Don't be an idiot, Extremadura developed and deployed Linex, massively deployed in every single public (high)school in Extremadura; they know how to do it and what it costs.
I did my final project with Gumstices, developing a complete user manual and they are incredible.
You can have many kind of software running inside them and the connectivity is also awesome, USB-net, ethernet, bluetooth, wifi, and now gps (and probably more to come).
We set up a JamVM to test Java and also C and C++ small programs.
Was nice to work with those small pieces of hardware.
Uh, all musicians do this when they're starting out. It's a great bohemian lifestyle, but in the end it just doesn't pay the bills. In short: you need a day job, which means touring is right out.
No, my dormmate was young, but not the other I've seen, really.
I agree that to build up a family the tour should be finished, but still it can be carried out.
No, what I don't understant is the industry, the industry is the one killing the music. I've been in Denmark and every night many pubs/bars had live music, my dormmate was a musician who played in those places and in other cities as well.
What I can't get is the dynamic that the culture? of music has taken. I'm sure that is not only Denmark but also more countries where the music is alive and musicians live from live concerts instead of recording just a CD once a year or once a decade and can live from what they get from taxes like ours and from the sales of it.
I've seen another way of making and living music which is not this and where this taxes and that contracts have no room.
I think so, but you need to have the original.
The trick is to buy an original, make copies of it and share/give the copies as presents/gifts, and why not, the other people can contribute to buy the first (and last) original, so nobody breaks the law and everyone gets a copy of it.
This tax is one step further *away* from loosing your right to copy audio files. A step away from legally protected DRM.
Mmm, let's see with our next law.
And if you don't like the tax, buy harddrives.
Yes, it's a solution, but the people from SGAE (Spanish RIAA) wanted to add that tax to Internet connections, HDD and *ANY* other thing capable to play or download media.
Considering the pending obsolecence of shiny platic disks, this seems like a good thing for Spain.
Belive me if I say NO, you don't live here and you really don't know how many thousands of CD/DVD are burned every day.
Even so... if the original media is copy-protected you have no right to override it for copying, so you have no right to exercise your rights hehehe.
That's not necessarily true, our own laws are above what is written in media boxes since that messages are generic.
And do I have to cry for them? Maybe is better if they don't sell thei'd sole to the devil's and read the contract from time to time.
They're the ones who went to talk to the Goverment with the tagline: "Music is dying" while most of them earn more money in one day than what I'd probably see in all my life.
I don't know how will be just after the law, but before everybody (which inlcludes all kind of works, even goverment stuff) paid the tax (which actually was not a tax, but everyone paid it).
And what about when they decide to apply it to hard drives for all the reasons you stated?
Right now we're safe talking about that tax on internet connection and HDD but the SGAE also wanted to add the tax there.
Our Ministry of Industry refused to it while the -f*cking- ministry of Culture?, as well as SGAE, wanted to.
If I purchase media with this tax, does that give me the right to make copies of material I otherwise would not have the right to copy?
No, you need to have the original media.
I would hope you get some of the money with your personal photos.
I would hope to find media without that tax, like always you can find CD and DVD cheaper.
The people working on linux distros will get 0.0 Euros, you'll see that all the money will go to the SGAE (our RIAA) and they'll give te money (at least part) to the top teenager's groups.
No, you pay the tax just to use it for private copies, wich (now) means you have to have the original of the thing you're going to copy (the CD, DVD, VHS, whatever).
Just before this law was not implicit that you needed the original so P2P was completely legal in Spain.
Well, since some years we are paying that tax even though was not approved by our goverment, but our beloved SGAE (something like RIAA) made an agreement with the CD and DVD manufacturers and the part of tax we paid was even more money than what the blank media cost itself.
They collected the money before and probably they'll collect the money again after the goverment do it, 'cos they're a big pressure association.
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If you count that our social insurances are awesome and included: yes.
Don't be an idiot, Extremadura developed and deployed Linex, massively deployed in every single public (high)school in Extremadura; they know how to do it and what it costs.
