these people stop playing your song, because you're not getting paid when they play it? Or your local music store, guitar instructor, wont be able to show you how to play a song, because you have to hire the artist to teach you how to play it, and then pay him an additional fee for actually playing it in front of other people. Then it will be illegal to play music in your own house, without a "RIAA" representative present to monitor your musical talents. The band didn't invent the A,C,D,E chord. They didn't find a new way of strumming it. They played a rythm or a beat that's been played 1000000 times over, threw in an extra instrument or background track, and added their lyrics to it. Sure that's an oversimplification, but really break it down. Are you honestly telling me I can't sit in front of my stereo and write down the notes to a song and say, hey Jim(my buddy) I figured it out, here I wrote it down. I see us 50 years from now with our electronic debit cards hooked up to the radio, and we're paying $5 a song, just to listen to it on the radio.
So violations of State tobacco law may result in fines of up to $4,000, plus a $50 surcharge for each violation. Violations can lead to the loss of the business's State retail sales registration and Lottery license. What's more dangerous to a "minor"? Cigarettes or a video game? So although this will sound completely ridiculous and un-necessary to a normal human being; if you're going to regulate the gaming industry, then regulate it with a state license(or strip the existing retailers license) to sell video games, and game content. Then start fining them, with the possibility to have their license removed or revoked, which ultimately puts them out of business if it continues. Doesn't that seem more reasonable? Does attaching "felony" with "video game" seem reasonable? Pretty soon it's going to be a felony to sell potato chips to kids, because the food contains fat, and the minor is smart enough to realize that fat will make him fat.