For the past couple years I've forwarded all emails for a domain to one account. Whenever I give out my email, I give their website/company@my-domain.com and try to insure they will not spam by doing the usual unsubscribing. Classmates was a violator, however I went back through and reunsubscribed and rarely get anything. The worst offenders I found were morpheus-musiccity, iseekyou(icq), and my-domain. Hotmail was pretty bad when I originally signed up because I didn't unsubscribe at passport.net.
Recently I tried the Power90, and for a 90 day workout, it was great. Very easy to get started, slowly working up to more reps etc...
For $60 this I'd recommend this over a gym. At least you can do it from home. Find 30-45 minutes a day and go at it. If you fail you can always try the DVD again in a couple months. But really give it 3 months and see if you like the way your body has changed.
Also reducing how much I eat helps. Usually I find if I go out, I'll split a meal and eat half of that.
You could even try reducing the meat you eat to none in rebellion against big corporations.
Intertainer has much better quality of service these days. They lowered their streams from 700kb/s to 500kb/s with minimal quality loss with Windows Media... Plus they have had Harry Potter since August streaming to broadband customers.
I believe streaming movies will always trump downloadable, unless I can keep the d/l forever.
We realize they're just games. But too many times have I heard people at work/home/skewl/bars disparrage gaming/ers. I don't think this is anything new. Prior to gaming on computers, it was gaming with friends ala d&d. That was evil, and satanic, and violent, and kids ended up 'killing themselves' because their character died *riiiight*. People as a large group that don't get it though...
The fact of the matter is, it's a decent release, noone gets hurt (besides ppl that are mentally damaged to begin with). Sure many popular games are violent, but we humans are hunters (& gatherers). Hell they let us have guns, but we can't use them. Sometymes it's a little better to go get fragged a few times, rather than respond to that email, much less painful.
Society questioning itself is fine, but when Uncle Mom wants you! to stop anything that might be dangerous. Someone has to tell her, let go, we'll be ok. Too bad I don't know anyone that she'll listen to. Good thing the gaming industry is a buncha fat capitalists pushing innovation to the next level, they could buy enough votes to keep em in business.
Back in about 1990, I swore off cassette tapes, gave away the 300+ tapes I owned and never bought one since. Now I have 300+ CD's (although I don't remember buying 2~3 cd's a month for the past 10yrs). These CD's have not seen the light of the inside of my apartment, since I found I could rip a CD to mp3 in 30 minutes. Now this is about a 5 minute process. We are now here at 2000, and I have sworn off VHS tapes. This will hopefully be the end of my relationship with magnetic tape media. No longer will I be required to purchase a second or third copy of something, due to over use.
We should be able to buy a piece of digital media, and transfer it to our digital media platform. I store all of my new CD's and many of my preffered old CD's on my computer. I will be transferring my DVD's over as I gain more hard drive space. These files, movies, songs, etc are not for distribution, other than distributing music to myself at work, or when I'm out of town, etc...
Also, many of my older CD's were unlistenable due to scratches. Mp3's don't skip, they just have a popping where they would have skipped. This was a blessing since I've had a great number of CD's that were all but lost.
I have had many CD's stolen over the years and it sucks. Had the technology been available in the past to record those CD's to mp3, I would still have some music that cannot be purchased. (Ice T's CopKiller, free speech, but not allowed in the US)
As an average consumer I am disturbed that I am accused of being a thief.
I do not have a real issue with digital signatures being imprinted on my mp3's or mp4's, so if lets say I happen to begin distributing files to thousands of people a copyright holder would know this copy has made it to 50 warez sitez. But, if a devious person cracked my box, and distributed my stuff, where would the innocent until proven guilty come in?
The MPAA (or rather Mr. Valenti) has stated it is a small gov't. But do they not have to follow the rules defined in the US constitution? A gov't formed within the US, should still have gov't rules applied to it.
The only real reason I can think for these rules against copying to digital, is marketing fears it will not be able to sell you that movie you purchased on DVD, in 5, 10, 20 years in yet another format or version because you will not choose to buy it. How many different copies of the Star Warz Trilogy do you have? Now just think it'll be another 5 years before I can actually enjoy those movies. *sigh*
Since marketing is where the great losses are for the Industry (according to the RIAA FAQ on why CD's cost so much). Perhaps someone should let them know, we're tired of having them tell us what we like, even though we don't. Napster gives the RIAA 30+Million users who can help guide marketing. Nah, instead lets just shut them down and raise prices.