Really? 9 months after it was announced it shows up in Slashdot? http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/02/10/economia/1297339319.html
I did my final project with Gumstices, developing a complete user manual and they are incredible. You can have many kind of software running inside them and the connectivity is also awesome, USB-net, ethernet, bluetooth, wifi, and now gps (and probably more to come). We set up a JamVM to test Java and also C and C++ small programs. Was nice to work with those small pieces of hardware.
Actually Extremadura's goverment launched a game distro: JuegaLinex.
Silly españoles.
Excuse me?
Uh, all musicians do this when they're starting out. It's a great bohemian lifestyle, but in the end it just doesn't pay the bills. In short: you need a day job, which means touring is right out. No, my dormmate was young, but not the other I've seen, really.
I agree that to build up a family the tour should be finished, but still it can be carried out.
No, what I don't understant is the industry, the industry is the one killing the music. I've been in Denmark and every night many pubs/bars had live music, my dormmate was a musician who played in those places and in other cities as well.
What I can't get is the dynamic that the culture? of music has taken. I'm sure that is not only Denmark but also more countries where the music is alive and musicians live from live concerts instead of recording just a CD once a year or once a decade and can live from what they get from taxes like ours and from the sales of it.
I've seen another way of making and living music which is not this and where this taxes and that contracts have no room.
That's why I don't give a shit for that groups.
I think so, but you need to have the original. The trick is to buy an original, make copies of it and share/give the copies as presents/gifts, and why not, the other people can contribute to buy the first (and last) original, so nobody breaks the law and everyone gets a copy of it.
This tax is one step further *away* from loosing your right to copy audio files. A step away from legally protected DRM.
Mmm, let's see with our next law.
And if you don't like the tax, buy harddrives.
Yes, it's a solution, but the people from SGAE (Spanish RIAA) wanted to add that tax to Internet connections, HDD and *ANY* other thing capable to play or download media.
Considering the pending obsolecence of shiny platic disks, this seems like a good thing for Spain. Belive me if I say NO, you don't live here and you really don't know how many thousands of CD/DVD are burned every day.
Even so... if the original media is copy-protected you have no right to override it for copying, so you have no right to exercise your rights hehehe. That's not necessarily true, our own laws are above what is written in media boxes since that messages are generic.
And do I have to cry for them? Maybe is better if they don't sell thei'd sole to the devil's and read the contract from time to time.
They're the ones who went to talk to the Goverment with the tagline: "Music is dying" while most of them earn more money in one day than what I'd probably see in all my life.
Probably yes, if you're associated with SGAE and your music/movies are popular enough, if not I guess that you won't see a cent.
I don't know how will be just after the law, but before everybody (which inlcludes all kind of works, even goverment stuff) paid the tax (which actually was not a tax, but everyone paid it).
And what about when they decide to apply it to hard drives for all the reasons you stated?
Right now we're safe talking about that tax on internet connection and HDD but the SGAE also wanted to add the tax there.
Our Ministry of Industry refused to it while the -f*cking- ministry of Culture?, as well as SGAE, wanted to.
If I purchase media with this tax, does that give me the right to make copies of material I otherwise would not have the right to copy? No, you need to have the original media.
I would hope you get some of the money with your personal photos. I would hope to find media without that tax, like always you can find CD and DVD cheaper.
The people working on linux distros will get 0.0 Euros, you'll see that all the money will go to the SGAE (our RIAA) and they'll give te money (at least part) to the top teenager's groups.
No, you pay the tax just to use it for private copies, wich (now) means you have to have the original of the thing you're going to copy (the CD, DVD, VHS, whatever).
Just before this law was not implicit that you needed the original so P2P was completely legal in Spain.
Well, since some years we are paying that tax even though was not approved by our goverment, but our beloved SGAE (something like RIAA) made an agreement with the CD and DVD manufacturers and the part of tax we paid was even more money than what the blank media cost itself.
They collected the money before and probably they'll collect the money again after the goverment do it, 'cos they're a big pressure association.