I agree mostly with your point. But you say, "Start voting with your dollars.". How can one start Start voting with their Dollars/Euro/Yen/Whatever change anything? Is there some shop that sells cd's below what the RIAA/IRMA/**** recommends? I know Itunes sells for 99c a song. But for a large proportion (maybe even a majority) of music lovers, we don't have a credit card, so are limited to buying in a local music store.
Here in Ireland I don't like buying music in the shop because of the extorsionate prices, tax+rrp+packaging+staff_wages throws the price way up. I'm lucky to find a cd I want under 18Euros. 18 for 10-14 songs just seems ludacris.
There are also other reasons I don't like buying music, but they are off-topic. Also, I realise it's easier to complain than to solve something. But I'm at a loss trying to solve this.
I agree with you. But there are places available online that maintain lists of addservers. For example, http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt is one such place. There is also software available to do this automatically, ZoneAlarm6 Pro can block certain adds. I've seen another, but can't remember the name of it, because I'm hungover. If the hosts file allowed regular expressions, it would be wonderfull, but it doesn't. I had a quick google for other methods of filtering adds, checking sourceforge there is, http://adzapper.sourceforge.net/ , http://filterproxy.sourceforge.net/ and maybe some others. I don't think those two mentioned run under windows though. Anyways, good luck and thanks for the reply.
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I agree mostly with your point. But you say, "Start voting with your dollars.". How can one start Start voting with their Dollars/Euro/Yen/Whatever change anything? Is there some shop that sells cd's below what the RIAA/IRMA/**** recommends? I know Itunes sells for 99c a song. But for a large proportion (maybe even a majority) of music lovers, we don't have a credit card, so are limited to buying in a local music store.
Here in Ireland I don't like buying music in the shop because of the extorsionate prices, tax+rrp+packaging+staff_wages throws the price way up. I'm lucky to find a cd I want under 18Euros. 18 for 10-14 songs just seems ludacris.
There are also other reasons I don't like buying music, but they are off-topic. Also, I realise it's easier to complain than to solve something. But I'm at a loss trying to solve this.
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I agree with you. But there are places available online that maintain lists of addservers. For example, http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt is one such place. There is also software available to do this automatically, ZoneAlarm6 Pro can block certain adds. I've seen another, but can't remember the name of it, because I'm hungover.
If the hosts file allowed regular expressions, it would be wonderfull, but it doesn't. I had a quick google for other methods of filtering adds, checking sourceforge there is, http://adzapper.sourceforge.net/ , http://filterproxy.sourceforge.net/ and maybe some others. I don't think those two mentioned run under windows though.
Anyways, good luck and thanks for the reply.
Try editing your hosts file. "addserver 127.0.0.1"