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Interview With The MPEG Committee's Founder

Posted by timothy on from the moving-pictures dept.

JasonFleischer points out this "interview with Leonardo Chiariglione, digital video pioneer and founder of the MPEG standards committee, is available on the public access section Scientific American's website. In the interview Chiariglione explains the motivations and hopes for his new Digital Media Project -- an attempt to integrate existing technologies to create a transparent, universal, non-proprietary system for digital rights management. Of particular interest to some /.ers may be his old article from Linux Journal that talks about the relationship between Open Source and MPEG standards."

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  1. Lick it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You crazy bitches!

    1. Re:Lick it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      empegfounder = boring parent troll = insightful

  2. blah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    third, or something

  3. Timothy is on teh SPOKE!!1!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot.org - Quality Journalism.

  4. huh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i wanna go to a wine and cheese party at this guys house! those crazy i-tyes, they can party!

  5. Re:Some people will love it, just not users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I ain't never seen a demon warp dealin'

  6. Re:Sounds good... by FrYGuY101 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Err, this is off topic and I'll probably get modded down as a result, but KaZaA is lousy for getting... well... anything. They use a hashing scheme which only hashes 300kB chunks with an increasing offset between hashed chunks of 300kB*X where X is the number of hashed chunks so far (IE: Hashes the first 300kB, skip 300kB, hashes another 300kB, skips 600kB...). As a result, there are an inordinate number of bad and corrupt files on the network, some of which are intentional for reasons easy to imagine.

    Check out any of the plethora of other networks, like Gnutella2, Overnet, eMule's Kademlia based network, or BitTorrent...

    --
    "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."

    - Seneca
  7. Two Points. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) People use KaZaA because they have a better than even chance of getting something. Nobody I know has endured the frustration of the other P2P clients for long: seeing all those juicy morsels being dangled in front of you in the list of, say, BT is wonderful, but the hair-pulling experience of actually trying to download them (almost always unsuccessfully) is enough to make anybody run back to KaZaA. Even as crappy as it is these days.

    2) Why would anybody even _want_ to download LoTR?! Wasn't the three hours of torture in the movie house enough? ;-)

  8. teh SPOKE!!1!!!?? i want to haev yuor babees!!!~~! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic