Getting personal is just having a little fun as I know nothing about anyone here but I can pretend I do right?
I'm just returning flames and even though they might get personal, mean, cruel, insincere, horrific, destructive to personal relationships and mankind it's all in good, clean, wholesome fun for the entire family and human race.
I'm without a doubt not mad and only having fun getting people riled up hence the -1 flaimebait. I did expect a lower score though.
Let it be known it was the first response and it's passive-aggresive troll that started all of this as I was only stating my opinion at the beginning and nothing more.
Ok dipshit you're yet another mac bitch who is obviously hadn't read my original post correctly and in fact perceived it to be a insult to macs in your biased eyes.
First off I never said it was a pile of shit. What I did point out is how it wasn't what I WAS LOOKING FOR. Also as stated previously in my posts these were my opinions and NOT THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH. You people amaze me as to how you misinterpret posts as you see fit.
The first response to my original post was an outright troll of which I reciprocated in kind.
As for your ridiculous bullshit about vulgarity stfu. That's how I feel about it. As for relating it to a presidential debate well that would be about the worst analogy I've ever read. The presidential debate is a farce at best and at least I'm telling the truth and not telling you what you want to hear. I could like to you like all of the candidates if that would make you feel warm and fuzzy inside? I think it sayd plenty about you if you buy into our political system since it's such a fucking joke. Oh yea...didn't Kerry just drop an F-bomb in a PLayboy interview? Who gave a shit other than politicians playing politics and the christian right? Fuck liberals too:D
As for your weak as fuck flames alluding to mortgages to pay for an ipod, and such give it a break. You're a fucking working class sheep with no hint of individuality or independent thought. I bet your woman is a soocer mom and you have cigar socials too. People like you are the reason America is full of bullshit rhetoric and no backbone.
You can't stomach someone's opinion, talk weak, baseless smack, and have no concept of what reality is all about.
People "swear" every fucking day. Get used to it:D
This is my first flame war and it's more fun than just posting the same ole shit because lets face it...none of the posts here amount to shit or change anything IRL.
You must be one of those Mac freaks by your response. I had an Ipod and I didn't like it for the reasons listed. My post was my opinion not the absolut truth according to humans.
I want something truely portable.
Ever try playing sports, physical sports, with an external hd strapped to your arm? IT SUCKS! Maybe if you were an actual athlete who worked out a lot you would have understood my post but your being so defensive protecting your precious mac product you can't even understand that it's my opinion. I'm just going to copy your type of response now that I think about it...
I'm sure someone makes an armband-style case for iPod owners who want one.
Got Duck Tape?
The iPod has 32MB of cache. The average song encoded at a 128K bit rate is 4MB. So about 6 to 10 songs should fit into the iPod cache. I suppose skipping could become an issue for the iPod if you strap it to a running paint shaker and listen to it for a while.
It's an issue if you're active in physical sports and not doing the nuckle shuffle on your piss pump while glancing at pron divx's with repulsive cheeto stains around your mouth.
Says you. I have a 30GB iPod, and I like being able to carry around my entire CD collection in my shirt pocket. No matter where I am, I can listen to any song I want, any time I want.
Good for fucking you...that's not what I need hence my opinion as stated all through out my posts.
The size of a deck of cards and the weight of 2 CDs is too big and heavy? Do you have severely atrophied muscles because you've been in a coma for the last 10 years, or something?
Once again refer to my being active in sports and not "net" sports. I'm sure playing any really active sport is condusive to strapping an external laptop to my arm with ducktape. Yea I wanna look like tech boy getting active...that's the look I'm shooting for plus I want to get hit hard enough to break my $300+ investment.
Lies, all lies. Some people have had battery problems, not everyone. The majority of people with original 5GB iPods who posted when this was brought up a week or two ago are having ZERO problems. And if $100 is too rich for your blood, you can replace the iPod battery yourself for $50.
What the fuck is apple paying you for this bullshit? I think you are Apple's equivalent of Iraq's ex-minister of information...or better yet...mis-information.
I haven't read of anyone who has had issues because of drive fragility. People who are really concerned about it can buy a case. I prefer to just take good care of my stuff.
I'm sure you've met with every Ipod user in various town meetings, bbs discussions, and neighborhood teleconferences on a daily basis to compile your information right? Fucking idiot.
I've read nothing but excellent reviews for the iPod, and own one, and it's the best I've ever had. Neener neener neener!
Good for fucking you! It's amazing how people like you are all on Apple's dick. You pay them for a product, they don't pay you and you would take it in the ass from them if you could. I bet you can't even hold shit down anymore right? The Ipod is a product not a life altering event so get a fucking clue, a life, a preferably some sex from a non-animal species and wake the fuck up "Apple Bitch Boy":D
Ummmm, the iPod is an external hard drive. You can store anything on it, you can even install an OS on it and boot from it. For someone who claims to have had an iPod, you sure don't seem to know much about them.
Once again Ye Ole Knower of Nadda you have truely enlightened moi! I would have never figured that shit out in a million years! You have also gotten me again as I know nothing about Ipods.
Hey fuckface it's a laptop hd and I've seen the various mods you can do to it. Big fucking deal but since I didn't state that previously that dictates I know dick right? Wrong you know dick and from what I hear you know it very w
This again is my personal preference as I've had at least 2 types of every generation since the original.
Why would I choose an IRiver IFP 395T (512 meg) over an Ipod 20gig and up?
