While, of course, completly ignoring payoffs to smaller bands who actually need it. At least all 9 judges in that court of theirs has the sense to tell the RIAA to go fuck themselves; in the US our judges are on crack and can't quite grasp what the country is about as they rule our constitutional rights away. Frankly, I think canadians like to try appeasement first, just like the British, and if that doesn't work, then they say something like "guy, what are you trying to pull here, eh?" and get all angry. I don't particularily like the idea that they're charging on blank media, since that is also levying people who have nothing to do with piracy. Then again, we're also talking about a country that, when outlawing smoking around children, used the law to keep kids out of donut shops.
Nvidia's coming out with a tech that allows you to setup multiple graphics cards that paralell process your games; you can have 2 or 3 cards in a machine with PCI-X and they'll all work together to render a picture together. I can definatly see each card working on 1/3 of the screen or something.
I'd bet graphical artists would love that kind of a moniter though. With something like that, you'd almost never see the pixels.
We've got paypal and other services though. Besides, bandwidth is going to get cheap, why would they charge for low bandwidth samplers unless they were assholes? Oh, wait, because they're profit driven mabye? There's also bittorent.
Frankly, if I'm going to buy music, I want the CD and the little booklet of lyrics, and if the band wants to include something extra then that means theirs gets baught before another bands. I'm not going to pay for a sampler, that's BS.
Or worse, if you visit some of the worse websites on the internet, you'll find that mabye they'll just refresh a frame or something, charging up a few bucks on your card.
Micropayments won't work for 3 reasons:
First, there's too much free content out there. Why the hell would I want to pay to read one assholes opinion, when I can get a hundred free? Moreso, if I want to pay for some assholes opinion, I'm not going to pay a 5 tenths of a cent to view it. I'm going to go out and pick up a newspaper, at least then I know what I'm getting.
Secondly, the cost of hosting a website is decreasing dramatically since technology is getting better and better, while the tech we use to host websites isn't getting any younger. 10 years ago, everyone had dialup. Now most people have DSL. In 10 more years, everyone will have a T1 or better. In 20 more years, everyone will have a T3 or better. Think about that one: I could take thus uber l33t pimped out gaming rig and turn it into a webserver, and just wait for slashdot to try to turn it into smouldering dust on a home connection costing no more than $50 a month.
Finally, and most importantly, it can be hacked. Once we stopped trading with physical objects, nobody knows where the money goes and how much of it is out there. Moreso, how hard would it be to hack the encryped token or anything else that's sent too and fro? Overhead on the server is going to be big. How are they going to stop people from reposting their articles on a mirror? Would royalties get involved then, and then manditory laws for spying on users?
Then there's banner ad's, which provide quite a bit of revenue as is if you don't mind pleasing advertisers to make a buck.
Surely they should be banned outright, considering they're letting corporations pretty much creat their own money. What's better, "hey son, here's $40" or "Hey son, here's a $40 gift certificate to a gay mens bar!". I'd rather get $40 than a $40 gift certificate since the $40 itself is useful anywhere. Frankly, our own government should be the only authority in this part of the world to coin their own money. An extention of this is if corporations only gave you change in coperate gift certificates, or gave you corporate credit which has exchange rates into other corporations credit types, much like countries. IT's kinda appauling that corporations have a constitutional right people do not.
I like how the conservatives in the country love to criticize anyone's facts, but then they never back that up with hard data. Moore sites all of his sources, why can't you?
Both were politicians. Politicians are bad because they try to please the public with new programs that inevitably fail because they are bad. Why? They can't leave the current ones damn well enough alone, like the constitution. If you really want to know, we haven't had our constitutional rights since after the 1890's, when manditory public schooling became the norm.
Nader's and the greens are conserned crazies; very different from a politican since he works on what's good for everyone, such as removing flouride from the water supply, nuerotoxins from food, and rewriting the law to allow everyone to work together, rather than slave away for a big ubercorp. Most people call him far left, I call him right where our "leaders" need to be. I'm far more conserned with my food supply not being tampered with by drugs that make me want to go on a killing spree than I am about the national deficit, and I'm far more pissed off about the bankruptsy of our social security system, taxing fraud, and taxation without representation via currency fraud than I am about tax cuts.
