I think you are missing the point. The position of many of the IP crowd is similar to the position of the crafters during the industrial revolution. They didn't like progress because it put them out of a job. Are many jobless because of automation and robots? No. There are other jobs for them to do (build the robots or program the code).
Yes, there are some in the Warez crowd that are as you are describing. I would venture to say that most of the Slashdotters aren't in this crowd. What the Slashdotters want is new technology used in inovative ways that enable them to do things they couldn't before. They are being prevented from doing this by A) The IP Crowd not providing those new ways and B) The IP crowd stopping them when they come up with their own ways.
The "IP Crowd" wants to maintain their current business model of making money similar to the artisans wanting to keep their current jobs instead of being replaced by automation. The new technology interfers with that. Instead of finding new business models that take advantage of the technology (similar to the artisans not finding a new craft or learning how to get jobs with the automation) they are attempting to use the law and lawyers to maintain the current system. Do you think we would be where we are if the artisans had succesfully stopped industrialization? Are all the artisan's arts dead? Should the IP Crowd be able to stop progress in the interest maintaining profits (note I did not say STOP profits, all companies need to make a profit and they can by finding new business models)?
It looks like we'll go back to the old days where you had to get schematics from a magazine and build your computer yourself. Although, eventually they will outlaw distributing plans to build these computers (although you will still be able to distribute plans to build a nuclear bomb) before that happens we'll all be back to the hobby days of computers in order to get the processing we want.
I agree with what you are saying. However, when I talk to a good friend of mine who does A LOT of E-Bay business (mostly as a buyer) she thinks that many people won't bother with your auction if you don't take PayPal. It's a big debate we have but if what she is saying is true it is hard to have a successful auction without using PayPal.
It's primarily designed for the hobby programmer to write software for the GBA. The specs for it's design are available publicly. It's a LEGAL PRODUCT.
It's not our (hobby programmer's) fault that bad users use it to copy games.
I DEMAND you send me ALL of your tape recorders!!!
The record industry STILL doesn't want an online distribution method. They have done this KNOWING that the artist will protest and that it will not make money. They will then take it down. They then will have successfully stoped p2p sharing (napster) AND not have to distribute music online.
No, we have NOT been screwing the artist. I don't know if you noticed but the numbers show that last year more CDs were sold then all other years combine d (if I remember my numbers correctly, at the very least it was a record setting year).
The quote you hear about the companies loosing money is loss of sales from CD SINGLES not albums. The industry has never made significant money from CD Singles.
So, that can only point to Napster HELPING CD sales not hurting them. Studies I have seen show that CD sales INCREASED last year with the exception of near college campuses. Well, college students don't have a lot of money for luxury items such as CDs anyway and the working public is a better (more stable, more money) market for the industry anyway.
So, no. I didn't feel bad when I downloaded an mp3. If I didn't listen to it again after listening too it for a while I knew I didn't want the CD. However, I bought several CDs after constantly listening to certain mp3s. Not only that I tended to buy more CDs from the same artist when I listened to their mp3s a lot (I knew the one album I had of them wasn't a fluke)
So, no. Both incidental and studies show that we HAVEN'T been screwing the artists.
"A hyperlink can be implemented without any concept of an escape."
Then tell me how!! You can't!
If text is being transmited and presented the only way you are going to be able to have the presentor (your browser) know that the text being sent is not to be shown on the screen is . . . AN ESCAPE SEQUENCE!!!
Try figuring out a way to do that without an escape sequence!! You can't. You'll fry your brain. It is a basic concept in computers used everywhere.
"You sir ARE AN ASS!!" -- Much Ado about Nothing, Shakespear.
I think I got a better one:
www.mpaa.org
- select related sites
www.mpaa.org/related_sites/
- click Buenta Vista International(disney)
disney.go.com/park/homepage/today/html/index.html - click go.com
www.go.com/Home/clean_chrome.html
-click goto the go network
www.go.com
- enter DeCSS in the search box and click find
www.go.com/Titles?col=WC&qt=DeCSS&svx=home_searchb ox&sv=IS&lk=noframes
-select any link
Slashdot Mirror
I think you are missing the point. The position of many of the IP crowd is similar to the position of the crafters during the industrial revolution. They didn't like progress because it put them out of a job. Are many jobless because of automation and robots? No. There are other jobs for them to do (build the robots or program the code).
