PERFORM - "Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act". Man, I wonder how many jiggers of Gin it took to come up with that acronym.
Of course, their enemies are the underground villianous organization, P.I.R.A.T.E. - "People Indiscriminately Ripping All They Enjoy". This is a job for the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (that's "United Network Command for Law and Enforcement" - for a thrill look up THRUSH).
Just the spot for an observation - I think the problem with 'double negatives' has to do with emotional versus logical thinkers. Emotional, or romantic types, see an extra negative as a cumulative emphasis - using a negative twice means a more forceful 'no' than just one. Logical, or classical types, see it as canceling like a mathematical operation. Of course it's not always that clear cut with lots of exceptions, as even an emotional type will read 'not false' as 'true', etc.
The meta-watchers - some kind of democratic public oversight, i.e., a free press and elections. Problem is there aren't enough meta-watchers participating, which allows unscrupulous characters to get in and modera^Wwatch.
What I want to know is how open are the Ibiquity HD standards - is it a published standard like DAB or DRM (the digital radio mondial, not the rights management thing) that you can work with on your own if you want, or is it closed, licensed and NDA encumbered?
Wow, I can see it now. New user clicks on "check email", sees "I Love You!" and clicks on the attachment. A popup window with a gun pointing out the screen appears and the message: "Alright buddy, this is a stickup - Type your bank account password in the field below and click 'submit' or everything in My Documents gets deleted!! I'm not kidding!!! Do it NOW!!!!"
Yep, just like this old fogie predicted, the piracy issues is evolving along nicely parallel to the 50's-60's "legalize marijuana" drug movement. Good luck, but we already know how it's going to turn out. I admire idealistic youth - they're young, they'll learn.
A small, plastic, brick-shaped 100 millilitre cartridge with methanol fuel that looks like an ink-jet printer cartridge
probably costs like an ink-jet printer cartridge too. But all it has to be is 'the best' and a certain class will be lining up to buy carts at $49.95 a pop, on company expense (think petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries).
Actually many Swedish (and other) bands encourage their fans to share their music
Certainly - and shouldn't a band have a choice whether to freely share it, or try to make a living from it without other people deciding it's going to be freely shared whether they want to sell it or not?
I wonder what the modern version of ABBA or whoever think's about freely giving away their work. Or if Volvo minds a Chinese company making an exact replica of their latest model.
Anyway, I've been watching the copyright situation for over 25 years - it's always the same thing. The players and circumstances change, but it's the same cops and robbers games. If you're on the consumer side of the fence, PB is great - if your a producer, it's a crime.
I have the distinct pleasure of informing you that no Swedish trademark and/or coypyright law is being violated, regardless of how the situation may or may not be under UK law.
Actually, that's kind of like the Barbary coast pirates of the late 18th century telling the US, England and France that they're not breaking any of the laws of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers. And before you cry about comparing copyright property trading with swashbuckling, ship-boarding, rum-swilling *pirates*, ask yourself, is a bank embezeller, quietly cooking the books and profiting by it any less a thief because s/he's not wearing a mask, holding a gun, demanding they put the money in the sack and making a dramatic get-away? PirateBay is just a high-tech, "white-collar" version of shoplifting DVD's, however you justify it to yourself.
Those are supported in the latest (2.6.16) linux kernels without having to add anything (I just upgraded Fedora core 4 to a 2.6.16 kernel) - then you can use dvb-apps to scan for stations and zap it to channels, plays with xine and mplayer, save the transport stream to disk, re-encode with mencoder, etc. I also have a Technisat Skystar2 card that works about the same for the free satellite stations.
My favorite cartoon version of an auto-pilot, from an ancient WB 'toon: Bugs Bunny and whoever are in an out of control airplane, so in desperation they press this big button labled "auto pilot". A door opens up, a cliche' looking Robot runs out, sees what's going on, grabs a parachute and jumpes out.
Actually there were plenty of 'all time' boneheaded ideas, not just those *obsoleted* by modern technology. Another one, of the zillions, I remember was a car with headlights that move when you turn the steering wheel. Or flywheel powered cars. In the micro-age, there's Quadraphonic (four channel) Sound, a much ballyhoo'd flop. Bubble memory, APL, magazine printable software distribution - the list goes on.
pretty myopic and self flattering of this age - I could pick up a 1950's copy of Popular Mechanics and find lots of stupendous techno-flops. One that comes to mind is a TV set with a built in 35mm slide viewer. You guys have no idea.
