Visit the Cellar!

The Cellar Image of the Day is just a section of a larger web community: bright folks talking about everything. The Cellar is the original coffeeshop with no coffee and no shop. Founded in 1990, The Cellar is one of the oldest communities on the net. Join us at the table if you like!

 
What's IotD?

The interesting, amazing, or mind-boggling images of our days.

IotD Stuff

ARCHIVES - over 13 years of IotD!
About IotD
RSS2
XML

Permalink Latest Image

October 22, 2020: A knot of knots is up at our new address

Recent Images

September 28th, 2020: Flyboarding
August 31st, 2020: Arriving Home / Happy Monkey Bait
August 27th, 2020: Dragon Eye Pond
August 25th, 2020: Sharkbait
July 29th, 2020: Gateway to The Underworld
July 27th, 2020: Perseverance
July 23rd, 2020: Closer to the Sun

The CELLAR Tip Mug
Some folks who have noticed IotD

Neatorama
Worth1000
Mental Floss
Boing Boing
Switched
W3streams
GruntDoc's Blog
No Quarters
Making Light
darrenbarefoot.com
GromBlog
b3ta
Church of the Whale Penis
UniqueDaily.com
Sailor Coruscant
Projectionist

Link to us and we will try to find you after many months!

Common image haunts

Astro Pic of the Day
Earth Sci Pic of the Day
We Make Money Not Art
Spluch
ochevidec.net
Strange New Products
Geisha Asobi Blog
Cute animals blog (in Russian)
20minutos.es
Yahoo Most Emailed

Please avoid copyrighted images (or get permission) when posting!

Advertising

The best real estate agents in Montgomery County

   xoxoxoBruce  Saturday Jan 17 02:14 AM

Jan 17, 2009: EULA

EULA, you know, those software End User License Agreements you click "yes", saying you read and agree to the terms, but in truth you never read at all.
Nothing ever comes of it so why bother reading them anyway?

Well nobody reads those things except hackers and people looking for another reason to badmouth Microsoft or some other evil corporate entity.

But EULAs come with more than software, they come with other things like music.
This is where they can bite you on the butt, as so many people have discovered, courtesy of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

People seem to think that EULAs are a spawn of the digital age... not so.



See, 'ol Tom Edison himself put a EULA on his prerecorded cylinders, but I get the impression Edison was more concerned with keeping the price of his product up than any pirating.



newtimer  Saturday Jan 17 02:52 AM

In Edison's day, 'Napster' referred to the gentleman who snored in church.



capnhowdy  Saturday Jan 17 08:30 AM

35 cents was prolly kinda steep back then. Of course first you had to be wealthy enough to own a player.



Trilby  Saturday Jan 17 10:24 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by newtimer View Post
In Edison's day, 'Napster' referred to the gentleman who snored in church.
I did that out loud!


sullage  Monday Jan 19 07:27 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post
Edison was more concerned with keeping the price of his product up than any pirating.
pretty sure pirating and market price are correlated. almost certain the riaa sees it that way.


ZenGum  Monday Jan 19 08:31 AM

It does make reference to duplication.
I've heard Edison did as much litigating as inventing.



Your reply here?

The Cellar Image of the Day is just a section of a larger web community: a bunch of interesting folks talking about everything. Add your two cents to IotD by joining the Cellar.