I don't know but, he just rubbed me the wrong way. He makes a crack about DeCSS making it easy to pirate DVDs... and he chimes in "I got to agree with Gene" like every other response. But, the one that kills me was the bit about not having enough HD space for MP3s but, downloading a Britney Spears video (*gasp*)! When Hilary Rosen started talking about "creating demand" for music all I could think of was Britney Spears. I guess it worked on Newell huh?
I installed in on my work box yesterday and turned it off. One guy used all percent signs as a delimeter in his sig file (%%%%%) and MoodWatch(tm) flagged it as possibly being inflamatory. I went and shut it off - in my opinion it's about as useful as NetNanny or CyberPatrol.
The options you get for MoodWatch(tm) are:
message seems it might be offensive
message is probably offensive
message is on fire
never
I had mine set to "might be offensive" when it flagged the sig file. *Sigh* more bloatware is just the thing we needed in Eudora.
Even better, check out www.half.com. During the month of August I didn't buy a *single* CD that gave money to an RIAA member. But, I still bought 5 CDs that month. 3 of them on half.com and 2 at my local CD-Whorehouse. I saved a ton of cash, got the bands I wanted, and still didn't give the RIAA fuckers a cent! I plan on continuing the boycott forever. They are going to have to pay me to buy their music from them. Muhahahahahahhahaha!!
I think this is interesting because the whole thing is coming round full circle again. Original MP3.com started off as the renegade "bad boys". They were talking shit, and putting down the RIAA, and the whole recording industry. Then, they got taken to the cleaners and Michael Roberston is publically kissing their asses now and trashing on Napster so that they will forget about him for awhile. I personally hope they go out of business - would serve them right. You can put down the man and at the same time work for him and kiss his ass.
A couple of years ago, before an easy to use client for MS Windows came out, MP3 trading took place in the "underground" beneath the radar screens of news media and corporations. This happened every day on FTP servers, IRC, Web servers, and word-of-mouth. There was no "easy way to get MP3's" for the common idiot.
Well, all of this lawsuit action going on is only making it worse for them. They are shooting themselves in the foot and don't even realize it. MP3.com is the whipping boy being made a public example of. You think that's bad? Wait until the Napster trial! Mark my words -- they will get shut down and go out of business. If the judge is this harsh on a "semi-legal" form of music sharing - Napster is going to bend over and get it up the ass repeatedly in something that resembles a massive prison gang-rape.
So, the file trading will go back underground to FTP sites, IRC and Gnutella where they can't stop it. It only seems fitting. But, they are so stupid they'll never figure it out.
Yeah, but read Courtney Love's rant again... you forgot about that magical thing known as "payola". All the record companies deny it but, they use third parties to pay the radio stations for airplay. So the radio is not really free - they get paid by the record labels and advertisers. That's why you hear Britney Spears 10,000,000 times a day.
I went to their site and they have this printed at the bottom of their page:
Don't worry... we haven't forgotten Mac Users
And, it takes you to a page to fill out your name so they can spam you when the Mac version is available. So, I wrote to ask them when the Linux version would be available. They didn't forget Linux users... they just didn't include them.
If this lawsuit actually goes through and AOL ends up paying out some cash to settle with MP3board then they are just going to turn around and try to tighten the leash on Nullsoft and Justin Frankel. I bet he won't be making any more innovative software that sets the world on it's ear. Time to start his own company and get the hell out of there.
Or, maybe it's just a ploy by the cash-strapped MP3board. Maybe a nice infusion of out-of-court settlement money from AOHell is exactly what they need to pay off their lawyers so they can continue the suit against the RIAA.
I rememeber it... it was a great querky Aussie film with Yahoo Serious. I think the best part is when he split the beer atom and his father read the formula -- "EMC". It was definately an original flick during a mid-80's slump in Hollywood.
I realize that this is offtopic, but it is EXTREMELY important so I'll sacrifice Karma for it. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been supporting this case entirely. They hired Mr. Garbus and have footed the bill for this trial since 2600 can't afford to.
