I only had to get 10 words into your comment to realize you didn't really have anything useful or to say, as denoted by the "M$". Nothing like screeming "I'm a biased retarded fan-boy!! M$ sux!" in the very first sentence.
First, I own an Xbox. Burn me at the stake. That said, I think it's a tad to late to stop Sony's rampage short of fielding 100% par excellent titles at an alarming rate. Sony has excellent name brand recognition and have used their experience to build some excellent franchises. The sheer number of games they've had flowing into the system nearly guarantees a crop of good titles sprinkled here and their. It got off to a slow start, but it's seriously cooking now. Give the XBox franchise another generation (the X2?) and i think you'll see a force to be reckoned with, but as it stands now, building a solid foundation with this system is probably the primary goal for now. Sony is entrenched and it's good. The XBox will provide MS with much needed battle experience, even if it doesn't "win" this round of the console wars.
"We already know that the PS2 and GameCube have awesome games."
Noooooo... Nintendo has a handful of awesome games on the Cube. In fact, I'd say the only thing that gives them the edge at this point is their name and older than dirt game franchises like Mario and Zelda. In the battle for second, it's seems more about name brand recognition to me than anything else. I think if you were to give the XBox the same amount of visibility from years experience, you'd about have a tie or better, given the hardware.
Gee, how many times are we gonna ask this question? ~sigh~ If you actually are serious, pick up THE BOOK and check out the original publication date....1954. And anybody who is so mired in sensitive political correctness as to think the name ought be changed can suck my ass.
This has to be the first case of I've heard of where an employer has accused the employee of an already known virus. Hell, I was cleaning this crap out of users computers for quite a while myself. While I could easily believe this guy is clueless, I also can also make an educated guess that this guy is pissed off at you on a personal level. What'd you do? Shit in his Wheaties? All you have to do is hit the Norton Anti-Virus Homepage for Klez. Of course, this isn't going to stop him from pursecuting you for the real and/or imagined wrong that led up to this (he'll find other shit to throw at you in otherwords), but unless he can prove you're the origin of the epicenter of the worlds entire Klez infection, he's another one of those Mofo's trying to skate uphill.
Cern Mass Produces Anti-Hydrogen = "Our long experience with these very difficult experiments warns that antihydrogen may not have really been produced."
WTF. So even though they said themselves they are far from certain, you go ahead and post it as fact? Kudos to the editors too... Uhhhg...
"This is giving the teachers headaches in trying to grade the assignments..."
Maybe I'm not seeing the teacher's dilemma here. The students use 'R' or 'U', they get negative marks, simple as that. And I have to agree with one of the earlier posts-- If they can't seperate their chatting with school, then there are other, more serious problems beyond the overuse of shorthand. In fairness, there have been times, however fleeting, that I've been tempted to "Lol!" instead of chuckle or laugh. And I routinely use "thanx". But then, I'm not being graded either (but I'm sure using LOL in a real conversation would earn a few strange looks...)
This is the kind of response a newbie to the platform needs, not some dribbling shit like "go back and worship Gates" or "I think I'll indirectly imply that since you use M$ products you can't be intelligent enough to make the switch". I think for most people it's a "time versus effort" issue-- "Do I want to take the time out of my already busy life to learn an entirely new OS and is it really worth the effort to do so?", not "Duh, what's a floppy disk and why can't i fit Quake 3 onto it?"*Lordcorusa, you deserve every one of those mod points for that genuinly intelligent response.
*We actually had a 'tech' (who had gotten his job through a good-ol-boy connection) that didn't know the first thing about anything. how to drag and Drop, copy and paste, etc. At one point, he was actually dragging game icons onto the floppy disk drive, thinking he was getting the entire thing to play at home... We suffered.
Nothing like a primadonna attitude to start the day off right. Of course, another name for primadonnas of any sort, whether they be sysadmins, software engineers or Linux fanboys is "bitch" which seems to fit aptly.
Troll? Flame? No doubt you'll be modding parent down as well, right? Oh... I see...
