Uhm, completely? I don't think so... In both cases you are enjoying somebody else's work without compensating them...
In that case, we should get rid of probably the biggest thieves of all. Libraries. Not only do they share copyrighted works with anyone who wants a copy, but they get government funding to do it! And likewise, it's often just for the entertainment of the user.
But regardless, it's really not as cut and dry theft as you make it out to be. My music collection is for personal use, nothing more. PirateBay might be thought of as the world's biggest library, or perhaps the largest group of friends making mix tapes the world has ever seen. These are both legal in most countries. And one of those reasons is exactly the reason that filesharing is legal in my country.
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No, you are showing them that if you are treated like a criminal too much, you will become one.
No, you are completely wrong. Theft is one thing, copyright infringement is another entirely. Theft is when you take something from someone and make it your own. When I download a song, what have I taken from the poor artist?
potential earnings.
I know a few people who are pretty good at guitar. If they go into a bank and ask for a loan, based on their potential earnings, how do you think the bank will react? How about if they put their house down as collateral?
Ask yourself this. If I take a Stephen King book, photocopy it a few hundred times, and sell copies at the corner for a few bucks apiece, am I stealing from Stephen King? How about if I rented a theatre, and read the book to thousands of people? How about if I recorded myself reading it and sent millions of people the recording in the mail? How about if I let a friend copy that recording? How about if I reviewed the story a few thousand times, including a different quote of the book in each review, and made it easy to assemble into a complete work? Would that be theft? How about if I coordinated with thousands of book reviewers, and got each of them to quote a single sentence from the book? And of course, you know the next step. Having a few thousand people stand arm in arm, and each say a word from the book. Is that theft?
Bittorrent is of course, a computer protocol that has your computer do much of what I just described.
But that's honestly beside the point. I just wanted you to look at the situation in another way. When you download a song, you aren't costing the artist a penny. You are possibly taking away the money he might have made on you buying the song.
Now, here's my case. Filesharing is legal in my country. I download all my music, as I desire large quantities of music that are prohibitively expensive to download at today's prices. I have probably listened to less than a quarter of what I possess. I have paid for music in the past though. Allofmp3.com charged by the byte, and offered me clean music in any format I desired with a fantastic selection of good and rare stuff. I spent a few hundred dollars there, as they were fair, and didn't sell me something I didn't want. I want neither MP3 nor DRM. I got something that I could not get any other way. My pick of music and my pick of formats for a reasonable price. And I was willing to pay. But to pay for every CD in my collection? I am not a millionaire. Thankfully, there are many generous people in this world who are willing to share their information with me.
I believe that this is why Filesharing is legal in Canada, is it not?
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I will pirate it as well until EA decides to wise up and remove the DRM. What you don't seem to understand is the same thing EA doesn't understand. DRM is hurting their bottom line, because otherwise paying customers take the DRM free alternative. I have no problem paying for the game. I just refuse to pay under those terms.
Increasing the DRM is just going to piss off more people, making people MORE likely to just download the game. This is akin to someone giving away books on the streetcorner, that are copies of a copyrighted book that will destroy themselves after one viewing. Gee, that's some choice. You might be infringing IP by making a copy of the book, but the author is clearly on some misguided attempt to prevent piracy, adn is alienating potential customers who might want to read it more than once.
In my case, there's no way in hell that I'm buying a game that disables itself after being installed 3 times.
I don't know. If you isolate what a few drops of water do, you pretty much know what a giant body of water will do. It will flow downhill. You honestly have to start somewhere.
Do you even know what the GPL or BSD licenses require the user to do? Here's a hint for you. There's no money involved. In fact, you are explicitly allowed to sell the product. The main thing that the GPL prohibits you from doing is to distribute the product without also distributing the source code. And this isn't to get a "piece of the pie". This is to ensure that the code that you freed... remains free.
Regardless, it sounds like you might prefer the BSD license. I'll leave figuring out what that means to you.
How exactly does that keep the white house's email secret when communicating with people outside of that network? For example if you were someone in the White house sending an email to Russian or Chinese government officals?
