Actually I'm the most forgiving person you would want to know, but before I forgive you you're going to have to 1 apologize and 2 make good on the harm you've done.
Nobody from Sony has done either one. I have recieved neither apology nor restitution for the damages they caused.
Since 1984 was dystopian, I fear that your account (which I haven't read yet) won't come to pass. I won't be around in 2076; at least, since I'm 55 now I sincerely hope not. As my grandmother told me when she was 95, "I don't know why people want to live to be a hundred, it ain't no fun bein' old!"
somebody motivated enough to obtain a false id would just pay off the right person at DMV to obtain a legitimate one
Well, that's exactly why Our last Governor is in a Federal prison right now. From the linked wiki article:
Ryan's political career was marred by a scandal involving the illegal sale of government licenses, contracts and leases by state employees during his prior service as Secretary of State; in the wake of numerous convictions of former aides, he chose not to run for reelection in 2002. The scandals are widely believed to have hurt Republicans' short- (and, perhaps long-) term chances for re-winning Illinois' governorship; state Attorney General Jim Ryan (no relation) lost to Rod Blagojevich in the 2002 election, ending 25 years of Republican governorships. All told, seventy-nine former state officials, lobbyists, truck drivers and others have been since charged in the investigation, and at least 76 have been convicted.
The corruption scandal that led to Ryan's downfall began over a decade earlier as a federal investigation into a deadly crash in Wisconsin that killed six children. The investigation revealed a scheme inside Ryan's secretary of state's office in which unqualified truck drivers obtained licenses through bribes. As the AP wrote: "The probe expanded over the next eight years into a wide-ranging corruption investigation that eventually reached Ryan in the governor's office."
(emphasis mine)
Or better yet: Perhaps we should stop all of this Orwellian nonsense to begin with and just accept the fact that we live in a dangerous world and I'd personally rather have my civil liberties and live with that basic fact then trade them in for the illusion of security.
It's so dangerous here that you won't get out of here alive! Everyone on the planet is under sentense of death. Since there is no security, it is madness to trade your liberty for it.
I haven't seeen anything he's written aside from the comment, but the comment wasn't very well written. Perhaps he's blaming "pirates" for not his not being able to sell his poor writing?
-mcgrew
Disclaimer: I write for free. If you don't like my stuff, your money is happily refunded. Also I'm untrained, somewhat like a dog who pisses on the floor.
A Black hole is an impossible object which makes the Universe work. It has the useful property of being "undetectable". It's like when your spouse comes home with a dent in the car, and blames it on an invisible black mass; the dent is proof of the black mass, but you can't, and never will be able to see it with CCTV cameras, but you know it's there. "Dark matter" is an equally undetectable force that causes cars to defy gravity, and hit invisible black holes. Astronomers will tell you that lots of them have spouses with dents in their cars, and can explain this is very technical terms, so you won't be able to understand why it's not possible.
Except I never said 99 cents. I've been saying they should be free from the get-go. I consider MP3s to be like the drug dealer;'s free hit; if the shit's good you'll buy more.
However, for a dime I'd probably downbload. But not RIAA fare, the dig's been biting its masters and should be taken to the vet and put down.
The mods seem to disagree with you; rather than flamebait, it's simply overrated. And my fan club would disagree with your assessment that "nobody likes me". Although I will admit I'm not that well liked by most anonymous cowards.
There's a device implanted in my left eye that replaces the focusing lens. From the dictionary:
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This cyborg/sabrg/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[sahy-bawrg] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation -noun a person whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a mechanical or electronic device.
My eye's focusing muscles operate the device, and like the natural lens, I don't have to even think about it. Like a young person's lens (which gets too stiff for the muscles to operate in middle age) all I have to do to focus is look at something. At age 55 I don't even need reading glasses!
Which illustrates my point exactly - if you don't use it you'll lose it. There's no point in studying Spanish unless you're going to be in a Spanish speaking country.
That doesn't make pot worse than manslaughter, it means that we have a broken legal system
That was entirely the point of the post. Linda didn't harm anyone, if the summary was correct (and from comments appears not to have been) this guy's actions could have done harm.