Last I heard, it's called "learning from other peoples mistakes". Agreed, this is probably the wrong place to be asking opinions, but playing the "Gee which OS should I pick today" game isn't something you just want to take potshots at or 'hop straight over to'. I mean really, I'd be asking questions too, especially if Windows were my only background. I've heard of some of the fun you can have installing Linux and it's variants, ranging from fairly easy to extra gooey, let alone some other OS that 90% of the public probably hasn't even heard of. Cut the guy some slack.
There are shows that can waste an hour of your life, then there are shows that can utterly waste an hour of your life and make you vomit afterwards. This is one of those series, this episode in particular was devoid of any redeeming value. I'll sum it up for you:
Part 1: Crew is interrogaated on Captains whereabouts. Part 2: Captain and time agent construct a communicator out of bubblegum and duct tape in the desolate future. Part 3: Captain contacts crew, concocts zany plan. Part 4: Hoshi crawls around in ducts, emerges topless (can you say "fan service"?). Part 5: Captain emerges from future to kick alien butt, Enterprise yet again narrowly escapes a better armed, more numerous foe.
It's like they purposely built up part one just to make part two so utterly anti-climatic and predictable as to make you want to jab your eyeballs out and never hear the phrase "we're making history with every lightyear" ever again. This was the season premier? All I can say about the writers is that they have a seriously long way to go. We're talking 40 years in the desert long...
This has got to be the lamest long term plot device a Trek series could ever employ because it so cheapens the series on a whole-- The fact that the Pioneers really didn't do it on their own, but had there hand held every step of the way by some time traveling agent. It's sad, really; beyond the bungling they normally engage in they. They are freakin out manned, out gunned and have only one ship on the frontier and the best the script writers can come up with is the happy-go-lucky adventures of the Starship Enterprise?
Honestly, exploring the frontier should have been enough, with all the technological advancements to be made and races to be encountered. Throw in something wierd here, a hint of a possible temporal cold war there and they should have been set. The Trek history is more than rich enough to sustain a series like this one on it's own. Notice I said hint. Not bathing the viewer in time travel higgly-piggly like the writeres here do. A little forshadowing or chance encounters, but not the bat upside the head like they've been doing. It's sick. I'm not bashing ST:E simply because it's not my ideal, but more because it's just plain sloppy.
First, I have to agree. AvP Jaguar was in some strange and twisted way better than the PC versions I've played. Oh, sure the graphics are way better now, but it almost seems like the PC AvP can't get the mood right (though bursting out of somebodies stomache is a step in the right direction). Beats me. Tempest and AvP are the only games I'll vouch for on an otherwise piece of shit system. Vid Grid would also be nice on a modern system these days. It was fun rearranging the video before it completed.
And finally, if your gonna mod this guy a zero, at least give a reason why, you chump. His comment is on-topic, It's not supremely offensive. It's not a loaded troll. Damn, somebody has got a serious case of brain hemmeroids....
And don't come crying to us when you stumble upon a key that has already been used, the computer notes it, your phone/IP tagged and a SWAT team/RIAA Shock trooper combo squad busts down your door and subjects you to a very harsh scolding.
When the long day is over and it's all said and done, Aunt Betty tucked in her bed while your singing yourself a lullaby in the closet, maybe, just maybe you might admit to yourself somewhere around 70%-80% of the people who use MP3 probably engage in the defined act of piracy; Downloading media they don't own with no intention of paying for some, if not all of it. You may not do it, or even like it, but the fact is that Mp3 is starting to becoming a synonomis with pirate as hacker is to some teenage idiot looking to crack a system because curosity killed the chicken before it counted all it's eggs that crossed the road and curiosity is my only crime. Yah. Yes, I honestly believe those percentages because I believe people are that weak, lazy and hypocritical (myself included).
