THE RIAA IS LAYING OFF HALF THEIR WORKFORCE

Is this the sign that the RIAA is about to go belly up? should we feel sorry for these people? should we be sorry for the people responsible for suing children, grand parents, single mothers, destroying college kids futures, the handicapped? I don't know! let me ask a few more questions here?

Should we feel sorry for the senior citizens on a fixed income that have been sued wrongfully by these people? should we feel sorry for the children who have been sued by these people. should we feel sorry for the handicapped people that have been sued by these people? should we feel sorry for the college kids who got sued for something they have been doing long before the Internet was even created?

Should we feel sorry for the artists who have been screwed by them for years?

is it because a lot of the big time artists are dropping these labels who are involved with the RIAA? like AC/DC, The Eagles and Bruce Springsteen who have decided they can do without the RIAA. you really cant sue a fan for thousands and then say, "HEY I WILL SEE YOU AT THE CONCERT TONIGHT!" The RIAA thinks they can!

ok enough with the questions already! CLICK HERE to read the wondeful news!

I love the comment made by one reader, "I wish I were a billionaire so I could give them all jobs cleaning my asshole with their tongues."

RIAA IS AYING OFF PEOPLE

A FEW RULES TO FOLLOW IF YOUR POSTING PICTURES OF YOURSELF ONLINE!

As we move forward into a world of computers and online meeting places. Where chat rooms, Myspace, face book have become the new way of meeting people and even old friends. I honestly believe that it is a great place and a great way of meeting new and possibly running into old friends.

Myspace has a great record of people tracking down old friends they have not seen in years. It also has been a great device used for meeting people online as well. I will not argue these facts. But I am not here to tell you all about the positive part of the whole online meeting sites.

There is a dark side! Yes there is. I am not talking about all that other stuff we hear in the news about stalkers rapist and pedophiles. Which we all should be aware that it is a major part of the dark side of being online. It is not always about the bad guys. Some terrible things happen to good people because the good people don’t think before they post things online that they should not.

Some people really don’t give much thought about the things they do online. People have been known to lose their jobs. Get blackmailed and even worse because they didn’t follow the 1 major rule everyone should follow. Don’t post what you don’t want the rest of the world to see!

Now let me set up a perfect example of what I am trying to say here. Let’s call this woman Jane. Now Jane is a sweet average young lady. Who really has not ever done anything wrong in her life. She is just like anyone else.

one day she comes across a social site. She looks around at some of the members profiles. She notices some of the profiles are pretty cool. She see’s people posting Pics of themselves with friends family. Party pictures. Pictures with the family pet and so on.

She also finds certain profiles of both men and women dressed sexy and being flirty. that’s really not a problem because if your on a social site and your looking too meet someone, you want to look as attractive as you can be obviously! It makes sense. All of it seems innocent enough. She also see’s that there are some people men and women posing with next to nothing on. Some women laying in their beds not naked but barely covered. She also see’s some of them men’s profiles just barely covering their man goods.

So Jane decides what the heck. I am going to create a profile. So Jane fills out her info like most of these sites require you to do. She also pulls out her camera and starts taking Pics of herself to put on her profile. After taking a few Pics of her smile to put on her profile. She posts the profile.

After her profile was complete. She let it go for a few weeks to see if anyone left any comments or and messages for her. She got a few hits and a few good comments but not like some of the other profiles she has seen. So She began to think maybe I should do some of those pics that some of the other women and men were doing. You know to try to look sexy. So she got out her cam dressed down to her bra and panties and started to snap pictures left and right. She then posted the pics on her profile and yes she started to get an overwhelming amounts of comments and messages. Good new right?

A few weeks pass by and she is really enjoying all that attention she is getting from the site. She is meeting men whom she is communicating with via Email and Instant messaging. She is also deciding on meeting some of these gentleman who she has been corresponding to recently. Everything could not be better.

She wakes up one morning and dose her morning routine. Takes a shower, hair makeup and heads off to her job. She gets into work and punches in and starts her daily routine. When her first break comes around she usually runs too the bathroom to freshen up. As she washed her hands she see’s something on the wall through the mirror.. She goes to the wall to investigate it. To her shock she realizes it’s a print out of one of her pics she took for that profile she posted on that social site. In shock and embarrassment she rips it down and wonders just how many people have seen it?

