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  2. Posted

    The problem is the things I want I can't buy (as in can't locate) but then I haven't downloaded them either.

    Maybe if they dropped the prices, people who couldn't afford them would buy them.

     

    Another thing I think the artists themselves are paid far to much money, and that goes for the movie stars as well. :laugh: It's obscene what they are paid.

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    Public Threats From Music Industry

     

    27/06/2003 09:21 AM

    Reuters

     

    Music industry groups have turned up the volume in their fight against song-swapping over the Internet, warning Americans in a full-page newspaper advertisement that they could face legal action.

     

    The advertisement is part of an aggressive initiative by the Recording Industry Association of America, which said it plans to sue hundreds of individuals who illegally distribute copyrighted songs over the Internet.

     

    The legal plans marked a sharp escalation in the battle against Internet piracy that until now had concentrated on shutting down the "peer-to-peer" services used for swapping.

     

    Some experts said the group's latest tactic will only alienate the general public.

     

    "Next time you or your kids 'share' music on the Internet, you may also want to download a list of attorneys," a bold print headline said in the advertisement in the New York Times, signed by 13 different music trade groups and associations.

     

    The RIAA was a signatory to the Times ad, which argued that music can be bought online legally without harm to musicians.

     

    "Stealing music over the Internet is no different than shoplifting CDs out of a record store," the ad said. "It's also a very public activity - meaning that offenders can easily be identified."

     

    More than 2.6 billion songs, movies and other files are copied over computer networks every month, according to industry estimates. Executives believe such trading has led to a 14 percent slide in revenues since pioneering service Napster opened in 1999.

     

    The RIAA, whose roster includes leading media companies, has shut down Napster and several similar networks but failed to stem the tide of Internet sharing. It hopes the lawsuits and advertising might deter people in their own homes.

     

    "We hope that parents will pay attention to what their kids are doing ... that corporations will pay attention to what their employees are doing," RIAA President Cary Sherman told Reuters.

     

    Adam Cohen, a partner in the litigation department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, said the music industry in its battle shows "a lack of concern with alienating the consumer ... It's hard to imagine that this would really spur people to buy more records."

     

    Cohen, who has represented online radio and Webcasting services on copyright issues, noted the Napster case ended with a bankruptcy but left open the legal debate on targeting individuals who copy music for non-commercial purposes.

     

    RIAA members include AOL Time Warner Inc, Vivendi Universal, Sony Corp, Bertelsmann AG and EMI Group Plc.

  7. Posted

    I thought this showed on of the dumbest looking aliens yet. It's mouth was in a permanent position even when it spoke. And the fight scenes left something to be desired.

     

    Having said that ... It was a good episode.

     

    It was the first time Kirk had to physically deal with something without the aid of technology. He had to beat it with his wits, and a little help from Spock. :laugh:

  10. Posted

    I went to the st.com chat room for less than 5 minutes during the Anthony Montgomery chat because of the idiots that were in there.  The chat room is modified so that people in the chat room can submit a question (which I highly doubt will get answered) or chat with others in the chat room.  These idiots that were in the chat were talking in the room only but they were critisizing everything Anthony Montgomery said, calling him names, etc.  As I said, I only stayed a few minutes before I got so peeved I left.  I came in when the chat had already been going on for 15 minutes and there were only 6 people in there.  I think the only questions that get answered are ones selected from the email submissions.

    The stars must have to put with kind of *poopie* all the time.

  11. Posted

    " Have you had any missing time " ?

    Not that I can remember LOL! The > :laugh: < was a joke, I have a vivid memory of waking up and telling it to my wife then laying there for hours thinking about it. If it did really happen then they covered their tracks as expertly as all those claiming they were abducted say they do.

    I have more. ;)

     

    Waking up paralyzed with a sense of strange figure

     

    Feeling of actually flying

     

    Balls of light in room

     

    Puzzling scars

     

    ;)

  14. Posted

    The Philadelphia Experiment is an alleged United States Navy experiment (Project Rainbow) done on October 28, 1943. According to legend, the destroyer USS Eldridge was made invisible, dematerialized, and teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia, and back again to the Philadelphia Naval Yard. The experiment allegedly had such terrible side effects, such as making sailors invisible and causing them to go mad, that the Navy quit exploring this exciting new technology.

     

    The experiment was allegedly done by Dr. Franklin Reno as an application of Einstein's unified field theory. The experiment supposedly demonstrated a successful connection between gravity and electromagnetism: electromagnetic space-time warping.

    I saw that movie...it was called The Philadelphia Experiment. In the movie the sailors re-materialized in the deck of the ship...really gross.

    I saw the film too, but that was only a film. :laugh:

  17. Posted

    There seems to be many opportunities for alien abduction on this board.... B)  :blink:

    That might be part of " Wishfull thinking " :tear:

    *sigh*

     

    I'm still waiting!!

     

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    Be careful what you wish for, I used to have that wish until one night I had a dream- In the dream a Flying Saucer was hovering about 5000 feet away and in the dream I thought; I wish it would come closer. Well it did come closer, in about 1,000,000th of a second it zoomed up to me and stopped right in front of me, my nose pressing against a window staring in at, at, at things, very creepy things! I know, just a dream. :)

    You hope it was just a dream B) :) ..... " Have you had any missing time " ?

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    Hurrah someone has got Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation (5%) besides me.  :blink:

     

    Do you know what it means ?  :)

    Well I looked it up but I can't post it here, it's a little.....um.....ahem.....let's just say that if we die of this we're real freaks. B) B)

    I've just looked it up, and I see what you mean. :tear:

  24. Posted

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    The Philadelphia Experiment is an alleged United States Navy experiment (Project Rainbow) done on October 28, 1943. According to legend, the destroyer USS Eldridge was made invisible, dematerialized, and teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia, and back again to the Philadelphia Naval Yard. The experiment allegedly had such terrible side effects, such as making sailors invisible and causing them to go mad, that the Navy quit exploring this exciting new technology.

     

    The experiment was allegedly done by Dr. Franklin Reno as an application of Einstein's unified field theory. The experiment supposedly demonstrated a successful connection between gravity and electromagnetism: electromagnetic space-time warping.

  25. Posted

    About 2 or 3 years ago the earth was going through a meteor shower and you had to be in the southern hemisphere to get the best view. I got up at 2-30 and took a chair outside to watch. And I wasn't disappointed, it was a marvelous light show. When it was over I was too excited to go back to bed and sleep. :)