Considering how eBaumsworld's content is 99% ripped from other places, I would imagine they thought a few DVD rips wouldn't hurt.
I would dearly, dearly love a lawsuit to be brought against eBaumsworld, if only because the resulting page on Encyclopedia Dramatica would be fantastic.
For a normal publisher, that would be true. A normal publisher finds and promotes excellent works in a free market. Big media is the exact opposite of all that. They are based on exclusion and it has nothing to do with artistic merit. YouTube is just another attempt a free entertainment market, a competitor to be owned and destroyed.
YouTube isn't a "free entertainment market". Half of YouTube is copyrighted music videos and clips from TV shows which have been uploaded by people, and the other half is stuff recorded by 15 year olds which nobody with half a brain can watch.
The two big music companies make money by controlling your taste in music.
The TWO big music companies? Dear god you're stupid.
YouTube is going to meet the same fate as Napster and MTV before it.
Napster was used primarily to distribute music by already signed artists which was under copyright. That's all anyone I know used it for. MTV is still going strong and is still a central plank of the music industry; you do realise they have channels other than just "MTV" don't you?
Because big media owns a tiny portion of the work placed on YouTube, they think they can take it all.
"Big media" owns a LOT of the work placed on YouTube. You'd have to be a fool not to see so.
That's exactly the opposite of what copyright is all about.
Copyright is the exclusive right to publish and distribute a work of art. Not exactly exclusive if any YouTuber can stick something copyrighted up there, is it?
Thing is, twitter does have good intentions at heart, I'm sure he doesn't mean badly. However, he goes about it in entirely the wrong way.
Like M$ and Windoze and pURGE and various other hi-LARIOUS names he uses for things he doesn't like, which even some of the worst zealots swore off ages ago...what the hell is he trying to prove? It's certainly not wit. If anything, it makes him sound like a 15 year old who's just installed Gentoo and is trying to tell the world how l33t he is for it.
Then there's the making shit up, which goes hand in hand with the complete detachment from reality. For instance, saying all the time that "free software has surpassed non-free" and that "DRMed music stores are in the minority and dying", when clearly neither of those things are even close to the truth. And saying that "everyone knows [his opinion]"...again, what's he trying to prove?
How about his touting of "freedom" everywhere, and his opposition to copyright laws, and then in the next breath saying he wants anti-Slash sued and shut down on charges of copyright infringement? I've got news for you twitter, it isn't Anti-Slash or Microsoft or the Illuminati or the aliens or the jews that are picking your posts apart one by one, it's normal people who come home from a hard day's work and spend a few minutes of their evening counteracting some really, really stupid FUD.
Let's not even go into his accusing people of being Microsoft astroturfers when they respond to him negatively, or (as showcased in one of his posts the other day) saying that they're brainwashed by Microsoft marketing campaigns. Clearly, you are either with him or you're with Microsoft.
Please, twitter, for the sake of the cause which you obviously hold close to your heart, behave like a grown-up for a change. Use reasoned arguments, drop the "M$" bullshit, give evidence for your claims (evidence which isn't in the form of an article on Slashdot or on Linux.com). Maybe then, people will stop "stalking" you, as you so delightfully put it.
Your anti-circumvention laws are not something written into any contract I ever signed
They are, however, laws, which as a citizen of the US you are bound by. Shitty laws, but laws nonetheless.
It was government missallocation of broadcast spectrum that created the big music companies, not a free market.
Bullshit.
I'm avoiding DRM'd music like most people are.
Most people are avoiding DRMed music are they? So how the FUCK do you explain iTunes? Pretending you have a large number of people behind you does not magically make all those people behind you.
Companies that sell non DRM'd music will continue to prevail
They're not prevailing. You are living in a fantasy world. SEEK HELP.
There are a lot of people on Slashdot who are more than happy for Linux to remain their hobby, and their hobby alone. There's always the group that doesn't give a shit so long as it works for them. I know, plural of anecdote is not data, but it does happen.
