[H] SpeedUpMyPC

2005-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
Any ever use this program? http://www.liutilities.com/products/speedupmypc/ It's from Uniblue, so one would assume it's a good product, but the description makes me leery. T

Re: [H] SpeedUpMyPC

2005-07-06 Thread FORC5
DL the trial and give a report fp At 04:28 AM 7/6/2005, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with: Any ever use this program? http://www.liutilities.com/products/speedupmypc/ It's from Uniblue, so one would assume it's a good product, but the description makes me leery. T -- Tallyho ! ]:8) --

[H] Re: Can't find CD drives

2005-07-06 Thread Chris Shaw
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 01:00:06 GMT FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if DM does not see them ( is there more than one ?) still may be a drive conflict or compatibility. jumpered properly or bios would not see them and controller must be enabled. were they seen at one time and nothing has changed

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Hayes Elkins
On a related note, here is some humor for all: From here http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=q=pirated+movies to here http://www.ezmovies.net/?hop=tl1movies to here http://www.eff.org/share/ to here http://www.eff.org/share/?f=compensation.html Play with fire

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster,Ltd., et al. Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:26:12 -0300 At 12:59 PM 06/07/2005,

[H] Tracking registry changes

2005-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
Does anyone have any suggestions on a program that will track the changes a program makes to my registry? I'd prefer something that would show a log of changes in a text file. T

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster,Ltd., et al. Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:36:04 -0300 At 01:30 PM 06/07/2005,

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread j m g
On 7/6/05, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What exactly did the Grokster advertisements state? If it was something so blatantly stupid like download our client to get free pirated movies instead of paying for them then boo hoo, capitalistic darwinism strikes again. At some point

Re: [H] SpeedUpMyPC

2005-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 11:43 AM 06/07/2005, FORC5 wrote: DL the trial and give a report Heh. So far, it doesn't look that impressive. T

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:42 PM 06/07/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: That's what demo software is for. Fully working demo software is available for just about any kind of app today. These days, acquiring a pirated version is growing harder to legitimize with the try-before-buy defense. Except that the demos I've

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster,Ltd., et al. Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:48:40 -0300 At 01:42 PM 06/07/2005,

Re: [H] SpeedUpMyPC

2005-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:45 PM 06/07/2005, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 11:43 AM 06/07/2005, FORC5 wrote: DL the trial and give a report Heh. So far, it doesn't look that impressive. It does some basic modifications to the registry to supposedly make IE and TCP work faster (the IE tweak is just the multiple

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Ben Ruset wrote: I think what he's getting at is downloading a TV show from the internet that he did *NOT* record himself, but could have. Is that illegal? Just send the broadcasting company a zero dollar check to pay for your rights to view the show. It's 10x the cost

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 02:25 PM 06/07/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=injustice in·jus·tice n. Violation of another's rights or of what is right; lack of justice. A specific unjust act; a wrong. Last I checked, stealing is wrong and stealing a pirated work is a violation of

Re: [H] Tracking registry changes

2005-07-06 Thread Jamie Furtner
You can look at RegMon from System Internals - www.sysinternals.com. It doesn't produce very pretty output, but does log all CRUD activity in the registry. Jamie On Wed, July 6, 2005 10:31 am, Thane Sherrington wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions on a program that will track the changes a

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED],The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd.,et al. Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:52:43 -0400 Then

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread j m g
So it IS ok to copy copyright works? On 7/6/05, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v.

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread j m g
no no no - it's not stealing, it's copyright infringement justice, in practice, is not simple - it usually depends on which side you're on On 7/6/05, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:09 PM 06/07/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: Downloading a ISO copy of a DVD movie you have not purchased is stealing. Stealing is universally wrong and punishable the world over. I think it is you that is misunderstanding the incredibly simple definition of injustice. No, it's downloading -

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:29 PM 06/07/2005, j m g wrote: no no no - it's not stealing, it's copyright infringement justice, in practice, is not simple - it usually depends on which side you're on Thanks. A voice of reason. T

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Ben Ruset
For a $30 DVD it had better have some really good bonus features, interviews, etc. If it's the plain movie, then no. If there is some value added above and beyond the movie itself, then yes. Thane Sherrington wrote: At 03:22 PM 06/07/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: work deserves the same amount

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Hayes Elkins
Well if you insist that other people's property (intellectual or physical) should be universally shared, there's an island 90 miles south of florida that shares your ideology. From: j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED],The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:53 PM 06/07/2005, Ben Ruset wrote: For a $30 DVD it had better have some really good bonus features, interviews, etc. Remember I'm speaking Canadian. :) If it's the plain movie, then no. If there is some value added above and beyond the movie itself, then yes. But when does one have

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Hayes Elkins
So a man who spends $50,000 to create an instructional video to sell on his website all of the sudden has his video is put on p2p and completely kills his sales (as evidenced by downloads from various BT trackers and the sales of prior video releases), forcing him to mortgage his house to make

