I can't argue with most of what you have to say, but I think that there are a good reason for napster to continue to exist. First, I think it is good to archive old, hard to obtain music. I try to find some older music that I want to listen to at used music stores and they are almost impossible to find. This is why I also support SNES9x, MAME, etc. When it is possible to get the music, you should buy it. Like when Square released Final Fantasy Anthology, I had downloaded FF5 and 6, but bought Anthology when it was released. Second, most music released today is MTV'ifed crap, and the companies that are responsible need to be taught a lesson.
The part I'm afraid of is that they will start censoring traffic at the server level.
Censoring traffic at server level would be a huge mistake for any company. When you start doing that, you lose common carrier status (at least in the US) and limitation from liability from your users actions. At least this is what I understand, after all IANAL but I know and have worked closely with one.
And have you never wondered what the advent of this observatory has meant for the Arecibeños that were displaced by its construction?
How many? Enlighten us. Don't just shoot your mouth off.
And to high school biology, while you're at it. How the fuck pointing a radiotelescope at the sky will tell us how life appeared on Earth?
So you know all about mircobiology and how it relates to cosmology? Maybe you've heard that the initial stages of life might have formed somewhere off Earth? Or maybe you arn't as smart as you think you are?
The computational resources being used by the SETI@HOME project are outstanding. If they were dedicated to a worthy cause they'd be good. However, SETI is just a waste of energy.
Yes, obtaining knowledge is always a waste of time, right?
Oh, and I thought starving people just wanted food.
"Give me a fish, I eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I eat for a lifetime." Think about it.
So let them stave, then, eh? Is that your solution?
What is your solution?
And in the meantime, of course, you'll support corporations that support those regimes, because they make you a buck. Hypocrite.
A Defence Attorney, who has been practising for 30 years and has much experience in Federal Court, told me that there is nothing a Federal Judge hates more then being overturned on appeal. Kaplan would not not hand the Defence the perfect way to get his decision overturned by the Court of Appeals.
Second, even assuming that DeCSS runs under Linux, it concededly runs under Windows---a far more widely used operating system---as well. It therefore cannot reasonably be said that DeCSS was developed "for the sole purpose'' of achieving interoperability between Linux and DVDs.
IANAL, but it seems to me that this statement left a huge hole in the ruling. 2600 (and everyone else) should now be able to post and distribute css-auth legally because it does run under Linux! How nice of the judge.
Something that people are missing here is that DeCSS cannot be outlawed, at least in the US, except with an act of Congress. The MPAA and DVDCCA can try to intimidate everyone into stopping to distibute it through lawsuits and cease and desist letters, but that has to happen on a person by person basis.
You should be sure not to judge Heinlein based on the ideology in Starship Troopers, though. The book Moon is a Harsh Mistress has the coolest political ideology i have ever heard of, "Rational Anarchism."
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In the US, the special audio CD blanks are taxed, thats why they are more expensive then regular blanks. In Canada, they both are taxed.
Their notion of economics is the golden rule, of course. "He who has the gold, makes the rules."
I think this is supposed to be sarcastic. If so, the dude was just a but heavy handed.
(The best part of this post is that the sarcasm will be missed by so many and that the flames will come from both sides. I love hypocricy!)
Well, nice going. Now you arn't going to get any flames because you spelled it out for all the idiots out there. Sheeeh...
In fact, the boycott itself may provide just the sort of evidence the RIAA wants to use in court.
How will it matter once Napster is shut down?
It was going to say something about "don't skew the 'napster users don't buy CDs' polls--make sure people know it a BOYCOTT".
Of course, once Napster is restrained, it can't be responsible for any loss of sales of CD's. Gnutella on the other hand...
I can't argue with most of what you have to say, but I think that there are a good reason for napster to continue to exist. First, I think it is good to archive old, hard to obtain music. I try to find some older music that I want to listen to at used music stores and they are almost impossible to find. This is why I also support SNES9x, MAME, etc. When it is possible to get the music, you should buy it. Like when Square released Final Fantasy Anthology, I had downloaded FF5 and 6, but bought Anthology when it was released. Second, most music released today is MTV'ifed crap, and the companies that are responsible need to be taught a lesson.
The part I'm afraid of is that they will start censoring traffic at the server level.
Censoring traffic at server level would be a huge mistake for any company. When you start doing that, you lose common carrier status (at least in the US) and limitation from liability from your users actions. At least this is what I understand, after all IANAL but I know and have worked closely with one.
No way is this good. This combined with a loss by 2600 in New York would make Gnutella very open to much litigation, at least in the US.
Just because you're innocent until proven guilty, doesn't mean they can't hold you in jail until the trial ends.
And have you never wondered what the advent of this observatory has meant for the Arecibeños that were displaced by its construction?
How many? Enlighten us. Don't just shoot your mouth off.
And to high school biology, while you're at it. How the fuck pointing a radiotelescope at the sky will tell us how life appeared on Earth?
So you know all about mircobiology and how it relates to cosmology? Maybe you've heard that the initial stages of life might have formed somewhere off Earth? Or maybe you arn't as smart as you think you are?
The computational resources being used by the SETI@HOME project are outstanding. If they were dedicated to a worthy cause they'd be good. However, SETI is just a waste of energy.
Yes, obtaining knowledge is always a waste of time, right?
Oh, and I thought starving people just wanted food.
"Give me a fish, I eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I eat for a lifetime." Think about it.
So let them stave, then, eh? Is that your solution?
What is your solution?
And in the meantime, of course, you'll support corporations that support those regimes, because they make you a buck. Hypocrite.
How do you know he supports those corporations?
A Defence Attorney, who has been practising for 30 years and has much experience in Federal Court, told me that there is nothing a Federal Judge hates more then being overturned on appeal. Kaplan would not not hand the Defence the perfect way to get his decision overturned by the Court of Appeals.
FYI, the Japanese (at lest the original ones) have 33.6 kbps modems. The US ones have 56kbps modems.
Yeah, the shitty dreamcast broswer could be replaced
with mozilla on NetBSD.
Only Big Brother would sue Emmanuel Goldstein, the "Enemy of the People."
Second, even assuming that DeCSS runs under Linux, it concededly runs under Windows---a far more widely used operating system---as well. It therefore cannot reasonably be said that DeCSS was developed "for the sole purpose'' of achieving interoperability between Linux and DVDs.
IANAL, but it seems to me that this statement left a huge hole in the ruling. 2600 (and everyone else) should now be able to post and distribute css-auth legally because it does run under Linux! How nice of the judge.
Something that people are missing here is that DeCSS cannot be outlawed, at least in the US, except with an act of Congress. The MPAA and DVDCCA can try to intimidate everyone into stopping to distibute it through lawsuits and cease and desist letters, but that has to happen on a person by person basis.
One word, Videotape.
You should be sure not to judge Heinlein based on the ideology in Starship Troopers, though. The book Moon is a Harsh Mistress has the coolest political ideology i have ever heard of, "Rational Anarchism."
I agree for win2k, but they said the problem was in index server for NT 4 also.
au contraire, looks to me like it's very personal. We've done the equivlent of the part from Bravehart when the Scots moon the British.
Acually, only the named defendents are enjoned, and only the ones in the court's jurisdiction.