Size You can hang it from your neck with the included lanyard You can strap it to your arm with the included holder No movable parts so no skipping unlike the ipod The Ipod is overkill in terms of storage (The Iriver can hold 5-50 cds depending on the sampled bitrate but normally I'd say around 6-10) The Ipod is too big & heavy The Ipod battery fails after about 18 months and costs over $100 to replace The Ipod is just a notebook/laptop hard drive in a clean looking case but just as fragile as any other hard drive I've read nothing but excellent reviews for the Iriver mp3 player and own one and it's the best I've ever had. I had the 30 gig Ipod and I found it too bulky, fragile, and even though I have more gigs of mp3s that an Ipod can hold I still find it to be overkill in terms of storage. I never thought I'd say that but it's true. Searching for a song when you have many 1000's of them is just too much searching when you just want to get to what ever your activity you're doing. The Iriver's 512 megs is the abolute minimum I'd accept but encoding mp3's at a decent bitrate makes for plenty of storage. I didn't say it was cheap either at $299 but more of a better option. I don't agree with the argument that you get more storage for the same price from an Ipod. What's the use if it's overkill? If it was an external hard drive or something along those lines I'd agree but it's not.
This is actually a great law and will end the days of shitty cams! I hate it when I'm watching a cam of a 1st run movie on a pc and someone stands up in the theater a fucks it all up for me!
With this and the news of a judge allowing screeners again this ensures all criminals...I mean...customers will have the highest quality product available.
I wondered how long it take that walking corpse Jack Valentini to make it unacceptable for criminals...I mean...customers...to view a substandard product. With this great news it only ensures the felons...I mean...customers will have an easier time getting a higher quality print, i.e. screeners.
Thank you Jack... and they said you had no grasp on the issues and the technology involved!! You really showed 'em this time!!!
Can they get you for torrents? A Debunking or B.S.
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What about sharing via torrent files? You gather various, pieces from many user which are then uniformly, recontructed after you have reached 100%.
Try watching an incomplete torrent divx or any other file for proof of the file(s) being "pieced" together. until the torrent is complete the files sit in an unorganized file inside whatever future extension they turn out to be.
To me this begs the question... How can anyone sue you for sharing on bittorrent if it's only a piece of a file, random at that, and not a full file?
The only way they could approach this is to catch the user with the complete file on their hd after downloading it.
How would they do this? Can you say invasion of privacy? Who knows?
A good thing to do no matter what you use is to have peer guardian running at all time. You can even incorporate the blocklists in sygate's firewall software if you choose not to use peer guardian.
Above all monitor and block all traffic when using P2P apps or you might have to pay the piper...guilty or not...it really doesn't seem to matter anymore.
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I really don't see the point of these things but they are obviously going to end up here Plushie Sex and I have a feeling Ron Jeremy will be blowing these up on DVD
This guy and his "box" on Ebay
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I saw this guy and this exact plexbox on ebay yesterday. I just looked as I was going to post the url but it seems to have vanished? It wasn't selling for much more than the normal $179. I have a feeling ebay performed a dmcation on it since it was modified from it's original state??
I sold a jason costume on Ebay after halloween and ebay and Warner Bros/Bitches I was infringing on their copyright? I told them to fuck off since I was selling a costume I bought from a company that was manufacturing it. All this dmca/drm shit is getting beyond ridiculous...
Point 1- The law doing filing the suit it a media whore from way back. He used to pursue the likes of The 2 Live Crew and such and his work has never amounted to jack sheeyat. As said before he's just trying to legislate his own opinions on what's right and what is wrong and hopefully make some cash in the process.
I don't see this or anything else he tries to run through the courts because the damages he seeks are a joke. He might have a chance if he lowered his damage claims to a reasonable amount and he's lucky enough to find a court full of religious right-wingers who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
I find it amusing that this "neck" is suing Walmart since he's probably buying most of his clothes and electronics there. Walmart is a store that sells shit and caters to country "sheep" who are lead and could never form an educated opinion. I know I sound like I'm stereotyping but it's based on reality.
I say this because I don't base where I shop on what magazines and games the store might or might not stock. Fuck Walmart and their Cheryl Tiege Collection! I know it's a "neck paradise" but I'm no neck and I prefer to buy things that aren't produced from a child working 7-10's of hard labor in a 3rd world country.
Let me say this one more time. Jack is a media whore looking for a payday and Walmart sucks unless you're into hypocrisy and bad fashion!
Point 2- On the games are evil point I would say that we live in an age of blame. It's never our fault no matter what.
If I eat 10 big macs a day and becaome a fat fucking cow it's mcdonald's fault and they should compensate me for the pain they have caused me. What a joke yet we allow it to persist because of our "I don't care attitude".
Parents are the ones to blame and that's it. I have played every violent game since I was a kid. I have seen more violent images on the net and real life that 99% of the people out there will ever see. In saying all of this I would also state that after playing Doom I never felt obligated or had an incentive to go blow someone's head off. I haven't and don't plan on ever doing it either.
I was raised with morality and common sense so I know right from wrong. If parents don't raise their kids and they act out and kill people it's their fault. It's not a movie, video game, or the system's fault.
Yes this is just the latest in a long line of self-serving propaganda. Stories of this ilk have only one intention and it's completely self-serving.
Scare the consumer into staying with an old business model. Only misinformed and gutless fall for this misguided and weak attempt and converting the masses.
