Yeah, not a *huge* priority for this country, but I suppose it makes sense to fix small obvious stuff like this while the arguing over big complex issues continues.
Can Congress also tell the RIAA to cool it with the loudness war? it's especially jarring when one's collection shuffles between modern-mainstream and other material. Hmm, I ought to check some more waveforms for indie stuff to see if they brickwall at all or as much.
Classic stuff, even classic loud stuff (like Zeppelin), didn't need it anyway.:)
A free market in Adam Smith's conception thereof *does* require that full information be available to market participants. Imperfections in quality of information are thus a major impediment to realizing the better parts of his vision. These media guys are businessmen, not lunatics - they will listen to people voting with their wallets - if they can hear said people.
I've experienced a lot of shaky UPS behavior, but that's what's been used for my big and heavy incoming shipments (that vendor just switched to FedEx [I wonder why?], but I haven't ordered from them since then, and otherwise don't have much experience with FedEx either) USPS seems to do quite alright with the smaller packages (I both send and receive a lot). Don't have much experience with sending large stuff via USPS, but the one time I recall doing so, the clerks were serious about making sure I used boxes that were sturdy enough.
Now that you mention it, I recall that my Amazon Prime shipments haven't come marked as shipped by a big name. Never lost anything or got it late or damaged, and Amazon seems to pack them sturdily. Granted, I've only gotten small things like CDs.
Whatever you think of copyright, and of torrent-assistance sites, it seems that much of what was caught in this sting are sites that sell knockoffs - dealing with that and other clear trademark issues I don't have quite as much of a problem with.
Were the seizure warrants mentioned in TFA's image actually issued and reasonably sensical? Could have a "bureaucrats who don't understand technology" issue w/r/t the technicalities. And let's face it, such sites seem to be aiding and abetting distribution even if they're not doing the actual distribution.
True, but was Molotov-Ribbentrop an unstable alliance, doomed to break up in such a manner? Might *Stalin* have been the one to move first? (If that's reasonably likely and if he had, I suspect WWII would have been over quicker in Europe at the cost of worse Cold War positioning for the West.
It's interesting how one of history's biggest monsters (Stalin) was on the good side of a war effort against one of history's other biggest monsters (Hitler)
Say what you will about crappy major-label stars, and yes a good band could probably make it as indie [a very good option to now have], but could good music do even better with major-label machinery behind it?
I figure other labels would snap up much of the material from an EMI collapse, and handle it much like how they handle what they have currently.
Logically, other companies in the industry are often well-positioned to buy the industry-specific assets of fallen competitors (for example, in the financial mess, surviving banks snapped up much of the stuff from failed banks).
It would be a cheap(er) way for other labels to expand, they already have complementary distribution infrastructure, et cetera.
A much better alternative would be if EMI were actually able to market their products in a sustainable way.
Yeah, if the major labels behaved better I wouldn't mind their continued existence. If they're selling stuff I actually want to listen to, that is in and of itself a sign of progress, and I'll buy that stuff from them.
"Warner, EMI, hear me clearly. Universal Music, update your circuitry" - MC Lars, Download This Song
If EMI goes belly-up, would we end up with a situation analogous to abandonware in the software world? Sure, someone would make use of the cream-of-the-crop of EMI copyrights (including but certainly not limited to the copyrights relating to a certain quartet from Liverpool), but I can see a lot of lesser stuff going under the radar.
I purposely put some indie stuff on BitTorrent (as well as obscure/alternate releases from major-label artists); this kind of behavior would work towards addressing the "can't find $obscure_stuff on BitTorrent" problem this comment of yours refers to.
Looking at Urban Dictionary and Wikipedia, WP's mention of "Error Control Coding" seems to be the only definition of the acronym that fits the context.
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Yeah, not a *huge* priority for this country, but I suppose it makes sense to fix small obvious stuff like this while the arguing over big complex issues continues.
Can Congress also tell the RIAA to cool it with the loudness war?
it's especially jarring when one's collection shuffles between modern-mainstream and other material.
Hmm, I ought to check some more waveforms for indie stuff to see if they brickwall at all or as much.
Classic stuff, even classic loud stuff (like Zeppelin), didn't need it anyway. :)
A free market in Adam Smith's conception thereof *does* require that full information be available to market participants. Imperfections in quality of information are thus a major impediment to realizing the better parts of his vision.
These media guys are businessmen, not lunatics - they will listen to people voting with their wallets - if they can hear said people.
