This law states you will are entitled to damages of $10 per spam-mail. Should you recieve more than 500 spam-mails you would be limited to a maximum damage of $5000 for the occourances of that day (probably based on time/date stamp).
I want a killer hi-fi, or a great home theatre, or a super TV set. I need a home computer.
What is really happening here is that the computer industry has "stolen" the disposeable income of most consumers. I could spend a few grand on some "killer" home entertainment device, and use it for 10 years if I wanted.
Not so with computers; whether it's a 3 or 4 year hardware upgrade, software purchases, or incremental upgrades, I am spending the "same" money in a constant cycle.
So, when a few bucks come my way, the PC is always begging for something. I'll just buy that "other" entertainment device some other time (which never comes, cuz the next time computer is screaming again).
Naturally people are going to try to incorporate these "lost" entertainment items into the PC budget.
Apparently the company that became Imperial and International Communications in 1929 (the radio arm of Marconi's first company) evolved through merger to be Britain's Cable & Wireless PLC, a viable firm today.
With stuff that wouldn't be recognised today, and was poorly understood then. Signals were unamplified (therefore no vacum tube required) and relied on huge antennae towers for signal strength. Luckily, not much signal is required (as is clear from the fact that your computer is a huge Radio Frequency (RF) generator).
An excerpt from an early description:
"... The responder is an extremely sensitive instrument with a closed circuit. That is, when there are no wireless impulses, the local current is passing through a conducting solution between two electrodes. But with a wireless impulse there is at once a greater resistance in the solution. The reason for the increased resistance is not yet known. This effect of the wireless impulse causes a clicking sound in the telephone receiver. Hence one believes that one hears the very sparks of the far-away sender...."
From:
The Advance of "Wireless"
World's Work
February 1905, pages 5843-5848
Marconi sent radio messages from his home to a reciever 2 miles away in 1894, and recieved a patent in 1898. Fesseden sent a voice message via wireless in 1900. Both were building on the work of Hertz, Maxwell, and many others (including Tesla).
Like most inventions, they often had parallel and independant discoveries typically without knowing the work of others; they also built upon the ideas of others. It's not a linear process, this inventing thing.
Remember the name of the guy who showed up at the Patent Office 2 hours after Alexander Bell did? Neither does anybody else.
They both came upon the discovery without knowlege of the other's work.
Actually, the convoluted history of Marconi companies is pretty much impossible to track down. The Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company (established in 1897) changed it's name to Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company in 1900. It merged with the Eastern Telegraph Company in 1929 to become Imperial and International Communications. However, the manufacturing assets were not part of this merger. From this point it gets hazy; we now have 2 companies, one carrying on the Marconi name (manufacturing); the other (incorporating the original Marconi company) without a mention of Marconi in it's corporate title, despite the fact Marconi himself was part of it. Over the years, each company became part of literally dozens of corporations; some merged with others, some went broke, some had "Marconi" in the corporate title and others did not, etc. Don't read too much into the GEC-Marconi name.
Don't even consider paying for this. You allready have all the features. Notice that it requires you to have a "stereo system", so the needed phono preamp is not in the digital domain. All you really need is a Stereo RCA-RCA cable and a RCA-Stereo 2.5mm phone jack adapter. Should be able to pick 'em up at Radio Shack for a few bucks.
Be careful: Radio Shack may try to sell you a mono RCA-phone adapter. (Mono will have 2 metal parts separated by a plastic sleeve on the phone plug; stereo will have 3 separated by 2 plastic sleeves). The stereo one works perfectly for mono signals, but not the other way around.
You may allready have this feature in the preamp you will need to convert the phono signal to line level/RIAA equalized. If it's a good quality filter, it's best at that stage anyway but most filters are poor.
Use a SW based parametric equalizer, and centre the frequency at 12Hz. Go -maximum the equalizer allows, with a narrow Q. (steep slope).
You can also use a high-pass filter, again at 12Hz so that everything below that frequency is cut.
If you have access to a high quality phono preamp use it's "rumble" filter, but in general you will have a higher quality filter in the digital domain (because high quality phono preamps don't have a low cut filter but cheap ones do). Read "cheap" as any reciever, regardless of cost (they don't spend a lot of money on this particular feature).
MPEG video formats began with the formation of the Moving Picture Experts Group in 1988.
