I think that world record industry should apapt instead of sue.
They must find a way to distribuite music easily and and cheaper. Music stores are getting obsolete, webshops like Amazon takes too long. How long does it take for downloading a whole CD?
Prices are too high. But downloads aren't fast enough. They must avoid people from downloading any kind of music by giving them reasons to do so.
Jailing your own customers aren't a good options. Nobody buys CDs in jail.
The solution is to lower price, I think that US$ 5/CD or US$ 0,25/track are good prices, low enough to avoid people for downloading music. In Brazil piracy is so evolved that you can buy a CD for US$ 2,00, and you can buy a CD on every corner. Many people prefer to low quality CDs because it's cheaper, easier and faster, there's always somebody selling pirated CDs.
That's the solution. Make downloading boring and time-consuming, so it's better to buy a CD (or tracks) then to download it from any P2P network.
Once again RIAA shows us that is simply can't adapt themselves to the new reality of information sharing.
Internet isn't just a new media, or a new commercial channel. It's also a new and improved way to communicate. For those who want me to be even more clear, it's a new way to share and exchange information.
The fact is that internet users will, for itself, share information among each other. That's what a communication tool meant to do. And there's nothing RIAA can do that'll will avoid 95% of the world population (US residents are 5% only) sharing information, musing included.
RIAA must do just like any other group or company around the world when a new technology tries to ruin its buissines, adapt.
Not adapting itself to the new technological reality, RIAA is opening huge chances of new visionaries company or groups to be successful, being the first in the market and getting ahead even before RIAA can think in any action to avoid it.
The revolution is in its way. All we can do (including RIAA) is adapt ourselves to it. It's useless to try to stop a train without destroying it.
Informatino (software included) should be free. ALL INFORMATION.
I'll tell more. The nature of information is to be free. Copyrights appeared recently in order to protect progress of the humanity. It has done its service, and is becoming obsolete.
Now humanity has produced enough information so copyrights are not that important to the progress. Humanity has now new ways to distribute it through the world very easily. Copyrights are getting in the way.
Humans communicate by nature, humans like to comunicate and exchange information. Restrict this human nature by the means of laws can't be a good thing.
Here in Brazil we have 2 major pay-tv options. Both sells cable (NET and TVA) and satellite (SKY and DirecTV) options. Basically the channels avaiable are equivalent, the first is slightly better for movies and the other for variety. But both are very good options.
I've already tried three options, in both technologies (cable and satellite), and I prefer Cable.
Why cable? Because Cable internet access is sheaper here in Brazil. Another point is that I can use my cable with more then one television.
The biggest problem for unemployed software engineers getting together and forming a company is financing. If you're unemployed, you probably don't have a lot of cash around to provide seed capital for your business.
I'm sorry to say so, but crisis demands investments. You must think about it when you aren't in a crisis, so gather as money as you can so it's possible to invest in a solution when you are unemployed.
You should have money when you get unemployed, if you aren't, I'm sorry.
It depends rather the module uses or not other GPLed files, either source or headers.
It's as simple as MS claims to be. GPL infects everything it touches. If you use any header or any source code from Linux kernel (or whatever GPLed code) it MUST be released under GPL.
But this is theory. We must avoid problems with this kind of GPL violation in order to keep major non-free drivers avaiable. (oh no, if Stallman sees me talking like this...:o) At this moment popularity is also very interesting.
Haven't they realized yet, the problem that is distribute Free Software embedded systems?
It really sux, you must provide a way to upgrade firmware, so you need to provide an interface. That's not easy.
To tell the truth I don't know exactly what is needed to be in conformity to GPL, but I'll tell you a thing, allow firmware upgrades in certain devices is not easy, and in many cases will increase product price.
Imagine yourself upgrading your FreeSoftware-CarStereo.
Escuse me, but how is he thinking to control this? I whish I could control every single email that leaves my network. But I can't do this without bloking important services (like HTTP).
What about the rest of the world? This tax would be valid only in US, and then what?
