What an incredibly stupid F*cking idea. States with large ecommerce presence like California will get a federal share along with thier local taxs, and state, while states with a small internet presence, such as Alaska, will be paying through the nose in federal taxes, while still sending money to Californian companies who benefit the companies. This incesent need to tax is ludicris. We should be looking at why we are taxing rather than taxing because we can. And before you thingk I am beating up on Californians, the link below points to a pretty good reason not to apply internet sales taxes.
I can't seeing a advertisement form my local broadband providers saying "Buy our services and be able to check your email in 2.6 seconds". Most of them are about being able to having streaming media, downloading music and movies, and killing the world wide wait (WWW). What kind of behavior did they expect?
This was with regard to Crytome's publishing of public court documents in the 2600 case where the source code for DeCSS was entered in as evidence. If 2600 wasn't a free speech case, this most certianly is.
I would be curious to see how the MPAA would sue the courts for publishing DeCSS.
In Arizona a couple of years ago, a similar occurance happened with Marijuana. The state of Arizona, in an effort to be tough on crime, imposed a Marijuana Tax. You got hit with possesion and tax evasion when busted. Kind of a double whammy. It backfired. If you paid your tax before you were busted, you got protection under the double jeapordy clause.
Since when did the concerns of the entertainment industry become such a big factor in setting standards? One would think that the needs and wants of the consumers would take presidence since they are the ones shelling out the money for these products.
While I feel sympathy for your postion on maintaining control on your studio recording (from your chat transcripts these seem to be the only MP3's you are fighting to get off of Napster), do you know or care about the effect your legal actions on Napster will have on unsigned artist who are using Napster as a method of getting their music out there? Also have you realized any benefits from having any unreleased recordings generating a buzz about up and coming albums?
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What an incredibly stupid F*cking idea. States with large ecommerce presence like California will get a federal share along with thier local taxs, and state, while states with a small internet presence, such as Alaska, will be paying through the nose in federal taxes, while still sending money to Californian companies who benefit the companies. This incesent need to tax is ludicris. We should be looking at why we are taxing rather than taxing because we can. And before you thingk I am beating up on Californians, the link below points to a pretty good reason not to apply internet sales taxes.
http://www.pacificresearch.org/issues/tech/intern
"The RIAA is pissing off a huge portion of their fan base."
The RIAA has a fan base???
I can't seeing a advertisement form my local broadband providers saying "Buy our services and be able to check your email in 2.6 seconds". Most of them are about being able to having streaming media, downloading music and movies, and killing the world wide wait (WWW). What kind of behavior did they expect?
It looks more like Copy Control to me. If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, calling it a mallard doesn't make it any less of a duck.
Linux should take a cue from Microsoft if it wants to succeed.
This was with regard to Crytome's publishing of public court documents in the 2600 case where the source code for DeCSS was entered in as evidence. If 2600 wasn't a free speech case, this most certianly is.
I would be curious to see how the MPAA would sue the courts for publishing DeCSS.
In Arizona a couple of years ago, a similar occurance happened with Marijuana. The state of Arizona, in an effort to be tough on crime, imposed a Marijuana Tax. You got hit with possesion and tax evasion when busted. Kind of a double whammy. It backfired. If you paid your tax before you were busted, you got protection under the double jeapordy clause.
Since when did the concerns of the entertainment industry become such a big factor in setting standards? One would think that the needs and wants of the consumers would take presidence since they are the ones shelling out the money for these products.
IBM's response is like me going to the doctor cause it hurts when I pee and him telling me not to pee then.
According to CNN and ABCNews The vote count in Michigan is more solidly Bush..but they are still projecting Gore.
Now we can pay to share our hardrive space and bandwidth!! Will we get discounts if we share more?
Or is that far enough off that it will be an issue for the PS3
It was 3/5ths of a person.
While I feel sympathy for your postion on maintaining control on your studio recording (from your chat transcripts these seem to be the only MP3's you are fighting to get off of Napster), do you know or care about the effect your legal actions on Napster will have on unsigned artist who are using Napster as a method of getting their music out there? Also have you realized any benefits from having any unreleased recordings generating a buzz about up and coming albums?
I thought it was with a palm pilot?
Yet.