The far left is filled with hippies, pacifists, and general illogical morons, while the far right is filled with war mongering plutocrats, "businessmen" and people who don't like individuality or freedom, but rather conformity.
Somewhere, right in the middle, where freedoms are garounteed and the ability to protect them and the sense not to kill ourselves, is where our leaders need to be. The greens are there, both the democrats and republicans are on the other side. If you read their platform, you might get an idea of where we need to be.
No, I think you're a screwhead. You see, it is civil rights, because we're voting with our money. Give your money to a cartel, the cartel stays afloat. Give your money to a small business and not the cartel, pretty soon the cartel falls and the smaller businesses grow. Want the cartel's music? Download it.
Why is this a civil rights war? Because not every computer user knows how to get past the copy protection. Because using a CD is still synonimous with copying it, and therefore each use must be lisenced, which is bullshit because playing a CD falls under fair use; I can make as many backups of a CD, as many times as I want. Once the digital rights management infastructure is in place, they can destroy your favorite indie artists. Yes, even the ones who want to give their music away for free.
As far as that indie band; MSG makes food taste great. It did for me. Too bad it makes me want to kill people because they look at me. The RIAA can give them a lot of promotion. Too bad that if they do, they're helping the ultimate destruction of bands such as themselves.
"I just wanted the CD, I didn't want to make a political statement", inotherwords. Well whuptefucking do. I didn't hear the black people of America cry about not being able to use the train when they were fighting for their rights.
As far as freeloaders are conserned, how about you shut your trap on that one. Go out and take a survey; what's music really worth to most people? $20 a CD, or $3? $50 a month for all you can handle? The RIAA is a cartel, and people have gotten used to cartel prices.
As far as "worldwide exposure, active promotion, industry contacts and that nice advance", what dream world are you living in? They get you to sign a contact giving them right to whatever you make, you then pay for your own studio time to record your songs (which can run $500-$600 or more an hour). You send it to them, they may or may not make a CD, atwhich point if they do you get a few pennies per sale, and the rest of the money you make are at conserts, and even then you get a cut of the ticket sales. Making music is more of a job than a creative work with the RIAA.
First, they've got to provide you with a copy of the legal papers. So, unless there's an EULA in the CD packaging you can read before using the CD, which there usually is, then you don't have to go by any of it, just the laws that currently stand. If you can't see the contract before signing it, then it does not apply, especially when it's snuck on.
Secondly, I interperete the law a bit differently. The EULA's power stems from how a computer works. Because a computers' processor has registers, it must copy the cd over and over and read/write it in order to play the CD. This essentially requires you to have their permission to copy. However, if you look at the EULA, they say "you may use this program" however, they also say "you may not make copies of this program". By doing so, they invalidate their EULA, since it has clearly contradictary statements; when on a digital medium, in order to use, you must copy. If by copying I must have a lisence, and if their lisence says I can use but not copy, then am I or am I not allowed to use the media?
I put a CD into the computer, and I hit play. This isn't copying to you and me, it's playing. Therefore, this use does not fall under the EULA. What does fall under the EULA is when you copy it onto a CD and pass it out, which again, it conflicts.
Install, and begin chugging down books and practice tests, operating systems and the like. Trust me on this, I'm a poor college kid, and I'm lucky to be going to college but I don't have money to spend on shabby shitty training manuels. If you're stuck on 56K, find someone with a DSL line and a loose moral compass, and they'll get you the OS's you want for a few bucks a pop.;)
Gory murder, people getting killed by guns, violent cartoons that promote bad morals and bad habits, people blowing eachother up, and the late-night propaganda...er...news. And people complained about Janet's magical breast?
How bout you do yourself, and your kids, some justice and take your TV out into the middle of a forest, shoot it a few times, then go back to the store and pick up a computer for each kid, a family computer, and a fast internet connection (DSL or cable). Put it in their rooms, let em' go crazy, and make sure you tell them "if you've got any question, ANY question, ask me" and when they come up to you with the enivitablly crazy questions, don't get pissed, talk with em'.
"But we love the TV, the TV is our friend"
All the god box ever brought anyone is a cheap way for you to zone out for a few hours and do nothing. What about your dreams? Where are those every night you come home? Do you want to wake up one day, suddenly 60, and realize "I'v done nothing with my life, accept sit on this couch, and watch this TV".
