If I stream directly from the physical CD, and guarantee that only one client can receive the stream, then I'm effectively using the internet as a glorified audio cable. Surely this must be legal! As soon as it stops getting ACKs to the streaming packets, it stops sending packets, and somebody else can access the CD. Of course, it requires a massive jukebox somewhere with enough copies of CDs to keep concurrent requests happy. But really, it's just the online equivalent of a library. If the call in an "online library" instead of naming after a service the courts have already decided infringed on copyright, it just might be successful. Has anybody patented online libraries yet?
It doesn't sound any more useful than grepping through the source for calls to strcpy and sprintf... any cluefull developers would have fixed those problems already.
Discrimination can only cause economic harm to the discriminator. Especially in an environment where there is another willing seller on the next corner. In theory, since discrimation is it's own punishment, it should require no government intervention. In a truly free market, companies that discriminate would simply go out of business.
Anybody care to correlate this chart with the amount of money the RIAA members have spent promoting this music? Basically, if you spend $30 million trying to shove an album down the public's throat, you probably should get upset about people downloading it for free; you run the risk of not recouping your advertising costs. Of course, the fault must be in those freeloaders, and not in their whole business model...
Linux is no harder to install than Win2K. I think what you mean to say is that preinstalling the OS on your computer is worth $200 to you. This is certainly true if your time is worth $50/hour or more.
This is a excellent analogy; the Pinkerton men were almost universally hated assholes who made a habit out of violating people's rights and using strongarm tactics to do their master's bidding. When companies needed somebody to beat up strikers to end a strike, who did they call? Pinkerton.
Damn straight! And anybody driving 1 mph over the speed limit should be treated like a criminal too! And people driving without wearing their seatbelts should be given the death sentence!
Remember, folks: if you go to the bathroom during the commercials, you are stealing that television broadcast!
Didn't we learn anything from prohibition? If half the population routine violate a law, then perhaps it makes more sense to change the law than to put half the population in jail.
Isn't this exactly like the candle manufacturers suing the electric utilities, claiming electricity will cause massive job loss? On the other hand, what are all those losers whose only skill is having a big mouth and being able to follow a script going to do for a living now?
... and that's why the inventors of fire, the wheel, the spear, and the bow and arrow held out for a patent before releasing their inventions.
Men are driven by a desire to create, usually for the common good. For most of history, these inventions were freely copied, or protected only as "trade secrets", e.g. only if a competitor could figure out how to duplicate my processes could he duplicate my product. The last 200 years have been an historical anomaly, predicated on the illusion that ideas are physical property. All ideas are built on previous ideas. Imagine if every company building a mechanical device had to pay royalties to the holders of patents on the lever, the inclined plane, the screw, the ball bearing, and the axle. Don't you think that would tend to stifle innovation, rather than promote it?
would universal healthcare here in the US be a potential job saver since employers would no longer be compelled to foot the cost of health insurance?
Huh? The money to pay for that health care has to come out of somewhere. If employers aren't footing the bill directly, then employers and employees are footing the bill through taxes. Either way, your standard of living doesn't improve just because they're taking the money out of your left pocket instead of your right pocket.
Uh, if you're on a motorcycle, it's probably not a good idea to piss off the clueless jerk in the SUV unless you're *really* certain you can outrun him, lest you become a smudge on his front bumper. Also, the police may tend to view this as "assault". One more thing -- in some places, the other driver would just say (to paraphrase Sean Connery): "Stupid motorcyclist, bringing a bag of rocks to a gunfight!"
266MHz is definately not fast enough to do MPEG 2 decompression without dropping frames, or support some of the newer 3D games. Other than that, it's fast enough to do anything you would want to do in your car. But can I run SETI@home on it?
I've been complaining recently that every stereo should have a USB port for playing music off of USB flash cards or external USB drives. Now there is one! Hope this suceeds in the market!
And if I want to buy the artist's masterpiece, take it home, and paint Mickey Mouse(TM) into the middle of it, so what? It's mine, I bought and paid for it, I should be allowed to do anything I want with it. Now, if I asked the artist to paint Mickey into the scene, I could reasonably expect the artist to refuse. But I'm not buying directly from artists. I'm buying from corporations that pay the artists for "work for hire". These corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize shareholder returns. If that means the Disneyfication of the Sistine Chapel, then so be it!
Suppose you live in a community where the bible-thumping majority has driven the competition away and all that is left are the community standards promoting variety?
Do what people in the bible belt have always done: patronize those mail-order firms that promise to send you merchandise in a "plain brown wrapper"! I've always been nervous about shopping in "adult" establishments anyway -- afraid I'll run into my paster/priest/rabbi in there!
I think it's absurd that almost every Oscar-winning movie made in the last decade has an R rating, so I can't watch them with my daughter. And I think if people want to read literature without the "f" word on every page, they should be able to buy a copy without it. It's all about choice, giving the customer what they want. The old excuses don't fly anymore; we have the technology to publish-on-demand print, audio, and video media. Why are we still stuck with an archaic "one size fits all" distribution philosophy?
