I have a friend whose child immediately had an epileptic seizure right after a vaccination and has been having seizures ever since. They collected money from "master fund". It happens.
A study of 10,000 Amish people found there are no autistic Amish people. Amish do not vaccinate. To me that is all the evidence I need right there.
A much better idea that would foil keyloggers is to present a user with a matrix of 3x3 or 4x4 pictures of animals and have users choose a password of three animals where they always click on the same animals in the same order. With random presentation of the animals it would make it impossible for anything other than video capture to steal all the information necessary to get into my account.
This crud where they ask you for the last four digits of your SS# in addition to your password does little to prevent a keystroke logger from recording that response as well and leaving me wide open to criminal use of my account.
Being a corporate IT security at large corporation I can tell you why google groups are blocked. If I am looking at porn on alt.binaries.erotica and a female co-worker walks up behind me she could sue for sexual harassment and say the company did not take adequate measures to prevent this situation. Basically they fear a lawsuit.
I have been writing some internal web applications for my corporation using Ruby on Rails. I will never go back to PHP or ASP.NET. Ruby on Rails lets me write things in 10 hours it would take me 50 hours to write in PHP. The framework is set up to make it easy for you to re-use code and stylesheets so you don't end up writing the same stuff over and over. I've written much more PHP code than Ruby code but I am already much more productive in RoR.
I love how small and compact RoR apps are. You end up with less lines of code and therefore project maintenance is so much easier. The "migrate" class is amazing. Gives you version control for your database schema. It really speeds up the development cycle.
Not only that but Ruby on Rails is fun to program in! Everything is so squeaky clean and organized. It gives you a good feeling and is much more readable than the old spaghetti code I used to write in PHP. Ruby on Rails has templating built in so you don't have to go install and learn some third party template program. I love it. I am so much more productive I am blowing away the other web developers who write in non-RoR frameworks. They have no chance at competing with me.
- SpamAssassin is now part of the Apache Software Foundation and has an
improved software license, the 2.0 version of the Apache License.
- SpamAssassin now includes support for SPF (the Sender Policy
Framework, http://spf.pobox.com/).
- Web site links contained in the message are checked against SURBL and
SBL. SURBL and SBL track sites that advertise with spam, known spam
sources, and spam services.
- The new 3.0 architecture allows third-parties to easily add plugin
modules.
- There is now SQL database support for both the Bayes and
auto-whitelist modules, allowing more large sites to easily deploy
SpamAssassin.
- A more accurate simulation of email client handling of MIME and HTML
improves our accuracy. In addition, there is better detection and
handling of spammer techniques that try to trick anti-spam software.
Important installation notes:
- The SpamAssassin 2.6x release series was the last set of releases to
officially support perl versions earlier than perl 5.6.1. If you are
using an earlier version of perl, you will need to upgrade before you
can use the 3.0.0 version of SpamAssassin.
- SpamAssassin 3.0.0 has a significantly different API (Application
Program Interface) from the 2.x series of code. This means that if
you use SpamAssassin through a third-party utility (milter, etc,) you
need to make sure you have an updated version which supports 3.0.0.
- The --auto-whitelist and -a options for "spamd" and "spamassassin" to
turn on the auto-whitelist have been removed and replaced by the
"use_auto_whitelist" configuration option which is also now turned on
by default.
- The "rewrite_subject" and "subject_tag" configuration options were
deprecated and are now removed. Instead, using "rewrite_header Subject
[your desired setting]". e.g.
- The Bayesian storage modules have been completely re-written and now
include Berkeley DB (DBM) storage as well as SQL based storage (see
sql/README.bayes for more information). In addition, a new format has
been introduced for the bayes database that stores tokens in fixed
length hashes. All DBM databases should be automatically converted to
this new format the first time they are opened for write. You can
manually perform the upgrade by running "sa-learn --sync" from the
command line.
The "sa-learn --rebuild" command has been deprecated; please use
"sa-learn --sync" instead. The --rebuild option will remain
temporarily for backwards compatibility.
- "spamd" now has a default max-children setting of 5; no more than 5
child scanner processes will be run in parallel. Previously, there
was no default limit unless you specified the "-m" switch when
starting spamd.
- If you are using a UNIX machine with all database files on local
disks, and no sharing of those databases across NFS filesystems, you
can use a more efficient, but non-NFS-safe, locking mechanism. Do
this by adding the line "lock_method flock" to the/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file. This is strongly recommended if
you're not using NFS, as it is much faster than the NFS-safe locker.
