I think everyone is turning into a vulture looking for a lawsuit meal ticket. More and more millions of taxpayer dollars go toward paying for government wrongdoing. Absurd fines and incessant harassment is quickly erasing any indifference. Enforcement of all sorts of laws is quickly spiraling out of cost reach. These laws are double edged swords, and breeding contempt for law generally.
Nobody downloads more music illegally than the representatives of the RIAA. It is your *right* to download anything and everything to check to see that none of your own copyrighted work is included in those files, exactly as the RIAA does (and fails to report it's illegal copying, along with a plethora of other RICO predicate violations). Nobody knows what the content of any file actually is before they download it.
Nobody has ever been charged with any civil or criminal counts for any downloading of files; such charges would be laughed out of Court. The cartoon is pure propaganda lies, and if those pamphlets are passed out or "made available" in any Courtroom, those schools and Courts should be sued faster than you can recite the "10 Commandments".
If I were a defense attorney, I would also be sure to remember every single one of those names listed on that pamphlet and have those Judges removed from any cases involving copyright infringement, have any verdicts or cases regarding copyright involving those Judges since publication of those pamphlets overturned, and letters published in the local papers of their Court Districts published outlining their conflict of interest to Justice. Also keep those names handy for an organized campaign against those Judges for any appointments to higher Federal Courts. Maybe also look into banning this organization for not presenting a legal disclaimer that such material does not constitute legal advice to revoke their nonprofit 501(c)(3) status. These people need to be taught that they are not messing with minority drug dealers, and that they will be held accountable to the strict letter of any and all Court procedure.
The claim is "average Earth temperature" changes caused by *variables*. They are non demonstrated, the models are unseen, and you yourself have no clue what they are. I'm not taking at all seriously the tangential detour into linear and non linear feedback systems, or any churn and burn plug and plays for sure higher mathematical masturbation systems (I've seen all the bullshit I ever need to see with black box quantitative trading models ala Long Term Capital Management). They are all *immaterial* to the claimed "consensus" effect on the average Earth temperature output. It's a real fucking simple request to show a model; it just goes to show the extent of the fraud that is parroted with not even a critical cursory examination by all those who profess religious belief in "global warming".
There's a claim of "average Earth temperature" changes caused by *variables* and still not a single person can post even a simplified crude model of those variables that determine "average Earth temperature". How utterly fucking pathetic. How can you be surprised "climatology" continues to bleed credibility? And then you and your religion go off attacking everyone who doesn't blindly accept your bullshit as "deniers".
You've got no model and don't know what the hell you are talking about. It's that simple.
Most of the big weighted variables are going to be linear functions, unless you wish to claim E=mc^2 is a non-linear function.
Of course I'm not going to pick up a "climatological journal" because nobody else here has either (and I wouldn't want to waste my time reading statistical bullshit without any remote reality modeling attempt), else we'd see some model, no matter how linearly "crude" with the output of average Earth temperature. After all, that is the "consensus" of "global warming"; the output being "average Earth Temperature" changing. You don't know one, and neither does anyone else who posts here claiming to believe in phony "scientific" climatologist consensus "research".
The reason no models are ever posted or linked, is because they know they would become immediate laughing stocks, especially with human caused effects changing temperature by 20-25%. That's as Stone Age an anthropomorphic belief as people riding their bicycles to power the Sun.
But it's still utterly hilarious to listen to people pretend like they know what the models determining average Earth temperature are. Let's see what dumb-asses they are with the Sun not even being a variable in those models of average Earth temperature (likely assumed constant effect and removed).
My god, you linked to a picture. The "poles" aren't the "tippy top" and the "tippy bottom"; the Earth axis is tilted. The poles seem to flip when the axis tilts from 30 degrees & 120 degrees to 120 degrees & 30 degrees, *far* from a "right angle" which is 90 degrees. Not that that diagram doesn't suck anyway. 90 degrees should be the "tippy top" non pole and the "tippy bottom" non pole where the least amount of Sun rays hit the earth, the "inflection" points between sun light and no sun light hitting Earth area. 0 degrees should be the latitude equator, 180 degrees would be the opposte dark side equator.
