Kazaa has a legitimate use in allowing distribution of material that isn't restricted by copyright holders, as well as distributing DRM style files that can be paid for and activated after downloading. The monopoly angle doesn't work, however, since copyright holders are granted a monopoly by law, so legally have the exclusive right to license the material to whomever they want.
If you claim the RIAA is sabotaging Kazaa by putting ad files that look like music files, then you are admitting that the purpose of Kazaa is to ditribute copyrighted material illegally. This makes you guilty. You're better off claiming your purpose is to share legally copyable files, which is what Kazaa is trying to do.
Quit using CISC vs RISC. It's an obsolete comparison. All modern processors, including Intel, use a RISC core. Intel just needs extra hardware to deal with their old instruction in the pipeline to make sure they retire properly.
Our 800Mhz Sparc machines can't outperform our 2GHz Pentium4 machines. I seriously doubt your 800 MHz iMac has more than half the performance of a P4 at 2 GHz.
"I don't see how this is "Microsoftish" -- the code Red Hat creates or includes is still GPL, and you can pay anyone willing to fix it. They're not required to support it forever:)"
But isn't that what you're paying RedHat for when you buy support from RedHat? By cutting their support, they're cutting the one service that paying customers actually want (unless they buy the software as a donation). MS just patched NT4, which has been out since '95 or so, and you're criticizing MS and excusing RedHat. Give me a break.
The article is making something out of nothing. The US apparently asked to change the word support to encourage in the sentance "Development and deployment of open-source software should be encouraged, as appropriate, as should open standards for ICT (information and communications technology) networking.". How does unsing the term encourage = against open-source software? My guess is the US asked for the switch because support can mean provide monetary support, while encourage is less ambiguous. Basically, people are making something out of nothing here.
Capitalism is inherently free in that it is based on the concept of free trade. Communism is not free since it assumes that an individual must sacrifice his freedom for the good of society.
But without finding a record label, the Beatles would never have been heard by a significant number of people. Just because some record companies don't have good judgement doesn't mean bands can sell significant numbers of albums without record labels. Look at kazaa. People aren't downloading unknown artists to find new stuff. Their downloading stuff that record companies have publicized in order to get radio airtime.
Another person getting modded up for say music now isn't as good as when I was younger. The music industry isn't much different now than 30 years. How can they all of a sudden have gotten worse in the last 3 years. Also, how does 5 major labels, plus hundreds of independent labels, all competing with one another to sell you their musicians' music constitute a monopoly?
"If you took a whole bunch of signed recording artists, and left them in a room with the appropriate tools, the result *would* be music, because the marketing/distribution/hyping done by record companies is *not* necessary for the production of music."
No. You'd end up with a bunch of msuicians trying to fighting over who gets to use the recording equipment, and who's going front the money to pay for it. Not to mention none of them know how to use the equipment.
Actually, that mail forwarding control feature sounds really great. You can distribute info under NDA to customers via e-mail without worrying about them sending it to whomever they feel like. Despite all the bs I read on Slashdot, the so-called lost freedoms don't exists except by choice. E.G. I choose to run software x, therefore I'm bound by it's limitations. If you don't like the software don't use it. But don't expect others to think these companies are evil for wanting to provide protection for customers data, when some people clearly want it.
"What I need is the ability to read and change the endorsement key so that I can falsely endorse my system to be something that it is not"
You mean to bypass the licensing scheme for software or view DRM content that you didn't pay for. If the software you're want to run requires this feature, why not find different software. But don't tell me I can't have TCPA because you don't want it.
The point is, if you can have the private key electronically, then so can any hacker. Maybe they'll put it on a sticker on the chip though. That would be cool.
For the average teenager, will a lot of free time and a small allowance, the file swapping method is more attractive. You can even argue that it's still faster than driving to the record store and buying a cd. Evidence has also shown that legitimate online music services can't compete with kazaa.
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Kazaa has a legitimate use in allowing distribution of material that isn't restricted by copyright holders, as well as distributing DRM style files that can be paid for and activated after downloading. The monopoly angle doesn't work, however, since copyright holders are granted a monopoly by law, so legally have the exclusive right to license the material to whomever they want.
If you claim the RIAA is sabotaging Kazaa by putting ad files that look like music files, then you are admitting that the purpose of Kazaa is to ditribute copyrighted material illegally. This makes you guilty. You're better off claiming your purpose is to share legally copyable files, which is what Kazaa is trying to do.
