28 million people pay $20/month for crappy service, slow dial-up & other content that can be found by the savvy user for little to no charge. I think a "pay-per-Napster" could succeed in this kind of marketplace.
mp3board hopes to spread some of the blame and defer some of the costs of the case to others.
Basically, they (mp3board) let users perform gnutella searches. The catch here is that gnutella was created by AOL. mp3board is basically trying to shift blame to AOL ("Yeah, we use gnutella, but THEY made it!").
According to C|Net this won't work. In a copyright case, defendants are picked by those who originated the case, in this case the RIAA. mp3board can't just say "why aren't you suing them (AOL)?!" b/c they (RIAA) get to decide who they sue.
If you ask me, it's a shrewd move. It will force the discussion of file sharing technologies and hopefully show that the RIAA won't go after it's members (Time Warner) only those it deems as evil (mp3board).
As someone who started out with a Dummies book (Unix for Dummies), I think I can say that these books are what you make them. I had a sysadmin buddy to bounce things off of, so the book was more like a study aide, and not a book. It just helped me solidify what he was "teaching" and didn't stray too far into advanced topics.
I can't help but think it would have been a useful resource in the absence of my buddy. Kudos to IDG for publishing the books, and hopefully attracting some fence-sitters to join the party.
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution clearly states that Congress Shall Make No Law.... This rather large detail is almost always overlooked by the/. readership. They see all censorship as evil, corrupt and illegal, which it is not.
A private business or an individual is perfectly within their rights to censor anything and everything they want.
This is no library people, and if this fool wants to remain gainfully employed he'll explain the difficulties of filtering, but he'll also put the filters in place!
While I hate to admit owning pornograpy, the few titles I do own are both unencrypted and without region encoding. At least one segment of the "entertainment" industry treats it consumers with reverance (b/c we support them) rather than with disdain. "Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and I'll give you something to cry about"
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As a University of Georgia graduate (Go Dawgs!), I can tell you firsthand that this isn't the only instance of Tech's dumbassedness.
As a University of Georgia grad and a programmer, it doesn't surprise me one bit that students at the North Avenue Trade School would have to cheat.
28 million people pay $20/month for crappy service, slow dial-up & other content that can be found by the savvy user for little to no charge. I think a "pay-per-Napster" could succeed in this kind of marketplace.
-Benjamin Franklin
mp3board hopes to spread some of the blame and defer some of the costs of the case to others.
Basically, they (mp3board) let users perform gnutella searches. The catch here is that gnutella was created by AOL. mp3board is basically trying to shift blame to AOL ("Yeah, we use gnutella, but THEY made it!").
According to C|Net this won't work. In a copyright case, defendants are picked by those who originated the case, in this case the RIAA. mp3board can't just say "why aren't you suing them (AOL)?!" b/c they (RIAA) get to decide who they sue.
If you ask me, it's a shrewd move. It will force the discussion of file sharing technologies and hopefully show that the RIAA won't go after it's members (Time Warner) only those it deems as evil (mp3board).
I can't help but think it would have been a useful resource in the absence of my buddy. Kudos to IDG for publishing the books, and hopefully attracting some fence-sitters to join the party.
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution clearly states that Congress Shall Make No Law .... This rather large detail is almost always overlooked by the /. readership. They see all censorship as evil, corrupt and illegal, which it is not.
A private business or an individual is perfectly within their rights to censor anything and everything they want.
This is no library people, and if this fool wants to remain gainfully employed he'll explain the difficulties of filtering, but he'll also put the filters in place!
While I hate to admit owning pornograpy, the few titles I do own are both unencrypted and without region encoding. At least one segment of the "entertainment" industry treats it consumers with reverance (b/c we support them) rather than with disdain. "Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and I'll give you something to cry about"