Gopher isn't FTP
FTP isn't IRC
IRC isn't Email
Email isn't ICQ
ICQ isn't Web
Web isn't VRML
... ok, I'm trying to make a point. Sure, 3d would be cool - but not as a replacement for the 2d web we have now. There are nice 3D plugins available for those web services that need 3D, but the rest shouldn't have to bother, at all. If there's an interest in a lot of new 3D services - then just build those upon TCP/IP just like everything else.
Can this be combined with a secure filesystem? We're talking so much about securing our machines, but very few users run them with a secure filesystem. Myself I only use e4m with mapped drives on my Windows machine, which isn't good enough (doesn't encrypt web caches etc). Any new file system, whether it's journaling or not, should have built in security if it can't be done on top of it.
(When I log out of my machine, I want to _know_ that the contents on it can be reached by myself only - no matter what any repairman, hacker or... police, does)
You should win the Nobel Prize - you manage to do in your sink what scientist can reproduce only under very carefully controled situations... (see alt.physics FAQ)
"The same effect has been accused of responsibility for the direction water circulates when you flush a toilet. This is surely nonsense. In this case, the water rotates in the direction which the pipe points which carries the water from the tank to the bowl."
How does it feel to be one of the FAIPs? Water does _not_ drain the other way down under.. that's an urban legend - apparently you're ignorant enough to believe it.. *g*
(BTW, what's the similarity between making love in a kanoo and Budweiser?... Fucking close to water!)
Watermarking in the sense of adding a certain hash to parts of the music that we can't hear anyway (or rather, most people can't hear). Recompressing the song will then mean that you can't play it back on equipment that needs that hash - solution, add the hash at a later stage.
Watermarking in the sense of adding a digital signal that identifies the source is also broken in the same way - garble the signal. However, true watermarking isn't that easy to remove! If you garble the signal too much, you will get music that most people actually can hear has been tampered with. I myself don't listen to mp3 or minidisc at home since I don't like the degradation (yes, both my ears and my speakers notice it;).
For those interested in the subject, look up Steganography (cryptographic branch dealing with hiding information as "noise" in pictures, music etc).
Watermarking is steganography, and steganography works...
We (I) do - but they get rejected since they sometimes are about _competitors_ to Palm/Linux doing cool things. Which is, of course, forbidden here at Slashdot.
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Blablabla.
My computer isn't in the same room as my home-cinema equipment
I don't want to hear my computer when watching movies
My DVD-player produces a _lot_ better picture and sound quality than cheap TV-out cards (and even more expensive ones)
Myself... nah. As long as my DVD-player doesn't play DivX;-) I have no use for it. However, I fully expect some asian DVD players with support for this format soon...
DivX Releasing Rules
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Team DivX (TDX) Presents: The DivX Releasing Standards (c) 2000
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There was quite a bit of controversy over the release of the first set of
rules so we have taken the users suggestions and compiled a modified list
of releasing standards that everyone feels more suiting. With the launch
of DivXNEWS, we can now mark the compliant and non-compliant releases
and are in a much better position to enforce the rules. We hope these
modifications will help stabalize a rather out-of-control scene and bring
it the organization a 'scene' needs.
This group was formed because we thought the new DivX scene was a bit
unmoderated, sloppy and pretty much a free-for-all. Leaders of the top
DivX releasing groups, topsite siteops as well as rippers and encoders
have put their competitive edge against each other aside to work together
for the betterment of the DivX scene. iSONEWS.COM and DiVXNEWS.COM are
proud to bring you the results of Team DivX (TDX)'s meetings and debates.
We realize that not EVERY group was included in these decisions, please
do NOT take offense to this decision - We felt we selected enough people
from different groups to represent all aspects of the discussion. All
opinions were accepted and negotiated and then voted on for final approval.
The original rules went through 5 beta stages and this second round of
meetings lasted 3 days long and have now been finally completed.
