If you would like to send the RIAA a message, hit them where it counts, their WALLET! Instead of spending $15 - 25 (here in NY) for a CD, go to a local club, grab a drink, and listen to some cheezy music, and some cool music.
Take the Spring and Summer off from buying CD's in support of Napster. Tell the RIAA if I can't sample more than one song I don't want your OHW (One Hit Wonder).
Start by not buying CD's from Tower, SamGoody, TheWall, put more generic stores here, and tell them that until Napster is reinstated, or the Summer is over, X number of Napster users will no longer frequent their stores and buy CD's. This then makes it the responsobility of the Music Chains to take action with the RIAA or lose a ton of revenue.
Of course some people need to have the new BritneySpears and BSB, but those people are probably not NApster community at large. IF THE NAPSTER COMMUNITY WANTS TO MAKE A STAND, HURT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY WHERE IT HURTS, THEIR WALLET!!! BAND TOGETHER AND STOP BUYING CD'S UNTIL YOUR MUSIC SHARING SERVICE IS UP AND FREE
This taken into account, Napster users can really make a difference in the profits of the RIAA, Prove to those.... put some bad words here... that They thought they were losing money due to Napster, NOW THEY"RE LOSING MONEY DUE TO NAPSTER
Has anybody considered that most ISP's (including things like AOL etc...) require the person signing up for the account to be 18...a cc is needed...Age 18 is when make contracts are legal and binding, etc
So since your ISP required somebody to be 18 in order to agree to some type of TOS, the person who agreed to the TOS is responsible for the acts of any minors who use there account.
Is this an easy simple solution to minors on the NET or have I just been working to hard?
With the amount of information circulating around schools they are probably a good idea. Think of it this way...the paperless classroon...no more penmanship classes...that's where my f's were.
On another note many graduate/professional schools are requiring laptops as part of there curriculum, college enrollment, on average, is going up, and freshmen in college still can't figure out how to use a word processors without help.
Good idea...YES, how the hell will it be implemented...NO CLUE.
censorship sucks!! no ifs, ands, or butts about it! IMO: if parents/ceo's don't want their children/employees to be checkin out Pam & Tommy then pull your connection and go onto a closed network. To stay in contact 'via email & surf 4 research' have mommy & daddy help you (at least parents would then be interested in their own kids). 4 corporations this is a little hard...so trust your employees to figure out what's right & wrong and if you can't (or your employees are dimwits) SPELL IT OUT IN A WORKPLACE BEHAVIOR DOC. Hell If I got in trouble every time I happended to have a naked breast pop on my screen I wouldn't be working...ever...... uh...what was the orig topic again?
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If you would like to send the RIAA a message, hit them where it counts, their WALLET! Instead of spending $15 - 25 (here in NY) for a CD, go to a local club, grab a drink, and listen to some cheezy music, and some cool music.
.... put some bad words here ... that They thought they were losing money due to Napster, NOW THEY"RE LOSING MONEY DUE TO NAPSTER
Take the Spring and Summer off from buying CD's in support of Napster. Tell the RIAA if I can't sample more than one song I don't want your OHW (One Hit Wonder).
Start by not buying CD's from Tower, SamGoody, TheWall, put more generic stores here, and tell them that until Napster is reinstated, or the Summer is over, X number of Napster users will no longer frequent their stores and buy CD's. This then makes it the responsobility of the Music Chains to take action with the RIAA or lose a ton of revenue.
Of course some people need to have the new BritneySpears and BSB, but those people are probably not NApster community at large.
IF THE NAPSTER COMMUNITY WANTS TO MAKE A STAND, HURT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY WHERE IT HURTS, THEIR WALLET!!! BAND TOGETHER AND STOP BUYING CD'S UNTIL YOUR MUSIC SHARING SERVICE IS UP AND FREE
This taken into account, Napster users can really make a difference in the profits of the RIAA, Prove to those
my $0.02
~deri
Has anybody considered that most ISP's (including things like AOL etc...) require the person signing up for the account to be 18...a cc is needed...Age 18 is when make contracts are legal and binding, etc So since your ISP required somebody to be 18 in order to agree to some type of TOS, the person who agreed to the TOS is responsible for the acts of any minors who use there account. Is this an easy simple solution to minors on the NET or have I just been working to hard?
With the amount of information circulating around schools they are probably a good idea. Think of it this way...the paperless classroon...no more penmanship classes...that's where my f's were.
On another note many graduate/professional schools are requiring laptops as part of there curriculum, college enrollment, on average, is going up, and freshmen in college still can't figure out how to use a word processors without help.
Good idea...YES, how the hell will it be implemented...NO CLUE.
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kewl...maybe we can now have software that is pretty like a bacheolorette's bathroom.
In all seriousness cheers to the ladies~deri
censorship sucks!! no ifs, ands, or butts about it! IMO: if parents/ceo's don't want their children/employees to be checkin out Pam & Tommy then pull your connection and go onto a closed network. To stay in contact 'via email & surf 4 research' have mommy & daddy help you (at least parents would then be interested in their own kids). 4 corporations this is a little hard...so trust your employees to figure out what's right & wrong and if you can't (or your employees are dimwits) SPELL IT OUT IN A WORKPLACE BEHAVIOR DOC. Hell If I got in trouble every time I happended to have a naked breast pop on my screen I wouldn't be working...ever... ... uh...what was the orig topic again?
The only virus I ever heard of infecting a *nix system is an incompetent sysadmin...we all know there's enough of them