Both, but sensibly they tend to go after uploaders. But if you are in the US, downloading copyrighted material is quite clearly against the law, even though people on forums might love to perpetuate the myth that it's not. It's like the idea that you can't get pregnant the first time you have sex. People want to believe it, but it isn't true:D
what? You realise the internet is free and that anyone can get an account on myspace or facebook right? There is no evil cabal of cackling minions that stop people making decent music. If the RIAA were blown into dust TODAY, no 'new' music would get made that is not already getting made. There arent great new indie bands sat there on their awesome songs who have pledged not to release them until the RIAA have died. Maybe you just don't like modern music? Join the club, but it's silly to blame this on the RIAA. You are free to seek out indie bands right now.
I say this as someone who used to be in a band, back in the day that never got signed. We didn't have 1% of the opportunities then that modern unsigned indie bands have now. The RIAA promote a lot of souless crap that I hate as much as anyone, but they don't actually STOP me buying the new album by my fave band (Dream Theater). They might not promote them or market them, but there is nothing the RIAA can do to prevent indie bands doing well.
No I wouldn't, if I was clearly and obviously guilty. I've been given a speeding fine before. I was speeding. There were a ton of mitigating factors, but at the end of the day, I was speeding, so I paid the fine. I could have wasted a year of my life arguing in court, but I have a life to get on with, and I knew I'd broken the law. Somehow jammie believes her own hype and somehow convinced herself she is innocent.
maybe because the plumber got pauid when he did the work, and the IP creator did not? Please tell me you don't advocate such laughably silly systems as patronage for video games and music?
I for one do not want to only play games and hear music funded by the idle rich.
yes it does. unfortanately, *everything* cant be copied and shared at will, just digital content If people who make digital content still need real world food and rent, then they need to be paid in a conventional sense so they can afford that food and rent. Wake me up when star trek replicators exist. Until then, the argument that 'everything can be copied and shared' is not true and irrlevant.
if(hyperlink in email ends in.exe) {
isphishing = true. }
Even if this is an email from someone in your whitelist and is merely quoting text from your own message you sent them. And there seems to be NO way to prevent a message with.exe in it to be marked this way:(
I couldn't agree more. Copyright law needs updating, but abolishing it is silly. I hate the RIAA and MPAA, not becauase of their policies regarding court cases or anything they do to people who are filesharing, but because their stance devalues the true justifications for copyright, and because they make me watch unskippable warnings on DVDs.
Most people who benefit from copyright hate the MPAA and RIAA. I'm sick of being called an RIAA shill just because I don't believe in decriminalising file-sharing.
There is a whole spectrum of views on copyright. The RIAA are the Klu Klux Klan of copyright debate. Do not lump us all in with them, and we will not lump in all copyright reformers with Peter Sunde and his fellow recently-sold-out friends.
"The videogames business is defined by technology"
Really? I've only been playing games since pong, and worked in them for 10 years, but stupidly I've been defining the videogames business by 'fun'. It's a pity this has ended up a minority viewpoint.
their biggest competitors are also online. I'm sure microsoft are glad of all these people who are so impressed by youtube they buy a new laptop pre-installed with vista. And its good news for Yahoo too. people can chat about youtube videos using yahoo messenger.
I'm a game developer, having worked at Elixir and Lionhead, and now running my own indie show --> http://www.positech.co.uk./ Parent poster is right, most people who now work as game designers started young and worked for years. i wrote my first code in 1981, aged 11, so that's about 28 years to get to where I am now (albeit with some major detours, you can do it much quicker). Key points to be aware of are these:
1) The competition to be designer is harder than any other role, so the chances of getting work as a designer are way way lower than getting a job as an artist or coder or tester, so you need to be uber-good. 2) What most people consider to be game design is being 'lead designer' or even better 'concept designer'. These roles are even rarer. You need to run/own a studio or go solo to get this job. 3) 50% of the coders and artists at each game company also harbour design ambitions. They are also ahead of you in the queue.
Having said all this, you can do it, I certainly have. I've even designed games for Maxis (SimSocial) as well as my indie stuff. The key thing is, that I did it through the route of programming. I didn't have to persuade a coder to make my idea, I could code it myself, which is 90% of the battle. I have to employ an artist or three, but at the start, you can get away with coder art.
