Say secondspin.com [secondspin.com] which is an online used cd/dvd store. Just bought a disc there for a 1.99 that is out of print. Even counting in S&H I got music for half the price of iTunes.
I second the mention of SecondSpin. I've bouth all my RIAA label CDs used since the Napster suit, including dozens from SecondSpin. Good prices, reasonable and fast shipping, not to mention that warm, fuzzy feeling of being legal without having given the RIAA one red cent. (No affiliation except as a satisfied customer.)
I never thought of a splash screen as "in-game," but you have a point. Were it a 1 minute spot for Malboro or Coca Cola, I'd certainly draw the line there.
should be required to be disclosed in a standard manner on the outside of the packaging. Products that require registration or "activation" to run after purchase like TurboTax (last year's--don't know about this year's since I switched to TaxCut) and PowerQuest's recent utilities should be required to carry this disclosure in a standard, readable, consistent format.
If anyone cries that this would be like a scarlet letter and harm his sales, remind him that proponents of DRM (while wielding effective monopolies in their product areas) were saying to "let the market sort it out." Free markets require good information, which such a law will provide.
Point me to that "wider propagation" of the Windows 2000 and NT4 source code. Don't forget to cull out the fakes set by the black helicopter brigade (Cyveillance, BayTSP, et al) to entrap would-be downloaders.
But the company, though offshore, is run by a U.S. citizen, right? Call me paranoid, but unless this guy moves overseas, this ISP is vulnerable. Also, Vanatu is a small country, and Sealand's status as a country is only at the tacit sufferance of the United Kingdom--if either had information wanted by either of those governments, diplomatic or even military threats could be made. And all that's ruling out the possibility that the whole thing is a honeypot (a la Safeweb awhile back) to see just what it is people seem to want anonymity for.
I would love to see encryption and anonymity thrive, but I doubt seriously that it will be allowed to become commonplace for U.S. citizens.
DMCA-wielding jackbooted thugs hijack an open source protocol for their business ends. Guess it's a good thing they didn't think anyone was sharing copies of Whorecraft using Bittorrent, or they would have shut them down like they did another open source project, bnetd.
Pretty cool. I do a bit of stuff on the side and charge $40/hr, but have a day job. If things changed, doing that sort of thing would be something to consider. Of course, if every other person who can fix a PC considers it at the same time, that could be a problem.
The only problem is that no one is going to want to pay Verisign, Microsoft, or whoever the trust root would end up being in this scheme to send email.
Somebody mod this up. I wish everyone were like this person, rather than the sheep who obsequiously stop for the rent-a-cop or clerk if the alarm goes off on the way out of the store. Hell, they'd strip search customers on the way out if they thought they could get away with it.
But patents at least expire. Copyrights these days are perpertual, thanks to Sonny Bono. Thank goodness for that tree, or who knows what worse intellectual "property" laws he would have sold to his buddies in Hollywood.
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I second the mention of SecondSpin. I've bouth all my RIAA label CDs used since the Napster suit, including dozens from SecondSpin. Good prices, reasonable and fast shipping, not to mention that warm, fuzzy feeling of being legal without having given the RIAA one red cent. (No affiliation except as a satisfied customer.)
You can see that now. Go to your record store and buy a CD. Unless it
- Costs the same or less as a CD
- Lets me do everything I can with a redbook CD
I ain't buyin'.I never thought of a splash screen as "in-game," but you have a point. Were it a 1 minute spot for Malboro or Coca Cola, I'd certainly draw the line there.
If anyone cries that this would be like a scarlet letter and harm his sales, remind him that proponents of DRM (while wielding effective monopolies in their product areas) were saying to "let the market sort it out." Free markets require good information, which such a law will provide.
I like that directory name. I had been using "suppressed."
Point me to that "wider propagation" of the Windows 2000 and NT4 source code. Don't forget to cull out the fakes set by the black helicopter brigade (Cyveillance, BayTSP, et al) to entrap would-be downloaders.
What property are you talking about? Did Apple write the program that they're DMCAing?
the game should be free. I will not knowingly pay money for software that contains ads. Neither should anyone else.
OpenOffice.org has "Export as PDF" right on the File menu. HTH.
Hmph. I thought Patrick Leahy and Orin Hatch were the paid thugs.
I would love to see encryption and anonymity thrive, but I doubt seriously that it will be allowed to become commonplace for U.S. citizens.
With all the pressure on ISPs, doesn't it make you wonder how an ISP promising terrorist/pedophile grade anonymity can survive? You do the math.
DMCA-wielding jackbooted thugs hijack an open source protocol for their business ends. Guess it's a good thing they didn't think anyone was sharing copies of Whorecraft using Bittorrent, or they would have shut them down like they did another open source project, bnetd.
Pretty cool. I do a bit of stuff on the side and charge $40/hr, but have a day job. If things changed, doing that sort of thing would be something to consider. Of course, if every other person who can fix a PC considers it at the same time, that could be a problem.
Did you do fairly well at those rates even with self-employment taxes, paying an accountant, a business license, and all that mess?
Not to have an answer for everything, but they don't take up much space at all in binders, where they're stored vertically.
Takes no time at all.
That's because (as mentioned in the linked article) it's an inferior ripoff of SPF.
The only problem is that no one is going to want to pay Verisign, Microsoft, or whoever the trust root would end up being in this scheme to send email.
But if I lose a CD, I've lost about 700 MB. If a 400 GB drive goes TU, I lose it all.
That ad struck me like a satanic poster hanging over the crucifix in church.
Somebody mod this up. I wish everyone were like this person, rather than the sheep who obsequiously stop for the rent-a-cop or clerk if the alarm goes off on the way out of the store. Hell, they'd strip search customers on the way out if they thought they could get away with it.
But patents at least expire. Copyrights these days are perpertual, thanks to Sonny Bono. Thank goodness for that tree, or who knows what worse intellectual "property" laws he would have sold to his buddies in Hollywood.
Nice one! Remind me not to piss you off :).
I agree that he should go to prison. But not under a "cyberterrorism" provision.