Oh.. and who says *anyone* is requird to do business with you if they don't want? Hey.. @home has *THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE*. Just like I do in my own business.
This is False @Home is a MONOPOLY. This means that they have to follow special rules. One of them is that they are forced to do business with you as long as they dont have very good reasons.
The point is that the RIAA is not trying to improve their distribution, but they are only suing. What they say is that Microsoft made it easy for you to pay for Windows and Office (not paying is not quite as easy, but that's something else). While the RIAA is making it really hard for you to get music on the Net.
I would say that the RIAA is much more arrogant than the software industry and that's because they are not used to competition. Even Microsoft is nice compared to them and that's because they are used to having competition. While the RIAA think that they can change the world to fit their business plan, the software people changed their business plans to fit the world...
First, I have to remind all of you that HongKong is under the control of China. And they are one of the worst violators of the human rights. So having ID cards with biometrics could lead to even more policing by the state. This is not america and they do not give a shit about human rights, rights to privacy...
Instead of holding the manufacturers hostage to the contaminations, since we don't do this with television manufacturers even after all these years, this just makes the most sense. Or possibly there can be companies setup to do services like these for big businesses, since they probably waste more products per year than the general population (I'm not certain, just guessing).
Actually the TV companies have been forced to do it for years in Europe.
I've read quite a few comments saying: "but there are recycling companies". This is true, but recycling of old computer partsd is getting less and less profitable because newer parts use cheapear material... aluminium instead of gold. And use less of it... So basicly they want to force the manu's to subsides recycling, this may again seem bizare to Americans, but its quite common in Europe. I know they at least apply it to cars and food packaging, if not all packaging in some countries...
This kind of measures may seem bizare to many Americans, but its actually very common in Europe to hold the producers of throwable goods responsible for the recycling. I know that in Germany, at least in some landers (states), the manufacturers are forced to take back their packaging and dispose of it, but they have taxes on private companies using landfills, so they are basicly forced to recycle and reduce it. What really surprised me in this article is that they weren't already responsible. For the monitors, it may favorise their export/resale to poorer countries.... Where they can easily be thrown away, that's one of the known ways to get around the law
I'd just like to point out that those are not hard disks but Magneto-Optical removable disks. It feels like IDs on floppys. Btw, I think IDE hard disks and maybe floppies too have serial numbers. But I dont know if they can be changed. At least I get one by doing "dir c:" or "dir a:" in MS-DOS...
I'm not sure if I can get them in Linux...
The idea that you cannot sell something someone else produced if they dont like the way you sell it is ridiculous. Lets say a company A prints a book, company A thinks the book should be sold in bookshops at a certain price (so the bookshops have a profit). You decide to buy large amounts of the book and sell them in a store B, call it Walmart, at a lower price, but you only sell one book, the best-seller. In this case, most people would think that store B was just more intelligent and found a way to make profits from the business of the publisher. He is NOT stealing the publisher's work. And that's what's happening to the RIAA, someone took their production and distributes it in a much more efficient way, they called it Napster. And now the RIAA and record stores, like independant bookshops are complaining that they are people treated injustly, but the truth is that the market is changing under them and that they shoudl adapt.
It doesn't matter whether or not the RIAA is bad--and I'll be right there with you saying that they are. The problem is that whether you like it or not, the music shared on Napster is someone else's property. And taking that property makes you a thief.
The problem here is that copyrights are NOT property. Property as defined in the traditional capitalist economic theory is forever. And it exists for one reason, its not there to help to compensate anyone or to help anyone survive. It exists because one object cannot be owned by two persons at the same time. They cannot use it both.
Music is not a good, information is not a good. There is NO scarcity, so there is no reason for "property" in the case of music as 2 persons can enjoy the same information at the same time. So you cannot "steal" information, you can only share it. And since most of you are christians, Jesus told you to share, its a God given order that supersedes any terestrial one... If you want a non-religious explanation, then continue with me...
