The point is not whether you should buy the product. The point is that by price fixing the RIAA member companies lose all legitimacy when they pretend their actions are in any way consistent with free market principles. There is no competition among the companies for CD prices, and, more importantly, there is no competition for contracts. So there are no fair contracts for bands to sign if they don't want to sign the unfair ones, and as soon as a company tries to offer fair contracts they will get bought or crushed by RIAA member companies. It's a racket, pure and simple; in fact, it's a cartel according to the strictest definition of the term. Organized criminal activity. I'm not saying it's legitimate to steal from them - I think the argument over whether copyright infringement is theft is an argument for a different day - but I don't really think they have a right to whine about other theives taking a tiny portion of their ill-gotten gains.
Every time I click a daap:// link it goes to iTunes and says "Connecting to shared music library" but then it disappears. I opened port 3689 but iTunes still won't connect to any of the servers. Am I doing something wrong or are they all offline?
Where did he say that? What nonsense. I'm sure he wants millions, and perhaps he deserves them, but if I had to pay a buck every time I scratched, I would find another way to fill my free time. This kind of attitude would stifle creativity far quicker than any kind of "piracy."
Bomb the Bass (Tim Simenon) made "Beat Dis" in the 80s or early 90s entirely out of other records. Then there was M/A/R/R/S and the classic "Pump up the Volume." In neither case could anyone say the artists didn't create entirely new works of art.
Why would the RIAA, representing the biggest labels and by extension artists in the world, care about you recording your hilarious retro-arcade techno with William Shatner samples over the top?
Actually, it's the MPAA you have to worry about because of the William Shatner samples.
Actually, it is European interpretations of copyright law that WIPO has enforced on the rest of the world, including the USA. The European copyright tradition is much more in line with the thinking of the RIAA and MPAA than is the American copyright tradition, which comes from a Constitutional mandate to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts." As many in this forum and others have long been pointing out, current trends in copyright (and patent) law threaten to impede that progress. This is because American copyright traditions have given way to European traditions, which are not based on incentive to create. The DMCA, you'll recall, was passed in order to make US Copyright law consistent with WIPO. So it's incorrect to say that WIPO enforced US copyright law on other countries. (That said, the US Congress & courts have recently done little or nothing to return US copyright laws to their roots in the Constitution).
It's one of the dumbest things I've seen in months; it is bizarre that anyone considers this insightful. This has nothing to do with Linux or the GPL. And it has nothing to freakin' do with the RIAA for that matter; the article author states that he wants a recording device to record his own freakin' music!
With an electronic system, you'd still own a license to the books, and could possibly restore them from the publishers onto your new e-paper after the flare is over.
Just like the record companies are so happy to restore electronic copies of music you've purchased when you get your CD collection stolen.
I still haven't seen an ebook interface that is as intuitive as a real book or paper. It's pretty easy to see a paperclip (or whatever) in the top of a book.
Then the e-paper people will invent an electronic paperclip that will be just as visible. It could even jump around and make sounds to attract your attention if you think it's not visible enough. In fact, you could even program to do things like help you type a letter!
Yeah, God forbid somebody should express their own opinion on their site. Did you just get here? Slashdot has always editorialized in its stories, and if you don't like it, read another site!
Cool! What would be really cool is if it were automatically calculated during compression to mp3; I doubt we'll see too many people using that field until then...
Yah, I'm a vinyl DJ and have been wanting this ever since I heard of the iPod. Plug the mixer into it and record sets on the fly. Would come in handy at gigs. Right now my recording capabilities require an unholy combination of OS 9 & X tools. And of course the OS9 stuff I need doesn't work under classic, so it's reboot reboot. I hope the recording software will have automatic record and pause features too although maybe that's too much for the processor.
Ah well, time to reboot into OS 9; I have a set to record.
Slashdot Mirror
Nope; no proxy for daap or iTunes that I'm aware of. I have privoxy configured for http but that shouldn't make a difference; should it?