Here's a challenge; go one week without TV. Find something else to do.
Then we should lobby for a copyright law that can't be changed, accept by 100% senate, 100% representative, and 100% congressional approval vote, which states a single point in time for a copyrighted work to expire. Additionally, in order to get a copyright on a book, movie, or piece of music, you have to 3 copies into the library of congress, who then immediatly OCR's the data, scans it into their vast database, and when the day comes along that the copyright runs out, they throw that puppy onto the internet with public funding on a phat phat pipe, or if you're old fashoned, you can request a copy of the media on a physical format and wait a year for them to get around to the request.
I'm sure every book published in the united states, once compressed, would probably fit on a 50-stack of DVD's. In a few more years, it'll fit on a disk, and in a few more years after that, you can contain all of humanities knowledge, in any format, on a single disk.
Unfortunatly, there's an evil that doesn't want this to happen. It's the same evil that has taken over our government, enslaved us, and is currently seeking total control. I call it satan, you can call it whatever you want; republicans, democrats, corporate bigwigs, linux zealonts, etc. It comes in many forms, but once you know what it is, you can identify and fight it. It's kinda like getting unix; takes awhile, but once you've got it, you've got it.
Yup, and that's why he have the 2nd amendment and the right to own firearms. The smart dudes who came up with the whole think knew we were going to completly fuck this thing up, and that so long as weapons were available to people, the people would be able to fight back the army.
Unfortunatly, we have no civil rights anymore, the usa patriot act nixed the constitution. And now through exeuitive order, the president can give the country over to the UN by sighning 11 papers and turn the whole thing over to FEMA.
Unfortunatly, the whole union began falling apart as soon as congress decided they can take a liberal interpretation of their powers granted by the constitution, thus giving them unlimited power over time as laws widened and people were not given info or education.
I reccomend everyone go out and purchase at least a handgun, at best an m-16 or some kind of semi-auto rifle with a scope, and begin practicing in a local militia. Pretty soon now another terrorist attack or a series of them, justifying turning our country into a police state and there's going to be door-to-door searches and people getting arrested or shot by paranoid drugged out soldiers. Personally, I'd rather they think twice before invading people's homes and trying to steal their posessions.
Here's a better idea: remove the TV altogether, get them each seperate computers, homeschool or groupschool them instead of public or private school them, and finally, don't do christmas or any of those other corperate BS holidays. Christmas has become Corporate endebtment day, as have all consumer holidays. Give them an actual religion; I suggest dead guy on a stick but there are others.
Agreed. I like to use the pair of pants example. I can pick up a pair of pants and see what it's made of; the quality of the stiching, weither it's double or triple stiched, the quality of the fabric, dye, etc. Even with military camo, you've got different patterns, different fabrics and synthetics, etc.
When I go down to the military surplus store, I can refuse to buy clothing wrapped in boxes and bags, because I don't get to see them. Instead, I go to the shelves and take a good look at what's on the shelf.
When I head down to the store to pick up a router, however, I'm only told which standards it's complaint with, not what it's capable of doing. I can't see the soldering, the capacitor branding, the capacitor capacitance tolerance and what range that tolerance is in. I can't take a look at the source to know weither or not someone can get in.
Inotherwords, all the pants in the military surplus store are in boxes I can't, by law, open up. I can use the pants, I just can't inspect them for flaws. I can see the box is labeled "surplus military pants 30/70, Chocolate chip camo pattern" but I can't open up the box to see.
CEO's just don't care; they want to maximise the profit to their investor, and to do that, they've got to crank out a whole lot of shitty product and sell it super expensive.
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While, of course, completly ignoring payoffs to smaller bands who actually need it. At least all 9 judges in that court of theirs has the sense to tell the RIAA to go fuck themselves; in the US our judges are on crack and can't quite grasp what the country is about as they rule our constitutional rights away. Frankly, I think canadians like to try appeasement first, just like the British, and if that doesn't work, then they say something like "guy, what are you trying to pull here, eh?" and get all angry. I don't particularily like the idea that they're charging on blank media, since that is also levying people who have nothing to do with piracy. Then again, we're also talking about a country that, when outlawing smoking around children, used the law to keep kids out of donut shops.