Copyrights are a MONOPOLY granted for a temporary period by the government, not to compensate anyone, but to try to have more information published. And its a monopoly on distribution of the information, it used to be just printing of books, but they made it so pervasive that it now threatens democracy... Calling it Intellectual Property is just a lie made by the people who profit of this lie. And those people are very rich. And copyrights has been shown to be a very innefficient mean of increasing the amount of information produced. I think the Free Software community has proven that quite well. Copyrights actually decrease the amount of information available. Now you are probably asking how it endangers democracy. Democracy is based on the idea that the people is most likely to be right, to be right, it has to be well informed and it cannot be informed if the information is kept within a few hands. By applying copyright laws and by accepting them, we are reducing the strength of our democracy. The founder of the liberal ideology, John Locke, had in his works one very novel idea, and it is the rights of resistance, it means that the people do not have to obey laws that are unjust and when the majority of those to whom the law applies do not respect it, then it should be abolished. One example here are laws banning drugs, laws regarding pornography (65% of porn users are under 18) and copyrights... The people spoke, you, all of you, have to listen...
I now use mozilla as my main browser. The latest nightly build has now reached a level of quality sufficient for most of my browsing. And it has the ability to block the loading of images from certain sites. If there is a banner on a page, just right-click on the banner and chose "Block images from this site". There are actually very few banner serving sites. Doubleclick being everywhere, and I mean really everywhere. there are a few others, but just blocking doubleclick has an enormous effect...
I dont see where the problem is with Internet taxation. Not taxing purchases made over the Internet is actually a subsidy to the online stores. And the online stores are used by the wealthiest part of the population. There is no reason to give a tax break to the wealthy, unless your a republican.
I am Canadian and I have a huge problem with PayPal, its that I cant use it. At least billpoint, which is affiliated (or is a service of?) Ebay allows me to send cash. With PayPal, there is nothing I can do. Opening it to Canada, as least, would be a good news...
This guy has been making his map for quite a while. I'd like to know if there is a book, preferably in a interesting style, that would relate the history of unix?
Disclaimer: I speak about my feelings and not as a lawyer, I have very little knowledge and I'm not even american. Feel free to moderate me down if I'm too far off the track...
My feeling here is that MP3Board is trying to force AOL to be on its side against Warner and other MPAA members. The idea being that if MP3Board is declared guilty, then AOL will have to pay an even larger sum. So having AOL "on their side" would make enforcement against Gnutella because there would always be the possibility of annoying AOL... Would be nice if a lawyer could comment on this?
This is probably hurt my karma but anyways. They are probably releasing it only so that they can stop publishing the protocol. The reason why they had published the protocol (before M$ made a compatible client) was to enable developers to make linux clients. Now that they have their closed Linux client, they dont have to even publish their protocol and can keep all of the market to themselves. I see no other reason for them to do this... Nasty AOL...
Get GAIM or Gabber...
If its the 2600/DMCA case, its would be quite bizzare to have a subpeona or a summons because the trial is more or less over. And I don think that there are any space for unnamed defendants.
It would seem most likely that it would be the 500 defendants trade secret one where/. is one of the name defendants and where there are slots for new people to be brought in. And the trial hasnt happended yet. It could also be a subpeona, but that would be unlikely as I dont see much that any party could get from Copyleft. Maybe the defendants want to prove that this trade secret is out in the wild and that therefore trade secret laws dont apply... They'd normally have to sue someone who entered a contract with them, as trade secret are contract based. I can legally publish a trade secret if I received it from someone without knowing I was doing something illegal... But that's probably not the case as the T-Shirt was made after the begginging of the trial. Or maybe the studios are just trying to block the sale of DeCSS deshirts because it annoys them to have all those uniformed people in court...
Do I have to read here that it will be released before sept 21? It would be nice if fully featured encryption was in there... Like debian and other good distributions...
