I like Matchbox 20 (no flaming, please)... I'd be happy to hand Rob Thomas $15 for the CD. I'm not happy handing the RIAA $14.75 and the band $0.25 for the CD.
They aren't watching out for the singers/songwriters... they're watching out for themselves.
The problem is that the RIAA is in the marketing business. The Internet allows bands to market themselves much easier than they could in the past. The RIAA is becoming less and less of a necessity to the record insdustry.
They are simply trying to justify their existance.
Only if you looked at it straight on. If you looked at the screen from an angle, you'd still see what's directly behind it, not what you should see at an angle through a transparent screen.
Look at the disposable DVDs that they've been toying with for a while... Once you open it, you can watch for 48 hours, then it ceases to be functional.
That is great in the rental arena (except that most smaller rental places make most of their money on late fees, except for Blockbuster, restocking fee in their case)
Now, imagine all of the DVDs that you buy are suddenly replaced with the same product. What's so bad about that? You certainly have time to watch the movie at least two or three times in a 48 hour period. What's the problem with that?
Well, a lot if the price doesn't change. I'm not going to continue to pay some ~$20 for a movie I only get to watch once.
However, change the price to about $0.50-1.00 and you've got yourself a deal.
"if you just want to watch a film once, but don't want to keep the tape, you can pay a smaller amount but you have to give it back a couple of days later."
Okay, I want the song for good.. I'll pay $5 for the song and I want the "full quality that I don't have to give back in a few days" version.
The problem is, that doesn't exist.... well, not unless you buy all of the other songs, too.
If that's the case, when you visit my blog and you make a copy of the page to be stored in your web cache, can I sue you for making a copy of my copyrighted work?
I may totally be misunderstanding what you are saying, but am I close?
Let's compare to VCR... Would you say that if you measured all of the time that VCRs in America are in RECORD mode they are recording TV shows more or less than 30% of that time?
Also consider that recording TV shows on your VCR is illegal.
Speaking of the VCR. Have you ever had one? Have you ever recorded anything on it legally? If so, what? Please share.
I bought an Alienware PC last June. It came preinstalled with XP-Homo Edition and it was not preactivated. It never asked me to activate for several days, then up it came... I did have to activate it myself.
Or you buy a ticket to one movie, see it, then sneak into another movie. Too expensive to pay for both... but oh well, according to what you see on the screen before the movie, they're getting record-breaking sales right now anyways.
Maybe you shouldn't be a musician if you think that it's not financially viable.
What if I were to go into business selling ice to eskimos. Well, it's pretty stupid considering the eskimos aren't willing to pay for ice.
If you're convinced that people aren't willing to pay for your music, then you should do something more worthwhile with your time.
If you think that enough people are willing to pay for it that it makes it worth your while, then go for it. Otherwise, it's a bad business decision to do that for a living.
I've always said the same thing about cable tv. They go on TV and claim that if you're not paying for it, it's theft. Well, if you don't want me watching it, don't put your cables in my house carrying the signal. IMHO, whatever is in my house is mine.
How did he infringe on your right to sell it? You still have the right to sell it... even to him in this case, being that you did. But even if you didn't sell it to him, he only prevented you from selling it to him. Not from selling it in general.
If I notice on my caller id that a telemarketer is calling me and I refuse to answer the phone, have I infringed upon his right to sell his product?
Hell, what if I answer my phone... and I tell him I don't want it. Have I infringed upon his right to sell his product?
Even if you are running a trojan that is acting as a web server. The thing will still ask if you want to allow it to run. Typical users will just say yes to everything... hell, they all log on to Citibank to update their account information three times a week.
Oh, and don't forget to update your account details at eBay three times this week, too.
Oh, I didn't mention this in my last post, but you can (if you are managing the workstation in a Corporate environment) enable/disable the firewall via policy as well as based on where the computer is connected. If it is connected to the Corporate domain on the LAN, disable it. If they are at Starbucks, enable it. All automatically.
You can configure as well as enable/disable the firewall via Group Policy. If you are managing Windows XP desktops in a corporate environment as I am, you can simply disable the firewall via policy BEFORE you deploy the Service Pack and you shouldn't have any firewall-related problems.
It says no late fees. However, all they really did is give you an additional 7 days before it's late.
What was it before? 5 days? How about this...
Change the due date to 1 day later (overnight) then say that there are no late fees ever again as long as you return it within 4 days past the due date.
How about baseball bats? There is no legitimate use for that except to play a game... but hell, it's games we're trying to ban, right? You can certainly kill someone with a baseball bat... and with a car, you're right... but I don't see them trying to stop me from driving to a baseball game any time soon.
I have two legit uses for my guns, home defense and sport shooting. Baseball bat: home defense? and sporting. What's the difference?
They must be in some kind of relationship with Microsoft, changing standards whenever it suits them best.
Isn't the DVD a standard format? Wouldn't this deviate from the standard?
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I like Matchbox 20 (no flaming, please)... I'd be happy to hand Rob Thomas $15 for the CD. I'm not happy handing the RIAA $14.75 and the band $0.25 for the CD.
They aren't watching out for the singers/songwriters... they're watching out for themselves.
The problem is that the RIAA is in the marketing business. The Internet allows bands to market themselves much easier than they could in the past. The RIAA is becoming less and less of a necessity to the record insdustry.
They are simply trying to justify their existance.
Only if you looked at it straight on. If you looked at the screen from an angle, you'd still see what's directly behind it, not what you should see at an angle through a transparent screen.
