Corporations are evil - they will simply charge extortionate fees to discourage uptake of things they don't like.
You mean like when Comcast decided that *not* providing me with cable TV suddenly costs an extra 15.00 a month?!? Sons of bitches - I'll never spend another dime on any of their products. I've got DSL now, and I'm happy.
I really wish more people would use the "Preview Post" option here on Slashdot... that would have allowed you to correct your otherwise insightful comment. You erroneously used the word "talent" in the same sentence as the name "Celine Dion", without including any required modifiers, such as "complete and total lack of", or "-less diva wannabe hack"; you also neglected to include "Fucking" between "Celine" and "Dion".
I know, it's hard to remember all these rules, but that's why we're here. You're welcome.
I sent him a thank you, as well. Unlike the Senator from Disney, Norm *IS* my senator (well, the only one I'll claim; you can keep Sen. Mark "Marshall-Fields" Dayton), and he is a down-to-Earth guy. Let's hope he keeps this pressure up! -The Dog
Hello. My name is Bob S., and, although I am not one of your constituents, seeing as I live in Minnesota, I still feel it is my duty to express my outrage at the introduction of the Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner Protection and Security (ACCOPS) Act of 2003 in Congress. (Why is it even called an act? It's a bill.) I'm sure you are already well aware of the fact that the United States has one of the highest incarceration rates of its own population in the world. Your bill will only exacerbate this problem, and potentially cause prison murder and rape rates to skyrocket. How is this possible, you ask? Well, if an 18 year old Dearborn, MI, kid, or perhaps a 30-something soccer mom from Van Nuys, CA gets put in the state penitentiary for uploading an Eminem song to someone, and he/she is put is a cellblock of crack dealers, gangsters, or murderers, I'm guessing he/she won't last too long in there.
Clearly, this is yet another attempt to "buy" laws by the Hollywood "content" (and I use that word loosely) industry. Why don't you do your actual constituents a favor, and stick to areas of life that you actually have a modicum of a clue about? Our country would be better off for it.
It's bullshit like this that makes marginally sane people crack, and start sending out anthrax letters, bombs, and buying high-powered sniper rifles... don't these Congresscritters get it?!? Why would you risk the wrath of some lunatic over a Britney Spheres, I mean Spears tune? Time for WW III, I guess, since we are already regressing back to the Stone Age anyway. Fucking clueless bastards.
How does it come about that college students, guilty of writing software, can be sued for tens of millions of dollars, yet corporate thieves from any number of companies (i.e., Adelphia, Enron, WorldCom/MCI), who literally steal the pensions that their employees - you know, the ones that actually DO THE WORK - rely on for retirement, go virtually unpunished?!?
...and, it looks as though Thomson might want them to pay up for the dreaded ATRAC3... (from http://mp3licensing.com/other/index2.html)
>Atrac 3
We believe that Atrac 3 uses principles like Hybrid-Filter bank, Gain Control, Huffman-Coding and Rate Loop, which means that at least a license under the following patents of Fraunhofer or Thomson multimedia is needed:
ep0287578b1 (OCF Basis: Rate Loop) ep0612156b1 (OCF Supplement: ESC) ep0193143b1 (Grouping of values, suppression of signal compression below thresshold) ep0251028b1 (Masking threshold covering more than one group) ep0277613b1 (Masking threshold in adjacent groups) Note: This list is not exhaustive; other patents of Fraunhofer and Thomson multimedia might be used.
We have not yet determined our licensing policy for this format nor do we have details of the licensing program of Sony. >
Good - let them slog it out. As it stands now, though, I'll be glad to send my 75 cents to mein music furher, FhG, for my Archos recorder. Of course, it will be in store coupons, at 1/20 cents each, so I'll need a big envelope.
>Sure, I've heard that sharing music and copyright-anarchy is supposed to increase sales in the aggregate, but it doesn't work for me any the genre I work in. So I need my audience to please be a *paying* audience. >
If I hear something I like, I BUY it. If it sucks, I DON'T. Therefore, if you find your music being traded, and your sales/revenues aren't going up, well, I think you can figure out the rest for yourself.
Oh well, time to fire up Grokster for the rest of the weekend. Congresscritters? Go fuck thyselves. (and Hilary Rosenbitch, too, while you're at it.)