As the day goes by so far so good everything is just as normal as always. It’s lunch. So she goes out to her car to run to the local deli. On her windshield is a piece of paper. Thinking it was one of those flyer's she always gets advertising for that Chinese restaurant across the street. She removes it and goes to throw it out in her car garbage. She glances at it and notices that it is another one of those pics she took for that site again. Now she is starting to worry!

She suddenly lost her appetite and went back into her work and goes to sit in the employees lunchroom. She sits there and wonders who is doing this to her and why? After awhile she looks up at the employee bulletin board and again another one of her pics was pinned up for the whole world to see!

By this time she was extremely upset and did not know where to go to for help. She also knew by this time almost everyone at work has seen the pics and everyone is talking about them. She even had a bigger concern her son age 17 also worked part time as a bag boy in the evenings. What if he see’s these pics? Her mom shops here and her friends and relatives as well.

And to confirm her suspicions she gets a call from the store manager to go to his office and she knows why and now she has to sit there and answer some very hard and extremely awkward questions about the pics. She didn’t lose her job and the store manager had to send out a memo to all employees about posting non company information on any company property walls.

For weeks people were talking all about it and even her son found out about it and had to quit because the other employees picked on him about his whore mother. She had to quit as well. Even without finding another job which got her into a pickle because she had no other income.

Then the prank calls started to come in of men breathing heavy or asking her out thinking she was an easy score. Her life was turned inside and out. It got so bad for her she had to move out of town because everyone knew of the pictures she posted on that site. How could they not? they were posted everywhere and the ones who didn’t see them on the walls at work were sharing them with each other in emails and posting the pics on other sites for everyone to see. She became the blunt of every cruel joke and every local perverts target. Her life was completely ruined by a few bra and panties pics posted on a social website.

Later it was found out that 2 of the employees while surfing the net and looking for local people to connect too, came across her profile. they knew her and thought it would be funny to print her pictures out and post them all over work. The 2 gentleman involved were fired shortly after. But the woman’s life was still ruined. A sad joke if you ask me. But it all could have been avoided completely if Jane used some common sense to begin with!

This was actually a true story. It happened 5 yrs ago to someone a few towns over from me.

With that said! I want to go through a few simple rules that everyone should follow. Now these rules just don’t pertain to JUST the ladies. These rules apply to everyone even the Men!

Rule #1 never post any information that you don’t want anyone else to know about you! Don’t post information to anyone or on a site that you wouldn’t want your friends or family or children to know!

Rule #2 never post pictures of yourself in a manner you do not wish for your friends, family, children or co workers to see.

Rule #3 Never complain about your work, job or boss online. People have lost their jobs because of this!

Rule #4 never give out any personal information EVER online! Phone numbers, street address, where you work and where you hang out! Stalkers and online bullies use this information to attack you in many forms.

Rule #5 always follow rules #1 to #4!!!!!

FUN: ANOTHER FUN TIME WASTER!

Want to freak someone out in a Email, Chat Room or an Instant Message?

I found a neat little site that will spell backwards anything you type.

Here's an Example,
˙ǝdʎʇ noʎ ƃuıɥʇʎuɐ spɹɐʍʞɔɐq llǝds llıʍ ʇɐɥʇ ǝʇıs ǝlʇʇıl ʇɐǝu ɐ punoɟ ı

¿ǝƃɐssǝɯ ʇuɐʇsuı uɐ ɹo ɯooɹ ʇɐɥɔ 'lıɐɯǝ ɐ uı ʇno ǝuoǝɯos ʞɐǝɹɟ oʇ ʇuɐʍ

Have fun with this little time waster, CLICK HERE!

WANT TO LEARN HOW TO KEEP UP WITH YOUR FAVORITE BLOGS OR NEWSFEED? cHECK THIS OUT!

Do you subscribe to a ton of Blog’s? Do you find it hard to keep up with all those Blog’s you follow? Did you know that you can use free RSS clients to follow all your Blog’s and news feeds?

That’s right! You can follow all your Blog’s and news feeds all in one place. There are tons of FREE RSS news Clients. These Clients make it easy for you to follow all of your favorites Blog’s right from your desktop. So you can keep up to date and current with all the news postings that interest you!

