The iTunes music store is not needed to use your iPod. I have filled my 20gb iPod and have bought MAYBE 10 songs from iTunes. The rest were from CD's that I own or concerts that I downloaded (fan-recordings) or purchased (sound board recordings). Those 10 songs I bought could have just as easily been purchased on CD Albums or Singles. So where does the monopoly come in?
If other online stores want to sell music that works on the iPod, they can sell standard MP3's (like http://livephish.com/), and they'll work just fine.
I amde an incorrect assumption before reading the article:) THey're not like bionic eyes with binoculars built it, they just make everything ultra-sharp.
For example, a person with better-than-20/20 vision doesn't see distant objects any larger than a person with average vision, he can just make out more details.
To illustrate, if you have bad vision... just take off your glasses and look around. Notice the improvement you get by putting your glasses back on. Now try to imagine that you had yet another pair of glasses to put over those that repeated the degree of improvement.
Now cry in jealousy of all those better-than-20/20 lookers out there:)
Forest searcher/rescuers might appreciate binocular-vision while scanning a panorama for any signs of a lost hiker.
Sports fans might appreciate HD-quality zoomed images from their upper-deck seats.
No, nobody wants to see road signs two miles earlier (unless those signs warned them of traffic so they could get off at the next exit). But other applications do exist.
Much of this "religion developed this and that" is because in order for inventors not to be tortured and killed by the religious authorities as heretics, they had to make it look like their work was only done for the good of the religion.
"The way I see it, Blizzard simply don't want to let sexual politics into the game - it isn't about homophobia. Keep your sex and violence separate kids and enjoy the game. You are not your character."
They react when someone uses the word "gay" to be inclusive, but not when people use it to be offensive?
If blizz cracked down on ALL sexual references:
- People who advertise that they're not mean to gay people
- People who use the word "gay" or "fag" in an offensive way
- Succubi who say "Oooo!" and slap their ass
- Night Elf females who bounce their boobies every once in a while
then I'd understand - at least they'd be consistent. But they ignore the rampant gay-bashing (try barrens general chat on a PvP server) and then they investigate gay-friendly guild advertisements? Sounds wrong to me.
Just because Apple sold you this product, they have not authorized you to resell it: "The delivery of Products does not transfer to you any commercial or promotional use rights in the Products."
Trading or selling or giving the originals does not constitute personal use: "You shall be authorized to use the Products only for personal, noncommercial use." (Also, it says "You shall be authorized" to use the product, not anyone else.)
Google got to be #1 because people, particularly geeks who'd recommend it to others, could TRUST the results to be unbiased. Other engines would promote their own sites regardless of relevanace or popularity, and even return unmarked paid links as actual search results. Google never compromised the integrity of their information. Until now.
Compare the Google.com search to the chinese search - none of the pro-Falun Gong sites show up in the Chinese one.
Google.com: "Falun Gong: what they are and why the Chinese government is terrified of them" from religioustolerance.org Google.cn: "Falun Gong's anti-humanity, anti-science, anti-society nature" from the chinese embassy in canada.
Falun Dafa Falun Dafa, a cultivation way of the Buddhas' School, as created and organized by Mr. Li Hongzhi. www.falundafa.org/
Falun Gong
FALUN GONG. Li Hongzhi. 4th Translation Edition, Updated in April 2001...
Characteristics of Falun Gong Cultivation 4. Cultivation of Both Mind and Body...