As it's been pointed out that it wasn't mediacl records that were destroyed, but rather insurance records, I think the guy should get a medal. I hate insurance companies; they only exist to capitalize on misfortune and the fear of it.
You don't see any CEOs, boards, or execs go to jail when they make multiple decisions that belly up the company do you?
No, but you should see it! I still can't figure out why no Sony execs went to the slammer for the rootkit.
Except, of course, for the facts that the world's governments and laws are for sale, and that no rich and powerful man ever goes to prison unless a richer and more powerful man wants him there.
Never, never, never trust these idiots. Don't run the risk that they will include some additional "content" but call it something other than DRM.
They will never have my business again. They proved themselves untrustworthy and only fools ask to be taken twice.
In other words, Once Bitten Twice Shy
Well the times gettin hard for you little girl Im a hummin and a strummin all over gods world You dont remember when you got your last meal And you forgot just how a woman feels You didnt know what rock n roll was Until you met a drummer on a greyhound bus I got there in the nick of time Before he got his hands across your state line
Well in the middle of the night On the open road And the heater dont work and its oh-so cold Youre gettin tired, youre lookin kinda beat The music of the street, drive you off your feet You didnt know how rock n roll looked Until you caught your sister with a guy from the group Half-way home in the parking lot By the look in her eyes she was givin what she got
Once bitten twice shy, babe
Woman youre a mess gonna die in your sleep All the blood on my hand and my les paul heat I cant leave you home cos youre runnin around My best friend told me youre the best trick in town
You didnt know that rock n roll burned So you bought a candle and you loved and you learned You got the rhythm, you got the speed Mammas little baby likes it short and sweet
Once bitten twice shy, babe
I didnt know ya got a rock n roll record Until a saw your picture on another guys jacket You told me I was the only one And look at you now, well its dark as its dumb
Troll? MAFIAA shills must have mod points today; I agree with you almost wholeheartedly. If you're trolling, then so am I. And here in Springfield we do our trolling offfline.
The two disagreements I have is that first, I think twenty cents is high for a NEW download. And second, stuff from the 1987 and before should be in the public domain and downloaded free and legal from P2P. That's twenty years. How is giving Janice Joplin a 200 year copyright going to entice her to sing? She's dead, Jim!
Take that to an extreme and it sounds silly. What other evil could be spoken of so? Say the RIAA were cannibals. You might then say That said, having all major labels stop eating babies is very good news, though, and I hope they are rewarded for it.
They shouldn't be rewarded because they became less evil, they should be punished for what they've done. If your dog pees on the carpet, a rolled up newspaper will do. If he fetches your slippers reward him. If he bites you, take him to the vet and have him put down.
Any company or entity that sues its customers (SCO, RIAA) is like the dog that bites its master and should be put down. The RIAA labels deserve the corporate death penalty, liquidation. Anyone who buys stock in such a company deserves to lose his money.
The RIAA should listen to you. MP3s should be, and are to you and me, promotional items to get you to buy the physical goods. Here's a tale I've told before and will tell again how NOT giving me an MP3 almost cost a sale.
When I heard Santana had a new album out (Supernatural, 1999) I went to CD Now! to have a listen. They then (and probably still do) had short twenty second clips of songs.
The more clips I heard the more disappointed I was. The Abraxas album blew me away when I got it way back when dirt was young, but Santana obviously lost it in geezerhood. Wanting to buy the album. after listening to the short clips I didn't.
Well, my daughter knew I liked Santana but didn't know I'd listened to the clips and thought the new album garbage, and bought the CD for me for Christmas that year.
It turned out to be a great album! Had they posted whole MP3s they would have sold it to me on the spot. After listening to the short clips, if my daughter hadn't bought it for me I'd not gotten a copy.
Give me the MP3s. If I like them I'll buy the CD. If I don't I'll delete them. MP3s only have value as a promotional item.
RIAA music isn't worth the money (maybe make it a dime and I'll buy it) nor is it worth the effort to torrent. I'll rip my MP3s from indie CDs, and if I want any RIAA MP3s I'll sample them off the damned radio, way less hassle than either legal or illicit internet downloads.
