http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/drm.aspx

It does not matter what pathetic self-deluding self-justifying arguments you
pirates come up with, Governments have already decided that music is
intellectual property, and illicit copying is a form of theft, with legal
remedies. All of your arguments have been already rejected by the lawmakers.

The music industry is a massive earner for the USA, and a good source of tax
dollars. It is not going to take too much convincing for the Government to
recognise that the present legal remedies are not working, and that piracy
is hurting the US economy.

They might just consider that any software that operates on or distributes
music files should have digital rights management enforcement capability.
This would suit Microsoft and the RIAA very nicely. It fits in very nicely
with their Microsoft's campaign against illicit copies of software. Spyware
could become the norm. All software might have to be licensed to run under a
particular operating system. All music media may have to carry a license,
if it is to be played or transferred by their operating systems. Good for
big biz, and the tax collector, bad for pirates, bad for the small software
writers and music producers.

You accept that you have to pay for locks on your door, and the police
force. We all pay for crime, even if the crooks never visit us. One way or
another, the rest of us are going to have to pay for your piracy.

"David F. Cox" <bigd@kbnet.co.uk> wrote in news:vg4cshbpfvdj93
@corp.supernews.com:

lawmakers also said slavery was ok. should we go back to it?

"David F. Cox" <bigd@kbnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:vg4cshbpfvdj93@corp.supernews.com...
blah blah blah blah blah.

On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 01:43:37 -0000, Theo <no@email.org> pondered,
puzzeled, prognosticated (perhaps even premeditated), and then, in a
very wise voice, sed: :

Ooh! Ooh! i know the answer! Pick me! Pick me!

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Now playing: "Welcom Back" -- John Sebastian

--
chris

"Nothing is real."

"c.reifert" <c.reifert@removethis.mchsi.com> wrote in message
newscrMa.1300$3h3.2318@rwcrnsc53...
oh my god, DANGER!!!

"Theo" <no@email.org> wrote in message
news:Xns93ABBF49A3CCBdensnews123@216.168.3.44...
: "David F. Cox" <bigd@kbnet.co.uk> wrote in news:vg4cshbpfvdj93
: @corp.supernews.com:
:
: > All of your arguments have been already rejected by the lawmakers.
:
: lawmakers also said slavery was ok. should we go back to it?

Yes and Public Flogging too I suppose...Oh, they doing that in Guantanamo
already....

"David F. Cox" <bigd@kbnet.co.uk> wrote in
news:vg4cshbpfvdj93@corp.supernews.com:


Filesharers are not Pirates -It is an idiots comparison. I dont think you
are an idiot but I know you only write for them. You have failed to
tackle the real pirates -the organised criminals who profiteer from
manufacturing bootlegged CDs -the same guys sell fear ,intimidation, crap
drugs and abusive sex. The link between them and filesharers is
patheticaly tenuous.
They are industries and societies real problem but not yours because you
live above them with hired security in an affluent world of your own.
Your suits have prepared a cosy place for them in cyberspace, your teen
porn industry is an economicaly sanctioned recruitment program for
unloved girls to enter a degrading and self destructive underworld. Your
favourite most lucrative pop tracks enchant tarted up youngsters with
vain, purile mantras. The depths you will sink to in order to extract
revenues from childrens pockets is obscene. Your children are lost,
anorexic, depressed, destructive -You do this to them by putting your
numbskull profit and loss accounts before people.

You couldnt cheapen and pervert the natural messages in music without the
control of media creation and output which your black suits and corrupt
politicians are trying to secure by distorting the forces of JUSTICE.

Take on this millionfold Mob of filesharers then! Lets see who achieves
justice now that we battle in cyberspace. Lets see who is worth more to
society...

free CDs for everyone! Choke the RIAA!
Burn Burn Burn, Hand them out in towns and Cities, bleed these bullies
dry. Get the messages back into music. Let the kiddies spend thier
pocket monies on crayons and comics. Sack these vacant starlets with
nothing to sing about but their own egos.

Go to the Nerds, ask them for the means and protection to continue the
free listening. Ask them to tear apart the officious tyrants with
malignant bots and abused protocols.

RIAA, DMCA, you do NOT know the shït you have beligerantly gotten
yourselves into.
Rot on the wages of the your toilet cleaners! You stinking rotten
leeches, you have done nothing for us.

We can make studio quality 96Khz tracks now with a couple of thousand
quids worth of Hardware! Hah! Tough luck! MOVE ON.

Sell your shares investors! those ships cant handle the New Network!
This is early days matey, we have got so much time.

'Bling Bling Hi Im Twinkle Tits, buy my CD' - Shove it up your Ass!

congratulations, you, like MS, and the RIAA, have *totally* missed the
point. DRM is a joke. if you can hear the sound, if you can see the
video, it can be pirated. simple as that. there will always be analog
line-outs, some unprotected way of recording output. sure, it won't be
a perfect digital copy, but neither is mp3, and people live with that.
face it, people are willing to lose a small amount of media quality in
order to be able to pirate.

i agree, piracy is wrong, but only if that's all you do. i download a
ton of shit. and yes, i buy more because of it. i like hearing cd
quality sound, and i like having a jewel case and liner notes. i don't
like paying $15 an album, knowing that it could be much cheaper without
middlemen (lawyers and CEOs) that add *zero* value to the product, and
especially knowing that the artist almost never sees a fair share (if
any) of that money.

look at it this way: it would be perfectly legal to leave a bunch of
stuff on a street corner, with a sign listing prices for it. and if
someone stole that stuff, that'd be illegal. but no one does that,
because it's fucking stupid. it's the same idea with the recording
industry's business model. it's really fucking stupid, and so
unprofitable that it needs legislation to prop it up. that's
untennable. these dinosaurs that run the RIAA *will* fall eventually,
unless they change their business model. or unless you want them to be
able to track and control every bit you manipulate.

David F. Cox wrote:

"Archeon" <archeon@uk.gateway.net> wrote in message
news:rg3Na.46880$xd5.2393120@stones.force9.net...

Hehehe..Always...face it, anyone who posts is a potential poor schnook
target..So, come and get me.....

not to worry they will be edited out..but I am sure they are already in a
dossier taht they need a hand truck to move it with..LOL
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Quondo Omni Flunkus Mortati (When All Else Fails, Play Dead.)

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"Goldenpi" <goldenpi@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:dl_Oa.6532$ll4.51700950@news-text.cableinet.net...
< s -- n -- i -- p >
You had it almost letter perfect, Goldenpi -

http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.htm

.... but unless I miss my guess, the chef George Crum wasn't "french", just
a chef.
Crisps, or potato chips (or "chips") were also fried, not roasted, but
otherwise, a fine re-telling of the story (sources provided in that link
also worth a look.)
Cheers!

- Loco -
(Now Playing: Spudnik - The Ventures)

"Loco Jones" <locojonesnet@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:behui7$5dre9$1@ID-83907.news.dfncis.de...
Well, I cant get things perfect every time. Most of the time yes, but not
every time :-) I heard the story years ago. The french part must have been
added by a previous carrier.

Goldenpi wrote:

This historical story was a public announcement on the AFARTS TV
network. For those not in the military, when stationed at an overseas
military base, your "cable company" usually broadcasts no commercials,
in the place of a commercial is a "public educational" clip, and many
where "name this capital" or "did you know that...." or "when on
vacation be sure to visit...".

Yokota had "The Adventures of Roller-Boy" when I was there, very
entertaining (safety message from two Airforce personnel about the
hazards of roller-blading in Yokota streets).

For 3-years I had to watch that...eeeek, I was happy to rtn to the US
and watch normal 30-second commercials!