Honestly, of the 700 or so tracks in my mp3 collection, I own a legitimate copy (RIAA approved media) of at least 650 of them. Many others are audio recordings of television programs, which I've time- and format-shifted to the media of my choice. Of those media types, NONE of them require me to pay-per-listen. Shit, I bought "Frampton Comes Alive" on vinyl...twice! and once each on cassette and CD. Why? I wore them out. I don't have to worry about this anymore. Unless the RIAA copy-prevents each new silvery-thingy that looks a lot like a CD, but isn't. I'm not buying MY music over again. I own it, and I AM entitled to listen to it in any way I see fit. Period. Hilary Rosen, please fuck off. . . .
Fuck off. Oh, and while you're at it, try shoving a handful of those piece-of-shit Memory Sticks up your collective asses, too... worthless twits, every last one of you.
You forgot the tag line... "Word to your mutha..."
-The Dog
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As silly as this may sound, I'm *still* using Napster, version v2b7, (but hexed to read ver. 1.0), on an almost daily basis. Mainly for chats, but for "other" things, too. You just have to know who to connect to... (*cough - Napigator - *cough).
P.S. Hilary Rosen can kiss my ass.
Bullshit... I was offline for at least a week (in Minnesota); no one could tell me what the hell was going on, until *after* I got back online again. (The funny thing was, I'm still using an Intel 2100 internal "modem", which wasn't supposed to be affected by the worm, but the customer support staff at Qworst have been wrong before.)
I'm done with them, anyway, since the Borg is trying to assimilate us via the MSN buyout... it's time to get cable, I guess. -The Dog
For the last time, if I already ***OWN*** the performances on RIAA-sanctioned media, which I actually paid for, and I then grab an mp3 of it, to put on CDR (because I'm either too lazy to rip one myself, or don't want to dig out the old turntable), and then listen to them on my mp3 CD player - an Expanium, which rocks, BTW - I AM NOT A CRIMINAL. Period. -The Dog
P.S. Like my sig on the Napigator message boards says, "Hilary Rosen can kiss my ass."
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Corporations are evil - they will simply charge extortionate fees to discourage uptake of things they don't like.
You mean like when Comcast decided that *not* providing me with cable TV suddenly costs an extra 15.00 a month?!? Sons of bitches - I'll never spend another dime on any of their products. I've got DSL now, and I'm happy.
I really wish more people would use the "Preview Post" option here on Slashdot... that would have allowed you to correct your otherwise insightful comment. You erroneously used the word "talent" in the same sentence as the name "Celine Dion", without including any required modifiers, such as "complete and total lack of", or "-less diva wannabe hack"; you also neglected to include "Fucking" between "Celine" and "Dion".
I know, it's hard to remember all these rules, but that's why we're here. You're welcome.
Get your abbreviations right... :-)
I sent him a thank you, as well. Unlike the Senator from Disney, Norm *IS* my senator (well, the only one I'll claim; you can keep Sen. Mark "Marshall-Fields" Dayton), and he is a down-to-Earth guy. Let's hope he keeps this pressure up! -The Dog
Hello. My name is Bob S., and, although I am not one of your constituents, seeing as I live in Minnesota, I still feel it is my duty to express my outrage at the introduction of the Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner Protection and Security (ACCOPS) Act of 2003 in Congress. (Why is it even called an act? It's a bill.) I'm sure you are already well aware of the fact that the United States has one of the highest incarceration rates of its own population in the world. Your bill will only exacerbate this problem, and potentially cause prison murder and rape rates to skyrocket. How is this possible, you ask? Well, if an 18 year old Dearborn, MI, kid, or perhaps a 30-something soccer mom from Van Nuys, CA gets put in the state penitentiary for uploading an Eminem song to someone, and he/she is put is a cellblock of crack dealers, gangsters, or murderers, I'm guessing he/she won't last too long in there.
Clearly, this is yet another attempt to "buy" laws by the Hollywood "content" (and I use that word loosely) industry. Why don't you do your actual constituents a favor, and stick to areas of life that you actually have a modicum of a clue about? Our country would be better off for it.
-Bob S.
It's bullshit like this that makes marginally sane people crack, and start sending out anthrax letters, bombs, and buying high-powered sniper rifles... don't these Congresscritters get it?!? Why would you risk the wrath of some lunatic over a Britney Spheres, I mean Spears tune? Time for WW III, I guess, since we are already regressing back to the Stone Age anyway. Fucking clueless bastards.
-The (incredibly pissed off) Dog
How does it come about that college students, guilty of writing software, can be sued for tens of millions of dollars, yet corporate thieves from any number of companies (i.e., Adelphia, Enron, WorldCom/MCI), who literally steal the pensions that their employees - you know, the ones that actually DO THE WORK - rely on for retirement, go virtually unpunished?!?
...but there's one other point in error here, as well.
