Napster is going to need to offer a ton of support with this service. This is taken from the "terms and Conditions" on the web site:
This means that in order to play any Download after the end of a Subscription Month, you must log on to the Service so that Napster can renew your rights for those Tracks. The Client will count the number of times that you play a Download, including while you are offline, for royalty accounting and analysis purposes.
Forget the monthly re-activation chore, it's tin-foil hat time!
Hmmm....give my money to the Russian mafia.....or give it to the RIAA. Well, the Russian mafia won't use that money to sue my friends. So, yeah, I think I'll get my checkbook.
In MY days, we paid the LOCAL cartels, and we LIKED it! You yung'uns with your globally organised crime... pfft!
...is why Apple, or someone hasn't sued them in some fashion over their commerical.
I don't know about your jurisdiction, but around here (the true north strong and free), we have entities to which we can register complaints when we see false advertising...
if one was to theoretically pay the $10K to fill an IPod, that same amount would pay for the Napster service for over 55 years.
Do you really expect that rental service to last that long? Or even Napster itself?
There are a number of small, independant video rental places around here, and when they start offering lifetime subscription deals, or a hundred rentals for a hundred dollar, or some such "great deal", I know their time is up. And like clockwork, they close up shop in the following month.
With iTunes, you would still have your music if Apple were to mysteriously go belly up, with napster, you loose it all.
Examples: Cell Phones : The amounts people dump on these is stupendous.
XM/Sirius : Can't get reception unless you pay.
Cable/Satellite : Same again. Sure you can get it another way but your paying for a package.
All of these are subscriptions to things that are fleeting and cannot be obtained otherwise. You can't get on-the-go conversations with your friends, family and local fire and rescue teams in a non-subscription form. And your conversations are not meant to be kept. You pay for a month of service, not for products. You can't get 24 hour news and weather without cable, and you don't really need last month's news or weather to be kept.
Subscriptions work for intangible services, not for things that can be hoarded.
If you'd like to criticize the substance of their report, indicating what they did wrong and why their conclusions are flawed, that'd be a worthwhile contribution to the discussion.
How the hell do expect anyone to defend Bush that way?!? The only way to do it is to kill the messenger.
Excuse me, I'm not the one stealing the music remember...
Ah, THAT'S what you were getting at. Ah, well, in that case, let me sum up my feelings thusly (again): fuck the RIAA.
They are the ones attempting to prevent me from legally transfering the music from the CD to my iPod, so I get the music on the iPod without getting the disc. If they don't like it, they just need to stop trying to stop me from using legitimatly bought music fairly. In the meantime, fuck 'em, and their lackeys (that would be you).
actually causing the music industry lost sales because you have turned the maistream off copyprotected cd's.
I'm flaterred that you think I have to power to sway public opinion. Me VS a hundred year old multibillion dollar industry with countless professionals on retainer... it's an interresting thought.
Alas, I do not. I do, however, tell those I know about it. Post the occasional message on/., that kind of stuff that is actually within my reach.
illegal to rip a CD to MP3s when copy protection is in place on the CD.
If I'm at a music store and a CD that interests me has copy protection, I don't buy it. I go home and download it off of p2ps instead.
I don't listen to CDs: I listen to my rips on the computer or the iPod! If a label tells me they don't want me to listen to their stuff on my iPod, I curse them and get the content to the device of my choice without giving them money.
So, fuck the RIAA for trying to tell me which hardware I can or cannot use to listen to music.
I don't understand why people feel the need to point out the range of the American political spectrum when it's obvious what the scope of the original comment was.
Maybe I'm not familiar with that group and I'd like clarification.
But don't let that stop you from making condescending, useless remarks. That is clearly much more constructive than awnsering the question. Yup yup yup.
the group of scientists in the article (and always has been) are extremely leftist
Is that the U.S. version of "extreme left" (which to the rest of the world is actually a tad right of center) or are they actually communists who use violence to further their agenda (what a leftist extremist actually is)?
Why does he need a severance package? Just tell him to get lost. I'm not entitled to a severance package if I lose my job. By law, my company can fire me any time they feel like it (I live in an at-will employment state). Why should this fool be treated any differently?
Because he's a studio exec. He's not a prole, he's a member of the elite: they get millions when they loose their jobs, no matter how bad they were at it. Isn't capitalism great?