No1.. I forgot, but its $can 500 for cable for 1 year... I'll be gone after that. Its true that wireless will last. But the $can 500 is cable for one year and I own the cablemodem ($can 200) and I have service for one year. (its $can 30... $US 20 per month here). I'm searching for good places where I could have info on wireless networks and good places to buy the gadgets online.
I have a similar idea, but I this case these are two houses at a 1km distance. And it has to be wireless and under 500$ (at that price I can just get a 3nd cable-modem and do a VPN over the Inet). I am presently plan to use two 802.11 wireless lan card and directional antennas. First, I'd like to know if anyone knows any good place (online) to buy wireless land equipement. The cost is here a major concern. And I doubt there are trees in the way of the waves, so I need a resonably strong signal.
Let me assure you that I hate the language laws as much as you do. And that am working very hard to get those OLF (Office de la Langue Francaise) stupidities eliminated.
Hmm... Can I say Shannia Twain... or Toronto Sun/Star ? And Kitchener/Waterloo is not homogenous? Yes Quebec City is... but not Montreal... in no way is it homogenous... There is no sex or nudity on TV in Canada, French or English. I was in France a few weeks ago and I can tell you that they have nudity on TV and that causes them no problems... They make a wide use of monokinis too, which would be a great addition to our culture, but I disgres... Why did the gov of Ontario, which is a urban province, join the suit against the gun reg law? And why was Quebec the only province on the Fed's side?
First, I happen to live with an Ontarian. So I dont hate English Canada or anything. And I really believe that the Northern Us and Canada have little difference. Especially if you compare it with the differences between Northern and Southern US. And I have anything against English Canada or the Northern US (I do have something against the Southern US and the Baptist and GW Bush, but that's something else). And I have many members of my family in Ont. But I can state for a fact that we are different from the rest of North America. We have nothing even close to the Reform.. err Alliance party in Quebec if you want an example.
the Feds tried to remove the Queen from the pledge of allegeance that the immigrants have to do (replacing it with a pledge of allegeance to the constitution of Canada). It created such an outcry that they were forced to leave the Queen in there...
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This is False @Home is a MONOPOLY. This means that they have to follow special rules. One of them is that they are forced to do business with you as long as they dont have very good reasons.
The point is that the RIAA is not trying to improve their distribution, but they are only suing. What they say is that Microsoft made it easy for you to pay for Windows and Office (not paying is not quite as easy, but that's something else). While the RIAA is making it really hard for you to get music on the Net.
I would say that the RIAA is much more arrogant than the software industry and that's because they are not used to competition. Even Microsoft is nice compared to them and that's because they are used to having competition. While the RIAA think that they can change the world to fit their business plan, the software people changed their business plans to fit the world...
First, I have to remind all of you that HongKong is under the control of China. And they are one of the worst violators of the human rights. So having ID cards with biometrics could lead to even more policing by the state. This is not america and they do not give a shit about human rights, rights to privacy...
Instead of holding the manufacturers hostage to the contaminations, since we don't do this with television manufacturers even after all these years, this just makes the most sense. Or possibly there can be companies setup to do services like these for big businesses, since they probably waste more products per year than the general population (I'm not certain, just guessing).
Actually the TV companies have been forced to do it for years in Europe.
I've read quite a few comments saying: "but there are recycling companies". This is true, but recycling of old computer partsd is getting less and less profitable because newer parts use cheapear material... aluminium instead of gold. And use less of it... So basicly they want to force the manu's to subsides recycling, this may again seem bizare to Americans, but its quite common in Europe. I know they at least apply it to cars and food packaging, if not all packaging in some countries...
This kind of measures may seem bizare to many Americans, but its actually very common in Europe to hold the producers of throwable goods responsible for the recycling. I know that in Germany, at least in some landers (states), the manufacturers are forced to take back their packaging and dispose of it, but they have taxes on private companies using landfills, so they are basicly forced to recycle and reduce it. What really surprised me in this article is that they weren't already responsible. For the monitors, it may favorise their export/resale to poorer countries.... Where they can easily be thrown away, that's one of the known ways to get around the law
I'd just like to point out that those are not hard disks but Magneto-Optical removable disks. It feels like IDs on floppys. Btw, I think IDE hard disks and maybe floppies too have serial numbers. But I dont know if they can be changed. At least I get one by doing "dir c:" or "dir a:" in MS-DOS...
