"One of the things we liked (about her job) at DoubleClick was that she worked hard to build relationships with the privacy community and to vet their new policies with these groups,"
Alright, let it be known in advance that I think is is a bad idea, however, just to play angel's advocate for a moment...
Who better to protect our privacy than those who know how to completely decimate it?
I'm just looking over this, since I'm looking to purchase some IP's from my upstream provider. It seems to be that these IP's are somewhat devalued since areas of the net have blacklisted them.
Sort of like a tarnished credit record I guess. This IP's won't be of the greatest value for a few years until the rest of the net catches up.
The IP's would be for home broadband use too. I'll be personally avoiding that IP range.:(
* From: Dave Farber
* To: ip
* Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 21:21:04 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: "Tim O'Reilly" Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:13:44 -0700 To: David Farber Subject: FW: The Music Piracy Myth
Dave, I thought your readers might enjoy the following rant from George Ziemann, who's been doing analysis of the RIAA members' own statistics to argue that the decline in sales is related to their reduced title output and higher prices, not to file sharing.
For the articles to which he refers, see http://www.azoz.com/music/features/0008.html and http://yahoo.businessweek.com/technology/content/f eb2003/tc20030213_9095_tc078.htm
-- Tim O'Reilly @ O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472 1-707-829-0515 http://www.oreilly.com, http://tim.oreilly.com
------ Forwarded Message From: George Ziemann Reply-To: wizard@azoz.com Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 22:47:19 -0700 To: tim@oreilly.com Subject: The Music Piracy Myth
Currently, if you do a google search on RIAA statistics, I'm number one and two; you are three and four, and your article refers to me, so I know you know who I am.
The article to which you referred was published in December. Since that time, a lot has happened, as I'm sure you are aware, not the least of which being the RIAA's recent lawsuits against college students.
First of all, I am a musician. The only reason I even started researching what the RIAA has to say is because of the problems I had selling my own work at eBay, which were entirely due to RIAA accusations of copyright infringement (it was my own CD).
After looking at the 2002 RIAA data, I also realized that over the last 5 years, the recording industry has shipped out more than 2 billion physical units of product, adding up to a retail value of more than $20 billion. You'd think that they would embrace a free marketing and promotion opportunity like mp3s. Let's face it, an mp3 is an inferior copy. I consider mp3s to be an ad for my actual recording.
My current consternation comes in the form of a letter from my congressional representative, who states that "In 2001, record sales were down 10 percent because of unauthorized music downloads..."
Yes, sales were down. Other than that obvious fact, there is no empirical data to suggest that downloading is the cause of the problem. I've asked the RIAA. In fact, I would go so far as to say I have relentlessly taunted them in hopes of a reasonable explanation. They offer none.
So think about this. As the original research I conducted indicates (and has been verified by SoundScan via BusinessWeek.com), the record labels began to reduce the number of releases BEFORE the Napster hearings. When they went in front of Congress to complain about downloading, Hilary Rosen could confidently state that sales were going to suffer.
Because it was engineered.
Here's another interesting point. I can go to www.discmakers.com and order CDs for $1.89 each. Not "replicated" but created from a glass master. As I understand it, the current wholesale price for a CD is about $12.
So how can EMI's Cost of Goods Sold (2001 -- at Hoovers Online) be 71% of their income? BMG's 2001 annual report blames industry shortcomings "long obscured by market success" and Vivendi told its stockholders that an "anticipated lighter release schedule" had something to do with it. BMG is the only one that even mentions file sharing -- as a justification in investing in Napster.
Why does "sales are down 10%" overrule any other explanation for declining sales? A bigger question is -- Why won't anyone in the media even discuss this?
Recently I spoke to the FCC at a public hearing in Tempe (Phoenix area). Next month, I'm going to speak at the DMCA hearings at UCLA Law School.
"But analysts contend that WordML's compliance with industry standards is a misnomer. Because the schema isn't fully documented, people who want to edit files created in Office 2003 will only be able to do that with Office itself, as before. Text in Office 2003 files stored in XML format might be viewable in other desktop programs, but all document formatting would be lost and most other files would be unreadable."
Love thy neighbor. Embrace and extend my brothers.
"If you register the player online, which involves answering some very personal questions and effectively allowing Microsoft a good look at your PC, then you get the full version. Otherwise you're left with a cut down version.
"If they applied this tactic to Linux users, imagine the information they could get their hands on."
Indeed.
Even if they ported it, would you use it with those stipulations?
They've taken some big steps at accomplishing a single desktop environment. Hacking off many people in the process. I'm just sitting back and watching it unfold. Have no idea if it's a good or bad thing, but interesting to watch.:)
If the dock were more customizable, the ability to have single-left-clickable appleting from the dock, and a few other minor gripes, I'd be happy. As it is, I hide the dock for as long as possible, unless I absolutely need it.
After being posted at slashdot, a huge impact crater where the photojournal server once stood could be seen via a huge red splotch on the mrtg graph for the nasa.gov domain.
What a horrid sight to behold. The smell of smoke and melted silicon could be inhaled for miles around.:P
The grim reality is that the World Wars are what turned the American economy around, and might I be so bold as to say that just about every time the US economy has struggled, it has been war that has turned it around.
