Considering the actions of Bush, Cheney Ashcroft, and their supporters, it seems that the religious right literally want to bring about the end of the world, as if they think this will force the second coming, and they will personally get to meet Jesus. They are as dangerous to the future of all humanity as Osama Bin Laden with nukes. Religion is going to be humanity's undoing.
This bill, if made law, would re-affirm what copyright infringement is. Anauthorized copying for a profit, such as counterfieting movies and music. It is about time legislators did something for the public, and not just greedy corporations who bribe them Bravo!
Tasteless and cruel are inadequate words to describe a crank call under these circumstances. Howard Stern, and his whole posse of malcontents should permanently be banned from the airwaves. I believe the FCC has the authority to do that. If not, their employers could at least fire them.
You could get real M-80s in Tennessee in the '70s. Now, they are banned by federal law. What they call M-80s today at fireworks dealers are no more potent than a regular firecracker. You can occaisionally find real ones some pyro made at home to blow your arm off with. Maybe your famous last words can be, "hey guys, Watch this" too! Read more
All the older repair technician I work with have been several places over the years do to layoffs and closings. It is such a fly-by-night racket that I don't think a lifelong career in the same place is possible. Most of us will "retire" when we are laid off, or the company goes under and can't find another job because this industry only wants kids fresh out of college, not oldsters.
Lawyers and insurance companies have set a bad example that has inspired organized crime to create a whole new racket, Prepaid Illegal Services. Check it out!
DMCA, Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
Read More
http://anti-dmca.org/
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Elcomsoft/
It isn't just in the US anymore. The corporations have bribed, and continue to bribe many countries into passsing similar laws.
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It should be noted that Napster made good faith efforts to reach a licencing agreement with the RIAA and the labels much like the ones radio, jukeboxes, DJs and nightclubs have with ASCAP and BMI. Hilary Rosen et al refused to negotiate with them, and refuses to negotiate with Kazaa. Sharman Networks has a valid point.
In the eighties, when I was in high school most of my friends had dozens of home tapes. So did I. That was a low-tech Napster, and was free promotion. When my friends and I did have money that wasn't spoken for, however, we did buy music. I got exposed to all my favorite artists through home tapes, but eventually did purchase hundreds of titles on LP, CD, and cassette. They offered me tangible things like artwork and lyrics that home tapes did not. Digital quality has not changed this.
Quality was a non-issue. Tapes were good enough. Most of us bought the cheap iron oxide tapes, not the expensive chromium oxide or metal tapes. The pricey ones sounded as good as CD, and iron oxide did not, but so what? We werent listening to symphonies, just rock, rap, and sometimes country. MP3s, contrary to popular belief, are not 100% as good as the original. There will always be people trying before they buy, but then wanting tangible things. Content providers will be able to sell them, and be profitable if they are reasonable. They need to remember that kids, their target audience, are not rich as kings.
Maybe your friend won't start buying once he has more disposable income, but most people eventually will buy once they discover what they like. The files on your friend's hard drive are intangible, and he may eventually want something more substantive, especially since a hard drive crash destroys them all.
"Piracy" is free promotion. That is not a red herring. Even with perfect copies, downloaded MP3s and burned CDs are just home tapes.
So, six major retailers are forming a joint venture. That could be read as six major retailers have decided to collude, not compete. That is called a trust, and it is illegal if they are doing it to fix prices. I am very suspicious of this. Online or in a store, I will not buy CDs. The recording industry doesn't deserve my business.
Yes, going back to the original 1790 copyright law would be the best thing that legislators could do for the public good. Abolishing fair use to give the law sharper teeth, however, through laws like Fritz Hollings' CBDTPA, or Berman and Coble's hacking bill would be the worst thing that could happen. It would harm the public good even worse than perpetual copyright. I wonder if legislators have considered that without the fair use principle, there would be no such thing as a public library. Libraries let people use copyrighted materials without paying. Already, it is impossible to create an online public library that contains works created after 1923.
That being said, positive copyright reform is unlikely to ever happen, as the public domain has no billionaires to bribe legislators on its behalf.
"Piracy" is a paper tiger. Home taping never killed the recording industry. The photocopier did not kill the publishing industry. The VCR did not kill Hollywood. Content providers are running scared from file trading because it is a new technology. They have done the same every time a new medium has been invented. Each new medium they claimed would be the death of them actually turned out to be a boon.
Outrageous copyright lengths should be taken away from copyright holders, but they deserve nothing in return. They have robbed the public domain far too long.
Kazaa could go "legitimate" by sending some of what they charge advertisers to copyright holders just as radio, jukebox companies and DJs do through ASCAP and BMI licencing. They do not need to charge end users. Radio doesn't. Many consider file trading to be the modern version of calling requests into a radio station, and this station always plays our requests, unlike Clear Channel. Napster tried in good faith to make just such a deal, and the recording industry would not even talk to them. Now that the recording industry and file trading community view each other as mortal enemies, truce may nolonger be possible. If this is so, then the recording industry is trying to sell horses and buggies, but file traders have invented the automobile. The recording industry will perish.
