I hope one day these RIAA suckers go after the wrong person. Think about it... hacking into a computer system to see what songs Lil' Johnny has recorded off Sesame Street. Then, sue them for breaking and entering a private computer system. Here's even a formula for punititive damages:
$2,000 / [Poor family's monthly expendable income] * [RIAA monthly profit]
That'd really shove a broomstick up their sorry a$$es!!!
Our good friends at the RIAA are going to be sticking to this like flys on shit. After all, they seem to enjoy getting their feet wet with stuff that stinks.
(I) Freedom of monopolies. (II) Right to bear arms against the competition. (III) Right for a BSA henchman to occupy your home or place of business. (IV) Right to search everyone's computer without their consent. (V) The right for Microsoft to lie in defense. (VI) The right to draw out a trial for years to extract every last dime from taxpayers. (VII) Right to trial by judges who are technologically illiterate. (VIII) Right to inflict cruel and unusual punishment against anyone using a non-Microsoft OS. (IX) Microsoft has numerous inalienable rights not granted to anyone else. (X) Any rights not explicitly granted to Microsoft are exclusively reserved by Microsoft for future litigation.
Does anyone actually click on that garbage anyway? Personally, I don't even get one glimpse of that stuff...my eyes have been trained to ignore it.
It just seems to me that all the search engines are trying desparately to find some way of making money. After they found out that banner ads don't work, they resort to trying something completely lame. They'll one day learn that users hate to wade through trash to find one decent page.
Here's the deal. When I used Napster, I was exposed to a huge amount of music I would have never heard otherwise. If I found a song I liked, I'd check out other music on the same album.
The simple fact of the matter is that many people don't like to buy full albums because so many of them are filled with crap. If I like one song on the album, I won't buy the album...I have to like at least of few of them. But how do you ever know what the rest of the album is like? You download the songs and try them out.
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I hope one day these RIAA suckers go after the wrong person. Think about it... hacking into a computer system to see what songs Lil' Johnny has recorded off Sesame Street. Then, sue them for breaking and entering a private computer system. Here's even a formula for punititive damages: $2,000 / [Poor family's monthly expendable income] * [RIAA monthly profit] That'd really shove a broomstick up their sorry a$$es!!!
Our good friends at the RIAA are going to be sticking to this like flys on shit. After all, they seem to enjoy getting their feet wet with stuff that stinks.
Be sure to check out the book Hyperspace, by M. Kaku. Delves into string theory and multi-dimensional space. You can get it here.
(I) Freedom of monopolies.
(II) Right to bear arms against the competition.
(III) Right for a BSA henchman to occupy your home or place of business.
(IV) Right to search everyone's computer without their consent.
(V) The right for Microsoft to lie in defense.
(VI) The right to draw out a trial for years to extract every last dime from taxpayers.
(VII) Right to trial by judges who are technologically illiterate.
(VIII) Right to inflict cruel and unusual punishment against anyone using a non-Microsoft OS.
(IX) Microsoft has numerous inalienable rights not granted to anyone else.
(X) Any rights not explicitly granted to Microsoft are exclusively reserved by Microsoft for future litigation.
Does anyone actually click on that garbage anyway? Personally, I don't even get one glimpse of that stuff...my eyes have been trained to ignore it.
It just seems to me that all the search engines are trying desparately to find some way of making money. After they found out that banner ads don't work, they resort to trying something completely lame. They'll one day learn that users hate to wade through trash to find one decent page.
...CD's didn't scratch? At least a $20 bill still works when you drop it as you get out of your car!
--or maybe your modem/cable/DSL/NIC. Damn DMCA...
Here's the deal. When I used Napster, I was exposed to a huge amount of music I would have never heard otherwise. If I found a song I liked, I'd check out other music on the same album.
The simple fact of the matter is that many people don't like to buy full albums because so many of them are filled with crap. If I like one song on the album, I won't buy the album...I have to like at least of few of them. But how do you ever know what the rest of the album is like? You download the songs and try them out.