From 4b6c0e31385f5f27a151088c0a2b614495c4e589 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Duncan Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:47:50 -0400 Subject: initial commit, including theme --- ...5-15-witchhunts-lawyers-and-the-riaa-oh-my.html | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 80 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/posts/2000-05-15-witchhunts-lawyers-and-the-riaa-oh-my.html (limited to 'content/posts/2000-05-15-witchhunts-lawyers-and-the-riaa-oh-my.html') diff --git a/content/posts/2000-05-15-witchhunts-lawyers-and-the-riaa-oh-my.html b/content/posts/2000-05-15-witchhunts-lawyers-and-the-riaa-oh-my.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e8e107d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2000-05-15-witchhunts-lawyers-and-the-riaa-oh-my.html @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +--- +date: "2000-05-15T13:09:00Z" +title: Witchhunts, Lawyers, and the RIAA... Oh My! +--- + +Well, I've been working on a bunch of small stuff. I wrote a quick +bookmark wrapper for feh called cam, you can probably find more info +over on Tom Gilbert's (aka +gilbertt on #e) page. Oh yeah, I've also been reading +Kuro5hin a lot lately; they're +kinda like Slashdot, only smaller and easier to digest (ie less stupid +people). Oh yeah, I wrote a neat little auto-refresh JavaScript so +raster's web cams would updated without a page refresh. Check it out +on raster's page. +

+ +I found an + +interesting article that seems to ahve been lost in the all the +RIAA vs. Napster noise. Hey, if you're one of the +300,000 +people who were banned from Napster, don't let it get you down. You +can always pay Lars, + +assasinate Metallica, or just +keep +using Napster anyway. I prefer the latter; the +RIAA really overprices CDs +(here + is an excellent Slashdot post justifying my position). Either way, +this whole thing is silly; the RIAA and their lawyers will eventually +put Napster down. Unfortunately, they're fighting a losing battle: +Hotline (and the unofficial +Linux client), +FTP, and ICQ are here to stay, and +peer-to-peer search solutions are on the way (check out +Gnutella, +Freenet, and +OpenNAP +if you're interested). And before I get a bunch of junk mail, this is +__not__ about piracy: +piracy +is theft, rape, and murder on the high seas, +not exchanging computer data (I'll reserve the discussion about +the effect of mass marketing memes effecting the connotation and +eventually the denotation -- as witnessed by the second definition under +the first result returned by that link -- for another day). I plan +on writing a paper about +this soon (I need to do somehting to the Bits page +or remove it from my navigation bar), but the gist of the situation is +this: people have been exchanging music via cassette tapes for almost +20 years with little or no intervention from the RIAA (ie they have +_not_ sued the makers of high-speed CD-to-cassette dubbing equipment), +yet they prop up a cookie-cutter +band with a lot of mind-share due to a musical fad from over 15 years +ago and use them to attack +a method of sharing music which +is statistically insignificant when compared against to the method +which the RIAA is implicitly condoning. Why? Because greed is a +powerful motivator, the public doesn't really understand what's going +on, and big corporations don't like technological innovations fucking +with their distribution channels. Whew, this news post is getting a +bit hefty, so I'll stop there. +

+ + +This Slashdot article is a pretty funny discussion about Computer +Support people: I like + +this comment, but + +this one takes the cake. In case anyone is interested, I +added a Screenshots page, and I plan on +adding a new shot every week or so. Speaking of keeping things up to +date, the Projects page is due up for an +overhaul. I have a ton of new goodies to add, and none of my active +projects are currently up. Basically, I've been spending all my time +writing code, and +playing Quake 3 Arena. + -- cgit v1.2.3