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independentm...
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Date: April 28, 2006 @ 12:31 AM
The previous thread about the upgrade is:
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/19912
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independentm...
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Date: April 28, 2006 @ 12:51 AM
Folks, don't bother trying to log in or register at the new site yet. (That feature is not yet enabled) But you can still take look around, participate in the poll, etc.
More features will be added as we continue building the new place. |
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mixerjaexx
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Date: April 28, 2006 @ 4:47 AM
'Ight... I got a nice, nitty gritty logo designed for the site and better lookin' just feel. Tryin' to keep it simple... And yeah, that header logo look me like fuckin' three hours to create 'n' stuff... so I hope all y'all like it. |
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mixerjaexx
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Date: April 28, 2006 @ 4:47 AM
Check it out... http://www.boycottriaa.com |
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independentm...
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Date: April 28, 2006 @ 6:32 AM
It is a thing of beauty! Thanks mixerjaexx!
Folks, you can try logging in over there. We'll see what happens. The place will take a couple weeks to fully be up to speed, but we got a start on it anyways.
One of the really nice features is that users are able to submit articles and links etc. and all I gotta do under this new CMS is to approve the item. (I don't have to hunt and peck around in the naked Dmusic server database anymore with my dangerously low html skills accidentally breaking stuff just to post a new "certified artist" for example.)
The new site is AWSOME! We still haven't got a direct way to comment on the articles yet, but all that stuff will come.
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mixerjaexx
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Date: April 28, 2006 @ 6:04 PM
It's comin' along slowly but surely... http://www.boycottriaa.com |
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independentm...
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Date: April 28, 2006 @ 10:01 PM
Folks, I will start posting the NEW articles over at the new place. I will only put a few things up here on the old version of Boycott-Riaa.
Except for a few administrative messages to you, expect to see only stuff from Dmusic's pages here at the old site from now on.
(...unless there is a glitch or we change our mind for some reason.)
:) |
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independentm...
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Date: April 28, 2006 @ 10:40 PM
...you know what folks, I take that back.
What we MIGHT do is use this old site as the forum where we can make comments and replies to the articles and use the NEW site for everything else. (It seems the new site CMS doesn't have an easy way to allow user comments on news and articles. So what we'd do is put a link at the bottom of the articles on the new site that point to a clone of the same article here at the old.)
That way we keep BOTH url's alive. All we'd then need to do is tidy up the old place by completely stripping away all the sidebar links and other outdated stuff.
...but let's see what leflaw says first. I'll run it by him. |
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leflaw
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Date: April 30, 2006 @ 12:10 AM
looks great so far. Nice job dudes... |
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Jefrystube
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Date: April 30, 2006 @ 12:53 PM
The Login doesn't work yet, at least not for me. |
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independentm...
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Date: May 1, 2006 @ 2:46 AM
We will have that fixed asap. |
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independentm...
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Date: May 1, 2006 @ 3:18 AM
issaacfeagan and cobrastrike, both of your accounts are now active at the new site and you should be able to log-in.
Folks, you have to register at the new site (even if you are already registered here at the old site.) Just use the same username and password. (Or choose a new username and pass if so desired. However, I'd like you to at least keep your same username in order to keep it simple.)
(Don't nobody try being "funny" by stealing someone else's username, I am able to detect that sorta thing because I have to manually approve registrations before your user account is active at the new site.)
Once you register at the new site it might take a few hours (or a day or 2) before your user-account is approved. In the meantime you still can use the site as a GUEST.
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mixerjaexx
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Date: May 1, 2006 @ 3:50 AM
Hey, that's a great idea independentmusician... about checkin' user names against people tryin' to steal it.
Hey... also, if anyone wants to start a new, if you don't like your user name and want somethin' difference... well now's the perfect time. |
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independentm...
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Date: May 1, 2006 @ 6:05 AM
KEEP IN MIND:
If you change your username or password at the new site, it does NOT affect your old username/password at the OLD site.