It just so happens I like digital media so much, that I work for a company that distributes movies, tv, and music *legally* over high speed access(cable modem/set-top-box, dsl, 384k~1.5M content). The licensing is the hardest part. Fear. It would be nice if we could encode mp2 & mp4 off DVD, rather than DigiBeta.
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if you shout a horrible statement in a crowd should a lawsuit be allowed? now, since there did happen to be a news camera with a mike that caught you? you are no longer anonymous, stupidity is no excuse from the law;]
perhaps we should just install cameras with mikes everywhere, just in case a terrorist is talking about doing something evil somewhere.
i like to consider posting anonymously or yelling in a crowd with slightly modified apperance (a bandana) as being ok, and legal. i believe within the creation of the US this has always been true. without freedom of anonymous speech there is always the fear of reprocussions from differing views.
the problem is when you begin talking about harm. the corp should see harm before harm effects them. a good manager tends to find an external source to the problem. if kellogs sales are down recently, why not blame exxon for using a tiger? that explains why the excessive expenses of marketing are costing corps millions more than employees or equipment. i shouldn't say corp names w/o posting anonymously? but if i did post anon, would it matter now?
Speaking of putting the MPAA on the other side of a v. What would be wrong with a class action lawsuit against the MPAA Members for 'aggressive, anticompetitive monopolistic behavior'. Sure monopolies are traditionally one company. But here we have 7 companies trying to ensure there is no competition via the shield of piracy. I'm sure this would make the Motion Picture industry raise an eyebrow. They are preventing the spread of technology to alternative sources, thus attempting to maintain a monopoly for which they theoretically do not control. Perhaps a small class action lawsuit in the sum of $80M. Which only assumes $4 per Linux user. The $4 is for the inconvenience of being unable to use a DVD player on the machine.
The MPAA seems to assert there is no other way of copying DVD's. Everyone here knows this is incorrect. Through a minimum of essentially a xerox copy DVD's can be copied (aka bit for bit or back to back copying). I'm sure this could be easily used for mass duplication.
Also, I do not believe the Motion Picture Industry is allowed to get together and conspire to shut other 'entities' down, fix prices and what not.
The MPAA seems to be misrepresenting their facts concerning potential losses due to piracy and the extent of piracy rings. Due to piracy there are $250M in domestic losses, and $2.5B in worldwide losses. In 3K police raids, 6K VCR's have been seized (an avg of 2 per raid?). Video cassettes taken in police raids 1.1M totaling $62M, this makes the average tapes profit $56.36?
Although in the same article on anti-piracy 100K Videos are pirated/sold per week (5.2M Annually) Grossing $500K (I assume this is weekly, so $26M Annually or $5 per tape), costing the MPAA $87M (5.2M pirated tapes cost the industry $16.73 per cassette pirated). With 420M blank cassettes sold annually, 660M Sell-through tapes($10B@$15avg), and 49.6M Rental tapes, totaling 709.8M Cassettes sold to retailers. Sounds to me like the MPAA wants us to believe 420M blank tapes, end up losing them $2.5B or $5.95 per tape to piracy. While the average theater ticket costs $4.62, and grosses $7B domestically and an additional $7B internationally. This is the justification to pursuing 'pirates' for DeCSS based on current Video piracy using multiple VCR's.
Now with an Average 20M Linux users, we will assume they own 10% of the DVD players(140K). They own 10% of the software (1.4M-2.4M Titles). So there is an estimated loss of $23.4M-$78.9M by excluding Linux users based on piracy losses.
Let us not forget movies now have a 120 year copyright or 95 years from original publication if prior to 1978. This means none of us can ever compete freely, only through licensing. Basically this means an artist (who the MPAA is protecting) is unable to profit off their work if creating a piece of work while under the employ of an industry corporation, or within 1 year of working for an industry corporation. So for instance Wes Craven cannot make money off Hellraiser or Pinhead for his life time, since he already received his $10K.
These statistics are mostly from http://www.mpaa.org/ either under Anti-Piracy or the US Economic Review.
Now that I've babbled on for a few hours, how about we figure out a way to rattle the MPAA's cage, rather than them rattling our cage. Sure there are many problems with what I've stated above. I'm tired I should be asleep. But hey, I'm tired of seeing people being walked all over by Corporate America. Someone is bound to be able to figure out a way to create a class action lawsuit against 'them'. Or at least find some kind of precedence against a group of individual entities trying to squash an economically lower group of people.
I'm no expert on anything, and I often spread miscommunication and lies about everything, so assume this whole document is wrong.
