Does anybody else find it hilarious that this guy from Microsoft says "It's all hackery, it's all ad-hoc and none of it is interoperable." I mean, this is the same Microsoft that goes out of its way to prevent MSN.com from being viewed with other browsers than IE, completely ignores HTML standards and tries to make its own proprietary HTML tags, tries to prevent Java from being interoperable, and uses closed APIs for Windows programming and proprietary formats for DOC files.
Oh ok, glad that you're keeping it legal.:-) My apologies for misinterpreting your site, I thought this was yet another Slashdot posts copyright infringing article (ie this comment pointing to a warez site that nine different moderators somehow found informative). Things like this would give Slashdot a bad name, but as long as your site keeps things legal, then it's perfectly fine.:-)
I might be wrong, but the impression I received was that it was variations from the original work. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if it wasn't based on the video game music it would be original music and in no way connected to the video games. Even if the music is not 100% of a replica of the original work, it still goes against the license. It's like taking 50% of the source code from Windows (although why anyone would want to use it is beyond me) and mixing it with 50% of Solaris.
Thank you very much but I did read the site, and you are wrong. On the top right of each post is a "download" link to let you download the video game music in mp3 format and two thirds of the articles contain links within them to download these mp3s. I am not sure if this website is the actual server on which this music is held, but then it would still be nothing different than some video game music warez link site.
Things like this on Slashdot give it a bad name. Open source is great, but posting things like this, when the music is not even free as in beer, gives fuel to arguments like when Microsoft says "open source is bad for licenses," even if arguments like that are flawed. It gives negative press and it is just plain illegal to download and listen to the music unless you own the video game, and I am sure most people own no more than a few percent of the total songs (and I really doubt that they would scroll through and say, "hey! I don't own that. I won't download it.")
Sorry to break the news to you, but this site contains lots of illegal material. I think information should be free, but ultimately it is the author's decision, and with video game soundtracks for sale and with the music copyrighted, it is not legal to distribute this. If you have ever played Jet Grind Radio you have seen how great game soundtracks could be, but unfortunately it is neither legal nor "fair use" to pirate these.
I have been getting quite disappointed with slashdot lately. I love open source products and free information, but lately slashdot has been going too far, with comments getting moderated up to 5 and articles being posted with blatently illegal material. There are only so many of these "its fair use man! them fat cats have too much money" comments I can take. This is wrong and you know it.
I might get modded down for this, but could someone please clarify for me why anime is so popular? I mean, it's just a Japanese form of animation, and we have all kinds of great animation in the US, with shows like Family Guy and Futurama. Of course, I've seen some great anime-ish type video games like Jet Grind Radio for the Dreamcast, which uses this weird cel shading technique. I'm just genuinely curious as to why anime is so popular, I haven't seen much of it in the mainstream but among certain crowds it seems really popular.
And he was worried that global organizations were hurting national sovereignty, if I interpreted his speech correctly. He was talking about organizations like the World Trade Organization whose agreements bind member nations to follow their policy above their own local laws, or be punished. It isn't just the national organiztaions that we must pay attention to now, but international ones like the World Intellectual Property Organizations whose treaties bind their members to follow their laws, for better or for worse.
I think what is going on with napster these days is basically irrelevant. The next generation of file swapping programs is in and they are decentralized. The RIAA will never be able to shut them down because of this, and while they might be able to buy over politicians, they will never be able to sway the public. The public will never want to give up the exhilirating freedom of file sharing information, and this will never happen.
The RIAA has also horribly hurt their case by ripping off all the artists, who are the very ones that some people argue Napster and Morpheus and crew hurt. The artists get tiny fractions of pennies for their music on the music industry- sponsored services, who views musicians as pawns and servants.
This is good news, but it is too late for Napster. The damage has been done to it, its effectiveness as a file sharing program has been taken away, and the users have moved on to other services such as Morhpeus, Kazaa, and Limewire. Fortunately, this next generation of file sharing programs is more decentralized, so even if the RIAA lobbies against them and sues them, there will be little they can do to stop them. Plus, Limewire and the Gnutella protocol are open source, so anyone could just take them and make changes in order to make them legal again if difficulties came up.