The analogy is still valid, even if you think it's extreme.
Quit using CISC vs RISC. It's an obsolete comparison. All modern processors, including Intel, use a RISC core. Intel just needs extra hardware to deal with their old instruction in the pipeline to make sure they retire properly.
Our 800Mhz Sparc machines can't outperform our 2GHz Pentium4 machines. I seriously doubt your 800 MHz iMac has more than half the performance of a P4 at 2 GHz.
I don't think you understand what the word "could" means.
I believe the law said either must be true, not both.
Troll. The actual quote included the phrase "among other factors", which you went out of your way to remove from the middle of the sentence.
Ahh, no. Like any other library, they can buy their own copy of anything they want.
Huh. I'm sure they'll let one person at a time check out a copy of any copyrighted material. After all, they did buy the one copy. :-)
Actually, they're cutting services for the only people who do actually pay for something. Very bad for business.
"I don't see how this is "Microsoftish" -- the code Red Hat creates or includes is still GPL, and you can pay anyone willing to fix it. They're not required to support it forever :)"
But isn't that what you're paying RedHat for when you buy support from RedHat? By cutting their support, they're cutting the one service that paying customers actually want (unless they buy the software as a donation). MS just patched NT4, which has been out since '95 or so, and you're criticizing MS and excusing RedHat. Give me a break.
The article is making something out of nothing. The US apparently asked to change the word support to encourage in the sentance "Development and deployment of open-source software should be encouraged, as appropriate, as should open standards for ICT (information and communications technology) networking.". How does unsing the term encourage = against open-source software? My guess is the US asked for the switch because support can mean provide monetary support, while encourage is less ambiguous. Basically, people are making something out of nothing here.
Capitalism is inherently free in that it is based on the concept of free trade. Communism is not free since it assumes that an individual must sacrifice his freedom for the good of society.
But without finding a record label, the Beatles would never have been heard by a significant number of people. Just because some record companies don't have good judgement doesn't mean bands can sell significant numbers of albums without record labels. Look at kazaa. People aren't downloading unknown artists to find new stuff. Their downloading stuff that record companies have publicized in order to get radio airtime.
Another person getting modded up for say music now isn't as good as when I was younger. The music industry isn't much different now than 30 years. How can they all of a sudden have gotten worse in the last 3 years. Also, how does 5 major labels, plus hundreds of independent labels, all competing with one another to sell you their musicians' music constitute a monopoly?
"If you took a whole bunch of signed recording artists, and left them in a room with the appropriate tools, the result *would* be music, because the marketing/distribution/hyping done by record companies is *not* necessary for the production of music."
No. You'd end up with a bunch of msuicians trying to fighting over who gets to use the recording equipment, and who's going front the money to pay for it. Not to mention none of them know how to use the equipment.
Actually, that mail forwarding control feature sounds really great. You can distribute info under NDA to customers via e-mail without worrying about them sending it to whomever they feel like. Despite all the bs I read on Slashdot, the so-called lost freedoms don't exists except by choice. E.G. I choose to run software x, therefore I'm bound by it's limitations. If you don't like the software don't use it. But don't expect others to think these companies are evil for wanting to provide protection for customers data, when some people clearly want it.
Actually, about 95% of the population want "a computer that has all its data secure, is immune to hackers, and runs only Microsoft products."
"What I need is the ability to read and change the endorsement key so that I can falsely endorse my system to be something that it is not"
You mean to bypass the licensing scheme for software or view DRM content that you didn't pay for. If the software you're want to run requires this feature, why not find different software. But don't tell me I can't have TCPA because you don't want it.
The point is, if you can have the private key electronically, then so can any hacker. Maybe they'll put it on a sticker on the chip though. That would be cool.
RTFA. The author talks about the very issues you're misinformed about.
Is complete unsustantiated bs according to the second white paper, with a detailed analysis showing how much of it is pure fiction
If we were really going to war for oil, we'd be attacking Saudi Arabia, not Iraq, dumbass
For the average teenager, will a lot of free time and a small allowance, the file swapping method is more attractive. You can even argue that it's still faster than driving to the record store and buying a cd. Evidence has also shown that legitimate online music services can't compete with kazaa.