IANAL, but my understanding of copyright law was that you didn't own the file, but a copy of the file(ownership of the container versus the content).
I'm not sure what you're getting at. To clarify, when you say "you didn't own the file, but a copy of the file" and talk about the content, are you referring to the actual creative work (the musical composition, and the recorded performance thereof) the file is a copy of? If that's the case, there's no argument whatsoever; there's no way a person can buy any one copy of a piece of music, be it by tape, disc, download, or whatever, and think that having legally acquired that copy for one's own listening purposes conferred upon that person the copyright to the music...
Ok, but that just raises new questions. How does one "own" a digital file without containing it in RAM or on a disk? Also, if that's the case (i.e., that you can't copy it), wouldn't that apply to music purchased via more conventional means (e.g., on CD, from a store), and if not, why not?
But is that the case? I mean, they can't sell in the US, but they're not - they're selling in Russia. If the transaction takes place on their servers, aren't you just downloading to your RAM or hard drive music that you legally purchased in another country, for the intents and purposes of the law?
Ooh, gee, that one article definitively proves it - they not only hate Bush, but actually maintain America is evil!! Clearly they're in league with the terrorists!!!
No? Is that an exaggeration? Thought so. So is saying those papers maintain America is evil. I seriously doubt there's any evidence of that in the entire output of either paper, but do feel free to keep looking (here's a hint: that article wasn't it).
Given the daily "I hate Bush, America is evil" content of the editorial pages of the NYTime and the Washington Post, I don't think we're in danger there.
Oh? Got a link? There's certainly stuff critical of US policies in the NYT, but if you can really find anything there that paints the country as "evil," I'll be very surprised.
I'd add, as another poster has already observed, that hating Bush and thinking the US is evil aren't necessarily linked by any means. Certainly most of the people I know who detest Bush (or rather, his administration) do so because they love America and don't want to see anything bad happen to it, which is what they fear happening with this administration.
I feel that it is necessary to prevent certain things from being broadcast for the public good.
Ok, then, why is it necessary to prevent, say, some entertainer's breast (to use an obvious example) from being seen "for the public good"? How does the public suffer from that?
$1 w/DRM is still too much and the prices are only going up. Quarter or dime priced downloads in 192kbps+ MP3 format is what I want, thanks.
$1 a song w/ DRM is too much? Perhaps, but for years it's cost $.25 (or more) just to play a song just once from a jukebox; now, for the cost of just three or four jukebox plays, one can have a permanent copy of the song, to play as often as one likes, on one's own gear, wherever one wants, that can be copied to other media, etc. If anything, I'd say the price arguably went down, at least compared to what we've been getting from jukeboxes for decades and what we've been paying for it.
Don't get me wrong; I do think it'd be fantastic if the music could be even cheaper, and if it were unencumbered by DRM (that's why I dig eMusic at least as much as the iTMS), but realistically, there's just no way in hell we'll ever get everything from the major label catalogs released for legal downloads anytime soon without some form of DRM.
There's been a new DVD edition of Blade Runner in the works for a while; it's a 3-disc set (!) and should have lots of extras, and is said to include at least two different cuts of the film. It's been held up for legal reasons, unfortunately, but I do know Ridley's been working on it for a while and wants to get it out, so I'm sure they'll be resolved.
Superbit is a Sony DVD line, and as such is limited to Sony / Columbia / Tri-Star films. The Lord of the Rings is from New Line, part of the Warner family. Whatever other DVD versions come out of these films, there won't be one with the "Superbit" marque.
I know one shows up on the home page of iTunes, I don't know where the other one comes from.
The other one is called the "Discovery Download," and can be found on the front page of one of the Genre sections (Alternative, Blues, Classical, Country, Dance, etc.) each week; apparently the idea is to give people a song from a genre they might not otherwise try, and help them discover something they might like (and just maybe, might buy). The "discovery" part of it may also refer to one's "discovery" of it in the store, since it's not listed on the front page or anything but is semi-hidden in the store; one has to hunt for it, though since it's on one of the Genre front pages, it's not exactly hard to find (particularly since that one user maintains that iMix listing of all the freebies to date).
Buying that album should indeed increase the odds of winning, given all those... er... cuts on it, but then what? When Apple announces the lucky winner, do you really want to be publicly known for having bought that??
Features I don't need:
- AAC - no DRM for me, thank you
AAC doesn't have anything to do with DRM. Music downloaded from the iTunes Music Store does have DRM, but you can also rip your own AACs, just as you can your own MP3s or whatever, and they won't have DRM on them.
