Look's like as six syllable phrase for taking, without right or permission, someone else's intellectual property (that's the definition fo stealing, by the way) must be just too much for someone as stupid as me to discern. Yeah, that must be it.
Either that or I'm not deluding myself into thinking that I'm fighting the good fight. The fact of the matter is that all of this stuff is a necessary step in the evolution of the music business. The RIAA is casting about for people to blame because its bad practice is right now biting it on the nose. There's no need to insult my intelligence because I know that I'm not sharing work that is my own.
Except, I share my own work, too. Wow, there's a spin for you, eh? As for the RIAA's spin, well, I really don't care. Copyright infringement (sharing?) is theft. I know, because I've gotten money from people who've done it to me in the past. I've never gotten anyone expelled from school for it, though. Oh, wait, yes. Yes, I've done that, too.
File sharing is piracy, and hence, stealing, which does indeed make it illegal.
The punishment does not fit the crime.
The bottom line is, it is against the law to steal stuff, and pirating anything, be it software, music, or movies, is stealing. That's just the way it is.
I am, however, perfectly willing to promote and even perpetuate the robbing blind of the RIAA and the major labels until such a time as they either go out of business, or figure out that they need to start doing something a little more user friendly than the current model of price gouging and sodomy of not only the music buying public, but their artists as well.
My hope is that they just fold, because then perhaps the artists who actually matter will move toward the independent labels, you know, the ones that actually tend to care about the artists for whom they're releasing music? Yeah, I'd prefer the former, but I'll take the latter, also.
This sounds like an interesting technology, especially in the cd/video store settings.
Beyond product reviews, it would be nice to have access to sample clips and/or movie trailers. I can just imagine, back when I worked in a record store, the help that this would have been every time some random customer came in looking for the ubiquitous "that one song by that one guy with that line that goes like...":-)
Seriously, though, with the widespread adoption of PDAs and cell phones nowadays, this could be a very powerful selling tool in the hands of a retailer savvy enough to make proper use of it.
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I think that this comes at a good time in the waning of the microsoft cycle. Somewhere above (the first post, I think) I read that this is not a good solution for big enterprise. I agree. The microsoft people have given the big businesses so many features (read: crutches) in their recent releases of exchange that it would be, to them, like severing a limb to switch to a software package that lacks even one of said features.
I know this because I work for one of those corporations, and they're getting killed by the microsoft licensing bullshit that's happening right now. They're still not switching to a more reasonable deployment platform, because they feel they can't live without all of the "state of the art" features in the microsoft package.
But I digress. I also agree that this is a great solution for mid-size businesses. And that's just fine, because the country is not made up entirely, or even mostly, of big business; mid-sized businesses comprise a huge chunk of the market, and they really are the ones who get screwed by the microsoft model. If they come on board to the open source game, then the market comes with them. The large businesses will follow along soon after microsoft loses the market share that small to mid-size businesses comprise.
I think that this is a step in the right direction. More groups should be challenging the stranglehold that the RIAA currently has on the music industry, and this is a good beginning.
This isn't just about getting free music, either, nor is it about not having to hear "crappy pop music" on the radio or whatever. It's about the RIAA and the major labels screwing over their artists and everyone else on the planet in the name of making a buck. Their business model simply isn't effective anymore.
I think we need to see more moves like this, and then things will finally start to change.
Nero's actually not too bad, but Adaptec's software seems to crash even if you don't remember to turn your back to the machine while it's burning:-)
I've also had fairly good experiences with CloneCD.
But I agree wholly about being more trusting in doing that type of multitasking with Linuxl; there have been times when I've had (and this it/not/ an exaggeration) more than 15 each of browser windows, editors (both Vim and Emacs, yes, I use and love/both/), and files in GIMP, as well as chatting on Gaim and reading email and usenet.
I'll challenge anyone to try multitasking to that extent in either the mac OS or any flavor of windows.
Who are we trying to kid here? I don't really think that more than four or five of the films that I've seen posted deserved any more appreciation than they actually got. The ones which are truly worth appreciating usually get the appreciation (read: PI, Wings of Desire, et al) that they so richly deserve, either critically, or box office, or by being nominated for awards here and there, whereas the cult classic-type films (Evil Dead, etc.) really shouldn't be appreciated by the masses. If those films were, they would no longer/be/ cult classics.
As for the rest of the films mentioned, they either don't deserve to be here because they're actually/over/appreciated, or they just plain suck, in which case they don't deserve to be appreciated at all. I've seen the freaking/Matrix/ posted here more than twice, for crying out loud! That movie won oscars. It is therefore, by definition, not underappreciated.
If we're talking about B-movies that we love anyway, or maybe because they're B-movies, I'll take any of these three any day of the week:
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
John Carpenter's They Live
or
Hell Comes to Frog Town
If, however, we're talking about very good films that just kind of went away instead of being noticed in the face of schlock like xXx, then give me
the Way of the Gun
Heist
Sexy Beast
or
SLC Punk!
I really enjoy discussions of this type, but, please, let's decide what it is that we're actually discussing here.
I concur. This is an excellent film noir/crime drama which happens to have some really funny parts.
You usually can't go wrong with an ensemble cast made up entirely of character actors.
Two other amazing films that came out fairly recently that seem to have slipped by the wayside were Heist (written and directed by David Mamet) and Sexy Beast (which starred the ever loveable Sir Ben Kingsley, one of the finest actors to have graced the screen in some time).
