Ask Kevin Mitnick what the judicial system can do about making the penalty fit the crime. Not only was he imprisoned, but they also have kept him from owning or even using a computer!
I disagree with the Feds reasons for prosecuting (read as persecuting) Kevin, but if someone really wants to make an example of these spammers there is a very ugly precedent already in place.
Seriously though, despite the many problems I've seen and fixed on eMachines in the past (power supplies being just the tip of the iceberg), an affordable computer with the 64-bit Athlon will be great for experimentation. So, I may have to get one.
If anyone is looking for gift ideas for me for this Christmas...
All kidding aside, the RIAA and MPAA have totally missed the point. I know I don't have to tell./ers this but filesharing means just that. Sharing of files! It's not exclusively movies and music, although, to be fair, that does seem to be the major focus of programs like KaZaa. Furthermore, the movie and record industries has had rampant pirating of their material going on for decades. Yet not only have they survived, but they have flourished. Movies make more now than they ever have before ($10 at the door plus concessions) and has anyone been to a concert lately ($50 is a drop in the hat)?
Anybody remember the stink the Record industry made when tape cassettes first came out. "Oh no, some one can steal our material off the radio with one of those things."
The same thing happened with video tapes.
And CD burners.
And MP3s.
ad infinitum
The only difference with file sharing is that it is usually done with total strangers and thus seems to be more widespread when a single person can share the file with hundreds of others.
Yet once again they fail to see how to use the technology to thier own advantage. The only music I've downloaded has been from artists I've been unsure of the quality of the other work on thier CD (I've bought too many CDs of one-hit wonders to shell out $20 a CD for them anymore) and the only movies I've downloaded have been ones I probably wouldn't have bothered to see otherwise.
Net Result: Some of the music has prompted me to buy the CDs and some of the movies I own on DVD now. Why would I bother you ask? It's nice to own a copy of them and many contain extras that you just don't get with file sharing. That is the positive side to the file sharing. But of course, 'They' are too blind to see the marketing potential.
And of course I am still evil in their eyes since I share my files!;)
At the top of the website they have two banners which say To advertise on this site please click this panel. Clicking on either directs mail to avon@blakes7.com
I think I found out how they plan on financing the project!;)
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Ask Kevin Mitnick what the judicial system can do about making the penalty fit the crime. Not only was he imprisoned, but they also have kept him from owning or even using a computer!
I disagree with the Feds reasons for prosecuting (read as persecuting) Kevin, but if someone really wants to make an example of these spammers there is a very ugly precedent already in place.
64-bit processing on an e(mpty)Machine?
Is that like jumbo shrimp?
Seriously though, despite the many problems I've seen and fixed on eMachines in the past (power supplies being just the tip of the iceberg), an affordable computer with the 64-bit Athlon will be great for experimentation. So, I may have to get one.
If anyone is looking for gift ideas for me for this Christmas...
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Let me stand on my soap box for a second.
All kidding aside, the RIAA and MPAA have totally missed the point. I know I don't have to tell ./ers this but filesharing means just that. Sharing of files! It's not exclusively movies and music, although, to be fair, that does seem to be the major focus of programs like KaZaa. Furthermore, the movie and record industries has had rampant pirating of their material going on for decades. Yet not only have they survived, but they have flourished. Movies make more now than they ever have before ($10 at the door plus concessions) and has anyone been to a concert lately ($50 is a drop in the hat)?
Anybody remember the stink the Record industry made when tape cassettes first came out. "Oh no, some one can steal our material off the radio with one of those things."
The same thing happened with video tapes.
And CD burners.
And MP3s.
ad infinitum
The only difference with file sharing is that it is usually done with total strangers and thus seems to be more widespread when a single person can share the file with hundreds of others.
Yet once again they fail to see how to use the technology to thier own advantage. The only music I've downloaded has been from artists I've been unsure of the quality of the other work on thier CD (I've bought too many CDs of one-hit wonders to shell out $20 a CD for them anymore) and the only movies I've downloaded have been ones I probably wouldn't have bothered to see otherwise.
Net Result: Some of the music has prompted me to buy the CDs and some of the movies I own on DVD now. Why would I bother you ask? It's nice to own a copy of them and many contain extras that you just don't get with file sharing. That is the positive side to the file sharing. But of course, 'They' are too blind to see the marketing potential.
And of course I am still evil in their eyes since I share my files! ;)
At the top of the website they have two banners which say To advertise on this site please click this panel. Clicking on either directs mail to avon@blakes7.com
I think I found out how they plan on financing the project! ;)