The only rights you have to any copyrighted work is the rights assigned to you in a license by the copyright owner.
But as someone who pulled it from the net, I did not ever get any license "assigned" to me.
What I got from the uploader, was the (implicit) license of downloading it: None ("Do whatever you want with it."). The guy who offered it, offered it as being under his copyright. (Remember: Copyright is a publisher's right, not the artist's right.)
So while not being based on copyright law, it still becomes something like a "contract" in this case. And this is, why you have to distribute the GPL license with every GPL software. Plus a note, saying that this is the license for that software.
No license, but given to anyone = Free for all.
So when you send [...]
You are mixing up downloading (what you talked about until then), and uploading (sending).
Sending something without a license, that you got with a license is a completely different beast, because then, as I said in my original post, you are breaking a license. (Because now there actually is something to break.)
I suppose if you (wrongfully) claimed to be the copyright owner when you distributed the music to your friend, [...] it is very unlikely that anyone would believe him.
Which also does not matter at all. If I claim to have the copyright (publisher's right) -- which I am when I publish something -- and he takes it, he accepts the license, and therefore the claim.
Let me summarize too:
You forgot the little fact, that if I re-publish a work, there is a new license, which makes the uploader with the license the law-breaker, and gives the downloader his complete freedom (eg. to become another uploader).
Actually you are wrong. Additionally you did not bring any arguments to the table, so I don't know how to answer you. I don't know if you're just trolling, or really live in that world of illusion.
I'm so happy, that here in Germany, the artist's right (Urheberrecht) is much more dominant than the copyright (Verlagsrecht, publisher's right).
And: I'm not a "consumer" in the RIAA way. I was, but I never will be again.
I know this is supposed to be funny. But it only is, because of the truth in it.
"You"'re a pathetic example of how we got educated to be weak losers. I'm stronger than that when I cry like a baby. (Crying is a way to be stronger when you're not crying. So used right, I makes you (even more) manly!)
Don't let women fuck with you! (You know how it's meant, so stop the stupid jokes:)
I told my bosses that they are fuckin' idiots, and that I would make my own firm so I could buy them for an apple and an egg in two years. I did, but they went belly-up before I could buy them. (Lycos Europe. Yeah I said it!)
I know that the reason your woman is bitter to you, is that you let her handle you that way. And the reason she is fat is that she eats crap as a reaction to something else she misses. (Maybe you two actually showing each other love.)
And I know that the only one who failed (in terms of genetics, choice of wife and ability to educate) when my kids are ugly and stupid, is myself.
Finally, I know that I'm not a loser, because I can tell you all the successes I had and have.
Actually, I founded my company on the plan to become the hero of the story. Worked pretty well up to now...
... I must say that it did strike me from the beginning, how everything and its cow in that show was based on what was going on in the USA at that time. What do we have in Galactica? Some religious crazy person of a president, telling the people to follow "the gods". A community where everything revolves around military. Some "terrorists" ("He's a Cylon! Put him in the brig! Or airlock him" = "He's a terrorist! Detain him! Or kill him!"). I have yet to find a concept that is not a mirror of American society.
Sure, this might be why it resonates with the people in the USA. But still it shows the same insane and morally wrong ideas, coming from those that we are expected to put our minds in.
A US propaganda film could not do it better. Oh, wait...
Your post is a set of trollish exaggerations, so force it to fit your views.
So, unplug and replug your TV every time you want to watch it. I honestly don't care if my TV uses 20 Watts when it isn't turned on or not, that is a rather insignificant part of my electric bill for a major part of my (and most people's) life.
No it not rather insignificant. The devices add up. And you don't know shit about most people. You are just stating that out of your ass. Show me someone who does not want to save money.
Some TVs have a guide that you can use to see what is on. And yes, there are actually TVs with built-in guides not using the cable box. It might be important to have that load in a timely matter rather than 15-20 minutes later.
Some TVs have that guide. This may be true. And if you knew anything about embedded computers, you'd know, that never on earth would any system need to load the data for your completely exaggerated 15-20 minutes. If you are talking about updating the guide from the net, it would go as fast as a browser loading a page. The TV would most probably only implement a cache with per-page refresh time values (like a browser). Why on earth would anyone implement a complex constant updating routine for powered-off state? It costs money, and you get the same results with the caching. On another note: I have never in my life seen a TV that needed to load that long, that I recognized it. And I have seen the oldest CRTs, where the tube gets slowly brighter (while already fully working), and the newest digital super-high-end TVs from my rich uncle that include every feature that you can think of, while still being from completely powered off in usable in the time i needed to get from the TV to sitting on the couch.