- Please note that the use of the following command line parameters for
spamassassin and spamd have been deprecated and are now removed. If
you currently use these flags, please remove them:
in the 2.6x series: --add-from, --pipe, -F, -P, --stop-at-threshold, -S
in the 3.0.x series: --auto-whitelist, -a
The real news here is not Bayes filtering or SURBL, but the totally rebuilt plug-in architecture of SA 3.0. Plug-ins for the 2.x version were quite a bit harder to write.
Version 3.0 will result in a proliferation of good third party plug-ins that are going to put SA into more direct competition with some of the commercial vendors out there.
Today I implemented a surefire way to combat spam at least until my way becomes popular:). We have a domain which I will call @ourcompany.com. Whenever anyone signs up for a mailing list or fills out any kind of Internet form, they use firstname_lastname-indicator@vmail.ourcompany.com. If suzy_smith wanted to sign up for the infotech newsletter, she would use the address suzy_smith-infotech@vmail.ourcompany.com. The qmail alias.qmail-vmail-suzy_smith-default picks up the email and forwards it to suzy_smith@ourcompany.com. If infotech sells the list to a spammer, we simply blacklist the infotech address or create an infotech alias that points to/dev/null. For the surefire no spam solution we block all Internet mail to suzy_smith@ourcompany.com and only allow email sent using the @vmail.ourcompany.com aliases. I expect to increase our blocking rate to 100% for users that care. And it is self administrating once I make a web form where they can block any alias that they are getting spam at. Oh, and when you get a message in your Notes/Outlook inbox, the To: address shows the full original To: address as suzy_smith-infotech@vmail.ourcompany.com so you know infotech is filthy dirty company that sold your address.
Please call 1-800-884-9510 from a pay phone. Look at the spam I got in my email box today. I called the number and they readily admitted they were spamming people.
Attention All School Staff, Personnel, and Students:
You Must Respond By 5 P.M. Thursday, December 11, 2003
Through a special arrangement, Avtech Direct is offering a limited allotment of BRAND NEW, top of-the-line, name-brand desktop computers at 50% off MSRP to all Teachers, Students, Faculty, and Staff who respond to this message before 5 P.M. Wednesday, December 10, 2003
All desktop computers are brand-new packed in their original boxes, and come with a full manufacturer's warranty plus a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
These professional grade Desktops are fully equipped with 2004 next generation technology, making these the best performing computers money can buy.
Avtech Direct is offering these feature rich, top performing Desktops with the latest Intel technology at an amazing price to all Teachers, and Students, Faculty and Staff who call:
1-800-884-9510 by 5 P.M. Thursday, December 11, 2003
Please call 1-800-884-9510 from a pay phone. Look at the spam I got in my email box today. I called the number and they readily admitted they were spamming people.
Attention All School Staff, Personnel, and Students:
You Must Respond By 5 P.M. Thursday, December 11, 2003
Through a special arrangement, Avtech Direct is offering a limited allotment of BRAND NEW, top of-the-line, name-brand desktop computers at 50% off MSRP to all Teachers, Students, Faculty, and Staff who respond to this message before 5 P.M. Wednesday, December 10, 2003
All desktop computers are brand-new packed in their original boxes, and come with a full manufacturer's warranty plus a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
These professional grade Desktops are fully equipped with 2004 next generation technology, making these the best performing computers money can buy.
Avtech Direct is offering these feature rich, top performing Desktops with the latest Intel technology at an amazing price to all Teachers, and Students, Faculty and Staff who call:
1-800-884-9510 by 5 P.M. Thursday, December 11, 2003
I will be filing with all three. Plus of course the daily calls to people at SCO complaining. Personally though, I think violence would be a better solution:)
With negative statements about the "long-term survivability of Linux", McBride has declared war on our community.
I called Blake Stowell of the SCO Group to complain let him know how I felt about what SCO is doing. (1-801-932-5703). I think we need to organize a phone drive to have about five million Linux users call SCO daily. Call their 1-800 number from payphones (50 cents a pop). Call any person at SCO we can get a phone number for. Tie up their lines so they can't conduct business and the press can't contact them.
It is time for war! SCO has no idea how tough the Linux community is. It is time for them to find out.
With negative statements about the "long-term survivability of Linux", McBride has declared war on our community.