In short, if you are one of the game design wannabes who aims to never learn any code and is afraid of C++, you are very likely doomed, unless you get in through the route of game testing, and then work your balls off or show incredible ability. Even given that, you are looking at 5+ years minimum before you get to really design. Thats 5 years of checking that barbies new riding game doesn't crash with a French keyboard and other exciting tasks. On the other hand if you are happy to learn some code, and willing to start out small, you can do everything yourself. With platforms such as wiiware, iphone, the web (flash and PC downloadable) there are many opportunities to get to be a game designer on a smaller scale.
Indie dev may not sound as exciting as working at epic, but today I spent my working day fine tuning the circumstances under which AI-controlled space cruisers retreat to engage auto-repair systems*. It beats working in a call center:D Good Luck!
Well I and millions of others who have bought all his books find him an entertaining and informative writer. You don't sell millions and millions of books by not being able to write. Especially if you have no celebrity background and are known purely as a writer. It sounds like he doesn't write to your tastes. JK Rowling doesn't write to mine, but I know she is an excellent author. It's not mass random stupidity that makes people buy these books, their tastes are just not the same as yours.
Chrome is a deliberate attempt to make a popular browser with no ad-block support. Because ad-block is bad news for google. Thats the business case I'd make for it. Not that it was necessary for there to be another browser to encourage people to surf. We already have lots of browsers.
you think google are happy to bin $300 million a year for a lesson on how to optimise bandwidth?
google already have a shitload of user data and bandwidth stats. This just seems a crazy way to rationalise a huge money sink that has no long term profitability plan.
This is very true. Check out the web game 'civony' (now evony) it is advertised absolutely everywhere nd by all accounts has a huge numebr of people playing. the game is
FREE FOREVER!
Unless you actually want to 'get anywhere' in which case you need to pay to get this item, or pay for that ability, or pay for this feature, or pay for that feature... By the time you are done you might as well just have bought CIV IV or have signed up to play World of Warcraft.
People are suckered in by 'free', but it never works. It's like that 'free financial advice' everyone got in the 80s. 'Free' because it was based on commission to financial services companies to push their products regardless of suitability.
I hope you live in china, or some other economy that actually has factories. Because if not, you just doomed your entire generation to depression-style unemployment.
the USA is more dependent on IP than anywhere else on earth. I'm surprised to seeso many college educated US slashdot readers act so aggressively to devalue the one thing their economic future really does depend upon.
I don't get it. This is slashdot. if she was to exercise her right to copyright over her own creative works, would that not make her part of teh evil RIAA and teh MAFIAAA? I'm confused. my browser says this slashdot.org...
If you don't like the price, you are well within your rights to stick with XP or vista. That's fine. But claiming this allows you to legitimately pirate it is a bit of a stretch. I've always considered that plasma TV's were overpriced, but this didn't create a feeling on entitlement to take one for free.
Intel and Microsoft and Google are all US companies. I am in the UK. I use all 3 companies products and I also use the world wide web, which an English guy helped design based on underlying code that the US developed. As a Uk developer I sell to everywhere, including Nigeria and China.
What alternative to globalisation do you suggest? That Spanish people have to rely on Spanish made and designed chips and the Spanish version of TCP/IP?
Globalisation, if coupled with a lack of regulation and transparency can lead to abuse. It has also led us towards phenomenal technological change and economic advancement.
By all means lets focus some attention on levelling the playing field and fixing the worst excesses of globalisation, but lets not pretend life would be better if companies were artificially pigeon-holed into territorial markets.
put your tin foil hat away. If the judge had been a member of the FSF you would have declared that perfectly acceptable. You guys insisted they would never go to trial, they did You guys insisted they would never be found guilty They were You guys insisted there would be a re-trial. There won't be.
Face it, this went to court, they were found (quite rightfully) guilty as hell. Deal with it.
nope. technology changed and the law was changed to keep up. Amazingly, 100 years ago it was legal to drive in the Uk whilst talking on a mobile phone.
why was the trial not fair? The judge believes in and supprots swedish law. You seriously would prefer a system where judges make up the law on their own?
besides, if TPB are right and what they are doing is legal 'under swedish law' wtf are they worried about?
If my neighbour spends his time acting as a local directory enquiries for drug dealers, I am very very keen for that guy to be arrested. Just because he isn't handling drugs doesn't mean he isn't helping facilitate a drug problem in my area.
Its amazing the crazy bullshit that gets rationalised by people who want to justify pirating music.
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Both, but sensibly they tend to go after uploaders. But if you are in the US, downloading copyrighted material is quite clearly against the law, even though people on forums might love to perpetuate the myth that it's not. It's like the idea that you can't get pregnant the first time you have sex. People want to believe it, but it isn't true :D
what?
