I doubt the "music industry" would admit that downloading copyrighted material from YouTube is legal, but if YouTube payed a "license fee" was payed then it would be legal, no?
Let's hope so! I really don't understand why in this day and age it is rare to find a decent portable audio player that supports gapless playback. Geesh!
Yes, the music industry monopoly can only hope for a future format that requires pirates to make analog copies.
With CD's, no matter what you do, you can't stop motivated pirates from making perfect digital copies. Many CD players have digital outs (spdif via optical or rca outs). Pair that up with a sound card that accepts digital inputs on a computer and voila, you can digitally record a CD in real time. I have done this with excellent results on a CD (which I purchased) that I had trouble ripping in one particular spot!
For most people, DVD is 'good enough', and that's how the corporations have made a rod for their own backs. It's the same reason why DVD-A and SACD failed miserably to replace CD. The increase in quality is negligible when weighed against the increase in price.
In fact the trend is toward lower quality for increased convenience. For example, people are switching from CD's for audio to MP3's. They PREFER the lower quality if it buys increased conveniece. CD's audio quality is better than good enough for most people! I contend the same applies to DVD's. Many gladly use dvdshrink to fit a double layer DVD's onto a single layer DVD+-R, and will surely compress video to get it onto a media server to have more content available at the touch of a button.
When we reviewed Macrovision's then state-of-the-art CDS-300 version 7 copy-protection scheme last year, while it happily imposed restrictions on Windows users, the sample tracks we were challenged to rip where easily converted from CD audio to MP3 on a PowerBook G4 running iTunes. Right now, the solution to copy-protection appears simple: buy a Mac.
What about a Linux box? Anyone having trouble ripping copy protected CD's on a Linux box?
Just because they have a right to talk, doesn't mean I *have* to listen. And by calling me, they are forcing me to do that. Even if it's just long enough for me to realize who they are and hang up on them.
Well, you don't *have* to listen. You can hang up, refuse to listen...
However, I would argue that although they have the right to freely speak, that does not mean they have the right to DISRUPT my life as I carry on in my own home or place of business.
from TFA: Do you really want to see a young Luke, Han, etc. interacting?
in episode 4 han and luke interacted in a fashion that suggested that was the first time they had met. how would it make sense for them to interact in the TV series when the time frame is the 20 years between episodes 3 & 4?
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I doubt the "music industry" would admit that downloading copyrighted material from YouTube is legal, but if YouTube payed a "license fee" was payed then it would be legal, no?
Just because it's socially acceptable to hack DRM doesn't mean its legal or right.
Just because it's illegal to hack DRM doesn't mean it's wrong or shouldn't be socially acceptable!
What's wrong with infringing on the sovereignty of other nations? Isn't that what empires are supposed to do?
>>> Another difference is that you can, if you wish, actually help make it stable!
>> Given that I am not a programmer, this "benefit" of open source is virtually
>> meaningless, and just sounds like marketing PR.
Not quite. Joe programmer who is also a user can make contributions to open source software and everyone benefits, not just joe programmer.
Let's hope so! I really don't understand why in this day and age it is rare to find a decent portable audio player that supports gapless playback. Geesh!
And lets not forget that one big problem with MP3 is that it is not a gapless format. For that reason alone I'd like to see it die.
Yes, the music industry monopoly can only hope for a future format that requires pirates to make analog copies.
With CD's, no matter what you do, you can't stop motivated pirates from making perfect digital copies. Many CD players have digital outs (spdif via optical or rca outs). Pair that up with a sound card that accepts digital inputs on a computer and voila, you can digitally record a CD in real time. I have done this with excellent results on a CD (which I purchased) that I had trouble ripping in one particular spot!
For most people, DVD is 'good enough', and that's how the corporations have made a rod for their own backs. It's the same reason why DVD-A and SACD failed miserably to replace CD. The increase in quality is negligible when weighed against the increase in price.
In fact the trend is toward lower quality for increased convenience. For example, people are switching from CD's for audio to MP3's. They PREFER the lower quality if it buys increased conveniece. CD's audio quality is better than good enough for most people! I contend the same applies to DVD's. Many gladly use dvdshrink to fit a double layer DVD's onto a single layer DVD+-R, and will surely compress video to get it onto a media server to have more content available at the touch of a button.
When we reviewed Macrovision's then state-of-the-art CDS-300 version 7 copy-protection scheme last year, while it happily imposed restrictions on Windows users, the sample tracks we were challenged to rip where easily converted from CD audio to MP3 on a PowerBook G4 running iTunes. Right now, the solution to copy-protection appears simple: buy a Mac.
What about a Linux box? Anyone having trouble ripping copy protected CD's on a Linux box?
Just because they have a right to talk, doesn't mean I *have* to listen. And by calling me, they are forcing me to do that. Even if it's just long enough for me to realize who they are and hang up on them.
Well, you don't *have* to listen. You can hang up, refuse to listen...
However, I would argue that although they have the right to freely speak, that does not mean they have the right to DISRUPT my life as I carry on in my own home or place of business.
Now there's a guy that would get a lot out of this tech!
...if ad blocking becomes standard in popular browsers, that will be the end of free content on the web.
Or perhaps advertisers will be forced to stop placing the types of ads that annoy users, like popups and those wild flash adverts.
from TFA: Do you really want to see a young Luke, Han, etc. interacting?
in episode 4 han and luke interacted in a fashion that suggested that was the first time they had met. how would it make sense for them to interact in the TV series when the time frame is the 20 years between episodes 3 & 4?