That's a problem for you as an individual hacker. I suspect it'll be less of a problem for that corp. that did the software hack; they'll just make their own official certification for iPhones hacked with their software.
But there are often local laws related to those recommendations--at least for NC-17 films. Newspapers are forbidden to advertise those films, at all; this means a chain can't show them, or else everything in the multiplex will suffer.
Think of it this way. The sexual offender list itself "isn't punishment," which is why it's still legal; it just happens that there are a lot of local and state laws punishing people who happen to be on that list. The regulations attached to NC-17 films are of a similar nature--or sometimes, since many NC-17 films got that mark for sexual material, the same nature.
The CD of "Sgt. Pepper's" was designed back in 1987--it's an old remaster. There is strong demand among Beatlefans for it to be remastered with modern tech, but no remastered vs. of that exact album has been released.
Most of the individual songs on that album have been remastered since 1987; most of those can be found on the Yellow Submarine Songtrack, released in 1999. You can tell it from the original soundtrack by the blue cover and the absence of instrumentals. (A few of the songs can be found in their entirety in the 1999 remastered film itself.) If any of you want to compare 1987 to 1999, that might be a good way to do it.
Yes, Shakespeare did care if people copied his plays without his permission. He made his living off those plays, and he got a bonus from having them exclusive; he didn't get paid for unauthorized performances. This didn't stop people from copying his plays without his permission, but most of those copies are strange compared to the reconstructed definitive versions.
There is a disadvantage to restricting copies, of course. Some of Shakespeare's plays only exist in the authorized First Folio editions, which were published well after his death, and also after some play-censoring laws got passed. I'm convinced that we would like and understand As You Like It better if there were some foul quartos of it floating around.
The people complaining in this article are not musicians. They are producers and academics.
Cassette tapes were analogue. (DATs failed because of DRM.) Everything that could be picked up by the pro tape recorder was there on the analogue tape--there were no inherent holes; and back then, de-hissing tech was not usually considered tampering.
There have been novelty songs for as long as there's been pop music.
"They're Coming to Take Me Away, HaHa!"; "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"; "Purple People Eater"; "I Called the Witch Doctor"; anything by Alvin and the Chipmunks; anything by the Archies; "Monster Mash"; that song about the Cadillac and the Nash Rambler, and "Shut 'Em Down"(about a fast Ford Cobra racing Jaguars and Cadillacs)--most of these are old songs, '50s and '60s, and they're all novelties.
There are even novelty songs with artistic merit. I think "Yellow Submarine" is at least part novelty song.
Oops. It appears that I somehow managed to read the fine article without actually reading the fine article. [sigh]
I see that I named the wrong Phil. I'm not as educated about Phil Ramone as about Spector. I do find it interesting that the article mentions his background in classical music, but not (as far as I notice) his background in punk and new wave music (the genres he's best known for).
If an MP3 actually picked up only 5% of a punk rock song (5% being 10% of 50%, which is "the percent of music a CD picks up"), then the resultant work might be best suited to a punk music box.
True--if the MPAA did declare unilaterally that kids couldn't see R-rated films, that would make them no different than NC-17-rated films. The suggested age cut-off is nearly the same, after all.
The problem is that it's not certain that the method of determining what should be R and what should be NC-17 is fair. A film can get NC-17 for moderate sex or nudity--no worse than what married couples or promiscuous teens have already seen in the flesh. But a film can be extremely gory and still be rated R; while there is a violence cut-off, it's high.
To put it another way: if you are a non-Christian filmgoer, would The Last Temptation of Christ, which is NC-17, be more disturbing than The Passion of the Christ, which is R? I think R movies now, esp. violent ones, are harder than R movies of '89, but I don't think the MPAA has rerated "Last Temptation" since it came out.
There may not have been much fuss when the film rating system was introduced; after all, it allowed more freedom of expression than the Hayes Code. There have been fusses of various sorts since. One of them replaced informal X ratings with formal NC-17s; this didn't destigmatize the rating. (X didn't start with a stigma, but after the mid-'70s, it got one.) PG-13 was invented because people were starting to make hard-PG films that were too close to the '80s R standard. And, for some reason, filmmakers want films to have as high a rating as possible that doesn't lock viewers out; people deliberately push ratings up to PG-13 and R, but push them down from NC-17 and R. G films are rare. The Passion of the Christ got an R despite the goriness of its subject matter. It was determined then that, even when the ratings are being enforced, anyone can get into an R-rated movie as long as a parent comes along. Church groups took advantage of that loophole, and on occasion, younger members of the congregation suffered for it.
The governor has got to remember that videogames are like films this way: anyone can play as long as it's a grown-up buying. And it usually is--the ratings are usually enforced. So...
Couldn't the RIAA have found a better spokeperson for their argument than Phil Spector?
