1983: Internet Is Defined Officially as Networks Using TCP/IP
On January 1 the ARPAnet -- and every network attached to the ARPAnet -- officially adopts the TCP/IP networking protocol, developed in the 1970s by pioneering network engineers Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn.
Just read through a ton of posts here. There's one thing no one mentioned.
The RIAA did not just announce increased sales. Nielsen SoundScan did. Last year, SoundScan reported selling about 25 million more records than the RIAA said they shipped to retail. About the same as the year before.
The RIAA does not announce its year-end "statistics" until late Feb. or March, which never address how many records are sold, just how many the factory shipped out, which includes all the copies that went to record clubs, deejays and giveaways.
"The dispute arose when the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) requested the clerk of the district court to issue subpoenas under 512(h) to Charter Communications, Inc. (Charter),1 in its capacity as an ISP, requiring Charter to turn over the identities of persons believed to be engaging in unlawful copyright infringement. The district court issued the subpoenas and denied Charter's motion to quash. We reverse."
This was not a blanket subpoena. Plural. Multiple subpoenas.
This Circuit has never determined whether music downloaded from P2P systems violates the copyright owner's rights or is a fair use. The RIAA, to our knowledge, has never prevailed in any infringement actions brought against individual downloaders.
Sounds more like the courts think that maybe, after filing a mere 7,000 or so civil cases, the RIAA ought to have to prove, oh, one of them.
Hmmm.... let's see. The RIAA's case goes basically like this: "Those thieving pirates are stealing our stuff." This is the same offensive legal tactic that was used to stop piano rolls, player pianos, radio, tape recorders, cassettes and VCRs, just to name the most obvious "pirate" technologies that threatened to destroy the entire entertainment industry.
They've never won before with that argument. But hey, maybe the Supremes will do acid the week that the RIAA case comes up and forget every prior decision handed down over the last 100 years in cases involving technology and copyright.
Sending a "functional message to the RIAA" would require that there was someone on the receiving end that would both comprehend and acknowledge that such a message had been received.
We must not forget that the RIAA possesses a weapon that logic is not able to defeat -- total and abject ignorance.
I'm glad to see that the college students have learned the RIAA lesson about the evils of downloading music without paying for it, with the reward being that now they get to download as much as they want and not worry about paying for it.
"First off why would the RIAA settle this lawsuit, I think they were in the right"
It was an antitrust case brought by the FTC, wherein the record labels were found to have collaborated to set minimum advertised prices. Among the evidencve were instuctional memoranda sent to retailers.
The RIAA settled because it avoided having an actual antitrust trial, which could result in the loss of their power to lobby and unduly influence the government, not to mention the break-up of some major labels entirely.
"These people weren't just grabbing a few files from Limewire nor even serving up huge stashes of copyrighted material from their home box or over IRC, they were making pirated DVDs."
While I do not disagree with your overall point of view, the man who was killed was "an unarmed African immigrant working inside the warehouse who was not involved in the alleged pirating scheme."
And this happened last year, before the RIAA hired ATF agents to be the music police. It's going to get worse before it gets better.
The German Anti-Piracy Federation, "a private investigating organization funded by U.S. studios," is also likely to kill someone...
"BERLIN -- At 5 a.m. the police kicked in the front door of the modest apartment house near working-class Essen. Guns drawn, they ordered the family out of bed. A few minutes later, they hauled away a 22-year-old college student as his stunned parents looked on in silence."
I can tell you for a FACT that Beastie Boys didn't want this and fought against it, but lost this battle with their label.
Then they'll certainly understand when no one wants to buy it.
After four years of the record labels treating their fans like criminals, any group that still sucks the major label tits deserves no respect whatsoever from the consumers and even less in the way of sales.
I don't know if anyone has heard of this, but a pad of paper and a pen or pencil are remarkable tools for this sort of thing. Works with all operating systems, all languages are supported and, as far I can discern, no one has yet filed a bogus patent claiming they invented it.
By the time audio is reduced to CD standards, it is already limited to 20k Hz, which is the top edge of human hearing. So the high frequencies you can't hear are already gone.
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1983: Internet Is Defined Officially as Networks Using TCP/IP
On January 1 the ARPAnet -- and every network attached to the ARPAnet -- officially adopts the TCP/IP networking protocol, developed in the 1970s by pioneering network engineers Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn.
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Just read through a ton of posts here. There's one thing no one mentioned.
The RIAA did not just announce increased sales. Nielsen SoundScan did. Last year, SoundScan reported selling about 25 million more records than the RIAA said they shipped to retail. About the same as the year before.
The RIAA does not announce its year-end "statistics" until late Feb. or March, which never address how many records are sold, just how many the factory shipped out, which includes all the copies that went to record clubs, deejays and giveaways.
Did you read the ruling?