www.falundafa.org/book/eng/flg.htm
[ More results from www.falundafa.org ]
Falun Dafa Information Center Falun Dafa Information Center, News and information about Falun Gong around the world. www.faluninfo.net/
Falun Dafa & Falun Gong Falun Dafa and Falun Gong: what they are and why the Chinese government is terrified of them. www.religioustolerance.org/falungong.htm
Falun Gong- Friends of Falun Gong USA Friends of Falun Gong and the spiritual movement Falun Dafa united to support freedom of belief for all Dafa practitioners in China and worldwide. www.fofg.org/
Falun Gong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Treatment of Falun Gong members has been regarded in the West as a major... Falun Gong professes a number of beliefs, some of which are similar to various... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong
Falun Gong practitioners jailed for libeling gov't Home>News Center>China. www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-02/20/conte nt_307742.htm
Outlawing Falun Gong Cult - [ BETA ] Chen Shumin, general manager of a Chongqing-based technology company and a Falun Gong cult practitioner, and four other people received... Teng Chunyan: I Am Pleased to Shake off the Spiritual Shackle of the Falun Gong Cult (11/20/01)... www.china-embassy.org/eng/zt/ppflg/default.htm
QIANLONG.COM--Beijing Portal--Falun Gong hijacks HK satellite - [ BETA ] Falun Gong hijacks HK satellite. Beijing Portal 2004-11-23 15:07:40. A Hong Kong based satellite company accused on Sunday the Falun Gong cult, that has been outlawed on the Chinese mainland, of hijacking its satellite and disrupting its normal... www.beijingportal.com.cn/7838/2004/11/23/1821@2387 514.htm
Falun Gong's anti-humanity, anti-science, anti-society nature... - [ BETA ] Falun Gong's anti-humanity, anti-science, anti-society nature denounced (2002-07-08).... BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhuanet) -- The People's Daily, the leading newspaper of China, outlined the anti-humanity, anti-science and anti-society nature of the... www.chinaembassycanada.org/eng/xwdt/t37433.htm
15 Falun Gong Activists Sentenced to Jail & Fine in Singapore... - [ BETA ]
15 Falun Gong Activists Sentenced to Jail & Fine in Singapore (2001-03-30).
2003/10/24. Singapore Magistrate Court Thursday imposed sentences to 15 Falun Gong
fwiw - from the article, the seller appears to require the buyer to have legitimate copies of the work, or delete the content - how is that any different than a click-through?
I guess that's about the same as a click through. But if Napster had had that warning "you must own an original copy to download it from someone else" I doubt it would have stopped the RIAA from shutting them down.
Poland Spring sells clean, clear bottled water. What if Chinese law said that bottled water manufacturers had to put a little lead in the water to dumb down the population, so they won't understand how badly they're being treated by the gov't. Should Poland Spring comply just because that's Chinese law?
Well that's exactly what Google's doing. Google normally offers uncensored, clean information from which people can learn. But the Chinese government says that Google must poison the learning through censorship, in order to dumb down their citizens so they won't know how badly they're being treated by the gov't.
I am ashamed of Google and any other American entity that encourages China's oppressive style of government.
Why would China ever change their ways if the big rich American corporations keep bending over backwards to accomodate their oppression?
When a country sponsors terrorism, we boycott them. When a country massacres certain races in their country, we try to stop them. Why, when a country rules by oppression, fear, and many other completely un-Democratic ideals should we make an exception?
Money talks, my friend. Google's got dollar signs in their eyes just like MS and Yahoo, and China's gonna be a huge market in the coming years. The oppressive communist chinese government is going to get rich off its economic boom, and peasants will still have to wear adult diapers on their 24-hour cattle-packed bathroom-less train rides home for the holidays.
That's what copyright law governs: copying. It doesn't say a thing about selling. Not a thing in the world.
Sorry, but US copyright law covers more than just copying; it also covers the right to distribute:
"Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following::...To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;"
Personally, I don't think fair use allows reselling digital copies of the songs on iPods, especially considering that "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work" would be substantial if the pre-loaded iPod industry took off.
If I make a fair-use copy of a CD I own onto an iPod and later sell that iPod to a friend, I do not have an obligation to remove the fair-use copies.
Of course you do! How is that any different that if you copied your CD's onto CD-RW's and then sold them on eBay? It doesn't matter what the transfer medium is. Whether it's a CD-R or an iPod, you're not allowed to distribute copies without the copyright owner's permission.
