The kind of anonymity that Napster users do is the home version of intellectual property theft, with copyright violation (artists songs are their work, right?) and so on thrown in.
So UIUC built one of the first web browsers. Using Swiss standards. Precisely the same argument applied to TCP/IP developed in America, so America owns the Internet.
Discovery of sarcasm/irony/etc is left as an exercise for the reader.
alt.tv is a huge billboard on the corner of the busiest intersection in Melbourne (AU, not FL). It shows video images, sound, and newsbites scrolling along the bottom. The screen is probably at least 30' x 30'...
...maintaining hydraulic control. They are touting it as their new flagship. Just as Airbus is with the A340s... Boeing just isn't doing as well as Airbus...
I was more thinking about developing your own routers/network gear/etc when I was framing my reply... for software developed to run on the system, I agree, a bit 'constricting', given that it already has been effectively vetoed by OpenBSD given the modifications and so forth it'd entail.
... it's a research platform... meant to allow and enable development of QoS architecture and/or applications. I don't think it's really intended (nor recommended) for a production environment, though I have not looked at all at it...
Fighting the good fight, and benefitting themselves.
The RIAA went way out of line here. Hilary Rosen calling their securities analysts, and making insinuations about "what could happen to [MP3.com's] stock if they were sued"? Press releases saying that "[MP3's] are akin to walking into a record store and stealing a CD" - even when blatantly targetting (in the release) artists who had not been able to be signed by a contract, whose only real means of distribution *was* mp3.com (and were being paid for it), doing their damndest to try to convince them they were being ripped off.
Assuming, of course, that all of MP3.COM's assertions are true, the RIAA appointed itself judge and jury. There is no way they could justify calling banks and saying "are you sure you want to invest in these guys, who are stealing from us"...
Of course they're defending economic interest. There is money to be made in music. Good luck to them. The RIAA are the ones who want to maintain the monopoly. mp3.com's primary purpose is themselves, sure, but the RIAA is impuning an entire format as being 'purely for illegal purposes'.
Not quite sure about your "get it" comments. They're not open source. Because the music is distributed very cheaply, or in some cases free, I don't think comparing it to Red Hat etc is an apples and apples comparison.
MP3.com isn't the only company pushing MP3s by any means. Lycos, Yahoo, etc all also have big interests in it. (Yes and Napster too - I'm not naming any other mp3 sites, because I don't pay much attention to them).
I think clearing mp3's name will be the biggest benefit to the 'community', but I think they are more than right to go hellbound after an organisation has ripped them to shreds without the merest illusion of fair tactics.
I could have sworn the girl (or a person claiming to be her) made several comments on people mentioning her on the LWE article. If anything, she seemed flattered, not 'objectified'. I don't think she was 'ordered' or even 'asked' to wear latex. *shrug*
A parent who starts showing pornography to their children ought to be locked up in order to protect the child.
And this is a mature generalisation?
Protect the child? From what? From who? Why?
Pornography != sexual abuse/assault. If a parent believes that their child is mature enough to understand the concepts therein (I'm not going to argue that porn is a purely educational tool, and also by porn I'd hope you were intelligent enough to realise I'm not talking about 'Hot Black Dicks And Pearly White Cum' - shamelessly stolen from Clerks), then there is no harm.
"Bullshit", I can hear at this point. "What happens when they go and show their friends" etc etc. Note the qualifier above, maturity. A child mature enough to understand sexual concepts is one mature enough to understand rights and wrongs, and these should be given just as thorough, if not more thorough, a treatment by their parents too.
An interesting aside, I did a quiz which asked something along the lines of:
Someone who has had a very conservative upbringing in regards to sex (it's wrong, etc) is more likely to:
use the most effective form of contraception;
abstain;
use the most well-known contraceptives;
use the least effective or no contraception?
The answer was the last option. Ignorance breeds (in a bad pun form) errors.
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A virus, for the Amiga, which would step the heads (3 1/2") to play a song, and in the process throw them irrevocably out of alignment.
But yes, would be nice ;)
We won't bother with the fact that my e-mail address lists me as being in Australia. About 9,000 miles from Europe
The kind of anonymity that Napster users do is the home version of intellectual property theft, with copyright violation (artists songs are their work, right?) and so on thrown in.
the web started with tim berners-lee.
