I think Steve Jobs already Kazaa'd all of their songs to his iBook and decided it was easier to buy the company than it would be to deal with a lawsuit brought by the RIAA.
If anybody's interested in checking out the RPI student paper's stance on this mess, check it out here. Lots of letters to the editor and a few articles.
"I would rather see our resources devoted to safety of life and protection of property rather than addressing regulations of convenience"
They say they'd rather spend their resources on fully implementing the 911 locator service? THEIR RESOURCES? I don't know about everyone else here, but there's been a monthly charge on my cell bill for months paying for the 911 service which my phone doesn't support.
The second one is particularly interesting as it deals with Windows file-share indexing... the very type of system that the Princeton student is being brought up on charges for running.
You're citing the Deskjet as a quality printer? I had the Deskjet 500, the Deskjet 500c and some other variant of the Deskjet and they all sucked. (Don't ask me why I kept buying them). They cost in the neighborhood of $500, were loud... slow... and EVERY single one of them deteriorated to the point where they were useless.
The happiest day in the life of those printers was when I sent 2 of them down the garbage chute and listened for the crash at the bottom. Deskjet, a quality device? I think not.
Here's a Sampling of "Ideas" from the Site...
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I would open up my own 70's dance club and have my best friend be my partner.
Give the money to his parents for their love and support
Create a giant pudding mold of Bill Gates or the MSN Butterfly with $25,000 worth of pudding to be displayed in San Francisco (or Seattle) on a cold summer's day in mid May. After being displayed for one hour, the pudding will be dispensed in biodegradable cups to the eagerly waiting public and the busloads of children driven in from local schools.
Travel (listed by 4 people)
Pay for her mom's house repairs
Give some to his parents, use some for travel, and use some to raise his jeep higher off the ground
Create a shampoo with built in sunscreen for bald men
Fix the emotional issues of African Americans
Don't get me wrong... it's great to have ideas and wishes and goals... but most of these aren't ideas... they're things people want. Second of all... I don't think $25,000 is going to be enough to design a shampoo, open a dance club, or somehow "fix the emotional issues" of an entire race. I won't even get into the entry about the pudding...
When I'm at work, my employer basically claims that they own everything I do on the computer. They hold claim to all text, emails, phone calls, etc. So if I setup a P2P network at work, essentially the RIAA would have to sue my company seeing as I have no real claim to anything that goes on on those systems.
Could the same could be said for the network at universities? Sure, the students own their PCs... but they pay for access to the high-speed network which facilitated the P2P network and it's owned by the universities. Can the RIAA sue the students without implicating the universities as well?
Okay, I thought previous generations had already proven that Rock and Roll leads to sexual promiscuity. I attended RPI. The last thing that's going on at RPI is sexual promiscuity... well, with anything human.
Leave the poor Engineers alone. They're stuck in Troy, NY with a dearth of anything resembling an attractive woman, and nothing but their curriculum-mandated laptop to keep them warm at night.
The truth is, chances are 90% of them could create an online music solution that would run circles around whatever the RIAA eventually blesses as version 1.0. Then again, maybe that's the RIAA's new preventative strategy.
Last time a TimeWarner cable guy came out to service my cablebox he mentioned things like this. He said that the credit-card slot on the front of my cable box would one-day be used to allow you to "bring your service with you" when you went on the road. While this has advantages, it also has disadvantages. As of now, there's no standard format for the cable-box credit card data. Also, while you bring your service with you, Timmy is at home and can't watch his favorite Disney movie for the 30th time because you've got the service.
I suppose that last hurdle could be gotten past if they relax restrictions on fair-use... but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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Yeah, but if they had actually reported what the article said, they would've missed the chance to bash Microsoft.
They go to all that trouble to replicate the game's board, then they make up some gay swirly packman design.
I think Steve Jobs already Kazaa'd all of their songs to his iBook and decided it was easier to buy the company than it would be to deal with a lawsuit brought by the RIAA.
In HD he snorts his lines instead of reading them...
It makes for a much more amusing movie...
If anybody's interested in checking out the RPI student paper's stance on this mess, check it out here.
Lots of letters to the editor and a few articles.
Here are two past Slashdot articles that are on point:
... the very type of system that the Princeton student is being brought up on charges for running.
Rosen, Valenti Warn Colleges About P2P
Handling Campus AUP (non-)Violations?
The second one is particularly interesting as it deals with Windows file-share indexing
You're citing the Deskjet as a quality printer? I had the Deskjet 500, the Deskjet 500c and some other variant of the Deskjet and they all sucked. (Don't ask me why I kept buying them). They cost in the neighborhood of $500, were loud ... slow ... and EVERY single one of them deteriorated to the point where they were useless.
The happiest day in the life of those printers was when I sent 2 of them down the garbage chute and listened for the crash at the bottom. Deskjet, a quality device? I think not.
Yesterday we were going towards Legacy Free PCs, today we're all going to be toting around PocketPCs. What's on deck for tomorrow?
The offer ended in mid-March unfortunately.
Don't get me wrong
Just think ... with all that money the RIAA could afford sharks with freekin laser beams mounted on their heads!
In this overly-litigious society, I'm just waiting for Hormel to file suit against everything and anyone using the word SPAM.
When I'm at work, my employer basically claims that they own everything I do on the computer. They hold claim to all text, emails, phone calls, etc. So if I setup a P2P network at work, essentially the RIAA would have to sue my company seeing as I have no real claim to anything that goes on on those systems.
... but they pay for access to the high-speed network which facilitated the P2P network and it's owned by the universities. Can the RIAA sue the students without implicating the universities as well?
Could the same could be said for the network at universities? Sure, the students own their PCs
Surely Amazon is also lining up to sue these kids. They stole their valuable intellectual property!
Okay, I thought previous generations had already proven that Rock and Roll leads to sexual promiscuity. I attended RPI. The last thing that's going on at RPI is sexual promiscuity ... well, with anything human.
Leave the poor Engineers alone. They're stuck in Troy, NY with a dearth of anything resembling an attractive woman, and nothing but their curriculum-mandated laptop to keep them warm at night.
The truth is, chances are 90% of them could create an online music solution that would run circles around whatever the RIAA eventually blesses as version 1.0. Then again, maybe that's the RIAA's new preventative strategy.
I like how the LAPD verrsion of that OJ mugshot has "TIME" on it too. I didn't realize they did that... :)
It had to be done:
Google IPO
Last time a TimeWarner cable guy came out to service my cablebox he mentioned things like this. He said that the credit-card slot on the front of my cable box would one-day be used to allow you to "bring your service with you" when you went on the road. While this has advantages, it also has disadvantages. As of now, there's no standard format for the cable-box credit card data. Also, while you bring your service with you, Timmy is at home and can't watch his favorite Disney movie for the 30th time because you've got the service.
... but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
I suppose that last hurdle could be gotten past if they relax restrictions on fair-use
-Homer Simpson
Maybe we can use it to figure out this prime number thingy.
Alert the media ... I think we've located the sole member of the Angela Lansbury Fan Club.