MPEG-1 Finalized 1992
Digital storage at rates up to 1.5 MegaBits per Second (Mbits/s). Essentially a toolbox; it is up to the user (or whomever) to decide which tools to incorporate.
MPEG-2 Began 1990, in 1992 expanded to include coding of HDTV and thus the proposed MPEG-3 (HDTV) format was abandoned. Finalized 1994. Data rates below 10 Mbits/s. Special consideration of interlaced and scalability incorporated.
MPEG-3 Abandoned, see MPEG-2.
MPEG-4 Began 1994, and evolved with standards issued and refined 1996, 1997. Up to 2Mbits/s. Incorporates TV/film, computer and multimedia needs. High error tolerance, interactive functionality and compression efficency are key components. Includes all functions in MPEG-1 and -2.
MPEG-7 (2001, further evolution possible). An all encompassing standard. "... MPEG-7 [4] is intended to describe audiovisual information regardless of storage, coding, display, transmission, medium, or technology. It will address a wide variety of media types including: still pictures, graphics, 3D models, audio, speech, video, and combinations of these (e.g., multimedia presentations). Examples of MPEG-7 data are an MPEG-4 stream, a video tape, a CD containing music, sound or speech, a picture printed on paper, or an interactive multimedia installation on the web...." * Important to note that MPEG-7 describes information about the content, rather than the content itself. As such, quality is dependant on what is described (ie it may incorporate MPEG-4 video).
* D-Lib Magazine
September 1999
Volume 5 Number 9
ISSN 1082-9873
MPEG-7
Behind the Scenes
Jane Hunter
Distributed Systems Technology Centre
University of Queensland
jane@dstc.edu.au
I was building a PC and used TigerDirect as a price-check site. I am pretty familiar with wholesale/retail and wanted to buy from a level of risk a bit lower than them, but I wanted to create a good enough model of what something was worth so I could make a pricing decision; leaving the service, etc. the only thing left as far as choosing a supplier goes.
So I ended up on their weekly mailing list (I subscribed). I figured a month or so while I was shopping would be useful,and it was.
Now, unsubscribing was not so easy. For whatever reason (incompetence, deliberate spamming, or plain ignorance) they sent mail to my webmail address in duplicate. One was addressed as I entered it (EG: me@mymail.com), which is correct; while a duplicate "showed up" in uppercase (EG: ME@MYMAIL.COM). When I tried to unsubscribe, the uppercase addresses were essentially unsubscribe-able, because the return address in the header was always (as it should be) in lowercase.
I couldn't block the sender, because each weekly edition came from a "new" sender.
It took a lot of ranting and raving, on multiple occasions, before they finally took me off their list.
Globe and Mail (CP) Toronto Monday 3 December 2001 Section B1
In an article entitled "Rogers Cable confirms it will sever all ties with At Home", Rogers Cable, Inc. (TSE) President and CEO John Tory describes @Homes prospects (after a few months negotiated to insure Rogers has it's own sustainable networks) as "[It's] out of business. It's gone."
The article also mentions US providers Comcast Corp. and Cox Communications, and the other Canadian providers Shaw Communications and Cogeo Cable Inc. In reference to Shaw and Cogeo, it said that both firms said Friday that "[we] would be almost unaffected if At Home were to shut down its service."
Mr Tory also said that a slight increase in fees to @Home is reasonable to insure an orderly transition but major increases will be rejected, because the transition could be made "in a few hours" if necessary. "I'm not going to sign a bad deal, because I don't have to."
Rogers noted that "a few hundred" Rogers customers using a particular brand of modem were cut off by @Home Friday but that Rogers was able to transfer these customers to it's own network in less than 2 hours.
TechTV reports this AM (3December) that @Home wants about $300 million to continue service to AT&T. AT&T counters by saying @Home is only worth about $300 million as a complete entity, so they won't pay (and service is cut off).
The writing was on the wall for quite some time now. AT&T users (and others) should be asking the big question:
Why was the migration path not created before now? Did AT&T deliberately pay lawyers instead of buy servers?
The Canadain government subsidises internet access...
A crock of shit. Not a dime. Nada.
There is a governing body (the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission, like the FTC) which has set a limit of $45.00 for basic highspeed. If you don't feel you can provide for that price then don't. All the providers are publicly listed firms* and they all make money. Strangely, most don't even charge that much.
