The MPAA is obviously following in the RIAAs footsteps, and I can't say I'm too surprised. Both the music industry and the movie industry suffer from over use of the rating systems, and lack of true talent in the public eye. What is seen most of the time is redundant tripe (in the form of pop music for the music industry, and most summer blockbusters for the movie industry.) Unfortunately, there are very few theatres that play indie flicks and in many cases video stores don't stock them either. I know, I'm an assistant manager of a Hollywood Video.
I know that the MPAA is trying to target abuse, like people downloading and selling the recent "flash boobs, blow up buildings" movie, but honestly the abuse of these lawsuits is frightening. I mean, already, if you have a file on your server that has ANYTHING to do with the title of a movie, you will get e-mails and legal threats telling you to take it down. These lawsuits are frankly too easy to be frivilous with, and this is just going to be another excuse to violate civil liberties by monitoring peoples activities online.
I'm a true linux user. I don't use anything as advanced as slackware, I just shoved a penguin in my case. The computer doesn't do anything, and the penguin keeps trying to eat my processor, but at least my linux is more complicated than everyone elses!
Allow me to interject.
I am a professional musician (no, you haven't heard of me) and when I write a song, or a piece of music, I am thrilled to see it end up on a P2P network. Frankly, I think it's a shame that it is so hard to be a musician without having to sign with a soulless record company who only wants the rights to your intellectual property. It would be nice if selling music were more like selling your house. If you don't want to use a gigantic record corp., you put the music out yourself! Now, how would you put the music out yourself? P2P? Brilliant! It's so easy to assume the moral high ground in jumping down P2P users throats, but it's actually a very useful thing to upcoming musicians. If people don't know you they can't like you, and most people are not going to go out and buy stacks of CDs from people they know nothing about. But people are going to do genre searches, and if they come across your stuff, they are going to be able to like it, and then if they like it, they will support it.
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No no no, Winter-een-mas.
Al Gore should try and get his hands on it! After all, he invented it...
It missed us, but Mars wasn't so lucky.
will it work in Linux?
The MPAA is obviously following in the RIAAs footsteps, and I can't say I'm too surprised. Both the music industry and the movie industry suffer from over use of the rating systems, and lack of true talent in the public eye. What is seen most of the time is redundant tripe (in the form of pop music for the music industry, and most summer blockbusters for the movie industry.) Unfortunately, there are very few theatres that play indie flicks and in many cases video stores don't stock them either. I know, I'm an assistant manager of a Hollywood Video. I know that the MPAA is trying to target abuse, like people downloading and selling the recent "flash boobs, blow up buildings" movie, but honestly the abuse of these lawsuits is frightening. I mean, already, if you have a file on your server that has ANYTHING to do with the title of a movie, you will get e-mails and legal threats telling you to take it down. These lawsuits are frankly too easy to be frivilous with, and this is just going to be another excuse to violate civil liberties by monitoring peoples activities online.
I'm a true linux user. I don't use anything as advanced as slackware, I just shoved a penguin in my case. The computer doesn't do anything, and the penguin keeps trying to eat my processor, but at least my linux is more complicated than everyone elses!
Allow me to interject. I am a professional musician (no, you haven't heard of me) and when I write a song, or a piece of music, I am thrilled to see it end up on a P2P network. Frankly, I think it's a shame that it is so hard to be a musician without having to sign with a soulless record company who only wants the rights to your intellectual property. It would be nice if selling music were more like selling your house. If you don't want to use a gigantic record corp., you put the music out yourself! Now, how would you put the music out yourself? P2P? Brilliant! It's so easy to assume the moral high ground in jumping down P2P users throats, but it's actually a very useful thing to upcoming musicians. If people don't know you they can't like you, and most people are not going to go out and buy stacks of CDs from people they know nothing about. But people are going to do genre searches, and if they come across your stuff, they are going to be able to like it, and then if they like it, they will support it.
I like that the photo of Lance shows that he was sponsored by AMD.