IUTRAST/ICRS (I used to run a simulcast terrestrial/internet college radio station) and I can tell you that internet licensing fees are really not that much.
If you are making enough money for your stream to be profitable and worth your time, you are not going to be hard hit by licensing fees. Some internet audio service providers even include them in your streaming package (I think at live365.com its like an extra $80-$100 per month).
The legal restrictions are not very difficult either. All you have to do is not play too many songs from the same artist or album, put a few access restrictions on your publically available broadcast archive (if you even have one), and write your checks on time to SoundExchange, ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. You don't even have to talk to the FCC (now thats a nightmare).
Though, finding DJs isn't so easy as you describe, if you're interested in 24/7 (or close to 24/7) programming. Can you put together 2 hours of music that you think would make a good radio show? Now can you find 83 other people who will do this for you? Every week? Without playing the same things over and over again? Obviously, you can automate the whole process, but if you want to avoid excessive repetition you have to have a lot of music in your automated playlists. (Personally, I think automation sucks the soul out of radio, its one of many reasons why mainstream radio sounds so awful)
In other news, check out the station linked in my sig. Kind of like WOXY, but we also have lots more obscure/arcana stuff, and classical, jazz, and world too, and very little RIAA music (even WOXY plays Beck, Radiohead, Coldplay... all RIAA artists).
Genesis (Band): Ushered in the era of HORRID 80's music
I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Christy, take off your robe. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. Sabrina, remove your dress. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Sabrina, why don't you, uh, dance a little. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock. Christy, get down on your knees so Sabrina can see your asshole. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. Sabrina, don't just stare at it, eat it. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite.
Take iTunes for instance. Wildly successful in the face of its predecessors and competitors. The RIAA doesn't like it because it undercuts their old business model
Bullshit. i think the RIAA likes iTunes just fine. Did you forget that without the RIAA the iTunes music store would not exist?
uhhh, dont you remember that whole period of time in which Microsoft was trying to crush Netscape to make Internet Explorer the dominant browser? I would think that they still have a strong interest in keeping IE on top.
Their income on IE may be negative, but MS's income on a lot of things is negative, the Xbox for instance. For IE, Xbox, and others, its about control, not about money. The money comes from Windows, Office, etc.
The best of intentions? I hardly agree that the PATRIOT Act was signed into law with the best of intentions. It was a huge power grab by federal law enforcement authorities from the very start, legislating control to the FBI et al. way beyond what they really need to combat domestic terrorism. 9/11 was just a convenient pretext to make this power grab.
Okay, so in the spectrum of political freedom there are two states: you are either living in true freedom, or you are in a jail cell.
The fact of the matter is, true freedom is no longer possible. True political freedom was way back before a bunch of academic-type cavemen sat down and decided to form a social contract. True political freedom was when you were free to kill, rape, eat, shit, talk, burn, write, and/or wear whatever and whenever you wanted. (the caveat was you were liable to be killed, raped, eaten, shit on, talked to, burned, etc. by someone else.) The whole point of government is that we are basically giving up some of our freedom to do bad things (murder, theft, rape), and some of our freedom to do good things (like the freedom to not pay taxes) FOR SECURITY. We give up some freedom to the government so they can pull us over when were driving drunk or build a dam in tennessee.
That said, why should the free be content with the freedoms they have? Why should they not demand more, within moral reasonability (ie no right to kill/steal)? Empirically, the course for our government is to rapidly take the freedoms we once had; though they havent thrown everybody in jail cells yet, what will stop them if we let them take all of our other freedoms? Why should we settle for the freedom we have now when we HAD better and can have more?
You know why the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, the Economist, and other popular business news sources regularly have multiple articles on China? BECAUSE ITS A MAJOR PART OF THE "GLOBAL (CAPITALIST) ECONOMY." All i hear about in the business section of newspapers is how large China's growth is, how much fuel Chinese consumers are going to buy, how Lenovo, a Chinese corporation, bought IBM's PC unit. Doesn't very well sound like a communist country, eh?
like most things the Chinese government does, the idea of a Communist Party of China is just a word game, to hide the fact that they're a bunch of authoritarian crooks.
[off-topic] thats an amazing story! thats a very japanese-sounding story as well (sounds like a Japanese folk tale, of sorts). even if it sounds slightly made-up.
Of course Open Source can make this work. Consider key-based encryption techniques. (RSA, AES, DSA, etc.) The whole point of key-based cryptography is that you can make the algorithms well-known and well-documented ("open" in a limited sense), but safely encrypt your information by using keys that are difficult for attackers to acquire. DRM can work in more or less the exact same way. remember the mantra obscurity!=security.
now, whether or not DRM in general can "work"... thats a completely different story. I would argue that client-side authentication techniques (like DRM) will always have holes in it, and you could even do stuff like dump the buffer in your sound card or record from the line out, or even the speaker wires, or the speakers themselves...
