That is why I watch TV at night. I can't get enough of those "call me at 1-900" babes. And since I'm going bald, I like to see my choices in hair loss reduction.
With only a little math, and a bit of datamining from the grocery store/general store database, they could target those pantyliner ads to only show once a month for your girlfriend.
True, but don't stop there. Microsoft then gets ownership of the patent, and charges you a penny per JPG viewed in IE...taken automatically out of your MS-Passport Wallet.
Well, that depends. I have 9,800 albums in MP3 format, taking up about 570 GB. If I could fit them all on the HD, I'd be able to trade and double it in a couple months.
Thus, for me, having enough hard drive space causes me to trade faster, thus need more hard drive space.
You're forgetting that in this scenario that the food IS already being distributed for free. That there are too many of these freebie-vendors to catch and send to jail or fine. So, instead they want to make the carts illegal, which makes no sense.
This guy just suggested that a better solution (than banning carts) is make better carts, more of them, and bigger -- and cash in. It is a good idea. Obviously it's a good idea. It's being done by the "bad guys".
If you say the sentence out loud, it's true that a company shouldn't be FORCED to arbitrarily change the way they do business. But wait, that's what a free capitalistic market is all about. If that is what people want, normal competition would drive any other business into these types of evolutions or perish. That's the problem with this scenario. There is a monopoly in place. Efficiency, listening to consumers, giving consumers what they want, competitive prices, loss in sales, increase in sales, going out of business, and much much more is normal for other businesses. Why not this one?
My current project with my Mindstorms, is a cd-changer using suction cups. Since I have 750 cd-r's with 8,300 mp3 albums, this will save me a lot of time.
My first version didn't use suction cups, and the cd-r's were set up on their sides. But I used up all my legos, and it only held 47 cd-r's. To make it work with 100's of cd-r's, I had to settle for suction cups, and to leave the cd-r's inside their spindles.
Well, for this year's april fool's joke, I cut a Q-tip in half, and stuck one in my ear. (So it looked like it was almost all the way in) I then put ketchup (actually a mixture to make it a bit more real) and put it around my ear, and down my neck.
I then walked out of the bathroom yelling, "Heather, I think it went in too far!"
Good info to read, but copyright infringement doesn't fall under Theft. I have no idea where that leaves us though. It's probably a good comparison. I'd say it would be a good thing to meter against--except that the RIAA's 400 lawyers would definately max it out against ya.
You might be interested (or surprised/dismayed) that copyright infringment carries a much stiffer penalty. I remember reading $25,000 fine PER incident, and up to $100,000 fine PER incident. The jail time was 2 years. Those numbers are somewhere in the AHRA and DMCA.
And even worse, here's something I just read about recently. The
NET Act (No Electronic Theft):
"The No Electronic Theft law (the NET Act) is significant because now sound recording infringements (including by digital means) can be criminally prosecuted even where no monetary profit or commercial gain is derived from the infringing activity. Punishment in such instances includes up to 3 years in prison and/or $250,000 fines. The NET Act also extends the criminal statute of limitations for copyright infringement from 3 to 5 years.
Additionally, the NET Act amended the definition of "commercial advantage or private financial gain" to include the receipt (or expectation of receipt) of anything of value, including receipt of other copyrighted works (as in MP3 trading). Punishment in such instances includes up to 5 years in prison and/or $250,000 fines. Individuals may also be civilly liable, regardless of whether the activity is for profit, for actual damages or lost profits, or for statutory damages up to $150,000 per work infringed."
You don't think 2 million people broke into Napster's servers, under their noses?
Napster Admin: Our OC48 is full!? How can that be?
You ever see one of those weekend flee market places on the side of the highway? I'm sure the organizers weren't going to each vendor and saying: "Make sure you don't sell guns & drugs" *wink* *wink*. If the place DID turn out to be a hotbed of drugs & arms sales, the organizers would definately get in trouble.
Remember, the police never broke into Napster HQ and said "FREEZE! The RIAA says you're under arrest". Napster has been told that illegal copyright infringment has been happening via their service for quite some time, many many many times, and even I don't think Napster tried to prove otherwise. At the least, there is no way they can claim ignorance of what has been going on.