Unless you have the copyright owner's permission, taking a CD, making copies of the music, and selling those copies is illegal whether you distribute those copies on CDR's, in iPods, or over the internet.
The only way it'd be legit is if they included the CD with the sale; then it'd be like selling a used CD. You have a right to back up a CD for personal use, but you have no right to then sell copies of that song unless the sale is approved by the copyright holder.
As long as it doesn't keep you from going to work/class/school, and doesn't damage your health, that is. I think computer games get a bad rep, when they're really no better or worse than spending an equivalent amount of time watching TV, which many people do habitually anyway.
Few people get as addicted to TV as they get to MMORPG's:
- TV shows typically last no more than an hour, and have about 15 minutes per hour of built-in breaks (commercials). In MMORPG's, just getting a 15-man raid group together and to the instance can take an hour.
- The driving factor in TV is a compelling storyline. If you want to see the next episode of the West Wing, you know the time and channel, and it only takes an hour of your time. The driving factor for MMORPG-addicted players are epic item drops, which are random and typically take several hours just to have a small chance at dropping.
- TV does not have the same massive social aspect as MMORPG's do, so if you miss a show you never feel like you're letting down 39 friends, as you might if you missed a raid.
- Other than hearing a good story, there's no perceived reward to TV watching. With MMORPG's, there are endless "rewarding" activities to do. In WoW, you can gather materials to sell them at the Auction House to make gold, you can turn in materials for the war effort to earn reputation or more items, you can run instanced dungeons to hope to get epic drops, you can PvP to either kills some enemies or gain in PvP Honor rank. MMORPG's give users many more goals to attain than TV-watchers.
- With TV, there's no way to improve your chances of a good reward. You could stare at the TV all day, buy a dozen things off QVC, and you'd be no closer to seeing the next episode of your favorite show than the guy who sits down and turns on the TV one minute before the show comes on. With MMORPG's, you really don't have much control. Casual players can solo lesser content as they please, but but for epic loot you have to play when everyone else agrees to play, and CANNOT do the same tasks alone. (this is a major complaint of WoW - solo and small group content is abundant in levels 1-59, but after a few weeks at 60 you need raids of 20 or more to proceed any further)
There's just no way you can get as addicted to TV-watching as you can to an MMORPG.
Yet the most direct, embarassing, and precedent-setting way is to sue them. If a thousand people switched to Linux, no one would notice. If a thousand people succeeded in a class action lawsuit, MS would have to notice.
The only territory you can gain/control is in the Alterac Valley (40 vs 40) and Arathi Basin (15 vs. 15) battlegrounds. In AV you can capture graveyards, destroy enemy towers, and move your front line closer to their home base. In AB you have to control as many of the 5 resource nodes as you can, and the first to gather 2000 resources wins.
Neither makes any changes to the rest of the game, aside from earning a bit of honor, factional reputation, and maybe an item or two. None of the towns or graveyards or anything else in the rest of the game world can be taken over by the opposing faction.
+5 Good Parenting:) The best you can do is influence them at a young age to be good critical thinkers, and then let them go into the world on their own. They may need a push in the right direction once in a while, but hopefully you gave them a good set of tools to use.
Pallies in BG PvP (like Arathi Basin) can last very long assaulting an enemy base, often distracting way too many players who'll continue to attack them while their shield is up.
"Healer who's nearly impossible to kill" is a great description for pallies in PvP.
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The iTunes music store is not needed to use your iPod. I have filled my 20gb iPod and have bought MAYBE 10 songs from iTunes. The rest were from CD's that I own or concerts that I downloaded (fan-recordings) or purchased (sound board recordings). Those 10 songs I bought could have just as easily been purchased on CD Albums or Singles. So where does the monopoly come in?
If other online stores want to sell music that works on the iPod, they can sell standard MP3's (like http://livephish.com/), and they'll work just fine.
