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keesan
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response 108 of 154:
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May 29 16:16 UTC 2003 |
I agree, anyone stealing porches probably has a house and a place to store
the car. I would not steal porches if I had no house to attach them to.
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jazz
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response 109 of 154:
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May 29 16:18 UTC 2003 |
Car theft doesn't pay well on the low end of the totem pole.
It just galls me, though, when people manage their business badly and
then blame something unrelated for the loss. Napster and it's clones isn't
the problem, and never has been.
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tod
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response 110 of 154:
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May 29 16:52 UTC 2003 |
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gregb
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response 111 of 154:
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May 29 17:43 UTC 2003 |
That's nuttin'. I just read an article that said Greese has outlawed
ANY electronic games, including PC games! Their reasoning is that they
can't control the contents of the games and that they're worried that
games--any games--can be converted to gambling games.
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tod
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response 112 of 154:
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May 29 18:12 UTC 2003 |
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jmsaul
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response 113 of 154:
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May 30 02:11 UTC 2003 |
Re #111: I think that's a little out of date. I remember reading that they
backed it off to gambling games.
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krj
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response 114 of 154:
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Jun 5 00:58 UTC 2003 |
Start off with what seems like good news. The RIAA and some group
of webcasters have negotiated new royalty rates for non-profit
webcasters. All the articles say that payments should run between
$200 and $500 per year, which should be managable for most small
webcasters, and which is a huge improvement over the tens or hundreds
of thousands of dollars owed under the previous CARP scheme.
My view is that the RIAA is finally waking up to the idea that
killing off independent webcasting is a really bad idea.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59102,00.html
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Appeals court declines to intervene in the RIAA vs. Verizon case.
Verizon appears to have to give up the names of anyone the RIAA
asks for, without any standard -of-evidence review. This is
the latest installment in a long running case.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=2878846
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jaklumen
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response 115 of 154:
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Jun 6 02:02 UTC 2003 |
Not to break the flow of of Ken's newsy posts, but I'd like to note
something annoying I've seen in p2p file sharing: inaccurate,
sometimes GROSSLY inaccurate naming of files, songs, and genres.
Genres sometimes are debatable, but you see some really weird labels
on some of the files, really. I've been on some Net radio stations
and the DJ will name a song and just list the wrong artist because
they were quoting the idiot they got it from on Kazaa.
Copyright law can't possibly cover this, but it's got to be really
frustrating to some well-known artists when file sharers can't even
match them to their songs.
Why get this information correct? Well, I think if you do, at least
with RealOne player, you can pull up discographies and biographies on
the artist. It would seem to me like a good case that file sharing
could promote future sales.
On to the usual programming-- this may be a blip on the radar screen...
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gull
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response 116 of 154:
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Jun 6 02:15 UTC 2003 |
With CDDB, there's little excuse for not naming your MP3 files properly when
you rip them from CD.
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gelinas
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response 117 of 154:
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Jun 6 02:38 UTC 2003 |
I've heard that one reason for misnaming them is to hide them from the
copyright owner.
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jor
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response 118 of 154:
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Jun 6 08:07 UTC 2003 |
I read or heard that also
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goose
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response 119 of 154:
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Jun 6 13:55 UTC 2003 |
Yep. One of my kids downloaded a bunch of essentally classic rock songs and
all the titles were correct, but the artists name was not correct. I'm sure
the reverse happens too.
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jep
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response 120 of 154:
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Jun 6 15:25 UTC 2003 |
When I downloaded "Harper Valley PTA" from Kazaa, I saw versions
labeled as being by Dolly Parton and other prominent female country
singers. It was really sung by Jeannie C. Riley, and I don't think it
was ever done by anyone else.
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tpryan
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response 121 of 154:
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Jun 6 20:56 UTC 2003 |
Well, maybe not the original lyrics.
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dbratman
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response 122 of 154:
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Jun 10 23:59 UTC 2003 |
Re mislabeling artists, some years ago there was a fly-by-night
classical label called Aries, which issued bootlegs of BBC house
orchestra broadcast tapes, attributing the performances to fictitious
conductors and ensembles, of which my favorite was the "Wales Symphony
Orchestra" conducted by Colin Wilson. As most of the label's
repertoire was contemporary works which had never been performed in
public more than once, nobody was really fooled by this.
