The poster says he won't support amazon because of the one click shopping fiasco, but openly buys Anime DVDs and supports that atrocity??
It's no wonder we have trouble fighting the dvd battle when we have a section of people willing to turn the other cheeks so they can get the product they want. It's time to start sticking togethor, if we keep adding to the dvd market, we might as well give up on the DeCSS case right now.
Except my idea was to have little reflective boarders put around all my furniture, then have a laser sweep the entirety of my floor zapping all the dust, and reflecting off the furniture, so I wouldn't have to vacume ever again. Of course, this only works in my mind when I'm actually vacuming. When I sit here and think about it, I know it won't work.
Let me get this straight... First I go out and read all those Perl books and try and learn the language, and I don't understand it in english. Now you're want to make it harder to read?? Is it just me or does this seem a little TOO sadistic?
Or maybe I should just actually learn the language insted of just using it for web-stuff.
It's good to hear that there are still musicians out there that can still be called musicians and do whatever it takes for their passion. However, your argument seems to basicly state that Napster and the like rip off the artist. With this, I agree with. But stop to consider who really is being ripped off here.
It has been voiced time and time again, Napster is used to trade illegal music more often than not. I accept this, as I do it all the time. Really, I can't hop down to my local music store (which is apparently run by Much-Music as they have a horrid selection of genres) and find a track of Jimi Hendrix playing Seargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. It just doesn't happen. Who have I ripped off by downloading this song? Who did not get their money? I know damnwell that it wasn't Jimi that didn't get his money. It was the record company.
The arguement has been for a long time, how much music traded online is non-commercial stuff? I know it's not that much. The musicians/artists that do get ripped off are the ones that are already famous (for the most part)!
Seriously, being that you are a struggling musician, I support you and your art 100%, however, don't make the mistake of saying that piracy will always rip off the small artist. 99 times out of 100, it's a big-name super-band song being downloaded, it's not like they are suffering for their art... unless their drug addictions and money fights are considered suffering.
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The poster says he won't support amazon because of the one click shopping fiasco, but openly buys Anime DVDs and supports that atrocity??
It's no wonder we have trouble fighting the dvd battle when we have a section of people willing to turn the other cheeks so they can get the product they want. It's time to start sticking togethor, if we keep adding to the dvd market, we might as well give up on the DeCSS case right now.
Except my idea was to have little reflective boarders put around all my furniture, then have a laser sweep the entirety of my floor zapping all the dust, and reflecting off the furniture, so I wouldn't have to vacume ever again. Of course, this only works in my mind when I'm actually vacuming. When I sit here and think about it, I know it won't work.
It's a pitty it also works the other way around, use an Office for Linux as a Bridge from Windows. There is no one way sign on this bridge!
Let me get this straight... First I go out and read all those Perl books and try and learn the language, and I don't understand it in english. Now you're want to make it harder to read?? Is it just me or does this seem a little TOO sadistic? Or maybe I should just actually learn the language insted of just using it for web-stuff.
It's good to hear that there are still musicians out there that can still be called musicians and do whatever it takes for their passion. However, your argument seems to basicly state that Napster and the like rip off the artist. With this, I agree with. But stop to consider who really is being ripped off here.
It has been voiced time and time again, Napster is used to trade illegal music more often than not. I accept this, as I do it all the time. Really, I can't hop down to my local music store (which is apparently run by Much-Music as they have a horrid selection of genres) and find a track of Jimi Hendrix playing Seargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. It just doesn't happen. Who have I ripped off by downloading this song? Who did not get their money? I know damnwell that it wasn't Jimi that didn't get his money. It was the record company.
The arguement has been for a long time, how much music traded online is non-commercial stuff? I know it's not that much. The musicians/artists that do get ripped off are the ones that are already famous (for the most part)!
Seriously, being that you are a struggling musician, I support you and your art 100%, however, don't make the mistake of saying that piracy will always rip off the small artist. 99 times out of 100, it's a big-name super-band song being downloaded, it's not like they are suffering for their art... unless their drug addictions and money fights are considered suffering.
Just a thought, but why would id sue the creators of HalfLife when they licensed the Quake engine to make HalfLife?