30 second samples would be good. Samples like the one Bare Naked Ladies put up of their song "Pinch Me" are also fine by me.
However, to me the album is the artform. A song from that album is just a brief sample of the album. If I can get 3 samples that I like from an album I feel that I can purchase the album in confidence that I will enjoy the entire thing.
This is why I am entirely uninterested in obtaining full albums from Napster unless it is something like the Smashing Pumpkins' Machina II: Friends and Enemies of Modern Music of which only 25 physical copies exist and the band themselves have expressed that they want everyone to share the music.
Oh, and if I am "just another of those people who never want to pay shit" then explain how I have around 300 CDs in my collection along with over 50 DVDs.
I really am not interested in paying membership fees to Napster so that I can now "legally" do something that will now definately be considered illegal.
I'd much rather Napster fight the good fight -- but it's probably naive to assume that they will.
I use Napster to check out songs off of CDs that I want to buy or from bands I've heard of but never heard.
This is exactly why most people prefer consoles to PCs. They don't want to have to involve them selves with deep thought when playing video games, they just want to relax. I'm amoungst them. I used to love playing flight sims on my PC back in college, but now, I just want a game where I have pop it in, play for a few minutes and quit. I don't want to have to study my video game before I can play it.
I play Hoyle X Games, Unreal Tournament, and Diablo 2 on my PC, for everything else a console is better suited to the task.
Judging from what I saw this morning, I would have to say that the PS2 will be king of the hill for quite some time. Once Sony manages to ship enough units for it to reach the top, that is.
I went to my local Best Buy this morning (I was a bit early, I thought it opened at 9, but it must open at 10) to pickup a PlayStation 2 if they had any left. There was a huge line outside of the store. There must have been over 100 people waiting in line to get a PlayStation 2. I, obviously, kept on driving!
PlayStation seems to have captured a lot of people's minds away from Dreamcast & Xbox.
The reporter said that WinAmp supplies you with all of the software you need to make an illegal copy. Even though it can convert MP3s to WAVs, that doesn't aid in any way the copying of a CD you have.
Napster didn't setup a server and put up a bunch of Metallica and They Might Be Giants MP3s on it. Napster created a tool that uses their central server to connect users together into a community. The people in the community are the ones distributing Metallica and They Might Be Giants, not Napster.
In conclusion, if listeners are going to Napster for their TMBG MP3s instead of TMBG it's probably because their wasn't much of a bond between artist and listener to begin with.
Atlantic Records has even begun to include the Winamp program on some music CDs, such as Matchbox 20's latest release, ``Mad Season.'' This basically provides all the software someone with a CD burner would need to make illegal, high-quality copies.
WinAmp doesn't enable you to make any sort of copies. WinAmp doesn't include a ripper, doesn't include an encoder, and doesn't include burner software. WinAmp is a playback utility.
The guy also mentioned that WinAmp doesn't distinguish between legal and illegal files. That's because it is impossible to do! If WinAmp refused to play MP3s with the copyright flag on, then everyone would encode their MP3s with it off.
This reporter is either clueless or on medication.
This is similar to the commercial I hear all the time for some Microsoft Certified learning institute. They always harp about how the TLD in their domain name is not.com but.ms. I wonder how many people are stupid enough to believe that Microsoft has its own TLD.
You belong in the.org TLD. So do I. That's why my computer is bound to refrag.dyndns.org..alt was a suggestion from a fellow Slashdotter and I think it would be great. A TLD where copyrights had no influence and every domain name was FCFS.
This seems like a stupid TLD. Why would anyone want it? The computers attached to that TLD will hopefully do more than host Websites. They'll support other Internet functionalities such as FTP, IRC, whatever...
It just seems like a pointless TLD. Something only the stupidest of PHBs will want.
Unfortunately, in this case, CmdrTaco is right. Sony's VAIO laptops have been very aesthetically pleasing in the past, but this new design is... well, I even pause to call it a "design". It's horrible. Plus, I can imagine the odd pipe-shaped wrap-around "handle" is going to have some separation issues.
Do you know of any MP3 hardware out there that is no longer "SDMI Compliant"? I don't. Sony's MP3 players use MagicGate Memory Sticks to ensure SDMI compliance. When the new Rio came out, I thought about getting one until I saw the SDMI badge on it in Best Buy!
They're winning... we can't sit by and do nothing... or worse help them for a paltry $10,000.
I was really pulling for Lawrence Lessig. I didn't know much about the others, but I agree with much of what I've heard from Lessig. I definately feel he's on "our" side.
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30 second samples would be good. Samples like the one Bare Naked Ladies put up of their song "Pinch Me" are also fine by me.
However, to me the album is the artform. A song from that album is just a brief sample of the album. If I can get 3 samples that I like from an album I feel that I can purchase the album in confidence that I will enjoy the entire thing.
This is why I am entirely uninterested in obtaining full albums from Napster unless it is something like the Smashing Pumpkins' Machina II: Friends and Enemies of Modern Music of which only 25 physical copies exist and the band themselves have expressed that they want everyone to share the music.
Oh, and if I am "just another of those people who never want to pay shit" then explain how I have around 300 CDs in my collection along with over 50 DVDs.
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I really am not interested in paying membership fees to Napster so that I can now "legally" do something that will now definately be considered illegal.