The point is not whether you should buy the product. The point is that by price fixing the RIAA member companies lose all legitimacy when they pretend their actions are in any way consistent with free market principles. There is no competition among the companies for CD prices, and, more importantly, there is no competition for contracts. So there are no fair contracts for bands to sign if they don't want to sign the unfair ones, and as soon as a company tries to offer fair contracts they will get bought or crushed by RIAA member companies. It's a racket, pure and simple; in fact, it's a cartel according to the strictest definition of the term. Organized criminal activity. I'm not saying it's legitimate to steal from them - I think the argument over whether copyright infringement is theft is an argument for a different day - but I don't really think they have a right to whine about other theives taking a tiny portion of their ill-gotten gains.
Every time I click a daap:// link it goes to iTunes and says "Connecting to shared music library" but then it disappears. I opened port 3689 but iTunes still won't connect to any of the servers. Am I doing something wrong or are they all offline?
Never ever doubt linux again.
I thought that's what everybody said about Apple?
It's always interesting to see how science proves what probably anyone could have told you would happen if you put monkeys in a room with computers.
You could have ended that sentence at "room."
Plymouth University just did a study on this. Put monkeys in a room with typewriters and they simply make a mess.
Yes.... 500 of them!
Well then I sure hope Dr. Dre paid for the sample.
Where did he say that? What nonsense. I'm sure he wants millions, and perhaps he deserves them, but if I had to pay a buck every time I scratched, I would find another way to fill my free time. This kind of attitude would stifle creativity far quicker than any kind of "piracy."
Bomb the Bass (Tim Simenon) made "Beat Dis" in the 80s or early 90s entirely out of other records. Then there was M/A/R/R/S and the classic "Pump up the Volume." In neither case could anyone say the artists didn't create entirely new works of art.
the p2p networks, of course!
Actually, it's the MPAA you have to worry about because of the William Shatner samples.
Actually, it is European interpretations of copyright law that WIPO has enforced on the rest of the world, including the USA. The European copyright tradition is much more in line with the thinking of the RIAA and MPAA than is the American copyright tradition, which comes from a Constitutional mandate to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts." As many in this forum and others have long been pointing out, current trends in copyright (and patent) law threaten to impede that progress. This is because American copyright traditions have given way to European traditions, which are not based on incentive to create. The DMCA, you'll recall, was passed in order to make US Copyright law consistent with WIPO. So it's incorrect to say that WIPO enforced US copyright law on other countries. (That said, the US Congress & courts have recently done little or nothing to return US copyright laws to their roots in the Constitution).
It's one of the dumbest things I've seen in months; it is bizarre that anyone considers this insightful. This has nothing to do with Linux or the GPL. And it has nothing to freakin' do with the RIAA for that matter; the article author states that he wants a recording device to record his own freakin' music!
Just like the record companies are so happy to restore electronic copies of music you've purchased when you get your CD collection stolen.
A DIY Mac in a box made from electronic paper.
Hey, dude, who designed yer shirt? Mandlebrot?
Then the e-paper people will invent an electronic paperclip that will be just as visible. It could even jump around and make sounds to attract your attention if you think it's not visible enough. In fact, you could even program to do things like help you type a letter!
Yeah, God forbid somebody should express their own opinion on their site. Did you just get here? Slashdot has always editorialized in its stories, and if you don't like it, read another site!
Can somebody please sing this, record it to mp3, and put it up on p2p?
I don't think I would cheer her either but I would certainly download the mpg file of it from p2p!
Possibly he was sold an autodialer by a telemarketer who called him during dinner!
Cool! What would be really cool is if it were automatically calculated during compression to mp3; I doubt we'll see too many people using that field until then...
Yah, I'm a vinyl DJ and have been wanting this ever since I heard of the iPod. Plug the mixer into it and record sets on the fly. Would come in handy at gigs. Right now my recording capabilities require an unholy combination of OS 9 & X tools. And of course the OS9 stuff I need doesn't work under classic, so it's reboot reboot. I hope the recording software will have automatic record and pause features too although maybe that's too much for the processor.
Ah well, time to reboot into OS 9; I have a set to record.