Hmm. This is a tough one. I certainly do not condone pirating music, but I don't think that Napster should be held responsible if its users use its service to pirate music. I think that instead of going after napster, the RIAA should go after the people using napster to distribute illegal mp3's. That would shut down piracy real quick. But the very fact that legal mp3s CAN be distributed over napster should be enough to protect its existence.
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I believe that code is free speech. I believe that anything readable by humans is free speech. The Bill of Rights guarantees free speech. It doesn't say "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech as defined by da da da." It says "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech." Since it doesn't clarify any specific types of speech, we must assume that it means ALL speech.
Whether I'm babbling incoherently, talking about how to build a nuclear bomb, criticising a company, or coding, these are all speech, and thus congress can't make any laws that prevent these from happenning. Somewhere along the line the supreme court defined "protected speech" and "unprotected speech." At this point, we (as US citizens) lost our right to say that "one plus one equals two" (Orwell, gotta love him), and thus our freedom of speech. Rights? We have rights? Whatever. Trust no one.
"Think for yourself, schmuck." -Robert Anton Wilson
I remember reading a few years ago in "the paper" about the Death Ray Computer Virus, which could make your computer explode. Maybe "the paper" had decided to cycle stories every few years to save money. I still like the name though. The Death Ray Computer Virus. I love it.
I'm not a lawyer, but from what I've read about the DMCA, since it is illegal to bypass "technological protection mechanisms" it is probably illegal to use the code to switch a psx2 to region 1. I would hazard a guess that the DMCA was largely written by the MPAA's lawyers.
I think Orwell was wrong when he predicted three large governments fighting for world dominance and stripping the individual of freedom. I think it is much more likely to be three large corporations. A corporation can become mult-national, it can span boundaries, it can infiltrate governments (err, I mean "lobby"). It seems that most governments have restrictions which keep them from controlling the media. Companies do not have these restrictions. The all-mighty dollar can buy the media, the government, and ultimately, enough control of the world to control the individual. So instead of Oceania, East Asia, and Eurasia, we'll have Microsoft, AOL, and Disney.
"Beware of multi-nationals. You can't fight IBM." - Robert Heinlein
The reason that they are comparing it to the playstation two is that the playstation two is coming out first. That means that for their console to succeed they have to convince people to not buy the playstation two and instead wait until their console comes out.
I do hope that quicktime gets ported. I've been using Realplayer, and I'm not really impressed. I would even be happy if Real networks came out with a newer version of realplayer with some bugs worked out. I have the beta g2 player, and the framerate drops severely if you try to skip to a different place in the movie you are watching. I'm glad Microsoft is writing a player for linux though. It may end up being crappy, but at least they are acknowledging that linux is a viable desktop. If it works well, I might even pay for it!
Actually, since he was arrested in 1994, it has only been five years since he has used a computer. He was also arrested in 1989, but he was released in between.
I saw someplace that he could use a computer with written permission from his po. Would his parole officer allow him to use a computer for a job?
I would gladly pay $25 for a player. I currently only have one software program on my computer that wasn't released under the gpl, or some equivalent license, and I gladly paid the $30 for it. You see, I would much rather pay $25 for a dvd player than pay $95 for windows, which seems to be the only way that I will be able to use by dvd drive.
As for the software that doesn't do well under linux because of piracy, I'd like you to prove that, because I don't think you can. And even so, there are many many more such programs for windows than linux.
Piracy more prevalent in the linux community? I take that as quite an insult. In case you hadn't noticed, DeCSS was written for WINDOWS, not linux. This makes it a bit easier to pirate videos in windows than linux. And if you wrote a player, you could include measures into it to stop pirates. If you don't write a player, someone else will, and they won't put those controls in. Actually, since deCSS stole some code from the linux dvd project, it can be argued that if you had written a linux player, deCSS would never have been written.
Constantly changing systems? I haven't seen any that aren't backwards compatible. Compare this to windows. I don't see this argument as holding any weight.