No, any competent economist (as opposed to editorial writers for the New York Times) understands that trade deficits are completely irrelevant.
uhh, Paul Krugman, NYT editorialist, is professor of economics at Princeton University. So id lay a fair wager he counts as a competent economist. Or perhaps you simply define competent economists as those who agree with you.
The deserved it in no small degree when they made it difficult for KHTML developers to reintegrate their changes into the mainline tree.
Why? They complied with the GPL. Apple did absolutely everything that they were legally (and ethically) bound to do. As has been said many a time, many of Apple's changes were platform specific or otherwise incompatible with the KHTML source anyways. Why should they deserve any sort of ill will because of this? Why is Apple's distribution of the WebCore source in a somewhat cumbersome format Apple's "culpa?"
4. Generate a metainfo (.torrent) file using the complete file to be served and the URL of the tracker.
So, a.torrent file could be considered a derivative work of the file to be served, so to speak. Thus, it could be reasonable to believe that they have copyright on the.torrent. Or, as my feeble understanding of the law leads me to think, producing a.torrent (a potential derivative work) of a copyrighted file without the owner's authorization is illegal in and of itself.
You want to see real pollution, travel to former Soviet states. You will see stuff that will make you cry. You want to see new and greater abuses of the environment just jog over to China - but don't expect anyone to care.
The United States is the direct producer of 20% of the world's greenhouse gases. This is undisputable fact (accepted even by the Bush Administration). That's real pollution.
Just because someone sends you a C&D, doesnt mean that its illegal. I could send you a C&D for illegally copying these words (for which i own the copyright), but that wouldnt mean a thing in a court of law. Sending C&D's is meaningless, unless its followed up by court proceedings and a decision.
Not that im saying you should have challenged the C&D. most of the time, its easier just to comply, or settle out of court if it comes to that... thats why there arent really any definitive legal precedents on file sharing, not in the States at least.
Warp Records, a very popular indepedent electronic music label, offers much of its catalog online as completely DRM-free mp3s. Completely legal... its their copyrighted material.
I have an older PowerBook G4, and I have to say, im not very impressed with the Finder-integrated CD burning. Thusly, I heartily reccommend DiscBlaze. Its a quick download, only $25 (IIRC Nero/Roxio are 2-3 times that), and it comes with a free trial. It has plenty of features, but no bloat, which i think is nice, especially after using the unwieldy Nero and Roxio apps. (Im have no affiliation with DiscBlaze's developer, just a fan of their software.)
As other people have mentioned, iTerm is great too. Oddly, i dont recall anyone else mentioning Fink. Its essentially a huge collection of Unix apps ported to OS X, including X-Windows apps that run great under Panther's X11. It uses Debian tools like apt-get and dselect for package management, and includes such personal favorites as nethack, xemacs, and ethereal. good stuff
5, Informative? Come on, mods... did you even read the link?
Just because one obscure website says one thing doesnt make it so. After all, Im not about to base an important decision about the speling of duct tape on a single website of questionable legitimacy...
I would argue that copying anything into RAM falls under "fair use," as its merely format shifting. Thus regardless of whether or not loading into RAM is "copying," it is legal, according to current US law/legal precedent. After all, the bits arent very well useful just sitting on a disk.
Of course Im only talking about US law, as i really dont follow EU copyright law.
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The legal restrictions are not very difficult either. All you have to do is not play too many songs from the same artist or album, put a few access restrictions on your publically available broadcast archive (if you even have one), and write your checks on time to SoundExchange, ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. You don't even have to talk to the FCC (now thats a nightmare).
Though, finding DJs isn't so easy as you describe, if you're interested in 24/7 (or close to 24/7) programming. Can you put together 2 hours of music that you think would make a good radio show? Now can you find 83 other people who will do this for you? Every week? Without playing the same things over and over again? Obviously, you can automate the whole process, but if you want to avoid excessive repetition you have to have a lot of music in your automated playlists. (Personally, I think automation sucks the soul out of radio, its one of many reasons why mainstream radio sounds so awful)
In other news, check out the station linked in my sig. Kind of like WOXY, but we also have lots more obscure/arcana stuff, and classical, jazz, and world too, and very little RIAA music (even WOXY plays Beck, Radiohead, Coldplay... all RIAA artists).
not quite.
wont compile in Objective C, but its fine in C. might be trivial, but it can pose difficulties.
No, 95% of the desktop world runs on Microsoft. Microsoft certainly doesn't have that kind of marketshare in server systems.
Bullshit. i think the RIAA likes iTunes just fine. Did you forget that without the RIAA the iTunes music store would not exist?
i dunno, i feel like north korea's got the upper hand here...
Their income on IE may be negative, but MS's income on a lot of things is negative, the Xbox for instance. For IE, Xbox, and others, its about control, not about money. The money comes from Windows, Office, etc.