No, seriously... Besides going cold turkey internet, subscriber base and everything that goes with a downloading service, what Bon Jovi is doing is THE ONLY way to lure fans back from the brink of piracy. it's all about added value and so far, the labels have been doing nothing but subtractive value marketing. MP3 added value because I could at very least burn my own CDs, let alone ~ahem~ sample them before I buy. You can damn near do anything to MP3. There is so much added value in the digital format it's pathetic and the best the Labels can think of is encryption and new media formats? Not to stroke myself, but me and others have been saying this for years now-- The only way to combat this if you aren't going to move away from CDs is pack in shit with the CDs. Autographed guitar pics, tickets (their method is probably easier) and other stuff you simply can't get online. hell, I might just buy the CD as a show of support. This is actually one submission I totally agree with... Somebody is finally doing something right here, so support the bad man (it's like that 'going to a crappy video game movie' thing to 'support the cause').
"It's kind of eye-opening when you think about how games that seemed so great so long ago can now be fit on something so small as a card."
And it's kind of eye-opening to realize that this is the exact reason they are against ROMs, for those wondering why they'd care about such ancient games. It's not the games themselves they stand to make money off of, but the nostalgia they create and the more access the average gamer has to that nostalgia- aka ROMs -the less nostalgistic there will be when it comes time for Nintendo to release them and the less of a marketshare they'll have. And Nintendo likes marketshare. A lot. My theory at any rate. Time to go play some Battlefield: 1942...
Yah, your Pop was right and now I'm jaded into not being an early adopter of consoles, which was probably the prudent course of action to begin with. And Night Trap. Can't forget Night Trap and Sewer Shark;)
I bought one of those piece of crap systems. I bought it, and the toilet bowl CDROM that went with it. Yes, AVP and Tempest2k were top notch, but they were one of the few lights of a console thatdied because of the absolute shittiest management this side of the galactic rim. Everything they tried to do seemed to be a pissing match with other systems titles and nearly everytime they tried such a stunt, they failed miserably. Their VR Racing game was crap compared to Sega's. Their fighting games couldn't even compare to Killer Instinct on the SNES, for cryin' out loud. The Morphing spaceship game didn't hold a candle to Starfox (even though the latter was on rails). Vid Grid for the CDROM was an interesting premise, but then I poped in Blue Lightining, otherwise known as "Monty Python's Air Combat". It felt like I was piloting a horribly rendered cardbord cut-out fighting other horribly rendered cardboard cut-outs. It was at this moment i knew I had been taken. Flim-flammed. Bamboozeled. I had sunk my hard earned money into a less than year old platform that was never going to amount to anything. "the system we can thank for such awesome games as the original Alien vs. Predtor, Iron Soldier, and the gorgeously psychadelic Tempest 2000."??? No, screw this. Thank the developers for those games, not the console which was a first rate piece of shit thanks to the people who managed it. Bitter? Oh yeah.
Scientist who engage in exaggeration and fraud to pad their lifestyles with funding?! That couldn't possibly extend to OTHER AREAS of the scientific community, now (cough; deforestation, global warming) now could it? And the most amazing thing is this story actually saw the light of day with the science-can-do-no-wrong crowd here on Slash...
Nononono... It's merely out on lease. Infact, the Labels have the right to repossess your music at any time.
On that note, how else is the industry supposed to recoup their loses when they are used to the business model "One product per person"? Puttin aside the gouging they engage in, I seriously wonder how people think that is fair? I bought a blender, I own it and if the neighbor wants to borrow it, great, even if for an extended time. But there is only one blender at all times and I suspect eventially, you'll want it back and the neighbor will either A) be inconvinienced or B) Buy his own. That used to work for the Record Labels too. Now it doesn't. They distribute one copy, and you have the ability to make an infinite number of copies from yours. Your property, right?
In reality, while it's a abuse on the customer's part, it's really the record industry's failure to adapt adequately that's the problem. By all rights it IS your copy and you should do what you want with it. But it's also the company's right to ensure they make a profit off of it, but WITHOUT violating your rights. So what's a Label to do? Copy protection, but we all know that game. New formats, but nobody's buying into it. They're in a unique situation... Unless THEY get a clue, we're going to end up involuntarily strangling them to death and dump the recording industry into a recession. Yeah, I actually believe that.