Well, it certainly drives way up the COST of doing pharmaceutical research in the US (and hence, ala the oil companies, the profit margin, wink wink nudge nudge) - only their customers have a steep demand curve: either pay us $500 for a month of pills or go home and suffer or die.
Buy a hunting hearing enhancing amplifier at the sporting goods store: $300 at most. Buy a regulated hearing aid from an audiologist: $5000.
Wow, it's true - be ignorant of history and it's as if you were born yesterday. From music law:
In 1917, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ruled that all uses of copyrighted work, even those for which a specific fee was not charged, required compensation.
So ASCAP became, in a sense, a collection agency for creators who did not have the time or resources to monitor thousands of outlets themselves. It would charge users a blanket fee, usually based on some percentage of their income, and then split it up among ASCAP's members.
But even though ASCAP's mission was legal, it took more than a decade to whip everyone into line, from hotel and restaurant owners to theater operators.
Radio finally signed up, too, though not happily. As recorded music gradually became the backbone of radio programming, ASCAP payments turned into an ever-growing expense - though in the bigger picture, still a modest one. In 1939, the dominant NBC network earned a $45.2 million profit on ad sales of $165 million. ASCAP's total charge to all of radio, NBC included, was $4.3 million. But that wasn't radio's only concern about ASCAP.
First, by the 1930s the major movie studios had bought up many music publishing houses, to ensure themselves a steady flow of music for films. As radio saw it, this tilted ASCAP policies toward Hollywood rather than radio.
Second, ASCAP had become virtually the only game in town for popular music - a fact that not only gave it muscle in dealing with licensees but enabled it to tightly control which writers could get into the lucrative ASCAP game.
I don't think I could ever be intimidated by an email - a registered snail mail from court or the bank, yes, but I've seen so much junk in email faking this and pretending that that I can't take *any* of it seriously. The only things I even bother with are expected mail, like when I place and order and receive email confirmation, it gets printed and filed. All unsolicited email is essentially trash. Family and friends use it just to wave hello - anything important is done over cell phone / vmail.
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PERFORM - "Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act". Man, I wonder how many jiggers of Gin it took to come up with that acronym.
Of course, their enemies are the underground villianous organization, P.I.R.A.T.E. - "People Indiscriminately Ripping All They Enjoy". This is a job for the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
(that's "United Network Command for Law and Enforcement" - for a thrill look up THRUSH).
Just the spot for an observation - I think the problem with 'double negatives' has to do with emotional versus logical thinkers. Emotional, or romantic types, see an extra negative as a cumulative emphasis - using a negative twice means a more forceful 'no' than just one. Logical, or classical types, see it as canceling like a mathematical operation. Of course it's not always that clear cut with lots of exceptions, as even an emotional type will read 'not false' as 'true', etc.
The meta-watchers - some kind of democratic public oversight, i.e., a free press and elections.
Problem is there aren't enough meta-watchers participating, which allows unscrupulous characters to get in and modera^Wwatch.
What I want to know is how open are the Ibiquity HD standards - is it a published standard like DAB or DRM (the digital radio mondial, not the rights management thing) that you can work with on your own if you want, or is it closed, licensed and NDA encumbered?
Wow, I can see it now. New user clicks on "check email", sees "I Love You!" and clicks on the attachment. A popup window with a gun pointing out the screen appears and the message: "Alright buddy, this is a stickup - Type your bank account password in the field below and click 'submit' or everything in My Documents gets deleted!! I'm not kidding!!! Do it NOW!!!!"
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those on a power strip.
Yep, just like this old fogie predicted, the piracy issues is evolving along nicely parallel to the 50's-60's "legalize marijuana" drug movement. Good luck, but we already know how it's going to turn out. I admire idealistic youth - they're young, they'll learn.
A small, plastic, brick-shaped 100 millilitre cartridge with methanol fuel that looks like an ink-jet printer cartridge
probably costs like an ink-jet printer cartridge too. But all it has to be is 'the best' and a certain class will be lining up to buy carts at $49.95 a pop, on company expense (think petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries).
Actually many Swedish (and other) bands encourage their fans to share their music
Certainly - and shouldn't a band have a choice whether to freely share it, or try to make a living from it without other people deciding it's going to be freely shared whether they want to sell it or not?
I wonder what the modern version of ABBA or whoever think's about freely giving away their work. Or if Volvo minds a Chinese company making an exact replica of their latest model.
Anyway, I've been watching the copyright situation for over 25 years - it's always the same thing. The players and circumstances change, but it's the same cops and robbers games. If you're on the consumer side of the fence, PB is great - if your a producer, it's a crime.
