Its actually the CD that destroyed the market for music, because thats when they began digitizing it, bringing the actual cost of the music itself down near 0 (not the cost of producing it, but the cost of the actual music). The internet just sped up the distribution. It also destroyed the market for catalogue sales, but you dont see Sears suing Amazon to death, they are actually trying to compete! (shocker, i know..)
It does seem like a pretty reasonable alternative to the offered suggestions. Which only goes to show how messed up the system is, because in a vacuum this idea would be pure insanity.
If a journalist is making up the news, hes a fiction writer. And collects royalties. No, no, they want the guys who DONT make up the news to get paid for it. Also, every server I set up during my career should give me a dollar a day, pretty soon I wont have to set up any more servers at all!
You dont know a whole lot about physics, or law. Basically because they themselves are a service provider, they are just as likely to be found in violation of this law as any other service provider. In fact, if people are talking about it in NZ, I would suspect its going to be a bit of a game to get them kicked off the internet in the future.
Also, flapping wing based flight has far more to do with lift and body mass than arm speed, but I wouldn't expect you to know much about birds either.
I actually do run Mail servers, they are bigger than yours almost for sure and I can promise you about 10 times as much spam comes from gmail addresses as hotmail ones these days. Sorry, try again.
Also, STMP security involves forcing authentication, which hotmail does. They just give free accounts that allow anyone to authenticate. They clean up their mess as much as anyone. Also, none of that has ANYTHING to do with system security. moron.
The amount of security-model ignorance you guys are spouting here is fantastic. Every SINGLE Windows exploit you've ever come in contact has been browser level. All of them. Those exact same exploits exist in the linux varieties of the browsers as well. God, I hope you aren't responsible for people's security, I almost think you work at Sony....
Please, name me a change from the default security settings that makes Windows more secure. In days gone by Windows used to ship with IIS and certain RPC services turned on and listening by default, which made setting up other service (like domain services) much easier. But those days are long gone, so please good sir, do tell me what OS level changes you personally make to a windows7 machine to make it more secure.
This is so ridiculously false that I dont know how to respond. There have been many, many, many tests and Windows7/2008R2 in their default installations and kept up to date with patches have NEVER been successfully attacked in the real world without user compromise or physical access. Get your facts straight.
What this means is that they paid for a product that offers significantly less in terms of feature set than 5 products i can name off the top of my head. This is your tax dollars people, get with it. Someone got rich off this, and it only cost the lifetime wealth of 1000 of your citizens.
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Uhh, Mike actually usually posts about eroding American freedoms. I don't think he gives a crap about who downloads a Lady Gaga song, and I doubt she does either. And maybe if your 10% unemployment and multi-trillions of debt is a sign of a crappy system, why defend that crappy system to the core?
I just want to stop for a second and draw attention to the first few lines, and the fact that in less than 15 years the DMCA has gone from a monster piece of legislation to one of the few protections available. Ponder that for a second, because it hasn't changed...
Actually movie theatres aren't public performances, they are commercial performances.
Actually, in a very real sense, no movie is a performance at all, but a playback. The performance was usually completed in Hollywood years earlier to the tune of 150 million bucks. Which would buy 10 new state of the art schools if anyone is counting ;)
To go one step farther, the 10 songs on iTunes will keep the consumer spending 10 bucks a month on music, where the 50 songs on spotify might convince them to spend that 10 on spotify then buy a few of those on iTunes as well (raising the monthly spending by at LEAST 10% in this case). The more time someone spends listening to music, the greater the percentage of their income they spend on music. Its that simple. The goal of the music industry should be to have everyone listening to music all the time. Then they would be as ubiquitous as google and might be as rich.
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Also, flapping wing based flight has far more to do with lift and body mass than arm speed, but I wouldn't expect you to know much about birds either.
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Also, STMP security involves forcing authentication, which hotmail does. They just give free accounts that allow anyone to authenticate. They clean up their mess as much as anyone. Also, none of that has ANYTHING to do with system security. moron.
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Actually, in a very real sense, no movie is a performance at all, but a playback. The performance was usually completed in Hollywood years earlier to the tune of 150 million bucks. Which would buy 10 new state of the art schools if anyone is counting ;)
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