RE: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Neil Davidson
I'll put in a lame 'me too' on that opinion :) From what I've heard I'm a little more fortunate as I'm in the UK and the recording/movie industry isn't quite as controlling. For instance I've not paid full price for a CD or DVD for years. Most of my purchases are from online vendors offering up

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster,Ltd., et al. Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:47:28 -0300 At 03:22 PM 06/07/2005,

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:59 PM 06/07/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: So a man who spends $50,000 to create an instructional video to sell on his website all of the sudden has his video is put on p2p and completely kills his sales (as evidenced by downloads from various BT trackers and the sales of prior video

RE: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Hayes Elkins
To realize just how stupid the DMCA is, buy using a green marker on certain copy-protected CDs to play properly, you are breaking the law. From: Neil Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: 'The Hardware List' hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject:

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster,Ltd., et al. Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:07:17 -0300 At 03:59 PM 06/07/2005,

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:17 PM 06/07/2005, Christopher Fisk wrote: FWIW: SOMEONE bought it at the price he was asking, in fact, by the way I read it he had a steady revenue stream. Then the video appeared on P2P and it just happened to coincide with when sales stopped. Very hard to compete with free. I

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:21 PM 06/07/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: However there is no difference in the level of injustice between my example and a filthy rich company that pollutes water and kills cute kittens who has the same thing happen to their video release. Wrong is wrong. Yes it is. And once again,

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:25 PM 06/07/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: Judging by the BT tracker statistics (amount of times the rip was downloaded) and prior sales of his series, yes I would say he lost close to that from P2P leeches. But was he overpriced for his market? Was there a market? These are questions

Re: [H] Tracking registry changes

2005-07-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:14 PM 06/07/2005, Jamie Furtner wrote: You can look at RegMon from System Internals - www.sysinternals.com. It doesn't produce very pretty output, but does log all CRUD activity in the registry. Thanks, I'll take a look at that. T

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster,Ltd., et al. Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:34:37 -0300 At 04:21 PM 06/07/2005,

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Thane Sherrington wrote: What comes around goes around and all that. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Christopher Fisk -- Zoidberg: That's where I'm meeting Uncle Zoid for lunch to discuss my Hollywood dream. The next time you see me, don't be surprised

RE: [H] Tracking registry changes

2005-07-06 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
For this use regmon and log to a file or use registry diffing tools to take snapshots before and after one tool like that is named regshot its pretty good because it will also monitor filesystem activity. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster,Ltd., et al. Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:52:10 -0300 At 04:45 PM 06/07/2005,

[H] OT - Ins't Tihs Wreid?

2005-07-06 Thread Veech Malone
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn

[H] DVD making software

2005-07-06 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
Hey guys whats the best software for creating movie dvd's. I have some videos of basketball tournaments that I have been in and want to create nice dvd's from them. I want something that will allow me to make intro's animations transitions and all that.

RE: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Chris Reeves
You are, however, effectively preventing a sale by selling to your self for free. And the person distributing the copy is engaging in exactly what you oppose. I'll be honest, there are lots of products I have used that I did not buy.. though that list is growing smaller. When it comes to TV

RE: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Chris Reeves
That's a ridiculous argument. If he was priced out of the market, he could have lowered his price to encourage sales (discounting). But once his product was free, he could not price-match with free. So priced out of the market only applies if there is an effective price. Free is not an

RE: [H] DVD making software

2005-07-06 Thread Chris Reeves
NeroVisions. Tried the rest, and they just aren't worth the effort. Definitely steer clear of DVD MovieFactory 4. I upgraded as a previous user. Talk about a POS. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mesdaq, Ali Sent: Wednesday, July 06,

RE: [H] DVD making software

2005-07-06 Thread Chris Reeves
There are bigger dog programs out there that are very nice. One of my clients has Adobe DVD software, (1.5) It's nice.. but very technical. Comparitively, Ulead's DVD Workshop is -passable- but their DVD Moviefactory is 100% garbage. Right now, all of the consumer level DVD authoring tools

RE: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Winterlight
Well put, I completely agree with you, however, in the end there is going to have to be some kind of middle ground. There is nothing really new happening here. The media industry has always been opposed to new technology going back to the player piano, the first real to real Ampex tape

Re: [H] Tracking registry changes

2005-07-06 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 03:44 PM 7/6/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: Thanks, I'll take a look at that. I like Resplendent Registrar you can get it at http://www.resplendence.com/main. I use it with my XpPe compilations as well. ---+-- a Windows Xp based Diagnostic Recovery CD

RE: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.

2005-07-06 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:24 PM 7/6/2005, Winterlight typed: The only way the media industry are going to come out of this, is to change their thinking, and come up with new ways to market old products. There was a little local coffee shop that use to play audio CDs that she had purchased when a RIAA

[H] Another good Firefox Extension

2005-07-06 Thread Francisco Tapia
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RE: [H] Another good Firefox Extension

2005-07-06 Thread Chris Reeves
I love the AdBlock extension. Genious. Tailor it with several /* entries and life is good ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francisco Tapia Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:30 AM To: David McAfee; The Hardware List Subject: [H] Another