Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 09:44:32 01/30/05
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On January 29, 2005 at 06:33:36, Peter Skinner wrote: >On January 29, 2005 at 06:19:04, Evgeny Shu wrote: > >>On January 29, 2005 at 06:16:16, Peter Skinner wrote: >> >>>On January 29, 2005 at 06:12:37, Evgeny Shu wrote: >>> >>>>Wow :) >>> >>>Yes I have a very nice line here in Canada. It is a Server Tier II cable line. >>> >>>Oddly the reason I went to this package was downloading all the current 6 man >>>tablebases. My ISP got a tad upset at me using around 10gb traffic nightly for >>>nearly 2 months. >>> >>>With this package I have unlimited bandwidth, and a nice 350K/s upload rate as >>>well. >>> >>>Peter >> >> >>Hehe they might give your name to RIAA to get rid of such traffic for a month :) > >Well that might prove useless as I am listed with the RIAA as a supporter, and >my ISP knows it. I have friends who work there. > >I am a staunch anti-piracy advocate. I am also a MS OEM System Builder, a MS >Partner Account Holder, and hold various other partner accounts with companies >like Adobe, Trillian, Jasc, and Macromedia. > >Piracy is the main reason software is so bloody expensive. Eliminate it, and >software prices will come down. > >If you would like all the stats for the rising costs of varying things due to >piracy, I have them. I get a bulletin each week about it. > >I have also lost friends over my views on piracy. I firmly believe that even >when a program is given away as freeware there is still a cost factor involved >whether it be time, money, or a combination of both. You get paid for the work >you do, and those who make software/music/movies should get paid as well. > >Piracy is theft no matter what way you put it. > >Peter RIAA is the reason why music is such low quality usually and just using synthesizer. I would be happy to pay a few musicians a couple of thousands in order to play in sound for me for diep. Instead i can of course only use synthesizer like all those cdroms/dvd's you can buy in the shop, simply because RIAA is good in signing dudes up (in netherlands called buma stemra) and you pay based upon how many minutes is on cdrom. So just for DIEP if i would put sound on the thing played in by buma/stemra attached musicians, i would have to pay roughly 3 euro per cdrom IN ADVANCE to the buma/stemra. This for 3 days work of the musicians. Actually it's not only buma/stemra, other organisations are involved too (like the musician one). So let's just call it RIAA. The RIAA is the reason why at TV's they can show such little good entertainment too. Basically the price for sound they ask is just too high. What's wrong paying a few musicians a couple of thousands? Now they get nothing... ...synthesizer at EVERY RECORD is doing the job now. Vincent
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