Nvidia's coming out with a tech that allows you to setup multiple graphics cards that paralell process your games; you can have 2 or 3 cards in a machine with PCI-X and they'll all work together to render a picture together. I can definatly see each card working on 1/3 of the screen or something.
I'd bet graphical artists would love that kind of a moniter though. With something like that, you'd almost never see the pixels.
(I've had coworkers and friends say 'woah!' more than I'd like to admit *grin*)
Ye who speeds, cuts people off, and winds through traffic, is the first to reach the red light.
We've got paypal and other services though. Besides, bandwidth is going to get cheap, why would they charge for low bandwidth samplers unless they were assholes? Oh, wait, because they're profit driven mabye? There's also bittorent.
Frankly, if I'm going to buy music, I want the CD and the little booklet of lyrics, and if the band wants to include something extra then that means theirs gets baught before another bands. I'm not going to pay for a sampler, that's BS.
And lest we forget, as the tables grew, more memory was required, and lookups slowed down.
Or worse, if you visit some of the worse websites on the internet, you'll find that mabye they'll just refresh a frame or something, charging up a few bucks on your card.
Micropayments won't work for 3 reasons:
First, there's too much free content out there. Why the hell would I want to pay to read one assholes opinion, when I can get a hundred free? Moreso, if I want to pay for some assholes opinion, I'm not going to pay a 5 tenths of a cent to view it. I'm going to go out and pick up a newspaper, at least then I know what I'm getting.
Secondly, the cost of hosting a website is decreasing dramatically since technology is getting better and better, while the tech we use to host websites isn't getting any younger. 10 years ago, everyone had dialup. Now most people have DSL. In 10 more years, everyone will have a T1 or better. In 20 more years, everyone will have a T3 or better. Think about that one: I could take thus uber l33t pimped out gaming rig and turn it into a webserver, and just wait for slashdot to try to turn it into smouldering dust on a home connection costing no more than $50 a month.
Finally, and most importantly, it can be hacked. Once we stopped trading with physical objects, nobody knows where the money goes and how much of it is out there. Moreso, how hard would it be to hack the encryped token or anything else that's sent too and fro? Overhead on the server is going to be big. How are they going to stop people from reposting their articles on a mirror? Would royalties get involved then, and then manditory laws for spying on users?
Then there's banner ad's, which provide quite a bit of revenue as is if you don't mind pleasing advertisers to make a buck.
Wooo, so I AM on crack. Hrmph, now there's something worth reading into. (adds to bookmarks)
Danke
Surely they should be banned outright, considering they're letting corporations pretty much creat their own money. What's better, "hey son, here's $40" or "Hey son, here's a $40 gift certificate to a gay mens bar!". I'd rather get $40 than a $40 gift certificate since the $40 itself is useful anywhere. Frankly, our own government should be the only authority in this part of the world to coin their own money.
An extention of this is if corporations only gave you change in coperate gift certificates, or gave you corporate credit which has exchange rates into other corporations credit types, much like countries. IT's kinda appauling that corporations have a constitutional right people do not.
I like how the conservatives in the country love to criticize anyone's facts, but then they never back that up with hard data. Moore sites all of his sources, why can't you?
I wonder if they'll try to be the iconoclast and start selling data on browsing habits...
Both were politicians. Politicians are bad because they try to please the public with new programs that inevitably fail because they are bad. Why? They can't leave the current ones damn well enough alone, like the constitution. If you really want to know, we haven't had our constitutional rights since after the 1890's, when manditory public schooling became the norm.
Nader's and the greens are conserned crazies; very different from a politican since he works on what's good for everyone, such as removing flouride from the water supply, nuerotoxins from food, and rewriting the law to allow everyone to work together, rather than slave away for a big ubercorp. Most people call him far left, I call him right where our "leaders" need to be. I'm far more conserned with my food supply not being tampered with by drugs that make me want to go on a killing spree than I am about the national deficit, and I'm far more pissed off about the bankruptsy of our social security system, taxing fraud, and taxation without representation via currency fraud than I am about tax cuts.
The far left is filled with hippies, pacifists, and general illogical morons, while the far right is filled with war mongering plutocrats, "businessmen" and people who don't like individuality or freedom, but rather conformity.
