BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Commission on Thursday proposed a single Europe-wide copyright and licensing system for on-line music, to boost the European Union's music business.
EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy said European on-line services had to be improved to make copyrights cheaper for artists to obtain.
"We have to improve the licensing of music copyright on the Internet," McCreevy said, adding such a system would ensure "Europe's creative community will get the lion's share in revenues achieved on-line."
Currently artists have to secure copyrights in each of the EU's 25 member nations, with each country requiring separate copyrights for the right to transmit songs over the Internet, a complex and expensive process the EU head office said.
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As a result of these costs, on-line music sales in Europe have lagged behind those in the United States. Last year, the U.S. had an estimated $248-million (U.S.) in on-line music sales compared with Europe's $32.5-million.
Musicians make money from their music after registering copyrights with collective rights managers. Those managers then license songs to on-line services, radio stations, dance clubs and other outlets. All these registrations are complex and costs artists a lot of money.
The EU head office said a single system governing music rights would save money.
"The most effective model for achieving this is to enable right-holders to authorize a collecting society of their choice to manage their works across the entire EU," said the Commission in a statement, adding such a system would "considerably enhance" earnings for artists.
A) Biometric may provide very inward informations about once health and disabilities. That depend mainly on what is sampled.
(Eg: You wouldn't want anyone know your DNA and show XY chromosmes with no CyP19 if you where born as a girl).
and
B) Identifying biometric data, just identify about the sampled part. Biometric controls are all about identity and none about approval of anything. Misconceptions about this leads to: - Granting anything based on biometric and beying mutilated from the part providing the sampled reference.
Looking at the URL in the status bar will, not show you the mime type of a document.
If you try to guess the document type by, looking at dot extenson appened to the name, you can't, the same Way Internet Explorer fail to know the proper content type. Then it leads to all those security concerns.
You realy should not try hard guessing document types based on labels or URI.
Until status bars tells us about the real document mime types...
Backup on cheese, run in Wine, sure it must be french.
To stay in context of uncommon data sotrage. I remember whe had a pocket computing magasine in the 80's "L'ordinateur de poche" who publihed software on arrays of black painted bits squares (databits+sync rows) on the outer edge band of each pages. They provided plans and code to build a reader device. You just had to cut apart the printed band and slide it in the reader to get the code loaded.
I am happy to read about technologies advances that can help and cure disabilities.
Retina dammanges, illness or birth defects, stayed with no cure and quite few knoledge until recently.
Microchips as optical prothesis are a very new. As it bring some hope for those with no vision at all or very low sight, it is not a suitable choice if you still have some usable sight.
Eye surgery tend to let some scares that may compromise the use of further more advanced treatments. Once you get that chip inside, you may loose any forthcomping hope of getting it bettor.
If you start from nothing, it may be good for you and medical advance to volunter as a gunea pig. Otherwise it may be better to wait for a more appropriate cure to be discovered.
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1 - Sell the remote contrôl devices 2 - Profit 3 - Be shouted in public areas with out of control cameras 4 - Proceed lawsuits because of you where not able to avoid beying filmed 5 - Profit again
By the way, I am myself born strongly visualy impaired and went to specialized school organizations where I learnt and worked with Braille.
I lived with many friends born and who became blind by accidents, illness and macula progressive downgrades or near blind there several years.
Perhaps it is as difficult to understand what a blind can or can not picture when one man have good sight or met few blinds, as it is difficult for a compleatly blind to understand what sight realy is.
This remind me of salesmans from a compagny who went to the blind school I was in. They promoted a printer with special ink that bumped.
This printer was indeed capable of producing touchable prints but the salesmans belived and pretended this printer would enable blinds to see pictures. The facts were, no blind at the school (even the blind teachers) was able to understand printed photographs or 3D representations on the paper.
Sure, this special ink printer showed it usefullness at printing 2D sketchs and charts that blinds could easyly follow with their fingers. The school did not buy it however, because of the price and cost of running it. We had cheaper way of reproducing braille and bumped drawings with plastic thermo formed sheets. We also still use thin plastic films scratched with a punch to produce beveled drawings by hand. Cheap, simple and good for what it does and much more cheaper than using that bumpy ink printer.
By the way I see how this can choke you at the point you throw out personnal threats annonymously.
