"My fundamental view is that people should not be able to walk away from a deal they've made.", says RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen in response to California issues over artist contracts. It would seem to follow that the RIAA should understand the concept of a legally binding agreement. If an artist signs a contract and then later decides that they don't like the terms of that contract, the labels should understand now because that is exactly what they did with my dismissal (my dismissal is a legally binding agreement)".
This quote from his webpage says it all...
The RIAA obeys the laws when it benefits them...and flouts them when it benefits THEM!. It's only too bad that they have such deep pockets with which to bribe Congress. Their arrogance will prove to be their undoing in the long run though. Only freaks like Orrin Hatch will be left once that happens..and frankly I think Hatch is so far out on the lunatic fringe that he's more a liability then an asset for them these days
SCO chairman Darryl McDrivel today asserted SCO's claims of them owning the Internet, DNS, IRC and FTP. "We're 100% sure of this. Unix started the Internet, so by extension we own 100% of it - completely and absolutely".
SCO attorney David Bores confirmed this during the press conference by stomping up and down yelling: "We own it...WE own it!...WE OWN IT!".
He also took his thumb out of his mouth long enough to give a 'thumbs up' to Mc Drivel during the press conference.
Mc Drivel also announced that the RIAA and SCO were currently involved in merger talks. "We believe that there is a good fit between both companies' philosophies. Together we shall dominate - er - license our intellectual property to everyone".
This would be the same RIAA that publically said less then a year ago they would NOT be targeting individual downloaders?
You cannot believe a word they say, for they are a lying sack of runny shit...nothing more!
Some CNBC consultant figured out that their ratings among dyke lesbians needed improving.
Hiring her makes perfect sense to reverse that trend. They might even dress her in leather and give her a whip...that way they'd not only get more dyke lesbian viewers, but as an added bonus their ratings of submissive men would go way up too! Besides, dressed like that she'd fit in with Washington politics perfectly!
First, didn't the RIAA guy who debated with Lessig just last week claim that this WASN'T going to happen? Typical RIAA lying bullshitter I guess.
Next, didn't the software industry try these type of copy protection things a decade ago?
If I recall, they gave up because they turned out to be a joke...the people who really wanted to break them could (and did), yet the others (read: honest people) suffered because of them.
I guess it does prove that if you can't/won't learn from the mistakes of the past then you're destined to repeat them...
In the Harris booth they weren't even running it in stereo. They were using mono voice and it sounded just awful - full of really bad artifacts that made the speaker sound like he was gargling liquid while speaking.
A German fellow came up and was listening to the audio on a second headphone. he commented at how awful it sounded. Turns out that he does DSP for a living - perceptual coding in particular. he had done some work on the coser used and was embarrassed at what he was hearing on the headphone.
By contrast, the DRM samples I hear here sound just great!...and this with dual (dueling?) bit rate conversions (analog > DRM > MP3 > analog).
FM DAB sounds somewhat better...but then again is's using a 96K bit rate - even Windows Media sounds good at that high a bit rate!
What I'd like to hear is OGG at both the 32k bit rates of AM DAB and the 96k bit rates of FM DAB...
My guess is that it would sound great!
Right now, SCO stock is flying high, but it's only paper profit. The company officers and management really can't sell a dollar of the stock they own now, because the whole SCO vs IBM case already stinks of fraud, and if anyone can prove that SCO perpetuated any fraud, it's IBM.
It's transparent to all of us that SCO is just doing this to pump up their price, don't you think that the SEC and the Justice Department hasn't figured it out too?
You think that Martha Stewart's in deep doo doo...compared to what they could get SCO for she's guilty of stealing a second newspaper from an honor box.
SCO's big problem may be with their UNIX itself. It's my understanding that the original Bell labs Unix was riddled with code from BSD. If that be the case, how does SCO know whether they even have legal ownership of the code they claim that IBM is infringing upon?
In other words, if I steal something from you and then Joe steals it from me, does my (illegal) possession of it mean that I have an action against Joe? Frankly, I doubt it.
This is a hot potato that could drag on in court for years...and cast a pall over Linux the whole time.....which explains why Microsoft has put their nose into the muck here.
IBM needs to be decisive and crush SCO like the insect it is...a cockroach that put into the wrong place can really 'gum up' the works.
D-Link makes the WAP-900+ access point.
Cool thing about it is that it can be used as a wireless repeater. I bought one on sale for 69 bucks a few weeks ago. Two of these and a D-Link DI-614+ wireless router ($49 bucks after rebate).
would have done the same thing he did for less then the cost of one Airport. Plus you don't need an Apple computer to configure it (any web browser will do).