They are SEPARATE registrations.
(The OLD site is technically a part of the Dmusic forums. Dmusic usernames/paswords are the SAME THING as the old boycott-riaa usernames/passwords.) |
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TotallyFrust...
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Date: May 1, 2006 @ 9:39 PM
OK...I get a message that my Username is already in use.....Help! I like this handle :-() |
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independentm...
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Date: May 2, 2006 @ 8:32 AM
Sorry TotallyFrustrated. I was up over 24 hours working on the site and went to bed before you registered. When I got up this morning your registration was in there and I approved it first thing. You should be good to go.
(The new site requires admin approval before membership level access is granted.) |
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AsiaMinor
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Date: May 2, 2006 @ 8:32 PM
Just thought I'd let you know, in case no one else did:
You placed a bold-face HTML tag in the wrong place in the URL on the homepage of this site for the announcement of the new forum. |
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AsiaMinor
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Date: May 2, 2006 @ 8:32 PM
Sorry, wrong place to post. |
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AsiaMinor
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Date: May 2, 2006 @ 8:32 PM
New site looks graphically interesting |
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independentm...
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Date: May 2, 2006 @ 11:58 PM
No, this thread is FOR exactly just that AsiaMinor. Thanks for alerting me that something was outta whack. (Now I gotta go see where it's at and if I can fix it. But hey, that's my job!)
:) |
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independentm...
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Date: May 3, 2006 @ 12:04 AM
Found it and fixed it AsiaMinor. (I might have never noticed had you not said anything.)
Thanks! |
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gfmlcka
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Date: May 4, 2006 @ 5:50 AM
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70802-0.html?tw=rss.index
Sensible DRM attitude.
(btw good job on the new site Mike)
tweak, tweak |
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independentm...
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Date: May 4, 2006 @ 7:06 AM
I have been tweeking and tweeking more than 12 hours per day for the past week.
lol
(But I think it's gonna be worth the effort!)
The RIAA is DOOMED now!
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gfmlcka
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Date: May 4, 2006 @ 8:08 AM
One thing for sure, they don't like US! |
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independentm...
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Date: May 4, 2006 @ 9:02 AM
Ok, it's time for me to bitch and gripe a bit at some of our regulars who have still not yet registered at the new site.
I mean c'mon! Whatchya waiting for? It only takes a minute and I will approve your registration and anything you post the very next time I am online. (I will even do it almost instantly if I am online at time.)
Get crackin' Boycotters! We have a very powerful new tool too whoop RIAA ass!
USE IT! |
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gdZiemann
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Date: May 4, 2006 @ 2:00 PM
"Whatchya waiting for?"
It says at the top of this page that you can't make comments there. That's what I'm waiting for.
Why is this site now popping up windows every time you go to the home page? |
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independentm...
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Date: May 4, 2006 @ 10:23 PM
Pop up windows? Which place? (Certainly not the new one. I currently have NO ads whatsoever at the new site.) ...and I was not aware of that we have any pop-ups here at the old one either. (I haven't been hit by any myself here, but then again, I use a Mozilla browser that might be blocking them if they are here.) We will have to ask leflaw or fuDog about it. I have never known them to allow pop-up ads here at Boycott. Just banner ads.
(But check your computer real good with anti-adware software. I know you use a mac, but even macs might be suseptable to adware bugs or other nasties which can cause pop-ups.)
Is anyone else getting pop-ups?
============
We are still trying to get an "article-comment feature" added to the new site. (It would help ME do my job more quickly and effectively, eliminating the need to post articles in both places. Double the work on my end.) But when you wish to comment on a front page item at the new site, the link directly takes you here where there is a clone of the article.
I have tried to make it as easy as pie for everybody.
But some things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day and all that.
:) |
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gdZiemann
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Date: May 4, 2006 @ 11:00 PM
I'm getting tw windows that pop up. Both say :
Not Found
The requested URL /[type Function]share was not found on this server.