Why? Because it's the exact same argument the very next guy uses and he's modded as an 'interesting'. Common, a little consistancy here? And he's absolutely right. Music is not open source as is the popular opinion. And late at night when Aunt Betty is asleep and i'm honest with myself, I have this tiny little fear: That the pirates- yes, you and I -Really are destroying the music industry. Oh, sure, the Labels are doing their part, but what is the long term effect this all has besides this RIAA crap? Well, I've thought of some...
Pirating really is like welfare. I can see people becoming so use to free music that it'll poison the industry. Joe has a few hit songs, but like most people, doesn't have the cash or the distibution infrastructure to get visibility. (and no, the internet is barely a viable option at this point) Unfortunately, neither do the labels anymore because all it takes is a dozen people to hit the net with any P2P program, and they're ass outta luck with near zero chance of defraying the cost. What happens? Joe is either really, really, really dedicated or he says I have a wife and kids to feed and drops the music gig. Now picture that on a large scale.
Now I'm not saying that this will happen 100% or the industry eventially won't eventially find other ways to make money off hits, but it doesn't take a huge leap of the imagination to a see a music recession on the rise because neither side will back down. And before I get any high and mighty replies about the evil empires raping us at the counter, I ask you this: What do you do if a department store gives you shitty service? Overprices their product? Oh, naturally you steal it off the shelf, right? Contrary to popular belief, you can change the industries behavior without resorting to THEFT... It just takes a lot of hard work and we're all lazy bastards.
Don't get me wrong, it eventially gets fixed or replaced.... Normally after wasting everybodies time when apple should have said "DOA? Send it back in and as soon as we recieve it, we'll send you another one AND extend your apple care for a year."
And granted, I am apple authorized, but as soon as I crack it open, it gives apple even more excuses on what could possibly be wrong. At least if I just build my PC, I can warrenty the individual parts manufacturer or easily find another source to buy from. Oh well.
Just curious, but doesn't MP3 signifigantly alter a waveform when it chucks the parts you normally can't hear? It'd be like fingerprinting with half the prints missing or otherwised changed around, I'd imagine. Oh, I'm sure they could make a close approximation, but the an approximation isn't nessisarily going to hold up in a court.
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I only had to get 10 words into your comment to realize you didn't really have anything useful or to say, as denoted by the "M$". Nothing like screeming "I'm a biased retarded fan-boy!! M$ sux!" in the very first sentence.
First, I own an Xbox. Burn me at the stake. That said, I think it's a tad to late to stop Sony's rampage short of fielding 100% par excellent titles at an alarming rate. Sony has excellent name brand recognition and have used their experience to build some excellent franchises. The sheer number of games they've had flowing into the system nearly guarantees a crop of good titles sprinkled here and their. It got off to a slow start, but it's seriously cooking now. Give the XBox franchise another generation (the X2?) and i think you'll see a force to be reckoned with, but as it stands now, building a solid foundation with this system is probably the primary goal for now. Sony is entrenched and it's good. The XBox will provide MS with much needed battle experience, even if it doesn't "win" this round of the console wars.
"We already know that the PS2 and GameCube have awesome games."
Noooooo... Nintendo has a handful of awesome games on the Cube. In fact, I'd say the only thing that gives them the edge at this point is their name and older than dirt game franchises like Mario and Zelda. In the battle for second, it's seems more about name brand recognition to me than anything else. I think if you were to give the XBox the same amount of visibility from years experience, you'd about have a tie or better, given the hardware.
Gee, how many times are we gonna ask this question? ~sigh~ If you actually are serious, pick up THE BOOK and check out the original publication date....1954. And anybody who is so mired in sensitive political correctness as to think the name ought be changed can suck my ass.
This has to be the first case of I've heard of where an employer has accused the employee of an already known virus. Hell, I was cleaning this crap out of users computers for quite a while myself. While I could easily believe this guy is clueless, I also can also make an educated guess that this guy is pissed off at you on a personal level. What'd you do? Shit in his Wheaties? All you have to do is hit the Norton Anti-Virus Homepage for Klez. Of course, this isn't going to stop him from pursecuting you for the real and/or imagined wrong that led up to this (he'll find other shit to throw at you in otherwords), but unless he can prove you're the origin of the epicenter of the worlds entire Klez infection, he's another one of those Mofo's trying to skate uphill.
