Well shit. We can play the game of the year of 2001. We can preach nearly any beliefs we want, barring slanderous remarks.
But damn. We can't discuss how to override copyright protection schemes.
Shit.
See, Europeans misunderstand something about free speech.
How free is it, if only the majority opinion gets heard? Of course, it's assinine to hear racist literature being read aloud on streets. But to take the right away from them is even sicker.
This would be a good idea. This would be a very good idea. To post this first and get recognition of the first post, 30d would be 30ded on national tv exposure. Good. Success. I enjoy.
I feel that this could pose a problem simply because Oceanic sponges are not nearly what we consider to be in great supply.
The problem lies in that you can make glass with just sand - something that exists in nearly infinite amounts. Ocean sponges are a living thing. Do we really have to kill them to get their benefits? When does the killing end? How can we replenish them as fast as we kill them for Fiber Optics?
So I've been doing a lot of thinking about this over the past few days, not a lot but you know it's been in my mind. The MPAA is a large group of movie studios - Walt Disney, Sony, MGM, Paramount, Universal, you get the idea - basically, if there's been a movie released recently, and it's gotten good press coverage, they're behind it.
This is why I don't like going to movies. Movie studios are only interested in producing movies which will score gigantic First-Weekend sales: this has been evident with nearly every movie produced since Titanic, the last movie to make a dent in the number-of-weeks-on-top category. Look at the movies we've had this summer that have been moderately successful: X-Men 2, Matrix 2, Bruce Almighty, Finding Nemo, The Hulk, Terminator 3, and Charlie's Angels 2. All of which offer little-to-know value beyond flash; Matrix, according to a vast majority of reviews not influenced by the neato-CGI effects, has lost much of its philosophy in favor of lots more flashiness. X-Men 2 delivers nothing of substance, along with the rest of the list. I haven't seen Finding Nemo because I am currently not interested in seeing much Disney (due to their involvement in the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act to protect their works from going into public domain), however from what I hear it is a good family movie, but it doesn't offer the emotion that Disney made so well with the likes of Bambi, Lion King, and Snow White to name a few (a side note here - if the Grimm Brothers had actively pursued an extension of copyright to the point where it is now - 100 years - then Disney would have been in copyright violation in their making of Snow White, and much to all of the proceeds would go back to the Grimm Brothers, and Disney would not have achieved their large following).
They're only interested in the first weekend ratings. All of the movies this summer made a vast majority of their money during the first weekend. This is due in two parts: 1. the tremendous hype machines surrounding the movies did their job and created such a need to view (so they can talk to the people who saw the movie, they don't want to be the only one at the water cooler who didn't see it), and 2. After the group of people who saw it came back to tell the story realized that the movie was nothing but hype, word got back to regular people, and they no longer wanted to see it.
It pisses me off. 20 years ago, MPAA were making movies that are still being enjoyed. Star Wars, Indiana Jones. Jaws. The Exorcist. The Godfather I & II. Das Boot. Raging Bull. Do you think that any of the crap that Hollywood is pushing down our throats now stands a chance of being cared about in 10 years? There may be a couple diamonds in the rough: Lord of the Rings trilogy, the first Matrix, maybe Fight Club. But they are few and far between, especially since the number of movies created are increasing.
One thing I blame is a reliance on CGI - computer graphics in movies. When Titanic came out 5 years ago or something, it was hailed as being spectacular. It now looks ancient. Computer graphics age movies faster that non-cgi graphics. I wish movie studios would pick up on this. I was watching Das Boot a few nights ago, and it was amazing how much more modern it looks than a computer aided one, say, Hunt for Red October (granted, it had primitive computer systems, but still they had the opportunity to not utilize current technology). Much better movie as well, if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it for a not-so-glorious look at war.
I was one of the few people who was not awestruck by the Amazing Spider-Man's not-so-amazing computer graphics. I thought some scenes, especially near the beginning of the movie, were almost to the point where they looked like cartoons. I just watched it again, and it's even more archaic than I remember it from a y
Godzilla 2000 is in fact a traditional Godzilla Movie - Gojira ni-sen mireniamu.
Godzilla without any numbers is, in fact, the Ferris Beuller vs. Godzilla movie. It was made in 1998.
It's a good thing we got this news of a Russian nerd marrying someone 230 miles away, while trapped in a small aluminium box.
There's hope for the nerds trapped in their parents basement yet!
Yes, it is a 0.1 release for a reason. It crashed on my Windows system only once or twice, and that was probably due to some misconfiguring on my part. It was easy to configure, unfortunately it still reeks of "I-look-like-netscape"ocity (a problem plauging mozilla).
