How dare the RIAA go after individual infringers, even though it's what Slashdotters said they should do back in 2000 during the Napster lawsuit.
It's all about how you go after them. Jaywalking is illegal. So to stop it, would you mind if we shove a camera up your ass to record where you walk and a set of electrodes on your balls to we can zap you if you look like you might be heading away from the crosswalk?
I deserve to have people's work for free because I can. Artists are my personal slaves.
You're an industry shill so I know you won't get the point, but there is a point to be made. It's the RIAA that are fucking over the artists you claim to care so desperately about - not the pirates. For every penny lost to piracy the record execs walk away with truckloads of cash. All in the name of "protecting the artist".
I was wondering about that myself. I agree with everything Garcia said. I'll let my TVs melt into warm puddles before I throw away good equipment and shell out for hi-def.
It's another cash grab by the industry and he's pointing that out. He's exactly right about the spectrum sale, too.
The music industry would prefer to be in control these days. Allow me to explain a bit.
Back In The Day(tm), you had bands with enormous talent. Let's pick Led Zeppelin as an example. Please - no flames or debate on my choice of band. I've picked them for a reason, so bear with me.
They were pretty revolutionary. Fantastically talented and ahead of their time. It's been almost thirty years and you can still hear them on the radio.
And the stories on how they behaved were equally legendary. They'd blow into town, rent entire floors of hotels and absolutely trash them. Their post-gig parties were the stuff of legend. Once the dust had settled they'd simply pass it off to their label. "Deal with it." And if anyone complained it was "Fuck you - we're Led Zeppelin. You can't replace us, and you know it."
So they flaunted that. Most bands of the era did, but they were famous. Their partying habits were closer to acts of nature. I'm sure at the time you if you were a hotel owner you could buy Led Zeppelin insurance. At a premium.
So understandably, the labels got sick of this. That's why music is the way it is today.
Look at what's popular. Rap and bands like the one you mentioned. And what do they have in common? More style than talent. Why? Talent is rare. Style can be manufactured. Music stopped becoming something special that only a gifted few could do well, and became a product. Something you could buy in a shrink wrapped box. And replaced just as easily.
Bands today could not get away with Led Zeppelin-esque excess. Let All Saints try that crap with their label, just once. "Fuck you, we're All Saints. Just try and replace us." Every single person in the band will be working in a 7-11 the next Monday, with a bill for the damages.
This is beneficial to the labels, of course. But the problem is that the special spark that makes truly great music is systematically removed from the system in an attempt to make everything easily replaceable. Nobody stands out anymore. They can't, by definition. Anyone irreplaceable is too much potential trouble. They want mediocrity. Polish it up a little bit so it sells, and receive maximum benefit with minimum hassle.
The downside is that you will never hear truly great and innovative music ever again. At least from the big labels, anyways. It would be like being able to buy a really excellent coq au vin at McDonalds. The business model of bulk production and speedy turnaround simply forbids it.
Yeah, but the EFF will care, no matter who winds up being President in 09. They will continue to press the matter regardless.
And GW is going to tell them to stuff it. I know that. I just want to know what perverse reasoning he's going to use to do it. What will he tell the EFF to make them stop? Executive privilege? War on terror? Because I'm emperor in all but title and you can't stop me?
I know it will be Orwellian and bizarre. I'm certain of that. But *what* will it be?
Can't wait. I'm sure it will raise my loathing to new heights.
It does work. Same way a brick flies, but it does work. (Disclaimer: I'm a Windows CE developer by trade)
You're looking at the wrong market. Around CE 3.0 when SmartPhone came out, yeah. That completely sucked. Hardly worked at all.
Windows CE's market share is in industrial devices that need to talk to Windows desktops. And PDAs. That's why it sells. It's an extension of the MS monopoly into the embedded market space. If you need to get data from a widget to a Windows box, you use Windows CE. At least that's the sales pitch, anyways.