His salary is in the 7 figures, so I should think that his severance package would be at around 10 000 U.S. dollars. And bravo for knowing that he's what's making ST suck.
After the plot developments that have occurred so far in season 4, it's fairly obvious that the stage is being set for the Romulan Wars later on. Considering that if Enterprise indeed doesn't make it to a 5th season we'll likely never see the wars
Watch ST:X again, if you want an idea of the level of quality you can expect from a Romulan conflict produced by Rick Berman.
early TNG was pretty bad from a writing and acting point of view
That would coincide with the 1988 Hollywood writer's strike. Having hacks write your shows instead of qualified, striking writers will have an impact on the quality of the writing, yes.
You really have to look at a "failed TV series" that gets made into a movie...
Star Trek (the original) was cancelled before it's time, and later made into a movie. Off course, that movie was bad, and rushed into production to ride the wave of interest in sci-fi that Star Wars had created, but still, it's a very relevant precedent.
First of all, Andromeda was a giant pile of shit. It was nothing more than a vehicle for the former star of Hercules, a cheap gimmick to lure in his fans. Lame acting, lame costumes, lame everything. Space fighters that make race car noises?! A whole race forced to wear bracers to support their stupid little forearm barbs? They even had borg-wannabes, that was sad.
Secondly, learn to use the [p] and [br] tags, 'cause no one likes huge blocks of unformatted text.
Rick Berman. Since he's taken the helm from Gene he's run the ship into the ground. If you've watched an Enterprise episode that was sub par, there's a good chance he's the one that wrote it. He IS the problem with Star Trek.
I agree. Maybe we should start a campaign to have Rick Berman fired, or preferrably: set on fire.
We could have petitions, fundraisers, mail-in campaigns to his overlords at Viacom, etc.
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You still trolling me? I guess the lil' red dot will remind me to ignore you...
Forget the monthly re-activation chore, it's tin-foil hat time!
Hmmm....give my money to the Russian mafia.....or give it to the RIAA.
Well, the Russian mafia won't use that money to sue my friends. So, yeah, I think I'll get my checkbook.
In MY days, we paid the LOCAL cartels, and we LIKED it! You yung'uns with your globally organised crime... pfft!
...is why Apple, or someone hasn't sued them in some fashion over their commerical.
I don't know about your jurisdiction, but around here (the true north strong and free), we have entities to which we can register complaints when we see false advertising...
if one was to theoretically pay the $10K to fill an IPod, that same amount would pay for the Napster service for over 55 years.
Do you really expect that rental service to last that long? Or even Napster itself?
There are a number of small, independant video rental places around here, and when they start offering lifetime subscription deals, or a hundred rentals for a hundred dollar, or some such "great deal", I know their time is up. And like clockwork, they close up shop in the following month.
With iTunes, you would still have your music if Apple were to mysteriously go belly up, with napster, you loose it all.
Examples:
Cell Phones : The amounts people dump on these is stupendous.
XM/Sirius : Can't get reception unless you pay.
Cable/Satellite : Same again. Sure you can get it another way but your paying for a package.
All of these are subscriptions to things that are fleeting and cannot be obtained otherwise.
You can't get on-the-go conversations with your friends, family and local fire and rescue teams in a non-subscription form. And your conversations are not meant to be kept. You pay for a month of service, not for products.
You can't get 24 hour news and weather without cable, and you don't really need last month's news or weather to be kept.
Subscriptions work for intangible services, not for things that can be hoarded.
He said stanrd people know and love... no one loves explorer outside of redmond. : )
If you'd like to criticize the substance of their report, indicating what they did wrong and why their conclusions are flawed, that'd be a worthwhile contribution to the discussion.
How the hell do expect anyone to defend Bush that way?!?
The only way to do it is to kill the messenger.
Excuse me, I'm not the one stealing the music remember...
Ah, THAT'S what you were getting at. Ah, well, in that case, let me sum up my feelings thusly (again): fuck the RIAA.
They are the ones attempting to prevent me from legally transfering the music from the CD to my iPod, so I get the music on the iPod without getting the disc. If they don't like it, they just need to stop trying to stop me from using legitimatly bought music fairly. In the meantime, fuck 'em, and their lackeys (that would be you).
You could sit outside a music shop with a sign... convincing just one is the hardest bit. Once thats done your message will spread.
