Actually UltraHLE runs a bunch of games now if you apply all the patches or something like that.. (not that I care, I don't think n64 games are that great) and you could easily make an emulator work with carts.
I recall an old peice of PC hardware that had a genesis cart port in it. All you had to do was stick the cart in and you could play genny games on your computer. It wasnt a backup unit either.. and im pretty sure it was lisenced by sega..
Rumours are abound now that dreamcast is going to start shipping with a psx emulator on disc.. with enhanced graphics.. dont know yet, but that would be pretty damn cool
From most all I've ever read, heard, or seen about NASA is that these kinds of things are highly uncommon. I vaugly recall an error due to mis-conversion to metric.. but thats all I can think of.
NASA really doesnt need this kind of publicity. This can only support the US governments continually stripping NASA of its funding. NASA is one of the few segments of our beaurocratic beast that I really appreciate (that and the USPS.)
Assuming this really did happen, the only explanation I can think of is funding. Perhaps it wasnt in the budget to fix the project?
D0f, this test shows that the retros wont fire. Well we can't fix it, we spent the last nickle on the little USA flag sticker that goes on the side of the ship. What are we going to do? Well if it doesnt pass the test we could get fired ! So lets change the test! good idea.
Reminds me of those dopes in lab science that used to always make up their numbers and then whine about how their results turned up faulty. but I thought NASA weeded out those people:/
Perhaps the "undisclosed source" is someone that the cutting of NASA's budget would be in their best interest..
I don't know how much you can tell us about it, but I'd really like to know about these 1-on-1 cases that the MPAA are involved in.
Is there a webpage w/ a list of DeCSS related cases the MPAA is or were involved in?
We should try to keep a good record of what cases the MPAA is currently involved in and keep it public. Who knows? It could spawn some headlines such as "MPAA imprisons 500 students, students claim 'civil disobedience'"
civil disobedience isnt something you can use to keep you out of jail.:)
Then again, I dont know if I can trust any internet related news I see on TV after This Report (6 meg.asf) (the report is an atypical glamorized view on pirating movies. Apparently IRC is full of "shadowey chat rooms" in the "darker corners of the web")
Under copyright/trademark law, if you do not aggressively defend your intellectual property, you LOSE the rights to that same property! Could this explain the DeCSS fiasco?
If the school could organize itself and educate the student population on the problem, the issue should be easily fix-able.
These are institutions of learning, banning something because its problematic should not be the primary method. Education is the most powerful tool.
My school managed to pull off not-banning napster through educating the students and faculty on the problem. They only busted one student out of the masses that were using it, because he was sharing over 20 gigs of mp3s 24/7 on napster. Follow this link to read about how skidmore college dealt with napster.
Banning napster likens to burning books in my head.
how about indymedia? adbusters the onion:-) would slashdot be considered an alternative media source? probably? anyone else got some good outside-the-mainstream media sources? I don't know about you, but i still get all my news from everything 2:-)
Yes, the simpsons are the best of the three.. by leaps and bounds. What I am trying to put forth here is that regardless of the quality of duckman or southpark, they still opened doors in how animation is veiwed by americans.
Im a big animation buff, so im speaking from personal experience.
I generally dislike disney films, most of them are contrived trite that are so well target marketed that they lose all of their meaning. Exception being the Lion King (aka hamlet)
Disney's animation has always been the best, but their drive towards childish content has really hurt the animation mindset in America. Because of disney animation has always been "for kids." Now new ground is being broken by the simpsons and southpark, (and duckman.. which was way ahead of its time.) But this.. fantasia 2k.. wow.
This was, as I said on leaving the theater, an animation orgasm. My senses were assaulted with the greatest animation i've ever seen. Hands down. The firebird raised hairs on the back of my neck and the complex butterfly-like triangles awed me.. how do they animate that much stuff without error? wow.
This re-opens the justification of animation as a fine art. By timing the animation to a well recognized and highly regarded form of musical art, rather then, say, some stupid MTV music, the animation is clearly held in high regard.
When do the DVDs come out?
Now that I think about it, is it just me, or have disney been real asses when it comes to dvds lately? bah.
Oh yeah, did anyone else catch the mononoke-hime / princess mononoke reference in the last bit? That was so freaking cool!
