Tune your Replay/Sonic Blue to the Teletubbies when you're not watching. Cut your TV off, and let the commericals come through...When they raise their advertising rates to Superbowl levels, advertisers will quit paying, and Teletubbies will be canceled. Falwell will be elated, and he'll shut up. This way we get rid of two of the scourges of society.
Jeez folks....it was meant as a comparison...I don't beleive any of the Clinton list, or the Bush list, or for that matter half of what they say on Connections....we could probably link global warming to MS or the decrease in the penguins at the South Pole to Linux users for that matter.
The content industry sues..and sues, and sues. Rather than working things out with the developers, they bankrupt them with legal fees. Then they step in, buy the company for cents on the dollar, and either kill it, or castrate it to where it does nothing like it was orginally designed to do.
Now if they tie it to a clapper or some such so that I can find my glasses, then I might be tempted to go along with it.
It truth it really seems that acceptance of something like this will likely depend on how it's marketed. Help find old folks when they go drifting off from the nursing home, be used to determine that someone has fallen and can't get up. (6 hours without moving at the foot of the steps is a good sign) Imagine a lost or missing child, stolen artwork, etc. I can see viable, sensible uses for the technology, but at the same time have concerns over how it could be misused.
The actions of the RIAA have driven me away from mainstream. Last year I purchased 53 CDs, and NOT one was from a RIAA member label. When I started boycott-riaa.com in July 2000, I quit buying mainstream music, and it hurt. I really enjoy music, of all genres and was somewhat lost, as to what to do. Soon I discovered that there is a huge amount of music available from independents. Soon I was visiting CDBaby every payday, visiting indie artists websites, buying from the artist rather than the cartel.
Over the years I've usually purchased 1 or 2 CDs per month. Last year I purchased about one per week. The reason? I heard the music beforehand, not after I got the CD home. Every CD from every artist let me hear not just 30 second samples but most often full tracks, or the full CD. Many let me download MP3s of those tracks. Damn right the RIAA sales are down, they got not one cent of my money, in a year I bought more CDs than every year before.
In the ongoing "Chicken Little" scenario presented by Hilary Rosen and her band of thugs, they neglect to tell you that Sony Music was UP last year, that Warner Music was UP last year, and that EMI as down a scant.4 of a percent. I wish I could say the same for my 401K.
Just so long Coca Cola leaves my Coke alone this time. Max scares me and brings back some terrible memories of driving from store to store in the backwoods of Arkansas to find unsold 'real" Coke.
Classic Coke is acceptable, but it's still not the real coke of the past when it was still made with sugar rather than frutcose and sucrose syrups.
is a member of the RIAA.
Can't use them any more as an example. Several requests to RBR to explain why they are members have never been answered. Then again, it's probably those gold records hanging on the wall, since they are awarded by the RIAA.
It doesn't matter what the purpose is, it's illegal under the DMCA. This is crux of the problem with the DMCA and CD Copy Protection. Eventually the copyright will run out, but under the DMCA it is still a criminal offense to break that encryption, even for public domain works. So in effect you have an infinite copyright, which is not in the public's interest, nor was it part of the copyright bargain and balance that Congress intended.
Visit the GeekPac homepage on the Linux Show. Right now it appears they can only accept pledges, as they are not yet legally setup to solict funds. They have both memberships and donations.
From the website:
GeekPAC is the second proposed entity and is intended as a funding channel to directly affect the outcome of elections and legislation. The actions of GeekPAC will include (but not be limited to) the purchase of political advertising that may impact the outcome of elections or legislation and direct lobbying to congress, including the hiring of lobbyists to represent members. Further actions may include contributing directly to political campaigns of people seeking local, state or national office. GeekPAC will be a registered Political Action Committee (PAC).
Under McCann-Feingold, GeekPAC will not be able to accept donations from businesses or foreign nationals. Contributions will not be tax-deductible.
Here's what you do...take your old system, the one totally devoid of anything you may possibly ever use.
After dark, set it outside beside your car near the trunk. Arrange it to look like you just took it out of the trunk, set it down and forgot to carry it in. It will most likely be gone in the morning. If not, just leave it there a day or two, eventually someone will make it disappear.
A while back there was a story on The Screensavers,(I looked I can't find it) where someone took a case filled it with concrete, and set it on their front porch. As I recall it sat on his porch for about 3 days, then it disappeared during the night. They found it about 3 blocks away, in a ditch.
