You seem to be under the impression that major record companies are working independent of each other, and not in collusion. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of indie music, but when britney and nickelback fall off of every radio station, the listeners will go away.
Metallica performed an evening of suck just outside of Buffalo, NY a couple weeks ago. The show was on a sunday night, and the local station pimping the show did a couple weeks of contests to win tickets and followed that up with a 3 day crapathon of NOTHING BUT GODDAMN METALLICA FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.
Think this through before you go spouting off. Who do you think would buckle first if the record companies said "fuck it then, we won't pay", the record companies, or the radio stations? Just how many listeners would top 40 stations have if they suddenly had no music to play? And with no audience, how do they get advertisers? The stations would be dead in the water within a week of the labels pulling that stunt. They're not grudgingly playing along to stay afloat, this is just a normal cost of doing business, and they pass that cost on ot the artists anyways.
The group you're speaking of (and hey, lay off the clove cigs...they're tasty, dammit) are a fringe group. The vocal minority. You know, I use linux and a Mac, but I don't feel the need to try to make everyone else see things my way. But a small vocal minority (let's call them "zealots") would have you believe that their way is the only way. Now, I'm sure you're an open-minded individual who wouldn't judge a goddamn computer OS based on the crazy ramblings of zealots like RMS or/.'s own Michael, right? Or would you? You seem willing to block out indie label music from your listening based on the people who like it. I guess OBSCURE CANADIAN BAND (not obscure in Canada, but elsewhere) Sloan put it best when they sang "It's not the band I hate, it's their fans".
Hey, look at me, I like Gentoo Linux. Ergo, I'm hippy-dippy cool.
Up until yesterday, I was using VNCThing on Panther to handle a couple RIPs here (Win2k and Win98, with RealVNC server) but ever since I upgraded from Jaguar to Panther I kept getting weird errors in VNCThing. Nothing major, but whenever I docked it and tried to go back it gave me some strange, cryptic error message. When I clicked ok it went away and worked as normal, but it's seemed a little sluggish on 10.3. When I tried to upgrade I discovered that Puple Shark Software's website (www.webthing.net) is now for sale. So I downloaded Chicken of the VNC. So far, so good.
Well stated. If you send back a meal at a restaurant, you wouldn't expect the chef to come out of the kitchen to challenge you to make it better yourself. Kudos to Stewart for calling these jobbers out. And now that my torrent is done, I get to watch.
Depends on how it's implemented. The one thing that seriously keeps me from buying a mac is software. I much prefer photshop / illustrator on OS X (I use it at work all day). But all the other software I want is Windows only. If I could buy an iMac and dual boot OS X and Win2k, I'd be at the Apple store right now. As far as that happening, I think MS could come out looking like champs because they could nail down the driver issues just like Apple has with the limited hardware they have to support, so Windows would be a LOT more stable. But then they'd have to compete with Apple on the merits of the OS alone, since the hardware playing field would be level. And developers would have more incentive to port software to OS X since they'd have to code for the system architecture anyways. But I can't see it ever happening, so I just got all excited over nothing.
It's comforting to know that Kerry only supports the death penalty when the defendant is a *terrorist*. So then senator, I guess the next question would be "name specific crimes under U.S. law that qualify as terrorism". I've heard authors of computer viruses referred to as terrorists, but rapists and corporate plunderers seem exempt from the label. Maybe if we can get Kenneth Lay branded in the media as a terrorist for doing so much financial damage to the U.S. then we can get to see more of that famous Kerry "flip-flopping".
I hate to nit pick, but I've seen this assertion made about a dozen times so far in this discussion:
people who distribute copyrighted material are violating both the letter and spirit of the law
Not all copyrighted material is illegal to distribute. The more this myth gets perpetuated, the easier it is for the **AA to get people to believe it. "We need broader powers to find ALL the copyrighted material". They say it enough and everyone follows along. So while I agree with your point as you meant it (illegally distributing copyrighted material should be punished) we have to make sure to keep the distinction between legal distribution and illegal distribution.
No it doesn't. Because the full line you're going for would have been "If you won't play with my toys the way I want you to, I'll just go home and take them with me". And as much as I'm sure the f/oss zealots would be squealing with glee in the streets of Europe had MS decided to stop selling to the EU rather than unbundle WMP, such does not appear to be the case. Now, let's see if we can get them to stop selling in Canada so I don't have to support my mom's Windows machine anymore...
It's a fairly common practice with web hosting to oversell. Most places I've seen that do colo/vps actually advertise that you can oversell your storage and bandwidth, as though it were a feature.
No need to dupe anyone. How many people do you know who leave their email clients set to the default of loading remote images? I think I know maybe two people besides myself who've changed it. Free web host for the image + mass mailing == anarchy!
If the injustices of Hussein's regime would have been magically ended by taking 10,000 random, innocent American lives, you would have still been all for it, right?