What we as consumers are best exemplifying is civil disobedience on a virtual, grass roots level. Copyright infringement isn't stealing so it's hardly disobedience but it's an easy way to articulate the thought.
I have been downloading this and that since it was mostly ftps through napster and the like and from my experience the files available are just as plentiful than before. The RIAA propoganda is just that...pure bullshit meant to scare little kids and grandparents. I've yet to see the RIAA go after someone with the funds and knowledge to fight them. They're going after the easy marks and I'm not surprised.
Whne it's said and done it'll just be little kids and grandparents who buy the shitty music we are exposed to on a weekly basis.
Anyone who buys music is polishing the brass on the Titanic. It's going down and I'm loving every minute of it:D
I've never heard of this guy plus I'm not into this genre but this might actually sell some cd's for him if just to break the "security". After reading all of the comments on how to beat it I looked on Kazaa and saw all of his songs from the cd readily available for download.
This is seriously funny and it's poetic justice in a sense simply because it proves that the methods or ideaology on the RIAA side is the equivalent of plugging a hole in a dike.
They still don't get it and if they ever do it'll be too late by then.
To borrow from a great quote... Weak ass security is the mother of easy hacks
In actually considering legally licensing users to use the internet you totally ignore its sole purpose....complete freedom. The internet is based on the "no boundaries" ideology meaning it can both enlighten and disturb in the same setting. Yes it has it's demons but don't we all. If you're a firestarter then you'll find your place online but most aren't of this persuasion. The average person uses the net for inane, senseless surfing with an indifference to most things of value.
The net can be a the biggest waste of time for plenty of us but it is also the best way to find out most anything you are curious about. With a license one would not be free to explore for fear of being watched even when doing perfectly legal tasks. The single biggest issue is definitely the 4 year degree idea. How fucking ridiculous is that? Most people in the world do not have a 4 year degree much less the money to go to school so how can one discriminate against people of this ilk? How fair is it to hold someone's personal choice or lack thereof against them? If I was a millionaire and didn't need to get a degree because I chose not to then does that mean I am not allowed to get on the net? I'm sure if I was a millionaire I could "donate" to the cause and get my license. That in itself turns the internet into something that it is not...a good ole boys club. Not only do the better off want to buy and impose laws based on profit they also want to turn the internet into yet another cash cow. Just imagine the fees in licensing alone. I'm sure the figure would be staggering.
I can see Microsoft being the sole "sponsor" of the net and you would of course need ms messenger for "secure" access. This thought brings to mind a scene from the movie "Fight Club" where Jack is waxing philosophical on how one day everything, every product, every single form of matter will be sponsored by some multi-national multi-conglomerate. I never saw Jack as being a prophet but it does make me ponder the ramifications of it actually occurring.
The net is about wide open spaces, big ideas, community, freedom of thought, mind, expression, and movement. I left out porn because that would be stating the obvious. If we actually had to have a license and 4 year degree we would be doing everyone who uses the net a major disservice. Even in countries where there is no personal freedom the internet offers what most will never have...freedom to express themselves and speak their minds. I say fuck it...live free or die trying.
It is painfully obvious that the RIAA is in desperate straights and jumping on any idea that involkes fear in their ex-customers.
What I cannot figure out is how they simply ignore what they are doing to their (ex)customers. Not only are they alienating their long time customers but they are also alienating the next generation of customers. Even if this entire p2p quagmire is eventually solved they will still have to deal with the monkey wrench they threw into their business dealings.
I think it's safe to say that they are past the point of no return. They feel that they are losing too much to give a damn so they are rolling the dice on their scare tactics. The music industry as it was has ceast to exist. It's just an old horse that refuses to die but will eventually meet it's fate whether it wants to or not.
I think the music industry will survive but in another form and in a much smaller way. No longer will they be able to push certain artists on a consistent basis while ignoring the majority. If they actually listened to what their (ex)customers are saying then they would be completely enlightened to what's wanted in this day and age.
1)9.99 and under pricing
2)Under.99 downloads per song with no protection schemes
3)The ability to transfer whatever you download to any device at anytime without fear of being called a criminal and sued to financial ruin
4)The ability to pay a fair fee for unlimited downloads of different music catalogs
5)To have the RIAA and the companies it represents actually listen to consumers and what they want instead of trying to sue them into being customers.
6)A written guarantee and promise to keep cd pricing low with no future collusion/price fixing. Cd's and their future derivatives must stay below $9.99 unless it is independently studied and verified that a newer standard costs more. 7)A Major FUCKING apology to those who were made an example of and possibly some form of restitution to those who's lives were seriously impacted.
That's fair and that's not a mountain to overcome.
To sum it up....
If the RIAA is to stay in business then they can either listen and come to the table and work with the consumer or the RIAA can continue to thumb their nose at all of us and ignore what we want. If they choose to ignore then they will never be able to recoup their loses and we are the ones who can control that.
The RIAA will not take a step back with th rhetoric because they have gained too much power to turn back. With the power they now possess they will soon be a new goverment bureaucracy entitled "Ministry of Sound Sueing".
We all know that everything they have been saying is in direct opposition of what's actually occuring with cd sales. Yes p2p plays a role but it isn't anything near what they claim it to be. The point is the RIAA will take this as far as they can or until the backlash is so severe that they have no choice other than alienating consumers and pissing off the goverment even more.