---Settle only if they let CowboyNeal screw lightbulbs into Hilary Rosen's ears.---
I don't think you can use the term "screw" and Hilary in the same sentence. Especially since she wouldn't know what you meant. -The Dog
>>>...really is there that much difference between the many "look at my navel" bimbos out there???>>>
;-}
Cool - I was too busy staring at her rack to notice...
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...and, it looks as though Thomson might want them to pay up for the dreaded ATRAC3...
(from http://mp3licensing.com/other/index2.html)
>Atrac 3
We believe that Atrac 3 uses principles like Hybrid-Filter bank, Gain Control, Huffman-Coding and Rate Loop, which means that at least a license under the following patents of Fraunhofer or Thomson multimedia is needed:
ep0287578b1 (OCF Basis: Rate Loop)
ep0612156b1 (OCF Supplement: ESC)
ep0193143b1 (Grouping of values, suppression of signal compression below thresshold)
ep0251028b1 (Masking threshold covering more than one group)
ep0277613b1 (Masking threshold in adjacent groups)
Note: This list is not exhaustive; other patents of Fraunhofer and Thomson multimedia might be used.
We have not yet determined our licensing policy for this format nor do we have details of the licensing program of Sony.
>
Good - let them slog it out. As it stands now, though, I'll be glad to send my 75 cents to mein music furher, FhG, for my Archos recorder. Of course, it will be in store coupons, at 1/20 cents each, so I'll need a big envelope.
>Sure, I've heard that sharing music and copyright-anarchy is supposed to increase sales in the aggregate, but it doesn't work for me any the genre I work in. So I need my audience to please be a *paying* audience.
>
If I hear something I like, I BUY it. If it sucks, I DON'T. Therefore, if you find your music being traded, and your sales/revenues aren't going up, well, I think you can figure out the rest for yourself.
Oh well, time to fire up Grokster for the rest of the weekend. Congresscritters? Go fuck thyselves. (and Hilary Rosenbitch, too, while you're at it.)
>>>Simply put: continue to fuck with us, and we will continue to crush your obsolete business model's nuts.
I concur!
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Sheesh, your nick should be Stonehead instead.
Honestly, of the 700 or so tracks in my mp3 collection, I own a legitimate copy (RIAA approved media) of at least 650 of them. Many others are audio recordings of television programs, which I've time- and format-shifted to the media of my choice. Of those media types, NONE of them require me to pay-per-listen. Shit, I bought "Frampton Comes Alive" on vinyl...twice! and once each on cassette and CD. Why? I wore them out. I don't have to worry about this anymore. Unless the RIAA copy-prevents each new silvery-thingy that looks a lot like a CD, but isn't. I'm not buying MY music over again. I own it, and I AM entitled to listen to it in any way I see fit. Period. Hilary Rosen, please fuck off.
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I'm guessing it wasn't as a proof-reader, was it...
Fuck off. Oh, and while you're at it, try shoving a handful of those piece-of-shit Memory Sticks up your collective asses, too... worthless twits, every last one of you.
I know the prices are, but aren't those speeds in Canadian, too? Still good speeds, mind you, but they sound a bit high to me.
***I would honestly bet, that the people in the cyrstal palace of RIAA forget that there is this "tax" on black media***
I'll bet the people at Vibe, Ebony, and BET are pissed about that!
Really? Better not tell the people over at Panashiba... (So, which is it *really*? Panasonic, or Toshiba?) -The Dog
You forgot the tag line... "Word to your mutha..."
-The Dog
As silly as this may sound, I'm *still* using Napster, version v2b7, (but hexed to read ver. 1.0), on an almost daily basis. Mainly for chats, but for "other" things, too. You just have to know who to connect to... (*cough - Napigator - *cough).
P.S. Hilary Rosen can kiss my ass.
Bullshit... I was offline for at least a week (in Minnesota); no one could tell me what the hell was going on, until *after* I got back online again. (The funny thing was, I'm still using an Intel 2100 internal "modem", which wasn't supposed to be affected by the worm, but the customer support staff at Qworst have been wrong before.)
I'm done with them, anyway, since the Borg is trying to assimilate us via the MSN buyout... it's time to get cable, I guess. -The Dog
For the last time, if I already ***OWN*** the performances on RIAA-sanctioned media, which I actually paid for, and I then grab an mp3 of it, to put on CDR (because I'm either too lazy to rip one myself, or don't want to dig out the old turntable), and then listen to them on my mp3 CD player - an Expanium, which rocks, BTW - I AM NOT A CRIMINAL. Period. -The Dog
P.S. Like my sig on the Napigator message boards says, "Hilary Rosen can kiss my ass."