Would someone remind me why it should be illegal to send unsolicited email?
I know why it should be illegal to setup a server in Russia to send 500 emails to the same person every day, but I don't see that as unsolicited email, but maybe a end-user denial-of-service attack.
Or a better question is, what is unsolicited email, and when does it become the stuff we hate, SPAM.
They should put on a CONCERT at a VENUE and sale TICKETS.
The touring bands are not the ones that care about p2p. I'm going to go see Widespread Panic tonight (Free MP3's Here), and I doubt they care that their music is swapped online. They probably encourage it. It'll bring more people to the shows.
Copyright law is just silly to me. The idea that someone could spend some small amount of time making a track, and then profiting from it for the rest of their life, just doesn't seem reasonable. And I'm a software developer. I want to get paid too. But that song just looks like 01001010010101010100101001010101001010010100101010 101001010101010010101...0101010101 to me. Nothing unique, and nothing that they can reasonably protect.
I'm going to write a binary code generator, and create every possible string of ones and zeros that I can, and then copyright all of them. They want to copyright a song, well to bad, I created it originally. Silly.
How can a company that is so hated make so much money without breaking laws and using unethical business practices.
Do you think any Microsoft user, I mean any one person in the free world who uses MS products, enjoys their experience? People who use their products complain, lose data, and then hand over money asking for more abuse. WTF!
Is it reasonable to think that file swapping of copyrighted material can be stopped?
It seems like the day is coming where everything is shared with everyone, and no one can really clam to own any information. I believe that would be/is a good thing. It's almost like Star Trek or something.
I believe that when I buy a cd, I'm paying more for the disk, cover, and jewel-case, than for the copy of the music.
No, farming is what masses of people do naturally.
The government giving money to people who only grow corn is a way of one body trying to control the nature of a people.
I'm thinking of the wildlife preserves. Say an invasive species enters, and the wildlife people try to get rid of it. They do something like introducing another species to kill off the invasive one. But, then their fix becomes the new problem.
Science is the nature of man. One body putting restrictions on that nature-of-man will have a hard time succeeding.
I believe that every effort we have made to control nature has failed.
If people started choosing the gender/make of their child, that will be come our nature. Every attempt, by one man or government body, to control nature, seems to fail.
The FCC should not be able to regulate VoIP, because it does not use the airwaves.
At the same time, the government should not allow cable co's to block VoIP, because the cable co's can not be allowed to monoplize the land lines.
If the cable co's want to sale Internet access, they have to let one use the Internet however they want. If all the cable co's want to block a port, or access to something, then the Government should step in and regulate. If the Government wants to allow the cable co's to block the way info is shared, VoIP or whatever, then the people should take to the streets.
Yep, Kerry would have won the election if more people hadn't voted for bush. Isn't that usually how elections work?
Key word there is usually. Not always, as Bush might tell you. Anyone remember Bush v. Gore?
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Would someone remind me why it should be illegal to send unsolicited email?
I know why it should be illegal to setup a server in Russia to send 500 emails to the same person every day, but I don't see that as unsolicited email, but maybe a end-user denial-of-service attack.
Or a better question is, what is unsolicited email, and when does it become the stuff we hate, SPAM.
They should put on a CONCERT at a VENUE and sale TICKETS.
0 101001010101010010101...0101010101 to me. Nothing unique, and nothing that they can reasonably protect.
The touring bands are not the ones that care about p2p. I'm going to go see Widespread Panic tonight (Free MP3's Here), and I doubt they care that their music is swapped online. They probably encourage it. It'll bring more people to the shows.
Copyright law is just silly to me. The idea that someone could spend some small amount of time making a track, and then profiting from it for the rest of their life, just doesn't seem reasonable. And I'm a software developer. I want to get paid too. But that song just looks like 0100101001010101010010100101010100101001010010101
I'm going to write a binary code generator, and create every possible string of ones and zeros that I can, and then copyright all of them. They want to copyright a song, well to bad, I created it originally. Silly.
A little off topic but...
How can a company that is so hated make so much money without breaking laws and using unethical business practices.
Do you think any Microsoft user, I mean any one person in the free world who uses MS products, enjoys their experience? People who use their products complain, lose data, and then hand over money asking for more abuse. WTF!
Is it reasonable to think that file swapping of copyrighted material can be stopped?
It seems like the day is coming where everything is shared with everyone, and no one can really clam to own any information. I believe that would be/is a good thing. It's almost like Star Trek or something.
I believe that when I buy a cd, I'm paying more for the disk, cover, and jewel-case, than for the copy of the music.
No, farming is what masses of people do naturally.
The government giving money to people who only grow corn is a way of one body trying to control the nature of a people.
I'm thinking of the wildlife preserves. Say an invasive species enters, and the wildlife people try to get rid of it. They do something like introducing another species to kill off the invasive one. But, then their fix becomes the new problem.
Science is the nature of man. One body putting restrictions on that nature-of-man will have a hard time succeeding.
I believe that every effort we have made to control nature has failed.
If people started choosing the gender/make of their child, that will be come our nature. Every attempt, by one man or government body, to control nature, seems to fail.
The more we are able to shape our world and our environment, the more god-like we become.
Does this ability make us more or less fit to survive?
I believe the job of the FCC is to stop communications from getting muddled.
If two people are trying to use the same frequency, you get interference.
If two people use different IP's for VoIP, you do not get interference, so the FCC has zero reasons to regulate it.
Could this effect VoIP?
The FCC should not be able to regulate VoIP, because it does not use the airwaves.
At the same time, the government should not allow cable co's to block VoIP, because the cable co's can not be allowed to monoplize the land lines.
If the cable co's want to sale Internet access, they have to let one use the Internet however they want. If all the cable co's want to block a port, or access to something, then the Government should step in and regulate. If the Government wants to allow the cable co's to block the way info is shared, VoIP or whatever, then the people should take to the streets.
Yep, Kerry would have won the election if more people hadn't voted for bush. Isn't that usually how elections work? Key word there is usually. Not always, as Bush might tell you. Anyone remember Bush v. Gore?