I think that most people would agree with you but I think that you missed the idea behind "DRM isn't going to help them sell more of the bad music"
The RIAA thinks that "more control = More money" which is not always truth. DRM, for them, is only a bid to hang on to control. When (or if) the people see they are screwed by the system, it won't be pretty for them...
You support the consolidation of radio and other music distribution networks so you have tight control on who listens and how they listen. Perhaps if radio and music distribution wasn't controlled by you and your existance wasn't backed and supported by the government (who should have broken you up years ago) I would believe you.
Do you care about anything other than your bottom line?
Money and Power! It is, and will always be about Money or Power.
The RIAA is afraid that the old way of doing buiness goes up in smoke... It's the same problem with the MPAA, Microsoft or any big enough giant company.
"We might be losing money! Quick, Launch Lawyers (Patent,DCMA, legislation, lobbying, etc.)! For great Profit!"
If you can't get it shipped, try buying Local! If a company is willing to ship it here (Canada), they probably have a Candian version of the Store.. Like Tigerdirect or Amazon (although Amazon.ca doesn't have much compared to Amazon.com)
Or simply buy at a local store... Like the Vermont public TV said: "A dollar spent in Vermont stays in Vermont"... Apply where you live...
You never know who might need a cheap Unix workstation to get some work done, run background computations, or perform simple serving (e.g. sendmail).
Depending on the type of Box. I took 2 OLD Apollo computer from school... (Apollo 400 If my memory is right... runs on MC68040) These things are unusable for me: Weigh a ton, takes the place of 2-3 x86 box, Eat power like there's no tomorrow and run like molasse compared to a 486. But they DID come with a proprietary 20' screen connected via 3 COAX cable (sync on green)... Anyone want them, there's yours, because I doubt office depot will accept any of these or that will be able to sell 10year old computers with sub-gig hardrives...
Now I also collected a SparcStation LX and a SparcStation 5 at the same time... They make Perfect server material and graphical terminal... Made me wish a wasn't a college student stuck on dial-up... Installing Debian on a modem is kinda of a pain...
the performance varies as you roll but it seemed to be better than dialup at all times.
I'm curious: around what speed?
It's not hard being better than 5k/sec but if the average is 60k/sec with Spikes at 600k/sec and lows at 10k/sec, I say it's a FAR better service than dial-up...
Being a Montrealer myself (Hell I even work for the city this summer as a part-time job) I may have to use that train in the "near" future... and a first hand experience is far more interesting than any type of "marketing-enhanced" information.
Think about it - as long as there are people out there that are willing to fly a passenger plane into a tall building, we shouldn't create an even bigger target.
Seriously, There will always be someone ready to answer the challenge. Brave men and women have always rise up to the challenge, some have given theirs lives.It WILL be done. If not in this lifetime, then maybe a couple of hundred years.
Why? Just like the mountains. Simply because "it's there"
C:\WINDOWS\system32>strings ftp.exe | grep -A 1 Copyright
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
All rights reserved.
I'm sure everyone recognized the original BSD licence which means that it's legal to copy the code for any purpose if the Copyright is there.... and it's there all right.
They would have been REALLY stupid not to do it since almost EVERYONE copied that basic BSD Network Stack (and applications):)
Open-source software -- uncopyrighted software which has no license cost
Actually, it's the translator at Reuters that mis-translated the article. The actual bit is not present in
the french reuter article (which was published about 5-6hours before)
Another note, The 'original' article doesn't mention "Open Source" anywhere: it's all "Logiciel Libre" which translate to Free Software. (RMS would be proud)...
Take note that the quote from Microsoft was taken from
Another article on Microsoft's reaction to the news. (also from Reuters, but I can't find it on www.reuters.fr)
What gets me the most is that NONE of these e-mails apply to me...
GET_CHEAP_MED_FROM_CANADA hum...HELLO!! I live in Canada already... can't you tell by the.ca dommain???? *sigh*...deleted CONSOLIDATE MORTGAGES LOWEST RATES IN THE US 3.5% Hum... I don't have a house yet... and i bet i can get lower than that with my own bank... deleted GET UNIVSitTy DIploma Hum... It's a LITTLE late to tell me that... I'm getting my Comp. Eng. Degree in less than 6 months...deleted VIAGRA PENIS ELARGEMENT WIEGH LOST Hum... I'm 23 years old and in very good health...
etc...
Who responds to theses things anyway???
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I think that most people would agree with you but I think that you missed the idea behind "DRM isn't going to help them sell more of the bad music"
The RIAA thinks that "more control = More money" which is not always truth. DRM, for them, is only a bid to hang on to control. When (or if) the people see they are screwed by the system, it won't be pretty for them...
It's ALWAYS about Money or Power... or Both.
I'm a computer engineer
For Americans this could be a downside:
You can't be called an Engineer if you didn't do a 4 year college program... like, for exemple, MIT...
So no "Sales Engineer" around here...
I could not find evidence of this.
Someone posted this. Get you a good idea of price range.
Of course it's all just numbers... Your experience may vary...
You support the consolidation of radio and other music distribution networks so you have tight control on who listens and how they listen. Perhaps if radio and music distribution wasn't controlled by you and your existance wasn't backed and supported by the government (who should have broken you up years ago) I would believe you.
Do you care about anything other than your bottom line?
Money and Power! It is, and will always be about Money or Power.
The RIAA is afraid that the old way of doing buiness goes up in smoke... It's the same problem with the MPAA, Microsoft or any big enough giant company.
