I don't know about big money, but there is definitely room for a business to specialize in this field, given that international shipping and the internet allows the market to be worldwide. Definitely someone could make a decent living at it.
I don't know about ASCAP, but up here in the great white north, SOCAN performs a similar function, and they use a formula based on a combination of radio playlists and reports from any licensees. I remember that most indie clubs I DJ'ed for were very consistent in filing our playlists so that the indie bands on our playlists would get some of the money...
That was my first thought on seeing this as well... Who has something to win by SCO staying alive just long enough to finish the court case... the added bonus is that if IBM owns SCO when it goes down the toilet, nothing gets buried that they don't want buried....
I'll quote the most important part of the post you are replying to, and let you re-examine your response: if you really want to "protect" music from being copied, you need to have total control of every part of the soft- and hardware
There won't be any free software if this plays out the way that the entertainment industry wants it to.
I have a few Mac games that require serial numbers. Stop bullshitting./em Are they windows ports that don't store the serials in the/Users/[yournamehere]/Library/Preferences/ folder?
If you think that PEI is under represented, you seriously misunderstand the issue... they have four senators representing 138,000 people. Alberta has six, representing 3,473,984 people. Ontario has twenty four senators, representing 12,803,861 people. One for every 34,500 in PEI, one for every 58,000 in Alberta, and one for every 54,000 in Ontario.
Waah. They can spend some of the money they get from ticket buyers to come up with solutions to protect their customers (the promoters that is). It's their problem to solve, and I ain't going to help them. If they can't solve it, promoters might stop using them, and I would consider it progress.
It's exactly as clear as the second amendment. A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
There is a growing problem with counterfeits outside of IP crap. There are the brand name knock-offs of stuff like designer goods, but there is more and more counterfeiting of things like tires and automobile parts. That genuine GM part might be a sub-par knock off out of a chinese factory.
It's cool to pretend stuff like this doesn't matter, but it does.
But it's part of the standard. In order for intercompatability to really work, it needs to be implemented for all apps that intend to actually stick to the standard. Don't be intellectually lazy. You know better. You can't just skip the implementation of part of the standard.
It's been said over and over, this standard is not open. That means that it can't be standard. For people willing to reverse engineer, sure it can be done. People reverse engineered implementation of Word various.doc formats. That doesn't make it standard.
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I don't know about big money, but there is definitely room for a business to specialize in this field, given that international shipping and the internet allows the market to be worldwide. Definitely someone could make a decent living at it.
True, but the package managers can be set certain parameters before the package gets accepted. Nothing wrong with actually adding value.
Datum is the singular. Data is a plural.
And some of the staff might have low digit Slashdot UID's. ;)
I don't know about ASCAP, but up here in the great white north, SOCAN performs a similar function, and they use a formula based on a combination of radio playlists and reports from any licensees. I remember that most indie clubs I DJ'ed for were very consistent in filing our playlists so that the indie bands on our playlists would get some of the money...
http://www.socan.ca/pdf/en/pub_HowYourMusicMakesMoney07.pdf
Missed one: Rarity.
That was my first thought on seeing this as well... Who has something to win by SCO staying alive just long enough to finish the court case... the added bonus is that if IBM owns SCO when it goes down the toilet, nothing gets buried that they don't want buried....
I'll quote the most important part of the post you are replying to, and let you re-examine your response:
if you really want to "protect" music from being copied, you need to have total control of every part of the soft- and hardware
There won't be any free software if this plays out the way that the entertainment industry wants it to.
I'll agree that 99% are crap, but you'll have to take scrabulous from my cold, dead hands ...
I have a few Mac games that require serial numbers. Stop bullshitting./em /Users/[yournamehere]/Library/Preferences/ folder?
Are they windows ports that don't store the serials in the
And recognizing the connection makes it completely non-existent...
If you think that PEI is under represented, you seriously misunderstand the issue... they have four senators representing 138,000 people. Alberta has six, representing 3,473,984 people. Ontario has twenty four senators, representing 12,803,861 people. One for every 34,500 in PEI, one for every 58,000 in Alberta, and one for every 54,000 in Ontario.
So you're either from BC, Alberta or Saskatchewan...
Waah. They can spend some of the money they get from ticket buyers to come up with solutions to protect their customers (the promoters that is). It's their problem to solve, and I ain't going to help them. If they can't solve it, promoters might stop using them, and I would consider it progress.
Anyone else think that Novell and IBM are going to get through the corporate veil and start going after the corporate officers personally?
Remember being mocked 'cause we were newbies that weren't even around for Chips & Dips...
So pay someone to do it. Being unable to program doesn't mean you're unable to pay someone to program. Works out the same in the end.
It's exactly as clear as the second amendment.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
and look at how people disagree about that!
There is a growing problem with counterfeits outside of IP crap. There are the brand name knock-offs of stuff like designer goods, but there is more and more counterfeiting of things like tires and automobile parts. That genuine GM part might be a sub-par knock off out of a chinese factory.
It's cool to pretend stuff like this doesn't matter, but it does.
For once the slashdot lameness filter is correct. :(
;)
It wouldn't let me post this.
That's cause Baby Boomers lie about their age, and us Gen-X'ers are starting to too. ;) I'm the same age I was ten years ago, honest. :)
But it's part of the standard. In order for intercompatability to really work, it needs to be implemented for all apps that intend to actually stick to the standard. Don't be intellectually lazy. You know better. You can't just skip the implementation of part of the standard.
.doc formats. That doesn't make it standard.
It's been said over and over, this standard is not open. That means that it can't be standard. For people willing to reverse engineer, sure it can be done. People reverse engineered implementation of Word various
I would have said four digit UID...
Host them for the Windows computers behind the firewall that should be between any Win*/Vista computer and the internet.
Send it to yourself registered mail in a well sealed envelope....