Like how UTF-8 was designed to be backward-compatible with ASCII, because the first block of UTF-8 characters match those of ASCII?
I've experienced a lot of shaky UPS behavior, but that's what's been used for my big and heavy incoming shipments (that vendor just switched to FedEx [I wonder why?], but I haven't ordered from them since then, and otherwise don't have much experience with FedEx either)
USPS seems to do quite alright with the smaller packages (I both send and receive a lot). Don't have much experience with sending large stuff via USPS, but the one time I recall doing so, the clerks were serious about making sure I used boxes that were sturdy enough.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=UPS
Look down the alphabetical order a bit and read those definitions - LOL
Now that you mention it, I recall that my Amazon Prime shipments haven't come marked as shipped by a big name.
Never lost anything or got it late or damaged, and Amazon seems to pack them sturdily.
Granted, I've only gotten small things like CDs.
Large-scale commercial copyright infringement is both a civil and a criminal offense. These are the proper legal channels.
Yeah, making IP infringement commercial/for-profit crosses a line.
'whoosh' is, AFAIK, a way of saying 'that joke went over your head - I just explained it for you'. whoosh. :P
Whatever you think of copyright, and of torrent-assistance sites, it seems that much of what was caught in this sting are sites that sell knockoffs - dealing with that and other clear trademark issues I don't have quite as much of a problem with.
Were the seizure warrants mentioned in TFA's image actually issued and reasonably sensical? Could have a "bureaucrats who don't understand technology" issue w/r/t the technicalities.
And let's face it, such sites seem to be aiding and abetting distribution even if they're not doing the actual distribution.
I think that was the whole point of that phrasing...whoosh
True, but was Molotov-Ribbentrop an unstable alliance, doomed to break up in such a manner? Might *Stalin* have been the one to move first? (If that's reasonably likely and if he had, I suspect WWII would have been over quicker in Europe at the cost of worse Cold War positioning for the West.
As usual, Schneier a voice of sanity in a sea of insanity w/r/t such issues.
I guess that's what I was referring to with my 'with contrary interests' phrasing
Another example: Apple, in the interest of selling consumer electronics, talked the major labels into DRM-free paid downloads.
the link is a serious business analysis of the situation; the song lyrics evidently poke fun at the irony as does JoelWink's post.
The WP page mentions that too, a similar set of 3 words. Similar enough that I hadn't felt like mentioning it. :)
+1 Funny for your variant of the "copyright infringement != theft" theme.
Yeah, sometimes it takes big companies with contrary interests to successfully stand up to other big companies.
It's interesting how one of history's biggest monsters (Stalin) was on the good side of a war effort against one of history's other biggest monsters (Hitler)
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=569
Also reminded of this line from MC Lars' "Download This Song":
Epic's up in my face like, "Don't steal our songs Lars,"
While Sony sells the burners that are burning CD-R's
Say what you will about crappy major-label stars, and yes a good band could probably make it as indie [a very good option to now have], but could good music do even better with major-label machinery behind it?
I figure other labels would snap up much of the material from an EMI collapse, and handle it much like how they handle what they have currently.
Logically, other companies in the industry are often well-positioned to buy the industry-specific assets of fallen competitors (for example, in the financial mess, surviving banks snapped up much of the stuff from failed banks).
It would be a cheap(er) way for other labels to expand, they already have complementary distribution infrastructure, et cetera.
A much better alternative would be if EMI were actually able to market their products in a sustainable way.
Yeah, if the major labels behaved better I wouldn't mind their continued existence. If they're selling stuff I actually want to listen to, that is in and of itself a sign of progress, and I'll buy that stuff from them.
"Warner, EMI, hear me clearly. Universal Music, update your circuitry" - MC Lars, Download This Song
If EMI goes belly-up, would we end up with a situation analogous to abandonware in the software world?
Sure, someone would make use of the cream-of-the-crop of EMI copyrights (including but certainly not limited to the copyrights relating to a certain quartet from Liverpool), but I can see a lot of lesser stuff going under the radar.
2. bittorrent for easy pop stuff.
I purposely put some indie stuff on BitTorrent (as well as obscure/alternate releases from major-label artists); this kind of behavior would work towards addressing the "can't find $obscure_stuff on BitTorrent" problem this comment of yours refers to.
Looking at Urban Dictionary and Wikipedia, WP's mention of "Error Control Coding" seems to be the only definition of the acronym that fits the context.
TFA does mention it obliquely in the section for fellow Digital Research product GEM.