Stories like this will only quicken the RIAA's death IMO. They are nothing anymore but a redundant giant empire fighting their inevitable death, and instead of trying to embrace this new technology of distribution they are attempting to squash it by litigation and forcing defendants to prove their innocence. How do they know the defendants don't own the cd's to all the songs they have on their hard disk? I know it's not likely that most do, but don't they have to have some reasonable proof, or can you just sue anyone anymore and expect them to prove they are not guilty of what you claim?
The record companies are fighting something they cannot win. At one time they offered a service that was very much needed and there was no alternative, but now that there are easier means of distribution they should instead focus on adapting, rather than quashing, to this new means. Stories like this will only further alieanate the public from the RIAA's cause.
In Canada, where I live, the record companies have just announced a big cut in price of all cd's they sell in hopes that it will combat file sharing. This shows that they were already marking up the price substantially when I can remember that they once promised cd's would be cheaper and better quality than the old cassetts and albums we used to use.
I myself cannot wait until internet distribution becomes the defacto standard, and we can buy the song we want rather than an entire cd of crappy songs just so we can have the 1 song we like. Thanks go to the RIAA for speeding up there demise and good luck to the 12 year old living in the housing projects in New York. Last I read, the RIAA was suing upwards of $150,000 per copyrighted songs...is Barney's "I love you" really worth that much?
"Here is a study done by an independent research firm which claims that under certain circumstances, it is cheaper to develop applications and enterprise solutions for Windows than for Linux."
I had to go back and read this. What do you suppose are the certain cirucumstances? Is it when you have a room full of developers all clinging onto their copy of Visual Studio and sitting in front of a linux box?
I wish they had elaborated on this somewhat. I've been seriously trying to figure out for the last few minutes how I could develop cheaper on Windows and I cannot come up with one idea!
Although I'm not a Windows fan, I actually could believe this, until I read this part:
"Last December, Microsoft released a study that showed that Windows-based servers were cheaper to run than those on Linux in four out of five common server tasks."
You just got to love studies funded by non-biased companies!
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Stories like this will only quicken the RIAA's death IMO. They are nothing anymore but a redundant giant empire fighting their inevitable death, and instead of trying to embrace this new technology of distribution they are attempting to squash it by litigation and forcing defendants to prove their innocence. How do they know the defendants don't own the cd's to all the songs they have on their hard disk? I know it's not likely that most do, but don't they have to have some reasonable proof, or can you just sue anyone anymore and expect them to prove they are not guilty of what you claim?
The record companies are fighting something they cannot win. At one time they offered a service that was very much needed and there was no alternative, but now that there are easier means of distribution they should instead focus on adapting, rather than quashing, to this new means. Stories like this will only further alieanate the public from the RIAA's cause.
In Canada, where I live, the record companies have just announced a big cut in price of all cd's they sell in hopes that it will combat file sharing. This shows that they were already marking up the price substantially when I can remember that they once promised cd's would be cheaper and better quality than the old cassetts and albums we used to use.
I myself cannot wait until internet distribution becomes the defacto standard, and we can buy the song we want rather than an entire cd of crappy songs just so we can have the 1 song we like. Thanks go to the RIAA for speeding up there demise and good luck to the 12 year old living in the housing projects in New York. Last I read, the RIAA was suing upwards of $150,000 per copyrighted songs...is Barney's "I love you" really worth that much?
"Here is a study done by an independent research firm which claims that under certain circumstances, it is cheaper to develop applications and enterprise solutions for Windows than for Linux."
I had to go back and read this. What do you suppose are the certain cirucumstances? Is it when you have a room full of developers all clinging onto their copy of Visual Studio and sitting in front of a linux box?
I wish they had elaborated on this somewhat. I've been seriously trying to figure out for the last few minutes how I could develop cheaper on Windows and I cannot come up with one idea!
Although I'm not a Windows fan, I actually could believe this, until I read this part:
"Last December, Microsoft released a study that showed that Windows-based servers were cheaper to run than those on Linux in four out of five common server tasks."
You just got to love studies funded by non-biased companies!
You can install it in English by using the boot command: knoppix lang=us I went through the same problem only to find out about this afterwards too!