Do you really know all the ventures where Siemens operates? Calling them and IBM "hardware companies" is like calling Disney "a company that sells cartoons."
That makes no sense. If IBM holds a software patent in the US and a european company uses that technology then, without the ability to enforce that patent in euroupe, they have no legal recourse to challenge them. IOW their "patent" becomes useless.
You argument on their motive has no logical merit.
On that EU petition. IBM is one of the most patent-laden companies in the US, yet some of their officers are signing onto a petition to prevent such a rush in the EU. What does this tell you about the US patent process? Patents and lawsuits are the price of doing business in the US. Meanwhile countries with more SANE "IP laws" are going to command more and more of the market share in an increasingly competetive world market.
It's a watch pager. As someone who has been
"tagged" by one of these exceedingly irritating pieces of shit before, I feel absolutely safe in saying "don't waste your money." There is nothing more irritating than being stuck in traffic and having your goddamn watch beeping at you to get back to the office NOW.
Mine got fucked up one day when I had to change a tire and I received the third page in fifteen minutes... felt fucking fantastic to throw the POS off that overpass.
There are experiments going onin the UK but I doubt it will ever prove practical. The baloons are tethered via fiber links and float at about 5 mi elevation.
On this hilltop where I live, we have at least one lightning strike every year. Just about a month ago my modem (again) was fried by a ground strike in the nearby pasture. A few years ago it hit the pole in the backyardand spread throughpout the house. A few years before that it hit the house directly and fried telephone wire, computer, televisions, stereo equipment - scads of damage.
I just don't see how a balloon floating at 5mi can survive such weather. Even if the tether doesn't conduct it to ground, the weather during storms of the like we have here in the south would certainly rip such an installation to shreds. So what do you do? "Close" the internet during thunderstorms? Here in the south that would mean nearly every afternoon. In a place like Houston, it would mean shutting it down at least an hour every afternoon through the winter - hardly a practical or effective solution.
Using lower frequency networking equipment would do far more good. Something less than a GHz would propogate far better, allowing larger coverage cells and greater distance between nodes. No long duration airplanes, no dirigibles, no SKYNET robotic aiplanes circling our cities - just use a lower damn center frequency for networking and you solve much of the problem.
More importantly than that, it also caused tens of thousands os users to say "well, java never works right on this machine anyway" at which point they just disable it because they fear it might be a "security problem" and it's so incredibly easy to just shut it down completely.
In a way, shipping the "broken" java was doing Sun more harm than not shiping java at all, since it gave MS so many more opportunities to make java look bad.
Free trade actually has a LOT to do with it. If you are in a trade alliance with your neighbors then your patents and copyrights (in theory) become much more valuable because your neighbors are supposed to be providing enforcement as well. In essence, you get to reap the economic benefits of having a much larger "virtual" nation because you are not only trading, you are also benefitting more from your own innovation. IP licenses are revenue sources as well, you know - and if your neighbor is bound by treaty to recognize that "property" then you reap the rewards of that (alleged) innovation - no matter if it's real innovation or not - so long as it's a license held in your country and not your neigbor's, you got it.
The problem is you need to have as much "patented" as you can get, or else your neighbors might get it first. And the US wants to extend NAFTA well beyond the continent, and one of the politicos prime targets is asia - where "intellectual property" is often a completely alien notion.
And then we have Mexico, which is seriously discussing the notion of extending copyright to life + 100 years and then allowing the government to license the public domain. That means every song ever copyrighted in mexico becomes, in perpetuity, the property of the government of Mexico.
Now, do you think if that passes there the US won't follow right along? The lobbyists will argue we have to in order to compete and there goes US copyright.
The problem is exactly "free trade." What made this country great is seting ourselves apart from the rest of the world. And since the coming of NWO pt.I (and parasite Sr.) all we have done is follow the "lead" set by the very countries we once rose above.
What about all those people who spend hours "recovering" the naughty bits (poorly) hidden to protect the japanese artists from (stupid) japanese censorship laws? No props for the combatants of censorship?
It would be cool to see a format for the computer screen, but if you're gonna do that it seems a lot more logical to go the Broken Saints route and do something beyond duplicating the paper model.
I told u so. I've actually been saying this for years now. these corps need to be encouraged to buy all the legislation they can - because the only way any real barriers are going to be set is through public opinion. And "the public" just isn't gpoing to give a shit about most of this until they are made to realize they have a personal stake in the outcome.