I called Blake Stowell of the SCO Group to complain let him know how I felt about what SCO is doing. (1-801-932-5703). I think we need to organize a phone drive to have about five million Linux users call SCO daily. Call their 1-800 number from payphones (50 cents a pop). Call any person at SCO we can get a phone number for. Tie up their lines so they can't conduct business and the press can't contact them.
It is time for war! SCO has no idea how tough the Linux community is. It is time for them to find out.
Actually I have the database ready as a 15 meg bzipped csv file right now. I just need to find someone who can convert it to the mozilla.dat format and host it.
This is built from mail at my corporation which is probably close to 65% nonspam. However, this corpus is built from outside sources as well and then I have pieced together months of spam and nonspam messages as suits me. It is all very complicated.
This is a very clean corpus. The spam is 100% spam and the ham is over 99% ham. There may be a very occasional spam that made it into the ham, but for a database of mail this large, it is hard to be perfect.
It is not about winning. It is about preserving image. SCO's image was automatically weakened by this lawsuit and RHAT's strengthened. I don't believe they will have to spend much money on this. Already, SCO's stock has dropped 16% today after RHAT's lawsuit announcement. That is a good thing.
It's a lot like iTMS, but since you don't have to contract with the labels to offer their music, you can offer all the music out there instead of just a subset.
You are right about the effects of piracy, but the long term effects of Snapster 2.0 would be the opposite of what you describe.
About ten dollars of the cost of a CD ends up being getting the CD on a crowded shelf at Wal-Mart through big bucks advertising and promoting, and then there is the cost of physical distribution.
An electronic distribution method would greatly lower the cost of an album by allowing more of the direct profit to go directly to the artist. Much smaller sums of money could be spent advertising because you don't have to spend big advertising bucks just to get your product on the store shelf. An electronic store has no physical space constraints such as Wal-Mart is prone to.
Make no mistake, an electronic distribution model where the artist cashes in directly and the middleman is eliminated is the future. It promotes GREATER DIVERSITY of music because you are not limited to physical shelf space, and artists reap more direct monetary rewards from music downloads than they would record sales through the RIAA.
The only real losers are the record companies, who can help increase the GDP of the U.S.A. by doing something else. And if I save $10 bucks on a CD, I will spend that $10 bucks somewhere else, and of course the government will tax it. The whole "tax revenues" argument is ridiculous.
My idea is start up an online music store where people buy physical CD's. Once they buy the CD, they can also download the MP3 files associated with it, which is legally within their rights as new owners of the CD. The physical CD won't ship for 72 hours, so they have 72 hours to cancel their order. Then charge a 10% restocking fee if they cancel within the 72 hours, and request they delete any downloaded mp3's. Of course no one will delete the mp3's, so effectively they will have bought mp3's to the CD for 10% of the physical CD cost. And it is all legal. Even if the record companies choose to not sell them additional albums, they could buy them from individuals and sell them. A couple of CD's should last a while as long as people are canceling within the 72 hour period.
What would be interesting however, is if they charged 10 cents per song each shareholder generously decided to act as a backup factility for, and donated 5 of those cents to a trust fund for the artist.
Artists would almost overnight have millions of dollars in their trust fund. Ten million people downloading the latest hot album * 50 cents per album would be $5 million dollars. And the record companies would not be able to use 'you are killing the artist' argument.
Right now the artist is lucky to get fifty cents per album. If you lower the price of an album to $1 to $1.50, and distribute it online, you end up with the artist still getting.50 per album and selling many more copies at the cheaper price. People could burn their own cd's from the digital music.
This IS the business model of the future. It may take us twenty years to get there, but it will happen.
Make sure their web server is down 24x7 please. We should have enough expertise for some good old fashioned DNS poisoning, etc...
Robber barrons. If we find out they have nothing, which we may never..., I believe there should be a CRIMINAL law suit for extortion. Send these phonies to jail where they belong.
Slashdot Mirror
I have a friend whose child immediately had an epileptic seizure right after a vaccination and has been having seizures ever since. They collected money from "master fund". It happens.
A study of 10,000 Amish people found there are no autistic Amish people. Amish do not vaccinate. To me that is all the evidence I need right there.
This is unsolicited advise - but I would take your kids off of gluten if you haven't already. They will likely see a dramatic improvement.