Then unplug and replug in your TV, the rest of the world wants TVs to boot up instantly.
Am I right guessing that you ignore connector strips with real power switches, including foot switches with a 2 m cable, so you can put it somewhere else. And remote controlled power outlets (if you're really lazy). And am I right in assuming you do this because else your "arguments" would be worthless? Again you don't know the rest of the world.
The fact that you don't watch TV much [...]
That's not what he said, and therefore no fact. He just does not consider it that important. And I consider people who consider TV to still be important, to be strange.
For most of the people that that TV manufacturers cater to, they don't want to wait. They want the TV to turn on quickly and using the remote, no matter if it costs a few extra watts of electricity. For people like you, well theres always the option of unplugging and replugging in the TV.
This is a repetition of what you already said. Do you think you can persuade us because you can't convince us? Because you can do neither.
You are now officially a troll. Go find a therapist or something to cure your misdirected urge to be right at all costs.
A price that I, as a buyer, can completely agree on.
.
But the greed of the industry, and being used to living in luxury.
...has made them destroy their own business. It's like chives. If you cut them down too much, they die. They think if they ask for more, they'll get more.
If you have a license for the media, you are allowed to do what it states. If you offer the files for download without license, and someone takes them, then you have broken the contract (=license)! The downloader got it from you with no license (that is your implicit contract), so he can legally do with it, whatever he likes to do with it. Like offering it to others. Nothing illegal here at all. No theft (original still in the hands of the owner). Only a broken contract, that the seller can sue for (and rightfully so). So first and foremost: Stop spreading bullshit FUD propaganda from the RIAA!
Now on to the question, why people download the songs rather than buying them. First: It's easy and cheap. Second, and more important: To them, it's not worth the money that they could buy it for, somewhere else. Ask people from which spot on they would buy it, and what comfort they would expect. Most of them want it to beat the easiness of some file-sharing app (nice tool, no copy protection, fast downloads, everything available [even a live version from 1972]), while offering the full package (high quality, properly tagged, cover, lyrics, replay gain, bpm... whatever tiny plus you can get, include it!). The amount that they want to spend, on the other hand, varies greatly, with personal views, taste, personal budget, and so on.
To me, some song from the charts, that I like, but that is not in my top list, in good mp3 quality, would be worth some 5-20 (euro)cent. A rare DNB track that I loop over and over, because I love it that much, that has all of the above mentioned features, and that comes from an artist that I respect and know, could easily be worth 5 €.
But I can't pay those prices. I have to pay what they say, or not get it at all. Despite there not being any costs in producing the copy, and the huge costs of the original coming mainly from the giant budgets that those people assign themselves (like the producer getting 60% of the money, while the artist gets 3.5% [and the RIAA even wanting this value to drop].) If you calculate maybe 100,000 sales for a song, what's the price for a single track, divided by 100,000? It sure does not cost 100,000, to create that song, including all profits. Calculate the material (amortized over the years of usage), the studio rent (including the producer), and the marketing. Then add some cash for the artist himself. And a RIAA member fee (should be something like $50 a year). Then divide this by the tracks produced (eg. an album). And you get maybe some thousand dollars per track. Not 10,000, and surely not 100,000. So this would result in less than 10 cent per track for this example. A price that I, an a buyer, can completely agree on. Even if it only sells so 10,000 people (a rare track that i love), I would stay at or below $1.
But the greed of the industry, and being used to living in luxury. I worked with someone who had direct contacts to the bosses of all the big five (now four). He told me, that usually, "meetings" look similar to this: He gets out of the elevator, and gets offered cocaine in lines as thick as your fingers. And after (or before) the actual talking, they call themselves some hookers. I know he did not lie to me, because I sat right next to him, when he was loudly speaking to them on his phone, laughing about what fun they had, and that he would have a new offer, so he should call the bitches in, or something alike.
I hope this makes reality a bit more clear for you.
