This is certainly improving their service considering the neighbor kids downloading habits affect my bandwidth. Way to kneejerk reaction though, there's not many people who legally use more than 250GB / month for personal use, and the ones that do should have to pay more.
So you're saying that during the 80's and 90's the music was just so good that people wouldn't steal it if they had the chance? Wrong, they steal it today because technology has made it extremely easy to do so without leaving home, and if they had the same opportunity people would have stolen it in the 90's, the 80's, the 70's, the 60's too.
If the music is as bad as you say, why do people want to steal it? All I see here over and over are people railing against popular music, you don't have to like it or buy it but it's called pop music because it's just that, popular. (Que rants proclaiming just because something is popular doesn't mean it's good. "Good" is completely subjective, but there certainly is a correlation between popular and good. You may hate Britney Spears, but if every person gets a vote then a hell of a lot of people vote that her music is "good". You don't get any more say than teenage girls, despite your obviously sophisticated musical palette. Anyone who likes music you don't is stupid, right? )
Itunes has proven that many people in fact will pay for todays music, they just don't want to go to the mall to pay $18 for a full cd when they only like one song. The RIAA's problem isn't putting out crap music, it's that they refuse to give the consumers what they want to pay for (DRM free single song downloads).
The black album sold 3x as many copies as justice, justice is the last Metallica album to not hit #1.
Whether or not a band is "good" is completely subjective, but album sales is certainly one indicator. If you don't like them, that's fine, but there's millions of people who disagree with you. There are a lot more people who like the "new" Metallica than there are 80's headbangers who hate them.
Well there's 10 new, paying fans to replace every 80's headbanger who thinks they sold out.
What's with all the hate and resentment? What band's music doesn't change and evolve? If you don't like what they've become, then don't listen, but no reason to live your life with bitter hatred towards a freakin band because they cut their hair.
If you're going to call someone a loser at least figure out how to spell it, loser.
Nobody listens to Metallica anymore? More people listen to Metallica today than ever before. Yeah i'm sure all of the criticism from bitter headbangers stuck in the 80's really bothers them as they're cashing their $multi-million checks.
Not even necessarily just the blind, what about color blindness? It's much less rare than most people think, nearly 1 in 10 males is color blind to some extent. So far i've not run into much of a problem with captchas, but as they get more complex and start incorporating color more I can forsee it becoming a problem.
Ah yes, another self absorbed asshat taking a stand against popular culture. How dare millions of people enjoy this movie that I do not like, they're obviously idiots!
Uh, so don't listen to it... I don't understand why people like you get so angry over pop music, welcome to the free world where you can listen to whatever music you like, and hopefully let others do the same.
Funny thing i noticed today, despite the loads of criticism in the news as of late Jimmy Wales has an absolutely glowing wikipedia page, that is conveniently fully protected and uneditable. So much for the neutral point of view.
Heh that's one thing that i never understood about the phrase "have your cake and eat it too". Of course everyone wants to have cake and eat it, who would want to have cake just to sit and look at it?
When the iPhone was originally introduced I was excited and planned on buying one. That didn't pan out (price) and now I sit here grateful that I held off. With the AT&T lock in, bricked phones, and various other controversies, and now this SDKgate are any iPhone owners not feeling at least a little bit of buyers remorse?
Their most common tactic was swatting. Using a commercial caller ID spoofing service called SpoofCard, they'd call police departments around the country with false alarms, triggering tense confrontations between armed cops and the victims, at least two of whom have suffered injuries.
Nice sensationalized story, the kid didn't hack anything but no wai he's blind!!!
About 6 years ago there was a domain I found that was a month or so from expiring. I checked it every day and it wasn't ever renewed, it entered a hold period and presumably was going to be released to the public after n days (30 i think).
As the date approached I wrote a script to check the domain availability every 30 seconds, and alert me via email, phone, and loud annoying.wav file as soon as it became available. That never happened, it never officially became publicly available.
I emailed the new owner and his response was simply "$4000.00". It has now been parked for over 6 years rather than being used for a legitimate purpose.