Too bad im in one of the smaller college towns..:) the nearest good used cd shop is a 40 min drive, i dont have a car. and my lack of funds is really shocking.. i have -no- money. right now my bank account has a shocking $4.30 and im in debt well over 100 dollars.. I can barely afford to buy a blank cd for 50 cents let alone a commercial one for 5$
I graduate in a few months, so this will all change.. Job market here i come.. i cant wait to be a mindless drone!:D
The RIAA has the ability to do a napster-like service, without any of napsters problems. (Incomplete files, people disconnecting you mid-download, poor organization.. etc (no offence napster guys, you know i love you (hi hatter!)))
They could set up an mp3 ftp that you pay a monthy fee for. Or how about just streaming? that makes piracy more difficult.
Seriously, if the RIAA is reading this, It is time to grow up! Embrace the new technology.. regardless of what you do, you cannot control internet content.. this has been repeatedly proven, your best bet is to set up your own service.. then you would be the hero of the music industry rather then the evil villian.
When CDs first came out, they were a little more pricy then most people had hoped. The recording industry stated that the price jump was because the media format was so new, and they needed to up production before they could drop the price without losing money.
Rather then drop the price like they had promised, they saw that people were willing to pay the inflated prices (due to the monopoly by the RIAA.) Hence, they never dropped the prices like they had said they would.
If you look at the prices on mp3.com, thats the price a CD truly should be, $8.99 or so. I dont know about you, but if Music CDs only cost 8 bucks a peice, I would be buying them all the freaking time.
As it is, I am a poor college student, and I pirate most all of my music. That combined with my bitterness towards the Media industry as a whole, I can justify myself.
On a similar note, does anyone know how much the artist gets from a CD sale through the RIAA? I bet its under 1$ per CD. I truly belive that a real artist would prefer my appreciation of their music over my money. And with my complete lack of funds, mp3s have allowed me to appreciate a wide variety of different music.
If i could send squarepusher a cheque for 15$, I would. That would probably be more money then he would get if i bought all of his CDs...
I still dont understand why the RIAA is fighting mp3. They are going to lose.. thats all there is to it. Their best bet is to embrace the mp3 format and figure out a way to make money off of it.. I dont know about you guys, but I would gladly pay a monthly fee for access to an RIAA mp3 ftp with every peice of music ever released on it.
This being known, you must remember that serious caution must be used when using lethal force on a suspect.
No attempt was made to indentify the man actually had a weapon. That is the problem, they just unloaded on the guy because "someone fell."
Did they hear a shot? Did they see the flash of the gun? Did they see anything even remotly suggesting that this man may be armed, besides the fact that he was black? No. He didnt even -fake- having a gun.. He was probably reaching for Identification when the cops just unloaded on the guy.
Shooting an unarmed man 41 times is not a job hazard, it is murder.
These people should be sent to prison where they would be assraped every day by the same big black men they unjustly imprisoned in the past.
The justice system isnt just.. at all.
Having studied the justice system for a good amount of time, I am greatful for being wealthy and white. It sickening how racist the system really is.
I commented on this a few weeks back in another post.
This is a reality. I just hope the big video media people will embrace the technology rather then that of the music biz. Hopefully they have/are learning their lesson that information/media on the internet WANTS to be free and widely distributed.
Vidster anyone? That would kick ass, I need to find tapes of all the Liquid Television epsiodes. I lost all 3 seasons I taped off of tv when my house burned down.
Damn I loved that show.. I wonder why beavis and butthead made it instead of bobby and billy.. bobby and billy was so much funnier..
uh, im rambling so ill stop now:)
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I found an mp3 of this on napster a while back.. but the download cut off midway. Arg. Do a search for muppet on napster, you get some mighty interesting results.
You dare question the ramen!? You should be ashamed of yourself!:)
In all honesty, ramen is one of the most versatile and tasty foods out there. You can buy a pack of frozen veggies at the market and throw them (still frozen) in with the really hot ramen and you get a great meal! I reccomend some cooked egg and chopped chicken breast along with those veggies and you get a massive bowlfull of one of the easiest treats out there!
yum
If you dont like that much preperation, try the local asian food market for some import ramen. I reccomend KimChi Spicy Bowl Noodle.
Its Gundam Wing fellas.. one of the more popular and kiddy Gundam series.. 5 big giant robots destroy lots of stuff and save the solar system in the process.
the plot is actually pretty good, although not as complex as some of the other gundam stuff, its dumb enough to be popular in america and intelligent enough to not insult the common viewer. im sure itll be damn popular.
