$.59/second only takes ~8 days on one machine to get to $400,000. Something tells me that it has been running on multiple machines for years, and this whole thing is hoax.
Patents don't need to be defended, only trademarks do. Ketsup is a trademark lost because it wasn't defended, lwz compression in gif is still a valid patent even though it was infringed on for years and years.
We want the court to be smart about these things, or else we will get stuck with legislation that WILL infringe on free speach rights. Thus far we have joescartoon.com et al, which was a site that simply tried to make money off joecartoon.com in an annoying manner (whack a mole type advertising), after the law suit was filed they attempted to change their site to a "Protest page". This lost, but on the other hand we had a true parody site, which was ALWAYS so, gwbush.com, which was sued by the Bush campaign for president, guess what, gwbush.com is still up, and proclaiming "Dubya not a Crackhead". These are both absolutely correct judgements, and shows the slippery slope is not very deep, as the line between these two cases is very clear.
Also all of the syndication edits will be gone. I remember when I first saw the sydicated version of "The Last Temptation of Homer" Homer and Mindy ordered room service in the hotel in Capitol City, I got all excited to see the Winged Monkeys, but they cut to a commercial instead. To get the un-edited version is completely worth it, even though we get 3 episodes a day here in the Bay Area. $40 a DVD is cheap, I offered Fox $100 a season a while ago.
Actually you are wrong. The copyrights holder of the musical performance may be the record company (WB owns 1999, from the WB album of the same name, but Prince could re-record it and re-release it, and own all the copyrights for the song, which he nearly did in 1999).
Also regardless of which version is copied there is also the "Mechanical Royalty" which goes straight to the songwriter for any reproduction, including sheet music. This Royalty is $0.08/song (or $0.016/minute for songs longer than 5 minutes). The Harry Fox Agency deals with this royalty, it never has to recoup, and the record company gets none of it. So copying should automatically give 8 cents a track directly to the songwriter.
I have to give big props to all of the Objectivists that have put this fool in his place. Notice the only one that agreed was making $54/hour, fuck that $100K a year. He should thank his lucky stars he gets paid as much as he does. I guess he forgot that he is a free man, and can walk out anytime he wants, some people need to be a victim. Slaves never had such choices, and it belittles their plight to compare $54/hour to a slave.
Oh cry me a fucking river. I doubt YOU have ever wanted in your life because it was all given to you. I knew you guys in college always talking about how hard it was in the third world while living off daddy's millions, at the same time I was working and paying my own fucking way. Maybe it is guilt that makes you feel this way, but in the end you are a true elitist snob. You think you know what is better for everyone. If you want to change the world, work hard and do it, but do so without demanding or forcing anything from me, you can ask nicely. Remember if you give a man a fish.....
Alexa always told people they were following their user paths in all of their privacy policies. Before they switched to an XML data feed their URLs were in the properties of the web page. Smith, who is really more of a media whore than anything else, made a big deal as if Alexa was trying to hide something, he had to use a "packet sniffer", although the javascript was/still is all clearly readable, then went to terribly designed sites that had passwords and addresses in GET requests. If they had done something wrong, don't you think the FTC would have continued the investigation? That class members would have the possibility of getting more than $40?
Not exactly about the estate tax. I really believe that we should live in a meritocracy, and large estates handed down creates a aristocracy of wealth. I am not a big fan of that, although for the most part the children of the rich are downwardly mobile. There was an NY times Opt Ed piece a few months ago that I really liked, instead of an estate tax we should have a gift tax (for receiving gifts) such that you have a lifetime of $1 Million tax free gifts that you can receive, after that a draconian tax is levied. That would reward spreading your wealth out to more than just one or two children, and non-profits at the same time.