Nice scale model of the Sun versus the Earth there too, what's that represent about a 1:1 mass size ratio between the Sun and Earth, which is probably the best guess estimate from the majority "consensus" of climatologist "scientists".
Well, it seems pretty obvious both you and the so-called "scientists" cannot answer even as basic a question as what the effect on average Earth temperature would be from a 1% closer orbit around the Sun. That is solely because there is no model for average Earth temperature, and any talk of even extremely minor weighted variables such as Human_CO^2_Effect are 100% pure fraudulent bull shit.
I don't need to get into any finer points with people that are totally talking out there asses, such as "climatologists" claiming 3 degree Celsius average Earth temperature changes from human CO^2 output. There is no average Earth temperature model. Has anybody at slashdot ever seen one posted? Of course not. But listen to frauds pretend not only that they understand "science" and "research", but that they believe in models showing specific predicted average Earth temperature changes even though they have never even seen such a model. Total anthropomorphic "witchcraft".
That's just *one* teeny tiny demonstration of total lack of knowledge possessed by climatologist "scientists". Climatology is the biggest fool fake "scientific" discipline in the modern scientific era, if not of all time. So nitpick all you wish; you can't answer simple basic variable questions regarding average Earth temperature. This *proves* you and the phony "scientists" don't have the first clue as to what you are talking about with your alarmist bullshit predictions.
Good bye, and have a nice weekend. Don't forget to pray to the Earth in each direction, North, South, East, and West.:P
The poles are at angles, by definition not 90 degree right angles by definition of the Earth axis tilt. What was that you said?
please stay out of future climate discussions until you have at least a high school understanding of the science involved; otherwise you're unlikely to contribute meaningfully.
There is a massive temperature difference between the Equator and the Poles, and longitude degrees in between. I personally believe the most overlooked variable is the weakening of the Earth's magnetic field as it is in process of flipping polarity.
*Nobody* has bothered to find or understand the "models" because *nobody* knows where they are. They would've been posted at least once by now after all the thousands of threads and millions of posts, especially by those who lie and pretend to understand some fictional models that don't exist.
See, even you didn't post any models. This happens repeatedly with every thread.
you seem to think that the average Earth temperature is a linear function of independent inputs.
It's a function of independent weighted inputs. "Turn off" the Sun and the average Earth temperature will change. By how much? You and the so-called "scientists" haven't got a remote clue. Move the Earth orbital distance 1% closer to the Sun and the average Earth temperature will change. By how much? You and the so-called "scientists" haven't got a remote clue. And on and on and on with variable after variable you and the so-called "scientists" haven't got a remote clue.
This makes you and the so-called "scientists" frauds, liars, cranks, snake oil salesmen, used model car salesmen. Seriously, a PhD in "climatology" is as worthy as a PhD in cosmetology (a "science of beauty make up products and their uses). Don't like it? Then put up a model or STFU (pretty soon it will be 100 times I've made this exact statement without a single model being put up). I want to laugh too. So let's see this "model" of utter lunacy that is by definition being referenced in all alleged average Earth temperature changes.
The "average" Earth temperature is not uniformly the same everywhere on the planet. The poles are further away from the Sun than the equator; this is why the poles are cooler and the equator is warmer.
And I'm not sure, but are you implying that the equator is warmer than the poles because it's closer to the Sun? If so, please don't bother contributing to any more discussions on climatology.
That's exactly what I'm "implying". Are you implying distance from the Sun has no effect on temperature?
So what is the average Earth temperature effect from moving the Earth's rotation 0.1% closer to the Sun. Plug in to your model. If you don't know, your model and scientific credibility is full of shit.