Back on topic, CE on a Netbook? Yeah - no thanks. It would be no different than a PDA. Just bulkier.
I'm going to build motorized, retractable cover for my front license plate if this system is implimented. Fuck that.
My Prius has a rear view mirror that dims depending on how much light it's receiving. There is a sensor on it. Put your finger over the sensor and it thinks it's night out and the mirror dims.
Maybe we could make something like that to cover the plates? Some sort of electronic dimming glass. Or maybe a large blank LCD that you could toggle with a switch.
Oh good - glad you meant the joke. I was just zipping by and caught your comment and really got a good chuckle out of it.
And I did catch the tail end of the Nova special. I was just flipping through channels and it sucked me in. Wound up watching about an hour of it with my wife. We both just stopped what we were doing and geeked out on it. =)
Look up introductory electrical engineering stuff, searching for RC time constant and RC curves. This appears to be a good page.
The overall idea is that charge cannot move instantly through a resistance. Think of a capacitor like a bucket of water, and the resistor a hose hooked to the bottom of the bucket. The bucket can drain only as fast as the hose is wide. And the less water there is in the bucket, the slower it will drain (since there is less weight/pressure pushing on the water at the bottom of the bucket where the hose is.)
Read the introduction to The Silmarillion. That's all Christopher was doing. Collecting his father's early stories and trying to figure out what was closest to canon. The early stories have discrepancies in them that make them mesh poorly. It was a monumental task to figure out each story and put them into the most coherent framework.
But Christopher took the time out and figured it all out and came up with the most coherent version of the early work and made what wound up being my favorite book in the whole Tolkien series. Without him, we never would have heard about the Music of Arda, or Feanor, or any of it.
He wrote nothing, changed nothing, and brought more of his father's work to the world. He has my eternal gratitude.
Now, let's contrast that with Brian Herbert. Spoilers ahead.
I got through House Atreides. And halfway through House Harkonnen before I gave up in disgust. They're not even as good as fan fiction. They're simply dismal. Having RM Mohaim be the mother of Jessica? Get serious. You know you're in deep shit if you're stealing plot ideas from George Lucas.
And the writing itself is simply awful. It's like he took a dartboard with his father's wonderful mythology on it and threw darts at it. The characters have zero depth and sound like they're doing Dune impressions. He goes too far out of the way to have everyone use words from the original works.
Even if you do own the copyright to your own recording of your own song, SoundExchange will collect Internet radio royalties for your song even if you don't want them to do so.
If you could please provide a citation where a contract overrides Soundexchange's legalized extortion? If it exists I'd like to see it.
Yes, you would. After paying a fee to become an RIAA member. Of course.
It's unreal.
In your example, the RIAA's argument is that they are - on your behalf and without you asking them to - protecting you (the artist) from you (the broadcaster). And taking their cut both ways, when you (the broadcaster) pay the royalties of which they get their cut, and when you (the artist) have to pay the fee to become a member to get your royalties and further support their efforts. They effectively have put a universal tax on both sides of the street. Even if you're not a RIAA member. Bilateral extortion.
You have to pay royalties to the RIAA for any music you broadcast. Even if the artists you are playing are not RIAA members. They can, however, become RIAA members and get their precollected royalties, of course.
One of the first was the Dodge ESX, which managed 72mpg by the third prototype.
Another promising one is the VW Golf disesl hybrid. Claims to reach just under 70mpg. This one might become commercially available.
And back on topic, I own a 2007 Prius. And I would have been just as happy to buy one of these Ford Diesels. Probably happier, since I believe that gasoline is eventually going away. Biodiesel is the future. Here's my favorite breakdown of a biodiesel future.
Ford is being absolutely positively stupid. Sell your Ford stock ASAP. Any company that makes decisions this poorly is going out of business.
On February 22, 1901, a marvelous new star was discovered by Doctor Anderson of Edinburgh, not very far from Algol. No star had been visible at that point before. Within twenty-four hours the stranger had become so bright that it outshone Capella. In a week or two it had visibly faded, and in the course of a few months it was hardly discernible with the naked eye.
