what stops me from distributing metallica's song under a new free artists name? nothing!
Well... That gets a little silly, though: They ban "Metalica" Ok, the jolly music pirates come up with a solution "Muttalica" is now the secret name for Metallica. But if enough people know this, Napster ought to be able to block that, so the process starts over. The key is, if you have to do it this way, pirating music is like pirating software--you have to spend hours following bad links, fake files, or incomplete downloads. The whole lure of Napster isn't free music. It's free music for anyone. You don't have to be 'leet or get the latest band name dupe-list from a chat room. You just log on, and it works.
This will add another big batch of spammers to the pot. All those kids who were grabbing Metalica off Napster will now be spamming you with ads, because if they get 500 people to buy the new album, they get it free! Oh boy...
They are lying when they say they want CD's to die
Actually, I'm inclined to believe them. Remember how tapes were better than CDs for RIAA, because tapes wear out? With CDs, once you buy it, it's yours forever. Hence the bigger price tag on CDs.
But look at the description of the SDMI technology... "very flexible rules" Hmmm... like "this song expires at the end of the year".
How about a middle ground here? Someone's got to be told about major security holes, so that they can be fixed. Sure. But do we need pre-packaged exploit code to be avaliable?
For example: the Outlook date header vulnerability. Why not just say "there's a buffer overflow problem with OE" That seems plenty for people fix it. Instead, they put out example code. That's just ASKING for it. They should have had comments
main(void) { /* You don't need to understand this stuff */ ... /* Your trojan goes here */
What about the people who create female charachters, in hopes of getting some guy to give them that level 14 sword of invulnerability?
What about it? That seems like good role-playing to me. Unless the RPG you're playing has a rule "No giving items to people who claim they're female". I mean, cheating is breaking the rules. That's just playing the game. If someone gets the violin playing award because they're better than you, that's not cheating, right? Far worse than cheating, I think, is people whining about cheaters. Diablo was FULL of cheaters. It was amazing. And yet somehow, people still managed to have a good time.
The Women in CS article reminded me of another of today's articles, MS's freedom to innovate. The article mentioned "boothie chicks" at the show, and a number of replies asked for pictures of the booth chicks.
Now, wouldn't we have thought that those times were passed? Strange.
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what stops me from distributing metallica's song under a new free artists name? nothing!
Well... That gets a little silly, though: They ban "Metalica" Ok, the jolly music pirates come up with a solution "Muttalica" is now the secret name for Metallica. But if enough people know this, Napster ought to be able to block that, so the process starts over.
The key is, if you have to do it this way, pirating music is like pirating software--you have to spend hours following bad links, fake files, or incomplete downloads. The whole lure of Napster isn't free music. It's free music for anyone. You don't have to be 'leet or get the latest band name dupe-list from a chat room. You just log on, and it works.
This will add another big batch of spammers to the pot. All those kids who were grabbing Metalica off Napster will now be spamming you with ads, because if they get 500 people to buy the new album, they get it free! Oh boy...
They are lying when they say they want CD's to die
Actually, I'm inclined to believe them. Remember how tapes were better than CDs for RIAA, because tapes wear out? With CDs, once you buy it, it's yours forever. Hence the bigger price tag on CDs.
But look at the description of the SDMI technology... "very flexible rules" Hmmm... like "this song expires at the end of the year".
How about a middle ground here? Someone's got to be told about major security holes, so that they can be fixed. Sure. But do we need pre-packaged exploit code to be avaliable?
For example: the Outlook date header vulnerability. Why not just say "there's a buffer overflow problem with OE" That seems plenty for people fix it. Instead, they put out example code. That's just ASKING for it. They should have had comments
/* You don't need to understand this stuff */
...
/* Your trojan goes here */
main(void)
{
return;
}
What about the people who create female charachters, in hopes of getting some guy to give them that level 14 sword of invulnerability?
What about it? That seems like good role-playing to me. Unless the RPG you're playing has a rule "No giving items to people who claim they're female". I mean, cheating is breaking the rules. That's just playing the game. If someone gets the violin playing award because they're better than you, that's not cheating, right?
Far worse than cheating, I think, is people whining about cheaters. Diablo was FULL of cheaters. It was amazing. And yet somehow, people still managed to have a good time.
Pretty sparse article. I wanted to know what Disney had to say, since it claims they own the site.
The Women in CS article reminded me of another of today's articles, MS's freedom to innovate. The article mentioned "boothie chicks" at the show, and a number of replies asked for pictures of the booth chicks.
Now, wouldn't we have thought that those times were passed? Strange.