some seeds (such as those of cocoa and rubber) are "recalcitrant" and can't be banked at all.
So, if there's a major apocalypse, then there will no longer be chocolate? That's one way to make an apocalypse even more apocalyptic...
Actually, MS never had its own store for the original Plays4sure. It just licensed the format to other people.
The price to license Plays4Sure to a WMA/MP3 player: $0.10 a player.
The price to make Plays4sure WMAs, for sale or rent: one Windows OS. Making Plays4Sure WMAs is built into 2003 Server, and Windows Media Player can make Plays4Sure WMAs as well.
MS's specialty is, of course, Windows OSes. Their MediaPlayer is almost as critical to, and central to, their OS as Explorer is. When Europe made MS sell a copy of Windows without its MediaPlayer, MS made that vs. virtually silent.
Here is the reason we don't hear of more Plays4Sure hacks; they get mixed in with, and patched with, all the other WindowsMediaPlayer-related hacks.
The artist will never see the money.
Mail sent a to popular musician generally does not go directly to the musician. After all, there might be death threats or anthrax; there are almost certainly too many pieces of mail for an artist to read them all and get any work done.
Whoever is assigned to screen the mail will find that dollar, or that check, first. Odds are, one of these things will happen:
1. The money will be pocketed by whoever is screening the mail.
2. The money will be given to the label. This may be the best-case scenario for many artists.
3. If it's a check, it might get "autographed"--and then be sent back to you...
Okay. Let's see if I understand this. A given copy of an Apple OSX OS will work on only one model of only one brand of computer.
A given copy of Windows XP or Vista--at least the non-corporate varieties--will work on only one specific computer. The Windows OS will object even if the computer it's installed on has (for whatever reason) gone too far through the axe-head&axe-handle replacement cycle: it will not allow you to gradually replace every part of the computer with an identical part and still ring valid.
Apple computers aren't so rare that this isn't a major difference in philosophy between Apple & MS.
In America, leaving guns lying around the porch is normally legal. It's not sensible, esp. if those guns are loaded; it could lead to sits. that are illegal; but the mere presence of guns on the porch isn't illegal.
When MS sold licenses to make&sell Plays4sure WMAs, the price they asked was an IIS server with MS Server 2003 on it. This software includes everything needed to make Plays4sure WMAs. Hey, XP vs. of Windows Media Player can make Plays4sure WMAs!
So, yes, MS would have to fix the holes in the software as much & quickly as possible. However, most of the holes could be patched with automatic updates to servers (for those selling the trax) and Windows Media Players (for those downloading them). I don't know how MS patches the portable players; judging from reports of Vista corrupting iPods, MS has been thinking about this problem.
I imagine that the people who get the most thrills from hacking music files are mostly the same people who hate WMA as a format.
At least one RIAA exec has read Steve Jobs's letter. (Source is on Infoworld, or else AP; I reached that article via Yahoo.)
His response was to ask Apple to open Fairplay so that other music players could use it. Paraphrase: "Apple is a smart and capable company--you can find a way to make it work!"
Apparently, the RIAA is willing to sacrifice some security&reliability in their DRM to avoid absolute hardware lock-ins. That must be why they tolerated Plays4Sure for so long.
Yes, they have.
But if you have recorded something from the iTunes jukebox on your re-recordable CD, and you decide to record something else onto that CD from the iTunes jukebox, iTunes will wipe the disk clean before it does the second recording.
This is not just a hitch with Fairplay trax. This happens if you try to burn anything on the iTunes jukebox whatsoever onto any non-pristine disc! I nearly lost one of my back-up disks that way; fortunately, the system did give me an "Are you sure?" message, and so I was able to back out.
Apple cannot, as of now, run iTunes both with RIAA music (and the $$$ RIAA music generates) and without DRM.
Apple cannot ensure the reliable-but-locked DRM that the RIAA requests unless it refuses to license its DRM out. (Apparently, the mess with Plays4sure was all but inescapable.)
