The problem is that, according to the recording industry, these sites are breaking the law. As Alan Dixon, general counsel of the London-based International Federation of the Phonograph Industry, says of Weblisten: "They have not less than six lawsuits pending against them, and two criminal proceedings. They are taking advantage of the way the Spanish legal system moves incredibly slowly: they have never been declared as legitimately distributing the plaintiff's recording."
The issue is that recorded music has three sets of rights to be argued over. The songwriter has the copyright to the song, the artist his own rights in it, and the record label and producers a third set. While these Russian and Spanish sites may be paying the songwriters, via a collection agency, they are acting without the permission of the other copyright holders.
The Russian sites claim that, under Russian law, foreign record labels releasing music in Russia give up their rights to prevent this. Not so, says Dixon. Such Soviet-era rules were rescinded under "article 47 paragraph 2 of the Russian Copyright Code" years ago. Downloading from such sites would be infringing both British and Russian copyright law, he says.
on this note, can anyone recommend a good calculator as a present for my girlfriends birthday. she is studying architecture and is working towards her exams in statics (and she loves math).
thanks in advance.
Careful. I was also bouncing with mailwasher until I checked my mail after a couple of vacations and ended up on blacklists. I guess bouncing 500+ messages seemed to someone like I was sending spam. Just delete, none of those adresses are ever used twice (try blacklisting them, they never show up again) otherwise you just waste bandwidth.
This might be off-topic, but does anyone remember the name of that MP3/etc player that is shaped like a cassette and plays inside a cassette tape player?
The simple fact that there are engineers who worked on such a project is a good indication that engineering profession needs a serious kick in the ass.
Its not necessarily the engineers faults. A friend of the family developed something for the automobile industry in the 70's and they asked him (insisted) to make it less reliable, so they could make more selling replacements. On those same lines, I wonder how quickly these cars will need to be disposed of.
Did they record the music for the Yazoo series? Or some of it? (They have a great collection of early American recordings for those interested).
I have an unlabeled cd a friend burned for me of Italian recordings from the 40's and 50's compiled by a Lomax. Did they travel that much? I know they did recordings in the Caribbean and Europe, but some stuff on the 'Secret History of Mankind' series is Central Asia, the Balkans, the South Pacific... Amazing albums. (And did the U.S. Govt. pay for all of it?)
I use Avast, it works just as well and is free. I switched from Norton after not wanting to pay every year. It catches all the virii my girlfriend manages to get into the computer (about 2 a week lately).
Another useful program is Mailwasher (there is also a non-pro version). Shows all your mail on the server, including the virii (which it labels) so you can delete them without downloading them into your inbox (it is also great for spam, but turn off the 'bounce' function).
In one of the articles it says some executives want to raise the price on older music as it is harder to find.
Some executives, for example, believe they should be charging a premium for the online versions of older tracks because consumers may be willing to pay more for harder-to-find material.
Like Bibliofind after Amazon bought them. You could once find anything at (local) used bookstore prices, then they discovered people looking for out-of-print or rare stuff would pay a premium and the prices skyrocketed.
Which is why we saw a huge economic takeoff after 9/11, right?
The poeple in defense firms and over at Haliburton did (especially at the top). Not to mention Bush/Cheney's other friends who get to stripmine, clearcut and pollute the country while everyone worries about terrorists.
At this point they're going after the ones putting the music online, who presumably bought and ripped it, for illegal distribution (and thus copyright infringement).
Whether 'theft' is the right word or not for ptp, it seems to me to refer to downloaders (who they're not going after yet), not the ones putting files on servers.
I think the combat side is just to get the public interested, -think wrestling. Watching them do hurdles might not have the same attraction. Also, destroying another robot while defending itself is a problem-solving exercise in a sense.
Who are Albani?
Albanians? They have no copyright laws anyways. I was just there and the t.v. has 30+ regular (commercial) channels with new movies on half of them, some still out in theaters in the U.S. Don't think they'll be paying a tax on the web for entertainment anytime soon.
(Best t.v. I ever saw by the way).
I've ripped over 2000 and they all fit in 240gb easily. Thats ripped in VBR (The classical section was all ripped at 320k). It took about 8 months in the background.
I'd love a little ipod to carry whatever I'm enjoying at the moment around with me. Lets hope they come through with this, the current Ipods are too large, expensive and can't hold my whole collection anyways.
I remember paying $600 for 4 megs for a Mac in the early nineties. Then two years ago I used it all winter as an ice-scraper for my car windshield (I was living up in the mountains and we had a lot of snow that year). There was a certain satisfaction in still finding a use for it.
Slashdot Mirror
He's not Bush. Were have you been the last four years?
Maybe the RIAA submitted the story to Slashdot to bring down the server?
This one?
And from this Guardian article:
The problem is that, according to the recording industry, these sites are breaking the law. As Alan Dixon, general counsel of the London-based International Federation of the Phonograph Industry, says of Weblisten: "They have not less than six lawsuits pending against them, and two criminal proceedings. They are taking advantage of the way the Spanish legal system moves incredibly slowly: they have never been declared as legitimately distributing the plaintiff's recording."
