Also, I make $17/hour. So, that hour and a half on Kazaa spent gathering an album actually costs $25.50! I can get it from iTunes for $9.99! iTunes is cheaper than Kazaa!
I think it was Henry David Thoreau who said civil disobedience is the willingness to do the time. He refused to pay taxes and willingly sat in jail for it.
Did you just compare Thoreau's civil disobedience to a 15-year-old girl having a black market collection of Britney Spears songs?
I think it's good to protect ownership of creative content but protecting the right of a company to make a profit by distributing music made by someone else has little to do with any issue of creativity or authorship.
The artists voluntarily sign the contracts. Stop acting like the RIAA swoops in and takes all the music some garage band makes, sells it for millions, and gives the band $100 in exchange. The artists sign the contract. They make the choice. They choose to give over the rights to their music in the hopes that they might get rich. If they get screwed in the deal, it's their own fault. They should have stayed independent. Then they could voluntarily put their music on as many P2P networks as they wanted.
She's says there's nothing on the site or the software warning users they could be doing something illegal. She also claims she didn't know the software allowed others to tap into her computer to get those songs. It's known as 'file sharing'.
First of all, most of these jobs are fairly easy to get. Wedding photographer? Take a few classes at the local community college, buy some equipment, and put an ad in the paper. Yeah, it might take some skill and some work to make $100,000 in six months, but if you can do it, then good for you.
Longshoremen? Blue-collar shipping jobs don't rank very high as the toughest jobs to get. And many blue-collar jobs pay pretty high salaries. People don't do them because they don't like the job.
Airport skycap and real estate agent jobs also aren't hard to get. Like the article says, anyone can be a real estate agent.
If a company wants to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for a public speaker, good for them. And people LOVE their sports teams and their movie stars, so they'll happily pay for tickets to games and movies and buy the latest box set DVD crap they can get their hands on.
In a free market, prices are usually set by demand and competition. So most prices are fair. If a baseball team is getting enough money to pay someone millions of dollars, then let them. And if a movie makes hundreds of millions of dollars because of a big name actor, then that person should be paid tens of millions of dollars or whatever the studio thinks that person is worth. They're not going to see the movie because of the great grip work done by David Ketterick.
If you don't like it, don't see movies with "overpaid" actors, don't go to sporting events with overpaid athletes, don't buy products or the stock of businesses with overpaid CEOs.
The job I can't believe didn't make the list was members of Congress. They get paid almost $200,000 a year for working about six months and they vote on their own pay raises. AND I pay for it with MY tax dollars, which I have less of a choice in than whether or not I should shell out $8 to see the latest Disney movie.
How long do you think that any mainstream journalist who made a story of this would have a job for? The answer - not long.
Oh, gimme a break. Who's getting fired for unearthing government coverups if they actually exist? No one.
Ya know, both the "left" and the "right" claim that either side controls the media with a "vast _____ conspiracy" and it's just crap. If there is biased reporting, it's mostly due to laziness. There's no grand scheme by any media giant to sway the American people either way. There may be pockets, but it's not widespread and it's not organized. There's just too many people involved.
But for some reason, human beings LOVE conspiracy theories.
I think there's a conspiracy to make up stories about conspiracies.
I'm reading a lot of posts along the lines of "Most movies suck so I'm not going to pay for them," or "Maybe if the majority of movies didn't suck so much there wouldn't be so much piracy," or "Movies aren't worth paying for because they suck so bad."
But if these movies suck so bad, why are you wasting your bandwidth downloading them, your hard drive space storing them, and your time watching them?
To me, the real argument some people posting here should have is ""I'm a cheap bastard and $8 is too much for me," or "I don't care if it's illegal or who I hurt because I'm a k-rad rebel," or "Anyone who makes more money than me is evil," or "All content should be free. OpenSource forever!"
But all those arguments are obviously weak so people have to come up with some crap about fighting against "the man" and pretending they're some sort of digital Robin Hood.
I don't like some of the methods of the MPAA/RIAA either, but sometimes I think these P2P philosophers are just as bad with all the crap they spew.
Actually, maybe crappy songs flourish more on P2P. Or not crappy, but let's say songs you wouldn't normally buy. I'd never pay money for an Eminem CD. I'd be embarassed to admit it or have the CD seen lying around. But would I download it for free to act like a gangsta and hide my inner geek? (ala the beginning of 'Office Space') Maybe.
So, the RIAA was unsuccessful in trying to sue services such as Kazaa, but do you think that if the RIAA sues Kazaa users successfully (or gets the user to settle for thousands out of court) will the Kazaa users try to sue Kazaa because Kazaa didn't let them know about the illegal things that could be done with the software and get them sued?
It sounds unlikely to me, but with all the crazy stuff that's been going on in the courts lately. I mean the class action lawsuit against McDonalds for making addictive, heart clogging burgers should be out any day now...
Anyone know if KDE/Gnome or even Xfree is planning something like this? I heard talk about multiple X servers, but its not out of the box simple use, of even possible.
If you use gdm to login, add the line "1=Standard" after "0=Standard" in your gdm.conf. If you use kdm I think you just add the line ":1 local@tty1/usr/X11R6/bin/X vt8" after the line ":0 local@tty1/usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7"
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Also, I make $17/hour. So, that hour and a half on Kazaa spent gathering an album actually costs $25.50! I can get it from iTunes for $9.99! iTunes is cheaper than Kazaa!
Unless you work at McDonalds...
But if they're not using Kazaa software, they never agreed to anything.
Did you just compare Thoreau's civil disobedience to a 15-year-old girl having a black market collection of Britney Spears songs?
Not in Soviet Russia!