Apache/1.3.34 Server at www.boycott-riaa.com Port 80 |
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independentm...
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Date: May 5, 2006 @ 12:43 AM
I sent an e-mail to leflaw and fuDog. |
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pepe512000
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Date: May 5, 2006 @ 11:49 AM
Hi guys, just wanted to let you know I have a mac as well, but I'm using OSX...having no problems with new site. George you may need to break down and upgrade...it gets us all eventually.. :) |
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OldCodger
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Date: May 5, 2006 @ 12:02 PM
I'm hanging in there, along with George, using my trusty ol' OS 9.2.2 — but I'm not experiencing what George has been reporting.
Regardless, I don't plan to upgrade the OS.
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pepe512000
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Date: May 5, 2006 @ 12:13 PM
Oh well, it was just a thought....Here was something that may have been of interest..or not..
Gas Explosions Nix Goo Goo Dolls Concert
Gee, if the fans had gotten in and the gas blew, they would have thought these guys REALLY rocked with special FX. |
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OldCodger
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Date: May 5, 2006 @ 12:39 PM
Otherwise, it was a good suggestion, "Pepe".
Incidentally, I AM using 10.4 ("Tiger") on another hard drive, but I fixed it so it CAN'T access the inner-net.
(I use it exclusively for processing.)
BTW, George, you may want to consider trying another browser (just to see if you get the same results).
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gdZiemann
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Date: May 5, 2006 @ 1:53 PM
a) It moved from the front page to this page. Same message.
b) Mac OS 9.2.3 introduced the first stage of DRM by making audio CDs unplayable if they were on CD-R. OS X introduced actual DRM (which is why you need it to get music from iTunes) and now, viruses. I'll stay at 9.2.2 forever because it does everything I want and nothing that I don't want it to, the latter of which has become increasingly important to me.
c) My browser is fine. I really don't care about the occasional incompatible page. I was just letting you know.
Pepe, thanks for the suggestion. Just explaining my refusenik reasoning. |
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independentm...
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Date: May 5, 2006 @ 3:01 PM
leflaw said he was unaware of any of the banner ads at Dmusic or here at the old Boycott Riaa causing popups.
They are still supposedly not allowed by DMusic to be anything more than harmless animated .gif's as far as I know and leflaw's reply seemed to affirm this.
On the NEW site, I have absolutely NO ads (yet) what-so-ever.
You must have picked up some kinda spyware somehow, some way. But send Joe a note if you are certain that is not the case. |
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gdZiemann
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Date: May 5, 2006 @ 9:04 PM
These were not ads. Not spyware. Just windows. They were error messages from the server.
Not Found
The requested URL /[type Function]share was not found on this server. |
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independentm...
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Date: May 5, 2006 @ 11:36 PM
That's weird. I will tell 'em to look into it. (I still don't have much control over stuff like that here at the old site, ...another reason I am so glad to have the new one.) |
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independentm...
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Date: May 7, 2006 @ 3:57 PM
Folks, I think I found an add-on component that will allow us to comment and reply to front page articles/items at the new site. I will see what I can do to get it installed in the next few days, but give it time. (I don't want to accidentally break the new site by doing something incorrectly. Perhaps Joe or mixerjaexx will help me.) |
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pepe512000
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Date: May 7, 2006 @ 7:37 PM
George..just caught your article entitled "The Flip Side" on your web site, and I thought WOW..you got it! Great article and I agree with what you wrote completely. Way to go guy! |
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pepe512000
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Date: May 8, 2006 @ 1:56 PM
Sorry George..thats concerning your "Gospel of Judas" article on your "The Flip Side" section..needed to clarify that... |
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Jefrystube
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Date: May 8, 2006 @ 6:34 PM
Don't much care for the new site. I guess I'm a Luddite. |
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independentm...