We will have a player, whether you write it or not. Right now, I have a useless dvd drive, and I'm not very pleased about it. -Jonboy icq# 32188190
No one in their right mind would release a valuable copyrighted media for real player and expect that no one would be able to copy it. I would surmise that most people who only release things in ra format probably don't know the benefits of other formats. Real Networks is just trying to keep their format closed.
I would consider that different than open source. I compare the mp3 more to a compiled program than source code. Truly open source music would include written music (whether in the form of tabs or sheet music) that another musician could look at and play. If someone wanted to play a song that they only had in mp3 format, they would first have to figure out all of the notes, chords, etc. I would compare this to reverse engineering.
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Hmm. This is a tough one. I certainly do not condone pirating music, but I don't think that Napster should be held responsible if its users use its service to pirate music. I think that instead of going after napster, the RIAA should go after the people using napster to distribute illegal mp3's. That would shut down piracy real quick. But the very fact that legal mp3s CAN be distributed over napster should be enough to protect its existence.
Whether I'm babbling incoherently, talking about how to build a nuclear bomb, criticising a company, or coding, these are all speech, and thus congress can't make any laws that prevent these from happenning. Somewhere along the line the supreme court defined "protected speech" and "unprotected speech." At this point, we (as US citizens) lost our right to say that "one plus one equals two" (Orwell, gotta love him), and thus our freedom of speech. Rights? We have rights? Whatever.
Trust no one.
"Think for yourself, schmuck." -Robert Anton Wilson
I remember reading a few years ago in "the paper" about the Death Ray Computer Virus, which could make your computer explode. Maybe "the paper" had decided to cycle stories every few years to save money. I still like the name though. The Death Ray Computer Virus. I love it.
I'm not a lawyer, but from what I've read about the DMCA, since it is illegal to bypass "technological protection mechanisms" it is probably illegal to use the code to switch a psx2 to region 1. I would hazard a guess that the DMCA was largely written by the MPAA's lawyers.
"Beware of multi-nationals. You can't fight IBM." - Robert Heinlein
The reason that they are comparing it to the playstation two is that the playstation two is coming out first. That means that for their console to succeed they have to convince people to not buy the playstation two and instead wait until their console comes out.
I guess they are skipping netscape 5. Probably just to keep the version number higher than ie. Bloody stupid, if you ask me.
I do hope that quicktime gets ported. I've been using Realplayer, and I'm not really impressed. I would even be happy if Real networks came out with a newer version of realplayer with some bugs worked out. I have the beta g2 player, and the framerate drops severely if you try to skip to a different place in the movie you are watching. I'm glad Microsoft is writing a player for linux though. It may end up being crappy, but at least they are acknowledging that linux is a viable desktop. If it works well, I might even pay for it!
I saw someplace that he could use a computer with written permission from his po. Would his parole officer allow him to use a computer for a job?
If they did mean personal computers, he is then allowed to use, say, a workstation? What about a dumb-terminal?
You're really not helping our argument that linux user's aren't pirates.
I disagree. It doesn't matter how much things cost. People will pirate them anyway, because they simply don't care.
As for the software that doesn't do well under linux because of piracy, I'd like you to prove that, because I don't think you can. And even so, there are many many more such programs for windows than linux.
Constantly changing systems? I haven't seen any that aren't backwards compatible. Compare this to windows. I don't see this argument as holding any weight.
We will have a player, whether you write it or not. Right now, I have a useless dvd drive, and I'm not very pleased about it. -Jonboy icq# 32188190
No one in their right mind would release a valuable copyrighted media for real player and expect that no one would be able to copy it. I would surmise that most people who only release things in ra format probably don't know the benefits of other formats. Real Networks is just trying to keep their format closed.
Any open protocols should include measures such as encryption so that communications can be kept secure.
I would consider that different than open source. I compare the mp3 more to a compiled program than source code. Truly open source music would include written music (whether in the form of tabs or sheet music) that another musician could look at and play. If someone wanted to play a song that they only had in mp3 format, they would first have to figure out all of the notes, chords, etc. I would compare this to reverse engineering.