yes they are, with the new extended copyright (thank you Disney) pretty much any recorded music is copyrighted. there is an implicit copyright anytime you create something, you don't have to register a copyright to have a copyright. in this way the judgment against napster was completely wrong. the proper method would have been to have napster block all files except for those for which they have received express permission to copy and those that are verifiably in the public domain. but the napster case wasn't about copyright, it was about money. RIAA doesn't care about musicians not getting their due from the distribution of their software, and nobody cares about all the musicians out there who are on independent labels or are not signed at all, who material has been stolen and posted on napster. RIAA doesn't even care about all the bootlegs being passed around that the musicians were never paid for, all they care about are the recordings for which they hold a copyright, hence the sloppy nature of the judgment. as to the CDDB, it pretty much only encompasses fairly recent, RIAA commercially released digital recordings, so they are all covered under the judgment. if the CDDB is the only criteria for filtering, this would actually be a boon for napsters, as only mp3s ripped off CDs would be filtered. even this could be bypassed by introducing an analog stage in to the recording of the mp3.
Might as well get rid of that whole pesky fair use provision of copyright law, right?
Fair use does not mean that the software producers don't have a right to protect their product via hardware innovation (IE: copy protection). Fair use just says you have a right to defeat copy protection for personal use. There are already protections built into consumer audio disc burners. They don't allow second generation recordings (a big problem for musicians), and they require a special preformated disc that pays a surcharge directly to the RIAA. So the Macrovision must be aimed at computer based burners, which means it must take advantage of some preexisting condition, like error correction, and probably encoded discs will probably not play on all cd players. As defeats are already in available for it, that means the real losers here are those who have incompatible hardware, and the record industry who will have to spend large sums of money to purchase copy protection that will reduce sales due to the fact that it won't play on some machines, and won't stop people from making copies.
yes AOL claims 27 million users, unfortunately this number includes a lot of previous users, but even assuming the 27 million, earthlink the second largest isp only has about 5 million users, and the average isp has less than 500 thousand users, the is probably total only a little more than 50 million people on the internet. napster is more likely to have around 5 million users, which would bring the cost up to about $16 per user, which is not a particularly unreasonable sum. of course the down side of all of this is that the artist won't see a dime unless they sue their label for their share, which of course means no more releases until their contract runs out and they can switch labels. also napster and the riaa will of course have to go after all the other sites providing a similar service, but with the napster precedent that shouldn't be much of a problem.
having worked in the special effects industry, I can say this is a very cool site. it is important to remember that this is not as easy as it looks, and be prepared to spend 5 to 10 times as much in time and money as you would if you just bought the finished product from a costume house. this is for serious collectors only, and requires quite a bit of artistic and mechanical ability.
given the new law requiring filtering software, the only recourse is to sue the filtering company. this will require a little work. first they need to get some adults on board. then they need to gather evidence as to what inappropriate material is filtered and not filtered, as well as evidence of the filter company tracking and selling the tracking data to marketing companies. then they need to contact the ACLU and sell them on the idea. it won't take many law suits to shut down most of the filtering companies, and when they are all gone, maybe the gov will catch on. if you can convince them there is a case, the ACLU will also be able to go after the law requiring filtering software, after all it is unconstitutional.
you have your basic chaos theory/fractal problem, the factors involved in calculating the costs expand logarithmically as you investigate them. the basic factors are; losses due to hardware damage, losses due to software damage, losses due to dos, losses due to lost or destroyed projects, losses due to non productivity (employees who cannot do their job), losses due to diverted resources (IT staff who have to repair damaged systems, rather than do their normal job), losses due to outside consultants, losses due to customer defection, losses due to security systems (firewalls, anti virus software), losses due to reduced efficiency (due to firewalls, anti virus software), losses due to policing (cost incurred finding the perpetrator), not to mention all the secondary and tertiary costs. take this example, assume somebody was creating a piece of ground breaking software that would make all computers operate 50% more efficiently. now if this software was delayed or destroyed due to a virus, imagine the incalculable repercussions. so any estimate, is just a guess at best, and doesn't include all the possible factors anyway, and probably includes factors that are vaporous or don't apply. good luck with your project, you'll need it.
money is money, and the manufacturers want to part with as little as possible. best data has an average 6 month turn around on their rebates. if a company offers a rebate, they are required by law to pay it as long as you meet proof of purchase requirements, usually a reciept and the upc strip. the reason for rebates is that the manufacture can't advertise specific price reductions, that would be price fixing, plus if the manufacture dropped the cost by $50, that would not necessarily translate into a $50 savings to the customer. it depends a great deal on the amount of markup on the product, a 50% markup would equate to $100 and a 12.5% markup would equate to $25. the evil side of a rebate is that not only do you pay sales tax on the rebate, it is technically income, and you should pay income tax on it also.
