"It's a big black market effect and so instead of 25 per cent [of the market], it's eight per cent here. People are simply abandoning the marketplace altogether, and they've made the decision they'll just download the music and worry about how the artist gets paid later."
If you're dealing with a major record label the artist barely gets paid anyway, I doubt they see the difference.
Sounds like Canada's copyright law might be going the way of Australia's, eh. Pretty soon we'll all have to move to Sweden to be safe. Oh wait, that didn't work out so well for TBP now did it...
Linux offers many things that could operate in the manner you seem to be suggesting, however in most cases it would be relatively simple to detect and remove such blatant censorship.
Worst case the user could burn a Fedora DVD and reinstall. Can't be any worse off than with some generic "Red Flag" distro...
If it did not have such protection, Vista would shut down the signal, he said.
You can't stop the signal!
Consumers won't be too pleased with having to buy all new gear to watch their newfangled DVDs, so waiting until HDCP compatibility is widespread is a good way for the movie companies to avoid the public backlash. That being said, my dad's plasma is HDCP compatible and he purchased it over a year ago. It's the computers that are being slow to catch onto the HDCP bandwagon. Neither of my LCDs is HDCP compliant, nor is my graphics card (these components aren't even a year old yet!).
Regardless, if the DRM can be circumvented you bet that I will be taking advantage of that. If I buy a movie I don't want my hardware and operating system to restrict me from viewing the content I paid for in the way that I choose.
allofmp3.com can simply give them a voucher to download all the songs in their database. Since the RIAA has assessed the worth of their library to be $1.65 Trillion that should about cover it.:)
"Your local public libraries carries a tons of CD that you can borrow for FREE and rip it to your best MP3. I'm wondering when RIAA is going after the local public library."
The libraries can't do anything about it, it's faulty media that allows the ripping to occur in the first place. And it does happen, we used to have a guy who would sit in the library where I work and rip CDs on his laptop without even checking them out.
The RIAA won't go after public libraries, it's bad PR. That would be just as bad as suing a grandmother who doesn't even own a computer for music piracy. Wait a minute...
A closer look at the Microsoft internal investigation informs us that, regardless of how the chair was set into motion, Balmer did not benefit from it psychologically and therefore the act might as well have never happened.
Open source software often carries with it the (often false) assumption that it's going to require more work to set up and maintain than it's commercial counterparts, especially among "established" IT professionals.
As such, the only open source based solution we currently use is our Linksys router which seems to have accidentally had Linux loaded on it (just don't tell anybody).:)
I'm a college student and have been working part-time at a local library for the past few years to pay the bills.
Our library consortium uses something called Polaris, by Gaylord Information Systems. It's among the worst pieces of software I have ever had the opportunity to use, and it is completely proprietary and Windows based. It's a pain in the ass to get anything done, and is missing several key features (such as customizable reports) that would make our lives much easier. Coming from a company called "Gaylord" what can we expect, eh?
Hopefully Evergreen gains enough steam to get our consortium to at least consider it, however considering that most of the IT people employed by the consortium can't even figure out how to manage Windows servers it's likely they'll opt for something easer for them to administrate.:(
And that, boys and girls, is why pirating music isn't so bad after all. You wouldn't want the RIAA's tubes to get clogged with all your money, would you?
Note that they are smart and don't let you simply download the picture, instead you have to use their (undoubtedly resource intensive) flash interface to view finite bits of the gigantic photo.
Too bad too, I for one would have loved to watch MSPAINT croak while trying to load such a massive image. Memory segmentation fault anyone?:)
Damn it! I told NASA I wanted a floating attack probe of doom, not a wheeled one. And I don't see the lasers I ordered either! I guess that's what I get for outsourcing, even my stereotypically incompetent minions could do the job better!
That's one less third-world country I have to add to my server's firewall blocking rules!
On another note, I don't think Internet access is high on their priorities. Building big bombs seems to be first on their agenda. If only they followed Iran's research strategy and started looking for plans on the internet, I bet their tests would go much better.:)
Meh, MP3 players and consoles come and go with a rapid speed that requires many news posts to keep track of. I haven't seen a Planet 2.0 with new and improved mineral deposits slated for release yet, my guess is that the project went overbudget and got cancled.:)
With nVidia making CPUs, and of course Intel and AMD/ATI (DAAMIT) making CPUs, how could nVidia expect to grab any market share? No offence to the nVidian engineers, but their product would have to be miles above the Intel/DAAMIT offerings in order to make most people even consider a system with an nVidia CPU.
I think they would be better off if they attempted to enter into a contract with Intel for their CPU/GPU combo ideas, maybe Intel could get a few nice server chipsets out of the deal?:)
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"It's a big black market effect and so instead of 25 per cent [of the market], it's eight per cent here. People are simply abandoning the marketplace altogether, and they've made the decision they'll just download the music and worry about how the artist gets paid later."
If you're dealing with a major record label the artist barely gets paid anyway, I doubt they see the difference.
Sounds like Canada's copyright law might be going the way of Australia's, eh. Pretty soon we'll all have to move to Sweden to be safe. Oh wait, that didn't work out so well for TBP now did it...