I have the distinct pleasure of informing you that no Swedish trademark and/or coypyright law is being violated, regardless of how the situation may or may not be under UK law.
Actually, that's kind of like the Barbary coast pirates of the late 18th century telling the US, England and France that they're not breaking any of the laws of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers. And before you cry about comparing copyright property trading with swashbuckling, ship-boarding, rum-swilling *pirates*, ask yourself, is a bank embezeller, quietly cooking the books and profiting by it any less a thief because s/he's not wearing a mask, holding a gun, demanding they put the money in the sack and making a dramatic get-away? PirateBay is just a high-tech, "white-collar" version of shoplifting DVD's, however you justify it to yourself.
I wonder if female airline pilots object to it being called a "cockpit" - shouldn't they insist it be called a "chicken-pit"?
Those are supported in the latest (2.6.16) linux kernels without having to add anything (I just upgraded Fedora core 4 to a 2.6.16 kernel) - then you can use dvb-apps to scan for stations and zap it to channels, plays with xine and mplayer, save the transport stream to disk, re-encode with mencoder, etc. I also have a Technisat Skystar2 card that works about the same for the free satellite stations.
My favorite cartoon version of an auto-pilot, from an ancient WB 'toon: Bugs Bunny and whoever are in an out of control airplane, so in desperation they press this big button labled "auto pilot". A door opens up, a cliche' looking Robot runs out, sees what's going on, grabs a parachute and jumpes out.
Actually there were plenty of 'all time' boneheaded ideas, not just those *obsoleted* by modern technology. Another one, of the zillions, I remember was a car with headlights that move when you turn the steering wheel. Or flywheel powered cars. In the micro-age, there's Quadraphonic (four channel) Sound, a much ballyhoo'd flop. Bubble memory, APL, magazine printable software distribution - the list goes on.
pretty myopic and self flattering of this age - I could pick up a 1950's copy of Popular Mechanics and find lots of stupendous techno-flops. One that comes to mind is a TV set with a built in 35mm slide viewer. You guys have no idea.
Ahem
There is *no* amount of time saving software that can make up for all the time *wasted* rebooting.
Hahahah - you have obviously underestimated the irresistible power of the Quarterly Balance Sheet.
Did you mean the "First Weird War" ?
All it takes to throw the entire open source revolution into chaos and disarray is one well aimed chair-throw.
That's why we let in the illegal aliens.
Well, it certainly drives way up the COST of doing pharmaceutical research in the US (and hence, ala the oil companies, the profit margin, wink wink nudge nudge) - only their customers have a steep demand curve: either pay us $500 for a month of pills or go home and suffer or die.
Buy a hunting hearing enhancing amplifier at the sporting goods store: $300 at most. Buy a regulated hearing aid from an audiologist: $5000.
Wow, it's true - be ignorant of history and it's as if you were born yesterday.
From music law:
In 1917, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ruled that all uses of copyrighted work, even those for which a specific fee was not charged, required compensation.
So ASCAP became, in a sense, a collection agency for creators who did not have the time or resources to monitor thousands of outlets themselves. It would charge users a blanket fee, usually based on some percentage of their income, and then split it up among ASCAP's members.
But even though ASCAP's mission was legal, it took more than a decade to whip everyone into line, from hotel and restaurant owners to theater operators.
Radio finally signed up, too, though not happily. As recorded music gradually became the backbone of radio programming, ASCAP payments turned into an ever-growing expense - though in the bigger picture, still a modest one. In 1939, the dominant NBC network earned a $45.2 million profit on ad sales of $165 million. ASCAP's total charge to all of radio, NBC included, was $4.3 million. But that wasn't radio's only concern about ASCAP.
First, by the 1930s the major movie studios had bought up many music publishing houses, to ensure themselves a steady flow of music for films. As radio saw it, this tilted ASCAP policies toward Hollywood rather than radio.
Second, ASCAP had become virtually the only game in town for popular music - a fact that not only gave it muscle in dealing with licensees but enabled it to tightly control which writers could get into the lucrative ASCAP game.
relentless campaign of email intimidation
I don't think I could ever be intimidated by an email - a registered snail mail from court or the bank, yes, but I've seen so much junk in email faking this and pretending that that I can't take *any* of it seriously. The only things I even bother with are expected mail, like when I place and order and receive email confirmation, it gets printed and filed. All unsolicited email is essentially trash. Family and friends use it just to wave hello - anything important is done over cell phone / vmail.