Okay, we are a misunderstood bunch. We don't want to "BAN" movies. What most people in the Christian Coalition want is more restrictions on how younger kids view violent movies.
Violence is NOT measured by deaths, it is measured by the intensity of a death.
Back during the 1950s there were westerns and scifi etc. that had people dying, but they were lowkey.
We used to never have school shootings! What the hell is happening to the country? What is different?
Two things:
1. Guns are more easily accessible
2. Graphic Violence is more common.
Are these two things to blame? Sure.
Most kids can handle violence with no problem. It won't make them want to kill or act out malaciously, they will handle it fine. But some won't. What we need are more responsible parents, and a stronger emphasis on family unity. The ratings are just to keep kids with apathetic parents from accessing it.
My kids will more allowed (encouraged) to watch all the starwars movies:-)
Here is my un-PC statement of the day to conclude this, what could help, is having women stay home with the children. Stay at home moms can help supervise children.
Why do you need IE for linux? Opera and Konqueror are both faster and have been already ported.
I would like to see IE for linux only because that means that Microsoft has been broken up;-)
--Joey
When copyrights are broken, who is at fault?
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We all know that copyrighted material is being shared on both Gnutella and all the other P2P clones.
When for example, a song is shared. Who is at fault? The person downloading, or the person sharing?
It seems like the person downloading would be the guilty party(assuming they don't own the cd). If I leave a cd-r on top of my car, and someone takes it, did I commit piracy?
Also, when exactly do you break the law? When I transfer copyrighted material through my ISP do they "pirate"? Is it only pirating if someone listens to a song?
I think that brings up an interesting point. If you don't listen, is it piracy, and can they prove you listened to it?
You would think the RIAA would say, enough is enough, and do a minimal charge and allow people to share files freely(as in speech and as in beer).
At 100mbps you could download a 700mb divx movie in less than a minute!
This assumes that the other person has an equally fast connection. Downloading huge Mpeg2 files at archive.org/movies would be like blinking.
I wonder if the MPAA is concerned? This could escalate P2P in a way never thought of before. The only reason the MPAA hasn't come crashing down on Gnutella, Freenet, Swaptor et al. is because DivX at 700 mb is too big, and it is affecting them very little.
E(nergy pursuing piracy) = M(oney loss perceived)C^2
Sure, you can always get around it, but that is not the point.
Most people would pay a low fee to download mp3s off napster. I would. 5 bucks a month or so, with one major caveat, THEY MUST BE NONENCRYPTED and freely transferable to any medium anywhere, and able to be edited.
People, in general are willing to pay for services, as long as they feel they are getting their money's worth. I personally find the/. ads not obtrusive in the least, so/. wouldn't get money from me:-D
I submitted an article about archive.org. They have been adding films like crazy. Goto archive.org/movies and check it out.
Here are a few films, if you are not sure what to look for.
Duck and Cover - Very far fetched nuclear bomb warning, that tells you all will be fine by simply covering your face with your arms. Then everything will be swell. The same one from Atomic Cafe.
A Case of Spring Fever - For you MST3K fans, this was one of the funniest shorts they did(attached to squirm). An irrating spring does a christmas carol/its a wonderful life style presentation of the world without springs.
Supervising women workers - A very sexist movie about how you have to explain every little thing to women, because they just don't understand mechanical things like us guys do. Great to show feminists.
I am working on getting a list of movies on here that were done by MST3K.
--Joey
BTW does anyone know where to get the MST3K shorts online? I have been looking for them on Gnutella with no luck:-(
It seems that if you download an mp3 you are not breaking any copyright law.
What if you download it and NEVER PLAY IT! If you don't play it, isn't that the same as someone taking their cd copies to the safe deposit box and putting them in there? Or lets say you make a copy and put it in your car. Your car gets broken into and the cds are taken, are you guilty of copy right infringement? I think this is extremely narrow and clintonian in nature, but hey he survived as a president, maybe we can too.
I think that assumes that the copyright is held by a person not a company. Not that this post matters, no one is going to go back to a thread weeks old down the list. If you do read this let me know that you saw it, my email is
Frankenstein was made in 1931! Therefore we can see it for free on the internet right?
It was a pretty good flick for the time, and is still significant today.
I wonder if universal will try to get a longer extension?
--Joey
True, they should have a better server, but actually what they should have are some mirrors. And maybe divx format? At least the option of divx readily available before I make the commitment to download my Sunday away for two movies.
