You have to remember that movie studios make that money up in theatre sales. Record labels only sell the CD, and most of the Band's tour money goes back to the band.
It is a shame that the record companies receive no compensation for the music being added to the movie.
Oh let's return to the good old days where programmers had two big keys with 0 and 1 written on them and programmed opcodes like playing bongos..
Brilliant! With a simple gamecube-usb adaptor, there is a new use for Nintendo's Donkey Konga bongos: banging out code. You can clap to get a space (or a newline, EOF, or whatever).
Boxen at least has some precedent, and I don't think most slashdotters actually think it is the correct plural. Virii has no precedent: drop the "us" and add "ii"? It is just plain wrong; it is a joke misspelling. But if everyone starts telling the same joke, it's no longer funny. Yesterday I saw virii on my university's helpdesk website. Sad. Very sad.
The only thing that stops me is that it would jam medical pagers for doctors and emergency service reserves on duty..
That, and I'd personally beat you senseless for determining that you have any say whatsoever over my use of a cell phone on a train, bus or any other form of public transit. I am perfectly capable of using my cellphone properly; your use of vigilante justice would earn you some in return.
To paraphrase Ennio Flaiano: "On Slashdot there are two kinds of cell phone fascists: fascists and anti-fascists."
In some languages subject contains only non english-alphanumeric characters. Your test works only in America and Western Europe. It might work for you, but it won't work for Russians, Greeks, Arabs, Hebrews, Japanese, Chinese and some other nations.
I'd like to point out that his solution also does not filter out viruses/worms or chain letters. Furthermore, it doesn't work for people that don't have email. It makes absolutely no Julian Fries in any period of time. You cannot use it as a vacuum cleaner. It's also not pink.
Shit. Really, man. It's his system. It works for him. If it doesn't work for you don't use it. He doesn't need people pointing out the many things it does not do and that he does not need it to do. If you want it to do those things, you could ask for his source, or d/l it when he posts it.
Firewire - Apple. It is so much an Apple technology that Intel refuses to incorporate it into their motherboards.
I've heard the "intel won't support it" thing before but it looks like that is not true. They may be the only intel models with firewire, but I've seen both D845PEBT2 and D865PERLK advertised with firewire/1394.
I'm repeating my reply to another thread. The NET act specifically makes it a criminal offense to download copyrighted material. The reason downloaders are probably in a 'grey zone' is simply because the (1998?) NET act is so young, and they don't want it challenged(unless it already was, and struck down... I haven't read about it, so I assume that it still stands). As a result If they charged in against a whole bunch of downloaders, someone would more than likely challenge this... as it is a stupid law(how can you tell it's copyrighted if you don't have it? Names mean jack)
I cannot dispute that it is against the law (or a couple of laws); but I'm not trying either. As I clarify to the poster above: I'm just saying that I think the case against downloaders would be tough to prove in court. The big copyright holders may or may not think so, but until they try dragging downloaders into court, the downloaders are in a grey zone.
To make an analogy that everyone will hate: receiving stolen property is against the law; but if you didn't know it was stolen, you probably aren't going to jail.
I agree with you too about copyright holders not wanting to test the law. An untested law can be used as a cudgel to beat those with less money for attorney fees.
No, copyright law says that you cannot distribute and you cannot make copies. Without getting into too much detail, you also can't encourage other people to do those things. And there are other prohibited acts as well that aren't really important right now.
I cannot argue the facts. That's all true.
Downloaders are, by necessity, making a copy. This is an infringement; just as bad as the infringement of the distributor that they copied from. The Napster case discussed this, since Napster couldn't be held liable unless their users were acting illegally.
Here is the problem. The downloader doesn't know that the distributer is not legit. As far as the files go, there are three types:
Things in public domain
Things for which copyright holders are not enforcing copyright
Things for which copyright holders are enforcing copyright
As a downloader, how are you supposed to know what category each file is in?
A lot of people assume that if someone is offering something for download then it is legitimate. After all, if it were not legitimate, then they would not be sharing it; either for moral reasons or because the authorities would make them stop. Now I know that ignorance of the law is not excuse, but get a jury to find against someone for downloading a few Brittany Spears files.
That is the grey zone. The downloaders are doing something that is technically/legally wrong. Most people upon learning the law would see the downloaders' actions as ignorant and not criminal. Juries are made of these people, and so it would be tough to convict downloaders.
At this time, it is easier to go after distributers and win. It also alienates fewer people if you assume most people are leaches.
It never was about money. They're only suing SHARERS, not downloaders. They're deliberately trying to kill P2P. If it was about money, they would sue the DOWNLOADERS. More revenue stream from that, wouldn't you say? It's about power and who determines what music gets to be popular.