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For the past couple years I've forwarded all emails for a domain to one account. Whenever I give out my email, I give their website/company@my-domain.com and try to insure they will not spam by doing the usual unsubscribing. Classmates was a violator, however I went back through and reunsubscribed and rarely get anything. The worst offenders I found were morpheus-musiccity, iseekyou(icq), and my-domain. Hotmail was pretty bad when I originally signed up because I didn't unsubscribe at passport.net.
Recently I tried the Power90, and for a 90 day workout, it was great. Very easy to get started, slowly working up to more reps etc...
For $60 this I'd recommend this over a gym. At least you can do it from home. Find 30-45 minutes a day and go at it. If you fail you can always try the DVD again in a couple months. But really give it 3 months and see if you like the way your body has changed.
Also reducing how much I eat helps. Usually I find if I go out, I'll split a meal and eat half of that.
You could even try reducing the meat you eat to none in rebellion against big corporations.
Intertainer has much better quality of service these days. They lowered their streams from 700kb/s to 500kb/s with minimal quality loss with Windows Media... Plus they have had Harry Potter since August streaming to broadband customers.
I believe streaming movies will always trump downloadable, unless I can keep the d/l forever.
Doesn't this mean every installation of linux or other free s/w is included in piracy rate as well?
We realize they're just games. But too many times have I heard people at work/home/skewl/bars disparrage gaming/ers. I don't think this is anything new. Prior to gaming on computers, it was gaming with friends ala d&d. That was evil, and satanic, and violent, and kids ended up 'killing themselves' because their character died *riiiight*. People as a large group that don't get it though...
The fact of the matter is, it's a decent release, noone gets hurt (besides ppl that are mentally damaged to begin with). Sure many popular games are violent, but we humans are hunters (& gatherers). Hell they let us have guns, but we can't use them. Sometymes it's a little better to go get fragged a few times, rather than respond to that email, much less painful.
Society questioning itself is fine, but when Uncle Mom wants you! to stop anything that might be dangerous. Someone has to tell her, let go, we'll be ok. Too bad I don't know anyone that she'll listen to. Good thing the gaming industry is a buncha fat capitalists pushing innovation to the next level, they could buy enough votes to keep em in business.
Back in about 1990, I swore off cassette tapes, gave away the 300+ tapes I owned and never bought one since. Now I have 300+ CD's (although I don't remember buying 2~3 cd's a month for the past 10yrs). These CD's have not seen the light of the inside of my apartment, since I found I could rip a CD to mp3 in 30 minutes. Now this is about a 5 minute process. We are now here at 2000, and I have sworn off VHS tapes. This will hopefully be the end of my relationship with magnetic tape media. No longer will I be required to purchase a second or third copy of something, due to over use.
We should be able to buy a piece of digital media, and transfer it to our digital media platform. I store all of my new CD's and many of my preffered old CD's on my computer. I will be transferring my DVD's over as I gain more hard drive space. These files, movies, songs, etc are not for distribution, other than distributing music to myself at work, or when I'm out of town, etc...
Also, many of my older CD's were unlistenable due to scratches. Mp3's don't skip, they just have a popping where they would have skipped. This was a blessing since I've had a great number of CD's that were all but lost.
I have had many CD's stolen over the years and it sucks. Had the technology been available in the past to record those CD's to mp3, I would still have some music that cannot be purchased. (Ice T's CopKiller, free speech, but not allowed in the US)
As an average consumer I am disturbed that I am accused of being a thief.
I do not have a real issue with digital signatures being imprinted on my mp3's or mp4's, so if lets say I happen to begin distributing files to thousands of people a copyright holder would know this copy has made it to 50 warez sitez. But, if a devious person cracked my box, and distributed my stuff, where would the innocent until proven guilty come in?
The MPAA (or rather Mr. Valenti) has stated it is a small gov't. But do they not have to follow the rules defined in the US constitution? A gov't formed within the US, should still have gov't rules applied to it.
The only real reason I can think for these rules against copying to digital, is marketing fears it will not be able to sell you that movie you purchased on DVD, in 5, 10, 20 years in yet another format or version because you will not choose to buy it. How many different copies of the Star Warz Trilogy do you have? Now just think it'll be another 5 years before I can actually enjoy those movies. *sigh*
Since marketing is where the great losses are for the Industry (according to the RIAA FAQ on why CD's cost so much). Perhaps someone should let them know, we're tired of having them tell us what we like, even though we don't. Napster gives the RIAA 30+Million users who can help guide marketing. Nah, instead lets just shut them down and raise prices.