You fail to make a distinction between a jock and an athlete.
An athlete is someone who plays sports on a regular basis.
A jock is someone who plays sports on a regular basis and is an asshole.
kind of like the difference between a geek and a nerd in some circles, or in a different sense, black vs. nigger.
Please dont accuse me of being racist due to that previous statement, It was in reference to a chris rock standup... not the greatest source.. but you get my point here.
Regardless of what these companies think, they can't maintain their control over the distribution of media. Its the nature of the internet. Rather then beeing foolish like the RIAA and fight the internet in a battle they will lose, the MPAA needs to realize they are approaching this from the entirely wrong angle. The single cause that they are fighting ie internet based distribution, is something they should embrace. Im not saying they should allow anyone to sell it, but if films were freely available for download, piracy would be minimal.
Newspapers figured this one out right away, and hopped right to it, but music and film industries shunned the idea of free internet distribution of films. Rather then embrace the new technology, they pushed it away and are now attacking the innovaters that picked up where these companies made an unwise decision.
Back to mindshare.. We need to engrain the realization that they cant effectivly fight the internet. And rather waste money on a bulk of large rabid lawyers, they should cut their losses and start distributing films via the internet. If they dont do it, someone else will..
Vidster anyone?
We also need to convince other stockholders that they are ultimatly going to lose money through these foolish lawsuits.
Seems to me that these guys are still afraid of the new technology. Fear breeds stupidity.
Well the same thing will happen to the movie business and once it does, their monopoly on the means of productions (my, I sound socialist today:-) ) will evaporate. And once that happens, their content will dramatically decrease in value.
With the new press in home movies on the iMac, i guess you could say this.. But i think the bigger issue is the means of distribution. If the MPAA doesnt embrace internet based distribution of hollywood-type movies, then they are going to faulter.. because someone else will do it. Call them pirates or Information Freedom Fighters or whatever, but as long as there is product placement in films, the studios can make money. Hell, they can make even more money if they put it on the 'net.
"Mr. advertiser man, this new 30 million dollar hollywood film is going to be on the internet and therefor accessable by billions.. were charging more for product placement now."
Not to mention the fact that all their merchandising can reach uganda and china and burkino faso and ever other nation. (is burkino faso a nation?)
Pity about all this, as I love dvds.. blah, greyhairs.
Add to that that many people own stock (or know and care for someone who owns stock) in MS and thus have self-interested reasons not to want to see MS broken up (not, of course, that a breakup of MS entails their stock would devalue, but as long as they believe it's likely, they'll have the motivation).
I'm not too sure about this, but when you hold stock in a company and it's split up, dont you recieve stock in all the baby companies? That combined with the growth of all the baby companies lines up the stockholder to benifit greatly from the possible MS breakup.
A boycott of DVDs would be pointless. The individuals who are concerned and well informed on this issue (people reading/.) would be the only ones boycotting, we dont make up a high percentage of the dvd purchasing public. Not only that, these companies have a tight grip over the "knowledge" of the public. If CNN tells them the 15 year old boy illegally hacked something, they will belive it. Their power to control the distribution channels of information is the most difficult thing to compete. The best I can do is wear my DVDCSS tshirt and inform people on the severity of the situation. (Although most people think its a joke. It really annoys me)
We are fighting a losing battle. Now I'm not saying we should give up, far from it. I think the best thing we can do is aggresivly continue the LiViD project, and finish it before the case is out of court. Although it would piss of the Big Evil Companies something feirce, it seems to be our only alternative.
Boycotting wont do much except give yourself a sense of satisfication. They already have, for arguments sake, an infinite amount of monetary recourses. They can throw their money around and sick packs of angry rabid lawyers at us, and win. Since when have the people "in power" -ever- listened to the geeks.
I guess this is to be expected. Free media is part of the nature of the internet. The people who make their living controlling the media distribution want to keep the old ways because they have it figured out to a science. Rather then figure out something new they would rather defend their old antiquated system, and will do everything they can to hold on to it for as long as possible.
Never underestimate the ignorance of the populace.
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Actually UltraHLE runs a bunch of games now if you apply all the patches or something like that.. (not that I care, I don't think n64 games are that great) and you could easily make an emulator work with carts.
I recall an old peice of PC hardware that had a genesis cart port in it. All you had to do was stick the cart in and you could play genny games on your computer. It wasnt a backup unit either.. and im pretty sure it was lisenced by sega..
