What you're talking about is copyright infringement. Definately something you can do about that long before DMCA. (I can not speak to your comment about all the hoops, though).
However, the 'devil' part of the DMCA is that it's illegal to even circumvent the encryption used on the item....i'm pretty sure that there's no decrypting your text files...
In fact, this whole post sounds bogus. DMCA'd? The only thing I can think of is that you're able to DMCA someone easily and you're DMCA's by bigger corps because DMCA violations carry a much stiffer fine, and do not require the hunter to prove anything.
Those are good numbers, and I completely agree. However, my excuse is "we're getting old". Going to a concert? Not any more.
Anyway, this is why they love teenagers and college kids. They're the ones spending money on their most profitable market (slick-pop).
The music industry had some boom years when people were buying CD's for the quality, and to replace their vinyl/tape. It's no wonder the numbers went down. Add a recession that affected EVERY OTHER MARKET, and that's another reason the numbers went down. Why they think they have the god-given right to INCREASE sales in a recession is beyond me.
The music industry is also facing fierce competition. DVD's are cheap, and provide 'hours' of entertainment. I've seen many interviews where kids said they found buying DVD's more bang for the buck than CD's.
And last but not least, Computer Games are now a bigger market than movies and music. They give even MORE hours of entertainment.
Back to your post... We're also thinking of cutting cable also. You just look at the cost of all the media consumption... it really adds up.
He is not exaggerating the point at all. 20 out of 21 phone calls to my house were telemarketers. I couldn't answer the phone. I had to screen each one. Wait to see who it was, and then and only then talk to my family or friends. These all wasted my time. We tried turning off the ringer. Turned out we missed family calls by up to a whole day. Getting caller ID doesn't help any. And it costs $2/month to be unlisted, which only helps a little. Why do I have to spend so much money to make one of my utitilies more useful? And the government has certainly defined it as an important utility. You need it for emergencies, and countless other reasons depending on your situation.
I don't have people bothering me through my gas main when I try to heat my house in the winter. Why do I have people bothering me on a utility I use to keep in touch with my family?
Good for you. I'm surprised we're even having this conversation. People, you should never be afraid to raise your voice. It's your money, and you're in the position of power.
These are usually minimum wage positions, and they have no desire to piss anyone off. If you don't want to be beligerent, telling them that you just moved there and don't have a phone # set up yet. And NEVER believe them when they say, "oh, it's just for our records, we'll never call." NOT TRUE.
When we moved last year, I give my home phone number to absolutely no one. (Family excluded, although sometimes...)
Any legitimate place that needs my number, (rentals, credit cards, everything) I only give my work number. This screens out any crap, and the one breach I've had so far, I was able to scream at them about calling me at work.
Well, it also wouldn't work because it involves the songwriter making money. The RIAA has done a great job at making sure the songwriter and the artists getting paid as little as possible all these years. Why start now?
Well, to be fair, the RIAA *IS* trying to sue (or purchase laws against) the software creators, the ISP's, anyone that isn't them. They just weren't at that very second.
I agree with statement about what the RIAA _should_ do, just not the statement that is saying that is all they're doing.
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More importantly the corporations find this unsettling and they have the backing to make it financially impossible for the "amateurs" to compete.
So true. Just look at radio, and the laws pushed to keep us from starting our own stations with now-cheap equipment.
Same with cable companies suing grass roots campaigns that attempt to roll their own broadband.
Who was responding to someone asking why there is such emphasis on file trading instead of more important things like having the largest murder numbers in the western world.
You said, err, I mean the parent then said the emphasis was because the economy would go further south due to the amazing 5% GDP it represented. That is where I jumped in.
I don't see how disagreeing with certain laws means that I condone filesharing. That jump in logic just means you're trolling or a shill. In fact, my main contention is the BS the industry spouts as facts. When my parents lost their company due to competition and the horrible economy 3 years ago, they didnt' get to sue everyone and blame them. Why does the industry believe they have the god given right to increased profits during a recession?
Holy crap. How can you trust anything they say? Let alone a statistic that they're spouting off to make themselves feel important?
Do you remember the news article of how a couple people were arrested for running a "monstrous CD pirate factory"? It was written that they had about 50 CD Burners running non-stop. Turns out it was only 6 CD burners, but they multiplied it by a factor of X, because cd burners are X times faster than they used to be.
So the movie industry is trying to tell Congress how important they are. They try to credit themselves for 5% of the U.S. GDP. I agree that sounds impressive. But the US GDP is about 10 Trillion dollars. 5% of that is 500 Billion dollars. Obviously, the movie industry is only a fraction of that. What makes up the other 90% of that 5%? Music, TV, books, games, software... Anything relating to copyright.
