Does the Finnish government have copyrighted their copyright legislation?
If so, then we're cool. No other coutry can copy the legislation without paying the Finns big money, which they won't. Come to think of it, other countries can't even possess the tools to circumvent their copyright, that is, the formal authority to pass new copyright legislation. Cool!
Thus, I believe, DRM (hardware or software) will fail.
To be honest, I couldn't care less about the millions of schmucks that download their ringtones, as long as the geek community is around. There's no evidence that it's withering, quite the opposite I should think.
Mass and Energy sit on opposite sides, I'd like to remind you.
Just GPG one file full of passwords, and remember your GPG key.
I use one.gpg file per password (ascii armored), its filename being descriptive to the password eg: amazon-login.gpg. Even if the plaintext file gets forgotten behind or gets intercepted, you only lose one password. All files are encrypted to 2 gpg keys, the backup one being printed and stored permanently in a safe place in case I forget my primary one. Neither gpg key is kept online ever.
Secure enough for the collective value of my secrets./coralsaw
1. big dividends are in general bad. they tell investors that management does not have a clue about how to go on growing, so they want to get rid of all this (cheap) money they have accumulated in the company.
2. if i owned a profitable company with prospects of growning without external money, i would still go for an IPO. a) because i'd personally like to diversify my risk and not have all my eggs (shares) in one basket. b) because 'time' is of essence and growth is not tightly upper-bounded, so getting my hands on IPO money will help me grow it faster and stomp my competitors. c) because stock liquidity (stock being traded) increases its value (the risk is lower than if not traded). note that one can just IPO a small part of a company shares not necessarily all of it.
3. growth is indeed in the center of the stock market. an IPO has a business plan associated with it, telling potential investors what the company will do with the money they get. the company does not have to continue growing the eg. Poker business, it can eg. grow into adjacent lines of business, or even diversify.
For what it's worth, (my brother) is about to make a record. He's good, he's really really good. And you know what, we don't care a da*mn dime if you pirate our music.
Why? I'll give you two blindingly huge reasons why:
- we'll make more money by people getting to know the music, and coming to the gigs, than the pittance (do you actually know the end percentages?) we take of a record-label-produced CD.
- will-be-fans, eyballs and eardrums that care, that pay attention to the music, will go buy the CD anyway even if they have it in.WAV form. Because they like the cover, the CD, the packaging, the printed lyrics, on nice paper, in a nice box. Because it's a moral rule to go buy it. Can you identify with this? I bet you can.
Think for a moment what's the value in buying a work of art (because such it is)?
- because it rocks your world?
- because you care about what it talks?
- because it reminds you of your youth?
- because it makes you look cool?
-...
If you answer yes to any of the above reasons, you'll be a fan of our music and you'll buy the CD, and you'll come to the gigs, and we'll make money. If all answers are no, then you're just a passing car and we won't make money off you, unless we con you into buying a (payola) single track that's been hyped-up and much-played, and 11 other pieces of crap.
Because this is what happens today with the oligopoly that's called the music industry. Like any other organism, because they reproduce themselves, they (mostly) serve us crap. And will continue to do so unless this fresh wind blows them into the four corners of this world and into the past.
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Does the Finnish government have copyrighted their copyright legislation?
If so, then we're cool. No other coutry can copy the legislation without paying the Finns big money, which they won't. Come to think of it, other countries can't even possess the tools to circumvent their copyright, that is, the formal authority to pass new copyright legislation. Cool!
All your bases once more...
Thus, I believe, DRM (hardware or software) will fail.
To be honest, I couldn't care less about the millions of schmucks that download their ringtones, as long as the geek community is around. There's no evidence that it's withering, quite the opposite I should think.
Mass and Energy sit on opposite sides, I'd like to remind you.
Just GPG one file full of passwords, and remember your GPG key. I use one .gpg file per password (ascii armored), its filename being descriptive to the password eg: amazon-login.gpg. Even if the plaintext file gets forgotten behind or gets intercepted, you only lose one password. All files are encrypted to 2 gpg keys, the backup one being printed and stored permanently in a safe place in case I forget my primary one. Neither gpg key is kept online ever.
Secure enough for the collective value of my secrets. /coralsaw
1. big dividends are in general bad. they tell investors that management does not have a clue about how to go on growing, so they want to get rid of all this (cheap) money they have accumulated in the company.
2. if i owned a profitable company with prospects of growning without external money, i would still go for an IPO. a) because i'd personally like to diversify my risk and not have all my eggs (shares) in one basket. b) because 'time' is of essence and growth is not tightly upper-bounded, so getting my hands on IPO money will help me grow it faster and stomp my competitors. c) because stock liquidity (stock being traded) increases its value (the risk is lower than if not traded). note that one can just IPO a small part of a company shares not necessarily all of it.
3. growth is indeed in the center of the stock market. an IPO has a business plan associated with it, telling potential investors what the company will do with the money they get. the company does not have to continue growing the eg. Poker business, it can eg. grow into adjacent lines of business, or even diversify.
- we'll make more money by people getting to know the music, and coming to the gigs, than the pittance (do you actually know the end percentages?) we take of a record-label-produced CD.
- will-be-fans, eyballs and eardrums that care, that pay attention to the music, will go buy the CD anyway even if they have it in .WAV form. Because they like the cover, the CD, the packaging, the printed lyrics, on nice paper, in a nice box. Because it's a moral rule to go buy it. Can you identify with this? I bet you can.
Think for a moment what's the value in buying a work of art (because such it is)?
- because it rocks your world?
- because you care about what it talks?
- because it reminds you of your youth?
- because it makes you look cool?
- ...
If you answer yes to any of the above reasons, you'll be a fan of our music and you'll buy the CD, and you'll come to the gigs, and we'll make money. If all answers are no, then you're just a passing car and we won't make money off you, unless we con you into buying a (payola) single track that's been hyped-up and much-played, and 11 other pieces of crap.
Because this is what happens today with the oligopoly that's called the music industry. Like any other organism, because they reproduce themselves, they (mostly) serve us crap. And will continue to do so unless this fresh wind blows them into the four corners of this world and into the past.