LOL. We have significant long term data on "orbital variation"? What pray tell would be the average temperature effect of the earth orbiting the sun 0.1% closer, especially given given the temperature extreme doifference between the equator and the poles, as a relative percentage difference between the "orbital" distance to the sun?
Just plug that baby into the "scientific as a physics formula" model and let me know the answer. Thanks. This will account for 100% of your grade. Climatology PhDs may be recalled for incomplete or incorrect answers.
Hell, I'll just settle for the weighting of the variable Human_Caused_Extra_Heat in the output Average_Earth_Temperature.
It seems "worst case scenario" the climatologists believe humans can effect earth temperature somewhere between 20-25%. ROFLMAO. "This is your scientist... ON CRACK COCAINE!"
Economics is a young science. Climatology is a baby science.
Has anyone of these threads ever linked to the climatology model, with multiple weighted variables that equal the average Earth temperature? Now that would be true humor!
But in the meantime, speaking of critical thinking, let's talk about "science" and "research" while there is no model, no variables, and no weightings. That's what I call damn hilarious!
What I want to see is 0.9Sun + 0.04Volcanoes + 0.05Magma + Etc. + Etc. + Etc. +xUnknown = Average Earth Temperature
Until that point, we've seen zero science, zero research, zero critical thinking. Everyone puts up nonquantitative arguments, nobody puts up quantitative arguments, most especially those who criticize the "nonquantitative" hicks.
Same difference. I think people mean by the RIAA, "the music industry", "the big record labels". The music industry will forever be the MAFIAA. That mud will always stick; in fact people have to publicize specific "indie" labels because the negative mud PR is like this name in bright blue neon lights with a purple outline, and this name is so bright and so sharp that the sign - it just blows up because the name is so powerful...it says 'MAFIAA'. The individual label names aren't worth knowing because the PR value is already negative, so negative that it even negatively effects "indie" labels.
No, more like investigating every owner of every car "made available" as it is parked in a public street. The RIAA believes this is proof of illegal distribution of intellectual property. If I can drive through the streets (aka "the tubes") and take a picture of your parked car, you are clearly guilty of distributing intellectual property. Please make your settlement check available to the United States Independent Automobile Association of America. Our big 3 need the cash. Clearly sales of our cars are down due to piracy.
Now remove any identifying license plates in the submitted evidence, and if you are the owner of a specific model car parked anywhere on the street by anybody, you are liable. So keep sending in those checks.
If I was a government official or entertainment industry executive, I'd be scared to screw over people so hard without executing them, making sure they were dead so they could never exact revenge. They might as well rename these acts Palestinian Suicide Bomber Importation Acts. LOL. Destroy somebody's life over some copied songs, especially when IP Addresses don't identify individuals, and reap it baby, reap it! We already saw the copycat effect of school shootings in first world countries over school bullying. Good luck conducting commerce when you can't leave the house anymore.
Brilliant strategy to create one person IPA terrorist cells all over the place.
Exactly. They're losing the war, and are desperate. If you use the laws against those who bought them, especially in this area, enforcement will become prohibitively ever more expensive and impossible. You gotta copy the file to check to see that it's pirated. Nobody illegally copies more files than the copyright investigators of big media. If you applied the same evidence standards used by big media in their lawsuit campaigns against big media, they'll be instantly bankrupted many times over.
They'll find out what a double edged sword such surveillance and penalties are, just like the police are finding out in the US with police brutality posted youtube videos. Expect to see entertainment industry careers destroyed just like you will see political careers destroyed from privacy invading scandals, ala Eliot Spitzer and John Edwards. The corporate-government collusion has far more to lose, for at best marginal gains from combating piracy. The little guy has suckered them into going all in on a Texas Hold 'Em style hand.