Phil Spector, as a producer, is best known for the Wall of Sound--creating an effect by cramming as many instruments into the studio and on the master tape as possible. I suppose his music would be an edge case in data removal--if you could actually hear every detail in his recordings, then the Wall of Sound would really be overwhelming.
But the Wall of Sound works best in mono; it doesn't fully work in stereo. Hearing more detail makes it less effective, and that kind of music tends to get called "overproduced" regardless of merit.
Spector is also responsible for producing the original Let It Be. Spector laid an orchestra on "Long and Winding Road" that, in remastered Redbook CD detail, drowns out every other non-vocal instrument on the track and nearly swamps Paul's vocals.
In short, the man often puts more detail in his tracks than the average ear can hear, on purpose.
There is also the problem that Spector is on trial for murder right now. This makes no difference to the validity of his theories, but it would have been nice if the RIAA had tapped a famous producer who was not at risk of going to San Quentin.
Yeah. But it's not wrong words, exactly. Now that I have a spellchecker on my Firefox, it's doing wonders for my writing, but it can't tell if you've written the wrong homonym.
Unfortunately, I can sometimes tell if someone is using a grammar checker that does flag homonyms: it's when every single homonym in the writing is the wrong one. [sigh]
I cheerfully accept the rich second-hand markets of all colors and the on-line stores. But you do realize that scanning for illusive copies of whatever won't do much good? If the work doesn't exist, you're never gonna find it.
I think what you're looking for are elusive copies of whatever.
Denver's Aurora Reservoir counts as water. I suspect that quite a few people get their drinking water from there.
It's a mystery why people scuba-dive there, though. Apparently, there's so little to see that they plant items in there for scavenger hunts, and (if I read your fine article correctly) the water's so cloudy that if there was something to see, it would be hard to see it. Denver must not have any place better for the sport.
If anyone here wants to try scuba-diving in a landlocked state, I would recommend one of Kansas's many artificial lakes. Kansans put aquatic life in their water. Just watch out for the trees that are routinely dumped into the lakes for fish habitat...
LOL!
Look at this! For once, MS is more ethical than Google?
There were pragmatic factors, though. MS makes Playsforsure, but they weren't the only corp. using it. They likely would've gotten into trouble if they'd shut down half a dozen other legit corporate stores with their own, and they scared at least one of those stores enough to get it offering DRM-free music. They had to keep their DRM working to keep their embrace intact.
Normally, I believe, the Gideon Bible is stuffed into a drawer. I believe that the drawer will keep the Bible in place until someone wants or needs to read it.
Yes, eMusic's stock is somewhat limited. Since they have no DRM and low low prices (not counting their access fee), they only have contracts with indie labels. This means that most of the hot hits popular among the masses aren't going to be there.
On the bright side, I hear rumors that Sir Paul McCartney's latest album, Memory Almost Full, is on that site. Now, where's Hear Music on the riaaradar? [grin]
I think Google's real offering is going to be Video AdSense. At any rate, the fine article that announces the closure of Google Video includes Google's announcement to roll "Video AdSense" out, so...
It's one thing if a rental store closes down and everyone has to return their rentals.
Actually, with brick-and-mortar rental places renting out physical media, you may have the chance to buy some of the media while it's shutting down, since they need to raise money and dump assets. I did it once, back when VHS tapes for sale were rare.
It's another thing if the rental store closes and, thanks to the terms of service, you didn't realize what you have isn't yours. If this happens in the physical world, expect a collection agency to call...
Seriously, some of the "rental" videos Google was selling were sold this way: for one payment, a customer could watch a video "forever" on the Google website. Quite a few customers interpreted this as meaning they had actually bought, not just the right to watch the video, but a "copy" of the video itself.
Oh, Google is doing business.
The same fine article which announces the end of the Google Video store announces that Google is getting into video advertising! As if these things are related... hmmm....
Just think. What would it mean if the real purpose of Google's video store was to get their internal video player working well enough that they could do AdSense on video? [sigh]
And the phone lines are near the power lines, so lots of opportunities for little sparks...
But I hear that the batteries in question are li-poly. I don't think they vent hydrogen; they just appear to have unfortunate internal similarities to C4 explosive when they're made wrong.
It's news to me.
Transformers do explode every so often (though not too often), but it's usually because of really bad weather or electrical power-line snafus. Phone transformers exploding because they contain batteries which are developing a history of being explosive--which likely wasn't known when the transformers were commissioned--is news.
Yes, but if he had used his gun in either of the situations he described, he likely would be setting off, or maybe escalating, an all-out gang war. At least some police departments seriously up their efforts in their investigations once a gang war has started, and they'll want to bust both sides.
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That's a problem for you as an individual hacker. I suspect it'll be less of a problem for that corp. that did the software hack; they'll just make their own official certification for iPhones hacked with their software.