IMO politicians and executives should consult some kind of technical advisor before send to public perls like this.
No matter what you say, the most effective way to bring Free Software to enterprises is by enhancing support. That's exactly what happened to Red Hat and to SuSe (even with Conectiva), they started growing exactly when they became a brand name in supporting GNU/Linux.
This proposition, to unite the whole GNU/Linux comunity around a single distribution is not new. LSB tryed to do this, but around RH distro (get ready for the flames). IMHO Debian would be a better choice (oh, no, even more flames). FYI, I use Slackware.
In both cases, what we really need is way to certify support companies. Uniting distribution is not that good, although it would be something good facilitating the support.
Be careful, free software works as Natural Selection, so the variety is essencial.
Sorry, I don't mean to be unpolite, but I think that you are being ingenuous.
Let's consider that you live in a society that have values, and this values are defined not only by looking people around you, but also by other ways, such as media (newspapers, magazines, TV).
Do you really think that those who controls media are imparcial? That they don't use this tool to control masses?
Media is the most effective tool, and most hard to prove, to control masses. Most people are easily controled by media, You are affected by media, I am affected by media, We all are affected by media in different ways and levels. But we all are affected, just because that we are inside a society that have values and is mostly affected by media.
To think that you are not affected by media is being ingenous. How can you garantee that you are not affected by anybody? How can we garantee that those whose affect us through media aren't affected by somebody else?
I'm sorry, but this have nothing to do with the president (we all know who we are all talking about). This is about the faillings of this so called democratic govenment.
In a democratic government we have people electing their representatives so they can have their interests defended and laws supporting their needs and opinions. The way US government is organized it just doesn't happen this way.
The legislative is mostly supported by huge corporations that use their power and money to buy the ones that was supposed to defend the people interests.
And what happens then? Then we have draconian laws that protect most corporations, harming just a few of them, aproved, even if them simply don't bring any good to the people. That's the case of DMCA, for examplo.
What can be done? We can try changing the way we vote, and the way we participate, avoiding being confused and manipulated by huge organizations and voting in politicians that really represent us.
IMO we need even more. Politicians should not be allowed to be paid by corporations. Corporations should not even participate in politcs decisions. Politics campains should be maid on the streets, squares, not on TV. We should be able to contact in person our representatives.
This view of the future is not self-supported. It cannot just exist this way.
A whole population expending 75% of the total incoming means not only buying food or copyrighted material, but also buying durable goods like cars and eletronics.
But new cars and new eletronics depends on technology development (cars not that much. Ok, I'll let cars out of this discussion). The base of all these draconian laws is the avoidance of creative utilization of eletronic goods, that is mostly used to access copyrighted material. These laws avoid the appearence of modified equipments that is the base of the innovative production of new eletronic goods.
These laws will collapse consuming american society as it have developed from the beggining. Consuming american society are not based on copyright, but in innovation. We all know great inventors that passed to the history with their inventions and inovations, of course they were protected by copyright laws, but it was nothing but tool.
So what will happens if laws cuting the inovation capabilities of a whole society passes? All the inovations will be produced somewhere else. Humanity needs inovation, and today most of them are concentrated in USA. As consequence the money involved in producing new technologies, inventions and inovations will be taken to other countries, that can't be good.
So in the scenario propoused the whole country economics will be based on the production of copyrighted material and the maintainance of this material. This isn't self supported, there will be not enough production to support this.
US can even become leader in production of copyrighted material. But US citizens will pay for it, and the whole world will consume it for free, because this draconian laws will only be valid inside the US.
If these draconian laws pass, be careful. US won't be the most powerful economics in the world anymore.
About the scenario. It can't support itself. You can't base a whole society in copyrighted production and in laws to protect them, there must be inventions and inovation.
Repeat after me, everyone: I will never buy another CD from the RIAA again(...)
I used to buy CDs, and I could even keep buying over and over, as I had always bought. But since RIAA started this stupid quest against the "Information Revolution" I simply stopd buying CDS.