In this day and age with tons of informative sites out on the web. A lot of Web Sites has been using Blogs And RSS news feeds as a tool to keep their loyal visitors updated on site changes and news about their sites and products. RSS newsfeeds have become as important to the Internet as Email these days.

Almost every major Web Site uses newsfeeds. It the latest greatest thing on the net. And the best part is that it’s all Free! There are millions of RSS newsfeeds and Blog’s out there. Covering almost any subject! So come on give a RSS newsreader client a try. You will love it!

You can also add this blog to your reader as well and you can keep up with it!
The best part is, if you want make a comment on anyone blog. Just click the main articles title and you will be taken directly to that blog and subject with a breeze! And the best part is you can make comments on most Blog’s anonymously like you can here! A great way to get your opinions heard on any subject you feel strong about! Try one out and Enjoy!!

The above picture is the newsreader client I use! it’s called FREE DEMON by News Gator. But there are tons of other FREE RSS Clients.

Here is the LINK to a list of free readers that you can use! CLICK HERE!

AND DON’T FORGET TO ADD THIS BLOG TO YOUR CLIENT. SO YOU DON’T MISS A THING! This my Blog's URL http://johnny12467.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

It is easy to add any news feed and blog to your client. Just look for the RSS logo on any blog or news feed site and BAM it’s added. You maybe given a choice! Just select the client you are using. It is that easy!

Some Blog’s have their own Icons or links to add. For instance. If you scroll to the bottom of this page there is a link that says “SUBSCRIBE TO: POST ATOM” click on that and if you have a RSS news client installed it will add this Blog to your RSS news client and if you don’t have a RSS news client it may ask you if you want to add it to your Yahoo or AOL front page. So when you open your client or go to your internet providers main page. You will get a constant update to this blog. Every time I make a post. The post will appear in the client or on your providers front page. Enjoy!!

DO YOU SPEND HOURS CHECKING ALL OF YOUR EMAILS?

Ever thought about using an Email client?

There was a time when In order for me to get any of my Email I had to sign on to different accounts.
I have 2 Gmail accounts! 4 Hotmail Accounts! 4 Yahoo accounts. I can’t tell you how frustrating it to in order to check all my Emails by going through all these sites. I would Spend close to 2hrs just checking all of my Emails. And that’s not including Replies to those Emails!

If you go through all of this to get to your Email? Have you ever thought about using a Email Client!

So I have found a list of free Email Clients for you to check out. Just make sure your Email provider provides free POP3 access!

And if you don’t know what a POP3 is? CLICK HERE!

A LIST OF 12 GOOD EMAIL CLIENTS! CLICK HERE!

Simplify your Emails today! Try out a Client.

A FUN TIME WASTER! WHAT AMERICAN ACCENT DO YOU HAVE?

I cam across this fun sitewhen someone sent this to me in a Email. All you have to do is answer a few qusetions and it will tell you what American accent you speak.

Ifigured this would be a fun time waster. if you like it? pass it on to your friends. Enjoy,

What American Accent Do You Have?

7 TIPS TO HELP YOU MAINTAIN PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET!

I have found a decent site. that will give you tips on how to protect your privacy on the Internet.
most of these tips are just plain old common sens. but i decided i would post them anyway,

7 Practices for Computer Security

TOP ISP'S AGREE TO R.I.A.A.'S 3 STRIKE RULE

yes folks there are some major Internet providers who are agreeing to the 3 strike rule. thats right your ISP may now suspend your account if your are caught more then 3 times sharing or downloading music from P2P clients.

The R.I.A.A. said they are not going to sue anymore so called copyright infringer's. they are asking Internet providers to do their dirty work for them. How nice huh? -grump-

Wired.com has the complete story. Click here to read it!

OBAMA ADMIN HAS TO DECIDE THE FAIRNESS OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT FOR R.I.A.A. VICTIMS

President Obama's administration has to make a ruling whether or not the the tactics used by the R.I.A.A. to sue over 30 thousand file sharers for $750 or more for each track found in their share folder is constitutional or not!

Wired.com has the story! Click Here!

HELP WANTED

I am looking for fellow bloggers who think they can add to this blog. I am looking for anyone out there who can add to the content of this blog.