The difference with man is that we kill eachother on a massive scale. The video you linked showed nothing but Buffalo protecting their own, Lions trying to eat them, and Crocodiles trying to eat everything else. This is no different than us eating a hamburger.
I can only think of a couple of other species that are as warlike as homo sapiens, and that's bacteria or virii. Many animals are territorial and will kill their own. But we have taken it to an entirely new level.
I just spent about an hour on various pentatonic scales. And you're right. They are indeed very good things to know. I haven't got Wish You Were Here down yet, but I can definitely see that it was derived from that scale. Seriously, thanks.
You are exactly right of course. I try to play at least half an hour of guitar every day, but there's been often long spells where I can't do that. Such as a 2 month contract gig that I did in Austin, and I couldn't bring my guitar.
And honestly, it's much harder on the hands playing real guitar, and it took a while to build up callouses that could handle playing much longer than a half hour.
Lately, I've been moving around a great deal, and I've been lazy. But I'm trying to get back into the groove again of at least 30 minutes per day.
But it's really hard to compete with the instant gratification of Rock Band. But I do intend to be able to play half decently after a year.
Unfortunately, my sense of pitch isn't that great, so I need a tuner to tune one string. But after that string is tuned, I can tune the rest by ear. (In the process of learning that, I also found that my tuner does a shoddy job, so I've started second guessing it).
But there was one song I was playing, where the tab had a lot of stuff being done on one string, and there was one note in particular that was much lower on the neck than the others, which made it hard to play. I realized that I could play the note much easier on the string next to it, since I realized that from tuning the guitar, the note should have a direct correlation on that string. And I was right. And it was much easier to play that way.
Understood about the tabs. I've actually been considering taking some night classes at UBC in music theory and strings next year (or semester if I can get in). I really regret not taking music when I was actually in school. I pretty much stuck to the hard sciences. And now I want to go back, since I feel that I really missed out.
I feel like the tabs (and I know you don't want to hear this... but Rock Band as well) all have common elements, and there is some universal equation behind it all. But exactly what it is eludes me, because I am just playing what I am being told to play, rather than actually knowing what it is that I'm playing.
I just clicked on the link, then realized I had already been there for the Horse With No Name tutorial. Picking is definitely one of my weak points right now, and that song is all strumming, so I like to try different things with it. That site really helped me a lot with my picking and timing.
I'll definitely check it out in more detail. Thanks.
Thanks for the advice. I'll definitely try fudging the F chords at some point, but right now I prefer to just play songs that don't use them. And I did recognize that Neil Young tends to use the same 5 chords over and over. That's why I decided to start learning his stuff for my first songs.
I did a lot of practice on the basic Em, Am, D, C, and G chords, and I can do them fairly regularly, but I've been neglecting my practice recently and just been playing some easy tabs (mostly ACDC and Nirvana).
I haven't started my scales yet, but I do have a lot of interest in learning the blues. So maybe today is the day that I'll start.
Anyway, thanks again for the advice. I just wanted you to know that it's not on deaf ears. I really do want to learn.
Just like you can spend months clacking away on a mouse when you can join the REAL army, and kill REAL people right?
Or spinning a plastic wheel and driving 200km/h when you can be REALLY going that fast in a REAL car, right?
I learned to play Guitar Hero fairly well over the course of a week. I've been playing real guitar for about 4 or 5 months now. I can play most Rock Band songs on expert, and I can play most of Neil Young's Heart of Gold on real guitar.
There's a very large difference between a video game and a musical instrument. A video game can be learned quickly and easily, without a huge time commitment. An instrument takes years to learn how to play. Now in my case, I also thought my hands were too small to play guitar, but Guitar Hero convinced me that I might be able to do it. I don't think I'll ever be able to play an F chord, but I can play a lot of songs anyway. I'm good at Guitar Hero/Rock Band. I'll likely never be as good at real guitar.
apple: are you trying to dislodge MS as the most hated computer company around? keep it up, mate....
They're already there, as far as I'm concerned. Apple's business practices just reeks of some mad power trip in general. They absolutely despise people using their products (be it hardware or software) in ways that they had not intended. Microsoft is FAR their superior in that regard. The main evil with Microsoft is seen by the IT professional, not the consumer. With Apple, it's generally the other way around.