Call SCO...They'll deal with it by suing Linksys, Cisco, and everyone who's ever even looked at a Linksys product, let alone bought one!
You know that they say: Boies will be Boise!
So, if they PRESUME I'm guilty, then I MUST BE guilty?!
I mean, they can have my livelihood (website) taken down based on the presumption that I'm doing something wrong. No proof whatsoever is required, just an accusation.
Then maybe if I can PROVE myself innocent (in a month or three) they MIGHT allow me to make my living again....and if I want I can TRY to sue them...but good luck going against a herd of corporate lawyers.
In other words, the big companies can CRUSH the little ones just because they want to and there's nothing anyone can do about it!
What happened to the presumption of innocence that's the cornerstone of USA law and justice?
1. I find a bunch of old magazines in someone's trash.
2. I take the magazines and list them on my web site hoping to sell them.
3. I'm guilty of a DMCA violation?? This doesn't make sense! People are using the DMCA as a 'catch all' law to make EVERYTHING online illegal. This law must go away!
This is the very reason why Lindows and others simoila to it MUST be embraced NOW! Now that M$ has paid off Netscape, NOTHING stands in their way...unless we PUT it there!
And frankly, Lindows looks like our best shot!
How do we know that SCO didn't put it there?
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SCO vs Linux.. Continued
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SCO had access to the Linux kernel as much as anyone else. How do we know that THEY didn't set this whole thing up from the beginning?
To me, this stinks of RAMBUS!
See, well meaning but clueless lawmakers believe that you can pass a law covering every possible circumstance. You can't. Laws are supposed to do two things:
1. Prevent anarchy.
2. Set basic guidelines for life.
Yes, there has to be a few rules (laws) when people live together in a community. NO, the law book should NOT be thousands and thousands of pages long!
The problem is, that is exactly what has happened. There's dozens of new laws passed every day....which is more then the sum total of laws (commandments) GOD gave us (10).
and you don't think the RIAA knows this???
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Of course they do!! The RIAA KNOWS that the reason their sales are down is because the economy sucks....See, they're LYING...when they claim that p2p is hurting sales. p2p threatens their distribution model like nothing before and they'll do anything to kill it. They'll lie, cheat, steal, sue, bribe (mostly Congress) and do whatever else is necessary (whether ethical or not) to keep the mother lode they (now) exclusively mine.
the things I've described above aren't new either...they've been doing every one of them for many years (back in the 70's and 80's the record company radio reps used to be known as SNOWMEN and I'm not talking about the weather here!).
Hollywood didn't learn from VCR's, didn't learn from videodisks, didn't learn from DVD's and now can't learn from digital media.
To put it simply, Hollywood's arrogance won't LET them learn!
The cable industry's problems are of their own making. The consolidators (Time Warner, Comcast, Charter, etc.) WAY OVERPAID for the systems they own and now they can't afford to run (or even maintain) them. Add the Rigas greed of Adelphia to the recipe too. Now they try to pass their bad business decisions off onto their consumers? I don't think so! Here in Santa Monica, CA you will pay over 40 bucks a month for basic analog service. Over half the channels on this service are over the air stations. Dish TV offers more 'premium' (that is not over the air channels) then cable does...for about HALF the price! So, I pay 50 bucks for an antenna one time, 22 bucks for 55 channels of Dish, and say SCREW CABLE! Not only that, cable's big advantage used to be that you got a better picture with their product. Not any more! Their picture SUCKS, with herringbones and left sided ghosts (both a result of bad system design and especially maintenance) on over half the channels (including HBO). They put out a lousy product at an overinflated price and I shall not shed a single tear when they all go into bankruptcy.
Look, if I pay $250,000 for a house that's worth $50,000 that's MY problem. If I try to make it my tenants' problem, they'll leave...which is exactly what's happening with cable.
To survive as a free exchange of information, the Internet must move off of wires in this country! The problem with cable companies and phone companies is that they own the wires on the poles, and the FCC seems hell bent on keeping them from sharing them! WIRELESS can eliminate this problem. What I envision is a fiber node to serve each community that feeds a wireless network providing the 'last mile' to the home and office and completely bypassing the telcos and cable companies. And no, I would not feel guilty one bit doing this...it's their own greed that would have done them in!!
1. Find something that's been done for many years...make sure it's something so obvious and full of prior art that no one's bothered to ever try and patent it.
2. File a patent application for it. The incompetant bozos in the Patent Office will rubber stamp it.
3. Once you have the patent, hire David Boies and sue everyone in sight. Make sure the suits are just under what might be called the
'settlement threshold'.
