As a student you can get Visual Studio for a discounted price (about 100 bucks), and office XP pro for around 50, not to mention windows 2K, XP, or 2003 for around 30 bucks. The best thing is, all the worms, security flaws, poor code, blue screens, slowdowns, and general moral wrongness are free for your enjoyment.
I think I'll stick with debian, open office, and all the lovely free software that came with my distro.
Thanks anyway... I prefer software that works.
Cost of new windows OS and software: about 300 dollars (Student discount rate)
Cost of lost term papers and other data due to windows blue screens: several months!
Cost of converting to linux and discovering I am no longer part of the hive mind: PRICELESS!
Fuck every last person who supports them, the big bad companies who sue the asses off poor college students, I hope they go bankrupt, their time has come!
I read in wired a few months back an interview with an industry insider. He said he was sure all of the major lables would be bankrupt in the next five years, and that indie lables would replace them in the future. So, to answer your question, the RIAA will stop when they have no gigantic music industry left to support. Then and only then will reason and creativity return to the industry (i.e., CD's that don't cost twenty bucks, and artists that make more then 9%).
Just think...
If the DivX codec was only downloadable with adware, maybe less people would download it?
This could have saved thousands of people from having to endure 'The Hulk', 'Charlies Angles II', and the rest of the "Summer Blockbusters" released this year.
Please, put more adware in, my fingers are getting tired from text-messaging my friends bad movie reviews.
Slashdot Mirror
AAARRRRGGGGG (millions of stones falling from sky)
Dude, I'm dead.
rm -Rf ./Pro_Piracy_Guy
Sorry, I'll stop downloading P0rn, the net should speed back up in a minute.
I think I'll stick with debian, open office, and all the lovely free software that came with my distro.
Thanks anyway... I prefer software that works.
Cost of new windows OS and software: about 300 dollars (Student discount rate)
Cost of lost term papers and other data due to windows blue screens: several months!
Cost of converting to linux and discovering I am no longer part of the hive mind: PRICELESS!
Don't think different, just think for yourself.
RIAA should consider investing in CDR manufacturing and distribution, no wait... then CDR's will cost 20 bucks each and the artist will still starve.
Fuck the MPAA
And most of all...
Fuck every last person who supports them, the big bad companies who sue the asses off poor college students, I hope they go bankrupt, their time has come!
thanks,
betterkazaaThenCrack@kaZaaLite.com
(feel free to mod me into the stoneage now)
I read in wired a few months back an interview with an industry insider. He said he was sure all of the major lables would be bankrupt in the next five years, and that indie lables would replace them in the future. So, to answer your question, the RIAA will stop when they have no gigantic music industry left to support. Then and only then will reason and creativity return to the industry (i.e., CD's that don't cost twenty bucks, and artists that make more then 9%).
Just think... If the DivX codec was only downloadable with adware, maybe less people would download it? This could have saved thousands of people from having to endure 'The Hulk', 'Charlies Angles II', and the rest of the "Summer Blockbusters" released this year. Please, put more adware in, my fingers are getting tired from text-messaging my friends bad movie reviews.