It is illegal to obtain copyrighted material from sources that are not authorized to distribute it
It is also illegal, in many states, for me to butt fuck you even if you want it. Or to give someone oral sex. Or to go bowling on a Sunday, or to sell beer for someone to drink in their own home. Or even for someone to drink that beer in their own home. Or to smoke a bowl, whether alone or with a few friends.
Fuck law. And fuck anyone who thinks they're right because they hide behind the thin veil of what passes for truth in any large society.
Ubiquity != cheap and affordable. Nor does it even mean ubiquity in this sense. If you live in the city you can use a mobile just about anywhere - but if you live in the city you may also be able to find a "hotspot" of wifi. You may also be able to easily roll your own, at least enough to be able to roam the neighborhood at will. And when enough people have rolled their own roaming networks, then wifi is also "ubiquitous."
Anyone can put up their own wifi hub, but only verizon and its ilk can erect their own phone hub. Sure, I'd sooner pay $50 a month for a flat rate phone that I can carry with me than paying $30 a month for one I can't, but that's about as much a converged product as my POTS line with this old 56K modem. In fact, I'd sign up today... but guess what? I can't do that, either. Because I live in the country, and despite the fact there's a cell tower just a mile from here, you can't get flat rate cellular service with reasonably fast data transfer. POTS + dialup account = $50; And cellular can do 64kbps, which is far better than anyone around here can do on POTS. You'd think the cell companies would be lining up to exploit this as a means of financing the building out their infrastructure. You'd think that... but you'd be wrong.
Cellular is just wireless POTS. And it seems no matter where the technology COULD go, all the industry cares to think is on those terms. Sure they offer widgets and toys that will work on a tiny screen, and they offer (slow) internet access if you happen to live in a well built out service area where they can't sell enough minutes to utilize all the equipment they already have in place. But if you live outside one of these saturated "hubs" it's the same old story.
Why is that any scarier than Radio Shack taking your phone number to buy batteries? Every mechant you do business with has a record of the transaction, and when you purchase with plastic they have your name, address - every fucking thing. So what's to stop them at radio shack, when you go through checkout, from asking how that clock radio you bought on your last visit was working out?
How many people (stupidly) screaming about a "loss of privacy" over this make all their transactions in cash? My bet is most of you use plastic every chance you get.
Tom Hanks dumped Nicole Kidman? Yeah, but he's not as lame as Tommy Lee Jones! What an idiot, dropping Pamela Lee like that! Like that old fart could get another young one as cute as li'l Pamela... Don't these hollywood guys have eyes?
The irony is that it's likely no one at the RIAA is smart enough to realize that cooperating with kazaa like this would probably be the straw that breaks sharman's network. I won't let kazaa near my machines as is - I sure as hell wouldn't PAY for the priviledge of having all my bandwidth eaten up to line someone else's pocket.
Funny how this is "new." Back in 1982 I belonged to a "club" that used exactly this method to get around zoning laws that forbid businesses from renting porn. You pay your $50, walk out with your tape, and return it whenever you like for a modest exchange fee.
Once again proving porn guides technology. In this case, predating it by a whopping 20 years.
A blog is an OK start, but it tends to be a vanity publication. I suggest making it a bit more formal and giving them an opportunity to develop their research and debate skills. Example: give'emn a topic at the beginning of class and they have to research the subject sufficiently to develop an argument, and deliver it by the end of class.
I'm really not keen on computers in the classroom unless it is required for technical reasons. Face time is too precious as it is, it seems stupid to waste those fifty minutes with everyone's face buried in a CRT when they can do the exact same work on their own time in any public library.
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Microsoft should (but won't) take a page from Apple's book. You can as a company, co-exist peacefully with the Open Source community.
Why don't you write an "open source" widget that will allow people to replace that ugly-ass "brush metal" theme they keep sticking on their desktop and let us know how "frinedly" they are about that?
Apple has put themselves in a great position IMO for the future.
Meh. Looks to me a lot like the same old dog and pony show.
We should at least be writing to our congress-people about the issue. It's one that's not getting substantial media attention, but it's going to become a HUGE issue in a few years.
As a matter of fact, that's exactly why I stand back now and watch the show. This is NOT going to become "a major issue" until it affects a LOT more individuals - a lot more grandmas. And that's not going to happen until these media companies have bought the legislation to piss off a lot more folks.