Linux offers many things that could operate in the manner you seem to be suggesting, however in most cases it would be relatively simple to detect and remove such blatant censorship.
Worst case the user could burn a Fedora DVD and reinstall. Can't be any worse off than with some generic "Red Flag" distro...
Would it kill them to find an original name?
If it did not have such protection, Vista would shut down the signal, he said.
You can't stop the signal!
Consumers won't be too pleased with having to buy all new gear to watch their newfangled DVDs, so waiting until HDCP compatibility is widespread is a good way for the movie companies to avoid the public backlash. That being said, my dad's plasma is HDCP compatible and he purchased it over a year ago. It's the computers that are being slow to catch onto the HDCP bandwagon. Neither of my LCDs is HDCP compliant, nor is my graphics card (these components aren't even a year old yet!).
Regardless, if the DRM can be circumvented you bet that I will be taking advantage of that. If I buy a movie I don't want my hardware and operating system to restrict me from viewing the content I paid for in the way that I choose.
allofmp3.com can simply give them a voucher to download all the songs in their database. Since the RIAA has assessed the worth of their library to be $1.65 Trillion that should about cover it. :)
"Your local public libraries carries a tons of CD that you can borrow for FREE and rip it to your best MP3. I'm wondering when RIAA is going after the local public library."
The libraries can't do anything about it, it's faulty media that allows the ripping to occur in the first place. And it does happen, we used to have a guy who would sit in the library where I work and rip CDs on his laptop without even checking them out.
The RIAA won't go after public libraries, it's bad PR. That would be just as bad as suing a grandmother who doesn't even own a computer for music piracy. Wait a minute...
They are making more land these days!
Nicola Tesla would be proud...
They're afraid that they will find the secret FBI code used to ensure a 'balanced' congress:
// They voted for the right team, log the vote!
// Filthy liberal scum
if (Congressman.party == Republican) {
count_vote(Congressman);
}
else {
count_vote(Undecided);
}
They don't usually live on their own, they take control of 'host' tags and use them to further their goals.
:)
Start searching for the names of ancient gods, such as CowboyNeal. There will you find these Goa'uld you seek.
A closer look at the Microsoft internal investigation informs us that, regardless of how the chair was set into motion, Balmer did not benefit from it psychologically and therefore the act might as well have never happened.
Open source software often carries with it the (often false) assumption that it's going to require more work to set up and maintain than it's commercial counterparts, especially among "established" IT professionals.
:)
As such, the only open source based solution we currently use is our Linksys router which seems to have accidentally had Linux loaded on it (just don't tell anybody).
I'm a college student and have been working part-time at a local library for the past few years to pay the bills.
:(
Our library consortium uses something called Polaris, by Gaylord Information Systems. It's among the worst pieces of software I have ever had the opportunity to use, and it is completely proprietary and Windows based. It's a pain in the ass to get anything done, and is missing several key features (such as customizable reports) that would make our lives much easier. Coming from a company called "Gaylord" what can we expect, eh?
Hopefully Evergreen gains enough steam to get our consortium to at least consider it, however considering that most of the IT people employed by the consortium can't even figure out how to manage Windows servers it's likely they'll opt for something easer for them to administrate.
And that, boys and girls, is why pirating music isn't so bad after all. You wouldn't want the RIAA's tubes to get clogged with all your money, would you?
That's deaf levitating ant overlords to you. :)
I for one do not welcome our (less than new) MPAA overlords. The time for revolution is nigh, I say we can take them. :)
Note that they are smart and don't let you simply download the picture, instead you have to use their (undoubtedly resource intensive) flash interface to view finite bits of the gigantic photo. Too bad too, I for one would have loved to watch MSPAINT croak while trying to load such a massive image. Memory segmentation fault anyone? :)
Pah. I could hold just below 50, and that's just on my main computer. Of course, I'd have to get rid of all the useful stuff already on there... :(
Damn it! I told NASA I wanted a floating attack probe of doom, not a wheeled one. And I don't see the lasers I ordered either! I guess that's what I get for outsourcing, even my stereotypically incompetent minions could do the job better!
It is as if thousands of Flash developers cried out, and were suddenly silenced. Something terrible is about to happen...
That's one less third-world country I have to add to my server's firewall blocking rules!
:)
On another note, I don't think Internet access is high on their priorities. Building big bombs seems to be first on their agenda. If only they followed Iran's research strategy and started looking for plans on the internet, I bet their tests would go much better.
Throw some Copyright/Intellectual Property lawyers in there and you may just have something!
Meh, MP3 players and consoles come and go with a rapid speed that requires many news posts to keep track of. I haven't seen a Planet 2.0 with new and improved mineral deposits slated for release yet, my guess is that the project went overbudget and got cancled. :)
With nVidia making CPUs, and of course Intel and AMD/ATI (DAAMIT) making CPUs, how could nVidia expect to grab any market share? No offence to the nVidian engineers, but their product would have to be miles above the Intel/DAAMIT offerings in order to make most people even consider a system with an nVidia CPU. I think they would be better off if they attempted to enter into a contract with Intel for their CPU/GPU combo ideas, maybe Intel could get a few nice server chipsets out of the deal? :)
"Do not underestimate the power of our shiny disco ball."
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.