I don't know if this is still the case, but cars for Canada were made with daytime running lights on, while cars for the US had them turned off. This was the way you could tell which cars were for which country when they rolled off the line.
Of course, since our government is willing to give up as much as what the US government is giving up, I don't think we'll see this type of 2-country device manufacturing if the law passes, so we probably won't have any advantage.
I'm just hoping the companies will just move to more sane counties, if this ridiculous law passes (I bet those countries would flourish then!)
TV is a joke; I really don't see why I should pay to see commercials with bits of shows I want to watch in between.
And to those that say Cable TV is 'Value Added': BS!
Having the shows I want to watch pre-empted by news or sports events is NOT 'Value added'
Having shows I want to watch cut short for syndication is NOT 'Value Added'.
And to those that say 'Someone has to pay for the infrastructure': BS! If TV networks want me to watch them, THEY should pay to have the infrastructure reach all the way to my house. The more they pay, the more viewers they'll have; then I wouldn't complain about the commercials.
That being said, I still think that stealing shows/music/whatever isn't good for anybody in the long run.
problem is that they'll then say that "people aren't buying these because the CD are protected, so people resort to copying from other sources."
Kinda ads fuel to their argument.
Best thing to do is to buy and then return them, telling the distributor that it doesn't work
When the RIAA's primary means of distribution gets pissed off at these 'defective CD returns', they'll think twice before screwing with consumer's rights...
....revealed when a Recording Industry Ass. of America internal memo was leaked to Web site Dotcom Scoop. Not long after the leaked memo was published, the RIAA and the Motion Picture Ass. of America sued KaZaA...
To me, I'm paying for bandwidth, not for an IP, and I think I'm entitled to use as much of it as I'm allowed. If this means that I can have 2 computer connected to it and sucking in as much bandwidth as if I was alone, then I don't see a problem with it.
Where's the lawsuit against the maker of my VCR (Proscan), which has 'Commercial Advance'? Or how about Bell for their PVR services.
If these bastards are not going to embrace the technology and put it to use for their customer's benefits (remember, we're the ones paying to see commercials!), then they should at least be consistent and thorough in their suits.
I think we should encourage the RIAA to try to slow down file trading systems, and save the real fight for when they try to pollute our laws with amendments that will affect us far more comprehensively than the availability of the latest Spears track.
I would tend to agree with you, but you seem to ignore the fact that they've been abusing their monopoly; far too long for me to feel sorry for them at this point.
Problem is that the artists should no longer be part of the RIAA in any way. Boycotting RIAA will only result in them spreading more of their propaganda
"We have a legitimate concern that the measure currently being debated could unintentionally take away a remedy currently available to us under law that helps us combat piracy,"
Then how about giving people what they want? I still haven't seen any RIAA-money-grabbing-member distributer make CDs full of artists' songs in MP3 format available for sale. Not that it's an excuse to pirate songs, but if at least they were available and there was a choice, people would probably actually buy them.
Of course, I'm sure they're too stupid to give it a try
Now that this has appeared on/., with everyone and their brother describing how to 'extend' the cookie, they'll probably go and change their cookie-checking codes now.
Best just to have your system resolve their address to localhost instead.
They say they're talking to ISP's, which would suggest it's something they'll need to implement on a system that already has users with email accounts....
Unless they specifically tell their users to go read any new end-user agreements (unlikely given past experiences), they'll probably implement this without users knowing.
Which brings to mind a story a while back about that law in Australia that got passed about messages being copyright.
Wouldn't adding anything to a user's message be a copyright violation by the ISP? (unless they tell their users, but see my above remark about this)
Business, magazines, websites, software developers, entertainment companies may soon be paying you to pay attention to their creations, rather than the other way around
With all the ads just about everywhere, one has to wonder why we pay to get the media that contains them.
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Of course, since our government is willing to give up as much as what the US government is giving up, I don't think we'll see this type of 2-country device manufacturing if the law passes, so we probably won't have any advantage.
I'm just hoping the companies will just move to more sane counties, if this ridiculous law passes (I bet those countries would flourish then!)
And to those that say Cable TV is 'Value Added': BS!
Having the shows I want to watch pre-empted by news or sports events is NOT 'Value added'
Having shows I want to watch cut short for syndication is NOT 'Value Added'.
And to those that say 'Someone has to pay for the infrastructure': BS! If TV networks want me to watch them, THEY should pay to have the infrastructure reach all the way to my house. The more they pay, the more viewers they'll have; then I wouldn't complain about the commercials.
That being said, I still think that stealing shows/music/whatever isn't good for anybody in the long run.
can you spell 'class action' ? :)
You have a right to share in the profits, afterall, it's thanks to you they have something to sell...
They both fanatically believe what they say.
Kinda ads fuel to their argument.
Best thing to do is to buy and then return them, telling the distributor that it doesn't work
When the RIAA's primary means of distribution gets pissed off at these 'defective CD returns', they'll think twice before screwing with consumer's rights...
The RIAA and MPAA sure are asses!
It took these guys years to realize they had it, and only now are they doing anything about it.
Not that it matters, since we all know their claim is invalid (see 1960's films on this)
Do they really think that we're *that* stupid that we don't know what channel we're watching, and have to totally interrupt the show just to tell us?
I'd say these qualify in the same area as pop-ups
If these bastards are not going to embrace the technology and put it to use for their customer's benefits (remember, we're the ones paying to see commercials!), then they should at least be consistent and thorough in their suits.
I would tend to agree with you, but you seem to ignore the fact that they've been abusing their monopoly; far too long for me to feel sorry for them at this point.
Problem is that the artists should no longer be part of the RIAA in any way. Boycotting RIAA will only result in them spreading more of their propaganda
Then how about giving people what they want? I still haven't seen any RIAA-money-grabbing-member distributer make CDs full of artists' songs in MP3 format available for sale. Not that it's an excuse to pirate songs, but if at least they were available and there was a choice, people would probably actually buy them.
Of course, I'm sure they're too stupid to give it a try
How likely is this to happen? Not sure, but boycotting RIAA will only result in them spreading more of their propaganda
Best just to have your system resolve their address to localhost instead.
Unless they specifically tell their users to go read any new end-user agreements (unlikely given past experiences), they'll probably implement this without users knowing.
Which brings to mind a story a while back about that law in Australia that got passed about messages being copyright.
Wouldn't adding anything to a user's message be a copyright violation by the ISP? (unless they tell their users, but see my above remark about this)
Anyways, they had words of usenet posts changed to links that would link to some ot their advertiser's page in posts that you were reading.
Anyone remember what happened with that?
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"I am a negative Karma whore"
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I deserved that :)
That'll teach me to post replies late at night ;)
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