If they go out of business that's your tough luck. Rent software from someone else. If car rental company went out of business would they be required let me keep the car I rented?
How soon until AOL buys a few Linux related mailing lists and starts sending out the AOL for Linux CD-ROMs with 238478239742356237403 free hours of service? I could really use some new coasters.
Just wanted to make it clear that the link that was mentioned is about Canadian laws which put a "levy" on recordable media to offset the losses due to piracy. People living elsewhere in the world are not paying this. Just another reason why lawsuits like this are pointless. The world is not one country. If something is illegal in one place people will just set up shop elsewhere. The internet is global. One country, no matter how hard they would like to try, can not control it with their laws.
The obvious answer is because people already have CDROM drives in their computers and nearly no one has an MD-DATA drive. As the article says they are trying to appeal to people who don't want to fool around with cables and software to get the images on their pc. Just stick the CD in the drive and you're done.
I can understand why would be pissed off about people "abusing" their bandwidth because I'm a little anoyed when my cabela ccess is slow too. But when I signed up for @Home they said it was unlimited access I should be able to use it as much as I want. If they would have included bandwidth limitations at signup time than maybe it would be a different story. If people want to actually use the service they pay for and the result is a slowdown for other users then the ISP is the one that needs to do some upgrading.
I stuck rpnp.so in my/usr/lib/netscape/plugins and it's working great. I'm using Redhat 6.1 and Netscape 4.61. But then again maybe I'm just lucky... RealPlayer G2 worked for me when everyone else was having problems with it too. I even took a screen-shot of the plug-in in action since I've been in such a screen-shotty mood lately.
I have noticed the change, and it's made it a lot tougher to find songs that you don't know the exact name of. What they really need is a "power search" option which would allow those of us who are willing to wait a few more seconds for a search to complete find the songs that we are looking for. For example, A band I really like is called Limp. Unfortunately if I type in "Limp" I get a few thousand Limp Bizkit songs instead of what I'm looking for. They need to add AND, OR, and NOT functions into the search as well as the option for matching full or partial words. I would much rather have improved searching capability than a new user interface.
How closely is this being watched? And how much trouble could you get into for smuggling one of these out of Japan? The reason I ask is that there are some web sites like www.japan-direct.com that are selling these. I've also seen eBay usctions for it already. A local video game shop is even telling me they should have some within a month. Anyone know the story on this?
I would reccomend gnapster. I've tried about 3 or 4 different linux clients and this one has by far the most features. The latest version supports just about everything the 2.0 Windows client does. Download it @ http://virtual.faradic.net/~jasta/programs.html
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If they go out of business that's your tough luck. Rent software from someone else. If car rental company went out of business would they be required let me keep the car I rented?
The Linux client from AOL uses TOC.
How soon until AOL buys a few Linux related mailing lists and starts sending out the AOL for Linux CD-ROMs with 238478239742356237403 free hours of service? I could really use some new coasters.
Just wanted to make it clear that the link that was mentioned is about Canadian laws which put a "levy" on recordable media to offset the losses due to piracy. People living elsewhere in the world are not paying this. Just another reason why lawsuits like this are pointless. The world is not one country. If something is illegal in one place people will just set up shop elsewhere. The internet is global. One country, no matter how hard they would like to try, can not control it with their laws.
The obvious answer is because people already have CDROM drives in their computers and nearly no one has an MD-DATA drive. As the article says they are trying to appeal to people who don't want to fool around with cables and software to get the images on their pc. Just stick the CD in the drive and you're done.
I can understand why would be pissed off about people "abusing" their bandwidth because I'm a little anoyed when my cabela ccess is slow too. But when I signed up for @Home they said it was unlimited access I should be able to use it as much as I want. If they would have included bandwidth limitations at signup time than maybe it would be a different story. If people want to actually use the service they pay for and the result is a slowdown for other users then the ISP is the one that needs to do some upgrading.
I stuck rpnp.so in my /usr/lib/netscape/plugins and it's working great. I'm using Redhat 6.1 and Netscape 4.61. But then again maybe I'm just lucky... RealPlayer G2 worked for me when everyone else was having problems with it too. I even took a screen-shot of the plug-in in action since I've been in such a screen-shotty mood lately.
I have noticed the change, and it's made it a lot tougher to find songs that you don't know the exact name of. What they really need is a "power search" option which would allow those of us who are willing to wait a few more seconds for a search to complete find the songs that we are looking for. For example, A band I really like is called Limp. Unfortunately if I type in "Limp" I get a few thousand Limp Bizkit songs instead of what I'm looking for. They need to add AND, OR, and NOT functions into the search as well as the option for matching full or partial words. I would much rather have improved searching capability than a new user interface.
How closely is this being watched? And how much trouble could you get into for smuggling one of these out of Japan? The reason I ask is that there are some web sites like www.japan-direct.com that are selling these. I've also seen eBay usctions for it already. A local video game shop is even telling me they should have some within a month. Anyone know the story on this?
I would reccomend gnapster. I've tried about 3 or 4 different linux clients and this one has by far the most features. The latest version supports just about everything the 2.0 Windows client does. Download it @ http://virtual.faradic.net/~jasta/programs.html