There is little money in CD sales, as opposed to concert tickets
Actually, there's no money in ticket sales either, tours pay for the promotion of the CDs. It's the tshirts and other crap that makes them money. All of that is irrelevant.
The main thing Metallica is doing is bowing to the pressure from their record label. The record label needed a band to sue so the whole thing could have any credibility. Well, They looked around and told Metallica to do it.
Lars, himself, may not care about MP3s. His label does. And they simply tell him to say these things otherwise, they drop him from his contract. There's a threat no bad will withstand. If they get dropped for this, they could be blacklisted as a band that doesn't work well with management.
Why these two artists? The labels needed Metallica and Dr. Dre to cover the two main forms of music. Now everyone knows (or at least will be told by someone with authority/fame) that MP3s are bad.
Are they? Who knows. Asks an economist. S/he'll tell you the impact of a free distribution channel much faster than all the people yelling yes or no right now.
This is not a new problem, where source code as speech is dangerous in ways that, say, detailed instructions on building a bomb is not.
Source code isn't just instructions on how to make a bomb tho, it's also the materials to make the bomb. This should put it in a completely different (and possibly unique) category.
If I give you a box with the materials to build a bomb with detailed instructions, I should be liable for the effect of you building and using the bomb. If I simply give you the instructions, and you source and assemble the parts, then that's different.
The main problem with total protection of source code as it is, is that there's no way to make specific algorithms illegal like you would specific bomb parts. I can easily change the algorithm enough to aviod the illegal one (if it was done) but changing uranium/plutonium to something else in a nuclear bomb recipe isn't easy.
This makes me really nervous. I hope the Supreme Court takes it time with this one once it's appealed (and it better be).
There has been a second organization that is based on the Hitler Youth organization. It's international....it's called the Boy Scouts (and Girl Scouts).
'scuse me? The Scouts organization predates the Hitler Youth movement by decades.
I realize by the smiley that this was a joke, but careful, people don't always read to the bottom.
I've been reading newspapers, the web services, and the newswires for many years.
You know where I and most newsorgs get their information?
Corporate "news releases". The newspapers are the worst of the lot. Many will print the news releases verbatim as leading edge stuff. Even most of the photos now come through from there.
You want in depth reporting, read alternative magazines, as newspapers don't want to expend resources looking into the information. Otherwise go to PR Newswire and save yourself looking at the grammer errors created by the newsorgs.
Music has and will continue to be produced on simple, plain-jane audio CD's because you're not gonna convince the American public that they need to throw out their CD players and buy a new box to listen to their Milli Vanilli with.
Why not, they did it with Vinyl.
The record companies wanted the cheaper menium so they just decided to stop making vinyl albums and went with CDs.
We all lined up to get our CD players for our steroes even though most of us knew that CDs don't have the same sound resolution as 12" vinyl.
Don't you believe for a minute that if the companies wanted to, they would change from the CD format we know and love to a secure format. (DVD-Audio anyone?)
So, since we could get updates to the CPU off the web as they said in the presentation, what's stopping people from creating a program that turns my Crusoe chip into junk a.k.a. a Crusoe virus.
How do I fix a chip that doesn't have any instructions in it?
Back in the Early Days(TM) WordPerfect embraced OS/2 as their OS of choice and suffered the consequences. Do you feel that adopting Linux as your "OS of the Future" can seriously affect Corel/WordPerfect products marketshare or is this largely a public relations move?
If this is not a PR move, when do you see the rest of your product line ported to Linux?
I resolve not to sneak into my neighbour's yard at 12:01 and cut his power, phone and cable lines. I also resolve to stop causing excessive osmosis in my basement.
I live in Canada. I went through the quiz and selected the positions that most closely matched the way we have it here (i.e., free health care, tight gun control, few morality laws). Well, my selections for the president were as follows:
89 Ralph Nader 85 David McReynolds 81 Bill Bradley 76 Albert Gore Jr.
Now, I'm not sure who David McReynolds or Bill Bradley are (isn't Bill Bradley a newsperson?) But It seems to me there's no chance the US will every be has good a place to live when 75% of the candidates want to make sure the corporations run things.
BTW, when did "liberal" become a Bad Thing? In Canada, liberal means someone who's open to new ideas (and is the name of the ruling party).