Yes. It's a crime to troll forums. And they have big botnets, which they use to troll Slashdot instead of doing other things which would at least be mildly useful to them (for instance, getting credit card numbers and such), because clearly Slashdot is worthy of the effort necessary to build a botnet (and let's face it, even if they did want a botnet they'd probably want to use their own PCs to do it, they probably hate viruses and worms as much as everyone else does).
And you want them done for copyright infringement, oh, so it's OK to prosecute that when it's someone you don't like? How funny. Anti-semetic comments aren't illegal, neither is race-baiting, obscene images hopefully aren't illegal in the USA...
You just don't like them because they think you're an asshole, don't you? That's the crux of it, isn't it twitter?
Yes the list of defendants is a who's who of mom and pop computer store owners. Have you ever thought that they too might have been passed off an "illegitimate" copy by their distributor? The wild and wacky world of Windoze pricing makes that easy and the copies come shrink wrapped with all the proper credentials just like the "legitimate" coppies. I know someone who was nearly ruined fighting off one of these suits. For years he passed on M$ junk at his cost and helped line Bill Gates' pockets. His reward was one of these suits, which he fought and won at great cost. It's a shake down. The money you give them is never enough.
Who was this "distributor"? Not a very reputable one by the sound of it. If you don't want to get illegal software, go to a reputable distributor. Simple. By the sounds of it, your friend decided to buy a job lot of XP CDs on the cheap.
The WGA program, judging from all the reported false positives, is a way of extending the shake down all the way to the end user....no. Sorry, just no. False positives are inevitable, and Microsoft happily support those who find them. If you bought an illegal copy of Windows, and you provide proof of purchase and the disc, they'll send you a legit version (and serial key) free of charge. This is the crux of the WGA program. Please stop talking out of your ass. (although considering you haven't used Windows for years, it's a little silly to expect any sense out of you when you're talking about it.)
I've never heard of the Free Software Foundation filing suit against a mom and pop store or an individual for distributing software, even if they charged money for that service.
That's because the Free Software Foundation would have FUCK ALL of a basis for suing such a store. Even if they charged money. You, talk, BOLLOCKS.
I just tried it with my 5th Gen iPod (with The Wall, natch:). Worked a charm, although there's a telltale volume difference between tracks if you have Sound Check enabled.
People offering GNU/Linux computers will see an exponential growth in sales.
Yes, they'll get two sales this year instead of one. Maybe four next year.
But seriously, I hardly see Linux PCs being the new hit, considering they run very little of the available consumer software, support an even smaller percentage of consumer hardware and aren't even a well known concept.
What was that thing about people in glass houses not throwing stones? Must have slipped past you.
At any rate, you went off on a tangent (again) and completely ignored what the parent said.
And another reference to Microsoft apparently paying Slashdot members to, um, reply to a virtually-unknown Linux user from Baton Rouge whose contribution to the development or growth of Linux or FLOSS in general is close to, if not exactly, nil! With this bullshit, you're spoiling us.
Twitter, please just admit that you have no experience with Windows post-win98 other than watching from afar, and therefore that you have no idea what you're talking about. It shines through in all your posts.
It's a well known fact that M$ does not enter a "market" until it's ready to make money for them
Nor does any other business.
they almost always enter it by acquiring other people's software.
1) There's not actually anything wrong with this, so long as they paid the relevant license fees and what-have-you. 2) Windows was homegrown (save a few things like disk compression and TCP/IP), as was Word, which was made for Xenix (Yes, MS Unix.)
Browsers? Office Suits? Yes, that's old but the Anti-virus virus take over is on and ugly right now.
Microsoft Office is, to most people, the right tool for the job. It's integrated, and SharePoint etc have no match. As for anti-virus, aren't you the one always complaining about Windows having lots of viruses?
