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Broadcast 2000 Removed From Public Access
VRteach writes: "I see that the developers of the fine multimedia software, Broadcast 2000, have removed their main product from public access. Their web site cites a worry of potential liability." The site says that "the distribution of Broadcast 2000 enhanced to unacceptable levels the risk of an individual experiencing significant financial damage due to the extremely expensive nature of high end video production and the high risk inherent in professional video business marketing." It also says they plan to keep issuing "minor works" for now, and as liability issues are resolved to again release major programs.
I win again
Could they be more cryptic? Get your Mandrake SRPM while you can, I guess.
Help! I want to post a comment but for some reason I cannot login anymore. Every time I enter my nickname and passwd (I asked Slashdot to re-mail it to me to confirm I had the correct combo) into the login boxes, and straightaway it just bounces back to the frontpage without a login. I never had this problem before, and I have both cookies and Referer headers enabled. I know Slashdot's slashcode was updated Saturday 1st September 2001 with the major unpublicised change being it requires your browser/junkbuster to send the Referer header. I won't post off-topic again if I can get a login! Can anyone please say whether there are any known special problems/solutions for logging in to the "new" Slashdot?
What does this software do? All their website says is that they're no longer letting people download it. What did this software do that could potentially be illegal/cause liability?
They mentioned warranties, which would appear to mean that the software might damage hardware, or they were worried about being sued over bugs or something... but I can't imagine that could be an issue. It's almost impossible to damage hardware on PCs programicaly, and almost all software has bugs.
Was it something else? Did the software allow broadcasting (possibly copyrighted content) over the net? That's what the name would imply, but from the screenshots and other comments it sounded like a premiere type Non-linear video editor. How could they get sued over that?
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You really are a dumb fuck aren't you :)
;)" is the name of the codec, including
"DivX
the *wink*. It has nothing at all to do with the
Circuit City pay-per-view DVD format, except to
maybe poke fun at it, and it's demise
See, this is what irks me about AC's. You had a crystal clear point to make here, leaning slightly in the off topic but relevant direction, and you shot yourself in the foot by leading off with pointless vulgarity. Next time, have a little pride in what you have to say, and sign your name to it. Minus the vulgarity that detracts from the overall effect of using your voice, this could have been a much more useful comment.
- billn
We should all keep in mind this simple truth: *Windows is dying. You don't need to be Kreskin to predict *Windows's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *Windows faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Windows because *Windows is dying. Things are looking very bad for *Windows. As many of us are already aware, *Windows continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Windows XP leader Bill Gatse states that there are 7000 users of Windows XP.
How many users of Windows 2000 are there? Let's see. The number of Windows XP versus Windows 2000 posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1.
Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Windows 2000 users. Windows ME posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Windows 2000 posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Windows ME. A recent article put Windows 98 at about 80 percent of the *Windows market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Windows 98 users. This is consistent with the number of Windows 98 Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Microsoft, abysmal sales and so on, DOS 6.6 went out of business and was taken over by Windows 3.1 who sell another troubled OS. Now Windows 3.1 is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *Windows has steadily declined in market share. *Windows is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *Windows is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyists, dabblers, and dilettantes. *Windows continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *Windows is dead. "
For more about Windows dying, see gatse.ms
keep it up..I like it
AFAIK, none of the lawsuits against gun manufacturers has succeeded.
God is on the side of Open Source development. Don't get me wrong, God is big enough to fight for the good on both sides, what I'm saying here is that my personal opinion is that God is in favor of Open Source development over closed source development. This means that Microsoft and other proprietary developers can huff and puff all they want, Open Source will win out in the end. People who are afraid of hackers have no fear of God; fear God, and hackers don't faze ya.
Just another God fearin' perl hacker rant
information is immaterial
Has ANYONE at Slashdot looked to see what is causing that damn IBM to be screwed up????? A scroll bar WHY?!?
ANNNOYING!!!
purple monkey dishwasher?
(BTW WTF is up with comments.pl screwing with selecting text with the mouse? I can still crap-cut and crap-past with quickkeys, you nimrods!)
From the page describing one of their utilities, called FIREHOSE (it stripes network data accross different NICs as a means of increasing bandwidth):
The FIREHOSE package contains a simple library allowing any application wishing to stream data across striped networks to do so with just a few function calls. Also included is a file transfer utility and a pipe utility. Pipe gigabytes of uncompressed video, CD-R images, scientific data, tar archives, and porn all with the greatest of ease.
Don't forget:
refunds
hush-money
free professional services
Of course, since corporate America tends to value money more than human lives, the lawsuits over lost profits will probably succeed, either due to really expensive lawyers, bribed judges, or both. Sad state this country is in.
IF i EVER MEET YOU I'm GoNNA kICK Yo ASS!!
Funny? More like Informative.