That was Danny Hillis, who went on to found "Thinking Machines", which spawned WAIS, the first real internet search engine. Now Hillis' big thing is the Clock of the Long Now
IIRC This was in response to a situation where someone was suing HA, the plaintiff's law firm hammered archive.org and was able to get some of the pages that they were interested in. At which time HA sued the archive for copyright infringement because they changed their robots.txt to prevent the information from getting to the plaintiff's attorneys. The problem with this whole thing is that adding the robots file after the lawsuit is akin to destroying evidence during a trial and they should have been found in contempt of court. Them expecting the archive to delete the data is unlikely as unless they are serving the data there is no copyright violation. I don't see why the plaintiff's lawyer didn't serve the archive with a subpeona for the information like gmail users have had their "deleted" email subpeona'd
It's sort of funny to compare the comments of one type of white collar crime to another. Portrait of Scammer is still on the front page. yet very few here notice any sort of parallels.
Another couple uncredible answers are...
artists are funded by some sort of tax on broadband/media/... as soon as that happens, some politician from florida/kansas/wisconsin gets up and wonders why we should be paying 2 Live Crew, or some other wildly popular but controvesial act.
musicians should be paid to perform, as thats where they make most of their money. There is a tier that that is true, a sort of midlevel tier that can sell out 1000 seat venues 100 nights a year, but there are many more acts below that level, that will sell 10,000 records (and since they write the songs and generally dropped their own coin to record it) actually will make 20k off those sorts of sales, but can only get 400 seat venues 50 nights a year. Without record sales at these show they are lucky if that sort of tour pays as much as a counter job at 7-11, but hey you get free beer and an 2 inch article in Spin.
The songwriter (the one with the publishing rights) gets at least $0.085 for every track sold (statutory mechanical royalty). The performers generally split another 6-12 points after the recording/promotional costs are recouped.
While google is low bandwidth/page view. At the local ISP level they most likely make up a single percent or more of the entire traffic since so many of their users are hitting them.
On EVERY SONG SOLD an artist (The songwriter) is paid at least the mechanical which is something like 9.5. So while the PERFROMER may only get a nickle, the songwriter (or whoever the songwriter sold the rights to) gets a dime.
It probably wouldn't be that hard to write a content policy component that simply compares that domain of the referer and the script and refuse those that don't cut your mustard (about 30 lines of javascript)
In a test of slashdot editors 97% were unable to differentiate between news or a corporate press release. Successful identification dropped to 0% if either Google or a Microsoft competitor supplied the article. When asked about his editors incompetance Rob "Cmdr Taco" Malda explained "We just pick the articles with pretty colors, as we really don't have time for anything other than wacking of to pictures of Linus Torvolds and sending resume's and cover letters to Sergie Brin"
a ground for the saw and insulating gloves are unnecessary, use both hands on the saw, and don't brace with your knees or anthing else. Most electricians that I know work on live wires without gloves at all, but they always keep a hand in their pocket.
Google just made a $600 mil profit for the first quarter (and their IPO single handedly held the massively overpriced Bay Area real estate market aloft and priced more up and coming artists out of San Francisco). Yet nearly 100% of artists struggle to make a buck. next time you think about evil copyright holders thing about that. You can say that the artist is dead and has been for 2 decades, so the continued copyright can not "promote arts", however the length of the copyright increases the value of the art in the artist's lifetime. By degrading this copyright, implicitly future copyrights are degraded.
First of all Alexa is no longer included in IE, secondly Alexa IE sidebar only contacted Alexa when a user selected show related links from the tools menu, and only for that single url that was in the urlbar at the moment it was selected. Somehow people (AdAware for instance) believed that removing that functionality and replacing it with something that sends identical data to another, much large company, google, is better. Notice that google now distributes AdAware in the google pack which also include google's tracking toolbar. How anyone trusts any of these guys is amazing.