In December 1999, President Clinton signed a law that makes it a federal felony to possess "a depiction of animal cruelty" with the intent to distribute across state lines.
does this mean it is illegal for me to post copies of the picture of LBJ carrying his dog by ears on the internet (even assuming I had obtained permission from the copyright holder)? as I read this, the distributers of "Appocolypse Now", "Gremlins", "Something About Mary", just about any Warner Bros cartoon (as well as thousands of other films and cartoons), the networks that broadcast them, PETA (all those anti seal clubbing informercials), and endless news agencies are in violation of the law. What happened to freedom of speach? this law needs to be contested and struck down now as unconstitutional.
you forgot to mention that since microsoft won't release their source code, and only release limited interface info, that your apis won't work as well.
Get a life. If your not interested in the PR exchanges between the companies that will eventually determine the nature of your world, fine, skip the post. Some of us really enjoy a bit of microsoft bashing, even if we don't use linux.
an increasing number of people in their twenties and thirties are suffering from severe memory loss. based on what criteria? a study based on 150 people with memory dysfunctions, gives no useful info at all. how much of an increase, give me some numbers, is it in keeping with general population growth, or is it in fact less than population growth. it is entirely possible to have an increase in real numbers, but an actual decline in the percentage of population.
if there is in fact a real problem, it is more likely tied to data overload. as sound bites get smaller and smaller, people have to remember more and more. are pda's a cause or just a symptom. I have had short term memory problems since long before personal computers became available, yet my brain is cluttered with enough useless trivia to win your average jeopardy game. it is also important to remember that short term memory loss has always been tied to higher intelligence, hence the concept of the absent minded professor.
It all goes back to Frankenstein, people equate cloning with creating life (which it is not), and feel the scientist are playing god (which they are, but not in the same sense as Frankenstein), and those who subscribe to religions that include a god figure feel this is blasphemy. the truth is that cloning is not that much different from artificial insemination, egg implants and other fertility enhancement programs. the real ethical question is, in a world with limited resources and rampant overpopulation, why are we wasting so many resources trying to create more people? the answer of course is self aggrandizement, on the part of the scientist, who can say they did it, and on the part of the clonee, who achieves the relative immortality that accompanies propagating oneself. the downside is that a person who cannot procreate in the normal way is genetically inferior and should be weaned out of the gene pool. cloning is counter evolutionary, and is inherently destructive to the human race as a whole.
given the quantity they are planing on producing, it is very possible that they can reach the price point they want. but I wouldn't count on the thing in an emergency, the range will probably be about ten feet from the cell station.
why would god refuse to imbue a clone with a soul? clones start with a human egg, and according to the catholics, the egg already contains a soul. as to the ethical question, in a world with limited resources, and rampant overpopulation, I find fertility clinics, human cloning, artificial insemination, envitro fertilization and all such pursuits as it pertains to humans, unconscionable. the question is not whether man is playing god, but whether man is destroying the planet, and letting thousands starve, so that one person can achieve a form of self aggrandized immortality.
trademark law says that if you don't actively protect your trademark, you lose it. it doesn't matter that eToys will go out of business in the near future, etoy must protect its trademark. though in truth, I think they're just trying to make a point.
actually, Microsoft isn't a monopoly, but they did employ monopolistic practices. personally, I think the punishment should fit the crime, a break up is the wrong solution, the proper solution would be proportionate fines, (we could pay off the national debt)and necessary monitoring and regulation.
he was kicked out of the state for printing on his website what he thought to be the truth. if this guy doesn't have the money to afford a very good attorney, he will most likely end up doing hard time and losing all his computer equipment.
the time to fight back is now! start with filtering software. every site that is blocked (illeagally by the way)by filtering software, should sue the companies that create and maintain said software. just as the RIAA feels that every mp3 transfer is lost revenue, every blocked web surfer is lost revenue for the site that is blocked.
boycott Yahoo Auctions, and other web companies that give in too easily to governmental pressure to self censor.
if we don't act today, the internet will cease to be a forum for exchange of ideas and information, and become just another tool for the mega corps to invade your life and make a buck.