I will make the following prediction... Due to the RIAA calous and careless approach on p2p and their so-called loss of sales they will continue to piss off consumers who will then come together in a massive boycott. I'm not talking about/.'s only. I'm talking about Joe Average. Everyone will start to boycott and our representatives will also get involved because they will see it as an opportunity to get new votes. The RIAA will have to back off and come up with a "fair and balanced" (don't sue me Fox) approach for copyright infringement.
We will beat the bad rap and the RIAA will continue to do business but in a goverment imposed andfair/legal manner.
The goverment has spent billions on the war on drugs and it hasn't done a thing so does the RIAA really think a few lawsuits will stop p2p? As the RIAA's tactics on finding, pursuing, and prodding p2p users come out in the open it will only help coders take it more underground and guarantee our privacy. The RIAA had their chance to make p2p work with Napster in a centralized server setup but they blew their chance and with it the centralization of p2p. Decentralized servers, new anonimity, and a general interest in going more underground are the way now.
The RIAA better enjoy these days because they are the best they're going to have. Reality is going to bite their ass pretty soon...
I all sides to the current arguments on this subject and could easily side with most. What gets me of late is the people who say this argument is nothing but two spoiled kids arguing over a topic of inconsequential value. This would be my reply yot that...
1)Yes we have some very important issues in this day and age. War, economy, healthcare, etc. 2)There are better rights to fight for than downloading music without fear of retribution. 3)The RIAA is grasping at straws.
With all of that being said I can move on to my point...
This isn't simply about downloading music or demonizing and archaeic institution/business model. This isn't about spoiled kids whining about a god-given luxury.
The underlying theme here is illegal, unethical, and forgoing of certain rights as guaranteed under our constitution. I'm not talking about our right to download free music. I'm talking about punishing copyright infringement reasonably if at all.
Why aren't people upset over a corporation issuing it's own sopoenas without judicial oversight?
Why aren't people challenging their local politicians over passing such bills?
Why are politicians selling our rights as guaranteed under the constitution in exchange for campaign donations?
The laws being past as related to the drm and dmca reach much farther than downloading mp3's. Just think of how it pertains to the future and the extent the corporations will go to to protect their outdated business models. They don't give a damn if you rot in jail for enternity as long as the profits keep rolling in and the American public does nothing to change it. I guess you could say the entire world does nothing as a whole except whine and complain isntead of actually mounting some kind of grass roots uprising.
I hope everyone understand that I'm not even talking about mp3's. I'm talking about our laws and rights and where this is all leading in our collective futures. I'm not some right wing, over conservative thinker with alterior motives protecting my own personal interests. I'm about protecting the rights I've always had and I can see them slowly slipping away, bit by bit. I don't want it to be too late when "joe Average" starts to understand because by then it will be too late and there's no new "America" that we can set forth on ships to regain our freedoms.
The time to act is now and time is of the essence. Don't make this about music. Make this about maintaining what we have always had. The fight with the RIAA is the first of many battles of which will be a long, drawn out war of attrition. Our power is in our voices, pockets, and numbers. We cannot let the greedy few sell our rights in exchange for money and job security.
I'm so sick of SCO's baseless rhetoric. Either put up or shut the fuck up. It's obvious how they came up with this idea. It was stolen from the "6 degrees of seperation from Kevin Bacon" dealy. Isn't it obvious?
A chance to play 4 player deathmatch? Wow! Seriously vanilla dm is pretty much dead these days because most people have grown tired of the rehashed gameplay. I think most people are looking forward to D3 on a new engine/atmosphere level. I think when D3 finally comes out it'll be hot at first but once the newness wears off and if it's only vanilla dm/ctf people will tire of it quickly.
If the mod community comes out with the normal quake type mods then it will extend the life of D3. Rocket Arena D3, Instagib D3, and the like. ID would really do themselves a favor by putting vehicles in D3 because these days it's become the norm and makes for better gameplay. I still say Q2 is their best game to date.
The only reason I have braodband is to download large files. I'm talking 50megs, 100 megs, even various files that make up one entire dl that add up to over a gig. Dling music that hovers from around 2-10 megs is also a huge reason for broadband.
Just like upgrading pc's to get things moving faster we get faster connections for the same purpose. If you're on broadband depending on the type (cable/DSL/etc.) you can grab an mp3 in a minute or so but on dialup it can take you way over 10 minutes to get the same file. It's all about how fast you get what you want. Remember we are a society of instant gratification so broadband is to music what the micorwave is to food. We want it and we want it now!
There is also one other big use out there and it's gaming. Who wants to be a HPW when you can be an LPB? I used to pay $115 USD for the fastest service offered in my area just to have the lowest ping I could get. No matter what gamers will keep their broadband connections.
Take away the reasons for having broadband and see subscribers stop buying. Who needs broadband for viewing web pages? Yea there's streaming news, etc. but I can watch that on any of the 24 hour new channels.
Message to all companies pushing the DRM... Don't cut of your nose to spite your face. You can't sell music from one part of your business and in another division sell cd-burners and not expect consumers to use them burning your music and/or sharing. Wake the fuck up
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Getting personal is just having a little fun as I know nothing about anyone here but I can pretend I do right?
I'm just returning flames and even though they might get personal, mean, cruel, insincere, horrific, destructive to personal relationships and mankind it's all in good, clean, wholesome fun for the entire family and human race.
I'm without a doubt not mad and only having fun getting people riled up hence the -1 flaimebait. I did expect a lower score though.
Let it be known it was the first response and it's passive-aggresive troll that started all of this as I was only stating my opinion at the beginning and nothing more.
