here in alaska our isp gives us a few gigs of download credit, and charges $20/gig for overage. Even the download credit that is included never goes lower than $4/gig when you consider the cost of the service. $4/gig is about the price in the lower 48 as well. If I can store my data for $1/gig but it costs $4 to download it, that means that if I only ever use again 20% of what I download, I should store IT ALL!
exactly. I've heard rumors of GCI (www.gci.net) bouncing a wireless signal (not 802.11 mind you) off denali mountain (highest in N america) in alaska between anchorage and fairbanks... 350 miles apart. If I had a 10 watt transmitter and broke all sorts of fcc rules (maximum gain, maximum eirp, etc) by about a factor of 10, yes i too could set up a 350 mile link that would blow the pants off what the swedes did. But guess what? I don't have thousands of $$$ to blow on a 10 watt amp, 6 foot dishes, tower lease etc etc just to get a 5 megabit connection between myself fairbanks and my friend in anchorage, let alone the money for a lawyer when the fcc gives me hassle.
sure it would help, if we could convince enough people to be vocal about it, get some press coverage as well.
and for those of us who cant live without some media, perhaps they could impose themselves a "limit of 1" 1 cd per year, 1 movie ticket per year. The phrase "If you only see one movie this year" would actually have some meaning now.
I think the last cd I bought for myself was Weird Al Yankovic's Running with siscors, and that came out what 2 years ago 3 years ago? I've only bought one cd since then and that was a gift, and I've since learned my lesson.
Before these take it in the butt prices and gestapo tactics were so evident to the average consumer I bought a dozen cds a year, so screw the RIAA.
Terrestrial broadband providers have a hard enough time making money. i think with the added costs of satellites, its a good thing this company stopped their work before they wasted billions like Iridium. I mean, with cheap fiber already in a glut, who needs to pay big money for satellite bandwidth?
i had the same problem with weird al's new cd. the answer was easy cd creator deluxe's session selector (pirated of course). a beautiful thing, it has helped me many times. you just choose the session with the music instead of the data, and bravo, you got rip!
you mention mp3 quality with clicks and stuff. well the main problem is people with cruddy cd roms and stuff trying to rip albums on a 486. with a decent computer with a digital audio ripping cdrom drive, it can sound great, yes great. also a problem is when people try to copy tapes, which suck anyway. i agree that if people want to make mp3's, make them right.
Obviously we are not. maybe the downloading of mp3s are encouraging people to buy more music by allowing them to try out a band before they buy a cd. now that most music sucks and costs more than 15 bucks a pop, would you just go out and buy a cd you havent heard? radio is a joke for this, even if you like the music, you have no idea who made it, and music videos are lousy because they play the same one 10 times a day or more. i for one know that i wont pay 15+ dollars for a half hour album when i can download 5 hours of music during my lunch period at school. if they dont like it, they can just stop selling cds.
a big problem that leads to warez is the following: 1. people spend all their money on hardware, no money left for software. 2. software that is most important to have is most expensive. you cant get by with affordable software. 3. software that has no flexibility in pricing. a student has no ability to pay $1000 for 3dstudio max, but might be willing to pay less for a non-commerical distribution rights version. 4. many people feel ripped off by software companies. they charge so much for buggy software that you would barely be willing to use, let alone pay for. if i had to pay for windows 98, i would be outraged. 5. people are immoral. its true. some people (like me) just dont care that they are hurting the software community (even though i intend to become a software programmer, ironic, huh?). even when they can afford the software, deem it a good value, etc. they will not pay for it if they can get it for free. 6. people think the developers dont get much anyway. of that 50 game, how much do the programmers etc get? probably less than 10 bucks. many people would pay 15 bucks for the same game (10 to developer 5 for packaging, shipping) but that is not an option in todays world. despite #5, many people depend on pirated software to get the job done. how many teenagers can afford photoshop? not many. now how many could benefit significantly from using it? quite a few. would they benefit monetarily? probably not. these are the main reasons for software piracy. unless the situation of software distribution changes, piracy will continue, evil or not.
i dont think its a very good idea to have to ask the isp first before setting up a server. YOU pay for THEIR service first of all, and secondly, it takes a good amount of resources to even automatically check for you running servers against their permission. also, such checking would probably involve a port scan, which looks like a hacker type attack anyway. Your idea reminds me of stoopid teachers who complain that they dont have time to install everything you need on the computer at school, then install foolproof so you cant do it yourself, and wonder why people screw with things when it turns out that foolproof only secures from fools anyway. When the teachers (or in this case the isp) just trust the users a little more, with the understanding that there are consequences for screwing things up, everything works better and much fewer people screw things up on purpose.