Maybe you dehydrated your eyes enough to get them to the perfect shape :)
I amde an incorrect assumption before reading the article :) THey're not like bionic eyes with binoculars built it, they just make everything ultra-sharp.
:)
For example, a person with better-than-20/20 vision doesn't see distant objects any larger than a person with average vision, he can just make out more details.
To illustrate, if you have bad vision... just take off your glasses and look around. Notice the improvement you get by putting your glasses back on. Now try to imagine that you had yet another pair of glasses to put over those that repeated the degree of improvement.
Now cry in jealousy of all those better-than-20/20 lookers out there
Forest searcher/rescuers might appreciate binocular-vision while scanning a panorama for any signs of a lost hiker.
Sports fans might appreciate HD-quality zoomed images from their upper-deck seats.
No, nobody wants to see road signs two miles earlier (unless those signs warned them of traffic so they could get off at the next exit). But other applications do exist.
Much of this "religion developed this and that" is because in order for inventors not to be tortured and killed by the religious authorities as heretics, they had to make it look like their work was only done for the good of the religion.
"The way I see it, Blizzard simply don't want to let sexual politics into the game - it isn't about homophobia. Keep your sex and violence separate kids and enjoy the game. You are not your character."
They react when someone uses the word "gay" to be inclusive, but not when people use it to be offensive?
If blizz cracked down on ALL sexual references:
- People who advertise that they're not mean to gay people
- People who use the word "gay" or "fag" in an offensive way
- Succubi who say "Oooo!" and slap their ass
- Night Elf females who bounce their boobies every once in a while
then I'd understand - at least they'd be consistent. But they ignore the rampant gay-bashing (try barrens general chat on a PvP server) and then they investigate gay-friendly guild advertisements? Sounds wrong to me.
Links?
You can't sell things you never own. You can't "resell" a rental car because you've only been granted a limited right to use it.
You can't necessarily resell iTunes songs because you don't actually own them. You have merely been licensed to use them in a certain way.
Well that DOES kind of suck!
For a Kazaa Lite search, at least they state at the bottom of the page:
In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 2 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.
Check out the iTunes Music Store TERMS OF SERVICE.
Just because Apple sold you this product, they have not authorized you to resell it: "The delivery of Products does not transfer to you any commercial or promotional use rights in the Products."
Trading or selling or giving the originals does not constitute personal use: "You shall be authorized to use the Products only for personal, noncommercial use." (Also, it says "You shall be authorized" to use the product, not anyone else.)
When I said "We", I meant more as a world community - UN, etc. Though you're right, they do miss an awful lot.
Google got to be #1 because people, particularly geeks who'd recommend it to others, could TRUST the results to be unbiased. Other engines would promote their own sites regardless of relevanace or popularity, and even return unmarked paid links as actual search results. Google never compromised the integrity of their information. Until now.
Compare the Google.com search to the chinese search - none of the pro-Falun Gong sites show up in the Chinese one.
... ...
... ...
... Teng Chunyan: I Am ...
...
... - [ BETA ] ... BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhuanet) -- The People's Daily, the leading newspaper ...
... - [ BETA ]
Google.com: "Falun Gong: what they are and why the Chinese government is terrified of them" from religioustolerance.org
Google.cn: "Falun Gong's anti-humanity, anti-science, anti-society nature" from the chinese embassy in canada.
Poisoned water indeed.
Google.com Search for Falun Gong
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Falun+Gong
Falun Dafa
Falun Dafa, a cultivation way of the Buddhas' School, as created and organized
by Mr. Li Hongzhi.
www.falundafa.org/
Falun Gong
FALUN GONG. Li Hongzhi. 4th Translation Edition, Updated in April 2001
Characteristics of Falun Gong Cultivation 4. Cultivation of Both Mind and Body
www.falundafa.org/book/eng/flg.htm
[ More results from www.falundafa.org ]
Falun Dafa Information Center
Falun Dafa Information Center, News and information about Falun Gong around the world.