From your original post, it looks like you might want to make money from it. Or not. First thing is to decide which it is.
My advice would be to not try to make money from it. If it is as you say - "I really think a competent developer could probably get the thing done in a week or less", well as soon as you market it every competent developer will look at it, think the same thing, and write an open source one.
If it's really as whiz-bang as you're saying and only a week's worth of coding...well, sourceforge will have one probably inside of a month of your release.
Piracy is rampant because it's easy to get stuff for free and not get caught. It has nothing to do with DRM.
So...if it's easy (and it is), what's the point of the DRM then? All it takes is one bored kid from the Netherlands and item X is now on the net for free. The only people the DRM hassles are the paying customers.
It doesn't matter if the music/games/films are cheap or without DRM as you just can't beat free for a lot of people.
And yet, these people who will never buy item X at any price, but will only accept it for free - the industry counts each one as a lost sale when they do their reports on how much piracy costs.
These people you mention who only like their product for free - how does it hurt the industry if they cannot pirate something? They'd never buy it in the first place. It adds up to zero no matter if they get it for free or not.
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I mean seriously - this is just too good to be true.
Jack Thompson disbarred. The RIAA loses its first court case on their "making available" theory.
I'm waiting for the OMG ponies to show up.
How dare the RIAA go after individual infringers, even though it's what Slashdotters said they should do back in 2000 during the Napster lawsuit.
It's all about how you go after them. Jaywalking is illegal. So to stop it, would you mind if we shove a camera up your ass to record where you walk and a set of electrodes on your balls to we can zap you if you look like you might be heading away from the crosswalk?
I deserve to have people's work for free because I can. Artists are my personal slaves.
Actually, it's the RIAA that feels that way. Here, read this bit from Steve Albini. Scroll down to the math part.
Once you're done, read this.
You're an industry shill so I know you won't get the point, but there is a point to be made. It's the RIAA that are fucking over the artists you claim to care so desperately about - not the pirates. For every penny lost to piracy the record execs walk away with truckloads of cash. All in the name of "protecting the artist".
Total bullshit, and you know it.
I was wondering about that myself. I agree with everything Garcia said. I'll let my TVs melt into warm puddles before I throw away good equipment and shell out for hi-def.
It's another cash grab by the industry and he's pointing that out. He's exactly right about the spectrum sale, too.
What's troll about that?
The music industry would prefer to be in control these days. Allow me to explain a bit.
Back In The Day(tm), you had bands with enormous talent. Let's pick Led Zeppelin as an example. Please - no flames or debate on my choice of band. I've picked them for a reason, so bear with me.
They were pretty revolutionary. Fantastically talented and ahead of their time. It's been almost thirty years and you can still hear them on the radio.
And the stories on how they behaved were equally legendary. They'd blow into town, rent entire floors of hotels and absolutely trash them. Their post-gig parties were the stuff of legend. Once the dust had settled they'd simply pass it off to their label. "Deal with it." And if anyone complained it was "Fuck you - we're Led Zeppelin. You can't replace us, and you know it."
So they flaunted that. Most bands of the era did, but they were famous. Their partying habits were closer to acts of nature. I'm sure at the time you if you were a hotel owner you could buy Led Zeppelin insurance. At a premium.
So understandably, the labels got sick of this. That's why music is the way it is today.
Look at what's popular. Rap and bands like the one you mentioned. And what do they have in common? More style than talent. Why? Talent is rare. Style can be manufactured. Music stopped becoming something special that only a gifted few could do well, and became a product. Something you could buy in a shrink wrapped box. And replaced just as easily.
Bands today could not get away with Led Zeppelin-esque excess. Let All Saints try that crap with their label, just once. "Fuck you, we're All Saints. Just try and replace us." Every single person in the band will be working in a 7-11 the next Monday, with a bill for the damages.
