From a copyright perspective does it matter who loaded the disc (Machine, human, Zediva employee, trained monkey or otherwise)? The law in question gives specific exclusive rights to copyright holders for public performances. If blockbuster wanted to rent you DVD players with the discs already in them I don't see any laws that would prevent it.
Regarding your point about avoiding the "legal definition of streaming," they aren't. There are no laws preventing streaming media. The applicable copyright law is against public performance. So as long as your space-shifting "streaming" can be considered a private performance (as I argue it can in Zediva's case), then no laws have been violated.
RE special features: it is entirely possible, and will be coming in future versions. But for now they've limited the buttons to play, pause, fast forward and rewind. You really are controlling the actual disc in an actual DVD player.
Heh, karma is going to burn for this... Pardon me for not having the time to write and in depth summary of my summary (from my iPhone...). When you've actually read what I have to say feel free to come back and hate. Ps, my post did exactly what you suggested: I stated my opinion of this development (good for zediva for fighting back!), summarized my blog post ("a summary of the issues, existing case law, and how Zediva differs"), and provides a link to read the details. No one is forcing you to click the link... Or to read my/. posts for that matter.
Did you even *read* TFS? That's the problem exactly. The NYT *is* the ones originally posting the content (yes, largely headlines), on Twitter. And now they are asking for the retweeting of their tweets to be blocked. Absurd.
I should have looked it up before I rattled off a first post without being logged in, but it would indeed violate the standard TOS (unless NYT agreed to a custom version, which I doubt):
You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed).
err.. 4 years.. still $7.5/year isn't exactly a ton of money. That being said, I think the powers that be recognize that fossil fuels and similar power sources are inherintly a dead end. Creating new fuels is an energy intensive process, effectivly making the new fuel a one-time use battery. And depending on the process used to create it, generally not a very efficient one.
A bunch better way to spend money is developing new battery tech and at looking at utilizing solar energy to power them. That, or get over the stigma against nuclear tech and utilize small personal reactors for energy...
I just came back from a semester abroad in Sydney, Australia. I bought an iPhone 4 there unlocked, and used it every day, chewing through a lot of minutes and using a lot of data. I was on Telstra in Australia, and their 3g network is hands down the best I've ever seem anywhere. During my entire time there (6 months), I didn't drop a single call. I had wonderful service and fast data almost everywhere, and even with low signals (-110dbm and lower) I was able to make and hold good voice conversations.
In New Zealand it was a similar story. I was on the South Island, and used Telecom. Their 3G network was also very good, and fast, though coverage was far more spotty than Telstra in AUS, especially on the west coast. But when I had a signal, I had fast data speeds and didn't drop a call.
Then I flew into LAX. Popped in my AT&T sim, and was very, very dissapointed. 1-2 bars at the airport, dismal data speeds, high latency... and I've been dropping about a call a day:/ I was on a major road near my house outside of Boston yesterday, and dropped a call driving home. GAH!
As a college student currently study abroad in Australia (Where all kinds of alcohol *except* wine are ridiculously expensive!) this change doesn't mean much to me. I'm hardly a wine connoisseur though, and while labels like "port", "champagne" and "burgundy" make it easier to identify exactly what a specific kind of wine is, its really just brand recognition. Sounds like both parties stand to benefit financially from this deal, so have at it!...While the rest of you argue about countries and branding I'll stick to making my own "homebrew" "champagne" from $10 boxed white wine and sprite!
From my understanding RFID usually don't carry that much data except for a unique identifier. Ok so I se a Hex value. However you may not know what type of RFID it is is for. Eg. Is it for your credit card or is it just that book you got out of the campus book store. Perhaps it is for your medical history that you got implanted in you skin. Maybe it is your Dogs virtual ID Tag implanted.
Say if I dropped a Passord of a vital system in the Middle of New York City and you pick it up. And that password is for only one system what is the chance you will find the system and get in.
That said we should be sure that RFID for say on Credit Cards and on other major checking systems should have additional checks to it. However for say Inventory and automatic checkouts it should be ok.
