Most common machine emulators (Arcade/whatever) are able to do this... I'm thinking it must be possible for real machines to do it as well somehow, but it would require a boot program something the likes of lilo to achieve... not being a hardcore coder though, I dont know of the hurdles involved in such an effort; might there also be some downsides we havent thought about?
oh come on... get over it. this is really not a 'lets preach our purity' issue. I am innocent and pure, suffering for my people because I support free music downloads. fssst
The RIAA is never going to be popular. I'm not advocating them, but honestly, theirs is a thankless job, nobody is going to notice you unless you're doing something bad.
Out of curiosity, do you think the gas station should start giving away free gas?? I mean, people are just going to drive off and not pay for it anyway, why not make people happy? It would accomplish the exact same thing!! Hmm.. no, wait. We have police in the real world. damn shame too, I wouldnt mind some free gasoline for my car.
yes, it would hide your ip address. And if that was your only goal, you could probably achieve it that way.
but...
that means that every routing machine along the way has to download and send on every bit/byte/megabyte of the song you do. Which means the moment I log on to the network (which I wouldnt, I dont do the napster thing) I become subject to being a router, over my 56k dialup connection. downloading other peoples music which I'm not interested in, potentially helping pirate music. Personally, I wouldnt be down with that.
would you trust a human genome mapped by computers whose users could have potentially intentionally returned bad data? *shrug* I personally am glad the human genome is being done privately... but it would be... interesting... to see how many people would contribute to 'Just Another Distributed Application'. I wonder if there's an interest in the community for a distributed application template? in file main.c: <Insert Project Name Here>
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If you dont need ftp access you can set the shell to/dev/null. If you require ftp access, I think you actually need a valid shell account, but from the sound of it this guy doesnt need any shell features, so creating a shell account per user is a waste of his time.
hmmm... I just doubt that existing hard media artists would go for this object model. They (hard media) arent going to support the new (soft media) infrastructure forever, and that's what your object model proposes. CD Sales = incoming revenue. Part of that revenue goes to the money pool. Money pool split up to artists whose songs are downloaded.
If an online artist either a) Is not selling hard media (by design) or b) Just isnt getting their cds bought then they're going to get money from hard media's money pool. And if i was JohnDoe's Band selling two Platinum CDs and not allowing my music for download then there's no way in hell I would want to share my sales with JaneDoe's Band who dont even have a CD available. UNLESS it comes from the cd labels commission. I dont care what they do with *their* money... but by the same token, they'd probably just bump their commission up anyway. who knows.
Okay, but picture this: I create a few songs. I join the pool, but I do not release a cd. I generate *NO* profit for the system, I just make music available for download through the system. If everyone downloads my digital music then I am theoretically entitled to a large portion of the money pool when I have contributed none through actual physical sales. Is there some aspect that I have missed to prevent this sort of situation?
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Most common machine emulators (Arcade/whatever) are able to do this... I'm thinking it must be possible for real machines to do it as well somehow, but it would require a boot program something the likes of lilo to achieve... not being a hardcore coder though, I dont know of the hurdles involved in such an effort; might there also be some downsides we havent thought about?
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I'm not convinced iridium is worth the Fender mexican standard strat... how much is that thing running for on its own?
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oh come on... get over it. this is really not a 'lets preach our purity' issue. I am innocent and pure, suffering for my people because I support free music downloads. fssst
The RIAA is never going to be popular. I'm not advocating them, but honestly, theirs is a thankless job, nobody is going to notice you unless you're doing something bad.
Out of curiosity, do you think the gas station should start giving away free gas?? I mean, people are just going to drive off and not pay for it anyway, why not make people happy? It would accomplish the exact same thing!! Hmm.. no, wait. We have police in the real world. damn shame too, I wouldnt mind some free gasoline for my car.
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yes, it would hide your ip address. And if that was your only goal, you could probably achieve it that way.
but...
that means that every routing machine along the way has to download and send on every bit/byte/megabyte of the song you do. Which means the moment I log on to the network (which I wouldnt, I dont do the napster thing) I become subject to being a router, over my 56k dialup connection. downloading other peoples music which I'm not interested in, potentially helping pirate music. Personally, I wouldnt be down with that.
*shrug*
just my 2 cents.
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would you trust a human genome mapped by computers whose users could have potentially intentionally returned bad data? ... interesting ... to see how many people would contribute to 'Just Another Distributed Application'. I wonder if there's an interest in the community for a distributed application template? in file main.c: <Insert Project Name Here>
*shrug*
I personally am glad the human genome is being done privately... but it would be
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If you dont need ftp access you can set the shell to /dev/null. If you require ftp access, I think you actually need a valid shell account, but from the sound of it this guy doesnt need any shell features, so creating a shell account per user is a waste of his time.
hmmm... I just doubt that existing hard media artists would go for this object model. They (hard media) arent going to support the new (soft media) infrastructure forever, and that's what your object model proposes. CD Sales = incoming revenue. Part of that revenue goes to the money pool. Money pool split up to artists whose songs are downloaded.
If an online artist either a) Is not selling hard media (by design) or b) Just isnt getting their cds bought then they're going to get money from hard media's money pool. And if i was JohnDoe's Band selling two Platinum CDs and not allowing my music for download then there's no way in hell I would want to share my sales with JaneDoe's Band who dont even have a CD available. UNLESS it comes from the cd labels commission. I dont care what they do with *their* money... but by the same token, they'd probably just bump their commission up anyway. who knows.
IANAMA *grin*
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Okay, but picture this: I create a few songs. I join the pool, but I do not release a cd. I generate *NO* profit for the system, I just make music available for download through the system. If everyone downloads my digital music then I am theoretically entitled to a large portion of the money pool when I have contributed none through actual physical sales. Is there some aspect that I have missed to prevent this sort of situation?
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