Wrong. It's the same work in a different wrapper. If your theory was correct, iTMS (or in fact anyone) could avoid the need to license music from recording companies just by adding DRM. Obviously this isn't how it works.
In order to be a "derivative work" as defined by copyright legislation, the nature of the original work must be changed substantially (more than MC Hammer changed Rick James' "Superfreak" for "Can't Touch This", if you want a real world example). Adding DRM does not remix, change lyrics, tempo or melody, all it does is limit what exactly the same song can be played on.
In order to avoid future confusion, just remember: "The song is the work, the format is irrelevant".
If Microsoft doesn't agree with such licensing, it must cease and desist, effective always, from distributing said GPLv2 music.
The user transferring music via a Zune is technically the distributor, not Microsoft. When you consider that (DRM excepted) the Zune is essentially a hardware file-sharing device, what you're asking is exactly the same as insisting that BitTorrent's developers take responsibility for making sure that no licenses are violated...you do see the problem with that, I hope.
Try SGI or Amiga. Macs were likely used in simple things, but I doubt in any serious capacity.
Avid video suites? All Mac based until a few years ago, and many of the original installations are still operational in production facilities around the world.
Piracy gives people better access to media that they would otherwise not get to see.
Assuming they're not just pirating the stuff they know and like, that is (most people are very conservative). IMO sites like Pandora are much better in this regard.
Many times they don't buy a legit copy, but if they never knew about it in the first place, then you can guarantee that they aren't going to buy it.
That's actually my argument against piracy: top 50 music, expensive full release films and television shows are heavily advertised already, to the point where you practically have to live in a cave to avoid them; mainstream media also accounts for the bulk of material on file sharing networks. I can watch Lost on free-to-air or cable, I can record it if I can't see it when broadcast or even buy the DVDs, so why do I need to be able to download it via any one of fifty P2P networks as well, and why should commercial production companies get free advertising using other people's resources? Independents who don't have distribution or big advertising budgets can certainly benefit from file sharing, but if they're releasing material onto P2P networks for free then it isn't piracy; viewed this way, legitimate file sharing equates to diversity, while piracy is just redundancy.
I'm assuming there's a paragraph somewhere saying "Our system is superb, but it has a few implementation details that might piss off every consumer"
Bear in mind that what we're talking about here is malware disguised by a corporate front. Id' expect Sony to have been fully informed only if (a) software vendors never lied about their products, and (b) you see an informative EULA when you punch the monkey. And I suggest that it wouldn't be phrased anything like "piss off every consumer", it would be more like "may cause minor issues with some operating systems" (specifically avoiding mentioning precisely what issues on which OS).
Besides, all the high-ups in Sony/BMG music I've met are technically illiterate (or do I mean technical illiterates? Meh, they're both accurate); their area of expertise is music business management, not software development or IT security, so even if such a paragraph existed it probably wouldn't ring any alarm bells. Just about all software EULAs carry disclaimers that it may not work as promised (including MS Office, the software they'd be most familiar with), so it is perhaps understandable that they'd be somewhat blasé about such warnings...everybody else is.
This isn't absolving Sony from blame; I'd argue that when a product crosses the line between media and software that both arms of the corporation should conduct quality control checks (since the music division alone is clearly incapable of doing so adequately). Of course, this won't happen without major restructuring, so I'd expect to see more stunts like this in future.
>> when the first time we went to the moon was 8 years after the first person landed on the moon.
> I suspect you mean 8 years after the first person journeyed into space.
By "we" he meant the US. It's a well known fact in UFO-spotting circles that alien abductees had been taken to the moon, other planets and even other solar systems well before 1969.
For more details on this and other suppressed facts contact your nearest UFO expert; just look under "insane asylum" in the phone book.
That'sthe new textformatrandomizer, w'hic'h optionall'y add'sinap'propriatea'p'o's' t'r'o'p'h'i'es .
It was added a couple of months ago to settle a bet whether Slashdot's editors are better than a random number generator (as yet no winner has been declared).
just beat the f*ck out of the next "representative" of whatever organization is trying to shake you down.
Suggesting anyone protect themselves against a possible civil suit by committing a felony has got to be the most stupid advice I've read here in some time. I mean, why bother paying a couple of hundred for a license when you can pay thousands in bail and legal fees, and possibly go to prison and lose your business instead?
this is the only thing that works with a bully - remember your schoolyard days? no, i am not kidding
Grow up. The world is not a schoolyard, cops are not teachers.
If the fees dont really help the artist then I think they are just there to support ascap and that I dont agree with.
The fees do go to the artists. Or at least, the ones (like myself) who file live performance returns every year; and yes, it is calculated on each performance of each song.
If your eyes are below your nose, for example, then your breathing passage has to go down past the eyes, while your optic nerve has to wend around the breathing passage. This is obviously doable, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are some species that work this way
Whales. Who said a nose had to be part of a face?
Even organisms that evolve on other planets are subject to the same laws of physics as the ones here; six-foot-tall exoskeletal insects are not feasible, simply because exoskeletal structures can't support the weight of a creature six feet tall.
