I agree not all laws are just or good. However laws are how we as a society govern the behaviour that is detrimental to our society. When breaking the law, it should be for very serious and good reasons. Breaking the law just to get some free music, when plenty of music is already available for free and legally, is not (IMO) a good or serious reason. I think most non-pirates would agree.
Marketing. More RIAA songs are illegally downloaded then any non-RIAA song (legal or otherwise). So clearly the RIAA offers great marketing to artists.
Your post was "here's how you can cover up your illegal activities, but I won't say this explicitly, I'll just hint at it *wink wink* *nudge nudge*"
I prefer not to help support people in committing illegal activities for no reason but they like music. Instead I prefer to encourage others to vote with their wallet and take advantage of those who are meeting their demands (of free entertainment). I'm sorry if that doesn't jive with your "Here's how you can break the law instead of rewarding those who would give you what you want" mentality. But I am most definitely not a shill and I do not appreciate your wild mud slinging.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Lobbyist Jack Valenti was found dead in his Houston home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
-is the driver responsible for the illegal action, or the owner of the car? Wow, so if my friend borrows my car and kills a whole bunch of people, I'm responsible as the owner of the car in some American states? How fucked up is that?
And everyone else too. Never hurts to know stuff like this, y'know. Just in case. Yeah. That's it. I choose not to pirate things that will get me sued, and instead prefer free and legal entertainment.
Its a crazy idea, I know. But I think it might catch on one day.
Now that is a separate issue. The broken business model is the one of artifical scarcity- the music isn't scarce anymore. NEW recordings are what is scarce. Therefore, I'd propose a whole new business model for the music industry- low bandwidth (8 bit, 22khz, mono) recordings for free, higher quality tracks (16 bit 44khz stereo) for $.25 (double what the bands get now from ASCAP/BMI), and all of the money going to the band. Forget the record labels- and if you want a CD, buy the tracks you want off the band's website and burn it yourself. No DRM or copyrights. This encourages the bands to continue to put out new stuff- as high quality bitrate recordings will get out into the wild on the filesharing networks, the sales will drop off for older tracks,so to keep making money bands will have to put out new stuff. Why would they get more then 1 sale? After all, everyone can just fileshare the latest song like they do for RIAA music.
unless you go out and buy an equal number of CDs for every album you download. Actually, that isn't necessary. All you have to do is buy MORE CDs then you do without downloading the songs illegally.
"a university expelling students for getting abortions is not curtailing freedom, they are protecting their medical resources" "a university blocking democratic websites is not curtailing freedom, they are protecting their political interests". Nice try except that abortions are legal, as are democratic websites. What isn't legal is downloading copyrighted content without the copyright holder's permission.
Why the conspiracy? Isn't it even remotely possible that the ??AA's had nothing to do with it? We could assume that, if, y'know, the RIAA wasn't involved. Which they clearly are. Otherwise who was sending those notices?
It might remind you of Microsoft, and would be exactly the same except for one small problem, Microsoft has been able to gain monopolies in a lot of the other areas it expanded into (such as browser, word, etc). Google, not so much.
Okay that's just truly bizarre. Googling aussie_a produces a link to my webcomic (which I'm guessing is how you got it as a quick look only produced slashdot results) despite the fact aussie_a has never appeared on that website. Google has some pretty sophisticated algorithms there.
Actually the second Microsoft loses its monopoly status it will die. It might take 20 years after it loses its monopoly, but it will die. There is NO reason to go with Microsoft applications except they have a monopoly. If they ever lose it, they're a goner.
Thankyou Mr. Robertson for providing me with all that information. Although it would have been easier to get a phone book then troll the web for such info. Perhaps Congress should stop putting people's information in phone books without their express consent, rather then do it by default and charge people to keep it private.
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I agree not all laws are just or good. However laws are how we as a society govern the behaviour that is detrimental to our society. When breaking the law, it should be for very serious and good reasons. Breaking the law just to get some free music, when plenty of music is already available for free and legally, is not (IMO) a good or serious reason. I think most non-pirates would agree.
Marketing. More RIAA songs are illegally downloaded then any non-RIAA song (legal or otherwise). So clearly the RIAA offers great marketing to artists.
To all those who pirated RIAA content, with free content such as this, why do you feel the need to break the law?
Your post was "here's how you can cover up your illegal activities, but I won't say this explicitly, I'll just hint at it *wink wink* *nudge nudge*"
I prefer not to help support people in committing illegal activities for no reason but they like music. Instead I prefer to encourage others to vote with their wallet and take advantage of those who are meeting their demands (of free entertainment). I'm sorry if that doesn't jive with your "Here's how you can break the law instead of rewarding those who would give you what you want" mentality. But I am most definitely not a shill and I do not appreciate your wild mud slinging.
I got modded down as a troll and went from Excellent Karma to terrible, all because I made posts like:
Please mod me insightful for no particular reason.
It was on April Fool's Day. Were my posts offtopic? Definitely. Were they troll? Definitely not.
The Karma system is broken.
Well yes, I imagine its also good to cover up your child porn business, but fortunately I don't run one of those either.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Lobbyist Jack Valenti was found dead in his Houston home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Its a crazy idea, I know. But I think it might catch on one day.
None, it uses solar power.
"a university blocking democratic websites is not curtailing freedom, they are protecting their political interests". Nice try except that abortions are legal, as are democratic websites. What isn't legal is downloading copyrighted content without the copyright holder's permission.
It might remind you of Microsoft, and would be exactly the same except for one small problem, Microsoft has been able to gain monopolies in a lot of the other areas it expanded into (such as browser, word, etc). Google, not so much.
No be default it is set on. People have reported that when they have turned on this feature, they've discovered past search information.
How can he be bad when George W Bush looked into his eyes and saw that his soul was good?
Aaah, that's right.
Okay that's just truly bizarre. Googling aussie_a produces a link to my webcomic (which I'm guessing is how you got it as a quick look only produced slashdot results) despite the fact aussie_a has never appeared on that website. Google has some pretty sophisticated algorithms there.
Actually the second Microsoft loses its monopoly status it will die. It might take 20 years after it loses its monopoly, but it will die. There is NO reason to go with Microsoft applications except they have a monopoly. If they ever lose it, they're a goner.
I'm not a teenager girl, but I challenge you to do the same to me.
Thankyou Mr. Robertson for providing me with all that information. Although it would have been easier to get a phone book then troll the web for such info. Perhaps Congress should stop putting people's information in phone books without their express consent, rather then do it by default and charge people to keep it private.
Well my name's John Smith, so no, I don't think I'm a stupid teen.
Alright, my name isn't John Smith, but it is quite a common name (although I do point out I'm no longer a teen).