How is that not right? Filesharing is illegal and people have been warned.
There are lots of laws that may seem wrong to some people - laws about haschish seem wrong to me, but I 'm willing to take the risk. If I ever get nailed by the cops about smoking outside, I certainly won't whine it's not right.
As you say the only thing that can be done against this can be done by artists themselves. If lots of them seem to disagree with RIAA's methods they won't be able to continue as they do. Users can't.
msnmessenger-download.com has a rather strange whois record, it doesn't seem to be a microsoft domain.
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Say that an album has 12 tracks. Usually only 2 or 3 of those tracks are the reason people buy the cd, since the rest is filler (in some cases good filler, in other cases crap).
I don't really agree about the filler stuff. While it may be true for a majority of records, some CDs have to be taken as a whole. The Wall from Pink Floyd, for example, comes to my mind.
The songs are played from the participant's hard drive, rather than being illegally swapped.
Sounds reasonable to me, although I wonder if falls under public broadcasting/performance?
Anyway if the bits go through the network the songs _are_ swapped ; the client forbidding to save the stream is just a stupid & useless "protection" - think mplayer -dumpstream.
Also, the idea behind NAT is that it only uses one IP address.
Actually this is the idea behind masquerading - one public IP shared among N private ones.
NAT is Network Address Translation, which is symetric - ie you have N public IPs, N private IPs, and a box matching the public ones with the private ones.
I work for an ISP where we enforce a single-machine license clause,and we do it for a very good reason: we aren't a charity. If it costs us more, it costs you more.
Care to explain it ? I may be stupid, but let's say i'm on DSL, which has a 512kb down / 128 kb up bandwidth. Now what's the difference if i suck my whole bandwidth using one computer or three ? I won't use more than what is allowed anyway.
If Microsoft introduces a.NET version of their flagship Office package it is likely to incorporate some form of VBA. Running a VBA enable application on Linux will not help the security of the Linux platform.
One of the big difference is that linux users wouldn't run Office as root.
I can see some:
why a mac:
a) as another pointed out, macs look good
b) if you avoid revision A machines they have a much longer life length than any PC
c) Apple did not integrate TCPA and DRM-related shit, until yet at least
d) most people don't care about the speed of their computer once they don't have to wait for it (ie 1GHz G4 or 5GHz P4, i can't see the difference)
e) big endian;-))
why linux:
f) most of the X11 desktop managers are much faster than this bloated Aqua thing
g) gnu/linux is free
h) much more software choice with linux than macos.
I still can't understand how a user's process (the browser in this case) can write in a system directory.
Maybe people should start thinking about upgrading their playstations...
In fact mplayer developers would like mplayer to be distributed.
However it isn't included yet in debian due to grey areas like sorenson or asf decoding (and other things i can't remember, but there are a lot).
If mplayer was included in debian it would be a stripped-down binary version ("capable of playing mpeg1 and indeo5 videos"); This (the strip-down) is mplayer's developers problem (hell, would you like a distro to include the software you spend so much time developing, only after having rendered it useless ?).
Precompiled binaries work quite nice these days (i use Dominik official RPMs on my PC and they work as fine as the source version i have to compile on my Mac).
This flamewar once again shows the arrogance of the MPlayer developers:
I think the point is done that people don't like mplayer's developers for their friendliness, but rather for their work. well.
A user who wants a movie player to install with 3 clicks can go use windows.
That's not totally false. I used to run macOS (9 then X) on my old laptop and i haven't been able to watch _any_ divx without an awful >60% framedrop. Mplayer is just smooth.
Ok, if Mplayer installed itself in three clicks it would be better. But./configure && make && sudo make install isn't _that_ hard either; anyway _nothing_ install in 3 clicks on linux distros (apart maybe the packages that come on your distro's CD, for latest redhat or mandrake - maybe).
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How is that not right? Filesharing is illegal and people have been warned.
There are lots of laws that may seem wrong to some people - laws about haschish seem wrong to me, but I 'm willing to take the risk. If I ever get nailed by the cops about smoking outside, I certainly won't whine it's not right.
As you say the only thing that can be done against this can be done by artists themselves. If lots of them seem to disagree with RIAA's methods they won't be able to continue as they do. Users can't.
msnmessenger-download.com has a rather strange whois record, it doesn't seem to be a microsoft domain.
Administrative Contact:
(ENQRJPQGYO) NOCADMIN@NETOS.COM
Vp Network Os, Inc.
15821 NE 8th St.
Suite W200
Bellevue, WA 98008
US
425-376-1126 fax: 425-869-0165
Technical Contact:
Network OS (NA477-ORG) nocadmin@NETOS.COM
Network OS
Westin Bldg. Ste 1918 2001-6th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98121
US
(425) 376-1126 fax: (425) 869-0165
Record expires on 06-Jun-2005.
