...that M$ went to great lengths to hide the history trails of IE. What's to stop M$ from hiding your torrent download habits then selling the back door to the MPAA so they can sue you?
These are not artists that are proposing copyright extensions, they are label conglomerates who own everything that their artists create. The creative author benefits little from these extensions, they don't own their music anymore.
In exchange for copyright extension, they should propose the following:
outlaw endentured slavery contracts.
outlaw contract language that shield the accounting books from audits. Many artists cannot sue for royalties because the contract has severe restrictions on access to the books and the label reserves the right to select the auditor of their choice on behalf of the artist. It's a one-sided deal. If the books were audited at the major labels from the last thirty years, they'd make Enron/Worldcom look like choirboys.
outlaw contract language that steal away copyrights, publishing, and sound recording revenues from the artists. This would include the "works for hire" clause on contracts. Works for hire means that the artists earns zero royalty and forfeits all rights to copyright, publishing, etc.
If the labels want near-perpetual copyrights, it's only fair to give up some control. They've been gilding the lilly long enough.
IE7 might have shiny new features, but the reason for the IE desertion is malware through ActiveX. These new features do nothing to address the malicious crap that grind a computer to a halt.
Tight integration with the OS has its consequences. If you want IE7, you can't install it on anything less than XP - it's an OS upgrade. Firefox/Mozilla/Opera will work all the way down to WIN98.
That's really what's behind the movie slump. The TV set really did kill off the theator chain.
Watching a movie/DVD at home means you don't have to deal with unruly hecklers, idiots chatting on cell phones, highway robbery snack prices, or pre-show ads with boo-hoo sob-sob testimonies of set workers losing their jobs to file sharing.
Annoyances aside, I got tired of blowing nine bucks per head on poor quality content. More movies these days are just utter crap.
That is why I stopped going to theaters. The TV didn't kill it off, the theater/movie industry did it themselves.
What's their hand sign? Do they go around flashing their USB drive covers to each other to represent their set? Do they have license plates with their IP subnets? Yeah, boyee!
Now we know how the MPAA will exploit Region Codes. DVDs stripped of copy protection will only be sold on French coded discs. Before you rush to buy DVDs from french online stores, make sure your non-french DVD player will play them at all.
The Family Entertainment and Copyright act also legalized the tools and the practice of removing offensive scenes from DVDs, scoring a victory for services like ClearPlay and for family/religious organizations. Expect to see tools like ClearPlay embedded in DVD players in the future.
The act doesn't criminalize the act of filesharing, it criminalizes the act of uploading copyrighted media before it is released. Big difference. I believe in P2P but pirating a movie/CD days before it is released is crossing the line.
This agreement demands the same things that have been denied the xxAA by the court and by the government. They tried to circumvent the subpoena process by substituting a clerk's signature in place of a judge; the court rebuked them. They tried to lump all the filesharers under one lawsuit; the court rebuked them. They tried to buy their own laws from the government, those never got far. They tried to shut down P2P software.
When all else fails, then wave this agreement in front of the very ISP's noses and hope their memory is short enough that they don't remember the xxAA's sleazy tactics of circumventing the legal system.
Culprit of leaked, Doctor Who episode found.
Culprit of leaked doctor, who episode found.
Culprit of leaked Doctor Who, episode found.
Culprit, of leaked Doctor, Who, episode found.
Man. It took several false starts to actually be able to fully decode this headline. It seemed strangely right-recursive.
First time I saw it, I started translating from Yoda-speak.
"Anyway, please, just stop the whining. Stop telling people about how horrible the games industry is. Stop telling them that they can't succeed without radical industry changes. It's bunk and you should know better. Are you intentionally trying to discourage people from getting into the industry?"
Seems that remark resembles comments made by Henry Ford and GM's Alfred P. Sloan...
Al Coconni started building electric cars after he left GM in 1991, frustrated over GM dragging their feet in electric vehicle R&D. Al worked on the GM Impact electric car project which was also cancelled in the mid 1990s.
GM doesn't seem to be anxious to build an electric car, yet 100 years ago electric cars roamed the roads with internal combustion cars, GM conspired to destroy the electric street railway system in the 1930s to force streetcar customers to buy more cars, and they built the electric vehicle Mars Rover.