Ok, I'll take a stab at it (do bear in mind this is coming from a Raving Apple Zealot, but I'll try to be fair):
1) The DDJ (arguably) isn't as well-designed as the iPod - it's uglier, and not as nice to use (this is highly subjective, obviously, but it's a widely-held view).
2) The DDJ doesn't play music from the iTMS (both because it doesn't support the file type, AAC - see below, and because it doesn't support Apple's DRM). It presumably does support DRM'ed WMA files from a number of other music download services, but the iTMS is arguably the best of the DRM'd download outfits, and the one people are most likely to already have music from anyway, given its 70% market share.
3) The DDJ doesn't support as many file types (MP3, WMA, and WAV for the DDJ, vs MP3, WAV, AAC, AIFF, Audible, and Apple Lossless for the iPod).
4) The DDJ is larger and heavier than any iPod (even the 15 GB DDJ is larger and heavier than the 40 GB iPod).
5) The most capacious DDJ holds 20 GB; the most capacious iPod holds twice that.
That said, the DDJ does have some indisputable advantages over the iPod (the aforementioned price and battery life), and for a Windows user who hasn't already started getting music from the iTMS, it's worth considering. I'd still rather have an iPod, though, because it's nicer to use and I'd rather have iTMS compatibility than compatibility with the various vendors of songs in WMA format. As things are right now, I not only already have a bunch of music from the iTMS, I'm also on the Mac, so the DDJ is right out for me. YMMV, as always.
I have a hunch it'd be more accurate to say it's certain individual RIAA member labels doing this. The article does say there's some good stuff in appropriate quantities in the selection as well. I'm guessing the various labels affected by the settlement were each asked to contribute something, and some of them submitted actual desirable material, while others looked at it as a convenient means to dump whatever they had lying around while fulfilling their legal obligation.
At CompUSA or Frys, on the other hand, they can listen to you describe your need and sell you whatever brand computer the two of you (customer and salesperson) decide is most suited to your needs.
Or whatever brand computer the salesperson can get you to think is most suited to your needs, and that coincidentally earns the salesperson the largest possible spiff (bonus)...
I actually enjoy the second more than the third, for a number of reasons. The DVD Journal's Alexandra DuPont, in her review of the DVD set, argues well on behalf of a number of redeeming qualities of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, while also airing her legitimate complaints regarding Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and I'm largely in agreement with her. I'd also add that the rhythm and pacing in Last Crusade aren't as tight as in Temple of Doom (there's a point near the end where the movie feels like it's over before it is, and it has to pick up and get moving again to wrap up unfinished business); also, the portrayal of Indy himself is a bit more appealing in Temple of Doom, at least to me, and for some reason I've just always enjoyed the feel of the second film more; it seems... fresher to me, despite being five years older.
I love all three (and of course, Raiders of the Lost Ark is both my favorite and the greatest of the three, and one of the all-time great movies period), but I have particular affection for Temple of Doom that I don't for Last Crusade, the conventional wisdom about how Last Crusade is "better" notwithstanding.
However... iPods appear to be extremely popular. I'd guess they're the Windows-variety, though. (I suppose it's also possible that there aren't that many iPods - just a lot of kids with white headphones;)
Reportedly, one out of every six iPods sold over the Christmas quarter last year was sold in the UK. Apparently they're every bit as popular in the UK as anywhere else.
Apple no longer makes Windows-specific iPods, incidentally. The earlier models were platform-specific, but the models made since April 28th of last year have all been officially Mac-Windows. I would indeed assume the overwhelming majority of those UK iPods are probably being used with Windows, of course.
Well, do remember that Marvin's essentially supposed to, given his purpose; he's a consumer product stamped out by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, remember, to be "your plastic pal who's fun to be with," and just with the GPP(TM) personality programming gone terribly wrong. Design-wise, it makes sense that he might look something like a more humanoid AIBO-type cutesy "pet" robot.
Note also the look of those triangular eyes (just barely visible in the costume prototype, but presumably differently colored in the final version), and how morose they look, just terribly at odds with the somewhat whimsical look of the rest of him. The incongruity of Marvin's personality emerging from that cheery-looking body could be just that much funnier, especially if they do indeed go ahead and cast Stephen Moore to reprise his role from the previous incarnations as the voice of Marvin.
