Yea, but not enough people put the time and effort into IRC/FTP combos to annoy them. The point that they are so pissed at kazaa is not because people like you and I can use it, its the fact that my brother and sister who just recently learned the difference between a monitor and computer can use it. If they break up the easy to use p2p, they effectively win.
This is assuming that A) They actually maintain this level of lawsuits, they could easily step up the amount. B) All file sharers remain online, I read a while back that their has been a dip in kazaa usage since the start of the lawsuits.
They never intended to sue everyone that uses p2p, they are intending to scare everyone out of using p2p. Put simply, if they sued half, I could almost guarentee the other half would stop. Thus cutting their time to 1 millenia
Mod him down! I was going to have my girlfriend read this post so she doesn't make me wear ties anymore. Pointing out flaws in logic is not helping my case
>>HEY NOW! Every large software company has a FEW little things that didn't fly!
whooooaa! Microsoft makes things that fly now?!?
Thats it, I am taking the bus!
I like the UPC scanner idea for a PDA. It would make people act more cautiously in what they buy when we live in a world where purchasing has just as much, if not more, power then voting does.
It would take the place of all those grass root projects on items to boycott. And would probably get alot more people involved because I am not sure about you, but its hard for me to remember which of the 20 brands of tooth paste use out dated, polluting plants to maximize profits.
Then again, we all know SUVs do not use gas effectively, and people still buy those in mass. So maybe a product like this won't actually be used by anyone other then the original people who made the grass roots events to begin with...
The better solution is to have a network setup between users. When someone(person B) wants to play a song, they querry the distributed database for the song they want. If the song is being currently listened too by another user(person A), person B is put in a queqe. When person A finishes the song the song is copied over to person B to play. This works out better than your theory, because it uses all the time most effiecently. Hypothetically you could even play the song almost simulatniously if you tracked what second it was playing on the other computer, your user could be playing it 2 seconds behind.
This would only work best if you had very high speed connections, so the better way is to store the songs in a temp folder and allow a song to be "unlocked" and "locked" so that no 2 users can ever play the same song at the same time.
This also has the problem that the latest mtv hits would create horribly long queqes so multiple copies must be bought by the orginization.
Basically, this would make a very cheap, much quicker version of netflix for tunes.
I live near a frys in houston, and let me tell you guys now, that store is the crappiest place to buy parts from. I say about half of all the items I purchase must be returned for an exchange because they are not working. This is primarily due to the fact that their return policy is to take anything with a receipt back and, despite it not working, put it right back on the shelf. If you see anything that looks even remotely re-taped or open, don't get it. That being said, go browse the store, then try to order from www.newegg.com
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Yea, but not enough people put the time and effort into IRC/FTP combos to annoy them. The point that they are so pissed at kazaa is not because people like you and I can use it, its the fact that my brother and sister who just recently learned the difference between a monitor and computer can use it. If they break up the easy to use p2p, they effectively win.
For the masses? Screw that, where is my solar power?
This is assuming that
A) They actually maintain this level of lawsuits, they could easily step up the amount.
B) All file sharers remain online, I read a while back that their has been a dip in kazaa usage since the start of the lawsuits.
They never intended to sue everyone that uses p2p, they are intending to scare everyone out of using p2p.
Put simply, if they sued half, I could almost guarentee the other half would stop. Thus cutting their time to 1 millenia
Mod him down! I was going to have my girlfriend read this post so she doesn't make me wear ties anymore. Pointing out flaws in logic is not helping my case
>>HEY NOW! Every large software company has a FEW little things that didn't fly! whooooaa! Microsoft makes things that fly now?!? Thats it, I am taking the bus!
I like the UPC scanner idea for a PDA. It would make people act more cautiously in what they buy when we live in a world where purchasing has just as much, if not more, power then voting does. It would take the place of all those grass root projects on items to boycott. And would probably get alot more people involved because I am not sure about you, but its hard for me to remember which of the 20 brands of tooth paste use out dated, polluting plants to maximize profits. Then again, we all know SUVs do not use gas effectively, and people still buy those in mass. So maybe a product like this won't actually be used by anyone other then the original people who made the grass roots events to begin with...
No, he means like rendezvous. http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/rendezvous.html
The better solution is to have a network setup between users. When someone(person B) wants to play a song, they querry the distributed database for the song they want. If the song is being currently listened too by another user(person A), person B is put in a queqe. When person A finishes the song the song is copied over to person B to play. This works out better than your theory, because it uses all the time most effiecently. Hypothetically you could even play the song almost simulatniously if you tracked what second it was playing on the other computer, your user could be playing it 2 seconds behind. This would only work best if you had very high speed connections, so the better way is to store the songs in a temp folder and allow a song to be "unlocked" and "locked" so that no 2 users can ever play the same song at the same time. This also has the problem that the latest mtv hits would create horribly long queqes so multiple copies must be bought by the orginization. Basically, this would make a very cheap, much quicker version of netflix for tunes.
I live near a frys in houston, and let me tell you guys now, that store is the crappiest place to buy parts from. I say about half of all the items I purchase must be returned for an exchange because they are not working. This is primarily due to the fact that their return policy is to take anything with a receipt back and, despite it not working, put it right back on the shelf.
If you see anything that looks even remotely re-taped or open, don't get it.
That being said, go browse the store, then try to order from www.newegg.com