Not really. As I understand it, copyright law says that you cannot distribute, not that you cannot receive. They are going after those who they are clearly allowed to go after. Before anyone decides to correct me and say that distributers are not profitting and so are not clear targets; the RIAA has already won/settled that lawsuit. They can now go after/sue those people with impunity. I'm not saying that they will win, just that they are not prohibited from sueing.
sharing copyrighted material is illegal. period. when will you dumb fucks learn?
hows about getting a fucking job?
Will all of us get one job and work in shifts, or will one of us support the rest with this job?
then you'd be able to *buy* shit instead of stealing it.
I don't buy or steal shit, but I will sell you some. $5/lb sound good?
use open source software every day at my job. the difference between you and me is i earn over $60K a year from exploiting the shit you dumbasses pump out for nothing.
Kudos. I have better manners and don't smell from "exploiting the shit" as you say.
hell, i dont need to pirate CDs because i can afford them. I buy CDs, then go play them in my Lexus on my way to work.
Again, kudos! A Lexus, hot damn. I bet you have a huge pecker too, huh?
What they should have done is not bothered hiring attorneys at all, appeared pro se, and then taken it to a jury trial and turned it into a circus. Believe me, that scenario would have the RIAA shaking in their boots. There would be massive publicity, the RIAA would have been completely trashed before it was over and no one would have cared who won in the end. This is their nightmare scenario, and if anyone else out there gets sued, don't take the easy road with settlement. Go in there and humiliate the RIAA.
So do it. Find a serive that you will provide that you think is both legal/protected by the Home Audio Recording Act (or whatever it is) and that will get the RIAA to sue you. Try your plan of going pro se and let me know how it goes.
Honestly, it is very easy to say what someone else should have done when you are not in their position. The students did what was they thought was best for them. Perhaps risking millions/billions/all-of-their-future-money was simply not in their best interests? Don't tell me, "Yeah but if they won, they wouldn't have to pay." There is no guarantee that they would win, and if they won their lawyers' fees would be expensive. Could the RIAA appeal this if the defendants did win? If so, even more money pissed down the drain. Presumably, these college students are their to learn. Unless they are pre-law, they probably don't want to spend the next 4 years learning the legal system.
You were writing "monitoroutlet.com", I was reading "monitorroulette.com" and was thinking, "OK, so you went to that site and place an order for a monitor. They spin a wheel and you happened to get a Sony. You win!"
Anyway, that's really cool that they replaced the actual panel to "fix" your dead pixels. I chose not to buy a Sony last time because their CRTs were so ugly (and I wasn't ready to spend the money needed for a 17" LCD). Maybe I'll look into them and monitor outlet.
Actually, if you own a Laserjet 5L, 6L, 3100, 3150,or 1100, and it developed paper feed jam, you could order those 'rubber' fix from HP free of charge (no shipping charge as well). See this link. The only catch is you have to read the instructions and install the fix yourself. I ordered and installed the fix for my LJ 6L. It did fix the problem (most of the time). However, you only have one chance to install it right. If you screw it up, you really need a HP technician to undo the damage. This freebie is the result of the class action of the unsatisfied owners the aforementioned printers.
Don't do that.:)
I had a 5L that had this paper-feed problem, bad news. I searched usenet and found Mo at www.fixyourownprinter.com (or something damn similar). Mo provided the actual HP replacement parts and a mpeg video of how to open up the printer and fix it. Took an hour, had to use a screwdriver to disassemble the printer, but I didn't have to worry about f'ing up the sticky-bit-on-cardboard free HP fix.
The replacement parts were new, and HP has changed the formula of the rubber so that they shouldn't go bad quite as soon.
Anyway, it works fine now. Since then I have also fixed a 6L with parts from Mo. The 6L is even simpler to fix with his kit- one page instruction sheet.
Sweet! One more story till RFC 3541 gets posted again!
BroccoliGod
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Its called Run As.. It should be in every NT version of windows and its in the Right Click menu.. (I think you have to hold Shift or Ctrl some times) Lets you try and run an app as any user you know the login too.
Just to clear up a few things: "Run as" is not in Windows NT 4.0 (or below I would assume). In Windows 2000, you Shift-right_click to get "Run As" as an option. You cannot run another copy of Explorer.exe with it (and so you cannot access the control panel as administrator using this trick). Windows XP's fast user switching is better in this regard- no need to close programs to do something as administrator, but still not as nice as nix. Windows NT Resource kit has a command line SU utility, but I've never used it.
Are you using Tiny Personal Firewall or Kerio Personal Firewall? The Personal Firewall forked at version 2 (IIRC).