Linux distribution is quite good, it won't take over from Evolution just yet.
It's a good start. Remember, people, before you start posting whines about things not working, remember, this is a 0.1 release.
Maybe these poor 14.4-ers should finally get the memo - they're human rights are being violated! Everbody, including those in Estonians, know that it is inhumane for them to be stuck piping information through their small RJ11. Starvin' Marvin is weeping for their poor souls.
Why the hell does yours get rated 2? Oh well. Ratings are for suckers.
But what you just said is exactly why the MPAA and the RIAA don't have a problem keeping afloat when they piss off nerds like us. Some of the more educated will boycott Britney Spears, or Eminem, as protest against what the RIAA is doing (and producing). Yes, fine, but then they go out and listen to an RIAA Sponsored Local Band Concert (Yes, guys, I'm sorry to say but the RIAA does fund local bands, especially non-profit bands [I don't mean indy rock crap by the way]). Or they buy some older music, which still goes back to the RIAA.
I just don't see why Slashdotters even try to pretend to be so above everybody else when it comes to knowledge on the RIAA and MPAA, especially when they post things like this on the main page. It's a limp wristed protest, and nobody will take us seriously. We make no sacrifice.
Isn't Slashdot meant to be against this whole MPAA thing? I mean, aren't the **AA the enemy? But whenever a Star Wars, or a Star Trek, or now Matrix and LOTR come out, it becomes News for Nerds.
You want to know why the MPAA and RIAA has power? Because they can. We all say that we want to get rid of their copyright extending, draconian law creating presence, but nobody has the sack to do it (myself included).
Hollywood is fucking trash these days, I can't understand how such a smart community can't see right through it. They're not making movies to be appreciated 20 years down the line, they're making movies to bring in the big bucks the first weekend, before everybody knows that they're crap (case in point Terminator, Hulk, Angels 2... anything they've come out with in the past 5 years, save maybe the LOTR movies).
And we all fucking walk right into their plot. Yeah, Congress is going to listen to us.
Yes, there is software called Anti-Mal 2.0, it is working fine now on Windows XP, you have to run it in compatibility mode. Any luck with the portable device, let me know...
I find it ironic that most of the floppies I copied were on used AOL Diskettes. It would be real kind of them to start sending CD-RWs in the post, but I won't complain about the Free DVD cases...
In this case, there is good reason to believe it was simply the result of bad land management by the ancient human inhabitants who overhunted the creature to extinction. The had depended on it and there were probably mass starvation of humans once they eliminated their source of food, shelter, clothing, and fuel. Not only is there evidence of the overhunting, but there were isolated islands where the mammoth lived into historic times simply because they weren't hunted.
Prove it. I've seen multiple studies that shown that that dang old end-of-the-ice-age had a small hand in their extinction. As they were pushed farther and farther north into unfertile lands, not by humans, their numbers started to thin.
There's no substantial evidence to the overhunting claim. Yes, we have over-hunted species; that wasn't until the exploration ages, though. American Indians lived in peace with the wolf, the coyote, the buffalo, the moose, the elk; I fail to see why they couldn't reach an agreement with the mammoth.
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They haven't done one thing that's illegal.
Yeah, so that huge price-fixing suit against them was a farce? Just spew whatever you think makes your arguement sound good out, chances are people won't bother to check your thoughts against reality. That's how it works for everyone else anyway.
I was just wondering, when (and if) the **AA association gets up the nerve to finally prosecute somebody, couldn't there be a case be made that the one person that is prosecuted was prosecuted unfairly?
"There are millions of other users violating copyrights, however you are singling out this one user based on _______, I contend for a dismissal," or something along those lines. It wouldn't be that lame, but oh well.
I was listening to a ClearChannel radio station the other day (WTAM 1100, it was during a Cleveland Cavs game, so I wasn't listening to shitty music). They had a commercial on it. "The internet has spurred a technological revolution in the way new music gets to people..." yatta yatta yatta, and then they get to this part: "Count up all of the MP3s on your hard drive. Now, multiply that by one dollar. That's how much you'd owe if stealing music was punished the same way as any other crime." First of all, I have about 900 MP3s on my hard drive - a grand total of 13 of them are ones I am not legally entitled to own. Fucking bring me to court for $900, then the Supreme Court can finally rule, once and for all, on Fair Use vs. Their Right to Exponential Profits. I think that this commercial, as well this whole big mess, is just another of the scare tactics that the **AA is using against the average joe.
But I am curious as to who would stick up for the first guy who was charged. The ACLU, maybe? I haven't been a big proponent of them in the past, however as my horizons broaden, their works are becoming increasingly worthy in my eyes.
