Just because 'some' files may be 'freely' shared without causing injury or 'loss' does NOT mean all are.The RIAA is a local entity. America is NOT the world, even though it often thinks that way.Kazzaa is an Australian creation and in Australia there IS NO LEGAL loophole called 'fair use'. Ah, but if we didn't have legal loopholes we wouldn't be
8) Mostl importantly the RIAA is going after those who have 1000's of songs on thier computer and lets other download them. Not the 300 or so people (and if they are going after people who have 300 or so songs that is a bad idea as well) Boy are you wrong. According to the guest on The Screen Savers a while back, the RIAA has filed lawsuites agai
One other major point: in the hysteria of the moment, everyone is forgetting the main way an artist becomes successful - exposure. Without exposure, no one comes to shows, no one buys CDs, no one enables you to earn a living doing what you love Exposure helps artists, yes, but putting songs on a P2P network is a different type of exposure all tog
The problem with chasing the music steelers is that you can't find them unless you brake the law.And violate everyone's privacy rights. Umm, how do you figure that finding the swappers is illegal? And As for privacy rights, its not right for them to be able to get the names/addresses of swappers without even proving they did anything wrong...
Whoa, hold up people...I'm kinda confused here. Since when should music be free? Actors use their talent in (sorta) the same way musicians do. DOes that mean movies should be free too? Should a player on a sports team not get paid because the enjoyment of watching the sport "should be free"? No. You CANNOT make excuses for piracy of music by yelling "right to privacy", "music should be free", or "Constitutional rights". Piracy is illegal. NOBODY can tell me otherwise. You're not downloading musi
29.5858% - Total Geek That's a lot higher than I expected.
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Heh, well I do go to a school with about 700 students in all. (Grades PK-12!!!) It really sucks when you live in the middle of nowhere, too...
I think they simply look at your library through the program you're using. This is why they are only filing lawsuites against distributors, not the people downloading. Also, Aleatoric's link said that EDonkey2000 claims to be anonymous, so swappers may be switching to the less-used serveces instead of the mainstream KaZaA and Gnutella. After they get your IP address and they know you have music in your library, they call up your ISP and ask for the name and address of the person who was in that
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I think the biggest problem is the teachers. I go to a private school, so I don't know about public schools. (Although public school teachers in my state are some of the lowest paid in the nation, and public school teachers in my parish are some of the lowest paid in the state.) Most of the teachers at my school expect you to simply memorize exactly what they tell you. Your teacher says something wrong and you speak out? Punishment, plus you are expected to write the WRONG answer on a test. You
I'm not trying to say downloading music off of a P2P network is RIGHT, but c'mon...$150,000? Personally, I don't download music off of KaZaA/Gnutella/whatever because 1) I'm on dialup, and 2) I'm scared senseless my parents would end up getting busted for it. In any case, I think it's safe to say that the RIAA may have found a way to stop copyright infringement over P2P networks until someone finds a way to make downloading anonymous. Also, for those of you that are opposed to downloading music
Ok, so the RIAA is filing lawsuites against people with as few as 5 downloaded songs at $750-$150,000 per song!?! I wonder what will happen after they bankrupt a few parents.... And, of course, it turns out that my ISP is one of the only ones NOT fighting to keep the names of the swappers! I guess it works for the RIAA, but I feel for the people that they attack... This has gone too far. (By the way, hi...been away for a while.)
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I've been seeing the T-Mobile commercials about it...sounds really cool.
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Warcraft 3, WC3: Frozen Throne, or my favorite game ever, STARCRAFT!!!
I live somewhere where I can't get cable or dsl internet access (yet), and the only choice for broadband is Earthlink satellite. Does anyone know if the lag from satellite broadband is enough to keep me from playing strategy games like Starcraft and Warcraft 3 online? (I didn't know whether to put this in help or general discussion.)
XP Home on the computer in my room, Windows 2000 in the office.
Holy...I had no idea you could make stuff that cool with Terragen...I've been using it for like a month, am I missing something? Those water effects...
The crappy 15" monitor that came with my Dell...God I need to upgrade...
They have triangles in PSP's preset shapes... that's weird.
Well, I don't want to accidentally make any enemies...
Sorry to anyone I may have offended in the IRC channel tonight. I probably shoulda thought about what I said more before I said it.
Here we go again... Hello from the middle of nowhere!
Have any of the wallpapers accepted actually been made in PSP alone? Wow...
And of course, Larry Kuperman's link said exactly the same thing that I said...I really should read the posts first.
MSN Messenger has nothing to do with it (If you have the same problem I had). It's "Messenger Service", a Microsoft app made for (I believe) sending messages across networks. Here's the solution for me, in XP Home. I havn't checked the links, so someone probably already mentioned it. Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Click on "Services and Applications > Click on Services > Find "Messenger" in the list on the right > Double click it and select "Disable
I, for one, hope somebody does make something to do with the flag. A wallpaper, a WB skin, anything....I don't seem to see the problem.