The lawsuit is about a belief system, alsmost a religion in the case of the RIAA.
Copyright is only effective if enough people follow it.
If everybody copied stuff freely, how effective would copyright be?
We all know that civil disobedience is the best way to get ineffective laws challenged. If enough people challenge authority on a given issue, a democratic system has no choice but to alter the rules or become fascist or dictatorial in nature.
In the case of the RIAA the religion is money. Money is after all it's life. Rather than change from an existing paradigm, i.e. a closed market, controllable source for supply. It is faced with a radical shift in its revenue and thus its maneer of existence.
Given the current preponderance of mp3s and other digital media, there is no closed market ans the media of distribution is the internet, and the controllable supply is non-existant: you aren't limited by raw materials when creating copies of mp3s.
therefore the RIAA is being forced to fight for its own existence, not realising that by embracing the paradigm shift that it is facing it can metamorphasise into a powerful organisation for good.
Some games companies are taking the orginal idea of something and improving on the outdated games that haven't been touched for years.
The current owner of the "original games" sues the creators of the new games. To get a shitload of cash.
Hasbro won't be releasing any new improvements on the old classics.
Damn, that's a good business model.
Money for nothing.
I bet they are trying deperately to find some similarities between other old classics that they aquired (shit, they didn't even develop these games themselves) and quake 3...
Why doesn't Sega release games for which there is not any feasible return on investement under their own "abandonware license"???
That way they get additional kudos from their emulator following, and publicity. They certainly wont make any more money selling 10 or even 5 year old software... most of it will be sold second hand anyway.
I really don't get the attitiude of these big companies trying to protect stuff they stand no hope of gaining a further return on investment on.
Certainly, I think the publicity investement gained from allowing a 17 or even a 50 year old kid would far outweigh any licensing revenue they would be likely to gain from squeezing rom exchange sites....
Personally these big companies can bite me. I will still be able to find roms, no matter how far "undernet" they go.
I would rather be able to do it legitamately, but.........
This would seem to be ficticious. Nicely written, and completely what everyone would *love* to do to spammers. However, given the language used and the style of writing I would make a pretty good stab at saying that it was written by someone that has only a passing knowledge of security systems. Anyone who had actually done what he claimed to have done would certainly have described things a little more accurately... "....and hacked my way in to the spammer?s computer. The following screen-shot is a picture of the spammer?s Windows desktop caught in the act of forging my domain. 1st Class Mail is a bulk email program. It is used for spamming the Internet. It has no other purpose. Once I had escalated my remote access to that of a full privileged local user..." This kind of sets my teeth on edge... "...I also downloaded enough information from other data files" Reads like pseudo-technology in a cheap film... I'm not saying the parties involed don't exist. What I a saying that this is wish fulfillment....
The entry level services are not really intended for big operation where you are likely to be putting in 9 or 10Us worth of servers...
The aim of the service I was describing is mainly for people who have a basic 4u box or whatever...
As ever you get what you pay for. If you need the sort of space where you need loading bays etc you would be better off looking at their upmarket services.
As it stands their entry level service is perfect the way it is. You don't run a multi mil operation out of their fulham noc.
For the "rest of us" low cost is the most important factor. And you can't beat this for "bangs for buck"
Slashdot Mirror
A boom is usually followed by a bust.
The best method of growth is steady. You can plan on it then.
not at all.
Some words have several meanings like:
duck
chip
scumbag lawyer
http://www.fureai.or.jp/~mori-t/e_whatsnew.html
The site does have english translation on it.
Hmmm. article submitters not reading the pages they are submitting. How cute.
I know this will probably get modded down, but has anyone thought to ask compaq about this before launchin into "jihad" mode?
What is their take on the "situation"?
You are right, but I am also not advocating the removal of IP.
I am talking about bloody-minded shortsightedness.
Who was talking about replacement.
I love capitalism. I am a capitalist.
I hate stupidity. RIAA is being stupid. It is going after short term cash at any costs. Ignoring long term wealth.
If you don't understand my point, why comment in an inflammatory manner?
The lawsuit is about a belief system, alsmost a religion in the case of the RIAA.
Copyright is only effective if enough people follow it.
If everybody copied stuff freely, how effective would copyright be?
We all know that civil disobedience is the best way to get ineffective laws challenged. If enough people challenge authority on a given issue, a democratic system has no choice but to alter the rules or become fascist or dictatorial in nature.
In the case of the RIAA the religion is money. Money is after all it's life. Rather than change from an existing paradigm, i.e. a closed market, controllable source for supply. It is faced with a radical shift in its revenue and thus its maneer of existence.
