Hey, I know he's retiring as the head of the MPAA. But that doesn't excuse him from past crimes. If the green river killer had announced his retirement that wouldn't mean that he shouldn't be punished for the stuff he did do.
And as supreme overlord, I will have the ability to send anyone I want to the camps! Now I just have to figure out how to get that position.
1. Announce my intentions on slashdot.
2. ????
3. Become Supreme Overlord.
4. Profit!!!!
I can still buy new music on vinyl. Even though it's no ubiquitos, it still exists. And the CD has much greater market penetration than vinyl ever did. Even one of the next generation audio formats is backward compatible with CD.
All it takes is for the industry to switch, and it will happen. "See this new MC Buttplug album? Only available on DVD-BP" Bang, CD will die.
Or more likely, no one buys MC Buttplug and the record company is forced to release it on CD. Eventually (we're talking 10 to 20 years) the record companies might (and i stress might) have created enough market penetration to implement a broadcast flag on all media, but I really doubt it. To joe sixpack, the CD is good enough quality and will remain the dominant music distribution format. If anything supercedes it, it will be some sort of WMA, MP3, or AAC form of digital, download able music. They can try all they want to lock it up, but someone will always crack it. And once someone does it will be easily distributable.
This isn't going to happen until SACD and DVD-A become widespread (if ever). CD's are to ubiqituous and there is too much hardware already out there for them to impliment this.
But my CD player as spdif out, and my computer has spdif in. All it takes is one person like me to put it on the internet and then the cats out of the bag, and trust me when I say I'm not the only one with digital connections on my equipment.
Actually, if you think about it the man also has to sit sometimes, so he may or may not (depending on who used the bathroom last) have to lower the seat an extra time. Of course the woman could also argue that because of that, he should always put the seat down because the reduces the total number of times the seat has to be moved.
Of course I've seen people shoot of these huge rockets to further their hobby. They are heavily regulated, but it still falls into a realm of a hobby. I still fail to see what hobby requires an AK-47. Of course, maybe we're taking the ban on weapons like that from the wrong side. Maybe we should just make the AK-47 bullets illegal.
There is a difference. I'm not opposed to people owning hunting rifles (although I'm opposed to hunting for different reasons), collecting guns, or target shooting. All of those are legitimate hobbies comparable to rocketry. However, I am opposed to people being able to keep AK-47's, SKS's, Uzi's, and other weapons that are not designed for any hobby; but only have a use to kill other people.
The artist has no control over how you listen to his song. But it is HIS art. If he doesn't want you to be able to own just a piece of it, that is his right. He can't force you to listen to it as a whole work, but he should be able to say you can't buy just a piece of it. Do you expect to be able to buy just the battle of helm's deep from LOTR? Do you want to buy just chapter 2 from the latest novel? You may at some point just want to watch that scene, or read that chapter, but the artist was justified in making sure you have the whole work. A song from an album is no different.
In my experience cheap CD-R's (PNY and Fry's store brand) last 1-2 years tops. The more expensive CD-R's might get you 3 tops, so I don't bother with anything but the cheap ones. I don't know how well either of them work if you just leave them alone and never play them.
Do you know if anyone makes an archival quality CD-r?
What are the chances that this multi core chip is actually running at 1.167 GHz and some marketdroid decided that 3 cores @ 1.167 GHz = 3.5 GHz? This wouldn't be the first time a marketing guy has done something like this. Do we remember the atari jaguar?
That kind of chip would be fairly easy for IBM to make now, would still give quite a performance boost over the current X-Box, would run much cooler, and could probably be manufactured cheaply. If Microsoft truly plans to get this think out in 2005, I don't see them using a chip that doesn't even have a working prototype right now.
Besides, aren't most modern games much more dependent on the GPU than the CPU? If you have two computers running ATI X800's, how many FPS does going from and Athlon XP 2400 to an Athlon 64 3200 buy you? I think most of the upside to the new box will come from an enhanced GPU, more memory bandwidth, and an increase in memory.
He didn't say that the tobacco and alcohol companies should be liable if kids get their products. He said they should be liable if they give it to them. If Brown and Williamson sends $100 million dollars worth of cigarettes to an elementry school, I'd blame them and not the parents.
