It is important to realize that the same artists could easily avoid the record companies and distribute online thus avoiding the multiple layers of, largely obsolete, record label middlemen. The industry is changing, and the fact that the RIAA members continue to find ways of ripping off the artists should not come as any real surprise. The less attractive online services seem to artists the more the companies can maintain control of the artists by continuing to serve their traditional role selling buggy whips to car owners.
But, if you assume we are talking about chicken eggs and chickens, then strictly speaking the chicken came first, ince the egg that was laid by the pre-chicken was not, in-fact, a chicken egg, but a pre-chicken egg.
If we allow for any species of egg then we have to allow for any species as well and we are left with the question:
Which came first the egg laying creatures or the eggs?
(And that assumes the creatures would have to lay the eggs.)
Well one good reason is that Virtual PC will not run on the Intel Mac, at all, for the time being. M$ is quite specific on the point that Rosetta will not work (suprise suprise). Given the elapsed amount of time, after the G5 released, before we saw a VPC version for the G5, people who are dependant on a Windows app that does not exist for OS X yet, will either A) have to dual boot B) Find an PC.
First. It would be a safe bet that most of us could not easily, if at all, hold a laser pointer (with your hand) on the stop sign at the end of your block much less one 3000 feet away that was moving 150-200 mph. You could illuminate the cockpit with a pass over the window if you were lucky, perhaps, but it would be tricky to cause any real damage intentionally. Second, although this laser was a bit more than the average "toy" laser pointer, it was still, I think, an unregulated device and not especially dangerous. The landing lights from another plane or the stobe from the tower could easily be as dangerous to an approaching pilot. Pilots are routinely reminded of the dangers of bright light sources during night flying. This is just not a good way to bring down a plane. People routinely drive 100 mph on the freeway in my area of the world. The penalty...almost none. Not even a misdemenor in most cases. I would submit that, at times, they are a heck of alot more dangerous than this geek.
Bottom line, the guy shouldn't have intentionally pointed his "toy" at a pilot or anyone else, but it is simply just annoying. There was, likely, no intent to do any harm at all. Being rude is not a crime and shouldn't be.
So does that mean that Germans will then be able to copy things as they see fit since they are paying a fee specifically to cover that? How does this relate to the levy we have on blank CDR disks in the US?
This is a topic that has already been beat to death, but I feel I must go on the record. (No pun intended).
The RIAA and its memeber companies are fighting a battle they can not win. Bottom line. Their product is not worth paying for. People will (as the quoted person says) ride around in silence before they will be bullied into buying something that the majority of true artists in the world are willing to give away for free. I personally give'em less than 5 years and we will see airline style chapter 11s in the recording industry. Plenty of honest work out there entertaining the public for the employees so I say..."Hasta La Vista Baby"... (Ooops that is a quote...now the MPAA will get me.)
Question: Since this guy is identifiable..why not have Finnish govt. start looking with him. (Of course, I realize that he may not be the actual perp...but...)
How are they monitoring this? Are they only monitoring logs from their own servers? Are they scanning tcpip streams? If they are scanning? Is that legal? (Wiretap laws etc..) If they are scanning logs from their own servers, why are they providing the files in the first place?
Wouldn't the same rules re: shareware and freeware apply to GPL? Perhaps a legal union such as the SPA would get involved. BTW: Sun can't steal Java. They never gave it away. Inprise mentioned Blackdown twice. To suggest that Sun and inprise have no proper rights to Java is to say that Linus has no proper rights to Linux. Even without respect to the leagalities, Sun invented it for crying out loud.
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It is important to realize that the same artists could easily avoid the record companies and distribute online thus avoiding the multiple layers of, largely obsolete, record label middlemen. The industry is changing, and the fact that the RIAA members continue to find ways of ripping off the artists should not come as any real surprise. The less attractive online services seem to artists the more the companies can maintain control of the artists by continuing to serve their traditional role selling buggy whips to car owners.
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But, if you assume we are talking about chicken eggs and chickens, then strictly speaking the chicken came first, ince the egg that was laid by the pre-chicken was not, in-fact, a chicken egg, but a pre-chicken egg.
If we allow for any species of egg then we have to allow for any species as well and we are left with the question:
Which came first the egg laying creatures or the eggs?
(And that assumes the creatures would have to lay the eggs.)
Well one good reason is that Virtual PC will not run on the Intel Mac, at all, for the time being. M$ is quite specific on the point that Rosetta will not work (suprise suprise). Given the elapsed amount of time, after the G5 released, before we saw a VPC version for the G5, people who are dependant on a Windows app that does not exist for OS X yet, will either A) have to dual boot B) Find an PC.
First. It would be a safe bet that most of us could not easily, if at all, hold a laser pointer (with your hand) on the stop sign at the end of your block much less one 3000 feet away that was moving 150-200 mph. You could illuminate the cockpit with a pass over the window if you were lucky, perhaps, but it would be tricky to cause any real damage intentionally. Second, although this laser was a bit more than the average "toy" laser pointer, it was still, I think, an unregulated device and not especially dangerous. The landing lights from another plane or the stobe from the tower could easily be as dangerous to an approaching pilot. Pilots are routinely reminded of the dangers of bright light sources during night flying. This is just not a good way to bring down a plane. People routinely drive 100 mph on the freeway in my area of the world. The penalty...almost none. Not even a misdemenor in most cases. I would submit that, at times, they are a heck of alot more dangerous than this geek.
Bottom line, the guy shouldn't have intentionally pointed his "toy" at a pilot or anyone else, but it is simply just annoying. There was, likely, no intent to do any harm at all. Being rude is not a crime and shouldn't be.
So does that mean that Germans will then be able to copy things as they see fit since they are paying a fee specifically to cover that? How does this relate to the levy we have on blank CDR disks in the US?
This is a topic that has already been beat to death, but I feel I must go on the record. (No pun intended).
The RIAA and its memeber companies are fighting a battle they can not win. Bottom line. Their product is not worth paying for. People will (as the quoted person says) ride around in silence before they will be bullied into buying something that the majority of true artists in the world are willing to give away for free. I personally give'em less than 5 years and we will see airline style chapter 11s in the recording industry. Plenty of honest work out there entertaining the public for the employees so I say..."Hasta La Vista Baby"...
(Ooops that is a quote...now the MPAA will get me.)
Is that the people pushing this the most are (R) govs. Aren't the (R) supposed to be the tax relief people?
Question: Since this guy is identifiable..why not have Finnish govt. start looking with him. (Of course, I realize that he may not be the actual perp...but...)
How are they monitoring this? Are they only monitoring logs from their own servers? Are they scanning tcpip streams? If they are scanning? Is that legal? (Wiretap laws etc..) If they are scanning logs from their own servers, why are they providing the files in the first place?
Wouldn't the same rules re: shareware and freeware apply to GPL? Perhaps a legal union such as the SPA would get involved. BTW: Sun can't steal Java. They never gave it away. Inprise mentioned Blackdown twice. To suggest that Sun and inprise have no proper rights to Java is to say that Linus has no proper rights to Linux. Even without respect to the leagalities, Sun invented it for crying out loud.