Even just a unique identifier is enough to cause a *huge* privacy concern. Not only that, but most tags do give you additional data, including their manufacturer, what kind of chip they are, and what commands if any they respond to (Some give all of this just in their ATR (Answer to Reset, which nearly all tags respond to). The biggest problem with the current implementations of RFID is that extracting data is a silent process. There's no beep, no light, no counter, nothing to indicate to the end user that their RFID tag(s) have just been read.
While US passports are actually pretty secure and do not give out any unique information without the proper MRZ data from the inside page, US passport cards are not secure at all. They're just standard UHF EPC Gen 2 tags with unique identifiers. Similarly, paypass/wave/blink/whatever RFID credit cards aren't secure at all; anyone with the proper reader can dump your card holder name and card number (though Expiration date and CVV code are not present in the RFID data iirc).
It would be trivial (and until laws are setup otherwise, legal in most places) to build a network of High gain RFID readers around a city. Not only would this let you "track" people around the city, but it would also let you build up a profile on people. You could, for example, keep a database with every tag read at a specific instance and correlate that to different data gathering points you have set up. You could then have a person object with various tag UUIDs associated with it (and if they have a credit card on them, even a name associated with it!).. Couple this with a camera that takes a picture of the people who's tags you're reading, and you have a picture too! Boom, picture, name, credit card number and unique profile of everyone that walks by your antennas, along with the time of day they walked by and their exact location. Try and tell me that's not valuable data?
I highly doubt there *aren't* companies out there doing this.. In fact, so long as it stays legal, I'm going to start up a company that does exactly this! Think about the possibilities for targeted advertising! FWIW, because the "public" at large remains mostly ignorant to all this, and companies/governments get what they want out of it nothing is going to change......In the case of the passport card, its even more worrisome.. Say someone sets up a checkpoint outside a border crossing with a long range UHF antenna and a camera... Boom! They now have everything they need to make a legitimate fake passport card! (This scenario is outlined by Chris Paget in his talk at Shmoocon V (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-282861825889939203 ), as well as by several researchers for RSA (http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=3557).
I doubt we'll ever find out the truth here about Papermaster... But FWIW, I have absolutely no reception issues with my iPhone 4. If I hold it the "wrong" way, without a case which I never do naturally, I loose one bar a most. It gets much better reception than my iPhone 3g ever did!...That, coupled with iPhone 4s still being sold out.. everywhere.. means Apple really came out of this whole mess just fine!
I tried to compile and run this on OS X (SL, 10.6.4, gcc 4.2.1). I downloaded the.tar.gz from http://kevinbeason.com/smallpt/, and ran make (which runs g++ with compile flags of -O3 -fopenmp...). It compiled fine. Running it gives a Bus Error though.. any ideas?
In related news, the popular mac television watching/recording/streaming software EyeTV got a temporary update (Build 6152) with an anti-Vuvuzela filter built in for those that want it. See it in action here: http://downloads2.elgato.com/elgatonews/EyeTVWithVuvuzelaFilter.mov Pretty cool!
Microphone port pumps some current into whatever is connected to it (to power the microphone up) Line In doesn't provide any power, it only analyses incoming signal from external source, and will be often separated through transoptors or the like to protect the hardware from overcurrent from difference of potential between the devices.
Not sure why this was modded +5 informative; it's a load of hooey...
Normal dynamic microphones are passive and do not require any external power to "power the microphone up". They generate a small current, usually from a coil moving inside a magnet. This is why you need a pre-amp of some kind to bring your mic-level signal up to a line-level signal that a regular amp can deal with. Your sound card has this built in.
If you have a condensor microphone, then it will need external power of some kind to function. This usually comes in the form of phantom power (+48V usually) over a balanced twisted pair microphone wire. I can promise you that your average soundcard (and pretty much anything with 1/8" jacks) does *not* supply phantom power. You need an external power supply of some kind to use a condensor mic with your soundcard.
The only real difference between a line in and a mic in on your soundcard is the expected input gain. A mic input has a pre-amp and expects a mic level input. If you feed it a line level input and it doesn't attenuate it (or bypass the preamp) then you'll clip the hell out of the signal.