But how far has this reference frame itself traveled during that one minute?
That reference frame is RELATIVE! So it can't have traveled!
On another note, I calculated that with the fat inside my body. I could power the flux compensator 1.21 gigawatts for 0.8 seconds at straight! (I'd not survive, but when it comes to death, it can't get much better!)
No. The point is, that the only reason we add an imaginary non-provable layer (the designer) to our theories is, to explain where it all came from. Or in other words: The last layer. The end. Where nothing is outside.
Religious people think that, when they say "god did it all", this problem would be solved. But they then disallow the question where god came from, because this would crash their whole schizophrenic dream world.
In reality the question where everything came from can't be answered. (At least for a Human brain and for a looong time.) It's like the question what was before time. You can't answer that, because the term "before" is defined as something inside a time line.
That's all. You can spare me the whole explanation of thinking about layers we can't say anything about.
Question: How do you know the failure rate of the other companies' drives, when you almost exclusively buy Seagate drives? Those two or three other drives are far from a usable statistic don't you think?
So what's left is what you heard, or what you remember from 5 years before.
To make a guess: What you have is a platter that fails to start, or a head arm that fails to come out of the parking position. In both cases, the lubrication fails in some way and gets harder (especially when cold). The first start heats it up, so that it works on the second start.
So soon the disk will not start at all anymore. I would do a backup every day or replace the disk.
At least that's my rough guess. Continuing to use a zombie drive is no good idea anyway.
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The only rights you have to any copyrighted work is the rights assigned to you in a license by the copyright owner.
But as someone who pulled it from the net, I did not ever get any license "assigned" to me.
What I got from the uploader, was the (implicit) license of downloading it: None ("Do whatever you want with it."). The guy who offered it, offered it as being under his copyright. (Remember: Copyright is a publisher's right, not the artist's right.)
So while not being based on copyright law, it still becomes something like a "contract" in this case.
And this is, why you have to distribute the GPL license with every GPL software. Plus a note, saying that this is the license for that software.
No license, but given to anyone = Free for all.
So when you send [...]
You are mixing up downloading (what you talked about until then), and uploading (sending).
Sending something without a license, that you got with a license is a completely different beast, because then, as I said in my original post, you are breaking a license. (Because now there actually is something to break.)
I suppose if you (wrongfully) claimed to be the copyright owner when you distributed the music to your friend, [...] it is very unlikely that anyone would believe him.
Which also does not matter at all. If I claim to have the copyright (publisher's right) -- which I am when I publish something -- and he takes it, he accepts the license, and therefore the claim.
Let me summarize too:
You forgot the little fact, that if I re-publish a work, there is a new license, which makes the uploader with the license the law-breaker, and gives the downloader his complete freedom (eg. to become another uploader).
Actually you are wrong. Additionally you did not bring any arguments to the table, so I don't know how to answer you. I don't know if you're just trolling, or really live in that world of illusion.
I'm so happy, that here in Germany, the artist's right (Urheberrecht) is much more dominant than the copyright (Verlagsrecht, publisher's right).
And: I'm not a "consumer" in the RIAA way. I was, but I never will be again.
[...] someone who wants all of their music for free?
Your assumption. Wrong assumption. You fail. HAND.
I know this is supposed to be funny. But it only is, because of the truth in it.
"You"'re a pathetic example of how we got educated to be weak losers. I'm stronger than that when I cry like a baby. (Crying is a way to be stronger when you're not crying. So used right, I makes you (even more) manly!)
Don't let women fuck with you! (You know how it's meant, so stop the stupid jokes :)
Well.
I do not visit my mother. Ever. :)
I told my bosses that they are fuckin' idiots, and that I would make my own firm so I could buy them for an apple and an egg in two years. I did, but they went belly-up before I could buy them. (Lycos Europe. Yeah I said it!)
I know that the reason your woman is bitter to you, is that you let her handle you that way. And the reason she is fat is that she eats crap as a reaction to something else she misses. (Maybe you two actually showing each other love.)
And I know that the only one who failed (in terms of genetics, choice of wife and ability to educate) when my kids are ugly and stupid, is myself.
Finally, I know that I'm not a loser, because I can tell you all the successes I had and have.
Actually, I founded my company on the plan to become the hero of the story. Worked pretty well up to now...
