This is a bigger story than it appears to be on its face. Carly "The Hatchet" Fiorina is trying to deny credit for the any key to its inventor, Milton Crane, the former head of Typewriters International of Toledo. Read all about that. If you think "press any key to continue" means any key on the keyboard, try pressing esc when you see it. Here is more about Carly.
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Here's an explanation even your girlfriend will understand. Aliens took out Telstar 4, just like they did to CONTOUR.
Yes, used CDs are good. The RIAA and affiliated labels get nothing from them, as royalties were paid the first time. This is called the first sale principle. When the original owner bought the CD, it became his or her personal property to resel. As no new copy was made, copyright was not involved in the transaction. The RIAA, and pretentious entertainers like Garth Brooks want to abolish the first sale principle, and grab ill-gotten booty from used CD sales. To hell with them! Other than used ones, don't buy CDs.
Yes indeeed! Taking $2000 from a single mother with two children to feed takes food, clothing and shelter from them. Brianna and her little brother will have to go hungry, or possibly cold at night for a while so Cary Sherman can have some fine Columbian snow to snort! Now, more than ever, don't buy CDs.
If it won't play, it's a lemon! That's what groups like dontbuycds.org have been saying all along. It is great that some courts around the world are starting to get it.
Price cutting worked in the U.K. Millions of people want tangible things that a download just can't provide, and will buy them when the price is fair, but nobody likes to be ripped off.
This price drop is one of the major things dontbuycds.org and other anti-RIAA groups have been demanding all along. Now, hopefully all the labels will follow Universal's lead. They also need to stop making "copy protected" CDs that often won't play at all, and need to stop harassing file traders.
Yes, I read his works like anyone who went to school, and saw a few of them performed, but most people are unaware that wherefore means why. It is an archaic term that is not commonly used. By the way, before getting up on the cultural high horse, how about a spell check? It's Shakespeare, not Shakespear. Who is the shit-kicker now?
Familiarity with archaic forms of English that no one uses any more is only basic literacy to you? The vast majority of English speakers are illiterate by that standard. Are you a college professor?
The Australian courts have done something good. Let's not look a gift horse in the mouth. Australian consumers can really punish Warner and Universal by not buying their CDs. That could amount to a great deal more than chump change in lost sales.
Maybe we shouldn't be snooping around at Mars. According to former NASA employee, and Mars expert Harvey Kurtz, The Martians really don't like it! Read more, and more, and more and more still!
There is an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." We certainly are living in interesting times. It seems that we, as a society are fighting to renegotiate the copyright bargain. An idea, once publicly expressed is in the public domain. We have already lost some control by expressing it. No matter how seriously we mean an idea we express, others can laugh it off. We can make a flippant remark hoping to get a laugh, and instead cause offense. In spite of these things, It benefits society as a whole when artists, inventors, and other people with ideas are given an incentive to share their ideas, rather than keep them secret. In a perfect world, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Endowment for Science could provide enough incentive, but that isn't practical. Instead, we have copyright law, patent law, and trademark law.
Advocates of the free flow of ideas detest these things, especially since the term of copyright has been extended 11 times in 40 years, and only a few huge corporations like Disney have benefited. People who dislike copyright fall into two camps: those who view it as a necessary evil, and those who see it as an abomination that defeats the purpose of communication.
I am in the former camp, not the latter, but DRM makes me so angry, that I often seem to be in the second camp. For a long time, hearing about these issues made me angry, but I did nothing substantive about it. Personal experience motivated me to act. The final straw that made me start dontbuycds.org was a karaoke disc published by Sound Choice. Headbangers Hits Volume X. The disc cost over thirty dollars. It had the Compact disc digital audio logo, but was encoded with Suncomm's Mediacloq brand of DRM. My computer was my player, and I used it to rehearse before going out to shows. I personally purchase hard rock and metal, because the DJs usually only have country. I could not use the disc without going and buying a dedicated player that was not computer based! Some are, so the cheapest one at Wal-mart might not work.
To top it all off, Karaoke discs were never being ripped, and offered on Napster. File trading was no threat to them. The joke of it all is that the disc would copy in a dedicated copier, and real piracy, i.e. counterfeiting, was the only kind they had to worry about.
Sound Choice took a lot of lumps over using Mediacloq, or as critics call it, Mediaclog. Some tolerated it because their discs, although expensive, contain the best background music, and most easily readable on-screen lyrics in the industry. Others abandoned Sound Choice, and have not gone back. The backlash eventually convinced them to stop using Mediacloq, and after a while, they did re-release my disc in a non-DRM format, and replace it, but forgiving and forgetting is hard. I have still not purchased any more of their discs. Ironically, many other publishers are selling downloads for computer based karaoke machines like the CAVS JB 99 digital jukebox. With it, a DJ doesn't have to lug around large, heavy quantities of CD media, or worry about getting them scratched up, or beer spilled on them. His whole songbook is on a hard drive in the player.