If they wanted to charge more, they would have to apply to the CRTC. This is the same as cableTV; so far in 25 years they have never failed to approve a cable rate increase when asked, so I don't see a major stumbling block here.
SaskTel is publicly owned an operates in Saskatchewan only. They provide hispeed DSL and TVoverPhone service, as well as local and long distance phone service. Their $40 a month DSL service loses so much money, they were only able to provide $97 million as a dividend to the province last year.
Yeah, well, I'm in the wasteland (51 degrees N) and I've had my hispeed since 1995. Rural users have microwave-based wireless hispeed options, it don't matter where you live here.
The entire province (pop. less than 1 million and a quarter million square miles) finished the fibre infastructure in 1981.
As for the population being within 200 km from the border, let's be more specific. Everybody in Ontario, Quebec and BC is within 200km; since that represents 60% of the national population, I suppose you could say that. Of course, everyone in Ontario and Quebec live south of the 49th parallel, too.
"... Certainly they are not taking in the entire $39.95 each month. The local provider (Cox Cable in my town) obviously takes a portion of that montly bill, but Excite! must still be receiving a ton of money each month...."
Here's a point to ponder: Canadian @Home cable internet (Shaw, Rogers) costs $CAD 40.00 a month, or about $US 25.20. I find it hard to believe that they pay @Home any less than Cox does, so you may now revise your guesses as to how much Cox is grinding you.
Of course you are correct. However this court runing can be cited as a legal precedent in other court decisions (including decisions in another nation with an English Common Law legal basis). Because it is out-of-jurisdiction (and therefore not legally binding) it does not hold anyone to anything, but it does become part of the decisive process once cited, and this tends to sway the judge towards a similar ruling.
What you want is a good conductor of heat vs an insulator. I don't know the properties of Fluorinert, but any material can be compared based on the known values.
As for the average vs water-cooled CPU, water is vastly superior for cooling.
We normally don't think of water and air in terms of insulating/conducting, but air is essentially an insulator whereas water is a conductor.
The best example of this is hypothermia when you fall into water. Your body's "heat engine" is sufficent to maintain body temp in relatively insulating air; in water you lose heat at a rate of 20x that of air. This is why water at 50 degrees F can trigger hypothermia in clothed individuals whereas a dry cotton shirt and pants at the same temp in air are sufficent to maintain body temp.
Other good conductors are aluminim and gasoline. Welders can work on a properly prepared FULL tanker of gas because the heat from welding (at least 800 degrees and easily double that depending on technique) is dissapated quickly and evenly through the volume of fuel; the fuel temp raises hardly at all. Compare that to an air/fuel mixture: heat enters the gaseous mix and stays there, raising temperatures almost instantly. This is due in large part to air's inability to dissapate heat (and the resulting explosion is due to air's volatility, air, not gasoline, is the true explosive in the mix).
All you have to do is watch the movie on TBS. So what if the plot doesn't make sense anymore, the cuts confuse you, and the 2 hour movie is now 43 minutes long.
Sony and Philips developed the Compact Disk(R) and own the marks, etc. In order to display the trademarks/labels/etc., the disk must meet "RedBook" standard. As I understand it, the copy protection employed falls within the standard, which defines certain criteria mostly of interest to someone mastering a CD (creating the data master used to create disks from which CDs can be stamped).
According to broadcast news at Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC), six states are going along with the DOJ, six are not and...
"... six states have already settled."
Well, downloading "pirated" anything is stealing. However, a copy of a music recording is not necessarily "pirated". In the US, you have to meet the requirements of "fair use". In pretty much every other Copyright Convention Signatory nation*, there is no equivalent to the US concept of fair use. Most countries allow some form of personal copying of music; typically these nations also pay royalties to the music industry on blank media without regard for it's end use. In other words, you have allready paid music royalties when you buy a CDR or cassette tape.
Where I live, I can copy all the music I want (but can't give away, lend, or broadcast my "personal copy") and this is expressly allowed under copyright law.
*If any slashdotters know of a country (other than the USA) that has "fair use" provisions in copyright law, feel free to let us know. To the best of my knowledge, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zeland, and the EU nations do not have "fair use" provisions as defined under US law.
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" ... the lesser of ... "
This law states you will are entitled to damages of $10 per spam-mail. Should you recieve more than 500 spam-mails you would be limited to a maximum damage of $5000 for the occourances of that day (probably based on time/date stamp).
