Thanks for clarifying, and for reminding me of certain facts.
I'd like to believe that a "class" could actually win a class-action lawsuit. You'd think that, after "people who bought Sony CDs vs. Sony & its rootkits," I'd know better.
And a patent that the holder is using is better, or less bad, than a patent that's just being sat on.
Okay. You are suggesting that it's not worth suing to learn whether Netflix holds this patent legitimately (as in "no prior art") because Netflix isn't actually using what it has patented?
I myself am not against class action lawsuits absolutely. In this case, if Netflix loses, we get rid of a pesky patent.
So, if the patented method could be useful for anyone else in Internet DVD rental, then if this patent is (especially) illegitimate, Netflix not using the method makes things worse.
No. Hal Leonard must not be allowed to wipe out the abc format. If they're not using it or anything resembling it, then they shouldn't get to wipe out the notation. Especially not for songs in the public domain!
Okay. You are losing access to guitar tab transcriptions because of the activities of Hal Leonard Inc. Your response would be to burn the books from that place that you already own and lose access to even more guitar tabs?
Be sensible. Post the contents of your Hal Leonard books on your website (preferably behind password guards) or on the Pirate Bay, where anyone with technical skills can find them. Surely that would be more fitting a punishment.
Guitar tabs should be free to share, yes.
But if guitar tabs for any given song are even based on the original song, that makes those tabs a derivative work. The original copyright holders are given some say on how derivative works are published--or in this case, not published.
Apple is catering to audiophiles all of a sudden so that people who don't know what DRM is will buy the more expensive DRM-free trax.
Some of us have already said they don't want to pay extra for a song when all Apple did was refrain from adding something undesirable (namely DRM). Better sound quality is desirable and worth paying extra for, up to a point--and for only $0.30 extra, Apple likely hasn't gone past that point.
Better sound quality is also something most music fans will understand.
Okay, thanks for making that clearer. If they refuse to pay for security, then it does make financial sense not to provide it. I understand that a programmer's gotta eat.
It's common to man, and to corporation, to pick short-term profits over long-term benefits. Some long term later, they'll wonder where all the unintended consequences came from.
Let me get this straight.
You are saying that, since most businesses and most people prefer risky practices that let them move faster, or with fancier stuff, to practices that secure what they have but won't move them forward as quickly, the risky practices must be better?
[sigh]
Yes, most people do it. Yes, I have been lax at back-ups myself, and often regret my failure to back up only after I lose important files (preserved on the internal hard drive of a dead computer--or corrupted on that hard disk--or saved on a disk in a proprietary format which my new computer won't read). But just because most businesses don't believe in back-ups doesn't mean back-ups are overrated.
Maybe the Pinto wasn't the deadliest small car in '79. It was still the only one, AFAIK, that exploded when rear-ended. It wasn't just that the Pinto's flaw was deadly, it was that it was scary, and deadlier than it should have been.
And yes, Ford's knowing the fuel-tank explosions could happen counted against it if it didn't try to recall affected Pintos.
Ford, forgetting and repeating history, put exploding gas tanks in several model years of Crown Victorias recently. Again, there was only a slim chance that the accident that exploded the gas tank would happen. Again, Ford didn't want to act because the accident type was rare. Again, it was unacceptable that it could happen at all.
If Crown Vics weren't often used for cop cars, Ford might still be making exploding gas tanks under the radar.
I think GM made a similar design error in some varieties of Chevy Blazer. They did act as soon as it was discovered, though.
Yes, but it would also get rid of parodies using those audio tracks. That may not be a big issue with South Park, but I bet it would crimp the style of Star Trek and anime fans.
At least some of the people who are using the DoD network are unable to go home to check the blocked sites. Iraq and Afghanistan are half a world away from America. And at least some soldiers actually live on military bases: even their home computer would use the DoD network.
If people in Iraq or Afghanistan open internet cafes that don't censor YouTube, and are able to keep them open, then we'll be closer to earning that "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner.
Okay. The last election was in 2006. There was no presidential race that year. A lot of Republicans got voted out of both houses of Congress, so I think some Americans are losing patience with the Republican war strategy. Congress attempted to pass a defense bill with a named exit date this year: that's another sign.
The last presidential election was 2004. Maybe we should've known to kick our current president out by then: I mean, Fahrenheit 9/11 was already released. But, even though things looked bad then, they looked better then than they do now. (When did we learn about Abu Ghraib, anyway?)
So the music recognition system thought a cover band was Johnny Cash.