The best of intentions? I hardly agree that the PATRIOT Act was signed into law with the best of intentions. It was a huge power grab by federal law enforcement authorities from the very start, legislating control to the FBI et al. way beyond what they really need to combat domestic terrorism. 9/11 was just a convenient pretext to make this power grab.
The fact of the matter is, true freedom is no longer possible. True political freedom was way back before a bunch of academic-type cavemen sat down and decided to form a social contract. True political freedom was when you were free to kill, rape, eat, shit, talk, burn, write, and/or wear whatever and whenever you wanted. (the caveat was you were liable to be killed, raped, eaten, shit on, talked to, burned, etc. by someone else.) The whole point of government is that we are basically giving up some of our freedom to do bad things (murder, theft, rape), and some of our freedom to do good things (like the freedom to not pay taxes) FOR SECURITY. We give up some freedom to the government so they can pull us over when were driving drunk or build a dam in tennessee.
That said, why should the free be content with the freedoms they have? Why should they not demand more, within moral reasonability (ie no right to kill/steal)? Empirically, the course for our government is to rapidly take the freedoms we once had; though they havent thrown everybody in jail cells yet, what will stop them if we let them take all of our other freedoms? Why should we settle for the freedom we have now when we HAD better and can have more?
You know why the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, the Economist, and other popular business news sources regularly have multiple articles on China? BECAUSE ITS A MAJOR PART OF THE "GLOBAL (CAPITALIST) ECONOMY." All i hear about in the business section of newspapers is how large China's growth is, how much fuel Chinese consumers are going to buy, how Lenovo, a Chinese corporation, bought IBM's PC unit. Doesn't very well sound like a communist country, eh?
like most things the Chinese government does, the idea of a Communist Party of China is just a word game, to hide the fact that they're a bunch of authoritarian crooks.
[off-topic] thats an amazing story! thats a very japanese-sounding story as well (sounds like a Japanese folk tale, of sorts). even if it sounds slightly made-up.
now, whether or not DRM in general can "work"... thats a completely different story. I would argue that client-side authentication techniques (like DRM) will always have holes in it, and you could even do stuff like dump the buffer in your sound card or record from the line out, or even the speaker wires, or the speakers themselves...
No, any competent economist (as opposed to editorial writers for the New York Times) understands that trade deficits are completely irrelevant.
uhh, Paul Krugman, NYT editorialist, is professor of economics at Princeton University. So id lay a fair wager he counts as a competent economist. Or perhaps you simply define competent economists as those who agree with you.
Why? They complied with the GPL. Apple did absolutely everything that they were legally (and ethically) bound to do. As has been said many a time, many of Apple's changes were platform specific or otherwise incompatible with the KHTML source anyways. Why should they deserve any sort of ill will because of this? Why is Apple's distribution of the WebCore source in a somewhat cumbersome format Apple's "culpa?"
From the man himself:
4. Generate a metainfo (.torrent) file using the complete file to be served and the URL of the tracker.
So, a .torrent file could be considered a derivative work of the file to be served, so to speak. Thus, it could be reasonable to believe that they have copyright on the .torrent. Or, as my feeble understanding of the law leads me to think, producing a .torrent (a potential derivative work) of a copyrighted file without the owner's authorization is illegal in and of itself.
You want to see real pollution, travel to former Soviet states. You will see stuff that will make you cry. You want to see new and greater abuses of the environment just jog over to China - but don't expect anyone to care.
The United States is the direct producer of 20% of the world's greenhouse gases. This is undisputable fact (accepted even by the Bush Administration). That's real pollution.
Mosaic v1.0 users are also reportedly not affected. Nevertheless, experts strongly encourage Mosaic users to upgrade anyways.
Not that im saying you should have challenged the C&D. most of the time, its easier just to comply, or settle out of court if it comes to that... thats why there arent really any definitive legal precedents on file sharing, not in the States at least.
I didnt say there were any op codes there. I (or rather, GGP's definition of a program) said a "series of instructions."
Warp Records, a very popular indepedent electronic music label, offers much of its catalog online as completely DRM-free mp3s. Completely legal... its their copyrighted material.
As other people have mentioned, iTerm is great too. Oddly, i dont recall anyone else mentioning Fink. Its essentially a huge collection of Unix apps ported to OS X, including X-Windows apps that run great under Panther's X11. It uses Debian tools like apt-get and dselect for package management, and includes such personal favorites as nethack, xemacs, and ethereal. good stuff
If anything, maybe GP would qualify for a funny mod... didnt anybody notice it was a joke site?
5, Informative? Come on, mods... did you even read the link? Just because one obscure website says one thing doesnt make it so. After all, Im not about to base an important decision about the speling of duct tape on a single website of questionable legitimacy...
Of course Im only talking about US law, as i really dont follow EU copyright law.