However, if you step on their balls a little, and keep on doing it, eventually it will become cheaper to move base into another country. For example, I'm sure that some of the South American nations wouldn't mind adding Spam to their list of exports. Hell, that could be quite lucrative for them; the fact of the matter is, laws, lawsuits, and the like will not do anything. I'm a lowly 19 year old state college student, and I can easily have five or ten computers set up overseas - and I don't have resources.
Maybe the spammers would start, somehow, making use of open SMTP ports on unsecure systems? Who would get in trouble then? The fact of the matter is, people will just have to live with spam for the next few years. It's unrealistic to have an "allow only" list, and it's unrealstic to have a "block only" list. I have heard of some databases which store known spammers - perhaps making a client software to automatically filter things from these. The more people who use it, the more success.
Any music that has an expired copyright is of the public domain.
However, the RIAA & MPAA and other organizations have government backing, and have extended United States copyright laws well beyond the European 50 or so. I believe the current law is 95 years in America, and it can only be made longer by our wonderfully corrupt politicians.
Can I have like, +5 for calling politicians corrupt? Everybody else gets points for just spouting crap, and as long as they say something against the "system" they get hella points. Oh well.
So you're saying that this might actually degrade quality of songs that were made before the digital age?
The reproduction will be near flawless; in fact, wouldn't they be able to reproduce the new Elvis Greatest Hits thing? Or by re-mastering it, do they create a new copyright on said recordings?
Hahah, that's a nautical term, and I'm using it interchangably with this article because the person's name is Ivan. That's just awesome.
Why are all of these Russians all of a sudden getting in trouble for cybercrime? Yes, this was a crime, but then there's that Dmitry guy, and there were at least a half of dozen others, I just didn't have the will power to remember anything about them.
In Soviet Russia, We convince West that Soviet Union is no more. Perhaps it is, they are just using a few "hackers" to try to get some knowledge, and then completely destroy us with computers (a la Splinter Cell).
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Well shit. We can play the game of the year of 2001. We can preach nearly any beliefs we want, barring slanderous remarks. But damn. We can't discuss how to override copyright protection schemes. Shit.
See, Europeans misunderstand something about free speech.
How free is it, if only the majority opinion gets heard? Of course, it's assinine to hear racist literature being read aloud on streets. But to take the right away from them is even sicker.
A broomstick or a boomstick? Ass. Nobody's going to care if you shout allah is great in the street. Especially if you're carrying a broomstick. Now if you're waving around a boomstick, then yeah... i can see a reason to get upset. I love the way the French can hold drug dealers without trial but when we Americans do the same... WE are a country without rights. You Europeans are so screwed up in the head it's sick. You push entire countries - for example, Ireland - into further economic chaos with your stupid "national" interest rate. Brussels has such an inferiority complex it's disgusting.
Libertarian bullhockey. If Europe's so free, let's see you even say the word "Nazi" without being arrested.
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This would be a good idea. This would be a very good idea. To post this first and get recognition of the first post, 30d would be 30ded on national tv exposure. Good. Success. I enjoy.
I feel that this could pose a problem simply because Oceanic sponges are not nearly what we consider to be in great supply.
The problem lies in that you can make glass with just sand - something that exists in nearly infinite amounts. Ocean sponges are a living thing. Do we really have to kill them to get their benefits? When does the killing end? How can we replenish them as fast as we kill them for Fiber Optics?
So I've been doing a lot of thinking about this over the past few days,
not a lot but you know it's been in my mind. The MPAA is a large group of
movie studios - Walt Disney, Sony, MGM, Paramount, Universal, you get the
idea - basically, if there's been a movie released recently, and it's
gotten good press coverage, they're behind it.
This is why I don't like going to movies. Movie studios are only
interested in producing movies which will score gigantic First-Weekend
sales: this has been evident with nearly every movie produced since
Titanic, the last movie to make a dent in the number-of-weeks-on-top
category. Look at the movies we've had this summer that have been
moderately successful: X-Men 2, Matrix 2, Bruce Almighty, Finding Nemo,
The Hulk, Terminator 3, and Charlie's Angels 2. All of which offer
little-to-know value beyond flash; Matrix, according to a vast majority of
reviews not influenced by the neato-CGI effects, has lost much of its
philosophy in favor of lots more flashiness. X-Men 2 delivers nothing of
substance, along with the rest of the list. I haven't seen Finding Nemo
because I am currently not interested in seeing much Disney (due to their
involvement in the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act to protect
their works from going into public domain), however from what I hear it is
a good family movie, but it doesn't offer the emotion that Disney made so
well with the likes of Bambi, Lion King, and Snow White to name a few (a
side note here - if the Grimm Brothers had actively pursued an extension
of copyright to the point where it is now - 100 years - then Disney would
have been in copyright violation in their making of Snow White, and much
to all of the proceeds would go back to the Grimm Brothers, and Disney
would not have achieved their large following).
