Please give us your reliable source that the labels pay a significant percentage of the royalties to the artists.
At no point have I claimed this.
My original challenge about not paying anything was because the original poster was acting as if it didn't hurt artists at all to pirate their material. This implies that getting 0% of royalties is just as good as getting 2.3%, which is clearly nonsense.
Remember: If Hollywood makes one movie out of a book, they suck because they cut out all those important scenes. If they make two movies, they suck because they are just trying to cash in.
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Please give us your reliable source that the labels pay a significant percentage of the royalties to the artists.
At no point have I claimed this.
My original challenge about not paying anything was because the original poster was acting as if it didn't hurt artists at all to pirate their material. This implies that getting 0% of royalties is just as good as getting 2.3%, which is clearly nonsense.
How about you point out a reliable source that says that labels pay nothing at all to artists?
Well that sure is a convenient lie to use to rationalize your piracy.
Remember: If Hollywood makes one movie out of a book, they suck because they cut out all those important scenes. If they make two movies, they suck because they are just trying to cash in.
So if you give information to WikiLeaks, you no longer have it yourself and can't release it?
So according to this quote, apparently WikiLeaks is now forcing people to be whistleblowers?
You think the labels don't actually pay their artists anything?
"Much of"? You think most of the traffic they generated wasn't for the latest movies, music and TV shows?
You are aware that Kim Dotcom is a guy who used to run a warez BBS and pay uploaders for uploading copyrighted software, right?
So without copyrights, software freedom 1 suddenly becomes unimportant?
Nothing to do with your font. Slashdot is just completely broken and silently eats all non-ASCII characters.
That's the funniest thing I've read all week.
The lack of evidence alone is proof of a conspiracy!
Terms of service don't overrule laws.
In most civilized countries, a company can in fact not do "whatever they want" with your data even if you give it to them.
Sircam? That's a pretty funny definition of "now".
Those are also encryption keys. They are most often used for signing, or for encrypting a symmetric key, but they are encryption keys.
You can with NaCl on Chrome.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if it was safer than Java, too.
Actually, comparing one pixel on my screen to a class-G star a couple lightyears away seems entirely reasonable.
Slashdot Editors Ignore. Strange Punctuation, In Headline.
It is pretty hard to argue why putting automatic emergency call systems in cars wouldn't be progress.
Maybe you enjoy dying when your car crashes, and would prefer to keep doing that?
Filled with exciting games like "Puzzle Moppet", "Plith" and "Minetest-c55".
No, no they didn't. They are anti-FOSS.
And they release so many large and widely used open source projects because... they hate it so much?
Neither Windows nor Mac OS X uses glibc, so it is not a problem. gcc uses the appropriate libc for the platform.
You "fixed" it to "but and", huh.