But you don't seem inclined to leave AOL. If you wanted to, one step towards doing so would be make yourself available on all networks so as to try to phase out AIM.
Make her switch to Trillian.
She can keep her contact list, and register accounts on other services. When people ask her, she can give them the other accounts. That way, she can phase out AIM.
With the majority of people still using Windows, the DOJ having sold out to Microsoft, allowing them to continue to bundle Windows Media Player with Windows, and the remaining states' lawsuit still a way off from achieving any real results, so it seems, it seems hard for any other media suite to gain mainstream acceptance as a standard.
Even if the states get Media Player out of new WinXP releases, there are still many, many people with Media Player on their computers, many of whom don't care enough to download another program.
It looks like it's going to be an uphill battle...
When Napster was at its peak, I was part of the majority of users who downloaded to sample. However, the RIAA gave Napster, and the whole idea of free music over the Internet more publicity than it would ever have gotten on its own.
As a direct consequence, a lot of freeloaders started using MP3s. This is why we've gotten to the point where less people buy CDs because they download MP3s. The music industry got what they deserved.
IMHO, this trend is only going to get worse, and no one will be able to stop it. Services like Gnutella and Freenet are unregulatable and unstoppable and will give the freeloaders the opportunity to continue in their ways. I can only see this leading to a revolution in the way that music is made: recorded music will ultimately be free and used as a form of publicity to draw people to what will be keeping musicians in business: live performances.
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But you don't seem inclined to leave AOL. If you wanted to, one step towards doing so would be make yourself available on all networks so as to try to phase out AIM.
Make her switch to Trillian. She can keep her contact list, and register accounts on other services. When people ask her, she can give them the other accounts. That way, she can phase out AIM.
It's a stupid law that should be dropped, and not just because of this.
Why use the future tense? The past tense works just as well...
Will this release have the GF4 drivers, or will you still have to install a GF4 after the Linux install?
Otherwise, you do the same thing as the rest of the world will: you buy gold or euros.
With the majority of people still using Windows, the DOJ having sold out to Microsoft, allowing them to continue to bundle Windows Media Player with Windows, and the remaining states' lawsuit still a way off from achieving any real results, so it seems, it seems hard for any other media suite to gain mainstream acceptance as a standard. Even if the states get Media Player out of new WinXP releases, there are still many, many people with Media Player on their computers, many of whom don't care enough to download another program. It looks like it's going to be an uphill battle...
When Napster was at its peak, I was part of the majority of users who downloaded to sample. However, the RIAA gave Napster, and the whole idea of free music over the Internet more publicity than it would ever have gotten on its own. As a direct consequence, a lot of freeloaders started using MP3s. This is why we've gotten to the point where less people buy CDs because they download MP3s. The music industry got what they deserved. IMHO, this trend is only going to get worse, and no one will be able to stop it. Services like Gnutella and Freenet are unregulatable and unstoppable and will give the freeloaders the opportunity to continue in their ways. I can only see this leading to a revolution in the way that music is made: recorded music will ultimately be free and used as a form of publicity to draw people to what will be keeping musicians in business: live performances.