We recognize that we are not perfect and these rules may be changed and/or
modified at any time and the group will stay in contact for new developing
technologies or conflicts with the current rule system. We would like to
request that ALL groups and top sites accept these rules as standards
and enforce them strictly. Our goal is to have an organized, acceptable
and competitive scene so everyones co-operation is greatly appreciated.
If ANYONE has any suggestions/comments/complaints please feel free to
email us: tdx@divxnews.com (futher contact info at the bottom) or feel
free to discuss any of the rule issues in the public forum on divxnews.com.
We want to work with all of you, not against you. Thanks in advance for
the positive input and support.
Movie MUST fit the following rules (applies to XXX as well):
MUST BE:
- Released to DVD in the past 31 days (NO CLASSICS, NO EXCEPTIONS
unless it is a siteop request and then it should not travel further
than specified site - the classic title must also be released by a
subdivision of a group and clearly marked as a classic. (eg. cDVL
as the acronym for 'classic DVL', etc))
- ANIME is the ONLY exception to this rule and should be established
as 'site specific'
NOT ALLOWED:
- VCD (includes vcd screeners, telesyncs, cams, workprints) -> DivX
will NOT be allowed (see Notes section)
- VHS -> DivX will NOT be allowed (Anime ONLY - NO EXCEPTIONS)
- MULTI-LANGUAGE - (see Notes section)
TV Movies / Straight to Video (not in theater) Movies: (see Notes section)
- ONLY allowed if they make it to DVD and fit the date rules (released
within 31 days)
Movie Length:
- Movies with runtimes LESS than or EQUAL to 120 minutes must be one CD,
under 700 MB.
- Movies with runtimes OVER 120 minutes can be two CDs
Bitrates:
- Low-Motion AND Fast-Motion Codec are allowed ONLY on 1 CD releases.
- If runtime is less then 100min Low-Motion is possible.
- Low-Motion MUST be used on 2 CD releases.
VIDEO:
- Low-Motion video shall be NO LESS than 750 Kbs and NO GREATER than
1000 Kbs
- Fast-Motion video shall be NO GREATER than 2500 Kbs
- NOTE: ANIME can be greater than 1000 kbs low motion if needed
AUDIO:
- MUST be MP3 and MUST be STEREO
- Audio shall be a minimum of:
1 CD release MUST be 128kbs, 44.1kHz
2 CD release MUST be 128kbs or 160kbs, 44.1kHz
- Audio should NOT be 48kHz, quality degrades on standard sound cards.
- (WMA IS NOT ALLOWED / MP3 ONLY (see Notes Section))
Keyframe:
- MUST be 2 seconds
Resolution:
- Width: 512 - 640 pixels and MUST be a multiple of 16
- Height: Must be a multiple of 16
- Cropping is allowed
Subs, Interactive Menus, Trailers:
- OPTIONAL (if and ONLY if all other requirements have been met
Packaging:
- All releases must be.AVI, not BIN/CUE. (see Notes Section)
- Must be packed with RAR. NO compression is needed (proven worthless)
and broken into 15MB or 20MB volumes
- Must have SFV.
- Must have NFO.
- NFO MUST INCLUDE:
group name
title
actual divx release date
US theater release date
DVD release date
audio bitrate
video bitrate
movie runtime/length
IMDB/adultdvdempire link
number of rars per cd (eg. 44x15MB)
widescreen indication in the nfo only - NOT in the directory name
Credits:
- Movie credits are allowed but MUST be cut in order to fit within 1 CD
(700 MB) if the movie length would exceed 120 minutes.
