Obvious question, but... has anyone come up with a way to "bless" a data CD-R with a 'puter so that it works in an audio CD-R burner? Or have I already missed that particular lawsuit?
Why does the recording industry always cite lost CD sales? Last time I bought a new CD (and it's been a while, so excuse me if I am in error), the "CD store" had all of these little plastic thingies with spools of plastic ribbon in them. Let's see, they can't be CDs, they're much too small... (sound of flipping pages...) Aha! My encyclopedia of ancient history tells me that they used to call these things "cassette tapes."
Why is it that a CD costs twice as much as a tape? Is the intellectual property encoded withinin somehow more valuable than it is on a tape? It's certainly not about media costs, because a CD is much cheaper to produce in quantity than is a cassette. Even if the media costs were relevant, the recording industry has already made it clear that when you buy music, you're buying some sort of existential right to their IP, not the media. So, really, it's the same "product."
If I buy a tape for $7 rather than a CD for $16, can I freely download the whole album as mp3s? Can I copy a friend's CD with a burner and not live in fear of the RIAA's secret IP police? (After all, I wouldn't want to actually _listen_ to that tape... ick!)
So, anyway, why is it that the recording industry sells the same "product" in two different packages, and the more popular package costs twice as much as the other. Wait, I think just answered my question...
Perhaps it's because the RIAA is collection of left-handed bastards* out to screw the public. I, for one, will be happy to see them die, die, die!
*"Left-handed bastards" is my brand-new catchy cut-down. If you desire to use this wonderful new string in print or digital communication, please remit a licensing fee of $2. The fee will be $4 if you elect to use my phrase in conversation. However, you may record it on a cassette tape royalty free.
"someone's taken down the 'net!" it used to happen all the time back in the day when it was new and didn't run on Wall Street's dime
there was no panic way back then when a packet would get lost but now each one is good as gold and every downtime has a cost
suits came and tried taking over and the hackers said, "hey, we're not fools, stop what you're doing to our 'net!" and they broke out their hacking tools
the 'net is quite a complex thing so there are ways to take it on to abuse the bugs and the backdoors which open up when knocked upon
clueless experts on the tube while at the suits the hackers laugh, "it was so simple for our group to cut your backbone right in half!"
some suits think that they're immune their net's protection is quite strong but if you think that you'll be safe... you might find out that you're all wrong!
Fascism, n. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
Welp, that's it for me. We're just going to have to kill all of the fasci^H^H^H^H^H Republicans. They are going to make this country a laughing stock. "Look at them," others will say. "They believe they have freedom, but it's only an illusion. They used to set the precedent by which other nations were judged, but now they are another third-world country that just wants to put all of their 'citizens' in jail." I'm gonna move to Canada.
And don't forget about SATAN, which has a script to change it's name to SANTA... whatever... maybe GIMP will have to be renamed, lest it offend actual gimps!
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Obvious question, but... has anyone come up with a way to "bless" a data CD-R with a 'puter so that it works in an audio CD-R burner? Or have I already missed that particular lawsuit?
Why is it that a CD costs twice as much as a tape? Is the intellectual property encoded withinin somehow more valuable than it is on a tape? It's certainly not about media costs, because a CD is much cheaper to produce in quantity than is a cassette. Even if the media costs were relevant, the recording industry has already made it clear that when you buy music, you're buying some sort of existential right to their IP, not the media. So, really, it's the same "product."
If I buy a tape for $7 rather than a CD for $16, can I freely download the whole album as mp3s? Can I copy a friend's CD with a burner and not live in fear of the RIAA's secret IP police? (After all, I wouldn't want to actually _listen_ to that tape... ick!)
So, anyway, why is it that the recording industry sells the same "product" in two different packages, and the more popular package costs twice as much as the other. Wait, I think just answered my question...
Perhaps it's because the RIAA is collection of left-handed bastards* out to screw the public. I, for one, will be happy to see them die, die, die!
*"Left-handed bastards" is my brand-new catchy cut-down. If you desire to use this wonderful new string in print or digital communication, please remit a licensing fee of $2. The fee will be $4 if you elect to use my phrase in conversation. However, you may record it on a cassette tape royalty free.
-rev. j.a.j.
"someone's taken down the 'net!"
it used to happen all the time
back in the day when it was new
and didn't run on Wall Street's dime
there was no panic way back then
when a packet would get lost
but now each one is good as gold
and every downtime has a cost
suits came and tried taking over
and the hackers said, "hey, we're not fools,
stop what you're doing to our 'net!"
and they broke out their hacking tools
the 'net is quite a complex thing
so there are ways to take it on
to abuse the bugs and the backdoors
which open up when knocked upon
clueless experts on the tube
while at the suits the hackers laugh,
"it was so simple for our group
to cut your backbone right in half!"
some suits think that they're immune
their net's protection is quite strong
but if you think that you'll be safe...
you might find out that you're all wrong!
-dumb dick
Welp, that's it for me. We're just going to have to kill all of the fasci^H^H^H^H^H Republicans. They are going to make this country a laughing stock. "Look at them," others will say. "They believe they have freedom, but it's only an illusion. They used to set the precedent by which other nations were judged, but now they are another third-world country that just wants to put all of their 'citizens' in jail." I'm gonna move to Canada.
$ whois slashdot.com
[rs.internic.net]
Registrant:
Chris Richardson (SLASHDOT-DOM)
806 Arnold Way
Menlo Park, CA 94025
US
Domain Name: SLASHDOT.COM
blahblahblah...
$ whois slashdot.net
[rs.internic.net]
Registrant:
Fotograf Per Alver (SLASHDOT4-DOM)
Branas Hovedgard
Skjedsmokorset, Akershus 2020
NO
Domain Name: SLASHDOT.NET
The SWIM chip is a version of the IWM that can handle 1.44meg 3.5" disks, which the IWM couldn't do. IIRC.
This isn't that far away from me. Perhaps it's time for a field trip...
And don't forget about SATAN, which has a script to change it's name to SANTA... whatever... maybe GIMP will have to be renamed, lest it offend actual gimps!