It just so happens I like digital media so much, that I work for a company that distributes movies, tv, and music *legally* over high speed access(cable modem/set-top-box, dsl, 384k~1.5M content). The licensing is the hardest part. Fear. It would be nice if we could encode mp2 & mp4 off DVD, rather than DigiBeta.
if you shout a horrible statement in a crowd should a lawsuit be allowed? now, since there did happen to be a news camera with a mike that caught you? you are no longer anonymous, stupidity is no excuse from the law ;]
perhaps we should just install cameras with mikes everywhere, just in case a terrorist is talking about doing something evil somewhere.
i like to consider posting anonymously or yelling in a crowd with slightly modified apperance (a bandana) as being ok, and legal. i believe within the creation of the US this has always been true. without freedom of anonymous speech there is always the fear of reprocussions from differing views.
the problem is when you begin talking about harm. the corp should see harm before harm effects them. a good manager tends to find an external source to the problem. if kellogs sales are down recently, why not blame exxon for using a tiger? that explains why the excessive expenses of marketing are costing corps millions more than employees or equipment. i shouldn't say corp names w/o posting anonymously? but if i did post anon, would it matter now?
Speaking of putting the MPAA on the other side of a v. What would be wrong with a class action lawsuit against the MPAA Members for 'aggressive, anticompetitive monopolistic behavior'. Sure monopolies are traditionally one company. But here we have 7 companies trying to ensure there is no competition via the shield of piracy. I'm sure this would make the Motion Picture industry raise an eyebrow. They are preventing the spread of technology to alternative sources, thus attempting to maintain a monopoly for which they theoretically do not control. Perhaps a small class action lawsuit in the sum of $80M. Which only assumes $4 per Linux user. The $4 is for the inconvenience of being unable to use a DVD player on the machine.
The MPAA seems to assert there is no other way of copying DVD's. Everyone here knows this is incorrect. Through a minimum of essentially a xerox copy DVD's can be copied (aka bit for bit or back to back copying). I'm sure this could be easily used for mass duplication.
Also, I do not believe the Motion Picture Industry is allowed to get together and conspire to shut other 'entities' down, fix prices and what not.
The MPAA seems to be misrepresenting their facts concerning potential losses due to piracy and the extent of piracy rings. Due to piracy there are $250M in domestic losses, and $2.5B in worldwide losses. In 3K police raids, 6K VCR's have been seized (an avg of 2 per raid?). Video cassettes taken in police raids 1.1M totaling $62M, this makes the average tapes profit $56.36?
Although in the same article on anti-piracy 100K Videos are pirated/sold per week (5.2M Annually) Grossing $500K (I assume this is weekly, so $26M Annually or $5 per tape), costing the MPAA $87M (5.2M pirated tapes cost the industry $16.73 per cassette pirated). With 420M blank cassettes sold annually, 660M Sell-through tapes($10B@$15avg), and 49.6M Rental tapes, totaling 709.8M Cassettes sold to retailers. Sounds to me like the MPAA wants us to believe 420M blank tapes, end up losing them $2.5B or $5.95 per tape to piracy. While the average theater ticket costs $4.62, and grosses $7B domestically and an additional $7B internationally. This is the justification to pursuing 'pirates' for DeCSS based on current Video piracy using multiple VCR's.
Now with an Average 20M Linux users, we will assume they own 10% of the DVD players(140K). They own 10% of the software (1.4M-2.4M Titles). So there is an estimated loss of $23.4M-$78.9M by excluding Linux users based on piracy losses.
Let us not forget movies now have a 120 year copyright or 95 years from original publication if prior to 1978. This means none of us can ever compete freely, only through licensing. Basically this means an artist (who the MPAA is protecting) is unable to profit off their work if creating a piece of work while under the employ of an industry corporation, or within 1 year of working for an industry corporation. So for instance Wes Craven cannot make money off Hellraiser or Pinhead for his life time, since he already received his $10K.
These statistics are mostly from http://www.mpaa.org/ either under Anti-Piracy or the US Economic Review.
Now that I've babbled on for a few hours, how about we figure out a way to rattle the MPAA's cage, rather than them rattling our cage. Sure there are many problems with what I've stated above. I'm tired I should be asleep. But hey, I'm tired of seeing people being walked all over by Corporate America. Someone is bound to be able to figure out a way to create a class action lawsuit against 'them'. Or at least find some kind of precedence against a group of individual entities trying to squash an economically lower group of people.
I'm no expert on anything, and I often spread miscommunication and lies about everything, so assume this whole document is wrong.