The part that's real great is that to be allowed to store data about people, the have to tell them that they are doing so. Before storing any information. "Hello, I'm from Antipiratbyrån and I want to put you all in jail." I can see them getting banned from every hub and tracker in no time.
HDDs are not yet covered by this fee - yet. Stuff covered by it includes recordable DVDs, CDs and MP3-players. The fee is some $0.03/megabyte for recordable media, for rewritable media it is about $0.06. Really, really fucked up, that's what it is. And as usual - no one gives a fuck. People just buy media cheap from Germany or Denmark...
"Don't think he speaks for the entertainment industry; he's an idiot even among those morons."
"Hi. I am a record company. I believe that I will sell more products if I make them worse, and charge unreasonable prices. And of course that customers like to get sued and generally screwed."
IMHO, nothing. Except that some margins and some links are too large, but that's minor. The posting interface is a bit, well, empty. But it's great to have another site make the move to CSS - especially slashdot. I love how people rant about IE rendering CSS wrongly on a site designed with ancient HTML and almost no CSS.
Ok, what idiot modded this overrated? It is clearly informative. Piratbyrån ("The pirate bureau") is an anti-copyright, non-profit organization. Antipiratbyrån ("The anti-pirate bureau") is the MPAA and BSA's face in Sweden. They do not represent the music industry, a common misconception. Piratbyrån's name is a pun on Antipiratbyrån. Piratbyrån is also against software patents, and has often figured in Swedish TV.
The incident refered to by the Grandparent was in March. Antipiratbyrån made a raid on the Swedish ISP Bahnhof, which incidentally happened to be in the same building. Four servers were confiscated by the police, they were thought to contain copyrighted material. The disks were encrypted, so no luck there. Later it was revealed by a group of hackers that an employee of Antipiratbyrån had planted the material on the servers. FYI, we're talking a few hundred gigabytes. Email conversations between the employee and Antipiratbyrån were published on antipiratbyråns webpage, which was hacked. Bahnhof later published a report (not available in English) about the incident, claiming that Bahnhof had nothing to do with it, and that Antipiratbyrån themselves were guilty.
And I really can't figure out how the fuck it can possibly, even in a worst case scenario, deprive someone of their income when I copy a legally bought CD to my computer. Yes, Mr. Recording industry, I will buy the record again. I think that they just write "private copying" in the law, because if they wrote piracy people would think piracy was legal (Note: it should be imho). So in practice, we are taxed to compensate for a crime we may not have intentions to commit, and before we have commited it. Messed up, to say the least.
Well... I'd guess with some kind of advertising scheme. Maybe an additional fee to use it to communicate with the other part of the sale.
Oh, and by the way. I love your documentation for the Unreal2Engine server query protocol, I wrote a modulefor python using it.:)
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It is unfair to the product to show a custom interface. "Look this is the new IE7 beta, but I changed it." He could at least have taken screenshots with the standard interface, which I still hope does not like those screenshots.
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IE7 is still a poor ripoff. Look at the UI, completely fucked up. What is up with the main menu so far down and the buttons all spread out?
Exactly, there is no reason why a webbased service should have as high, if not higher, prices as a physical store. Cutting middlemen, anyone? One that's cut is the shipping to the store. Do they lower prices because of that? No. That money goes into the pocket of some other middleman, and definately not to the artist who deserves it the most. Do you know how much the artist get from each ITMS download? About 2 cents.
There is also no reason that all songs should be priced the same. I know some songs that are 20 minutes long, even more that are in the 12-15 minute span. Should they cost as much as a 2:50 overplayed hit song?
But, much music is made for ages that do not have good salaries. $20 simply is not reasonable for a CD. Just because people pay for it does not mean it is a good prize.
I bought two CDs today, horribly expensive, and then there is the trip to the store and back. I'd love to buy the same music online, but you know what? Out of general principle, I'm not buying anything with DRM. Also, afaik, all stores require a credit card, which I do not have. And the artist still only gets about 2 cents per song. Why don't they use the technology to cut middlemen, and give more to the artist or lower prices?
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"God help them if they install rootkits."
I don't think that idiom means what you think it means.
Then what's an anarchy?
"You, sir, obviously don't have children." You must be new here.
The part that's real great is that to be allowed to store data about people, the have to tell them that they are doing so. Before storing any information. "Hello, I'm from Antipiratbyrån and I want to put you all in jail." I can see them getting banned from every hub and tracker in no time.
You're right, I made a typo. It's $0.0003 and $0.0006/megabyte, respectively.
