Re:They're so gonna get sued by Pixar
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GDC - BANG! Howdy
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The only similarity between the characters of "Toy Story 2" and "Bang! Howdy" is the gunslinger and the old codger. Now, I'm no lawyer (thankfully), but if a character bears a slight resemblence to another character it's no big deal, happens all the time. If they renamed all the gunslingers Jessie and all the old codgers Prospector, well, that could be a problem. No harm no foul.
Yes, it's pretty. But more importantly I feel like the functionality is there as well. I guess I'm going to force myself to make this work on my current Gentoo box.
While pearLyrics was not open source, it was free. Slashdot has covered the happenings of many non-free software items (can you say Windows?). I see this as very relevant.
The problem is this, the music industry sees P2P as being detrimental to their wallet size by nature. If I go out and buy a CD, I'm either going to rip each and every track of sound to my desktop as cute little MP3's, or go download a torrent of the tracks and the cover art. How that is a copyright violation is beyond me. I padded their wallets, gave the band their $0.50, and got the music I wanted. I really hate to say it, but fair use is my best friend.
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The only similarity between the characters of "Toy Story 2" and "Bang! Howdy" is the gunslinger and the old codger. Now, I'm no lawyer (thankfully), but if a character bears a slight resemblence to another character it's no big deal, happens all the time. If they renamed all the gunslingers Jessie and all the old codgers Prospector, well, that could be a problem. No harm no foul.
Yes, it's pretty. But more importantly I feel like the functionality is there as well. I guess I'm going to force myself to make this work on my current Gentoo box.
While pearLyrics was not open source, it was free. Slashdot has covered the happenings of many non-free software items (can you say Windows?). I see this as very relevant.
The problem is this, the music industry sees P2P as being detrimental to their wallet size by nature. If I go out and buy a CD, I'm either going to rip each and every track of sound to my desktop as cute little MP3's, or go download a torrent of the tracks and the cover art. How that is a copyright violation is beyond me. I padded their wallets, gave the band their $0.50, and got the music I wanted. I really hate to say it, but fair use is my best friend.
Go download the MP3's.