hmmm. well, it was pretty obvious for me. i'm in the us - i wonder if it's different for people in the eu.
for rpm find, there is a line near the top which reads 'You will be redirected to swpat.ffii.org in 20 seconds for more information. To enter this site, click here.'
so if you click 'here', it takes you to the original search form (http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.orig.php ), and from there you can pretty much access all the rpms.
i saw this a couple of days ago. most of the 'shut down' pages have links to their normal, live pages, and the normal content is accessible. at least that's what i noticed w/ tutos, rpmfind and the imap sites, anyway.
Good stuff and I hope people take advantage of the channel you've created.
Now that this is setup, however, perhaps you could clear the cruft out of the shituation that middlemen serve as a function of (they're there for a reason). The social lubrication that causes CDs to be purchased. I think a few people have sort of approached the issue in the comments (I read them all the way through (so far)), but haven't been blunt enough about it.
I'm sure you've already thought about that, and perhaps your model is not even intended to eventually tackle that, but I just felt like reiterating the issue.
Featuring on Slashdot is, perhaps, an initial step to that, but perhaps the geek crowd is not the best medium through which to eventually encourage artists to subscribe to the model and music consumers to purchase through it:) I guess what I am eventually saying is, keep an eye out on how to simplify marketing, since distribution has already been taken care off.
But, hey, any publicity is good publicity:) Best of luck, Peace.
It's interesting. Why does the combination of 'art' / 'comp.science' work so well? I know a lot of people who have succeeded quite well with such majors. They seem to be a 'natural' combination. Is it simply the way industry has turned in the past few years? Any thoughts?
untrue. you have little faith in people. even the ceo at my company can follow simple instructions regarding very technical matters, as long as they are provided step by step. by doing this time after time, the layman almost instinctively will be able to do it, and will do it, given the incentive is great enough. true, they may know f-all about BIOS, but they could perform the simple maneuvers necessary to disable that stuff.
All of which brings us back to Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged. It seems like Adobe is 'shrugging'.
Let the producers prosper, and no man should consume more than he can produce.
I love those principles. But they have nothing to do with this, I believe. Nor mp3, nor DeCss.
Yes, at first it appears to be 'stealing'. At first it seems like people are taking that which they have not earned. But ownership is far more intrinsic than mere national divides or even governmental laws. What really separates us from Asia? Or you from your patriot nation? With liberal discourse via electronic communications, the national divide (and national law) is meaningless. At least in terms of exchange of data.
Governments play a small role in defining boundaries, with their little 'currencies' and 'intellectual property' guarantees. But in the face of a fully (or majorly) interconnected world, these are meaningless. Adobe's claims to ownership are only valid if backed by big guns. Otherwise, the materials they produce become like oxygen. Freely available to all, and fair game. Not because someone perceives them to be, but because they are. A simple minded search bot could retrieve the material for its master, given the right keywords.
Contemporary electronic ownership is based on the ability to encrypt, and nothing else. If you cannot produce a sufficient algorithm, kiss your widespread ownership rights goodbye. Yeah, you could claim rights based on your sovereign nation, but how far will it go? Cutt off Asia, but there are millions of human agents in between who will facilitate the transfer. Even within, millions of schoolkids will take your hard-earned music and send it to their buddies.
And of course, nothing is unbreakable. "I swear --by my life and by my love of it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man,
nor ask another man to live for mine." But does the sake of other men lie with national laws, or the law of nature? If nature, then electronic data is widely available, like grass or cows used to be. This realm is still carnivoreous, grabbing any raw flesh it can find.
Whether this ceases to be in the future is another matter. America could surely block off all internet communications with the rest of the world, to protect the integrity of its copyright laws. In fact, any blockage is possible. I block you from my real email address. But once you hack in, and find me, it's my slip, and I have just given up my right to that information.
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kind of sick. i will not be able to watch the movie without thinking of that ballmer 'rampage speech' video. sad.
hmmm. well, it was pretty obvious for me. i'm in the us - i wonder if it's different for people in the eu.
p ), and from there you can pretty much access all the rpms.
for rpm find, there is a line near the top which reads 'You will be redirected to swpat.ffii.org in 20 seconds for more information. To enter this site, click here.'
so if you click 'here', it takes you to the original search form (http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.orig.ph
i saw this a couple of days ago. most of the 'shut down' pages have links to their normal, live pages, and the normal content is accessible. at least that's what i noticed w/ tutos, rpmfind and the imap sites, anyway.
Good stuff and I hope people take advantage of the channel you've created.
:) I guess what I am eventually saying is, keep an eye out on how to simplify marketing, since distribution has already been taken care off.
:) Best of luck, Peace.
Now that this is setup, however, perhaps you could clear the cruft out of the shituation that middlemen serve as a function of (they're there for a reason). The social lubrication that causes CDs to be purchased. I think a few people have sort of approached the issue in the comments (I read them all the way through (so far)), but haven't been blunt enough about it.
I'm sure you've already thought about that, and perhaps your model is not even intended to eventually tackle that, but I just felt like reiterating the issue.
Featuring on Slashdot is, perhaps, an initial step to that, but perhaps the geek crowd is not the best medium through which to eventually encourage artists to subscribe to the model and music consumers to purchase through it
But, hey, any publicity is good publicity
'You can go online and play games and interact with kids.'
hmmm. doh!
It's interesting. Why does the combination of 'art' / 'comp.science' work so well? I know a lot of people who have succeeded quite well with such majors. They seem to be a 'natural' combination. Is it simply the way industry has turned in the past few years? Any thoughts?
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untrue. you have little faith in people. even the ceo at my company can follow simple instructions regarding very technical matters, as long as they are provided step by step. by doing this time after time, the layman almost instinctively will be able to do it, and will do it, given the incentive is great enough. true, they may know f-all about BIOS, but they could perform the simple maneuvers necessary to disable that stuff.
lol! exactly what i was thinking!
Let the producers prosper, and no man should consume more than he can produce.
I love those principles. But they have nothing to do with this, I believe. Nor mp3, nor DeCss.
Yes, at first it appears to be 'stealing'. At first it seems like people are taking that which they have not earned. But ownership is far more intrinsic than mere national divides or even governmental laws. What really separates us from Asia? Or you from your patriot nation? With liberal discourse via electronic communications, the national divide (and national law) is meaningless. At least in terms of exchange of data.
Governments play a small role in defining boundaries, with their little 'currencies' and 'intellectual property' guarantees. But in the face of a fully (or majorly) interconnected world, these are meaningless. Adobe's claims to ownership are only valid if backed by big guns. Otherwise, the materials they produce become like oxygen. Freely available to all, and fair game. Not because someone perceives them to be, but because they are. A simple minded search bot could retrieve the material for its master, given the right keywords.
Contemporary electronic ownership is based on the ability to encrypt, and nothing else. If you cannot produce a sufficient algorithm, kiss your widespread ownership rights goodbye. Yeah, you could claim rights based on your sovereign nation, but how far will it go? Cutt off Asia, but there are millions of human agents in between who will facilitate the transfer. Even within, millions of schoolkids will take your hard-earned music and send it to their buddies.
And of course, nothing is unbreakable. "I swear --by my life and by my love of it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." But does the sake of other men lie with national laws, or the law of nature? If nature, then electronic data is widely available, like grass or cows used to be. This realm is still carnivoreous, grabbing any raw flesh it can find.
Whether this ceases to be in the future is another matter. America could surely block off all internet communications with the rest of the world, to protect the integrity of its copyright laws. In fact, any blockage is possible. I block you from my real email address. But once you hack in, and find me, it's my slip, and I have just given up my right to that information.