We can get really mad at the RIAA for scaring people and ruining lives, but this group isn't suing teenagers. They're suing AT&T, with almost $300 billion in assets. Excuse me if I'm not terribly concerned about one of their legal teams having a little more work to do to fight off this frivolous lawsuit.
If it really goes anywhere, It would be a hell of a fight since both are goning to put up the best argument money can buy.
Notice not "the best argument that is based on facts or substantial evidence" or "the best argument." but "the best one money can buy"
That's what happens in a genuinely competitive market place.
Which only exists when one party isn't money hoarding and greedy. If all parties are greedy there is no real incentive to have a price drop war, since they can all make a gouging profit.
It might if they were not autoplayed, if it looked as 1 block file and played as 1 block file the argument could arise that it was obviously split to not cost. But there wouldn't be anything done about it unless "everyone" does it and it infringes in their licensing business model.
Strike two. Popularity != Quality. McDonalds has sold billions of hamburgers, but I don't ever see them on a list of best burgers.
The proof is in the pudding folks, go to any open source developer meeting and most people will be using Macs with OS X, and if they are web developers they will be using Safari, Flash and Mpeg4, not Linux, Theora or any other substandard, second rate "open source" tools or libraries.
You go far to prove your own point there don't you.
Gamecube discs spin in the opposite way of a normal disc and read from the outside in, I would assume the Wii does the same since it is backwards compatible. I guess the DVD homebrew must spin the drive in reverse to play them correctly.
Politics isn't about deciding who is right and who is wrong, it is about finding a compromise, or workable solution between two conflicting parties. In this case, the compromise is likely to be reduced copyright durations, and expanded fair use. Downloading music for free, as a lot of people want, is not likely to ever be legalized. The RIAA will not disappear until artists stop using their services, which may happen one day.
Compromises only work if both sides have equal say, and no one is allowed to bribe the mediator.
On a related note, this particular problem is an excellent example of over-innovation on the part of Vista; am I the only one who despises Vista's new network connections configuration GUI? It was perfectly unbroken in XP, IMHO, and they went and "fixed" it.
That was the majority of UI things they "fixed" for Vista and Office 07, none were really "broken", but looked "better" the new way but got hated since that old way was more ingrained since circa Win 95.
Another reason is that, while you are commuting, you can possibly find enough Wi-Fi to read Google News on your laptop.
So i am going to have my laptop on my passenger seat while I drive 45 minutes to work?
That reason might work if you have some sort of public transportation and are not the one driving, but its not as easy as reading the paper while you get stuff together in the morning or some such.
Personally I use my media center in the morning and put Google News up on my TV to at least know the headlines to see if I want to check them fully later.
Maybe a boycott would work if no one would play the music at all, try talking a radio station into playing non-RIAA music so a "mass" audience would hear it. You will probably have to pay the fee that those stations get to play that stuff in the first place, but it might be worth it in the long run.
No, you don't, the monopoly rules state the banker can make more money if there is not enough. So one set would suffice with like a pad of sticky note bills.
Wait you mean the US is NOT supposed to keep other countries subdued under the guise of safety? That argument has good logic and reason behind it, not something the "majority" of us Americans excel in.
While that would be a much better system, it would get so garbled up with "the government owns all the hospitals" and "communism" bits that even if it was done really well, the American people would hate it. It's is really bad when we do not realize in the majority that we hate almost every system we have, but can't put a better one together that doesn't get reformatted into exactly what is was before, with different people pulling the strings the same way.
So it's got a quickly-growing library in it, and then other stuff too (the other stuff just tends to get focused on more).
I would say the reason the other stuff gets focused on more is that there is more of it outright, if you could find any number of good websites that have factual checked data on whatever, there is at least 10 times that with incorrect data on the same subject. The problem happens is the majority is wrong, but is alot easier to find since it is the majority.
With the internet being mob filtered it almost always makes the info into what the mob wants to hear, or is what they are told they want to hear, regardless of the true facts.
I would like to think that it might have some loophole somewhere that its running around, but it may be blatantly breaking the DMCA and none have challenged it.
It kinda seems a cop speeding to pull someone over, the cop is breaking the law by speeding, but has a duty to fulfill in catching someone else.
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Don't have simulated ringing, use the vibration motor to hit some sort of bell that makes a ringing sound, it becomes a mechanical function again.
We can get really mad at the RIAA for scaring people and ruining lives, but this group isn't suing teenagers. They're suing AT&T, with almost $300 billion in assets. Excuse me if I'm not terribly concerned about one of their legal teams having a little more work to do to fight off this frivolous lawsuit.
If it really goes anywhere, It would be a hell of a fight since both are goning to put up the best argument money can buy.