Somewhere, right in the middle, where freedoms are garounteed and the ability to protect them and the sense not to kill ourselves, is where our leaders need to be. The greens are there, both the democrats and republicans are on the other side. If you read their platform, you might get an idea of where we need to be.
Why can't they just settle on one standard and go from there?
No, I think you're a screwhead. You see, it is civil rights, because we're voting with our money. Give your money to a cartel, the cartel stays afloat. Give your money to a small business and not the cartel, pretty soon the cartel falls and the smaller businesses grow. Want the cartel's music? Download it.
Why is this a civil rights war? Because not every computer user knows how to get past the copy protection. Because using a CD is still synonimous with copying it, and therefore each use must be lisenced, which is bullshit because playing a CD falls under fair use; I can make as many backups of a CD, as many times as I want. Once the digital rights management infastructure is in place, they can destroy your favorite indie artists. Yes, even the ones who want to give their music away for free.
As far as that indie band; MSG makes food taste great. It did for me. Too bad it makes me want to kill people because they look at me. The RIAA can give them a lot of promotion. Too bad that if they do, they're helping the ultimate destruction of bands such as themselves.
And put another set in office! Rah Rah Rah kerry!
Oh, wait...we don't have that right anymore. The goverment is installing electronic voting machines and people are stupid enough to use them.
"I just wanted the CD, I didn't want to make a political statement", inotherwords. Well whuptefucking do. I didn't hear the black people of America cry about not being able to use the train when they were fighting for their rights.
As far as freeloaders are conserned, how about you shut your trap on that one. Go out and take a survey; what's music really worth to most people? $20 a CD, or $3? $50 a month for all you can handle? The RIAA is a cartel, and people have gotten used to cartel prices.
As far as "worldwide exposure, active promotion, industry contacts and that nice advance", what dream world are you living in? They get you to sign a contact giving them right to whatever you make, you then pay for your own studio time to record your songs (which can run $500-$600 or more an hour). You send it to them, they may or may not make a CD, atwhich point if they do you get a few pennies per sale, and the rest of the money you make are at conserts, and even then you get a cut of the ticket sales. Making music is more of a job than a creative work with the RIAA.
First, they've got to provide you with a copy of the legal papers. So, unless there's an EULA in the CD packaging you can read before using the CD, which there usually is, then you don't have to go by any of it, just the laws that currently stand. If you can't see the contract before signing it, then it does not apply, especially when it's snuck on.
Secondly, I interperete the law a bit differently. The EULA's power stems from how a computer works. Because a computers' processor has registers, it must copy the cd over and over and read/write it in order to play the CD. This essentially requires you to have their permission to copy. However, if you look at the EULA, they say "you may use this program" however, they also say "you may not make copies of this program". By doing so, they invalidate their EULA, since it has clearly contradictary statements; when on a digital medium, in order to use, you must copy. If by copying I must have a lisence, and if their lisence says I can use but not copy, then am I or am I not allowed to use the media?
I put a CD into the computer, and I hit play. This isn't copying to you and me, it's playing. Therefore, this use does not fall under the EULA. What does fall under the EULA is when you copy it onto a CD and pass it out, which again, it conflicts.
1 word for you sister
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Install, and begin chugging down books and practice tests, operating systems and the like. Trust me on this, I'm a poor college kid, and I'm lucky to be going to college but I don't have money to spend on shabby shitty training manuels. If you're stuck on 56K, find someone with a DSL line and a loose moral compass, and they'll get you the OS's you want for a few bucks a pop.
Unless, of course, someone nicknames some hate-group flowers, inwhich case you're screwed.
Free speech is free speech; no artifial flavors, no natural flavors, no substitutes, no preservatives, and no regulation.
Gory murder, people getting killed by guns, violent cartoons that promote bad morals and bad habits, people blowing eachother up, and the late-night propaganda...er...news. And people complained about Janet's magical breast?
How bout you do yourself, and your kids, some justice and take your TV out into the middle of a forest, shoot it a few times, then go back to the store and pick up a computer for each kid, a family computer, and a fast internet connection (DSL or cable). Put it in their rooms, let em' go crazy, and make sure you tell them "if you've got any question, ANY question, ask me" and when they come up to you with the enivitablly crazy questions, don't get pissed, talk with em'.