I bet you are a-ok with firefox automagically redirecting you to google if a host isn't found. (which happens all the time for legitimate hosts if DNS is momentarily inaccessible)
I think you are wrong, the older mail systems, hotmail, and yahoo mail were created at a time when drive space was much more expensive and thus likely created cleanup routines. (also a reason that gmail doesn't really have a space limit) Google could have done this, and they certainly implied that they would when they responded to criticism and enabled the "delete" feature. (of course their fine print tells us that this "delete" is a true sham). All of this casts even more doubt on google's priorities as it wouldn't have been that hard to create cleanup tasks.
Click on "your account", "communications preferences", login and select receive no e-mail on the right side of the screen. Anything else you get is either transaction email (you bought something) or a phishing attempt.
Rick Prelinger's archive was donated to the Library of Congress in 2002. They may have asked google to help host this, but as usual google doesn't care about anything they can't get tons of press from, so hosting something that has been around for a while doesn't suit their needs.
Mechanicals are not paid for the sound recording, but to the songwriter. I don't know what the status in England is for a mechanical, but in the US the songwriter currently gets about a dime for every copy of a song that they wrote that is sold. Thus is someone cover's "She Love's You" McCartney gets a nickel as does Yoko.
The median play length of new releases have increased since the CD became the standard media. As well the lifetime of the actual disc has increased (a CD skip is much more annoying than a record skip) as pressed CDs don't actually wear out as a tape or vinyl record played with a non-laser stylus. When Tape/Albums where the format of choice we were stuck at just over 45 minutes as the standard. Now with CD's most new releases generally are longer than 50 minutes. Thus the price/minute skews this reduction of cost even further. You can say that there is now more filler, but there is no economic incentive for the record company to release filler, as they have to pay the Mechanical (songwriter's) royalty, which is paid on every track on every disc sold (it does not have to recoup any costs)
It would also be a pyrrhic victory for google to put all content creators out of business. It isn't greed to want want enough money to pay your bills and employees.
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That was Danny Hillis, who went on to found "Thinking Machines", which spawned WAIS, the first real internet search engine. Now Hillis' big thing is the Clock of the Long Now
IIRC This was in response to a situation where someone was suing HA, the plaintiff's law firm hammered archive.org and was able to get some of the pages that they were interested in. At which time HA sued the archive for copyright infringement because they changed their robots.txt to prevent the information from getting to the plaintiff's attorneys. The problem with this whole thing is that adding the robots file after the lawsuit is akin to destroying evidence during a trial and they should have been found in contempt of court. Them expecting the archive to delete the data is unlikely as unless they are serving the data there is no copyright violation. I don't see why the plaintiff's lawyer didn't serve the archive with a subpeona for the information like gmail users have had their "deleted" email subpeona'd
desktop.com
It's sort of funny to compare the comments of one type of white collar crime to another. Portrait of Scammer is still on the front page. yet very few here notice any sort of parallels.
Another couple uncredible answers are...
artists are funded by some sort of tax on broadband/media/... as soon as that happens, some politician from florida/kansas/wisconsin gets up and wonders why we should be paying 2 Live Crew, or some other wildly popular but controvesial act.
musicians should be paid to perform, as thats where they make most of their money. There is a tier that that is true, a sort of midlevel tier that can sell out 1000 seat venues 100 nights a year, but there are many more acts below that level, that will sell 10,000 records (and since they write the songs and generally dropped their own coin to record it) actually will make 20k off those sorts of sales, but can only get 400 seat venues 50 nights a year. Without record sales at these show they are lucky if that sort of tour pays as much as a counter job at 7-11, but hey you get free beer and an 2 inch article in Spin.
The songwriter (the one with the publishing rights) gets at least $0.085 for every track sold (statutory mechanical royalty). The performers generally split another 6-12 points after the recording/promotional costs are recouped.
While google is low bandwidth/page view. At the local ISP level they most likely make up a single percent or more of the entire traffic since so many of their users are hitting them.
On EVERY SONG SOLD an artist (The songwriter) is paid at least the mechanical which is something like 9.5. So while the PERFROMER may only get a nickle, the songwriter (or whoever the songwriter sold the rights to) gets a dime.