The snake oil vendors he defrauded set themselves up for it by making backups very difficult.
You mean like copying a CD using a common CD burner program (for the sake of argument, let's say K3B)? Not hard, is it twitter?
The difference between him making money off other people's non free software and what Bill Gates does with other people's software is marginal.
"Other people's software" being sold by Bill Gates? I'd ask for a citation, but you'd only say something like PC-DOS, which happened in the EARLY 1980s. Anything more recent?
Both have stolen other people's works and both have broken laws to make a buck and neither has any respect for the end user. Nathan was a little more blatant about it and will pay a heavy price. You would think that some of the M$ officers, who have taken far more from everyone else, might have had a similar penalty at the anti-trust trials.
Microsoft was being sued as a corporation. Because of limited liability, one of the main features of a corporation, "M$ officers" could not have been individually punished; the most that could have happened would be Microsoft having its charter revoked and ceasing to exist. This Nathan guy was operating as a sole trader, and therefore has unlimited liability, meaning he can be personally punished. This is standard business law (and I'll bet you'll blame said law on Microsoft.)
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UMG sees a cash cow that they don't own, and they want desperately to milk it.
That or playing DMCA Takedown Whack-a-Mole with the huge number of music videos etc that YouTube host would be a pain in the ass and take forever.
Considering how eBaumsworld's content is 99% ripped from other places, I would imagine they thought a few DVD rips wouldn't hurt.
I would dearly, dearly love a lawsuit to be brought against eBaumsworld, if only because the resulting page on Encyclopedia Dramatica would be fantastic.
Modbomb. Yes. Of course, twitter. Everyone's out to get you.
In case you haven't realised, if you didn't spout shit all the time, you wouldn't get modded down and "stalked".
For a normal publisher, that would be true. A normal publisher finds and promotes excellent works in a free market. Big media is the exact opposite of all that. They are based on exclusion and it has nothing to do with artistic merit. YouTube is just another attempt a free entertainment market, a competitor to be owned and destroyed.
YouTube isn't a "free entertainment market". Half of YouTube is copyrighted music videos and clips from TV shows which have been uploaded by people, and the other half is stuff recorded by 15 year olds which nobody with half a brain can watch.
The two big music companies make money by controlling your taste in music.
The TWO big music companies? Dear god you're stupid.
YouTube is going to meet the same fate as Napster and MTV before it.
Napster was used primarily to distribute music by already signed artists which was under copyright. That's all anyone I know used it for. MTV is still going strong and is still a central plank of the music industry; you do realise they have channels other than just "MTV" don't you?
Because big media owns a tiny portion of the work placed on YouTube, they think they can take it all.
"Big media" owns a LOT of the work placed on YouTube. You'd have to be a fool not to see so.
That's exactly the opposite of what copyright is all about.
Copyright is the exclusive right to publish and distribute a work of art. Not exactly exclusive if any YouTuber can stick something copyrighted up there, is it?
Thing is, twitter does have good intentions at heart, I'm sure he doesn't mean badly. However, he goes about it in entirely the wrong way.
Like M$ and Windoze and pURGE and various other hi-LARIOUS names he uses for things he doesn't like, which even some of the worst zealots swore off ages ago...what the hell is he trying to prove? It's certainly not wit. If anything, it makes him sound like a 15 year old who's just installed Gentoo and is trying to tell the world how l33t he is for it.
Then there's the making shit up, which goes hand in hand with the complete detachment from reality. For instance, saying all the time that "free software has surpassed non-free" and that "DRMed music stores are in the minority and dying", when clearly neither of those things are even close to the truth. And saying that "everyone knows [his opinion]"...again, what's he trying to prove?
How about his touting of "freedom" everywhere, and his opposition to copyright laws, and then in the next breath saying he wants anti-Slash sued and shut down on charges of copyright infringement? I've got news for you twitter, it isn't Anti-Slash or Microsoft or the Illuminati or the aliens or the jews that are picking your posts apart one by one, it's normal people who come home from a hard day's work and spend a few minutes of their evening counteracting some really, really stupid FUD.