They're only interested in the first weekend ratings. All of the movies
this summer made a vast majority of their money during the first weekend.
This is due in two parts: 1. the tremendous hype machines surrounding the
movies did their job and created such a need to view (so they can talk to
the people who saw the movie, they don't want to be the only one at the
water cooler who didn't see it), and 2. After the group of people who saw
it came back to tell the story realized that the movie was nothing but
hype, word got back to regular people, and they no longer wanted to see
it.
It pisses me off. 20 years ago, MPAA were making movies that are still
being enjoyed. Star Wars, Indiana Jones. Jaws. The Exorcist. The
Godfather I & II. Das Boot. Raging Bull. Do you think that any of the
crap that Hollywood is pushing down our throats now stands a chance of
being cared about in 10 years? There may be a couple diamonds in the
rough: Lord of the Rings trilogy, the first Matrix, maybe Fight Club. But
they are few and far between, especially since the number of movies
created are increasing.
One thing I blame is a reliance on CGI - computer graphics in movies.
When Titanic came out 5 years ago or something, it was hailed as being
spectacular. It now looks ancient. Computer graphics age movies faster
that non-cgi graphics. I wish movie studios would pick up on this. I was
watching Das Boot a few nights ago, and it was amazing how much more
modern it looks than a computer aided one, say, Hunt for Red October
(granted, it had primitive computer systems, but still they had the
opportunity to not utilize current technology). Much better movie as
well, if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it for a not-so-glorious
look at war.
I was one of the few people who was not awestruck by the Amazing
Spider-Man's not-so-amazing computer graphics. I thought some scenes,
especially near the beginning of the movie, were almost to the point where
they looked like cartoons. I just watched it again, and it's even more
archaic than I remember it from a y
Godzilla 2000 is in fact a traditional Godzilla Movie - Gojira ni-sen mireniamu. Godzilla without any numbers is, in fact, the Ferris Beuller vs. Godzilla movie. It was made in 1998.
It's a good thing we got this news of a Russian nerd marrying someone 230 miles away, while trapped in a small aluminium box. There's hope for the nerds trapped in their parents basement yet!
Yes, it is a 0.1 release for a reason. It crashed on my Windows system only once or twice, and that was probably due to some misconfiguring on my part. It was easy to configure, unfortunately it still reeks of "I-look-like-netscape"ocity (a problem plauging mozilla).
Linux distribution is quite good, it won't take over from Evolution just yet.
It's a good start. Remember, people, before you start posting whines about things not working, remember, this is a 0.1 release.
If I had any mod points you'd get a funny one, man.
It is far too expensive to start going after users who are trading overseas, for one it is expensive, and for two the court systems are different.
Maybe these poor 14.4-ers should finally get the memo - they're human rights are being violated! Everbody, including those in Estonians, know that it is inhumane for them to be stuck piping information through their small RJ11. Starvin' Marvin is weeping for their poor souls.
Why the hell does yours get rated 2? Oh well. Ratings are for suckers.
But what you just said is exactly why the MPAA and the RIAA don't have a problem keeping afloat when they piss off nerds like us. Some of the more educated will boycott Britney Spears, or Eminem, as protest against what the RIAA is doing (and producing). Yes, fine, but then they go out and listen to an RIAA Sponsored Local Band Concert (Yes, guys, I'm sorry to say but the RIAA does fund local bands, especially non-profit bands [I don't mean indy rock crap by the way]). Or they buy some older music, which still goes back to the RIAA.
I just don't see why Slashdotters even try to pretend to be so above everybody else when it comes to knowledge on the RIAA and MPAA, especially when they post things like this on the main page. It's a limp wristed protest, and nobody will take us seriously. We make no sacrifice.
Isn't Slashdot meant to be against this whole MPAA thing? I mean, aren't the **AA the enemy? But whenever a Star Wars, or a Star Trek, or now Matrix and LOTR come out, it becomes News for Nerds.
You want to know why the MPAA and RIAA has power? Because they can. We all say that we want to get rid of their copyright extending, draconian law creating presence, but nobody has the sack to do it (myself included).
Hollywood is fucking trash these days, I can't understand how such a smart community can't see right through it. They're not making movies to be appreciated 20 years down the line, they're making movies to bring in the big bucks the first weekend, before everybody knows that they're crap (case in point Terminator, Hulk, Angels 2... anything they've come out with in the past 5 years, save maybe the LOTR movies).
