Remember that most REAL servers don't run either Windows or Linux. Look at a list of major Web sites and the OS's they run, lots of Solaris, HP-UX and BSD. Consider that for most corporations the REALLY mission critical stuff is probably running on a S/390, AS/400, Tandem, or OpenVMS box. You don't think anyone is insane enough to try running the NYSE or a major bank with MS products?
1) get a DSL line from a provider with decent TOS (servers OK, few if any content type restrictions)
or use a web hosting provider with similar TOS (you'll probably have to pay something for it though).
2) Run your own web server on your own box. Want to use PHP? Roxen? mod_perl? ASP? no problem just configure the service.
3) make sure *all* contacts for any domains you own point to you and *NOT* your ISP. If your ISP refuses to provide DNS without being listed as one of the contacts take your business elsewhere.
It is a very competitive market out there, you can probably find a product/service combination to suit your needs if you do your homework, unfortunately you may have to pay something for it.
Napster can distribute ANY MP3, not just songs by RIAA distributed artists. There are works by any number of artists without recording contracts available via napster et. al. If the owner of a copyrighted work consents to distribution via a mechanisim such as napster or the work is in the public domain, distribution of that work IS LEGAL. This would seem to meet the requirments of the "non-infringing uses" test used by the Supreme Court in the BETAMAX case.
Frankly I doubt so called "piracy" has much to do with the RIAA suing Diamond, MP3.com, Napster, etc. I believe the recording industry is TERRIFIED they may, in the long run, become nothing more than unecessary middlemen.
There is no real difference between the Republicrat and the Democan parties. They are two sides of the same coin. The "big issues" that supposedly separate the parties are so minor as to be trivial. At the end of the day they all pretty much vote the same.
With the notable exception of Jessie Ventura, third party and independent canidates don't stand a snowballs chance in Hades of getting elected to high office (President, Congress, Govenor) in this country.
As cynical as the above may sound you still should vote in every election, for every issue and post on the ballot. Because voting early and often is the only way short of revolution we are going to change the political system.
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Remember that most REAL servers don't run either Windows or Linux. Look at a list of major Web sites and the OS's they run, lots of Solaris, HP-UX and BSD. Consider that for most corporations the REALLY mission critical stuff is probably running on a S/390, AS/400, Tandem, or OpenVMS box. You don't think anyone is insane enough to try running the NYSE or a major bank with MS products?
I'd call that fairly mainstream.
The easiest way around this problem is:
1) get a DSL line from a provider with decent TOS (servers OK, few if any content type restrictions)
or use a web hosting provider with similar TOS (you'll probably have to pay something for it though).
2) Run your own web server on your own box. Want to use PHP? Roxen? mod_perl? ASP? no problem just configure the service.
3) make sure *all* contacts for any domains you own point to you and *NOT* your ISP. If your ISP refuses to provide DNS without being listed as one of the contacts take your business elsewhere.
It is a very competitive market out there, you can probably find a product/service combination to suit your needs if you do your homework, unfortunately you may have to pay something for it.
Napster can distribute ANY MP3, not just songs by RIAA distributed artists. There are works by any number of artists without recording contracts available via napster et. al. If the owner of a copyrighted work consents to distribution via a mechanisim such as napster or the work is in the public domain, distribution of that work IS LEGAL. This would seem to meet the requirments of the "non-infringing uses" test used by the Supreme Court in the BETAMAX case.
Frankly I doubt so called "piracy" has much to do with the RIAA suing Diamond, MP3.com, Napster, etc. I believe the recording industry is TERRIFIED they may, in the long run, become nothing more than unecessary middlemen.
There is no real difference between the Republicrat and the Democan parties. They are two sides of the same coin. The "big issues" that supposedly separate the parties are so minor as to be trivial. At the end of the day they all pretty much vote the same.
With the notable exception of Jessie Ventura, third party and independent canidates don't stand a snowballs chance in Hades of getting elected to high office (President, Congress, Govenor) in this country.
As cynical as the above may sound you still should vote in every election, for every issue and post on the ballot. Because voting early and often is the only way short of revolution we are going to change the political system.