Does their legislation affect me? Only if I want to start up a media company. I (and a lot of others) know quite well how to use usenet and proxy servers and, were those shaved apes in washington even to "outlaw" the US usenet backbone tomorrow, there's plenty of guys named Boris who would be all too happy to help create the world's next usenet backbone. PGP and SSL are wonderful, wonderful technologies.
But grandma ain't gonna get involved until she fears the MIB will come knockin' at her door. And that ain't gonna happen in the current environment. So let'em get their dumb-ass laws - they're only regulating the US out of its ability to compete in the world. Once those roots have set in, the rest of the problem will take care of itself; washington desperately needs to be humbled.
NOW is the time to put the wheels in motion that are going to save us from government control over all intellectual property.
It ain't the government - it's the corporations. And both have about as much "control" in this issue as a no-handed man trying to fuck his fist.
I think it's a helluva show; I'm certainly enjoying the comedy. Still I don't know who's funnier: the lobbyists scrambling to save an already doomed industry, or the fanbois who seem to think Apple has actually come up with something new and innovative in offering to sell shallow imitations of what we already get for free.
June the 24th, 2003, was much like any other summer's day in Peterborough, and David Cinege, a frustrated, unemployed computer programmer, was on his usual way to look for a windfall of money is his mailbox when --- Nothing happened! (dum dum da dum) Scarcely able to believe his eyes, David Cinege looked down. But one glance confirmed his suspicions. Behind a bush, on the side of the road, there was *no* severed arm. No dismembered trunk of a man in his late fifties. No head in a bag. Nothing. Not a sausage. For David Cinege, this was *not* to be the start of any trail of events which would not, in no time at all, involve him in neither a tangled knot of suspicion, nor any web of lies, which would, had he been not involved, surely have led him to no other place, than the central criminal court of the Old Bailey. (muttering voices, Judge's gavel banging.)
But it was not to be (ominous music returns). David Cinege returned to his basement in Dulls-ells Street in Peterborough, at 9:05 a.m., exactly the same time as every other morning!
(door opens) "Morning, David" "Morning, Mum"
David's Mum, a middle age but still attractive schoolteacher, couldn't help noticing the complete absence of tiny but tell-tale blood stains on her son's clothing. Nor did she notice anything strange in Mr. Cinege's behaviour that whole morning. Nor the next morning. Nor at any time before or since the entire period since David began his odd morning journeys to the mailbox.
"Have we any more frosted pop-tarts, Mum?" "Yes, they're over there, David." (faintly) "Oh..."
But for the lack of any untold circumstances for his mum to notice, and the total non-involvement of Mr. Cinege in anything illegal, the forweight of the law would insure that David "piss off" Cinege would have ended up like all who challenge the fundamental laws of our society. In an iron coffin with spikes on the inside.
"Better than it was" is not exactly a shining example of liberty.
Pravda.ru is online... you really should try reading it form time to time. And surely you read the BBC? they have a whole section on the FSU... it's quite fascinating. Pravda and ukrainenews even have english language versions so you don't have to use babelfish. The difference between the US and Russia (and Ukraine, and other FSU states) is that the "government" may have the "enforcement" of organized crime behind it as well. So instead of having to worry about being jailed without representation under terrorism laws, you have to worry, when criticising the government, you may simply turn up bloated and blue on a riverbank come spring. Or perhaps not at all.
Besides, this is not talking about limitation of freedom.
It is exactly that. How on earth can you attempt the argument it is anything else?
Now, I'm just as guilty as the next guy, but what I download is mostly because it is difficult to get elsewhere. I mean, where they hell am i going to get the latest Claire's Birthday album? (CB is an Estonian band).
More elitist bullshit. It is either ethical or it is not. If you cannot figure out how to get that album without "stealing" it then perhaps it is not your "right" to enjoy it. Or perhaps you could just try applying some logical consistency to your argument and see how none of it really matters.
It is in fact the job of the government to regulate laws which were put into place, including copyright laws.
That's what courts are for. That's why we draw a line between criminal enforcement, where it is the job of the government to defend, against infringment of their civil liberties, those who cannot defend themselves and civil enforcement, where the government is not expected, nor warranted, to police.
And in either case, when the people have decided the law is no longer just (as they essentially have in the case of file sharing) then it is time for we, the people to abridge or abolish those laws as we see fit.