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gull
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response 123 of 154:
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Jun 11 19:24 UTC 2003 |
ReplayTV to forbid ad skipping
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 11/06/2003 at 08:48 GMT
The single most distinguishing feature of ReplayTV, namely its ability
to skip commercial propaganda automatically, will be dropped from the
next line of DVR boxes, Reuters reports.
"Due in August, the new ReplayTV 5500 series will remove the 'Commercial
Advance' and 'Send Show' options present in models that are currently
for sale," the wire service says.
An impoverished US television broadcast industry had sued ReplayTV's
former owner, SonicBlue, with piteous claims that allowing viewers to
skip adverts would siphon off the media colossus' lifeblood and so
destroy the artistic creativity for which it is so justly famous.
The suit also decried the 'send show' feature, which broadcasters
likened to a mechanism of mass piracy, though it is configured to allow
ReplayTV users to send shows only to other ReplayTV users, and only one
at a time.
ReplayTV's new owner, Japanese outfit D&M Holdings, will not be altering
the 'pause and resume' feature or preventing users from manually
fast-forwarding through commercials. For now, the broadcast industry
seems content to allow consumers to skip ads manually or, if they
prefer, to leave the room while they're playing, though for how long is
anyone's guess.
(from http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/31126.html)
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slynne
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response 124 of 154:
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Jun 11 20:03 UTC 2003 |
Yeah but isnt that one of the main reasons to buy a replay TV or a Tivo
or whatever?
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jazz
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response 125 of 154:
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Jun 11 20:11 UTC 2003 |
There'll be a ROM upgrade out soon, I'm sure, that allows you to once
again skip commercials. If you buy black-market chips, that is.
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krj
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response 126 of 154:
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Jun 11 20:17 UTC 2003 |
I mentioned in an earlier piece that the previous owners of Replay TV,
the Sonicblue company, had been much more willing to fight legal
battles to defend innovative products. In the short term, expect to
see the copyright industry with much more veto control on new products.
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tsty
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response 127 of 154:
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Jun 11 20:32 UTC 2003 |
hacking tivo made one of the weekly news-mags recently.
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senna
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response 128 of 154:
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Jun 16 03:09 UTC 2003 |
If TiVo doesn't fall for this, they're going to run ReplayTV into the ground.
One of these days the industry is going to take one of these concepts too far,
and it's going to backfire, and the public is going to revolt with their
wallets. This would have had such potential if hard-disk television was more
popular.
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gull
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response 129 of 154:
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Jun 16 16:06 UTC 2003 |
Another article I've seen has suggested that stand-alone TiVo style
boxes are dying anyway. They were never terribly popular because retail
salespeople weren't good at articulating what the product was about, and
now the same technology is being integrated into other products, like
digital cable and satellite set-top boxes
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krj
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response 130 of 154:
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Jun 16 16:55 UTC 2003 |
Today we know what a chain of CD stores -- the largest in the country,
I think -- is worth: zero. Nothing. Nada.
"Electronics retailer Best Buy Co. said Monday it has shed its
troubled Musicland Group, turning it over to Sun Capital
Partners, a Florida-based private investment company...
"Sun Capital Partners PAID NO CASH but assumed all of Musicland's
liabilities including its lease obligations.
"Richfield-based Best Buy paid nearly $700 million for Minnetonka-
based Musicland two years ago, but the group failed to meet
Best Buy's expectations..."
((emphasis KRJ))
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?oldflok=FF-APO-1700&idq=/ff/
story/0001%2F20030616%2F110427528.htm&sc=1700&floc=NW_5-L7
(Sorry about the ugly URL, I'll look for a tidier one.)
Jeez. A $700 million investment wiped out in two years.
After this deal, I'll be surprised if the Tower Records chain, which
is also for sale, doesn't proceed to bankruptcy liquidation.
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krj
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response 131 of 154:
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Jun 16 16:56 UTC 2003 |
(I forgot this: "Musicland operates around 1,100 Media Play,
Sam Goody and Suncoast stores around the country.")
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gelinas
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response 132 of 154:
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Jun 16 17:41 UTC 2003 |
Hadn't realised Media Play was owned by Best Buy.
I wonder how this affects Best Buy's in-house CD operation.
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