And the formats aren't good enough. I buy lossless music on CD, vinyl, and cassette. And download lossless indie files from archive.org. Here are some files from some old friends of mine in SHN. FOLAC, MP3 and Ogg format)
-mcgrew
(The linked diary is an account of the night I met Dave & company: "Holly walks up and starts chatting! Cool. She could be a movie star. The word 'Hollywood' takes on a whole new meaning.")
Sorry, bud, but 1. Sony is evil, I will not buy from Sony. 2. I'll rip my own MP3s from the CDs I buy from the indie bands I patronise 3. They're still suing their customers, I cannot in good consciense buy anything from an RIAA label. Suing your customers is the best way there is to go out of busines, and go out of business is exactly what all RIAA labels should do.
Nope, I still ain't buyin' RIAA music. Especially from those rootkit infested bastards at Sony.
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You have my vote!
Actually I'm the most forgiving person you would want to know, but before I forgive you you're going to have to
1 apologize and
2 make good on the harm you've done.
Nobody from Sony has done either one. I have recieved neither apology nor restitution for the damages they caused.
utopian science fiction *WITH* Real ID
Since 1984 was dystopian, I fear that your account (which I haven't read yet) won't come to pass. I won't be around in 2076; at least, since I'm 55 now I sincerely hope not. As my grandmother told me when she was 95, "I don't know why people want to live to be a hundred, it ain't no fun bein' old!"
"Your paperss pleasss!!"
"Um, but I only have a pipe, man."
"Zen you vill haff to come vith ME."
Well, that's exactly why Our last Governor is in a Federal prison right now. From the linked wiki article:(emphasis mine)
Or better yet: Perhaps we should stop all of this Orwellian nonsense to begin with and just accept the fact that we live in a dangerous world and I'd personally rather have my civil liberties and live with that basic fact then trade them in for the illusion of security.
It's so dangerous here that you won't get out of here alive! Everyone on the planet is under sentense of death. Since there is no security, it is madness to trade your liberty for it.
I haven't seeen anything he's written aside from the comment, but the comment wasn't very well written. Perhaps he's blaming "pirates" for not his not being able to sell his poor writing?
-mcgrew
Disclaimer: I write for free. If you don't like my stuff, your money is happily refunded. Also I'm untrained, somewhat like a dog who pisses on the floor.
That was serious, here's the link to the non-serious.More there...
Except I never said 99 cents. I've been saying they should be free from the get-go. I consider MP3s to be like the drug dealer;'s free hit; if the shit's good you'll buy more.
However, for a dime I'd probably downbload. But not RIAA fare, the dig's been biting its masters and should be taken to the vet and put down.
No, I don't have bionic ears. I have a bionic eye, though.
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
The mods seem to disagree with you; rather than flamebait, it's simply overrated. And my fan club would disagree with your assessment that "nobody likes me". Although I will admit I'm not that well liked by most anonymous cowards.
Since I linked the fans, I should point to the small list of slashdotters who hate me non-anonymously too. I mean, I should be fair, you think?
The Limeys are wearing off on me I guess. "Silly" does seem to be a particularly British word to my American ears.
An Irishman once told me how to tell if someone with a British accent is English, Scottish, or Irish: wait until a fly lands in his beer.
An Englishman will politely push the glass aside and order another.
The Scottsman will make a face, pick out the fly, throw the fly away and continue drinking.
The Irishman will take the fly by the wings and scream "spit it out you little bastard!"
Which illustrates my point exactly - if you don't use it you'll lose it. There's no point in studying Spanish unless you're going to be in a Spanish speaking country.
That doesn't make pot worse than manslaughter, it means that we have a broken legal system
That was entirely the point of the post. Linda didn't harm anyone, if the summary was correct (and from comments appears not to have been) this guy's actions could have done harm.
As it's been pointed out that it wasn't mediacl records that were destroyed, but rather insurance records, I think the guy should get a medal. I hate insurance companies; they only exist to capitalize on misfortune and the fear of it.
I find the implication that marijuana should be against the law because it shares some traits with alcohol hilarious as well!
You don't see any CEOs, boards, or execs go to jail when they make multiple decisions that belly up the company do you?