Let's not even go into his accusing people of being Microsoft astroturfers when they respond to him negatively, or (as showcased in one of his posts the other day) saying that they're brainwashed by Microsoft marketing campaigns. Clearly, you are either with him or you're with Microsoft.
Please, twitter, for the sake of the cause which you obviously hold close to your heart, behave like a grown-up for a change. Use reasoned arguments, drop the "M$" bullshit, give evidence for your claims (evidence which isn't in the form of an article on Slashdot or on Linux.com). Maybe then, people will stop "stalking" you, as you so delightfully put it.
He clearly was, considering the number of times he's said Microsoft "rapes peoples wallets". Must be a touchy subject.
God, you're fucking insane.
"Everyone believes that Microsoft are assholes, even if they don't say so or actually believe that!"
And how is it that everyone other than IBM is a "big dumb company"?
Your anti-circumvention laws are not something written into any contract I ever signed
They are, however, laws, which as a citizen of the US you are bound by. Shitty laws, but laws nonetheless.
It was government missallocation of broadcast spectrum that created the big music companies, not a free market.
Bullshit.
I'm avoiding DRM'd music like most people are.
Most people are avoiding DRMed music are they? So how the FUCK do you explain iTunes? Pretending you have a large number of people behind you does not magically make all those people behind you.
Companies that sell non DRM'd music will continue to prevail
They're not prevailing. You are living in a fantasy world. SEEK HELP.
Have a look through twitter's post history. You'll die of laughter, pretty much all his posts are like this.
So where are you going to get your facts now? For years, most specialized media has been saying that free software is ready for mass use.
By "most specialised media" you do, of course, mean "Slashdot".
The rise of OSX showed that "consumer" grade Unix was not only possible but wildly better than existing alternatives.
Isn't OSX mostly non-free software, and therefore evil under your black-and-white way of looking at things?
There are a lot of people on Slashdot who are more than happy for Linux to remain their hobby, and their hobby alone. There's always the group that doesn't give a shit so long as it works for them. I know, plural of anecdote is not data, but it does happen.
Yes. It's a crime to troll forums. And they have big botnets, which they use to troll Slashdot instead of doing other things which would at least be mildly useful to them (for instance, getting credit card numbers and such), because clearly Slashdot is worthy of the effort necessary to build a botnet (and let's face it, even if they did want a botnet they'd probably want to use their own PCs to do it, they probably hate viruses and worms as much as everyone else does).
And you want them done for copyright infringement, oh, so it's OK to prosecute that when it's someone you don't like? How funny. Anti-semetic comments aren't illegal, neither is race-baiting, obscene images hopefully aren't illegal in the USA...
You just don't like them because they think you're an asshole, don't you? That's the crux of it, isn't it twitter?
Yes the list of defendants is a who's who of mom and pop computer store owners. Have you ever thought that they too might have been passed off an "illegitimate" copy by their distributor? The wild and wacky world of Windoze pricing makes that easy and the copies come shrink wrapped with all the proper credentials just like the "legitimate" coppies. I know someone who was nearly ruined fighting off one of these suits. For years he passed on M$ junk at his cost and helped line Bill Gates' pockets. His reward was one of these suits, which he fought and won at great cost. It's a shake down. The money you give them is never enough.
...no. Sorry, just no. False positives are inevitable, and Microsoft happily support those who find them. If you bought an illegal copy of Windows, and you provide proof of purchase and the disc, they'll send you a legit version (and serial key) free of charge. This is the crux of the WGA program. Please stop talking out of your ass. (although considering you haven't used Windows for years, it's a little silly to expect any sense out of you when you're talking about it.)