The only explanation I can see for Apple's recent surge in popularity is their marketing, which is absolutely top notch.
Hmmm... you're right. The constitution is not written on hemp.. However, George Washington was still a hemp farmer, and the draft of the declaration of independence was written on hemp (I did get that one mixed up, but hey, I'm not American. hemp farming is legal in my country). And DonaldM probably meant canvas, not linen, but I can't really speak for him.
Regardless, hemp is a very useful plant. And the very first paper mill in your country was started by Thomas Jefferson, and it made paper from hemp. If 35% of the trees cut down are to make paper, don't you think it would make sense to switch back to hemp? That was my original point.
Clearly you've never lived in a woodland area. I grew up in an area classified as a rainforest. And believe me, if 35% of the trees cut down is to produce paper, then I'm all for recycling paper. I've always been careless about recycling, but maybe I should start, after having read that. What the logging companies do is just horrible.
As for trees? Do you still think we live in the days of lopping rainforests?
Majority of cardboard and paper are harvested from tree FARMS! Fast growing ones designed for making paper
That statement did not sit well with me, so I did some research. Wikipedia seems to indicate that a good chunk of the deforestation done is to produce paper.
Personally, I think hemp should be more commonly used to create paper. It grows quickly, and has many uses. Hell, even the US constitution is written on hemp.
A few years ago, I would have killed to go to E3. But I was but a humble student, with no game industry affiliations, and more importantly... broke.
Since then, I've graduated and become an actual developer. I go to two events a year. PAX and GDC. E3 is obviously something I could go to, and I might if I was in the area. But it doesn't have much draw for me anymore. And I could honestly care less about the booth babes. I want actual content, and E3 isn't even a shadow of what it once was. That would be PAX. I get PAX for the consumery-side of me, and I get GDC for the professional side. There's no place for E3 anymore.
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Uhm, completely? I don't think so... In both cases you are enjoying somebody else's work without compensating them...
In that case, we should get rid of probably the biggest thieves of all. Libraries. Not only do they share copyrighted works with anyone who wants a copy, but they get government funding to do it! And likewise, it's often just for the entertainment of the user.
But regardless, it's really not as cut and dry theft as you make it out to be. My music collection is for personal use, nothing more. PirateBay might be thought of as the world's biggest library, or perhaps the largest group of friends making mix tapes the world has ever seen. These are both legal in most countries. And one of those reasons is exactly the reason that filesharing is legal in my country.
No, you are showing them that if you are treated like a criminal too much, you will become one.
No, you are completely wrong. Theft is one thing, copyright infringement is another entirely. Theft is when you take something from someone and make it your own. When I download a song, what have I taken from the poor artist?
potential earnings.
I know a few people who are pretty good at guitar. If they go into a bank and ask for a loan, based on their potential earnings, how do you think the bank will react? How about if they put their house down as collateral?
Ask yourself this. If I take a Stephen King book, photocopy it a few hundred times, and sell copies at the corner for a few bucks apiece, am I stealing from Stephen King? How about if I rented a theatre, and read the book to thousands of people? How about if I recorded myself reading it and sent millions of people the recording in the mail? How about if I let a friend copy that recording? How about if I reviewed the story a few thousand times, including a different quote of the book in each review, and made it easy to assemble into a complete work? Would that be theft? How about if I coordinated with thousands of book reviewers, and got each of them to quote a single sentence from the book? And of course, you know the next step. Having a few thousand people stand arm in arm, and each say a word from the book. Is that theft?
Bittorrent is of course, a computer protocol that has your computer do much of what I just described.
But that's honestly beside the point. I just wanted you to look at the situation in another way. When you download a song, you aren't costing the artist a penny. You are possibly taking away the money he might have made on you buying the song.