No, but you should see it! I still can't figure out why no Sony execs went to the slammer for the rootkit.
Except, of course, for the facts that the world's governments and laws are for sale, and that no rich and powerful man ever goes to prison unless a richer and more powerful man wants him there.
They will never have my business again. They proved themselves untrustworthy and only fools ask to be taken twice.
In other words, Once Bitten Twice Shy -Ian Hunter (MOTT the Hoople)
Glum? For the MAFIAA members. Not so glum for musicians and listeners, boith groups will be a lot better off with the albatross gone.
I found out after my divorce that when you have an albatross around your neck for 27 years, you miss it when it's gone. For a while, anyway.
-mcgrew
Troll? MAFIAA shills must have mod points today; I agree with you almost wholeheartedly. If you're trolling, then so am I. And here in Springfield we do our trolling offfline.
The two disagreements I have is that first, I think twenty cents is high for a NEW download. And second, stuff from the 1987 and before should be in the public domain and downloaded free and legal from P2P. That's twenty years. How is giving Janice Joplin a 200 year copyright going to entice her to sing? She's dead, Jim!
Free Steamboat Willie!
-mcgrew
...and says "Damn, Sony, your hands are COLD! How did I get stuck with YOU?"
(just having DRM isn't as bad as those darn silly rootkits)
"darn silly?" Monty Python is darn silly. Sony's rootkits are God damned burn-in-hell evil.
Take that to an extreme and it sounds silly. What other evil could be spoken of so? Say the RIAA were cannibals. You might then say That said, having all major labels stop eating babies is very good news, though, and I hope they are rewarded for it.
They shouldn't be rewarded because they became less evil, they should be punished for what they've done. If your dog pees on the carpet, a rolled up newspaper will do. If he fetches your slippers reward him. If he bites you, take him to the vet and have him put down.
Any company or entity that sues its customers (SCO, RIAA) is like the dog that bites its master and should be put down. The RIAA labels deserve the corporate death penalty, liquidation. Anyone who buys stock in such a company deserves to lose his money.
The RIAA should listen to you. MP3s should be, and are to you and me, promotional items to get you to buy the physical goods. Here's a tale I've told before and will tell again how NOT giving me an MP3 almost cost a sale.
When I heard Santana had a new album out (Supernatural, 1999) I went to CD Now! to have a listen. They then (and probably still do) had short twenty second clips of songs.
The more clips I heard the more disappointed I was. The Abraxas album blew me away when I got it way back when dirt was young, but Santana obviously lost it in geezerhood. Wanting to buy the album. after listening to the short clips I didn't.
Well, my daughter knew I liked Santana but didn't know I'd listened to the clips and thought the new album garbage, and bought the CD for me for Christmas that year.
It turned out to be a great album! Had they posted whole MP3s they would have sold it to me on the spot. After listening to the short clips, if my daughter hadn't bought it for me I'd not gotten a copy.
Give me the MP3s. If I like them I'll buy the CD. If I don't I'll delete them. MP3s only have value as a promotional item.
Such an obviously bad point.
RIAA music isn't worth the money (maybe make it a dime and I'll buy it) nor is it worth the effort to torrent. I'll rip my MP3s from indie CDs, and if I want any RIAA MP3s I'll sample them off the damned radio, way less hassle than either legal or illicit internet downloads.
And the formats aren't good enough. I buy lossless music on CD, vinyl, and cassette. And download lossless indie files from archive.org. Here are some files from some old friends of mine in SHN. FOLAC, MP3 and Ogg format)
-mcgrew
(The linked diary is an account of the night I met Dave & company: "Holly walks up and starts chatting! Cool. She could be a movie star. The word 'Hollywood' takes on a whole new meaning.")
Sorry, bud, but
1. Sony is evil, I will not buy from Sony.
2. I'll rip my own MP3s from the CDs I buy from the indie bands I patronise
3. They're still suing their customers, I cannot in good consciense buy anything from an RIAA label. Suing your customers is the best way there is to go out of busines, and go out of business is exactly what all RIAA labels should do.
Nope, I still ain't buyin' RIAA music. Especially from those rootkit infested bastards at Sony.