I'm not sure if I can get them in Linux...
The idea that you cannot sell something someone else produced if they dont like the way you sell it is ridiculous. Lets say a company A prints a book, company A thinks the book should be sold in bookshops at a certain price (so the bookshops have a profit). You decide to buy large amounts of the book and sell them in a store B, call it Walmart, at a lower price, but you only sell one book, the best-seller. In this case, most people would think that store B was just more intelligent and found a way to make profits from the business of the publisher. He is NOT stealing the publisher's work. And that's what's happening to the RIAA, someone took their production and distributes it in a much more efficient way, they called it Napster. And now the RIAA and record stores, like independant bookshops are complaining that they are people treated injustly, but the truth is that the market is changing under them and that they shoudl adapt.
It doesn't matter whether or not the RIAA is bad--and I'll be right there with you saying that they are. The problem is that whether you like it or not, the music shared on Napster is someone else's property. And taking that property makes you a thief.
The problem here is that copyrights are NOT property. Property as defined in the traditional capitalist economic theory is forever. And it exists for one reason, its not there to help to compensate anyone or to help anyone survive. It exists because one object cannot be owned by two persons at the same time. They cannot use it both.
Music is not a good, information is not a good. There is NO scarcity, so there is no reason for "property" in the case of music as 2 persons can enjoy the same information at the same time. So you cannot "steal" information, you can only share it. And since most of you are christians, Jesus told you to share, its a God given order that supersedes any terestrial one... If you want a non-religious explanation, then continue with me...
Copyrights are a MONOPOLY granted for a temporary period by the government, not to compensate anyone, but to try to have more information published. And its a monopoly on distribution of the information, it used to be just printing of books, but they made it so pervasive that it now threatens democracy... Calling it Intellectual Property is just a lie made by the people who profit of this lie. And those people are very rich. And copyrights has been shown to be a very innefficient mean of increasing the amount of information produced. I think the Free Software community has proven that quite well. Copyrights actually decrease the amount of information available. Now you are probably asking how it endangers democracy. Democracy is based on the idea that the people is most likely to be right, to be right, it has to be well informed and it cannot be informed if the information is kept within a few hands. By applying copyright laws and by accepting them, we are reducing the strength of our democracy. The founder of the liberal ideology, John Locke, had in his works one very novel idea, and it is the rights of resistance, it means that the people do not have to obey laws that are unjust and when the majority of those to whom the law applies do not respect it, then it should be abolished. One example here are laws banning drugs, laws regarding pornography (65% of porn users are under 18) and copyrights... The people spoke, you, all of you, have to listen...
I now use mozilla as my main browser. The latest nightly build has now reached a level of quality sufficient for most of my browsing. And it has the ability to block the loading of images from certain sites. If there is a banner on a page, just right-click on the banner and chose "Block images from this site". There are actually very few banner serving sites. Doubleclick being everywhere, and I mean really everywhere. there are a few others, but just blocking doubleclick has an enormous effect...
I dont see where the problem is with Internet taxation. Not taxing purchases made over the Internet is actually a subsidy to the online stores. And the online stores are used by the wealthiest part of the population. There is no reason to give a tax break to the wealthy, unless your a republican.
I am Canadian and I have a huge problem with PayPal, its that I cant use it. At least billpoint, which is affiliated (or is a service of?) Ebay allows me to send cash. With PayPal, there is nothing I can do. Opening it to Canada, as least, would be a good news...
This guy has been making his map for quite a while. I'd like to know if there is a book, preferably in a interesting style, that would relate the history of unix?
Disclaimer: I speak about my feelings and not as a lawyer, I have very little knowledge and I'm not even american. Feel free to moderate me down if I'm too far off the track...
