One of the links he provided is Channel 4. There's an awfully big assumption here that he doesn't know what he is doing and what he is doing is somehow illegal.
Although there is a lot to ridicule Prince about. I have to actually bring up the reasoning behind this particular situation. From what I understand, Prince found himself basically indentured to a record label. Due to a contract he signed, he had almost no creative control.
In a way to mess with the record label, he did the minimal that his contract demanded. He would show up for presentations and have "Slave" written on his face. He changed his name to make it difficult for the record label. When his contract demanded that he produce a video he would. However the contract never stated that he had to release it. Just have one made. Which leads to the surreal experience that Kevin Smith ran into.
I believe a Debit Card will work, and there is no age limit on those. In fact my 14 year old daughter has one; we share a checking account and I got her her own card so that I could teach her about credit and monitor what she's buying.
Uhmm. Pay Pal is a registered Bank that operates out of Luxemburg, at least for Europe. To be fair it doesn't have Bank status in the US, not the last time I checked anyway.But from what I understand wikileaks is a European based organization.
It does not fit the dictionary definition of torture as far as I can tell. There is no excruciating pain or severe anguish. It may be annoying as hell, but without some sort of actual pain I find it a bit of a misnomer to call it torture. Perhaps the correct word might be torment.
If you are only using that as a definition then Sleep Deprivation would fail the test(even though it can lead to death.) and quite possibly water boarding since you aren't feeling actual pain as much as the psychological effects of drowning.
Generation X. The generation of people who were supposed to be the laziest slackers ever created, who just didn't do much.
Interestingly enough they were also the generation of the Internet boom, and the 80hr work weeks in the name of stock options and the redefining of the corporate world.
It happens every decade with every generation. There was never a "greatest generation" There was and are just people who are forced to do things in the name of survival.
"Do you seriously believe this? Say what you want about professional journalists, but they DO have degrees in the field and professional training. The majority of bloggers do not."
first off saying that all journalists have some sort of degree is misleading and disingenuous let alone the assumption that the degree they hold is a journalistic one. Then on top of that to assume that the law recognizes the difference between the rights of one person and the rights of another because one is somehow more qualified. When the distinction of that definition is so vague as to be non existent is naive.
So prior to AOL using the modified version of IE it used its own mostly owned browser. I wish I could remember the name of the company that it purchased the code from, but it's been a few years.
At this time Netscape was the dominant browser, and Microsoft was just starting to really get into the game. AOL was taking flack for its browser software since they didn't have the knowledge/resource to be an effective player in that arena. What they did have is an amazing number of people that used their product. I know people tend to forget how big AOL was back in the day, it was THE way for the majority of people to get online.
So AOL started looking for a replacement to their browser and struck up a deal with Microsoft. Microsoft would be the default internal browser and in exchange Microsoft would put AOL's logo and software on the desktop of computers being sold. Also remember that at time the individual retailers had no control over the software that came bundled with Windows, what Microsoft wanted Microsoft got.
This had two consequences. First, this helped drive AOL membership to the detriment of Microsoft's own attempt at an online service. Secondly, this single handedly pushed IE into the dominant browser position, to illustrate I remember one of the AOL honchos telling me that at any one time 80-90 percent of people on the internet were accessing it through AOL( I would say this was about 98-99 timeframe.)
About this same time period there were a couple of lawsuits that were brought up including one that was aimed at forcing Microsoft to allow the retailers to modify the desktop as they saw fit. AOL immediately struck deals with those retailers to have AOL, once again, on the desktop. Microsoft wasn’t to happy about this particular deal, they had also started to bundle the browser with their software so their wasn’t the need to use AOL and as the vector. But it wasn’t clear as to who would win the particular lawsuit and AOL was adamant on keeping their brand in peoples mind.
The solution? By purchasing Netscape when they did they had a lever against Microsoft. If they had switched out their browser to Netscape, Microsoft would have lost a considerable amount of the browser market, possibly sending it back to being a minority player.
That’s my recollection of things as an ex-AOL employee of 9 years. I wasn’t in a position of leadership nor involved in any of these decisions so some of my facts may be a bit off.
So far I've purchased two drm-free albums off of itunes. I prefer the immediate gratification of getting it when I want it(which would be now) combined with the freedom to play the tracks on anything I want.
Not only are they competitors they are also bed fellows. Google owns a portion of AOL. Which is why AOL, is now a LLC rather then a totally owned subsidiary of Time Warner
There is a difference between music and movies. With music the primary source of an artists income is from live performances, radio, cds, etc are a way for the artist to promote themselves so that a person will come to the live show. The recording industry was just a means to the end that somehow ended up trying to be more important then the artists themselves and with the coming of the internet not nearly as needed.
However with movies it doesn't seem so clear cut. The artist makes their money directly from the proceeds of the film and currently there is no model where they would get the majority of their money from some ancillary function. I mean its not like we have a cast of a movie touring in a live production.
except for a superficial similarity to the wiimote this has nothing in common to nintendos controller, hell it has an infrared device at the end, where nintendo has a camera.
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One of the links he provided is Channel 4. There's an awfully big assumption here that he doesn't know what he is doing and what he is doing is somehow illegal.
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I hate the McDonalds story since almost everyone gets it wrong.
If you believe McDonalds wasn't liable for given an old woman third degree burns its because MickeyDs has a much better pr department.
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
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Although there is a lot to ridicule Prince about. I have to actually bring up the reasoning behind this particular situation. From what I understand, Prince found himself basically indentured to a record label. Due to a contract he signed, he had almost no creative control.