Bruce Perens warned us all this would happen 6 years ago in his "Napster Hurts Free Software" essay.
It probably wouldn't be that hard to write a content policy component that simply compares that domain of the referer and the script and refuse those that don't cut your mustard (about 30 lines of javascript)
In a test of slashdot editors 97% were unable to differentiate between news or a corporate press release. Successful identification dropped to 0% if either Google or a Microsoft competitor supplied the article. When asked about his editors incompetance Rob "Cmdr Taco" Malda explained "We just pick the articles with pretty colors, as we really don't have time for anything other than wacking of to pictures of Linus Torvolds and sending resume's and cover letters to Sergie Brin"
a ground for the saw and insulating gloves are unnecessary, use both hands on the saw, and don't brace with your knees or anthing else. Most electricians that I know work on live wires without gloves at all, but they always keep a hand in their pocket.
Google just made a $600 mil profit for the first quarter (and their IPO single handedly held the massively overpriced Bay Area real estate market aloft and priced more up and coming artists out of San Francisco). Yet nearly 100% of artists struggle to make a buck. next time you think about evil copyright holders thing about that. You can say that the artist is dead and has been for 2 decades, so the continued copyright can not "promote arts", however the length of the copyright increases the value of the art in the artist's lifetime. By degrading this copyright, implicitly future copyrights are degraded.
That human populations are more destructive to the enviroment than nuclear waste which keeps the people away.
First of all Alexa is no longer included in IE, secondly Alexa IE sidebar only contacted Alexa when a user selected show related links from the tools menu, and only for that single url that was in the urlbar at the moment it was selected. Somehow people (AdAware for instance) believed that removing that functionality and replacing it with something that sends identical data to another, much large company, google, is better. Notice that google now distributes AdAware in the google pack which also include google's tracking toolbar. How anyone trusts any of these guys is amazing.
I bet you are a-ok with firefox automagically redirecting you to google if a host isn't found. (which happens all the time for legitimate hosts if DNS is momentarily inaccessible)
Try using clusty, (awful name,great search) as they take care of the reformulation for you.
I think you are wrong,
the older mail systems, hotmail, and yahoo mail were created at a time when drive space was much more expensive and thus likely created cleanup routines. (also a reason that gmail doesn't really have a space limit) Google could have done this, and they certainly implied that they would when they responded to criticism and enabled the "delete" feature. (of course their fine print tells us that this "delete" is a true sham). All of this casts even more doubt on google's priorities as it wouldn't have been that hard to create cleanup tasks.
Click on "your account", "communications preferences", login and select receive no e-mail on the right side of the screen. Anything else you get is either transaction email (you bought something) or a phishing attempt.
This is sort of thing that slashdotters take a gospel. If it is a joke, good one.
Where did you get that information.
Rick Prelinger's archive was donated to the Library of Congress in 2002. They may have asked google to help host this, but as usual google doesn't care about anything they can't get tons of press from, so hosting something that has been around for a while doesn't suit their needs.
Mechanicals are not paid for the sound recording, but to the songwriter. I don't know what the status in England is for a mechanical, but in the US the songwriter currently gets about a dime for every copy of a song that they wrote that is sold. Thus is someone cover's "She Love's You" McCartney gets a nickel as does Yoko.
The median play length of new releases have increased since the CD became the standard media. As well the lifetime of the actual disc has increased (a CD skip is much more annoying than a record skip) as pressed CDs don't actually wear out as a tape or vinyl record played with a non-laser stylus. When Tape/Albums where the format of choice we were stuck at just over 45 minutes as the standard. Now with CD's most new releases generally are longer than 50 minutes. Thus the price/minute skews this reduction of cost even further. You can say that there is now more filler, but there is no economic incentive for the record company to release filler, as they have to pay the Mechanical (songwriter's) royalty, which is paid on every track on every disc sold (it does not have to recoup any costs)
It would also be a pyrrhic victory for google to put all content creators out of business. It isn't greed to want want enough money to pay your bills and employees.
If it was at some convention type space there is a good chance that the venue has a ASCAP and BMI license.