My feeling here is that MP3Board is trying to force AOL to be on its side against Warner and other MPAA members. The idea being that if MP3Board is declared guilty, then AOL will have to pay an even larger sum. So having AOL "on their side" would make enforcement against Gnutella because there would always be the possibility of annoying AOL... Would be nice if a lawyer could comment on this?
There is PEX, which was a 3D extension to X. Seems quite dead now... Or I may be totally wrong...
This is probably hurt my karma but anyways. They are probably releasing it only so that they can stop publishing the protocol. The reason why they had published the protocol (before M$ made a compatible client) was to enable developers to make linux clients. Now that they have their closed Linux client, they dont have to even publish their protocol and can keep all of the market to themselves. I see no other reason for them to do this... Nasty AOL...
Get GAIM or Gabber...
If its the 2600/DMCA case, its would be quite bizzare to have a subpeona or a summons because the trial is more or less over. And I don think that there are any space for unnamed defendants.
/. is one of the name defendants and where there are slots for new people to be brought in. And the trial hasnt happended yet. It could also be a subpeona, but that would be unlikely as I dont see much that any party could get from Copyleft. Maybe the defendants want to prove that this trade secret is out in the wild and that therefore trade secret laws dont apply... They'd normally have to sue someone who entered a contract with them, as trade secret are contract based. I can legally publish a trade secret if I received it from someone without knowing I was doing something illegal... But that's probably not the case as the T-Shirt was made after the begginging of the trial. Or maybe the studios are just trying to block the sale of DeCSS deshirts because it annoys them to have all those uniformed people in court...
It would seem most likely that it would be the 500 defendants trade secret one where
Its probably sodomy. I've heard that both are a pain in the ass.
Do I have to read here that it will be released before sept 21? It would be nice if fully featured encryption was in there... Like debian and other good distributions...
No1.. I forgot, but its $can 500 for cable for 1 year... I'll be gone after that. Its true that wireless will last. But the $can 500 is cable for one year and I own the cablemodem ($can 200) and I have service for one year. (its $can 30... $US 20 per month here).
I'm searching for good places where I could have info on wireless networks and good places to buy the gadgets online.
I have a similar idea, but I this case these are two houses at a 1km distance. And it has to be wireless and under 500$ (at that price I can just get a 3nd cable-modem and do a VPN over the Inet).
I am presently plan to use two 802.11 wireless lan card and directional antennas.
First, I'd like to know if anyone knows any good place (online) to buy wireless land equipement. The cost is here a major concern. And I doubt there are trees in the way of the waves, so I need a resonably strong signal.
Let me assure you that I hate the language laws as much as you do. And that am working very hard to get those OLF (Office de la Langue Francaise) stupidities eliminated.
We're much more different than you think... you should come and live here for a while...
Hmm... Can I say Shannia Twain... or Toronto Sun/Star ?
And Kitchener/Waterloo is not homogenous? Yes Quebec City is... but not Montreal... in no way is it homogenous...
There is no sex or nudity on TV in Canada, French or English. I was in France a few weeks ago and I can tell you that they have nudity on TV and that causes them no problems... They make a wide use of monokinis too, which would be a great addition to our culture, but I disgres...
Why did the gov of Ontario, which is a urban province, join the suit against the gun reg law? And why was Quebec the only province on the Fed's side?
First, I happen to live with an Ontarian. So I dont hate English Canada or anything. And I really believe that the Northern Us and Canada have little difference. Especially if you compare it with the differences between Northern and Southern US. And I have anything against English Canada or the Northern US (I do have something against the Southern US and the Baptist and GW Bush, but that's something else). And I have many members of my family in Ont. But I can state for a fact that we are different from the rest of North America. We have nothing even close to the Reform.. err Alliance party in Quebec if you want an example.
the Feds tried to remove the Queen from the pledge of allegeance that the immigrants have to do (replacing it with a pledge of allegeance to the constitution of Canada). It created such an outcry that they were forced to leave the Queen in there...