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here in alaska our isp gives us a few gigs of download credit, and charges $20/gig for overage. Even the download credit that is included never goes lower than $4/gig when you consider the cost of the service. $4/gig is about the price in the lower 48 as well. If I can store my data for $1/gig but it costs $4 to download it, that means that if I only ever use again 20% of what I download, I should store IT ALL!
exactly. I've heard rumors of GCI (www.gci.net) bouncing a wireless signal (not 802.11 mind you) off denali mountain (highest in N america) in alaska between anchorage and fairbanks... 350 miles apart. If I had a 10 watt transmitter and broke all sorts of fcc rules (maximum gain, maximum eirp, etc) by about a factor of 10, yes i too could set up a 350 mile link that would blow the pants off what the swedes did. But guess what? I don't have thousands of $$$ to blow on a 10 watt amp, 6 foot dishes, tower lease etc etc just to get a 5 megabit connection between myself fairbanks and my friend in anchorage, let alone the money for a lawyer when the fcc gives me hassle.
sure it would help, if we could convince enough people to be vocal about it, get some press coverage as well.
and for those of us who cant live without some media, perhaps they could impose themselves a "limit of 1" 1 cd per year, 1 movie ticket per year. The phrase "If you only see one movie this year" would actually have some meaning now.
I think the last cd I bought for myself was Weird Al Yankovic's Running with siscors, and that came out what 2 years ago 3 years ago? I've only bought one cd since then and that was a gift, and I've since learned my lesson.
Before these take it in the butt prices and gestapo tactics were so evident to the average consumer I bought a dozen cds a year, so screw the RIAA.
From now on, it's boycott 24/7 for me.
Terrestrial broadband providers have a hard enough time making money. i think with the added costs of satellites, its a good thing this company stopped their work before they wasted billions like Iridium. I mean, with cheap fiber already in a glut, who needs to pay big money for satellite bandwidth?
i had the same problem with weird al's new cd. the answer was easy cd creator deluxe's session selector (pirated of course). a beautiful thing, it has helped me many times. you just choose the session with the music instead of the data, and bravo, you got rip!
you mention mp3 quality with clicks and stuff. well the main problem is people with cruddy cd roms and stuff trying to rip albums on a 486. with a decent computer with a digital audio ripping cdrom drive, it can sound great, yes great. also a problem is when people try to copy tapes, which suck anyway. i agree that if people want to make mp3's, make them right.
Obviously we are not. maybe the downloading of mp3s are encouraging people to buy more music by allowing them to try out a band before they buy a cd. now that most music sucks and costs more than 15 bucks a pop, would you just go out and buy a cd you havent heard? radio is a joke for this, even if you like the music, you have no idea who made it, and music videos are lousy because they play the same one 10 times a day or more. i for one know that i wont pay 15+ dollars for a half hour album when i can download 5 hours of music during my lunch period at school. if they dont like it, they can just stop selling cds.
a big problem that leads to warez is the following: 1. people spend all their money on hardware, no money left for software. 2. software that is most important to have is most expensive. you cant get by with affordable software. 3. software that has no flexibility in pricing. a student has no ability to pay $1000 for 3dstudio max, but might be willing to pay less for a non-commerical distribution rights version. 4. many people feel ripped off by software companies. they charge so much for buggy software that you would barely be willing to use, let alone pay for. if i had to pay for windows 98, i would be outraged. 5. people are immoral. its true. some people (like me) just dont care that they are hurting the software community (even though i intend to become a software programmer, ironic, huh?). even when they can afford the software, deem it a good value, etc. they will not pay for it if they can get it for free. 6. people think the developers dont get much anyway. of that 50 game, how much do the programmers etc get? probably less than 10 bucks. many people would pay 15 bucks for the same game (10 to developer 5 for packaging, shipping) but that is not an option in todays world. despite #5, many people depend on pirated software to get the job done. how many teenagers can afford photoshop? not many. now how many could benefit significantly from using it? quite a few. would they benefit monetarily? probably not. these are the main reasons for software piracy. unless the situation of software distribution changes, piracy will continue, evil or not.
i dont think its a very good idea to have to ask the isp first before setting up a server. YOU pay for THEIR service first of all, and secondly, it takes a good amount of resources to even automatically check for you running servers against their permission. also, such checking would probably involve a port scan, which looks like a hacker type attack anyway. Your idea reminds me of stoopid teachers who complain that they dont have time to install everything you need on the computer at school, then install foolproof so you cant do it yourself, and wonder why people screw with things when it turns out that foolproof only secures from fools anyway. When the teachers (or in this case the isp) just trust the users a little more, with the understanding that there are consequences for screwing things up, everything works better and much fewer people screw things up on purpose.