Sad about the Diebold purge. I know how the shit crumbles, tho... after all, my university did the same thing with the Half-Life 2 leak. Not that I blame either college... it costs a lot of money to get a good legal team to defend against lawsuits from corporations. I mean, Diebold's very existance is on the line with this. If the memos go around too much, they might get destroyed Enron-style. So of course they are going to try and supress colleges, since historically they don't have very good legal defense teams.
I will tell you this though... whatever they are getting from itunes is way more then they are getting from Kazaa downloads... Maybe... RIAA fleeces the artists with all sorts of "even if you sell 2 million copies, you still owe us your souls" deals, and I see no reason why they couldn't extend that to the Internet. Note that I don't say that they should, but merely that they could. Under that case, since the distro costs online are set by the number sold, it is plausible to think that the artists may be getting nothing at all from iTMS. That said, I do think that iTMS offers the potential for better treatement of artists. They already have some indie artists listed under their own contracts, and are seeming to want more. Remember, Apple's slogan is "think different," so it's not implausible that they would want to leverage their market share to start driving the market away from RIAA-controlled products. Better for Apple, better for the artists. Worse for RIAA. Good with me.
I hate to do this, but I'm biting the bait...
WTF does that have to do with this case? I mean, the ISP isn't actively going to pirates and saying "check out my MP3s!," but rather passively host the content without any regard for it. In contrast, Ford would have had to have actively worked to sell to that specific group of customers. Besides, isn't the ISP better off if the site remains unpopular, and consumes less bandwitdth?
And here I was thinking that only in the US did we have asinine shit like this being flung... I don't know whether to be encouraged or discouraged to see that we aren't alone.
Why do these kinds of exclamations make it into the story anyway? I thought there were editors for these things....oh wait, this is slashdot, nevermind. Look at the tagline for the article: "from the this-trumps-capitalism-how-exactly dept," and you'll see that the editors did in fact take issue with that exclamation to some degree, though not strongly enough to edit the article itself.
Until you see tastless games like, "Abortion by coathangar!" or "Rape that chick!"
There's some behaviors you don't even want to demonstrate much less promote.
That's nice. Now, who is going to decide where this line is? Who is going to say "this game is good, not that game." What about BMX XXX and GTA:VC? Are they too crude for you? More importantly, are they too crude for a censor? While it may sound all well and good to censor tastless games, it can be and often is a pitfall into a whole can of worms you don't want to open.
With michael taking heat lately for posting articles that may be seen as having a liberal bias, I'm glad to see someone else take a position too. Let's face it- people are biased. Isn't it better when that bias is clear and obvious, than when they try and hide it?
Then you have to worry about those with poor or no hearing, as well as those with poor or no sound equipment. Why not have someone solve a riddle or puzzle, such as decode a/. mangled e-mail address?
And so it begins in earnest...
On the plus side, this means that we are long past the point where proprietary corporations see us a threat and to the point where they start seeing us as a true revolution.
Just leave it to the/.ers... After all, this is DRM minus the draconian part... they even tell you how to circumvent, if you accept slightly lower quality due to lossy-lossless-lossy transcoding.
By which time, there will be 802.11z, which will require a rethink of the whole project...
In actuallity, I do agree with the point. I just couldn't resist this sideswipe against short time to live in IT these days...
As if. You want a one-sided conversation, go to the freeper haven. Just make sure you have a tin foil hat ready. I mean,/. doesn't get into that near as much you seem to think. Over the past several days, this is the biggest article with any sort of a polititcal bent. Mostly, we see things like announcements of new processors, and sumo-wresteling robots. Moreover, this discussion seems to be dominated not by atheists but people who take exception to reactionary revisions of history.
Except that I can't see GIA used to trade music... in light of that, who would sue them? Certianaly not Bush&Co... they don't want to give this thing any more publicity than it already has.
Sounds nice, but I think that I'll wait until more content and programs are developed which take advantage of 3-D space. Besides, after shelling out $1900 for a new laptop with the same specs almost, I don't see $3300 for this sucker. Interesting, and I wish it luck, but it isn't for me yet.
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Sad about the Diebold purge. I know how the shit crumbles, tho... after all, my university did the same thing with the Half-Life 2 leak. Not that I blame either college... it costs a lot of money to get a good legal team to defend against lawsuits from corporations. I mean, Diebold's very existance is on the line with this. If the memos go around too much, they might get destroyed Enron-style. So of course they are going to try and supress colleges, since historically they don't have very good legal defense teams.
So you can /. the server... duh!