Anyone out there have any cool site's, story's, safety information or anything that is just plain interesting and can add to the fun of the blog?

If so? Let me know!

INTRO: MR. TECH

I created this Blog to help people help each other to become more Internet wise. I am sure you heard of the expression, "you have to be street smart to survive in this town!"

My last several post have really been introductions to some of the stuff i want to share with my visitors. the goal of this blog is to inform and educate! now i am not saying i know everything there is to know about Online safety, music piracy and various other things i will be posting! Because i don't!

AS a matter of fact i am still learning as i go along. just like everyone else. so i don't want anyone think that i am a know it all. but there are some lessons that i have learned over the years and i think that from my past experiences i can help people avoid some of the problems i have ran into on the World WIde Web.

I am not a rich man and whatever i have i value and since i am not rich and i have a love of computers which everyone knows can be vary expensive if something should go worng with them. i had to learn how to be my own tech. I had to learn how to install my own software and of course i had to learn how to install my own hardware as well.

I can't tell you how many times i had to re-install my own operating system because i could not afford to pay someone to do it for me. i think i have installed every version of windows from win98 to the current Windows Vista. i have done it so may times i think i can do it in my sleep and in some cases after a some major hard drive crashes. i have done it my sleep many times!

I have had many bouts with virus's over the years. at one point i thought i was a magnet for virus's. they are nasty lil buggers aren't they? i have had every major one. hostile windows take over. browser hijacks. you name it i dealt with it one way or another. all on my own. I don't have the luxury of going to a certified Tech to do it for me!

Over my years on the Internet i have learned a few tricks to avoid most virus's and i had to learn how to handle them as they come along as well as learn how to avoid them completely.

my first computer was a Hewlett packerd pavilion which i purchased refurbished. i had no idea what i was doing when i first got it. i didn't even know how to turn it on let alone off. my younger brother had to teach me how to turn it on and shut it down. i knew nothing at all about computers. but i had a willingness to learn. every day i would learn something new. i wanted to know what made my computer tick and how all of it's software ran.

It was not until my first run in with a virus. i had to learn how to handle things myself. when i got a hostile windows take over on my old HP with windows 98. i had to take it to one of the computer shops in my town. where they proceeded to charge me $150.00 for the virus removal.
Ok? i know $150.00 was a lot to pay. but i learned something. A lot of Computer Techs are thieves in the night. A lesson i learned right off the bat.

It was not until my first Hard Drive crash where i learned how to fend for myself. i went about fixing it with one thought in mind, "Well i cant hurt it more then it's hurt now!" I had to teach myself how to replace the hard drive. which after 3 attempts i got it right. then was the fun part! re-installing Windows 98 and trust me when i say, I had no idea what i was doing. no idea what to expect and no idea whether i was doing right wrong!

I thought it was going to be the hardest thing i ever done. it turned out to be quite easy. within 90 minutes i had my computer back again. the install was self explanatory and it was a breeze!

Since then i have installed many different versions of windows so many time i have lost track!

So i wanted to create a Blog to share some of my knowledge with my friends and family. so i do hope you sign up and keep coming back everyday or if not everyday once in awhile. i want a environment where we can learn from each other.

My main goals at this point is to,
Inspire, Inform, Have Fun and share.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE R.I.A.A. AND THEIR MISSION TO INVADE YOUR PRIVACY AND SUE THEIR CUSTOMERS!

there is a battle raging between the music industry and the it's customers. The R.I.A.A. the music industry is seeing fit to stop music from being shared online. there has been a huge debate over the past 10 yrs about who is right and who is wrong.

A lot of people don't even have a clue who the R.I.A.A. is until they get caught sharing music on P2P clients like Kazaa, limewire, bareshare, Edonkey, Winmx, BitTorrent, Morpheus and Ares.

The problem is no one realizes that the music industry considers these P2P clients as outlaw software that encourages music and movie piracy. most people have no clue when they download their favorite songs from these P2P clients is that they are so called stealing these songs.

The R.I.A.A. says this is no different then walking into your local malls music stores and grabbing a CD off the shelf and stuffing it under your shirt and walking out of the store and not paying for it. it's stealing but in a different form.

