I guarantee in the long run that the only way they can stay in business is to drop the copyrighted stuff.
If that's the case, then one must conclude that it's illegal to post a hyperlink to a web page that contains illegal material. After all, what Napster does is equivalent to that.
Surely a trade implies a (two-way) exchange. Getting music for no consideration is a one way exchange and thus not a trade
Quite so. That's why sites like FairTunes are the best way to go. These sites let you send money directly to the artist, so you can use file-sharing in good conscience.
I'm sick of people using the name of "progress" to try to justify dictating what you can and can't do. Did we really need a GUI for DOS? Did we really need high-speed Internet access? No, and we don't need handwriting recognition either.
Don't like the product? Then don't buy it. Steve Jobs may be an asshole, but he's not holding a gun to your head...
The consumer gets to determine the price of a product? Only in as much as the market generally influences the cost of any item by agreeing or refusing to pay the asking price.
For physical objects, you are correct. For intellectual property, you are incorrect, or will be in the near future. Because like it or not, the fact is that Joe Consumer is now able to obtain intellectual property for (approximately) free over the Internet.
I don't see that the consumer should tell the artist that they are only allowed to charge (say) $5 for their album.
The artist may charge any price he wants. On the other hand, the consumer is free to pay any price he wants, because the artist isn't able to restrict supply.
Well...the movie studios DID fund the movie...and the DID make the dvd...so don't they have some say on how it gets used?
Well, sure. The question here is, how much say should they have? Most people would probably agree that you shouldn't be able to buy a DVD, then show it to the public in your movie theater and sell tickets. On the other hand, the DVD makers shouldn't be able to say that you can only watch the DVD between 3 and 4 PM, while hopping on your left foot and chewing gum. Somewhere between those extremes is the line of demarcation.
IMHO, if you bought the movie, you should be allowed to view it using any mechanism you wish to.
If copyright is a privilege, and not a right, then what does the second syllable of the word stand for? Wouldn't they have called it "copyprivilege" if that's what they meant?
how can we prevent our info from getting on these sites in the first place? I don't know about everyone else, but I don't like the idea of every Tom, Dick and Harry being able to look up my address and other personal contact info.
IMHO this is just another aspect of the same problem facing musicians who want to control who listens to their music. In both cases, I don't think there is a good way to prevent the data from being distributed if people really want to do so.
The software they developed scanned through the closed-captioning of all channels it had access to, and as soon as a search string was encountered, the rest of that program (full video) was recorded to the hard-drive
I don't know if this is the company you are referring to, but Virage makes this VideoLogger program that does that sort of thing....
But my favorite UI was the ol' amiga UI.. Good blend of GUI & Command Line.. Now there was a machine you could get excited about..
If you liked the Amiga's GUI/CLI blend, I highly recommend that you try BeOS. It's very much like the Amiga in spirit, plus the GUI is even more responsive (i.e. window moving and resizing is "live", directory windows all update in real time, etc). The CLI is bash, with all the standard UNIX-y goodness.
If you can give me a good argument for pr0n shops in general to be shut down I'll agree with you, until then I see no reason to think that pr0n shops are inherantly bad.
I won't say they're inherently bad, but my sense is that most communities think they're something of an embarrassment and would be happier if they weren't there. If the Internet provides cheaper, more discreet pr0n to those who want it, and towns and cities get to improve their image without having to resort to draconian zoning measures (etc), then everybody wins IMHO. (Except, of course, the owners of the pr0n shops... but they can tell their sad stories to the buggy whip salesmen for all I care)
Just out of curiosity.... what can one expect the Insight (or any other vehicle) to do if you exceed its weight limit? Refuse to go up hills? Damage the engine or transmission? Call up Honda, Inc. on your car phone and report you?
And, of course, because the idiot paid like $60k for a tiny micro subcompact, their attitude is: "I paid a buttload of money, and I'm going to make it up in gas savings, I'll be damnned if I drive this thing to get 50 mpg!!"
More like $20k in this case, and remember that the posted speed limit signs indicate maximum speed, not minimum. It is not your God-given right to waste fuel driving as fast as possible at all times.
The problem was, a long line of Semi-trucks were slowly threading their way, one by one, in the left lane, past this little Honda hybrid, maxxed out at 50.
The good Lord only gave me so many seconds of life on this world. I don't want to spend them in transit, waiting behind slow cars.
I believe this wasn't a limitation of the car, but rather a driver suffering from Fuelorexia nervosa.
Of course not EVERYBODY becomes a crack head if you hit a joint. But I've seen it again again and again, and I'm tired of it.
Here's a theory: marijuana serves as a gateway drug not because of any physical effects, but simply because it's illegal. Before you smoked that joint, you might have thought of yourself as "someone who doesn't do drugs". Now that you've had to recategorize yourself as "someone who is open to experimentation with drugs", you don't have anything to lose by trying another drug...