Rumours are abound now that dreamcast is going to start shipping with a psx emulator on disc.. with enhanced graphics.. dont know yet, but that would be pretty damn cool
From most all I've ever read, heard, or seen about NASA is that these kinds of things are highly uncommon. I vaugly recall an error due to mis-conversion to metric.. but thats all I can think of.
:/
NASA really doesnt need this kind of publicity. This can only support the US governments continually stripping NASA of its funding. NASA is one of the few segments of our beaurocratic beast that I really appreciate (that and the USPS.)
Assuming this really did happen, the only explanation I can think of is funding. Perhaps it wasnt in the budget to fix the project?
D0f, this test shows that the retros wont fire.
Well we can't fix it, we spent the last nickle on the little USA flag sticker that goes on the side of the ship.
What are we going to do?
Well if it doesnt pass the test we could get fired !
So lets change the test!
good idea.
Reminds me of those dopes in lab science that used to always make up their numbers and then whine about how their results turned up faulty.
but I thought NASA weeded out those people
Perhaps the "undisclosed source" is someone that the cutting of NASA's budget would be in their best interest..
I don't know how much you can tell us about it, but I'd really like to know about these 1-on-1 cases that the MPAA are involved in.
:)
.asf)
Is there a webpage w/ a list of DeCSS related cases the MPAA is or were involved in?
We should try to keep a good record of what cases the MPAA is currently involved in and keep it public. Who knows? It could spawn some headlines such as "MPAA imprisons 500 students, students claim 'civil disobedience'"
civil disobedience isnt something you can use to keep you out of jail.
Then again, I dont know if I can trust any internet related news I see on TV after This Report (6 meg
(the report is an atypical glamorized view on pirating movies. Apparently IRC is full of "shadowey chat rooms" in the "darker corners of the web")
So what happens when you plug 10^-(4e11) into an improbability drive?
Mangos?
Under copyright/trademark law, if you do not aggressively defend your intellectual property, you LOSE the rights to that same property! Could this explain the DeCSS fiasco?
Funny you should mention that..
I read that the ps2 was delayed in Japan until exams were over, specifically so it wouldnt interfere with the children's studies.
If the school could organize itself and educate the student population on the problem, the issue should be easily fix-able.
These are institutions of learning, banning something because its problematic should not be the primary method. Education is the most powerful tool.
My school managed to pull off not-banning napster through educating the students and faculty on the problem. They only busted one student out of the masses that were using it, because he was sharing over 20 gigs of mp3s 24/7 on napster. Follow this link to read about how skidmore college dealt with napster.
Banning napster likens to burning books in my head.
how about indymedia? :-) :-)
adbusters
the onion
would slashdot be considered an alternative media source? probably?
anyone else got some good outside-the-mainstream media sources?
I don't know about you, but i still get all my news from everything 2
Yes, the simpsons are the best of the three.. by leaps and bounds. What I am trying to put forth here is that regardless of the quality of duckman or southpark, they still opened doors in how animation is veiwed by americans.
Im a big animation buff, so im speaking from personal experience.
I generally dislike disney films, most of them are contrived trite that are so well target marketed that they lose all of their meaning. Exception being the Lion King (aka hamlet)
Disney's animation has always been the best, but their drive towards childish content has really hurt the animation mindset in America. Because of disney animation has always been "for kids." Now new ground is being broken by the simpsons and southpark, (and duckman.. which was way ahead of its time.) But this.. fantasia 2k.. wow.
This was, as I said on leaving the theater, an animation orgasm. My senses were assaulted with the greatest animation i've ever seen. Hands down. The firebird raised hairs on the back of my neck and the complex butterfly-like triangles awed me.. how do they animate that much stuff without error? wow.
This re-opens the justification of animation as a fine art. By timing the animation to a well recognized and highly regarded form of musical art, rather then, say, some stupid MTV music, the animation is clearly held in high regard.
When do the DVDs come out?
Now that I think about it, is it just me, or have disney been real asses when it comes to dvds lately? bah.
Oh yeah, did anyone else catch the mononoke-hime / princess mononoke reference in the last bit? That was so freaking cool!
Too bad im in one of the smaller college towns.. :) the nearest good used cd shop is a 40 min drive, i dont have a car. and my lack of funds is really shocking.. i have -no- money. right now my bank account has a shocking $4.30 and im in debt well over 100 dollars.. I can barely afford to buy a blank cd for 50 cents let alone a commercial one for 5$
:D
I graduate in a few months, so this will all change.. Job market here i come.. i cant wait to be a mindless drone!