I didn't know how the domain name business worked back then, but I learned then how sleazy it really is. These people are in bed with the registrars, and an individual who just wants a domain name less than 40 letters long is SOL.
Yep. There are (im guessing) thousands of Sears stores, and hundreds of thousands of Sears employees. Surely there are people who have had bad experiences, and there are surely bad managers in there too. I don't know, I worked at Sears for over 2 years and have no complaints, there was never any employee discontent, everyone was pretty happy there and it was a great place to work.
Plus it's a great place to shop -- appliances, sporting goods, electronics, power tools, lawn & garden, automotive, and the wife has all the bedding and drapes she could ever imagine to keep her busy while i play with tools.
That's great, and what's funny is YOU didn't even know what "beg the question" meant until you had some pompous grammar nazi explain it to you, and now all of a sudden you've taken on the cause. What's your cause again? Oh yeah how dare people misuse "begs the question", of all the causes to champion...
I've never been big on downloading music illegally. I've tried it, but it just doesn't seem worth it when after finding a song you get varying levels of quality, missing tags, inconsistent naming conventions, and in the end you have a directory that looks like a tornado hit it. It is worth it to me to pay a buck to download a song, so I never paid much attention or cared about all this RIAA crap because I didn't think it affected me.
But i'm jumping on the bandwagon. I'm one of the RIAA's "good" customers, and the result of their ridiculous litigation is they've pushed me away, I have no desire to fund this crap any longer.
I know about RIAA Radar, which is nice to check up on music before I buy it, but I have to know what I want to buy beforehand. What would be nice is internet radio that plays exclusively RIAA-free music so I can discover new music without having to cross check everything with RIAA Radar. With the RIAA internet radio royalty scam i'd think there would be a lot of RIAA-free stations to choose from, can anyone suggest some good ones?
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This is certainly improving their service considering the neighbor kids downloading habits affect my bandwidth. Way to kneejerk reaction though, there's not many people who legally use more than 250GB / month for personal use, and the ones that do should have to pay more.
So you're saying that during the 80's and 90's the music was just so good that people wouldn't steal it if they had the chance? Wrong, they steal it today because technology has made it extremely easy to do so without leaving home, and if they had the same opportunity people would have stolen it in the 90's, the 80's, the 70's, the 60's too.
If the music is as bad as you say, why do people want to steal it? All I see here over and over are people railing against popular music, you don't have to like it or buy it but it's called pop music because it's just that, popular. (Que rants proclaiming just because something is popular doesn't mean it's good. "Good" is completely subjective, but there certainly is a correlation between popular and good. You may hate Britney Spears, but if every person gets a vote then a hell of a lot of people vote that her music is "good". You don't get any more say than teenage girls, despite your obviously sophisticated musical palette. Anyone who likes music you don't is stupid, right? )
Itunes has proven that many people in fact will pay for todays music, they just don't want to go to the mall to pay $18 for a full cd when they only like one song. The RIAA's problem isn't putting out crap music, it's that they refuse to give the consumers what they want to pay for (DRM free single song downloads).
The black album sold 3x as many copies as justice, justice is the last Metallica album to not hit #1.
Whether or not a band is "good" is completely subjective, but album sales is certainly one indicator. If you don't like them, that's fine, but there's millions of people who disagree with you. There are a lot more people who like the "new" Metallica than there are 80's headbangers who hate them.
Well there's 10 new, paying fans to replace every 80's headbanger who thinks they sold out.
What's with all the hate and resentment? What band's music doesn't change and evolve? If you don't like what they've become, then don't listen, but no reason to live your life with bitter hatred towards a freakin band because they cut their hair.
If you're going to call someone a loser at least figure out how to spell it, loser.
Nobody listens to Metallica anymore? More people listen to Metallica today than ever before. Yeah i'm sure all of the criticism from bitter headbangers stuck in the 80's really bothers them as they're cashing their $multi-million checks.
Dude, you can't possible be making the "anything popular sucks" argument?!?!
