I know a lot of people who copied tapes for friends in grade school. Sometimes I record stuff off the radio. Once -- *gasp!* -- someone even sang me a copywritten song! Should we factor this into the equation too?
Or should we look at the real reason many think the RIAA's going after Napster: they're losing the control they once had over the eyeballs (well, ears, technically) of the consumer. Another slashdot reader said it a lot more eloquently than I did, but the record industry is in fits because they can't be absolutely certain that the income they get from a handful of "popular artists" -- whose popularity they *manufacture* -- can be ensured anymore.
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...the thousands of FTP servers running on Windows and commercial UNIX machines. Guess FTP's bad too. The RIAA really should do something about that.
I actually downloaded more MP3s before Napster was around than after. I find Napster to be woefully inadequate for obtaining whole CDs, hard-to-find tracks, pre-released material, and anything that hasn't seen the light of the Top 40, basically. Since my musical tastes run anywhere from the sublime to the ridiculous with little to no "popular" (read: crap) music thrown into the mix, my MP3 searching ventures have taken me elsewhere of late (oth.net, IRC, mainly...)
I think I had 30 MP3 CDs before I started using Napster, and I have about 35 now.
(Oh, and for everyone that's gonna bitch about what an "asshole" I am for not buying music, I've spent a few hundred dollars this year on records. So, for lack of anything blunter, blow it out your ass, especially if you're posting as AC. It's pretty hard to DJ with MP3s.)
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There seems to be a small but vocal group of people here who want to make it absolutely clear that they would never, ever, in a million billion years pirate music, no matter what! I wonder if they issue press releases whenever they donate money to the United Way, too...
Personally, I say: do what you want. If you get caught doing something people with more authority than you think you shouldn't be doing, you face the consequences.
That having been said, I doubt you'll be spending much time in San Quentin for having a big MP3 collection.
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Sure, it's not in the form of little green pieces of paper anymore, but who do you think pays for all those great radio contests? Who still pampers the big execs at radio stations? Sure, you can't give someone from Westwood One $10,000 to play the latest N'Sync song, but their eyes will sure light up when you float a few hundred N'Sync concert tickets their way.
It's still a big game, and the record industry will always be winning, I think.
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I don't remember the public referendum for the DMCA or the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act. Maybe I overslept that day. Which way did you cast *your* vote?
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I'm tired of remembering 30 different passwords. Why not have computers scan my finger or memorize my hand shape or retina pattern? It's an awful lot more secure; you can't run "crack" on a fingerprint scanner.
Or is this another one of slashdot's "Big Brother is Watching" conspiracy theories?
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...they feel so fucking slow -- even on the latest Ultra hardware -- that I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that Microsoft ported a _great_ deal of Windows itself in order to get them to work. Take a look at the shit it installs sometime - libtcpip.so? Um, gee, isn't the standard TCP stack that comes with Solaris good enough? As if that's not scary enough, the color picker is straight out of Windows 3.1 (and it's slooooow.)
Oh well. I'm still waiting for the Linux Media Player which will be released "in a few weeks"!!! I can HARDLY wait!
(don't bother if you don't get the joke.)
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Just use "dd" to append a single bit to the end of the mp3. The MD5 sum will still be completely different.
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Things you learn in Business School...
on
Boo No More
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I was assured by one of my professors that 4 out of every 5 e-commerce sites will not be here a year from now. He went into myriad reasons, but chief among these was poor logistics planning (e.g. how many e-commerce sites stupidly set up their own distribution networks rather than contracting the work out to experienced firms?)
My bet: The big-yet-poorly-managed companies, like Amazon, survive, but barely. The smaller ones, like cdnow and pets.com, either dry up or get bought by "old-world" brick-and-mortar companies. The tiny companies... well, let's just say those stock options you've been working for in lieu of a real paycheck will keep you warm for a little while if you use them as kindling.
There will still be plenty of healthy Internet companies, though, once people figure out exactly how to create a profitable e-commerce company. (Has it been done yet?)
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Slashdot Mirror
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Then I don't feel like such an old-timer any more.
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Or should we look at the real reason many think the RIAA's going after Napster: they're losing the control they once had over the eyeballs (well, ears, technically) of the consumer. Another slashdot reader said it a lot more eloquently than I did, but the record industry is in fits because they can't be absolutely certain that the income they get from a handful of "popular artists" -- whose popularity they *manufacture* -- can be ensured anymore.
- A.P.
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As for MP3 "piracy" itself, you're just gonna have to suck it up. Be a big boy.
- A.P.
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I actually downloaded more MP3s before Napster was around than after. I find Napster to be woefully inadequate for obtaining whole CDs, hard-to-find tracks, pre-released material, and anything that hasn't seen the light of the Top 40, basically. Since my musical tastes run anywhere from the sublime to the ridiculous with little to no "popular" (read: crap) music thrown into the mix, my MP3 searching ventures have taken me elsewhere of late (oth.net, IRC, mainly...)
I think I had 30 MP3 CDs before I started using Napster, and I have about 35 now.
(Oh, and for everyone that's gonna bitch about what an "asshole" I am for not buying music, I've spent a few hundred dollars this year on records. So, for lack of anything blunter, blow it out your ass, especially if you're posting as AC. It's pretty hard to DJ with MP3s.)
- A.P.
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Personally, I say: do what you want. If you get caught doing something people with more authority than you think you shouldn't be doing, you face the consequences.
That having been said, I doubt you'll be spending much time in San Quentin for having a big MP3 collection.
- A.P.
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With that in mind, any time a record exec tells me Napster kills record sales (which they haven't yet done), I will laugh heartily.
- A.P.
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At least, it seemed like it to me.
- A.P.
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Made by Microsoft?
Some things never change.
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The person who bought this one is:
Registrant:
Gamemuseum.com
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It's still a big game, and the record industry will always be winning, I think.
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- A.P.
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Keep in mind, Microsoft wants everyone to think DNS stands for "digital nervous system", too. Fuck that!
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Or is this another one of slashdot's "Big Brother is Watching" conspiracy theories?
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- A.P. (seriously, folks, WHAT ELSE is VBscript for?!)
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Oh well. I'm still waiting for the Linux Media Player which will be released "in a few weeks"!!! I can HARDLY wait!
(don't bother if you don't get the joke.)
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- A.P.
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My bet: The big-yet-poorly-managed companies, like Amazon, survive, but barely. The smaller ones, like cdnow and pets.com, either dry up or get bought by "old-world" brick-and-mortar companies. The tiny companies... well, let's just say those stock options you've been working for in lieu of a real paycheck will keep you warm for a little while if you use them as kindling.
There will still be plenty of healthy Internet companies, though, once people figure out exactly how to create a profitable e-commerce company. (Has it been done yet?)
- A.P.
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*** Wakko has quit IRC (routing.dal.net users.dal.net)
every 30 seconds.
The network sucked so bad I started my own.
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- A.P.
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So let's make a law for everything, right? That'll fix things.
People don't like being treated like infants.
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