Regarding Marvin's height, DNA doesn't seem to have said much about that (though he does describe Marvin as having a brushed steel finish). I think the people here remembering him as being particularly tall are doing so from the Marvin in the TV series. That Marvin was tall because the Marvin costume's rather chunky design, apparently resulting from the show's low budget that didn't allow for really refined production design work, added height to the performer wearing it because it was so bulky. There have been other visual depictions of Marvin, though, and they all vary greatly from that TV Marvin, in size as well as other aspects. I don't think there's ever been a particular intention to have a really large Marvin; it just worked out that way that one time.
Perhaps. OTOH, one can spend $.25 or more to play a song once on a jukebox, and that's been true for decades. Given that, $.99 for a permanent copy of a song to play as much as one wants, wherever and whenever one wants, seems like a real bargain.
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I'm not sure what you're getting at. To clarify, when you say "you didn't own the file, but a copy of the file" and talk about the content, are you referring to the actual creative work (the musical composition, and the recorded performance thereof) the file is a copy of? If that's the case, there's no argument whatsoever; there's no way a person can buy any one copy of a piece of music, be it by tape, disc, download, or whatever, and think that having legally acquired that copy for one's own listening purposes conferred upon that person the copyright to the music...
Ok, but that just raises new questions. How does one "own" a digital file without containing it in RAM or on a disk? Also, if that's the case (i.e., that you can't copy it), wouldn't that apply to music purchased via more conventional means (e.g., on CD, from a store), and if not, why not?
But is that the case? I mean, they can't sell in the US, but they're not - they're selling in Russia. If the transaction takes place on their servers, aren't you just downloading to your RAM or hard drive music that you legally purchased in another country, for the intents and purposes of the law?
No? Is that an exaggeration? Thought so. So is saying those papers maintain America is evil. I seriously doubt there's any evidence of that in the entire output of either paper, but do feel free to keep looking (here's a hint: that article wasn't it).
Oh, I'm sure most Slashdotters actually feel the same way - gotta have the TiVo or VCR ready, after all... ;)
Oh? Got a link? There's certainly stuff critical of US policies in the NYT, but if you can really find anything there that paints the country as "evil," I'll be very surprised.
I'd add, as another poster has already observed, that hating Bush and thinking the US is evil aren't necessarily linked by any means. Certainly most of the people I know who detest Bush (or rather, his administration) do so because they love America and don't want to see anything bad happen to it, which is what they fear happening with this administration.
Ok, then, why is it necessary to prevent, say, some entertainer's breast (to use an obvious example) from being seen "for the public good"? How does the public suffer from that?
$1 a song w/ DRM is too much? Perhaps, but for years it's cost $.25 (or more) just to play a song just once from a jukebox; now, for the cost of just three or four jukebox plays, one can have a permanent copy of the song, to play as often as one likes, on one's own gear, wherever one wants, that can be copied to other media, etc. If anything, I'd say the price arguably went down, at least compared to what we've been getting from jukeboxes for decades and what we've been paying for it.
Don't get me wrong; I do think it'd be fantastic if the music could be even cheaper, and if it were unencumbered by DRM (that's why I dig eMusic at least as much as the iTMS), but realistically, there's just no way in hell we'll ever get everything from the major label catalogs released for legal downloads anytime soon without some form of DRM.
There's been a new DVD edition of Blade Runner in the works for a while; it's a 3-disc set (!) and should have lots of extras, and is said to include at least two different cuts of the film. It's been held up for legal reasons, unfortunately, but I do know Ridley's been working on it for a while and wants to get it out, so I'm sure they'll be resolved.
That sounds like a good question for Ask Slashdot.
Superbit is a Sony DVD line, and as such is limited to Sony / Columbia / Tri-Star films. The Lord of the Rings is from New Line, part of the Warner family. Whatever other DVD versions come out of these films, there won't be one with the "Superbit" marque.
Show me a Starbucks where they play Jerry Goldsmith, Lalo Schifrin, or Gabriel Yared and I'll be impressed.
Isn't it fascinating how we could do this all day? There's no shortage of music niches to go through...
The other one is called the "Discovery Download," and can be found on the front page of one of the Genre sections (Alternative, Blues, Classical, Country, Dance, etc.) each week; apparently the idea is to give people a song from a genre they might not otherwise try, and help them discover something they might like (and just maybe, might buy). The "discovery" part of it may also refer to one's "discovery" of it in the store, since it's not listed on the front page or anything but is semi-hidden in the store; one has to hunt for it, though since it's on one of the Genre front pages, it's not exactly hard to find (particularly since that one user maintains that iMix listing of all the freebies to date).