Record created on 06-Jun-2003.
Database last updated on 19-Jul-2003 08:11:04 EDT.
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NWFOCUS.WA.COM 192.135.191.3
Say that an album has 12 tracks. Usually only 2 or 3 of those tracks are the reason people buy the cd, since the rest is filler (in some cases good filler, in other cases crap).
I don't really agree about the filler stuff. While it may be true for a majority of records, some CDs have to be taken as a whole. The Wall from Pink Floyd, for example, comes to my mind.
What POP3 daemons support SSL _NATIVELY_?
Qpopper does.
And everybuddy did so even before the fork, since at least one year.
is it possible to get what SuSe or RH are charging $$$$ for for free (of course support not included?)
For redhat yes, just look at their ftp.
If not, why not - do they include proporietary (closed source / otherwise copy-restricted components?).
Suse does.
Microsoft and other "bad" companies do that kind of things to almost-mandatory software, not optional services.
OTOH, Apple Titaniums get quite hot too...
OpenAL is everything but cross-platform; it isn't even endian-clean.
Not to mention the fact that _buying_ pirated software is kind of stupid.
I see this one supports Altivec and I know that G3 and G4 Apple computers have the same instruction sets
Actually G3s do not have altivec instruction set.
Who cares ? G4 are faster ;)
People who enjoy watching moving pictures certainly don't need any gigaherz. They need a DVD player or a Pentium III 500 with the DivX codec.
Actually Celeron 300 are fast enough for this.
Sounds reasonable to me, although I wonder if falls under public broadcasting/performance?
Anyway if the bits go through the network the songs _are_ swapped ; the client forbidding to save the stream is just a stupid & useless "protection" - think mplayer -dumpstream.
here's a kernel patch to enable ctrl-click.
google's cache servers block wget (without --user-agent used), too.
Also, the idea behind NAT is that it only uses one IP address.
Actually this is the idea behind masquerading - one public IP shared among N private ones.
NAT is Network Address Translation, which is symetric - ie you have N public IPs, N private IPs, and a box matching the public ones with the private ones.
I work for an ISP where we enforce a single-machine license clause,and we do it for a very good reason: we aren't a charity. If it costs us more, it costs you more.
Care to explain it ? I may be stupid, but let's say i'm on DSL, which has a 512kb down / 128 kb up bandwidth. Now what's the difference if i suck my whole bandwidth using one computer or three ? I won't use more than what is allowed anyway.
It depends on the potato's variety: debian potato or other?
The death of Microsoft is at hand...
:(
Sh*t
I'd really like that people i know continue to run windows; this way i can't fix their computer.
If Microsoft introduces a .NET version of their flagship Office package it is likely to incorporate some form of VBA. Running a VBA enable application on Linux will not help the security of the Linux platform.
One of the big difference is that linux users wouldn't run Office as root.
I can see some: why a mac: ;-))
a) as another pointed out, macs look good
b) if you avoid revision A machines they have a much longer life length than any PC
c) Apple did not integrate TCPA and DRM-related shit, until yet at least
d) most people don't care about the speed of their computer once they don't have to wait for it (ie 1GHz G4 or 5GHz P4, i can't see the difference)
e) big endian
why linux:
f) most of the X11 desktop managers are much faster than this bloated Aqua thing
g) gnu/linux is free
h) much more software choice with linux than macos.
attrib +r "C:\Program Files\Xupiter"
I still can't understand how a user's process (the browser in this case) can write in a system directory.
Maybe people should start thinking about upgrading their playstations...
In fact mplayer developers would like mplayer to be distributed.
However it isn't included yet in debian due to grey areas like sorenson or asf decoding (and other things i can't remember, but there are a lot).
If mplayer was included in debian it would be a stripped-down binary version ("capable of playing mpeg1 and indeo5 videos"); This (the strip-down) is mplayer's developers problem (hell, would you like a distro to include the software you spend so much time developing, only after having rendered it useless ?).
Precompiled binaries work quite nice these days (i use Dominik official RPMs on my PC and they work as fine as the source version i have to compile on my Mac).
This flamewar once again shows the arrogance of the MPlayer developers:
./configure && make && sudo make install isn't _that_ hard either; anyway _nothing_ install in 3 clicks on linux distros (apart maybe the packages that come on your distro's CD, for latest redhat or mandrake - maybe).
I think the point is done that people don't like mplayer's developers for their friendliness, but rather for their work. well.
A user who wants a movie player to install with 3 clicks can go use windows.
That's not totally false. I used to run macOS (9 then X) on my old laptop and i haven't been able to watch _any_ divx without an awful >60% framedrop. Mplayer is just smooth.
Ok, if Mplayer installed itself in three clicks it would be better. But