You may understand this as well over time. You may as well understand many other things as, how to reply more politely and throw your rants away.
You forgot that, born blind peoples do not build anything picture in their brain as you do.
What you can sense and understand under your fingers, remain two dimentionnal relative to the surface you touch. That's all of it, if you have never percieved any projected 3D to 2D picture of the world arond you, as a pair of working eyes bring you from your birth.
Unability to see during the weeks near birth, permanently desable you to develop and construct your visual cortex. That's precisely the reason blind born childs must be cared of if medecine can cure it. It is too late after some months with irrecoverable decrease in sight ability as weeks passes.
Transforming photographs or prospect drawings into levels or textures, will never work for born blinds and will be quite touth to guess for late blinds.
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Facts sometimes tastes realy that bad. Discarding talks about it, does not makes them better. It just makes them sound better.
EU proposes system for on-line music
Thursday, July 7, 2005 Updated at 2:44 PM EDT
Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Commission on Thursday proposed a single Europe-wide copyright and licensing system for on-line music, to boost the European Union's music business.
EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy said European on-line services had to be improved to make copyrights cheaper for artists to obtain.
"We have to improve the licensing of music copyright on the Internet," McCreevy said, adding such a system would ensure "Europe's creative community will get the lion's share in revenues achieved on-line."
Currently artists have to secure copyrights in each of the EU's 25 member nations, with each country requiring separate copyrights for the right to transmit songs over the Internet, a complex and expensive process the EU head office said.
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As a result of these costs, on-line music sales in Europe have lagged behind those in the United States. Last year, the U.S. had an estimated $248-million (U.S.) in on-line music sales compared with Europe's $32.5-million.
Musicians make money from their music after registering copyrights with collective rights managers. Those managers then license songs to on-line services, radio stations, dance clubs and other outlets. All these registrations are complex and costs artists a lot of money.
The EU head office said a single system governing music rights would save money.
"The most effective model for achieving this is to enable right-holders to authorize a collecting society of their choice to manage their works across the entire EU," said the Commission in a statement, adding such a system would "considerably enhance" earnings for artists.
The main troubles about Biometric Identity are :
A) Biometric may provide very inward informations about once health and disabilities. That depend mainly on what is sampled.
(Eg: You wouldn't want anyone know your DNA and show XY chromosmes with no CyP19 if you where born as a girl).
and
B) Identifying biometric data, just identify about the sampled part.
Biometric controls are all about identity and none about approval of anything. Misconceptions about this leads to:
- Granting anything based on biometric and beying mutilated from the part providing the sampled reference.
Had this working out of the box with Mandrake since version 8.2.
Though, you still have to buy the commercial Mandrake if your gfx card require commercial drivers for 3D.
Government sites should leed to show proper behaviour and standard compliance and work hard not to tie users to a specific brand or configuration.
How does Uk compare to other countries in Europe and around the world on that matter ?
Quite insightfull. As you pile up systems, you pile up complexity and problems as well.
There is a better parallel with CAD programs than, with art design tools like Photoshop.
A better even better parallel could be with languages and toolkits.
Consider DNA as a binary code
Consider RNA memory access lines
Consider Ribosomes as the processing units.
Let"s add a DNA code assembler and a high level language to design the DNA code, access protocols and interactions vith chemicals input / output.
Use real cells as factory or use nanotechnology.
Looking at the URL in the status bar will, not show you the mime type of a document.
If you try to guess the document type by, looking at dot extenson appened to the name, you can't, the same Way Internet Explorer fail to know the proper content type. Then it leads to all those security concerns.
You realy should not try hard guessing document types based on labels or URI.
Until status bars tells us about the real document mime types...
You know it is, all about that here ?
What about spiders who capture other insects ?
What about ants who grow other insects inside settlement ?
I admit it, ... I just couldn't get time to spare @ /. before.
Backup on cheese, run in Wine, sure it must be french.
To stay in context of uncommon data sotrage. I remember whe had a pocket computing magasine in the 80's "L'ordinateur de poche" who publihed software on arrays of black painted bits squares (databits+sync rows) on the outer edge band of each pages. They provided plans and code to build a reader device. You just had to cut apart the printed band and slide it in the reader to get the code loaded.
I am happy to read about technologies advances that can help and cure disabilities.