Back to DRM. If publishers are going to use it, it had better be completely undetectable, or people like me will go off. This has never been technologically feasible, and I suspect it never will be. I could go on forever, but most of what I would say is on the site somewhere. By the way, the external links page lists many legitimate non-riaa music sources. Have you tried offering your music there?
Permanent human colonies on the moon? We like to think of it as our moon, but the Zhti Ti Kofft already have a base there. We are not powerful enough to force them off, and probably won't be in 20 years either. There is just no way they want to peacefully co-exist with us. After all they invaded during the balckout.
You can resell a CD without paying more royalties under the first sale principle. When you buy a new CD, royalties are paid. The reuirements of the law have been met. It becomes your personal property to resell. Doing so does not create another copy of the work, so copyright, i.e. the right to copy has not been touched upon.
The RIAA is trying to kill the first sale principle so they can collect royalties each time a CD is resold. They have enlisted Garth Brooks as a high profile spokesman for this unholy crusade. To him, I say, "Sorry Garth, that would be giving you and the label way too much control. You are not being robbed because you were paid the first time. Get over yourself, you pretentious twit!"
To the grammar nazis: Sorry about that typo. I know it should be a business, not an. I was going to write "industry" then changed it to "business". I forgot to preview first.
If an business is treating customers poorly, they should not reward it with continued patronage, but should withhold such patronage. The customer is always right. Boycotting is the oldest, and most reliable way to force bad businesses to reform, or perish. If you love Hollywood and the recording industry's products so much that you are willing to endure being presumed a thief, and overcharged outrageously, Expect them to continue presuming you a thief, and overcharging you forever. Trying to make them stop being so greedy through appeasement is the truly counter-productive thing to do.
"Allah Ackbar! Earthstation 5 declares Jihad against the evil infidels of the MPAA and RIAA. May their souls roast in the pit of hell! We call on all file sharers to join the Intifada. Death to Hollywood! AHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAH!!!"
Is this the cyberterrorism the talking heads on the idiot box have gone on and on about?
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This is a bigger story than it appears to be on its face. Carly "The Hatchet" Fiorina is trying to deny credit for the any key to its inventor, Milton Crane, the former head of Typewriters International of Toledo. Read all about that. If you think "press any key to continue" means any key on the keyboard, try pressing esc when you see it. Here is more about Carly.
Here's an explanation even your girlfriend will understand. Aliens took out Telstar 4, just like they did to CONTOUR.
Yes, used CDs are good. The RIAA and affiliated labels get nothing from them, as royalties were paid the first time. This is called the first sale principle. When the original owner bought the CD, it became his or her personal property to resel. As no new copy was made, copyright was not involved in the transaction. The RIAA, and pretentious entertainers like Garth Brooks want to abolish the first sale principle, and grab ill-gotten booty from used CD sales. To hell with them! Other than used ones, don't buy CDs.
The Space Elevator seems about as plausible as the X-4000 Launch Aparatus.
It wasn't the Canadians or the U.S. The Martians turned out the power to hide their invasion! Read more.
Yes indeeed! Taking $2000 from a single mother with two children to feed takes food, clothing and shelter from them. Brianna and her little brother will have to go hungry, or possibly cold at night for a while so Cary Sherman can have some fine Columbian snow to snort! Now, more than ever, don't buy CDs.
Here is another story with some choice quotes from Cary Sherman. Now more than ever, don't buy CDs.
If it won't play, it's a lemon! That's what groups like dontbuycds.org have been saying all along. It is great that some courts around the world are starting to get it.
This price drop is one of the major things dontbuycds.org and other anti-RIAA groups have been demanding all along. Now, hopefully all the labels will follow Universal's lead. They also need to stop making "copy protected" CDs that often won't play at all, and need to stop harassing file traders.
But as soon as it is built and tested, the space plane will be hurled skyward with the X-4000 Launch Aparatus.
That all your base meme got so big that it spread beyond earth. The aliens who blew up CONTOUR used it.
Yes, I read his works like anyone who went to school, and saw a few of them performed, but most people are unaware that wherefore means why. It is an archaic term that is not commonly used. By the way, before getting up on the cultural high horse, how about a spell check? It's Shakespeare, not Shakespear. Who is the shit-kicker now?