If you have *any* feelings about the DMCA and the effect that it has on all of our lives, please go to the EFF Site and Donate Now! I just gave them $100 on top of my annual membership fee of $65. They appreciate your moral support against the MPAA but, what they really need at this point is cold, hard cash!. The MPAA has really deep pockets and can spend years in court.
Help the EFF fund this appeal and overturn the DMCA before they fuck us again like they are doing with other Un-Constitutional laws like UCITA, COPA, and the original CDA.
I realize that this is offtopic, but it is EXTREMELY important so I'll sacrifice Karma for it. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been supporting this case entirely. They hired Mr. Garbus and have footed the bill for this trial since 2600 can't afford to.
If you have *any* feelings about the DMCA and the effect that it has on all of our lives, please go to the EFF Site and Donate Now! I just gave them $100 on top of my annual membership fee of $65. They appreciate your moral support against the MPAA but, what they really need at this point is cold, hard cash!. The MPAA has really deep pockets and can spend years in court.
Help the EFF fund this appeal and overturn the DMCA before they fuck us again like they are doing with other Un-Constitutional laws like UCITA, COPA, and the original CDA.
We should all be keeping a close eye on AOHell to see what they do in regards to GPL'ed software.
Steve and Company would have no qualms about using software and libraries that are protected by GPL and spoon-feeding it to the Army Of Lamers without releasing the source-code!
And, if AOL does release the source for the AOL-Linux client this will just help spammers circumnavigate the spam filters that are in place.
Basically, Linux needs AOL like Bill Gates needs money.
What a bunch of dolts. Who is going to sign up for this? If I used my snail mail as a gauge, I could be regularly receiving 3 - 5 pieces of unsolicited mail per day! I have requested that the mail man just throw it in the trash for me - save us both the time and effort. But, by law they can't do it.
They have to deliver the mail. It's a law. Even if it's junkmail. So, does this mean that spam could become legally protected?
"We're sorry... we *had* to deliver that spam to you. Advertisers paid for it and we are legally obligated to deliver the mail rain or shine."
The Napster trial, the 2600 trial -- these are only the beginning of the debates to determine who "owns" a piece of work. The DMCA gives the large content aggregators a whole new arsenal to choose from when attacking things they determine to be a threat.
The next round of this debate? Digital Television! While the FCC is telling us that we'll be enjoying this wonderful new technology by 2006 - don't count on it. The MPAA and others are fighting like mad to control the delivery, and playback of digital content that will become HDTV (or DTV). You think they are going to transmit a digital signal and let you receive and record a perfect copy on to box or hard disk? Ha! Not likely...
The Digital Transmission Content Protection Method (DTCP) currently being debated will morph into some new standard controlled by the MPAA and others to control what you can see, and how you can see it. Check out some of these links:
There is a club over on Excite called Webpad Fanatics (free, but annoying registration required). They have a bunch of photos, and links and gossip about these things.
I would buy one - it seems they've been talking about them forever. I bet the market is going to be Christmas season 2000. At least that is what Qubit is promising. We'll see. Now, if they could only build in a packet-radio modem we'd be set!
In the beginning, when Logan finds Rogue hiding out in the trailer she tells him - "I saved your life" and he replies "No you didn't"... What was that all about? How exactly did she save his life? Just left me scratching my head...
On to Katz... DAMNIT KATZ! Get over it. Columbine is past, history, you sold your book to any any all who would listen now shut the fuck up! I specifically have my settings to avoid Katz posts, but it isn't really fair when they sneak him into a post by Hemos, Timothy, or Taco. There should be a "regular expression" Katz filter on/.
Nothing pisses me off worse than hearing Katz bitch and whine about ancient history.
