I'm not exactly a cheerleader for the P2P-ftw free-the-culture anarcho-whatever shite that gets punted around here sometimes, but for Christ's sake what is Apple on? People have been using Hymn and the like for ages, and if they're stripping the DRM out of bought files for use on other players they are still buying from Apple and giving Apple money for the privilege. By definition, they wouldn't be going to P2P. If anything, if they up and leave France, all that will happen is that either P2P will become the only option for iPod owners or people will buy Creative/Archos/other PlaysForSure players and Napster or whatever will get their money. The only way this could become a win for piracy is if Apple makes it one.
Anything that goes through the parliament act will generate enough publicity for the public to kick up a fuss about it if they don't like it anyway.
The public kicks up a fuss about LOTS of things, but they never get listened to. For example: Iraq, ID cards, school reforms...
The ID cards bill has been rejected by the Lords again and again, because frankly they're sane. But my understanding is this act could well be used to force it through, to the detriment of everyone.
No, I just think an episode of Futurama based around proselytising about DRM would be about as amusing as stabbing myself in the testicles with a fork.
I asked this question in another thread, and didn't get an answer. Has anyone ever been sued for building RPMs or DEBs of MP3 codecs, MP3 encoders, Mplayer etc? Ever?
Trust doesn't matter to me, to be quite frank. I don't use Google's services, for the most part; I have a CGIproxy script which displays Google ads with served pages, and I have a couple of mostly unused GMail accounts which now act as nothing but spam traps. All I do with Google, really, is search. And that's only a couple of times a day.
Anyway, I find it very hard to "trust" a corporation. No corporation can trust you, and so I refuse to trust them back.
Maybe that's what people want. They don't want all the fancy tabbed browsing stuff and the RSS doohickeys and extensions. Maybe IE works for them because it's simple?
Not saying I like IE (I don't) but just a thought.
This is just a quick question, because I'm genuinely intrigued. Has a Linux distributor, or a creator of third party packages for say Debian ever been sued or threatened legally because they distributed MPEG code or other patented stuff? I'd really like to know.
I could share files using a Gnutella client or a BitTorrent client; Kino imported my digital video files directly through Firewire; and as a bonus, Automatix even installed OpenOffice.org and Thunderbird.
Ubuntu comes with a BitTorrent client, and OpenOffice.org, and Thunderbird. No script needed.
You're buying the wrong CDs. Buyers of Dream Theater, Radiohead and Pink Floyd CDs have been getting all this for AAAGES. Hell, David Gilmour's On An Island which was released last week came packaged as a real bound book...oh, and full lyrics.
If you're thinking of Britney then yes, you're not going to get much in the way of cover art, but prog and alternative artists still put an effort into things.
And what about CD-Text? That could have been cool, but I don't know since I've never seen anybody actually use CD-Text. Keep me from having to use CDDB or key in all the track data.
Funny really...I have a large number of CDs, and only ONE has any CD-Text. Roger Waters' Radio KAOS. A CD that almost nobody bought and that many people who did buy it regretted buying 5 minutes after they first played it. And even then, the CD-Text was wrong.
I have about 100 cds, and my collection is still growing. I like being able to have the music in any file format I care to rip it to, having album art, a physical object I can hold, pass around and lend to people etc etc etc.
MP3s are just files. Just data. You can't hand around an MP3. MP3s can't be packaged, and they are forever MP3s. Worth the extra money. That and my local record place are really good, and I prefer the actual service I get from them rather than the click click done of Amazon or iTunes.
I just opened up this article in Opera (for the record, I have no other tabs open) and immediately I got a popup window, which in itself had a JavaScript prompt for WinFixer. WinFixer, for those who don't know, is a horrible spyware program which pretends to be a system tune-up program but is really fucking annoying malware that likes to pop up in your system tray every 3 seconds and demand you pay for it. This gets really annoying, really fast, and cleaning it up is a task in and of itself (I tried once but gave up after 3 hours and just reinstalled Windows 2000, then XP after many complaints with a warning that any more problems would get the person concerned straight back down to 2K...nothing since:)
Anyway, I digress. I guess the main point is: why does Slashdot have popup ads for known spyware? I would have expected this on many other websites, but Slashdot? No way.
When finished, it should be possible to search only for pictures with just one girl, whose legs are spread exactly 57 degrees in a "sitting up" pose....it's nice to know you've got priorities straight here.:D
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Heh, I copied it from down the thread, funnily enough...
I'm not exactly a cheerleader for the P2P-ftw free-the-culture anarcho-whatever shite that gets punted around here sometimes, but for Christ's sake what is Apple on? People have been using Hymn and the like for ages, and if they're stripping the DRM out of bought files for use on other players they are still buying from Apple and giving Apple money for the privilege. By definition, they wouldn't be going to P2P. If anything, if they up and leave France, all that will happen is that either P2P will become the only option for iPod owners or people will buy Creative/Archos/other PlaysForSure players and Napster or whatever will get their money. The only way this could become a win for piracy is if Apple makes it one.
HAHA!