"We might be losing money! Quick, Launch Lawyers (Patent,DCMA, legislation, lobbying, etc.)! For great Profit!"
*sigh*
I am fairly certain that the law trumps what controls you believe you have.
With DRM, it works the other way... It's called the DMCA.
If you can't get it shipped, try buying Local! If a company is willing to ship it here (Canada), they probably have a Candian version of the Store.. Like Tigerdirect or Amazon (although Amazon.ca doesn't have much compared to Amazon.com)
Or simply buy at a local store... Like the Vermont public TV said: "A dollar spent in Vermont stays in Vermont"... Apply where you live...
You never know who might need a cheap Unix workstation to get some work done, run background computations, or perform simple serving (e.g. sendmail).
Depending on the type of Box. I took 2 OLD Apollo computer from school... (Apollo 400 If my memory is right... runs on MC68040) These things are unusable for me: Weigh a ton, takes the place of 2-3 x86 box, Eat power like there's no tomorrow and run like molasse compared to a 486. But they DID come with a proprietary 20' screen connected via 3 COAX cable (sync on green)... Anyone want them, there's yours, because I doubt office depot will accept any of these or that will be able to sell 10year old computers with sub-gig hardrives...
Now I also collected a SparcStation LX and a SparcStation 5 at the same time... They make Perfect server material and graphical terminal... Made me wish a wasn't a college student stuck on dial-up... Installing Debian on a modem is kinda of a pain...
what's a girl to do?? ;)
Get a geeky Boyfriend to handle these issues for you.. There's plenty to go around
As an added bonus, you can blame him if anything goes wrong EVEN if you are more geeky them him...
And a whole lot of floppies and backup tapes erased...
the performance varies as you roll but it seemed to be better than dialup at all times.
I'm curious: around what speed?
It's not hard being better than 5k/sec but if the average is 60k/sec with Spikes at 600k/sec and lows at 10k/sec, I say it's a FAR better service than dial-up...
Being a Montrealer myself (Hell I even work for the city this summer as a part-time job) I may have to use that train in the "near" future... and a first hand experience is far more interesting than any type of "marketing-enhanced" information.
I think this is more like Knoppix with a USB Key: OS and settings available (almost) anywhere
Yeah but won't releasing the invention to the world be considered prior art? Even in a different country?
Any lawyers could comment on this?
Reading title fast, I thought that NASA had released some source code... *sigh*
Think about it - as long as there are people out there that are willing to fly a passenger plane into a tall building, we shouldn't create an even bigger target.
"Mechanical Engineers build weapons, Civil Engineers build targets"
Seriously, There will always be someone ready to answer the challenge. Brave men and women have always rise up to the challenge, some have given theirs lives.It WILL be done. If not in this lifetime, then maybe a couple of hundred years.
Why? Just like the mountains. Simply because "it's there"
Next time, try a free Wifi access point, like those given by ile sans fil ( French page)
They're coming from businesses either to try and take claim of some recent "innovation" (double-clicking or pushing a button) or as defensive patents
True. And it's not something new. Want an exemple? Search for: 'company 10000 patents IBM'...
Someimes I think the world would be better without Lawyers...
Yeah, but if you do that, you will have to answer on my Canadian patent on 'Building constructed out of carefully selected blocks of frozen material'
Serioulsy, I have high hopes for a Canadian or Russian design...
C:\WINDOWS\system32>strings ftp.exe | grep -A 1 Copyright
:)
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
All rights reserved.
I'm sure everyone recognized the original BSD licence which means that it's legal to copy the code for any purpose if the Copyright is there.... and it's there all right.
They would have been REALLY stupid not to do it since almost EVERYONE copied that basic BSD Network Stack (and applications)
Another note, The 'original' article doesn't mention "Open Source" anywhere: it's all "Logiciel Libre" which translate to Free Software. (RMS would be proud)...
Take note that the quote from Microsoft was taken from Another article on Microsoft's reaction to the news. (also from Reuters, but I can't find it on www.reuters.fr)
What? Creationism actually shows up in serious school textbooks?!
Yep! I think Texas is the State where they still teach creationism in school.
Although they still got the International Average in the TIMSS Science test
Don't expect any US spammers to do the same thing.
Bah! Impose death penalty for spammer and you'll see them apologising really fast.
What gets me the most is that NONE of these e-mails apply to me...
.ca dommain???? *sigh*...deleted
GET_CHEAP_MED_FROM_CANADA
hum...HELLO!! I live in Canada already... can't you tell by the
CONSOLIDATE MORTGAGES LOWEST RATES IN THE US 3.5%
Hum... I don't have a house yet... and i bet i can get lower than that with my own bank... deleted
GET UNIVSitTy DIploma
Hum... It's a LITTLE late to tell me that... I'm getting my Comp. Eng. Degree in less than 6 months...deleted
VIAGRA
PENIS ELARGEMENT
WIEGH LOST
Hum... I'm 23 years old and in very good health...
etc...
Who responds to theses things anyway???
Hunting rifle....100-250$
Ammo...15-25$
Hunter's permit...25$
Spammer all tied-up and disguised to look like a moose during hunting season....priceless
There are somes things money can't buy...
Or the classic: 'Is Duke Nukem 4Ever gone gold?'
Another example of 'less profit is better': Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart is ALL about market share. They cut their own profit to boost sale with lower prices...
Of course, it's still not a 100% moral company (far from that actually) but it's a better philosophy of Buiness than what Microsoft is doing...