4. Cash the checks.
Isn't this SCO the same one who was quoted as saying they wouldn't attack Linux? That they were only going after IBM?
This company is beyond contempt. They don't sell products anymore. They only exist to sue (read: extort) money out of other companies who do sell things. I doubt there's a better example of why the system of patents needs to be changed then SCO's abuses.
I used to work there, and many of my friends still do....None of them are happy. None of them enjoy their jobs. The word: "sweatshop" has been mentioned. It's pretty accurate these days there.
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This quote from his webpage says it all... The RIAA obeys the laws when it benefits them...and flouts them when it benefits THEM!. It's only too bad that they have such deep pockets with which to bribe Congress. Their arrogance will prove to be their undoing in the long run though. Only freaks like Orrin Hatch will be left once that happens..and frankly I think Hatch is so far out on the lunatic fringe that he's more a liability then an asset for them these days
SCO attorney David Bores confirmed this during the press conference by stomping up and down yelling: "We own it...WE own it!...WE OWN IT!". He also took his thumb out of his mouth long enough to give a 'thumbs up' to Mc Drivel during the press conference.
Mc Drivel also announced that the RIAA and SCO were currently involved in merger talks. "We believe that there is a good fit between both companies' philosophies. Together we shall dominate - er - license our intellectual property to everyone".
This would be the same RIAA that publically said less then a year ago they would NOT be targeting individual downloaders? You cannot believe a word they say, for they are a lying sack of runny shit...nothing more!
Does that explain to you how she looks?
Could happen!
Next, didn't the software industry try these type of copy protection things a decade ago? If I recall, they gave up because they turned out to be a joke...the people who really wanted to break them could (and did), yet the others (read: honest people) suffered because of them. I guess it does prove that if you can't/won't learn from the mistakes of the past then you're destined to repeat them...
In the Harris booth they weren't even running it in stereo. They were using mono voice and it sounded just awful - full of really bad artifacts that made the speaker sound like he was gargling liquid while speaking.
A German fellow came up and was listening to the audio on a second headphone. he commented at how awful it sounded. Turns out that he does DSP for a living - perceptual coding in particular. he had done some work on the coser used and was embarrassed at what he was hearing on the headphone.
By contrast, the DRM samples I hear here sound just great! ...and this with dual (dueling?) bit rate conversions (analog > DRM > MP3 > analog).
FM DAB sounds somewhat better...but then again is's using a 96K bit rate - even Windows Media sounds good at that high a bit rate!
What I'd like to hear is OGG at both the 32k bit rates of AM DAB and the 96k bit rates of FM DAB... My guess is that it would sound great!
Right now, SCO stock is flying high, but it's only paper profit. The company officers and management really can't sell a dollar of the stock they own now, because the whole SCO vs IBM case already stinks of fraud, and if anyone can prove that SCO perpetuated any fraud, it's IBM. It's transparent to all of us that SCO is just doing this to pump up their price, don't you think that the SEC and the Justice Department hasn't figured it out too? You think that Martha Stewart's in deep doo doo...compared to what they could get SCO for she's guilty of stealing a second newspaper from an honor box.
SCO's big problem may be with their UNIX itself. It's my understanding that the original Bell labs Unix was riddled with code from BSD. If that be the case, how does SCO know whether they even have legal ownership of the code they claim that IBM is infringing upon? In other words, if I steal something from you and then Joe steals it from me, does my (illegal) possession of it mean that I have an action against Joe? Frankly, I doubt it. This is a hot potato that could drag on in court for years...and cast a pall over Linux the whole time. ....which explains why Microsoft has put their nose into the muck here.
IBM needs to be decisive and crush SCO like the insect it is...a cockroach that put into the wrong place can really 'gum up' the works.
D-Link makes the WAP-900+ access point. Cool thing about it is that it can be used as a wireless repeater. I bought one on sale for 69 bucks a few weeks ago. Two of these and a D-Link DI-614+ wireless router ($49 bucks after rebate). would have done the same thing he did for less then the cost of one Airport. Plus you don't need an Apple computer to configure it (any web browser will do).
Call SCO...They'll deal with it by suing Linksys, Cisco, and everyone who's ever even looked at a Linksys product, let alone bought one! You know that they say: Boies will be Boise!
So, if they PRESUME I'm guilty, then I MUST BE guilty?!
I mean, they can have my livelihood (website) taken down based on the presumption that I'm doing something wrong. No proof whatsoever is required, just an accusation. Then maybe if I can PROVE myself innocent (in a month or three) they MIGHT allow me to make my living again....and if I want I can TRY to sue them...but good luck going against a herd of corporate lawyers.In other words, the big companies can CRUSH the little ones just because they want to and there's nothing anyone can do about it!