And we all fucking walk right into their plot. Yeah, Congress is going to listen to us.
These homosexually oriented African-Americans are certainly doing an excellent job of getting first-posts. Extremely commendable, if you ask me.
Yes, there is software called Anti-Mal 2.0, it is working fine now on Windows XP, you have to run it in compatibility mode. Any luck with the portable device, let me know...
I find it ironic that most of the floppies I copied were on used AOL Diskettes. It would be real kind of them to start sending CD-RWs in the post, but I won't complain about the Free DVD cases...
Prove it. I've seen multiple studies that shown that that dang old end-of-the-ice-age had a small hand in their extinction. As they were pushed farther and farther north into unfertile lands, not by humans, their numbers started to thin.
There's no substantial evidence to the overhunting claim. Yes, we have over-hunted species; that wasn't until the exploration ages, though. American Indians lived in peace with the wolf, the coyote, the buffalo, the moose, the elk; I fail to see why they couldn't reach an agreement with the mammoth.
Yeah, so that huge price-fixing suit against them was a farce? Just spew whatever you think makes your arguement sound good out, chances are people won't bother to check your thoughts against reality. That's how it works for everyone else anyway.
I was just wondering, when (and if) the **AA association gets up the nerve to finally prosecute somebody, couldn't there be a case be made that the one person that is prosecuted was prosecuted unfairly?
"There are millions of other users violating copyrights, however you are singling out this one user based on _______, I contend for a dismissal," or something along those lines. It wouldn't be that lame, but oh well.
I was listening to a ClearChannel radio station the other day (WTAM 1100, it was during a Cleveland Cavs game, so I wasn't listening to shitty music). They had a commercial on it. "The internet has spurred a technological revolution in the way new music gets to people..." yatta yatta yatta, and then they get to this part: "Count up all of the MP3s on your hard drive. Now, multiply that by one dollar. That's how much you'd owe if stealing music was punished the same way as any other crime." First of all, I have about 900 MP3s on my hard drive - a grand total of 13 of them are ones I am not legally entitled to own. Fucking bring me to court for $900, then the Supreme Court can finally rule, once and for all, on Fair Use vs. Their Right to Exponential Profits. I think that this commercial, as well this whole big mess, is just another of the scare tactics that the **AA is using against the average joe.
But I am curious as to who would stick up for the first guy who was charged. The ACLU, maybe? I haven't been a big proponent of them in the past, however as my horizons broaden, their works are becoming increasingly worthy in my eyes.
You're both partially right.
However, if you step on their balls a little, and keep on doing it, eventually it will become cheaper to move base into another country. For example, I'm sure that some of the South American nations wouldn't mind adding Spam to their list of exports. Hell, that could be quite lucrative for them; the fact of the matter is, laws, lawsuits, and the like will not do anything. I'm a lowly 19 year old state college student, and I can easily have five or ten computers set up overseas - and I don't have resources.
Maybe the spammers would start, somehow, making use of open SMTP ports on unsecure systems? Who would get in trouble then? The fact of the matter is, people will just have to live with spam for the next few years. It's unrealistic to have an "allow only" list, and it's unrealstic to have a "block only" list. I have heard of some databases which store known spammers - perhaps making a client software to automatically filter things from these. The more people who use it, the more success.
Either way, that guy's out of a job.
Any music that has an expired copyright is of the public domain.
However, the RIAA & MPAA and other organizations have government backing, and have extended United States copyright laws well beyond the European 50 or so. I believe the current law is 95 years in America, and it can only be made longer by our wonderfully corrupt politicians.
Can I have like, +5 for calling politicians corrupt? Everybody else gets points for just spouting crap, and as long as they say something against the "system" they get hella points. Oh well.
So you're saying that this might actually degrade quality of songs that were made before the digital age?
The reproduction will be near flawless; in fact, wouldn't they be able to reproduce the new Elvis Greatest Hits thing? Or by re-mastering it, do they create a new copyright on said recordings?
Hahah, that's a nautical term, and I'm using it interchangably with this article because the person's name is Ivan. That's just awesome.
Why are all of these Russians all of a sudden getting in trouble for cybercrime? Yes, this was a crime, but then there's that Dmitry guy, and there were at least a half of dozen others, I just didn't have the will power to remember anything about them.
In Soviet Russia, We convince West that Soviet Union is no more. Perhaps it is, they are just using a few "hackers" to try to get some knowledge, and then completely destroy us with computers (a la Splinter Cell).
My posts are so retarded.