The solution is completely banning Unsolicited Commercial Email, no loopholes, no if and or buts about it. If a company I have a "relationship" with wants to send me commercial e-mail, they should clearly ask me about that at the outset of the "relationship"...
On another note, I am curious how the law will handle this Unsolicited email, since I carefully avoid opting into any lists, yet I receive 20+ spam mails a day, (down to 2-3 since I installed Spam Assassin, but thats another article altogether)and just about all of them tell me I opted in to their lists..
This is quite different, the CD's are sold, thus they have a monetary value... When was the last time you saw the lyrics for [insert song here] for sale in [Sam Goody's/Best Buy/Wal Mart/your favorite store]? I would love to see how they determine actual damages if one of these cases goes to court... IAMDNAL (I am most definitely not a lawyer)
I know this is a lil off topic, but to respond to your post:
I can agree with you.. there are some people who always want something for nothing.
I can only speak for me, when the product and the price match up I will again start buying CD's... I know many others who feel the same.
I also have a problem knowing that every dollar I spend on CDs has the potential to contribute to efforts to hack people's computers and disable them because of "illegal" mp3s, as well as to criminalize fair use in the name of stpping the evil copyright infringers. How is the RIAA able to distinguish between fair-use and copyright violations. As I remember there was a post here recently that discussed the fact that they (major labels) release less music now, and we all know the quality is not as good as it has been, so they are setting themselves up for losing money, P2P looks like a convenient excuse. People have been pirating records for years, I am a student in DC, and people have been selling bootlegs on Georgia Avenue and other places long before Kazaa, Napster, or whatever else came out.
Back to the topic, legal action needs to be taken against the labels. Since when is it okay to pre-emptively attack a potential copyright infringer? If this is legal, can I hack people's computers because they ping scan my LAN? I know this is not the best analogy,but my point(s) are, 1. it is ridiculous to make the majority of consumers suffer for a few extreme pirates (especially when the effect of said pirates is being severely overstated) and 2. Breaking the law to have revenge against someone else who breaks the law is unacceptable.
I hope that the lawyers for Kazaa etc... can find some means to sue.. the reason the recording industry is losing money (if thats even true) is because they have a broken marketing model... want to make money? give customers what they want and adapt to market and economic trends.. want to lose money? criminalize your customers and piss them off with "features" like DRM and CD's you can copy/play in all CD players..
I agree... if a company is going to have a GNU/Linux distributions, seems to me they should abide by the GNU License. I dont see anything wrong with having a pay version, or even going the red hat way with "priority" ftp, but the ISO's should be available... Solo Mi Dos Centavos
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The solution is completely banning Unsolicited Commercial Email, no loopholes, no if and or buts about it. If a company I have a "relationship" with wants to send me commercial e-mail, they should clearly ask me about that at the outset of the "relationship"...
On another note, I am curious how the law will handle this Unsolicited email, since I carefully avoid opting into any lists, yet I receive 20+ spam mails a day, (down to 2-3 since I installed Spam Assassin, but thats another article altogether)and just about all of them tell me I opted in to their lists..
This is quite different, the CD's are sold, thus they have a monetary value... When was the last time you saw the lyrics for [insert song here] for sale in [Sam Goody's/Best Buy/Wal Mart/your favorite store]? I would love to see how they determine actual damages if one of these cases goes to court... IAMDNAL (I am most definitely not a lawyer)
I know this is a lil off topic, but to respond to your post:
I can agree with you.. there are some people who always want something for nothing.
I can only speak for me, when the product and the price match up I will again start buying CD's... I know many others who feel the same.
I also have a problem knowing that every dollar I spend on CDs has the potential to contribute to efforts to hack people's computers and disable them because of "illegal" mp3s, as well as to criminalize fair use in the name of stpping the evil copyright infringers. How is the RIAA able to distinguish between fair-use and copyright violations. As I remember there was a post here recently that discussed the fact that they (major labels) release less music now, and we all know the quality is not as good as it has been, so they are setting themselves up for losing money, P2P looks like a convenient excuse. People have been pirating records for years, I am a student in DC, and people have been selling bootlegs on Georgia Avenue and other places long before Kazaa, Napster, or whatever else came out.
Back to the topic, legal action needs to be taken against the labels. Since when is it okay to pre-emptively attack a potential copyright infringer? If this is legal, can I hack people's computers because they ping scan my LAN? I know this is not the best analogy,but my point(s) are, 1. it is ridiculous to make the majority of consumers suffer for a few extreme pirates (especially when the effect of said pirates is being severely overstated) and 2. Breaking the law to have revenge against someone else who breaks the law is unacceptable.
I hope that the lawyers for Kazaa etc... can find some means to sue.. the reason the recording industry is losing money (if thats even true) is because they have a broken marketing model... want to make money? give customers what they want and adapt to market and economic trends.. want to lose money? criminalize your customers and piss them off with "features" like DRM and CD's you can copy/play in all CD players..
I agree... if a company is going to have a GNU/Linux distributions, seems to me they should abide by the GNU License. I dont see anything wrong with having a pay version, or even going the red hat way with "priority" ftp, but the ISO's should be available... Solo Mi Dos Centavos