You misspelled Soviet ;)
HDDs are not yet covered by this fee - yet. Stuff covered by it includes recordable DVDs, CDs and MP3-players. The fee is some $0.03/megabyte for recordable media, for rewritable media it is about $0.06.
Really, really fucked up, that's what it is. And as usual - no one gives a fuck. People just buy media cheap from Germany or Denmark...
"Don't think he speaks for the entertainment industry; he's an idiot even among those morons."
"Hi. I am a record company. I believe that I will sell more products if I make them worse, and charge unreasonable prices. And of course that customers like to get sued and generally screwed."
You forgot ????????.
Then someone else will come up with a better product and the first company will go out of business or make an equivalent or better product.
IMHO, nothing. Except that some margins and some links are too large, but that's minor. The posting interface is a bit, well, empty. But it's great to have another site make the move to CSS - especially slashdot. I love how people rant about IE rendering CSS wrongly on a site designed with ancient HTML and almost no CSS.
Why wait when there is BitTorrent?
Ease of communication. If the storm is named it is possible to know which storm people are talking about.
Ok, what idiot modded this overrated? It is clearly informative.
Piratbyrån ("The pirate bureau") is an anti-copyright, non-profit organization. Antipiratbyrån ("The anti-pirate bureau") is the MPAA and BSA's face in Sweden. They do not represent the music industry, a common misconception.
Piratbyrån's name is a pun on Antipiratbyrån. Piratbyrån is also against software patents, and has often figured in Swedish TV.
The incident refered to by the Grandparent was in March. Antipiratbyrån made a raid on the Swedish ISP Bahnhof, which incidentally happened to be in the same building. Four servers were confiscated by the police, they were thought to contain copyrighted material. The disks were encrypted, so no luck there. Later it was revealed by a group of hackers that an employee of Antipiratbyrån had planted the material on the servers. FYI, we're talking a few hundred gigabytes. Email conversations between the employee and Antipiratbyrån were published on antipiratbyråns webpage, which was hacked.
Bahnhof later published a report (not available in English) about the incident, claiming that Bahnhof had nothing to do with it, and that Antipiratbyrån themselves were guilty.
And I really can't figure out how the fuck it can possibly, even in a worst case scenario, deprive someone of their income when I copy a legally bought CD to my computer. Yes, Mr. Recording industry, I will buy the record again.
I think that they just write "private copying" in the law, because if they wrote piracy people would think piracy was legal (Note: it should be imho). So in practice, we are taxed to compensate for a crime we may not have intentions to commit, and before we have commited it. Messed up, to say the least.
The point missed you, obviously.
Well... I'd guess with some kind of advertising scheme. Maybe an additional fee to use it to communicate with the other part of the sale.
:)
Oh, and by the way. I love your documentation for the Unreal2Engine server query protocol, I wrote a modulefor python using it.
It is unfair to the product to show a custom interface. "Look this is the new IE7 beta, but I changed it." He could at least have taken screenshots with the standard interface, which I still hope does not like those screenshots.
IE7 is still a poor ripoff. Look at the UI, completely fucked up. What is up with the main menu so far down and the buttons all spread out?
I'd love to pay for the music I listen to, I did it today, but the prices are still to high for me to do it more often.
"You don't need the latest britney spears hit to survive." I disilke anything even remotely similar to that bitch. Please excuse me as I throw up.
"Doesn't mean you can just take them when you want." Piracy != Theft.
"The whole point of a music career is to make a living producing and performing music." I thought it was to make good music?
My point is that you are wrong, music is not reasonably prized today and just because people buy it, it does not mean that prices are OK.
Exactly, there is no reason why a webbased service should have as high, if not higher, prices as a physical store. Cutting middlemen, anyone? One that's cut is the shipping to the store. Do they lower prices because of that? No. That money goes into the pocket of some other middleman, and definately not to the artist who deserves it the most. Do you know how much the artist get from each ITMS download? About 2 cents.
There is also no reason that all songs should be priced the same. I know some songs that are 20 minutes long, even more that are in the 12-15 minute span. Should they cost as much as a 2:50 overplayed hit song?
But, much music is made for ages that do not have good salaries. $20 simply is not reasonable for a CD. Just because people pay for it does not mean it is a good prize.
I bought two CDs today, horribly expensive, and then there is the trip to the store and back. I'd love to buy the same music online, but you know what? Out of general principle, I'm not buying anything with DRM. Also, afaik, all stores require a credit card, which I do not have. And the artist still only gets about 2 cents per song.
Why don't they use the technology to cut middlemen, and give more to the artist or lower prices?
Actually, the internet has proved that this theory is false.