True, at 1G. However, lower gravity would make larger insectoids possible, and a chitinous exoskeleton is actually better suited to zero-G than an endoskeleton (like human fingernails an exoskeleton wouldn't lose mass, and it's not far from a pressure suit). The asteroid belt may well be infested with space-cockroaches!
This requires appendages with fine enough motor control to manipulate small objects in a precise manner, which pretty much rules out any sea creature: Sea creatures need flattened, webbed appendages in order to swim, and those wouldn't be very good at fine manipulation.
Octopi and squids are quite intelligent and extremely dexterous. The biggest hurdle a superintelligent race of squids would face is the inability to do a lot of basic science underwater (creating fire would present similar containment problems we have with fusion, and chemistry would be a wash-out, literally). Of course, a species that moved onto land would probably look very little like a terrestrial squid.
But I do think it's not THAT unlikely that other intelligent races would be bipedal, upright, large-brained, and endowed with fine manipulators on their upper appendages.
There's only reason to believe that if intelligent life can only arise in an identical environment to our own and must follow a similar evolutionary path. High gravity would rule out large upright bipeds; a mutlitute of long flagella could be far more precise than arms and fingers and double as legs; multiple smaller brains may be more efficient than a single large brain under some circumstances. A sample size of one (humans) isn't large enough to draw universe-wide conclusions from.
It doesn't take 100 billion years to profit, if you take the right polaroids...speaking of which, this months payment is late, and you don't want MrsCopilot finding out, do you?
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A Zune-modified MP3 is, AFAIK, a derivative work
Wrong. It's the same work in a different wrapper. If your theory was correct, iTMS (or in fact anyone) could avoid the need to license music from recording companies just by adding DRM. Obviously this isn't how it works.
In order to be a "derivative work" as defined by copyright legislation, the nature of the original work must be changed substantially (more than MC Hammer changed Rick James' "Superfreak" for "Can't Touch This", if you want a real world example). Adding DRM does not remix, change lyrics, tempo or melody, all it does is limit what exactly the same song can be played on.
In order to avoid future confusion, just remember: "The song is the work, the format is irrelevant".
If Microsoft doesn't agree with such licensing, it must cease and desist, effective always, from distributing said GPLv2 music.
The user transferring music via a Zune is technically the distributor, not Microsoft. When you consider that (DRM excepted) the Zune is essentially a hardware file-sharing device, what you're asking is exactly the same as insisting that BitTorrent's developers take responsibility for making sure that no licenses are violated...you do see the problem with that, I hope.
These people are scared of hackers.
Whereas if you wore a T-shirt with "Cracker" written on it, all you'd get is derisive laughs from people of a certain ethnic extraction.
These suits were described in Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars
Dr Seuss wrote sci-fi?
Try SGI or Amiga. Macs were likely used in simple things, but I doubt in any serious capacity.
Avid video suites? All Mac based until a few years ago, and many of the original installations are still operational in production facilities around the world.
Version 9.0.45 (which was released in April 2007?) is still subject to buffer overflows.
Perhaps that would explain why the current version is 9.0.48 (Linux) and 9.0.47 (Windows/Mac).
Piracy gives people better access to media that they would otherwise not get to see.
Assuming they're not just pirating the stuff they know and like, that is (most people are very conservative). IMO sites like Pandora are much better in this regard.
Many times they don't buy a legit copy, but if they never knew about it in the first place, then you can guarantee that they aren't going to buy it.
That's actually my argument against piracy: top 50 music, expensive full release films and television shows are heavily advertised already, to the point where you practically have to live in a cave to avoid them; mainstream media also accounts for the bulk of material on file sharing networks. I can watch Lost on free-to-air or cable, I can record it if I can't see it when broadcast or even buy the DVDs, so why do I need to be able to download it via any one of fifty P2P networks as well, and why should commercial production companies get free advertising using other people's resources? Independents who don't have distribution or big advertising budgets can certainly benefit from file sharing, but if they're releasing material onto P2P networks for free then it isn't piracy; viewed this way, legitimate file sharing equates to diversity, while piracy is just redundancy.
Man sues Smith & Wesson for the making gun he used to rob a liquor store.
If Smith & Wesson were advertising guns as a form of credit card the analogy would be valid.
I'm assuming there's a paragraph somewhere saying "Our system is superb, but it has a few implementation details that might piss off every consumer"
Bear in mind that what we're talking about here is malware disguised by a corporate front. Id' expect Sony to have been fully informed only if (a) software vendors never lied about their products, and (b) you see an informative EULA when you punch the monkey. And I suggest that it wouldn't be phrased anything like "piss off every consumer", it would be more like "may cause minor issues with some operating systems" (specifically avoiding mentioning precisely what issues on which OS).