:D
New sig for me, thanks for that laugh
Anything that goes through the parliament act will generate enough publicity for the public to kick up a fuss about it if they don't like it anyway.
The public kicks up a fuss about LOTS of things, but they never get listened to. For example: Iraq, ID cards, school reforms...
The ID cards bill has been rejected by the Lords again and again, because frankly they're sane. But my understanding is this act could well be used to force it through, to the detriment of everyone.
No, I just think an episode of Futurama based around proselytising about DRM would be about as amusing as stabbing myself in the testicles with a fork.
How long will it be until botnet operators start up a similar service? Or am I out of date and they have already done this?
:P
It's called Bonzi Buddy...like Seti@Home for spam
No, but it's likely to make me want Vista.
I asked this question in another thread, and didn't get an answer. Has anyone ever been sued for building RPMs or DEBs of MP3 codecs, MP3 encoders, Mplayer etc? Ever?
I never thought it possible to suck all the joy out of there being more Futurama, but you just did it. Nice going.
HAHA!
Coffee, meet screen.
Trust doesn't matter to me, to be quite frank. I don't use Google's services, for the most part; I have a CGIproxy script which displays Google ads with served pages, and I have a couple of mostly unused GMail accounts which now act as nothing but spam traps. All I do with Google, really, is search. And that's only a couple of times a day.
Anyway, I find it very hard to "trust" a corporation. No corporation can trust you, and so I refuse to trust them back.
Maybe that's what people want. They don't want all the fancy tabbed browsing stuff and the RSS doohickeys and extensions. Maybe IE works for them because it's simple?
Not saying I like IE (I don't) but just a thought.
This is just a quick question, because I'm genuinely intrigued. Has a Linux distributor, or a creator of third party packages for say Debian ever been sued or threatened legally because they distributed MPEG code or other patented stuff? I'd really like to know.
I could share files using a Gnutella client or a BitTorrent client; Kino imported my digital video files directly through Firewire; and as a bonus, Automatix even installed OpenOffice.org and Thunderbird.
Ubuntu comes with a BitTorrent client, and OpenOffice.org, and Thunderbird. No script needed.
I don't see the point personally.
You're buying the wrong CDs. Buyers of Dream Theater, Radiohead and Pink Floyd CDs have been getting all this for AAAGES. Hell, David Gilmour's On An Island which was released last week came packaged as a real bound book...oh, and full lyrics.
If you're thinking of Britney then yes, you're not going to get much in the way of cover art, but prog and alternative artists still put an effort into things.
And what about CD-Text? That could have been cool, but I don't know since I've never seen anybody actually use CD-Text. Keep me from having to use CDDB or key in all the track data.
Funny really...I have a large number of CDs, and only ONE has any CD-Text. Roger Waters' Radio KAOS. A CD that almost nobody bought and that many people who did buy it regretted buying 5 minutes after they first played it. And even then, the CD-Text was wrong.
*sigh*
I have about 100 cds, and my collection is still growing. I like being able to have the music in any file format I care to rip it to, having album art, a physical object I can hold, pass around and lend to people etc etc etc.
MP3s are just files. Just data. You can't hand around an MP3. MP3s can't be packaged, and they are forever MP3s. Worth the extra money. That and my local record place are really good, and I prefer the actual service I get from them rather than the click click done of Amazon or iTunes.
I just checked and that's enabled. Any other thoughts?
Offtopic I know, but anyway...
:)
I just opened up this article in Opera (for the record, I have no other tabs open) and immediately I got a popup window, which in itself had a JavaScript prompt for WinFixer. WinFixer, for those who don't know, is a horrible spyware program which pretends to be a system tune-up program but is really fucking annoying malware that likes to pop up in your system tray every 3 seconds and demand you pay for it. This gets really annoying, really fast, and cleaning it up is a task in and of itself (I tried once but gave up after 3 hours and just reinstalled Windows 2000, then XP after many complaints with a warning that any more problems would get the person concerned straight back down to 2K...nothing since
Anyway, I digress. I guess the main point is: why does Slashdot have popup ads for known spyware? I would have expected this on many other websites, but Slashdot? No way.
Microsoft has had a POSIX subsystem for ages. It's called Windows Services for UNIX, and it works quite nicely. It's not a new thing.
I don't think that. It doesn't seem very cut and dried, to me it looks like "You can use this service ONLY if you agree with this, this and this."
Of course the only way to test this for sure is to try and sell a burned AAC to someone...
When finished, it should be possible to search only for pictures with just one girl, whose legs are spread exactly 57 degrees in a "sitting up" pose. ...it's nice to know you've got priorities straight here. :D
Sorry, doesn't work. First of all, because the music is compressed, selling a CD of it is not the same as selling the AAC itself
Um, yes it is. You're selling a CD with exactly the same sound quality as you would get if you just had the original AAC file.
Inferiority of selling on doesn't factor into fair use. Nice diversion, though.
Resale is not explicitly allowed by the "Usage Rules," therefore it is prohibited.
By the same token, it isn't explicitly prohibited either, is it?
In Soviet America, politician votes out YOU!
Burn it to CD and then resell it.
Obviously.