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Look's like as six syllable phrase for taking, without right or permission, someone else's intellectual property (that's the definition fo stealing, by the way) must be just too much for someone as stupid as me to discern. Yeah, that must be it.
Either that or I'm not deluding myself into thinking that I'm fighting the good fight. The fact of the matter is that all of this stuff is a necessary step in the evolution of the music business. The RIAA is casting about for people to blame because its bad practice is right now biting it on the nose. There's no need to insult my intelligence because I know that I'm not sharing work that is my own.
Except, I share my own work, too. Wow, there's a spin for you, eh? As for the RIAA's spin, well, I really don't care. Copyright infringement (sharing?) is theft. I know, because I've gotten money from people who've done it to me in the past. I've never gotten anyone expelled from school for it, though. Oh, wait, yes. Yes, I've done that, too.
- File sharing is piracy, and hence, stealing, which does indeed make it illegal.
- The punishment does not fit the crime.
The bottom line is, it is against the law to steal stuff, and pirating anything, be it software, music, or movies, is stealing. That's just the way it is.I am, however, perfectly willing to promote and even perpetuate the robbing blind of the RIAA and the major labels until such a time as they either go out of business, or figure out that they need to start doing something a little more user friendly than the current model of price gouging and sodomy of not only the music buying public, but their artists as well.
My hope is that they just fold, because then perhaps the artists who actually matter will move toward the independent labels, you know, the ones that actually tend to care about the artists for whom they're releasing music? Yeah, I'd prefer the former, but I'll take the latter, also.
This sounds like an interesting technology, especially in the cd/video store settings.
:-)
Beyond product reviews, it would be nice to have access to sample clips and/or movie trailers. I can just imagine, back when I worked in a record store, the help that this would have been every time some random customer came in looking for the ubiquitous "that one song by that one guy with that line that goes like..."
Seriously, though, with the widespread adoption of PDAs and cell phones nowadays, this could be a very powerful selling tool in the hands of a retailer savvy enough to make proper use of it.
I think that this comes at a good time in the waning of the microsoft cycle. Somewhere above (the first post, I think) I read that this is not a good solution for big enterprise. I agree. The microsoft people have given the big businesses so many features (read: crutches) in their recent releases of exchange that it would be, to them, like severing a limb to switch to a software package that lacks even one of said features.
I know this because I work for one of those corporations, and they're getting killed by the microsoft licensing bullshit that's happening right now. They're still not switching to a more reasonable deployment platform, because they feel they can't live without all of the "state of the art" features in the microsoft package.
But I digress. I also agree that this is a great solution for mid-size businesses. And that's just fine, because the country is not made up entirely, or even mostly, of big business; mid-sized businesses comprise a huge chunk of the market, and they really are the ones who get screwed by the microsoft model. If they come on board to the open source game, then the market comes with them. The large businesses will follow along soon after microsoft loses the market share that small to mid-size businesses comprise.
I think that this is a step in the right direction. More groups should be challenging the stranglehold that the RIAA currently has on the music industry, and this is a good beginning.
This isn't just about getting free music, either, nor is it about not having to hear "crappy pop music" on the radio or whatever. It's about the RIAA and the major labels screwing over their artists and everyone else on the planet in the name of making a buck. Their business model simply isn't effective anymore.
I think we need to see more moves like this, and then things will finally start to change.
"Only a moron could fall off a segway."
They were right.
Nero's actually not too bad, but Adaptec's software seems to crash even if you don't remember to turn your back to the machine while it's burning :-)
/not/ an exaggeration) more than 15 each of browser windows, editors (both Vim and Emacs, yes, I use and love /both/), and files in GIMP, as well as chatting on Gaim and reading email and usenet.
I've also had fairly good experiences with CloneCD. But I agree wholly about being more trusting in doing that type of multitasking with Linuxl; there have been times when I've had (and this it
I'll challenge anyone to try multitasking to that extent in either the mac OS or any flavor of windows.
Who are we trying to kid here? I don't really think that more than four or five of the films that I've seen posted deserved any more appreciation than they actually got. The ones which are truly worth appreciating usually get the appreciation (read: PI, Wings of Desire, et al) that they so richly deserve, either critically, or box office, or by being nominated for awards here and there, whereas the cult classic-type films (Evil Dead, etc.) really shouldn't be appreciated by the masses. If those films were, they would no longer /be/ cult classics.
As for the rest of the films mentioned, they either don't deserve to be here because they're actually /over/appreciated, or they just plain suck, in which case they don't deserve to be appreciated at all. I've seen the freaking /Matrix/ posted here more than twice, for crying out loud! That movie won oscars. It is therefore, by definition, not underappreciated.
If we're talking about B-movies that we love anyway, or maybe because they're B-movies, I'll take any of these three any day of the week:
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
John Carpenter's They Live
or
Hell Comes to Frog Town
If, however, we're talking about very good films that just kind of went away instead of being noticed in the face of schlock like xXx, then give me
the Way of the Gun
Heist
Sexy Beast
or
SLC Punk!
I really enjoy discussions of this type, but, please, let's decide what it is that we're actually discussing here.
I concur. This is an excellent film noir/crime drama which happens to have some really funny parts. You usually can't go wrong with an ensemble cast made up entirely of character actors. Two other amazing films that came out fairly recently that seem to have slipped by the wayside were Heist (written and directed by David Mamet) and Sexy Beast (which starred the ever loveable Sir Ben Kingsley, one of the finest actors to have graced the screen in some time).