'Alas, we computer users must endure pop-up advertising along with her ugly brother, unsolicited bulk e-mail, "spam," as a burden of using the Internet.'
Bullshit! Spammers are amoral creeps who will be first against the wall when the revolution comes!
..remeber that these people, however you feel about RIAA and their bussiness, have actually distributed music that they don't have the rights to.
Because of an amoral legal system, yes we know that.
If you do the crime; you should be willing to do the time.
Why? I mean its not as if i've been sharing music, but why do people always spout that nonsense? People who do the crime don't wanna do that time. What part don't you get?
The point is, the people being sued may not have stolen anything at all and not intended to help anyone steal. I have a fairly large CD collection, yet I'd say that at least 20% of my disks have scratches on them. I have copies of those disk that I downloaded of the web. Perfectly legal. I am too lazy to rip my CDs, I have too many CDs and not enough time. I download entire discographies from eMule. Once again, perfectly legal.
It sure as hell isn't in Europe - are you sure it is in the states?
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac Cluster (1100 G5/Dual 2ghz with(4*1100) Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac cluster, the same operation would take about 2 minutes.
I doubt it. What matters when you copy is if its from one harddrive to another, that's fast. If you copy from and to the same disk, that's slow because the head has to move back and forth on the same disk.
I remember when I was a freshmen in college, many people here on Slashdot were begging the RIAA to attack the individuals that were guilty of copyright infringement, and not the parties that provided the software and networks to make it possible. Now the RIAA is doing exactly that, and the good people at Slashdot continue to cry foul.
Don't be stupid. Slashdot is not a coordinated group or political party. Different people have different opinions.
What, pray tell, do you find an acceptable course of action for the RIAA?
Unfortunately, many signs point towards this being a fake, fabricated interview.
Why unfortunately? If it requires product activation there is no way in hell I'd ever buy HalfLife 2. And i'd like to, so i hope it is a fake interview.
I quite agree with what you said. Especially what you said about it being a damn shame... have you read about the new and exciting direction for Enterprise this season? Soldiers about the ship and a new sexy uniform for the female Vulcan. Oh joy.
But, I will tell you this... Women don't care about much other than reality-TV. I have to curtail my football watching so that my gf can tune into Temptation Island and Paradise Hotel. The women at work ONLY care about Paradise Hotel and the like.
Except a large part of the Firefly fans ARE women. They loved the relationship stuff Whedon manages to throw in without the men noticing.
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'Alas, we computer users must endure pop-up advertising along with her ugly brother, unsolicited bulk e-mail, "spam," as a burden of using the Internet.'
Bullshit! Spammers are amoral creeps who will be first against the wall when the revolution comes!
Thanks, I should know that - guess i was tired :)
... either that or you are incompetent.
..remeber that these people, however you feel about RIAA and their bussiness, have actually distributed music that they don't have the rights to.
Because of an amoral legal system, yes we know that.
If you do the crime; you should be willing to do the time.
Why? I mean its not as if i've been sharing music, but why do people always spout that nonsense? People who do the crime don't wanna do that time. What part don't you get?
The point is, the people being sued may not have stolen anything at all and not intended to help anyone steal. I have a fairly large CD collection, yet I'd say that at least 20% of my disks have scratches on them. I have copies of those disk that I downloaded of the web. Perfectly legal. I am too lazy to rip my CDs, I have too many CDs and not enough time. I download entire discographies from eMule. Once again, perfectly legal.
It sure as hell isn't in Europe - are you sure it is in the states?
That's not insightfull, that's just trolling. (Or perhaps he's retarded, but still)
If they'd just stop handing out Hugos for all that fantasy crap and only for Scifi - yeah! :)
...makes you feel all warm and fuzzy?
;)
(10 to 1 someone is going to suggest their favourite band
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac Cluster (1100 G5/Dual 2ghz with(4*1100) Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac cluster, the same operation would take about 2 minutes.
I doubt it. What matters when you copy is if its from one harddrive to another, that's fast. If you copy from and to the same disk, that's slow because the head has to move back and forth on the same disk.
Was that message a waste of electrons or what?
I remember when I was a freshmen in college, many people here on Slashdot were begging the RIAA to attack the individuals that were guilty of copyright infringement, and not the parties that provided the software and networks to make it possible. Now the RIAA is doing exactly that, and the good people at Slashdot continue to cry foul.
Don't be stupid. Slashdot is not a coordinated group or political party. Different people have different opinions.
What, pray tell, do you find an acceptable course of action for the RIAA?
Disolve themselves and find another line of work.
You have to admit, they have some compelling evidence that justifies their claim.
Really? Why haven't the made it public then?
At the end of the day, the manner in which the RIAA conducts business is legal, though obviously immoral. Willing copyright infringement is not.
No, its obviously illegal, but moral.
What one has to ask themselves is:
1." Do two wrongs make a right?"
From a country with a death penalty for murder, the answer would be yes.
2. "Am I willing to participate in illegal and immoral activities?"
No of course not. What has that got to do with downloading music?
3. "If I am willing to engage in copyright infringement/theft, am I prepared to accept the possible consequences?"
Copyright infringement is not theft.
Unfortunately, many signs point towards this being a fake, fabricated interview.
Why unfortunately? If it requires product activation there is no way in hell I'd ever buy HalfLife 2. And i'd like to, so i hope it is a fake interview.
I quite agree with what you said. Especially what you said about it being a damn shame... have you read about the new and exciting direction for Enterprise this season? Soldiers about the ship and a new sexy uniform for the female Vulcan. Oh joy.
Retardation is never funny.
Firefly was not a good show.
That depends on the size of your frontal lobes.
But, I will tell you this... Women don't care about much other than reality-TV. I have to curtail my football watching so that my gf can tune into Temptation Island and Paradise Hotel. The women at work ONLY care about Paradise Hotel and the like.
Except a large part of the Firefly fans ARE women. They loved the relationship stuff Whedon manages to throw in without the men noticing.
I'm going to metamod dilligently hoping to get a chance to blow this moderator out of the water...
So how does it work?
...a little music piracy by college students who wouldn't be able to afford to buy the thousands of songs they steal anyway.
Except they don't steal songs - you can't steal something intangible, they are violating copyright law.
Every time I make the mistake of watching a film from Hollywood I'm in awe and fear that they'll release more!
This is the lamest anti-Microsoft flame of all time.
Probably because it isn't a flame.
RSS sucks... and on windows at least there doesn't seem to be any small nonbloatware programs to scan this without using a lot of resources.
If you are going to dump email, you might as well just use a website.
Microsoft survives again!
* Other than hot, steamy sex.
You've had sex? What kind of a scientist are you!