I'd prefer micropayment that would appear on the ISP monthly bill. Say you want to read an article on "The economist", you would provide the name of your ISP/clearinghouse, your login and pass and voilà you can read the article. It would remove the costly and non popular step of the credit card payment.
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On a related theme, microsoft is now trying to tie music to windows. In this wired story, it is explained that they trie to convince music publishers to release the music in their wma audio format. They also have a deal with upcoming music service from sony / universal. Do you also feel that we'll soon have microsoft music ?
See also : http://www.strom.com/awards/210.html
The tax you are talking about is not a tax, it is a cover for the cost of recycling. Don't you think it makes more sense that the user of the PC pays for the recycling rather than the community (town or state) that is *everybody* ? I prefer to pay recycling of what *I* use rather than pay increasing taxes for the garbage of *other* people ! And
Those two concepts - interoperability and competitive strategy - seem difficult to conciliate. What can the developers expect to make their work the most interopereable possible ?
here you can read (french) that a student was condemned for linking to mp3 files...
other info :
http://www.zdnet.fr/cgi-bin/a_actu.pl?File_ini=a_a ctu.zd&ID=18312
http://www.zdnet.fr/cgi-bin/a_actu.pl?File_ini=a_a ctu.zd&ID=18313
I heard a few weeks ago an interview of Olivier Maeterlinck from IFPI, the organization of music producers (you know, those who make money with the music of other people).
Here in Belgium, they pay a guy to use napster and search copyrighted music. When he finds a track on a machine connected through a belgian ISP, he phones the ISP, gives the IP and asks the street adress. At the time of the interview, most ISP were cooperating but at least one refused, arguing that IFPI was not the police or a judicial authority.
So the IFPI people are really acting like a parallel police, using the money they earn from selling music to protect their business.
About the stupid comment on the story (Now if only the Belgian police would be so effective at arresting pedophiles..."), you should have said :
Now if the Belgian IFPI people would be so effective at tracking pedophiles...
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I'd prefer micropayment that would appear on the ISP monthly bill. Say you want to read an article on "The economist", you would provide the name of your ISP/clearinghouse, your login and pass and voilà you can read the article. It would remove the costly and non popular step of the credit card payment.
here is the password of my unix account : #fsb,avd Now you just have to guess where to use it ...
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On a related theme, microsoft is now trying to tie music to windows. In this wired story, it is explained that they trie to convince music publishers to release the music in their wma audio format. They also have a deal with upcoming music service from sony / universal.
Do you also feel that we'll soon have microsoft music ?
See also : http://www.strom.com/awards/210.html
The tax you are talking about is not a tax, it is a cover for the cost of recycling. Don't you think it makes more sense that the user of the PC pays for the recycling rather than the community (town or state) that is *everybody* ? I prefer to pay recycling of what *I* use rather than pay increasing taxes for the garbage of *other* people ! And
interoperable ... of course
Those two concepts - interoperability and competitive strategy - seem difficult to conciliate. What can the developers expect to make their work the most interopereable possible ?
here you can read (french) that a student was condemned for linking to mp3 files ...
other info :
http://www.zdnet.fr/cgi-bin/a_actu.pl?File_ini=a_a ctu.zd&ID=18312
http://www.zdnet.fr/cgi-bin/a_actu.pl?File_ini=a_a ctu.zd&ID=18313
I heard a few weeks ago an interview of Olivier Maeterlinck from IFPI, the organization of music producers (you know, those who make money with the music of other people).
Here in Belgium, they pay a guy to use napster and search copyrighted music. When he finds a track on a machine connected through a belgian ISP, he phones the ISP, gives the IP and asks the street adress. At the time of the interview, most ISP were cooperating but at least one refused, arguing that IFPI was not the police or a judicial authority.
So the IFPI people are really acting like a parallel police, using the money they earn from selling music to protect their business.
About the stupid comment on the story (Now if only the Belgian police would be so effective at arresting pedophiles..."), you should have said :
Now if the Belgian IFPI people would be so effective at tracking pedophiles ...
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