Yeah, that and the economic downturn. Odds are that the music industry is doing just fine comparatively. Maybe if the larger companies start putting out decent music instead of more prepackaged garbage it'd sell.
Actually, in her case it may well be that this is the only way for her to get the show with any ease at all. I'm also a sophmore, i live in a dorm, the college supplies the cable, but i don't get channels like hbo. If its not a standard cable channel there isn't any(short of setting up a dish in a neighbors room across the hall) way to get it. She may well be in the same situation.
Interesting angle. A better analogy would be(and i believe i remember this actually happening, anyone know the car?) if ignition switch was known to glitch making it easy to start the car with no key. the company had to aknowledge it and recall the part.
Whoever is running the system(in this case the government) gets to decide the rules. If you want to use your tarot cards you just don't put your job into that system. Not all jobs are given out that way, just the ones the companies decide to put out there.
The site was legal, shady, but legal none the less. The didn't ask the isp instead of sending lawyers out of the goodness of their hearts or any respect, they did so because the lawyers weren't going to be able to bring down a legal site. Its much easier to send a letter, and most likely a fat check, in a case like this. As for the them not persuing the shutdown with legal action, there may have been a "we can turn off your pipe if we don't like you" clause in their agreement, which would again prevent successful legal action.
For any law like that to work it has to both be enforceable and accepted in the country the mailings are coming from. We can ban unsolicited email as much as we want, it won't stop them from spamming unless they agree with it, and it doesn't seem like their to worried.
I think people managed to miss the humor in your claiming the "tin hat" story to be a hoax.... i laughed though. For anyone confused, the writer of the post most likely had to rest his own tin hat to write it. didncha?
I agree with you that Philips and the bunch have the patents, and that the manufacturers of cheap crappy dvd players should pay licenses. I disagree with some of the problems you've listed though as apparent reasons they should go after the manufacterers. The only real reason for it is because these groups do owe them money.
for the rest:
if they don't run native code and cause problems, thats something the customer should have to deal with for not paying money for a nicer player.
macrovision prevents legal uses of dvd players and i would want it disabled on mine. i don't have a dvd player for all my entertainment equipment. say i want to watch the movie in my room, without moving to vhs, i can't.
layer compatablity, the user has to deal with it, again, if they want it, they can pay the extra for it
hackability is a good thing, it lets you watch the movie you want to even though it wasn't poorly enough done to have been made in here america.(or if your from another country maybe you just want to watch a garbage movie in order to laugh at us)
I believe Enron was mentioned for a number of reasons.
1. It has recently become a very well known entity.
2. It was also large and had lots of money.
3. It spent quite a bit of money lobbying.
4. It puts people in the mindset the article is looking for.
yeah, he may have been. but rchrdrd is 7 letters, and eaei is only 4. making him someone with more consonants than vowels in his name.
perhaps this isn't racism. more namism or some such nonsense word.
I don't use trillian. I did for a little while because it let me access my various messaging services with a singer application. Most of the trillian users I know use it for this purpose. If the biggest draw for the program is its ability to acces several different services, where is AOL's monopoly? People want it because they are also using groups other than aol.
Ok now. I live in the US and i have to say that I completely dissagree with your statement. When it comes to the issue of copyright enforcement and laws the government here has no balls whatsoever. If the lawmakers did, they'd stand up and see how ridiculous these laws are and retract them. Instead they play lapdog the industry and wait for their pets and after dinner treats.
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Yeah, that and the economic downturn. Odds are that the music industry is doing just fine comparatively. Maybe if the larger companies start putting out decent music instead of more prepackaged garbage it'd sell.
Actually, in her case it may well be that this is the only way for her to get the show with any ease at all. I'm also a sophmore, i live in a dorm, the college supplies the cable, but i don't get channels like hbo. If its not a standard cable channel there isn't any(short of setting up a dish in a neighbors room across the hall) way to get it. She may well be in the same situation.
Interesting angle. A better analogy would be(and i believe i remember this actually happening, anyone know the car?) if ignition switch was known to glitch making it easy to start the car with no key. the company had to aknowledge it and recall the part.
