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Harry Potter, Macrovision and Economics
markthebrewer writes "Apparantly Warner Home Video have released Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone without any of the usual Macrovision copy-protection systems.
Looks like its just a trial, but someone's done the maths and decided it may be cheaper not to copy-protect videos after all.
Find the full article in the
New Scientist." There is certainly something desperate about macrovisions response to this development. Does anyone see macrovision as a real barrier to copying anymore? What a bunch of snake oil salesmen these people are. In related news, I'm marketing my own personal copy protection device.
If they price something reasonably people will buy it instead of stealing it.
I know I prefer to have the real product rather than a copy (not that it's especially hard to circumvent Macrovision anyway).
Don't anthropomorphize computers, they don't like it.
my win2k rarely needs to be rebooted, not an uptime as good as timmy my router which i will forget where it is occasionaly, but still good none the less
My friend has had a win95 router box up for months. Could be years now without a reboot. Uptime is all relative imho. Now keeping days of uptime with aim, icq, outlook express, internet explorer, word, winamp, and then playing a game randomly is tough. Its all relative to what conflicts.
(OT) I call bullshit. Win95 can't have an uptime of months.
(OnT) Macrovision execs must be shitting themselves. Like the bogus software protection industry that mostly no longer exists, they're watching their empire go up in smoke if the big boys walk away.
True enough. Win2K is the most tolerable version of Windows I've ever used. But its still damn annoying when IE goes down and makes the box unstable. Granted, it doesn't happen *that* often, but often enough to get on my nerves. Plus, hibernate and my Sony laptop do not play nicely either. About 10% of the time it requires a reboot.
Having said all that I still think if you have to use Windows then 2K is the way to go. Its head and shoulders above NT, and not as bloaty and moronic as XP.
Now if I could just convince the guys I work for to use iBooks....
win95 router box up for months
Bullshit. The clock overflow at 47 days locks it up solid. But yeah, if that's all it's being used for it may well last the 47 days.
-- Alastair
Pardon my ignorance, but is it what makes the image on DVDs appear to fade in and out when connected to our old TV via the VCR? (It was the only way we could connect it and keep DirecTV as well.)
We returned our DVD player because of this.
Anyone know of a list of players that don't have it/can be defeated?
Cheers,
-b
Do Americans not know that sorcerers and philosophers are not the same thing? What the hell is going on here? Why are there two different titles for the same movie? This seems ridiculous and arbitrary.
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"Now keeping days of uptime with aim, icq, outlook express, internet explorer, word, winamp, and then playing a game randomly is tough. Its all relative to what conflicts. "
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I can attest to that comment. I have two Win2k boxes. One is a PVR in my bedroom that does nothing but capture, and occasionally view what I capture. It has an uptime of a month or two. It'd probably be longer if I never watched vids straight off it.
I have another Win2k box I use for playing Quake, responding way too much on Slashdot, and doing lotsa 3D work. It has an uptime of roughly a week or so. Although, that number was significantly hire during the period I wasn't playing Quake. Heh.
"Derp de derp."
You can just restart the explorer program (by using the alt+ctl+delete popup) rather then the whole OS.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
If it were a standard dial-up, hell yeah! They have the best national access I've seen. Sometimes I go on the road, and I need every POP I can find. If it weren't for their proprietary access software, I'd join in a nanosecond.
the current uptime on my dual 500 g4 is:
% uptime
3:16AM up 56 days, 17:18, 4 users, load averages: 0.18, 0.25, 0.30
dontcha just love this OS? btw, this machine runs aim, irc, email server and client, apache, photoshop, freeway, flash, itunes, games, etc on a daily basis. it isnt a server with no one at the keyboard.
Ok, you may now continue with threads that are on-topic
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