But I did hold down the shift key when I put the CD in. Then I ripped it, packed away the original, and proceeded to play it from my home entertainment system of choice, my computer.
Do I share it? Hell no. I'm a huge fan of Scott Weiland and would never do that to him. The CD was worth $14 to me and then some, but I did think twice about buying it after reading the notice on the cover. I seriously thought about downloading it out of spite.
If I would have unknowingly had their software installed on my computer that blocked a function, I'd be just as pissed at them as I am at people who write viruses.
This is just another "legal" virus like Gator, Real Player, Comet Cursor...
I've had XM for over a year and listen daily in the car. The reason I got XM was because I absolutely hate the junk that is heard in Clearchanel dominated market I live in.
Not once have I thought of recording anything from XM. Since most XM radios have line outputs for amplifiers, it would be easy to plug in a laptop and record to wav or even mp3 with no problem. This article put the idea in my head, courtesy of the RIAA. Good job guys.
I've bought quite a few CD's from "new" artists that I actually had a chance to hear on XM. XM definately helps the labels sell more CD's since Clearchanel doesn't play what the public wants to hear anymore.
The few decent artists that are played to death on broadcast radio don't seem worth the $15 to buy. Hell, I could hear the same song every time I turn on the radio anyway. But the ones that I hear on XM are new and aren't jammed down my throat. I WANT to buy the CD's. Nobody feels good ripping off the underdog artists, but we all write off the radio artists as the enemy, thus they are exploitable.
The RIAA seems to want control over which artists are popular more than they want money from listeners. In any other business, the stockholders would have voted out anyone who repeatedly made such bad decisions. It just makes no sense.
If an individual gives away software that hogs bandwidth and cpu cycles, you are now a terrorist hacker, writing malware and undermining national security and free commerce.
You have to start a company for it to be legal. Duh.
I don't know about them, but with our Clear Channel run generic radio stations, I never get to hear decent music. MusicTV (remember MTV?) doesn't play music, VH1 is stuck in the 80's and my radio is useless.
Humans are naturally drawn to music, especially new interesting music, and will seek it out from some source. P2P is really the only alternative in US cities (i.e. Houston) that are Clear Channel owned and have no music scene.
People will not buy on a blind risk. Why don't the record labels go after the radio monopolies instead?
As someone who grew up in a small town, I have to agree.
With Clear Channel corporate radio, even if you can receive a decent radio station in a rural area, they only play pop music at best. This is the only way for many people to hear interesting music. I'm sure that P2P can't damage sales as much as CC not bothering to play most of the bands that the RIAA has invested in.
Also, in rural areas most clubs are honkey-tonk country clubs where 21+ get to drink 'till they drop and have an occasional fight. Under 21 you have little choice but to go out to a friends house or in the middle of a field somewhere and drink, smoke and have sex.
Lets think of the children and take responsibility for our own actions. If people didn't sue for every stupid thing their kid did, more clubs could afford insurance and be available to the community.
Their are some limits currently, they just don't really work.
IMHO, companies should NOT be able to donate. They are not people, and have no place in our government.
If the CEO or even a janitor wants to personally donate $50 or 100,000 of his own money that is fine, he has that right. However, having a special "Donation Bonus" of from the company should be illegal.
When did companies become people, complete with rights, instead of a group of individuals?
My problem is that the fine for shoplifting, or ACTUALLY stealing the CD, carries a minimal fine and a small mark on your record. Possibly a short stay in jail.
Why is it that when the "Intarweb" is involved, legislators suddenly lose touch with reality?
Yes, the record companies do have the right to protect their content. Those laws have been in place for years and did not lock people away for 10 years over 1 track from a $1 CD that they charge $20 for.
Up to 1bn in fines? Exactly how much money did they make by being corrupt?
This makes breaking the law sound like a good return on investment. I'm sure that any other company would gladly pay 1bn to have control of 95% of all computers.
It is better than the US DOJ letting Microsoft pick their punishment, but come on.
Couldn't you just walk in with your own card containing an autorun.inf and a nasty virus? How intimate are the daisy-chained machines? Would it spread with the data upload?