That being said, thing long and hard about Bush's motivations re: Iraq.
I actually have no qualms with Bush's arguments. I hate sending people into harm's way, but better we lose some life taking nukes away from Saddam than losing many thousands getting nuked.
But I would be hard pressed to say that the economy isn't a motivator either. Bush Sr. started the recovery from the last recession by starting the Gulf War.
Data mining concerns me to no end because it's designing an industry around invasion of privacy. If ever there were a volatile industry, that's it.
Now, even if the above were to cause more IT/IS people to regain employment, re-employing yourself back into a volatile position is barely an improvement, the part that improves is that you get a paycheck for a while.
I count myself lucky, as I had family cross-country, and I was able to find a job near them and just dropped everything and moved to get a job. I feel for those who have not been so lucky, and if anything will incur my wrathe it is those breeding hopes based on things that are not stable.:(
Cop killing video games are evil! You have to repent to the lord Gates and be forgiven of your sins, washed away by the blood of the lame (Jobs).:P
Actually, never played the game myself. I remember ALL of the churches and law enforcement agencies in my area pitched a raving hissy fit though.
Roots on Windows aren't as l337
on
Windows Rootkits
·
· Score: 2, Funny
What I mean, is that what are you going to do from a windows remote terminal? I mean honestly, it's not that cool to have a windows terminal server session open (presuming that service is even set up), and even though you can telnet into windows, hacking in DOS just isn't 1337 enough.:P
Slashdot Mirror
Alright, let it be known in advance that I think is is a bad idea, however, just to play angel's advocate for a moment...
Who better to protect our privacy than those who know how to completely decimate it?
blink, blink
Okay, so you don't buy it, neither do I. :)
Sure he did. That, and to save us from our sins, but who's sparing the details?
Too bad I'm not kidding.
Why oh why did the Macs get stuck with the sawed-off station wagon anyway? :P
That's the mac version of Phoenix, or rather it's equivalent.
I love the Mozilla herd, but please do me a favor...
:(
Quit renaming all the browsers! Every time I recommend them to a friend or coworker, the name changes and they get confused.
I'm just looking over this, since I'm looking to purchase some IP's from my upstream provider. It seems to be that these IP's are somewhat devalued since areas of the net have blacklisted them.
:(
Sort of like a tarnished credit record I guess. This IP's won't be of the greatest value for a few years until the rest of the net catches up.
The IP's would be for home broadband use too. I'll be personally avoiding that IP range.
Subject: [IP] MUST READ The Music Piracy Myth
* From: Dave Farber
* To: ip
* Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 21:21:04 -0400
------ Forwarded Message
From: "Tim O'Reilly"
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:13:44 -0700
To: David Farber
Subject: FW: The Music Piracy Myth
Dave, I thought your readers might enjoy the following rant from George Ziemann, who's been doing analysis of the RIAA members' own statistics to argue that the decline in sales is related to their reduced title output and higher prices, not to file sharing.
For the articles to which he refers, see http://www.azoz.com/music/features/0008.html and http://yahoo.businessweek.com/technology/content/f eb2003/tc20030213_9095_tc078.htm
--
Tim O'Reilly @ O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472
1-707-829-0515 http://www.oreilly.com, http://tim.oreilly.com
------ Forwarded Message
From: George Ziemann
Reply-To: wizard@azoz.com
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 22:47:19 -0700
To: tim@oreilly.com
Subject: The Music Piracy Myth
Currently, if you do a google search on RIAA statistics, I'm number one and two; you are three and four, and your article refers to me, so I know you know who I am.
The article to which you referred was published in December. Since that time, a lot has happened, as I'm sure you are aware, not the least of which being the RIAA's recent lawsuits against college students.
First of all, I am a musician. The only reason I even started researching what the RIAA has to say is because of the problems I had selling my own work at eBay, which were entirely due to RIAA accusations of copyright infringement (it was my own CD).
After looking at the 2002 RIAA data, I also realized that over the last 5 years, the recording industry has shipped out more than 2 billion physical units of product, adding up to a retail value of more than $20 billion. You'd think that they would embrace a free marketing and promotion opportunity like mp3s. Let's face it, an mp3 is an inferior copy. I consider mp3s to be an ad for my actual recording.
My current consternation comes in the form of a letter from my congressional representative, who states that "In 2001, record sales were down 10 percent because of unauthorized music downloads..."
Yes, sales were down. Other than that obvious fact, there is no empirical data to suggest that downloading is the cause of the problem. I've asked the RIAA. In fact, I would go so far as to say I have relentlessly taunted them in hopes of a reasonable explanation. They offer none.
So think about this. As the original research I conducted indicates (and
has been verified by SoundScan via BusinessWeek.com), the record labels
began to reduce the number of releases BEFORE the Napster hearings. When
they went in front of Congress to complain about downloading, Hilary
Rosen could confidently state that sales were going to suffer.
Because it was engineered.
Here's another interesting point. I can go to www.discmakers.com and
order CDs for $1.89 each. Not "replicated" but created from a glass
master. As I understand it, the current wholesale price for a CD is
about $12.