Whoever is running the system(in this case the government) gets to decide the rules. If you want to use your tarot cards you just don't put your job into that system. Not all jobs are given out that way, just the ones the companies decide to put out there.
The site was legal, shady, but legal none the less. The didn't ask the isp instead of sending lawyers out of the goodness of their hearts or any respect, they did so because the lawyers weren't going to be able to bring down a legal site. Its much easier to send a letter, and most likely a fat check, in a case like this. As for the them not persuing the shutdown with legal action, there may have been a "we can turn off your pipe if we don't like you" clause in their agreement, which would again prevent successful legal action.
For any law like that to work it has to both be enforceable and accepted in the country the mailings are coming from. We can ban unsolicited email as much as we want, it won't stop them from spamming unless they agree with it, and it doesn't seem like their to worried.
I think people managed to miss the humor in your claiming the "tin hat" story to be a hoax.... i laughed though. For anyone confused, the writer of the post most likely had to rest his own tin hat to write it. didncha?
hrm. when the people didn't show up i think one of the flying pigs lost its wings and fell through my roof....
whats the best way to get ex-flying pig out of the carpet?
and a new day of rebellion is born, with slashdot leading the way with its unique method of destroying the opposition.
[btw, moderators, this is a joke and not flamebait, so bugger off.]
we can only hope that slashdot never decides to use its powers of server crashing to server the purpose of evil.
did they ever patent mouse clicks? maybe i'll try and be the first to grab that one. haha, you want to follow the hyperlink, that'll be $5!!!
i would like to be the first(maybe) to congratulate the newly engaged couple in the comments of the wrong article
I think it would need the category "Slashdot Asks."
so, do we get an update story on the answer of this one when it comes or what?
I agree with you that Philips and the bunch have the patents, and that the manufacturers of cheap crappy dvd players should pay licenses. I disagree with some of the problems you've listed though as apparent reasons they should go after the manufacterers. The only real reason for it is because these groups do owe them money. for the rest: if they don't run native code and cause problems, thats something the customer should have to deal with for not paying money for a nicer player. macrovision prevents legal uses of dvd players and i would want it disabled on mine. i don't have a dvd player for all my entertainment equipment. say i want to watch the movie in my room, without moving to vhs, i can't. layer compatablity, the user has to deal with it, again, if they want it, they can pay the extra for it hackability is a good thing, it lets you watch the movie you want to even though it wasn't poorly enough done to have been made in here america.(or if your from another country maybe you just want to watch a garbage movie in order to laugh at us)
I believe Enron was mentioned for a number of reasons.
1. It has recently become a very well known entity.
2. It was also large and had lots of money.
3. It spent quite a bit of money lobbying.
4. It puts people in the mindset the article is looking for.
easy solution. don't use it while driving. unless its a hud of some sort it doesn't need to be between you and the road.
hey now. yeah, we hate the mpaa, but the awards are shiny! and we do like shiny stuff, so it can't be helped.
I dunno, 2nd person view could be quite interesting. It might not end up being or anything described as a good idea, but interesting it could be.
If you change implant service providers are you going to need a new one put in?
yeah, he may have been. but rchrdrd is 7 letters, and eaei is only 4. making him someone with more consonants than vowels in his name. perhaps this isn't racism. more namism or some such nonsense word.
I don't use trillian. I did for a little while because it let me access my various messaging services with a singer application. Most of the trillian users I know use it for this purpose. If the biggest draw for the program is its ability to acces several different services, where is AOL's monopoly? People want it because they are also using groups other than aol.
Naa, do it all at once. We really need the wake-up call.
Yes, continue to watch 24. Just deny it vigorously if they ask.
Ok now. I live in the US and i have to say that I completely dissagree with your statement. When it comes to the issue of copyright enforcement and laws the government here has no balls whatsoever. If the lawmakers did, they'd stand up and see how ridiculous these laws are and retract them. Instead they play lapdog the industry and wait for their pets and after dinner treats.