I have no problem people conditionally giving it out to others.
So this license would be acceptable then?
But not in its entirity in an exact copy.
Hmm. I don't know how you would apply those conditions to ONLY individual works and not the whole collection (as in a DVDrip floating around p2p rather than your mp3s/etc.).
Question for the masses here...Would you purchase a DVD from your favorite local artist for $10? (Such as the one I'm working on now)
From my favorite artists, yeah, I'd be willing to pay a bit more than $10 for a tangible instance of their old work in order to support their future work; but from an unknown (like you), where there's no emotional connection between us and where there's already an abundance of other art to choose from, the price point would be a bit less.
Another major factor, for me, would be under what license your art released. If you RESERVED ALL RIGHTS(C)(R)(TM)(!!!), then, well, eh, I'm more likely to pass than if you allowed others to conditionally redistribute and incorporate it into their own works.
Eh? How do you figure that from my post? I wasn't badmouthing p2p index sites when I said that they're "really only useful as sources you can trust", because that's the truth: you get the secure file hashes FROM these sites that you trust. the md4 hash is in the ed2k URL with eDonkey, and the sha1 hash is in the.torrent file with BitTorrent.
p2p distribution would mean that FilePlanet couldn't charge for access to "premium" centralized FTP servers, so it won't happen.
Sites like FileFront and GameTab are the fuuuuuture, Marty. These sites are really only useful as an initial index source you can trust (like ShareReactor, but legal), and for aggregating eyeballs to increase the availability of the files.
FYI: If you're running a 2.6.0-* kernel with the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 fix for RPM installs, you may be getting a UT2003 startup error like:
Could not load OpenGL library
History:
Exiting due to error
The nonobvious but simple fix is to modify your 'ut2003-demo' or 'ut2003' startup script by adding "unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL" at the beginning, and adding it "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" back at the end (so RPM will work again).
Google couldn't help me out with this problem, so I wasted an hour messing around with libraries and linker crap before stumbling upon the fix (and google will eventually index this post for someone else... looking for candle trucks to rent.)
You don't have to buy another car if you let your friend drive it.
Indeed, but physical object manufacturers don't really have the technical ability to force a unique 1-to-1 relationship between product and person, so they resort to advertisings influence rather than DRM to reduce sharing and increase consumption.
Like that Doritos(?) commercial that promotes being selfish with the slogan: "Get your own bag!" It's not like they can tag a bag of doritos to one person and then release nasty-tasting chemicals when someone other than the owner puts their chipped hand inside...:)
Providing music distribution services that introduce people to new music by genre, mood, etc... seems like a service to pay for
seems like. Then I guess it's too bad that while there's immense value in collaborative filtering, the emergent properties of the process are free. There's iRate, audioscrobbler, and many other projects popping up to do this kind of thing. It'll be the Next Big Thing once it's standard enough for the network effect to kick in.
Sometimes it's not just naivity that makes a person think we'll forever be at the top of the intellectual food chain -- sometimes it's just plain old fear (conscious or not).
Once a person has been introduced to the inevitability of the evolution of smarter-than-human intelligence, they can no longer claim ignorance, and either accept it or go into denial like most people because the future shock is too much for old belief systems to handle, or too fantastic for bitter cynics who didn't get their promised flying cars.
iRATE radio is a collaborative filtering client/server mp3 player/downloader. The iRATE server has a large database of music. You rate the tracks and it uses your ratings and other people's to guess what you'll like. The tracks are downloaded from websites which allow free and legal downloads of their music.
Once it "learned" what I liked, I found it much more convenient than dl'ing random tracks off P2P. There's a couple other projects, like Audioscrobbler, that are attempting this kind of thing as well. It's the Fuuuuture, Marty!
"democracies" are really only going to prove long term viable if an unopposable outside force imposes strict rules of behaviour.
We've got more options online than off, so it's not a given that the best solution for maximizing democracy/freedom/happiness/order would be the same fear/respect of rule of law from some all-powerful (yet somehow benevolent) government.
There's still hope for other kinds of self-organizing government to emerge online (as long as there's pseudo-accountability for actions). But at the base of it all is evolutionary psychchology, and it would take genetic modifications to amply your average humans' intelligence to appreciate the common good, and to get rid of baggage like the background urge to be a violent, sex-crazed, all-powerful, alpha-male asshole (since that still serves our genes).
And who would that be, children?... Welcome to the real world, Sparky. Online.... There, was that so hard?
Eh. Can you try to be a little more condescending next time, Brain? Thanks.
But you're still free to say the Patriot Act blows, and to vote for people willing to overturn it
Sure, technically you might be free, but in practice if you piss off the wrong people John Asscroft will tell the russians that your wife's a CIA agent, and for kickers have the IRS audit you too.:)
A complete season of ST:TNG goes for about $120 on DVD from Amazon, so I'd imagine this Borg Cube "value-pack" would retail for close to 1,000 god-damn-dollars.
GNU... is about setting the foundations to a Free Software world.
And that foundation will also carryover into a Free Hardware world once "molecular manufacturing" tech allows nerds (and regular folks) to manipulate atoms like bits. The big difference in that world is that there'll be far fewer greedy people complaining about not being able to "put food on their solid-redwood table" once the food and the table it's sitting on can be "copied" almost as easily and cheaply as software.
Want a GNU/Burger? (then use some solar energy to power your "GNU/anything-box" to rearrange the infinitely-recyclable molecules sitting in your trash.)