Every penny won by the artists in this lawsuit will be deserved. I hope the CRIA is found liable for every penny of the $60 billion and is put out of business once and for all.
I also hope similar infringements are found in the United States for both the RIAA and the MPAA. No company that treats their customers as poorly as these companies do deserves to be in business.
Time to cut out the middle man. The internet has opened huge new avenues for distribution; it's time the industry starts getting on board and the artists and content creators start getting more of what they are due.
For a typical operating system, it'd involve extracting the password hash from the target disk, and then running a program (like john) that takes text inputs (bruteforced or from a wordlist) and hashes them, and then compares the hashes and sees if they match. It is a bit more complicated than that (salts, etc), especially in a forensic environment where data integrity must be preserved, but that's the idea.
The methodology is similar for encrypted files/filesystems/etc, but it all relies on knowing how the authentication takes place so it can mimic it, quickly.
If you're on a flight with gogo wireless, there are a bunch of promo codes for free internet..
FREEINTERNET should work until the end of the year.. DELTATRYGOGO should work on Delta flights AATRYGOGO should work on American Airlines flights
Gogo is also running a promotion where you can get a code to give out to people and the person with the most people that use their code gets a few free sessions or something like that.
2287321623nca was the code they gave me; should be good for free in flight wifi until January 7th, 2010
The key for all of these however, is to have them *before* you get on the plane. So if you haven't yet, put them down in your phone or something, just in case you end up on one with service!
I've been doing a lot of flying recently.. nothing better than free wifi on the plane!
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Could be a test? They're using LLVM obfuscator, presumably to make their exploits harder for apple to reverse engineer.
Maybe they want to see if apple can figure it out and patch it in time for 7.1?
From a copyright perspective does it matter who loaded the disc (Machine, human, Zediva employee, trained monkey or otherwise)? The law in question gives specific exclusive rights to copyright holders for public performances. If blockbuster wanted to rent you DVD players with the discs already in them I don't see any laws that would prevent it.
Regarding your point about avoiding the "legal definition of streaming," they aren't. There are no laws preventing streaming media. The applicable copyright law is against public performance. So as long as your space-shifting "streaming" can be considered a private performance (as I argue it can in Zediva's case), then no laws have been violated.
RE special features: it is entirely possible, and will be coming in future versions. But for now they've limited the buttons to play, pause, fast forward and rewind. You really are controlling the actual disc in an actual DVD player.
Heh, karma is going to burn for this... Pardon me for not having the time to write and in depth summary of my summary (from my iPhone...). When you've actually read what I have to say feel free to come back and hate. Ps, my post did exactly what you suggested: I stated my opinion of this development (good for zediva for fighting back!), summarized my blog post ("a summary of the issues, existing case law, and how Zediva differs"), and provides a link to read the details. No one is forcing you to click the link... Or to read my /. posts for that matter.
Glad to hear they're fighting back. In my opinion, they have a good chance of winning, even taking into account existing precedence.
http://appleguru.org/blog/2011/04/05/zediva-movie-studios-and-copyright/
Did you even *read* TFS? That's the problem exactly. The NYT *is* the ones originally posting the content (yes, largely headlines), on Twitter. And now they are asking for the retweeting of their tweets to be blocked. Absurd.
I should have looked it up before I rattled off a first post without being logged in, but it would indeed violate the standard TOS (unless NYT agreed to a custom version, which I doubt):
http://twitter.com/tos
err.. 4 years.. still $7.5/year isn't exactly a ton of money. That being said, I think the powers that be recognize that fossil fuels and similar power sources are inherintly a dead end. Creating new fuels is an energy intensive process, effectivly making the new fuel a one-time use battery. And depending on the process used to create it, generally not a very efficient one.
A bunch better way to spend money is developing new battery tech and at looking at utilizing solar energy to power them. That, or get over the stigma against nuclear tech and utilize small personal reactors for energy...
That's not much of a development budget....
I just came back from a semester abroad in Sydney, Australia. I bought an iPhone 4 there unlocked, and used it every day, chewing through a lot of minutes and using a lot of data. I was on Telstra in Australia, and their 3g network is hands down the best I've ever seem anywhere. During my entire time there (6 months), I didn't drop a single call. I had wonderful service and fast data almost everywhere, and even with low signals (-110dbm and lower) I was able to make and hold good voice conversations.