It's illegal to hold a meeting place for illegal activities to take place. I'm sorry I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's called racketeering?
Examples I read about this back when Napster was first under fire (day one?:) was the argument: I'm an owner of a rundown, out of the way warehouse. Each friday night I open it up so that drug dealers and arms dealers can trade/buy/sell.
Although I won't get busted for selling drugs myself, I do get busted for racketeering.
Good point. RIAA has a lot of resources, but not enough resources to get everyone. That's why they aim at Napster and web sites that hold mp3's. People trading mp3's by snail mail (even when trading 100-500 at a time) are probably safe due just to sheer lack of numbers.
That's really cool. All the universities that were having bandwidth problems, (read=all) should have tried something like this!
Reminds me of the businesses that go ahead and download the Star Wars trailers, etc, and tell the employees to take it off the network instead. It's admitting defeat without admitting defeat.
WIRED carried a story on Sealand last year. I can't find my magazine here about it, but pulled a quote off of their site:
Hastings says that because a 1968 British court decision effectively recognized the basketball court-sized island as a sovereign nation called Sealand, HavenCo can provide more privacy and legal protections then anyone else on the planet.
Don't you know that most things in the world are decided on paper? Although the continued existence of Sealand being an independent country is shaky, as the British government figure out what to do...Sealand IS and has been a "Country" since 1966 or '68. They claimed independence back then, and were granted it.
The "horse clause" hasn't been invoked yet. They are still independent.
But...Isn't this a "right-to-work" country? There are contracts and there are contracts. It's possible (even in tennessee?) to work for a company where your contracts can impede your own free-market ideas.
There has to be a fine line somewhere. If your sentence was read literally, then it'd be ok for me to steal iMacs from a Tennessee company and fence it for money (or for pennies, as it might be), since "it keeps me from earning money".
Someone needs to set up a huge alias table of the songs that are on Napster's hitlist. The file will quickly rename your songs to "0001.mp3" "0002.mp3" for example, and then all you have to search for is "0001.mp3". Or if a different front end client was used on napster, it would automatically change your "Ride The Lightning Metallica" search to "0001.mp3".
Even if everyone used this, then that would mean Napster would have it too, and could then ban those alias files also.
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I can't get enough of those "call me at 1-900" babes. And since I'm going bald, I like to see my choices in hair loss reduction.
With only a little math, and a bit of datamining from the grocery store/general store database, they could target those pantyliner ads to only show once a month for your girlfriend.
Microsoft then gets ownership of the patent, and charges you a penny per JPG viewed in IE...taken automatically out of your MS-Passport Wallet.
Cool. I saw Chuck Berry at his Blueberry Hill restaurant/club in St. Louis.
Well, that depends. I have 9,800 albums in MP3 format, taking up about 570 GB. If I could fit them all on the HD, I'd be able to trade and double it in a couple months.
Thus, for me, having enough hard drive space causes me to trade faster, thus need more hard drive space.
Yea, but the $300 check Bush sent me last year isn't enough for ME to buy a computer this fast.
You're forgetting that in this scenario that the food IS already being distributed for free. That there are too many of these freebie-vendors to catch and send to jail or fine. So, instead they want to make the carts illegal, which makes no sense.
This guy just suggested that a better solution (than banning carts) is make better carts, more of them, and bigger -- and cash in. It is a good idea. Obviously it's a good idea. It's being done by the "bad guys".
If you say the sentence out loud, it's true that a company shouldn't be FORCED to arbitrarily change the way they do business. But wait, that's what a free capitalistic market is all about. If that is what people want, normal competition would drive any other business into these types of evolutions or perish. That's the problem with this scenario. There is a monopoly in place. Efficiency, listening to consumers, giving consumers what they want, competitive prices, loss in sales, increase in sales, going out of business, and much much more is normal for other businesses. Why not this one?
Rader
Actually, my mp3 collection set on random is definately my idea of entertainment!