But there are often local laws related to those recommendations--at least for NC-17 films. Newspapers are forbidden to advertise those films, at all; this means a chain can't show them, or else everything in the multiplex will suffer.
Think of it this way. The sexual offender list itself "isn't punishment," which is why it's still legal; it just happens that there are a lot of local and state laws punishing people who happen to be on that list. The regulations attached to NC-17 films are of a similar nature--or sometimes, since many NC-17 films got that mark for sexual material, the same nature.
The CD of "Sgt. Pepper's" was designed back in 1987--it's an old remaster. There is strong demand among Beatlefans for it to be remastered with modern tech, but no remastered vs. of that exact album has been released.
Most of the individual songs on that album have been remastered since 1987; most of those can be found on the Yellow Submarine Songtrack, released in 1999. You can tell it from the original soundtrack by the blue cover and the absence of instrumentals. (A few of the songs can be found in their entirety in the 1999 remastered film itself.) If any of you want to compare 1987 to 1999, that might be a good way to do it.
Yes, Shakespeare did care if people copied his plays without his permission. He made his living off those plays, and he got a bonus from having them exclusive; he didn't get paid for unauthorized performances. This didn't stop people from copying his plays without his permission, but most of those copies are strange compared to the reconstructed definitive versions.
There is a disadvantage to restricting copies, of course. Some of Shakespeare's plays only exist in the authorized First Folio editions, which were published well after his death, and also after some play-censoring laws got passed. I'm convinced that we would like and understand As You Like It better if there were some foul quartos of it floating around.
The people complaining in this article are not musicians. They are producers and academics.
Cassette tapes were analogue. (DATs failed because of DRM.) Everything that could be picked up by the pro tape recorder was there on the analogue tape--there were no inherent holes; and back then, de-hissing tech was not usually considered tampering.
There have been novelty songs for as long as there's been pop music.
"They're Coming to Take Me Away, HaHa!"; "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"; "Purple People Eater"; "I Called the Witch Doctor"; anything by Alvin and the Chipmunks; anything by the Archies; "Monster Mash"; that song about the Cadillac and the Nash Rambler, and "Shut 'Em Down"(about a fast Ford Cobra racing Jaguars and Cadillacs)--most of these are old songs, '50s and '60s, and they're all novelties.
There are even novelty songs with artistic merit. I think "Yellow Submarine" is at least part novelty song.
Oops. It appears that I somehow managed to read the fine article without actually reading the fine article. [sigh]
I see that I named the wrong Phil. I'm not as educated about Phil Ramone as about Spector. I do find it interesting that the article mentions his background in classical music, but not (as far as I notice) his background in punk and new wave music (the genres he's best known for).
If an MP3 actually picked up only 5% of a punk rock song (5% being 10% of 50%, which is "the percent of music a CD picks up"), then the resultant work might be best suited to a punk music box.
True--if the MPAA did declare unilaterally that kids couldn't see R-rated films, that would make them no different than NC-17-rated films. The suggested age cut-off is nearly the same, after all.
The problem is that it's not certain that the method of determining what should be R and what should be NC-17 is fair. A film can get NC-17 for moderate sex or nudity--no worse than what married couples or promiscuous teens have already seen in the flesh. But a film can be extremely gory and still be rated R; while there is a violence cut-off, it's high.
To put it another way: if you are a non-Christian filmgoer, would The Last Temptation of Christ, which is NC-17, be more disturbing than The Passion of the Christ, which is R? I think R movies now, esp. violent ones, are harder than R movies of '89, but I don't think the MPAA has rerated "Last Temptation" since it came out.
There may not have been much fuss when the film rating system was introduced; after all, it allowed more freedom of expression than the Hayes Code. There have been fusses of various sorts since. One of them replaced informal X ratings with formal NC-17s; this didn't destigmatize the rating. (X didn't start with a stigma, but after the mid-'70s, it got one.) PG-13 was invented because people were starting to make hard-PG films that were too close to the '80s R standard. And, for some reason, filmmakers want films to have as high a rating as possible that doesn't lock viewers out; people deliberately push ratings up to PG-13 and R, but push them down from NC-17 and R. G films are rare.
The Passion of the Christ got an R despite the goriness of its subject matter. It was determined then that, even when the ratings are being enforced, anyone can get into an R-rated movie as long as a parent comes along. Church groups took advantage of that loophole, and on occasion, younger members of the congregation suffered for it.
The governor has got to remember that videogames are like films this way: anyone can play as long as it's a grown-up buying. And it usually is--the ratings are usually enforced. So...
Couldn't the RIAA have found a better spokeperson for their argument than Phil Spector?