This is beneficial to the labels, of course. But the problem is that the special spark that makes truly great music is systematically removed from the system in an attempt to make everything easily replaceable. Nobody stands out anymore. They can't, by definition. Anyone irreplaceable is too much potential trouble. They want mediocrity. Polish it up a little bit so it sells, and receive maximum benefit with minimum hassle.
The downside is that you will never hear truly great and innovative music ever again. At least from the big labels, anyways. It would be like being able to buy a really excellent coq au vin at McDonalds. The business model of bulk production and speedy turnaround simply forbids it.
Mars did the calculation for one pole in Metric and the other one in Imperial. That's why they don't line up.
Of all people, NASA should know this.
Once again, Microsoft takes someone else's idea and runs with it. I'll bet their advertising agency referred to this as "innovation".
I'll bet the commercials aren't any good until the third release, either.
Yeah, but the EFF will care, no matter who winds up being President in 09. They will continue to press the matter regardless.
And GW is going to tell them to stuff it. I know that. I just want to know what perverse reasoning he's going to use to do it. What will he tell the EFF to make them stop? Executive privilege? War on terror? Because I'm emperor in all but title and you can't stop me?
I know it will be Orwellian and bizarre. I'm certain of that. But *what* will it be?
Can't wait. I'm sure it will raise my loathing to new heights.
It does work. Same way a brick flies, but it does work. (Disclaimer: I'm a Windows CE developer by trade)
You're looking at the wrong market. Around CE 3.0 when SmartPhone came out, yeah. That completely sucked. Hardly worked at all.
Windows CE's market share is in industrial devices that need to talk to Windows desktops. And PDAs. That's why it sells. It's an extension of the MS monopoly into the embedded market space. If you need to get data from a widget to a Windows box, you use Windows CE. At least that's the sales pitch, anyways.
Back on topic, CE on a Netbook? Yeah - no thanks. It would be no different than a PDA. Just bulkier.
To see exactly how this administration completely blows this off.
They called the game, they lobbed a weak lawsuit for the opening move - now go out there and WIN!
Go Ray!
I'm going to build motorized, retractable cover for my front license plate if this system is implimented. Fuck that.
My Prius has a rear view mirror that dims depending on how much light it's receiving. There is a sensor on it. Put your finger over the sensor and it thinks it's night out and the mirror dims.
Maybe we could make something like that to cover the plates? Some sort of electronic dimming glass. Or maybe a large blank LCD that you could toggle with a switch.
Oh good - glad you meant the joke. I was just zipping by and caught your comment and really got a good chuckle out of it.
And I did catch the tail end of the Nova special. I was just flipping through channels and it sucked me in. Wound up watching about an hour of it with my wife. We both just stopped what we were doing and geeked out on it. =)
Look up introductory electrical engineering stuff, searching for RC time constant and RC curves. This appears to be a good page.
The overall idea is that charge cannot move instantly through a resistance. Think of a capacitor like a bucket of water, and the resistor a hose hooked to the bottom of the bucket. The bucket can drain only as fast as the hose is wide. And the less water there is in the bucket, the slower it will drain (since there is less weight/pressure pushing on the water at the bottom of the bucket where the hose is.)
Read the introduction to The Silmarillion. That's all Christopher was doing. Collecting his father's early stories and trying to figure out what was closest to canon. The early stories have discrepancies in them that make them mesh poorly. It was a monumental task to figure out each story and put them into the most coherent framework.
But Christopher took the time out and figured it all out and came up with the most coherent version of the early work and made what wound up being my favorite book in the whole Tolkien series. Without him, we never would have heard about the Music of Arda, or Feanor, or any of it.
He wrote nothing, changed nothing, and brought more of his father's work to the world. He has my eternal gratitude.
Now, let's contrast that with Brian Herbert. Spoilers ahead.
