1. At the risk of redundancy, it's not theft, it's copyright infringement.
2. As you say, settlement money is almost certainly not going to musicians. More importantly, suppose someone is infringing on music not controlled by the RIAA. You can be DAMN sure that no SMALL artists will get any money from a settlement with the RIAA.
3. The RIAA is still treating artists terribly, even many of the huge ones. Not that I have TOO much sympathy for the Backstreet Boys or anything, but it's very illuminating that one of them testified in court that they had never received a royalty check.
4. As a musician, I think musicians opposing p2p are just helping to prop up the hideous slave monster that is the RIAA, and aren't looking at the future closely enough to realize how much better things would be without it. It's kinda similar to MS and Linux, actually. People don't realize how much better everything would be without MS either.
5. I seriously think that if the US (and other countries too soon I bet) wants to keep running this course they should get kindergarten teachers to stop telling children to share. It would better prepare them for the pathetic moral wasteland brought on not by file sharing but by the RIAA.
What an excellently concise way to put it... I wonder if this will make anyone understand how piracy benefits certain companies (it increases reliance on and familiarization with the product, and still allows for legal action against the people that do it).
For what it's worth, if I had mod points today, they'd be yours.
When we say LOCs, we don't mean libraries of congress, it's how many LIBRARIANS of congress will fit on a drive, or be passed across a network, or whatever. It all makes sense now...
Haha okay first of all, Britney being porn was a JOKE, as I said. As for the rest of your post, PLEASE tell me you copied and pasted that from somewhere. Because if you're passionate enough to write that much in that good of a writing style on the subject, you shouldn't be writing about it, you should be out there doing it.
Porn really does drive innovation in some ways... I worked at JDS Uniphase (a fiber optics company, if you didn't know) two years ago, and the joke was that porn and mp3s drove their business, and Britney Spears got in on both counts.
In my view, Linux is the only potential competition MS has, and thus the only thing really keeping them honest. If the work on other OS's falters, MS can just get even more evil, and then where will we all be?
Okay, maybe i'm an elitist bastard, but I'm NOT telling them they can't like that. If anyone cares about Britney Spears style music to even remotely the degree that I care about music, there will be plenty to go around even without any copyright.
And what purpose does it serve? The ability to charge for content. And what effect does that have? ALL content markets (news, books, movies, and especially music) are flooded by "art" that people simply don't care about. I'm a musician. Of course I would like to make money from my art. But I'd rather still see radio devoid of Britney Spears and her ilk, and only have the people making music that care enough to do it for themselves.
I'm Canadian too, and don't get me wrong, I love it here. And I love Bowling for Columbine and agree with most of what Moore has to say. But it's worth noting that he has specifically said that he uses Canada as a "straight man" to show what the US is doing wrong. He exaggerates how good our country is. There was a good quote from him, something like this: "If I was making a movie about Canada, it would be about how you're tearing down health care, and slowly taking apart your welfare system". Remember, Canada has its own problems. Finally, as far as I'm concerned, it's really silly to be proud of your nationality. Why? Because it's not exactly your choice. If you were born here, you didn't choose to be. And if you immigrated, you weren't guaranteed admission. So don't be proud to be Canadian. It's not a personal accomplishment, even if it is a good thing. It seems to me that the equivalence of personal and national identity is one of the things we frequently bitch about with the US, probably for good reason. So stop being so patriotic. It's not worth it.
...couldn't that "because it's there" argument be applied equally well to devoting money to exploring the goatse guy? Because in that case, I definitely DO NOT want to boldly go where god only knows what has gone before.
"They aren't going to win any more of the desktop market by making it look fancier."
Sure they will. In fact, even the one thing you mentioned about integrating stuff appeals to me (in principle, who knows about the specific implementation) and like me that know what they want but don't want to learn to code well enough to do it ourselves.
While there's a part of me that would love to believe that Slashdotters don't buy such things, the majority remembers that I stopped browsing at -1 a LOOONG time ago.
Still, however, it seems to me that although every little bit helps, Slashdot alone has no real capability to end this or any other insanity beyond the skills and spare time of a reasonably large group of geeks.
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Not to mention the phrase "where do you want to go today?"
I think it was probably intended...
It would fit with the whole "rainbow" thing in the parent.
1. At the risk of redundancy, it's not theft, it's copyright infringement.
2. As you say, settlement money is almost certainly not going to musicians. More importantly, suppose someone is infringing on music not controlled by the RIAA. You can be DAMN sure that no SMALL artists will get any money from a settlement with the RIAA.
