Month: February 2005

Truth Behind The NAPSTER Lies

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Here is the fine print to the new Napster $15 “unlimited” download service-
“A “Stream” is a Track that you play directly from and while you are logged on to the Service. You may play as many Streams as you like while your subscription is current. You may not attempt (or encourage others) to capture, copy, or download a streamed Track. Napster will count the number of times that you stream each Track for royalty accounting and analysis purposes.

A “Download” is a Track that you may save to the hard drive of your personal computer and play back as many times as you want for so long as your subscription is current. You may make an unlimited number of Downloads while your subscription is current. You may copy each Download to up to two additional personal computers that you own (i.e. a total of 3 copies). If you wish to burn Downloads to CDs or transfer them to compatible portable devices (other than using the “Napster To Go” Service described below) you will need to pay for them as Purchased Tracks (per the terms described above). You may not share Downloads with anyone else. Napster automatically renews your rights to all of your Downloads at the beginning of each Subscription Month (as defined below) so long as your subscription remains current. This means that in order to play any Download after the end of a Subscription Month, you must log on to the Service so that Napster can renew your rights for those Tracks. The Client will count the number of times that you play a Download, including while you are offline, for royalty accounting and analysis purposes.

In addition, if you register for the “Napster To Go” tier, you will be able to transfer your Downloads an unlimited amount of times to up to a maximum of three (3) such compatible portable devices for as long as your “Napster To Go” membership is current. For royalty accounting and analysis purposes, Napster will track the Downloads that you so transfer and the number of times that you play Downloads on such devices. Napster also automatically renews your rights to any Downloads stored on your portable devices at the beginning of each Subscription Month. Thus, in order to continue to play such Downloads on that portable device, you will need to dock your portable device (i.e., connect to the PC) and log onto Napster at the beginning of each Subscription Month.

If you have Tracks that were pre-loaded to your personal computer, portable device, CD or DVD, you may access and play these Tracks as Downloads only after you have registered for a tier of the Subscription Service. You may not otherwise access or play these Tracks and you agree not to attempt to do so.”

This service is utter shit…

The Dumbing of America or Religious right fights science for the heart of America

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From The Guardian
“Al Frisby has spent the better part of his life in rooms filled with rebellious teenagers, but the last years have been particularly trying for the high school biology teacher. He has met parents who want him to teach that God created Eve out of Adam’s rib, and then then adjusted the chromosomes to make her a woman, and who insist that Noah invited dinosaurs aboard the ark. And it is getting more difficult to keep such talk out of the classroom.”

“They believe that the naturalistic bias of science is in fact atheistic, and that if we don’t change science, we can’t believe in God. And so this is really an attack on all of science.”

Read the whole story here.