Personally i think the issue is really moot. Copying has always existed. Look at the history of vcr's and tape decks. We as a populance have always copied stuff. Im not sure about the rest of you out there, but if I find a song/band i like, i then buy thier albums. Not because it is the right or wrong thing to do, but so the artist can have the money to keep creating, which in the long term benifits me, the listener. Of course there has been times when I have no money to do so, but over here in Australia the average CD cost us $30. Which to me is rather on the high side, and bugger all of that money gets back to the artist.
On that note, a quick story.... A few years back a friend of mine was in a band, on thier first album release they made apporx 6 mill for the record company, they got around 200,000 each (4 members in the band). When it came to the next album the were bullied into spending a million on the recording etc, the album was a flop, and the guys in the band had to pay back the money lost, thus after 5 yrs hard work they were all left with owing around 100,000 each. Thats the morality of record companies:(
No im in Perth 2, and yes we do have aircon, but it isnt run 24/7. We are a small company that just cant afford it. But the computer is used as a production server and recently i had to do scripts to take data from a btree database into mysql, using dde (i know i know...dde....but it was all we could connect to the parent application with). It would take about 1 hr to port the data accross running at 100%. With the standard heat sink and fan it would crash in 5 min, thus the water cooling which would keep the chips temp at approx 30 degrees for the whole process.
The fan was changed to use the thermaltake aqarius2 water cooling system. Not to overclock the computer but so I could leave it on 24/7. The issue more is that I live in Australia, where in summer it hits 40-45 degrees centigrade (approx 103-113), and it can hit just shy of 50 (122) if we r unlucky. If i was too have the computer running at 80% with the standard intel fan then it would crash within 5 minutes. It was either the water cooling or leave the aircon on all the time....and id hate to see that power bill...
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haha yes its a biiger fine and u do more time for copyright infringement!
Personally i think the issue is really moot. Copying has always existed. Look at the history of vcr's and tape decks. We as a populance have always copied stuff. Im not sure about the rest of you out there, but if I find a song/band i like, i then buy thier albums. Not because it is the right or wrong thing to do, but so the artist can have the money to keep creating, which in the long term benifits me, the listener. Of course there has been times when I have no money to do so, but over here in Australia the average CD cost us $30. Which to me is rather on the high side, and bugger all of that money gets back to the artist.
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On that note, a quick story....
A few years back a friend of mine was in a band, on thier first album release they made apporx 6 mill for the record company, they got around 200,000 each (4 members in the band). When it came to the next album the were bullied into spending a million on the recording etc, the album was a flop, and the guys in the band had to pay back the money lost, thus after 5 yrs hard work they were all left with owing around 100,000 each. Thats the morality of record companies
The heatsink and fan made its way over to Norway (dont ask), but as u may guess, its on its way back now...
No im in Perth 2, and yes we do have aircon, but it isnt run 24/7. We are a small company that just cant afford it. But the computer is used as a production server and recently i had to do scripts to take data from a btree database into mysql, using dde (i know i know...dde....but it was all we could connect to the parent application with). It would take about 1 hr to port the data accross running at 100%. With the standard heat sink and fan it would crash in 5 min, thus the water cooling which would keep the chips temp at approx 30 degrees for the whole process.
The fan was changed to use the thermaltake aqarius2 water cooling system. Not to overclock the computer but so I could leave it on 24/7. The issue more is that I live in Australia, where in summer it hits 40-45 degrees centigrade (approx 103-113), and it can hit just shy of 50 (122) if we r unlucky. If i was too have the computer running at 80% with the standard intel fan then it would crash within 5 minutes. It was either the water cooling or leave the aircon on all the time....and id hate to see that power bill...