Ok dipshit you're yet another mac bitch who is obviously hadn't read my original post correctly and in fact perceived it to be a insult to macs in your biased eyes.
First off I never said it was a pile of shit. What I did point out is how it wasn't what I WAS LOOKING FOR. Also as stated previously in my posts these were my opinions and NOT THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH. You people amaze me as to how you misinterpret posts as you see fit.
The first response to my original post was an outright troll of which I reciprocated in kind.
As for your ridiculous bullshit about vulgarity stfu. That's how I feel about it. As for relating it to a presidential debate well that would be about the worst analogy I've ever read. The presidential debate is a farce at best and at least I'm telling the truth and not telling you what you want to hear. I could like to you like all of the candidates if that would make you feel warm and fuzzy inside? I think it sayd plenty about you if you buy into our political system since it's such a fucking joke. Oh yea...didn't Kerry just drop an F-bomb in a PLayboy interview? Who gave a shit other than politicians playing politics and the christian right? Fuck liberals too:D
As for your weak as fuck flames alluding to mortgages to pay for an ipod, and such give it a break. You're a fucking working class sheep with no hint of individuality or independent thought. I bet your woman is a soocer mom and you have cigar socials too. People like you are the reason America is full of bullshit rhetoric and no backbone.
You can't stomach someone's opinion, talk weak, baseless smack, and have no concept of what reality is all about.
People "swear" every fucking day.
Get used to it:D
This is my first flame war and it's more fun than just posting the same ole shit because lets face it...none of the posts here amount to shit or change anything IRL.
You must be one of those Mac freaks by your response. I had an Ipod and I didn't like it for the reasons listed. My post was my opinion not the absolut truth according to humans.
I want something truely portable. Ever try playing sports, physical sports, with an external hd strapped to your arm? IT SUCKS! Maybe if you were an actual athlete who worked out a lot you would have understood my post but your being so defensive protecting your precious mac product you can't even understand that it's my opinion. I'm just going to copy your type of response now that I think about it...
I'm sure someone makes an armband-style case for iPod owners who want one.
Got Duck Tape?
The iPod has 32MB of cache. The average song encoded at a 128K bit rate is 4MB. So about 6 to 10 songs should fit into the iPod cache. I suppose skipping could become an issue for the iPod if you strap it to a running paint shaker and listen to it for a while.
It's an issue if you're active in physical sports and not doing the nuckle shuffle on your piss pump while glancing at pron divx's with repulsive cheeto stains around your mouth.
Says you. I have a 30GB iPod, and I like being able to carry around my entire CD collection in my shirt pocket. No matter where I am, I can listen to any song I want, any time I want.
Good for fucking you...that's not what I need hence my opinion as stated all through out my posts.
The size of a deck of cards and the weight of 2 CDs is too big and heavy? Do you have severely atrophied muscles because you've been in a coma for the last 10 years, or something?
Once again refer to my being active in sports and not "net" sports. I'm sure playing any really active sport is condusive to strapping an external laptop to my arm with ducktape. Yea I wanna look like tech boy getting active...that's the look I'm shooting for plus I want to get hit hard enough to break my $300+ investment.
Lies, all lies. Some people have had battery problems, not everyone. The majority of people with original 5GB iPods who posted when this was brought up a week or two ago are having ZERO problems. And if $100 is too rich for your blood, you can replace the iPod battery yourself for $50.
What the fuck is apple paying you for this bullshit? I think you are Apple's equivalent of Iraq's ex-minister of information...or better yet...mis-information.
I haven't read of anyone who has had issues because of drive fragility. People who are really concerned about it can buy a case. I prefer to just take good care of my stuff.
I'm sure you've met with every Ipod user in various town meetings, bbs discussions, and neighborhood teleconferences on a daily basis to compile your information right? Fucking idiot.
I've read nothing but excellent reviews for the iPod, and own one, and it's the best I've ever had. Neener neener neener!
Good for fucking you! It's amazing how people like you are all on Apple's dick. You pay them for a product, they don't pay you and you would take it in the ass from them if you could. I bet you can't even hold shit down anymore right? The Ipod is a product not a life altering event so get a fucking clue, a life, a preferably some sex from a non-animal species and wake the fuck up "Apple Bitch Boy":D
Ummmm, the iPod is an external hard drive. You can store anything on it, you can even install an OS on it and boot from it. For someone who claims to have had an iPod, you sure don't seem to know much about them.
Once again Ye Ole Knower of Nadda you have truely enlightened moi! I would have never figured that shit out in a million years! You have also gotten me again as I know nothing about Ipods. Hey fuckface it's a laptop hd and I've seen the various mods you can do to it. Big fucking deal but since I didn't state that previously that dictates I know dick right? Wrong you know dick and from what I hear you know it very w
This again is my personal preference as I've had at least 2 types of every generation since the original.
Why would I choose an IRiver IFP 395T (512 meg) over an Ipod 20gig and up?
Size
You can hang it from your neck with the included lanyard
You can strap it to your arm with the included holder
No movable parts so no skipping unlike the ipod
The Ipod is overkill in terms of storage (The Iriver can hold 5-50 cds depending on the sampled bitrate but normally I'd say around 6-10)
The Ipod is too big & heavy
The Ipod battery fails after about 18 months and costs over $100 to replace
The Ipod is just a notebook/laptop hard drive in a clean looking case but just as fragile
as any other hard drive
I've read nothing but excellent reviews for the Iriver mp3 player and own one and it's the best I've ever had.