Not only do they charge 20 bucks, but if you use a computer as your CD player, fewer of them even will play. The recording industry doesn't deserve our business.
While her successor may be no better than Hilary Rosen, I imagine even they are glad to see her go. They don't all believe that piracy is why sales are down. They won't say it, but many in the recording industry blame Hilary for their woes. Everyone needs to continue to boycott the recording industry. We are winning this fight! Hilary Rosen has surrendered.
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F'd Companies
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If F'd Company has taught us anything, It has taught us that greed for greed's own sake is not a business model. Profit is the result of providing a valuable product or service that the public wants at a fair price. If profit is the only goal, your business will fail.
While F'd Company may not necessarily be a chronicle of capitalism's failure as an economic theory, it is a chronicle of capitalism's falsehood as a religion. The seven deadly sins do not become the seven cardinal virtues just because you are in business. The people at the top all the failed dot coms, Enron, Worldcom, et al thought they do. It is just to bad the millions who used to work for them got F'd, and most of the CEOs, CFOs, and other big bosses still got rich.
I got those deceptive mails for uncoveror.com, and dontbuycds.org myself, but I stayed with Godaddy. In fact, I got a postcard from godaddy warning me they were a scam before I got the deceptive expiration notices.
Now that Microsoft is in bed with the entertainment cartels,(weren't they always?) we have yet another reason to use non-microsoft software like Linux. Don't Buy CDs. Not with music on them, or Microsoft software.
Outside of the UK, or at least in the US, It is in the public domain. If it weren't the Gideons wouldn't be able to afford to put a copy in every hotel room in the US.
The legality, not the morality, huh? The purpose of having laws in the first place is to codify the difference between right and wrong so that wrong can be punished, and right rewarded. You seem to be unclear about the concept of justice. It is the very reason we have courts. Since we can't read their minds, no one who can prove that the seven justices did or didn't prejudge this case based on a pro-business bias, or a quasi-religious belief that the very idea of the public domain is a communist plot, but we can suspect these things.
If the Supreme Court is an institution you worship, and I have just blashpemed your religion, tough shit! Develop thicker skin. I will persist in my blasphemy. The decision that the seven justices made is completely wrong on many levels.
By the way, what do you mean by damming evidence? Enough to block the path of a river? Now that would be a lot of evidence! Or did you mean damning evidence? If I could read minds, maybe I could produce that for you. Too bad mind reading is pure fantasy.
I predict that they will cut production by at least 6% to insure their predicted decline happens, and will then whine to Congress even more about "piracy." Consolidation of the labels is the reason all they release is crap. If there were hundreds of small labels, not five, and soon to be four masssive corporate labels, there would be a lot more music to choose from at the record stores, and at prices people other than suckers would be willing to pay. Until the corporate leeches get out of the music industry, and musicians and music lovers take it back, don't buy CDs.
You will just scoff at these links, but here they are. You didn't think so? Think again.
http://www.bushneverwonflorida.com/
http://www.9types.com/wwwboard/messages/23616.html
http://www.gorewon2000.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4 109842,00.html
I could provide dozens more, but I will let other posters do that.
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Considering the actions of Bush, Cheney Ashcroft, and their supporters, it seems that the religious right literally want to bring about the end of the world, as if they think this will force the second coming, and they will personally get to meet Jesus. They are as dangerous to the future of all humanity as Osama Bin Laden with nukes. Religion is going to be humanity's undoing.
Who needs faked news when you can have The Real News?
Oops! A typo! That should be unauthorized, not Anauthorized.
This bill, if made law, would re-affirm what copyright infringement is. Anauthorized copying for a profit, such as counterfieting movies and music. It is about time legislators did something for the public, and not just greedy corporations who bribe them Bravo!
Tasteless and cruel are inadequate words to describe a crank call under these circumstances. Howard Stern, and his whole posse of malcontents should permanently be banned from the airwaves. I believe the FCC has the authority to do that. If not, their employers could at least fire them.
Read more
http://www.geocities.com/madog555/salutes.htmll ute.html
http://www.angelfire.com/on/pyrotechnicalities/sa
http://www.theinformationcenter.com/39.htm
http://www.pyro-pages.com/Info/FAQ/faq5.htm
All the older repair technician I work with have been several places over the years do to layoffs and closings. It is such a fly-by-night racket that I don't think a lifelong career in the same place is possible. Most of us will "retire" when we are laid off, or the company goes under and can't find another job because this industry only wants kids fresh out of college, not oldsters.
Republic is not a synomym for oligarchy.
Lawyers and insurance companies have set a bad example that has inspired organized crime to create a whole new racket, Prepaid Illegal Services. Check it out!
DMCA, Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Read More
http://anti-dmca.org/
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Elcomsoft/
It isn't just in the US anymore. The corporations have bribed, and continue to bribe many countries into passsing similar laws.
It should be noted that Napster made good faith efforts to reach a licencing agreement with the RIAA and the labels much like the ones radio, jukeboxes, DJs and nightclubs have with ASCAP and BMI. Hilary Rosen et al refused to negotiate with them, and refuses to negotiate with Kazaa. Sharman Networks has a valid point.
