Whether you claim your money or not, you are a part of the law suit class, and as such, you will lose your right to any recourse once the settlement is finished.
Unless... you specifically write to exclude yourself from the settlement. The deadline is in March.
This may come as a huge surprise, but the claimants have been cheated out of a lot of money, and are only getting a tiny fraction of it back. Whether the lawyers earned it, I can't say. Often, they don't.
For example, I read that the lawyers involved in the tobacco settlement ended up with about $60000 USD per hour of work. Something tells me they were overpaid, even if I fully supported suing big tobacco. Nobody works hard enough to deserve $60000 per hour.
What does getting a check for a few cents in the mail have to do with resolving the CD pricing issue? The RIAA was fixing prices then, and they have only pushed them higher since.
Part of their guilt came from their prohibition against any store advertising CDs below a certain price. Strangely, I haven't seen much of a change.
In any case, CDs are priced WAY too high. Now whether it's ok to copy based on that is another story.
Also, don't you find it strange that each time you back up your data to a CD, you have just paid a tax to the RIAA?
The huge advantage in London is you charge different fees for different roads. So downtown, where road space is extremely valuable, they charge people more for using it. This also has the side benefit of encouraging people to use public transportation. I suspect they want to do the same in Oregon.
The huge disadvantage: privacy. How on Earth do they think they can protect the privacy of drivers in Oregon? Today, phone logs and account information are accessible to anyone with shady connections and cash. And even if the information somehow stayed within the government, how does it justify digging so deeply into the privacy of its citizens?
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If you're interested in a notebook you can write on with pencil in the middle of a rainstorm, take a look here.
Wow. How long has this article worked at the Mayo clinic?
Oh wait. You mean you work at the Mayo clinic. That's cool.
I think the subject is interesting, as it's parallel to something I had been thinking. Think of how a serious musician develops enhanced listening abilities. A person learns to hear subtleties in timbre, pitch, harmony, etc. So, the question I've had for some time is: By removing subleties from the music, we could deprive the mind of the chance to learn to hear these and be responsive to them. I want to listen to music that goes well beyond my ability to hear, so that my aural perception has room to grow. On the opposite end, when I listen to highly compressed music, unused perception could eventually lead to atrophy. This may not affect my hearing in everyday applications, but the effect may well be real.
I was going to say mirrors and morse code, but without line of sight, that's out. Otherwise, smoke signals should do the trick. Do you have any specific bandwidth or latency requirements?
Ouch. Why not free? Is it really that expensive to implement? Oh wait, it's the standard answer:
because they can.
Long live capitalism.
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I'll let you try it out first. Until there's lots of hard (scientific, not just anecdotal or one-person-at-a-time) evidence on this, I'll leave it alone.
Bill gates paused in a grocery store line to let someone in front of him. We're not sure what he was up to, but we noticed he didn't let any other customers in front of him. This could be a deliberate attempt at gaining another monopoly in yet another critical area, and we're pretty sure it has to do with cash register printers and XML. Could this be the Achiles heel that brings down the giant in the courts? Citizens arm and unite!
After looking at both sites, I must say they do look too similar. I would suggest looking at some existing parodies and learning from them. In the meantime, I would pull your site down immediately.
But you have to be careful not to cross certain boundaries. PETA.com (people eating tasty animals) lost its domain name, because it was too close to the original. It needs to be really obvious that it is a parody, and you can't use too much copyrighted/trademarked material directly.
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Whether you claim your money or not, you are a part of the law suit class, and as such, you will lose your right to any recourse once the settlement is finished.
Unless... you specifically write to exclude yourself from the settlement. The deadline is in March.
Data CDs in the U.S. are still RIAA taxed, but at a lower rate. Live and learn
The court will have hearings in Maine in March where YOU can go to contest the settlement. You or your lawyer can appear before the court.
This may come as a huge surprise, but the claimants have been cheated out of a lot of money, and are only getting a tiny fraction of it back. Whether the lawyers earned it, I can't say. Often, they don't.
For example, I read that the lawyers involved in the tobacco settlement ended up with about $60000 USD per hour of work. Something tells me they were overpaid, even if I fully supported suing big tobacco. Nobody works hard enough to deserve $60000 per hour.