Buying that album should indeed increase the odds of winning, given all those... er... cuts on it, but then what? When Apple announces the lucky winner, do you really want to be publicly known for having bought that??
It's more like every five minutes, actually.
AAC doesn't have anything to do with DRM. Music downloaded from the iTunes Music Store does have DRM, but you can also rip your own AACs, just as you can your own MP3s or whatever, and they won't have DRM on them.
1) The DDJ (arguably) isn't as well-designed as the iPod - it's uglier, and not as nice to use (this is highly subjective, obviously, but it's a widely-held view).
2) The DDJ doesn't play music from the iTMS (both because it doesn't support the file type, AAC - see below, and because it doesn't support Apple's DRM). It presumably does support DRM'ed WMA files from a number of other music download services, but the iTMS is arguably the best of the DRM'd download outfits, and the one people are most likely to already have music from anyway, given its 70% market share.
3) The DDJ doesn't support as many file types (MP3, WMA, and WAV for the DDJ, vs MP3, WAV, AAC, AIFF, Audible, and Apple Lossless for the iPod).
4) The DDJ is larger and heavier than any iPod (even the 15 GB DDJ is larger and heavier than the 40 GB iPod).
5) The most capacious DDJ holds 20 GB; the most capacious iPod holds twice that.
That said, the DDJ does have some indisputable advantages over the iPod (the aforementioned price and battery life), and for a Windows user who hasn't already started getting music from the iTMS, it's worth considering. I'd still rather have an iPod, though, because it's nicer to use and I'd rather have iTMS compatibility than compatibility with the various vendors of songs in WMA format. As things are right now, I not only already have a bunch of music from the iTMS, I'm also on the Mac, so the DDJ is right out for me. YMMV, as always.
I have a hunch it'd be more accurate to say it's certain individual RIAA member labels doing this. The article does say there's some good stuff in appropriate quantities in the selection as well. I'm guessing the various labels affected by the settlement were each asked to contribute something, and some of them submitted actual desirable material, while others looked at it as a convenient means to dump whatever they had lying around while fulfilling their legal obligation.
Or whatever brand computer the salesperson can get you to think is most suited to your needs, and that coincidentally earns the salesperson the largest possible spiff (bonus)...
I love all three (and of course, Raiders of the Lost Ark is both my favorite and the greatest of the three, and one of the all-time great movies period), but I have particular affection for Temple of Doom that I don't for Last Crusade, the conventional wisdom about how Last Crusade is "better" notwithstanding.
Reportedly, one out of every six iPods sold over the Christmas quarter last year was sold in the UK. Apparently they're every bit as popular in the UK as anywhere else.
Apple no longer makes Windows-specific iPods, incidentally. The earlier models were platform-specific, but the models made since April 28th of last year have all been officially Mac-Windows. I would indeed assume the overwhelming majority of those UK iPods are probably being used with Windows, of course.
Note also the look of those triangular eyes (just barely visible in the costume prototype, but presumably differently colored in the final version), and how morose they look, just terribly at odds with the somewhat whimsical look of the rest of him. The incongruity of Marvin's personality emerging from that cheery-looking body could be just that much funnier, especially if they do indeed go ahead and cast Stephen Moore to reprise his role from the previous incarnations as the voice of Marvin.
Regarding Marvin's height, DNA doesn't seem to have said much about that (though he does describe Marvin as having a brushed steel finish). I think the people here remembering him as being particularly tall are doing so from the Marvin in the TV series. That Marvin was tall because the Marvin costume's rather chunky design, apparently resulting from the show's low budget that didn't allow for really refined production design work, added height to the performer wearing it because it was so bulky. There have been other visual depictions of Marvin, though, and they all vary greatly from that TV Marvin, in size as well as other aspects. I don't think there's ever been a particular intention to have a really large Marvin; it just worked out that way that one time.
Perhaps. OTOH, one can spend $.25 or more to play a song once on a jukebox, and that's been true for decades. Given that, $.99 for a permanent copy of a song to play as much as one wants, wherever and whenever one wants, seems like a real bargain.
I met a girl once named Sunshine Ray. :)
Oh, I don't think those are necessarily so bad. I once met a girl named Sunshine... and her last name was Ray. :) She seemed happy with it.