So how can EMI's Cost of Goods Sold (2001 -- at Hoovers Online) be 71%
of their income? BMG's 2001 annual report blames industry shortcomings
"long obscured by market success" and Vivendi told its stockholders that
an "anticipated lighter release schedule" had something to do with it.
BMG is the only one that even mentions file sharing -- as a
justification in investing in Napster.
Why does "sales are down 10%" overrule any other explanation for
declining sales?
A bigger question is -- Why won't anyone in the media even discuss this?
Recently I spoke to the FCC at a public hearing in Tempe (Phoenix area).
Next month, I'm going to speak at the DMCA hearings at UCLA Law School.
Additionally, I'm
"But analysts contend that WordML's compliance with industry standards is a misnomer. Because the schema isn't fully documented, people who want to edit files created in Office 2003 will only be able to do that with Office itself, as before. Text in Office 2003 files stored in XML format might be viewable in other desktop programs, but all document formatting would be lost and most other files would be unreadable."
Love thy neighbor. Embrace and extend my brothers.
Amen.
If they use i386, I can count it in minutes. :)
If they use something else, could be a LOOOOOONG time.
"If you register the player online, which involves answering some very personal questions and effectively allowing Microsoft a good look at your PC, then you get the full version. Otherwise you're left with a cut down version.
"If they applied this tactic to Linux users, imagine the information they could get their hands on."
Indeed.
Even if they ported it, would you use it with those stipulations?
One word. MPlayer.
You see, for the last 4 years, I've had to eat everything with a knife and fork.
"There is no spoon" indeed. Bleh. Have you ever tried to eat Grape Nuts with a knife and fork? Or even better, chopsticks???
I'm running an ISP here, and pulling down the ISOS. As soon as I get them, I'll post .torrents.
They've taken some big steps at accomplishing a single desktop environment. Hacking off many people in the process. I'm just sitting back and watching it unfold. Have no idea if it's a good or bad thing, but interesting to watch. :)
Goddamit! Where's that slurping noise coming from????
:P
:)
Oh wait, my T-1. Oops.
What new this time? Did they integrate icewm with enlightenment?
Kinda curious how the desktop is 'enhanced' this time through.
Just one calorie *not evil enough!*
Seriously though...he was advising Google???
;)
I had absolutely no idea. Last I knew he was busy being a sore loser(winner?) of the last election.
At any rate, it ought to be an interesting addition to the staff. So long as he doesn't SERIOUSLY take credit for inventing the internet.
If the dock were more customizable, the ability to have single-left-clickable appleting from the dock, and a few other minor gripes, I'd be happy. As it is, I hide the dock for as long as possible, unless I absolutely need it.
After being posted at slashdot, a huge impact crater where the photojournal server once stood could be seen via a huge red splotch on the mrtg graph for the nasa.gov domain.
:P
What a horrid sight to behold. The smell of smoke and melted silicon could be inhaled for miles around.
There goes another customer. :P
:(
We're rolling out wifi all over the place, and McDonald's was going to be one of our targets.
Starbucks around here already said 'no' because they have an exclusive agreement with MSN to do it.
A year later not a single Starbucks around here has wifi.
Might I point out something else as well...
What saved us from the Great Depression?
World War.
The grim reality is that the World Wars are what turned the American economy around, and might I be so bold as to say that just about every time the US economy has struggled, it has been war that has turned it around.
That being said, thing long and hard about Bush's motivations re: Iraq.
I actually have no qualms with Bush's arguments. I hate sending people into harm's way, but better we lose some life taking nukes away from Saddam than losing many thousands getting nuked.
But I would be hard pressed to say that the economy isn't a motivator either. Bush Sr. started the recovery from the last recession by starting the Gulf War.
Just a lone opinion.
I had to call Dell for support for a client's laptop .
:(
I was trying to tell the support rep that the client lived at 25 Indigo Drive.
I spent 15 minutes explaining to the support rep that "Indigo" was not the state.
You tell me how that's possible.
Feh. Both of these concern me.
:(
Data mining concerns me to no end because it's designing an industry around invasion of privacy. If ever there were a volatile industry, that's it.
Now, even if the above were to cause more IT/IS people to regain employment, re-employing yourself back into a volatile position is barely an improvement, the part that improves is that you get a paycheck for a while.
I count myself lucky, as I had family cross-country, and I was able to find a job near them and just dropped everything and moved to get a job. I feel for those who have not been so lucky, and if anything will incur my wrathe it is those breeding hopes based on things that are not stable.
Free software is evil.
:P
Cop killing video games are evil! You have to repent to the lord Gates and be forgiven of your sins, washed away by the blood of the lame (Jobs).
Actually, never played the game myself. I remember ALL of the churches and law enforcement agencies in my area pitched a raving hissy fit though.
What I mean, is that what are you going to do from a windows remote terminal? I mean honestly, it's not that cool to have a windows terminal server session open (presuming that service is even set up), and even though you can telnet into windows, hacking in DOS just isn't 1337 enough. :P
Watch as I type edit and the screen goes blank!