... I must say that it did strike me from the beginning, how everything and its cow in that show was based on what was going on in the USA at that time.
What do we have in Galactica? Some religious crazy person of a president, telling the people to follow "the gods". A community where everything revolves around military. Some "terrorists" ("He's a Cylon! Put him in the brig! Or airlock him" = "He's a terrorist! Detain him! Or kill him!"). I have yet to find a concept that is not a mirror of American society.
Sure, this might be why it resonates with the people in the USA. But still it shows the same insane and morally wrong ideas, coming from those that we are expected to put our minds in.
A US propaganda film could not do it better. Oh, wait...
Yeah. They will call it "the quiet death", because you don't hear a thing, and when you're close enough, it shocks you with electricity and fries you.
Your post is a set of trollish exaggerations, so force it to fit your views.
So, unplug and replug your TV every time you want to watch it. I honestly don't care if my TV uses 20 Watts when it isn't turned on or not, that is a rather insignificant part of my electric bill for a major part of my (and most people's) life.
No it not rather insignificant. The devices add up. And you don't know shit about most people. You are just stating that out of your ass. Show me someone who does not want to save money.
Some TVs have a guide that you can use to see what is on. And yes, there are actually TVs with built-in guides not using the cable box. It might be important to have that load in a timely matter rather than 15-20 minutes later.
Some TVs have that guide. This may be true. And if you knew anything about embedded computers, you'd know, that never on earth would any system need to load the data for your completely exaggerated 15-20 minutes. If you are talking about updating the guide from the net, it would go as fast as a browser loading a page. The TV would most probably only implement a cache with per-page refresh time values (like a browser). Why on earth would anyone implement a complex constant updating routine for powered-off state? It costs money, and you get the same results with the caching. On another note: I have never in my life seen a TV that needed to load that long, that I recognized it. And I have seen the oldest CRTs, where the tube gets slowly brighter (while already fully working), and the newest digital super-high-end TVs from my rich uncle that include every feature that you can think of, while still being from completely powered off in usable in the time i needed to get from the TV to sitting on the couch.
Then unplug and replug in your TV, the rest of the world wants TVs to boot up instantly.
Am I right guessing that you ignore connector strips with real power switches, including foot switches with a 2 m cable, so you can put it somewhere else. And remote controlled power outlets (if you're really lazy). And am I right in assuming you do this because else your "arguments" would be worthless? Again you don't know the rest of the world.
The fact that you don't watch TV much [...]
That's not what he said, and therefore no fact. He just does not consider it that important. And I consider people who consider TV to still be important, to be strange.
For most of the people that that TV manufacturers cater to, they don't want to wait. They want the TV to turn on quickly and using the remote, no matter if it costs a few extra watts of electricity. For people like you, well theres always the option of unplugging and replugging in the TV.
This is a repetition of what you already said. Do you think you can persuade us because you can't convince us? Because you can do neither.
You are now officially a troll. Go find a therapist or something to cure your misdirected urge to be right at all costs.
A price that I, as a buyer, can completely agree on.
.
But the greed of the industry, and being used to living in luxury.
Nobody is illegally downloading anything!
If you have a license for the media, you are allowed to do what it states. If you offer the files for download without license, and someone takes them, then you have broken the contract (=license)! The downloader got it from you with no license (that is your implicit contract), so he can legally do with it, whatever he likes to do with it. Like offering it to others. Nothing illegal here at all. No theft (original still in the hands of the owner). Only a broken contract, that the seller can sue for (and rightfully so). So first and foremost: Stop spreading bullshit FUD propaganda from the RIAA!
Now on to the question, why people download the songs rather than buying them. First: It's easy and cheap. Second, and more important: To them, it's not worth the money that they could buy it for, somewhere else. Ask people from which spot on they would buy it, and what comfort they would expect. Most of them want it to beat the easiness of some file-sharing app (nice tool, no copy protection, fast downloads, everything available [even a live version from 1972]), while offering the full package (high quality, properly tagged, cover, lyrics, replay gain, bpm... whatever tiny plus you can get, include it!). The amount that they want to spend, on the other hand, varies greatly, with personal views, taste, personal budget, and so on.