I would like to try my hand at ripping apart 1950s propaganda films, ala mst3k. Not sure what you would need.
--Joey
My friends and I considered doing this but gave up because of the editing problems, however a I found a piece of software that does blue screening.
Let me know if you are interesting in trying this my/. and aim name are the same.
You may be saying how dense can the RIAA be. You are right. They are extremely dense. This is how they see the world.
A kid who is 14-24 downloads the equivalent of 20 albums from off line. They maybe buy 1 or 2 of them.
Through RIAAs blinders: 20 albums * 15 per album = $300 - 30(he did buy 2 albums) = 270 that the brat will not pay us. For some reason sales remain up, but they still did not pay us 270 dollars.
Through a microscope of rational thinking: The kid would have only bought at most 4 albums because he didn't have the money. Without napster he wouldn't have the songs. They may lose the equivalent of an album or two.
How many people, if napster charaged by the song, would download as much stuff? Not many.
--Joey
If it is in fact 10000usd/lb then DVDs are most defintely the solution.
However could this be like the "smoking statistics"?
Each cigarette takes 8 minutes off your life, bull crap. They take the average life expectancy difference and divide by the number cigarettes that the average person smokes. That assumes the damage is strictly linear.
If someone takes 100 dvds and someone takes 20 dvds, does it change the price of the launch? Don't they always over compensate anyway?
--Joey
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A quick FYI:
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RGB are primary colors of light and RYB are primary colors of pigment. I always wondered why yellow wasn't in my monitor, now i know
--Joey
Okay, we are a misunderstood bunch. We don't want to "BAN" movies. What most people in the Christian Coalition want is more restrictions on how younger kids view violent movies.
:-)
Violence is NOT measured by deaths, it is measured by the intensity of a death.
Back during the 1950s there were westerns and scifi etc. that had people dying, but they were lowkey.
We used to never have school shootings! What the hell is happening to the country? What is different?
Two things:
1. Guns are more easily accessible
2. Graphic Violence is more common.
Are these two things to blame? Sure.
Most kids can handle violence with no problem. It won't make them want to kill or act out malaciously, they will handle it fine. But some won't. What we need are more responsible parents, and a stronger emphasis on family unity. The ratings are just to keep kids with apathetic parents from accessing it.
My kids will more allowed (encouraged) to watch all the starwars movies
Here is my un-PC statement of the day to conclude this, what could help, is having women stay home with the children. Stay at home moms can help supervise children.
--Joey
This is actually an interesting experiment, I am going to do the load times (w/a stopwatch)myself. but first I have some hw to do.
--Joey
I load theforce.net on Ie and it takes about 6 secs. I load theforce.net on Konqueror and it takes about 3 seconds.
I would use konqueror under windows if they offered that support.
--Joey
Why do you need IE for linux? Opera and Konqueror are both faster and have been already ported.
;-)
I would like to see IE for linux only because that means that Microsoft has been broken up
--Joey
We all know that copyrighted material is being shared on both Gnutella and all the other P2P clones.
When for example, a song is shared. Who is at fault? The person downloading, or the person sharing?
It seems like the person downloading would be the guilty party(assuming they don't own the cd). If I leave a cd-r on top of my car, and someone takes it, did I commit piracy?
Also, when exactly do you break the law? When I transfer copyrighted material through my ISP do they "pirate"? Is it only pirating if someone listens to a song?
I think that brings up an interesting point. If you don't listen, is it piracy, and can they prove you listened to it?
You would think the RIAA would say, enough is enough, and do a minimal charge and allow people to share files freely(as in speech and as in beer).
I have no use for songs that are copy "protected"
--Joey
Did anyone else read this title, "Titbits"?
See what the internet as done to America's youth!
--Joey
Wow one year? In net fads years, that is like what, middle aged?
I remember the old alpha days, where nothing would work and hardly anything would download, yup glad those days are gone.
--Joey
At 100mbps you could download a 700mb divx movie in less than a minute!
This assumes that the other person has an equally fast connection. Downloading huge Mpeg2 files at archive.org/movies would be like blinking.
I wonder if the MPAA is concerned? This could escalate P2P in a way never thought of before. The only reason the MPAA hasn't come crashing down on Gnutella, Freenet, Swaptor et al. is because DivX at 700 mb is too big, and it is affecting them very little.