- NOT required in the.avi itself
- NOT required in the.nfo - it is 'recommended' to list the main few
characters as IMDB lists them
Samples:
- REQUIRED
- 1 (one) full minute in length (approx 10MB) and in separate folder
marked 'SAMPLE'
- MUST be taken from the movie - NOT encoded separately
Directory Naming:
- Directory names shall NOT exceed 64 characters
- DO NOT indicate WS (widescreen), DATE, GENRE or anything else in the
directory name. (ONLY within the nfo)
- Acceptable characters in naming a directory include: (NO spaces or
double dots - single dots or underscores ONLY)
- Movie.Title.DVDrip.Divx-GROUP
- Movie.Title.ANIME.Divx-GROUP
- Movie.Title.XXX.Divx-GROUP (assuming ALL xxx releases are dvdrips,
we do not need to say so in the directory name)
- Releases that are more than 1 (one) CD will follow these specs:
- MUST be named CD1, CD2, CD3 and so on. ('disc1', etc will NOT be
allowed)
- There MUST be an sfv included for each CD
- rars MUST be broken into 2 or more CD volumes. (78 rars of a 2
disc title will NOT be tolerated)
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A few notes:
- Movies should be ripped in their most widescreen format available.
- Watermarks WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN ANY CASE
- vcd -> divx is NOT ALLOWED:
- lose ability to be played in dvd player
- waaaay too many releases
- no quality upgrade, just smaller packaging
- flood of crap groups (no skill involved, just a race to leech,
convert and re-release)
- PRVHS = Pre Release VHS which is also equivalent to Original Screener
tape but this naming system will avoid confusion for nukers when it
comes to nuking vcd -> divx because 'screener' is typically
associated with vcd
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- UNLESS it makes it to dvd - then the 31day rule is applied
- quality, commercials, too many tv movies
- only the good ones make it to dvd
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- Some ppl burn to archive and play on a computer at a later time
BUT since there is no outside purpose other than playing on the
computer, there is NO need to be packaged as bin/cue
- NO Multi-Language (keep in mind the goal of preserving the highest
quality in the smallest package):
- Not enough demand
- DEGRADES the quality
- Adds unnecessary space
- WMA audio is NOT ALLOWED:
- Tremendous amount of synching problems
- Not compatible with all sound cards
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TDX was organized and coordinated by:
- krazy8 - RipKord - Wuman -
TDX is comprised of the following top DivX groups:
- FM4 - FAiTH - PRiVCD - DHQ - DVL -
- HAZARD - TDR - ViRA - MCW - DOMINION - ADX -
- DivX R US - DiVESTX
* their own phone OS * Epoc (the Symbian platform you know.. ) * Windows CE (until they switched to Epoc) * and now Linux
... they also make software on their own platforms, Windows, Epoc, with their own programming languages (yes, actually) etc...
Ericsson has announced two products using Epoc, the R380 smartphone (soon to be released) and their new Communicator platform (commonly known in the press as "the Palm killer")... now they announced _one_ product using Linux - and Slashdot authors wonder what happens with Symbian? (Owned by Nokia, Panasonic, Motorola, Ericsson and Psion)
A case like this has already been in the supreme court in Sweden... He was found NOT GUILTY of copyright infringement, although they commented that if he had been tried for _assisting_ to copyright infringment he might've been found guilty..
All "VCDs" released by VCD-releasing groups onto VCD sites are indeed true VCDs, playable with VCD players (and most DVD players). A release which _isn't_ in the correct VCD format is nuked on sight... now, what you might be able to find depends entirely on who you know and what they let you see.
I want to know more about Filetopia. I went to the website but really couldn't find the information I was looking for. Sure, they encrypt stuff, but can my traffic still be analyzed? That is, will I connect peer-to-peer and display my IP to people from whom I download? And what I wanted?
I'm also trying out Freenet, which at the moment is very much incomplete - but we all know that. I had to try 5 keys before I finally could retrieve something, and that something was porn.. *sigh* I must also voice the doubt that Freenet won't be Freenet, since they readily admit that you will give your IP away to the first node you connect to. It _will_ be possible (but hard) to track people down even on Freenet.
Gnutella... there's just something about it that I don't like. Dunno what it is, but I got the feeling after reading their webpage.