The RIAA has the ability to do a napster-like service, without any of napsters problems. (Incomplete files, people disconnecting you mid-download, poor organization.. etc (no offence napster guys, you know i love you (hi hatter!)))
They could set up an mp3 ftp that you pay a monthy fee for. Or how about just streaming? that makes piracy more difficult.
Seriously, if the RIAA is reading this, It is time to grow up! Embrace the new technology.. regardless of what you do, you cannot control internet content.. this has been repeatedly proven, your best bet is to set up your own service.. then you would be the hero of the music industry rather then the evil villian.
I know you can do it
Ill give you a cookie
mmm chocolate chip..
When CDs first came out, they were a little more pricy then most people had hoped. The recording industry stated that the price jump was because the media format was so new, and they needed to up production before they could drop the price without losing money.
Rather then drop the price like they had promised, they saw that people were willing to pay the inflated prices (due to the monopoly by the RIAA.) Hence, they never dropped the prices like they had said they would.
If you look at the prices on mp3.com, thats the price a CD truly should be, $8.99 or so. I dont know about you, but if Music CDs only cost 8 bucks a peice, I would be buying them all the freaking time.
As it is, I am a poor college student, and I pirate most all of my music. That combined with my bitterness towards the Media industry as a whole, I can justify myself.
On a similar note, does anyone know how much the artist gets from a CD sale through the RIAA? I bet its under 1$ per CD. I truly belive that a real artist would prefer my appreciation of their music over my money. And with my complete lack of funds, mp3s have allowed me to appreciate a wide variety of different music.
If i could send squarepusher a cheque for 15$, I would. That would probably be more money then he would get if i bought all of his CDs...
I still dont understand why the RIAA is fighting mp3. They are going to lose.. thats all there is to it. Their best bet is to embrace the mp3 format and figure out a way to make money off of it.. I dont know about you guys, but I would gladly pay a monthly fee for access to an RIAA mp3 ftp with every peice of music ever released on it.
Police rarely discharge their weapons.
This being known, you must remember that serious caution must be used when using lethal force on a suspect.
No attempt was made to indentify the man actually had a weapon. That is the problem, they just unloaded on the guy because "someone fell."
Did they hear a shot? Did they see the flash of the gun? Did they see anything even remotly suggesting that this man may be armed, besides the fact that he was black? No. He didnt even -fake- having a gun.. He was probably reaching for Identification when the cops just unloaded on the guy.
Shooting an unarmed man 41 times is not a job hazard, it is murder.
These people should be sent to prison where they would be assraped every day by the same big black men they unjustly imprisoned in the past.
The justice system isnt just.. at all.
Having studied the justice system for a good amount of time, I am greatful for being wealthy and white. It sickening how racist the system really is.
I commented on this a few weeks back in another post.
:)
This is a reality. I just hope the big video media people will embrace the technology rather then that of the music biz. Hopefully they have/are learning their lesson that information/media on the internet WANTS to be free and widely distributed.
Vidster anyone? That would kick ass, I need to find tapes of all the Liquid Television epsiodes. I lost all 3 seasons I taped off of tv when my house burned down.
Damn I loved that show.. I wonder why beavis and butthead made it instead of bobby and billy.. bobby and billy was so much funnier..
uh, im rambling so ill stop now
I found an mp3 of this on napster a while back.. but the download cut off midway.
Arg.
Do a search for muppet on napster, you get some mighty interesting results.
You dare question the ramen!? You should be ashamed of yourself! :)
In all honesty, ramen is one of the most versatile and tasty foods out there. You can buy a pack of frozen veggies at the market and throw them (still frozen) in with the really hot ramen and you get a great meal! I reccomend some cooked egg and chopped chicken breast along with those veggies and you get a massive bowlfull of one of the easiest treats out there!
yum
If you dont like that much preperation, try the local asian food market for some import ramen. I reccomend KimChi Spicy Bowl Noodle.
Whats Your Favorite ramen recipie?
Its Gundam Wing fellas.. one of the more popular and kiddy Gundam series.. 5 big giant robots destroy lots of stuff and save the solar system in the process.
the plot is actually pretty good, although not as complex as some of the other gundam stuff, its dumb enough to be popular in america and intelligent enough to not insult the common viewer. im sure itll be damn popular.
glad to see you guys watch Lain ^_^
You fail to make a distinction between a jock and an athlete.
