They have to be seriously bright kids to be able to post things completely anonymously, hiding all their tracks. The scenario you speak of is just the modern equivalent of writing insults on the locker, cutting up the saddle on the bike etc.
I think it's often quite easy. The page about Coca-Cola having a link to their website is natural. A page about "soft drinks" having a link to the coca-cola website is not. A wikipedia link to coca-cola would be ok.
I usually remove useless value-words like "[[foo]], a great drink from baristan", or links directly from a generic article to a website of a producer.
Not really, it's proof that some people get upset when the population starts to create things without any powerful body governing what they create. Personally I didn't need to see any proof to be sure of that.
Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law
This is China. Not United States. If you post a relevant link to the Chinese copyright laws and their notion of fair use, that would be informative and interesting.
I am advocating copyright infringement and I think this is a great idea. I hope more University students starts doing this if the lesser Universities gets threatened too much by the RIAA.
Ok? So you mean that Warner would spend hundreds of thousands to produce a new album with the latest pop star, and then don't sell it because then it would actually be worth something, so they would have to pay taxes?
Unfortunately it's probably not that easy. Let's continue with Sony as an example. You could argue that they want to keep the media division in order to have content to play on their locked-in hardware like MiniDisc and Blu-ray. Thus, even if they actually lose money on it, it's still important for them in a marketing sense.
This is a very interesting point, especially if you take into consideration that the people who don't play nice in this setting, won't disrupt the nice people's experience, and thus there's no need for any punishment or law against it.
In the real world were the people who don't believe in imaginary property lives, anyone that doesn't play nice can cause a lot of harm to us that do, so sometimes we need to write laws preventing people from harming others.
success of this sort will only lead to backlash and a more intense milking of the failing biz plan that they are clinging to
Which will lead to even less CD sales, more public outcry, and even more artists doing the same thing as NIN. Eventually, RIAA won't have any funds left to abuse us with, either by the member companies leaving, or the member companies bleeding dry.
Consider: all of the people who paid $300 for his special edition release, probably listen to many other artists as well. Would they spend $300, or anything close to it, for special edition releases of albums from all the other artists they like?
No, but all of those that didn't spend $300, but only bought the cheap $5 version, are also listening to a lot of other bands, and would probably buy the $300 collectors edition from some other artist that they love. As you say, people don't have the money to spend $300 on every artist they want to hear, no matter what RIAA claims. Most people do want to spend some amount of money on culture though, and things like this shows that they will do that, even if they can get the content for free by other means.
I thought all laptops had two antennas, at least my Thinkpad X40 from 2004 has. Just that you can't see them because they are hidden in the plastics next to the screen.
Yes, I think most of their fans disliked their signing to Spinefarm, but that doesn't change that all or most of the songs before 2006 was distributed through their website, in mp3 and ogg formats.
I think they said that their reason for signing with Spinefarm was that it was their only way to be able to get a gig at the big music festivals in Sweden, apparently they don't take on bands that are not on a label, even if they have a large fanbase.
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Or they ordered X of them and sold X, since the article clearly says they sold out.
They have to be seriously bright kids to be able to post things completely anonymously, hiding all their tracks. The scenario you speak of is just the modern equivalent of writing insults on the locker, cutting up the saddle on the bike etc.
Nothing new here, please move along.
I think it's often quite easy. The page about Coca-Cola having a link to their website is natural. A page about "soft drinks" having a link to the coca-cola website is not. A wikipedia link to coca-cola would be ok.
I usually remove useless value-words like "[[foo]], a great drink from baristan", or links directly from a generic article to a website of a producer.
Not really, it's proof that some people get upset when the population starts to create things without any powerful body governing what they create. Personally I didn't need to see any proof to be sure of that.
From your link:
Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright lawThis is China. Not United States. If you post a relevant link to the Chinese copyright laws and their notion of fair use, that would be informative and interesting.
I am advocating copyright infringement and I think this is a great idea. I hope more University students starts doing this if the lesser Universities gets threatened too much by the RIAA.
I would seriously write a website in assembly language rather than java. And I'm not kidding.
Ok? So you mean that Warner would spend hundreds of thousands to produce a new album with the latest pop star, and then don't sell it because then it would actually be worth something, so they would have to pay taxes?
Your logic is infallible!
Well, he's posting on slashdot while claiming he's got a girlfriend. If that's not a flamebait, I don't know what a flamebait is!
What if it's too crappy for me to pay for, but good enough to keep in the background while having dinner or something?
The studios don't owe you their crappy contentThat's no problem, they don't have to pay a cent when I download their movies using bittorrent.
Unfortunately it's probably not that easy. Let's continue with Sony as an example. You could argue that they want to keep the media division in order to have content to play on their locked-in hardware like MiniDisc and Blu-ray. Thus, even if they actually lose money on it, it's still important for them in a marketing sense.
This is a very interesting point, especially if you take into consideration that the people who don't play nice in this setting, won't disrupt the nice people's experience, and thus there's no need for any punishment or law against it.
In the real world were the people who don't believe in imaginary property lives, anyone that doesn't play nice can cause a lot of harm to us that do, so sometimes we need to write laws preventing people from harming others.
Which will lead to even less CD sales, more public outcry, and even more artists doing the same thing as NIN. Eventually, RIAA won't have any funds left to abuse us with, either by the member companies leaving, or the member companies bleeding dry.
No, but all of those that didn't spend $300, but only bought the cheap $5 version, are also listening to a lot of other bands, and would probably buy the $300 collectors edition from some other artist that they love. As you say, people don't have the money to spend $300 on every artist they want to hear, no matter what RIAA claims. Most people do want to spend some amount of money on culture though, and things like this shows that they will do that, even if they can get the content for free by other means.
Grits in an avalanche... I guess it's not very hot grits then?
Here in Sweden we are very used to assemble IKEA desks while skiing, It's not as hard as it looks.
Why not chose 0.5-1 metres, as that would be more in line with where the machines will normally operate in hands of kids and on tables.
You're right, these are "features", and if you had got a trinitron screen without them, I would have been very surprised.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitron#Visible_Support_Wires
Hey! Don't give anyone any ideas!
// pipatron
Uhm, what? I hope this was a joke that passed me at a safe height! If not, I'd like to see some references!
I thought all laptops had two antennas, at least my Thinkpad X40 from 2004 has. Just that you can't see them because they are hidden in the plastics next to the screen.
Yes, I think most of their fans disliked their signing to Spinefarm, but that doesn't change that all or most of the songs before 2006 was distributed through their website, in mp3 and ogg formats.
I think they said that their reason for signing with Spinefarm was that it was their only way to be able to get a gig at the big music festivals in Sweden, apparently they don't take on bands that are not on a label, even if they have a large fanbase.
You could check out Machinae Supremacy, Swedish band. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinae_supremacy
Lots of free songs on their website, which is of course under reconstruction now when I checked it...
And something that should be done before filing for divorce, in order to not rise suspicion.
Well I just hitchhiked through the galaxy and all I had was this towel I found on a spaceship.