The DRM is improved. Sure it will eventually be cracked. But the new kick is that the players can be firm ware updated on-line to patch cracks, and new releases can incorporate new protection schemes. Patches might take weeks, months, or a year to re-crack. Some of your peers can be and have been hired to build better (from the corporate perspective) DRM technology. It's a possible ticking time bomb that some players or discs will become unplayable for J6P through no fault of his own. Owning such hard media players and point of sale media is a potentially serious financial risk.
Also remember back in the day of VHS people used to buy blank VHS tapes to record content. That was never duplicated to the same extent with DVD discs. Eventually the DVR recorder took the place of the blank VHS tape. But what happened to the old RECORD button on the VCR remote control? It disappeared! It no longer exists on DVD players or blu-ray players. The regular person has to pay a monthly subscription to Tivo or the cable company to do what the VCR was originally designed to do? The RECORD button is now forever entrenched in the DVR recorder, and that is where the content will end up being stored, and I believe, will be the reason why electronic digital delivery to DRM-free consumer controlled media centers will be the winning new format to replace the DVD. Your entire media library will be at the tip of a remote control button.
And that reminds me... remember those 6-changer cd and dvd players? LOL. And I still have a Sony 400 cd disc changer that I now rarely use, as everything has been transferred to the laptop media center. I knew it!
Sony HESV1000. 200-disc black Blu-ray changer with 500GB hard drive $2,539.98!
Why can't we blame it on the medium? If car alarms could build the technology to play a little advertisement commercial whenever you activated or deactivated your alarm, wouldn't that be blamed on the technological capability being built in.
I see more than a few are saying *most* blu-ray movies released do not have this commercial spam problem. To that I say *YET*, and that DVDs started out that way too. First DVD I bought was the Matrix, and it too was a great experience the first time it was played, that made me really appreciate the new control and quality over the content.
But you have to understand that over time we all have become accustomed to be annoyed by these discs, and that expectation has lowered the price point consumers are willing to pay for expected commercial spam degraded quality, whether it is on every disc or every format. It's expected. That will lower the price people are willing to pay for both DVD and Blu-ray discs, as well as the price people are willing to pay for the players.
Should I believe some advertising agencies aren't talking to movie studios to get them looking into tapping into wired blu-ray technology to deliver updated commercials?
Most DVDs started out that way too. But the capability is there, not just to have the same commercial which is originally encoded when you first bought it play, but upgraded new commercials play in that slot, as the players become wired to the internet, slipped in as BIOS firmware updates are made to the player in the name of improved security or quality "upgrades".
The industry might try to argue that it's subsidizing a lower price, but I think it is making the product less valuable in the eyes of consumers. When you buy a disc, you want it to be special, top quality, not some used Blockbuster fire sale bin purchase.
The industry was likely short sighted, received extra revenues from selling commercials front loaded, but I think that has already and will continue to cost them more money in the profit maximizing price range consumers become willing to pay for those products. It's not like we can tell beforehand which movies will have the unskippable content, and which won't.
It's being pushed, but people don't want it. They increased the price, added more invasive stricter DRM technology, and inserted unskippable commercials at the beginning of the discs. I'm sure tens of millions must groan, if not cursing out load, as their dvd skip, forward and menu buttons fail, as they are spammed with a commercial. That's gotta kill multiple future sales at the margin, every time.
I do shudder at paying for repairs to 'my' section of fibre optics - I mean, what happens when they get cut because someone is out digging in the yard?
That's covered by the contracting ISP that's servicing the line in their monthly rates, just as it currently is covered by the monopoly contracting ISP. Multiple companies compete to provide the service, the winner gets the privilege.
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I think everyone is turning into a vulture looking for a lawsuit meal ticket. More and more millions of taxpayer dollars go toward paying for government wrongdoing. Absurd fines and incessant harassment is quickly erasing any indifference. Enforcement of all sorts of laws is quickly spiraling out of cost reach. These laws are double edged swords, and breeding contempt for law generally.