Once information is out there, there is no going back, and no removing that information. The public is thirsty for these file sharing programs and knowledge of them will prevent the companies from stopping them forever, and when they do stop them new ones will come out. Eventually, even their corporate lobbying will be in vain, and buying politicians won't do anything to stop the flow of information.
Indeed this is great, but I wouldn't qualify it as *news*. I thought it was relatively well established that there was proof of water on Mars. Nothing new has happened since then, but hopefully we will go up and take samples sometime.
Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, is also thought to be one of the prime candidates for life in our solar system.
Sure, the Chinese Government supports this OS, but do you really think the people will run it? I love linux as much as the next guy, I have a debian machine at home and at work we have linux clusters, but in all honestly I think that the Chinese end user will still go and pirate Windows at the end of the day. I mean, it looks glitzier, and all the other kiddies are using it. Hopefully at least a few of them will learn to love linux though, and so this still will increase the userbase somewhat. Plus, a good part of the government might use it as well in China.
Unfortunately, no. ICANN, which we all know governs the Internet and legislates its laws, is based in the United States and therefore we are subject to its laws. I don't think that it would take a Canadian lawsuit on criticizing the product or services of a company as precendent for establishing domain names.
Hopefully they will someday realize that individuals have as many free speech rights as corporations and they will stop giving the corporations more equal rights than individuals.
and maybe move here if you want to avoid the DMCA?;)
The DMCA aims to prevent people from pirating proprietary information. Why this person thinks criticism of a company relates to that is a mystery to me. In the United States, the First Amendment allows us the freedom of the press, meaning we can say what we want about things, as long as it doesn't distort information (i.e. libel and slander, which spreads _false_ information).
The DMCA goes about preventing piracy in a very intrusive way, and I donate frequently to the Free Software Foundation, but it has no provisions that I know of preventing criticism of a product or service.
Apparantly the FTP isn't down (it just was for a second when I tried, it probably is getting flooded with requests), but it still is a bit slow at the moment.
Well, I used to be a dot com millionaire, but after I bragged to everyone about its sound economics and it went bust, I was out of a job.
I quickly turned around and looked for a place that would use my skills for exaggeration and flat out lying, and found myself a place within Enron's accounting department. Unfortunately, that too went bankrupt.
Hence, I am now a garbageman. It is fun and care free though, and I enjoy it very much.
You ask me if I like my job? I absolutely love it! Being a garbageman is the best profession in the world! You wouldn't believe all the wonderful things have discarded, and I get them all, _for free_!! Plus, I get to see cute little racoons and bacteria and greet them every day at work. It is really fun when I find a discarded banana, then I get an extra special snack.
Plus, being a garbageman gives me lots of time to think about the universe and discuss it with clients like Dilbert!
Unfortunately, boycotting the RIAA does not work. Every little bit helps out, but they still make huge amounts of money through the mindless drones that go out and buy their "popular" music. Instead, we need to write every politician, news agency, and music label and protest the obscene actions of the RIAA. Through millions of voices, we will be heard.
Also, I must be forced to disagree with your comparison of the RIAA with terrorists. Terrorists kill people. The RIAA tramples over their rights but does not kill them. If it killed them, they could no longer to afford to buy the RIAA's music, depriving them of profits.;-)
I'm sorry to say this, as I like the idea of file sharing programs as much as the next guy, but they are usually used without any license at all and are illegal. The RIAA rips off both musicians and their fans, but pirating their music off these programs still rips off the musicians and is just plain wrong.
What we need is a system that rips off neither the musicians nor the fans, not one that promotes illegal activity (yes, there are rightful uses for file sharing programs, but usually they are for illegal music and software and movies, as can be seen by watching incoming searches).
Unfortunately, it is difficult for the end user to do so, since it isn't their work being ripped off. The artists must stand strong and united and say, "Hey! We made that music, and we don't like how you are restricting it! Why don't we just go and start our own association, one that doesn't put silly restrictions on things and prevent us from getting the fair end of the deal! It's time for the RIAA to stop taking advantage of us, the musicians, and our fans!"