Notice not "the best argument that is based on facts or substantial evidence" or "the best argument." but "the best one money can buy"
Or the portable speakers with the sole purpose to be able to use anywhere.
Even if ASCAP doesn't win, the RIAA will sue for your phone to see if you have any illegal downloaded ring tones.
If i cut a ringtone from a song I own as mp3, its probably an illegal copy to them.
It "provides" money on a federal level by having more of it printed.
That's what happens in a genuinely competitive market place.
Which only exists when one party isn't money hoarding and greedy. If all parties are greedy there is no real incentive to have a price drop war, since they can all make a gouging profit.
It might if they were not autoplayed, if it looked as 1 block file and played as 1 block file the argument could arise that it was obviously split to not cost. But there wouldn't be anything done about it unless "everyone" does it and it infringes in their licensing business model.
Strike two. Popularity != Quality. McDonalds has sold billions of hamburgers, but I don't ever see them on a list of best burgers.
The proof is in the pudding folks, go to any open source developer meeting and most people will be using Macs with OS X, and if they are web developers they will be using Safari, Flash and Mpeg4, not Linux, Theora or any other substandard, second rate "open source" tools or libraries.
You go far to prove your own point there don't you.
Gamecube discs spin in the opposite way of a normal disc and read from the outside in, I would assume the Wii does the same since it is backwards compatible. I guess the DVD homebrew must spin the drive in reverse to play them correctly.
I also have a hammer, which is the ultimate tool for everything, so I actually own everything!
I can keep time and space from tearing, I have DUCT TAPE.
Politics isn't about deciding who is right and who is wrong, it is about finding a compromise, or workable solution between two conflicting parties. In this case, the compromise is likely to be reduced copyright durations, and expanded fair use. Downloading music for free, as a lot of people want, is not likely to ever be legalized. The RIAA will not disappear until artists stop using their services, which may happen one day.
Compromises only work if both sides have equal say, and no one is allowed to bribe the mediator.
Or an old person, that is the exact description of my younger sister(14) and my grandmother(67) uses for a computer.
On a related note, this particular problem is an excellent example of over-innovation on the part of Vista; am I the only one who despises Vista's new network connections configuration GUI? It was perfectly unbroken in XP, IMHO, and they went and "fixed" it.
That was the majority of UI things they "fixed" for Vista and Office 07, none were really "broken", but looked "better" the new way but got hated since that old way was more ingrained since circa Win 95.
Another reason is that, while you are commuting, you can possibly find enough Wi-Fi to read Google News on your laptop.
So i am going to have my laptop on my passenger seat while I drive 45 minutes to work?
That reason might work if you have some sort of public transportation and are not the one driving, but its not as easy as reading the paper while you get stuff together in the morning or some such.
Personally I use my media center in the morning and put Google News up on my TV to at least know the headlines to see if I want to check them fully later.
Maybe a boycott would work if no one would play the music at all, try talking a radio station into playing non-RIAA music so a "mass" audience would hear it. You will probably have to pay the fee that those stations get to play that stuff in the first place, but it might be worth it in the long run.
No, you don't, the monopoly rules state the banker can make more money if there is not enough. So one set would suffice with like a pad of sticky note bills.
Wait you mean the US is NOT supposed to keep other countries subdued under the guise of safety? That argument has good logic and reason behind it, not something the "majority" of us Americans excel in.
While that would be a much better system, it would get so garbled up with "the government owns all the hospitals" and "communism" bits that even if it was done really well, the American people would hate it. It's is really bad when we do not realize in the majority that we hate almost every system we have, but can't put a better one together that doesn't get reformatted into exactly what is was before, with different people pulling the strings the same way.
He is a orator, not a leader.
Who's the last president that was a leader?
That is the question deciding the future, and it looks lose-lose from my perspective.
So it's got a quickly-growing library in it, and then other stuff too (the other stuff just tends to get focused on more).
I would say the reason the other stuff gets focused on more is that there is more of it outright, if you could find any number of good websites that have factual checked data on whatever, there is at least 10 times that with incorrect data on the same subject. The problem happens is the majority is wrong, but is alot easier to find since it is the majority.
With the internet being mob filtered it almost always makes the info into what the mob wants to hear, or is what they are told they want to hear, regardless of the true facts.
It kinda seems a cop speeding to pull someone over, the cop is breaking the law by speeding, but has a duty to fulfill in catching someone else.
The Zune HD that has been said to have a version of Win CE as the OS.
Somehow we have changed the universe to make fusion more difficult.
I don't think we did it, must be entropy.
Yes, I'm related to rednecks, and proud to be one.