Via <a href=”http://www.rewindlife.com/”>Chafic</a> @ <a href=”http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/”>Flash Lounge</a>, thanks yo!
<a href=”http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5087875.html”>http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5087875.html</a>
AND, my rants on it.
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About as effective as gun laws in the us. Criminals don’t buy guns through legal channels; why would music thieves be any different… Let along not know how to use their shift key?
…crackheads…
“Though simple, the act of holding down the Shift key in order to enable copying does let computer users know they’re doing something unauthorized, he said. That alone will dissuade many people from making copies, he added.”
Uh, I just pressed my Shift key. Sue me. If you don’t want me pressing it, why do keyboards have a shift key? If I couldn’t capitalize the first letter in every sentence, that would be bad grammar. So to prevent illegal music copying, I should type with bad grammar? I don’t think so…
I couldn’t even use the ! or ? sybmols. Are you saying I can’t ask a qeustion? Did I just do something illegal with this, the previous, and then next sentence by asking questions using the “?” symbol? Are you assuming that keyboards are illegal because of your copy protection methods say so? If want to use the SHIFT key…
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…crackheads…
The record industry needs to wise up. All the politics make me laugh and cry at the same time. Every article I read says the CEO’s are open minded whilst the lawyers are like, “Nope. Sorry, pay up.” I’m all about paying for music but this cacophony of methods and punishing users without agreed upon standards is ridicolous. Till then, as long as you don’t upset a user or music artist, I laugh at your failure. And, no, I don’t want to help as the politics behind it would drive me mad.
Heck, I’d consult for free!