"... If you look at my mail, I bet you could guess that I work on computers. ..."
If I look at your mail, I bet you would try to throw me in jail.
I want a killer hi-fi, or a great home theatre, or a super TV set. I need a home computer.
What is really happening here is that the computer industry has "stolen" the disposeable income of most consumers. I could spend a few grand on some "killer" home entertainment device, and use it for 10 years if I wanted.
Not so with computers; whether it's a 3 or 4 year hardware upgrade, software purchases, or incremental upgrades, I am spending the "same" money in a constant cycle.
So, when a few bucks come my way, the PC is always begging for something. I'll just buy that "other" entertainment device some other time (which never comes, cuz the next time computer is screaming again).
Naturally people are going to try to incorporate these "lost" entertainment items into the PC budget.
Apparently the company that became Imperial and International Communications in 1929 (the radio arm of Marconi's first company) evolved through merger to be Britain's Cable & Wireless PLC, a viable firm today.
With stuff that wouldn't be recognised today, and was poorly understood then. Signals were unamplified (therefore no vacum tube required) and relied on huge antennae towers for signal strength. Luckily, not much signal is required (as is clear from the fact that your computer is a huge Radio Frequency (RF) generator). ..."
An excerpt from an early description:
"... The responder is an extremely sensitive instrument with a closed circuit. That is, when there are no wireless impulses, the local current is passing through a conducting solution between two electrodes. But with a wireless impulse there is at once a greater resistance in the solution. The reason for the increased resistance is not yet known. This effect of the wireless impulse causes a clicking sound in the telephone receiver. Hence one believes that one hears the very sparks of the far-away sender.
From:
The Advance of "Wireless"
World's Work
February 1905, pages 5843-5848
Marconi sent radio messages from his home to a reciever 2 miles away in 1894, and recieved a patent in 1898. Fesseden sent a voice message via wireless in 1900. Both were building on the work of Hertz, Maxwell, and many others (including Tesla).
Like most inventions, they often had parallel and independant discoveries typically without knowing the work of others; they also built upon the ideas of others. It's not a linear process, this inventing thing.
Remember the name of the guy who showed up at the Patent Office 2 hours after Alexander Bell did? Neither does anybody else.
They both came upon the discovery without knowlege of the other's work.
Actually, the convoluted history of Marconi companies is pretty much impossible to track down. The Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company (established in 1897) changed it's name to Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company in 1900. It merged with the Eastern Telegraph Company in 1929 to become Imperial and International Communications. However, the manufacturing assets were not part of this merger. From this point it gets hazy; we now have 2 companies, one carrying on the Marconi name (manufacturing); the other (incorporating the original Marconi company) without a mention of Marconi in it's corporate title, despite the fact Marconi himself was part of it. Over the years, each company became part of literally dozens of corporations; some merged with others, some went broke, some had "Marconi" in the corporate title and others did not, etc. Don't read too much into the GEC-Marconi name.
Don't even consider paying for this. You allready have all the features. Notice that it requires you to have a "stereo system", so the needed phono preamp is not in the digital domain. All you really need is a Stereo RCA-RCA cable and a RCA-Stereo 2.5mm phone jack adapter. Should be able to pick 'em up at Radio Shack for a few bucks.
Be careful: Radio Shack may try to sell you a mono RCA-phone adapter. (Mono will have 2 metal parts separated by a plastic sleeve on the phone plug; stereo will have 3 separated by 2 plastic sleeves). The stereo one works perfectly for mono signals, but not the other way around.
You may allready have this feature in the preamp you will need to convert the phono signal to line level/RIAA equalized. If it's a good quality filter, it's best at that stage anyway but most filters are poor.
Use a SW based parametric equalizer, and centre the frequency at 12Hz. Go -maximum the equalizer allows, with a narrow Q. (steep slope).
You can also use a high-pass filter, again at 12Hz so that everything below that frequency is cut.
If you have access to a high quality phono preamp use it's "rumble" filter, but in general you will have a higher quality filter in the digital domain (because high quality phono preamps don't have a low cut filter but cheap ones do). Read "cheap" as any reciever, regardless of cost (they don't spend a lot of money on this particular feature).
MPEG video formats began with the formation of the Moving Picture Experts Group in 1988. ..." * Important to note that MPEG-7 describes information about the content, rather than the content itself. As such, quality is dependant on what is described (ie it may incorporate MPEG-4 video).
