I'm slightly scared. This is a technological curiosity of its own might, granted, but this prompts me to envision a rather gloom future. Originally I've thought that the rise of networking would eliminate the entire corporate structure involved in music-making and be replaced with system where everyone can give a go at composing, publish their work online and where the best artists could probably managed to make quite a fortune with voluntary donations.
However, could record companies do the ultimate thing, a la Nineteen Eighty-Four, and create a computer program that produces the music most of us want to hear? Would that mean the end of human creativity on that level of play, or would this algorithm be doomed to failure? It might only take a few years to adjust, and you'd end up liking it.
Of course, a prudent question is, if music can be replicated so easily, what's the point in appreaciating it any longer, as it's clearly something even machines can do well...
Next up: television series writing machines. But, oh wait, we already have reality tv...
I can't believe this. Nigh 100 years ago that Webster guy goes and bastardises English to differentiate it from good old British English, and here in 2003 flavour is listed as a "variant of flavor".
That's strange. Where do you live exactly? I live in Finland where we have no DMCA-equivalent to speak of. A company called "MediaForce" sent scary letters to an ISP or two after someone had used Direct Connect to download, The Two Towers I believe. The ISP then sent an email to the downloader in question, asking them to stop.
This email raised quite a lot of discussion, since in Finland _downloading_ anything but software is _legal_. For personal and private use, anyway. So from the legal standpoint MediaForce or MPAA or anyone had no case whatsoever against the downloader.
Because of this, many suspect the email was actually a hoax by someone. Maybe your friend's sysadmin got hoaxed too.
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I'm slightly scared. This is a technological curiosity of its own might, granted, but this prompts me to envision a rather gloom future. Originally I've thought that the rise of networking would eliminate the entire corporate structure involved in music-making and be replaced with system where everyone can give a go at composing, publish their work online and where the best artists could probably managed to make quite a fortune with voluntary donations.
However, could record companies do the ultimate thing, a la Nineteen Eighty-Four, and create a computer program that produces the music most of us want to hear? Would that mean the end of human creativity on that level of play, or would this algorithm be doomed to failure? It might only take a few years to adjust, and you'd end up liking it.
Of course, a prudent question is, if music can be replicated so easily, what's the point in appreaciating it any longer, as it's clearly something even machines can do well...
Next up: television series writing machines. But, oh wait, we already have reality tv...
I can't believe this. Nigh 100 years ago that Webster guy goes and bastardises English to differentiate it from good old British English, and here in 2003 flavour is listed as a "variant of flavor".
...people like sk8boyben@Kazaa getting sued, disseminating Avril Lavigne should be a crime enough already!
That's strange. Where do you live exactly? I live in Finland where we have no DMCA-equivalent to speak of. A company called "MediaForce" sent scary letters to an ISP or two after someone had used Direct Connect to download, The Two Towers I believe. The ISP then sent an email to the downloader in question, asking them to stop. This email raised quite a lot of discussion, since in Finland _downloading_ anything but software is _legal_. For personal and private use, anyway. So from the legal standpoint MediaForce or MPAA or anyone had no case whatsoever against the downloader. Because of this, many suspect the email was actually a hoax by someone. Maybe your friend's sysadmin got hoaxed too.