Look at the disposable DVDs that they've been toying with for a while... Once you open it, you can watch for 48 hours, then it ceases to be functional.
That is great in the rental arena (except that most smaller rental places make most of their money on late fees, except for Blockbuster, restocking fee in their case)
Now, imagine all of the DVDs that you buy are suddenly replaced with the same product. What's so bad about that? You certainly have time to watch the movie at least two or three times in a 48 hour period. What's the problem with that?
Well, a lot if the price doesn't change. I'm not going to continue to pay some ~$20 for a movie I only get to watch once.
However, change the price to about $0.50-1.00 and you've got yourself a deal.
"If I buy a cd or a dvd, I am its owner, nobody else."
It is still owned by the copyright holder, not you. You are only paying them for permission to watch it. They still own it.
"if you just want to watch a film once, but don't want to keep the tape, you can pay a smaller amount but you have to give it back a couple of days later."
Okay, I want the song for good.. I'll pay $5 for the song and I want the "full quality that I don't have to give back in a few days" version.
The problem is, that doesn't exist.... well, not unless you buy all of the other songs, too.
Then it's too bad someone didn't copywrite the "drag and drop". Could have made a shitload on that.
So my blog entries are copyrighted by me?
If that's the case, when you visit my blog and you make a copy of the page to be stored in your web cache, can I sue you for making a copy of my copyrighted work?
I may totally be misunderstanding what you are saying, but am I close?
Let's compare to VCR... Would you say that if you measured all of the time that VCRs in America are in RECORD mode they are recording TV shows more or less than 30% of that time?
Also consider that recording TV shows on your VCR is illegal.
Speaking of the VCR. Have you ever had one? Have you ever recorded anything on it legally? If so, what? Please share.
I bought an Alienware PC last June. It came preinstalled with XP-Homo Edition and it was not preactivated. It never asked me to activate for several days, then up it came... I did have to activate it myself.
Or you buy a ticket to one movie, see it, then sneak into another movie. Too expensive to pay for both... but oh well, according to what you see on the screen before the movie, they're getting record-breaking sales right now anyways.
It'll be posted again toomorrow, too. Do you have a point to make here?
Maybe you shouldn't be a musician if you think that it's not financially viable.
What if I were to go into business selling ice to eskimos. Well, it's pretty stupid considering the eskimos aren't willing to pay for ice.
If you're convinced that people aren't willing to pay for your music, then you should do something more worthwhile with your time.
If you think that enough people are willing to pay for it that it makes it worth your while, then go for it. Otherwise, it's a bad business decision to do that for a living.
I've always said the same thing about cable tv. They go on TV and claim that if you're not paying for it, it's theft. Well, if you don't want me watching it, don't put your cables in my house carrying the signal. IMHO, whatever is in my house is mine.
How did he infringe on your right to sell it? You still have the right to sell it... even to him in this case, being that you did. But even if you didn't sell it to him, he only prevented you from selling it to him. Not from selling it in general.
If I notice on my caller id that a telemarketer is calling me and I refuse to answer the phone, have I infringed upon his right to sell his product?
Hell, what if I answer my phone... and I tell him I don't want it. Have I infringed upon his right to sell his product?
Maybe... if you say so.
But still, what's the point?
Even if you are running a trojan that is acting as a web server. The thing will still ask if you want to allow it to run. Typical users will just say yes to everything... hell, they all log on to Citibank to update their account information three times a week.
Oh, and don't forget to update your account details at eBay three times this week, too.
Install a PIX firewall on your network... EVERYTHING stops working. Yes. That's right, you have to configure!
If you don't know how to configure your crappy little MS firewall, maybe you shouldn't be running your crappy little MS Web Server.
Oh, I didn't mention this in my last post, but you can (if you are managing the workstation in a Corporate environment) enable/disable the firewall via policy as well as based on where the computer is connected. If it is connected to the Corporate domain on the LAN, disable it. If they are at Starbucks, enable it. All automatically.
You can configure as well as enable/disable the firewall via Group Policy. If you are managing Windows XP desktops in a corporate environment as I am, you can simply disable the firewall via policy BEFORE you deploy the Service Pack and you shouldn't have any firewall-related problems.
It says no late fees. However, all they really did is give you an additional 7 days before it's late.
What was it before? 5 days? How about this...
Change the due date to 1 day later (overnight) then say that there are no late fees ever again as long as you return it within 4 days past the due date.
That's not the point. The point is, that they say in the sign that the fee isn't there... you do get charged, they say you don't.
I just bought idontgiveashit.com
A Windows Web server is more secure than a similarly set-up Linux server
I would have to agree. Windows IIS servers are insecure, if you set up an Apache server similarly (insecure), it will also be insecure.
How about baseball bats? There is no legitimate use for that except to play a game... but hell, it's games we're trying to ban, right? You can certainly kill someone with a baseball bat... and with a car, you're right... but I don't see them trying to stop me from driving to a baseball game any time soon.
I have two legit uses for my guns, home defense and sport shooting. Baseball bat: home defense? and sporting. What's the difference?
Guns protect more lives than they take. Australia took guns from their citizens. Do some research for yourself and see what happened.
I have two guns, I have never committed a crime in my life... other than downloading some music. Maybe if they took my guns, that would stop, too.
They must be in some kind of relationship with Microsoft, changing standards whenever it suits them best. Isn't the DVD a standard format? Wouldn't this deviate from the standard?