Of course, I would never have made the comparison between explicit lyrics and toboacco, but that's just me. I listened to 2 live crew, easy-e, and nwa as a youth; and I seemed to turn out ok.
This is a valid argument as long as they force radio stations to play the entire album instead of a single track.
There are two problems with this thinking. The first is that radio is really just a commercial for the album. I think of it as analagous to a movie trailer. They're both lower quality previews of what you can expect to get when you purchase the full product. No one expects to pay $1 to get the best scene from a movie though.
The second problem is that the kind of album that is one coherent piece of art, is unlikely to garner a lot of radio play, kind of making this a moot arguement.
I think it is also illegal to broadcast an entire album from a band non stop, at least in the US anyway.
The easy way (in a boneheaded twist) would be to just publish the album as a single track. It's already random access, after all.
I actually have an album that is like this, and I find it quite annoying (I split it up manually when I ripped it). However, I don't think the end user should be forced to listen to the whole album at one sitting. You're allowed to pause movies, watch a certain scene only, or again, read one chapter of the book, etc. In all those cases you're given the whole piece of art, and told to do with it what you wish. That is how I look at albums. And that's the reason I see why an artist might want you to have the whole thing and not just a song or two.
It would appear that whoever these artists are they just admitted that their albums aren't good enough to buy as a whole and they are just carried by one or two songs. They don't want people to buy these single songs because then they wouldn't pay for the filler. That's their best argument against legal downloads?
That's not necessairly the case. Perhaps the artist is reluctant to make single tracks available because he/she views the album of one coherent work of art and doesn't think it should be broken up. There are alot of albums out there that loose something if you don't consider them as a whole. Sure some artists might be worried because they have albums of filler, however those artists will just start producing 3 or 4 singles a year instead of 1 album a year and will probably make just as much profit. iTunes might hurt someone like Wilco. Yankee, Hotel, Foxtrot is on coherent work of art, and really should be taken as such. If people just buy one or two tracks, the band may be forced to stop putting out such work.
Of course my girlfriend puts in her password whenever OS X prompts it. I assume most mac users might even be more clueless than her. All the virus has to do is prompt for the password first and then it can do evil things as root.
But if the RIAA has the right to sue you for copyright infringement, they must own the copyright. Therefore any file they share, they have the right to distribute. It doesn't matter if I think I'm breaking the law, because in this case I'm not. Just because I think something is illegal does not make me a criminal, just as ignorance of the law is no defense for breaking it.
They can see the mac address in your cable modem. Of course, you could buy a new cable modem every few days, but that would be a bit of pain and may not work.
I wonder about contacting my representative about this. He's already a cosponser of the bill. Is it beneficial to send a letter congratulating him on his efforts and to tell him that I hope he is able to garner the support needed? Or would I be better of writing letters to the other reps in the state?
This is a fairly large problem for me since Jim McDermott not only working to repeal these kinds of laws, but didn't vote for them to begin with.
To me backwards compattibilty was a huge deal because I could unhook my ps1 from the TV. It allowed me to have just one system hooked up to the TV and take the ps1 to another room.
I have a cd-rw with avg antivirus and kerio personal firewall. I load windows with the ethernet unplugged. Then I load up the firewall. then I plug the ethernet back in and do the windows update. I have no problems doing the update through the firewall.
Sure, I could make a website for $500. But, not if they expect me to give them hosting, maintenance, a domain server, and an email server along with it.
Manufacturers of long-life lightbulbs can verify that customers will pick low initial cost; as will the hordes that flock to Walmart.
That's why I buy my light bulbs at ikea. You can get the low energy fluorcent bulbs there for about the price of regular bulbs at the regular stores. Of course you can usually get 4 60W regular bulbs for a buck, but I don't see $10 as too much to pay to swap out all my 60W bulbs for 14W bulbs that last over a year.
Who are you going to get to design it and maintain it for $500. Sure I could set them up a domain name, email server, and a great website for less than $500. But I expect to be paid for my work. And who do they call when it breaks, or needs updated?