A much better idea that would foil keyloggers is to present a user with a matrix of 3x3 or 4x4 pictures of animals and have users choose a password of three animals where they always click on the same animals in the same order. With random presentation of the animals it would make it impossible for anything other than video capture to steal all the information necessary to get into my account.
This crud where they ask you for the last four digits of your SS# in addition to your password does little to prevent a keystroke logger from recording that response as well and leaving me wide open to criminal use of my account.
Being a corporate IT security at large corporation I can tell you why google groups are blocked. If I am looking at porn on alt.binaries.erotica and a female co-worker walks up behind me she could sue for sexual harassment and say the company did not take adequate measures to prevent this situation. Basically they fear a lawsuit.
I have been writing some internal web applications for my corporation using Ruby on Rails. I will never go back to PHP or ASP.NET. Ruby on Rails lets me write things in 10 hours it would take me 50 hours to write in PHP. The framework is set up to make it easy for you to re-use code and stylesheets so you don't end up writing the same stuff over and over. I've written much more PHP code than Ruby code but I am already much more productive in RoR.
I love how small and compact RoR apps are. You end up with less lines of code and therefore project maintenance is so much easier. The "migrate" class is amazing. Gives you version control for your database schema. It really speeds up the development cycle.
Not only that but Ruby on Rails is fun to program in! Everything is so squeaky clean and organized. It gives you a good feeling and is much more readable than the old spaghetti code I used to write in PHP. Ruby on Rails has templating built in so you don't have to go install and learn some third party template program. I love it. I am so much more productive I am blowing away the other web developers who write in non-RoR frameworks. They have no chance at competing with me.
Major feature list:
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file. This is strongly recommended if
- SpamAssassin is now part of the Apache Software Foundation and has an
improved software license, the 2.0 version of the Apache License.
- SpamAssassin now includes support for SPF (the Sender Policy
Framework, http://spf.pobox.com/).
- Web site links contained in the message are checked against SURBL and
SBL. SURBL and SBL track sites that advertise with spam, known spam
sources, and spam services.
- The new 3.0 architecture allows third-parties to easily add plugin
modules.
- There is now SQL database support for both the Bayes and
auto-whitelist modules, allowing more large sites to easily deploy
SpamAssassin.
- A more accurate simulation of email client handling of MIME and HTML
improves our accuracy. In addition, there is better detection and
handling of spammer techniques that try to trick anti-spam software.
Important installation notes:
- The SpamAssassin 2.6x release series was the last set of releases to
officially support perl versions earlier than perl 5.6.1. If you are
using an earlier version of perl, you will need to upgrade before you
can use the 3.0.0 version of SpamAssassin.
- SpamAssassin 3.0.0 has a significantly different API (Application
Program Interface) from the 2.x series of code. This means that if
you use SpamAssassin through a third-party utility (milter, etc,) you
need to make sure you have an updated version which supports 3.0.0.
- The --auto-whitelist and -a options for "spamd" and "spamassassin" to
turn on the auto-whitelist have been removed and replaced by the
"use_auto_whitelist" configuration option which is also now turned on
by default.
- The "rewrite_subject" and "subject_tag" configuration options were
deprecated and are now removed. Instead, using "rewrite_header Subject
[your desired setting]". e.g.
rewrite_subject 1
subject_tag ****SPAM(_SCORE_)****
becomes
rewrite_header Subject ****SPAM(_SCORE_)****
- The Bayesian storage modules have been completely re-written and now
include Berkeley DB (DBM) storage as well as SQL based storage (see
sql/README.bayes for more information). In addition, a new format has
been introduced for the bayes database that stores tokens in fixed
length hashes. All DBM databases should be automatically converted to
this new format the first time they are opened for write. You can
manually perform the upgrade by running "sa-learn --sync" from the
command line.
The "sa-learn --rebuild" command has been deprecated; please use
"sa-learn --sync" instead. The --rebuild option will remain
temporarily for backwards compatibility.
- "spamd" now has a default max-children setting of 5; no more than 5
child scanner processes will be run in parallel. Previously, there
was no default limit unless you specified the "-m" switch when
starting spamd.
- If you are using a UNIX machine with all database files on local
disks, and no sharing of those databases across NFS filesystems, you
can use a more efficient, but non-NFS-safe, locking mechanism. Do
this by adding the line "lock_method flock" to the
you're not using NFS, as it is much faster than the NFS-safe locker.