The issue is that recorded music has three sets of rights to be argued over. The songwriter has the copyright to the song, the artist his own rights in it, and the record label and producers a third set. While these Russian and Spanish sites may be paying the songwriters, via a collection agency, they are acting without the permission of the other copyright holders.
The Russian sites claim that, under Russian law, foreign record labels releasing music in Russia give up their rights to prevent this. Not so, says Dixon. Such Soviet-era rules were rescinded under "article 47 paragraph 2 of the Russian Copyright Code" years ago. Downloading from such sites would be infringing both British and Russian copyright law, he says.
And they read Slashdot?
on this note, can anyone recommend a good calculator as a present for my girlfriends birthday. she is studying architecture and is working towards her exams in statics (and she loves math). thanks in advance.
Careful.
I was also bouncing with mailwasher until I checked my mail after a couple of vacations and ended up on blacklists. I guess bouncing 500+ messages seemed to someone like I was sending spam. Just delete, none of those adresses are ever used twice (try blacklisting them, they never show up again) otherwise you just waste bandwidth.
This might be off-topic, but does anyone remember the name of that MP3/etc player that is shaped like a cassette and plays inside a cassette tape player?
This one?
I read here that Rounder intends on releasing a 100 disk set of Lomax stuff (I cant get on to the Rounder site to check,
The simple fact that there are engineers who worked on such a project is a good indication that engineering profession needs a serious kick in the ass.
Its not necessarily the engineers faults. A friend of the family developed something for the automobile industry in the 70's and they asked him (insisted) to make it less reliable, so they could make more selling replacements. On those same lines, I wonder how quickly these cars will need to be disposed of.
Did they record the music for the Yazoo series? Or some of it? (They have a great collection of early American recordings for those interested).
I have an unlabeled cd a friend burned for me of Italian recordings from the 40's and 50's compiled by a Lomax. Did they travel that much? I know they did recordings in the Caribbean and Europe, but some stuff on the 'Secret History of Mankind' series is Central Asia, the Balkans, the South Pacific... Amazing albums. (And did the U.S. Govt. pay for all of it?)
Just Curious.
I use Avast, it works just as well and is free. I switched from Norton after not wanting to pay every year. It catches all the virii my girlfriend manages to get into the computer (about 2 a week lately).
Another useful program is Mailwasher (there is also a non-pro version). Shows all your mail on the server, including the virii (which it labels) so you can delete them without downloading them into your inbox (it is also great for spam, but turn off the 'bounce' function).
In one of the articles it says some executives want to raise the price on older music as it is harder to find.
Some executives, for example, believe they should be charging a premium for the online versions of older tracks because consumers may be willing to pay more for harder-to-find material.
Like Bibliofind after Amazon bought them. You could once find anything at (local) used bookstore prices, then they discovered people looking for out-of-print or rare stuff would pay a premium and the prices skyrocketed.
I also like the quote:
"Mine is a much better silent piece. I have been able to say in one minute what Cage could only say in four minutes and 33 seconds."
Here in Europe they often still are $20, or more.
Which is why we saw a huge economic takeoff after 9/11, right?
The poeple in defense firms and over at Haliburton did (especially at the top). Not to mention Bush/Cheney's other friends who get to stripmine, clearcut and pollute the country while everyone worries about terrorists.
Does protecting 'Canadian Heritage' mean just no downloading Bryan Adams and Celine Dion mp3s?
At this point they're going after the ones putting the music online, who presumably bought and ripped it, for illegal distribution (and thus copyright infringement).
Whether 'theft' is the right word or not for ptp, it seems to me to refer to downloaders (who they're not going after yet), not the ones putting files on servers.
I think the combat side is just to get the public interested, -think wrestling. Watching them do hurdles might not have the same attraction. Also, destroying another robot while defending itself is a problem-solving exercise in a sense.
Lets get them before they evolve and get us...
Who are Albani? Albanians? They have no copyright laws anyways. I was just there and the t.v. has 30+ regular (commercial) channels with new movies on half of them, some still out in theaters in the U.S. Don't think they'll be paying a tax on the web for entertainment anytime soon. (Best t.v. I ever saw by the way).
I've ripped over 2000 and they all fit in 240gb easily. Thats ripped in VBR (The classical section was all ripped at 320k). It took about 8 months in the background. I'd love a little ipod to carry whatever I'm enjoying at the moment around with me. Lets hope they come through with this, the current Ipods are too large, expensive and can't hold my whole collection anyways.
I remember paying $600 for 4 megs for a Mac in the early nineties. Then two years ago I used it all winter as an ice-scraper for my car windshield (I was living up in the mountains and we had a lot of snow that year). There was a certain satisfaction in still finding a use for it.
They get money from a tax on CDRs already, guess that keeps them from 'bitching'.
(Misspelling of 'reaping' as 'raping' intentional.)
I assumed it was 'raping' as in 'reaping' said with an Australian accent, the article being about the AIRA and all...