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Hey, I know he's retiring as the head of the MPAA. But that doesn't excuse him from past crimes. If the green river killer had announced his retirement that wouldn't mean that he shouldn't be punished for the stuff he did do.
And as supreme overlord, I will have the ability to send anyone I want to the camps! Now I just have to figure out how to get that position. 1. Announce my intentions on slashdot.
2. ????
3. Become Supreme Overlord.
4. Profit!!!!
I can still buy new music on vinyl. Even though it's no ubiquitos, it still exists. And the CD has much greater market penetration than vinyl ever did. Even one of the next generation audio formats is backward compatible with CD.
All it takes is for the industry to switch, and it will happen. "See this new MC Buttplug album? Only available on DVD-BP" Bang, CD will die.
Or more likely, no one buys MC Buttplug and the record company is forced to release it on CD. Eventually (we're talking 10 to 20 years) the record companies might (and i stress might) have created enough market penetration to implement a broadcast flag on all media, but I really doubt it. To joe sixpack, the CD is good enough quality and will remain the dominant music distribution format. If anything supercedes it, it will be some sort of WMA, MP3, or AAC form of digital, download able music. They can try all they want to lock it up, but someone will always crack it. And once someone does it will be easily distributable.
This isn't going to happen until SACD and DVD-A become widespread (if ever). CD's are to ubiqituous and there is too much hardware already out there for them to impliment this.
But my CD player as spdif out, and my computer has spdif in. All it takes is one person like me to put it on the internet and then the cats out of the bag, and trust me when I say I'm not the only one with digital connections on my equipment.
Actually, if you think about it the man also has to sit sometimes, so he may or may not (depending on who used the bathroom last) have to lower the seat an extra time. Of course the woman could also argue that because of that, he should always put the seat down because the reduces the total number of times the seat has to be moved.
Of course I've seen people shoot of these huge rockets to further their hobby. They are heavily regulated, but it still falls into a realm of a hobby. I still fail to see what hobby requires an AK-47. Of course, maybe we're taking the ban on weapons like that from the wrong side. Maybe we should just make the AK-47 bullets illegal.
There is a difference. I'm not opposed to people owning hunting rifles (although I'm opposed to hunting for different reasons), collecting guns, or target shooting. All of those are legitimate hobbies comparable to rocketry. However, I am opposed to people being able to keep AK-47's, SKS's, Uzi's, and other weapons that are not designed for any hobby; but only have a use to kill other people.
The artist has no control over how you listen to his song. But it is HIS art. If he doesn't want you to be able to own just a piece of it, that is his right. He can't force you to listen to it as a whole work, but he should be able to say you can't buy just a piece of it. Do you expect to be able to buy just the battle of helm's deep from LOTR? Do you want to buy just chapter 2 from the latest novel? You may at some point just want to watch that scene, or read that chapter, but the artist was justified in making sure you have the whole work. A song from an album is no different.
In my experience cheap CD-R's (PNY and Fry's store brand) last 1-2 years tops. The more expensive CD-R's might get you 3 tops, so I don't bother with anything but the cheap ones. I don't know how well either of them work if you just leave them alone and never play them.
Do you know if anyone makes an archival quality CD-r?
What are the chances that this multi core chip is actually running at 1.167 GHz and some marketdroid decided that 3 cores @ 1.167 GHz = 3.5 GHz? This wouldn't be the first time a marketing guy has done something like this. Do we remember the atari jaguar?
That kind of chip would be fairly easy for IBM to make now, would still give quite a performance boost over the current X-Box, would run much cooler, and could probably be manufactured cheaply. If Microsoft truly plans to get this think out in 2005, I don't see them using a chip that doesn't even have a working prototype right now.
Besides, aren't most modern games much more dependent on the GPU than the CPU? If you have two computers running ATI X800's, how many FPS does going from and Athlon XP 2400 to an Athlon 64 3200 buy you? I think most of the upside to the new box will come from an enhanced GPU, more memory bandwidth, and an increase in memory.
He didn't say that the tobacco and alcohol companies should be liable if kids get their products. He said they should be liable if they give it to them. If Brown and Williamson sends $100 million dollars worth of cigarettes to an elementry school, I'd blame them and not the parents.