To me, some song from the charts, that I like, but that is not in my top list, in good mp3 quality, would be worth some 5-20 (euro)cent. A rare DNB track that I loop over and over, because I love it that much, that has all of the above mentioned features, and that comes from an artist that I respect and know, could easily be worth 5 €.
But I can't pay those prices. I have to pay what they say, or not get it at all. Despite there not being any costs in producing the copy, and the huge costs of the original coming mainly from the giant budgets that those people assign themselves (like the producer getting 60% of the money, while the artist gets 3.5% [and the RIAA even wanting this value to drop].) If you calculate maybe 100,000 sales for a song, what's the price for a single track, divided by 100,000? It sure does not cost 100,000, to create that song, including all profits. Calculate the material (amortized over the years of usage), the studio rent (including the producer), and the marketing. Then add some cash for the artist himself. And a RIAA member fee (should be something like $50 a year). Then divide this by the tracks produced (eg. an album). And you get maybe some thousand dollars per track. Not 10,000, and surely not 100,000. So this would result in less than 10 cent per track for this example. A price that I, an a buyer, can completely agree on. Even if it only sells so 10,000 people (a rare track that i love), I would stay at or below $1.
But the greed of the industry, and being used to living in luxury.
I worked with someone who had direct contacts to the bosses of all the big five (now four). He told me, that usually, "meetings" look similar to this: He gets out of the elevator, and gets offered cocaine in lines as thick as your fingers. And after (or before) the actual talking, they call themselves some hookers.
I know he did not lie to me, because I sat right next to him, when he was loudly speaking to them on his phone, laughing about what fun they had, and that he would have a new offer, so he should call the bitches in, or something alike.
I hope this makes reality a bit more clear for you.
Watch the RIAA completely ignore that ruling in the next lawsuit, and hope that the judge does not know about it.
So GP is still right.
I know the movie by heart. You are correct. It was "Spaceballs II: The Search for More Money!".
WOOOOSH... but ...oh never mind...
Yeah. Shell money ftw! (Or other very old money.) Very usable nowadays!
Simple. Just fill the case with transformer oil, and forget to seal the PCI slot brackets, while sealing the connections themselves.
Been there, done that.
But how far has this reference frame itself traveled during that one minute?
That reference frame is RELATIVE! So it can't have traveled!
On another note, I calculated that with the fat inside my body. I could power the flux compensator 1.21 gigawatts for 0.8 seconds at straight! (I'd not survive, but when it comes to death, it can't get much better!)
Mmmmhh... horse barbecue! Soo good when it's cold outside!
I would love "Oh yeah? *Fuck* your theory!". But unfortunately that's a bit strong for a man in his position.
I don't know... Can you translate it...like...to... to... AN ACTUAL LANGUAGE?? ;)
No. The point is, that the only reason we add an imaginary non-provable layer (the designer) to our theories is, to explain where it all came from. Or in other words: The last layer. The end. Where nothing is outside.
Religious people think that, when they say "god did it all", this problem would be solved.
But they then disallow the question where god came from, because this would crash their whole schizophrenic dream world.
In reality the question where everything came from can't be answered. (At least for a Human brain and for a looong time.)
It's like the question what was before time. You can't answer that, because the term "before" is defined as something inside a time line.
That's all. You can spare me the whole explanation of thinking about layers we can't say anything about.
Question: How do you know the failure rate of the other companies' drives, when you almost exclusively buy Seagate drives?
Those two or three other drives are far from a usable statistic don't you think?
So what's left is what you heard, or what you remember from 5 years before.
To make a guess: What you have is a platter that fails to start, or a head arm that fails to come out of the parking position.
In both cases, the lubrication fails in some way and gets harder (especially when cold).
The first start heats it up, so that it works on the second start.
So soon the disk will not start at all anymore. I would do a backup every day or replace the disk.
At least that's my rough guess. Continuing to use a zombie drive is no good idea anyway.
Three words for you:
Worst... film... ever!
I thought they could not make something worse than Scary Movie 2. But they did! May they rot in hell!
Why on earth would you do your banking in a browser???
Don't you have an HBCI equivatent? I've had it since before 2000. And I have a class-2 chip card reader since I think 2002 too!
Get out of the dark ages!
I would have used Xth order equations, where X is defined as
X = X+1th order equation
all the way down. just to show how awesome I am in everything and all!