- Please note that the use of the following command line parameters for
spamassassin and spamd have been deprecated and are now removed. If
you currently use these flags, please remove them:
in the 2.6x series: --add-from, --pipe, -F, -P, --stop-at-threshold, -S
in the 3.0.x series: --auto-whitelist, -a
- The following flags are de
The real news here is not Bayes filtering or SURBL, but the totally rebuilt plug-in architecture of SA 3.0. Plug-ins for the 2.x version were quite a bit harder to write.
Version 3.0 will result in a proliferation of good third party plug-ins that are going to put SA into more direct competition with some of the commercial vendors out there.
This is being done already on a large scale:
http://www.surbl.org/
I predict Janus will be broken within a month of release. The army of teenage hacker wannabes will not be stopped by mere encryption technologies.
Today I implemented a surefire way to combat spam at least until my way becomes popular :). We have a domain which I will call @ourcompany.com. Whenever anyone signs up for a mailing list or fills out any kind of Internet form, they use firstname_lastname-indicator@vmail.ourcompany.com. If suzy_smith wanted to sign up for the infotech newsletter, she would use the address suzy_smith-infotech@vmail.ourcompany.com. The qmail alias .qmail-vmail-suzy_smith-default picks up the email and forwards it to suzy_smith@ourcompany.com. If infotech sells the list to a spammer, we simply blacklist the infotech address or create an infotech alias that points to /dev/null. For the surefire no spam solution we block all Internet mail to suzy_smith@ourcompany.com and only allow email sent using the @vmail.ourcompany.com aliases. I expect to increase our blocking rate to 100% for users that care. And it is self administrating once I make a web form where they can block any alias that they are getting spam at. Oh, and when you get a message in your Notes/Outlook inbox, the To: address shows the full original To: address as suzy_smith-infotech@vmail.ourcompany.com so you know infotech is filthy dirty company that sold your address.
Can anyone find any holes in this?
Or I could just sell the spammer a list of the words from 300,000 message Bayesian database that are 1% probability tokens.
$50,000 gets you the whole 300,000 message Bayesian database.
lindsayleeds _at_ comcast.net
Pay up spammers.
Please call 1-800-884-9510 from a pay phone. Look at the spam I got in my email box today. I called the number and they readily admitted they were spamming people.
Attention All School Staff, Personnel, and Students:
You Must Respond By 5 P.M. Thursday, December 11, 2003
Through a special arrangement, Avtech Direct is offering a limited allotment
of BRAND NEW, top of-the-line, name-brand desktop computers at 50% off MSRP
to all Teachers, Students, Faculty, and Staff who respond to this message
before 5 P.M. Wednesday, December 10, 2003
All desktop computers are brand-new packed in their original boxes, and come
with a full manufacturer's warranty plus a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
These professional grade Desktops are fully equipped with 2004
next generation technology, making these the best performing
computers money can buy.
Avtech Direct is offering these feature rich, top performing
Desktops with the latest Intel technology at an amazing price
to all Teachers, and Students, Faculty and Staff who call:
1-800-884-9510 by 5 P.M. Thursday, December 11, 2003
Please call 1-800-884-9510 from a pay phone. Look at the spam I got in my email box today. I called the number and they readily admitted they were spamming people.
Attention All School Staff, Personnel, and Students:
You Must Respond By 5 P.M. Thursday, December 11, 2003
Through a special arrangement, Avtech Direct is offering a limited allotment
of BRAND NEW, top of-the-line, name-brand desktop computers at 50% off MSRP
to all Teachers, Students, Faculty, and Staff who respond to this message
before 5 P.M. Wednesday, December 10, 2003
All desktop computers are brand-new packed in their original boxes, and come
with a full manufacturer's warranty plus a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
These professional grade Desktops are fully equipped with 2004
next generation technology, making these the best performing
computers money can buy.
Avtech Direct is offering these feature rich, top performing
Desktops with the latest Intel technology at an amazing price
to all Teachers, and Students, Faculty and Staff who call:
1-800-884-9510 by 5 P.M. Thursday, December 11, 2003
I will be filing with all three. Plus of course the daily calls to people at SCO complaining. Personally though, I think violence would be a better solution :)
With negative statements about the "long-term survivability of Linux", McBride has declared war on our community.
I called Blake Stowell of the SCO Group to complain let him know how I felt about what SCO is doing. (1-801-932-5703). I think we need to organize a phone drive to have about five million Linux users call SCO daily. Call their 1-800 number from payphones (50 cents a pop). Call any person at SCO we can get a phone number for. Tie up their lines so they can't conduct business and the press can't contact them.