Who said anything about fighting those who gets in your way, if that's what someone wants to do, it is their choice and there are trade offs in doing so. Socialism breeds laziness, oppression, and a sense of entitlement, it rewards needs NOT talent. Capitalism relies on self choice, you can choose to sell yourself out to make as much money as you can, or you to do something else with your time, socialism doesn't allow such choices. In practice socialism has repeatedly failed, capitalism has it's problems, getting rid the estate tax will make them worse, but as a whole it has worked much better than socialism. It's funny to me that the people who I know who have most sung the praises of socialism have much bigger opportunities than those who believe in self reliance and have had nothing given to them.
Really they should post "We don't understand legal terms, but it may be bad. ATTACK!!!", This is so f^#!ing par for the course here, the worst part though is that many of the readers are too lazy/stupid/ovine to actually get the facts straight, unless of course it is an already blessed company (google).
He was born in sept of 47 so he is 53, and funny none of the Maine newspaper/tv station web sites have a thing about this, and King is at God status in Maine.
Why is this insightful?
from USAToday
''We've never tested and we never will test prices based on customer demographics,'' founder Jeff Bezos said in a news release late Wednesday.
Why are people martyring this kid? he checked it in, he gave up. Listen I know there are a lot of kids on this site, and a lot of you think the world is stacked against you. No matter how shitty you feel, and how unfair the world seems at the time, killing yourself is ALWAYS the wrong answer. It gets nothing done, you are dead. If you feel like taking your, or someone elses, life talk to someone, if you think you can't talk to your parents or teachers, call a hotline, check yourself into a hospital, email me, ANYTHING but killing yourself. Remember when you are dead, there will be no more fun times for you, your family will never be the same. You never get what you want when you are dead.
Bruce Perens warned of this when napster first arrived on the scene, everyone seemed to ignore him. (The above link is a google cache, because I couldn't get to technocrat.net for some reason)
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All I care about it what was written in the post $.59/sec per client. Guess what, that doesn't add up.
$.59/second only takes ~8 days on one machine to get to $400,000. Something tells me that it has been running on multiple machines for years, and this whole thing is hoax.
Patents don't need to be defended, only trademarks do. Ketsup is a trademark lost because it wasn't defended, lwz compression in gif is still a valid patent even though it was infringed on for years and years.
We want the court to be smart about these things, or else we will get stuck with legislation that WILL infringe on free speach rights. Thus far we have joescartoon.com et al, which was a site that simply tried to make money off joecartoon.com in an annoying manner (whack a mole type advertising), after the law suit was filed they attempted to change their site to a "Protest page". This lost, but on the other hand we had a true parody site, which was ALWAYS so, gwbush.com, which was sued by the Bush campaign for president, guess what, gwbush.com is still up, and proclaiming "Dubya not a Crackhead". These are both absolutely correct judgements, and shows the slippery slope is not very deep, as the line between these two cases is very clear.
http://www.dvdindetail.com/article/41D70001BE7B69F 20000
This shows the extra bits that will be on the UK version. Notice that it is dated 2001-5-2.
Well you can always watch the sydicated version of the Degrassi copy, BH 90210. I don't believe it is any more watchable though.
Also all of the syndication edits will be gone. I remember when I first saw the sydicated version of "The Last Temptation of Homer" Homer and Mindy ordered room service in the hotel in Capitol City, I got all excited to see the Winged Monkeys, but they cut to a commercial instead. To get the un-edited version is completely worth it, even though we get 3 episodes a day here in the Bay Area. $40 a DVD is cheap, I offered Fox $100 a season a while ago.
Fighting Cybermen I hope.
Maybe you have a bad cable.
Also regardless of which version is copied there is also the "Mechanical Royalty" which goes straight to the songwriter for any reproduction, including sheet music. This Royalty is $0.08/song (or $0.016/minute for songs longer than 5 minutes). The Harry Fox Agency deals with this royalty, it never has to recoup, and the record company gets none of it. So copying should automatically give 8 cents a track directly to the songwriter.
Amen to that brother! I wish more people understood this truism.
