If I choose to put my complete CD collection on the web, is it my fault that other people play the CDs. If I choose to publicise their location is that a crime?
That kinda logic is not going to get you very far in life...
How about I set up a stand in front of my house with a pile of drugs.. and put up a big sign... free drugs here.. is that legal too ??
"Intellectual property" is the term for a creator's rights to a valuable idea, right? Show me a single company that is capable of thought, and therefore entitled to protection of its "intellectual property", and I will show you an employee who actually did the work, and no longer has the right to use their own ideas.
And this gets a plus 5 ?? please ??
The employee is getting paid for their work, no ?? If they feel they can do it on their own.. good for them.. guess what they'll do.. Start their own company and hire a few others.. There are people behind these companies... Thats how things work....
Although it's not quite as simple as that, I guess there must be hundreds of cases like this all around the world. Just because something is made into a law, doesn't mean its perfect or even fair.
I understand that, but his answer makes it seem like he is against copyright only because people are taking offense to Freenet because it allows unauthorized copying. (Its this which has made Freenet so popular in the first place)
Let's face it: laws are made by governments, not by the common people. Laws should be made in order to help / protect / take care of the people, but they usually are not.
I believe in a lot of cases the government has overstepped it bounds... but you have to admit, 99.5% of laws are in place to "help / protect / take care of the people"
Take the copyright laws, for instance. They were made in order to protect the creators of works of music, art, etc. but in reality they're used to protect the big corporations who make money out of them.
Big Corporations who spend millions (mostly on peoples pay) shouldn't have the right to protect their creations?? Come on now....
Okay. Let me clarify. I do think that copyright is a bad thing, but my initial motivation was not copyright. First, people started saying to me, "Hey, this could be used to distribute stuff without enforcing copyright." Then people started to say, "This can be used to distribute material without enforcing copyright, therefore, it shouldn't be allowed." And that put me in the situation where I had to justify what Freenet did. So yes, I did come to the conclusion that copyright was a bad thing, but that was not the initial motivation behind Freenet.
goosh.. you mean what I wrote can be used to break the law.. I didn't think of it like that.. Well, I guess that law sucks and shouldn't be a law then..
In my opinion, the problem doesn't just lie with the companies making the fraudulent charges, but also with the banks, who are too cheap to create a security process for credit card utilization.....
Although they probably deny it... but if you look at it this way the banks are not being "cheap".
Whenever a chargeback happens, not only does the bank get 100% of the charge back from the merchant, they also charge the merchant a $10-25 charge for each chargeback.
So if the credit card company makes 1% on a normal charge ($1 on a $100 charge).. that same company will end up making 10 times that much on a chargeback.
Granted there are administrative costs the credit card company has to pay for in order to process the chargeback.. but I doubt its $10 a chargeback.
I agree 100% with robots.txt and that all spiders should obey it...
But to me, metabrowsing and spidering for search engines are very very different.
Search Engines although do spider a site only do it once every few months if that and direct the user to your page to get your content. This is a plus for you.
Now if a metabrowser spiders your site a few times a day, you are taking bandwidth and processor hits multiple times.. and your content is being used out of context on another site, where they get the use of your content and the viewer and you get squat..
As I said.. I agree with using robots.txt, but you should be able (as you can) to bar certain unwanted spiders from your site and your content..
btw. what is Priceman.com ?? (taken to court by MySimon) Their main page is password protected...
( I didn't see how much the satellite radio recievers are)
You should be able to purchase a Sirius receiver in the auto sound aftermarket for as little as $150 more than you would pay for a traditional FM/AM receiver.
How many on the millions of domains are registered with them ??
I don't see a big motivation for them to change their ways anytime soon.. (it costs to leave them right?.. if you can actually get them to change your registration)
All domains older then say a year are... Those are the domains that are expiring.. So they are all registered through NSI..
Because of this fact there are also no other registers with bulk amounts of expired domains... so there is nothing to compare this to either...
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I think you are the one missing the point...
I don't think ayone would really mind if Napster was used Napster to obtain copies of the music you already own (I know, the mp3.com thing)..
BUT thanks NOT what Napster is mainly used for... its used to obtain copies of music which you never owned and never paided for...
If you have never downloaded a song from Napster, you my friend are one in a million... but you are the one missing the point....
If I choose to put my complete CD collection on the web, is it my fault that other people play the CDs. If I choose to publicise their location is that a crime?
That kinda logic is not going to get you very far in life...
How about I set up a stand in front of my house with a pile of drugs.. and put up a big sign... free drugs here.. is that legal too ??
Yup.... looks like his new web site went live a few months ago.. and this may be a good way to get a few hits....
http://www.npgonlineltd.com/freedomnew s.html
/. post is "Prince gets wordy about Napster", but reading his article was shear hell....
The site will not let you link to the article directly, so its the first one listed...
Also the name of this
If Prince wants people to really take him seriously..
2 = to
4 = for
4m = form
u = you
Plus lots more... its worse then trying to read that 31337 crap...
Nope..... as of 2000 he changed his name back to Prince...
no symbol no more.....
www.npgonlineltd.com
Thats certainly easy to remember.....
Not a bad looking site.... but all frames and flash..
Does this mean that Gimp can never have tabbed midgets either?
:(
looks that way....
Smaller chips cost less because more can be made per silicon wafer, the material from which semiconductors are produced.
Any idea on a price? Cheaper then intel or what ?