It's true that you can get your favorite songs off of these P2P clients. as a matter of fact you have your choice of thousands of song titles on these networks and yes you don't have to pay a dime.

this is where the problem comes in. the bottom line in all reality it is stealing! you can NOT deny it as a fact. but the issue is not as plane and simple as that.

there are some who think all music should be free no matter what. that the artist really don't suffer from their fans using P2P to download their latest hits. a lot of these pro P2P users think that it's the R.I.A.A. that is ultimately screwing their artist by withholding huge amounts of cash from them and not giving them a fare cut of the their album sales and royalties and that using P2P to get there songs dose not harm their favorite artist but it gives the R.I.A.A. it's just desserts! many of them claim the R.I.A.A. has been screwing artists for years and that the R.A.A. is finally getting what they deserve!

The truth is the music industry is losing a lot of money! CD sales are at a all time low and the only truly successful MP3 store is Apples iTunes which takes in up 80% of all music sales on the whole Internet.

A lot of people hate the R.I.A.A. for many different reasons. one main reason for all this hate is the frivilious lawsuits they bring to their customers. mostly college kids who share their music with each other everyday.

And the R.I.A.A. has been known to try to sue underage kids, senior citizens, single moms and in some cases dead people. don't laugh! it's true!!! there was even a case where a deaf woman was served a suphena when the R.I.A.A. mistaknly nabbed her IP address as a file sharere. they claimed she was sharing Gangsta Rap on the Kazaa netowork. You can laugh at that one. it's something to laugh at! it's sad and true at the same time!

Some people think the R.I.A.A. is full of old timers who are dinosours that fear the new age of computers. some people think that if they got rid of the old dinsours and removed them from the recording lables offices and got some young blood in. they can then find a better and fair way of dealing with P2P. lets face it some of these old geezers don't even know how to open a Email! let alone know how the internet or P2P works.

You may ask how do they catch you?
the answer is so simple that it may even rattle your nerves.
as to date Downloading is not considered against the law. you can download all you want! no law or argument has been made about downloading. so far no lawsuits have been filed too downloaders as of yet.

They use a screen cap program to nab your computers IP address and then take another cap of your share folder and from that they form a case against you and then they serve your ISP for your Name and home address where you will get a suphena for a lawsuit. the more music in your share folder the more money you may lose in court! because by making a song available on a P2P network you are laible for damges to the R.I.A.A. they will cry to a judge they are losing thousands of dollars and they will try to make you pay for their loss. you can avoid a lot of this problem by simply going into the options section of your P2P client and choose not to share anything at all. as far as anyone knows there is no way to trace downloading as of yet. so remember to go to those options and opt out of sharing any files what so ever!

as for you people who Share your music on P2P? your in danger of being caught. in the courts now there are thousands of people being sued by the R.A.A. as i type this. the argument in courts is that if you make any music available on a P2P network you are laible for damages and could face losing a extremly expensive lawsuit where they will garnish your wages until the suit is paid off or your dead whatever comes first!!!

Most of these cases usually don't make it to court. the R.I.A.A. usually trys to make a deal with the infrigner for a X amount of money. which many condsier legalized Extortion and that the R.IA.A. are nothing but thugs in a suit!

In my opinion to be honest is i dont think may people realize that P2P is considered illegal by the music industry. although it's cool that you can get your favrite songs for free using the P2P programs i mentioned above. but a lot and i mean a lot of people don't even realize that what they are doing is wrong. they just do it. thay have no idea that it is stealing. becuase everyone is doing it. most of the people i talk too about this are shocked when i tell them about theR.I.A.A. and their fight against file sharing! which is why i call this blog Ignorance Is Not Bliss!

So i went to google and searched for Pro R.I.A.A. and Anti R.I.A.A. articles. Enjoy,

Pro R.I.A.A.
Anti R.I.A.A.

It is odd but i really could not find any Pro R.I.A.A. sites on google! Go Figure!!!

DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGMENT(DRM) WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? NOTHING!!

To best describe what DRM is? Is to tell you a true story of what happened to me!
Now as far as I am concerned DRM is nothing but a virus that corrupts MP3’s!

What is DRM (Digital Rights Management)? It is a virus that harms legitimate MP3 music customers. The R.I.A.A. (THE RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) in it’s usual ignorant fashion came up with DRM as they say, “TO STOP THE PIRATING OF THEIR MUSIC!”

