Jun 20
RIAA sicken me.
24 tracks. That's about 2 CDs worth.
If you were caught stealing 2 CDs in the US, the fine could be anywhere from $50 to $300, based on some of the reports I have seen.
If you were to shop lift 2 CDs, you would not only get the music, but the CD and Case too!
However, if you were to download these tracks instead, you would get fined $1.92 million. That's more than The Pirate Bay admin fines, and lets be honest, even though I want them to win just to undermine the RIAA, what they are doing is far worse.
That makes sense, right?
So, the $1,920,700 difference comes down to the tracks being 'shared' rather than just stolen.
I am at a complete loss to how 24 tracks could cost the industry so much money.
I find it completely sickening that the RIAA could do this to someone, never mind the fact it was much more likely, given the music, it was one of her children that downloaded it.
Shame on the artists involved in the case for allowing this to happen, although I am glad to see more artists speaking out against the RIAA, like Moby.
All these law suits are doing is making me less likely to buy from any of the RIAA record labels.
I suppose using Spotify still gives them money, but I am not stopping using that.
Jun 06
I may have an addiction.
I have watched a whole series of House in the last 3 days.
I may have an addiction. Its just too good.
In other news, I have a random desire to start up the PHP and I did mess with a bit of jQuery earlier in the week.
Here's a couple of code snipits you might find useful, feel free to use them, hack them, edit them, whatever.
Comment back with whatever you come up with.This code makes the "user reading this post list" update every time you click on the text area, so when you go to answer, it would update showing if anyone else is looking at the post.
- Quote:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("textarea").click(function () {
$(".c_view").load("window.location .c_view");
});
});
</script>The first time you type inside the textarea, this loads the reply page in the background, telling the server you are replying.
- Quote:
$(document).ready(function(){
var i = 0;
$("textarea").keypress(function () {
if (i == 0) {
var reply = $(".topic-buttons a").attr("href");
$.get(reply);
i = 1;
}
});
});
</script>
They probably wont work together, thanks to jQuerys ajax caching, if anyone knows a work around, it would be appreciated.
May 29
May Playlist
Most of my music this month has been fairly varied in style. In terms of what I have been listening to most:
- Dream Theater
- Rise Against
- Snow Patrol
- Kings of Leon
- Air Traffic
- Alphabeat
All highly recommended of course, but I am loving Air Traffic at the moment, they have a new album due out soon(hopefully), which I will be checking out.
In the next month, I am going to see Dream Theater again, and they also have a new album out, one I am anticipating quite highly.
Kings of Leon and Rise Against are both playing at Reading this summer, which is why they are popular in iTunes this month, preparing.
I have seen Rise Against before, but I wasn't a huge fan, after I saw them I really got into their music.
I also discovered Spotify, which is brilliant for listening to music free if you live in the UK, and some other parts of the world, it is ad supported, but they are infrequent and never bother me, worth checking out if you don't like to pay for music :p
10:21 PM Nov 23