Ever heard of sales tax? Why does an order placed over the telephone get taxed and one placed over HTTP does not?
Ever heard of mail order? It doesn't matter if you use the postal service, a phone or a webbrowser when you buy from a company with no biz presence in your own state. Are you inept, Dunbar?
Slashdot Mirror
No BitTorrent client ever automatically redirects you to a donation page. Stick with your hand-holding kazaa crap and its trojans, Troll.
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Finally a reason to upgrade my old 1.2GHz athlon: to play HD video without dropping frames... :)
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So this license would be acceptable then? But not in its entirity in an exact copy. Hmm. I don't know how you would apply those conditions to ONLY individual works and not the whole collection (as in a DVDrip floating around p2p rather than your mp3s/etc.).
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6.41 per 1000
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From my favorite artists, yeah, I'd be willing to pay a bit more than $10 for a tangible instance of their old work in order to support their future work; but from an unknown (like you), where there's no emotional connection between us and where there's already an abundance of other art to choose from, the price point would be a bit less.
Another major factor, for me, would be under what license your art released. If you RESERVED ALL RIGHTS(C)(R)(TM)(!!!), then, well, eh, I'm more likely to pass than if you allowed others to conditionally redistribute and incorporate it into their own works.
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Eh? How do you figure that from my post? I wasn't badmouthing p2p index sites when I said that they're "really only useful as sources you can trust", because that's the truth: you get the secure file hashes FROM these sites that you trust. the md4 hash is in the ed2k URL with eDonkey, and the sha1 hash is in the .torrent file with BitTorrent.
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Sites like FileFront and GameTab are the fuuuuuture, Marty. These sites are really only useful as an initial index source you can trust (like ShareReactor, but legal), and for aggregating eyeballs to increase the availability of the files.
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Could not load OpenGL library
History:
Exiting due to error
The nonobvious but simple fix is to modify your 'ut2003-demo' or 'ut2003' startup script by adding "unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL" at the beginning, and adding it "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" back at the end (so RPM will work again).
Google couldn't help me out with this problem, so I wasted an hour messing around with libraries and linker crap before stumbling upon the fix (and google will eventually index this post for someone else... looking for candle trucks to rent.)
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"boinc is your best chance to boink an alien!"
pfft. boinkboink.
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Indeed, but physical object manufacturers don't really have the technical ability to force a unique 1-to-1 relationship between product and person, so they resort to advertisings influence rather than DRM to reduce sharing and increase consumption.
Like that Doritos(?) commercial that promotes being selfish with the slogan: "Get your own bag!" It's not like they can tag a bag of doritos to one person and then release nasty-tasting chemicals when someone other than the owner puts their chipped hand inside... :)
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seems like. Then I guess it's too bad that while there's immense value in collaborative filtering, the emergent properties of the process are free. There's iRate, audioscrobbler, and many other projects popping up to do this kind of thing. It'll be the Next Big Thing once it's standard enough for the network effect to kick in.
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You may mod me down as flamebait now (even though I'm running 2.6.0-test6 atm as well, but don't mind the sensible changes for ease of use. heh.)
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Once a person has been introduced to the inevitability of the evolution of smarter-than-human intelligence, they can no longer claim ignorance, and either accept it or go into denial like most people because the future shock is too much for old belief systems to handle, or too fantastic for bitter cynics who didn't get their promised flying cars.
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Seize Him!
Felten asks: "Is this the end of the road for CD copy protection?"
Silence The Subversive!
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You're looking for something like iRate radio:
Once it "learned" what I liked, I found it much more convenient than dl'ing random tracks off P2P. There's a couple other projects, like Audioscrobbler, that are attempting this kind of thing as well. It's the Fuuuuture, Marty!
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We've got more options online than off, so it's not a given that the best solution for maximizing democracy/freedom/happiness/order would be the same fear/respect of rule of law from some all-powerful (yet somehow benevolent) government.
There's still hope for other kinds of self-organizing government to emerge online (as long as there's pseudo-accountability for actions). But at the base of it all is evolutionary psychchology, and it would take genetic modifications to amply your average humans' intelligence to appreciate the common good, and to get rid of baggage like the background urge to be a violent, sex-crazed, all-powerful, alpha-male asshole (since that still serves our genes).
And who would that be, children? ... Welcome to the real world, Sparky. Online. ... There, was that so hard?
Eh. Can you try to be a little more condescending next time, Brain? Thanks.
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Sure, technically you might be free, but in practice if you piss off the wrong people John Asscroft will tell the russians that your wife's a CIA agent, and for kickers have the IRS audit you too. :)
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You're right, so get busy making my Nike's, kid! :)
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And that foundation will also carryover into a Free Hardware world once "molecular manufacturing" tech allows nerds (and regular folks) to manipulate atoms like bits. The big difference in that world is that there'll be far fewer greedy people complaining about not being able to "put food on their solid-redwood table" once the food and the table it's sitting on can be "copied" almost as easily and cheaply as software.
Want a GNU/Burger? (then use some solar energy to power your "GNU/anything-box" to rearrange the infinitely-recyclable molecules sitting in your trash.)
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Ever heard of mail order? It doesn't matter if you use the postal service, a phone or a webbrowser when you buy from a company with no biz presence in your own state. Are you inept, Dunbar?
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Soon to be followed by the Big Bubba treatment.
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