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There is little money in CD sales, as opposed to concert tickets
Actually, there's no money in ticket sales either, tours pay for the promotion of the CDs. It's the tshirts and other crap that makes them money. All of that is irrelevant.
The main thing Metallica is doing is bowing to the pressure from their record label. The record label needed a band to sue so the whole thing could have any credibility. Well, They looked around and told Metallica to do it.
Lars, himself, may not care about MP3s. His label does. And they simply tell him to say these things otherwise, they drop him from his contract. There's a threat no bad will withstand. If they get dropped for this, they could be blacklisted as a band that doesn't work well with management.
Why these two artists? The labels needed Metallica and Dr. Dre to cover the two main forms of music. Now everyone knows (or at least will be told by someone with authority/fame) that MP3s are bad.
Are they? Who knows. Asks an economist. S/he'll tell you the impact of a free distribution channel much faster than all the people yelling yes or no right now.
This is not a new problem, where source code as speech is dangerous in ways that, say, detailed instructions on building a bomb is not.
Source code isn't just instructions on how to make a bomb tho, it's also the materials to make the bomb. This should put it in a completely different (and possibly unique) category.
If I give you a box with the materials to build a bomb with detailed instructions, I should be liable for the effect of you building and using the bomb. If I simply give you the instructions, and you source and assemble the parts, then that's different.
The main problem with total protection of source code as it is, is that there's no way to make specific algorithms illegal like you would specific bomb parts. I can easily change the algorithm enough to aviod the illegal one (if it was done) but changing uranium/plutonium to something else in a nuclear bomb recipe isn't easy.
This makes me really nervous. I hope the Supreme Court takes it time with this one once it's appealed (and it better be).
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There has been a second organization that is based on the Hitler Youth organization. It's international....it's called the Boy Scouts (and Girl Scouts).
'scuse me? The Scouts organization predates the Hitler Youth movement by decades.
I realize by the smiley that this was a joke, but careful, people don't always read to the bottom.
I've been reading newspapers, the web services, and the newswires for many years.
You know where I and most newsorgs get their information?
Corporate "news releases". The newspapers are the worst of the lot. Many will print the news releases verbatim as leading edge stuff. Even most of the photos now come through from there.
You want in depth reporting, read alternative magazines, as newspapers don't want to expend resources looking into the information. Otherwise go to PR Newswire and save yourself looking at the grammer errors created by the newsorgs.
Music has and will continue to be produced on simple, plain-jane audio CD's because you're not gonna convince the American public that they need to throw out their CD players and buy a new box to listen to their Milli Vanilli with.
Why not, they did it with Vinyl.
The record companies wanted the cheaper menium so they just decided to stop making vinyl albums and went with CDs.
We all lined up to get our CD players for our steroes even though most of us knew that CDs don't have the same sound resolution as 12" vinyl.
Don't you believe for a minute that if the companies wanted to, they would change from the CD format we know and love to a secure format. (DVD-Audio anyone?)
There's only one problem with replacing CSS with ROT13. Some MS apps will handle it. I don't think the MPAA wants to take on Microsoft quite yet...
So, since we could get updates to the CPU off the web as they said in the presentation, what's stopping people from creating a program that turns my Crusoe chip into junk a.k.a. a Crusoe virus.
How do I fix a chip that doesn't have any instructions in it?
Back in the Early Days(TM) WordPerfect embraced OS/2 as their OS of choice and suffered the consequences. Do you feel that adopting Linux as your "OS of the Future" can seriously affect Corel/WordPerfect products marketshare or is this largely a public relations move?
If this is not a PR move, when do you see the rest of your product line ported to Linux?
I resolve not to sneak into my neighbour's yard at 12:01 and cut his power, phone and cable lines. I also resolve to stop causing excessive osmosis in my basement.
I live in Canada. I went through the quiz and selected the positions that most closely matched the way we have it here (i.e., free health care, tight gun control, few morality laws). Well, my selections for the president were as follows:
89 Ralph Nader
85 David McReynolds
81 Bill Bradley
76 Albert Gore Jr.
Now, I'm not sure who David McReynolds or Bill Bradley are (isn't Bill Bradley a newsperson?) But It seems to me there's no chance the US will every be has good a place to live when 75% of the candidates want to make sure the corporations run things.
BTW, when did "liberal" become a Bad Thing? In Canada, liberal means someone who's open to new ideas (and is the name of the ruling party).
My $0.02.