This is a protest by civil desobedience. It's really unfair! I must adapt to new technologies, but RIAA doesn't, it has its own lawyers.
IMO we should everybody start sharing even more files, not only.mp3, but most files possible. By the means of civil desobedienc we can change the laws.
Sueing kids, they must be kidding. I can't believe that they are goingo to sue a kid by doing what most society are doing right now.
Information (yes, music is nothing more then information) sharing is not a simply criminal act, it 's much more then this. Information sharing is about this information revolution we all see today that started with internet, and will be each time more and more present to everybody life.
RIAA is excluding itself from this revolution by doing this. They need to understand that adaptation is need, instead of trying to stop the revolution. They can't simply stop a train!
The most amazing of all this is that laws give RIAA ways to avoiding adaptation. When a new technology comes up I have to adapt myself. When a new machine enters the factory, employees have to adapt themselve or be fired. What about RIAA? when a new social organization comes up they'll run to the laws to avoid their adaptation? That's not fair!
IMHO RIAA must find a way to exist with this new social revolution. They can't stop the revolution, and if they don't adapt themselve they'll die as an organization. The biggest problem here is that they ruins innocents lifes in the process of their own ruin.
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I think that world record industry should apapt instead of sue.
They must find a way to distribuite music easily and and cheaper. Music stores are getting obsolete, webshops like Amazon takes too long. How long does it take for downloading a whole CD?
Prices are too high. But downloads aren't fast enough. They must avoid people from downloading any kind of music by giving them reasons to do so.
Jailing your own customers aren't a good options. Nobody buys CDs in jail.
The solution is to lower price, I think that US$ 5/CD or US$ 0,25/track are good prices, low enough to avoid people for downloading music. In Brazil piracy is so evolved that you can buy a CD for US$ 2,00, and you can buy a CD on every corner. Many people prefer to low quality CDs because it's cheaper, easier and faster, there's always somebody selling pirated CDs.
That's the solution. Make downloading boring and time-consuming, so it's better to buy a CD (or tracks) then to download it from any P2P network.
Once again RIAA shows us that is simply can't adapt themselves to the new reality of information sharing.
Internet isn't just a new media, or a new commercial channel. It's also a new and improved way to communicate. For those who want me to be even more clear, it's a new way to share and exchange information.
The fact is that internet users will, for itself, share information among each other. That's what a communication tool meant to do. And there's nothing RIAA can do that'll will avoid 95% of the world population (US residents are 5% only) sharing information, musing included.
RIAA must do just like any other group or company around the world when a new technology tries to ruin its buissines, adapt.
Not adapting itself to the new technological reality, RIAA is opening huge chances of new visionaries company or groups to be successful, being the first in the market and getting ahead even before RIAA can think in any action to avoid it.
The revolution is in its way. All we can do (including RIAA) is adapt ourselves to it. It's useless to try to stop a train without destroying it.
What about non-americans file swappers?
Hey, don't forget that the average reader is a /.er
TD-SCDMA becomes the most used cell phone technology
Informatino (software included) should be free. ALL INFORMATION.
I'll tell more. The nature of information is to be free. Copyrights appeared recently in order to protect progress of the humanity. It has done its service, and is becoming obsolete.
Now humanity has produced enough information so copyrights are not that important to the progress. Humanity has now new ways to distribute it through the world very easily. Copyrights are getting in the way.
Humans communicate by nature, humans like to comunicate and exchange information. Restrict this human nature by the means of laws can't be a good thing.
That's all I was hoping to see. MS says that it reponse time for bugs is lower then OpenSource reponse time.
Now we have a released bug, and I want to see how long will it take until MS fixes this bug.
Somebody, please, monitor this bug (or teach me how to monitor it)
Here in Brazil we have 2 major pay-tv options. Both sells cable (NET and TVA) and satellite (SKY and DirecTV) options. Basically the channels avaiable are equivalent, the first is slightly better for movies and the other for variety. But both are very good options.