There are SO many ways to break this system that it is obvious that the current ruling class has lost touch with reality.
I think we need to organize public awareness campaigns about how easily the votes can be tampered with and how hard the Republicans are trying to push this through in order to fill their own pockets and gain power.
The US Government is more broken than the voting machines. Sounds like it is time for the government to receive a format and reinstall. Open source this time please.
AFAIK, the X.org guys took the source from the last release candidate prior to the license change and are building from there.
The X.org server is XFree86 4.4 RC3 (I think) with their own fixes added. This means that all drivers and apps work. The only difference now is the license and the name.
Eventually differences in how the features are implimented will come about, but as long as they both follow X standard protocols they should be interchangable.
I can't help thinking that XFree will be a subset of the features available in X.org. Once people with passion for the project are actually allowed to work on it, the features should really flow.
The danger of missing a MS Office update is that if any one company or person you deal with upgrades, you have to upgrade in order to read the files they send you.
Since MS changes the file formats with each version and users save in the default format (the newest MS format) your older version becomes useless.
Sure, you can ask them to resend the file in any older format, but then your client may think that doing business with you is too much trouble, that you are unable to even work with "standard" documents or just too broke and unstable to afford Office.
This is the deadly circle of MS Office use and the reason that the DOJ should have forced open the file formats.
I can see that you are quite removed from the average person in the US.
$150K/year minus those charges is rich to most of us.
Try working that many hours, or more, at one-two jobs, every day with no vacation and being glad to get $35K. Oh, and pay your own benefits. Now you are thinking like your average patient.
I'm still very happy about the interest. However, I'd rather they released a stable product with the needed accessories and had a good return on investment so that they gain as much from the Linux market as I would gain from their software.
Releasing a buggy WINE hack of just Flash probably wouldn't sell much and would leave Linux looking like a bad option for future development, both for Macromedia and others.
Why not port a native Dreamweaver? There is NO decent WYSIWYG HTML editor on Linux. Flash is an accessory to Dreamweaver. People who want Flash can't work without a decent HTML editor. They definately won't edit their HTML in vi, so they won't buy Flash for Linux.
WINE is a pain when it comes to drive letters.
First, it has a totally different view of the filesystem than every native app. It has a fake drive letter (Z: for instance) that leads to/, then you get to dig for the home directory.
Or, if you set up the home directory as H: or whatever, the user ends up looking for their H: drive from a native app.
WINE is unstable, even using the Crossover Office I bought to try to get my wife, the last holdout in my house, off of Windows.
PLEASE, Macromedia, don't use WINE to hack this together and please port the main application FIRST!!
The major problem is that copyright should not be transferable.
The person who created the work should retain all rights to the work. Not some global megacorp that can monopolize on the giant mass of copyrights they have bought or taken from employees.
If you can only monopolize what you have actually created then the power and wealth would be spread much more evenly. An individual is normally much more likely to license or sell a product at a reasonable price.
The idea that a corporation has the rights of a person but no way to be held accountable for its actions was not taken into account when these laws were passed or when the US Constitution was originally written to grant copyright.
IMHO, returning a corporation to its original status of a group of accountabe individuals with individual rights and copyrights, rather than the current status of an untouchable person, would correct many of our current problems.
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I sure hope the MediaMax protection racket works under WINE.
;)
Otherwise Linux is still playing catchup.
The one I bought from Soundwaves said it was protected.
It was on the front, lower left, on a sticker like the "popular songs on this CD" sticker they put on the shrinkwrap.
My mood went from from excited I finally have the CD to shit, I hope it works in my car/CD player/DVD player/computer/mp3 player...
But I did hold down the shift key when I put the CD in. Then I ripped it, packed away the original, and proceeded to play it from my home entertainment system of choice, my computer.
Do I share it? Hell no. I'm a huge fan of Scott Weiland and would never do that to him. The CD was worth $14 to me and then some, but I did think twice about buying it after reading the notice on the cover. I seriously thought about downloading it out of spite.
If I would have unknowingly had their software installed on my computer that blocked a function, I'd be just as pissed at them as I am at people who write viruses.
This is just another "legal" virus like Gator, Real Player, Comet Cursor...