It was acknowledged that the streetcar railway fiasco was done not only for GM's interests, but for the oil and tire industry's interests.
Why can the train companies develop these huge, fuel efficient engines decades ago, but we can't seem to learn any lessons from these and apply them to cars.
Especially since one of the largest builders, EMD Locomotives, is owned by General Motors.
Fourth purpose: it is a ruse to get your name/address on a mailing list. Rebates only add junk mail to your mailbox and sends telemarketers to your phone.
I stopped using rebates years ago.
I hate it when a sale price has small print that says "After Rebate", that is borderline deceptive advertising. If you look close, the pre-rebate price at that super corporate store is no better than what the mom-n-pop store sells for. They are using rebates as a deception to draw sales away from competitors. Another reason they should be banned.
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...that M$ went to great lengths to hide the history trails of IE. What's to stop M$ from hiding your torrent download habits then selling the back door to the MPAA so they can sue you?
The MPAA cartel have been more than public about their conspiracy to poison p2p networks.
In exchange for copyright extension, they should propose the following:
If the labels want near-perpetual copyrights, it's only fair to give up some control. They've been gilding the lilly long enough.
This is my favorite for Windows.
Cache and virtual memory will eat them up in no time.
Tight integration with the OS has its consequences. If you want IE7, you can't install it on anything less than XP - it's an OS upgrade. Firefox/Mozilla/Opera will work all the way down to WIN98.
Watching a movie/DVD at home means you don't have to deal with unruly hecklers, idiots chatting on cell phones, highway robbery snack prices, or pre-show ads with boo-hoo sob-sob testimonies of set workers losing their jobs to file sharing.
Annoyances aside, I got tired of blowing nine bucks per head on poor quality content. More movies these days are just utter crap.
That is why I stopped going to theaters. The TV didn't kill it off, the theater/movie industry did it themselves.
They wear Hormel T-shirts and viking helmets.
Nobody has been awarded anything yet.
Just because a car runs on M$ Windows is not a selling point for me.
Detroit doesn't get it. Customers and the government have been telling them for decades to develop an alternate fuel car and they won't build them.
Now we know how the MPAA will exploit Region Codes. DVDs stripped of copy protection will only be sold on French coded discs. Before you rush to buy DVDs from french online stores, make sure your non-french DVD player will play them at all.
The act doesn't criminalize the act of filesharing, it criminalizes the act of uploading copyrighted media before it is released. Big difference. I believe in P2P but pirating a movie/CD days before it is released is crossing the line.
April Fool was almost two weeks ago.
When all else fails, then wave this agreement in front of the very ISP's noses and hope their memory is short enough that they don't remember the xxAA's sleazy tactics of circumventing the legal system.
Brilliant! What ISP would sign this agreement?
One wonders if the SCO lawsuit was a stimulus for IBM's call for patent reform...
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Culprit of leaked doctor, who episode found.
Culprit of leaked Doctor Who, episode found.
Culprit, of leaked Doctor, Who, episode found.
Man. It took several false starts to actually be able to fully decode this headline. It seemed strangely right-recursive.
First time I saw it, I started translating from Yoda-speak.
That reminds me of the early days of incompetent managers using Excel to create text documents.
Now they're using Word to watch video media.
Next we'll see them using Media Player to create inventory database reports.
Seems that remark resembles comments made by Henry Ford and GM's Alfred P. Sloan...
GM doesn't seem to be anxious to build an electric car, yet 100 years ago electric cars roamed the roads with internal combustion cars, GM conspired to destroy the electric street railway system in the 1930s to force streetcar customers to buy more cars, and they built the electric vehicle Mars Rover.
It was acknowledged that the streetcar railway fiasco was done not only for GM's interests, but for the oil and tire industry's interests.
GM is in no hurry to build an electric car.
Especially since one of the largest builders, EMD Locomotives, is owned by General Motors.
I stopped using rebates years ago.
I hate it when a sale price has small print that says "After Rebate", that is borderline deceptive advertising. If you look close, the pre-rebate price at that super corporate store is no better than what the mom-n-pop store sells for. They are using rebates as a deception to draw sales away from competitors. Another reason they should be banned.
If a majority of downloads originate from outside Wisconsin, then wouldn't this tax would be unconstitutional?