The RIAA could make the following proposition to ISPs: You install this monitoring software on your network, in return, we give you a little kickback for each file your users legally download from our various services. Well even buy the hosting services and bandwidth from you!
If AOL, Earthlink and MSN were to make such a deal with the RIAA, it'd take a huge bite out of P2P songswapping.
I might have been interested in iTunes if the damn thing would play OGGs. My entire music library is encoded in OGG format, thus it's almost completely worthless to me.
I installed it on my mom's laptop because she'd expressed an interest in buying music online. After showing her how to use it, I stuck around a while to watcher her play with it and answer some "NegaTech Mom" type questions. By they time I lef, she'd already bought like $50 worth of tracks! D:
Though the interface is purdy, how about letting me MAXIMIZE THE DAMN WINDOW?!?!
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She's not a Twi'lek she's an adolescent Togruta.
You can even easily read the license plates on the cars. Now that's my idea of high res!
I swear I first read "Olfacom" as "Ofalcom". And I thought, "Yeah, that oughta sell real well..."
The RIAA could make the following proposition to ISPs: You install this monitoring software on your network, in return, we give you a little kickback for each file your users legally download from our various services. Well even buy the hosting services and bandwidth from you!
If AOL, Earthlink and MSN were to make such a deal with the RIAA, it'd take a huge bite out of P2P songswapping.
Not to mention the millions of men who die from prostate cancer.
Wait, nevermind. Nobody cares about men.
I might have been interested in iTunes if the damn thing would play OGGs. My entire music library is encoded in OGG format, thus it's almost completely worthless to me.
I installed it on my mom's laptop because she'd expressed an interest in buying music online. After showing her how to use it, I stuck around a while to watcher her play with it and answer some "NegaTech Mom" type questions. By they time I lef, she'd already bought like $50 worth of tracks! D:
Though the interface is purdy, how about letting me MAXIMIZE THE DAMN WINDOW?!?!
Thank you.