There will probably be 6 new TLD's added. All of them will be sold by Network Solutions. And, as part of their idNames program they will offer all current dot com owners first pick of the new TLDS. Then, when it exprires they'll do you the favor of auctioning it off to the highest bidder. ICANN is basically a puppet of big-business. If you want freedom, originality, and true innovation you'll have to start your own Root Server.
I went to his site newriot.com and tried checking out some of his stuff.
He has like 40 links on the left but only the first 5 or so work? WTF ??? Did he just add in a massive "coming soon" section of all the stuff he plans on adding to the site at some future date?
They advises the ICANN Board with respect to policy issues relating to the Domain Name System. I joined working group 'C' last year and participated in the debate over new TLDs. Not a whole lot came out of it, but at least I tried.
I think that/. readers should pay attention to ICANN, and what Esther Dyson and her cronies are up to. If you don't stand up and speak your mind, companies like Micro$oft, MCI, and AT&T would be happy to do it for you. We need a larger representation of non-commercial users.
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I don't know but, he just rubbed me the wrong way. He makes a crack about DeCSS making it easy to pirate DVDs... and he chimes in "I got to agree with Gene" like every other response. But, the one that kills me was the bit about not having enough HD space for MP3s but, downloading a Britney Spears video (*gasp*)! When Hilary Rosen started talking about "creating demand" for music all I could think of was Britney Spears. I guess it worked on Newell huh?
The options you get for MoodWatch(tm) are:
- message seems it might be offensive
- message is probably offensive
- message is on fire
- never
I had mine set to "might be offensive" when it flagged the sig file. *Sigh* more bloatware is just the thing we needed in Eudora.Money Good. Napster Bad!
Even better, check out www.half.com. During the month of August I didn't buy a *single* CD that gave money to an RIAA member. But, I still bought 5 CDs that month. 3 of them on half.com and 2 at my local CD-Whorehouse. I saved a ton of cash, got the bands I wanted, and still didn't give the RIAA fuckers a cent! I plan on continuing the boycott forever. They are going to have to pay me to buy their music from them. Muhahahahahahhahaha!!
A couple of years ago, before an easy to use client for MS Windows came out, MP3 trading took place in the "underground" beneath the radar screens of news media and corporations. This happened every day on FTP servers, IRC, Web servers, and word-of-mouth. There was no "easy way to get MP3's" for the common idiot.
Well, all of this lawsuit action going on is only making it worse for them. They are shooting themselves in the foot and don't even realize it. MP3.com is the whipping boy being made a public example of. You think that's bad? Wait until the Napster trial! Mark my words -- they will get shut down and go out of business. If the judge is this harsh on a "semi-legal" form of music sharing - Napster is going to bend over and get it up the ass repeatedly in something that resembles a massive prison gang-rape.
So, the file trading will go back underground to FTP sites, IRC and Gnutella where they can't stop it. It only seems fitting. But, they are so stupid they'll never figure it out.
Yeah, but read Courtney Love's rant again... you forgot about that magical thing known as "payola". All the record companies deny it but, they use third parties to pay the radio stations for airplay. So the radio is not really free - they get paid by the record labels and advertisers. That's why you hear Britney Spears 10,000,000 times a day.
I went to their site and they have this printed at the bottom of their page:
Don't worry... we haven't forgotten Mac Users
And, it takes you to a page to fill out your name so they can spam you when the Mac version is available. So, I wrote to ask them when the Linux version would be available. They didn't forget Linux users... they just didn't include them.
That's gonna run you $4 million plus labor.
I wonder if the people from IBM who create the web site are related to my auto mechanic?
Or, maybe it's just a ploy by the cash-strapped MP3board. Maybe a nice infusion of out-of-court settlement money from AOHell is exactly what they need to pay off their lawyers so they can continue the suit against the RIAA.
I rememeber it ... it was a great querky Aussie film with Yahoo Serious. I think the best part is when he split the beer atom and his father read the formula -- "EMC". It was definately an original flick during a mid-80's slump in Hollywood.