Quality was a non-issue. Tapes were good enough. Most of us bought the cheap iron oxide tapes, not the expensive chromium oxide or metal tapes. The pricey ones sounded as good as CD, and iron oxide did not, but so what? We werent listening to symphonies, just rock, rap, and sometimes country. MP3s, contrary to popular belief, are not 100% as good as the original. There will always be people trying before they buy, but then wanting tangible things. Content providers will be able to sell them, and be profitable if they are reasonable. They need to remember that kids, their target audience, are not rich as kings.
Maybe your friend won't start buying once he has more disposable income, but most people eventually will buy once they discover what they like. The files on your friend's hard drive are intangible, and he may eventually want something more substantive, especially since a hard drive crash destroys them all.
"Piracy" is free promotion. That is not a red herring. Even with perfect copies, downloaded MP3s and burned CDs are just home tapes.
So, six major retailers are forming a joint venture. That could be read as six major retailers have decided to collude, not compete. That is called a trust, and it is illegal if they are doing it to fix prices. I am very suspicious of this. Online or in a store, I will not buy CDs. The recording industry doesn't deserve my business.
That being said, positive copyright reform is unlikely to ever happen, as the public domain has no billionaires to bribe legislators on its behalf.
"Piracy" is a paper tiger. Home taping never killed the recording industry. The photocopier did not kill the publishing industry. The VCR did not kill Hollywood. Content providers are running scared from file trading because it is a new technology. They have done the same every time a new medium has been invented. Each new medium they claimed would be the death of them actually turned out to be a boon.
Outrageous copyright lengths should be taken away from copyright holders, but they deserve nothing in return. They have robbed the public domain far too long.
Kazaa could go "legitimate" by sending some of what they charge advertisers to copyright holders just as radio, jukebox companies and DJs do through ASCAP and BMI licencing. They do not need to charge end users. Radio doesn't. Many consider file trading to be the modern version of calling requests into a radio station, and this station always plays our requests, unlike Clear Channel. Napster tried in good faith to make just such a deal, and the recording industry would not even talk to them. Now that the recording industry and file trading community view each other as mortal enemies, truce may nolonger be possible. If this is so, then the recording industry is trying to sell horses and buggies, but file traders have invented the automobile. The recording industry will perish.
Not only do they charge 20 bucks, but if you use a computer as your CD player, fewer of them even will play. The recording industry doesn't deserve our business.
While her successor may be no better than Hilary Rosen, I imagine even they are glad to see her go. They don't all believe that piracy is why sales are down. They won't say it, but many in the recording industry blame Hilary for their woes. Everyone needs to continue to boycott the recording industry. We are winning this fight! Hilary Rosen has surrendered.
If F'd Company has taught us anything, It has taught us that greed for greed's own sake is not a business model. Profit is the result of providing a valuable product or service that the public wants at a fair price. If profit is the only goal, your business will fail. While F'd Company may not necessarily be a chronicle of capitalism's failure as an economic theory, it is a chronicle of capitalism's falsehood as a religion. The seven deadly sins do not become the seven cardinal virtues just because you are in business. The people at the top all the failed dot coms, Enron, Worldcom, et al thought they do. It is just to bad the millions who used to work for them got F'd, and most of the CEOs, CFOs, and other big bosses still got rich.
According to insiders, It indeed will be based on BSD. Check it out!
I got those deceptive mails for uncoveror.com, and dontbuycds.org myself, but I stayed with Godaddy. In fact, I got a postcard from godaddy warning me they were a scam before I got the deceptive expiration notices.
Now that Microsoft is in bed with the entertainment cartels,(weren't they always?) we have yet another reason to use non-microsoft software like Linux. Don't Buy CDs. Not with music on them, or Microsoft software.
Outside of the UK, or at least in the US, It is in the public domain. If it weren't the Gideons wouldn't be able to afford to put a copy in every hotel room in the US.
If the Supreme Court is an institution you worship, and I have just blashpemed your religion, tough shit! Develop thicker skin. I will persist in my blasphemy. The decision that the seven justices made is completely wrong on many levels.
By the way, what do you mean by damming evidence? Enough to block the path of a river? Now that would be a lot of evidence! Or did you mean damning evidence? If I could read minds, maybe I could produce that for you. Too bad mind reading is pure fantasy.
I predict that they will cut production by at least 6% to insure their predicted decline happens, and will then whine to Congress even more about "piracy." Consolidation of the labels is the reason all they release is crap. If there were hundreds of small labels, not five, and soon to be four masssive corporate labels, there would be a lot more music to choose from at the record stores, and at prices people other than suckers would be willing to pay. Until the corporate leeches get out of the music industry, and musicians and music lovers take it back, don't buy CDs.
You will just scoff at these links, but here they are. You didn't think so? Think again. http://www.bushneverwonflorida.com/ http://www.9types.com/wwwboard/messages/23616.html
http://www.gorewon2000.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4 109842,00.html
I could provide dozens more, but I will let other posters do that.