I'd much rather Napster fight the good fight -- but it's probably naive to assume that they will.
I use Napster to check out songs off of CDs that I want to buy or from bands I've heard of but never heard.
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Who is Damian and why should I know him? (there was no mention of who he is in the article)
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Daily Radar are the assholes that destroyed& lt;/A> a PS2 to gain hits on their Website. I think it was one of the Sega zealots that actually did the dirty work. What a moron, he should have just sold it on eBay.
Just to let you know I'm not biased... a Dreamcast is my current console of choice.
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This is exactly why most people prefer consoles to PCs. They don't want to have to involve them selves with deep thought when playing video games, they just want to relax. I'm amoungst them. I used to love playing flight sims on my PC back in college, but now, I just want a game where I have pop it in, play for a few minutes and quit. I don't want to have to study my video game before I can play it.
I play Hoyle X Games, Unreal Tournament, and Diablo 2 on my PC, for everything else a console is better suited to the task.
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Where in the hell do you shop for games that you have to pay almost a hundred bucks for one? PlayStation games cost around $40.
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Judging from what I saw this morning, I would have to say that the PS2 will be king of the hill for quite some time. Once Sony manages to ship enough units for it to reach the top, that is.
I went to my local Best Buy this morning (I was a bit early, I thought it opened at 9, but it must open at 10) to pickup a PlayStation 2 if they had any left. There was a huge line outside of the store. There must have been over 100 people waiting in line to get a PlayStation 2. I, obviously, kept on driving!
PlayStation seems to have captured a lot of people's minds away from Dreamcast & Xbox.
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The reporter said that WinAmp supplies you with all of the software you need to make an illegal copy. Even though it can convert MP3s to WAVs, that doesn't aid in any way the copying of a CD you have.
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Awww, come on.... it'll probably make a really good reef for some sea-life.
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Napster didn't setup a server and put up a bunch of Metallica and They Might Be Giants MP3s on it. Napster created a tool that uses their central server to connect users together into a community. The people in the community are the ones distributing Metallica and They Might Be Giants, not Napster.
In conclusion, if listeners are going to Napster for their TMBG MP3s instead of TMBG it's probably because their wasn't much of a bond between artist and listener to begin with.
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WinAmp doesn't enable you to make any sort of copies. WinAmp doesn't include a ripper, doesn't include an encoder, and doesn't include burner software. WinAmp is a playback utility.
The guy also mentioned that WinAmp doesn't distinguish between legal and illegal files. That's because it is impossible to do! If WinAmp refused to play MP3s with the copyright flag on, then everyone would encode their MP3s with it off.
This reporter is either clueless or on medication.
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It's not email! That's just stupid. If you spell e-mail as email it would be pronounced something like...
Em Ale
Now, that doesn't sound like electronic-mail, it sounds like some lame microbrew that they'd sell on ThinkGeek.
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This is similar to the commercial I hear all the time for some Microsoft Certified learning institute. They always harp about how the TLD in their domain name is not .com but .ms. I wonder how many people are stupid enough to believe that Microsoft has its own TLD.
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You belong in the .org TLD. So do I. That's why my computer is bound to refrag.dyndns.org. .alt was a suggestion from a fellow Slashdotter and I think it would be great. A TLD where copyrights had no influence and every domain name was FCFS.
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This seems like a stupid TLD. Why would anyone want it? The computers attached to that TLD will hopefully do more than host Websites. They'll support other Internet functionalities such as FTP, IRC, whatever...
It just seems like a pointless TLD. Something only the stupidest of PHBs will want.
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I love Pong and most of N. Bushnell's games, but I went to see the screenshots of his games and they look like they will suck...
/. and it's SPACES inside of long URLs!
They look like slightly glorified version of the Mastertouch 5000 or whatever that stupid thing is sitting in the corner of some bars.
I'm not impressed. I'd much rather play Space Rocks from WildTangent in WinAmp.
Damn
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Shouldn't someone sue the MPAA for providing a link that points to a link that... points to DeCSS? ;)
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Why were Linux drivers brought up? The OS listed was Windows ME... just because it's Transmeta powered doesn't mean it runs Linux.
/. staff was talking about installing Linux on it and failed to mention that.
Unless, of course the
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Someone should mod you up. Thanks!
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So, how much is this puppy going to set me back? ;)
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Unfortunately, in this case, CmdrTaco is right. Sony's VAIO laptops have been very aesthetically pleasing in the past, but this new design is... well, I even pause to call it a "design". It's horrible. Plus, I can imagine the odd pipe-shaped wrap-around "handle" is going to have some separation issues.
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Where's my Vorbis Ogg plug-in for WinAmp?
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Do you know of any MP3 hardware out there that is no longer "SDMI Compliant"? I don't. Sony's MP3 players use MagicGate Memory Sticks to ensure SDMI compliance. When the new Rio came out, I thought about getting one until I saw the SDMI badge on it in Best Buy!
They're winning... we can't sit by and do nothing... or worse help them for a paltry $10,000.
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And lots of "No Comment". That was one of the conditions to accepting the money, right?
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I was really pulling for Lawrence Lessig. I didn't know much about the others, but I agree with much of what I've heard from Lessig. I definately feel he's on "our" side.
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