Of course, I would never have made the comparison between explicit lyrics and toboacco, but that's just me. I listened to 2 live crew, easy-e, and nwa as a youth; and I seemed to turn out ok.
This is a valid argument as long as they force radio stations to play the entire album instead of a single track.
There are two problems with this thinking. The first is that radio is really just a commercial for the album. I think of it as analagous to a movie trailer. They're both lower quality previews of what you can expect to get when you purchase the full product. No one expects to pay $1 to get the best scene from a movie though.
The second problem is that the kind of album that is one coherent piece of art, is unlikely to garner a lot of radio play, kind of making this a moot arguement.
I think it is also illegal to broadcast an entire album from a band non stop, at least in the US anyway.
The easy way (in a boneheaded twist) would be to just publish the album as a single track. It's already random access, after all.
I actually have an album that is like this, and I find it quite annoying (I split it up manually when I ripped it). However, I don't think the end user should be forced to listen to the whole album at one sitting. You're allowed to pause movies, watch a certain scene only, or again, read one chapter of the book, etc. In all those cases you're given the whole piece of art, and told to do with it what you wish. That is how I look at albums. And that's the reason I see why an artist might want you to have the whole thing and not just a song or two.
It would appear that whoever these artists are they just admitted that their albums aren't good enough to buy as a whole and they are just carried by one or two songs. They don't want people to buy these single songs because then they wouldn't pay for the filler. That's their best argument against legal downloads?
That's not necessairly the case. Perhaps the artist is reluctant to make single tracks available because he/she views the album of one coherent work of art and doesn't think it should be broken up. There are alot of albums out there that loose something if you don't consider them as a whole. Sure some artists might be worried because they have albums of filler, however those artists will just start producing 3 or 4 singles a year instead of 1 album a year and will probably make just as much profit. iTunes might hurt someone like Wilco. Yankee, Hotel, Foxtrot is on coherent work of art, and really should be taken as such. If people just buy one or two tracks, the band may be forced to stop putting out such work.
Of course my girlfriend puts in her password whenever OS X prompts it. I assume most mac users might even be more clueless than her. All the virus has to do is prompt for the password first and then it can do evil things as root.
But if the RIAA has the right to sue you for copyright infringement, they must own the copyright. Therefore any file they share, they have the right to distribute. It doesn't matter if I think I'm breaking the law, because in this case I'm not. Just because I think something is illegal does not make me a criminal, just as ignorance of the law is no defense for breaking it.
They can see the mac address in your cable modem. Of course, you could buy a new cable modem every few days, but that would be a bit of pain and may not work.
Why should islam have to fall? Do you not mean militant islamic terrorists? Not all muslims are bad.
I wonder about contacting my representative about this. He's already a cosponser of the bill. Is it beneficial to send a letter congratulating him on his efforts and to tell him that I hope he is able to garner the support needed? Or would I be better of writing letters to the other reps in the state?
This is a fairly large problem for me since Jim McDermott not only working to repeal these kinds of laws, but didn't vote for them to begin with.
To me backwards compattibilty was a huge deal because I could unhook my ps1 from the TV. It allowed me to have just one system hooked up to the TV and take the ps1 to another room.
The firewall does complain when windows xp tries to grab the updates, but as long as you know what you're doing you just click allow.
I have a cd-rw with avg antivirus and kerio personal firewall. I load windows with the ethernet unplugged. Then I load up the firewall. then I plug the ethernet back in and do the windows update. I have no problems doing the update through the firewall.
Sure, I could make a website for $500. But, not if they expect me to give them hosting, maintenance, a domain server, and an email server along with it.
Manufacturers of long-life lightbulbs can verify that customers will pick low initial cost; as will the hordes that flock to Walmart.
That's why I buy my light bulbs at ikea. You can get the low energy fluorcent bulbs there for about the price of regular bulbs at the regular stores. Of course you can usually get 4 60W regular bulbs for a buck, but I don't see $10 as too much to pay to swap out all my 60W bulbs for 14W bulbs that last over a year.
Who are you going to get to design it and maintain it for $500. Sure I could set them up a domain name, email server, and a great website for less than $500. But I expect to be paid for my work. And who do they call when it breaks, or needs updated?