Yes, anyone can afford to copy a page from a book, but it is illegal.
Not in the US. Sorry for you if this is the case in Australia. Wouldn't surprise me one bit, however, given all the other nonsense that government has been trying to lock down the internet.
If you are caught copying a whole book (by your analogy the whole song/movie, rather than just one second) then you are arrested, fined etc.
Again, I'm sorry for you all if that's the way things are where you live. Maybe you really should consider emigrating to Russia or China?
How many YEARS did we keep getting "new" tracks from Jewel's last album? That album sold 25 MILLION copies worldwide due, in no small part, to the record company doling out track after track as MTV "singles." With every new track that was released a few more people were sold enough to buy the album.
Either way it really doesn't matter to me. SNL did a great sketch a few years back about a guy trapped in a mountain cabin with jewel; of course in the beginning it was great, but by the end of winter, after hearing those same goddamn songs for the umpteenth time, he was homicidal. The point of the sketch was, of course, that so many of us know just exactly how that guy felt.
Twenty Five Million. Even at ten bucks a CD (and where is it ever ten bucks a CD?) that's a quarter of a BILLION dollars from one artist on CD sales ALONE; Excuse me if I just don't give a damn about you losing a few sales - be it price erosion or piracy, it's quite obvious all parties concerned have made their share of the pie.
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Do you really know all the ventures where Siemens operates? Calling them and IBM "hardware companies" is like calling Disney "a company that sells cartoons."
You argument on their motive has no logical merit.
On that EU petition. IBM is one of the most patent-laden companies in the US, yet some of their officers are signing onto a petition to prevent such a rush in the EU. What does this tell you about the US patent process? Patents and lawsuits are the price of doing business in the US. Meanwhile countries with more SANE "IP laws" are going to command more and more of the market share in an increasingly competetive world market.
Mine got fucked up one day when I had to change a tire and I received the third page in fifteen minutes... felt fucking fantastic to throw the POS off that overpass.
On this hilltop where I live, we have at least one lightning strike every year. Just about a month ago my modem (again) was fried by a ground strike in the nearby pasture. A few years ago it hit the pole in the backyardand spread throughpout the house. A few years before that it hit the house directly and fried telephone wire, computer, televisions, stereo equipment - scads of damage.
I just don't see how a balloon floating at 5mi can survive such weather. Even if the tether doesn't conduct it to ground, the weather during storms of the like we have here in the south would certainly rip such an installation to shreds. So what do you do? "Close" the internet during thunderstorms? Here in the south that would mean nearly every afternoon. In a place like Houston, it would mean shutting it down at least an hour every afternoon through the winter - hardly a practical or effective solution.
Using lower frequency networking equipment would do far more good. Something less than a GHz would propogate far better, allowing larger coverage cells and greater distance between nodes. No long duration airplanes, no dirigibles, no SKYNET robotic aiplanes circling our cities - just use a lower damn center frequency for networking and you solve much of the problem.
In a way, shipping the "broken" java was doing Sun more harm than not shiping java at all, since it gave MS so many more opportunities to make java look bad.
I mod you +6...
The problem is you need to have as much "patented" as you can get, or else your neighbors might get it first. And the US wants to extend NAFTA well beyond the continent, and one of the politicos prime targets is asia - where "intellectual property" is often a completely alien notion.
And then we have Mexico, which is seriously discussing the notion of extending copyright to life + 100 years and then allowing the government to license the public domain. That means every song ever copyrighted in mexico becomes, in perpetuity, the property of the government of Mexico.
Now, do you think if that passes there the US won't follow right along? The lobbyists will argue we have to in order to compete and there goes US copyright. The problem is exactly "free trade." What made this country great is seting ourselves apart from the rest of the world. And since the coming of NWO pt.I (and parasite Sr.) all we have done is follow the "lead" set by the very countries we once rose above.
And not just in patent and copyright law, either.
What about all those people who spend hours "recovering" the naughty bits (poorly) hidden to protect the japanese artists from (stupid) japanese censorship laws? No props for the combatants of censorship?
It would be cool to see a format for the computer screen, but if you're gonna do that it seems a lot more logical to go the Broken Saints route and do something beyond duplicating the paper model.
I told u so. I've actually been saying this for years now. these corps need to be encouraged to buy all the legislation they can - because the only way any real barriers are going to be set is through public opinion. And "the public" just isn't gpoing to give a shit about most of this until they are made to realize they have a personal stake in the outcome.
