This is what the Russian head of the IFPI said back in March of 2004
"So as IFPI Russia's legal adviser, Vladimir Dragunov, concedes: "Because of these loopholes we don't have much chance of succeeding if we attack these companies who are using music files on the Internet under current Russian laws."
So unless the laws have changed since then the police can investigate as much as they like but it doesn't look like there is much chance of a conviction.
Leaving aside the legality of their licence for a moment they are providing an excellent well run service. They have a lot of choice of music and you can choose from a wide variety of DRM free formats and bit rates. Downloads from the site are very quick and I haven't noticed any problem with the site at all.
Compared with the various 'offical' download services this is one meets my needs as a consumer far better.
Regarding the legality of this service it's worth pointing out that most of the current establishment for creating and distributing media, e.g. cable companies, movie studios and the recording industry started off operating illegally in an attempt to serve their markets. Obviously the laws were then changed allowing them to continue trading.
Whether it's legal or not they are offering a great service, they charge based on the amount downloaded and you can choose what format / bitrate to use.
Personally this means I am happy to pay more money for good quality tracks which I like and less for lower quality ones which I am just checking out.
I think you have read more into my post than was there.
I actually don't agree with the grandparent about proprietary licences being evil, the guy accepted that licence and so should not be surprised if he is asked to pay the consequences.
I was agreeing with the parent that the GPL is enforced and pointing out that if the guy had chosen to distribute a piece of GPL software he wouldn't have been in any trouble which is the point the great grandparent was making but the grand parent post seemed to have misunderstood.
To make a simple processor BBQ just get a big box of old processors, a can of petrol and a metal brazier.
Put the chips and the petrol in the brazier, set it on fire and cook stuff on top. If the flames begin to die down add more wood, chips ( if you have them ) or any other junk to sustain the heating reaction.
I thought your missile defence was fully operational now ?
I'm sure I heard something about the
evil missiles of the infidels... and terrorists... being smote by... the... mighty hand of God... using His Very Cost... Effective Missile Defence Sheild to... Smite their projectiles from On High.
Of course they do but the point is that if this was a GPL'd piece of software there would have been problem with the guy distributing it in this way and he would not have broken any of the conditions of the licence which would mean he would not now be in any trouble.
A standard year is calculated at a speed of 29.658 Km/s which would mean that a 'light year' is calculated to be around 10,000 times faster.
Obviously these are straight line measurements, it becomes far more complex to perform the calculations around trick curves or through chicanes to avoid the effects of further massy objects which will also have an effect on the value of the 'light year'
"By comparison: Even though there are millions of psychics/clairvoyants and other people who claim to be able to predict the future worldwide, not one predicted the tsunami! Remarkable?"
OK, maybe no one predicted it before the event but there are millions of things which pychics correctly predict all the time and maybe this just happened to be one of the things which they missed.
With hindsight however it's clear that the Tsunami was predicted by thousands of talented pyschics and prominent clairvoyants it's just that it the general population did not interpret the predictions correctly.
That's not even remotely what the article is saying. In this case they conciously saw the signs and conciously drew on their general knowledge and teachings to come to a concious decision to evacuate the area around the beach.
I saw a news item where some of the indigenous people were being interviewed. Apparantly despite living in one of the hardest hit areas not a single person fell victim to the wave.
They did indeed say that this was because it was common knowledge that when the sea retreated like that it was time to seek the higher ground.
What, so Australian aboriginies are incapable of travel ? They are barred from going on holiday ? You are saying that not one single ethnicly aboriginal australian was affected by the tsunami in any way ?
Or in fact anything which is behaving unusually. The first response is likely to be to put a good distance between yourself and it and watch to see what it does.
I expect that once a few people had begun to rush down in the gap left by the water other people simply followed.
It's all to do with mass, as you probably know time can be affected by mass and more massive objects experience time more slowly.
A light year is an adjusted time interval representing the length of time we experience as a year as it would be experienced by the vacuum ( which is of course much less massive than the Earth hence the term "light year" ) in our terms light years are roughly 14,823 of our Earth years, but it does vary slightly depending on the background gravity.
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This is what the Russian head of the IFPI said back in March of 2004
"So as IFPI Russia's legal adviser, Vladimir Dragunov, concedes: "Because of these loopholes we don't have much chance of succeeding if we attack these companies who are using music files on the Internet under current Russian laws."
So unless the laws have changed since then the police can investigate as much as they like but it doesn't look like there is much chance of a conviction.
It's probably going to be a while before anything terminal happens to them, I suggest using them in the meantime until you can find soemthing else.
I have used the service and it was every bit as good as I hoped it would be.
Leaving aside the legality of their licence for a moment they are providing an excellent well run service. They have a lot of choice of music and you can choose from a wide variety of DRM free formats and bit rates. Downloads from the site are very quick and I haven't noticed any problem with the site at all.