European governments probably will not allow Apple to continue using a DRM that it refuses to license out indefinitely. I will note that Steve Jobs's note was addressed to a European audience.
If Apple is forbidden to keep Fairplay to itself, then it has the choice of licensing Fairplay out or dropping DRM altogether.
Apple hates licensing things out; it would rather close the iTunes Store than that. But if it cannot convince the RIAA to allow DRM-free downloads, then it will hemorrhage $$$--or rather, cease getting new $$$ from the iTunes Store.
That is Steve Jobs's motivation to combat DRM.
The vinyl LP hasn't gone as far as you might think. Audiophiles still buy LPs, and some new music gets released in that format.
And yes, the day may come when CDs are no longer an active format. But as long as computers carry CD-ROM players and media players (of any sort), and as long as other players that hold CD-size discs play CDs (that is, as long as there are DVD players, and as long as the HD DVD-replacements are backwards-compatible), that day isn't coming soon. There's a real chance that FairplayAACs could become obsolete before CDs do.
"If your not breaking the law, who cares if everyone and your Mother knows where your parked overnight,"
If this tech and your reasoning were common in the '50s, then there would be far fewer people alive today.
You say that requiring a warrant for GPS is like requiring a warrant to shoot someone.
Proposition: would those on this board think using GPS to track vehicles without a warrant would be more acceptable if, after each instance, the officers who did this had to take administrative leave until it is determined whether the tracking was justified?
I live in the broadcasting range of an area where, when cops shoot, they shoot to kill. (Theory being that it's much safer for the cop that way.) I wish shooting criminals required warrants in such cases, though it's not going to happen. Even if it did, if there's a standoff going on, then the cops might actually get such a warrant.
But this (illegal) copy of Windows was bundled into a computer. How many outside the computer industry can tell if they are getting their "free" OEM copy of Windows too cheap?
The album you're thinking of, with both "Take It Away" and "Get It," is the Macca solo album Tug of War. It's an MPL production--not Apple Records. I've owned it in vinyl & audiocassette, but (unfortunately) not CD.
I really like "Take It Away," BTW.
Everybody uses the Associated Press. The American Broadcasting Corporation, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the (MicroSoft) National Broadcasting Corporation, the Cable News Network, FOX--everybody.
In America, videogames are rated voluntarily. Games rated AO cannot be sold to anyone under 18 because of sex & violence, esp. sex.
For this reason, no ordinary store in America stocks AO games. Since no one advertises AO games, this might not make that much difference. But it does limit access.
M games don't have as much sex as AO games and can only be sold to people over 17. These games are easier to find, but there are still chains that won't carry them. Some of these chains dominate brick&mortar stores in flyover country.
The thing is, in America, regulation tends to sweep farther than necc., no matter who is making it.
Even the DMCA could get a copyright infringer sent to prison--it's just that the RIAA & MPAA don't play that card much, for various reasons. Apparently, Russia has passed legislation tougher than the DMCA.
In America, you do have to go to college to get a degree in teaching. And you do have to get continuing education in those months when you are not teaching.
The teachers don't always repeat the script because they want to. They repeat the script because their students have to do well on standardized tests that school boards and the government force on them. Originally, they had to score well because schools with better scores got a better class of student, one with parents who could pay the taxes to improve the schools. These days, I believe that every school in America is federally required to be above average.
Did you not have any teachers, at all, when you were growing up?
That won't be neccesary. I think that most people in America these days already spend some time every waking leisure hour (and many waking non-leisure hours) with content created by the RIAA or MPAA. Think how common TV & radio & muzak are.
"Come and Get It" was a Badfinger song released by Apple Records in its prime ('68-69). Paul McCartney wrote the demo and produced the song--and had Badfinger do it exactly like the demo.
The demo might be on Anthology 3.
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some seeds (such as those of cocoa and rubber) are "recalcitrant" and can't be banked at all.
So, if there's a major apocalypse, then there will no longer be chocolate? That's one way to make an apocalypse even more apocalyptic...