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I was referring to this article. They blocked all other browsers and displayed a message saying so, but really bad press caused them to back down.
Does anybody else find it hilarious that this guy from Microsoft says "It's all hackery, it's all ad-hoc and none of it is interoperable." I mean, this is the same Microsoft that goes out of its way to prevent MSN.com from being viewed with other browsers than IE, completely ignores HTML standards and tries to make its own proprietary HTML tags, tries to prevent Java from being interoperable, and uses closed APIs for Windows programming and proprietary formats for DOC files.
Here is an interview that he with linux.org. A little outdated but still interesting.
Oh ok, glad that you're keeping it legal. :-) My apologies for misinterpreting your site, I thought this was yet another Slashdot posts copyright infringing article (ie this comment pointing to a warez site that nine different moderators somehow found informative). Things like this would give Slashdot a bad name, but as long as your site keeps things legal, then it's perfectly fine. :-)
I might be wrong, but the impression I received was that it was variations from the original work. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if it wasn't based on the video game music it would be original music and in no way connected to the video games. Even if the music is not 100% of a replica of the original work, it still goes against the license. It's like taking 50% of the source code from Windows (although why anyone would want to use it is beyond me) and mixing it with 50% of Solaris.
Thank you very much but I did read the site, and you are wrong. On the top right of each post is a "download" link to let you download the video game music in mp3 format and two thirds of the articles contain links within them to download these mp3s. I am not sure if this website is the actual server on which this music is held, but then it would still be nothing different than some video game music warez link site. Things like this on Slashdot give it a bad name. Open source is great, but posting things like this, when the music is not even free as in beer, gives fuel to arguments like when Microsoft says "open source is bad for licenses," even if arguments like that are flawed. It gives negative press and it is just plain illegal to download and listen to the music unless you own the video game, and I am sure most people own no more than a few percent of the total songs (and I really doubt that they would scroll through and say, "hey! I don't own that. I won't download it.")
Sorry to break the news to you, but this site contains lots of illegal material. I think information should be free, but ultimately it is the author's decision, and with video game soundtracks for sale and with the music copyrighted, it is not legal to distribute this. If you have ever played Jet Grind Radio you have seen how great game soundtracks could be, but unfortunately it is neither legal nor "fair use" to pirate these.
I have been getting quite disappointed with slashdot lately. I love open source products and free information, but lately slashdot has been going too far, with comments getting moderated up to 5 and articles being posted with blatently illegal material. There are only so many of these "its fair use man! them fat cats have too much money" comments I can take. This is wrong and you know it.
There is already stuff about NFS! The NFS HOWTO can be found at http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/
I might get modded down for this, but could someone please clarify for me why anime is so popular? I mean, it's just a Japanese form of animation, and we have all kinds of great animation in the US, with shows like Family Guy and Futurama. Of course, I've seen some great anime-ish type video games like Jet Grind Radio for the Dreamcast, which uses this weird cel shading technique. I'm just genuinely curious as to why anime is so popular, I haven't seen much of it in the mainstream but among certain crowds it seems really popular.
And he was worried that global organizations were hurting national sovereignty, if I interpreted his speech correctly. He was talking about organizations like the World Trade Organization whose agreements bind member nations to follow their policy above their own local laws, or be punished. It isn't just the national organiztaions that we must pay attention to now, but international ones like the World Intellectual Property Organizations whose treaties bind their members to follow their laws, for better or for worse.
Bell Labs has a page up on a Quantum Cascade Laser at http://www.bell-labs.com/org/physicalsciences/psr/ qc/ with info about its design, applications, and other related info from a few years ago.
I think what is going on with napster these days is basically irrelevant. The next generation of file swapping programs is in and they are decentralized. The RIAA will never be able to shut them down because of this, and while they might be able to buy over politicians, they will never be able to sway the public. The public will never want to give up the exhilirating freedom of file sharing information, and this will never happen.
The RIAA has also horribly hurt their case by ripping off all the artists, who are the very ones that some people argue Napster and Morpheus and crew hurt. The artists get tiny fractions of pennies for their music on the music industry- sponsored services, who views musicians as pawns and servants.