Do that, tell me how it went.
actually causing the music industry lost sales because you have turned the maistream off copyprotected cd's.
/., that kind of stuff that is actually within my reach.
I'm flaterred that you think I have to power to sway public opinion. Me VS a hundred year old multibillion dollar industry with countless professionals on retainer... it's an interresting thought.
Alas, I do not. I do, however, tell those I know about it. Post the occasional message on
illegal to rip a CD to MP3s when copy protection is in place on the CD.
If I'm at a music store and a CD that interests me has copy protection, I don't buy it. I go home and download it off of p2ps instead.
I don't listen to CDs: I listen to my rips on the computer or the iPod! If a label tells me they don't want me to listen to their stuff on my iPod, I curse them and get the content to the device of my choice without giving them money.
So, fuck the RIAA for trying to tell me which hardware I can or cannot use to listen to music.
I don't understand why people feel the need to point out the range of the American political spectrum when it's obvious what the scope of the original comment was.
Maybe I'm not familiar with that group and I'd like clarification.
But don't let that stop you from making condescending, useless remarks. That is clearly much more constructive than awnsering the question. Yup yup yup.
Sure, in the future people will regard them as a bunch of criminals--but too late.
;-)
And once again, I'm ahead of my time!
the group of scientists in the article (and always has been) are extremely leftist
Is that the U.S. version of "extreme left" (which to the rest of the world is actually a tad right of center) or are they actually communists who use violence to further their agenda (what a leftist extremist actually is)?
Damn you, I wanted to be the first to make that joke! : )
Maybe they aren't allowed to influence the cultures of the countries in which they crash?
Why does he need a severance package? Just tell him to get lost. I'm not entitled to a severance package if I lose my job. By law, my company can fire me any time they feel like it (I live in an at-will employment state). Why should this fool be treated any differently?
Because he's a studio exec.
He's not a prole, he's a member of the elite: they get millions when they loose their jobs, no matter how bad they were at it. Isn't capitalism great?
Not really, the ST universe just wasn't interesting, complex, or consistent enough to carry 5 TV series.
And yet, it did!
Let it die.
You first.
Why don't you take yo grammar/html code nazi self and go to hell?
Fuck you, keep on writing your stupid thoughts in big blocks, it'll makes it easier to ignore your pointless posts.
Should have known the moment you praised Andromeda that you were a worthless, dumb, fuck.
How much extra would it cost to fire Berman?
His salary is in the 7 figures, so I should think that his severance package would be at around 10 000 U.S. dollars.
And bravo for knowing that he's what's making ST suck.
After the plot developments that have occurred so far in season 4, it's fairly obvious that the stage is being set for the Romulan Wars later on. Considering that if Enterprise indeed doesn't make it to a 5th season we'll likely never see the wars
Watch ST:X again, if you want an idea of the level of quality you can expect from a Romulan conflict produced by Rick Berman.
Rick Berman: No good can come of him.
early TNG was pretty bad from a writing and acting point of view
That would coincide with the 1988 Hollywood writer's strike.
Having hacks write your shows instead of qualified, striking writers will have an impact on the quality of the writing, yes.
You really have to look at a "failed TV series" that gets made into a movie...
Star Trek (the original) was cancelled before it's time, and later made into a movie.
Off course, that movie was bad, and rushed into production to ride the wave of interest in sci-fi that Star Wars had created, but still, it's a very relevant precedent.
Andromeda was slightly above the fray
First of all, Andromeda was a giant pile of shit. It was nothing more than a vehicle for the former star of Hercules, a cheap gimmick to lure in his fans.
Lame acting, lame costumes, lame everything.
Space fighters that make race car noises?! A whole race forced to wear bracers to support their stupid little forearm barbs? They even had borg-wannabes, that was sad.
Secondly, learn to use the [p] and [br] tags, 'cause no one likes huge blocks of unformatted text.
Rick Berman. Since he's taken the helm from Gene he's run the ship into the ground. If you've watched an Enterprise episode that was sub par, there's a good chance he's the one that wrote it. He IS the problem with Star Trek.
I agree.
Maybe we should start a campaign to have Rick Berman fired, or preferrably: set on fire.
We could have petitions, fundraisers, mail-in campaigns to his overlords at Viacom, etc.