An athlete is someone who plays sports on a regular basis.
A jock is someone who plays sports on a regular basis and is an asshole.
kind of like the difference between a geek and a nerd in some circles, or in a different sense, black vs. nigger.
Please dont accuse me of being racist due to that previous statement, It was in reference to a chris rock standup... not the greatest source.. but you get my point here.
On the subject of mindshare..
Regardless of what these companies think, they can't maintain their control over the distribution of media. Its the nature of the internet. Rather then beeing foolish like the RIAA and fight the internet in a battle they will lose, the MPAA needs to realize they are approaching this from the entirely wrong angle. The single cause that they are fighting ie internet based distribution, is something they should embrace. Im not saying they should allow anyone to sell it, but if films were freely available for download, piracy would be minimal.
Newspapers figured this one out right away, and hopped right to it, but music and film industries shunned the idea of free internet distribution of films. Rather then embrace the new technology, they pushed it away and are now attacking the innovaters that picked up where these companies made an unwise decision.
Back to mindshare.. We need to engrain the realization that they cant effectivly fight the internet. And rather waste money on a bulk of large rabid lawyers, they should cut their losses and start distributing films via the internet. If they dont do it, someone else will..
Vidster anyone?
We also need to convince other stockholders that they are ultimatly going to lose money through these foolish lawsuits.
Seems to me that these guys are still afraid of the new technology. Fear breeds stupidity.
Well the same thing will happen to the movie business and once it does, their monopoly on the means of productions (my, I sound socialist today :-) ) will evaporate. And once that happens, their content will dramatically decrease in value.
With the new press in home movies on the iMac, i guess you could say this.. But i think the bigger issue is the means of distribution. If the MPAA doesnt embrace internet based distribution of hollywood-type movies, then they are going to faulter.. because someone else will do it. Call them pirates or Information Freedom Fighters or whatever, but as long as there is product placement in films, the studios can make money. Hell, they can make even more money if they put it on the 'net.
"Mr. advertiser man, this new 30 million dollar hollywood film is going to be on the internet and therefor accessable by billions.. were charging more for product placement now."
Not to mention the fact that all their merchandising can reach uganda and china and burkino faso and ever other nation. (is burkino faso a nation?)
Pity about all this, as I love dvds.. blah, greyhairs.
Add to that that many people own stock (or know and care for someone who owns stock) in MS and thus have self-interested reasons not to want to see MS broken up (not, of course, that a breakup of MS entails their stock would devalue, but as long as they believe it's likely, they'll have the motivation).
I'm not too sure about this, but when you hold stock in a company and it's split up, dont you recieve stock in all the baby companies? That combined with the growth of all the baby companies lines up the stockholder to benifit greatly from the possible MS breakup.
So does this mean I can be arrested for wearing my DeCSS tshirt?
That would be an interesting experience.
No, but you can build one to watch it.
The severity of this situation is unbelievable.
/.) would be the only ones boycotting, we dont make up a high percentage of the dvd purchasing public. Not only that, these companies have a tight grip over the "knowledge" of the public. If CNN tells them the 15 year old boy illegally hacked something, they will belive it. Their power to control the distribution channels of information is the most difficult thing to compete. The best I can do is wear my DVDCSS tshirt and inform people on the severity of the situation. (Although most people think its a joke. It really annoys me)
A boycott of DVDs would be pointless. The individuals who are concerned and well informed on this issue (people reading
We are fighting a losing battle. Now I'm not saying we should give up, far from it. I think the best thing we can do is aggresivly continue the LiViD project, and finish it before the case is out of court. Although it would piss of the Big Evil Companies something feirce, it seems to be our only alternative.
Boycotting wont do much except give yourself a sense of satisfication. They already have, for arguments sake, an infinite amount of monetary recourses. They can throw their money around and sick packs of angry rabid lawyers at us, and win. Since when have the people "in power" -ever- listened to the geeks.
I guess this is to be expected. Free media is part of the nature of the internet. The people who make their living controlling the media distribution want to keep the old ways because they have it figured out to a science. Rather then figure out something new they would rather defend their old antiquated system, and will do everything they can to hold on to it for as long as possible.
Never underestimate the ignorance of the populace.