But what if I had to tell her, "well now we have to remove everything on your computer to resize your paritions"?
There are several (both commercial and free) solutions for re-sizing NTFS partitions with no data loss. I'm partial to Partition Expert myself and can only hope that Acronis will release it as a stand-alone Linux app some day.
I haven't used any of the specifically mentioned services much, but generally speaking, the Intarnets have been good for keeping in touch with old colleagues and bosses. In fact, just a few days ago I came across an old invitation to LinkedIn from an old boss while I was looking through 30k+ of spam that had accumulated in an old abandoned e-mail account. Turns out around 15 of my old co-workers and bosses were on LinkedIn already so we'll see if it turns into a great reunion party or something.:-)
When you release music, the big risk is that people will copy it without your consent.
In general you are right and give some excellent points. However, one of the things mudding these waters is that I'm not stealing from a poor artist if I download a Metallica song from the internets - I stick it to the big faceless recording multinational corporations who are sucking the life blood out of the industry. I can agree that downloading probably isn't the way to change that industry, but that is a very powerful rationale for doing it.
In a sibling post to this one, I give an example of what I mean by black and white / gray that hits pretty close to my home.
Just to set the record straight, I don't use P2P programs, for several reasons. I do have a fairly wide circle of friends, many of who are avid music collectors with wildly different tastes. We have a shared archive of albums and songs and pretty often one of us buys and rips an album just because we think the others should get a chance to listen to it as well.
If piracy is okay or is a "gray area," then so is violating the GPL.
I won't claim I speak for everyone on Slashdot, but for me personally it would be different if a program I wrote and released under the GPL was, say, misused by a person within his circle of friends or re-sold globally by a corporation.
We can take a slightly better example - I have a bunch of photos on www.freenaturepictures.com that are released under a CC license. I'd probably be slightly miffed if someone removed the watermark and used a photo on their website without giving credit, but I'd be pretty mad if someone removed the watermark and re-sold the pictures as their own creations. To me, there is a clear difference between those two scenarios, even though both actions would be violations of the license.
Specifics aside, and negligible fallacies in the analogy aside, this is really a very simple question.
I have never seen a copyright infringing downloader re-sell the latest Britney album as his own creation. When you can show me that happening, maybe your simple question can get the answer it deserves.
IP rights are not black or white. Just as with most things there is a large gray zone and there is a huge difference between on the one hand leeching a song that you would probably not otherwise buy and on the other hand re-sell someone else's software as your own.
You can not equate theft with jaywalking or involuntary manslaughter with genocide even though they are all crimes.
I find it unlikely that courts would find that downloading from allofmp3 qualifies.
Since the copy would be required for the initial purchase (remember that this is all done in good faith by the purchaser since allofmp3.com claims to have a license to distribute, apparently not completely without merit) I do believe it would be ruled that the copy falls under fair use, if it even should be defined as a copy since you are downloading the, from your viewpoint, original, purchased song. You are, in fact, taking possession of the song you have purchased.
If you should claim that the violation occurs when importing rather than copying, I direct you to 602 a2 ("personal use") and 601 b7D: "the transferee or the licensee of the right of reproduction was not a national or domiciliary of the United States or a domestic corporation or enterprise".
I remain convinced that it is perfectly legal to purchase a song, album, CD or plaster cast of Britney Spears' tits in Russia and import it for personal use into the United States. If allofmp3.com does not in fact have a license to sell these items, it's their problem, not their patron's. The analogy could be made that if you purchase a CD in a Moscow department store, would it be illegal to bring it back with you to the US? No, of course not. Not even if the department store did not have a license to sell it to you. Why is this different?
allofmp3.com is not a copyright owner and neither are the people who d/l the music.
They claim to have purchased a license to make copies. The donwloaders act in good faith when purchasing a copy and if they make further copies for personal use, that's allowed under the doctrine of fair use. If anyone's infringing, it's allofmp3.com and that seems to be a matter of debate. The downloaders are totally in the clear unless they make the songs available on Kazaa, which in the case of Britney Spears should be judged as crimes against humanity.
Reproduction that occurs in the process is still potentially infringing.
Not if I reproduce, for my own personal use, a copyrighted item that I have purchased. Doctrine of fair use, and all that. I totally agree that allofmp3.com is possibly infringing (or would be if they operated under US law, which they don't), but the downloader is not.
Is it true that Microsoft employes can hand out a special phone number and code to get people that complain about Windows off their backs long enough to get out the door?
Yeah, it's like a spell or a get-out-of-jail-free card.
It's a Knoppix CD with Firefox and OpenOffice on it.
Am I the only one who first read that as "a more immediate result from the shaft"?
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Yes, but that's Darwinism for you. I just wish all cars had a 3" long sharp and shiny metal spike in the hub of the steering wheel instead of an airbag.
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Motorcycles (AKA murder-cycles) are MIGHTY DANGEROUS.
Hm. Let's have a look at those statistics, shall we?
Motorcycles: 22 deaths per 100 million veh. miles
Railway: 1.6 deaths per million train miles - that translates to 160 deaths per 100 million train miles.
Or, put it another way:
Motor Vehicle, General Population Risk Per Year: 1 in 6,300
Motorcycles, General Population Risk Per Year: 1 in 119,000
The discrepancy is due to people in average traveling much shorter distances on bikes than in cars per year. So which would you ban first, cars or trains?
I don't think there are any 2TB+ Tivos. If they use XFS, it's probably because it deletes even very large files instantaneously whereas most other filesystems takes longer the larger the file is. This is a clear advantage if you want to be able to delete a large movie file from disk at the same time that you want to record TV to that disk.
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Looks like a 120 mm fan to me. They're becoming fairly common now, especially among the silent PC crowd. I even come across 90mm fans now and then...