This is good news, but it is too late for Napster. The damage has been done to it, its effectiveness as a file sharing program has been taken away, and the users have moved on to other services such as Morhpeus, Kazaa, and Limewire. Fortunately, this next generation of file sharing programs is more decentralized, so even if the RIAA lobbies against them and sues them, there will be little they can do to stop them. Plus, Limewire and the Gnutella protocol are open source, so anyone could just take them and make changes in order to make them legal again if difficulties came up.
Once information is out there, there is no going back, and no removing that information. The public is thirsty for these file sharing programs and knowledge of them will prevent the companies from stopping them forever, and when they do stop them new ones will come out. Eventually, even their corporate lobbying will be in vain, and buying politicians won't do anything to stop the flow of information.
Indeed this is great, but I wouldn't qualify it as *news*. I thought it was relatively well established that there was proof of water on Mars. Nothing new has happened since then, but hopefully we will go up and take samples sometime.
Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, is also thought to be one of the prime candidates for life in our solar system.
Sure, the Chinese Government supports this OS, but do you really think the people will run it? I love linux as much as the next guy, I have a debian machine at home and at work we have linux clusters, but in all honestly I think that the Chinese end user will still go and pirate Windows at the end of the day. I mean, it looks glitzier, and all the other kiddies are using it. Hopefully at least a few of them will learn to love linux though, and so this still will increase the userbase somewhat. Plus, a good part of the government might use it as well in China.
Hopefully they will someday realize that individuals have as many free speech rights as corporations and they will stop giving the corporations more equal rights than individuals.
The DMCA goes about preventing piracy in a very intrusive way, and I donate frequently to the Free Software Foundation, but it has no provisions that I know of preventing criticism of a product or service.
It's called the "First Amendment."
Apparantly the FTP isn't down (it just was for a second when I tried, it probably is getting flooded with requests), but it still is a bit slow at the moment.
The main FTP site seems to be down, but at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/MIRRORS.html you can find a list of mirrors.
A few of them are:
ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Gnome
ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/gnome.org/
ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/gnome/
ftp://ftp.twoguys.org/GNOME
Well, I used to be a dot com millionaire, but after I bragged to everyone about its sound economics and it went bust, I was out of a job. I quickly turned around and looked for a place that would use my skills for exaggeration and flat out lying, and found myself a place within Enron's accounting department. Unfortunately, that too went bankrupt. Hence, I am now a garbageman. It is fun and care free though, and I enjoy it very much.
You ask me if I like my job? I absolutely love it! Being a garbageman is the best profession in the world! You wouldn't believe all the wonderful things have discarded, and I get them all, _for free_!! Plus, I get to see cute little racoons and bacteria and greet them every day at work. It is really fun when I find a discarded banana, then I get an extra special snack.
Plus, being a garbageman gives me lots of time to think about the universe and discuss it with clients like Dilbert!
Unfortunately, boycotting the RIAA does not work. Every little bit helps out, but they still make huge amounts of money through the mindless drones that go out and buy their "popular" music. Instead, we need to write every politician, news agency, and music label and protest the obscene actions of the RIAA. Through millions of voices, we will be heard.
;-)
Also, I must be forced to disagree with your comparison of the RIAA with terrorists. Terrorists kill people. The RIAA tramples over their rights but does not kill them. If it killed them, they could no longer to afford to buy the RIAA's music, depriving them of profits.
I'm sorry to say this, as I like the idea of file sharing programs as much as the next guy, but they are usually used without any license at all and are illegal. The RIAA rips off both musicians and their fans, but pirating their music off these programs still rips off the musicians and is just plain wrong.
What we need is a system that rips off neither the musicians nor the fans, not one that promotes illegal activity (yes, there are rightful uses for file sharing programs, but usually they are for illegal music and software and movies, as can be seen by watching incoming searches).
Unfortunately, it is difficult for the end user to do so, since it isn't their work being ripped off. The artists must stand strong and united and say, "Hey! We made that music, and we don't like how you are restricting it! Why don't we just go and start our own association, one that doesn't put silly restrictions on things and prevent us from getting the fair end of the deal! It's time for the RIAA to stop taking advantage of us, the musicians, and our fans!"