Yes it does sound like homeopathy, which is snake oil, so if any of their "data" comes from the homeopathy industry, it isn't data at all.
Familiarity with archaic forms of English that no one uses any more is only basic literacy to you? The vast majority of English speakers are illiterate by that standard. Are you a college professor?
It would be a good thing if they sent Lance Bass into space using the X-4000 Launch Aparatus. I would pay to see it!
Did Graham Hancock interview Harvey Kurtz? He used to work at NASA, and makes some really sensational claims. Check it out.
Martians Shot Down NASA Probe.
Mars Polar Lander Lost: See, The Uncoveror Told You So.
Why Mars Will Never Be Colonized
Power Outage Hid Martian Invasion
Get out your tinfoil hats!
What defines a "humanoid robot"? Maybe we should ask William Smythe. If anyone can talk about that at length, he can.
The Australian courts have done something good. Let's not look a gift horse in the mouth. Australian consumers can really punish Warner and Universal by not buying their CDs. That could amount to a great deal more than chump change in lost sales.
Maybe we shouldn't be snooping around at Mars. According to former NASA employee, and Mars expert Harvey Kurtz, The Martians really don't like it!
Read more,
and more,
and more
and more still!
Advocates of the free flow of ideas detest these things, especially since the term of copyright has been extended 11 times in 40 years, and only a few huge corporations like Disney have benefited. People who dislike copyright fall into two camps: those who view it as a necessary evil, and those who see it as an abomination that defeats the purpose of communication.
I am in the former camp, not the latter, but DRM makes me so angry, that I often seem to be in the second camp. For a long time, hearing about these issues made me angry, but I did nothing substantive about it. Personal experience motivated me to act. The final straw that made me start dontbuycds.org was a karaoke disc published by Sound Choice. Headbangers Hits Volume X. The disc cost over thirty dollars. It had the Compact disc digital audio logo, but was encoded with Suncomm's Mediacloq brand of DRM. My computer was my player, and I used it to rehearse before going out to shows. I personally purchase hard rock and metal, because the DJs usually only have country. I could not use the disc without going and buying a dedicated player that was not computer based! Some are, so the cheapest one at Wal-mart might not work.
To top it all off, Karaoke discs were never being ripped, and offered on Napster. File trading was no threat to them. The joke of it all is that the disc would copy in a dedicated copier, and real piracy, i.e. counterfeiting, was the only kind they had to worry about.
Sound Choice took a lot of lumps over using Mediacloq, or as critics call it, Mediaclog. Some tolerated it because their discs, although expensive, contain the best background music, and most easily readable on-screen lyrics in the industry. Others abandoned Sound Choice, and have not gone back. The backlash eventually convinced them to stop using Mediacloq, and after a while, they did re-release my disc in a non-DRM format, and replace it, but forgiving and forgetting is hard. I have still not purchased any more of their discs. Ironically, many other publishers are selling downloads for computer based karaoke machines like the CAVS JB 99 digital jukebox. With it, a DJ doesn't have to lug around large, heavy quantities of CD media, or worry about getting them scratched up, or beer spilled on them. His whole songbook is on a hard drive in the player.
Back to DRM. If publishers are going to use it, it had better be completely undetectable, or people like me will go off. This has never been technologically feasible, and I suspect it never will be. I could go on forever, but most of what I would say is on the site somewhere. By the way, the external links page lists many legitimate non-riaa music sources. Have you tried offering your music there?
Permanent human colonies on the moon? We like to think of it as our moon, but the Zhti Ti Kofft already have a base there. We are not powerful enough to force them off, and probably won't be in 20 years either. There is just no way they want to peacefully co-exist with us. After all they invaded during the balckout.
The RIAA is trying to kill the first sale principle so they can collect royalties each time a CD is resold. They have enlisted Garth Brooks as a high profile spokesman for this unholy crusade. To him, I say, "Sorry Garth, that would be giving you and the label way too much control. You are not being robbed because you were paid the first time. Get over yourself, you pretentious twit!"
To the grammar nazis: Sorry about that typo. I know it should be a business, not an. I was going to write "industry" then changed it to "business". I forgot to preview first.
If an business is treating customers poorly, they should not reward it with continued patronage, but should withhold such patronage. The customer is always right. Boycotting is the oldest, and most reliable way to force bad businesses to reform, or perish. If you love Hollywood and the recording industry's products so much that you are willing to endure being presumed a thief, and overcharged outrageously, Expect them to continue presuming you a thief, and overcharging you forever. Trying to make them stop being so greedy through appeasement is the truly counter-productive thing to do.
Is this the cyberterrorism the talking heads on the idiot box have gone on and on about?