Which is a fine idea! Except for one problem? It dose absolutely nothing to stop music piracy except harm the legitimate customer. To help you to further understand exactly why DRM is bad for the music biz and mostly for it‘s customers? I am going to tell you a true story about what happened to me and how I got burnt by DRM!

I own 2 Microsoft Zune players. 1 is a 8 gigabyte and another which is a 120 gigabyte. I actually like my Zune players. You Don’t only just play music on it. You can also play videos on it as well. It also comes with an easy to use software. Pictured above. With the software you can drag and drop all of your music easily on to your Zune player. It is very simple to use!

But my problem is not with the players or the software. It’s the Zune market place. Zune offers a good variety of music and videos. From every form of music you can think of. But my problem is not with Zune’s subscription. My problem is that Zune Market place is loaded with the Virus Called DRM!

Now I have no problem with them using DRM to help them control their subscriptions. Zune offers a service called ZUNE PASS for the price of a CD which they consider $14.99 a month. With the Zune pass you can download and put on your Zune player and listen to thousands of songs. I thought this was great and I still do!! It is a hell of a deal!

Now I understand that because of their subscription service, DRM is needed to keep track of what their subscribers are listening too and to make sure only their subscribers get all that music for that monthly fee. It’s only fair. DRM is needed for that purpose only! This way they don’t have people signing up for a month only in order to download a thousand songs and then cancel and keeping them songs.

How it works is, When you cancel your service the DRM stops the music from playing. That I understand. This is so people don’t end up getting a million songs for the price of $14.99! This I understand and accept it as a legitimate use for DRM and it’s the only WAY that I accept the use of DRM!

When I got my first Zune. Which I won in a contest. I already had a good MP3 collection. Enough to put a slight dent into the 8 gig player. Then I heard about the ZUNE pass and of course I signed up to it. I actually liked it. I was able to download all the songs I liked and look for songs I have not heard in a long time. I really enjoyed my Zune pass.

Until I made my first purchase! Now with the Zune market place and a Zune pass you are able to download and place the songs on your Zune player and they will work until you decide you no longer want to pay for Zune pass. Which again I really didn’t care. It was cool. For $14.99 a month it was alright by me!

I wanted to buy the eagles greatest hit in MP3 form. I already have the CD version of this album and I thought it would be nice to get a copy for my Zune player. So I spent $13.43 and bought all 17 songs in MP3 format. Which I didn’t mind considering the CD cost about the same. So it was all good for me! I was happy with my purchase until………

This is where it gets really messed up and I learned my lesson that DRM dose not work! I made the purchase and of course I immediately uploaded to my Zune players. I made 1 copy of the tracks to my 8gig player and another copy to my 120 gig player. No problems with that at this point. Everything was just fine.

Now I have been using computers for years and the one thing I always do no matter what! is I make back ups of everything. From my music and all my important files. I have learned to make weekly back ups out of horrible experiences where I have lost everything due to hard drive crashes. Anyone with any computer knowledge knows backing up your system is very important and it could save you hundreds of dollars.

So during my weekly back up, I of course backed up my MP3 collection like I always do. I have spent many hours and years and a lot of money on my collection and would hate to lose it over a hard drives crash.

Now I am always removing music and adding music to my 2 Zune’s all the time. About once a week I make changes to my Zune’s play list. My taste change from time to time and I like to try different songs ever so often so I am always toying around with my players and collections on them.

After I made my backups and disconnected my back up drive and store it on my shelf like always do. I went to reprogram my Zune. Now few days before I had removed the eagles greatest hits from both my Zune’s. actually I reformatted my two Zune’s and erased everything on them. Which is something I do from time to time. It is my player I have the right to do so.

So I reconnected my external drive which I use to store all my music on. I only have a small hard drive on my computer and a external Hard drive was the best way to preserve space on my computers hard drive. I began to reprogram the Zune.

I started my Zune software and then I started to decided what I wanted on my player for that week. I finished programming my 8 gig player. Disconnected it and put it next to my stuff for work in the morning and I got the bug to listen to that eagles greatest hits album. So I went to play it.