3. The RIAA is still treating artists terribly, even many of the huge ones. Not that I have TOO much sympathy for the Backstreet Boys or anything, but it's very illuminating that one of them testified in court that they had never received a royalty check.
4. As a musician, I think musicians opposing p2p are just helping to prop up the hideous slave monster that is the RIAA, and aren't looking at the future closely enough to realize how much better things would be without it. It's kinda similar to MS and Linux, actually. People don't realize how much better everything would be without MS either.
5. I seriously think that if the US (and other countries too soon I bet) wants to keep running this course they should get kindergarten teachers to stop telling children to share. It would better prepare them for the pathetic moral wasteland brought on not by file sharing but by the RIAA.
One down, god knows how many to go.
What an excellently concise way to put it... I wonder if this will make anyone understand how piracy benefits certain companies (it increases reliance on and familiarization with the product, and still allows for legal action against the people that do it).
For what it's worth, if I had mod points today, they'd be yours.
When we say LOCs, we don't mean libraries of congress, it's how many LIBRARIANS of congress will fit on a drive, or be passed across a network, or whatever. It all makes sense now...
Haha okay first of all, Britney being porn was a JOKE, as I said. As for the rest of your post, PLEASE tell me you copied and pasted that from somewhere. Because if you're passionate enough to write that much in that good of a writing style on the subject, you shouldn't be writing about it, you should be out there doing it.
Pleased to meet you, Senator. ;)
Officer: "Do you know how fast you were going?" Heisenberg: "No, but I know EXACTLY where I was"
Porn really does drive innovation in some ways... I worked at JDS Uniphase (a fiber optics company, if you didn't know) two years ago, and the joke was that porn and mp3s drove their business, and Britney Spears got in on both counts.
Mmm... Orange... Wait a minute!!! What the???!!!
So latex good, but porn bad??? So confused... ;)
Realized... The word is realized...
rtfP!!! :)
He said criminals AND OTHERS!!!
In my view, Linux is the only potential competition MS has, and thus the only thing really keeping them honest. If the work on other OS's falters, MS can just get even more evil, and then where will we all be?
Okay, maybe i'm an elitist bastard, but I'm NOT telling them they can't like that. If anyone cares about Britney Spears style music to even remotely the degree that I care about music, there will be plenty to go around even without any copyright.
And what purpose does it serve? The ability to charge for content. And what effect does that have? ALL content markets (news, books, movies, and especially music) are flooded by "art" that people simply don't care about. I'm a musician. Of course I would like to make money from my art. But I'd rather still see radio devoid of Britney Spears and her ilk, and only have the people making music that care enough to do it for themselves.
...is how do they do the Black Knight???
I'm Canadian too, and don't get me wrong, I love it here. And I love Bowling for Columbine and agree with most of what Moore has to say. But it's worth noting that he has specifically said that he uses Canada as a "straight man" to show what the US is doing wrong. He exaggerates how good our country is. There was a good quote from him, something like this: "If I was making a movie about Canada, it would be about how you're tearing down health care, and slowly taking apart your welfare system". Remember, Canada has its own problems. Finally, as far as I'm concerned, it's really silly to be proud of your nationality. Why? Because it's not exactly your choice. If you were born here, you didn't choose to be. And if you immigrated, you weren't guaranteed admission. So don't be proud to be Canadian. It's not a personal accomplishment, even if it is a good thing. It seems to me that the equivalence of personal and national identity is one of the things we frequently bitch about with the US, probably for good reason. So stop being so patriotic. It's not worth it.
...couldn't that "because it's there" argument be applied equally well to devoting money to exploring the goatse guy? Because in that case, I definitely DO NOT want to boldly go where god only knows what has gone before.
"They aren't going to win any more of the desktop market by making it look fancier." Sure they will. In fact, even the one thing you mentioned about integrating stuff appeals to me (in principle, who knows about the specific implementation) and like me that know what they want but don't want to learn to code well enough to do it ourselves.
...when someone outside of the RIAA tries to copy their math. :)
Check out the picture of the device on the first link. It has REDMOND on it!!! Conspiracy? Well, this IS Slashdot.
Anyone who belongs here will have long since banished THOSE from their browsers and (admittedly rather short) attention spans. :)
While there's a part of me that would love to believe that Slashdotters don't buy such things, the majority remembers that I stopped browsing at -1 a LOOONG time ago. Still, however, it seems to me that although every little bit helps, Slashdot alone has no real capability to end this or any other insanity beyond the skills and spare time of a reasonably large group of geeks.