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The big difference here is that in the case of SiteFinder, Verisign had control over where you ended up for basically the entire internet. This seems like it would be the type of thing that would run as an Apache mod that would get invoked when a 404 gets returned, and so would only affect that particular site. There's a big difference between going to www.linuxdistro.org/whats_new.html and getting redirected to www.linuxdistro.org/whatsnew.php like this would probably do, and going to www.linuxdistor.org (typo intentional) and having Verisign redirect you to www.microsoft.com because they're getting paid to advertise.
I'm already working under the assumption that every eleven year old girl I'm chatting up on irc is either a 37 y/o truck driver from Idaho or an FBI agent.
Guess it depends on where you are. Can you get off a statutory rape charge if the 15 y/o you just diddled showed you a driver's license proclaiming her to be 22?
No they won't. Unless, of course, they start trying to make even more fundamental changes to copyright law. But since the RIAA hasn't had any luck on this front with used CD sales, I doubt the newspapers will either.
(c) Subdivisions (a) and (b) do not apply: (those are the sections relating to you including your email address)
(1) To a person who electronically disseminates a commercial
recording or audiovisual work to his or her immediate family, or
within his or her personal network, defined as a restricted access
network controlled by and accessible to only that person or people in
his or her immediate household.
(2) If the copyright owner, or a person acting under the authority
of the copyright owner, of a commercial recording or audiovisual
work has explicitly given permission for all or substantially all of
that recording or audiovisual work to be freely disseminated
electronically by or to anyone without limitation.
(3) To a person who has been licensed either by the copyright
owner or a person acting under the authority of the copyright owner
to disseminate electronically all or substantially all of a
commercial audiovisual work or recording.
I'm all for smiting bad legislation, but let's read the wording of the law first, m'kay?
So yeah, then. It's clear that this bill makes it even more illegal to distribute unauthorized copies of copyrighted material. Like this will even deter anyone who's already doing it. "Shit, I have to include my email address? But then I'd get caught! Oh well, I'll just make one up." Good job. Up next for Ahnie, it's now illegal to do blow off a hooker's tits while driving drunk. Thanks for clearing that one up, Governator.
Given the nature of the material concerned and the fact that it is widely known that motion picture studios do not distribute their works for free over the internet,
there can be no reasonable doubt about the illegality of this material.
(emphasis mine). Is it actually legal for them to do that? No reasonable doubt that the files, which they fucking listed in the email, including file sizes, are illegal? 23kb for a whole season? Retards.
And gambling addicts too. And how about my friend who really likes collecting comics? That's like an addiction, so let's get the government to buy him food too. I personally like the idea of letting people take care of themselves. If you need food for the day, maybe you shouldn't be buying heroin. Maybe *forcing* people to be responsible for themselves instead of saying "don't worry if you only have enough money for McDonald's or crack, but not both, because we'll buy you lunch" is what we as a society need to do.
Even if it never gets implemented, it'd be fun a fun hack to try. Run it past every story that hits the home page and see if it picks up the dupes that the eds miss.
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Without allergies, Schrodinger probably would never have tried to kill his cat.
You seem to be under the impression that major record companies are working independent of each other, and not in collusion. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of indie music, but when britney and nickelback fall off of every radio station, the listeners will go away.
Metallica performed an evening of suck just outside of Buffalo, NY a couple weeks ago. The show was on a sunday night, and the local station pimping the show did a couple weeks of contests to win tickets and followed that up with a 3 day crapathon of NOTHING BUT GODDAMN METALLICA FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.
Think this through before you go spouting off. Who do you think would buckle first if the record companies said "fuck it then, we won't pay", the record companies, or the radio stations? Just how many listeners would top 40 stations have if they suddenly had no music to play? And with no audience, how do they get advertisers? The stations would be dead in the water within a week of the labels pulling that stunt. They're not grudgingly playing along to stay afloat, this is just a normal cost of doing business, and they pass that cost on ot the artists anyways.
The group you're speaking of (and hey, lay off the clove cigs...they're tasty, dammit) are a fringe group. The vocal minority. You know, I use linux and a Mac, but I don't feel the need to try to make everyone else see things my way. But a small vocal minority (let's call them "zealots") would have you believe that their way is the only way. Now, I'm sure you're an open-minded individual who wouldn't judge a goddamn computer OS based on the crazy ramblings of zealots like RMS or /.'s own Michael, right? Or would you? You seem willing to block out indie label music from your listening based on the people who like it. I guess OBSCURE CANADIAN BAND (not obscure in Canada, but elsewhere) Sloan put it best when they sang "It's not the band I hate, it's their fans".
Hey, look at me, I like Gentoo Linux. Ergo, I'm hippy-dippy cool.