Actually, MS never had its own store for the original Plays4sure. It just licensed the format to other people.
The price to license Plays4Sure to a WMA/MP3 player: $0.10 a player.
The price to make Plays4sure WMAs, for sale or rent: one Windows OS. Making Plays4Sure WMAs is built into 2003 Server, and Windows Media Player can make Plays4Sure WMAs as well.
MS's specialty is, of course, Windows OSes. Their MediaPlayer is almost as critical to, and central to, their OS as Explorer is. When Europe made MS sell a copy of Windows without its MediaPlayer, MS made that vs. virtually silent.
Here is the reason we don't hear of more Plays4Sure hacks; they get mixed in with, and patched with, all the other WindowsMediaPlayer-related hacks.
The artist will never see the money.
Mail sent a to popular musician generally does not go directly to the musician. After all, there might be death threats or anthrax; there are almost certainly too many pieces of mail for an artist to read them all and get any work done.
Whoever is assigned to screen the mail will find that dollar, or that check, first. Odds are, one of these things will happen:
1. The money will be pocketed by whoever is screening the mail.
2. The money will be given to the label. This may be the best-case scenario for many artists.
3. If it's a check, it might get "autographed"--and then be sent back to you...
No, Jobs didn't clear his manifesto with the recording industry. An RIAA exec just asked him to license Fairplay.
Okay. Let's see if I understand this. A given copy of an Apple OSX OS will work on only one model of only one brand of computer.
A given copy of Windows XP or Vista--at least the non-corporate varieties--will work on only one specific computer. The Windows OS will object even if the computer it's installed on has (for whatever reason) gone too far through the axe-head&axe-handle replacement cycle: it will not allow you to gradually replace every part of the computer with an identical part and still ring valid.
Apple computers aren't so rare that this isn't a major difference in philosophy between Apple & MS.
In America, leaving guns lying around the porch is normally legal. It's not sensible, esp. if those guns are loaded; it could lead to sits. that are illegal; but the mere presence of guns on the porch isn't illegal.
When MS sold licenses to make&sell Plays4sure WMAs, the price they asked was an IIS server with MS Server 2003 on it. This software includes everything needed to make Plays4sure WMAs. Hey, XP vs. of Windows Media Player can make Plays4sure WMAs!
So, yes, MS would have to fix the holes in the software as much & quickly as possible. However, most of the holes could be patched with automatic updates to servers (for those selling the trax) and Windows Media Players (for those downloading them). I don't know how MS patches the portable players; judging from reports of Vista corrupting iPods, MS has been thinking about this problem.
I imagine that the people who get the most thrills from hacking music files are mostly the same people who hate WMA as a format.
At least one RIAA exec has read Steve Jobs's letter. (Source is on Infoworld, or else AP; I reached that article via Yahoo.)
His response was to ask Apple to open Fairplay so that other music players could use it. Paraphrase: "Apple is a smart and capable company--you can find a way to make it work!"
Apparently, the RIAA is willing to sacrifice some security&reliability in their DRM to avoid absolute hardware lock-ins. That must be why they tolerated Plays4Sure for so long.
Yes, they have.
But if you have recorded something from the iTunes jukebox on your re-recordable CD, and you decide to record something else onto that CD from the iTunes jukebox, iTunes will wipe the disk clean before it does the second recording.
This is not just a hitch with Fairplay trax. This happens if you try to burn anything on the iTunes jukebox whatsoever onto any non-pristine disc! I nearly lost one of my back-up disks that way; fortunately, the system did give me an "Are you sure?" message, and so I was able to back out.
Apple cannot, as of now, run iTunes both with RIAA music (and the $$$ RIAA music generates) and without DRM.
Apple cannot ensure the reliable-but-locked DRM that the RIAA requests unless it refuses to license its DRM out. (Apparently, the mess with Plays4sure was all but inescapable.)
European governments probably will not allow Apple to continue using a DRM that it refuses to license out indefinitely. I will note that Steve Jobs's note was addressed to a European audience.
