From: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org (angry-psychos-digest) To: angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Subject: angry-psychos-digest V8 #15 Reply-To: angry-psychos@smoe.org Sender: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "angry-psychos-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. angry-psychos-digest Friday, January 24 2003 Volume 08 : Number 015 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NPR-Joke [Davey08@aol.com] NPR - piracy vs. MP3s [Davey08@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 03:23:39 EST From: Davey08@aol.com Subject: NPR-Joke A husband and wife are waiting at the bus stop, with them are their 8 children. A blind man joins them after a few minutes. When the bus arrives, they find it overloaded and only the wife and her eight children are able to fit in the bus. So the husband and the blind man decide to walk. After a while the husband gets irritated by the ticking of the stick of the blind man and says to him, "Why don't you put a piece of rubber at the end of your stick, that ticking sound is driving me crazy!!" The blind man replies: "If you would've put a rubber on the end of YOUR stick, we'd be sitting in the bus, so shut the hell up!!!!" Dave Harty [Zampanosdead] Dave est mon nom Zampano est l'auteur Poe est mon Diesse Je ne parle pas De frangais - -> http://get.to/poesplace <- http://www.geocities.com/run_rom_run/houseofleaves.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/House_of_Leaves "Dans la maison, l'obscuriti me consommera." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 04:39:25 EST From: Davey08@aol.com Subject: NPR - piracy vs. MP3s MP3s do not violate copyright. Here is why. Copyright prevents, under law, the duplication of the content contained on the media. MP3s are not a duplication, but an approximation of the original sound. "Unlike with compression and decompression of computer programs (e.g. ZIP), that is to say, during lossy data compression (data reduction) the original signal is not reconstructed 1:1, but to reduce the data amount, only control signals for a synthesizer programs (called CODEC) get recorded, those are optimized in a way that during rendition the CODEC can reconstruct from these an approximation of the original picture or sound signal that appears as similar as possible for the human conscious perception, but is not identical to the original signal." --Christian Oliver Windler For more info see: http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logologie/MP3-Gefahr/MP3-risk.h t ml Piracy on the other hand, does happen when a portion of, or a complete disc is copied 1:1 where the original signal is duplicated, and therefore violates copyright law. Dave Harty [Zampanosdead] Dave est mon nom Zampano est l'auteur Poe est mon Diesse Je ne parle pas De frangais - -> http://get.to/poesplace <- http://www.geocities.com/run_rom_run/houseofleaves.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/House_of_Leaves "Dans la maison, l'obscuriti me consommera." ------------------------------ End of angry-psychos-digest V8 #15 **********************************