Maybe VirtualPC or VMWare do the trick. I think they present really generic components to the program running in its virtual environment (i.e. Windows XP). Just install VirtualPC or VMWare on Linux on all your machines... BTW this should also work with all those programs that want to bind a license of any sort to a certain machine/hardware component (like CPRM)
Rerverse engineering in Germany is only legal to achieve interoperability between programs, not for cracking purposes. So if you have a program that needs to interoperate with WPA (for whatever reasons), then you should be on the safe side. If you however use reverse engineering to install the same copy of Windows XP on a number of different machines, you could be in trouble.
There is a really interesting round-table discussion between Craig Mundie, Dan Gilmore, Bruce Perens and others going on at SiliconValley.com where this topic is touched as well.
The power switch is located next to the top ventilation grill. It's some sort of "proximity" switch (probably capacitor-based) that is triggered if something comes near it. Most likely, you set it off by swiping your hand across the Cube's top. This would normally send the Cube to sleep, but considering the sorry state most of the display machines are, it wouldn't surprise me if they crashed instead (sleep mode is quite sensitive to currently active applications such as demos etc.)
Seriously, this thing is nice but an Apple Cube would make more sense for me. It's got FireWire, is 802.11 ready and has got a better graphics card at about the same price. And no, I don't really care if the Cube will be discontinued or the G4 runs only at 450.
This tax goes into a fund that is then distrbuted to copyright holders under the assumption that your purpose in buying blank media is to record and pirate copyrighted material.
This I'm not sure about. I thought it was collected to compensate for fair-use copying, implying that fair-use copying is legal but not free (that's the way I think German copyright law works).
The HTML rendering widget in this thing was written by me... so I know what works and what's lacking;)
Seriously, I'd be extremely glad if someone would pick up the source code and improve it! I don't have the time to do this, currently I'm busy hacking my XML/CSS processor...
Anybody interested? See my homepage for my email address.
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Maybe VirtualPC or VMWare do the trick. I think they present really generic components to the program running in its virtual environment (i.e. Windows XP). Just install VirtualPC or VMWare on Linux on all your machines... BTW this should also work with all those programs that want to bind a license of any sort to a certain machine/hardware component (like CPRM)
Rerverse engineering in Germany is only legal to achieve interoperability between programs, not for cracking purposes. So if you have a program that needs to interoperate with WPA (for whatever reasons), then you should be on the safe side. If you however use reverse engineering to install the same copy of Windows XP on a number of different machines, you could be in trouble.
I thought I read somewhere another alternative: do it like Microsoft does by embracing and extending the thing. Sort of like bait and switch...
There is a really interesting round-table discussion between Craig Mundie, Dan Gilmore, Bruce Perens and others going on at SiliconValley.com where this topic is touched as well.
The power switch is located next to the top ventilation grill. It's some sort of "proximity" switch (probably capacitor-based) that is triggered if something comes near it. Most likely, you set it off by swiping your hand across the Cube's top. This would normally send the Cube to sleep, but considering the sorry state most of the display machines are, it wouldn't surprise me if they crashed instead (sleep mode is quite sensitive to currently active applications such as demos etc.)
Seriously, this thing is nice but an Apple Cube would make more sense for me. It's got FireWire, is 802.11 ready and has got a better graphics card at about the same price. And no, I don't really care if the Cube will be discontinued or the G4 runs only at 450.
Easy. They are developing something similar based on their DRM solution and their Secure Audio Path. CPRM is basically competing with them.
- Copying copyrighted works for non-personal purposes is illegal
- Copying for personal purposes is legal (i.e. fair use)
- Copyright holders shall be compensated even for fair-use copying
- To compensate the copyright holders, a per-use compensation for fair-use copying has so far not been technically feasible
- Thus, a "tax" on media and copying equipent is used to collect royalties (which are BTW paid to the artists and not the labels)
Does anyone know if in the US, copyright holders are compensated in any way for fair-use copying? I tend to think so...The HTML rendering widget in this thing was written by me... so I know what works and what's lacking ;)
Seriously, I'd be extremely glad if someone would pick up the source code and improve it! I don't have the time to do this, currently I'm busy hacking my XML/CSS processor...
Anybody interested? See my homepage for my email address.