Up until yesterday, I was using VNCThing on Panther to handle a couple RIPs here (Win2k and Win98, with RealVNC server) but ever since I upgraded from Jaguar to Panther I kept getting weird errors in VNCThing. Nothing major, but whenever I docked it and tried to go back it gave me some strange, cryptic error message. When I clicked ok it went away and worked as normal, but it's seemed a little sluggish on 10.3. When I tried to upgrade I discovered that Puple Shark Software's website (www.webthing.net) is now for sale. So I downloaded Chicken of the VNC. So far, so good.
Well stated. If you send back a meal at a restaurant, you wouldn't expect the chef to come out of the kitchen to challenge you to make it better yourself. Kudos to Stewart for calling these jobbers out. And now that my torrent is done, I get to watch.
How do you know when a drummer is at your door?
The knocking is out of time and he doesn't know when to come in.
How do you get him to stop knocking on your door?
Pay him for the pizza.
Depends on how it's implemented. The one thing that seriously keeps me from buying a mac is software. I much prefer photshop / illustrator on OS X (I use it at work all day). But all the other software I want is Windows only. If I could buy an iMac and dual boot OS X and Win2k, I'd be at the Apple store right now. As far as that happening, I think MS could come out looking like champs because they could nail down the driver issues just like Apple has with the limited hardware they have to support, so Windows would be a LOT more stable. But then they'd have to compete with Apple on the merits of the OS alone, since the hardware playing field would be level. And developers would have more incentive to port software to OS X since they'd have to code for the system architecture anyways. But I can't see it ever happening, so I just got all excited over nothing.
It's comforting to know that Kerry only supports the death penalty when the defendant is a *terrorist*. So then senator, I guess the next question would be "name specific crimes under U.S. law that qualify as terrorism". I've heard authors of computer viruses referred to as terrorists, but rapists and corporate plunderers seem exempt from the label. Maybe if we can get Kenneth Lay branded in the media as a terrorist for doing so much financial damage to the U.S. then we can get to see more of that famous Kerry "flip-flopping".
Not all copyrighted material is illegal to distribute. The more this myth gets perpetuated, the easier it is for the **AA to get people to believe it. "We need broader powers to find ALL the copyrighted material". They say it enough and everyone follows along. So while I agree with your point as you meant it (illegally distributing copyrighted material should be punished) we have to make sure to keep the distinction between legal distribution and illegal distribution.
No it doesn't. Because the full line you're going for would have been "If you won't play with my toys the way I want you to, I'll just go home and take them with me". And as much as I'm sure the f/oss zealots would be squealing with glee in the streets of Europe had MS decided to stop selling to the EU rather than unbundle WMP, such does not appear to be the case. Now, let's see if we can get them to stop selling in Canada so I don't have to support my mom's Windows machine anymore...
It's a fairly common practice with web hosting to oversell. Most places I've seen that do colo/vps actually advertise that you can oversell your storage and bandwidth, as though it were a feature.
No need to dupe anyone. How many people do you know who leave their email clients set to the default of loading remote images? I think I know maybe two people besides myself who've changed it. Free web host for the image + mass mailing == anarchy!
If the injustices of Hussein's regime would have been magically ended by taking 10,000 random, innocent American lives, you would have still been all for it, right?
The big difference here is that in the case of SiteFinder, Verisign had control over where you ended up for basically the entire internet. This seems like it would be the type of thing that would run as an Apache mod that would get invoked when a 404 gets returned, and so would only affect that particular site. There's a big difference between going to www.linuxdistro.org/whats_new.html and getting redirected to www.linuxdistro.org/whatsnew.php like this would probably do, and going to www.linuxdistor.org (typo intentional) and having Verisign redirect you to www.microsoft.com because they're getting paid to advertise.
I'm already working under the assumption that every eleven year old girl I'm chatting up on irc is either a 37 y/o truck driver from Idaho or an FBI agent.
Guess it depends on where you are. Can you get off a statutory rape charge if the 15 y/o you just diddled showed you a driver's license proclaiming her to be 22?
I heard it opens a backdoor for attackers.
No they won't. Unless, of course, they start trying to make even more fundamental changes to copyright law. But since the RIAA hasn't had any luck on this front with used CD sales, I doubt the newspapers will either.
So yeah, then. It's clear that this bill makes it even more illegal to distribute unauthorized copies of copyrighted material. Like this will even deter anyone who's already doing it. "Shit, I have to include my email address? But then I'd get caught! Oh well, I'll just make one up." Good job. Up next for Ahnie, it's now illegal to do blow off a hooker's tits while driving drunk. Thanks for clearing that one up, Governator.
And gambling addicts too. And how about my friend who really likes collecting comics? That's like an addiction, so let's get the government to buy him food too. I personally like the idea of letting people take care of themselves. If you need food for the day, maybe you shouldn't be buying heroin. Maybe *forcing* people to be responsible for themselves instead of saying "don't worry if you only have enough money for McDonald's or crack, but not both, because we'll buy you lunch" is what we as a society need to do.
Even if it never gets implemented, it'd be fun a fun hack to try. Run it past every story that hits the home page and see if it picks up the dupes that the eds miss.