I used Tiny for a version before the fork, but now use Kerio ('cause the Kerio team is the old Tiny team- Tiny hired new coders).
Anyway, I use Kerio on a couple of machines- it works good enough for me to pay for it. It has an option to treat windows networking separately from other connection types- still not sure I like it, but it is only an option.
What's to stop someone from buying up billboard space in downtown Charleston, SC and putting up ads that read "Sen. Hollings thinks YOU are a criminal" with maybe a
link to a website with a rational, well reasoned point by point explanation of the son-of-SSSCA (forgot the new version) and why that means the consumer is a criminal.
What's interesting is the genius of this approach - instead of hackers ripping off the movie industry, they would then be ripping off consumers - with every key cracked, more and more DVD players would become obsolete. Hence, both the tech factions and content factions stood to benefit from this arrangement.
I have a feeling that this will piss off DVD manufacturers more:
Back inventory of "obselete" players people no longer wish to buy
Production costs for making each batch of players with different keys
Customer complaints/returns
What about one manufacturer sabotaging another manufacturer's player by leaking the keys, to earn a market for its newer player?
Open-source software should be advertised as "BSA-Free". Really, IBM should put this in their commericals about their Linux/Apache-based products. Open with a Gestapo raid and end with a "still psyched?".
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It is a shame that the record companies receive no compensation for the music being added to the movie.
-BroccoliGod
Oh let's return to the good old days where programmers had two big keys with 0 and 1 written on them and programmed opcodes like playing bongos..
Brilliant! With a simple gamecube-usb adaptor, there is a new use for Nintendo's Donkey Konga bongos: banging out code. You can clap to get a space (or a newline, EOF, or whatever).
BroccoliGod
Boxen at least has some precedent, and I don't think most slashdotters actually think it is the correct plural. Virii has no precedent: drop the "us" and add "ii"? It is just plain wrong; it is a joke misspelling. But if everyone starts telling the same joke, it's no longer funny. Yesterday I saw virii on my university's helpdesk website. Sad. Very sad.
The only thing that stops me is that it would jam medical pagers for doctors and emergency service reserves on duty..
That, and I'd personally beat you senseless for determining that you have any say whatsoever over my use of a cell phone on a train, bus or any other form of public transit. I am perfectly capable of using my cellphone properly; your use of vigilante justice would earn you some in return.
To paraphrase Ennio Flaiano: "On Slashdot there are two kinds of cell phone fascists: fascists and anti-fascists."
-BroccoliGod
About your sig: Real Programmers are surprised when the odometers in their cars don't turn from 000009 to 00000A.
Shouldn't it be "... turn from 000007 to 000010"? You know, with the leading 0 and all.
-BroccoliGod
I'd like to point out that his solution also does not filter out viruses/worms or chain letters. Furthermore, it doesn't work for people that don't have email. It makes absolutely no Julian Fries in any period of time. You cannot use it as a vacuum cleaner. It's also not pink.
Shit. Really, man. It's his system. It works for him. If it doesn't work for you don't use it. He doesn't need people pointing out the many things it does not do and that he does not need it to do. If you want it to do those things, you could ask for his source, or d/l it when he posts it.
BroccoliGod
I've heard the "intel won't support it" thing before but it looks like that is not true. They may be the only intel models with firewire, but I've seen both D845PEBT2 and D865PERLK advertised with firewire/1394.
BroccoliGodI cannot dispute that it is against the law (or a couple of laws); but I'm not trying either. As I clarify to the poster above: I'm just saying that I think the case against downloaders would be tough to prove in court. The big copyright holders may or may not think so, but until they try dragging downloaders into court, the downloaders are in a grey zone.
To make an analogy that everyone will hate: receiving stolen property is against the law; but if you didn't know it was stolen, you probably aren't going to jail.
I agree with you too about copyright holders not wanting to test the law. An untested law can be used as a cudgel to beat those with less money for attorney fees.
I cannot argue the facts. That's all true.
Here is the problem. The downloader doesn't know that the distributer is not legit. As far as the files go, there are three types:
As a downloader, how are you supposed to know what category each file is in? A lot of people assume that if someone is offering something for download then it is legitimate. After all, if it were not legitimate, then they would not be sharing it; either for moral reasons or because the authorities would make them stop. Now I know that ignorance of the law is not excuse, but get a jury to find against someone for downloading a few Brittany Spears files.
That is the grey zone. The downloaders are doing something that is technically/legally wrong. Most people upon learning the law would see the downloaders' actions as ignorant and not criminal. Juries are made of these people, and so it would be tough to convict downloaders.
At this time, it is easier to go after distributers and win. It also alienates fewer people if you assume most people are leaches.