Napster. Like it. Too bad the recording industry actually lost a few quids there. I had plans buying an album I've seen the commercial before, but after downloading it with Napster and listening to it, I decided not to.
Slashdot Mirror
FTP isn't IRC
IRC isn't Email
Email isn't ICQ
ICQ isn't Web
Web isn't VRML
(When I log out of my machine, I want to _know_ that the contents on it can be reached by myself only - no matter what any repairman, hacker or ... police, does)
Isn't it frequencies in the range of 6-8Hz that can kill you? (Heart rythm problems)
... it could move her emotions from cold to hot in a matter of seconds.
(On the coriolis effect)
"The same effect has been accused of responsibility for the direction water circulates when you flush a toilet. This is surely nonsense. In this case, the water rotates in the direction which the pipe points which carries the water from the tank to the bowl."
(taken from urbanlegends.about.com)
I guess you don't ... too bad - for you.
or what do you think?
(BTW, what's the similarity between making love in a kanoo and Budweiser? ... Fucking close to water!)
For a good beer - think Hof.
Watermarking in the sense of adding a digital signal that identifies the source is also broken in the same way - garble the signal. However, true watermarking isn't that easy to remove! If you garble the signal too much, you will get music that most people actually can hear has been tampered with. I myself don't listen to mp3 or minidisc at home since I don't like the degradation (yes, both my ears and my speakers notice it ;).
For those interested in the subject, look up Steganography (cryptographic branch dealing with hiding information as "noise" in pictures, music etc).
Watermarking is steganography, and steganography works ...
We (I) do - but they get rejected since they sometimes are about _competitors_ to Palm/Linux doing cool things. Which is, of course, forbidden here at Slashdot.
My computer isn't in the same room as my home-cinema equipment
I don't want to hear my computer when watching movies
My DVD-player produces a _lot_ better picture and sound quality than cheap TV-out cards (and even more expensive ones)
True. Whistler and Captain Crunch are old Heroes of (us) Phreakers.
Myself
DivX Releasing Rules
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Team DivX (TDX) Presents: The DivX Releasing Standards (c) 2000
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ÀÄÄÄ[ INTRO ]ÄÄÄÙ
There was quite a bit of controversy over the release of the first set of
rules so we have taken the users suggestions and compiled a modified list
of releasing standards that everyone feels more suiting. With the launch
of DivXNEWS, we can now mark the compliant and non-compliant releases
and are in a much better position to enforce the rules. We hope these
modifications will help stabalize a rather out-of-control scene and bring
it the organization a 'scene' needs.
This group was formed because we thought the new DivX scene was a bit
unmoderated, sloppy and pretty much a free-for-all. Leaders of the top
DivX releasing groups, topsite siteops as well as rippers and encoders
have put their competitive edge against each other aside to work together
for the betterment of the DivX scene. iSONEWS.COM and DiVXNEWS.COM are
proud to bring you the results of Team DivX (TDX)'s meetings and debates.
We realize that not EVERY group was included in these decisions, please
do NOT take offense to this decision - We felt we selected enough people
from different groups to represent all aspects of the discussion. All
opinions were accepted and negotiated and then voted on for final approval.
The original rules went through 5 beta stages and this second round of
meetings lasted 3 days long and have now been finally completed.
We recognize that we are not perfect and these rules may be changed and/or
modified at any time and the group will stay in contact for new developing
technologies or conflicts with the current rule system. We would like to
request that ALL groups and top sites accept these rules as standards
and enforce them strictly. Our goal is to have an organized, acceptable
and competitive scene so everyones co-operation is greatly appreciated.
If ANYONE has any suggestions/comments/complaints please feel free to
email us: tdx@divxnews.com (futher contact info at the bottom) or feel
free to discuss any of the rule issues in the public forum on divxnews.com.
We want to work with all of you, not against you. Thanks in advance for
the positive input and support.