With A 20GB Archos MP3 player who needs it? Just another way to get me to buy the same music again.
Until it sounds better than CD, Why bother? Give me a dvd audo disc the size of a quarter and we might talk.
I can just hear it now. "Damn", "What?" "I just dropped my Nivana Dataplay Disc in the freakin Coke machine!" "Whoa dude, how many Cokes you get for it?"
Sorry Fritz, this bill just doesn't offset the CBDTPA, and until that bill is withdrwn, you'll not get my support on this. The CBDTPA has much farther reaching implications than the privacy issues. I'll make you a deal, I'll tell ya anything you want to know about me, if you withdraw the CBDTPA.
Acronyms:
Conned By Disney To Push Agenda
Crooks Buy Democrat To Push Agenda
How about plugging it into an UPS? My UPS has saved me more than once. I even used one when we had a nationwide power outage (Aug 1996 Malaysia) to provide florescent lighting for three days (actually nights). We recharged it during the day with a gas poewered generator, and we were even able to work on our multimedia project. Now if we could have just found one big enough for the air conditioning we would have been all set.
When I first saw the advertisement I laughed my rear off. The Second time it was ever better. as I realized their message was promoting the legal use of music, and copy technologies.
On a side note: CBDTPA should be defined as "Crooks Buy Democrat To Push Agenda"
Exactly....Now as for that dumb S.O.B. If he's really wanting to die that badly, I'll happily trade him Dr. Kevorkians phone number for the keys to that SUV. (hey I've got an unpaved driveway)
DMusic.com raised questions about the speed of the downloads and numbers way back on March 1st in this article
They suspected that the test was faked, or done from dedicated servers, as even with broadband connections P2P filesharing is often much much slower. It was obvious from the beginning that the numbers didn't add up....
Slashdot Mirror
Tune your Replay/Sonic Blue to the Teletubbies when you're not watching. Cut your TV off, and let the commericals come through...When they raise their advertising rates to Superbowl levels, advertisers will quit paying, and Teletubbies will be canceled. Falwell will be elated, and he'll shut up. This way we get rid of two of the scourges of society.
Jeez folks....it was meant as a comparison...I don't beleive any of the Clinton list, or the Bush list, or for that matter half of what they say on Connections....we could probably link global warming to MS or the decrease in the penguins at the South Pole to Linux users for that matter.
The content industry sues..and sues, and sues. Rather than working things out with the developers, they bankrupt them with legal fees. Then they step in, buy the company for cents on the dollar, and either kill it, or castrate it to where it does nothing like it was orginally designed to do.
The Clinton Body Count
Now if they tie it to a clapper or some such so that I can find my glasses, then I might be tempted to go along with it.
It truth it really seems that acceptance of something like this will likely depend on how it's marketed. Help find old folks when they go drifting off from the nursing home, be used to determine that someone has fallen and can't get up. (6 hours without moving at the foot of the steps is a good sign) Imagine a lost or missing child, stolen artwork, etc. I can see viable, sensible uses for the technology, but at the same time have concerns over how it could be misused.
The actions of the RIAA have driven me away from mainstream. Last year I purchased 53 CDs, and NOT one was from a RIAA member label. When I started boycott-riaa.com in July 2000, I quit buying mainstream music, and it hurt. I really enjoy music, of all genres and was somewhat lost, as to what to do. Soon I discovered that there is a huge amount of music available from independents. Soon I was visiting CDBaby every payday, visiting indie artists websites, buying from the artist rather than the cartel.
.4 of a percent. I wish I could say the same for my 401K.
Over the years I've usually purchased 1 or 2 CDs per month. Last year I purchased about one per week. The reason? I heard the music beforehand, not after I got the CD home. Every CD from every artist let me hear not just 30 second samples but most often full tracks, or the full CD. Many let me download MP3s of those tracks. Damn right the RIAA sales are down, they got not one cent of my money, in a year I bought more CDs than every year before.
In the ongoing "Chicken Little" scenario presented by Hilary Rosen and her band of thugs, they neglect to tell you that Sony Music was UP last year, that Warner Music was UP last year, and that EMI as down a scant
What methane is too easy?
