Let me comment on how I see this (if you don't like my view don't take offense to mine..share your own).
One thing that I find to be a common truth. Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.
1. Let every see that they are paying $xx for sharing music and they will react as if it is a license to download, not as paying retrabution. (Result: more downloading, not less)
2. "Tell you what. I'll give the RIAA and MPAA each five dollars a year if they'll simply stop trying to sue and get file sharing banned or whatever they're doing." by Renraku (518261)
- Any before you know it they will say $5 is not enough, it must be $10. There is another word for this...extortion. Don't give the RIAA/MPAA any ideas...they will become the "Jesse Jackson" of the music industry.
(Result: The attitude "Fuck the industry, I'll just download it.")
3. "My mother, a standard consumer with nearly no knowledge of how to go about pirating music or burning CDs, pointed out something very simple to me. She said that the price of CDs was the big problem, not the economy so much, and not piracy.
She pointed out how when Wal-Mart or K-Mart or Target have sales on CDs where the price drops quite low, say $10/CD, they sell out of the popular CDs. She also pointed out that in order for everyone to get paid reasonably, the cost to produce a CD would be about $5." by bildstorm (129924)
Your mother has just pointed out a basic fundimental of economics(and marketing). If it costs $5 to make a cd...I sell for $10 and you sell for $15 not only do I sell out, but many people will buy two because the cost only ends up being $20. (To prove this theory just go to Best Buy on Sunday.)
Result: Selling more cds
Food for thought: Do stores make more or less during sales?
Spelling and grammer errors should be ignored..unfortunately my secretary won't type my Slashdot posts for me.
Doing things of this nature are becoming an effective means of grabbing attention of the people involved. It is much more effective that "changing the system from the inside" because it allows people who don't want to be politicians, executives, etc to shake things up. It is also is exponentially more effective than just being a pain in the ass.
Now...if we could only figure out a way to limit the power of major players in the news business. Drudge Report.
HIPAA privacy standards (to this point, being that they most likely finalized until Oct. 2002) say that not only must you keep things from the outside, but also from other employees that are not supposed to see them. Now, knowing that, just sticking yourself behind a firewall is going to keep information in (in theory). That does not however, stop an employee from walking away with information. And until we can figure out what capabilities MS has to access things, we can't rule out that someone else won't figure out that method and exploit it.
How long does it take for a site to run out of bandwidth after the news has been posted to/.?
IT'S CALLED KNOWLEDGE. It's nice to be able to read a quick reply that tells me w/o going to an archive whether or not I am going to use the kernel on the servers. Especially when the following link is omitted from the article.
If I am not mistaken you could play Starcraft with up to four players on a local lan all using the same cd key. I forget the actual method but in effect weren't they already circumventing their own copy protection. This seems redundent. You can use our software to play our game on a lan, but not your open source server software.
This information was not compiled by me, but it does play a partial part in the discussion
Introduction
At first, the question of whether or not to tape record a phone call seems like a matter of personal preference. Some journalists see taping as an indispensable tool, while others don't like the formality it may impose during an interview. Some would not consider taping a call without the subject's consent, others do it routinely.
However, there are important questions of law that must be addressed first. There are both federal and state statutes governing the use of electronic recording equipment. The unlawful use of such equipment can give rise not only to a civil suit by the "injured" party, but also criminal prosecution.
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Let me comment on how I see this (if you don't like my view don't take offense to mine..share your own).
One thing that I find to be a common truth. Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.
1. Let every see that they are paying $xx for sharing music and they will react as if it is a license to download, not as paying retrabution.
(Result: more downloading, not less)
2. "Tell you what. I'll give the RIAA and MPAA each five dollars a year if they'll simply stop trying to sue and get file sharing banned or whatever they're doing." by Renraku (518261)
- Any before you know it they will say $5 is not enough, it must be $10. There is another word for this...extortion. Don't give the RIAA/MPAA any ideas...they will become the "Jesse Jackson" of the music industry.
(Result: The attitude "Fuck the industry, I'll just download it.")
3. "My mother, a standard consumer with nearly no knowledge of how to go about pirating music or burning CDs, pointed out something very simple to me. She said that the price of CDs was the big problem, not the economy so much, and not piracy.
She pointed out how when Wal-Mart or K-Mart or Target have sales on CDs where the price drops quite low, say $10/CD, they sell out of the popular CDs. She also pointed out that in order for everyone to get paid reasonably, the cost to produce a CD would be about $5." by bildstorm (129924)
Your mother has just pointed out a basic fundimental of economics(and marketing). If it costs $5 to make a cd...I sell for $10 and you sell for $15 not only do I sell out, but many people will buy two because the cost only ends up being $20. (To prove this theory just go to Best Buy on Sunday.)
Result: Selling more cds
Food for thought: Do stores make more or less during sales?
Spelling and grammer errors should be ignored..unfortunately my secretary won't type my Slashdot posts for me.
Doing things of this nature are becoming an effective means of grabbing attention of the people involved. It is much more effective that "changing the system from the inside" because it allows people who don't want to be politicians, executives, etc to shake things up. It is also is exponentially more effective than just being a pain in the ass.
Now...if we could only figure out a way to limit the power of major players in the news business. Drudge Report.
HIPAA privacy standards (to this point, being that they most likely finalized until Oct. 2002) say that not only must you keep things from the outside, but also from other employees that are not supposed to see them. Now, knowing that, just sticking yourself behind a firewall is going to keep information in (in theory). That does not however, stop an employee from walking away with information. And until we can figure out what capabilities MS has to access things, we can't rule out that someone else won't figure out that method and exploit it.
IT'S CALLED KNOWLEDGE. It's nice to be able to read a quick reply that tells me w/o going to an archive whether or not I am going to use the kernel on the servers. Especially when the following link is omitted from the article.
Kernel 2.4.18 Changlog
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Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.
WARNING: In life bringing intelligence to the masses can sometimes prove difficult.
If I am not mistaken you could play Starcraft with up to four players on a local lan all using the same cd key. I forget the actual method but in effect weren't they already circumventing their own copy protection. This seems redundent. You can use our software to play our game on a lan, but not your open source server software.
Introduction
At first, the question of whether or not to tape record a phone call seems like a matter of personal preference. Some journalists see taping as an indispensable tool, while others don't like the formality it may impose during an interview. Some would not consider taping a call without the subject's consent, others do it routinely. However, there are important questions of law that must be addressed first. There are both federal and state statutes governing the use of electronic recording equipment. The unlawful use of such equipment can give rise not only to a civil suit by the "injured" party, but also criminal prosecution.
It continues here.
Eventually we might have some tech savvy politicians....(you know, in the next 150 some odd years)