The fact remains that these students probably *DID* do what they were accused of doing. And they probably *DID* know they weren't supposed to, and did it anyway. To couch wanton lawbreaking as political speech, as many of the more articulate "fuck the RIAA" folks tend to do, is just intellectually dishonest.
Civil disobedience is not necessarily intellectual dishonesty. And one doesn't have to have the moral eloquence of Ghandi to participate in civil disobedience, nor for it to have its intended effect when large numbers engage in it. Witness the prohibition of alcohol consumption and distribution in the US in the '20s.
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The guy here seems to work on a system which would analyze the music itself (tempo, melody,...) to find other matching tunes.
"...search the Internet for other tunes in the same genre" would indicate otherwise. And, tempo and melody do not even begin to indicate genre across the cultural spectrum of recorded music, let alone individual taste within genre or across genres. To even detect genre based upon parameters that even intensive and sophisticated analysis of an audio signal could identify would be an extremely difficult problem; and not something to be done on a mass scale anytime soon.
No, I expect it would be based upon tags, collective statistics and maybe a little individual training. Hardly "the cutting edge of digital music".
"Fundamentally, DRM cannot create a successful new business model." Sure it can. Just not in a relatively free market. It can be quite successful given the purchase (investment?) in the right legislation, followed by litigation and/or force.
Its success will be predicated on how much pain/reward the model brings to the customers when accepted versus the collective pain/reward of civil disobedience when it meets force.
If they are not interested in the everyday home user then why on earth would they be currently in the middle of ploughing through half a billion dollars woth of mass market TV adverts trying to convince people to go "Wow" when they first see Vista?
I take "not interested in the everyday home user" to mean that they aren't primarily focused on what will make a better product for the everyday home user. A billion dollars dollars of advertising shows they're obviously interested in getting the home user to use Vista, which is not the same thing.
Which would make some of their corporate customers VERY happy. The corporations behind *AA may not buy a lot of copies of Windows, but I imagine Microsoft considers what they want paramount.
My brother-in-law in marketing at MS has been telling me for years how much they would like to get a fee every time someone listens to a track or watches a video. They're getting closer.
But suppose there were some fancy physics that could form the basis for direct brain-to-brain communication. What would have happened during natural selection? If such a mechanism were available, surely it would have been selected for over speech. Speech requires years before users master it and is limited by the transmission of sound. If you could short circuit that then you'd have a considerable advantage. Telepaths would have wiped the floor with us normals millions of years ago.
Supposing there were such fancy physics, suppose it's an extremely weak effect, or extremely weak in terms of the systems in question. If such were the case, perhaps it's already been selected for as an extremely mild enhancement of perceptual and communication mechanisms.
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Huh? The original "it's" is correct, for "it is". There's no possessive going on here. Or is that the 'funny' rating? Cue up Fry, I get it. =)
You are never the same atoms from one moment to the next either. Nor an exact copy.
No, I expect it would be based upon tags, collective statistics and maybe a little individual training. Hardly "the cutting edge of digital music".
Its success will be predicated on how much pain/reward the model brings to the customers when accepted versus the collective pain/reward of civil disobedience when it meets force.
I take "not interested in the everyday home user" to mean that they aren't primarily focused on what will make a better product for the everyday home user. A billion dollars dollars of advertising shows they're obviously interested in getting the home user to use Vista, which is not the same thing.
Which would make some of their corporate customers VERY happy. The corporations behind *AA may not buy a lot of copies of Windows, but I imagine Microsoft considers what they want paramount.
My brother-in-law in marketing at MS has been telling me for years how much they would like to get a fee every time someone listens to a track or watches a video. They're getting closer.