the music industry blamed napster for it's stale selection and dismal sales. now that napster is gone, they blame gnutella (and others). i blame poor promotion, shitty bands, and the industry changing from music-based to money-based. selling cookie cutter bands that imitate another successful band. this is what i believe caused the music world to suffer the past 5 years.
i legitamately own about 500 CDs. you can imagine what a pain it is to organize, find, and play my music. i bought an mp3 player (neo 20gb), encoded all my cds and take them everywhere. now the music industry wants to limit how & where i can transfer my music. if i can't take it with me along with everything else i own, i dont' want it.
with these restrictions in place, i may never buy a cd again until they remove these weak copy protection schemes which affect the fidelity of the music anyway.
the technology we created was totally intrusive. if you're reading shakespeare's "romeo and juliet" and pfizer buys the keyword "romeo", then it will take you to the viagra page. all content was affected. this has limited potential for individual sites, but once you allow your system to get taken over and links changed to "preferred" links, we have a serious problem. there's not enough valid links on the web as is, and now whatever's left will soon to be advertisement. what the internet needs is a mute button like your t.v.
Corporate backers & investers are concerned with *ONE* thing - profits. Imagine if Microsoft made corn. For one, you'd know they'd service pack their seeds. The first crop of corn would be great, easy to plant & grow... but for some strange reason it would spoil at unexpected times.
*COMPANIES* developing crops which interact with other crops on a global basis has world-wide ramifications. *ONE* mistake could cause global famine... just because Microsoft wants to dominate corn too.
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the music industry blamed napster for it's stale selection and dismal sales. now that napster is gone, they blame gnutella (and others). i blame poor promotion, shitty bands, and the industry changing from music-based to money-based. selling cookie cutter bands that imitate another successful band. this is what i believe caused the music world to suffer the past 5 years.
i legitamately own about 500 CDs. you can imagine what a pain it is to organize, find, and play my music. i bought an mp3 player (neo 20gb), encoded all my cds and take them everywhere. now the music industry wants to limit how & where i can transfer my music. if i can't take it with me along with everything else i own, i dont' want it.
with these restrictions in place, i may never buy a cd again until they remove these weak copy protection schemes which affect the fidelity of the music anyway.
the technology we created was totally intrusive. if you're reading shakespeare's "romeo and juliet" and pfizer buys the keyword "romeo", then it will take you to the viagra page. all content was affected. this has limited potential for individual sites, but once you allow your system to get taken over and links changed to "preferred" links, we have a serious problem. there's not enough valid links on the web as is, and now whatever's left will soon to be advertisement. what the internet needs is a mute button like your t.v.
Biotech is bad:
Corporate backers & investers are concerned with *ONE* thing - profits. Imagine if Microsoft made corn. For one, you'd know they'd service pack their seeds. The first crop of corn would be great, easy to plant & grow... but for some strange reason it would spoil at unexpected times.
*COMPANIES* developing crops which interact with other crops on a global basis has world-wide ramifications. *ONE* mistake could cause global famine... just because Microsoft wants to dominate corn too.