Nobody downloads more music illegally than the representatives of the RIAA. It is your *right* to download anything and everything to check to see that none of your own copyrighted work is included in those files, exactly as the RIAA does (and fails to report it's illegal copying, along with a plethora of other RICO predicate violations). Nobody knows what the content of any file actually is before they download it.
Nobody has ever been charged with any civil or criminal counts for any downloading of files; such charges would be laughed out of Court. The cartoon is pure propaganda lies, and if those pamphlets are passed out or "made available" in any Courtroom, those schools and Courts should be sued faster than you can recite the "10 Commandments".
If I were a defense attorney, I would also be sure to remember every single one of those names listed on that pamphlet and have those Judges removed from any cases involving copyright infringement, have any verdicts or cases regarding copyright involving those Judges since publication of those pamphlets overturned, and letters published in the local papers of their Court Districts published outlining their conflict of interest to Justice. Also keep those names handy for an organized campaign against those Judges for any appointments to higher Federal Courts. Maybe also look into banning this organization for not presenting a legal disclaimer that such material does not constitute legal advice to revoke their nonprofit 501(c)(3) status. These people need to be taught that they are not messing with minority drug dealers, and that they will be held accountable to the strict letter of any and all Court procedure.
The claim is "average Earth temperature" changes caused by *variables*. They are non demonstrated, the models are unseen, and you yourself have no clue what they are. I'm not taking at all seriously the tangential detour into linear and non linear feedback systems, or any churn and burn plug and plays for sure higher mathematical masturbation systems (I've seen all the bullshit I ever need to see with black box quantitative trading models ala Long Term Capital Management). They are all *immaterial* to the claimed "consensus" effect on the average Earth temperature output. It's a real fucking simple request to show a model; it just goes to show the extent of the fraud that is parroted with not even a critical cursory examination by all those who profess religious belief in "global warming".
There's a claim of "average Earth temperature" changes caused by *variables* and still not a single person can post even a simplified crude model of those variables that determine "average Earth temperature". How utterly fucking pathetic. How can you be surprised "climatology" continues to bleed credibility? And then you and your religion go off attacking everyone who doesn't blindly accept your bullshit as "deniers".
You've got no model and don't know what the hell you are talking about. It's that simple.
Most of the big weighted variables are going to be linear functions, unless you wish to claim E=mc^2 is a non-linear function.
Of course I'm not going to pick up a "climatological journal" because nobody else here has either (and I wouldn't want to waste my time reading statistical bullshit without any remote reality modeling attempt), else we'd see some model, no matter how linearly "crude" with the output of average Earth temperature. After all, that is the "consensus" of "global warming"; the output being "average Earth Temperature" changing. You don't know one, and neither does anyone else who posts here claiming to believe in phony "scientific" climatologist consensus "research".
The reason no models are ever posted or linked, is because they know they would become immediate laughing stocks, especially with human caused effects changing temperature by 20-25%. That's as Stone Age an anthropomorphic belief as people riding their bicycles to power the Sun.
But it's still utterly hilarious to listen to people pretend like they know what the models determining average Earth temperature are. Let's see what dumb-asses they are with the Sun not even being a variable in those models of average Earth temperature (likely assumed constant effect and removed).
My god, you linked to a picture. The "poles" aren't the "tippy top" and the "tippy bottom"; the Earth axis is tilted. The poles seem to flip when the axis tilts from 30 degrees & 120 degrees to 120 degrees & 30 degrees, *far* from a "right angle" which is 90 degrees. Not that that diagram doesn't suck anyway. 90 degrees should be the "tippy top" non pole and the "tippy bottom" non pole where the least amount of Sun rays hit the earth, the "inflection" points between sun light and no sun light hitting Earth area. 0 degrees should be the latitude equator, 180 degrees would be the opposte dark side equator.
Nice scale model of the Sun versus the Earth there too, what's that represent about a 1:1 mass size ratio between the Sun and Earth, which is probably the best guess estimate from the majority "consensus" of climatologist "scientists".