The artists voluntarily sign the contracts. Stop acting like the RIAA swoops in and takes all the music some garage band makes, sells it for millions, and gives the band $100 in exchange. The artists sign the contract. They make the choice. They choose to give over the rights to their music in the hopes that they might get rich. If they get screwed in the deal, it's their own fault. They should have stayed independent. Then they could voluntarily put their music on as many P2P networks as they wanted.
And still be playing in their parents' garage.
Hmmm. Sounds like the family should sue Kazaa.
Registering your business as an offshore company in order to avoid lawsuits isn't a great step towards making your company look legitimate.
Violating the rights of the artists.
Am I the only one who really doesn't care?
First of all, most of these jobs are fairly easy to get. Wedding photographer? Take a few classes at the local community college, buy some equipment, and put an ad in the paper. Yeah, it might take some skill and some work to make $100,000 in six months, but if you can do it, then good for you.
Longshoremen? Blue-collar shipping jobs don't rank very high as the toughest jobs to get. And many blue-collar jobs pay pretty high salaries. People don't do them because they don't like the job.
Airport skycap and real estate agent jobs also aren't hard to get. Like the article says, anyone can be a real estate agent.
If a company wants to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for a public speaker, good for them. And people LOVE their sports teams and their movie stars, so they'll happily pay for tickets to games and movies and buy the latest box set DVD crap they can get their hands on.
In a free market, prices are usually set by demand and competition. So most prices are fair. If a baseball team is getting enough money to pay someone millions of dollars, then let them. And if a movie makes hundreds of millions of dollars because of a big name actor, then that person should be paid tens of millions of dollars or whatever the studio thinks that person is worth. They're not going to see the movie because of the great grip work done by David Ketterick.
If you don't like it, don't see movies with "overpaid" actors, don't go to sporting events with overpaid athletes, don't buy products or the stock of businesses with overpaid CEOs.
The job I can't believe didn't make the list was members of Congress. They get paid almost $200,000 a year for working about six months and they vote on their own pay raises. AND I pay for it with MY tax dollars, which I have less of a choice in than whether or not I should shell out $8 to see the latest Disney movie.
Oh, gimme a break. Who's getting fired for unearthing government coverups if they actually exist? No one.
Ya know, both the "left" and the "right" claim that either side controls the media with a "vast _____ conspiracy" and it's just crap. If there is biased reporting, it's mostly due to laziness. There's no grand scheme by any media giant to sway the American people either way. There may be pockets, but it's not widespread and it's not organized. There's just too many people involved.
But for some reason, human beings LOVE conspiracy theories.
I think there's a conspiracy to make up stories about conspiracies.
Could Apple buy Motorola's semiconductor unit and would they have reason to do so?
Well, you could post the e-mail address right here on Slashdot. I'm sure we could help you out. :)
Ah, Slashdot. When Microsoft puts small print in its EULA, they're evil. When Kazaa does it, it's perfectly okay.
Look at the story of the 12-year-old girl sued by the RIAA. She said "I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it."
Couldn't this be the understanding of many Kazaa users? I'm paying a $29.95 fee (for Kazaa Plus), it's a legit company, how could this be illegal?
Does Kazaa warn its users in any way that they may be breaking the law? Is sharing on by default? The lawyers are salivating.
Yeah, because 12-year-old girls living in the projects love listening to the Rolling Stones.
I wonder if instead of "snow days" the students will be hoping for "crash days".
Sorry, dude. I don't scroll that way.
I'm confused as to how it's gambling. Gambling is a game of chance. This would be a game of skill. At least that's what I thought. No?
I'm reading a lot of posts along the lines of "Most movies suck so I'm not going to pay for them," or "Maybe if the majority of movies didn't suck so much there wouldn't be so much piracy," or "Movies aren't worth paying for because they suck so bad."
But if these movies suck so bad, why are you wasting your bandwidth downloading them, your hard drive space storing them, and your time watching them?
To me, the real argument some people posting here should have is ""I'm a cheap bastard and $8 is too much for me," or "I don't care if it's illegal or who I hurt because I'm a k-rad rebel," or "Anyone who makes more money than me is evil," or "All content should be free. OpenSource forever!"
But all those arguments are obviously weak so people have to come up with some crap about fighting against "the man" and pretending they're some sort of digital Robin Hood.
I don't like some of the methods of the MPAA/RIAA either, but sometimes I think these P2P philosophers are just as bad with all the crap they spew.
Actually, maybe crappy songs flourish more on P2P. Or not crappy, but let's say songs you wouldn't normally buy. I'd never pay money for an Eminem CD. I'd be embarassed to admit it or have the CD seen lying around. But would I download it for free to act like a gangsta and hide my inner geek? (ala the beginning of 'Office Space') Maybe.
So, the RIAA was unsuccessful in trying to sue services such as Kazaa, but do you think that if the RIAA sues Kazaa users successfully (or gets the user to settle for thousands out of court) will the Kazaa users try to sue Kazaa because Kazaa didn't let them know about the illegal things that could be done with the software and get them sued?
It sounds unlikely to me, but with all the crazy stuff that's been going on in the courts lately. I mean the class action lawsuit against McDonalds for making addictive, heart clogging burgers should be out any day now...
Isn't that similar to Freenet?
There are Apple ROM chips on the Mac motherboard that are made by Apple. So it's not just a software thing, it's a hardware thing.
I don't know how easy it is to "make your own Apple ROM". I would assume that it's NOT easy, because this could have been done before.
Motorola has been making the G4 for years. IBM has been making the G3. So why would this "conspiracy" of your just come out now?
If you use gdm to login, add the line "1=Standard" after "0=Standard" in your gdm.conf. If you use kdm I think you just add the line ":1 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt8" after the line ":0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7"
See, who says Linux isn't user friendly?
Quick, somebody patent it!