Not really. As I understand it, copyright law says that you cannot distribute, not that you cannot receive. They are going after those who they are clearly allowed to go after. Before anyone decides to correct me and say that distributers are not profitting and so are not clear targets; the RIAA has already won/settled that lawsuit. They can now go after/sue those people with impunity. I'm not saying that they will win, just that they are not prohibited from sueing.
Downloaders are in a grey zone.
sharing copyrighted material is illegal. period. when will you dumb fucks learn?
hows about getting a fucking job?
Will all of us get one job and work in shifts, or will one of us support the rest with this job?
then you'd be able to *buy* shit instead of stealing it.
I don't buy or steal shit, but I will sell you some. $5/lb sound good?
use open source software every day at my job. the difference between you and me is i earn over $60K a year from exploiting the shit you dumbasses pump out for nothing.
Kudos. I have better manners and don't smell from "exploiting the shit" as you say.
hell, i dont need to pirate CDs because i can afford them. I buy CDs, then go play them in my Lexus on my way to work.
Again, kudos! A Lexus, hot damn. I bet you have a huge pecker too, huh?
So do it. Find a serive that you will provide that you think is both legal/protected by the Home Audio Recording Act (or whatever it is) and that will get the RIAA to sue you. Try your plan of going pro se and let me know how it goes.
Honestly, it is very easy to say what someone else should have done when you are not in their position. The students did what was they thought was best for them. Perhaps risking millions/billions/all-of-their-future-money was simply not in their best interests? Don't tell me, "Yeah but if they won, they wouldn't have to pay." There is no guarantee that they would win, and if they won their lawyers' fees would be expensive. Could the RIAA appeal this if the defendants did win? If so, even more money pissed down the drain. Presumably, these college students are their to learn. Unless they are pre-law, they probably don't want to spend the next 4 years learning the legal system.
You were writing "monitoroutlet.com", I was reading "monitorroulette.com" and was thinking, "OK, so you went to that site and place an order for a monitor. They spin a wheel and you happened to get a Sony. You win!"
Anyway, that's really cool that they replaced the actual panel to "fix" your dead pixels. I chose not to buy a Sony last time because their CRTs were so ugly (and I wasn't ready to spend the money needed for a 17" LCD). Maybe I'll look into them and monitor outlet.
Don't do that. :)
I had a 5L that had this paper-feed problem, bad news. I searched usenet and found Mo at www.fixyourownprinter.com (or something damn similar). Mo provided the actual HP replacement parts and a mpeg video of how to open up the printer and fix it. Took an hour, had to use a screwdriver to disassemble the printer, but I didn't have to worry about f'ing up the sticky-bit-on-cardboard free HP fix.
The replacement parts were new, and HP has changed the formula of the rubber so that they shouldn't go bad quite as soon.
Anyway, it works fine now. Since then I have also fixed a 6L with parts from Mo. The 6L is even simpler to fix with his kit- one page instruction sheet.
BroccoliGod
Sweet! One more story till RFC 3541 gets posted again!
BroccoliGod
Just to clear up a few things: "Run as" is not in Windows NT 4.0 (or below I would assume). In Windows 2000, you Shift-right_click to get "Run As" as an option. You cannot run another copy of Explorer.exe with it (and so you cannot access the control panel as administrator using this trick). Windows XP's fast user switching is better in this regard- no need to close programs to do something as administrator, but still not as nice as nix. Windows NT Resource kit has a command line SU utility, but I've never used it.
"Despite popular belief, it _is_ possible to clean the connector you already have... Previous to that I did buy a new connector for yet a 4th nes ..."
If it works so well, why have you had at least 4 NESes? :)
Should's that read Tonto, chief?
Kemosabe means friend. :)
http://www.resellerratings.com
Are you using Tiny Personal Firewall or Kerio Personal Firewall? The Personal Firewall forked at version 2 (IIRC).
I used Tiny for a version before the fork, but now use Kerio ('cause the Kerio team is the old Tiny team- Tiny hired new coders). Anyway, I use Kerio on a couple of machines- it works good enough for me to pay for it. It has an option to treat windows networking separately from other connection types- still not sure I like it, but it is only an option.
BroccoliGod
Dude! You can't click on a billboard.
I have a feeling that this will piss off DVD manufacturers more:
What about one manufacturer sabotaging another manufacturer's player by leaking the keys, to earn a market for its newer player?
Sounds too crappy/complicated.
I thought it was:
#0- Spam is theft #1- Spammers are stoopid
#2- Spammers lie
#3- If a spammer seems to be telling the truth, see rule #2
Back to nanae you go
Damn it, that was funny.