So UIUC built one of the first web browsers. Using Swiss standards. Precisely the same argument applied to TCP/IP developed in America, so America owns the Internet.
Discovery of sarcasm/irony/etc is left as an exercise for the reader.
The US does not own or control the net. It doesn't even come close to it.
Somewhere in Switzerland the web was invented. So, Americans, pay up, or *snip* lose your web access.
*sigh* gumby.
I know the trade in DATs is (or was) a huge 'industry' as such, people trading lists of what bootlegs and other stuff they had was very popular...
*Sigh*
How can the banks make something 'illegal'. They could try to say that it was against their merchant policy, but that's about it.
alt.tv is a huge billboard on the corner of the busiest intersection in Melbourne (AU, not FL). It shows video images, sound, and newsbites scrolling along the bottom. The screen is probably at least 30' x 30'...
... is a European consortium, not a French company.
That's the kicker. You have to *prove* you have no/there is no key to the data. Or else you are legally determined to be hiding the key.
I was more thinking about developing your own routers/network gear/etc when I was framing my reply... for software developed to run on the system, I agree, a bit 'constricting', given that it already has been effectively vetoed by OpenBSD given the modifications and so forth it'd entail.
that they didn't provide the computers and they weren't located at their office building.
Far from cut and dried...
... it's a research platform... meant to allow and enable development of QoS architecture and/or applications. I don't think it's really intended (nor recommended) for a production environment, though I have not looked at all at it...
I think it was more the phrasing that got me. "This *is* theft. These people *are* stealing" (my emphasis, obviously)...
I think they have a pretty reasonable case...
The RIAA went way out of line here. Hilary Rosen calling their securities analysts, and making insinuations about "what could happen to [MP3.com's] stock if they were sued"? Press releases saying that "[MP3's] are akin to walking into a record store and stealing a CD" - even when blatantly targetting (in the release) artists who had not been able to be signed by a contract, whose only real means of distribution *was* mp3.com (and were being paid for it), doing their damndest to try to convince them they were being ripped off.
Assuming, of course, that all of MP3.COM's assertions are true, the RIAA appointed itself judge and jury. There is no way they could justify calling banks and saying "are you sure you want to invest in these guys, who are stealing from us"...
Of course they're defending economic interest. There is money to be made in music. Good luck to them. The RIAA are the ones who want to maintain the monopoly. mp3.com's primary purpose is themselves, sure, but the RIAA is impuning an entire format as being 'purely for illegal purposes'.
Not quite sure about your "get it" comments. They're not open source. Because the music is distributed very cheaply, or in some cases free, I don't think comparing it to Red Hat etc is an apples and apples comparison.
MP3.com isn't the only company pushing MP3s by any means. Lycos, Yahoo, etc all also have big interests in it. (Yes and Napster too - I'm not naming any other mp3 sites, because I don't pay much attention to them).
I think clearing mp3's name will be the biggest benefit to the 'community', but I think they are more than right to go hellbound after an organisation has ripped them to shreds without the merest illusion of fair tactics.
Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKlein Beecham
CDs are played by the drive, and audio piped directly out the card. A CD playing when NT BSOD's will keep playing...
I know the point you're trying to make ... just that this element wasn't part of that :)
Valium is good.
Geographical Information Satellite, though I am more than likely wrong ;)
And this is a mature generalisation?
Protect the child? From what? From who? Why?
Pornography != sexual abuse/assault. If a parent believes that their child is mature enough to understand the concepts therein (I'm not going to argue that porn is a purely educational tool, and also by porn I'd hope you were intelligent enough to realise I'm not talking about 'Hot Black Dicks And Pearly White Cum' - shamelessly stolen from Clerks), then there is no harm.
"Bullshit", I can hear at this point. "What happens when they go and show their friends" etc etc. Note the qualifier above, maturity. A child mature enough to understand sexual concepts is one mature enough to understand rights and wrongs, and these should be given just as thorough, if not more thorough, a treatment by their parents too.
An interesting aside, I did a quiz which asked something along the lines of:
Someone who has had a very conservative upbringing in regards to sex (it's wrong, etc) is more likely to:
The answer was the last option. Ignorance breeds (in a bad pun form) errors.
Granted, not Hustler, or <insert scandinavian/dutch magazine name here>, but still...
And again, it's not on the shelves. You have to ask for it. Which would cut down a lot of people who might otherwise flick through it *shrug*