>Somehow, I think you would think differently if
>you had spent years on a project, piece of
>music, or program, and watched it being used my
>tens of thousands of people
Isnt that the point? Artists are supposed to be doing it for the art correct?
Not only this but most musical artists only get a slim percentage of the record sales, and that aside filesharing and such has actually been proven to HELP sales. There has yet to be a single shred of evidence that any of this has hert sales of any kind.
Though to get on topic the MPAA is getting pretty draconian, they tried to arrest a guy living in a country where his actions arent illegal. It's funny how we leave people as prisoners in third-world countries but we'll be damned if we won't impose our laws on those countries.
And to end my ranting one thought, the DeCSS decryption was devised to allow unix users to play DVDs, not steal them, they wanted to use their power to reinforce a monopoly and that fin wasn't going to take it, hmm kinda reminds me of a few brits who decided to commit treason (technically the american revolution was treason).
I would just like to see some graphical ability from the console, if I just want to play a game or run a browser or viewer why waste resources running X, thats the one feature I liked from dos is the ability to run graphical applications strait from the command line.
actually it seems that only decendants of CP/m were affected, especially the microsoft wing (most others had sense enough to update long ago). If I'm wrong please correct me (i.e. if im a moron please do inform me:)
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>you had spent years on a project, piece of
>music, or program, and watched it being used my
>tens of thousands of people
Isnt that the point? Artists are supposed to be doing it for the art correct?
Not only this but most musical artists only get a slim percentage of the record sales, and that aside filesharing and such has actually been proven to HELP sales. There has yet to be a single shred of evidence that any of this has hert sales of any kind.
Though to get on topic the MPAA is getting pretty draconian, they tried to arrest a guy living in a country where his actions arent illegal. It's funny how we leave people as prisoners in third-world countries but we'll be damned if we won't impose our laws on those countries.
And to end my ranting one thought, the DeCSS decryption was devised to allow unix users to play DVDs, not steal them, they wanted to use their power to reinforce a monopoly and that fin wasn't going to take it, hmm kinda reminds me of a few brits who decided to commit treason (technically the american revolution was treason).
Now now bill you have a very pretty OS to :P
what you dont think bill gates uses the internet? Granted he didnt know it existed for quite a while.
Troy
I would just like to see some graphical ability from the console, if I just want to play a game or run a browser or viewer why waste resources running X, thats the one feature I liked from dos is the ability to run graphical applications strait from the command line.
actually it seems that only decendants of CP/m were affected, especially the microsoft wing (most others had sense enough to update long ago). If I'm wrong please correct me (i.e. if im a moron please do inform me :)