In an ideal world i suppose this would be the case, but even if EVERY person on Slashdot boycotted EBay, they would still be doing just fine because of the 99% of internet users who will never have ANY clue about this story, and although i find it to be a HUGE injustice, i will continue using ebay, because there's really no better option.
true, mp3 is a lossy compression algorithm, but at any bitrate higher than about 64 is close enough to the original quality, that the loss of quality is negligeble. Yes, you can hear a slight diffence in CD vs. 128kb audio, but a cd player hooked up to bad speakers could be worse too, the point is that the songs were pirated, and the people who pirated them violated the law, and should feel lucky they weren't sued!
you said that "The bottom line is Metallica wants to pick a fight, and they can't do it with 600,000+ users directly (their current count), and they can't do it with Gnutella or Freenet (which they haven't quite realized yet), so they do it with Napster. They want to blame Napster for what 600,000 other people want to do with their music.", but you have to keep in mind, that they aren't taking action against napster, they simply banned the users in question, which was prefectly fair. They broke the law, they should just feel lucky they weren't actually sued!
however even with the file extentions on, windows refuses to show the.pif extention, and it's icon can be changed to whatever... i've thought this to be an interesting concept for a while, just waiting for someone to exploit it now...
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I fart in your general direction!
hehe, #1000 out of 1000
Actually you're wrong -- they only monitored downloads of the files... try some research before flaming!
In an ideal world i suppose this would be the case, but even if EVERY person on Slashdot boycotted EBay, they would still be doing just fine because of the 99% of internet users who will never have ANY clue about this story, and although i find it to be a HUGE injustice, i will continue using ebay, because there's really no better option.
true, mp3 is a lossy compression algorithm, but at any bitrate higher than about 64 is close enough to the original quality, that the loss of quality is negligeble. Yes, you can hear a slight diffence in CD vs. 128kb audio, but a cd player hooked up to bad speakers could be worse too, the point is that the songs were pirated, and the people who pirated them violated the law, and should feel lucky they weren't sued!
you said that "The bottom line is Metallica wants to pick a fight, and they can't do it with 600,000+ users directly (their current count), and they can't do it with Gnutella or Freenet (which they haven't quite realized yet), so they do it with Napster. They want to blame Napster for what 600,000 other people want to do with their music.", but you have to keep in mind, that they aren't taking action against napster, they simply banned the users in question, which was prefectly fair. They broke the law, they should just feel lucky they weren't actually sued!
maybe you don't understand this concept, but that was what is called a JOKE! lighten up a bit.
Careful with the potential acronyms, MS might copyright them, and sue you for that comment!
however even with the file extentions on, windows refuses to show the .pif extention, and it's icon can be changed to whatever... i've thought this to be an interesting concept for a while, just waiting for someone to exploit it now...
Ummm, dumbass.... Macros can go into standard .doc files, not just .dot, so i think you might want to re-think your little program idea.
OpenBSD X-Lock definitly brings me back to my days as a stoner