www.faluninfo.net/
Falun Dafa & Falun Gong
Falun Dafa and Falun Gong: what they are and why the Chinese government is
terrified of them.
www.religioustolerance.org/falungong.htm
Falun Gong- Friends of Falun Gong USA
Friends of Falun Gong and the spiritual movement Falun Dafa united to support
freedom of belief for all Dafa practitioners in China and worldwide.
www.fofg.org/
Falun Gong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Treatment of Falun Gong members has been regarded in the West as a major
Falun Gong professes a number of beliefs, some of which are similar to various
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong
Chinese Google.cn Search for Falun Gong
http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&q=Falun+Gong& btnG=%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&meta=cr%3DcountryCN
Falun Gong practitioners jailed for libeling gov't
Home>News Center>China.
www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-02/20/conte nt_307742.htm
Outlawing Falun Gong Cult - [ BETA ]
Chen Shumin, general manager of a Chongqing-based technology company and a Falun
Gong cult practitioner, and four other people received
Pleased to Shake off the Spiritual Shackle of the Falun Gong Cult (11/20/01)
www.china-embassy.org/eng/zt/ppflg/default.htm
QIANLONG.COM--Beijing Portal--Falun Gong hijacks HK satellite - [ BETA ]
Falun Gong hijacks HK satellite. Beijing Portal 2004-11-23 15:07:40. A Hong Kong
based satellite company accused on Sunday the Falun Gong cult, that has been outlawed
on the Chinese mainland, of hijacking its satellite and disrupting its normal
www.beijingportal.com.cn/7838/2004/11/23/1821@2387 514.htm
Falun Gong's anti-humanity, anti-science, anti-society nature
Falun Gong's anti-humanity, anti-science, anti-society nature denounced
(2002-07-08).
of China, outlined the anti-humanity, anti-science and anti-society nature of the
www.chinaembassycanada.org/eng/xwdt/t37433.htm
15 Falun Gong Activists Sentenced to Jail & Fine in Singapore
15 Falun Gong Activists Sentenced to Jail & Fine in Singapore (2001-03-30).
2003/10/24. Singapore Magistrate Court Thursday imposed sentences to 15 Falun Gong
fwiw - from the article, the seller appears to require the buyer to have legitimate copies of the work, or delete the content - how is that any different than a click-through?
I guess that's about the same as a click through. But if Napster had had that warning "you must own an original copy to download it from someone else" I doubt it would have stopped the RIAA from shutting them down.
Poland Spring sells clean, clear bottled water. What if Chinese law said that bottled water manufacturers had to put a little lead in the water to dumb down the population, so they won't understand how badly they're being treated by the gov't. Should Poland Spring comply just because that's Chinese law?
Well that's exactly what Google's doing. Google normally offers uncensored, clean information from which people can learn. But the Chinese government says that Google must poison the learning through censorship, in order to dumb down their citizens so they won't know how badly they're being treated by the gov't.
I am ashamed of Google and any other American entity that encourages China's oppressive style of government.
Why would China ever change their ways if the big rich American corporations keep bending over backwards to accomodate their oppression?
When a country sponsors terrorism, we boycott them. When a country massacres certain races in their country, we try to stop them. Why, when a country rules by oppression, fear, and many other completely un-Democratic ideals should we make an exception?
Money talks, my friend. Google's got dollar signs in their eyes just like MS and Yahoo, and China's gonna be a huge market in the coming years. The oppressive communist chinese government is going to get rich off its economic boom, and peasants will still have to wear adult diapers on their 24-hour cattle-packed bathroom-less train rides home for the holidays.
That's what copyright law governs: copying. It doesn't say a thing about selling. Not a thing in the world.
...To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;"
Sorry, but US copyright law covers more than just copying; it also covers the right to distribute:
"Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following::
Personally, I don't think fair use allows reselling digital copies of the songs on iPods, especially considering that "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work" would be substantial if the pre-loaded iPod industry took off.