I think they're a great, great thing because although access may give them "hopes and expectations" (and I'm not arguing those things are extremely valuable), they need training and skills in order to translate those hopes into something tangible and useful.
Of course, the Internet can also be used to provide training and skills...
A newly-arrived email message (for example) can't stand on its own as a separate document -- can't show up alongside other files in searches, sit by itself on the desktop, be opened or printed independently; it has no name, so it must be buried on arrival inside some existing file (the mail file) that does have a name.
I'm glad to know that while there are children in the country starving and women being beaten and raped and people dying of a million diseases, someone is funding the development of a web-browser for a freaking bird.
And while children are starving and women are being beaten and raped, you're sitting here posting to Slashdot? Go help them, for God's sake!
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How do you know? How many great bands existed that you never had the opportunity to hear?
If that's the case, then one must conclude that it's illegal to post a hyperlink to a web page that contains illegal material. After all, what Napster does is equivalent to that.
Quite so. That's why sites like FairTunes are the best way to go. These sites let you send money directly to the artist, so you can use file-sharing in good conscience.
Don't like the product? Then don't buy it. Steve Jobs may be an asshole, but he's not holding a gun to your head...
For physical objects, you are correct. For intellectual property, you are incorrect, or will be in the near future. Because like it or not, the fact is that Joe Consumer is now able to obtain intellectual property for (approximately) free over the Internet.
I don't see that the consumer should tell the artist that they are only allowed to charge (say) $5 for their album.
The artist may charge any price he wants. On the other hand, the consumer is free to pay any price he wants, because the artist isn't able to restrict supply.
We could always create a system like this...
Well, sure. The question here is, how much say should they have? Most people would probably agree that you shouldn't be able to buy a DVD, then show it to the public in your movie theater and sell tickets. On the other hand, the DVD makers shouldn't be able to say that you can only watch the DVD between 3 and 4 PM, while hopping on your left foot and chewing gum. Somewhere between those extremes is the line of demarcation.
IMHO, if you bought the movie, you should be allowed to view it using any mechanism you wish to.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but...
If copyright is a privilege, and not a right, then what does the second syllable of the word stand for? Wouldn't they have called it "copyprivilege" if that's what they meant?
IMHO this is just another aspect of the same problem facing musicians who want to control who listens to their music. In both cases, I don't think there is a good way to prevent the data from being distributed if people really want to do so.
I don't know if this is the company you are referring to, but Virage makes this VideoLogger program that does that sort of thing....
If you liked the Amiga's GUI/CLI blend, I highly recommend that you try BeOS. It's very much like the Amiga in spirit, plus the GUI is even more responsive (i.e. window moving and resizing is "live", directory windows all update in real time, etc). The CLI is bash, with all the standard UNIX-y goodness.
I won't say they're inherently bad, but my sense is that most communities think they're something of an embarrassment and would be happier if they weren't there. If the Internet provides cheaper, more discreet pr0n to those who want it, and towns and cities get to improve their image without having to resort to draconian zoning measures (etc), then everybody wins IMHO. (Except, of course, the owners of the pr0n shops... but they can tell their sad stories to the buggy whip salesmen for all I care)
[A porno store went out of business due to pr0n being freely available on the Internet]
And this is a bad thing?
Just out of curiosity.... what can one expect the Insight (or any other vehicle) to do if you exceed its weight limit? Refuse to go up hills? Damage the engine or transmission? Call up Honda, Inc. on your car phone and report you?
More like $20k in this case, and remember that the posted speed limit signs indicate maximum speed, not minimum. It is not your God-given right to waste fuel driving as fast as possible at all times.
The good Lord only gave me so many seconds of life on this world. I don't want to spend them in transit, waiting behind slow cars.
I believe this wasn't a limitation of the car, but rather a driver suffering from Fuelorexia nervosa.
Space programs? Don't forget good old-fashioned kill-em-dead warfare, which is also responsible for a good number of technological advances...
Here's a theory: marijuana serves as a gateway drug not because of any physical effects, but simply because it's illegal. Before you smoked that joint, you might have thought of yourself as "someone who doesn't do drugs". Now that you've had to recategorize yourself as "someone who is open to experimentation with drugs", you don't have anything to lose by trying another drug...
My thoughts on how to make mp3's kosher
Of course, the Internet can also be used to provide training and skills...
Ideally, because if they don't you'll go to their competition and they won't get any more of your money. (Ideally...)
Heh, looks like the author hasn't used BeOS...
And while children are starving and women are being beaten and raped, you're sitting here posting to Slashdot? Go help them, for God's sake!
Okay, which two of the above categories have to share one of your loves?
... now if they can just find some lemons in space, we can start a business!