I got a pop up saying I exceeded my allowed copy limit and I had to go to the website where I purchased it and purchase another licensed copy of the song. I sat there and wondered what was going on? so I went to the next song and the same pop up came on the screen. Again I tried another song and it said the same!

So I went back to the Zune market place to find out what was going on and sure enough I found out that I had to spend another $13.43 to get another copy of those songs with another limit of only three copies. Of course after I found that out I seen red!! I was so angry about the whole thing. I felt like I was getting a major screw job. And yes I was.

What had happened is with the DRM I only had the rights to make 3 copies of those MP3’s. I used up 2 of those allowed copies on both my Zune players and the third copy I made was to back it up. So after all that I used up all 3 of my so called copy rights to the songs I had already spent $13.43 on and the R.I.A.A. wanted to scam another $13.43 out of me. I refused to pay it.

At this point i was stuck with 17 dead MP3 tracks and I got taken for $13.43 and they wanted to take me for another $13.43 and this my friends is what the R.I.A.A. calls DRM (DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT).

Now as I said earlier, I have no problem with DRM on a subscription basis. But when I spend my hard earned money on something I don’t want any limitations. This was not part of the subscription it was a separate buy! When someone buys a song the DRM should be stripped from it completely! I want to be able to play these songs when ever and on whatever I want. I should be able to make as many copies and back up those MP3’s up as much as I choose. After all I paid my $13.43 for that CD album damn it and I deserve better!

But the R.I.A.A. (THE RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) continues to insist that DRM cuts down on music piracy. Piracy still runs rampant and the legitimate users continues to get screwed by DRM no one wins with D.R.M. and it dose NOTHING to stop music piracy!

So the next time you make a MP3 purchase make sure the music site you are getting it from says that their MP3’s are D.R.M. free. I finally got a new copy of the eagles greatest hits on Amazon.com, they offer MP3’s that are DRM free. I will only Spend my money on DRM free music sites!

More Free Games

OK? todays subject is free! We like Free! Free is good! Do you like classic games? like old Super Nintendo games? or how about some old Sega Saturn Games? This place even has classic computer games. The name of the site is called ACID PLAY FREEWARE GAMES! Here you will find all your classic favorite games all in one site. Check it Out!

FREE STUFF

A lot of people who have been on line for awhile, already knows all about File Hippo. A website created to give us a ton of free software. You Could get anything from the latest P2P software to the latest in FREE Anti virus protection. this site has come in handy for me for years. It has saved me a ton of money when it came to my virus protection. since i have 3 computers here as you know the price of good virus protection can cost a pretty penny. well File Hippo has a ton of free virus software for your computer. You might want to check this out! It could save you a bundle in cash! and with the economy in the state it is in? We could all use a break!

They also have a ton of free Browsers use can use. some of these browsers blows Microsoft's Internet Explorer away. I have been using Mozilla Firefox for years to browse the internet.

Looking for a Cool MP3 or Video player? they have a huge list to choose from!

however some of the software on this is for trial basis. just look under techincal to see if it's a free license. but most of the programs and utilitys on this site are free to use. Free is Good! Check It Out!

TELL ME WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE ME POST.

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OK time to introduce ourselves

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Remember that old computer game OREGON TRAIL

I remember back in school. i used to cut class a lot and sneak into the computer room to play videos games. one of the video games i used to play was one called THE OREGON TRAIL. and old apple computer game i fondly remember from the good old days of the old apple computers.
can You survive your trip to Oregon? This game is not packed with graphic detail like the new games. but i assure you it's a hell of a lot of fun. The website www.virtualapple.org has some great games from the old apple II computers. I hope you enjoy this site as much as i do. no go and relive the days of early computing and find out why i got left back in my seinor year at high school! lol
Here's the link to the Game, THE OREGON TRAIL!

WELCOME TO MY NEW BLOG.

Why create a blog? Well, A lot of my friends and family always are asking me questions about the Internet. Like, “Where to get music?” Where do I go to find a cool chat?” “Where’s all this free software on the internet?” and so on and so on! So here it is. My blog. Now I know in this day and age where there are millions of Blog’s coming and going all the time. I promise to make this blog as fun and as entertaining as possible. Here I will post links on anything that is internet. From games to music info. So stick around. We may learn something from each other. Remember we can’t learn unless we open our minds and remember. No question is a stupid question.