Well, it seems pretty obvious both you and the so-called "scientists" cannot answer even as basic a question as what the effect on average Earth temperature would be from a 1% closer orbit around the Sun. That is solely because there is no model for average Earth temperature, and any talk of even extremely minor weighted variables such as Human_CO^2_Effect are 100% pure fraudulent bull shit.
I don't need to get into any finer points with people that are totally talking out there asses, such as "climatologists" claiming 3 degree Celsius average Earth temperature changes from human CO^2 output. There is no average Earth temperature model. Has anybody at slashdot ever seen one posted? Of course not. But listen to frauds pretend not only that they understand "science" and "research", but that they believe in models showing specific predicted average Earth temperature changes even though they have never even seen such a model. Total anthropomorphic "witchcraft".
That's just *one* teeny tiny demonstration of total lack of knowledge possessed by climatologist "scientists". Climatology is the biggest fool fake "scientific" discipline in the modern scientific era, if not of all time. So nitpick all you wish; you can't answer simple basic variable questions regarding average Earth temperature. This *proves* you and the phony "scientists" don't have the first clue as to what you are talking about with your alarmist bullshit predictions.
Good bye, and have a nice weekend. Don't forget to pray to the Earth in each direction, North, South, East, and West. :P
The poles are at angles, by definition not 90 degree right angles by definition of the Earth axis tilt. What was that you said?
please stay out of future climate discussions until you have at least a high school understanding of the science involved; otherwise you're unlikely to contribute meaningfully.
There is a massive temperature difference between the Equator and the Poles, and longitude degrees in between. I personally believe the most overlooked variable is the weakening of the Earth's magnetic field as it is in process of flipping polarity.
*Nobody* has bothered to find or understand the "models" because *nobody* knows where they are. They would've been posted at least once by now after all the thousands of threads and millions of posts, especially by those who lie and pretend to understand some fictional models that don't exist.
See, even you didn't post any models. This happens repeatedly with every thread.
you seem to think that the average Earth temperature is a linear function of independent inputs.
It's a function of independent weighted inputs. "Turn off" the Sun and the average Earth temperature will change. By how much? You and the so-called "scientists" haven't got a remote clue. Move the Earth orbital distance 1% closer to the Sun and the average Earth temperature will change. By how much? You and the so-called "scientists" haven't got a remote clue. And on and on and on with variable after variable you and the so-called "scientists" haven't got a remote clue.
This makes you and the so-called "scientists" frauds, liars, cranks, snake oil salesmen, used model car salesmen. Seriously, a PhD in "climatology" is as worthy as a PhD in cosmetology (a "science of beauty make up products and their uses). Don't like it? Then put up a model or STFU (pretty soon it will be 100 times I've made this exact statement without a single model being put up). I want to laugh too. So let's see this "model" of utter lunacy that is by definition being referenced in all alleged average Earth temperature changes.
I phrased that somewhat poorly right before bed.
The "average" Earth temperature is not uniformly the same everywhere on the planet. The poles are further away from the Sun than the equator; this is why the poles are cooler and the equator is warmer.
And I'm not sure, but are you implying that the equator is warmer than the poles because it's closer to the Sun? If so, please don't bother contributing to any more discussions on climatology.
That's exactly what I'm "implying". Are you implying distance from the Sun has no effect on temperature?
So what is the average Earth temperature effect from moving the Earth's rotation 0.1% closer to the Sun. Plug in to your model. If you don't know, your model and scientific credibility is full of shit.
In what way are the models not accurate?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz7l2oFbpcE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1kwN0jDwNo
combination of orbital variation
LOL. We have significant long term data on "orbital variation"? What pray tell would be the average temperature effect of the earth orbiting the sun 0.1% closer, especially given given the temperature extreme doifference between the equator and the poles, as a relative percentage difference between the "orbital" distance to the sun?