"The dispute arose when the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) requested the clerk of the district court to issue subpoenas under 512(h) to Charter Communications, Inc. (Charter),1 in its capacity as an ISP, requiring Charter to turn over the identities of persons believed to be engaging in unlawful copyright infringement. The district court issued the subpoenas and denied Charter's motion to quash. We reverse."
This was not a blanket subpoena. Plural. Multiple subpoenas.
This Circuit has never determined whether music downloaded from P2P systems violates the copyright owner's rights or is a fair use. The RIAA, to our knowledge, has never prevailed in any infringement actions brought against individual downloaders.
Sounds more like the courts think that maybe, after filing a mere 7,000 or so civil cases, the RIAA ought to have to prove, oh, one of them.
...people made records so that people would listen to them. Now they try to make them so that you can't in an attempt to create artificial scarcity.
Why bother spending all the time to create something only to ask people not to listen to it?
There's only one way to "protect" music from the world's tendency to want to hear it. Keep it in your head. Don't play it out loud.
But don't expect anyone to remember your name in five years.
I think you're misunderestimating us.
How will the Supreme Court rule?
Hmmm.... let's see. The RIAA's case goes basically like this: "Those thieving pirates are stealing our stuff." This is the same offensive legal tactic that was used to stop piano rolls, player pianos, radio, tape recorders, cassettes and VCRs, just to name the most obvious "pirate" technologies that threatened to destroy the entire entertainment industry.
They've never won before with that argument. But hey, maybe the Supremes will do acid the week that the RIAA case comes up and forget every prior decision handed down over the last 100 years in cases involving technology and copyright.
RIAA
I wouldn't worry too much about the lawsuits until the RIAA actually wins a court case.
Since Sony's electronics division outsells the entire music industry, it's safe to assume that the original statement was most apt to be correct.
Sending a "functional message to the RIAA" would require that there was someone on the receiving end that would both comprehend and acknowledge that such a message had been received.
We must not forget that the RIAA possesses a weapon that logic is not able to defeat -- total and abject ignorance.
I'm glad to see that the college students have learned the RIAA lesson about the evils of downloading music without paying for it, with the reward being that now they get to download as much as they want and not worry about paying for it.
"First off why would the RIAA settle this lawsuit, I think they were in the right"
It was an antitrust case brought by the FTC, wherein the record labels were found to have collaborated to set minimum advertised prices. Among the evidencve were instuctional memoranda sent to retailers.
The RIAA settled because it avoided having an actual antitrust trial, which could result in the loss of their power to lobby and unduly influence the government, not to mention the break-up of some major labels entirely.
"These people weren't just grabbing a few files from Limewire nor even serving up huge stashes of copyrighted material from their home box or over IRC, they were making pirated DVDs."
While I do not disagree with your overall point of view, the man who was killed was "an unarmed African immigrant working inside the warehouse who was not involved in the alleged pirating scheme."
And this happened last year, before the RIAA hired ATF agents to be the music police. It's going to get worse before it gets better.
The German Anti-Piracy Federation, "a private investigating organization funded by U.S. studios," is also likely to kill someone...
"BERLIN -- At 5 a.m. the police kicked in the front door of the modest apartment house near working-class Essen. Guns drawn, they ordered the family out of bed. A few minutes later, they hauled away a 22-year-old college student as his stunned parents looked on in silence."
So at about 500 suits a month, it'll only take 1667 years to sue them all.
No, it's not "every few months," it's the last week of every month. Since last August.
Since suing people is too slow (not one of these cases has actually gone to court yet), the RIAA and MPAA are now having people murdered.
4 06 19/ap_on_re_us/police_shooting_piracy_3
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/200
What a country!
I can tell you for a FACT that Beastie Boys didn't want this and fought against it, but lost this battle with their label.
Then they'll certainly understand when no one wants to buy it.
After four years of the record labels treating their fans like criminals, any group that still sucks the major label tits deserves no respect whatsoever from the consumers and even less in the way of sales.
I agree with your sentiments wholeheartedly.
The individual members of the band also need to be shot for allowing it.
The artists are just as guilty as the labels.
Let them all die.
I don't know if anyone has heard of this, but a pad of paper and a pen or pencil are remarkable tools for this sort of thing. Works with all operating systems, all languages are supported and, as far I can discern, no one has yet filed a bogus patent claiming they invented it.
I don't think anyone has even been taken to court yet, much less actually punished.
How do you know I'm not blind and had to have it read to me, you insensitive clod?
Why I'm answering AC's I don't know but....
By the time audio is reduced to CD standards, it is already limited to 20k Hz, which is the top edge of human hearing. So the high frequencies you can't hear are already gone.
"Just as MP3s remove high frequencies we can't hear..."
This is the single most idiotic comment I've heard this year.
"Artists do get paid for every play on radio."
Big misconception. The songwriters get paid for radio play. This is NOT necessarily the artist, especially in country music.
Great software should not have comments. It should be as hard to figure out as it was to write.