messybuu

Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Lecrayon: It really is about time artists combine new efforts to present their works in another way than through old ways and run the risk of being exploited. MessiahWWKD: In other words, artists shohuld be exploited by companies such as Napster instead of companies such as Geffen Records? Lecrayon: To me RIAA could be in danger because of not working along with artists and of not wanting to change to more modern ways of publishing. MessiahWWKD: Napster w

Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Recording a movie on television isn't the same as downloading music. IIRC, the people who make VCRs and the people who make movies compromised, and now the people who make movies receive a portion of money for every tape sold. As for the radio, the music on the radio is authorized to be on the radio, whereas the owners of the actual music never authorized the music to be on Napster. I also believe they receive some money for every cassette or tape recorder as well. <A HREF="https://www.w

Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

paxx: When downlaoding songs for free, you may be indeed robbing the artists out of some revenue, but mainly you are ripping organised crime (record labels) out of a few dirty dollars. Give me the option to download songs and directly pay the artists and I'll do it in a minute. MessiahWWKD: When you purchase a CD, an artist receives around 10 cents. When you download a CD off Napster, an artist receives nothing. I don't see how giving an artist nothing is more moral than giving

Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Oops!... I did it again! Let's try this... Frogboy: and somehow making an app that millions of people want to use isn't fundamental economics? How can you fault a natural law that you, yourself profit from? He saw a demand, and offered a supply. What MessiahWWKD doesn't see is that economic truths are *as natural* as pink monky asses; they are just as sublimated and just as instictual. They are why communism failed, and we still thrive. If Mr Fanning hadn't chose to make Napster, someone els

Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

>Frogboy: and somehow making an app that millions of people want to use isn't fundamental economics? How can you fault a natural law that you, yourself profit from? He saw a demand, and offered a supply. What MessiahWWKD doesn't see is that economic truths are *as natural* as pink monky asses; they are just as sublimated and just as instictual. They are why communism failed, and we still thrive. If Mr Fanning hadn't chose to make Napster, someone else would have answered the call. Demand is *alw

Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

That's also my biggest problem with Napster. By their attempts to profit from Napster, by being reluctant to add filters to Napster, and by acting as if people should respect their intellectual property (as seen on the terms of usage on the old Napster site), Shawn Fanning and company made it obvious that it simply wanted to milk the artists for what they're worth while trying to protect their own property. That's hardly altruistic of them, and unless I'm mistaken, Robin Hood didn't help the poo

Reply to How do you measure distace, or area, within a window on a screen? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

My way of measuring windows and objects on a screen is Print Screen and MS Paint.

Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

"Besides IUMA." is supposed to be "Besided emusic (http://www.emusic.com), there's also sites as IUMA (http://www.iuma.com)."

Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I completely agree with you migellito on your answer to the RIAA. Besides emusic , there's also IUMA . Although such sites don't contain music from the most popular artists, they do contain music from artists that might be as good, if not better, and if supported by more people, might actually send a message to the RIAA without sinking to or below the RIAA's level.

Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

bakerstreet: There are also stores that cater to people outside of America. What about online music stores? Those existed before Napster, and they still exist. Therefore, even if Wal-Mart or Best Buy or any other store with music didn't exist in their country, they still had online stores. How is monkey anatomy and an uncontrollable desire related? Anyway, how does wanting something so badly that one feels they need it an excuse to steal something? Also, how does stealing drive the economy?

Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Oops, it didn't appear as I hoped it would. This year's September is already showing signs of being much better than last year's! Robin Hood and countless other historical figures were theives, too, and yet somehow we don't use those myths as moral stories against stealing. I never remember Robin Hood trying to profit from his ability to steal from others. I also think there's a difference between taxes one are forced to pay and music one isn't forced to purchase.

Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

This year's September is already showing signs of being much better than last year's! Robin Hood and countless other historical figures were theives, too, and yet somehow we don't use those myths as moral stories against stealing. I never remember Robin Hood trying to profit from his ability to steal from others. I also think there's a difference between taxes one are forced to pay and music one

Reply to Windowblinds wishing list in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

-Titlebar button targa support. Targa support everywhere! Actually, WindowBlinds does support that right now. But to enable it, you have to add "UsesTran=1" without the quotes in the Personality section.

Reply to Have you seen the new poll? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I'd have to choose a Mac, because OS X is simply hot. If I didn't have the money though, I'd settle with Linux.

Reply to Netscape / Mozilla in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Is it me or is Mozilla/Netscape always in beta? I liked the theming feature of it, but now it's simply frustrating considering that the skins are always outdated or simply the original theme with flags.

Reply to Newbie head scratching: IE favorites drop down menu invisible in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

IIRC, that happens when you have menu animations enabled.

Reply to Add and Remove scroll bar in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

At the moment, it seems that it's excluded for compatibility reasons.

Reply to Windowblinds wishing list in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I have a request as well. Could you separate the glyph from the background on components such as the spinners? I think it would look much better. Because it seems with many skins the spinners don't look right.

Reply to CursorXP question...please answer someone. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You can't even install it on Windows XP if you have the application compatibility set to Windows 95.

Reply to Unauthorized porting and distribution of our skins in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Cool! If it can't be stopped at the source, then at least it can be stopped at its merchant!

Reply to Unauthorized porting and distribution of our skins in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Would a segregated Internet be that bad? Sure, it would essentially split the world into two different networks, but unless I'm mistaken, we wouldn't have to deal with spammers as countries that would be on our network would have the same or similar laws against it as we do. The other network could be like the internet underground, and I don't see how these companies that make money off other people's works could make money on the other network, considering that they'd simply rip off each other.

Reply to Unauthorized porting and distribution of our skins in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

So technically, I could reverse engineer Almediadev's and simply sell it with my branding over theirs? That sounds very innovative! /me moves to Russia to revolutionize the industry.

Reply to Will the WinCustomize subscription really expire in one year? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for clearing that up for me!

Will the WinCustomize subscription really expire in one year? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

On the WinCustomize Browser, it displays the expiration date as 2003, which is only one year after I subscribed. However, isn't the subscription supposed to last for two years?

Reply to Msgboard Chatroom Marathon in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Woah!