(I swear I need one of those "Every time someone clicks on your webpage with our banner you get $.01" pages... but they don't do that anymore do they?)
I remember (putting away my false teeth) when CDs first came out. They were touted as being practically indestructable, would last forever, wouldn't break down under normal play, and were just supposed to be the best thing since sliced bread...
Ironic, isn't it, when we have to handle these CDs like they are tissue paper...?:)
Come Valentines day remember, "A CD Lasts Forever!"
If the RIAA catches you with illegal songs, however, it'll cost more than 2 months of your salary!!! *smirk*
But I think they don't want you to have a song, or a collection of songs that you could resell in your garage sale day.
What they are selling you, in essense, is a "license" to play the song. In the case of Apple, they let you do a few things with it, have no more than 3 computers play it, and a few other silly things.
But what someone said just previously it's like they're selling you a trip that only you can take. If you want to bring someone else on your trip you need to buy them a ticket.
In short they don't want you to have any rights, as a consumer, to do anything other than just you listening to it. Or watching it. They want it to be like the candy bar you buy at the store: once you "consume" it, you don't have anything left to resell.
(I know it's more than a license to listen to the song, but it's kind of an analogy here...)
I remember the Breathed "retired" oh so many years ago, but I wonder if this comeback is like many 60's and 70's band "comeback tours"... that is to say he's found that he needs the money and there is still (somehow) enough interest out there to him to milk...?
Ah, too bad! I would have loved to see how the sale of that iTunes song turned out! Guess I'll have to keep watching/. to learn, hm?:)
$16k you say. Hmmm.
Wellll... that would be like saying the doctors are making new flus and colds (fluii?) to keep you sick and to make more money.
I'm not certain that I can buy into the idea that anti-virus vendors produce viruses, but they certainly profit from them.
But they definitely profit from hysteria of people rushing out and buying the latest anti-virii package, of bilking folks a yearly fee to keep "current" when you think it would be in everybody's best interest to require all users to be updated with the latest anti-virus definitions!!!
For that matter getting the latest virus definitions should be mandatory before the program will work. A huge flashing red dialog box "You Are Not Protected" if it is more than 1 month out of date.
...and then make it easy to get updated.
The next thing you know the RIAA is going to start charging yearly licenses on the CDs you buy.:)
I've always felt the point of anti-virus software shouldn't be to make money, but to clean up all those infected computers out there and make the World Safe For Better Computing tm.
Someone might have already said this, but Oh Boo Hoo Cry me a River. You lost your "income" stealing from everyone else. Boo Hoo.
And correction: It is illegal in some states to send unsolicited emails if there isn't a proper return email address, if the return email addresses are forged, or if there is no real way to "remove" someone from the "list"...
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People need to guard their email addresses in the same way they practice safe sex. Don't go sticking your email address just any old place...
Only problem is, you're just walking down the street and some ho' grabs you, rapes your email address, forces you to pay $100 for the "service," kicks you back on the sidewalk, let's all her "friends" know about you, and you spend the rest of your time dodging STD laden, ho's while you try to apply an efficient condom, er, filter so that you don't get a virus in the process.
And in the end you decide to change streets, leave town, and try to set up a new identity elsewhere only to get clobbered by another ho' wielding a Webster's.
Bah. Spammers make me wanna stay at home.
This magnet is so strong it will attract pennies made of a zinc and copper compound! All fear the awesome power of the deadly magnet!
Please ask your parents before ordering.
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(I swear I need one of those "Every time someone clicks on your webpage with our banner you get $.01" pages... but they don't do that anymore do they?)
...don't tell Sony...
So I can see their new PR now. "We go a thousand dollars lighter on young kids who live in the projects!"
I hate to say this but their amnesty is a dove with a sock of quarters inside. :P
Ironic, isn't it, when we have to handle these CDs like they are tissue paper...? :)
Come Valentines day remember, "A CD Lasts Forever!" If the RIAA catches you with illegal songs, however, it'll cost more than 2 months of your salary!!! *smirk*
But I think they don't want you to have a song, or a collection of songs that you could resell in your garage sale day.
What they are selling you, in essense, is a "license" to play the song. In the case of Apple, they let you do a few things with it, have no more than 3 computers play it, and a few other silly things.
But what someone said just previously it's like they're selling you a trip that only you can take. If you want to bring someone else on your trip you need to buy them a ticket.
In short they don't want you to have any rights, as a consumer, to do anything other than just you listening to it. Or watching it. They want it to be like the candy bar you buy at the store: once you "consume" it, you don't have anything left to resell.
(I know it's more than a license to listen to the song, but it's kind of an analogy here...)
I remember the Breathed "retired" oh so many years ago, but I wonder if this comeback is like many 60's and 70's band "comeback tours"... that is to say he's found that he needs the money and there is still (somehow) enough interest out there to him to milk...?
Yeah, but for any stolen or hijacked trains couldn't you just follow their tracks? :)
Ah, too bad! I would have loved to see how the sale of that iTunes song turned out! Guess I'll have to keep watching /. to learn, hm? :)
$16k you say. Hmmm.
Apple hasn't used DRM in their system/bios... YET...
I'm sure someone at Apple is thinking "Damn, that's a good idea! Let's get to work on it!"
Yes, I'm a cynic.
Wellll... that would be like saying the doctors are making new flus and colds (fluii?) to keep you sick and to make more money.
I'm not certain that I can buy into the idea that anti-virus vendors produce viruses, but they certainly profit from them.
But they definitely profit from hysteria of people rushing out and buying the latest anti-virii package, of bilking folks a yearly fee to keep "current" when you think it would be in everybody's best interest to require all users to be updated with the latest anti-virus definitions!!!
For that matter getting the latest virus definitions should be mandatory before the program will work. A huge flashing red dialog box "You Are Not Protected" if it is more than 1 month out of date.
...and then make it easy to get updated.
The next thing you know the RIAA is going to start charging yearly licenses on the CDs you buy. :)
I've always felt the point of anti-virus software shouldn't be to make money, but to clean up all those infected computers out there and make the World Safe For Better Computing tm.
Yesssssss... but only in the sense that peeing in a lake when it's raining adds to the water level...
Or that it even pollutes the drinking water supply...
Someone might have already said this, but Oh Boo Hoo Cry me a River. You lost your "income" stealing from everyone else. Boo Hoo. And correction: It is illegal in some states to send unsolicited emails if there isn't a proper return email address, if the return email addresses are forged, or if there is no real way to "remove" someone from the "list"...
Only problem is, you're just walking down the street and some ho' grabs you, rapes your email address, forces you to pay $100 for the "service," kicks you back on the sidewalk, let's all her "friends" know about you, and you spend the rest of your time dodging STD laden, ho's while you try to apply an efficient condom, er, filter so that you don't get a virus in the process.
And in the end you decide to change streets, leave town, and try to set up a new identity elsewhere only to get clobbered by another ho' wielding a Webster's. Bah. Spammers make me wanna stay at home.
This magnet is so strong it will attract pennies made of a zinc and copper compound! All fear the awesome power of the deadly magnet!
;)
Please ask your parents before ordering.