You do realize that every single album Metallica has released in the last 20 years has peaked at #1 ?
So why would anyone want to pay for their crap, or even listen to it for free? Ask the millions of people who do.
Not even necessarily just the blind, what about color blindness? It's much less rare than most people think, nearly 1 in 10 males is color blind to some extent. So far i've not run into much of a problem with captchas, but as they get more complex and start incorporating color more I can forsee it becoming a problem.
WTF...
Ah yes, another self absorbed asshat taking a stand against popular culture. How dare millions of people enjoy this movie that I do not like, they're obviously idiots!
Uh, so don't listen to it... I don't understand why people like you get so angry over pop music, welcome to the free world where you can listen to whatever music you like, and hopefully let others do the same.
excellent point!
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Ah my bad, I wonder where that darn "Criticism" section keeps going?
Funny thing i noticed today, despite the loads of criticism in the news as of late Jimmy Wales has an absolutely glowing wikipedia page, that is conveniently fully protected and uneditable. So much for the neutral point of view.
Heh that's one thing that i never understood about the phrase "have your cake and eat it too". Of course everyone wants to have cake and eat it, who would want to have cake just to sit and look at it?
When the iPhone was originally introduced I was excited and planned on buying one. That didn't pan out (price) and now I sit here grateful that I held off. With the AT&T lock in, bricked phones, and various other controversies, and now this SDKgate are any iPhone owners not feeling at least a little bit of buyers remorse?
I don't think Castro is in power anymore...
Nice sensationalized story, the kid didn't hack anything but no wai he's blind!!!
About 6 years ago there was a domain I found that was a month or so from expiring. I checked it every day and it wasn't ever renewed, it entered a hold period and presumably was going to be released to the public after n days (30 i think).
As the date approached I wrote a script to check the domain availability every 30 seconds, and alert me via email, phone, and loud annoying .wav file as soon as it became available. That never happened, it never officially became publicly available.
I emailed the new owner and his response was simply "$4000.00". It has now been parked for over 6 years rather than being used for a legitimate purpose.
I didn't know how the domain name business worked back then, but I learned then how sleazy it really is. These people are in bed with the registrars, and an individual who just wants a domain name less than 40 letters long is SOL.
and i've seen republicans who bomb abortion clinics and shoot doctors through the head...
Yep. There are (im guessing) thousands of Sears stores, and hundreds of thousands of Sears employees. Surely there are people who have had bad experiences, and there are surely bad managers in there too. I don't know, I worked at Sears for over 2 years and have no complaints, there was never any employee discontent, everyone was pretty happy there and it was a great place to work. Plus it's a great place to shop -- appliances, sporting goods, electronics, power tools, lawn & garden, automotive, and the wife has all the bedding and drapes she could ever imagine to keep her busy while i play with tools.
That's great, and what's funny is YOU didn't even know what "beg the question" meant until you had some pompous grammar nazi explain it to you, and now all of a sudden you've taken on the cause. What's your cause again? Oh yeah how dare people misuse "begs the question", of all the causes to champion...
I've never been big on downloading music illegally. I've tried it, but it just doesn't seem worth it when after finding a song you get varying levels of quality, missing tags, inconsistent naming conventions, and in the end you have a directory that looks like a tornado hit it. It is worth it to me to pay a buck to download a song, so I never paid much attention or cared about all this RIAA crap because I didn't think it affected me.
But i'm jumping on the bandwagon. I'm one of the RIAA's "good" customers, and the result of their ridiculous litigation is they've pushed me away, I have no desire to fund this crap any longer.
I know about RIAA Radar, which is nice to check up on music before I buy it, but I have to know what I want to buy beforehand. What would be nice is internet radio that plays exclusively RIAA-free music so I can discover new music without having to cross check everything with RIAA Radar. With the RIAA internet radio royalty scam i'd think there would be a lot of RIAA-free stations to choose from, can anyone suggest some good ones?
christ, I couldn't read more than a paragraph into that blog without getting a headache. "English motherfucker, do you speak it?"