Dear god I hope that somebody indicted will be a congresman's son or daughter off at college.
Or the child of a record company executive. That would be neat too. Unfortunately, they can decide not to prosecute once they have the person's name, so they can pick and choose their targets.
I'm sorry that the/. mindset is generally opposed to the idea that sharing copyrighted music files is breaking the law, but I think that you will find that the courts will disagree.
Has it ever been tried? Has any individual user actually been convicted by a court for sharing copyrighted music with no profit motive?
Adam Cohen, a partner in the litigation department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, said the music industry in its battle shows "a lack of concern with alienating the consumer... It's hard to imagine that this would really spur people to buy more records."
Cohen, who has represented online radio and Webcasting services on copyright issues, noted the Napster case ended with a bankruptcy but left open the legal debate on targeting individuals who copy music for non-commercial purposes.
If a lawyer who regularly works on copyright issues thinks this is an open legal question, I'm more inclined to believe him than the RIAA's slanted propaganda.
Also, I'm pretty sure DirectTV didn't need to fight tens of millions of people, making it a poor comparison. Remember, more people used Napster than voted for Bush.
Newsbreak! You don't have the right to download free music!
We don't have the right according to current US law, but we (the illegally file-sharing public) want the right, and many of us believe it is self-evident that we should have the right to share things we enjoy with other people. We believe people who actually create art should make a living, but we want a different mechanism with a resonable expiration time and no middlemen.
As Thomas Jefferson said:
âoeThat ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move and have our physical being, incapable of confinement, or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.â
Is the failure of conventional music sales reinforcement that the RIAA's business plan just doesn't work, or will it just provide them with more ammunition against the P2P crowd?
I use a Palm IIIxe with Weasel Reader. I like it a lot, more than a physical book in fact! (which I had not expected) It's nice not having to hold a book open to a particular page, or to need an external light source (backlit display = good). You can get an older Palm on eBay pretty cheaply (I'd recommend either getting a Palm with a built-in rechargable battery, or investing in some rechargable batteries of your own.
Their ruling does not mandate Linux, or any other particular operating system. It's just a statement that Brazil in unwilling to accept certain licensing schemes. Generally, closed-source companies set their licensing policy, and you just have to deal with it or not use their product. Brazil is effectively bargaining in bulk, and requring software to be licensed on their terms.
That's right. TRM is a product of relatable. Last I checked, they give away an open-source program that generates a fingerprint, and have a private database that maps the fingerprint to actual songs. Napster licensed their technology in 2001 to identify illegally shared songs, as mentioned here and here.
Do we really want to help them build a bigger database?
Only a very small percent (perhaps 1% of the population) pirate enough music to fill an entire CD
What's your sample set, and which population are you talking about? Are we talking about people who might be in a position to be a CD in the first place? (i.e. not starving people in Camobodia)
I might be willing to believe that just 1% of people in the United States over the age of 30 engaged in unauthorized online copying ("pirating" is such a poor term).
However, have you visited a college campus lately?
That's not a bug. It's a more accurate way to round off numbers. If you always round 5 up, that means you round 5 out of 9 numbers up, and 4 out of 9 numbers down. This can cause problems if you're rounding lots of numbers. A more accurate method is shown here , which matches the behavior shown.
Yeah, but that won't help much once I finish developing my time machine. Merely physically destroying the tape won't be enough! I'll still be able to retrieve the original data.
You can add your own toolbars for any search engine. I have several samples for Mozilla on my webpage. I also include a very brief description on how to add other search engines, and/or add them to IE.
Public Citizen is one. Among other things, they campaign heavily to for campaign finance reform. They're a non-profit organization started by Ralph Nader.
This is terrible, terrible news. To think our youth are growing up thinking that it's okay to maraude the open seas, hoisting the jolly roger, in search of treasure to plunder, women to rape, and villages to burn. In my day, we didn't have such dispicable people in our colleges! I fear for our nation's future.
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Or the child of a record company executive. That would be neat too. Unfortunately, they can decide not to prosecute once they have the person's name, so they can pick and choose their targets.
Has it ever been tried? Has any individual user actually been convicted by a court for sharing copyrighted music with no profit motive?
Consider the follow paragraphs from this article:
If a lawyer who regularly works on copyright issues thinks this is an open legal question, I'm more inclined to believe him than the RIAA's slanted propaganda.
Also, I'm pretty sure DirectTV didn't need to fight tens of millions of people, making it a poor comparison. Remember, more people used Napster than voted for Bush.
We don't have the right according to current US law, but we (the illegally file-sharing public) want the right, and many of us believe it is self-evident that we should have the right to share things we enjoy with other people. We believe people who actually create art should make a living, but we want a different mechanism with a resonable expiration time and no middlemen.
As Thomas Jefferson said:
Yes.
I use a Palm IIIxe with Weasel Reader. I like it a lot, more than a physical book in fact! (which I had not expected) It's nice not having to hold a book open to a particular page, or to need an external light source (backlit display = good). You can get an older Palm on eBay pretty cheaply (I'd recommend either getting a Palm with a built-in rechargable battery, or investing in some rechargable batteries of your own.
Oh yeah? Disprove it.
Their ruling does not mandate Linux, or any other particular operating system. It's just a statement that Brazil in unwilling to accept certain licensing schemes. Generally, closed-source companies set their licensing policy, and you just have to deal with it or not use their product. Brazil is effectively bargaining in bulk, and requring software to be licensed on their terms.
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There should be lots of 'o's (orcs), '@'s (men, Legolas, Gandalf), one 'h' (Gimli), and some 'u's (horses).
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That's right. TRM is a product of relatable. Last I checked, they give away an open-source program that generates a fingerprint, and have a private database that maps the fingerprint to actual songs. Napster licensed their technology in 2001 to identify illegally shared songs, as mentioned here and here.
Do we really want to help them build a bigger database?
(and, for that matter, only recently stored using any kind of version control software whatsoever)
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(amused)
What's your sample set, and which population are you talking about? Are we talking about people who might be in a position to be a CD in the first place? (i.e. not starving people in Camobodia)
I might be willing to believe that just 1% of people in the United States over the age of 30 engaged in unauthorized online copying ("pirating" is such a poor term).
However, have you visited a college campus lately?
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> Goddamn, but what has happened to slashdot?
Bit-by-bit (ha ha), they sold out:
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Yeah, but then I can just use my time machine again to bug the conversation and make my own recording.
Yeah, but that won't help much once I finish developing my time machine. Merely physically destroying the tape won't be enough! I'll still be able to retrieve the original data.
I've been using junkbuster and squid with Mozilla for several releases now. Perhaps you have something configured incorrectly?
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You can add your own toolbars for any search engine. I have several samples for Mozilla on my webpage. I also include a very brief description on how to add other search engines, and/or add them to IE.
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Public Citizen is one. Among other things, they campaign heavily to for campaign finance reform. They're a non-profit organization started by Ralph Nader.
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Yeah, I mean, I'd never even think of using a commercial .org site. Especially to read news.
This is terrible, terrible news. To think our youth are growing up thinking that it's okay to maraude the open seas, hoisting the jolly roger, in search of treasure to plunder, women to rape, and villages to burn. In my day, we didn't have such dispicable people in our colleges! I fear for our nation's future.