Interesting. I'm using it on Windows XP and have not experienced any problems. I bought a few tracks and burned them to a CD with no glitches (iTunes recognized the Plextor SCSI CD burner and everything). I only wish they had included a simple way to view the album that a specific track in the search listing is from (perhaps a choice in the context menu would be appropriate.) Overall, it's a great product.
Haha... your post exposes an important problem with current copyright law. "Otherwise, you could have someone paying the copyright fee--" you say. Unfortunately, and I'm sure many people are not aware of this fact, copyright is automatic! Every work created in the United States after April Fools Day of 1989 enjoys full copyright protection from now to eternity (or whenever Congress decides to stop extending copyright.)
Also remember that a work must be explicitly placed in the public domain. See the Creative Commons if you'd like to allow others to use your works.
First, the registration fee is simply that -- a nominal fee. And any attempts to raise it will be fought tooth and nail by media giants like Disney, so there's not much chance of that.
As for making it a higher tax: copyright holders already pay taxes on their royalties (they're called income taxes.)
Second, it is unlikely that thousands of copyrighted works will be maintained just because. In 1973, when the term for copyright had to renewed (this system was abolished in 1976) a whopping 85% of works up for renewal were not renewed.
According to my copy of the BeBook it was actually: double is_computer_on_fire() Returns the temperature of the motherboard if the computer is currently on fire. If the computer isn't on fire, the function returns some other value. and of course the classic: int32 is_computer_on(void) Returns 1 if the computer is on. If the computer isn't on, the value returned by this function is undefined.
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Interesting. I'm using it on Windows XP and have not experienced any problems. I bought a few tracks and burned them to a CD with no glitches (iTunes recognized the Plextor SCSI CD burner and everything). I only wish they had included a simple way to view the album that a specific track in the search listing is from (perhaps a choice in the context menu would be appropriate.) Overall, it's a great product.
Also remember that a work must be explicitly placed in the public domain. See the Creative Commons if you'd like to allow others to use your works.
Please read this for a little more information: 10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained
Second, it is unlikely that thousands of copyrighted works will be maintained just because. In 1973, when the term for copyright had to renewed (this system was abolished in 1976) a whopping 85% of works up for renewal were not renewed.
According to my copy of the BeBook it was actually:
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double is_computer_on_fire()
Returns the temperature of the motherboard if the computer is currently on fire. If the computer isn't on fire, the function returns some other value.
and of course the classic:
int32 is_computer_on(void)
Returns 1 if the computer is on. If the computer isn't on, the value returned by this function is undefined.
(source:
http://bang.dhs.org/be/bebook/The%20Kernel%20Ki
Those were the days.