Sounds like something worht trying out. In all my years of P2P experience I've learned that there a re a lot of music fans out there who have no clue about what artist performed which songs.
I just wish there was a way to tell them all that just because a song is a parody, doesn't necesarrily mean it was written and performend by Weird Al.
Record companies may be able to widely promote SOME artists, but they do so by making the artists pay for almost all the costs associated with the promotion, including various forms of payola. Can you imagine if you got a job with a company, and that company made you pay for all your on the job training?
The Record companies' current model is to have a few big selling artists, rather than more decently selling ones, placing artificial limits on who can make it big.
Also, in the last several years, and media companies have gotten bigger and bigger, and have needed to make more and more money in order to a)keep the stockholders happy and b) service large debts associated with mergers, companies have abandonded basic industry practices relating to artists development.
There was a time when a label would carry many artists for years, some of whom only become commercially successful hafter several albums and years of support. Now all the companies want the big selling, hot new thing, but have no interest in developing talent that might eventually reap great rewards.
I just went to a website yesterday using Mozilla, and it came up blank, I looked at the source and there was a bunch of (CSS-ey) junk in there so I opened the same url in IE and it came up instantly with no problem.
If I hadn't known that the website was made for Microsoft, probably on Frontpage, I would have blamed the browser too.
Is it illegal for Microsoft to do this kind of thing? I'm not sure. Is it counter-productive? Yes. Regular PC users get really frustrated, and people who are a little more technically proficient start to hate MS (and anyone else behaving in this manner) even more.
If information wants to be free, that this kind of behavior places unnecessary limits on freedom. If general informational exchange requires a certain level of cooperation on standards among all the major players. Then it should be widely reported and publiziced when someone is violating the standard.
>>>The ACCC sticks up for the consumer, takes bad companies to court, stops undercutting to put small businesses out of business, tramples on monopolies, destroys unfair business and does so regularly.
Sound good to me, so how do we in the US get something like that?
If they really want 'realism' what they need is a SMODEM (Smell Modulator Demodulator) that takes the smell from one user and sends them to another user.
So when you announce that you're break a contract you sign that means you're not really breaking it?
Can you imagine how the story would have been covered if it was the RUSSIANS who had announced that THEY were pulling out og the Treaty?
Hell, The anti nuclear proliferation agreements are all VOLUNTARY, but when a country we don't like North Korea pulls out we say they're a rogue state. (Compare that to the treatment of "allies" like Pakistan and Israel).
I think that no matter what P2P program you use, once you're downloading from another PC or uploading to another PC, the person on the other end can easily find your IP address, and therefore (with an illegal subpoena) easily find you.
Unless you were sending the packets to a central server, which forwarded them to a diffent computer whose identity/location was hidden from you.
But then you'd have a centralized system again that could be esily shut down by the RI-MP-AA.
My Apex that I bought years ago still amazes me. It was 'cheap' at the time, just over $100, but it has S-video out, plays VCD's SVCD's and, the real reason I bought it, Mp3-CD's.
I became a little disappointed when it couldn't handle some 'commercial' DVDs that were really DVD-r's, but surprisingly, a firmware upgrade fixed that problem.
My version was too new to do the Region Code removal (easily, at least) but it DOES play Region Free PAL discs with no problem. Unlike a friend's more expensive, newer, 'more advanced' DVD player.
If you watch Law and Order, they seem to bring up the issue of Jury Nullification a lot. They try to make it seem like it's not legal/acceptable/allowed in this country.
If I ever get sued, just give me a jury with some college students on it. That's all I ask. And maybe a few baby-boomers who have bouht the same albums over and over again in vinyl, cassette and CD.
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I just wish there was a way to tell them all that just because a song is a parody, doesn't necesarrily mean it was written and performend by Weird Al.
OSHA hasn't been a properly functioning governmental organization for YEARS, if not decades.