Nope, it died a deserving death: alone, unwanted and when it died no one noticed, not even a obit. (except probably the wall steet journal)
Just so long Coca Cola leaves my Coke alone this time. Max scares me and brings back some terrible memories of driving from store to store in the backwoods of Arkansas to find unsold 'real" Coke.
Classic Coke is acceptable, but it's still not the real coke of the past when it was still made with sugar rather than frutcose and sucrose syrups.
Rumor has that they have even suggested a Logo And have offered to fund TV commercials...with Ponch and Jon..
Actually more like lay back and enjoy it....
is a member of the RIAA. Can't use them any more as an example. Several requests to RBR to explain why they are members have never been answered. Then again, it's probably those gold records hanging on the wall, since they are awarded by the RIAA.
It doesn't matter what the purpose is, it's illegal under the DMCA. This is crux of the problem with the DMCA and CD Copy Protection. Eventually the copyright will run out, but under the DMCA it is still a criminal offense to break that encryption, even for public domain works. So in effect you have an infinite copyright, which is not in the public's interest, nor was it part of the copyright bargain and balance that Congress intended.
Consortium
Visit the GeekPac homepage on the Linux Show. Right now it appears they can only accept pledges, as they are not yet legally setup to solict funds. They have both memberships and donations.
From the website:
GeekPAC is the second proposed entity and is intended as a funding channel to directly affect the outcome of elections and legislation. The actions of GeekPAC will include (but not be limited to) the purchase of political advertising that may impact the outcome of elections or legislation and direct lobbying to congress, including the hiring of lobbyists to represent members. Further actions may include contributing directly to political campaigns of people seeking local, state or national office. GeekPAC will be a registered Political Action Committee (PAC). Under McCann-Feingold, GeekPAC will not be able to accept donations from businesses or foreign nationals. Contributions will not be tax-deductible.
It appears that right now they can only accept pledges, You can do that http://www.thelinuxshow.com/otc.htm
Here's what you do...take your old system, the one totally devoid of anything you may possibly ever use. After dark, set it outside beside your car near the trunk. Arrange it to look like you just took it out of the trunk, set it down and forgot to carry it in. It will most likely be gone in the morning. If not, just leave it there a day or two, eventually someone will make it disappear.
A while back there was a story on The Screensavers,(I looked I can't find it) where someone took a case filled it with concrete, and set it on their front porch. As I recall it sat on his porch for about 3 days, then it disappeared during the night. They found it about 3 blocks away, in a ditch.
So OK Manufacturers, code writers, divy up. At the risk sounding droll, cliche and all that stuff, "Put yer money where yer mouth is"
With A 20GB Archos MP3 player who needs it? Just another way to get me to buy the same music again. Until it sounds better than CD, Why bother? Give me a dvd audo disc the size of a quarter and we might talk.
I can just hear it now. "Damn", "What?" "I just dropped my Nivana Dataplay Disc in the freakin Coke machine!" "Whoa dude, how many Cokes you get for it?"
Sorry Fritz, this bill just doesn't offset the CBDTPA, and until that bill is withdrwn, you'll not get my support on this. The CBDTPA has much farther reaching implications than the privacy issues. I'll make you a deal, I'll tell ya anything you want to know about me, if you withdraw the CBDTPA. Acronyms: Conned By Disney To Push Agenda Crooks Buy Democrat To Push Agenda
I knew I should have saved my C128. Dangnabit
How about plugging it into an UPS? My UPS has saved me more than once. I even used one when we had a nationwide power outage (Aug 1996 Malaysia) to provide florescent lighting for three days (actually nights). We recharged it during the day with a gas poewered generator, and we were even able to work on our multimedia project. Now if we could have just found one big enough for the air conditioning we would have been all set.
When I first saw the advertisement I laughed my rear off. The Second time it was ever better. as I realized their message was promoting the legal use of music, and copy technologies. On a side note: CBDTPA should be defined as "Crooks Buy Democrat To Push Agenda"
Hey Seann, Mind if I use this over on boycott-riaa.com?
Exactly....Now as for that dumb S.O.B. If he's really wanting to die that badly, I'll happily trade him Dr. Kevorkians phone number for the keys to that SUV. (hey I've got an unpaved driveway)
DMusic.com raised questions about the speed of the downloads and numbers way back on March 1st in this article
They suspected that the test was faked, or done from dedicated servers, as even with broadband connections P2P filesharing is often much much slower. It was obvious from the beginning that the numbers didn't add up....