I always use name@company.com. Its suggested whenever i need to insert one, and i very rarely have it rejected by filters (twice in all my days of using it). Its great fun.
There are some places like Miami where you can get the phone company (BellSouth) to give you a dead line (read regualar line with dial tone filtered out at the NID) with just DSL singal. From here you only pay for the DSL and not the phone line. The service is more complicated to get because its not openly advertised, but ive seen it done. I dont remember the name exactly, sorry. Though it may be worth inquiring about.
Finally, undeniable proof of martian life, and intelligent too. I mean how else would the pencil have gotten there... Though seeing as how they are still using pencils they must not be too technilogically advanced... well scrap the mission... no point in going there, except to retrieve our precious.
...but to be honest, i wouldnt listen to music very often, if at all, if i had to pay for it. I understand the ethics of the subject, but the argument that record labels are loosing money from piracy doesn't hold for much of the pirating population. If the music industry wouldn't make any money off of me because i wouldn't buy cd's how are they loosing money from me now... since i wouldnt have given it to them to begin with.
I often see that people argue the point that others are not like me and would have purchased these disks had they not been downloaded, but what about the music that was purchased because of people file trading and services like audioscrobbler [audioscrobbler.com]. The RIAA wouldnt ever consider factoring that into their statistics before congress, so why should we as consumers respect their demands.
Furthermore, the portion that the artist/group recieves from record sales is pennies on the disk. If for every cd you downloaded and enjoyed you sent a five dollar bill to the musician and not the record label you'd be doing the artist/group a big service.
Now, again i already hear the cries of those who will say that the labels deserve the money too, but i say that they can afford a little studio time, and what they do make off record sales far from breakes even. Lets face it... those profiteering gluttons deserve a smack in the face for their raping of the nation.
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I always use name@company.com. Its suggested whenever i need to insert one, and i very rarely have it rejected by filters (twice in all my days of using it). Its great fun.
There are some places like Miami where you can get the phone company (BellSouth) to give you a dead line (read regualar line with dial tone filtered out at the NID) with just DSL singal. From here you only pay for the DSL and not the phone line. The service is more complicated to get because its not openly advertised, but ive seen it done. I dont remember the name exactly, sorry. Though it may be worth inquiring about.
The link appears to be down! Anyone else have the MP3's/ogg (anything but RM!)?
Finally, undeniable proof of martian life, and intelligent too. I mean how else would the pencil have gotten there... Though seeing as how they are still using pencils they must not be too technilogically advanced... well scrap the mission... no point in going there, except to retrieve our precious.
...but to be honest, i wouldnt listen to music very often, if at all, if i had to pay for it. I understand the ethics of the subject, but the argument that record labels are loosing money from piracy doesn't hold for much of the pirating population. If the music industry wouldn't make any money off of me because i wouldn't buy cd's how are they loosing money from me now... since i wouldnt have given it to them to begin with.
I often see that people argue the point that others are not like me and would have purchased these disks had they not been downloaded, but what about the music that was purchased because of people file trading and services like audioscrobbler [audioscrobbler.com]. The RIAA wouldnt ever consider factoring that into their statistics before congress, so why should we as consumers respect their demands.
Furthermore, the portion that the artist/group recieves from record sales is pennies on the disk. If for every cd you downloaded and enjoyed you sent a five dollar bill to the musician and not the record label you'd be doing the artist/group a big service. Now, again i already hear the cries of those who will say that the labels deserve the money too, but i say that they can afford a little studio time, and what they do make off record sales far from breakes even. Lets face it... those profiteering gluttons deserve a smack in the face for their raping of the nation.