The one thing I love about my Replay is it skips comercials automaticly, and does a pretty good job at it too. (About 75% of the time) Do any of these build-your-own PVRs do that yet?
I work at a University Help Desk. Fall rush is normally hell, I don't even want to think of it this year. I can only imagine the number of students who haven't even turned on their computer all summer, and therefore are not patched. Maybe this new virus will stop a few people from calling us.
You are right. There is no way to lock up everyone who is on a P2P network. And the people on them probably don't have any money (at least not enough for it to make a difference to the RIAA).
But the point of this isn't to bring all the evil copyright violators to justice. The RIAA just wants to find a bunch of college kids, who don't have the money to defend themselves in court, and give them the biggest penalty they can slap on them. Then point to them and tell the world that this will happen to you if you share music online. It's a fear tactic plain and simple.
The RIAA is looking for a public hanging. That is all.
I would say one of the real problems with online newspapers is that people would rather read something on paper then on a computer screen, I know I would. This might be a bit more like regular paper in that respect, although I would have to see it to say for sure.
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The one thing I love about my Replay is it skips comercials automaticly, and does a pretty good job at it too. (About 75% of the time) Do any of these build-your-own PVRs do that yet?
I work at a University Help Desk. Fall rush is normally hell, I don't even want to think of it this year. I can only imagine the number of students who haven't even turned on their computer all summer, and therefore are not patched. Maybe this new virus will stop a few people from calling us.
You are right. There is no way to lock up everyone who is on a P2P network. And the people on them probably don't have any money (at least not enough for it to make a difference to the RIAA). But the point of this isn't to bring all the evil copyright violators to justice. The RIAA just wants to find a bunch of college kids, who don't have the money to defend themselves in court, and give them the biggest penalty they can slap on them. Then point to them and tell the world that this will happen to you if you share music online. It's a fear tactic plain and simple. The RIAA is looking for a public hanging. That is all.
I would say one of the real problems with online newspapers is that people would rather read something on paper then on a computer screen, I know I would. This might be a bit more like regular paper in that respect, although I would have to see it to say for sure.