Yes, there are some in the Warez crowd that are as you are describing. I would venture to say that most of the Slashdotters aren't in this crowd. What the Slashdotters want is new technology used in inovative ways that enable them to do things they couldn't before. They are being prevented from doing this by A) The IP Crowd not providing those new ways and B) The IP crowd stopping them when they come up with their own ways.
The "IP Crowd" wants to maintain their current business model of making money similar to the artisans wanting to keep their current jobs instead of being replaced by automation. The new technology interfers with that. Instead of finding new business models that take advantage of the technology (similar to the artisans not finding a new craft or learning how to get jobs with the automation) they are attempting to use the law and lawyers to maintain the current system. Do you think we would be where we are if the artisans had succesfully stopped industrialization? Are all the artisan's arts dead? Should the IP Crowd be able to stop progress in the interest maintaining profits (note I did not say STOP profits, all companies need to make a profit and they can by finding new business models)?
The answer is no.
Um.....especially Republican? Hollings is DEMOCRAT.
Well,
It looks like we'll go back to the old days where you had to get schematics from a magazine and build your computer yourself. Although, eventually they will outlaw distributing plans to build these computers (although you will still be able to distribute plans to build a nuclear bomb) before that happens we'll all be back to the hobby days of computers in order to get the processing we want.
I agree with what you are saying. However, when I talk to a good friend of mine who does A LOT of E-Bay business (mostly as a buyer) she thinks that many people won't bother with your auction if you don't take PayPal. It's a big debate we have but if what she is saying is true it is hard to have a successful auction without using PayPal.
No it's not.
It's primarily designed for the hobby programmer to write software for the GBA. The specs for it's design are available publicly. It's a LEGAL PRODUCT.
It's not our (hobby programmer's) fault that bad users use it to copy games.
I DEMAND you send me ALL of your tape recorders!!!
The record industry STILL doesn't want an online distribution method. They have done this KNOWING that the artist will protest and that it will not make money. They will then take it down. They then will have successfully stoped p2p sharing (napster) AND not have to distribute music online.
It's just a red herring.
No, we have NOT been screwing the artist. I don't know if you noticed but the numbers show that last year more CDs were sold then all other years combine d (if I remember my numbers correctly, at the very least it was a record setting year).
The quote you hear about the companies loosing money is loss of sales from CD SINGLES not albums. The industry has never made significant money from CD Singles.
So, that can only point to Napster HELPING CD sales not hurting them. Studies I have seen show that CD sales INCREASED last year with the exception of near college campuses. Well, college students don't have a lot of money for luxury items such as CDs anyway and the working public is a better (more stable, more money) market for the industry anyway.
So, no. I didn't feel bad when I downloaded an mp3. If I didn't listen to it again after listening too it for a while I knew I didn't want the CD. However, I bought several CDs after constantly listening to certain mp3s. Not only that I tended to buy more CDs from the same artist when I listened to their mp3s a lot (I knew the one album I had of them wasn't a fluke)
So, no. Both incidental and studies show that we HAVEN'T been screwing the artists.
There is no such thing as steeling code. Only borrowing and giving credit.
"A hyperlink can be implemented without any concept of an escape."
Then tell me how!! You can't!
If text is being transmited and presented the only way you are going to be able to have the presentor (your browser) know that the text being sent is not to be shown on the screen is . . . AN ESCAPE SEQUENCE!!!
Try figuring out a way to do that without an escape sequence!! You can't. You'll fry your brain. It is a basic concept in computers used everywhere.
"You sir ARE AN ASS!!" -- Much Ado about Nothing, Shakespear.
I think I got a better one: www.mpaa.org - select related sites www.mpaa.org/related_sites/ - click Buenta Vista International(disney) disney.go.com/park/homepage/today/html/index.html - click go.com www.go.com/Home/clean_chrome.html -click goto the go network www.go.com - enter DeCSS in the search box and click find www.go.com/Titles?col=WC&qt=DeCSS&svx=home_searchb ox&sv=IS&lk=noframes
-select any link