I hope MySpace's system doesn't do the video equivalent. I hope it doesn't treat parodies of commercial copyrighted work the same way as actual commercial copyrighted work, and take all the parodies down with the less-than-legitimate videos...
That could lead to some interesting keywords. I see "pr0n" and "warez" a lot already. We might get "51mp50nz" videos if keyword checks are done before hashes are.
There are two benefits to buying The Colbert Report off iTunes or XBOX:
1. No advertising!
2. Permanency. Less of an advantage.
It's not as easy to record programs permanently as it used to be. DVD recorders for TVs are scarce, VCRs and their tapes are rare, and standard DVRs tend to delete things after a certain amount of time--or, for the one I used to use, an uncertain amount of time. This, of course, is the MPAA's fault. South Park has reached syndication. It's on over-the-air stations now--truly free, at least as in beer. (Not sure how edited.) The Colbert Report is still on a pay-channel, though; we just ignore the cable or satellite costs like we ignore our ISP costs when we figure the cost of the content, since under normal circumstances we'll be paying those anyway.
If MySpace takes down a file and every file matching it with this new software, and whoever put the first file up is successful with his put-back request, then will MySpace put everything that matches back as well? Or will everyone have to make a put-back request of his own (inc. people who are DMCA-illiterate) to get the matching files back?
Yes. Point taken. But Wikipedia claimed that the PDS/Socialist Party emerged from the SED/Communist Party before East Germany fell. For all I know, they could approve of both a market economy (with extra safety nets) and a Stasi-like organization, even now.
The Berlin Wall and the East German government fell really fast and suddenly--there wasn't much time for the Stasi to clear out its office. The Stasi had to shred the papers anyway (imagine someone liberating a whole document from a bonfire) and didn't have time to arrange a controlled burn for all those papers.
What if the government locks up the global warming advocates until they either go silent or prove their positions--and omit any access to methods of testing the position one way or the other?
Or suppose the other party comes into power. What happens if they try to lock up libertarians on similar principles?
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Thanks for clarifying, and for reminding me of certain facts.
I'd like to believe that a "class" could actually win a class-action lawsuit. You'd think that, after "people who bought Sony CDs vs. Sony & its rootkits," I'd know better.
And a patent that the holder is using is better, or less bad, than a patent that's just being sat on.
Okay. You are suggesting that it's not worth suing to learn whether Netflix holds this patent legitimately (as in "no prior art") because Netflix isn't actually using what it has patented?
I myself am not against class action lawsuits absolutely. In this case, if Netflix loses, we get rid of a pesky patent.
So, if the patented method could be useful for anyone else in Internet DVD rental, then if this patent is (especially) illegitimate, Netflix not using the method makes things worse.
Every site hosts copyrighted material. Some just host more explosive material than others.
No. Hal Leonard must not be allowed to wipe out the abc format. If they're not using it or anything resembling it, then they shouldn't get to wipe out the notation. Especially not for songs in the public domain!
Okay. You are losing access to guitar tab transcriptions because of the activities of Hal Leonard Inc. Your response would be to burn the books from that place that you already own and lose access to even more guitar tabs?
Be sensible. Post the contents of your Hal Leonard books on your website (preferably behind password guards) or on the Pirate Bay, where anyone with technical skills can find them. Surely that would be more fitting a punishment.
Guitar tabs should be free to share, yes.
But if guitar tabs for any given song are even based on the original song, that makes those tabs a derivative work. The original copyright holders are given some say on how derivative works are published--or in this case, not published.
Apple is catering to audiophiles all of a sudden so that people who don't know what DRM is will buy the more expensive DRM-free trax.
Some of us have already said they don't want to pay extra for a song when all Apple did was refrain from adding something undesirable (namely DRM). Better sound quality is desirable and worth paying extra for, up to a point--and for only $0.30 extra, Apple likely hasn't gone past that point.
Better sound quality is also something most music fans will understand.
Okay, thanks for making that clearer. If they refuse to pay for security, then it does make financial sense not to provide it. I understand that a programmer's gotta eat.
It's common to man, and to corporation, to pick short-term profits over long-term benefits. Some long term later, they'll wonder where all the unintended consequences came from.
Let me get this straight.
You are saying that, since most businesses and most people prefer risky practices that let them move faster, or with fancier stuff, to practices that secure what they have but won't move them forward as quickly, the risky practices must be better?