I've already tried three options, in both technologies (cable and satellite), and I prefer Cable.
Why cable? Because Cable internet access is sheaper here in Brazil. Another point is that I can use my cable with more then one television.
So I still prefer Cable.
I'm sorry to say so, but crisis demands investments. You must think about it when you aren't in a crisis, so gather as money as you can so it's possible to invest in a solution when you are unemployed.
You should have money when you get unemployed, if you aren't, I'm sorry.
Sorry, but in Australia I can register the Wheel!!!
In related news...
It depends rather the module uses or not other GPLed files, either source or headers.
It's as simple as MS claims to be. GPL infects everything it touches. If you use any header or any source code from Linux kernel (or whatever GPLed code) it MUST be released under GPL.
But this is theory. We must avoid problems with this kind of GPL violation in order to keep major non-free drivers avaiable. (oh no, if Stallman sees me talking like this... :o) At this moment popularity is also very interesting.
Let's not become like SCO.
Haven't they realized yet, the problem that is distribute Free Software embedded systems?
It really sux, you must provide a way to upgrade firmware, so you need to provide an interface. That's not easy.
To tell the truth I don't know exactly what is needed to be in conformity to GPL, but I'll tell you a thing, allow firmware upgrades in certain devices is not easy, and in many cases will increase product price.
Imagine yourself upgrading your FreeSoftware-CarStereo.
I hope they find easy ways to do such a thing.
Escuse me, but how is he thinking to control this? I whish I could control every single email that leaves my network. But I can't do this without bloking important services (like HTTP).
What about the rest of the world? This tax would be valid only in US, and then what?
IMO politicians and executives should consult some kind of technical advisor before send to public perls like this.
No matter what you say, the most effective way to bring Free Software to enterprises is by enhancing support. That's exactly what happened to Red Hat and to SuSe (even with Conectiva), they started growing exactly when they became a brand name in supporting GNU/Linux.
This proposition, to unite the whole GNU/Linux comunity around a single distribution is not new. LSB tryed to do this, but around RH distro (get ready for the flames). IMHO Debian would be a better choice (oh, no, even more flames). FYI, I use Slackware.
In both cases, what we really need is way to certify support companies. Uniting distribution is not that good, although it would be something good facilitating the support.
Be careful, free software works as Natural Selection, so the variety is essencial.
Let's consider that you live in a society that have values, and this values are defined not only by looking people around you, but also by other ways, such as media (newspapers, magazines, TV).
Do you really think that those who controls media are imparcial? That they don't use this tool to control masses?
Media is the most effective tool, and most hard to prove, to control masses. Most people are easily controled by media, You are affected by media, I am affected by media, We all are affected by media in different ways and levels. But we all are affected, just because that we are inside a society that have values and is mostly affected by media.
To think that you are not affected by media is being ingenous. How can you garantee that you are not affected by anybody? How can we garantee that those whose affect us through media aren't affected by somebody else?
Think about it!
I'm sorry, but this have nothing to do with the president (we all know who we are all talking about). This is about the faillings of this so called democratic govenment.
In a democratic government we have people electing their representatives so they can have their interests defended and laws supporting their needs and opinions. The way US government is organized it just doesn't happen this way.
The legislative is mostly supported by huge corporations that use their power and money to buy the ones that was supposed to defend the people interests.
And what happens then? Then we have draconian laws that protect most corporations, harming just a few of them, aproved, even if them simply don't bring any good to the people. That's the case of DMCA, for examplo.
What can be done? We can try changing the way we vote, and the way we participate, avoiding being confused and manipulated by huge organizations and voting in politicians that really represent us.
IMO we need even more. Politicians should not be allowed to be paid by corporations. Corporations should not even participate in politcs decisions. Politics campains should be maid on the streets, squares, not on TV. We should be able to contact in person our representatives.
Will that be true someday?
This view of the future is not self-supported. It cannot just exist this way.
A whole population expending 75% of the total incoming means not only buying food or copyrighted material, but also buying durable goods like cars and eletronics.