I hate to burst your bubble, but unless you have a high end Promise card, it is still CPU powered.
Just because it has software RAID in firmware doesn't make it hardware RAID.
I've had XM for over a year and listen daily in the car. The reason I got XM was because I absolutely hate the junk that is heard in Clearchanel dominated market I live in.
Not once have I thought of recording anything from XM. Since most XM radios have line outputs for amplifiers, it would be easy to plug in a laptop and record to wav or even mp3 with no problem. This article put the idea in my head, courtesy of the RIAA. Good job guys.
I've bought quite a few CD's from "new" artists that I actually had a chance to hear on XM. XM definately helps the labels sell more CD's since Clearchanel doesn't play what the public wants to hear anymore.
The few decent artists that are played to death on broadcast radio don't seem worth the $15 to buy. Hell, I could hear the same song every time I turn on the radio anyway. But the ones that I hear on XM are new and aren't jammed down my throat. I WANT to buy the CD's. Nobody feels good ripping off the underdog artists, but we all write off the radio artists as the enemy, thus they are exploitable.
The RIAA seems to want control over which artists are popular more than they want money from listeners. In any other business, the stockholders would have voted out anyone who repeatedly made such bad decisions. It just makes no sense.
Because that is using their bandwidth and services.
You can get linux patches anywhere, just not from RH unless you pay for using their service.
If an individual gives away software that hogs bandwidth and cpu cycles, you are now a terrorist hacker, writing malware and undermining national security and free commerce.
You have to start a company for it to be legal. Duh.
Look at the output quality. The lack of "Professional" quality drawing and text tools is the reason I always go back to Aura, Photoshop, etc.
A UI can be learned if the results are worth it.
Until OSS authors get it through their thick skulls that backwards compatable is not evil, it isn't going to happen.
If you have to compile everything to make one upgrade or install then you will never get ease of installation.
True, but how many single, non-scsi drives do you have that can constantly transfer over 400Mbits per second?
The drive manufacturers keep looking for a faster interface, but they haven't improved their real-world transfer speeds much since Ultra 66.
I don't know about them, but with our Clear Channel run generic radio stations, I never get to hear decent music. MusicTV (remember MTV?) doesn't play music, VH1 is stuck in the 80's and my radio is useless.
Humans are naturally drawn to music, especially new interesting music, and will seek it out from some source. P2P is really the only alternative in US cities (i.e. Houston) that are Clear Channel owned and have no music scene.
People will not buy on a blind risk. Why don't the record labels go after the radio monopolies instead?
It couldn't POSSIBLY be that we are having trouble paying rent or buying food due to the economy.
Yep, it's gotta be those darn pirates.
As long as law abiding consumers are in jail, the RIAA loses money!
So we free the murders and rapists so that they can buy more CDs and lock up people who use P2P and lower the gross profit of the companies!
But wait, those murders may be killing more than one consumer, which could lower profits...
Ok, mass murderers have to stay in there with the P2Pirates.
Sorry for the OT...
As someone who grew up in a small town, I have to agree.
With Clear Channel corporate radio, even if you can receive a decent radio station in a rural area, they only play pop music at best. This is the only way for many people to hear interesting music. I'm sure that P2P can't damage sales as much as CC not bothering to play most of the bands that the RIAA has invested in.
Also, in rural areas most clubs are honkey-tonk country clubs where 21+ get to drink 'till they drop and have an occasional fight. Under 21 you have little choice but to go out to a friends house or in the middle of a field somewhere and drink, smoke and have sex.
Lets think of the children and take responsibility for our own actions. If people didn't sue for every stupid thing their kid did, more clubs could afford insurance and be available to the community.
Their are some limits currently, they just don't really work.
IMHO, companies should NOT be able to donate. They are not people, and have no place in our government.
If the CEO or even a janitor wants to personally donate $50 or 100,000 of his own money that is fine, he has that right. However, having a special "Donation Bonus" of from the company should be illegal.
When did companies become people, complete with rights, instead of a group of individuals?
My problem is that the fine for shoplifting, or ACTUALLY stealing the CD, carries a minimal fine and a small mark on your record. Possibly a short stay in jail.
