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Apple TV to be a Centrally Controlled P2P Network?
Rolgar writes "PBS' Bob Cringely theorizes that since the Apple TV will be an always-on device with a 40GB hard drive, Apple may move to content distribution via a P2P network. The ISPs will incur higher bandwidth locally, possibly lose some subscribers to cable TV, but have fewer costs through the Tier II Internet backbone providers. Bob also expects that Google will be involved with their fiber network and advertising expertise, and my hope is that they'll bundle in YouTube content as well. The article suspects that they won't get around to announcing the full details of this plan until they hit a half million units or more, and that this Apple and Google pairing will become the equivalent of a cable TV provider with almost none of the infrastructure costs. Eventually, he hopes, we'll see a real HD revolution from Apple and Google for this service." If Apple rolled something like this out to the service, would you bite on it? What would it take you to move to this over Tivo or MythTV?
Er, personal medium copies are part of that fair-use as well.
You're living in a magical fantasy world where dreamtime images trickle down to everyone, and nobody can control what they've created because we're all connected as a culture. Thankfully, that's just a psycho-reactive induced daydream. This device is for purchasing a copy of a filmed production from its distributors and storing and viewing it. Unless your "download from anywhere" bit was all about content made explicitly for free, which I doubt, then you're deliberately infringing copyright, and hoping that since you personally feel we're a giant hive mind it's ok. The rest of your post can be written of as *extremely* full of shit.
what the hell is a 'junk character', anyway?
I think that art shouldn't be put into a box and denied any meaning except that imposed on it by the person who wants to sell it to you.
Copyright has nothing to do with selling. Even a work freely given away is under copyright. Nor, for that matter, does it have anything to do with dictating meaning and interpretation. You're conflating and building strawmen at an alarming rate. Accusing someone of supporting slavery and Nazism because they happen to think that artists should have rights? Grow up.
Whatever your opinion is, it is lost in this kind of garbage.
Don't become a regular here -- you will become retarded.