Look...RIAA and NAPSTER both fucked up. Napster lied when they said that the RIAA asked to have them shut down. NAPSTER was asked to remove all copyrighted material that they do not have licenses for from their servers. This is impossible for them to do, demostrating the RIAA's lawyers lack of understanding of the architecture and function of NAPSTER. Big whoop. NAPSTER took this and said "They want us shut down...whaa...everyone riot!". So I say fuck this shit. I have many friends who are muscians and who think the whole bullshit with NAPSTER if stoopid. The artists get no money if you, the consumer rip off the record companies. If some clown goes and buys the album and then encodes the shit out of it so that everyone else can get it for free then that record company is not going to get any sales for that artist and ultimately the artists will suffer from no royalties and be considered a "flop" by the company and not get paid to produce another album. Who suffers? The record company which has its money invested in so many other things that you not buying a CD means jack shit to them or the artists that get dropped because nobody bought their album? And yes...MP3s are an AWESOME way of getting your music out to the masses, but, if your entire album can be ripped and basically put onto a new cd by someone who didn't pay sqwat for the CD then its a problem. Instead of sitting there pointing fingers at the big business think about who the big business is really protecting. Looking over the list of RIAA record labels I see MANY that support small-time artists, so by boycotting these labels you fuck some poor ass punk in socal out of a paycheck...joy..now he/she needs to go on welfare to feed his/her kids or self or wife...wow..you guys are great...way to go. Instead of bitchin, maybe one of you should come up with a way that can screw a few tracks of a cd up so that they cannot be encoded to MP3, thus making only some of the tracks of a CD encodable...creating the "sample tracks". The other will not be able to be directly ripped from the CD and will have to be copied through a.wav recording program which would ultimately screw the song up enough to be an obvious fake.
To finish my statement here, both sides have a case, but I would be more willing to side with the RIAA than with NAPSTER and the legion of teenagers(and adults) who seem to enjoy ripping people off. The technology needs to be embraced, but not at the expense of those who create the art in the first place.
Have them figure out and then code up some 'sploits for Microsoft Outlook. From what I understand its a big grade winner in some (here unnamed) schools. Plus it gives the whole world something to freak out about again if they "accidentally" send it on its merry way to the rest of the world.
If you wanna email me (god knows why) then take the money outta my address...just like the IRS
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I finally have read a post on/. that I actually agree with wholeheartedly. Thank you Maynard for being the voice of the INTELLECTUAL and not the voice of the socially retarded techie, I tip my hat to you.
Will their rotten little bacteria bodies start smellin up my computer? My wife would never let me get a computer that reeks of rotten flesh...I think they need to find something that isn't gonna stink to high heaven to make a chip out of....why mess with bacteria when we still don't have light chips?
Its really not that big of a deal that Napster got shut down. One..Napster was basically crap. Two..there are plenty of other ways to screw over the RIAA without using a centralized server architecture. Three..we, as 'net monkeys, have ALWAYS been able to transfer whatever we want no matter what, note the continued existance of warez sites all over the place. How many times have they been "shut down" only to reopen a day or so later on a different address. What I propose is that we continue as we will..but make sure that the fact of our continuation get rubbed in every shit faced politician and corporatist. Bring the war on...they cannot possibly keep up with millions of people unless they decide to turn their "Carnivore" systems to the suspected use of shutting down the internet. And we all know that if that happens there'll be a lot of soccer moms freakin out because they can no longer trade recipes over the net. VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!!!!!!!
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Look...RIAA and NAPSTER both fucked up. Napster lied when they said that the RIAA asked to have them shut down. NAPSTER was asked to remove all copyrighted material that they do not have licenses for from their servers. This is impossible for them to do, demostrating the RIAA's lawyers lack of understanding of the architecture and function of NAPSTER. Big whoop. NAPSTER took this and said "They want us shut down...whaa...everyone riot!". So I say fuck this shit. I have many friends who are muscians and who think the whole bullshit with NAPSTER if stoopid. The artists get no money if you, the consumer rip off the record companies. If some clown goes and buys the album and then encodes the shit out of it so that everyone else can get it for free then that record company is not going to get any sales for that artist and ultimately the artists will suffer from no royalties and be considered a "flop" by the company and not get paid to produce another album. Who suffers? The record company which has its money invested in so many other things that you not buying a CD means jack shit to them or the artists that get dropped because nobody bought their album? And yes...MP3s are an AWESOME way of getting your music out to the masses, but, if your entire album can be ripped and basically put onto a new cd by someone who didn't pay sqwat for the CD then its a problem. Instead of sitting there pointing fingers at the big business think about who the big business is really protecting. Looking over the list of RIAA record labels I see MANY that support small-time artists, so by boycotting these labels you fuck some poor ass punk in socal out of a paycheck...joy..now he/she needs to go on welfare to feed his/her kids or self or wife...wow..you guys are great...way to go. Instead of bitchin, maybe one of you should come up with a way that can screw a few tracks of a cd up so that they cannot be encoded to MP3, thus making only some of the tracks of a CD encodable...creating the "sample tracks". The other will not be able to be directly ripped from the CD and will have to be copied through a .wav recording program which would ultimately screw the song up enough to be an obvious fake.
To finish my statement here, both sides have a case, but I would be more willing to side with the RIAA than with NAPSTER and the legion of teenagers(and adults) who seem to enjoy ripping people off. The technology needs to be embraced, but not at the expense of those who create the art in the first place.
Have them figure out and then code up some 'sploits for Microsoft Outlook. From what I understand its a big grade winner in some (here unnamed) schools. Plus it gives the whole world something to freak out about again if they "accidentally" send it on its merry way to the rest of the world.
If you wanna email me (god knows why) then take the money outta my address...just like the IRS
I finally have read a post on /. that I actually agree with wholeheartedly. Thank you Maynard for being the voice of the INTELLECTUAL and not the voice of the socially retarded techie, I tip my hat to you.
Will their rotten little bacteria bodies start smellin up my computer? My wife would never let me get a computer that reeks of rotten flesh...I think they need to find something that isn't gonna stink to high heaven to make a chip out of....why mess with bacteria when we still don't have light chips?
Its really not that big of a deal that Napster got shut down. One..Napster was basically crap. Two..there are plenty of other ways to screw over the RIAA without using a centralized server architecture. Three..we, as 'net monkeys, have ALWAYS been able to transfer whatever we want no matter what, note the continued existance of warez sites all over the place. How many times have they been "shut down" only to reopen a day or so later on a different address. What I propose is that we continue as we will..but make sure that the fact of our continuation get rubbed in every shit faced politician and corporatist. Bring the war on...they cannot possibly keep up with millions of people unless they decide to turn their "Carnivore" systems to the suspected use of shutting down the internet. And we all know that if that happens there'll be a lot of soccer moms freakin out because they can no longer trade recipes over the net. VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!!!!!!!