Besides, all the high-ups in Sony/BMG music I've met are technically illiterate (or do I mean technical illiterates? Meh, they're both accurate); their area of expertise is music business management, not software development or IT security, so even if such a paragraph existed it probably wouldn't ring any alarm bells. Just about all software EULAs carry disclaimers that it may not work as promised (including MS Office, the software they'd be most familiar with), so it is perhaps understandable that they'd be somewhat blasé about such warnings...everybody else is.
This isn't absolving Sony from blame; I'd argue that when a product crosses the line between media and software that both arms of the corporation should conduct quality control checks (since the music division alone is clearly incapable of doing so adequately). Of course, this won't happen without major restructuring, so I'd expect to see more stunts like this in future.
There can be a species of friendly gas bags
Unlike the species of evil gas bags we keep electing...
>> when the first time we went to the moon was 8 years after the first person landed on the moon.
> I suspect you mean 8 years after the first person journeyed into space.
By "we" he meant the US. It's a well known fact in UFO-spotting circles that alien abductees had been taken to the moon, other planets and even other solar systems well before 1969.
For more details on this and other suppressed facts contact your nearest UFO expert; just look under "insane asylum" in the phone book.
Why not? At least the cards don't have a political agenda, and astrology is as scientifically sound as economics...
Of course, you'll never hear the media criticize Clinton.
Easily solved: vote him back in.
Clinton is history, Bush is now, who do you think deserves more criticism?
That's the new text format randomizer , w'hic'h optionall'y add's inap'propriate a'p'o's' t'r'o'p'h'i'es .
It was added a couple of months ago to settle a bet whether Slashdot's editors are better than a random number generator (as yet no winner has been declared).
Maybe they were just looking for nudist resorts when they found that thing.
I can picture the scene:
"Wow, the rumours about black guys are true...oh, wait, it's a submarine".
just beat the f*ck out of the next "representative" of whatever organization is trying to shake you down.
Suggesting anyone protect themselves against a possible civil suit by committing a felony has got to be the most stupid advice I've read here in some time. I mean, why bother paying a couple of hundred for a license when you can pay thousands in bail and legal fees, and possibly go to prison and lose your business instead?
this is the only thing that works with a bully - remember your schoolyard days? no, i am not kidding
Grow up. The world is not a schoolyard, cops are not teachers.
If the fees dont really help the artist then I think they are just there to support ascap and that I dont agree with.
The fees do go to the artists. Or at least, the ones (like myself) who file live performance returns every year; and yes, it is calculated on each performance of each song.
Thanks for explaining my joke.
So THIS granny's attorney is filing a copycat countersuit.
Does that mean the attorney can expect a threatening letter from the LIAA (Legal Industry Association of America)?
If your eyes are below your nose, for example, then your breathing passage has to go down past the eyes, while your optic nerve has to wend around the breathing passage. This is obviously doable, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are some species that work this way
Whales. Who said a nose had to be part of a face?
Even organisms that evolve on other planets are subject to the same laws of physics as the ones here; six-foot-tall exoskeletal insects are not feasible, simply because exoskeletal structures can't support the weight of a creature six feet tall.
True, at 1G. However, lower gravity would make larger insectoids possible, and a chitinous exoskeleton is actually better suited to zero-G than an endoskeleton (like human fingernails an exoskeleton wouldn't lose mass, and it's not far from a pressure suit). The asteroid belt may well be infested with space-cockroaches!
This requires appendages with fine enough motor control to manipulate small objects in a precise manner, which pretty much rules out any sea creature: Sea creatures need flattened, webbed appendages in order to swim, and those wouldn't be very good at fine manipulation.
Octopi and squids are quite intelligent and extremely dexterous. The biggest hurdle a superintelligent race of squids would face is the inability to do a lot of basic science underwater (creating fire would present similar containment problems we have with fusion, and chemistry would be a wash-out, literally). Of course, a species that moved onto land would probably look very little like a terrestrial squid.
But I do think it's not THAT unlikely that other intelligent races would be bipedal, upright, large-brained, and endowed with fine manipulators on their upper appendages.
There's only reason to believe that if intelligent life can only arise in an identical environment to our own and must follow a similar evolutionary path. High gravity would rule out large upright bipeds; a mutlitute of long flagella could be far more precise than arms and fingers and double as legs; multiple smaller brains may be more efficient than a single large brain under some circumstances. A sample size of one (humans) isn't large enough to draw universe-wide conclusions from.
It doesn't take 100 billion years to profit, if you take the right polaroids...speaking of which, this months payment is late, and you don't want MrsCopilot finding out, do you?
that this article will be relevant in 100 billion years.
For once Slashdot has a story that isn't weeks out of date, and you still complain. There's no pleasing some people...
Given the pervalance of Diebold machines, I'd say just about anyone could win the next presidental election.
That's exactly the kind of uncertainty that Diebold's backers hope to eliminate.
how do we know the object is not composed of highly dangerous contaminants/heavy metals that humans have not discovered yet?
The expedition member wearing the red shirt came back alive.
But did they sing or tap dance
Indeed they did. That's why they had to die.
I 3 it.
You dowloaded it and made two copies?