You realise the internet is free and that anyone can get an account on myspace or facebook right?
There is no evil cabal of cackling minions that stop people making decent music. If the RIAA were blown into dust TODAY, no 'new' music would get made that is not already getting made.
There arent great new indie bands sat there on their awesome songs who have pledged not to release them until the RIAA have died.
Maybe you just don't like modern music? Join the club, but it's silly to blame this on the RIAA. You are free to seek out indie bands right now.
I say this as someone who used to be in a band, back in the day that never got signed. We didn't have 1% of the opportunities then that modern unsigned indie bands have now.
The RIAA promote a lot of souless crap that I hate as much as anyone, but they don't actually STOP me buying the new album by my fave band (Dream Theater). They might not promote them or market them, but there is nothing the RIAA can do to prevent indie bands doing well.
Indeed. but her fine was $1,500 as I recall, and she refused to settle for it.
That was her mistake.
No I wouldn't, if I was clearly and obviously guilty. I've been given a speeding fine before. I was speeding. There were a ton of mitigating factors, but at the end of the day, I was speeding, so I paid the fine. I could have wasted a year of my life arguing in court, but I have a life to get on with, and I knew I'd broken the law.
Somehow jammie believes her own hype and somehow convinced herself she is innocent.
maybe because the plumber got pauid when he did the work, and the IP creator did not?
Please tell me you don't advocate such laughably silly systems as patronage for video games and music?
I for one do not want to only play games and hear music funded by the idle rich.
yes it does.
unfortanately, *everything* cant be copied and shared at will, just digital content
If people who make digital content still need real world food and rent, then they need to be paid in a conventional sense so they can afford that food and rent.
Wake me up when star trek replicators exist. Until then, the argument that 'everything can be copied and shared' is not true and irrlevant.
part of gmails phishing filter seems to do this
if(hyperlink in email ends in .exe)
{
isphishing = true.
}
Even if this is an email from someone in your whitelist and is merely quoting text from your own message you sent them. .exe in it to be marked this way :(
And there seems to be NO way to prevent a message with
I couldn't agree more. Copyright law needs updating, but abolishing it is silly.
I hate the RIAA and MPAA, not becauase of their policies regarding court cases or anything they do to people who are filesharing, but because their stance devalues the true justifications for copyright, and because they make me watch unskippable warnings on DVDs.
Most people who benefit from copyright hate the MPAA and RIAA. I'm sick of being called an RIAA shill just because I don't believe in decriminalising file-sharing.
There is a whole spectrum of views on copyright. The RIAA are the Klu Klux Klan of copyright debate. Do not lump us all in with them, and we will not lump in all copyright reformers with Peter Sunde and his fellow recently-sold-out friends.
"The videogames business is defined by technology"
Really? I've only been playing games since pong, and worked in them for 10 years, but stupidly I've been defining the videogames business by 'fun'.
It's a pity this has ended up a minority viewpoint.
their biggest competitors are also online. I'm sure microsoft are glad of all these people who are so impressed by youtube they buy a new laptop pre-installed with vista.
And its good news for Yahoo too. people can chat about youtube videos using yahoo messenger.
I'm a game developer, having worked at Elixir and Lionhead, and now running my own indie show --> http://www.positech.co.uk./ Parent poster is right, most people who now work as game designers started young and worked for years. i wrote my first code in 1981, aged 11, so that's about 28 years to get to where I am now (albeit with some major detours, you can do it much quicker).
Key points to be aware of are these:
1) The competition to be designer is harder than any other role, so the chances of getting work as a designer are way way lower than getting a job as an artist or coder or tester, so you need to be uber-good.
2) What most people consider to be game design is being 'lead designer' or even better 'concept designer'. These roles are even rarer. You need to run/own a studio or go solo to get this job.
3) 50% of the coders and artists at each game company also harbour design ambitions. They are also ahead of you in the queue.
Having said all this, you can do it, I certainly have. I've even designed games for Maxis (SimSocial) as well as my indie stuff. The key thing is, that I did it through the route of programming. I didn't have to persuade a coder to make my idea, I could code it myself, which is 90% of the battle. I have to employ an artist or three, but at the start, you can get away with coder art.
In short, if you are one of the game design wannabes who aims to never learn any code and is afraid of C++, you are very likely doomed, unless you get in through the route of game testing, and then work your balls off or show incredible ability. Even given that, you are looking at 5+ years minimum before you get to really design. Thats 5 years of checking that barbies new riding game doesn't crash with a French keyboard and other exciting tasks.