Cern Mass Produces Anti-Hydrogen = "Our long experience with these very difficult experiments warns that antihydrogen may not have really been produced."
WTF. So even though they said themselves they are far from certain, you go ahead and post it as fact? Kudos to the editors too... Uhhhg...
"This is giving the teachers headaches in trying to grade the assignments..."
Maybe I'm not seeing the teacher's dilemma here. The students use 'R' or 'U', they get negative marks, simple as that. And I have to agree with one of the earlier posts-- If they can't seperate their chatting with school, then there are other, more serious problems beyond the overuse of shorthand. In fairness, there have been times, however fleeting, that I've been tempted to "Lol!" instead of chuckle or laugh. And I routinely use "thanx". But then, I'm not being graded either (but I'm sure using LOL in a real conversation would earn a few strange looks...)
Not that there will be a better one a few weeks down the road, right?
This is the kind of response a newbie to the platform needs, not some dribbling shit like "go back and worship Gates" or "I think I'll indirectly imply that since you use M$ products you can't be intelligent enough to make the switch". I think for most people it's a "time versus effort" issue-- "Do I want to take the time out of my already busy life to learn an entirely new OS and is it really worth the effort to do so?", not "Duh, what's a floppy disk and why can't i fit Quake 3 onto it?"* Lordcorusa, you deserve every one of those mod points for that genuinly intelligent response.
* We actually had a 'tech' (who had gotten his job through a good-ol-boy connection) that didn't know the first thing about anything. how to drag and Drop, copy and paste, etc. At one point, he was actually dragging game icons onto the floppy disk drive, thinking he was getting the entire thing to play at home... We suffered.
Nothing like a primadonna attitude to start the day off right. Of course, another name for primadonnas of any sort, whether they be sysadmins, software engineers or Linux fanboys is "bitch" which seems to fit aptly.
Troll? Flame? No doubt you'll be modding parent down as well, right? Oh... I see...
"Why don't you find out yourself?"
Last I heard, it's called "learning from other peoples mistakes". Agreed, this is probably the wrong place to be asking opinions, but playing the "Gee which OS should I pick today" game isn't something you just want to take potshots at or 'hop straight over to'. I mean really, I'd be asking questions too, especially if Windows were my only background. I've heard of some of the fun you can have installing Linux and it's variants, ranging from fairly easy to extra gooey, let alone some other OS that 90% of the public probably hasn't even heard of. Cut the guy some slack.
There are shows that can waste an hour of your life, then there are shows that can utterly waste an hour of your life and make you vomit afterwards. This is one of those series, this episode in particular was devoid of any redeeming value. I'll sum it up for you:
Part 1: Crew is interrogaated on Captains whereabouts.
Part 2: Captain and time agent construct a communicator out of bubblegum and duct tape in the desolate future.
Part 3: Captain contacts crew, concocts zany plan.
Part 4: Hoshi crawls around in ducts, emerges topless (can you say "fan service"?).
Part 5: Captain emerges from future to kick alien butt, Enterprise yet again narrowly escapes a better armed, more numerous foe.
It's like they purposely built up part one just to make part two so utterly anti-climatic and predictable as to make you want to jab your eyeballs out and never hear the phrase "we're making history with every lightyear" ever again. This was the season premier? All I can say about the writers is that they have a seriously long way to go. We're talking 40 years in the desert long...
This has got to be the lamest long term plot device a Trek series could ever employ because it so cheapens the series on a whole-- The fact that the Pioneers really didn't do it on their own, but had there hand held every step of the way by some time traveling agent. It's sad, really; beyond the bungling they normally engage in they. They are freakin out manned, out gunned and have only one ship on the frontier and the best the script writers can come up with is the happy-go-lucky adventures of the Starship Enterprise?
Honestly, exploring the frontier should have been enough, with all the technological advancements to be made and races to be encountered. Throw in something wierd here, a hint of a possible temporal cold war there and they should have been set. The Trek history is more than rich enough to sustain a series like this one on it's own. Notice I said hint. Not bathing the viewer in time travel higgly-piggly like the writeres here do. A little forshadowing or chance encounters, but not the bat upside the head like they've been doing. It's sick. I'm not bashing ST:E simply because it's not my ideal, but more because it's just plain sloppy.