I will tell you this though... whatever they are getting from itunes is way more then they are getting from Kazaa downloads...
Maybe... RIAA fleeces the artists with all sorts of "even if you sell 2 million copies, you still owe us your souls" deals, and I see no reason why they couldn't extend that to the Internet. Note that I don't say that they should, but merely that they could. Under that case, since the distro costs online are set by the number sold, it is plausible to think that the artists may be getting nothing at all from iTMS. That said, I do think that iTMS offers the potential for better treatement of artists. They already have some indie artists listed under their own contracts, and are seeming to want more. Remember, Apple's slogan is "think different," so it's not implausible that they would want to leverage their market share to start driving the market away from RIAA-controlled products. Better for Apple, better for the artists. Worse for RIAA. Good with me.
I hate to do this, but I'm biting the bait...
WTF does that have to do with this case? I mean, the ISP isn't actively going to pirates and saying "check out my MP3s!," but rather passively host the content without any regard for it. In contrast, Ford would have had to have actively worked to sell to that specific group of customers. Besides, isn't the ISP better off if the site remains unpopular, and consumes less bandwitdth?
Small server... slashdotted before the (my) first post.
And here I was thinking that only in the US did we have asinine shit like this being flung... I don't know whether to be encouraged or discouraged to see that we aren't alone.
Why do these kinds of exclamations make it into the story anyway? I thought there were editors for these things....oh wait, this is slashdot, nevermind.
Look at the tagline for the article: "from the this-trumps-capitalism-how-exactly dept," and you'll see that the editors did in fact take issue with that exclamation to some degree, though not strongly enough to edit the article itself.
I know someone with a 420GB RAID array... does that make them potholes?
Silent drive...holy drive...
If you're drive is filled with holes... you've got a problem. Could be why the drive is silent.
Until you see tastless games like, "Abortion by coathangar!" or "Rape that chick!"
There's some behaviors you don't even want to demonstrate much less promote.
That's nice. Now, who is going to decide where this line is? Who is going to say "this game is good, not that game." What about BMX XXX and GTA:VC? Are they too crude for you? More importantly, are they too crude for a censor? While it may sound all well and good to censor tastless games, it can be and often is a pitfall into a whole can of worms you don't want to open.
With michael taking heat lately for posting articles that may be seen as having a liberal bias, I'm glad to see someone else take a position too. Let's face it- people are biased. Isn't it better when that bias is clear and obvious, than when they try and hide it?
Then you have to worry about those with poor or no hearing, as well as those with poor or no sound equipment. Why not have someone solve a riddle or puzzle, such as decode a /. mangled e-mail address?
It could be called "longhorn" because you're going to get really screwed this time.
That doesn't even bear thinking about... *ouch*
Correlarry: You don't need to buy SQL Server... MS wouldn't shoot themselves in the foot like that.
And so it begins in earnest...
On the plus side, this means that we are long past the point where proprietary corporations see us a threat and to the point where they start seeing us as a true revolution.
Better yet, just post a link on the main page... oh, wait...
Just leave it to the /.ers... After all, this is DRM minus the draconian part... they even tell you how to circumvent, if you accept slightly lower quality due to lossy-lossless-lossy transcoding.
I'm sorry, but a quarter of an hour is hardly a long delay...
By which time, there will be 802.11z, which will require a rethink of the whole project...
In actuallity, I do agree with the point. I just couldn't resist this sideswipe against short time to live in IT these days...
Sorry... I thought I checked it, too. Try http://www.freerepublic.com/
And why is there a BSD and Apple section but no Linux or Windows section?
Linux stuff? That's the front page!
As if. You want a one-sided conversation, go to the freeper haven. Just make sure you have a tin foil hat ready. I mean, /. doesn't get into that near as much you seem to think. Over the past several days, this is the biggest article with any sort of a polititcal bent. Mostly, we see things like announcements of new processors, and sumo-wresteling robots. Moreover, this discussion seems to be dominated not by atheists but people who take exception to reactionary revisions of history.
Also, Linus left Transmeta a few months back.
Probably when the chip was finished and ready to go into production and marketing.
Except that I can't see GIA used to trade music... in light of that, who would sue them? Certianaly not Bush&Co... they don't want to give this thing any more publicity than it already has.
Sounds nice, but I think that I'll wait until more content and programs are developed which take advantage of 3-D space. Besides, after shelling out $1900 for a new laptop with the same specs almost, I don't see $3300 for this sucker. Interesting, and I wish it luck, but it isn't for me yet.