Everyone should be aware that we take more than a paycheck [lyrics] home from work.
The Record companies' current model is to have a few big selling artists, rather than more decently selling ones, placing artificial limits on who can make it big.
Also, in the last several years, and media companies have gotten bigger and bigger, and have needed to make more and more money in order to a)keep the stockholders happy and b) service large debts associated with mergers, companies have abandonded basic industry practices relating to artists development.
There was a time when a label would carry many artists for years, some of whom only become commercially successful hafter several albums and years of support. Now all the companies want the big selling, hot new thing, but have no interest in developing talent that might eventually reap great rewards.
If I hadn't known that the website was made for Microsoft, probably on Frontpage, I would have blamed the browser too.
Is it illegal for Microsoft to do this kind of thing? I'm not sure. Is it counter-productive? Yes. Regular PC users get really frustrated, and people who are a little more technically proficient start to hate MS (and anyone else behaving in this manner) even more.
If information wants to be free, that this kind of behavior places unnecessary limits on freedom. If general informational exchange requires a certain level of cooperation on standards among all the major players. Then it should be widely reported and publiziced when someone is violating the standard.
Unless new models of distribution can be created which connect the content creators directly with the content users.
to do the Superbowl commercial for the new service?
Would that be anything that's NOT part of the government? Or maybe anything that's not part of the NSA like the FBI or the CIA?
on my BOB virtual desktop.
>>>The ACCC sticks up for the consumer, takes bad companies to court, stops undercutting to put small businesses out of business, tramples on monopolies, destroys unfair business and does so regularly. Sound good to me, so how do we in the US get something like that?
It's actual size.
It says "One mile equals one mile"
----------------- Witht he simulated Earth have simulated civilians who never get wounded when bombs fall in the wrong place?
They just change names and departments.
If they really want 'realism' what they need is a SMODEM (Smell Modulator Demodulator) that takes the smell from one user and sends them to another user.
Can you imagine how the story would have been covered if it was the RUSSIANS who had announced that THEY were pulling out og the Treaty?
Hell, The anti nuclear proliferation agreements are all VOLUNTARY, but when a country we don't like North Korea pulls out we say they're a rogue state. (Compare that to the treatment of "allies" like Pakistan and Israel).
We'll wipe out all those terrorists now when we blow up their frickin planet.
I think that no matter what P2P program you use, once you're downloading from another PC or uploading to another PC, the person on the other end can easily find your IP address, and therefore (with an illegal subpoena) easily find you. Unless you were sending the packets to a central server, which forwarded them to a diffent computer whose identity/location was hidden from you. But then you'd have a centralized system again that could be esily shut down by the RI-MP-AA.
I became a little disappointed when it couldn't handle some 'commercial' DVDs that were really DVD-r's, but surprisingly, a firmware upgrade fixed that problem.
My version was too new to do the Region Code removal (easily, at least) but it DOES play Region Free PAL discs with no problem. Unlike a friend's more expensive, newer, 'more advanced' DVD player.
And those horrible cassette recorers in the 70's almost KILLED the music industry off.
A wholey 0wn3d subsidiary of the MPAA and the RIAA. I can't wait to get a copy of the logo - buch parody potential, I think.
Where's my refund for having to buy the same albums on vinyl and CD?
In America government distorts research to fit-in with government line.
What a country.
If I ever get sued, just give me a jury with some college students on it. That's all I ask. And maybe a few baby-boomers who have bouht the same albums over and over again in vinyl, cassette and CD.
Would it be possible for ALL internet users to file suit against the RIAA, since everyone in that group may have already been sued by the RIAA?
A Class Action lawsuit with more than a hundred million plaintiffs woudl probably get the attention of quite a few lawfirms.....
That's because Yakov Smirnoff Nostalgia Fever is kicking in now.
Same Joke (basically)
Damn, same comment after smar-alec remark even. I think this Yakov Smirnoff Revival thing is really starting to take off.