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3 edits | Rogers internet And you can bet you will get only 25Kbytes a sec for anything but what they will sell you !!!
And you can bet ALL p2p is same speed of 25Kbytes or less.
AND LOOK at the cost
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YA so the rich get to download the res to us get screwed at 5 megabit
and as one poster elsewhere said using there router and there firmware they do get access to your network, that's if you trust them not to get nosy nor breach your privacy or cause you grief. | |
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1 edit |  NY Attny Genl Cuomo: Tagged.com site stole identities
New York's attorney general charged Thursday that » Tagged.com stole the identities of more than 60 million Internet users worldwide — by sending e-mails that raided their private accounts. Cuomo said Tagged acquired most of them fraudulently, sending unsuspecting recipients e-mails that urged them to view private photos posted by friends. The message read: "(name of friend) sent you photos on Tagged." When recipients tried to access the photos, Cuomo said they would in effect become new members of the site — without ever seeing any photos. Recipients' e-mail address books would then be lifted, the attorney general said.Cuomo said Tagged's problems went far beyond technical glitches. "This very virulent form of spam is the online equivalent of breaking into a home, stealing address books, and sending phony mail to all of an individual's personal contacts," Cuomo said. The system was set up so that a user was asked whether the sender of the photos was a friend, then suggesting that if the recipient didn't respond, the friend "may think you said no" (accompanied by a sad face icon). Any click resulted in the same thing, Cuomo said: Every person on a user's contact list received an e-mail that again read, "(name of user) sent you photos on Tagged." The site then released a flood of offers for everything from sweepstakes to other services. By the time a recipient realized there were no photos, it was too late.
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1 edit | Re: ASCAP's Latest Claim! Uh, Irving Berlin was one of the early members of ASCAP. He also protected his songbook jealously. He was a generous man, but you didn't steal his music and get away with it. How do you suppose Irving would have gotten royalties for performances of "God Bless America" if ASCAP had not collected for him?
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| Re: ASCAP's Latest Claim! said by rcdailey  :Uh, Irving Berlin was one of the early members of ASCAP. He also protected his songbook jealously. He was a generous man, but you didn't steal his music and get away with it. How do you suppose Irving would have gotten royalties for performances of "God Bless America" if ASCAP had not collected for him? Are you contending that is was Berlin's intention that ASCAP would collect a royalty payment from the GSA (or the Girl Scout herself) every time a Girl Scout sang God Bless America in the presence of another?
I assume ASCAP manifests some sort of punishment for those who are not forthcoming with their royalty payments. Then to be just, those punishments should be applied to Girl Scouts, as often as the law allows.
Furthermore, these Girl Scouts should be closely monitored so that the proper dues can be extracted, every time an ASCAP protected song escapes from their lips.
If ASCAP procedures are honorable, then these things are appropriate.
ASCAP is pronounced Ass-Cap, is it not?
In the war over ownership of people, copyright laws move the token a bit closer toward the Corporate Goal.
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3 edits | Re: ASCAP's Latest Claim! When it comes to Berlin, he was in it for the money as well as the music. That's not a criticism, by the way. He retained the rights to his songs, avoiding selling to strange corporations. It's obvious that he felt that he knew better what to do with the proceeds.
When it comes to ASCAP and performance royalties, the problem is whether a performance is private or public. For example, you are not supposed to sing modern Christian songs in church without a license. The old traditional songs are okay, but all the new music requires a license (CCLI is an agency that can arrange this for churches, schools, and other organizations).
As another example, have you ever wondered why the employees of some restaurants sing a special birthday song rather than the traditional "Happy Birthday" song that we all know? That's because the writers of that song lived a very long time and required that anyone singing that song in public would have to pay a royalty. You never (or I never) heard that song on the radio or on TV. However, no one ever got dinged for singing it around a dining table at home.
So, is singing around a campfire a public performance? Maybe it is if it is a campfire at an organized GSA event, especially one that is being recorded as a video. If it's just on a leader's own property, maybe not, but don't put it up on YouTube.
So far as I'm concerned, it would be better if copyrights expired sooner and if music corporations could not retain copyrights indefinitely. The way it is now, as I understand it, many more recent compositions (last 100 years or so) will never become public domain. That is a bad thing, and it's all about money rather than about music.
Oh, and I am not a member of ASCAP or BMI. Plus, I'll add that I don't support this business of making people pay fees for performances when they are embedded videos. That's going way over the top.
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ASCAP's Latest Claim!
How quickly we forget: Check this link to an article from 1996 in the New York Times.