Damn I love watching the recording industries get increasingly desperate. First it was file sharers, now it's foreign imports. What next? Going to sue people that don't listen to music?
Eh... most teenagers are far more computer literate than their parents. I could have bypassed parental control stuff when I was younger if there had been the need to. Not to mention more and more school children actually being taught programming and thus they have the basic skills to crack the censorship executable and make it do whatever the hell they want it to.
The reason being that I'm a programming student and of course my work is similar to others at times. There's only a certain number of ways to do things in the first place, and most students tend to use exactly what they have been taught because it's a waste of time to go out and learn a different coding method to do something that already works.
I was just thinking something similar. Why the hell don't they just use all the GPL code they want and publish any changes they make? In fact, make it as easy as possible to modify the player. The Linux community would love it and buy it over all other players. I can't imagine there's much of a market for MP4 players outside the geek community.
France on it's own has enough nukes to wipe half of America off the map if it came down to it. MAD would work just as well in Europe vs USA as it did in Russia vs USA.
Yes... If I was being taxed for downloading music based on high bandwidth I think I would create high traffic then challenge it in court. And for the bandwidth, what better than infecting my machine with a DDoS zombie for attacking the music industry?
So they run a metal detector over someone. It beeps. The offending person is asked to show that it's not a camera. They bring out a gun and blow the head off the person asking. You don't really want to search people without armed police to back you up.
By the time my parents got a home computer, I was 17, had been programming for over a year, and was quite capable of circumventing any security measure they put in place.
But since then I've replaced my old Lexmark for a Canon. I didn't like what Lexmark were doing, so I walked past all the Lexmarks (about 75% of the store's stock) and voted with my wallet. It's the only way to show these people who's boss.
But I'm starting to think that big corporations will only stop stamping on peoples rights when top executives start getting shot by the people they are screwing over.
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What was that mod smoking?
I never even knew that SCO owned any ships, never mind that one of them had been boarded and plundered by pirates.
Nobody is being forced to buy RIAA tripe... yet.
Damn I love watching the recording industries get increasingly desperate. First it was file sharers, now it's foreign imports. What next? Going to sue people that don't listen to music?
Moderating this as troll is more than a little unfair. I hope it pops up in my meta-moderation later.
Five different mods, no less. It's a shame I used up all my points earlier today.
Eh... most teenagers are far more computer literate than their parents. I could have bypassed parental control stuff when I was younger if there had been the need to. Not to mention more and more school children actually being taught programming and thus they have the basic skills to crack the censorship executable and make it do whatever the hell they want it to.
The reason being that I'm a programming student and of course my work is similar to others at times. There's only a certain number of ways to do things in the first place, and most students tend to use exactly what they have been taught because it's a waste of time to go out and learn a different coding method to do something that already works.
I don't know if I would go so far as to call Metallica artists...
I was just thinking something similar. Why the hell don't they just use all the GPL code they want and publish any changes they make? In fact, make it as easy as possible to modify the player. The Linux community would love it and buy it over all other players. I can't imagine there's much of a market for MP4 players outside the geek community.
Dell actually put that on a PC? Another good reason not to buy one from them.
France on it's own has enough nukes to wipe half of America off the map if it came down to it. MAD would work just as well in Europe vs USA as it did in Russia vs USA.
Yes... If I was being taxed for downloading music based on high bandwidth I think I would create high traffic then challenge it in court. And for the bandwidth, what better than infecting my machine with a DDoS zombie for attacking the music industry?
So they run a metal detector over someone. It beeps. The offending person is asked to show that it's not a camera. They bring out a gun and blow the head off the person asking. You don't really want to search people without armed police to back you up.
I can't say I really care what colour another person's skin is.
By the time my parents got a home computer, I was 17, had been programming for over a year, and was quite capable of circumventing any security measure they put in place.
Christopher Lee is the purist's purist when it comes to Lord of the Rings.
Can't we have flying cars too? What have you got against flying cars?! ;)
I'll never buy another CD produced by them. I don't dpwnload music - I just hate them enough that I want to see them ruined.
They want to rename the start of the universe to the Big Hum? I don't see this name becoming popular.
Why? What's the point?
But since then I've replaced my old Lexmark for a Canon. I didn't like what Lexmark were doing, so I walked past all the Lexmarks (about 75% of the store's stock) and voted with my wallet. It's the only way to show these people who's boss.
No matter whether it's a republican or democrat as president, they will be looking out for their corporate buddies.
But I'm starting to think that big corporations will only stop stamping on peoples rights when top executives start getting shot by the people they are screwing over.
Not only do they biodegrade on you, they cost three times as much. I can't wait to run out and buy some!