OT hacking google

default skrev:

The music is not free, neither is the bandwidth you are using from the badly configured servers google crawled.

And yes piracy is offtopic here, why even bring it up.

/Jan

Easy, you are missing the point.

The idea was to use this example to avoid re-typing a lot of the same search terms every time you want to do a specific type of search.

Just a tool and neat way to customize searching - how you use it is your business - and there's plenty of un copyrighted music out there it isn't always about music piracy you know.

Some of the best music IMHO: the string quartet that jams for the fun of it then posts the mp3 - free for everyone and without all the hype and commercial cookie cutter music the RIAA puts out. The RIAA has structured music to the point where a great deal of what they promote is lacking soul - too polished and fake IMHO.

'Nother good site listing logical operators google recognizes:

It is about searching and getting the most out of google - not piracy.

Thanks for the pointer.

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default skrev:

Okay im too trigger happy then :) cool information

/jan

Jan Nielsen wrote:

Your baby-killing is what is wrong with the music market. See how I used "baby-killing" instead of "wrong-headed view"? Using loaded and inaccurate terms for things is a cowardly way of hijacking the discussion.

There is a proper term for the practice ("Copyright Infringement") and using other loaded terms distorts the VERY SPECIFIC case of this sort of tort.

If I photocopy a book you have purchased, I don't deprive you of the use of that book. If I had an intention of buying the book but didn't, I *have* deprived the author and his agents of a sale. In the USA for over 2 centuries THIS WAS *NOT* CONSIDERED A CRIMINAL OFFENSE. It was a matter for CIVIL court. That the Congress felt a need to poke their noses into a matter that was well-established law for the entire existence of the nation speaks to people who spend much of their time doing the wrong things.

The Recorded Music Business is an aberration of the 20th Century where the means to record and distribute music were expensive and this was exploited by some cunning entrepreneurs. The recorded music industry was ALWAYS about the middlemen and it was (and IS) rare when the musicians don't get screwed. The Greatful Dead knew this 40 years ago.

Now the screw has turned and Big Music is the buggy whip manufacturer of the 21st Century. That they didn't diversify and adapt to their customer's desires and instead moved IN EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION points to an industry deserving of death.

Using dirty legal tricks

A good discussion from a recent Slashdot topic: The Future of the Record Business as seen by: Musicians

Former retailers

Traditional music customers

and Downloaders

And then there are public libraries. Mine loans out CDs, DVDs, video tapes as well as books.

Actually, ON topic for any group.

Thanks!

The RIAA's new concept of "fair use" would make it illegal for libraries to loan out recorded media.

To get around the hue and cry they "offered" to produce "degraded" media so people will not want to copy it, or media that can be reproduced only with equipment they specify.

This is one buggy whip manufacturer that isn't going down quietly; but they are going down.

I'm probably breaking the "law" every time I burn a CD so my wife can listen to it in her car or make an mp3 to take exercising.

It will be interesting to watch the MPAAs antics when the technology improves a little more. The movie studios are already scanning their actors into databanks with the idea of producing animations that can't be distinguished from life (and, no doubt, to avoid paying actors).

When the "virtual world" crowd discover they can produce real movies good enough to compete with the studios, another whip maker bites the dust.

If Halle Berry winds up out of a job she can stay with me.

Your generosity is impressive.

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