[sigh]
Yes, most people do it. Yes, I have been lax at back-ups myself, and often regret my failure to back up only after I lose important files (preserved on the internal hard drive of a dead computer--or corrupted on that hard disk--or saved on a disk in a proprietary format which my new computer won't read). But just because most businesses don't believe in back-ups doesn't mean back-ups are overrated.
Maybe the Pinto wasn't the deadliest small car in '79. It was still the only one, AFAIK, that exploded when rear-ended. It wasn't just that the Pinto's flaw was deadly, it was that it was scary, and deadlier than it should have been.
And yes, Ford's knowing the fuel-tank explosions could happen counted against it if it didn't try to recall affected Pintos.
Ford, forgetting and repeating history, put exploding gas tanks in several model years of Crown Victorias recently. Again, there was only a slim chance that the accident that exploded the gas tank would happen. Again, Ford didn't want to act because the accident type was rare. Again, it was unacceptable that it could happen at all.
If Crown Vics weren't often used for cop cars, Ford might still be making exploding gas tanks under the radar.
I think GM made a similar design error in some varieties of Chevy Blazer. They did act as soon as it was discovered, though.
Yes, but it would also get rid of parodies using those audio tracks. That may not be a big issue with South Park, but I bet it would crimp the style of Star Trek and anime fans.
At least some of the people who are using the DoD network are unable to go home to check the blocked sites. Iraq and Afghanistan are half a world away from America. And at least some soldiers actually live on military bases: even their home computer would use the DoD network.
If people in Iraq or Afghanistan open internet cafes that don't censor YouTube, and are able to keep them open, then we'll be closer to earning that "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner.
Okay. The last election was in 2006. There was no presidential race that year. A lot of Republicans got voted out of both houses of Congress, so I think some Americans are losing patience with the Republican war strategy. Congress attempted to pass a defense bill with a named exit date this year: that's another sign.
The last presidential election was 2004. Maybe we should've known to kick our current president out by then: I mean, Fahrenheit 9/11 was already released. But, even though things looked bad then, they looked better then than they do now. (When did we learn about Abu Ghraib, anyway?)
You know, iTunes sells The Colbert Report. You can get any given episode there if you have iTunes. Or are you insisting on free?
So the music recognition system thought a cover band was Johnny Cash.
I hope MySpace's system doesn't do the video equivalent. I hope it doesn't treat parodies of commercial copyrighted work the same way as actual commercial copyrighted work, and take all the parodies down with the less-than-legitimate videos...
That could lead to some interesting keywords. I see "pr0n" and "warez" a lot already. We might get "51mp50nz" videos if keyword checks are done before hashes are.
There are two benefits to buying The Colbert Report off iTunes or XBOX:
1. No advertising!
2. Permanency. Less of an advantage.
It's not as easy to record programs permanently as it used to be. DVD recorders for TVs are scarce, VCRs and their tapes are rare, and standard DVRs tend to delete things after a certain amount of time--or, for the one I used to use, an uncertain amount of time. This, of course, is the MPAA's fault.
South Park has reached syndication. It's on over-the-air stations now--truly free, at least as in beer. (Not sure how edited.)
The Colbert Report is still on a pay-channel, though; we just ignore the cable or satellite costs like we ignore our ISP costs when we figure the cost of the content, since under normal circumstances we'll be paying those anyway.
"Solarized" videos all over MySpace? Sounds like fun!
If MySpace takes down a file and every file matching it with this new software, and whoever put the first file up is successful with his put-back request, then will MySpace put everything that matches back as well? Or will everyone have to make a put-back request of his own (inc. people who are DMCA-illiterate) to get the matching files back?
I remember AltaVista. I miss it.
Yes. Point taken. But Wikipedia claimed that the PDS/Socialist Party emerged from the SED/Communist Party before East Germany fell. For all I know, they could approve of both a market economy (with extra safety nets) and a Stasi-like organization, even now.
In the earliest years of the NSA's existence, we were told that the NSA didn't exist....
So, who is pressuring the Fraunhofner(sp?) Institute not to do this? Did Germany's Communist Party gain seats last election?
The Berlin Wall and the East German government fell really fast and suddenly--there wasn't much time for the Stasi to clear out its office. The Stasi had to shred the papers anyway (imagine someone liberating a whole document from a bonfire) and didn't have time to arrange a controlled burn for all those papers.
What if the government locks up the global warming advocates until they either go silent or prove their positions--and omit any access to methods of testing the position one way or the other?
Or suppose the other party comes into power. What happens if they try to lock up libertarians on similar principles?