In a way to mess with the record label, he did the minimal that his contract demanded. He would show up for presentations and have "Slave" written on his face. He changed his name to make it difficult for the record label. When his contract demanded that he produce a video he would. However the contract never stated that he had to release it. Just have one made. Which leads to the surreal experience that Kevin Smith ran into.
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I believe a Debit Card will work, and there is no age limit on those. In fact my 14 year old daughter has one; we share a checking account and I got her her own card so that I could teach her about credit and monitor what she's buying.
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Uhmm. Pay Pal is a registered Bank that operates out of Luxemburg, at least for Europe. To be fair it doesn't have Bank status in the US, not the last time I checked anyway.But from what I understand wikileaks is a European based organization.
some nut not all?
When I went just now. There were approx 1400 odd reviews. Which was curious as of about noon today I had stopped by to read them and saw over 2000.
so whats the difference
between labeling video games and labeling movies? Why do we have restrictions on movies and no one seems to be filing a lawsuit?
I'm probably missing something obvious.
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It does not fit the dictionary definition of torture as far as I can tell. There is no excruciating pain or severe anguish. It may be annoying as hell, but without some sort of actual pain I find it a bit of a misnomer to call it torture. Perhaps the correct word might be torment.
If you are only using that as a definition then Sleep Deprivation would fail the test(even though it can lead to death.) and quite possibly water boarding since you aren't feeling actual pain as much as the psychological effects of drowning.
its happened before - remember generation X?
Generation X. The generation of people who were supposed to be the laziest slackers ever created, who just didn't do much.
Interestingly enough they were also the generation of the Internet boom, and the 80hr work weeks in the name of stock options and the redefining of the corporate world.
It happens every decade with every generation. There was never a "greatest generation" There was and are just people who are forced to do things in the name of survival.
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"Do you seriously believe this? Say what you want about professional journalists, but they DO have degrees in the field and professional training. The majority of bloggers do not."
first off saying that all journalists have some sort of degree is misleading and disingenuous let alone the assumption that the degree they hold is a journalistic one. Then on top of that to assume that the law recognizes the difference between the rights of one person and the rights of another because one is somehow more qualified. When the distinction of that definition is so vague as to be non existent is naive.
Re: The ethics of free
Actually a monopoly isn't bad, nor is it illegal, what's bad is the abuse of power by a monopoly.
A monopoly is merely a state of being that comes about when market forces dictate that a certain product has no successful competition.
it was interesting from the inside
So prior to AOL using the modified version of IE it used its own mostly owned browser. I wish I could remember the name of the company that it purchased the code from, but it's been a few years.
At this time Netscape was the dominant browser, and Microsoft was just starting to really get into the game. AOL was taking flack for its browser software since they didn't have the knowledge/resource to be an effective player in that arena. What they did have is an amazing number of people that used their product. I know people tend to forget how big AOL was back in the day, it was THE way for the majority of people to get online.
So AOL started looking for a replacement to their browser and struck up a deal with Microsoft. Microsoft would be the default internal browser and in exchange Microsoft would put AOL's logo and software on the desktop of computers being sold. Also remember that at time the individual retailers had no control over the software that came bundled with Windows, what Microsoft wanted Microsoft got.
This had two consequences. First, this helped drive AOL membership to the detriment of Microsoft's own attempt at an online service. Secondly, this single handedly pushed IE into the dominant browser position, to illustrate I remember one of the AOL honchos telling me that at any one time 80-90 percent of people on the internet were accessing it through AOL( I would say this was about 98-99 timeframe.)
About this same time period there were a couple of lawsuits that were brought up including one that was aimed at forcing Microsoft to allow the retailers to modify the desktop as they saw fit. AOL immediately struck deals with those retailers to have AOL, once again, on the desktop. Microsoft wasn’t to happy about this particular deal, they had also started to bundle the browser with their software so their wasn’t the need to use AOL and as the vector. But it wasn’t clear as to who would win the particular lawsuit and AOL was adamant on keeping their brand in peoples mind.
The solution? By purchasing Netscape when they did they had a lever against Microsoft. If they had switched out their browser to Netscape, Microsoft would have lost a considerable amount of the browser market, possibly sending it back to being a minority player.
That’s my recollection of things as an ex-AOL employee of 9 years. I wasn’t in a position of leadership nor involved in any of these decisions so some of my facts may be a bit off.
I'm a buyer
So far I've purchased two drm-free albums off of itunes. I prefer the immediate gratification of getting it when I want it(which would be now) combined with the freedom to play the tracks on anything I want.
Not only are they competitors they are also bed fellows. Google owns a portion of AOL. Which is why AOL, is now a LLC rather then a totally owned subsidiary of Time Warner
There is a difference between music and movies. With music the primary source of an artists income is from live performances, radio, cds, etc are a way for the artist to promote themselves so that a person will come to the live show. The recording industry was just a means to the end that somehow ended up trying to be more important then the artists themselves and with the coming of the internet not nearly as needed.
However with movies it doesn't seem so clear cut. The artist makes their money directly from the proceeds of the film and currently there is no model where they would get the majority of their money from some ancillary function. I mean its not like we have a cast of a movie touring in a live production.
Yes but what does that come out to per person? hmmmm
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except for a superficial similarity to the wiimote this has nothing in common to nintendos controller, hell it has an infrared device at the end, where nintendo has a camera.