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If I stream directly from the physical CD, and guarantee that only one client can receive the stream, then I'm effectively using the internet as a glorified audio cable. Surely this must be legal! As soon as it stops getting ACKs to the streaming packets, it stops sending packets, and somebody else can access the CD. Of course, it requires a massive jukebox somewhere with enough copies of CDs to keep concurrent requests happy. But really, it's just the online equivalent of a library. If the call in an "online library" instead of naming after a service the courts have already decided infringed on copyright, it just might be successful. Has anybody patented online libraries yet?
Wow! He actually casts doubt on SCO's claims! That must have taken a legal genius! Certainly something none of the nerds on
I guess Britney and all the other pop stars are screwed now that they can't use their wireless microphones in the UK!
It doesn't sound any more useful than grepping through the source for calls to strcpy and sprintf... any cluefull developers would have fixed those problems already.
Discrimination can only cause economic harm to the discriminator. Especially in an environment where there is another willing seller on the next corner. In theory, since discrimation is it's own punishment, it should require no government intervention. In a truly free market, companies that discriminate would simply go out of business.
Anybody care to correlate this chart with the amount of money the RIAA members have spent promoting this music? Basically, if you spend $30 million trying to shove an album down the public's throat, you probably should get upset about people downloading it for free; you run the risk of not recouping your advertising costs. Of course, the fault must be in those freeloaders, and not in their whole business model...
So, if it costs you money when kids don't attend classes, why not just pay them to attend?
Linux is no harder to install than Win2K. I think what you mean to say is that preinstalling the OS on your computer is worth $200 to you. This is certainly true if your time is worth $50/hour or more.
40-bit AES "will keep government supercomputers busy for weeks"??? Try seconds!
If it translates to the local vernacular, then why does it say "species 6219" instead of "human", or "Seven of Nine" instead of "two of forty-five"???
Uh, maybe because it takes two years to translate a distro to Chinese?
The next big thing: horse hitch accessories on the front of cars!
This is a excellent analogy; the Pinkerton men were almost universally hated assholes who made a habit out of violating people's rights and using strongarm tactics to do their master's bidding. When companies needed somebody to beat up strikers to end a strike, who did they call? Pinkerton.
Remember, folks: if you go to the bathroom during the commercials, you are stealing that television broadcast!
Didn't we learn anything from prohibition? If half the population routine violate a law, then perhaps it makes more sense to change the law than to put half the population in jail.
Yes, but a 1km high tower makes a _much_ better target for terrorists...
Isn't this exactly like the candle manufacturers suing the electric utilities, claiming electricity will cause massive job loss? On the other hand, what are all those losers whose only skill is having a big mouth and being able to follow a script going to do for a living now?
Men are driven by a desire to create, usually for the common good. For most of history, these inventions were freely copied, or protected only as "trade secrets", e.g. only if a competitor could figure out how to duplicate my processes could he duplicate my product. The last 200 years have been an historical anomaly, predicated on the illusion that ideas are physical property. All ideas are built on previous ideas. Imagine if every company building a mechanical device had to pay royalties to the holders of patents on the lever, the inclined plane, the screw, the ball bearing, and the axle. Don't you think that would tend to stifle innovation, rather than promote it?
Are you saying that if my grandparents were infertile, then chances are my parents and me will be infertiles too?
Huh? The money to pay for that health care has to come out of somewhere. If employers aren't footing the bill directly, then employers and employees are footing the bill through taxes. Either way, your standard of living doesn't improve just because they're taking the money out of your left pocket instead of your right pocket.
Uh, if you're on a motorcycle, it's probably not a good idea to piss off the clueless jerk in the SUV unless you're *really* certain you can outrun him, lest you become a smudge on his front bumper. Also, the police may tend to view this as "assault". One more thing -- in some places, the other driver would just say (to paraphrase Sean Connery): "Stupid motorcyclist, bringing a bag of rocks to a gunfight!"
266MHz is definately not fast enough to do MPEG 2 decompression without dropping frames, or support some of the newer 3D games. Other than that, it's fast enough to do anything you would want to do in your car. But can I run SETI@home on it?
I've been complaining recently that every stereo should have a USB port for playing music off of USB flash cards or external USB drives. Now there is one! Hope this suceeds in the market!
And if I want to buy the artist's masterpiece, take it home, and paint Mickey Mouse(TM) into the middle of it, so what? It's mine, I bought and paid for it, I should be allowed to do anything I want with it. Now, if I asked the artist to paint Mickey into the scene, I could reasonably expect the artist to refuse. But I'm not buying directly from artists. I'm buying from corporations that pay the artists for "work for hire". These corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize shareholder returns. If that means the Disneyfication of the Sistine Chapel, then so be it!
Do what people in the bible belt have always done: patronize those mail-order firms that promise to send you merchandise in a "plain brown wrapper"! I've always been nervous about shopping in "adult" establishments anyway -- afraid I'll run into my paster/priest/rabbi in there!
I think it's absurd that almost every Oscar-winning movie made in the last decade has an R rating, so I can't watch them with my daughter. And I think if people want to read literature without the "f" word on every page, they should be able to buy a copy without it. It's all about choice, giving the customer what they want. The old excuses don't fly anymore; we have the technology to publish-on-demand print, audio, and video media. Why are we still stuck with an archaic "one size fits all" distribution philosophy?