I have to give big props to all of the Objectivists that have put this fool in his place. Notice the only one that agreed was making $54/hour, fuck that $100K a year. He should thank his lucky stars he gets paid as much as he does. I guess he forgot that he is a free man, and can walk out anytime he wants, some people need to be a victim. Slaves never had such choices, and it belittles their plight to compare $54/hour to a slave.
Oh cry me a fucking river. I doubt YOU have ever wanted in your life because it was all given to you. I knew you guys in college always talking about how hard it was in the third world while living off daddy's millions, at the same time I was working and paying my own fucking way. Maybe it is guilt that makes you feel this way, but in the end you are a true elitist snob. You think you know what is better for everyone. If you want to change the world, work hard and do it, but do so without demanding or forcing anything from me, you can ask nicely. Remember if you give a man a fish.....
Alexa always told people they were following their user paths in all of their privacy policies. Before they switched to an XML data feed their URLs were in the properties of the web page. Smith, who is really more of a media whore than anything else, made a big deal as if Alexa was trying to hide something, he had to use a "packet sniffer", although the javascript was/still is all clearly readable, then went to terribly designed sites that had passwords and addresses in GET requests. If they had done something wrong, don't you think the FTC would have continued the investigation? That class members would have the possibility of getting more than $40?
Ignorance of the law is not an acceptable defense.
Not exactly about the estate tax. I really believe that we should live in a meritocracy, and large estates handed down creates a aristocracy of wealth. I am not a big fan of that, although for the most part the children of the rich are downwardly mobile. There was an NY times Opt Ed piece a few months ago that I really liked, instead of an estate tax we should have a gift tax (for receiving gifts) such that you have a lifetime of $1 Million tax free gifts that you can receive, after that a draconian tax is levied. That would reward spreading your wealth out to more than just one or two children, and non-profits at the same time.
Who said anything about fighting those who gets in your way, if that's what someone wants to do, it is their choice and there are trade offs in doing so. Socialism breeds laziness, oppression, and a sense of entitlement, it rewards needs NOT talent. Capitalism relies on self choice, you can choose to sell yourself out to make as much money as you can, or you to do something else with your time, socialism doesn't allow such choices. In practice socialism has repeatedly failed, capitalism has it's problems, getting rid the estate tax will make them worse, but as a whole it has worked much better than socialism. It's funny to me that the people who I know who have most sung the praises of socialism have much bigger opportunities than those who believe in self reliance and have had nothing given to them.
Really they should post "We don't understand legal terms, but it may be bad. ATTACK!!!", This is so f^#!ing par for the course here, the worst part though is that many of the readers are too lazy/stupid/ovine to actually get the facts straight, unless of course it is an already blessed company (google).
He was born in sept of 47 so he is 53, and funny none of the Maine newspaper/tv station web sites have a thing about this, and King is at God status in Maine.
Sheep? Here? No fucking way!
Why is this insightful? from USAToday ''We've never tested and we never will test prices based on customer demographics,'' founder Jeff Bezos said in a news release late Wednesday.
You have read Atlas Shrugged. Something that everyone on slashdot should do, maybe they would stop playing victim. Trust me it's a lot more fun.
Why are people martyring this kid? he checked it in, he gave up. Listen I know there are a lot of kids on this site, and a lot of you think the world is stacked against you. No matter how shitty you feel, and how unfair the world seems at the time, killing yourself is ALWAYS the wrong answer. It gets nothing done, you are dead. If you feel like taking your, or someone elses, life talk to someone, if you think you can't talk to your parents or teachers, call a hotline, check yourself into a hospital, email me, ANYTHING but killing yourself. Remember when you are dead, there will be no more fun times for you, your family will never be the same. You never get what you want when you are dead.
Bruce Perens warned of this when napster first arrived on the scene, everyone seemed to ignore him. (The above link is a google cache, because I couldn't get to technocrat.net for some reason)
The real reason Jobs would never ship YDL is that its look and feel is terrible, not up to Apple's standards.