Now, here's my case. Filesharing is legal in my country. I download all my music, as I desire large quantities of music that are prohibitively expensive to download at today's prices. I have probably listened to less than a quarter of what I possess. I have paid for music in the past though. Allofmp3.com charged by the byte, and offered me clean music in any format I desired with a fantastic selection of good and rare stuff. I spent a few hundred dollars there, as they were fair, and didn't sell me something I didn't want. I want neither MP3 nor DRM. I got something that I could not get any other way. My pick of music and my pick of formats for a reasonable price. And I was willing to pay. But to pay for every CD in my collection? I am not a millionaire. Thankfully, there are many generous people in this world who are willing to share their information with me.
I believe that this is why Filesharing is legal in Canada, is it not?
I will pirate it as well until EA decides to wise up and remove the DRM. What you don't seem to understand is the same thing EA doesn't understand. DRM is hurting their bottom line, because otherwise paying customers take the DRM free alternative. I have no problem paying for the game. I just refuse to pay under those terms.
Increasing the DRM is just going to piss off more people, making people MORE likely to just download the game. This is akin to someone giving away books on the streetcorner, that are copies of a copyrighted book that will destroy themselves after one viewing. Gee, that's some choice. You might be infringing IP by making a copy of the book, but the author is clearly on some misguided attempt to prevent piracy, adn is alienating potential customers who might want to read it more than once.
In my case, there's no way in hell that I'm buying a game that disables itself after being installed 3 times.
I don't know. If you isolate what a few drops of water do, you pretty much know what a giant body of water will do. It will flow downhill. You honestly have to start somewhere.
Actually, I just consider it to be stupidity tax, and don't do it again.
Do you even know what the GPL or BSD licenses require the user to do? Here's a hint for you. There's no money involved. In fact, you are explicitly allowed to sell the product. The main thing that the GPL prohibits you from doing is to distribute the product without also distributing the source code. And this isn't to get a "piece of the pie". This is to ensure that the code that you freed... remains free.
Regardless, it sounds like you might prefer the BSD license. I'll leave figuring out what that means to you.
Because that's all slashdot's fault, right?
How exactly does that keep the white house's email secret when communicating with people outside of that network? For example if you were someone in the White house sending an email to Russian or Chinese government officals?
Nah, all important white house email gets sent through private servers anyway..
Can you explain that further? Because that just makes no fucking sense.
The difference with man is that we kill eachother on a massive scale. The video you linked showed nothing but Buffalo protecting their own, Lions trying to eat them, and Crocodiles trying to eat everything else. This is no different than us eating a hamburger.
I can only think of a couple of other species that are as warlike as homo sapiens, and that's bacteria or virii. Many animals are territorial and will kill their own. But we have taken it to an entirely new level.
I just spent about an hour on various pentatonic scales. And you're right. They are indeed very good things to know. I haven't got Wish You Were Here down yet, but I can definitely see that it was derived from that scale. Seriously, thanks.
You are exactly right of course. I try to play at least half an hour of guitar every day, but there's been often long spells where I can't do that. Such as a 2 month contract gig that I did in Austin, and I couldn't bring my guitar.
And honestly, it's much harder on the hands playing real guitar, and it took a while to build up callouses that could handle playing much longer than a half hour.
Lately, I've been moving around a great deal, and I've been lazy. But I'm trying to get back into the groove again of at least 30 minutes per day.
But it's really hard to compete with the instant gratification of Rock Band. But I do intend to be able to play half decently after a year.
Unfortunately, my sense of pitch isn't that great, so I need a tuner to tune one string. But after that string is tuned, I can tune the rest by ear. (In the process of learning that, I also found that my tuner does a shoddy job, so I've started second guessing it).
But there was one song I was playing, where the tab had a lot of stuff being done on one string, and there was one note in particular that was much lower on the neck than the others, which made it hard to play. I realized that I could play the note much easier on the string next to it, since I realized that from tuning the guitar, the note should have a direct correlation on that string. And I was right. And it was much easier to play that way.
Understood about the tabs. I've actually been considering taking some night classes at UBC in music theory and strings next year (or semester if I can get in). I really regret not taking music when I was actually in school. I pretty much stuck to the hard sciences. And now I want to go back, since I feel that I really missed out.