First, I have to agree. AvP Jaguar was in some strange and twisted way better than the PC versions I've played. Oh, sure the graphics are way better now, but it almost seems like the PC AvP can't get the mood right (though bursting out of somebodies stomache is a step in the right direction). Beats me. Tempest and AvP are the only games I'll vouch for on an otherwise piece of shit system. Vid Grid would also be nice on a modern system these days. It was fun rearranging the video before it completed.
And finally, if your gonna mod this guy a zero, at least give a reason why, you chump. His comment is on-topic, It's not supremely offensive. It's not a loaded troll. Damn, somebody has got a serious case of brain hemmeroids....
And don't come crying to us when you stumble upon a key that has already been used, the computer notes it, your phone/IP tagged and a SWAT team/RIAA Shock trooper combo squad busts down your door and subjects you to a very harsh scolding.
When the long day is over and it's all said and done, Aunt Betty tucked in her bed while your singing yourself a lullaby in the closet, maybe, just maybe you might admit to yourself somewhere around 70%-80% of the people who use MP3 probably engage in the defined act of piracy; Downloading media they don't own with no intention of paying for some, if not all of it. You may not do it, or even like it, but the fact is that Mp3 is starting to becoming a synonomis with pirate as hacker is to some teenage idiot looking to crack a system because curosity killed the chicken before it counted all it's eggs that crossed the road and curiosity is my only crime. Yah. Yes, I honestly believe those percentages because I believe people are that weak, lazy and hypocritical (myself included).
No, seriously... Besides going cold turkey internet, subscriber base and everything that goes with a downloading service, what Bon Jovi is doing is THE ONLY way to lure fans back from the brink of piracy. it's all about added value and so far, the labels have been doing nothing but subtractive value marketing. MP3 added value because I could at very least burn my own CDs, let alone ~ahem~ sample them before I buy. You can damn near do anything to MP3. There is so much added value in the digital format it's pathetic and the best the Labels can think of is encryption and new media formats? Not to stroke myself, but me and others have been saying this for years now-- The only way to combat this if you aren't going to move away from CDs is pack in shit with the CDs. Autographed guitar pics, tickets (their method is probably easier) and other stuff you simply can't get online. hell, I might just buy the CD as a show of support. This is actually one submission I totally agree with... Somebody is finally doing something right here, so support the bad man (it's like that 'going to a crappy video game movie' thing to 'support the cause').
"It's kind of eye-opening when you think about how games that seemed so great so long ago can now be fit on something so small as a card."
And it's kind of eye-opening to realize that this is the exact reason they are against ROMs, for those wondering why they'd care about such ancient games. It's not the games themselves they stand to make money off of, but the nostalgia they create and the more access the average gamer has to that nostalgia- aka ROMs -the less nostalgistic there will be when it comes time for Nintendo to release them and the less of a marketshare they'll have. And Nintendo likes marketshare. A lot. My theory at any rate. Time to go play some Battlefield: 1942...
Yah, your Pop was right and now I'm jaded into not being an early adopter of consoles, which was probably the prudent course of action to begin with. And Night Trap. Can't forget Night Trap and Sewer Shark ;)
I bought one of those piece of crap systems. I bought it, and the toilet bowl CDROM that went with it. Yes, AVP and Tempest2k were top notch, but they were one of the few lights of a console thatdied because of the absolute shittiest management this side of the galactic rim. Everything they tried to do seemed to be a pissing match with other systems titles and nearly everytime they tried such a stunt, they failed miserably. Their VR Racing game was crap compared to Sega's. Their fighting games couldn't even compare to Killer Instinct on the SNES, for cryin' out loud. The Morphing spaceship game didn't hold a candle to Starfox (even though the latter was on rails). Vid Grid for the CDROM was an interesting premise, but then I poped in Blue Lightining, otherwise known as "Monty Python's Air Combat". It felt like I was piloting a horribly rendered cardbord cut-out fighting other horribly rendered cardboard cut-outs. It was at this moment i knew I had been taken. Flim-flammed. Bamboozeled. I had sunk my hard earned money into a less than year old platform that was never going to amount to anything. "the system we can thank for such awesome games as the original Alien vs. Predtor, Iron Soldier, and the gorgeously psychadelic Tempest 2000."??? No, screw this. Thank the developers for those games, not the console which was a first rate piece of shit thanks to the people who managed it. Bitter? Oh yeah.