E(nergy pursuing piracy) = M(oney loss perceived)C^2
:-)
--Joey
Sure, you can always get around it, but that is not the point.
/. ads not obtrusive in the least, so /. wouldn't get money from me :-D
Most people would pay a low fee to download mp3s off napster. I would. 5 bucks a month or so, with one major caveat, THEY MUST BE NONENCRYPTED and freely transferable to any medium anywhere, and able to be edited.
People, in general are willing to pay for services, as long as they feel they are getting their money's worth. I personally find the
--Joey
Ads? Oh the banners for thinkgeek and stuff?
I thought it was some sort of nerd empowerment campaign.
--Joey
I submitted an article about archive.org. They have been adding films like crazy. Goto archive.org/movies and check it out.
:-(
Here are a few films, if you are not sure what to look for.
Duck and Cover - Very far fetched nuclear bomb warning, that tells you all will be fine by simply covering your face with your arms. Then everything will be swell. The same one from Atomic Cafe.
A Case of Spring Fever - For you MST3K fans, this was one of the funniest shorts they did(attached to squirm). An irrating spring does a christmas carol/its a wonderful life style presentation of the world without springs.
Supervising women workers - A very sexist movie about how you have to explain every little thing to women, because they just don't understand mechanical things like us guys do. Great to show feminists.
I am working on getting a list of movies on here that were done by MST3K.
--Joey
BTW does anyone know where to get the MST3K shorts online? I have been looking for them on Gnutella with no luck
palm 505 is section of the bible isn't it?
--Joey
The MPAA has issued a statement on the article posted by /.
"All your base 16 are belong to us"
--Joey
"What have you guys done since college?", homer "Well I made a program that can download porn a million times faster!", nerd #1 :D
--Joey
See about this, IANAL but:
It seems that if you download an mp3 you are not breaking any copyright law.
What if you download it and NEVER PLAY IT! If you don't play it, isn't that the same as someone taking their cd copies to the safe deposit box and putting them in there? Or lets say you make a copy and put it in your car. Your car gets broken into and the cds are taken, are you guilty of copy right infringement? I think this is extremely narrow and clintonian in nature, but hey he survived as a president, maybe we can too.
--Joey
I think that assumes that the copyright is held by a person not a company. Not that this post matters, no one is going to go back to a thread weeks old down the list. If you do read this let me know that you saw it, my email is
m
f8336@removethis.andthis.andthis.tampabay.rr.co
Still got to protect against bots.
--Joey
Frankenstein was made in 1931! Therefore we can see it for free on the internet right? It was a pretty good flick for the time, and is still significant today. I wonder if universal will try to get a longer extension? --Joey
True, they should have a better server, but actually what they should have are some mirrors. And maybe divx format? At least the option of divx readily available before I make the commitment to download my Sunday away for two movies.
--Joey
I would like to try my hand at ripping apart 1950s propaganda films, ala mst3k. Not sure what you would need. --Joey My friends and I considered doing this but gave up because of the editing problems, however a I found a piece of software that does blue screening. Let me know if you are interesting in trying this my /. and aim name are the same.
I just sent in a subscription after the mp3 box article(which a few of my friends and I are making) Will I get my money back? I sure hope so! --Joey
You may be saying how dense can the RIAA be. You are right. They are extremely dense. This is how they see the world. A kid who is 14-24 downloads the equivalent of 20 albums from off line. They maybe buy 1 or 2 of them. Through RIAAs blinders: 20 albums * 15 per album = $300 - 30(he did buy 2 albums) = 270 that the brat will not pay us. For some reason sales remain up, but they still did not pay us 270 dollars. Through a microscope of rational thinking: The kid would have only bought at most 4 albums because he didn't have the money. Without napster he wouldn't have the songs. They may lose the equivalent of an album or two. How many people, if napster charaged by the song, would download as much stuff? Not many. --Joey
If it is in fact 10000usd/lb then DVDs are most defintely the solution. However could this be like the "smoking statistics"? Each cigarette takes 8 minutes off your life, bull crap. They take the average life expectancy difference and divide by the number cigarettes that the average person smokes. That assumes the damage is strictly linear. If someone takes 100 dvds and someone takes 20 dvds, does it change the price of the launch? Don't they always over compensate anyway? --Joey
I actually heard that Microsoft.com put a link to /. They got MSed. :-D
--Joey
According to Hari Seldon, it is just a diversion so the foundations can be setup. :-)
--Joey