It is also illegal, in many states, for me to butt fuck you even if you want it. Or to give someone oral sex. Or to go bowling on a Sunday, or to sell beer for someone to drink in their own home. Or even for someone to drink that beer in their own home. Or to smoke a bowl, whether alone or with a few friends.
Fuck law. And fuck anyone who thinks they're right because they hide behind the thin veil of what passes for truth in any large society.
Anyone can put up their own wifi hub, but only verizon and its ilk can erect their own phone hub. Sure, I'd sooner pay $50 a month for a flat rate phone that I can carry with me than paying $30 a month for one I can't, but that's about as much a converged product as my POTS line with this old 56K modem. In fact, I'd sign up today... but guess what? I can't do that, either. Because I live in the country, and despite the fact there's a cell tower just a mile from here, you can't get flat rate cellular service with reasonably fast data transfer. POTS + dialup account = $50; And cellular can do 64kbps, which is far better than anyone around here can do on POTS. You'd think the cell companies would be lining up to exploit this as a means of financing the building out their infrastructure. You'd think that... but you'd be wrong.
Cellular is just wireless POTS. And it seems no matter where the technology COULD go, all the industry cares to think is on those terms. Sure they offer widgets and toys that will work on a tiny screen, and they offer (slow) internet access if you happen to live in a well built out service area where they can't sell enough minutes to utilize all the equipment they already have in place. But if you live outside one of these saturated "hubs" it's the same old story.
How many people (stupidly) screaming about a "loss of privacy" over this make all their transactions in cash? My bet is most of you use plastic every chance you get.
Tom Hanks dumped Nicole Kidman? Yeah, but he's not as lame as Tommy Lee Jones! What an idiot, dropping Pamela Lee like that! Like that old fart could get another young one as cute as li'l Pamela... Don't these hollywood guys have eyes?
The irony is that it's likely no one at the RIAA is smart enough to realize that cooperating with kazaa like this would probably be the straw that breaks sharman's network. I won't let kazaa near my machines as is - I sure as hell wouldn't PAY for the priviledge of having all my bandwidth eaten up to line someone else's pocket.
Once again proving porn guides technology. In this case, predating it by a whopping 20 years.
I'm really not keen on computers in the classroom unless it is required for technical reasons. Face time is too precious as it is, it seems stupid to waste those fifty minutes with everyone's face buried in a CRT when they can do the exact same work on their own time in any public library.
Why don't you write an "open source" widget that will allow people to replace that ugly-ass "brush metal" theme they keep sticking on their desktop and let us know how "frinedly" they are about that?
Apple has put themselves in a great position IMO for the future.
Meh. Looks to me a lot like the same old dog and pony show.
As a matter of fact, that's exactly why I stand back now and watch the show. This is NOT going to become "a major issue" until it affects a LOT more individuals - a lot more grandmas. And that's not going to happen until these media companies have bought the legislation to piss off a lot more folks.
Does their legislation affect me? Only if I want to start up a media company. I (and a lot of others) know quite well how to use usenet and proxy servers and, were those shaved apes in washington even to "outlaw" the US usenet backbone tomorrow, there's plenty of guys named Boris who would be all too happy to help create the world's next usenet backbone. PGP and SSL are wonderful, wonderful technologies.
But grandma ain't gonna get involved until she fears the MIB will come knockin' at her door. And that ain't gonna happen in the current environment. So let'em get their dumb-ass laws - they're only regulating the US out of its ability to compete in the world. Once those roots have set in, the rest of the problem will take care of itself; washington desperately needs to be humbled.
NOW is the time to put the wheels in motion that are going to save us from government control over all intellectual property.
It ain't the government - it's the corporations. And both have about as much "control" in this issue as a no-handed man trying to fuck his fist.
I think it's a helluva show; I'm certainly enjoying the comedy. Still I don't know who's funnier: the lobbyists scrambling to save an already doomed industry, or the fanbois who seem to think Apple has actually come up with something new and innovative in offering to sell shallow imitations of what we already get for free.
Where else are you gonna get proper thong undies for your eight year old?