Just plug that baby into the "scientific as a physics formula" model and let me know the answer. Thanks. This will account for 100% of your grade. Climatology PhDs may be recalled for incomplete or incorrect answers.
Hell, I'll just settle for the weighting of the variable Human_Caused_Extra_Heat in the output Average_Earth_Temperature.
It seems "worst case scenario" the climatologists believe humans can effect earth temperature somewhere between 20-25%. ROFLMAO. "This is your scientist ... ON CRACK COCAINE!"
Economics is a young science. Climatology is a baby science.
Has anyone of these threads ever linked to the climatology model, with multiple weighted variables that equal the average Earth temperature? Now that would be true humor!
But in the meantime, speaking of critical thinking, let's talk about "science" and "research" while there is no model, no variables, and no weightings. That's what I call damn hilarious!
What I want to see is 0.9Sun + 0.04Volcanoes + 0.05Magma + Etc. + Etc. + Etc. +xUnknown = Average Earth Temperature
Until that point, we've seen zero science, zero research, zero critical thinking. Everyone puts up nonquantitative arguments, nobody puts up quantitative arguments, most especially those who criticize the "nonquantitative" hicks.
What is your favorite temperature?
"Warm ... I mean cool ..."
Same difference. I think people mean by the RIAA, "the music industry", "the big record labels". The music industry will forever be the MAFIAA. That mud will always stick; in fact people have to publicize specific "indie" labels because the negative mud PR is like this name in bright blue neon lights with a purple outline, and this name is so bright and so sharp that the sign - it just blows up because the name is so powerful...it says 'MAFIAA'. The individual label names aren't worth knowing because the PR value is already negative, so negative that it even negatively effects "indie" labels.
No, more like investigating every owner of every car "made available" as it is parked in a public street. The RIAA believes this is proof of illegal distribution of intellectual property. If I can drive through the streets (aka "the tubes") and take a picture of your parked car, you are clearly guilty of distributing intellectual property. Please make your settlement check available to the United States Independent Automobile Association of America. Our big 3 need the cash. Clearly sales of our cars are down due to piracy.
Now remove any identifying license plates in the submitted evidence, and if you are the owner of a specific model car parked anywhere on the street by anybody, you are liable. So keep sending in those checks.
If I was a government official or entertainment industry executive, I'd be scared to screw over people so hard without executing them, making sure they were dead so they could never exact revenge. They might as well rename these acts Palestinian Suicide Bomber Importation Acts. LOL. Destroy somebody's life over some copied songs, especially when IP Addresses don't identify individuals, and reap it baby, reap it! We already saw the copycat effect of school shootings in first world countries over school bullying. Good luck conducting commerce when you can't leave the house anymore.
Brilliant strategy to create one person IPA terrorist cells all over the place.
Exactly. They're losing the war, and are desperate. If you use the laws against those who bought them, especially in this area, enforcement will become prohibitively ever more expensive and impossible. You gotta copy the file to check to see that it's pirated. Nobody illegally copies more files than the copyright investigators of big media. If you applied the same evidence standards used by big media in their lawsuit campaigns against big media, they'll be instantly bankrupted many times over.
They'll find out what a double edged sword such surveillance and penalties are, just like the police are finding out in the US with police brutality posted youtube videos. Expect to see entertainment industry careers destroyed just like you will see political careers destroyed from privacy invading scandals, ala Eliot Spitzer and John Edwards. The corporate-government collusion has far more to lose, for at best marginal gains from combating piracy. The little guy has suckered them into going all in on a Texas Hold 'Em style hand.
This is going to be a fun ride to watch.
The DRM is improved. Sure it will eventually be cracked. But the new kick is that the players can be firm ware updated on-line to patch cracks, and new releases can incorporate new protection schemes. Patches might take weeks, months, or a year to re-crack. Some of your peers can be and have been hired to build better (from the corporate perspective) DRM technology. It's a possible ticking time bomb that some players or discs will become unplayable for J6P through no fault of his own. Owning such hard media players and point of sale media is a potentially serious financial risk.