Scientist who engage in exaggeration and fraud to pad their lifestyles with funding?! That couldn't possibly extend to OTHER AREAS of the scientific community, now (cough; deforestation, global warming) now could it? And the most amazing thing is this story actually saw the light of day with the science-can-do-no-wrong crowd here on Slash...
Flaaaaaaaame!!!!
Nononono... It's merely out on lease. Infact, the Labels have the right to repossess your music at any time.
On that note, how else is the industry supposed to recoup their loses when they are used to the business model "One product per person"? Puttin aside the gouging they engage in, I seriously wonder how people think that is fair? I bought a blender, I own it and if the neighbor wants to borrow it, great, even if for an extended time. But there is only one blender at all times and I suspect eventially, you'll want it back and the neighbor will either A) be inconvinienced or B) Buy his own. That used to work for the Record Labels too. Now it doesn't. They distribute one copy, and you have the ability to make an infinite number of copies from yours. Your property, right?
In reality, while it's a abuse on the customer's part, it's really the record industry's failure to adapt adequately that's the problem. By all rights it IS your copy and you should do what you want with it. But it's also the company's right to ensure they make a profit off of it, but WITHOUT violating your rights. So what's a Label to do? Copy protection, but we all know that game. New formats, but nobody's buying into it. They're in a unique situation... Unless THEY get a clue, we're going to end up involuntarily strangling them to death and dump the recording industry into a recession. Yeah, I actually believe that.
Why? Because it's the exact same argument the very next guy uses and he's modded as an 'interesting'. Common, a little consistancy here? And he's absolutely right. Music is not open source as is the popular opinion. And late at night when Aunt Betty is asleep and i'm honest with myself, I have this tiny little fear: That the pirates- yes, you and I -Really are destroying the music industry. Oh, sure, the Labels are doing their part, but what is the long term effect this all has besides this RIAA crap? Well, I've thought of some...
Pirating really is like welfare. I can see people becoming so use to free music that it'll poison the industry. Joe has a few hit songs, but like most people, doesn't have the cash or the distibution infrastructure to get visibility. (and no, the internet is barely a viable option at this point) Unfortunately, neither do the labels anymore because all it takes is a dozen people to hit the net with any P2P program, and they're ass outta luck with near zero chance of defraying the cost. What happens? Joe is either really, really, really dedicated or he says I have a wife and kids to feed and drops the music gig. Now picture that on a large scale.
Now I'm not saying that this will happen 100% or the industry eventially won't eventially find other ways to make money off hits, but it doesn't take a huge leap of the imagination to a see a music recession on the rise because neither side will back down. And before I get any high and mighty replies about the evil empires raping us at the counter, I ask you this: What do you do if a department store gives you shitty service? Overprices their product? Oh, naturally you steal it off the shelf, right? Contrary to popular belief, you can change the industries behavior without resorting to THEFT... It just takes a lot of hard work and we're all lazy bastards.
Don't get me wrong, it eventially gets fixed or replaced.... Normally after wasting everybodies time when apple should have said "DOA? Send it back in and as soon as we recieve it, we'll send you another one AND extend your apple care for a year."
And granted, I am apple authorized, but as soon as I crack it open, it gives apple even more excuses on what could possibly be wrong. At least if I just build my PC, I can warrenty the individual parts manufacturer or easily find another source to buy from. Oh well.
Just curious, but doesn't MP3 signifigantly alter a waveform when it chucks the parts you normally can't hear? It'd be like fingerprinting with half the prints missing or otherwised changed around, I'd imagine. Oh, I'm sure they could make a close approximation, but the an approximation isn't nessisarily going to hold up in a court.