If you have *any* feelings about the DMCA and the effect that it has on all of our lives, please go to the EFF Site and Donate Now! I just gave them $100 on top of my annual membership fee of $65. They appreciate your moral support against the MPAA but, what they really need at this point is cold, hard cash!. The MPAA has really deep pockets and can spend years in court.
Help the EFF fund this appeal and overturn the DMCA before they fuck us again like they are doing with other Un-Constitutional laws like UCITA, COPA, and the original CDA.
If you have *any* feelings about the DMCA and the effect that it has on all of our lives, please go to the EFF Site and Donate Now! I just gave them $100 on top of my annual membership fee of $65. They appreciate your moral support against the MPAA but, what they really need at this point is cold, hard cash!. The MPAA has really deep pockets and can spend years in court.
Help the EFF fund this appeal and overturn the DMCA before they fuck us again like they are doing with other Un-Constitutional laws like UCITA, COPA, and the original CDA.
Steve and Company would have no qualms about using software and libraries that are protected by GPL and spoon-feeding it to the Army Of Lamers without releasing the source-code!
And, if AOL does release the source for the AOL-Linux client this will just help spammers circumnavigate the spam filters that are in place.
Basically, Linux needs AOL like Bill Gates needs money.
I just bought one -- pretty nice shirts! I hope the EFF takes my 4 bucks and crams it down Jack Valenti's throat...
They have to deliver the mail. It's a law. Even if it's junkmail. So, does this mean that spam could become legally protected?
"We're sorry... we *had* to deliver that spam to you. Advertisers paid for it and we are legally obligated to deliver the mail rain or shine."
SLASHDOT THE RIAA SITE!
The next round of this debate? Digital Television! While the FCC is telling us that we'll be enjoying this wonderful new technology by 2006 - don't count on it. The MPAA and others are fighting like mad to control the delivery, and playback of digital content that will become HDTV (or DTV). You think they are going to transmit a digital signal and let you receive and record a perfect copy on to box or hard disk? Ha! Not likely...
The Digital Transmission Content Protection Method (DTCP) currently being debated will morph into some new standard controlled by the MPAA and others to control what you can see, and how you can see it. Check out some of these links:
Fourth digital-TV interface spec tossed into fray
US digital TV strategy "in disarray"
Digital interface debate resurfaces at Western show
FCC sets deadline on DTV interface issues
Sorry - here's the working URL:
http://clubs.excite.com/webpadfans
I know, I know... I'm an idiot. What can you do?
I would buy one - it seems they've been talking about them forever. I bet the market is going to be Christmas season 2000. At least that is what Qubit is promising. We'll see. Now, if they could only build in a packet-radio modem we'd be set!
In the beginning, when Logan finds Rogue hiding out in the trailer she tells him - "I saved your life" and he replies "No you didn't"... What was that all about? How exactly did she save his life? Just left me scratching my head...
On to Katz... DAMNIT KATZ! Get over it. Columbine is past, history, you sold your book to any any all who would listen now shut the fuck up! I specifically have my settings to avoid Katz posts, but it isn't really fair when they sneak him into a post by Hemos, Timothy, or Taco. There should be a "regular expression" Katz filter on /.
Nothing pisses me off worse than hearing Katz bitch and whine about ancient history.
OK... I feel better now.
He has like 40 links on the left but only the first 5 or so work? WTF ??? Did he just add in a massive "coming soon" section of all the stuff he plans on adding to the site at some future date?
http://www.dnso.org/dns o/notes/2000.GA-voting-registry.html
They advises the ICANN Board with respect to policy issues relating to the Domain Name System. I joined working group 'C' last year and participated in the debate over new TLDs. Not a whole lot came out of it, but at least I tried.
I think that /. readers should pay attention to ICANN, and what Esther Dyson and her cronies are up to. If you don't stand up and speak your mind, companies like Micro$oft, MCI, and AT&T would be happy to do it for you. We need a larger representation of non-commercial users.
While you're at it, you might want to join the Individual Domain Name Owners' Constituency too.