If Apple is forbidden to keep Fairplay to itself, then it has the choice of licensing Fairplay out or dropping DRM altogether.
Apple hates licensing things out; it would rather close the iTunes Store than that. But if it cannot convince the RIAA to allow DRM-free downloads, then it will hemorrhage $$$--or rather, cease getting new $$$ from the iTunes Store.
That is Steve Jobs's motivation to combat DRM.
What I'm imagining right now:
RIAA exec reads Steve Jobs's open letter.
RIAA exec says to himself, "Isn't this cute?"
Nothing else changes.
The vinyl LP hasn't gone as far as you might think. Audiophiles still buy LPs, and some new music gets released in that format.
And yes, the day may come when CDs are no longer an active format. But as long as computers carry CD-ROM players and media players (of any sort), and as long as other players that hold CD-size discs play CDs (that is, as long as there are DVD players, and as long as the HD DVD-replacements are backwards-compatible), that day isn't coming soon. There's a real chance that FairplayAACs could become obsolete before CDs do.
"If your not breaking the law, who cares if everyone and your Mother knows where your parked overnight,"
If this tech and your reasoning were common in the '50s, then there would be far fewer people alive today.
You say that requiring a warrant for GPS is like requiring a warrant to shoot someone.
Proposition: would those on this board think using GPS to track vehicles without a warrant would be more acceptable if, after each instance, the officers who did this had to take administrative leave until it is determined whether the tracking was justified?
I live in the broadcasting range of an area where, when cops shoot, they shoot to kill. (Theory being that it's much safer for the cop that way.) I wish shooting criminals required warrants in such cases, though it's not going to happen. Even if it did, if there's a standoff going on, then the cops might actually get such a warrant.
But this (illegal) copy of Windows was bundled into a computer. How many outside the computer industry can tell if they are getting their "free" OEM copy of Windows too cheap?
The album you're thinking of, with both "Take It Away" and "Get It," is the Macca solo album Tug of War. It's an MPL production--not Apple Records. I've owned it in vinyl & audiocassette, but (unfortunately) not CD.
I really like "Take It Away," BTW.
Everybody uses the Associated Press. The American Broadcasting Corporation, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the (MicroSoft) National Broadcasting Corporation, the Cable News Network, FOX--everybody.
In America, videogames are rated voluntarily. Games rated AO cannot be sold to anyone under 18 because of sex & violence, esp. sex.
For this reason, no ordinary store in America stocks AO games. Since no one advertises AO games, this might not make that much difference. But it does limit access.
M games don't have as much sex as AO games and can only be sold to people over 17. These games are easier to find, but there are still chains that won't carry them. Some of these chains dominate brick&mortar stores in flyover country.
The thing is, in America, regulation tends to sweep farther than necc., no matter who is making it.
Exactly how do you study Paleopsychology? Wouldn't that require a time machine?
Even the DMCA could get a copyright infringer sent to prison--it's just that the RIAA & MPAA don't play that card much, for various reasons. Apparently, Russia has passed legislation tougher than the DMCA.
Only if they're outside Russia.
In America, you do have to go to college to get a degree in teaching. And you do have to get continuing education in those months when you are not teaching.
The teachers don't always repeat the script because they want to. They repeat the script because their students have to do well on standardized tests that school boards and the government force on them. Originally, they had to score well because schools with better scores got a better class of student, one with parents who could pay the taxes to improve the schools. These days, I believe that every school in America is federally required to be above average.
Did you not have any teachers, at all, when you were growing up?
When in doubt, include the name of the work: Les Miserables. Those people who don't know this story from Hugo might know it from Lloyd Webber.
That won't be neccesary. I think that most people in America these days already spend some time every waking leisure hour (and many waking non-leisure hours) with content created by the RIAA or MPAA. Think how common TV & radio & muzak are.
"Come and Get It" was a Badfinger song released by Apple Records in its prime ('68-69). Paul McCartney wrote the demo and produced the song--and had Badfinger do it exactly like the demo.
The demo might be on Anthology 3.