Back in March, we noted that Warner Music Group had a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080328/012123680.shtml"hired Jim Griffin/a, a music industry guy who has been pushing the concept of a "blanket license" for file sharing. The idea would be to get various ISPs to simply add an additional fee to ieveryone's/i internet access, have that money go into a pool that the recording industry would be responsible for paying out -- and then let people have free reign for file sharing. This is a bad idea for a variety of reasons. It's basically a music tax -- allowing the record industry to be lazy. Someone else gets to go out and collect all this money and hand it over to the industry to distribute (or, actually, a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060921/192446.shtml"not distribute/a). It effectively sets the business model of the recording industry in stone, and harms a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080605/1638421319.shtml"better/a, a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080115/095022.shtml"more innovative/a business models by inserting the recording industry (and not the musicians) into a role where they don't belong. br /br / We hadn't heard much about this music tax lately, but apparently Griffin has been focused on getting universities to buy into the plan first. An anonymous reader passed on some details, saying that Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, University of Washington, MIT, University of Colorado, University of Michigan, Cornell, Penn State, University of California at Berkeley and University of Virginia have expressed interest and talks are under way. A basic presentation that's being given to these universities is below (if you're reading via another site, click through to see it): center iframe src='http://docs.google.com/EmbedSlideshow?docid=dhpvc2mr_115m5prjqd5' frameborder='0' width='410' height='342'/iframe /center There's obviously something appealing about ending the lawsuits and letting people file share freely. But, it's quite problematic to add an effective "tax" when none is necessary. Plenty of other business models, such as those we've outlined here and elsewhere can suffice to fund the creation of music. On top of that, giving the proceeds of this tax to the very industry that has so badly mismanaged musicians for so many years is a travesty -- sort of like bailing out the failed auto industry or banking industry. The presentation says that a nonprofit has been set up to handle the money, claiming that it's "to be clear we intend to operate with good intentions and not profit as a motive," but given the way the industry has acted in the past, that's difficult to take at face value. Also, this isn't ireally/i a license. It's a "covenant not to sue" -- meaning that lawsuits could still result. br /br / Of course, while the introduction frames this as a "voluntary" blanket licensing program, the presentation also mentions that they'll need some way to get iall/i ISPs and universities to buy into the plan, or they'll have to work out a way to "avoid massive leakage." So, basically, it's not voluntary at all. It's either join, or get saddled with significant limitations. In other words: all ISPs and universities need to agree to pay a huge tax to the very industry that hasn't been able to adapt, and then trust them to distribute the funds fairly.br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081204/1534153023.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081204/1534153023.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081204/1534153023op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=d81ee34f24d0a53108d19a307c89c7b5p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=d81ee34f24d0a53108d19a307c89c7b5p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=d81ee34f24d0a53108d19a307c89c7b5" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=av2Go"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=av2Go" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/475162398" height="1" width="1"/

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I was using my macbook in windows xp yesterday and suddenly i saw that the computer speed seems fall down then i restart the computer, choosing windows xp again. But it goes in to F8 Mode and i chose start normally, it appeared a blue flash which maybe said that my computer got a hardware problem and restart automaticallly. Then i start it up normally with MAC OS and it couldn't start up. After about five minutes it goes to a black screen which i never seen before with these :

disk0s2: 0xe0030005 (UNDEFINED).
disk0s2: 0xe0030005 (UNDEFINED).
/etc/master.passwd: Input/output error
dis0s2: 0xe0030005 ( UNDEFINED).
-sh: /etc/profile: Input/output error
disk0s2: 0xe0030005 (UNDEFINED).
-sh-2.05b#

I have been using this macbook for about slightly more than one year and it used to be very good.
Thank you for your helps.

File under no surprise there then: the latest IDC EMEA Server Tracker figures, factory revenue in the EMEA server market has shown the biggest quarterly decline since 2005, and Western...

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Help!

I keep trying to erase and reformat my iPod, but every time I try I get the

"Disc Utility has lost its connection with the disc management tool. Please quite and try again" message.

Keep doing that, and again, displays the same message.

What do I need to do to get it working properly?

Thanks!

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I stumbled across this post in the Macbook forum, dug a little deeper, and found this:
On sale at bestbuy.com is the Incase Laptop Sleeve, which normally runs $49.99, for only $9.99 with free shipping!

Product Features

* Designed to fit MacBook Pro laptops with screens up to 15"
* Also compatible with PowerBook laptops up to 15" and iBook laptops up to 14"
* Soft neoprene material withstands wear and tear; plush fur lining
* Soft-lined pocket for AC adapter and cables
* Comfortable, ergonomic shoulder strap


Also available at the same price are the "Pretty In Pink" series. :o

This is an "online only" offer and seeing how the 13" sleeves sold out like hot cakes, I'd say this is a very limited time special. Enjoy! :D

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As the thread suggest

whenever i start up my macbook it stays at the white screen .. after a while it turns black with that on top .. no bootable device -- insert boot disc and press any keys ..:confused:

What's up with that ?:mad:

so am i suppose to live with this and having to press alt when i start up or is there a way to fix this?
Please help .. its irritating

Also i have one single stuck pixel.. cant seem to fix it by rubbing , tapping or playing video with flash of RGB.. i also know i cant change my screen just because of 1 pixel but heh come on .. my sis paid 1.2k for her asus and i paid 2k for mine.. with are of equivalent hardware .. 2gb ram 160gb hdd damn damn damn damn damn damn!:cool:

HELPPPPPP~

Thanks in advance!
:apple:

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I had some fun-and-games getting my iBook display to work (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=610191) and was told by the ever-helpful OrangeSVTguy that resetting the chip is a short-term fix as it would work loose again soon enough. He also said he had added a shim of some sort to keep pressure on the chip, but even this only gave his iBook six months of life before it died. :(

I wanted to hear of anyone else who had experience with a similar problem and ideally knew of a longer-term solution. I really like this Mac (my first for a very long time) and don’t want to get used to it only to lose it after a few months. Also I’m not sure I will be able to afford to replace it with another one soon.

Is there maybe a way to strip it down and solidly re-fit the chip? Or maybe buying a replacement chip is the answer or a better shim-type solution? The Mac will not be moved around too much as it will only be taken out of the house for the odd trip to college by my eldest son.

My Thoughts: "In a previous article I addressed how to compile a kernel for Ubuntu Intrepid using git and in a follow up article I explained how to compile a new release if you already compiled your own custom kernel using git."