The movie industry is in competition with other entertainment markets. For me, namely computer games, since they're the highest rising related market. Yet when it comes to looking 'bigger', they'll gladly include themselves in the bigger group. When they fight for laws, it's laws to protect the movie industry.
It is now a felony to video record inside a movie theator. Movie sales are 2 billion dollars a year, so that is 0.02% of the GDP.
What I would like to see stats for is what percentage of "all this money" they have goes to the actual workers vs. executives. I'm sure the Music Industry would find themselves at the bottom of that chart, so you dont' see them bragging about that.
I'm all for fair laws. But when shoplifting 100 CD's carries less fines & jail time than potentially sharing 900 songs, I think there's something wrong. Selling drugs inside a movie theator gets you less than the felony that the video taper will now get.
Want fair laws? Let's fine each of the music executives 500% of their annual salary each time they're caught price fixing! We will "let" them settle out of court if they pay 30% of their annual salary.
If a student has to fork over $4,500 dollars they don't own (or face $300,000 if they lose) then I think it's only fair. Why are millions of americans "crooks", when it's the music executives themselves who have been busted at least twice for price fixing. Not to mention sued thousands of times by artists for breach of contract, and a million other things that don't make headline news.
Yes, why can't we just go back to the days of when it was just the Music executives ripping off the artists? Times were simpler then.
It's a real shame the MPAA lost the Betamax decision, what with how it doubled their market in total sales.
And if we could just hurry up and push for the laws that make it illegal to use non-Palladium machines, things would be simpler with only one O/S in the world.
Who exactly am I harming when I share recordings of Charlie Parker from 1946?
The music executives. And the people they bribe. And maybe their investors. That is who you are hurting. You are easily knocking them down to the top 2% of the wealthy instead of the top 1%. You greedy bastard.
Actually, what I thought would have been scarier would have been if the 'round stone' had moved (naturally), and blocked his way back.
Two glow sticks left, and having to go forward, hoping to find his way out an alternate route through the dark. Not only would we have gotten to read more of the forced exploration of the new section, but then he would have eventually been in the dark. Pretty dismal!
Yea, like next year when blu ray hits the shelves.
Oh wait, go back to sleep. That's read-only. It'll be another year til we can burn at that price, and another year after that before it's less than $5 a disk
I thought it would be neat to see how good their fake-jpeg scrollbar was, so I loaded the page. I had no plans on 'scrolling down'.
Didn't get that far. Just loading the page launched it. Anti-virus kicked in with a warning, home page was attempted to change, and then I got a call from headquarters to follow the delousing drill, since they also get all of our warnings.
Well that was fun. Didn't get to see any scroll bar:(
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However, the 'devil' part of the DMCA is that it's illegal to even circumvent the encryption used on the item. ...i'm pretty sure that there's no decrypting your text files...
In fact, this whole post sounds bogus. DMCA'd? The only thing I can think of is that you're able to DMCA someone easily and you're DMCA's by bigger corps because DMCA violations carry a much stiffer fine, and do not require the hunter to prove anything.
Anyway, this is why they love teenagers and college kids. They're the ones spending money on their most profitable market (slick-pop).
The music industry had some boom years when people were buying CD's for the quality, and to replace their vinyl/tape. It's no wonder the numbers went down. Add a recession that affected EVERY OTHER MARKET, and that's another reason the numbers went down. Why they think they have the god-given right to INCREASE sales in a recession is beyond me.
The music industry is also facing fierce competition. DVD's are cheap, and provide 'hours' of entertainment. I've seen many interviews where kids said they found buying DVD's more bang for the buck than CD's.
And last but not least, Computer Games are now a bigger market than movies and music. They give even MORE hours of entertainment.
Back to your post... We're also thinking of cutting cable also. You just look at the cost of all the media consumption... it really adds up.
I know it's hard to keep track of all the shit spewing from your mouth.
Well, who would want to buy a 100 person list? Or is Canada up to 200 now?
I don't have people bothering me through my gas main when I try to heat my house in the winter. Why do I have people bothering me on a utility I use to keep in touch with my family?
These are usually minimum wage positions, and they have no desire to piss anyone off. If you don't want to be beligerent, telling them that you just moved there and don't have a phone # set up yet. And NEVER believe them when they say, "oh, it's just for our records, we'll never call." NOT TRUE.
When we moved last year, I give my home phone number to absolutely no one. (Family excluded, although sometimes...)
Any legitimate place that needs my number, (rentals, credit cards, everything) I only give my work number. This screens out any crap, and the one breach I've had so far, I was able to scream at them about calling me at work.
