The DVD burner is indeed the biggest downfall of the whole scheme. Especially when you take into consideration the fragility and power usage of optical drives. Last time i checked (30 seconds ago) you can get usb pen drives for under $5 on ebay. Find your local china town and hit up the shady computer stores were you can wheel and deal. The weight would be minimal, mailing price the same as a standard letter, reusable medium, rugged, and low power consumption.
Combine that with an XO and you're rockin'!
OOOhhhh I don't disagree with you. There in lies the root of the problem. Those with the financial resources (record companies) did not respond quick enough. No argument there. The problem is now... they are pouring all their resources and political clout into copyright enforcement. The next issue is that the lack of responsibility (and stubborness to learn about the technology they pony up for to be trendy and cool) of by the general public has resulted in a bumper crop of malicious script kiddies and identify theft. I can hardly blame them because the people i know who have been lured into this are all university graduates in computer science, strapped with massive debt, who have been tempted by slick talking criminals who offer relief from debt and lack of respect from employers. But that's another issue.
The fact of the matter is, the political enviroment is ripe with the opportunity for invasive monitoring and enforcement. I have a little of the inside track and it's scarry. It is the people who are screaming the loudest who are making this more of a reality with every passing day. We will ALL pay the price. Everyone is goin to lose a little. Some more then others. Music will live on, but we will soon live in a very different online world in North America at least.
I had a long talk with my boss the other day and he is the one who is the face of copyright in Canada. He is the one who has to debate Michael Geist on TV every other week. He is torn in half. He is working more now then he ever has in his life. Pressures from a dying financial giant, small and medium publishers starving out of exsistance, layoffs of his friends and collegues, and on the other side a general public demonstering and demonizing us all. It's soo hard. Every were I go people want to talk to me about the situation... or should i say argue and accuse. I hate talking about work. I hate that my freedoms are going to slowly be erroded. No one talks in our office any more. It's so confusing.
AT&T has stepped up in the states wanting to be the net police. The pressure is on Rogers and Bell here in Canada. The industry is trying to figure out how to make it a reality by making it as lucratively attractive as possible to the ISP's. I don't know how it's goin to play out but it's scarry. I suppose this has happened 10's of thousands of time in just about every industry possible as technology advances and changes our world. It's just tough to swallow.
I work for the CMRRA (Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency), we are the ones who handle music publishing in Canada. Period. The reality is that this is mostly a move to stimulate sales but not a long term reality. The vast majority of higher selling (charting) product will continued to be delivered with DRM protection. It only stands to reason. Everybody in the music industry realizes that DRM is nothing but a 'speed bump' and not a long term solution to meeting their goals.
The reality is, despite the Sony rootkit fiasco, the future will bring either more invasive software at the consumer level or more control at the ISP level. Trust me... I am a not happy about this, I am not impressed with many of the actions of the RIAA and WIPO but this is the reality. You are looking at an entire industry collapsing.... and fast. They are fighting for their very exsistance and loosing. The money is gone. It will very soon be harder and harder for artists to have access to the funds to successfully produce and market their music in the conventional format. Physical distribution will not be consistant... and films are next. You can keep making 400 million dollar movies when you can't make more the 250 million back. It just not sustainable.
Things will continue on, however, in a far different model. The problem is that no one can forsee the emerging buisness model and how to transition into this model. Open Source software will replace conventional digital tools for media editing (since the art and beauty of analogue has already died) and do so quite well. Online distribution, which will endup enduring harsh filtering and monitoring. We have brought this on ourselves.
I don't agree with ISP filtering/monitoring, root kit technologies, or suing of endusers. I have watched my friends loose their jobs, one after the other for too long. Studios closing left and right, labels laying off staff year after year, great musicians not getting the finances they need because there isn't enough to go around and they haven't got enough "Bling". Last year, for every 32 artist that got signed, only two of those made money, a couple more would break even, and the rest lost money. Record companies are the agencies which provide the funding and marketing resources where conventional banks won't. It all soo sad. I love music. I've invested years of my life and 10's of thousands of dollars on education and equipment. Now I'm back in school at night studying programming and network administration. Perhaps if people took a minute to realize that by not paying for the music they are starving artist, engineers, producers.... people who have worked in the industry for 20 and 30 years are finding themselves at 50 yrs old and having to try and find some sort of job to continue feeding their families. My heart goes out to the 2000+ people who are loosing their jobs with EMI.
PLEASE... TAKE A MINUTE TO CONSIDER THE FACTS. Don't let the fat paycheques of the CEO's and ignorant lawsuits of the RIAA blind your eyes to the realities being endured by thousands of people who work hard to make the music you listen to.
.... would it not also be fair to say that graduates of these schools will not be looked upon favorably by medical schools? Well... what do you expect from a state who's last 2 govenors were Jeb and Buddy? LOL
First off, people need a reality check. Facebook is public. If people want certain behaviours, lifestyles, and/or activities to remain private they should not put them on publicly accessible websites. NOBODY is doing any good by shifting blame to some mysterious person, administration, or validity of the schools actions. What people are missing here seems to me to be the fact that we are not using this as an opportunity to teach people to act responsibly with their personal information. We seem to be constantly pointing fingers and taking tempertantrums when these sorts of things happen instead of taking responsibility for our irresponsible actions. This is the most important issue hear. People will get over their little slaps on the hand. However, if people get away without understanding that these things came to pass due to their own irresponsible actions it is all for not. It is behaviour such as this that is goin to make security professionals such as myself worth 10x our weight in gold over the next decade. GROW UP. ACT RESPONSIBLY. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN TO DO THE SAME.