What happened to the presumption of innocence that's the cornerstone of USA law and justice?
Here: http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~sivann/pub/Uploade d/waste-setup.exe
1. I find a bunch of old magazines in someone's trash.
2. I take the magazines and list them on my web site hoping to sell them.
3. I'm guilty of a DMCA violation?? This doesn't make sense! People are using the DMCA as a 'catch all' law to make EVERYTHING online illegal. This law must go away!
This is the very reason why Lindows and others simoila to it MUST be embraced NOW! Now that M$ has paid off Netscape, NOTHING stands in their way...unless we PUT it there! And frankly, Lindows looks like our best shot!
SCO had access to the Linux kernel as much as anyone else. How do we know that THEY didn't set this whole thing up from the beginning? To me, this stinks of RAMBUS!
See, well meaning but clueless lawmakers believe that you can pass a law covering every possible circumstance. You can't. Laws are supposed to do two things: 1. Prevent anarchy. 2. Set basic guidelines for life. Yes, there has to be a few rules (laws) when people live together in a community. NO, the law book should NOT be thousands and thousands of pages long! The problem is, that is exactly what has happened. There's dozens of new laws passed every day....which is more then the sum total of laws (commandments) GOD gave us (10).
Of course they do!! The RIAA KNOWS that the reason their sales are down is because the economy sucks....See, they're LYING...when they claim that p2p is hurting sales. p2p threatens their distribution model like nothing before and they'll do anything to kill it. They'll lie, cheat, steal, sue, bribe (mostly Congress) and do whatever else is necessary (whether ethical or not) to keep the mother lode they (now) exclusively mine. the things I've described above aren't new either...they've been doing every one of them for many years (back in the 70's and 80's the record company radio reps used to be known as SNOWMEN and I'm not talking about the weather here!).
Hollywood didn't learn from VCR's, didn't learn from videodisks, didn't learn from DVD's and now can't learn from digital media. To put it simply, Hollywood's arrogance won't LET them learn!
The cable industry's problems are of their own making. The consolidators (Time Warner, Comcast, Charter, etc.) WAY OVERPAID for the systems they own and now they can't afford to run (or even maintain) them. Add the Rigas greed of Adelphia to the recipe too. Now they try to pass their bad business decisions off onto their consumers? I don't think so! Here in Santa Monica, CA you will pay over 40 bucks a month for basic analog service. Over half the channels on this service are over the air stations. Dish TV offers more 'premium' (that is not over the air channels) then cable does...for about HALF the price! So, I pay 50 bucks for an antenna one time, 22 bucks for 55 channels of Dish, and say SCREW CABLE! Not only that, cable's big advantage used to be that you got a better picture with their product. Not any more! Their picture SUCKS, with herringbones and left sided ghosts (both a result of bad system design and especially maintenance) on over half the channels (including HBO). They put out a lousy product at an overinflated price and I shall not shed a single tear when they all go into bankruptcy. Look, if I pay $250,000 for a house that's worth $50,000 that's MY problem. If I try to make it my tenants' problem, they'll leave...which is exactly what's happening with cable.
To survive as a free exchange of information, the Internet must move off of wires in this country! The problem with cable companies and phone companies is that they own the wires on the poles, and the FCC seems hell bent on keeping them from sharing them! WIRELESS can eliminate this problem. What I envision is a fiber node to serve each community that feeds a wireless network providing the 'last mile' to the home and office and completely bypassing the telcos and cable companies. And no, I would not feel guilty one bit doing this...it's their own greed that would have done them in!!
1. Find something that's been done for many years...make sure it's something so obvious and full of prior art that no one's bothered to ever try and patent it. 2. File a patent application for it. The incompetant bozos in the Patent Office will rubber stamp it. 3. Once you have the patent, hire David Boies and sue everyone in sight. Make sure the suits are just under what might be called the 'settlement threshold'. 4. Cash the checks.
okay? Now open up and say AAAAH!
Isn't this SCO the same one who was quoted as saying they wouldn't attack Linux? That they were only going after IBM? This company is beyond contempt. They don't sell products anymore. They only exist to sue (read: extort) money out of other companies who do sell things. I doubt there's a better example of why the system of patents needs to be changed then SCO's abuses.
I used to work there, and many of my friends still do....None of them are happy. None of them enjoy their jobs. The word: "sweatshop" has been mentioned. It's pretty accurate these days there.