It is time for war! SCO has no idea how tough the Linux community is. It is time for them to find out.
With negative statements about the "long-term survivability of Linux", McBride has declared war on our community.
I called Blake Stowell of the SCO Group to complain let him know how I felt about what SCO is doing. (1-801-932-5703). I think we need to organize a phone drive to have about five million Linux users call SCO daily. Call their 1-800 number from payphones (50 cents a pop). Call any person at SCO we can get a phone number for. Tie up their lines so they can't conduct business and the press can't contact them.
It is time for war! SCO has no idea how tough the Linux community is. It is time for them to find out.
Actually I have the database ready as a 15 meg bzipped csv file right now. I just need to find someone who can convert it to the mozilla .dat format and host it.
This is built from mail at my corporation which is probably close to 65% nonspam. However, this corpus is built from outside sources as well and then I have pieced together months of spam and nonspam messages as suits me. It is all very complicated.
This is a very clean corpus. The spam is 100% spam and the ham is over 99% ham. There may be a very occasional spam that made it into the ham, but for a database of mail this large, it is hard to be perfect.
I will be making my 75,000 spam 75,000 nonspam database available as a download for Mozilla Bayesian soon.
It is not about winning. It is about preserving image. SCO's image was automatically weakened by this lawsuit and RHAT's strengthened. I don't believe they will have to spend much money on this. Already, SCO's stock has dropped 16% today after RHAT's lawsuit announcement. That is a good thing.
Yes, the customer is still in breach. But there is no way for the RIAA to prove it. Unless they put cameras in your house.
It's a lot like iTMS, but since you don't have to contract with the labels to offer their music, you can offer all the music out there instead of just a subset.
You are right about the effects of piracy, but the long term effects of Snapster 2.0 would be the opposite of what you describe.
About ten dollars of the cost of a CD ends up being getting the CD on a crowded shelf at Wal-Mart through big bucks advertising and promoting, and then there is the cost of physical distribution.
An electronic distribution method would greatly lower the cost of an album by allowing more of the direct profit to go directly to the artist. Much smaller sums of money could be spent advertising because you don't have to spend big advertising bucks just to get your product on the store shelf. An electronic store has no physical space constraints such as Wal-Mart is prone to.
Make no mistake, an electronic distribution model where the artist cashes in directly and the middleman is eliminated is the future. It promotes GREATER DIVERSITY of music because you are not limited to physical shelf space, and artists reap more direct monetary rewards from music downloads than they would record sales through the RIAA.
The only real losers are the record companies, who can help increase the GDP of the U.S.A. by doing something else. And if I save $10 bucks on a CD, I will spend that $10 bucks somewhere else, and of course the government will tax it. The whole "tax revenues" argument is ridiculous.
Fox
My idea is start up an online music store where people buy physical CD's. Once they buy the CD, they can also download the MP3 files associated with it, which is legally within their rights as new owners of the CD. The physical CD won't ship for 72 hours, so they have 72 hours to cancel their order. Then charge a 10% restocking fee if they cancel within the 72 hours, and request they delete any downloaded mp3's. Of course no one will delete the mp3's, so effectively they will have bought mp3's to the CD for 10% of the physical CD cost. And it is all legal. Even if the record companies choose to not sell them additional albums, they could buy them from individuals and sell them. A couple of CD's should last a while as long as people are canceling within the 72 hour period.
Fox
What would be interesting however, is if they charged 10 cents per song each shareholder generously decided to act as a backup factility for, and donated 5 of those cents to a trust fund for the artist.
.50 per album and selling many more copies at the cheaper price. People could burn their own cd's from the digital music.
Artists would almost overnight have millions of dollars in their trust fund. Ten million people downloading the latest hot album * 50 cents per album would be $5 million dollars. And the record companies would not be able to use 'you are killing the artist' argument.
Right now the artist is lucky to get fifty cents per album. If you lower the price of an album to $1 to $1.50, and distribute it online, you end up with the artist still getting
This IS the business model of the future. It may take us twenty years to get there, but it will happen.
Make sure their web server is down 24x7 please. We should have enough expertise for some good old fashioned DNS poisoning, etc...
Robber barrons. If we find out they have nothing, which we may never..., I believe there should be a CRIMINAL law suit for extortion. Send these phonies to jail where they belong.