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Date: May 8, 2006 @ 8:00 PM
Sorry to hear that. What can we do to make it better? |
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gfmlcka
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Date: May 9, 2006 @ 4:26 AM
Here's a load of shit.
I can't begin to comment on how clueless and owned by the cartel the idiot writer is.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_20/b3984093.htm?campaign_id=bier_tcm
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mixerjaexx
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Date: May 9, 2006 @ 6:08 AM
In case anybody who's gone to the new web site www.boycottriaa.com was wondering... the new site's down for repairs and, for now, we're all being redirected back to the original www.boycott-riaa.com . |
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gdZiemann
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Date: May 10, 2006 @ 12:58 PM
Pepe -- Thanks. That reminds me that I need to do one about The DaVinci Code. |
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DeadMan2003
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Date: May 10, 2006 @ 6:58 PM
http://mp3.about.com/b/a/256773.htm
Misleading title 'RIAA Gives OK to Ripping CDs'. |
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pepe512000
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Date: May 11, 2006 @ 10:45 AM
BNL meets with Bev Oda
I sure hope the riaa is paying some attention to what's happening across the border..if they are, I'm sure they're going to be just a tad upset.
What I'm not too sure about is why artists in the USA are not taking a similar stand. Or are we just not hearing about them? |
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RSBROWN
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Date: May 11, 2006 @ 1:08 PM
CAN'T GET TO THE NEW SITE. EVERY TIME I TRY, I END UP BACK HERE. |
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mixerjaexx
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Date: May 11, 2006 @ 2:16 PM
Yeah, there's a problem with the new site and they're having everyone directed back to the old web site, here... for the time being until they fix the new site. |
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pepe512000
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Date: May 11, 2006 @ 3:53 PM
Can File-Sharing Impact Future Employment?
I can just see the job interview now..."Have you ever, in the past, or are you now involved in illegal file sharing? Is this something you would ever consider engaging in?"
What a joke! |
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independentm...
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Date: May 11, 2006 @ 9:29 PM
Hi folks. Sorry the new site is currently down. (We broke things while trying to upgrade the news section to where we could post user comments. *sigh* ...somehow I just knew it would happen.)
But things will be back up and running soon (knock on wood.)
I myself have been offline for a couple days and am not sure of the status of things at the moment, but will let you know ASAP.
Just hang in there folks.
--Shmoo |
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OldCodger
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Date: May 12, 2006 @ 4:21 AM
No problem; I'm content with the old familiar site anyway.
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independentm...
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Date: May 13, 2006 @ 5:09 PM
Well, the new place is back online!
(Thank's Joe!) |
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OldCodger
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Date: May 14, 2006 @ 8:22 PM
It's back online, but it has several recent news articles that you can't post to (and they're not articles that are duplicated at our old site here). Hmm.
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OldCodger
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Date: May 14, 2006 @ 8:26 PM
Let's see, part of the problem . . . could it be that we oldtimers aren't automatically considered active at the new site? I wonder if I need to register again (over there).
Yet, I recall posting to some of the new articles over there in the recent past.
I may be suffering a case of forgetfulness, I don't know.
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gfmlcka
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Date: May 15, 2006 @ 1:44 AM
Regarding the thorny question of how artists can be paid without copyright protection there is an intriguing answer in chapter 4 of "The Conservative Nanny State".
It's available free as a 1MB PDF here:
http://www.conservativenannystate.org/
The chapter presents clear examples of the inequities of the patent and copyright system
that we are so familiar with. The artistic voucher system described could fund 2 million artists at an average of $50,000 per year and completely crush the RIAA. Most importantly it can work in parallel with the current copyright system.
Overall an excellent, easy to read, free book.
Check it out. |
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OldCodger
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Date: May 15, 2006 @ 5:15 AM
Interesting article, gfmlcka.
Shmoo:
One more thing, and then I'll shut up for awhile.
Whatever happened to our open forum (where we could feel free to post off-topic remarks)?