I got through House Atreides. And halfway through House Harkonnen before I gave up in disgust. They're not even as good as fan fiction. They're simply dismal. Having RM Mohaim be the mother of Jessica? Get serious. You know you're in deep shit if you're stealing plot ideas from George Lucas.
And the writing itself is simply awful. It's like he took a dartboard with his father's wonderful mythology on it and threw darts at it. The characters have zero depth and sound like they're doing Dune impressions. He goes too far out of the way to have everyone use words from the original works.
It's really awful. Penny Arcade said it best.
It used to be.
From the initial story:
Even if you do own the copyright to your own recording of your own song, SoundExchange will collect Internet radio royalties for your song even if you don't want them to do so.
If you could please provide a citation where a contract overrides Soundexchange's legalized extortion? If it exists I'd like to see it.
Yes, you would. After paying a fee to become an RIAA member. Of course.
It's unreal.
In your example, the RIAA's argument is that they are - on your behalf and without you asking them to - protecting you (the artist) from you (the broadcaster). And taking their cut both ways, when you (the broadcaster) pay the royalties of which they get their cut, and when you (the artist) have to pay the fee to become a member to get your royalties and further support their efforts. They effectively have put a universal tax on both sides of the street. Even if you're not a RIAA member. Bilateral extortion.
As I said, it's unreal.
Thanks to Soundexchange.
You have to pay royalties to the RIAA for any music you broadcast. Even if the artists you are playing are not RIAA members. They can, however, become RIAA members and get their precollected royalties, of course.
And no, I'm not bullshitting you. It's actually law. Here's the original Slashdot thread about it.
Sometimes something truly sucks, and there is no way to put it in a positive light.
The recording industry grinding independent internet radio stations to paste being one good example.
It's called "frame of reference", Einstein.
You didn't mean this as a joke, but it's a good one.
One of the first was the Dodge ESX, which managed 72mpg by the third prototype.
Another promising one is the VW Golf disesl hybrid. Claims to reach just under 70mpg. This one might become commercially available.
And back on topic, I own a 2007 Prius. And I would have been just as happy to buy one of these Ford Diesels. Probably happier, since I believe that gasoline is eventually going away. Biodiesel is the future. Here's my favorite breakdown of a biodiesel future.
Ford is being absolutely positively stupid. Sell your Ford stock ASAP. Any company that makes decisions this poorly is going out of business.
The object is the Nemesis doing battle with the Oppressor from Beyond the Wall of Sleep.
On February 22, 1901, a marvelous new star was discovered by Doctor Anderson of Edinburgh, not very far from Algol. No star had been visible at that point before. Within twenty-four hours the stranger had become so bright that it outshone Capella. In a week or two it had visibly faded, and in the course of a few months it was hardly discernible with the naked eye.
And then you'll know what to do next.
From your original post, it looks like you might want to make money from it. Or not. First thing is to decide which it is.
My advice would be to not try to make money from it. If it is as you say - "I really think a competent developer could probably get the thing done in a week or less", well as soon as you market it every competent developer will look at it, think the same thing, and write an open source one.
If it's really as whiz-bang as you're saying and only a week's worth of coding...well, sourceforge will have one probably inside of a month of your release.
Piracy is rampant because it's easy to get stuff for free and not get caught. It has nothing to do with DRM.
So...if it's easy (and it is), what's the point of the DRM then? All it takes is one bored kid from the Netherlands and item X is now on the net for free. The only people the DRM hassles are the paying customers.
It doesn't matter if the music/games/films are cheap or without DRM as you just can't beat free for a lot of people.
And yet, these people who will never buy item X at any price, but will only accept it for free - the industry counts each one as a lost sale when they do their reports on how much piracy costs.
These people you mention who only like their product for free - how does it hurt the industry if they cannot pirate something? They'd never buy it in the first place. It adds up to zero no matter if they get it for free or not.
...stating their main goal is to innovate on top of Vista.
Could we please stop referring to programming as "innovating"? Not every single piece of code anyone writes is a breakthrough.