What does getting a check for a few cents in the mail have to do with resolving the CD pricing issue? The RIAA was fixing prices then, and they have only pushed them higher since.
Part of their guilt came from their prohibition against any store advertising CDs below a certain price. Strangely, I haven't seen much of a change.
In any case, CDs are priced WAY too high. Now whether it's ok to copy based on that is another story.
Also, don't you find it strange that each time you back up your data to a CD, you have just paid a tax to the RIAA?
Turing test is a bit of an exaggeration. They have you look at some garbled text and type what you see. And it's been going on for a very long time.
The Register article had absolutely nothing of value to add. As you were.
Oregon does not have sales tax.
The huge advantage in London is you charge different fees for different roads. So downtown, where road space is extremely valuable, they charge people more for using it. This also has the side benefit of encouraging people to use public transportation. I suspect they want to do the same in Oregon.
The huge disadvantage: privacy. How on Earth do they think they can protect the privacy of drivers in Oregon? Today, phone logs and account information are accessible to anyone with shady connections and cash. And even if the information somehow stayed within the government, how does it justify digging so deeply into the privacy of its citizens?
If you're interested in a notebook you can write on with pencil in the middle of a rainstorm, take a look here.
The company is near Seattle, of all places.
the dutch equivalent of the RIAA has made it so that they get a certain percentage of every sold cd-r.
This also happens in the U.S.
EMH
No. They'll tell you it was faked or rigged or whatever. They enjoy believing the moon landing was a hoax.
No, this is to stop the crackpots from getting on the Art bell show
If they get rid of all the crackpots, then who will host the show?
Tucson has strict outdoor lighting ordinances. Lights have to face downward, certain types of lights are prohibited, etc.
What a super idea. Why we do this all over the United States? It would be nice to get some of our night sky back.
Wow. How long has this article worked at the Mayo clinic?
Oh wait. You mean you work at the Mayo clinic. That's cool.
I think the subject is interesting, as it's parallel to something I had been thinking. Think of how a serious musician develops enhanced listening abilities. A person learns to hear subtleties in timbre, pitch, harmony, etc. So, the question I've had for some time is: By removing subleties from the music, we could deprive the mind of the chance to learn to hear these and be responsive to them. I want to listen to music that goes well beyond my ability to hear, so that my aural perception has room to grow. On the opposite end, when I listen to highly compressed music, unused perception could eventually lead to atrophy. This may not affect my hearing in everyday applications, but the effect may well be real.
The key to ubiquitous access, as demonstrated by Slashdot, is redundancy.
I was going to say mirrors and morse code, but without line of sight, that's out. Otherwise, smoke signals should do the trick. Do you have any specific bandwidth or latency requirements?
fairly reasonable at $10 a night
Ouch. Why not free? Is it really that expensive to implement? Oh wait, it's the standard answer:
because they can.
Long live capitalism.
I'll let you try it out first. Until there's lots of hard (scientific, not just anecdotal or one-person-at-a-time) evidence on this, I'll leave it alone.
Bill gates paused in a grocery store line to let someone in front of him. We're not sure what he was up to, but we noticed he didn't let any other customers in front of him. This could be a deliberate attempt at gaining another monopoly in yet another critical area, and we're pretty sure it has to do with cash register printers and XML. Could this be the Achiles heel that brings down the giant in the courts? Citizens arm and unite!
You should also ask them to put you on the do-not-call list of any affiliated companies.
Also, you have the right to have them send you a copy of their do-not-call-list policy. If they don't send it, you can sue them for an easy $500.
IANAL, and the usual disclaimers apply.
When asked about the 2.3 billion dollar fiasco, a spokesman for Sony had this to say:
"Oops."
After looking at both sites, I must say they do look too similar. I would suggest looking at some existing parodies and learning from them. In the meantime, I would pull your site down immediately.
IANAL, but IAASHB.
But you have to be careful not to cross certain boundaries. PETA.com (people eating tasty animals) lost its domain name, because it was too close to the original. It needs to be really obvious that it is a parody, and you can't use too much copyrighted/trademarked material directly.
Hmmmm. Do spammers have mod points? Well, it's not surprising that the lowest form of life would infest Slashdot too.