Well, it also wouldn't work because it involves the songwriter making money. The RIAA has done a great job at making sure the songwriter and the artists getting paid as little as possible all these years. Why start now?
I agree with statement about what the RIAA _should_ do, just not the statement that is saying that is all they're doing.
So true. Just look at radio, and the laws pushed to keep us from starting our own stations with now-cheap equipment.
Same with cable companies suing grass roots campaigns that attempt to roll their own broadband.
Who was responding to someone asking why there is such emphasis on file trading instead of more important things like having the largest murder numbers in the western world.
You said, err, I mean the parent then said the emphasis was because the economy would go further south due to the amazing 5% GDP it represented. That is where I jumped in.
I don't see how disagreeing with certain laws means that I condone filesharing. That jump in logic just means you're trolling or a shill. In fact, my main contention is the BS the industry spouts as facts. When my parents lost their company due to competition and the horrible economy 3 years ago, they didnt' get to sue everyone and blame them. Why does the industry believe they have the god given right to increased profits during a recession?
How can you trust anything they say? Let alone a statistic that they're spouting off to make themselves feel important?
Do you remember the news article of how a couple people were arrested for running a "monstrous CD pirate factory"? It was written that they had about 50 CD Burners running non-stop. Turns out it was only 6 CD burners, but they multiplied it by a factor of X, because cd burners are X times faster than they used to be.
So the movie industry is trying to tell Congress how important they are. They try to credit themselves for 5% of the U.S. GDP. I agree that sounds impressive. But the US GDP is about 10 Trillion dollars. 5% of that is 500 Billion dollars. Obviously, the movie industry is only a fraction of that. What makes up the other 90% of that 5%? Music, TV, books, games, software... Anything relating to copyright.
The movie industry is in competition with other entertainment markets. For me, namely computer games, since they're the highest rising related market. Yet when it comes to looking 'bigger', they'll gladly include themselves in the bigger group. When they fight for laws, it's laws to protect the movie industry.
It is now a felony to video record inside a movie theator. Movie sales are 2 billion dollars a year, so that is 0.02% of the GDP.
What I would like to see stats for is what percentage of "all this money" they have goes to the actual workers vs. executives. I'm sure the Music Industry would find themselves at the bottom of that chart, so you dont' see them bragging about that.
I'm all for fair laws. But when shoplifting 100 CD's carries less fines & jail time than potentially sharing 900 songs, I think there's something wrong. Selling drugs inside a movie theator gets you less than the felony that the video taper will now get.
Want fair laws? Let's fine each of the music executives 500% of their annual salary each time they're caught price fixing! We will "let" them settle out of court if they pay 30% of their annual salary.
If a student has to fork over $4,500 dollars they don't own (or face $300,000 if they lose) then I think it's only fair. Why are millions of americans "crooks", when it's the music executives themselves who have been busted at least twice for price fixing. Not to mention sued thousands of times by artists for breach of contract, and a million other things that don't make headline news.
They'd rather make 100% of 7 Billion dollars than 50% of 30 Billion dollars.
This is exactly why Freenet will be outlawed in the USA if it ever gained enough popularity.
Would BitTorrent even have been created if it wasn't for the problems inherent in Kazaa?
It seems that postal mail, ftp, or http downloads were going strong for passing along legal content until Napster came along.
It's a real shame the MPAA lost the Betamax decision, what with how it doubled their market in total sales.
And if we could just hurry up and push for the laws that make it illegal to use non-Palladium machines, things would be simpler with only one O/S in the world.
The music executives. And the people they bribe. And maybe their investors. That is who you are hurting. You are easily knocking them down to the top 2% of the wealthy instead of the top 1%. You greedy bastard.
Sounds good until Freenet falls foul under The INDUCE Act.
That's right. Theft is much safer, carries fewer penalties, and less jail time.
Two glow sticks left, and having to go forward, hoping to find his way out an alternate route through the dark. Not only would we have gotten to read more of the forced exploration of the new section, but then he would have eventually been in the dark. Pretty dismal!
Oh wait, go back to sleep. That's read-only. It'll be another year til we can burn at that price, and another year after that before it's less than $5 a disk
That's how worthless these types of announcements are.
Speak for yourself!
Blueray is the guaranteed next step up from DVD, and the consumers have yet to hold anything in their hands.
Seems like a waste of article space on slashdot.
But beside drinking too much pop, my wife cried during EVERY ending version. So... it's probably not that bad.
Didn't get that far. Just loading the page launched it. Anti-virus kicked in with a warning, home page was attempted to change, and then I got a call from headquarters to follow the delousing drill, since they also get all of our warnings.
Well that was fun. Didn't get to see any scroll bar :(
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