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independentm...
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Date: May 15, 2006 @ 3:39 PM
I will start one here for ya!
Unfortunately you do have to register at the new site. We couldn't figure out a way to transfer your Dmusic user/pass directly, but you CAN sign up at the new site with your same user/pass ...in fact, I prefer you do use the same username.
The articles at the new site that are commentable actually are just links to a clone of the same article here at the old site. The articles that don't have a clone/mirror at the old site simply haven't been posted here yet.
I ran out of time on the computer yesterday before I could get to it. (...having to use a borrowed PC and connection while my own home Internet access is down.)
But don't worry, I am not ignoring or shunning our long-timers who (for whatever reason) haven't signed up at the new site yet.
I would NEVER deliberately give the cold-shoulder to my best-pals. |
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independentm...
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Date: May 15, 2006 @ 3:43 PM
gfmlcka, that book deserves to be a "Boycott Riaa Pick" at the new site. You shoulda posted it there. (Since I am already looking at it, I will go ahead and put up the link there for ya.) |
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OldCodger
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Date: May 15, 2006 @ 4:08 PM
Thanks, Mike.
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independentm...
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Date: May 15, 2006 @ 4:13 PM
...Oh, BTW OldCodger, click the "read more" button below the articles at the new site and you will find a link if the article is also mirrored/cloned here.
I'm not going to always link EVERY item here at the old site ...just the one's we think the folk most likely will want to comment on.
Whenever we get the comment feature working at the new site, I'm not sure what leflaw wants to do with these old pages, but I don't plan on continuation of posting stuff in both places (at least not very much) You won't believe the amount of time and effort it take me to put stuff in both places.
PART of the reason for the new site is to save ME some time/hassle (...instead of adding to it. So far, during this "set-up" stage, it has done just that. lol. But things will settle down soon and I will gain back at least a couple hours per day.) |
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gfmlcka
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Date: May 16, 2006 @ 1:14 AM
Thanks Mike.
It's sort of a lengthy read but it's the first 21st
century alternative to copyright that I've read and thought to myself "you know that just might work!" |
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tomsong
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Date: May 18, 2006 @ 12:43 AM
Greetings CodeWarrior.
I am stunned to read the 200 page dossier written by an activist group at this link, it is the perfect account of the evils of capitalism and copyright.
http://www.copysouth.org/
Of special interest to you, Code Warrior, here is a teaser on the word "piracy."
from the Copy/South Dossier:
The word ‘piracy’ is at the top of the agenda of many Western governments. In June 2005, for example, the European Communities circulated a ‘Communication on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights’ (IP/C/W/448) that emphasised “the worrying evolution of counterfeiting and piracy worldwide.” A March 2006 follow-up document fretted that enforcement measures provided under the terms of the TRIPS Agreement were not having the desired results and needed to be improved through increased surveillance efforts by Interpol, customs authorities, and other agencies. Curbing ‘piracy’ is rising up the agenda of some non-Western countries as well; in the latter case, their concerns are focusing on the ‘piracy ‘of the work of Western stars and sometimes the ‘piracy’ is of the work of popular local artists. What are we to make of the so-called ‘pirating’ of copyrighted products?