Retina dammanges, illness or birth defects, stayed with no cure and quite few knoledge until recently.
Microchips as optical prothesis are a very new. As it bring some hope for those with no vision at all or very low sight, it is not a suitable choice if you still have some usable sight.
Eye surgery tend to let some scares that may compromise the use of further more advanced treatments. Once you get that chip inside, you may loose any forthcomping hope of getting it bettor.
If you start from nothing, it may be good for you and medical advance to volunter as a gunea pig. Otherwise it may be better to wait for a more appropriate cure to be discovered.
1 - Sell the remote contrôl devices
2 - Profit
3 - Be shouted in public areas with out of control cameras
4 - Proceed lawsuits because of you where not able to avoid beying filmed
5 - Profit again
That's just plenty wrong:
Let's try it with the following page:
http://www.google.com/search?q=w3c
Remove the 756 byte embed style junk and put it in an external css file every cache will keep from eating bandwith.
Do the same with the crap embeded <script> and load it from a static file.
Replace all the <table> junks with proper
<ol><li></li>..</ol>
Delete all these useless <font> tags.
I am sure they will save much bandwith instead.
I dream the day I can have a meal printer with that. You don't need the stuffs to stay alive.
:)
Search google for a food receipt you'd like to eat, CTRP+P and voila
Upgrading current power lines ?
When you are at it, you may more conveniently draw optic fibers or data only dedicated copper lines along the power lines.
Only God realy know the hacks.
Jesus wolking over water, bread replication are pure hack job. Having your father as sysadmin appologize nothing.
It seams now, our world don't let you in if your soul does not run punkbuster.
Released water is very pure and makes an incredibly good solvant. This may be a problem.
As a Unix geek I will not have to care of Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 (UTC/GMT) anymore.
32bit time_t size should be just enough to run until April 13, 2029.
Sure, now the counter says they put -32768 passengers in the void.
The overall cost of all this will be less than #NaN and ny chance, the security risk has been rated as low as #DIV0 %.
Yes, english is not my natural language.
By the way, I am myself born strongly visualy impaired and went to specialized school organizations where I learnt and worked with Braille.
I lived with many friends born and who became blind by accidents, illness and macula progressive downgrades or near blind there several years.
Perhaps it is as difficult to understand what a blind can or can not picture when one man have good sight or met few blinds, as it is difficult for a compleatly blind to understand what sight realy is.
This remind me of salesmans from a compagny who went to the blind school I was in. They promoted a printer with special ink that bumped.
This printer was indeed capable of producing touchable prints but the salesmans belived and pretended this printer would enable blinds to see pictures. The facts were, no blind at the school (even the blind teachers) was able to understand printed photographs or 3D representations on the paper.
Sure, this special ink printer showed it usefullness at printing 2D sketchs and charts that blinds could easyly follow with their fingers. The school did not buy it however, because of the price and cost of running it. We had cheaper way of reproducing braille and bumped drawings with plastic thermo formed sheets. We also still use thin plastic films scratched with a punch to produce beveled drawings by hand. Cheap, simple and good for what it does and much more cheaper than using that bumpy ink printer.
By the way I see how this can choke you at the point you throw out personnal threats annonymously.
You may understand this as well over time. You may as well understand many other things as, how to reply more politely and throw your rants away.
You'r welcome.
You forgot that, born blind peoples do not build anything picture in their brain as you do.
What you can sense and understand under your fingers, remain two dimentionnal relative to the surface you touch. That's all of it, if you have never percieved any projected 3D to 2D picture of the world arond you, as a pair of working eyes bring you from your birth.
Unability to see during the weeks near birth, permanently desable you to develop and construct your visual cortex. That's precisely the reason blind born childs must be cared of if medecine can cure it. It is too late after some months with irrecoverable decrease in sight ability as weeks passes.
Transforming photographs or prospect drawings into levels or textures, will never work for born blinds and will be quite touth to guess for late blinds.
Lets switch the word "computer" to "lockpicking".
Lets see...
"Here we have a person that is very much talented towards lockpicking..."
Does a lockpicker know much how to build efficient locks actualy?
Does a computer security breaker know much how to actualy build secured systems?
Is that much different?
The jack would fit nicely in the lawer's butt though.