I had the 30 gig Ipod and I found it too bulky, fragile, and even though I have more gigs of mp3s that an Ipod can hold I still find it to be overkill in terms of storage. I never thought I'd say that but it's true.
Searching for a song when you have many 1000's of them is just too much searching when you just want to get to what ever your activity you're doing.
The Iriver's 512 megs is the abolute minimum I'd accept but encoding mp3's at a decent bitrate makes for plenty of storage.
I didn't say it was cheap either at $299 but more of a better option.
I don't agree with the argument that you get more storage for the same price from an Ipod. What's the use if it's overkill?
If it was an external hard drive or something along those lines I'd agree but it's not.
My 2.223 cents
This is actually a great law and will end the days of shitty cams! I hate it when I'm watching a cam of a 1st run movie on a pc and someone stands up in the theater a fucks it all up for me!
With this and the news of a judge allowing screeners again this ensures all criminals...I mean...customers will have the highest quality product available.
I wondered how long it take that walking corpse Jack Valentini to make it unacceptable for criminals...I mean...customers...to view a substandard product. With this great news it only ensures the felons...I mean...customers will have an easier time getting a higher quality print, i.e. screeners.
Thank you Jack...
and they said you had no grasp on the issues and the technology involved!!
You really showed 'em this time!!!
What about sharing via torrent files?
You gather various, pieces from many user which are then uniformly, recontructed after you have reached 100%.
Try watching an incomplete torrent divx or any other file for proof of the file(s) being "pieced" together. until the torrent is complete the files sit in an unorganized file inside whatever future extension they turn out to be.
To me this begs the question...
How can anyone sue you for sharing on bittorrent if it's only a piece of a file, random at that, and not a full file?
The only way they could approach this is to catch the user with the complete file on their hd after downloading it.
How would they do this?
Can you say invasion of privacy?
Who knows?
A good thing to do no matter what you use is to have peer guardian running at all time. You can even incorporate the blocklists in sygate's firewall software if you choose not to use peer guardian.
Above all monitor and block all traffic when using P2P apps or you might have to pay the piper...guilty or not...it really doesn't seem to matter anymore.
P.S. Fuck U RIAA
P.P.S. Thank you internet
What the RIAA is the equivalent of plugging holes in a dike
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or in
Plugging up the craters in Morpheus's face as viewed on an IMAX screen with a pixel as viewed on a 15" crt at 1600x1200 res.
I think that pretty much says it all...or...that would be fucking impossible!!
Bad XBox Slogans:
1)X marks the Box
2)Sendin' shots out for all the true game playas
3)The wrong consol-igga to fuk wit
4)More durable than Kurt Cobain's dome
5)Doubled vested
kevlar injected
makin' ya
waste da
mags a bullets
forev-a
I really don't see the point of these things but they are obviously going to end up here Plushie Sex and I have a feeling Ron Jeremy will be blowing these up on DVD
I saw this guy and this exact plexbox on ebay yesterday. I just looked as I was going to post the url but it seems to have vanished? It wasn't selling for much more than the normal $179. I have a feeling ebay performed a dmcation on it since it was modified from it's original state??
I sold a jason costume on Ebay after halloween and ebay and Warner Bros/Bitches I was infringing on their copyright? I told them to fuck off since I was selling a costume I bought from a company that was manufacturing it. All this dmca/drm shit is getting beyond ridiculous...
Point 1-
The law doing filing the suit it a media whore from way back. He used to pursue the likes of The 2 Live Crew and such and his work has never amounted to jack sheeyat. As said before he's just trying to legislate his own opinions on what's right and what is wrong and hopefully make some cash in the process.
I don't see this or anything else he tries to run through the courts because the damages he seeks are a joke. He might have a chance if he lowered his damage claims to a reasonable amount and he's lucky enough to find a court full of religious right-wingers who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
I find it amusing that this "neck" is suing Walmart since he's probably buying most of his clothes and electronics there. Walmart is a store that sells shit and caters to country "sheep" who are lead and could never form an educated opinion. I know I sound like I'm stereotyping but it's based on reality.
I say this because I don't base where I shop on what magazines and games the store might or might not stock. Fuck Walmart and their Cheryl Tiege Collection! I know it's a "neck paradise" but I'm no neck and I prefer to buy things that aren't produced from a child working 7-10's of hard labor in a 3rd world country.
Let me say this one more time.
Jack is a media whore looking for a payday and Walmart sucks unless you're into hypocrisy and bad fashion!
Point 2-
On the games are evil point I would say that we live in an age of blame. It's never our fault no matter what.
If I eat 10 big macs a day and becaome a fat fucking cow it's mcdonald's fault and they should compensate me for the pain they have caused me. What a joke yet we allow it to persist because of our "I don't care attitude".
Parents are the ones to blame and that's it. I have played every violent game since I was a kid. I have seen more violent images on the net and real life that 99% of the people out there will ever see. In saying all of this I would also state that after playing Doom I never felt obligated or had an incentive to go blow someone's head off. I haven't and don't plan on ever doing it either.
I was raised with morality and common sense so I know right from wrong. If parents don't raise their kids and they act out and kill people it's their fault. It's not a movie, video game, or the system's fault.
Period...end of rant
I can only imagine how big Larry Fishburne's gut will look on an Imax screen. I never knew there was a Crispy Creme in Zion.
If you design a drm that easily bipassed by hitting the shift key then you don't deserve to be in business.