Why is it that when the "Intarweb" is involved, legislators suddenly lose touch with reality?
Yes, the record companies do have the right to protect their content. Those laws have been in place for years and did not lock people away for 10 years over 1 track from a $1 CD that they charge $20 for.
The punishment should fit the crime.
Isn't the average sentence actually served for murder shorter than the ten years that Sen. Hatch wants to get for copyright infringement?
Decisions, decisions...
Up to 1bn in fines? Exactly how much money did they make by being corrupt?
This makes breaking the law sound like a good return on investment. I'm sure that any other company would gladly pay 1bn to have control of 95% of all computers.
It is better than the US DOJ letting Microsoft pick their punishment, but come on.
that autorun is disabled?
Couldn't you just walk in with your own card containing an autorun.inf and a nasty virus? How intimate are the daisy-chained machines? Would it spread with the data upload?
There are SO many ways to break this system that it is obvious that the current ruling class has lost touch with reality.
I think we need to organize public awareness campaigns about how easily the votes can be tampered with and how hard the Republicans are trying to push this through in order to fill their own pockets and gain power.
The US Government is more broken than the voting machines. Sounds like it is time for the government to receive a format and reinstall. Open source this time please.
AFAIK, the X.org guys took the source from the last release candidate prior to the license change and are building from there.
The X.org server is XFree86 4.4 RC3 (I think) with their own fixes added. This means that all drivers and apps work. The only difference now is the license and the name.
Eventually differences in how the features are implimented will come about, but as long as they both follow X standard protocols they should be interchangable.
I can't help thinking that XFree will be a subset of the features available in X.org. Once people with passion for the project are actually allowed to work on it, the features should really flow.
The danger of missing a MS Office update is that if any one company or person you deal with upgrades, you have to upgrade in order to read the files they send you.
Since MS changes the file formats with each version and users save in the default format (the newest MS format) your older version becomes useless.
Sure, you can ask them to resend the file in any older format, but then your client may think that doing business with you is too much trouble, that you are unable to even work with "standard" documents or just too broke and unstable to afford Office.
This is the deadly circle of MS Office use and the reason that the DOJ should have forced open the file formats.
I can see that you are quite removed from the average person in the US.
$150K/year minus those charges is rich to most of us.
Try working that many hours, or more, at one-two jobs, every day with no vacation and being glad to get $35K. Oh, and pay your own benefits. Now you are thinking like your average patient.
You can't even be outsourced...
I'm still very happy about the interest. However, I'd rather they released a stable product with the needed accessories and had a good return on investment so that they gain as much from the Linux market as I would gain from their software.
Releasing a buggy WINE hack of just Flash probably wouldn't sell much and would leave Linux looking like a bad option for future development, both for Macromedia and others.
Why not port a native Dreamweaver? There is NO decent WYSIWYG HTML editor on Linux. Flash is an accessory to Dreamweaver. People who want Flash can't work without a decent HTML editor. They definately won't edit their HTML in vi, so they won't buy Flash for Linux.
/, then you get to dig for the home directory.
WINE is a pain when it comes to drive letters.
First, it has a totally different view of the filesystem than every native app. It has a fake drive letter (Z: for instance) that leads to
Or, if you set up the home directory as H: or whatever, the user ends up looking for their H: drive from a native app.
WINE is unstable, even using the Crossover Office I bought to try to get my wife, the last holdout in my house, off of Windows.
PLEASE, Macromedia, don't use WINE to hack this together and please port the main application FIRST!!
The major problem is that copyright should not be transferable.
The person who created the work should retain all rights to the work. Not some global megacorp that can monopolize on the giant mass of copyrights they have bought or taken from employees.
If you can only monopolize what you have actually created then the power and wealth would be spread much more evenly. An individual is normally much more likely to license or sell a product at a reasonable price.
The idea that a corporation has the rights of a person but no way to be held accountable for its actions was not taken into account when these laws were passed or when the US Constitution was originally written to grant copyright.
IMHO, returning a corporation to its original status of a group of accountabe individuals with individual rights and copyrights, rather than the current status of an untouchable person, would correct many of our current problems.