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Movie MUST fit the following rules (applies to XXX as well):
MUST BE:
- Released to DVD in the past 31 days (NO CLASSICS, NO EXCEPTIONS
unless it is a siteop request and then it should not travel further
than specified site - the classic title must also be released by a
subdivision of a group and clearly marked as a classic. (eg. cDVL
as the acronym for 'classic DVL', etc))
- ANIME is the ONLY exception to this rule and should be established
as 'site specific'
NOT ALLOWED:
- VCD (includes vcd screeners, telesyncs, cams, workprints) -> DivX
will NOT be allowed (see Notes section)
- VHS -> DivX will NOT be allowed (Anime ONLY - NO EXCEPTIONS)
- MULTI-LANGUAGE - (see Notes section)
TV Movies / Straight to Video (not in theater) Movies: (see Notes section)
- ONLY allowed if they make it to DVD and fit the date rules (released
within 31 days)
Movie Length:
- Movies with runtimes LESS than or EQUAL to 120 minutes must be one CD,
under 700 MB.
- Movies with runtimes OVER 120 minutes can be two CDs
Bitrates:
- Low-Motion AND Fast-Motion Codec are allowed ONLY on 1 CD releases.
- If runtime is less then 100min Low-Motion is possible.
- Low-Motion MUST be used on 2 CD releases.
VIDEO:
- Low-Motion video shall be NO LESS than 750 Kbs and NO GREATER than
1000 Kbs
- Fast-Motion video shall be NO GREATER than 2500 Kbs
- NOTE: ANIME can be greater than 1000 kbs low motion if needed
AUDIO:
- MUST be MP3 and MUST be STEREO
- Audio shall be a minimum of:
1 CD release MUST be 128kbs, 44.1kHz
2 CD release MUST be 128kbs or 160kbs, 44.1kHz
- Audio should NOT be 48kHz, quality degrades on standard sound cards.
- (WMA IS NOT ALLOWED / MP3 ONLY (see Notes Section))
Keyframe:
- MUST be 2 seconds
Resolution:
- Width: 512 - 640 pixels and MUST be a multiple of 16
- Height: Must be a multiple of 16
- Cropping is allowed
Subs, Interactive Menus, Trailers:
- OPTIONAL (if and ONLY if all other requirements have been met
Packaging:
- All releases must be
- Must be packed with RAR. NO compression is needed (proven worthless)
and broken into 15MB or 20MB volumes
- Must have SFV.
- Must have NFO.
- NFO MUST INCLUDE:
group name
title
actual divx release date
US theater release date
DVD release date
audio bitrate
video bitrate
movie runtime/length
IMDB/adultdvdempire link
number of rars per cd (eg. 44x15MB)
widescreen indication in the nfo only - NOT in the directory name
Credits:
- Movie credits are allowed but MUST be cut in order to fit within 1 CD
(700 MB) if the movie length would exceed 120 minutes.
- NOT required in the
- NOT required in the
characters as IMDB lists them
Samples:
- REQUIRED
- 1 (one) full minute in length (approx 10MB) and in separate folder
marked 'SAMPLE'
- MUST be taken from the movie - NOT encoded separately
Directory Naming:
- Directory names shall NOT exceed 64 characters
- DO NOT indicate WS (widescreen), DATE, GENRE or anything else in the
directory name. (ONLY within the nfo)
- Acceptable characters in naming a directory include: (NO spaces or
double dots - single dots or underscores ONLY)
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 . -_
- Movie.Title.DVDrip.Divx-GROUP
- Movie.Title.ANIME.Divx-GROUP
- Movie.Title.XXX.Divx-GROUP (assuming ALL xxx releases are dvdrips,
we do not need to say so in the directory name)
- Releases that are more than 1 (one) CD will follow these specs:
- MUST be named CD1, CD2, CD3 and so on. ('disc1', etc will NOT be
allowed)
- There MUST be an sfv included for each CD
- rars MUST be broken into 2 or more CD volumes. (78 rars of a 2
disc title will NOT be tolerated)
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A few notes:
- Movies should be ripped in their most widescreen format available.
