I'd previously been of the opinion that cell-phones are evil!! but now, I really really really want one! And if they could provide instructions in the manual for how to make them explode, preferably with a timer feature, then I'll buy a bundle!
first, how does suing somebody turn them into a customer? I suppose if you look at it from the standpoint of, "They're giving us money = They be customer" then sure, suing somebody makes them you're customer since you're making them give you money.
Second, this democratic process isn't really all it's hyped up to be. It just ensures that rich people stay rich by standing on not-rich people. Don't get me wrong, it's a lot better today than it used to be, but it's not a perfect system. There isn't one.
Third, Arnold Schwarzenegger's car would blow up, not burn down.
And last, how much of they're copyright do you think these bands own? By sharing a few MP3's we're not "stealing artist's rights," the only people who are hurt by it are the ones who already have stolen their rights and now own their souls in addition to miscellaneous body parts and piercings. A stolen CD isn't stolen from the band, it's stolen from the people who own the band and pay the band slave wages.
I thought we'd already decided the RIAA screwed themselves up by doing this. Maybe to push the point further, rather than repeating ourselves we should have a coup de etat and take over the RIAA offices, turning all they're computers into a massive LAN party. I don't think any authorities will mind, really, since they are targets of the RIAA's scheme as much as anybody. And the RIAA has been walking a fine line of legality as it is so far...
Don't you remember the Sega Channel? It was the same thing. Except that the phantom hints at actually buying the games and having subscriptions to them, wheras sega channel was a monthly fee for all the games you wanted. Then again, the selection changed every month. I want to see them succeed to provide some competition for the current giants. Recently they've been making games like they make movies: Fast and Cheap. What was the last totally frikkin' amazing game you played? (On a console anyway)
I mean, honestly, there have been very few great games on the consoles since the battles between the SNES and the Genesis. Back then, they actually needed quality in they're games, a decent story too, or else the other side was gonna take over. Now, though...
If this does pass (which I sincerely hope it doesn't), what's to stop the guy who collects the fines from writing a virus, snail-mailing it to his buddy in Finland for distribution so his computer isn't picked up by the "scanning software" over in the US and then kicking back to watch the money come in? What is the money going to be used for anyway? I doubt that it would be put to any sort of use in preventing further fines or attacks.
well, in that case, we should just make another law at the same time which will fine someone who fails to enforce this law a minimum of twice the amount the original fine would have been.
though, they'd probably get a better response in general if they just allowed the person who discovered a perpetrator and caused the fine to keep a percentage.
Survival of the fittest, man. It happened to the dinasaurs, it happened to the dodo bird, and now it's happening to you and you're store, and everyone else trying to sell prehistoric forms of media. If you don't adapt and change with the world, the world will leave you behind and recycle you until some day you're being mined out of the ground and powering cars.
Confining yourself to christian rock and family music is bad enough, but to restrict yourself by only selling them on CDs? (well okay, you probably have a tape or two as well). The more versatile you are the better you're chances of continuing. If you can't change, and you fight against it, then you are fighting against the very nature of things. And that is a losing battle, my friend.
Hear hear!
The last straw was drawn for me quite some time ago, but recently they have thrown themselves into deep seeded hate. I have every intention of fighting them to the best of my ability, and have created a website for such protests...though it's not quite ready yet. Simply not buying they're CDs won't make this all stop. It'll take centuries before they're piles of money run out, even if they don't sell a single CD in that time. In addition to this, we need to try to educate the general public about whats really going on, and to resist actively. We don't really have enough time for passive resistance, since they have all the resources they need to survive a hundred-year siege while they pick us off, one by one. I wouldn't be all that surprised if after suing every US citizen they pushed for laws enabling them to sue people in other countries.
though...I think if it came to that said other countries would then initiate guerilla warfare, and from there everything just gets worse...