"But we love the TV, the TV is our friend"
All the god box ever brought anyone is a cheap way for you to zone out for a few hours and do nothing. What about your dreams? Where are those every night you come home? Do you want to wake up one day, suddenly 60, and realize "I'v done nothing with my life, accept sit on this couch, and watch this TV".
Here's a challenge; go one week without TV. Find something else to do.
Good pop music: De/Vision Bad pop music: Briteny spears
However, there's only 1 kind of pop critic, the payed-for pop critic.
Step 1: Bet everyone on slashdot that MS will include the software by default in their next OS release.
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Step 2:
Step 3: PROFIT!!!!...er...Collect stacks of play money.
Then we should lobby for a copyright law that can't be changed, accept by 100% senate, 100% representative, and 100% congressional approval vote, which states a single point in time for a copyrighted work to expire. Additionally, in order to get a copyright on a book, movie, or piece of music, you have to 3 copies into the library of congress, who then immediatly OCR's the data, scans it into their vast database, and when the day comes along that the copyright runs out, they throw that puppy onto the internet with public funding on a phat phat pipe, or if you're old fashoned, you can request a copy of the media on a physical format and wait a year for them to get around to the request.
I'm sure every book published in the united states, once compressed, would probably fit on a 50-stack of DVD's. In a few more years, it'll fit on a disk, and in a few more years after that, you can contain all of humanities knowledge, in any format, on a single disk.
Unfortunatly, there's an evil that doesn't want this to happen. It's the same evil that has taken over our government, enslaved us, and is currently seeking total control. I call it satan, you can call it whatever you want; republicans, democrats, corporate bigwigs, linux zealonts, etc. It comes in many forms, but once you know what it is, you can identify and fight it. It's kinda like getting unix; takes awhile, but once you've got it, you've got it.
Yup, and that's why he have the 2nd amendment and the right to own firearms. The smart dudes who came up with the whole think knew we were going to completly fuck this thing up, and that so long as weapons were available to people, the people would be able to fight back the army.
Unfortunatly, we have no civil rights anymore, the usa patriot act nixed the constitution. And now through exeuitive order, the president can give the country over to the UN by sighning 11 papers and turn the whole thing over to FEMA.
Unfortunatly, the whole union began falling apart as soon as congress decided they can take a liberal interpretation of their powers granted by the constitution, thus giving them unlimited power over time as laws widened and people were not given info or education.
I reccomend everyone go out and purchase at least a handgun, at best an m-16 or some kind of semi-auto rifle with a scope, and begin practicing in a local militia. Pretty soon now another terrorist attack or a series of them, justifying turning our country into a police state and there's going to be door-to-door searches and people getting arrested or shot by paranoid drugged out soldiers. Personally, I'd rather they think twice before invading people's homes and trying to steal their posessions.
Here's a better idea: remove the TV altogether, get them each seperate computers, homeschool or groupschool them instead of public or private school them, and finally, don't do christmas or any of those other corperate BS holidays. Christmas has become Corporate endebtment day, as have all consumer holidays. Give them an actual religion; I suggest dead guy on a stick but there are others.
Agreed. I like to use the pair of pants example. I can pick up a pair of pants and see what it's made of; the quality of the stiching, weither it's double or triple stiched, the quality of the fabric, dye, etc. Even with military camo, you've got different patterns, different fabrics and synthetics, etc.
When I go down to the military surplus store, I can refuse to buy clothing wrapped in boxes and bags, because I don't get to see them. Instead, I go to the shelves and take a good look at what's on the shelf.
When I head down to the store to pick up a router, however, I'm only told which standards it's complaint with, not what it's capable of doing. I can't see the soldering, the capacitor branding, the capacitor capacitance tolerance and what range that tolerance is in. I can't take a look at the source to know weither or not someone can get in.
Inotherwords, all the pants in the military surplus store are in boxes I can't, by law, open up. I can use the pants, I just can't inspect them for flaws. I can see the box is labeled "surplus military pants 30/70, Chocolate chip camo pattern" but I can't open up the box to see.
CEO's just don't care; they want to maximise the profit to their investor, and to do that, they've got to crank out a whole lot of shitty product and sell it super expensive.