"Intellectual property" is the term for a creator's rights to a valuable idea, right? Show me a single company that is capable of thought, and therefore entitled to protection of its "intellectual property", and I will show you an employee who actually did the work, and no longer has the right to use their own ideas.
And this gets a plus 5 ?? please ??
The employee is getting paid for their work, no ?? If they feel they can do it on their own.. good for them.. guess what they'll do.. Start their own company and hire a few others.. There are people behind these companies... Thats how things work....
Although it's not quite as simple as that, I guess there must be hundreds of cases like this all around the world. Just because something is made into a law, doesn't mean its perfect or even fair.
I understand that, but his answer makes it seem like he is against copyright only because people are taking offense to Freenet because it allows unauthorized copying. (Its this which has made Freenet so popular in the first place)
Let's face it: laws are made by governments, not by the common people. Laws should be made in order to help / protect / take care of the people, but they usually are not.
I believe in a lot of cases the government has overstepped it bounds... but you have to admit, 99.5% of laws are in place to "help / protect / take care of the people"
Take the copyright laws, for instance. They were made in order to protect the creators of works of music, art, etc. but in reality they're used to protect the big corporations who make money out of them.
Big Corporations who spend millions (mostly on peoples pay) shouldn't have the right to protect their creations?? Come on now....
And his answer is just as bad..
Okay. Let me clarify. I do think that copyright is a bad thing, but my initial motivation was not copyright. First, people started saying to me, "Hey, this could be used to distribute stuff without enforcing copyright." Then people started to say, "This can be used to distribute material without enforcing copyright, therefore, it shouldn't be allowed." And that put me in the situation where I had to justify what Freenet did. So yes, I did come to the conclusion that copyright was a bad thing, but that was not the initial motivation behind Freenet.
goosh.. you mean what I wrote can be used to break the law.. I didn't think of it like that.. Well, I guess that law sucks and shouldn't be a law then..
What kind of logic is that???
1.
[wife] What the hell are these charges on our card for "Wank-o-matic" and "Jugs-o-rama"?? No one in my family would look at this filth.
[Card company] Don't worry ma'am.. we will refund the charges asap.
or 2.
[wife] Honey, What the hell are these charges on our card for "Wank-o-matic" and "Jugs-o-rama"??
[busted husband] Beats me.. I've never been to those sites.. someone must have stolen our card when I ordered those flowers online..
[husband to card company] Umm someone stole my card and signed me up at "Wank-o-matic" and "Jugs-o-rama"
[card company] No problem sir, we will refund the charges asap.
In my opinion, the problem doesn't just lie with the companies making the fraudulent charges, but also with the banks, who are too cheap to create a security process for credit card utilization.....
Although they probably deny it... but if you look at it this way the banks are not being "cheap".
Whenever a chargeback happens, not only does the bank get 100% of the charge back from the merchant, they also charge the merchant a $10-25 charge for each chargeback.
So if the credit card company makes 1% on a normal charge ($1 on a $100 charge).. that same company will end up making 10 times that much on a chargeback.
Granted there are administrative costs the credit card company has to pay for in order to process the chargeback.. but I doubt its $10 a chargeback.
uumm.. that would be "bank".... doh
I have been fighting with my bank for at least a couple years trying to dispute one illegitimate charge after another.
dude.... move to another back..... or do you just like punishment???
My votes goes to Lou Diamond Phillips...
that'd be interesting...
Seriously.. don't replace him.. the show has run its course... its time to go...
I agree 100% with robots.txt and that all spiders should obey it...
But to me, metabrowsing and spidering for search engines are very very different.
Search Engines although do spider a site only do it once every few months if that and direct the user to your page to get your content. This is a plus for you.
Now if a metabrowser spiders your site a few times a day, you are taking bandwidth and processor hits multiple times.. and your content is being used out of context on another site, where they get the use of your content and the viewer and you get squat..
As I said.. I agree with using robots.txt, but you should be able (as you can) to bar certain unwanted spiders from your site and your content..
btw. what is Priceman.com ?? (taken to court by MySimon) Their main page is password protected...
( I didn't see how much the satellite radio recievers are)
You should be able to purchase a Sirius receiver in the auto sound aftermarket for as little as $150 more than you would pay for a traditional FM/AM receiver.
[i]50 channels of commercial-free music. [/i]
I can't stand all the adds on normal radio... it makes talk radio unlistenable...
Not to mention the fact that I can only really get one clear interesting station at my house...
Not to mention..
http://www.the-bug-reaper.com
http://www.bobthebugkiller.com
http://www.ex-live-bugs.com
and all the other domains that commercial had...
Didn't a past /. post hint that Network Solutions was getting ready to auction off expired domains..
Could be they are just holding a bunch until this new "service" of theirs is ready...
bah...
How many on the millions of domains are registered with them ??
I don't see a big motivation for them to change their ways anytime soon.. (it costs to leave them right?.. if you can actually get them to change your registration)
All domains older then say a year are... Those are the domains that are expiring.. So they are all registered through NSI..
Because of this fact there are also no other registers with bulk amounts of expired domains... so there is nothing to compare this to either...
I have my eye on one domain that expired Feb 07 2000... Its still in the NSI database...
Looks like they purge whne they feel like it...
Strap one to your waist. and as you move no one is a 33 foot radius will bug you with their rigging phones....
Well.. since someone posts it on every other /. article mentioning viruses...
Here is Tom Christiansen and his rant on the plural of virus... viruses
http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html