In New Zealand it was a similar story. I was on the South Island, and used Telecom. Their 3G network was also very good, and fast, though coverage was far more spotty than Telstra in AUS, especially on the west coast. But when I had a signal, I had fast data speeds and didn't drop a call.
Then I flew into LAX. Popped in my AT&T sim, and was very, very dissapointed. 1-2 bars at the airport, dismal data speeds, high latency... and I've been dropping about a call a day :/ I was on a major road near my house outside of Boston yesterday, and dropped a call driving home. GAH!
I just spent $1000 on mine (Well, $1000AUD; ~$940USD today)... 32GB unlocked iPhone 4 from Apple in Australia...
(apparently I can't speak english very well either... must be trollyed! s/study/studying)
As a college student currently study abroad in Australia (Where all kinds of alcohol *except* wine are ridiculously expensive!) this change doesn't mean much to me. I'm hardly a wine connoisseur though, and while labels like "port", "champagne" and "burgundy" make it easier to identify exactly what a specific kind of wine is, its really just brand recognition. Sounds like both parties stand to benefit financially from this deal, so have at it! ...While the rest of you argue about countries and branding I'll stick to making my own "homebrew" "champagne" from $10 boxed white wine and sprite!
From my understanding RFID usually don't carry that much data except for a unique identifier. Ok so I se a Hex value. However you may not know what type of RFID it is is for. Eg. Is it for your credit card or is it just that book you got out of the campus book store. Perhaps it is for your medical history that you got implanted in you skin. Maybe it is your Dogs virtual ID Tag implanted.
Say if I dropped a Passord of a vital system in the Middle of New York City and you pick it up. And that password is for only one system what is the chance you will find the system and get in.
That said we should be sure that RFID for say on Credit Cards and on other major checking systems should have additional checks to it. However for say Inventory and automatic checkouts it should be ok.
Even just a unique identifier is enough to cause a *huge* privacy concern. Not only that, but most tags do give you additional data, including their manufacturer, what kind of chip they are, and what commands if any they respond to (Some give all of this just in their ATR (Answer to Reset, which nearly all tags respond to). The biggest problem with the current implementations of RFID is that extracting data is a silent process. There's no beep, no light, no counter, nothing to indicate to the end user that their RFID tag(s) have just been read.
While US passports are actually pretty secure and do not give out any unique information without the proper MRZ data from the inside page, US passport cards are not secure at all. They're just standard UHF EPC Gen 2 tags with unique identifiers. Similarly, paypass/wave/blink/whatever RFID credit cards aren't secure at all; anyone with the proper reader can dump your card holder name and card number (though Expiration date and CVV code are not present in the RFID data iirc).
It would be trivial (and until laws are setup otherwise, legal in most places) to build a network of High gain RFID readers around a city. Not only would this let you "track" people around the city, but it would also let you build up a profile on people. You could, for example, keep a database with every tag read at a specific instance and correlate that to different data gathering points you have set up. You could then have a person object with various tag UUIDs associated with it (and if they have a credit card on them, even a name associated with it!).. Couple this with a camera that takes a picture of the people who's tags you're reading, and you have a picture too! Boom, picture, name, credit card number and unique profile of everyone that walks by your antennas, along with the time of day they walked by and their exact location. Try and tell me that's not valuable data?
I highly doubt there *aren't* companies out there doing this.. In fact, so long as it stays legal, I'm going to start up a company that does exactly this! Think about the possibilities for targeted advertising! FWIW, because the "public" at large remains mostly ignorant to all this, and companies/governments get what they want out of it nothing is going to change... ...In the case of the passport card, its even more worrisome.. Say someone sets up a checkpoint outside a border crossing with a long range UHF antenna and a camera... Boom! They now have everything they need to make a legitimate fake passport card! (This scenario is outlined by Chris Paget in his talk at Shmoocon V (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-282861825889939203 ), as well as by several researchers for RSA (http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=3557).
just adding to the noise!