June the 24th, 2003, was much like any other summer's day in Peterborough, and David Cinege, a frustrated, unemployed computer programmer, was on his usual way to look for a windfall of money is his mailbox when --- Nothing happened! (dum dum da dum) Scarcely able to believe his eyes, David Cinege looked down. But one glance confirmed his suspicions. Behind a bush, on the side of the road, there was *no* severed arm. No dismembered trunk of a man in his late fifties. No head in a bag. Nothing. Not a sausage. For David Cinege, this was *not* to be the start of any trail of events which would not, in no time at all, involve him in neither a tangled knot of suspicion, nor any web of lies, which would, had he been not involved, surely have led him to no other place, than the central criminal court of the Old Bailey. (muttering voices, Judge's gavel banging.)
But it was not to be (ominous music returns). David Cinege returned to his basement in Dulls-ells Street in Peterborough, at 9:05 a.m., exactly the same time as every other morning!
(door opens)
"Morning, David"
"Morning, Mum"
David's Mum, a middle age but still attractive schoolteacher, couldn't help noticing the complete absence of tiny but tell-tale blood stains on her son's clothing. Nor did she notice anything strange in Mr. Cinege's behaviour that whole morning. Nor the next morning. Nor at any time before or since the entire period since David began his odd morning journeys to the mailbox.
"Have we any more frosted pop-tarts, Mum?"
"Yes, they're over there, David."
(faintly) "Oh..."
But for the lack of any untold circumstances for his mum to notice, and the total non-involvement of Mr. Cinege in anything illegal, the forweight of the law would insure that David "piss off" Cinege would have ended up like all who challenge the fundamental laws of our society. In an iron coffin with spikes on the inside.
I think it's the smell of burning bridges...
Pravda.ru is online... you really should try reading it form time to time. And surely you read the BBC? they have a whole section on the FSU... it's quite fascinating. Pravda and ukrainenews even have english language versions so you don't have to use babelfish. The difference between the US and Russia (and Ukraine, and other FSU states) is that the "government" may have the "enforcement" of organized crime behind it as well. So instead of having to worry about being jailed without representation under terrorism laws, you have to worry, when criticising the government, you may simply turn up bloated and blue on a riverbank come spring. Or perhaps not at all.
And that, of course, is only if you are a man. If you are a woman or young girl (or father of one) you also get to worry about being abducted and sold to a brothel in israel or turkey.
If you think China is so free, I heartily invite you to visit that nation and openly criticise the government. If you don't end up deported or worse, perhaps you'll just be "quarrantined" by the local constabulatory for a week or two under the recently enacted SARS containment laws.
Besides, this is not talking about limitation of freedom.
It is exactly that. How on earth can you attempt the argument it is anything else?
Now, I'm just as guilty as the next guy, but what I download is mostly because it is difficult to get elsewhere. I mean, where they hell am i going to get the latest Claire's Birthday album? (CB is an Estonian band).
More elitist bullshit. It is either ethical or it is not. If you cannot figure out how to get that album without "stealing" it then perhaps it is not your "right" to enjoy it. Or perhaps you could just try applying some logical consistency to your argument and see how none of it really matters.
It is in fact the job of the government to regulate laws which were put into place, including copyright laws.
That's what courts are for. That's why we draw a line between criminal enforcement, where it is the job of the government to defend, against infringment of their civil liberties, those who cannot defend themselves and civil enforcement, where the government is not expected, nor warranted, to police.
And in either case, when the people have decided the law is no longer just (as they essentially have in the case of file sharing) then it is time for we, the people to abridge or abolish those laws as we see fit.
Yes, anyone can afford to copy a page from a book, but it is illegal.
Not in the US. Sorry for you if this is the case in Australia. Wouldn't surprise me one bit, however, given all the other nonsense that government has been trying to lock down the internet.
If you are caught copying a whole book (by your analogy the whole song/movie, rather than just one second) then you are arrested, fined etc.
Again, I'm sorry for you all if that's the way things are where you live. Maybe you really should consider emigrating to Russia or China?
Either way it really doesn't matter to me. SNL did a great sketch a few years back about a guy trapped in a mountain cabin with jewel; of course in the beginning it was great, but by the end of winter, after hearing those same goddamn songs for the umpteenth time, he was homicidal. The point of the sketch was, of course, that so many of us know just exactly how that guy felt.
Twenty Five Million. Even at ten bucks a CD (and where is it ever ten bucks a CD?) that's a quarter of a BILLION dollars from one artist on CD sales ALONE; Excuse me if I just don't give a damn about you losing a few sales - be it price erosion or piracy, it's quite obvious all parties concerned have made their share of the pie.