- Watermarks WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN ANY CASE
- vcd -> divx is NOT ALLOWED:
- lose ability to be played in dvd player
- waaaay too many releases
- no quality upgrade, just smaller packaging
- flood of crap groups (no skill involved, just a race to leech,
convert and re-release)
- PRVHS = Pre Release VHS which is also equivalent to Original Screener
tape but this naming system will avoid confusion for nukers when it
comes to nuking vcd -> divx because 'screener' is typically
associated with vcd
- NO TV Movies or Straight To Video:
- UNLESS it makes it to dvd - then the 31day rule is applied
- quality, commercials, too many tv movies
- only the good ones make it to dvd
- AVI and not BIN/CUE:
- Some ppl burn to archive and play on a computer at a later time
BUT since there is no outside purpose other than playing on the
computer, there is NO need to be packaged as bin/cue
- NO Multi-Language (keep in mind the goal of preserving the highest
quality in the smallest package):
- Not enough demand
- DEGRADES the quality
- Adds unnecessary space
- WMA audio is NOT ALLOWED:
- Tremendous amount of synching problems
- Not compatible with all sound cards
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TDX was organized and coordinated by:
- krazy8 - RipKord - Wuman -
TDX is comprised of the following top DivX groups:
- FM4 - FAiTH - PRiVCD - DHQ - DVL -
- HAZARD - TDR - ViRA - MCW - DOMINION - ADX -
- DivX R US - DiVESTX
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EMAIL: tdx@divxnews.com
WWW : www.divxnews.com
IRC : #divxnews / #isonews (efnet)
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I'm actually re-playing Hitchiker's now since someone linked to a java version in this thread :)
I know the Swedish state radio used a Falcon ... and in Europe musicians still use Atari Falcons (and clones) for Midi.
No flames, just curiosity :) I've never even heard of anyone using Amigas for music before.
* their own phone OS .. )
* Epoc (the Symbian platform you know
* Windows CE (until they switched to Epoc)
* and now Linux
Ericsson has announced two products using Epoc, the R380 smartphone (soon to be released) and their new Communicator platform (commonly known in the press as "the Palm killer") ... now they announced _one_ product using Linux - and Slashdot authors wonder what happens with Symbian? (Owned by Nokia, Panasonic, Motorola, Ericsson and Psion)
Come on .. please .. reality check? :)
Uh, no. PalmOS has nothing needed in cellphones, that's why Symbian was created, and what Epoc is for ...
A case like this has already been in the supreme court in Sweden ... He was found NOT GUILTY of copyright infringement, although they commented that if he had been tried for _assisting_ to copyright infringment he might've been found guilty ..
VCD releases come as cue/bin anyway, so why bother burning with any other program than cdrwin?
All "VCDs" released by VCD-releasing groups onto VCD sites are indeed true VCDs, playable with VCD players (and most DVD players). A release which _isn't_ in the correct VCD format is nuked on sight ... now, what you might be able to find depends entirely on who you know and what they let you see.
You must be kidding, right? There's no such thing as perfect software, which anyone in the industry will be happy to tell you ...
Exactly - good reasons why we don't want them in a jury.
Elitism, yes - so?
I'm also trying out Freenet, which at the moment is very much incomplete - but we all know that. I had to try 5 keys before I finally could retrieve something, and that something was porn .. *sigh* I must also voice the doubt that Freenet won't be Freenet, since they readily admit that you will give your IP away to the first node you connect to. It _will_ be possible (but hard) to track people down even on Freenet.
Gnutella ... there's just something about it that I don't like. Dunno what it is, but I got the feeling after reading their webpage.
Napster. Like it. Too bad the recording industry actually lost a few quids there. I had plans buying an album I've seen the commercial before, but after downloading it with Napster and listening to it, I decided not to.
It sucked.
Epoc = 32 bit
'nuff said :)