Last time I read it, the audio copyrights are described in physical terms in the act. In other words, you may not duplicate a vinyl LP onto another vinyl record - you may not copy a CD onto another CD.
The case of reading a CD and not making anything physical from it, is not covered, since this is a halfway situation. You have read the data, but you have not written it back to a CD. This is similar to looking at a painting - you may look at a painting or a sculpture, but you may not make a copy thereof.
You may read a CD, since that is necessary in order to play the CD - all you are doing by reading a CD onto a hard disk is delaying the playing thereof. You are not violating the copyright, since you are not making a CD from it.
These issues will only be dealt with if a case goes to court and only if the defendant has a smart lawyer.
The RIAA knows that they are treading on thin ice, so they will try their utmost to keep these cases out of court, while extorting as much money as they can.
American Freedom??? Just today, Bush promissed a clampdown on American travel to Cuba - a little island in the Caribean. There is a looooong list of countries that Americans may not travel to and may not do business with. You are bluffing yourself if you think that you are free. You are just as free as your slaves were 150 years ago...
ISPs do charge for spam to be sent. That is why people are able to send spam. Many of the holier than thouw ISPs of today encouraged spammers yesterday - some still do.
are pretty much the norm for anything from radios, televisions, cell phones and DVDs(!). So, if the US market is large enough to sustain regionalism, why would China's be too small???
Anyway, everybody and his dog has been complaining about the east flouting copyright and patent laws. Now they are wailing about the east taking it to heart and going their own way - waaaaahhhh!!! They are not playing fair!!! Waaaahhhh!!! They are re-inventing the wheel instead of paying us royalties for our clunky wheels!!! Waaaahhhh!!!!
This Intel dummy should get real, but expect to hear a lot more of this wailing...
Powered flight started in various parts of the world, at pretty much the same time, but all of those people tried it and decided that it is too dangerous and expensive to pursue and gave up after one or two tries. Examples range from France, Italy, Britain, New Zealand and even South Africa. of the early pioneers, only the Wright Bros persevered, so nobody mind that they carry the laurels, they earned it for not giving up.
The IEEE has rules about the notation for decimal and binary powers. The trouble is that the larger the disk drives become, the larger the discrepancy becomes.
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The case of reading a CD and not making anything physical from it, is not covered, since this is a halfway situation. You have read the data, but you have not written it back to a CD. This is similar to looking at a painting - you may look at a painting or a sculpture, but you may not make a copy thereof.
You may read a CD, since that is necessary in order to play the CD - all you are doing by reading a CD onto a hard disk is delaying the playing thereof. You are not violating the copyright, since you are not making a CD from it.
These issues will only be dealt with if a case goes to court and only if the defendant has a smart lawyer.
The RIAA knows that they are treading on thin ice, so they will try their utmost to keep these cases out of court, while extorting as much money as they can.
If they would be satisfied with 50% margin like other industries, then a CD should cost about $1 in the shops.
Real CDs, from real artists, with no RIAA strings attached.
The search and prelisten features of CD Baby are great.
Hmm, I haven't yet met a CD that CdParanoia can't rip...
Gee, I would pay to subscribe to such a service!
the network fell down...
Maybe the citizens should sue the government under the Sherman Anti Trust Act?
Real men put their data on a public FTP server and let everybody else mirror it...
What? How the heck do you connect a VIC20 to a LAN???
Funny thing is that this accounting program will run nicely on Linux DOSemu, but probably won't work on MS Windows.
3MB RAM, Win3.1 I use it as a serial terminal for debugging of embedded systems.
Nice troll...
American Freedom??? Just today, Bush promissed a clampdown on American travel to Cuba - a little island in the Caribean. There is a looooong list of countries that Americans may not travel to and may not do business with. You are bluffing yourself if you think that you are free. You are just as free as your slaves were 150 years ago...
Nope, what the BSA is doing, is driving people to FLOSS eg Linux. Cool!
and octopus or squid ink can't be beat... Well, maybe with a porcupine quill.
now come out slowly, with your book above your head!!!
ISPs do charge for spam to be sent. That is why people are able to send spam. Many of the holier than thouw ISPs of today encouraged spammers yesterday - some still do.
As far as I can figure, all ISPs have 'fixed' the problem already, so Verisign's caper has come to naught rather quickly.
Anyway, everybody and his dog has been complaining about the east flouting copyright and patent laws. Now they are wailing about the east taking it to heart and going their own way - waaaaahhhh!!! They are not playing fair!!! Waaaahhhh!!! They are re-inventing the wheel instead of paying us royalties for our clunky wheels!!! Waaaahhhh!!!!
This Intel dummy should get real, but expect to hear a lot more of this wailing...
Powered flight started in various parts of the world, at pretty much the same time, but all of those people tried it and decided that it is too dangerous and expensive to pursue and gave up after one or two tries. Examples range from France, Italy, Britain, New Zealand and even South Africa. of the early pioneers, only the Wright Bros persevered, so nobody mind that they carry the laurels, they earned it for not giving up.
Oh yeah, within about 10 minutes of signing up, you should get your first spam.
It is perfectly legal. in fact, the FCC encourages directional antennas. Go and read the regulation.
The IEEE has rules about the notation for decimal and binary powers. The trouble is that the larger the disk drives become, the larger the discrepancy becomes.
The pendulum swung too far, now it is swinging back...
For accounting, either leave a PC in a corner running Windoze, or install win4lin - works like a charm. I like my Windoze running in a X-window.