Since nobody else has stepped in to say anything about this yet, I'd just like to say that was one of the dumbest things I've ever read, but still pretty funny, just maybe not funny in the way you thought it would be.
Keep up the good work!
considering the fact that most people use kazaa to illegally download music, which does (!) harm musicians, using your spare CPU-cycles and bandwidth to pay these guys isn't even that ridiculous.
You basically just confirmed the above with your post. By saying that legal uses of KaZaA aren't the mainstream you concede that most people who use this p2p network do it to trade copyrighted music, warez, etc. There are legitimate uses for this type of filesharing, but the general public could care less about that. Whether we care or not, the more people that download the music for free, the less people will be going out and buying it.
It isn't so unbelievable that a company that would help facilitate people stealing and trading copyrighted material would also turn around and screw over the users of their software by sneaking in a bunch of extra nonsense. Despite what this software *could* be used for, we all know what it *is* being used for 90% of the time.
Draw your own conclusions about whether sharing and stealing music and software is wrong. I'm not really against it, as I use it when it suits me as well. This was all really just to say that there was nothing wrong with that original post: stealing music "harms" musicians, or takes some money away from them, anyway (whether they need it or not), and no company is going help people do this without seizing an opportunity to make some more profit for themselves.
In short, you seemed to be arguing against this, but I didn't really see you make a point, or at the very least, prove it. Yeah, filesharing doesn't necessarily hurt the authors, but more often than not it either takes money away from them or even gives their product away to someone who might never have spent moeny on it in the first place. Either way that's stealing, and I know that if I could just burn a cd whose content i downloaded for free, i certainly wouldn't want to go out and spend $20 just to get the real copy of it. This is, of course, what most people do as well.
not everyone has the time or the inclination to go out and find, buy, and assemble all of the parts into one machine. Some people might just not be into the hardware scene enough to want to do that. I'd buy I clone because I'd just have more fun fixing it when it sucks and breaks.
The problem here is that for a long time you could only buy a computer *with* an operating system, and the only OS the store would give you to choose was Windows. It sounds like something called coercive tied selling to me (salesperson implying that you must buy one product in order to buy the other).
Maybe before building your own was the best way to avoid that problem. Maybe people are just saying that they're glad it's not like that now, and they can just go out and buy a computer like anyone else would.
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Since nobody else has stepped in to say anything about this yet, I'd just like to say that was one of the dumbest things I've ever read, but still pretty funny, just maybe not funny in the way you thought it would be.
Keep up the good work!
considering the fact that most people use kazaa to illegally download music, which does (!) harm musicians, using your spare CPU-cycles and bandwidth to pay these guys isn't even that ridiculous.
You basically just confirmed the above with your post. By saying that legal uses of KaZaA aren't the mainstream you concede that most people who use this p2p network do it to trade copyrighted music, warez, etc. There are legitimate uses for this type of filesharing, but the general public could care less about that. Whether we care or not, the more people that download the music for free, the less people will be going out and buying it.
It isn't so unbelievable that a company that would help facilitate people stealing and trading copyrighted material would also turn around and screw over the users of their software by sneaking in a bunch of extra nonsense. Despite what this software *could* be used for, we all know what it *is* being used for 90% of the time.
Draw your own conclusions about whether sharing and stealing music and software is wrong. I'm not really against it, as I use it when it suits me as well. This was all really just to say that there was nothing wrong with that original post: stealing music "harms" musicians, or takes some money away from them, anyway (whether they need it or not), and no company is going help people do this without seizing an opportunity to make some more profit for themselves.
In short, you seemed to be arguing against this, but I didn't really see you make a point, or at the very least, prove it. Yeah, filesharing doesn't necessarily hurt the authors, but more often than not it either takes money away from them or even gives their product away to someone who might never have spent moeny on it in the first place. Either way that's stealing, and I know that if I could just burn a cd whose content i downloaded for free, i certainly wouldn't want to go out and spend $20 just to get the real copy of it. This is, of course, what most people do as well.
Funny, I didn't even notice the lack of a hyphen when I read that review the first time. Quick question: should "anal retentive" be hyphenated?
not everyone has the time or the inclination to go out and find, buy, and assemble all of the parts into one machine. Some people might just not be into the hardware scene enough to want to do that. I'd buy I clone because I'd just have more fun fixing it when it sucks and breaks. The problem here is that for a long time you could only buy a computer *with* an operating system, and the only OS the store would give you to choose was Windows. It sounds like something called coercive tied selling to me (salesperson implying that you must buy one product in order to buy the other). Maybe before building your own was the best way to avoid that problem. Maybe people are just saying that they're glad it's not like that now, and they can just go out and buy a computer like anyone else would.