Mars Deep Impact.
I don't suppose attitude and suppositories count? ;-)
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So Gentoo saves wear and tear on your keyboard. Hooray! :-)
You slut!
There are several (both commercial and free) solutions for re-sizing NTFS partitions with no data loss. I'm partial to Partition Expert myself and can only hope that Acronis will release it as a stand-alone Linux app some day.
I haven't used any of the specifically mentioned services much, but generally speaking, the Intarnets have been good for keeping in touch with old colleagues and bosses. In fact, just a few days ago I came across an old invitation to LinkedIn from an old boss while I was looking through 30k+ of spam that had accumulated in an old abandoned e-mail account. Turns out around 15 of my old co-workers and bosses were on LinkedIn already so we'll see if it turns into a great reunion party or something. :-)
Does he call for help often? :-)
I would assume that most of Slashdot's population knew about Spitzer. I did.
In general you are right and give some excellent points. However, one of the things mudding these waters is that I'm not stealing from a poor artist if I download a Metallica song from the internets - I stick it to the big faceless recording multinational corporations who are sucking the life blood out of the industry. I can agree that downloading probably isn't the way to change that industry, but that is a very powerful rationale for doing it.
In a sibling post to this one, I give an example of what I mean by black and white / gray that hits pretty close to my home.
Just to set the record straight, I don't use P2P programs, for several reasons. I do have a fairly wide circle of friends, many of who are avid music collectors with wildly different tastes. We have a shared archive of albums and songs and pretty often one of us buys and rips an album just because we think the others should get a chance to listen to it as well.
I won't claim I speak for everyone on Slashdot, but for me personally it would be different if a program I wrote and released under the GPL was, say, misused by a person within his circle of friends or re-sold globally by a corporation.
We can take a slightly better example - I have a bunch of photos on www.freenaturepictures.com that are released under a CC license. I'd probably be slightly miffed if someone removed the watermark and used a photo on their website without giving credit, but I'd be pretty mad if someone removed the watermark and re-sold the pictures as their own creations. To me, there is a clear difference between those two scenarios, even though both actions would be violations of the license.
I have never seen a copyright infringing downloader re-sell the latest Britney album as his own creation. When you can show me that happening, maybe your simple question can get the answer it deserves.
IP rights are not black or white. Just as with most things there is a large gray zone and there is a huge difference between on the one hand leeching a song that you would probably not otherwise buy and on the other hand re-sell someone else's software as your own.
You can not equate theft with jaywalking or involuntary manslaughter with genocide even though they are all crimes.
Might be easier to rename your dog, though. :-)
Since the copy would be required for the initial purchase (remember that this is all done in good faith by the purchaser since allofmp3.com claims to have a license to distribute, apparently not completely without merit) I do believe it would be ruled that the copy falls under fair use, if it even should be defined as a copy since you are downloading the, from your viewpoint, original, purchased song. You are, in fact, taking possession of the song you have purchased.
If you should claim that the violation occurs when importing rather than copying, I direct you to 602 a2 ("personal use") and 601 b7D: "the transferee or the licensee of the right of reproduction was not a national or domiciliary of the United States or a domestic corporation or enterprise".
I remain convinced that it is perfectly legal to purchase a song, album, CD or plaster cast of Britney Spears' tits in Russia and import it for personal use into the United States. If allofmp3.com does not in fact have a license to sell these items, it's their problem, not their patron's. The analogy could be made that if you purchase a CD in a Moscow department store, would it be illegal to bring it back with you to the US? No, of course not. Not even if the department store did not have a license to sell it to you. Why is this different?
They claim to have purchased a license to make copies. The donwloaders act in good faith when purchasing a copy and if they make further copies for personal use, that's allowed under the doctrine of fair use. If anyone's infringing, it's allofmp3.com and that seems to be a matter of debate. The downloaders are totally in the clear unless they make the songs available on Kazaa, which in the case of Britney Spears should be judged as crimes against humanity.
Not if I reproduce, for my own personal use, a copyrighted item that I have purchased. Doctrine of fair use, and all that. I totally agree that allofmp3.com is possibly infringing (or would be if they operated under US law, which they don't), but the downloader is not.
Could you show me the exact text of US law that says it's illegal to download a Britney Spears MP3?
Hint: Copyright law only applies to making an copy and then distributing it. It does not cover buying or otherwise obtaining an infringing copy.
Yeah, it's like a spell or a get-out-of-jail-free card.
It's a Knoppix CD with Firefox and OpenOffice on it.
Am I the only one who first read that as "a more immediate result from the shaft"?
Yes, but that's Darwinism for you. I just wish all cars had a 3" long sharp and shiny metal spike in the hub of the steering wheel instead of an airbag.
Hm. Let's have a look at those statistics, shall we?
Motorcycles: 22 deaths per 100 million veh. miles
Railway: 1.6 deaths per million train miles - that translates to 160 deaths per 100 million train miles.
Or, put it another way:
Motor Vehicle, General Population Risk Per Year: 1 in 6,300
Motorcycles, General Population Risk Per Year: 1 in 119,000
The discrepancy is due to people in average traveling much shorter distances on bikes than in cars per year. So which would you ban first, cars or trains?
I don't think there are any 2TB+ Tivos. If they use XFS, it's probably because it deletes even very large files instantaneously whereas most other filesystems takes longer the larger the file is. This is a clear advantage if you want to be able to delete a large movie file from disk at the same time that you want to record TV to that disk.
Multitasking yes. Memory protection, no.
Well, the Saturn V is just a big phallus, generating a lot of thrust.
No, he's a born again Texan.
With an "Internets-ready" sticker next to the "Shake to reset" sticker.