My current project with my Mindstorms, is a cd-changer using suction cups. Since I have 750 cd-r's with 8,300 mp3 albums, this will save me a lot of time.
My first version didn't use suction cups, and the cd-r's were set up on their sides. But I used up all my legos, and it only held 47 cd-r's. To make it work with 100's of cd-r's, I had to settle for suction cups, and to leave the cd-r's inside their spindles.
Rader
Out of hard drive space again! 470GB of mp3
They want it so bad, they're rolling over in their graves. (Record execs are the undead, after all)
Rader
Rader
I then walked out of the bathroom yelling, "Heather, I think it went in too far!"
She was not amused...
Rader
Rader
And even worse, here's something I just read about recently. The NET Act (No Electronic Theft) :
"The No Electronic Theft law (the NET Act) is significant because now sound recording infringements (including by digital means) can be criminally prosecuted even where no monetary profit or commercial gain is derived from the infringing activity. Punishment in such instances includes up to 3 years in prison and/or $250,000 fines. The NET Act also extends the criminal statute of limitations for copyright infringement from 3 to 5 years.
Additionally, the NET Act amended the definition of "commercial advantage or private financial gain" to include the receipt (or expectation of receipt) of anything of value, including receipt of other copyrighted works (as in MP3 trading). Punishment in such instances includes up to 5 years in prison and/or $250,000 fines. Individuals may also be civilly liable, regardless of whether the activity is for profit, for actual damages or lost profits, or for statutory damages up to $150,000 per work infringed."
Rader
Rader
Saying .NET is the next wireless bandwidth solution is like saying XML made my watch link up with a satellite.
Don't believe the M$Hype!
Rader
All they have to do is do a search on a metallica song, download them, play them, and voila! They have proof.
Maybe I misunderstood you, but Napster isn't just a cardboard box that says "illegal files".
Rader
You don't think 2 million people broke into Napster's servers, under their noses?
Napster Admin: Our OC48 is full!? How can that be?
You ever see one of those weekend flee market places on the side of the highway? I'm sure the organizers weren't going to each vendor and saying: "Make sure you don't sell guns & drugs" *wink* *wink*. If the place DID turn out to be a hotbed of drugs & arms sales, the organizers would definately get in trouble.
Remember, the police never broke into Napster HQ and said "FREEZE! The RIAA says you're under arrest". Napster has been told that illegal copyright infringment has been happening via their service for quite some time, many many many times, and even I don't think Napster tried to prove otherwise. At the least, there is no way they can claim ignorance of what has been going on.
Rader
Examples I read about this back when Napster was first under fire (day one? :) was the argument: I'm an owner of a rundown, out of the way warehouse. Each friday night I open it up so that drug dealers and arms dealers can trade/buy/sell.
Although I won't get busted for selling drugs myself, I do get busted for racketeering.
Rader
Rader
Reminds me of the businesses that go ahead and download the Star Wars trailers, etc, and tell the employees to take it off the network instead. It's admitting defeat without admitting defeat.
Rader
WIRED carried a story on Sealand last year. I can't find my magazine here about it, but pulled a quote off of their site:
Hastings says that because a 1968 British court decision effectively recognized the basketball court-sized island as a sovereign nation called Sealand, HavenCo can provide more privacy and legal protections then anyone else on the planet.
Don't you know that most things in the world are decided on paper? Although the continued existence of Sealand being an independent country is shaky, as the British government figure out what to do...Sealand IS and has been a "Country" since 1966 or '68. They claimed independence back then, and were granted it.
The "horse clause" hasn't been invoked yet. They are still independent.
Rader
But...Isn't this a "right-to-work" country? There are contracts and there are contracts. It's possible (even in tennessee?) to work for a company where your contracts can impede your own free-market ideas.
There has to be a fine line somewhere. If your sentence was read literally, then it'd be ok for me to steal iMacs from a Tennessee company and fence it for money (or for pennies, as it might be), since "it keeps me from earning money".
Rader
Even if everyone used this, then that would mean Napster would have it too, and could then ban those alias files also.
Rader