Especially they use a proprietary format. When I buy music, I wanna listen to it other than on the computer. Otherwise, might as well buy the real CD or logon Kazaa.
And their selection is narrow. Marketing is not enough. So they're unheard to customers, unwise to computer geeks, and unliked to shareholders. It's time to give up and move on.
Oh yea...and the so called "resurrection" of Napster is as hopeful as the Atari or NeXT.
Let's see....so they less money on the 32x drives, since they're using the same components on the 48x that yield much higher margins. So....if we all buy their lowest rating drives, would they dip into red? =)
IFPI is making a false assumption to bump up numbers. People who pirate CDs - either they buy the pirated one, or they won't buy it at all, since they can't afford USD $18. Therefore, counting all of them as a economic loss is unfair. And people who can afford to buy them are the ones that can also afford internet access, which means they'll download instead of buying the pirated CD. The best idea is to have CD-Singles that have 3-5 good songs, then charge around $8-10 for it. That's more reasonble than one megahit for $20.
And, given HIGH QUALITY analog equipment, someone can buy one so called watermarked 256kbps song, re-record it through the analog line, then distribute it as watermark-free mp3 on file-sharing apps. Analog loose quality over subsequent copies, but the first digital->analog conversion still works out well given high quality cables. Therefore, provided ONE person has the equipment and does it on the internet, then all the digital watermark efforts will go wasted. And I'm sure there's always at least one person who's willing to do it for the good of the community, or simply for the sake of pissing RIAA off:-)
Radio devices and cell phones are not allowed because they communicate all the way to ground stations. Both of those operate in frequencies in close proximity to those utilized by aeronautical navigation.
Wireless LAN, on the other hand, operates in 2.4 GHz, and has a range of "AT MOST" 150 feet. In fact, for aircrafts as long as the 747 (~70m), they might even need 2 base stations for the whole plane's coverage. Signal interference to flight communication is minimal, and is thus safe to be implemented.
As a pioneer, SAS would lead a trend that other major international carriers like Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, and British Airways would follow. Initially, probably first and business class would use the service for free, while a minimal charge would be imposed on economy classes. However, within a few years, all classes should use it for free, since by then, the Internet will no longer be a dot-com wonderland...it will become the connective that integrates everyone's lives.
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Especially they use a proprietary format. When I buy music, I wanna listen to it other than on the computer. Otherwise, might as well buy the real CD or logon Kazaa.
And their selection is narrow. Marketing is not enough. So they're unheard to customers, unwise to computer geeks, and unliked to shareholders. It's time to give up and move on.
Oh yea...and the so called "resurrection" of Napster is as hopeful as the Atari or NeXT.
Let's see....so they less money on the 32x drives, since they're using the same components on the 48x that yield much higher margins. So....if we all buy their lowest rating drives, would they dip into red? =)
I'm new to SQL. What's the correct way to present the above syntax without accidentally taking the cartesian product of such? Thanks.
IFPI is making a false assumption to bump up numbers. People who pirate CDs - either they buy the pirated one, or they won't buy it at all, since they can't afford USD $18. Therefore, counting all of them as a economic loss is unfair. And people who can afford to buy them are the ones that can also afford internet access, which means they'll download instead of buying the pirated CD. The best idea is to have CD-Singles that have 3-5 good songs, then charge around $8-10 for it. That's more reasonble than one megahit for $20.
:-)
And, given HIGH QUALITY analog equipment, someone can buy one so called watermarked 256kbps song, re-record it through the analog line, then distribute it as watermark-free mp3 on file-sharing apps. Analog loose quality over subsequent copies, but the first digital->analog conversion still works out well given high quality cables. Therefore, provided ONE person has the equipment and does it on the internet, then all the digital watermark efforts will go wasted. And I'm sure there's always at least one person who's willing to do it for the good of the community, or simply for the sake of pissing RIAA off
Radio devices and cell phones are not allowed because they communicate all the way to ground stations. Both of those operate in frequencies in close proximity to those utilized by aeronautical navigation. Wireless LAN, on the other hand, operates in 2.4 GHz, and has a range of "AT MOST" 150 feet. In fact, for aircrafts as long as the 747 (~70m), they might even need 2 base stations for the whole plane's coverage. Signal interference to flight communication is minimal, and is thus safe to be implemented. As a pioneer, SAS would lead a trend that other major international carriers like Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, and British Airways would follow. Initially, probably first and business class would use the service for free, while a minimal charge would be imposed on economy classes. However, within a few years, all classes should use it for free, since by then, the Internet will no longer be a dot-com wonderland...it will become the connective that integrates everyone's lives.