Before we get into the question, however, one initial matter needs to be cleared up. Is ‘piracy’ the correct word to use to define this phenomenon? If not, why are the words ‘piracy’ and ‘pirates’ being used so widely by Western governments, large media corporations, the media itself, and others? To answer the second question first, we would do well to remember the words of noted African-American author Toni Morrison: “….definitions belong…to the definers-not the defined.” Calling people who use copyrighted works without the permission of their owners ‘pirates’ is a crude, but often effective, rhetorical device to cast such people as simply the contemporary version of the robbers and thieves who raided ships at sea in the days of sail and made off with chests of gold and other booty. Indeed, today’s digital pirates are now often mentioned in the same breath as those other contemporary ‘bad guys’: terrorists. One media sociologist has shown how, in the pre- and post-9/11 era, the activities of the terrorists, counterfeiters, and intellectual property ‘pirates’ were (and are) regularly linked together in police statements. Sociologist Nitin Govil gives numerous examples of such unproven claims, including: a) New York City’s Joint Terrorism Taskforce claimed “that profits from counterfeit T-shirt sales – sold in the very shadows of the twin towers – helped fund the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre”; b) “British detectives claim that “Pakistani DVDs account for 40% of anti-piracy confiscations in the UK and that profits from pirated versions of Love, Actually, and Master and Commander funnel back to the coffers of Pakistan-based Al Qaeda operatives. “ Using the very language of ‘piracy’ conjures images of sea-faring, blood-thirsty brigands, who terrorise the innocent and are devoid of moral scruples… and links them to their supposed cousins who shoot down civilian airliners today. As for the answer to the first question, any serious student of copyright law knows copyright ‘piracy’ does not involve theft or any type of stealing; it is, at worst, unauthorised borrowing because the owner gets to keep the original work. In other words, ‘pirating’ a CD has far different consequences than stealing a car.
This article begins with a backgrounder on the criminalisation of copying, explains how the stakes are often quite different in the South, and then looks at some wider ramifications, including critical cultural implications, of copyright ‘piracy.’
The criminalisation of copying
The criminalisation of copying and the war on ‘piracy’ will be familiar to many people in Western countries. Breaches of copyright were once matters largely handled by specialists and lawyers, and of little interest to us in the wider public. However, in recent years we’ve seen a relentless shift in which copying has been demonized, and become targeted with ever tougher criminal penalties. Well-known instances include the pursuit of those who use peer-to-peer (P2P) online file sharing networks such as Gnutella and Napster (when it was first established). |
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independentm...
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Date: May 18, 2006 @ 1:39 AM
Nice to see ya Tom.
(Where the hell you been?)
Do you want me to put your above post on the new site under "must read" ???
I think most of the stuff you ever write about our kind of issues BELONG to that category.
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CodeWarrior
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Date: May 18, 2006 @ 8:03 AM
Excellent post TOM. Finally someone besides me is beating the drum about this whole "piracy/pirate" nonsense!
"So it goes." - Vonnegut
~Code |
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pepe512000
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Date: May 19, 2006 @ 8:37 AM
Being totally baffooned as to where to put news items anymore, I found this to be of interest at any rate...
Interest Groups Make Demands Over Copyright Reform
And to this...can't we express opinions about anything, anywhere, anymore???
[url=http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1192[Sharman Networks Sues p2pnet.net[/url]
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pepe512000
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Date: May 19, 2006 @ 8:38 AM
[url=http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1192[Sharman Networks Sues p2pnet.net[/url] |
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pepe512000
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Date: May 19, 2006 @ 8:40 AM
veddy interesting....just type the link in..I give up! |
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gdZiemann
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Date: May 19, 2006 @ 12:34 PM
"can't we express opinions about anything, anywhere, anymore???"
Sure you can. The problem only arises when your opinion is stated as if it were a fact and turns out not to be. The story in question has to do with Nikki Hemming's house. No matter what it says, there are a few key words that can be inserted to make it obvious that it's your opinion.
• "Apparently..."
• "I think..."
• "Sounds to me like..." |
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pepe512000
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Date: May 19, 2006 @ 4:56 PM
Good idea....here's my take on the Da Vinci Code movie...
"Apparently...it's long, dull and extremely boring".
"I think....There's not a grain of truth to be found in this fiction..well, duh, that's pretty obvious...the key word being fiction"....and...
"Sounds to me like....all the hype worked and it's going to be their best money maker this year yet....maybe now the mpaa will shut the heck up!"
Am I in the wrong section again for off topic???
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independentm...
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Date: May 20, 2006 @ 12:55 AM
I'll start a new off topic thread. |
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