On the other hand if you are happy to learn some code, and willing to start out small, you can do everything yourself. With platforms such as wiiware, iphone, the web (flash and PC downloadable) there are many opportunities to get to be a game designer on a smaller scale.
Indie dev may not sound as exciting as working at epic, but today I spent my working day fine tuning the circumstances under which AI-controlled space cruisers retreat to engage auto-repair systems*. It beats working in a call center :D
Good Luck!
*that was for this -> http://www.gratuitousspacebattles.com/
Well I and millions of others who have bought all his books find him an entertaining and informative writer.
You don't sell millions and millions of books by not being able to write. Especially if you have no celebrity background and are known purely as a writer.
It sounds like he doesn't write to your tastes. JK Rowling doesn't write to mine, but I know she is an excellent author. It's not mass random stupidity that makes people buy these books, their tastes are just not the same as yours.
Chrome is a deliberate attempt to make a popular browser with no ad-block support. Because ad-block is bad news for google.
Thats the business case I'd make for it. Not that it was necessary for there to be another browser to encourage people to surf. We already have lots of browsers.
you think google are happy to bin $300 million a year for a lesson on how to optimise bandwidth?
google already have a shitload of user data and bandwidth stats.
This just seems a crazy way to rationalise a huge money sink that has no long term profitability plan.
This is very true. Check out the web game 'civony' (now evony) it is advertised absolutely everywhere nd by all accounts has a huge numebr of people playing. the game is
FREE FOREVER!
Unless you actually want to 'get anywhere' in which case you need to pay to get this item, or pay for that ability, or pay for this feature, or pay for that feature...
By the time you are done you might as well just have bought CIV IV or have signed up to play World of Warcraft.
People are suckered in by 'free', but it never works. It's like that 'free financial advice' everyone got in the 80s. 'Free' because it was based on commission to financial services companies to push their products regardless of suitability.
You get what you pay for.
I hope you live in china, or some other economy that actually has factories. Because if not, you just doomed your entire generation to depression-style unemployment.
the USA is more dependent on IP than anywhere else on earth. I'm surprised to seeso many college educated US slashdot readers act so aggressively to devalue the one thing their economic future really does depend upon.
I see. so slashdot will vigorously defend the copyright of people who do not undertake any of those acts?
Bullshit. It just shows the flagrant hypocrisy that runs through posters here.
I don't get it. This is slashdot. if she was to exercise her right to copyright over her own creative works, would that not make her part of teh evil RIAA and teh MAFIAAA?
I'm confused. my browser says this slashdot.org...
If you don't like the price, you are well within your rights to stick with XP or vista. That's fine. But claiming this allows you to legitimately pirate it is a bit of a stretch. I've always considered that plasma TV's were overpriced, but this didn't create a feeling on entitlement to take one for free.
Intel and Microsoft and Google are all US companies. I am in the UK. I use all 3 companies products and I also use the world wide web, which an English guy helped design based on underlying code that the US developed. As a Uk developer I sell to everywhere, including Nigeria and China.
What alternative to globalisation do you suggest? That Spanish people have to rely on Spanish made and designed chips and the Spanish version of TCP/IP?
Globalisation, if coupled with a lack of regulation and transparency can lead to abuse. It has also led us towards phenomenal technological change and economic advancement.
By all means lets focus some attention on levelling the playing field and fixing the worst excesses of globalisation, but lets not pretend life would be better if companies were artificially pigeon-holed into territorial markets.
put your tin foil hat away. If the judge had been a member of the FSF you would have declared that perfectly acceptable.
You guys insisted they would never go to trial, they did
You guys insisted they would never be found guilty
They were
You guys insisted there would be a re-trial. There won't be.
Face it, this went to court, they were found (quite rightfully) guilty as hell.
Deal with it.
nope. technology changed and the law was changed to keep up.
Amazingly, 100 years ago it was legal to drive in the Uk whilst talking on a mobile phone.
if the judge had been a linux using member of the FSF, you guys would have cheered like maniacs, and INSISTED he was not biased.
why was the trial not fair?
The judge believes in and supprots swedish law. You seriously would prefer a system where judges make up the law on their own?
besides, if TPB are right and what they are doing is legal 'under swedish law' wtf are they worried about?
Very very very bad analogy.
If my neighbour spends his time acting as a local directory enquiries for drug dealers, I am very very keen for that guy to be arrested.
Just because he isn't handling drugs doesn't mean he isn't helping facilitate a drug problem in my area.
Its amazing the crazy bullshit that gets rationalised by people who want to justify pirating music.