I doubt we'll ever find out the truth here about Papermaster... But FWIW, I have absolutely no reception issues with my iPhone 4. If I hold it the "wrong" way, without a case which I never do naturally, I loose one bar a most. It gets much better reception than my iPhone 3g ever did! ...That, coupled with iPhone 4s still being sold out.. everywhere.. means Apple really came out of this whole mess just fine!
I tried to compile and run this on OS X (SL, 10.6.4, gcc 4.2.1). I downloaded the .tar.gz from http://kevinbeason.com/smallpt/, and ran make (which runs g++ with compile flags of -O3 -fopenmp...). It compiled fine. Running it gives a Bus Error though.. any ideas?
In related news, the popular mac television watching/recording/streaming software EyeTV got a temporary update (Build 6152) with an anti-Vuvuzela filter built in for those that want it. See it in action here: http://downloads2.elgato.com/elgatonews/EyeTVWithVuvuzelaFilter.mov Pretty cool!
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/02/04/a_conversation_with_lie_to_me_star_monic
Ria Torres (Monica Raymund) is introduced on the show as TSA agent when Roth recruits her to work for him ;)
Microphone port pumps some current into whatever is connected to it (to power the microphone up)
Line In doesn't provide any power, it only analyses incoming signal from external source, and will be often separated through transoptors or the like to protect the hardware from overcurrent from difference of potential between the devices.
Not sure why this was modded +5 informative; it's a load of hooey...
Normal dynamic microphones are passive and do not require any external power to "power the microphone up". They generate a small current, usually from a coil moving inside a magnet. This is why you need a pre-amp of some kind to bring your mic-level signal up to a line-level signal that a regular amp can deal with. Your sound card has this built in.
If you have a condensor microphone, then it will need external power of some kind to function. This usually comes in the form of phantom power (+48V usually) over a balanced twisted pair microphone wire. I can promise you that your average soundcard (and pretty much anything with 1/8" jacks) does *not* supply phantom power. You need an external power supply of some kind to use a condensor mic with your soundcard.
The only real difference between a line in and a mic in on your soundcard is the expected input gain. A mic input has a pre-amp and expects a mic level input. If you feed it a line level input and it doesn't attenuate it (or bypass the preamp) then you'll clip the hell out of the signal.
Yup, verified... Tried in comment number 8, succeeded to escape the in Comment # 10 in TFA. :-/
Every penny won by the artists in this lawsuit will be deserved. I hope the CRIA is found liable for every penny of the $60 billion and is put out of business once and for all.
I also hope similar infringements are found in the United States for both the RIAA and the MPAA. No company that treats their customers as poorly as these companies do deserves to be in business.
Time to cut out the middle man. The internet has opened huge new avenues for distribution; it's time the industry starts getting on board and the artists and content creators start getting more of what they are due.
+1
Verizon gave us this with our FIOS service; it has no problems keeping up and has been rock solid stable.
FTFS, whitelist: "simply deleted all torrents other than the legal ones they facilitate through their Content Distribution service"
For a typical operating system, it'd involve extracting the password hash from the target disk, and then running a program (like john) that takes text inputs (bruteforced or from a wordlist) and hashes them, and then compares the hashes and sees if they match. It is a bit more complicated than that (salts, etc), especially in a forensic environment where data integrity must be preserved, but that's the idea.
The methodology is similar for encrypted files/filesystems/etc, but it all relies on knowing how the authentication takes place so it can mimic it, quickly.
If you're on a flight with gogo wireless, there are a bunch of promo codes for free internet..
FREEINTERNET should work until the end of the year..
DELTATRYGOGO should work on Delta flights
AATRYGOGO should work on American Airlines flights
Gogo is also running a promotion where you can get a code to give out to people and the person with the most people that use their code gets a few free sessions or something like that.
2287321623nca was the code they gave me; should be good for free in flight wifi until January 7th, 2010
The key for all of these however, is to have them *before* you get on the plane. So if you haven't yet, put them down in your phone or something, just in case you end up on one with service!
I've been doing a lot of flying recently.. nothing better than free wifi on the plane!