This area of chatting on the internet has to be placed in its own continent because it contains everything previously mentioned. You can find bits and pieces off all nine continents here. It also has a culture quite of its own. The primary use of IRC has come to be mostly underground and sometimes illegal things: Trading pornography, pirated software (warez), cracks for software, various flood and Dos attack programs, and mp3's.
I think that mp3's are doing a mix of helping and hurting. For some they will promote the sales of CD's. If you find a great mp3 off of a cd and you cant find the rest of the cd, what do you do? Buy the CD! MP3 will also hurt the CD industry for those that just download the entire CD (Like me). The bottom line is it all depends upon how you use the format.
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This area of chatting on the internet has to be placed in its own continent because it contains everything previously mentioned. You can find bits and pieces off all nine continents here. It also has a culture quite of its own. The primary use of IRC has come to be mostly underground and sometimes illegal things: Trading pornography, pirated software (warez), cracks for software, various flood and Dos attack programs, and mp3's.
I have heard that support for a journaled filesystem for linux has been started. Does anyone have any more information on this?
I think that mp3's are doing a mix of helping and hurting. For some they will promote the sales of CD's. If you find a great mp3 off of a cd and you cant find the rest of the cd, what do you do?
Buy the CD! MP3 will also hurt the CD industry for those that just download the entire CD (Like me). The bottom line is it all depends upon how you use the format.