MPEG-1 Finalized 1992
Digital storage at rates up to 1.5 MegaBits per Second (Mbits/s). Essentially a toolbox; it is up to the user (or whomever) to decide which tools to incorporate.
MPEG-2 Began 1990, in 1992 expanded to include coding of HDTV and thus the proposed MPEG-3 (HDTV) format was abandoned. Finalized 1994. Data rates below 10 Mbits/s. Special consideration of interlaced and scalability incorporated.
MPEG-3 Abandoned, see MPEG-2.
MPEG-4 Began 1994, and evolved with standards issued and refined 1996, 1997. Up to 2Mbits/s. Incorporates TV/film, computer and multimedia needs. High error tolerance, interactive functionality and compression efficency are key components. Includes all functions in MPEG-1 and -2.
MPEG-7 (2001, further evolution possible). An all encompassing standard. "... MPEG-7 [4] is intended to describe audiovisual information regardless of storage, coding, display, transmission, medium, or technology. It will address a wide variety of media types including: still pictures, graphics, 3D models, audio, speech, video, and combinations of these (e.g., multimedia presentations). Examples of MPEG-7 data are an MPEG-4 stream, a video tape, a CD containing music, sound or speech, a picture printed on paper, or an interactive multimedia installation on the web.
* D-Lib Magazine
September 1999
Volume 5 Number 9
ISSN 1082-9873
MPEG-7
Behind the Scenes
Jane Hunter
Distributed Systems Technology Centre
University of Queensland
jane@dstc.edu.au
I was building a PC and used TigerDirect as a price-check site. I am pretty familiar with wholesale/retail and wanted to buy from a level of risk a bit lower than them, but I wanted to create a good enough model of what something was worth so I could make a pricing decision; leaving the service, etc. the only thing left as far as choosing a supplier goes.
So I ended up on their weekly mailing list (I subscribed). I figured a month or so while I was shopping would be useful,and it was.
Now, unsubscribing was not so easy. For whatever reason (incompetence, deliberate spamming, or plain ignorance) they sent mail to my webmail address in duplicate. One was addressed as I entered it (EG: me@mymail.com), which is correct; while a duplicate "showed up" in uppercase (EG: ME@MYMAIL.COM). When I tried to unsubscribe, the uppercase addresses were essentially unsubscribe-able, because the return address in the header was always (as it should be) in lowercase.
I couldn't block the sender, because each weekly edition came from a "new" sender.
It took a lot of ranting and raving, on multiple occasions, before they finally took me off their list.
Globe and Mail (CP) Toronto Monday 3 December 2001 Section B1
In an article entitled "Rogers Cable confirms it will sever all ties with At Home", Rogers Cable, Inc. (TSE) President and CEO John Tory describes @Homes prospects (after a few months negotiated to insure Rogers has it's own sustainable networks) as "[It's] out of business. It's gone."
The article also mentions US providers Comcast Corp. and Cox Communications, and the other Canadian providers Shaw Communications and Cogeo Cable Inc. In reference to Shaw and Cogeo, it said that both firms said Friday that "[we] would be almost unaffected if At Home were to shut down its service."
Mr Tory also said that a slight increase in fees to @Home is reasonable to insure an orderly transition but major increases will be rejected, because the transition could be made "in a few hours" if necessary. "I'm not going to sign a bad deal, because I don't have to."
Rogers noted that "a few hundred" Rogers customers using a particular brand of modem were cut off by @Home Friday but that Rogers was able to transfer these customers to it's own network in less than 2 hours.
TechTV reports this AM (3December) that @Home wants about $300 million to continue service to AT&T. AT&T counters by saying @Home is only worth about $300 million as a complete entity, so they won't pay (and service is cut off).
The writing was on the wall for quite some time now. AT&T users (and others) should be asking the big question:
Why was the migration path not created before now? Did AT&T deliberately pay lawyers instead of buy servers?
The Canadain government subsidises internet access...
A crock of shit. Not a dime. Nada.
There is a governing body (the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission, like the FTC) which has set a limit of $45.00 for basic highspeed. If you don't feel you can provide for that price then don't. All the providers are publicly listed firms* and they all make money. Strangely, most don't even charge that much.