Yes this is just the latest in a long line of self-serving propaganda. Stories of this ilk have only one intention and it's completely self-serving.
Scare the consumer into staying with an old business model. Only misinformed and gutless fall for this misguided and weak attempt and converting the masses.
What we as consumers are best exemplifying is civil disobedience on a virtual, grass roots level. Copyright infringement isn't stealing so it's hardly disobedience but it's an easy way to articulate the thought.
I have been downloading this and that since it was mostly ftps through napster and the like and from my experience the files available are just as plentiful than before. The RIAA propoganda is just that...pure bullshit meant to scare little kids and grandparents. I've yet to see the RIAA go after someone with the funds and knowledge to fight them. They're going after the easy marks and I'm not surprised.
Whne it's said and done it'll just be little kids and grandparents who buy the shitty music we are exposed to on a weekly basis.
Anyone who buys music is polishing the brass on the Titanic. It's going down and I'm loving every minute of it:D
I've never heard of this guy plus I'm not into this genre but this might actually sell some cd's for him if just to break the "security". After reading all of the comments on how to beat it I looked on Kazaa and saw all of his songs from the cd readily available for download.
This is seriously funny and it's poetic justice in a sense simply because it proves that the methods or ideaology on the RIAA side is the equivalent of plugging a hole in a dike.
They still don't get it and if they ever do it'll be too late by then.
To borrow from a great quote...
Weak ass security is the mother of easy hacks
In actually considering legally licensing users to use the internet you totally ignore its sole purpose....complete freedom. The internet is based on the "no boundaries" ideology meaning it can both enlighten and disturb in the same setting. Yes it has it's demons but don't we all. If you're a firestarter then you'll find your place online but most aren't of this persuasion. The average person uses the net for inane, senseless surfing with an indifference to most things of value.
The net can be a the biggest waste of time for plenty of us but it is also the best way to find out most anything you are curious about. With a license one would not be free to explore for fear of being watched even when doing perfectly legal tasks. The single biggest issue is definitely the 4 year degree idea. How fucking ridiculous is that? Most people in the world do not have a 4 year degree much less the money to go to school so how can one discriminate against people of this ilk? How fair is it to hold someone's personal choice or lack thereof against them? If I was a millionaire and didn't need to get a degree because I chose not to then does that mean I am not allowed to get on the net? I'm sure if I was a millionaire I could "donate" to the cause and get my license. That in itself turns the internet into something that it is not...a good ole boys club. Not only do the better off want to buy and impose laws based on profit they also want to turn the internet into yet another cash cow. Just imagine the fees in licensing alone. I'm sure the figure would be staggering.
I can see Microsoft being the sole "sponsor" of the net and you would of course need ms messenger for "secure" access. This thought brings to mind a scene from the movie "Fight Club" where Jack is waxing philosophical on how one day everything, every product, every single form of matter will be sponsored by some multi-national multi-conglomerate. I never saw Jack as being a prophet but it does make me ponder the ramifications of it actually occurring.
The net is about wide open spaces, big ideas, community, freedom of thought, mind, expression, and movement. I left out porn because that would be stating the obvious. If we actually had to have a license and 4 year degree we would be doing everyone who uses the net a major disservice. Even in countries where there is no personal freedom the internet offers what most will never have...freedom to express themselves and speak their minds. I say fuck it...live free or die trying.
It is painfully obvious that the RIAA is in desperate straights and jumping on any idea that involkes fear in their ex-customers.
.99 downloads per song with no protection schemes
What I cannot figure out is how they simply ignore what they are doing to their (ex)customers. Not only are they alienating their long time customers but they are also alienating the next generation of customers. Even if this entire p2p quagmire is eventually solved they will still have to deal with the monkey wrench they threw into their business dealings.
I think it's safe to say that they are past the point of no return. They feel that they are losing too much to give a damn so they are rolling the dice on their scare tactics. The music industry as it was has ceast to exist. It's just an old horse that refuses to die but will eventually meet it's fate whether it wants to or not.
I think the music industry will survive but in another form and in a much smaller way. No longer will they be able to push certain artists on a consistent basis while ignoring the majority. If they actually listened to what their (ex)customers are saying then they would be completely enlightened to what's wanted in this day and age.
1)9.99 and under pricing
2)Under
3)The ability to transfer whatever you download to any device at anytime without fear of being called a criminal and sued to financial ruin
4)The ability to pay a fair fee for unlimited downloads of different music catalogs
5)To have the RIAA and the companies it represents actually listen to consumers and what they want instead of trying to sue them into being customers.
6)A written guarantee and promise to keep cd pricing low with no future collusion/price fixing. Cd's and their future derivatives must stay below $9.99 unless it is independently studied and verified that a newer standard costs more.
7)A Major FUCKING apology to those who were made an example of and possibly some form of restitution to those who's lives were seriously impacted.
That's fair and that's not a mountain to overcome.
To sum it up....
If the RIAA is to stay in business then they can either listen and come to the table and work with the consumer or the RIAA can continue to thumb their nose at all of us and ignore what we want. If they choose to ignore then they will never be able to recoup their loses and we are the ones who can control that.
So RIAA whatcha gonna do?
The RIAA will not take a step back with th rhetoric because they have gained too much power to turn back. With the power they now possess they will soon be a new goverment bureaucracy entitled "Ministry of Sound Sueing".