Phil Spector, as a producer, is best known for the Wall of Sound--creating an effect by cramming as many instruments into the studio and on the master tape as possible. I suppose his music would be an edge case in data removal--if you could actually hear every detail in his recordings, then the Wall of Sound would really be overwhelming.
But the Wall of Sound works best in mono; it doesn't fully work in stereo. Hearing more detail makes it less effective, and that kind of music tends to get called "overproduced" regardless of merit.
Spector is also responsible for producing the original Let It Be. Spector laid an orchestra on "Long and Winding Road" that, in remastered Redbook CD detail, drowns out every other non-vocal instrument on the track and nearly swamps Paul's vocals.
In short, the man often puts more detail in his tracks than the average ear can hear, on purpose.
There is also the problem that Spector is on trial for murder right now. This makes no difference to the validity of his theories, but it would have been nice if the RIAA had tapped a famous producer who was not at risk of going to San Quentin.
Yeah. But it's not wrong words, exactly. Now that I have a spellchecker on my Firefox, it's doing wonders for my writing, but it can't tell if you've written the wrong homonym.
Unfortunately, I can sometimes tell if someone is using a grammar checker that does flag homonyms: it's when every single homonym in the writing is the wrong one. [sigh]
I cheerfully accept the rich second-hand markets of all colors and the on-line stores. But you do realize that scanning for illusive copies of whatever won't do much good? If the work doesn't exist, you're never gonna find it.
I think what you're looking for are elusive copies of whatever.
Denver's Aurora Reservoir counts as water. I suspect that quite a few people get their drinking water from there.
It's a mystery why people scuba-dive there, though. Apparently, there's so little to see that they plant items in there for scavenger hunts, and (if I read your fine article correctly) the water's so cloudy that if there was something to see, it would be hard to see it. Denver must not have any place better for the sport.
If anyone here wants to try scuba-diving in a landlocked state, I would recommend one of Kansas's many artificial lakes. Kansans put aquatic life in their water. Just watch out for the trees that are routinely dumped into the lakes for fish habitat...
LOL!
Look at this! For once, MS is more ethical than Google?
There were pragmatic factors, though. MS makes Playsforsure, but they weren't the only corp. using it. They likely would've gotten into trouble if they'd shut down half a dozen other legit corporate stores with their own, and they scared at least one of those stores enough to get it offering DRM-free music. They had to keep their DRM working to keep their embrace intact.
This NY Times article came from Reuters.0 89156420070810?pageNumber=2&sp=true
Here is the original article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL1
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Normally, I believe, the Gideon Bible is stuffed into a drawer. I believe that the drawer will keep the Bible in place until someone wants or needs to read it.
Yes, eMusic's stock is somewhat limited. Since they have no DRM and low low prices (not counting their access fee), they only have contracts with indie labels. This means that most of the hot hits popular among the masses aren't going to be there.
On the bright side, I hear rumors that Sir Paul McCartney's latest album, Memory Almost Full, is on that site. Now, where's Hear Music on the riaaradar? [grin]
I think Google's real offering is going to be Video AdSense. At any rate, the fine article that announces the closure of Google Video includes Google's announcement to roll "Video AdSense" out, so...
It's one thing if a rental store closes down and everyone has to return their rentals.
Actually, with brick-and-mortar rental places renting out physical media, you may have the chance to buy some of the media while it's shutting down, since they need to raise money and dump assets. I did it once, back when VHS tapes for sale were rare.
It's another thing if the rental store closes and, thanks to the terms of service, you didn't realize what you have isn't yours. If this happens in the physical world, expect a collection agency to call...
Seriously, some of the "rental" videos Google was selling were sold this way: for one payment, a customer could watch a video "forever" on the Google website. Quite a few customers interpreted this as meaning they had actually bought, not just the right to watch the video, but a "copy" of the video itself.
Oh, Google is doing business.
The same fine article which announces the end of the Google Video store announces that Google is getting into video advertising! As if these things are related... hmmm....
Just think. What would it mean if the real purpose of Google's video store was to get their internal video player working well enough that they could do AdSense on video? [sigh]
And the phone lines are near the power lines, so lots of opportunities for little sparks...
But I hear that the batteries in question are li-poly. I don't think they vent hydrogen; they just appear to have unfortunate internal similarities to C4 explosive when they're made wrong.
It's news to me.
Transformers do explode every so often (though not too often), but it's usually because of really bad weather or electrical power-line snafus. Phone transformers exploding because they contain batteries which are developing a history of being explosive--which likely wasn't known when the transformers were commissioned--is news.
Linux is made wherever there are programmers interested in Linux.
No, but they are deploying more ambulances.
Yes, but if he had used his gun in either of the situations he described, he likely would be setting off, or maybe escalating, an all-out gang war. At least some police departments seriously up their efforts in their investigations once a gang war has started, and they'll want to bust both sides.