I feel like the tabs (and I know you don't want to hear this... but Rock Band as well) all have common elements, and there is some universal equation behind it all. But exactly what it is eludes me, because I am just playing what I am being told to play, rather than actually knowing what it is that I'm playing.
I just clicked on the link, then realized I had already been there for the Horse With No Name tutorial. Picking is definitely one of my weak points right now, and that song is all strumming, so I like to try different things with it. That site really helped me a lot with my picking and timing. I'll definitely check it out in more detail. Thanks.
Well, my car actually maxes out at 188 km/h, but point taken. But I still don't think it's a great idea on most roads.
Thanks for the advice. I'll definitely try fudging the F chords at some point, but right now I prefer to just play songs that don't use them. And I did recognize that Neil Young tends to use the same 5 chords over and over. That's why I decided to start learning his stuff for my first songs.
I did a lot of practice on the basic Em, Am, D, C, and G chords, and I can do them fairly regularly, but I've been neglecting my practice recently and just been playing some easy tabs (mostly ACDC and Nirvana).
I haven't started my scales yet, but I do have a lot of interest in learning the blues. So maybe today is the day that I'll start.
Anyway, thanks again for the advice. I just wanted you to know that it's not on deaf ears. I really do want to learn.
Just like you can spend months clacking away on a mouse when you can join the REAL army, and kill REAL people right?
Or spinning a plastic wheel and driving 200km/h when you can be REALLY going that fast in a REAL car, right?
I learned to play Guitar Hero fairly well over the course of a week. I've been playing real guitar for about 4 or 5 months now. I can play most Rock Band songs on expert, and I can play most of Neil Young's Heart of Gold on real guitar.
There's a very large difference between a video game and a musical instrument. A video game can be learned quickly and easily, without a huge time commitment. An instrument takes years to learn how to play. Now in my case, I also thought my hands were too small to play guitar, but Guitar Hero convinced me that I might be able to do it. I don't think I'll ever be able to play an F chord, but I can play a lot of songs anyway. I'm good at Guitar Hero/Rock Band. I'll likely never be as good at real guitar.
apple: are you trying to dislodge MS as the most hated computer company around? keep it up, mate....
They're already there, as far as I'm concerned. Apple's business practices just reeks of some mad power trip in general. They absolutely despise people using their products (be it hardware or software) in ways that they had not intended. Microsoft is FAR their superior in that regard. The main evil with Microsoft is seen by the IT professional, not the consumer. With Apple, it's generally the other way around.
The only explanation I can see for Apple's recent surge in popularity is their marketing, which is absolutely top notch.
Hmmm... you're right. The constitution is not written on hemp.. However, George Washington was still a hemp farmer, and the draft of the declaration of independence was written on hemp (I did get that one mixed up, but hey, I'm not American. hemp farming is legal in my country). And DonaldM probably meant canvas, not linen, but I can't really speak for him.
Regardless, hemp is a very useful plant. And the very first paper mill in your country was started by Thomas Jefferson, and it made paper from hemp. If 35% of the trees cut down are to make paper, don't you think it would make sense to switch back to hemp? That was my original point.
Clearly you've never lived in a woodland area. I grew up in an area classified as a rainforest. And believe me, if 35% of the trees cut down is to produce paper, then I'm all for recycling paper. I've always been careless about recycling, but maybe I should start, after having read that. What the logging companies do is just horrible.
That statement did not sit well with me, so I did some research. Wikipedia seems to indicate that a good chunk of the deforestation done is to produce paper.
Personally, I think hemp should be more commonly used to create paper. It grows quickly, and has many uses. Hell, even the US constitution is written on hemp.
A few years ago, I would have killed to go to E3. But I was but a humble student, with no game industry affiliations, and more importantly... broke.
Since then, I've graduated and become an actual developer. I go to two events a year. PAX and GDC. E3 is obviously something I could go to, and I might if I was in the area. But it doesn't have much draw for me anymore. And I could honestly care less about the booth babes. I want actual content, and E3 isn't even a shadow of what it once was. That would be PAX. I get PAX for the consumery-side of me, and I get GDC for the professional side. There's no place for E3 anymore.