/.'s only. I'm talking about Joe Average. Everyone will start to boycott and our representatives will also get involved because they will see it as an opportunity to get new votes. The RIAA will have to back off and come up with a "fair and balanced" (don't sue me Fox) approach for copyright infringement.
We all know that everything they have been saying is in direct opposition of what's actually occuring with cd sales. Yes p2p plays a role but it isn't anything near what they claim it to be. The point is the RIAA will take this as far as they can or until the backlash is so severe that they have no choice other than alienating consumers and pissing off the goverment even more.
I will make the following prediction...
Due to the RIAA calous and careless approach on p2p and their so-called loss of sales they will continue to piss off consumers who will then come together in a massive boycott. I'm not talking about
We will beat the bad rap and the RIAA will continue to do business but in a goverment imposed andfair/legal manner.
The goverment has spent billions on the war on drugs and it hasn't done a thing so does the RIAA really think a few lawsuits will stop p2p? As the RIAA's tactics on finding, pursuing, and prodding p2p users come out in the open it will only help coders take it more underground and guarantee our privacy. The RIAA had their chance to make p2p work with Napster in a centralized server setup but they blew their chance and with it the centralization of p2p. Decentralized servers, new anonimity, and a general interest in going more underground are the way now.
The RIAA better enjoy these days because they are the best they're going to have. Reality is going to bite their ass pretty soon...
I all sides to the current arguments on this subject and could easily side with most. What gets me of late is the people who say this argument is nothing but two spoiled kids arguing over a topic of inconsequential value. This would be my reply yot that...
1)Yes we have some very important issues in this day and age. War, economy, healthcare, etc.
2)There are better rights to fight for than downloading music without fear of retribution.
3)The RIAA is grasping at straws.
With all of that being said I can move on to my point...
This isn't simply about downloading music or demonizing and archaeic institution/business model.
This isn't about spoiled kids whining about a god-given luxury.
The underlying theme here is illegal, unethical, and forgoing of certain rights as guaranteed under our constitution. I'm not talking about our right to download free music. I'm talking about punishing copyright infringement reasonably if at all.
Why aren't people upset over a corporation issuing it's own sopoenas without judicial oversight?
Why aren't people challenging their local politicians over passing such bills?
Why are politicians selling our rights as guaranteed under the constitution in exchange for campaign donations?
The laws being past as related to the drm and dmca reach much farther than downloading mp3's. Just think of how it pertains to the future and the extent the corporations will go to to protect their outdated business models. They don't give a damn if you rot in jail for enternity as long as the profits keep rolling in and the American public does nothing to change it. I guess you could say the entire world does nothing as a whole except whine and complain isntead of actually mounting some kind of grass roots uprising.
I hope everyone understand that I'm not even talking about mp3's. I'm talking about our laws and rights and where this is all leading in our collective futures. I'm not some right wing, over conservative thinker with alterior motives protecting my own personal interests. I'm about protecting the rights I've always had and I can see them slowly slipping away, bit by bit. I don't want it to be too late when "joe Average" starts to understand because by then it will be too late and there's no new "America" that we can set forth on ships to regain our freedoms.
The time to act is now and time is of the essence. Don't make this about music. Make this about maintaining what we have always had. The fight with the RIAA is the first of many battles of which will be a long, drawn out war of attrition. Our power is in our voices, pockets, and numbers. We cannot let the greedy few sell our rights in exchange for money and job security.
We can win this...
I'm so sick of SCO's baseless rhetoric. Either put up or shut the fuck up. It's obvious how they came up with this idea. It was stolen from the "6 degrees of seperation from Kevin Bacon" dealy. Isn't it obvious?
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This was an all out flame aimed towards the RIAA not anyone here you fucking idiot mods. Score this lower please:D
Sucking my dick!
A chance to play 4 player deathmatch? Wow! Seriously vanilla dm is pretty much dead these days because most people have grown tired of the rehashed gameplay. I think most people are looking forward to D3 on a new engine/atmosphere level. I think when D3 finally comes out it'll be hot at first but once the newness wears off and if it's only vanilla dm/ctf people will tire of it quickly.
If the mod community comes out with the normal quake type mods then it will extend the life of D3. Rocket Arena D3, Instagib D3, and the like. ID would really do themselves a favor by putting vehicles in D3 because these days it's become the norm and makes for better gameplay. I still say Q2 is their best game to date.
The only reason I have braodband is to download large files. I'm talking 50megs, 100 megs, even various files that make up one entire dl that add up to over a gig. Dling music that hovers from around 2-10 megs is also a huge reason for broadband.
Just like upgrading pc's to get things moving faster we get faster connections for the same purpose. If you're on broadband depending on the type (cable/DSL/etc.) you can grab an mp3 in a minute or so but on dialup it can take you way over 10 minutes to get the same file. It's all about how fast you get what you want. Remember we are a society of instant gratification so broadband is to music what the micorwave is to food. We want it and we want it now!
There is also one other big use out there and it's gaming. Who wants to be a HPW when you can be an LPB? I used to pay $115 USD for the fastest service offered in my area just to have the lowest ping I could get. No matter what gamers will keep their broadband connections.
Take away the reasons for having broadband and see subscribers stop buying. Who needs broadband for viewing web pages? Yea there's streaming news, etc. but I can watch that on any of the 24 hour new channels.
Message to all companies pushing the DRM...
Don't cut of your nose to spite your face. You can't sell music from one part of your business and in another division sell cd-burners and not expect consumers to use them burning your music and/or sharing. Wake the fuck up