Given the current preponderance of mp3s and other digital media, there is no closed market ans the media of distribution is the internet, and the controllable supply is non-existant: you aren't limited by raw materials when creating copies of mp3s.
therefore the RIAA is being forced to fight for its own existence, not realising that by embracing the paradigm shift that it is facing it can metamorphasise into a powerful organisation for good.
There are situations like this anywhere...
For instance Inland Revenue (UK version of IRS) billed me £2.00 I paid by cheque happily knowing that it would cost them around £100 to process it....
Big companies and organisations are dumb. Basically this is because these days the computers run the humans.
The computers says: "we are owed £0.02, collect. Expense is irrelevant"
The operator says "Hm, more than my jobsworth to refuse to do that."
Sad really.
So let me get this straight.
Some games companies are taking the orginal idea of something and improving on the outdated games that haven't been touched for years.
The current owner of the "original games" sues the creators of the new games. To get a shitload of cash.
Hasbro won't be releasing any new improvements on the old classics.
Damn, that's a good business model.
Money for nothing.
I bet they are trying deperately to find some similarities between other old classics that they aquired (shit, they didn't even develop these games themselves) and quake 3...
What, so does this mean that they are going to use digitised sounds for r2's bleeping noises, too?
sooo logically the combination of all these terms would be:
multi-handed butt commander...?
As if CmdrTaco would complain about selling out....
As an aside: the Georgian (former Sov Union) word for "bottom/butt/arse" is actually "taco"....
If these chips are embedded, would it be fair to say that they are ARM chips?
Will people that work out a lot have Strong ARM chips?
Imagine if Microsoft wrote the firmware for these things?
"Hey man it's cool, I run windows! Oh crap, the left side of my body has just gone numb..."
I only ask cause the bastardized quote comes from julius ceasar...
As I am sure you know, it was Brutus, Julius' murderer, that said the original words.
Ironic how the press is actually being blatant in this reference.
Something doesn't have to be GPL to be free...
Why doesn't Sega release games for which there is not any feasible return on investement under their own "abandonware license"???
That way they get additional kudos from their emulator following, and publicity. They certainly wont make any more money selling 10 or even 5 year old software... most of it will be sold second hand anyway.
I really don't get the attitiude of these big companies trying to protect stuff they stand no hope of gaining a further return on investment on.
Certainly, I think the publicity investement gained from allowing a 17 or even a 50 year old kid would far outweigh any licensing revenue they would be likely to gain from squeezing rom exchange sites....
Personally these big companies can bite me. I will still be able to find roms, no matter how far "undernet" they go.
I would rather be able to do it legitamately, but.........
lover life forms
What, like Barry White?
I will still use mozilla... M16 is pretty damn stable.
Hell people said UNIX was dead a few years ago and now look....
Damn straight.
I am disgusted that there is sooo much ucking around when it comes to space exploration.
Even if it is hard and difficult...
The us military uses old $7.5 million jet fighters as target practice...!
When you are looking at waste on this scale perhaps resources would be better directed to space stations or terraforming.
EPOC (or rather epoc32) has been out for years now. It is the OS for the psion series 5/7.
Very good.
Outstanding to code for, with a built in programming language that lets you take advantage of the full cababilities of these excellent ARM machines..
Surely that was what the IMAP protocol was for??
Then M$ had to decide that they "knew best" in a lame attempt to force things like unix out of the server environment...
This strikes me as similar to a landlord being arrested for his tenants having committed a crime.
fightclub.
a very good tree to celluloid port.
PSX-es et al tend to follow the LAN party thing...
Particularily when they have multiplayer games...
This would seem to be ficticious. Nicely written, and completely what everyone would *love* to do to spammers. However, given the language used and the style of writing I would make a pretty good stab at saying that it was written by someone that has only a passing knowledge of security systems. Anyone who had actually done what he claimed to have done would certainly have described things a little more accurately... "....and hacked my way in to the spammer?s computer. The following screen-shot is a picture of the spammer?s Windows desktop caught in the act of forging my domain. 1st Class Mail is a bulk email program. It is used for spamming the Internet. It has no other purpose. Once I had escalated my remote access to that of a full privileged local user..." This kind of sets my teeth on edge... "...I also downloaded enough information from other data files" Reads like pseudo-technology in a cheap film... I'm not saying the parties involed don't exist. What I a saying that this is wish fulfillment....
The entry level services are not really intended for big operation where you are likely to be putting in 9 or 10Us worth of servers...
The aim of the service I was describing is mainly for people who have a basic 4u box or whatever...
As ever you get what you pay for. If you need the sort of space where you need loading bays etc you would be better off looking at their upmarket services.
As it stands their entry level service is perfect the way it is. You don't run a multi mil operation out of their fulham noc.
For the "rest of us" low cost is the most important factor. And you can't beat this for "bangs for buck"