Starting in September, I will be yet one more student facing a slim budget without wiggle room for all the extras like entertainment.
As a human, it really is a psychological need.
So I have a choice: Blow my tuition money on a few unavailable CDs. Oh, and what get's me going: A dvd compliant OS to go along with my purchased DVDs and DVD-ROM drive. Or, keep going to school and enjoy the entertainment for free. For me, the choice is obvious. (Maybe I should patent this!)
Oh, and there has existed something on SourceForge for a long time concerning the conversion of streaming audio into WAV/MP3/OGG.
What all us "Enlightened" students should do is demand a refund of the tariff, because since we use the "hobbled" Linux OS, we can't interpret the spew as music anyways.
But if you want to be illogical.. Erm, I mean legal. Give www.epitonic.com a rip; they've got ton's of free (beer) music under plenty of genres.
Have each mail server sign the email with a PGP signature. The next mail server that recieves it verifies the signature against a database of allowed mail servers. If the message fails verification, it is dropped and nobody sees ever.
This would at least make it impossible to forge an email, which is what a spammer needs to hide behind.
Now, I know that this would require some major re-vamping of the internet. Just the amount of CPU power to sign a billion emails a day would be monolithic. But then if spam were eliminated from the pool of emails, the amount of signing would be reduced to a few million a day, if not fewer.
It's so simple. All you need is pistol and a disk; systematically go to every mail server on earth and force the administrator(s) to replace their crappy SPAM compliant mail software with the new software.
Bloody hell! For the past forever, they have been charging way too much for way too little. Now when we, their victims, start stealing back they claim injustice. Artists create art because they _like_ to, not because they want money. Sure, money gives them all sorts of ego and general good-feelyness but it still does not improve the quality of the music, or feed the hungry. I know there are lots of uber-rich people who donate bazillions of helpful monies to every single charity, but "lots" is not to be confused with "EVERY".
If you saw some pompous worm hawking crappy trinkets in the street for $23.95, you'd probably look at him like he was some type of pompous worm. But when the worms get stores to sell their _still crappy_ wares, wares that were almost-sort of-in-some-sense-of-the-word stolen from the artists, we all gather 'round and purchase the package of dirt; dirt that contains a few nifty-looking special shiny pieces of dirt.
Somebody offered me _just_ the nifty dirt, for free. Can't beat that.
Didn't the CRIA read Slashdot, or even the local newspaper? Did they not notice that the RIAA shot itself in the foot, then the other foot, then both hands. Soon they're going to try to kick themselves in the face. Will the CRIA follow suit? "Hey! That looks like a cool dance!" As a Canadian, I think I should be allowed to bring all my CDs that do not contain CRIA-Infected music and get my presume-you-are-a-criminal money back. I am very glad that I do not live in the USA, because of the super-retarded fair use-inhibiting RIAA, MPAA, DMCA et al. But I fear that Canada will jump into the same sinking boat.
Isn't there some way we can obliterate lunacy from our "democratic" societies? Shove some opinion down a few political throats.
Slashdot Mirror
Starting in September, I will be yet one more student facing a slim budget without wiggle room for all the extras like entertainment.
As a human, it really is a psychological need.
So I have a choice: Blow my tuition money on a few unavailable CDs. Oh, and what get's me going: A dvd compliant OS to go along with my purchased DVDs and DVD-ROM drive. Or, keep going to school and enjoy the entertainment for free. For me, the choice is obvious. (Maybe I should patent this!)
Oh, and there has existed something on SourceForge for a long time concerning the conversion of streaming audio into WAV/MP3/OGG.
What all us "Enlightened" students should do is demand a refund of the tariff, because since we use the "hobbled" Linux OS, we can't interpret the spew as music anyways.
But if you want to be illogical.. Erm, I mean legal. Give www.epitonic.com a rip; they've got ton's of free (beer) music under plenty of genres.
Have each mail server sign the email with a PGP signature. The next mail server that recieves it verifies the signature against a database of allowed mail servers. If the message fails verification, it is dropped and nobody sees ever.
This would at least make it impossible to forge an email, which is what a spammer needs to hide behind.
Now, I know that this would require some major re-vamping of the internet. Just the amount of CPU power to sign a billion emails a day would be monolithic. But then if spam were eliminated from the pool of emails, the amount of signing would be reduced to a few million a day, if not fewer.
It's so simple. All you need is pistol and a disk; systematically go to every mail server on earth and force the administrator(s) to replace their crappy SPAM compliant mail software with the new software.
Lord_Alex
Bloody hell! For the past forever, they have been charging way too much for way too little. Now when we, their victims, start stealing back they claim injustice. Artists create art because they _like_ to, not because they want money. Sure, money gives them all sorts of ego and general good-feelyness but it still does not improve the quality of the music, or feed the hungry. I know there are lots of uber-rich people who donate bazillions of helpful monies to every single charity, but "lots" is not to be confused with "EVERY".
If you saw some pompous worm hawking crappy trinkets in the street for $23.95, you'd probably look at him like he was some type of pompous worm. But when the worms get stores to sell their _still crappy_ wares, wares that were almost-sort of-in-some-sense-of-the-word stolen from the artists, we all gather 'round and purchase the package of dirt; dirt that contains a few nifty-looking special shiny pieces of dirt.
Somebody offered me _just_ the nifty dirt, for free. Can't beat that.
Didn't the CRIA read Slashdot, or even the local newspaper? Did they not notice that the RIAA shot itself in the foot, then the other foot, then both hands. Soon they're going to try to kick themselves in the face. Will the CRIA follow suit? "Hey! That looks like a cool dance!" As a Canadian, I think I should be allowed to bring all my CDs that do not contain CRIA-Infected music and get my presume-you-are-a-criminal money back. I am very glad that I do not live in the USA, because of the super-retarded fair use-inhibiting RIAA, MPAA, DMCA et al. But I fear that Canada will jump into the same sinking boat.
Isn't there some way we can obliterate lunacy from our "democratic" societies? Shove some opinion down a few political throats.
Lord_Alex
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