BThrowd said:
Come on the guy misspelled 2 words who gives a shyt? If you have difficulty reading that it sounds like a personal problem to me.
Well, if you only counted 2 misspelled words, maybe
you need a trip back to bonehead English, big time. (And then there's punctuation...)
But -- yeah -- there are certainly worse spelling and punctuation offenders here, to be sure. So, in that sense, I probably shouldn't be picking on
this guy.
But I had to read his post 3 or 4 times to have half a clue what he was trying to ask.
This is not about people who never learned to read or write well. I have enormous sympathy for them, and if I thought that was the case, here, I wouldn't have said anything.
This is about suburban wannabes who think they have to misspell every word they can imagine how to misspell, leave out punctuation, etc, in order to feign something they will (at this rate) never, ever have:
street cred.
And you know why?
Because real world credibility comes out of being genuinely who you are and not pretending to be someone or something else.
It's not completely unlike white folks putting on black face to sing minstrel songs 80 years ago.
They probably thought they were doing it to show solidarity with black people. But it was more often seen by blacks, we know now, as insulting and demeaning when whites acted buffoonishly, speaking in stilted, fake, 'backwoods' dialect.
And, insulting, boorish behavior by whites notwithstanding, there's also the issue of coming to a forum like this to ask questions and hopefully receive help from those with greater knowledge -- but not even bothering to put the request for help in a form that makes clear what the problem is.
But, you know, maybe I'm just getting sick of poseurs, fakes, and wannabes. So, I guess, yeah, that could be
my problem.
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With regard to recording streams off the internet, it appears that this falls under the fair use provisions of established law, particularly the Millenium Copyright Act -- as long as the recording is used for personal use only and isn't redistributed. (That said, 'busting' copy protection is apparently illegal under almost any circumstance. So you may be forced to make an analog recording of the stream, as many stream recorders do, rather than capturing the stream digitally and stripping it of protection.
Here's a CNET review of one of the more interesting stream recorders. It attempts to break the stream into individual tracks and tag them.
http://reviews.cnet.com/Replay_Music/4505-9240_7-30998972-2.html?tag=glance
[There's even a page on the legal aspects:
http://www.replay-music.com/legal.php ]