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yes they are, with the new extended copyright (thank you Disney) pretty much any recorded music is copyrighted. there is an implicit copyright anytime you create something, you don't have to register a copyright to have a copyright. in this way the judgment against napster was completely wrong. the proper method would have been to have napster block all files except for those for which they have received express permission to copy and those that are verifiably in the public domain. but the napster case wasn't about copyright, it was about money. RIAA doesn't care about musicians not getting their due from the distribution of their software, and nobody cares about all the musicians out there who are on independent labels or are not signed at all, who material has been stolen and posted on napster. RIAA doesn't even care about all the bootlegs being passed around that the musicians were never paid for, all they care about are the recordings for which they hold a copyright, hence the sloppy nature of the judgment. as to the CDDB, it pretty much only encompasses fairly recent, RIAA commercially released digital recordings, so they are all covered under the judgment. if the CDDB is the only criteria for filtering, this would actually be a boon for napsters, as only mp3s ripped off CDs would be filtered. even this could be bypassed by introducing an analog stage in to the recording of the mp3.
Might as well get rid of that whole pesky fair use provision of copyright law, right?
Fair use does not mean that the software producers don't have a right to protect their product via hardware innovation (IE: copy protection). Fair use just says you have a right to defeat copy protection for personal use. There are already protections built into consumer audio disc burners. They don't allow second generation recordings (a big problem for musicians), and they require a special preformated disc that pays a surcharge directly to the RIAA. So the Macrovision must be aimed at computer based burners, which means it must take advantage of some preexisting condition, like error correction, and probably encoded discs will probably not play on all cd players. As defeats are already in available for it, that means the real losers here are those who have incompatible hardware, and the record industry who will have to spend large sums of money to purchase copy protection that will reduce sales due to the fact that it won't play on some machines, and won't stop people from making copies.
yes AOL claims 27 million users, unfortunately this number includes a lot of previous users, but even assuming the 27 million, earthlink the second largest isp only has about 5 million users, and the average isp has less than 500 thousand users, the is probably total only a little more than 50 million people on the internet. napster is more likely to have around 5 million users, which would bring the cost up to about $16 per user, which is not a particularly unreasonable sum. of course the down side of all of this is that the artist won't see a dime unless they sue their label for their share, which of course means no more releases until their contract runs out and they can switch labels. also napster and the riaa will of course have to go after all the other sites providing a similar service, but with the napster precedent that shouldn't be much of a problem.
having worked in the special effects industry, I can say this is a very cool site. it is important to remember that this is not as easy as it looks, and be prepared to spend 5 to 10 times as much in time and money as you would if you just bought the finished product from a costume house. this is for serious collectors only, and requires quite a bit of artistic and mechanical ability.
given the new law requiring filtering software, the only recourse is to sue the filtering company. this will require a little work. first they need to get some adults on board. then they need to gather evidence as to what inappropriate material is filtered and not filtered, as well as evidence of the filter company tracking and selling the tracking data to marketing companies. then they need to contact the ACLU and sell them on the idea. it won't take many law suits to shut down most of the filtering companies, and when they are all gone, maybe the gov will catch on. if you can convince them there is a case, the ACLU will also be able to go after the law requiring filtering software, after all it is unconstitutional.
you have your basic chaos theory/fractal problem, the factors involved in calculating the costs expand logarithmically as you investigate them. the basic factors are; losses due to hardware damage, losses due to software damage, losses due to dos, losses due to lost or destroyed projects, losses due to non productivity (employees who cannot do their job), losses due to diverted resources (IT staff who have to repair damaged systems, rather than do their normal job), losses due to outside consultants, losses due to customer defection, losses due to security systems (firewalls, anti virus software), losses due to reduced efficiency (due to firewalls, anti virus software), losses due to policing (cost incurred finding the perpetrator), not to mention all the secondary and tertiary costs. take this example, assume somebody was creating a piece of ground breaking software that would make all computers operate 50% more efficiently. now if this software was delayed or destroyed due to a virus, imagine the incalculable repercussions. so any estimate, is just a guess at best, and doesn't include all the possible factors anyway, and probably includes factors that are vaporous or don't apply. good luck with your project, you'll need it.
money is money, and the manufacturers want to part with as little as possible. best data has an average 6 month turn around on their rebates. if a company offers a rebate, they are required by law to pay it as long as you meet proof of purchase requirements, usually a reciept and the upc strip. the reason for rebates is that the manufacture can't advertise specific price reductions, that would be price fixing, plus if the manufacture dropped the cost by $50, that would not necessarily translate into a $50 savings to the customer. it depends a great deal on the amount of markup on the product, a 50% markup would equate to $100 and a 12.5% markup would equate to $25. the evil side of a rebate is that not only do you pay sales tax on the rebate, it is technically income, and you should pay income tax on it also.
