anonymous
hallo all here
i am a german and i like to now what the word "INONTATION" means
please send me a email on these adress.
alpenueberquerer@yahoo.de
anonymous
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I downloaded Jesusonic 0.96 the other day and played around with it a bit. Jesusonic can be used to process all kinds of audio. I plugged my Boss GT-6 guitar effects processor into my computer to see what Jesusonic could do for me.
Strangely enough, the cheap sound cable I am using between my effects pedal and my computer has seemed to fail on the right channel. Jesusonic can make a stereo chorus that makes the guitar sound more 3D, with only 1 audio channel of input. That's pretty cool. When I get another cable, I will see what I can do with my pedals stereo effects.
I haven't even written any code for Jesusonic. I just watched the intro video a couple minutes ago. I really would like to program my own front-end for Jesusonic. I still need to install the new Microsoft Avalan developer kit for making a really cool GUI. I think it's a good thing that it requires a DirectX 9 class video card. These cards will be a lot cheaper once Longhorn is released.
This is my favorite type of guitar at the moment. I got mine for cheap at
music yo. It is great for shredding. I will post some pictures of it.
Here is the body of the guitar with EMG select pickups. I bought a regular EMG pickup for it a long time ago but still haven't installed it.
It's tuning system is on the tremelo assembly ;)
anonymous
StationRipper is here and it'll change the way we download music. It is untraceable, so the RIAA can't sue you, the way it works is by recording interent radio stations, up to 300 of them at a time. Each song the station plays will be saved in mp3 format in realtime.
StationRipperI went to
a perfect circle concert last night with Dani. It was pretty cool, I expected some video screens though. :-/
RIAA music lawsuits chill online downloading
Whether or not you approve of the recent lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) against people who allegedly are guilty of copyright infringement for having downloaded music from the Internet, a recent survey indicates that the lawsuits have had a chilling effect on free music downloading.
Legal background
The RIAA won an important case against Verizon in January, 2003, which required Verizon under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to release the names of subscribers who were suspected of copyright infringement. An appellate court upheld this result, and this led the way for the RIAA to begin the process of filing lawsuits against and extracting settlements from individuals accused of copyright infringement with respect to downloaded music.
The RIAA sent a first wave of subpoenas to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in July, 2003. After that, the RIAA filed more than 300 lawsuits against people suspected of distributing copyrighted music files for free. Some of the persons targeted by the lawsuits have settled. Some are fighting back legally.
More recently, an appellate court has overturned the Verizon ruling requiring the release of names by ISPs. This may force the RIAA to sue anonymous "John Doe" defendants while seeking subpoena approval from judges to ascertain identities.
The chilling results
According to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project as well as Media Metrix, the percentage of people in the United States who download music files online has dropped by almost half – from 35 million people down to 18 million since the RIAA launched its lawsuits in September, 2003. In fact, the statistics reveal that the percentage of Internet users who download music on an average day has dropped between 1% and 4%. Moreover, even those people who still download music are doing so less often. Steep declines in music downloading were noted among college-educated people (61% decline), parents with children living at home (58% decline), and women (58% decline)
In addition to the foregoing, there have been steep declines in the number of people running peer-to-peer file-sharing applications on their computers. The declines in user base for certain applications were as follows: 59% decline for Grokster, 25% decline for WinMX, 15% decline for KaZaa, and 9% decline for BearShare. The percentage of Internet users overall who admit sharing music, video, picture or game files has dropped from 28% to 20%.
At the same time as the declining trend as in unpaid for music downloading, an increasing number of consumers has signed up for paid online music services. For example, in just November, 2003 alone, 3.2 million people in the United States visited the for pay re-launched Napster.com. Apple's iTunes, now expanded to serve Windows-based computer users, attracted 2.7 million visitors in November.
The point is...
The RIAA already has succeeded in large measure by virtue of its lawsuits. While the individual settlements it has extracted have been relatively small, and although the legal going for the RIAA might be a little tougher given the recent Verizon appellate ruling, the fact is that the lawsuits have had a deterrent effect. At the end of the day, the RIAA wants to see a decrease in unpaid for music downloading, and the lawsuits, at least for now, have achieved that goal.
The RIAA can kiss mine...I use Kazaa everyday to download either music, movies even porn. :D I think they should just give up anyway. They're never going to stop file sharing. Think how many P2P programs are out there. MSN and Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, IRC, etc. All of which are capable of file sharing. I HIGHLY doubt the RIAA or any government agency is going to ever be able to track and prosecute people who are guilty of piracy. They'll get some, yes. And then they'll get smarter and get more people. But just like everything else the government tries to stop, the violators will just get smarter too and still get around the laws. The government can't even control the drug problem in this country (which I believe they don't want to anyway) that they've been battling for years. I don't think they'll be able to filter out the gigabytes of illegal electronic data that's transfered everyday. So I'll say it again, the RIAA, as well as the rest of the government for that matter (I'm assuming the RIAA is a government organization), can kiss mine.
anonymous
I don't steal other people's moozak so I don't worry 'bout it, yo!
oh no no! im skerred