Also remember back in the day of VHS people used to buy blank VHS tapes to record content. That was never duplicated to the same extent with DVD discs. Eventually the DVR recorder took the place of the blank VHS tape. But what happened to the old RECORD button on the VCR remote control? It disappeared! It no longer exists on DVD players or blu-ray players. The regular person has to pay a monthly subscription to Tivo or the cable company to do what the VCR was originally designed to do? The RECORD button is now forever entrenched in the DVR recorder, and that is where the content will end up being stored, and I believe, will be the reason why electronic digital delivery to DRM-free consumer controlled media centers will be the winning new format to replace the DVD. Your entire media library will be at the tip of a remote control button.
And that reminds me ... remember those 6-changer cd and dvd players? LOL. And I still have a Sony 400 cd disc changer that I now rarely use, as everything has been transferred to the laptop media center. I knew it!
Sony HESV1000. 200-disc black Blu-ray changer with 500GB hard drive $2,539.98!
http://www.vanns.com/shop/servlet/item/features/487254194?v_c=BizRate&srccode=cii_10043468&cpncode=12-61156640-2
Ladies and Gentlemen, I rest my case. This is retro early 1990s technology from a consumer convenience perspective. :P
Why can't we blame it on the medium? If car alarms could build the technology to play a little advertisement commercial whenever you activated or deactivated your alarm, wouldn't that be blamed on the technological capability being built in.
I see more than a few are saying *most* blu-ray movies released do not have this commercial spam problem. To that I say *YET*, and that DVDs started out that way too. First DVD I bought was the Matrix, and it too was a great experience the first time it was played, that made me really appreciate the new control and quality over the content.
But you have to understand that over time we all have become accustomed to be annoyed by these discs, and that expectation has lowered the price point consumers are willing to pay for expected commercial spam degraded quality, whether it is on every disc or every format. It's expected. That will lower the price people are willing to pay for both DVD and Blu-ray discs, as well as the price people are willing to pay for the players.
Should I believe some advertising agencies aren't talking to movie studios to get them looking into tapping into wired blu-ray technology to deliver updated commercials?
Most DVDs started out that way too. But the capability is there, not just to have the same commercial which is originally encoded when you first bought it play, but upgraded new commercials play in that slot, as the players become wired to the internet, slipped in as BIOS firmware updates are made to the player in the name of improved security or quality "upgrades".
The industry might try to argue that it's subsidizing a lower price, but I think it is making the product less valuable in the eyes of consumers. When you buy a disc, you want it to be special, top quality, not some used Blockbuster fire sale bin purchase.
The industry was likely short sighted, received extra revenues from selling commercials front loaded, but I think that has already and will continue to cost them more money in the profit maximizing price range consumers become willing to pay for those products. It's not like we can tell beforehand which movies will have the unskippable content, and which won't.
Though I also think TV's should be mounted behind a mirror rather than displayed.
I myself prefer the remote control scaled Van Gogh painting that splits down the middle to hide the TV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vincent_Van_Gogh_0012.jpg
It's like an entrance, within an entrance. Pardon me, Sir, would you please pass the Grey Poupon flavored popcorn. :P
It's being pushed, but people don't want it. They increased the price, added more invasive stricter DRM technology, and inserted unskippable commercials at the beginning of the discs. I'm sure tens of millions must groan, if not cursing out load, as their dvd skip, forward and menu buttons fail, as they are spammed with a commercial. That's gotta kill multiple future sales at the margin, every time.
I do shudder at paying for repairs to 'my' section of fibre optics - I mean, what happens when they get cut because someone is out digging in the yard?
That's covered by the contracting ISP that's servicing the line in their monthly rates, just as it currently is covered by the monopoly contracting ISP. Multiple companies compete to provide the service, the winner gets the privilege.