Do you feel that the Electoral College is still a necassary component for Presidential elections? If so, please explain. If not, when would we see it removed from the Constitution if you were elected?
This ruling is not the end. We have an appeal, and the Supreme Court up our sleeves still. The judge left us a life boat:
5. Plaintiffs application for an award of attorney s fees pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is denied.
Ruling in their favor would have been the end of the already thin defense fund. PLUG-> Join EFF!
Remember-- This is not only about playing DVDs, or free speech, the DMCA is a grossly written piece of law that went unanimously through Congress. If this law prevails, other industries/companies that hold the edge will have a blue print of how to keep an entire sector out of a a technology.
Now that all these companies in the consumer electronic industry realize that Linux offers a lot of advanatages, will they stop sueing us for getting their products supported?
Laying out the issues and requesting answers to specific questions is very key here. In the DVD cases, most things were kept in the abstract sense, and we are just now learning that this approach is much more condusive to conveying the grit of very complex and often technical points. We will not let the DMCA stand!
I think we have finally reach as far as we will bend, and it is time to start pushing back. The early attacks threatened a few individuals working on building an application to fully utilize a technology which they had been blocked before. Then came the very focused assault across international boundaries. Recent attacks have people beginning to question the methods to their madness, and the most recent assault on a public news builiten is where the buck stops.
For there is no difference between someone taking a printout of intellectual property and attaching it to a light pole, and posting the information electronically. One would not sue the power company for providing the pole in which someone attached sensitive information.
The conglomerate of Corporate America and their legions of money and fame hoarding attorneys has overstepped their grounds. The DMCA was authored over a four year period. In internet years, that is twenty years, or according to Abraham Lincoln, 1 score. The current legislative system and the campaign feeding lobbyists have put their pocketbooks in front of the betterment of technology and society. Instead of inovating, and challenging current methods, they chose to place damns and hope to restrain the flow of advancement long enough to fill their pockets until they were spilling out.
The advancement of technology has been the single most influential aspect of the growth of the global economy, the US economy, and the efficiency of society. Trying to limit expansion and the natural exponential growth of this industry hampers everyone in the economy, and in society. It is very appearent that these companies can not keep pace, so I say,"Get the hell out of the way."
Thank you for nominating us! We have a great team of people on the project and we are working hard to bring better video to Linux. Check us out at the LinuxWorld Expo. We have a booth in the.org pavillion.
This is a break from the usual questions from this group, but I thought it would be interesting to know.. You have a couple of exotic sports cars, one being a 1000 horsepower/750 ft-lbs of torque (insane!) ferrari, and I was wondering which one you generally drive to work?
In reading a lot of the comments, I thought I'd do everyone a favor and clear up some of the misconception.
1. We _do_ have enough to have DVD playback under Linux. The DVD module for the Matrox G200 series cards does hardware decrypting of the video and audio streams.
2. CSS has two (2) parts to it. This only unlocks the disks and allows the encrypted data streams to travel to either a software decryptor or a hardware decoder.
3. The Zoran chipset will decode raw, encrypted DVD and AC3 streams in hardware. Thus the system never has a pipe for the decrypted data.
Any other questions are comments, let me know. Check the site and join the list.
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Do you feel that the Electoral College is still a necassary component for Presidential elections? If so, please explain. If not, when would we see it removed from the Constitution if you were elected?
This ruling is not the end. We have an appeal, and the Supreme Court up our sleeves still. The judge left us a life boat:
Ruling in their favor would have been the end of the already thin defense fund. PLUG-> Join EFF!
Remember-- This is not only about playing DVDs, or free speech, the DMCA is a grossly written piece of law that went unanimously through Congress. If this law prevails, other industries/companies that hold the edge will have a blue print of how to keep an entire sector out of a a technology.
Now that all these companies in the consumer electronic industry realize that Linux offers a lot of advanatages, will they stop sueing us for getting their products supported?
Laying out the issues and requesting answers to specific questions is very key here. In the DVD cases, most things were kept in the abstract sense, and we are just now learning that this approach is much more condusive to conveying the grit of very complex and often technical points. We will not let the DMCA stand!
I think we have finally reach as far as we will bend, and it is time to start pushing back. The early attacks threatened a few individuals working on building an application to fully utilize a technology which they had been blocked before. Then came the very focused assault across international boundaries. Recent attacks have people beginning to question the methods to their madness, and the most recent assault on a public news builiten is where the buck stops.
For there is no difference between someone taking a printout of intellectual property and attaching it to a light pole, and posting the information electronically. One would not sue the power company for providing the pole in which someone attached sensitive information.
The conglomerate of Corporate America and their legions of money and fame hoarding attorneys has overstepped their grounds. The DMCA was authored over a four year period. In internet years, that is twenty years, or according to Abraham Lincoln, 1 score. The current legislative system and the campaign feeding lobbyists have put their pocketbooks in front of the betterment of technology and society. Instead of inovating, and challenging current methods, they chose to place damns and hope to restrain the flow of advancement long enough to fill their pockets until they were spilling out.
The advancement of technology has been the single most influential aspect of the growth of the global economy, the US economy, and the efficiency of society. Trying to limit expansion and the natural exponential growth of this industry hampers everyone in the economy, and in society. It is very appearent that these companies can not keep pace, so I say,"Get the hell out of the way."
Matthew R. Pavlovich
Thank you for nominating us! We have a great team of people on the project and we are working hard to bring better video to Linux. Check us out at the LinuxWorld Expo. We have a booth in the .org pavillion.
Come see us at LinuxWorld Expo in New York! We will be in the .org pavillion. Oh, and if you have a second, vote for LiViD.
Thank you for nominating us! We have a great team
.org pavillion.
of people on the project and we are working hard
to bring better video to Linux.
Check us out at the LinuxWorld Expo. We have a
booth in the
This is a break from the usual questions from this group, but I thought it would be interesting to know.. You have a couple of exotic sports cars, one being a 1000 horsepower/750 ft-lbs of torque (insane!) ferrari, and I was wondering which one you generally drive to work?
In reading a lot of the comments, I thought I'd do everyone a favor and clear up some of the misconception.
1. We _do_ have enough to have DVD playback under Linux. The DVD module for the Matrox G200 series cards does hardware decrypting of the video and audio streams.
2. CSS has two (2) parts to it. This only unlocks the disks and allows the encrypted data streams to travel to either a software decryptor or a hardware decoder.
3. The Zoran chipset will decode raw, encrypted DVD and AC3 streams in hardware. Thus the system never has a pipe for the decrypted data.
Any other questions are comments, let me know. Check the site and join the list.