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I'd previously been of the opinion that cell-phones are evil!! but now, I really really really want one! And if they could provide instructions in the manual for how to make them explode, preferably with a timer feature, then I'll buy a bundle!
first, how does suing somebody turn them into a customer? I suppose if you look at it from the standpoint of, "They're giving us money = They be customer" then sure, suing somebody makes them you're customer since you're making them give you money.
Second, this democratic process isn't really all it's hyped up to be. It just ensures that rich people stay rich by standing on not-rich people. Don't get me wrong, it's a lot better today than it used to be, but it's not a perfect system. There isn't one.
Third, Arnold Schwarzenegger's car would blow up, not burn down.
And last, how much of they're copyright do you think these bands own? By sharing a few MP3's we're not "stealing artist's rights," the only people who are hurt by it are the ones who already have stolen their rights and now own their souls in addition to miscellaneous body parts and piercings. A stolen CD isn't stolen from the band, it's stolen from the people who own the band and pay the band slave wages.
I thought we'd already decided the RIAA screwed themselves up by doing this. Maybe to push the point further, rather than repeating ourselves we should have a coup de etat and take over the RIAA offices, turning all they're computers into a massive LAN party. I don't think any authorities will mind, really, since they are targets of the RIAA's scheme as much as anybody. And the RIAA has been walking a fine line of legality as it is so far...
I never saw this one coming...
OR you could just tell people that it isn't real
and I'm sure it was very cheap, so just about anybody could use they're ideas in a small or a large business environment!
Don't you remember the Sega Channel? It was the same thing. Except that the phantom hints at actually buying the games and having subscriptions to them, wheras sega channel was a monthly fee for all the games you wanted. Then again, the selection changed every month. I want to see them succeed to provide some competition for the current giants. Recently they've been making games like they make movies: Fast and Cheap. What was the last totally frikkin' amazing game you played? (On a console anyway)
I mean, honestly, there have been very few great games on the consoles since the battles between the SNES and the Genesis. Back then, they actually needed quality in they're games, a decent story too, or else the other side was gonna take over. Now, though...
If this does pass (which I sincerely hope it doesn't), what's to stop the guy who collects the fines from writing a virus, snail-mailing it to his buddy in Finland for distribution so his computer isn't picked up by the "scanning software" over in the US and then kicking back to watch the money come in? What is the money going to be used for anyway? I doubt that it would be put to any sort of use in preventing further fines or attacks.
though, they'd probably get a better response in general if they just allowed the person who discovered a perpetrator and caused the fine to keep a percentage.
Survival of the fittest, man. It happened to the dinasaurs, it happened to the dodo bird, and now it's happening to you and you're store, and everyone else trying to sell prehistoric forms of media. If you don't adapt and change with the world, the world will leave you behind and recycle you until some day you're being mined out of the ground and powering cars. Confining yourself to christian rock and family music is bad enough, but to restrict yourself by only selling them on CDs? (well okay, you probably have a tape or two as well). The more versatile you are the better you're chances of continuing. If you can't change, and you fight against it, then you are fighting against the very nature of things. And that is a losing battle, my friend.
Hear hear! The last straw was drawn for me quite some time ago, but recently they have thrown themselves into deep seeded hate. I have every intention of fighting them to the best of my ability, and have created a website for such protests...though it's not quite ready yet. Simply not buying they're CDs won't make this all stop. It'll take centuries before they're piles of money run out, even if they don't sell a single CD in that time. In addition to this, we need to try to educate the general public about whats really going on, and to resist actively. We don't really have enough time for passive resistance, since they have all the resources they need to survive a hundred-year siege while they pick us off, one by one. I wouldn't be all that surprised if after suing every US citizen they pushed for laws enabling them to sue people in other countries. though...I think if it came to that said other countries would then initiate guerilla warfare, and from there everything just gets worse...
I was diagnosed with ADHD in like second grade or something, and the first thing I ever focused on at all (up to that point in my life anyway) was The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Games cured me of ADHD. I don't know if it'll work for everyone, but I have no need of Ritalin or the myriads of other supposed cures.