In December 1999, President Clinton signed a law that makes it a federal felony to possess "a depiction of animal cruelty" with the intent to distribute across state lines.
does this mean it is illegal for me to post copies of the picture of LBJ carrying his dog by ears on the internet (even assuming I had obtained permission from the copyright holder)? as I read this, the distributers of "Appocolypse Now", "Gremlins", "Something About Mary", just about any Warner Bros cartoon (as well as thousands of other films and cartoons), the networks that broadcast them, PETA (all those anti seal clubbing informercials), and endless news agencies are in violation of the law. What happened to freedom of speach? this law needs to be contested and struck down now as unconstitutional.
you forgot to mention that since microsoft won't release their source code, and only release limited interface info, that your apis won't work as well.
Get a life. If your not interested in the PR exchanges between the companies that will eventually determine the nature of your world, fine, skip the post. Some of us really enjoy a bit of microsoft bashing, even if we don't use linux.
since cdroms are cheaper, faster and more reliable.
an increasing number of people in their twenties and thirties are suffering from severe memory loss. based on what criteria? a study based on 150 people with memory dysfunctions, gives no useful info at all. how much of an increase, give me some numbers, is it in keeping with general population growth, or is it in fact less than population growth. it is entirely possible to have an increase in real numbers, but an actual decline in the percentage of population. if there is in fact a real problem, it is more likely tied to data overload. as sound bites get smaller and smaller, people have to remember more and more. are pda's a cause or just a symptom. I have had short term memory problems since long before personal computers became available, yet my brain is cluttered with enough useless trivia to win your average jeopardy game. it is also important to remember that short term memory loss has always been tied to higher intelligence, hence the concept of the absent minded professor.
oops, a little too much deviation, now we're falling into the sun, well at least it will be warmer
there are no ethics in a free market economy, just look at microsoft.
the majority of computer games are non-zero sum games, as they are solitare (single player) games, and by definition non competitve.
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010129S0074
It all goes back to Frankenstein, people equate cloning with creating life (which it is not), and feel the scientist are playing god (which they are, but not in the same sense as Frankenstein), and those who subscribe to religions that include a god figure feel this is blasphemy. the truth is that cloning is not that much different from artificial insemination, egg implants and other fertility enhancement programs. the real ethical question is, in a world with limited resources and rampant overpopulation, why are we wasting so many resources trying to create more people? the answer of course is self aggrandizement, on the part of the scientist, who can say they did it, and on the part of the clonee, who achieves the relative immortality that accompanies propagating oneself. the downside is that a person who cannot procreate in the normal way is genetically inferior and should be weaned out of the gene pool. cloning is counter evolutionary, and is inherently destructive to the human race as a whole.
given the quantity they are planing on producing, it is very possible that they can reach the price point they want. but I wouldn't count on the thing in an emergency, the range will probably be about ten feet from the cell station.
why would god refuse to imbue a clone with a soul? clones start with a human egg, and according to the catholics, the egg already contains a soul. as to the ethical question, in a world with limited resources, and rampant overpopulation, I find fertility clinics, human cloning, artificial insemination, envitro fertilization and all such pursuits as it pertains to humans, unconscionable. the question is not whether man is playing god, but whether man is destroying the planet, and letting thousands starve, so that one person can achieve a form of self aggrandized immortality.
trademark law says that if you don't actively protect your trademark, you lose it. it doesn't matter that eToys will go out of business in the near future, etoy must protect its trademark. though in truth, I think they're just trying to make a point.
actually, Microsoft isn't a monopoly, but they did employ monopolistic practices. personally, I think the punishment should fit the crime, a break up is the wrong solution, the proper solution would be proportionate fines, (we could pay off the national debt)and necessary monitoring and regulation.
go cg, and the nightmares go away
he was kicked out of the state for printing on his website what he thought to be the truth. if this guy doesn't have the money to afford a very good attorney, he will most likely end up doing hard time and losing all his computer equipment.
the time to fight back is now! start with filtering software. every site that is blocked (illeagally by the way)by filtering software, should sue the companies that create and maintain said software. just as the RIAA feels that every mp3 transfer is lost revenue, every blocked web surfer is lost revenue for the site that is blocked.
boycott Yahoo Auctions, and other web companies that give in too easily to governmental pressure to self censor.
if we don't act today, the internet will cease to be a forum for exchange of ideas and information, and become just another tool for the mega corps to invade your life and make a buck.
computers don't kill people, people kill people!!!
join the NCA (National Computer Association) today!!!