And Elvis Costello doesn't mince words when he says, "If you're a carpenter and you make a chair, and then somebody comes around your workshop and takes the chair away, you call the police. There isn't any gray area. It's just stealing.
"Why should it be any different with music?" he asks.
Obviously, if you steal a chair, that's theft. What if you could make a perfect copy of that chair for free(almost) and anyone who needed a chair, but couldn't afford one, or would not have a chair if they had to pay for it? You didn't take the original chair. It's still there, in the carpenters workshop. He lost nothing. You wouldn't have bought a chair anyway.
Not that it's "legal" to copy and redistribute music, but his logic is fundamentally flawed, like most of the people quoted in the article.
I am attempting to do the same. I recieved a spam a couple days ago that caought my attention. They had copied an image from my homepage and used that in the spam they emailed me.
I sent them back a letter demanding $110 for my time wasted. $100 for 'legal fees' and $10 under colorado law for each unsolicited commercial email.
Hopefully if enough people do this, spammers will be more careful to who they send emails. Either that or spammers might start something like the RBL except it would be a list of spam-unfriendly recipients. That'll be the day...
but if they do nothing, I can at least take them to small claims court and attempt to get at least $10 out of them, according to colorado law
(b) In any such action, the prevailing party other than the originator of the unsolicited commercial electronic mail message is also entitled to recover as part of the judgment a civil penalty in the amount of ten dollars for each unsolicited commercial electronic mail message transmitted in violation of this article.
What chances I have of actually ever seeing this money, I do not know, but I'm trying to do a bit to make them stop.
What was interesting about this spam, is the fact that they harvested an image from my home page, and put it in their UCE, to catch my attention. And well, it worked. Spammers these days are getting smarter.
Anyone who has a few extra minutes should write up a canned reply to send to all the spam email you get. For those of you who are lucky enough to live in a place where there is a law against spam, you could possible get some cash out of a spammer if you take them to small claims court.
There have been a few cases where spammers have been forced to pay up, so if enough people start doing it, they just may be a little more careful about who they send unwanted email.
I recently sent a reply to a spam I recieved demanding $110 for my troubles. Maybe if everyone starts taking legal action against spammers, they'll get a clue, and stop bombarding us with this junk.
Unfortunately, the signal coming from your CRT is pretty weak. I had trouble picking it up on a radio more than a few feet away.
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Absolutely. I'm an nedit user, although I sometimes use vi for checkin comments because I'm too dumb to set CVS up to work with nedit by default.
It's as simple as 'export EDITOR="(insert path to favorite editor here)"'
Kernel 2.4.13 is out..yay....
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well...the past 2 releases had bugs... How do we know this one doesn't? I think I will hold off on installing until it's been tested without problem. The previous 2 releases( 2.4.11 and 2.4.12 ) haven't done much for my opnion of the quality control process as of late....
the point was that it is not happening, and IMHO i don't think there really is going to be much of a dent placed in the linux/unix market share of web server/whatever else OS'es by micro$hit's newest OS...remember those '65,000 bugs'? who's actually going to trust their company to a OS with that many bugs? *ux sustem's will stay the norm and m$'s feeble attempt at market share will flop. ok, so i'm not a market analysist, but windows has always been crappy, and will continue to be... And just because they supposedly made a better OS than before, doesn't mean it is the best.
Now the facts prove it http://www.tpc.org/new_result/ttperf.idc
this explains why 70% of the internet is run on unix-type OS'es... If micro$hit is so good, why aren't servers run now on unix/linux, etc. switching over in throngs?
is and forever will be the leader when it comes to operating systems for both the PC and server markets.
Leader in server market? excuse me? did i miss something? Did the 70% of all internet servers running *ux systems suddenly switch over to microshit OS'es?
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And Elvis Costello doesn't mince words when he says, "If you're a carpenter and you make a chair, and then somebody comes around your workshop and takes the chair away, you call the police. There isn't any gray area. It's just stealing.
"Why should it be any different with music?" he asks.
Obviously, if you steal a chair, that's theft. What if you could make a perfect copy of that chair for free(almost) and anyone who needed a chair, but couldn't afford one, or would not have a chair if they had to pay for it? You didn't take the original chair. It's still there, in the carpenters workshop. He lost nothing. You wouldn't have bought a chair anyway.
Not that it's "legal" to copy and redistribute music, but his logic is fundamentally flawed, like most of the people quoted in the article.
actually... we only make $10/hour. get it straight. ;)
this will provide a whole new aspect to geocaching! what will they think of next?
I am attempting to do the same. I recieved a spam a couple days ago that caought my attention. They had copied an image from my homepage and used that in the spam they emailed me.
I sent them back a letter demanding $110 for my time wasted. $100 for 'legal fees' and $10 under colorado law for each unsolicited commercial email.
Hopefully if enough people do this, spammers will be more careful to who they send emails. Either that or spammers might start something like the RBL except it would be a list of spam-unfriendly recipients. That'll be the day...
but if they do nothing, I can at least take them to small claims court and attempt to get at least $10 out of them, according to colorado law
(b) In any such action, the prevailing party other than the originator of the unsolicited commercial electronic mail message is also entitled to recover as part of the judgment a civil penalty in the amount of ten dollars for each unsolicited commercial electronic mail message transmitted in violation of this article.
What chances I have of actually ever seeing this money, I do not know, but I'm trying to do a bit to make them stop.
What was interesting about this spam, is the fact that they harvested an image from my home page, and put it in their UCE, to catch my attention. And well, it worked. Spammers these days are getting smarter.
Anyone who has a few extra minutes should write up a canned reply to send to all the spam email you get. For those of you who are lucky enough to live in a place where there is a law against spam, you could possible get some cash out of a spammer if you take them to small claims court.
There have been a few cases where spammers have been forced to pay up, so if enough people start doing it, they just may be a little more careful about who they send unwanted email.
I recently sent a reply to a spam I recieved demanding $110 for my troubles. Maybe if everyone starts taking legal action against spammers, they'll get a clue, and stop bombarding us with this junk.
how is this redundant? i said it first....
If you're playing video games 7 hours a day, you deserve whatever happens to you...
Ever seen a propane canister? Basically it'd be the same thing. How often do you hear of one of them spontaneously combusting?
Unfortunately, the signal coming from your CRT is pretty weak. I had trouble picking it up on a radio more than a few feet away.
It's as simple as 'export EDITOR="(insert path to favorite editor here)"'
well...the past 2 releases had bugs... How do we know this one doesn't? I think I will hold off on installing until it's been tested without problem. The previous 2 releases( 2.4.11 and 2.4.12 ) haven't done much for my opnion of the quality control process as of late....
So where is all this free beer everyone is always talking about?
the point was that it is not happening, and IMHO i don't think there really is going to be much of a dent placed in the linux/unix market share of web server/whatever else OS'es by micro$hit's newest OS...remember those '65,000 bugs'? who's actually going to trust their company to a OS with that many bugs? *ux sustem's will stay the norm and m$'s feeble attempt at market share will flop. ok, so i'm not a market analysist, but windows has always been crappy, and will continue to be... And just because they supposedly made a better OS than before, doesn't mean it is the best.
Now the facts prove it http://www.tpc.org/new_result/ttperf.idc
this explains why 70% of the internet is run on unix-type OS'es... If micro$hit is so good, why aren't servers run now on unix/linux, etc. switching over in throngs?
is and forever will be the leader when it comes to operating systems for both the PC and server markets.
Leader in server market? excuse me? did i miss something? Did the 70% of all internet servers running *ux systems suddenly switch over to microshit OS'es?