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The DVD burner is indeed the biggest downfall of the whole scheme. Especially when you take into consideration the fragility and power usage of optical drives. Last time i checked (30 seconds ago) you can get usb pen drives for under $5 on ebay. Find your local china town and hit up the shady computer stores were you can wheel and deal. The weight would be minimal, mailing price the same as a standard letter, reusable medium, rugged, and low power consumption. Combine that with an XO and you're rockin'!
OOOhhhh I don't disagree with you. There in lies the root of the problem. Those with the financial resources (record companies) did not respond quick enough. No argument there. The problem is now... they are pouring all their resources and political clout into copyright enforcement. The next issue is that the lack of responsibility (and stubborness to learn about the technology they pony up for to be trendy and cool) of by the general public has resulted in a bumper crop of malicious script kiddies and identify theft. I can hardly blame them because the people i know who have been lured into this are all university graduates in computer science, strapped with massive debt, who have been tempted by slick talking criminals who offer relief from debt and lack of respect from employers. But that's another issue. The fact of the matter is, the political enviroment is ripe with the opportunity for invasive monitoring and enforcement. I have a little of the inside track and it's scarry. It is the people who are screaming the loudest who are making this more of a reality with every passing day. We will ALL pay the price. Everyone is goin to lose a little. Some more then others. Music will live on, but we will soon live in a very different online world in North America at least. I had a long talk with my boss the other day and he is the one who is the face of copyright in Canada. He is the one who has to debate Michael Geist on TV every other week. He is torn in half. He is working more now then he ever has in his life. Pressures from a dying financial giant, small and medium publishers starving out of exsistance, layoffs of his friends and collegues, and on the other side a general public demonstering and demonizing us all. It's soo hard. Every were I go people want to talk to me about the situation... or should i say argue and accuse. I hate talking about work. I hate that my freedoms are going to slowly be erroded. No one talks in our office any more. It's so confusing. AT&T has stepped up in the states wanting to be the net police. The pressure is on Rogers and Bell here in Canada. The industry is trying to figure out how to make it a reality by making it as lucratively attractive as possible to the ISP's. I don't know how it's goin to play out but it's scarry. I suppose this has happened 10's of thousands of time in just about every industry possible as technology advances and changes our world. It's just tough to swallow.
I work for the CMRRA (Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency), we are the ones who handle music publishing in Canada. Period. The reality is that this is mostly a move to stimulate sales but not a long term reality. The vast majority of higher selling (charting) product will continued to be delivered with DRM protection. It only stands to reason. Everybody in the music industry realizes that DRM is nothing but a 'speed bump' and not a long term solution to meeting their goals. The reality is, despite the Sony rootkit fiasco, the future will bring either more invasive software at the consumer level or more control at the ISP level. Trust me... I am a not happy about this, I am not impressed with many of the actions of the RIAA and WIPO but this is the reality. You are looking at an entire industry collapsing.... and fast. They are fighting for their very exsistance and loosing. The money is gone. It will very soon be harder and harder for artists to have access to the funds to successfully produce and market their music in the conventional format. Physical distribution will not be consistant... and films are next. You can keep making 400 million dollar movies when you can't make more the 250 million back. It just not sustainable. Things will continue on, however, in a far different model. The problem is that no one can forsee the emerging buisness model and how to transition into this model. Open Source software will replace conventional digital tools for media editing (since the art and beauty of analogue has already died) and do so quite well. Online distribution, which will endup enduring harsh filtering and monitoring. We have brought this on ourselves. I don't agree with ISP filtering/monitoring, root kit technologies, or suing of endusers. I have watched my friends loose their jobs, one after the other for too long. Studios closing left and right, labels laying off staff year after year, great musicians not getting the finances they need because there isn't enough to go around and they haven't got enough "Bling". Last year, for every 32 artist that got signed, only two of those made money, a couple more would break even, and the rest lost money. Record companies are the agencies which provide the funding and marketing resources where conventional banks won't. It all soo sad. I love music. I've invested years of my life and 10's of thousands of dollars on education and equipment. Now I'm back in school at night studying programming and network administration. Perhaps if people took a minute to realize that by not paying for the music they are starving artist, engineers, producers.... people who have worked in the industry for 20 and 30 years are finding themselves at 50 yrs old and having to try and find some sort of job to continue feeding their families. My heart goes out to the 2000+ people who are loosing their jobs with EMI. PLEASE... TAKE A MINUTE TO CONSIDER THE FACTS. Don't let the fat paycheques of the CEO's and ignorant lawsuits of the RIAA blind your eyes to the realities being endured by thousands of people who work hard to make the music you listen to.
.... would it not also be fair to say that graduates of these schools will not be looked upon favorably by medical schools? Well... what do you expect from a state who's last 2 govenors were Jeb and Buddy? LOL
First off, people need a reality check. Facebook is public. If people want certain behaviours, lifestyles, and/or activities to remain private they should not put them on publicly accessible websites. NOBODY is doing any good by shifting blame to some mysterious person, administration, or validity of the schools actions. What people are missing here seems to me to be the fact that we are not using this as an opportunity to teach people to act responsibly with their personal information. We seem to be constantly pointing fingers and taking tempertantrums when these sorts of things happen instead of taking responsibility for our irresponsible actions. This is the most important issue hear. People will get over their little slaps on the hand. However, if people get away without understanding that these things came to pass due to their own irresponsible actions it is all for not. It is behaviour such as this that is goin to make security professionals such as myself worth 10x our weight in gold over the next decade. GROW UP. ACT RESPONSIBLY. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN TO DO THE SAME.