Compared with the various 'offical' download services this is one meets my needs as a consumer far better.
Regarding the legality of this service it's worth pointing out that most of the current establishment for creating and distributing media, e.g. cable companies, movie studios and the recording industry started off operating illegally in an attempt to serve their markets. Obviously the laws were then changed allowing them to continue trading.
Whether it's legal or not they are offering a great service, they charge based on the amount downloaded and you can choose what format / bitrate to use.
Personally this means I am happy to pay more money for good quality tracks which I like and less for lower quality ones which I am just checking out.
I've got quite a lot of stuff from there too and I like it !
It's great for sampling bands because really low bitrates are enough to get a good idea of whether I like it or not and cost less than pennies.
I think you have read more into my post than was there.
I actually don't agree with the grandparent about proprietary licences being evil, the guy accepted that licence and so should not be surprised if he is asked to pay the consequences.
I was agreeing with the parent that the GPL is enforced and pointing out that if the guy had chosen to distribute a piece of GPL software he wouldn't have been in any trouble which is the point the great grandparent was making but the grand parent post seemed to have misunderstood.
To make a simple processor BBQ just get a big box of old processors, a can of petrol and a metal brazier.
Put the chips and the petrol in the brazier, set it on fire and cook stuff on top. If the flames begin to die down add more wood, chips ( if you have them ) or any other junk to sustain the heating reaction.
Your cat is a fuckin' pussy
I thought your missile defence was fully operational now ?
... ... ... ... ... ... ...
I'm sure I heard something about the
evil missiles of the infidels
and terrorists
being smote by
the
mighty hand of God
using His Very Cost
Effective Missile Defence Sheild to
Smite their projectiles from On High.
No one, he's a member of the ruling class and can therefore do what he likes.
Of course they do but the point is that if this was a GPL'd piece of software there would have been problem with the guy distributing it in this way and he would not have broken any of the conditions of the licence which would mean he would not now be in any trouble.
Yes, I was going to say that myself. All I have do is walk into the room and KDE Bluetooth automatically notices the phone.
Evolution with multisync will also automatically notice the phone and synchronize my contacts and appointments.
No hassles at all.
I think everything which is sold by weight in the UK has to include a price per pound/kilogram as well as the pack price and weight.
Complete the following:
1) I for one welcome __________________ ?
2) In Soviet Russia, ____________________ ?
3) In Korea, only old _______________ ?
4) ??
5) ______ ?
Since I haven't noticed XP For Robots in Dixons lately I don't think this is exactly surprising.
it's a word, what did you think it was ?
I own the word gravy when used in conjuction with any other words or characters and so you owe me billions of dollars for that sentence.
A standard year is calculated at a speed of 29.658 Km/s which would mean that a 'light year' is calculated to be around 10,000 times faster.
Obviously these are straight line measurements, it becomes far more complex to perform the calculations around trick curves or through chicanes to avoid the effects of further massy objects which will also have an effect on the value of the 'light year'
"By comparison: Even though there are millions of psychics/clairvoyants and other people who claim to be able to predict the future worldwide, not one predicted the tsunami! Remarkable?"
OK, maybe no one predicted it before the event but there are millions of things which pychics correctly predict all the time and maybe this just happened to be one of the things which they missed.
With hindsight however it's clear that the Tsunami was predicted by thousands of talented pyschics and prominent clairvoyants it's just that it the general population did not interpret the predictions correctly.
That's not even remotely what the article is saying. In this case they conciously saw the signs and conciously drew on their general knowledge and teachings to come to a concious decision to evacuate the area around the beach.
I saw a news item where some of the indigenous people were being interviewed. Apparantly despite living in one of the hardest hit areas not a single person fell victim to the wave.
They did indeed say that this was because it was common knowledge that when the sea retreated like that it was time to seek the higher ground.
What, so Australian aboriginies are incapable of travel ? They are barred from going on holiday ? You are saying that not one single ethnicly aboriginal australian was affected by the tsunami in any way ?
Or in fact anything which is behaving unusually. The first response is likely to be to put a good distance between yourself and it and watch to see what it does.
I expect that once a few people had begun to rush down in the gap left by the water other people simply followed.
What, never ? Never ever ? You are saying that no aboriginal tribesman has at any point over the last 200 years ever spoken a single word of English.
It's all to do with mass, as you probably know time can be affected by mass and more massive objects experience time more slowly.
A light year is an adjusted time interval representing the length of time we experience as a year as it would be experienced by the vacuum ( which is of course much less massive than the Earth hence the term "light year" ) in our terms light years are roughly 14,823 of our Earth years, but it does vary slightly depending on the background gravity.