If I make a fair-use copy of a CD I own onto an iPod and later sell that iPod to a friend, I do not have an obligation to remove the fair-use copies.
Of course you do! How is that any different that if you copied your CD's onto CD-RW's and then sold them on eBay? It doesn't matter what the transfer medium is. Whether it's a CD-R or an iPod, you're not allowed to distribute copies without the copyright owner's permission.
Unless you have the copyright owner's permission, taking a CD, making copies of the music, and selling those copies is illegal whether you distribute those copies on CDR's, in iPods, or over the internet.
The only way it'd be legit is if they included the CD with the sale; then it'd be like selling a used CD. You have a right to back up a CD for personal use, but you have no right to then sell copies of that song unless the sale is approved by the copyright holder.
As long as it doesn't keep you from going to work/class/school, and doesn't damage your health, that is. I think computer games get a bad rep, when they're really no better or worse than spending an equivalent amount of time watching TV, which many people do habitually anyway.
Few people get as addicted to TV as they get to MMORPG's:
- TV shows typically last no more than an hour, and have about 15 minutes per hour of built-in breaks (commercials). In MMORPG's, just getting a 15-man raid group together and to the instance can take an hour.
- The driving factor in TV is a compelling storyline. If you want to see the next episode of the West Wing, you know the time and channel, and it only takes an hour of your time. The driving factor for MMORPG-addicted players are epic item drops, which are random and typically take several hours just to have a small chance at dropping.
- TV does not have the same massive social aspect as MMORPG's do, so if you miss a show you never feel like you're letting down 39 friends, as you might if you missed a raid.
- Other than hearing a good story, there's no perceived reward to TV watching. With MMORPG's, there are endless "rewarding" activities to do. In WoW, you can gather materials to sell them at the Auction House to make gold, you can turn in materials for the war effort to earn reputation or more items, you can run instanced dungeons to hope to get epic drops, you can PvP to either kills some enemies or gain in PvP Honor rank. MMORPG's give users many more goals to attain than TV-watchers.
- With TV, there's no way to improve your chances of a good reward. You could stare at the TV all day, buy a dozen things off QVC, and you'd be no closer to seeing the next episode of your favorite show than the guy who sits down and turns on the TV one minute before the show comes on. With MMORPG's, you really don't have much control. Casual players can solo lesser content as they please, but but for epic loot you have to play when everyone else agrees to play, and CANNOT do the same tasks alone. (this is a major complaint of WoW - solo and small group content is abundant in levels 1-59, but after a few weeks at 60 you need raids of 20 or more to proceed any further)
There's just no way you can get as addicted to TV-watching as you can to an MMORPG.
If you don't want the Pentium brand anymore... can I have your stuff?
Yet the most direct, embarassing, and precedent-setting way is to sue them. If a thousand people switched to Linux, no one would notice. If a thousand people succeeded in a class action lawsuit, MS would have to notice.
The only territory you can gain/control is in the Alterac Valley (40 vs 40) and Arathi Basin (15 vs. 15) battlegrounds. In AV you can capture graveyards, destroy enemy towers, and move your front line closer to their home base. In AB you have to control as many of the 5 resource nodes as you can, and the first to gather 2000 resources wins.
Neither makes any changes to the rest of the game, aside from earning a bit of honor, factional reputation, and maybe an item or two. None of the towns or graveyards or anything else in the rest of the game world can be taken over by the opposing faction.
"A lawsuit is not the answer to everything."
Since profit is all a corporation cares about, suing away those profits is the only way to punish it.
+5 Good Parenting :) The best you can do is influence them at a young age to be good critical thinkers, and then let them go into the world on their own. They may need a push in the right direction once in a while, but hopefully you gave them a good set of tools to use.
Pallies in BG PvP (like Arathi Basin) can last very long assaulting an enemy base, often distracting way too many players who'll continue to attack them while their shield is up.
"Healer who's nearly impossible to kill" is a great description for pallies in PvP.