If they wanted to charge more, they would have to apply to the CRTC. This is the same as cableTV; so far in 25 years they have never failed to approve a cable rate increase when asked, so I don't see a major stumbling block here.
SaskTel is publicly owned an operates in Saskatchewan only. They provide hispeed DSL and TVoverPhone service, as well as local and long distance phone service. Their $40 a month DSL service loses so much money, they were only able to provide $97 million as a dividend to the province last year.
Yeah, well, I'm in the wasteland (51 degrees N) and I've had my hispeed since 1995. Rural users have microwave-based wireless hispeed options, it don't matter where you live here.
The entire province (pop. less than 1 million and a quarter million square miles) finished the fibre infastructure in 1981.
As for the population being within 200 km from the border, let's be more specific. Everybody in Ontario, Quebec and BC is within 200km; since that represents 60% of the national population, I suppose you could say that. Of course, everyone in Ontario and Quebec live south of the 49th parallel, too.
"... Certainly they are not taking in the entire $39.95 each month. The local provider (Cox Cable in my town) obviously takes a portion of that montly bill, but Excite! must still be receiving a ton of money each month. ..."
Here's a point to ponder: Canadian @Home cable internet (Shaw, Rogers) costs $CAD 40.00 a month, or about $US 25.20. I find it hard to believe that they pay @Home any less than Cox does, so you may now revise your guesses as to how much Cox is grinding you.
Of course you are correct. However this court runing can be cited as a legal precedent in other court decisions (including decisions in another nation with an English Common Law legal basis). Because it is out-of-jurisdiction (and therefore not legally binding) it does not hold anyone to anything, but it does become part of the decisive process once cited, and this tends to sway the judge towards a similar ruling.
Minor point: The Pharma Factory attacked by cruise missiles was in Sudan, not Somalia.
What you want is a good conductor of heat vs an insulator. I don't know the properties of Fluorinert, but any material can be compared based on the known values.
As for the average vs water-cooled CPU, water is vastly superior for cooling.
We normally don't think of water and air in terms of insulating/conducting, but air is essentially an insulator whereas water is a conductor.
The best example of this is hypothermia when you fall into water. Your body's "heat engine" is sufficent to maintain body temp in relatively insulating air; in water you lose heat at a rate of 20x that of air. This is why water at 50 degrees F can trigger hypothermia in clothed individuals whereas a dry cotton shirt and pants at the same temp in air are sufficent to maintain body temp.
Other good conductors are aluminim and gasoline. Welders can work on a properly prepared FULL tanker of gas because the heat from welding (at least 800 degrees and easily double that depending on technique) is dissapated quickly and evenly through the volume of fuel; the fuel temp raises hardly at all. Compare that to an air/fuel mixture: heat enters the gaseous mix and stays there, raising temperatures almost instantly. This is due in large part to air's inability to dissapate heat (and the resulting explosion is due to air's volatility, air, not gasoline, is the true explosive in the mix).
All you have to do is watch the movie on TBS. So what if the plot doesn't make sense anymore, the cuts confuse you, and the 2 hour movie is now 43 minutes long.
Sony and Philips developed the Compact Disk(R) and own the marks, etc. In order to display the trademarks/labels/etc., the disk must meet "RedBook" standard. As I understand it, the copy protection employed falls within the standard, which defines certain criteria mostly of interest to someone mastering a CD (creating the data master used to create disks from which CDs can be stamped).
According to broadcast news at Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC), six states are going along with the DOJ, six are not and...
"... six states have already settled."
"... downloading Pirated music is stealing."
Well, downloading "pirated" anything is stealing. However, a copy of a music recording is not necessarily "pirated". In the US, you have to meet the requirements of "fair use". In pretty much every other Copyright Convention Signatory nation*, there is no equivalent to the US concept of fair use. Most countries allow some form of personal copying of music; typically these nations also pay royalties to the music industry on blank media without regard for it's end use. In other words, you have allready paid music royalties when you buy a CDR or cassette tape.
Where I live, I can copy all the music I want (but can't give away, lend, or broadcast my "personal copy") and this is expressly allowed under copyright law.
*If any slashdotters know of a country (other than the USA) that has "fair use" provisions in copyright law, feel free to let us know. To the best of my knowledge, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zeland, and the EU nations do not have "fair use" provisions as defined under US law.
"... Will Penny listen to her parents?"
Wow! A Disney production where the parents aren't dead? Groundbreaking!