Who was this "distributor"? Not a very reputable one by the sound of it. If you don't want to get illegal software, go to a reputable distributor. Simple. By the sounds of it, your friend decided to buy a job lot of XP CDs on the cheap.
The WGA program, judging from all the reported false positives, is a way of extending the shake down all the way to the end user.
I've never heard of the Free Software Foundation filing suit against a mom and pop store or an individual for distributing software, even if they charged money for that service.
That's because the Free Software Foundation would have FUCK ALL of a basis for suing such a store. Even if they charged money. You, talk, BOLLOCKS.
Yes. Extortion. Of course, twitter.
Please, get help.
In fact, the shiny rocks have close to no intrinsic functionality or value.
Did you never watch Family Guy?
"DIAMONDS: She'll Practically Have To."
As I said elsewhere, it works on my 5th gen, although Sound Check creates a noticeable volume change between the two songs.
I just tried it with my 5th Gen iPod (with The Wall, natch :). Worked a charm, although there's a telltale volume difference between tracks if you have Sound Check enabled.
Apple is peace.
Apple is strength.
Apple is slav...er, wait a minute...
People offering GNU/Linux computers will see an exponential growth in sales.
Yes, they'll get two sales this year instead of one. Maybe four next year.
But seriously, I hardly see Linux PCs being the new hit, considering they run very little of the available consumer software, support an even smaller percentage of consumer hardware and aren't even a well known concept.
Yeah, call me names. That proves something.
What was that thing about people in glass houses not throwing stones? Must have slipped past you.
At any rate, you went off on a tangent (again) and completely ignored what the parent said.
And another reference to Microsoft apparently paying Slashdot members to, um, reply to a virtually-unknown Linux user from Baton Rouge whose contribution to the development or growth of Linux or FLOSS in general is close to, if not exactly, nil! With this bullshit, you're spoiling us.
also, on that last link, Iced DOESN'T agree with you. Anyone with a reasonable level of reading comprehension would see that he was taking the piss.
Twitter, please just admit that you have no experience with Windows post-win98 other than watching from afar, and therefore that you have no idea what you're talking about. It shines through in all your posts.
Can you make it from Study Hall to Algebra without the kicker from the football team shoving you in a locker?
Considering he's married with kids, I damn well hope so.
It's a well known fact that M$ does not enter a "market" until it's ready to make money for them
Nor does any other business.
they almost always enter it by acquiring other people's software.
1) There's not actually anything wrong with this, so long as they paid the relevant license fees and what-have-you.
2) Windows was homegrown (save a few things like disk compression and TCP/IP), as was Word, which was made for Xenix (Yes, MS Unix.)
Browsers? Office Suits? Yes, that's old but the Anti-virus virus take over is on and ugly right now.
Microsoft Office is, to most people, the right tool for the job. It's integrated, and SharePoint etc have no match. As for anti-virus, aren't you the one always complaining about Windows having lots of viruses?
The snake oil vendors he defrauded set themselves up for it by making backups very difficult.
You mean like copying a CD using a common CD burner program (for the sake of argument, let's say K3B)? Not hard, is it twitter?
The difference between him making money off other people's non free software and what Bill Gates does with other people's software is marginal.
"Other people's software" being sold by Bill Gates? I'd ask for a citation, but you'd only say something like PC-DOS, which happened in the EARLY 1980s. Anything more recent?
Both have stolen other people's works and both have broken laws to make a buck and neither has any respect for the end user. Nathan was a little more blatant about it and will pay a heavy price. You would think that some of the M$ officers, who have taken far more from everyone else, might have had a similar penalty at the anti-trust trials.
Microsoft was being sued as a corporation. Because of limited liability, one of the main features of a corporation, "M$ officers" could not have been individually punished; the most that could have happened would be Microsoft having its charter revoked and ceasing to exist. This Nathan guy was operating as a sole trader, and therefore has unlimited liability, meaning he can be personally punished. This is standard business law (and I'll bet you'll blame said law on Microsoft.)