But new cars and new eletronics depends on technology development (cars not that much. Ok, I'll let cars out of this discussion). The base of all these draconian laws is the avoidance of creative utilization of eletronic goods, that is mostly used to access copyrighted material. These laws avoid the appearence of modified equipments that is the base of the innovative production of new eletronic goods.
These laws will collapse consuming american society as it have developed from the beggining. Consuming american society are not based on copyright, but in innovation. We all know great inventors that passed to the history with their inventions and inovations, of course they were protected by copyright laws, but it was nothing but tool.
So what will happens if laws cuting the inovation capabilities of a whole society passes? All the inovations will be produced somewhere else. Humanity needs inovation, and today most of them are concentrated in USA. As consequence the money involved in producing new technologies, inventions and inovations will be taken to other countries, that can't be good.
So in the scenario propoused the whole country economics will be based on the production of copyrighted material and the maintainance of this material. This isn't self supported, there will be not enough production to support this.
US can even become leader in production of copyrighted material. But US citizens will pay for it, and the whole world will consume it for free, because this draconian laws will only be valid inside the US.
If these draconian laws pass, be careful. US won't be the most powerful economics in the world anymore.
About the scenario. It can't support itself. You can't base a whole society in copyrighted production and in laws to protect them, there must be inventions and inovation.
Learn with the past
I'll wait six months until somebody outside US publishes something to crack this bullshit!
Just like CSS!
When will they learn that any kind of digital copy protection will ALWAYS be cracked in a few monthes? Don't they have TI advisors?
- Repeat after me, everyone: I will never buy another CD from the RIAA again(...)
I used to buy CDs, and I could even keep buying over and over, as I had always bought. But since RIAA started this stupid quest against the "Information Revolution" I simply stopd buying CDS.This is a protest by civil desobedience. It's really unfair! I must adapt to new technologies, but RIAA doesn't, it has its own lawyers.
IMO we should everybody start sharing even more files, not only .mp3, but most files possible. By the means of civil desobedienc we can change the laws.
Sueing kids, they must be kidding. I can't believe that they are goingo to sue a kid by doing what most society are doing right now.
Information (yes, music is nothing more then information) sharing is not a simply criminal act, it 's much more then this. Information sharing is about this information revolution we all see today that started with internet, and will be each time more and more present to everybody life.
RIAA is excluding itself from this revolution by doing this. They need to understand that adaptation is need, instead of trying to stop the revolution. They can't simply stop a train!
The most amazing of all this is that laws give RIAA ways to avoiding adaptation. When a new technology comes up I have to adapt myself. When a new machine enters the factory, employees have to adapt themselve or be fired. What about RIAA? when a new social organization comes up they'll run to the laws to avoid their adaptation? That's not fair!
IMHO RIAA must find a way to exist with this new social revolution. They can't stop the revolution, and if they don't adapt themselve they'll die as an organization. The biggest problem here is that they ruins innocents lifes in the process of their own ruin.
What about DMCA? When a russian guy shows security flaws of an application that is used to distribute e-books, he is arrested almost imediately.
But when a Professor shows security flaws of a communication device, that can also be used to delivery copyrighted material nothing happens.
I dunno they'll be arrested!
- The GSM association is not happy.
They should be happy. It's an opportunity to them to refine their techniques and improve users protection.IMO people should understand that errors found are opportunities to improve quality. Not a way to point incapacity.
Now Microsoft can drop TCP/IP stack BSD-licensed code from Windows, and then cosider all FreeSoftware licensesas potencially viral.
TCP/IP stack in VB! That would be great!
And thaaat's what we call FREEDOM.
If you can't, or don't want to, afford MS Windows you just can't vote.
Next Step: If you can't, or don't want to, afford a Mont Blanc pen you just can't vote.
Or even: If you can't, or don't want to, afford a house on you own you just can't vote.
And to get back to XVIII century: If you can't, or don't want to, have a $120,000 job you just can't vote (adjusted values).