by shutting down morpheus, they just admitted that they have control over their network and users. now they're screwed in terms of legal defense. meanwhile, morpheus switches to gnutella and will probably survive the onslaught.
how ironic
Not necessarily true. They can probably change FastTrak to do whatever they want, among users who download a new version and those who connect to them. If there's an update which, say, bans all MP3s coded above 64kbps, people won't download it, and the change won't propagate.
So they have some control, but only to the extent the users will let them have. (Sort of like the US government, when you think about it...)
So since most of the news sites generally take a few hours to update, I have an idea. Now that it's past midnight EST, can anyone whose service goes down post here as soon as they lose access, so we know if this is actually happening or not? Cool, thanks.
Thanks,/. team, for all the changes. But thanks especially to Cliff, who seems to have had one of the more thankless jobs I can think of. I can't stand a couple hours of busywork, and what you did probably took days. We salute you!--Colbey
This reminds me of a definition of "surfing the internet too much" that I heard once. Or maybe I made it up, I'm not even sure.
If you're clicking on links so much and so quickly that you wind up at a page selling toenail clippers, then you're surfing too much.
Wonder how many clicks it takes to get there from the PM of New Zealand's page...
There is a EULA, in fact, or at least in Pennsylvania. I just got my new car registration card in the mail, and I had to sign it. I didn't read what I was signing, but I'm confident that I did in the past...
Can someone explain to me what these two programs do, and what the difference is? I'm a Linux newbie; my whole experience is basically limited to doing one default RH 6.2 install that I almost never use.
I'm sure I'll agree with everyone else that this story is obvious, once I know what's going on.
hawk, who would be seriously annoyed andnever buy another of their games over this if it weren't for the fact that he only paid $2 for it at the dollar store . ..
One key point that the original poster missed--Pearl Jam is ALLOWING copying of the official bootlegs. (Well, actually, the official response is "don't care.") Kinda goes along with the $11 pricing--they're not trying to make money off of this.
Well, I found it really funny that the article decided to reference the DeCSS-through-DNS thing that I've seen in slashdot comments a few times recently...
I also find it interesting that it doesn't work anymore. Since I never really understood how it worked in the first place, this makes almost no sense to me. Anyone feel like giving me a quick DNS lesson on what's going on here?
As a previous poster mentioned, the home page for the software cited in this story mentions that it won't work with encrypted DVDs.
Has anyone used FlasK MPEG and found this to be true? Or false? Because software that can rip DVDs but can't rip the encrypted ones seems to have very limited utility to me...
Actually, video games have made more in their "opening weekends" of sales than most movies have. Mortal Kombat for the SNES was one of the first to do this (over 50 million the first weekend).
Um, did you say 50 million? I really really hope you mean dollars grossed and not copies sold, because that would be more copies than any one music album ever sold...and even if you do mean dollars, that works out to 1M copies, which has only been achieved in an opening week by a select few albums.
Not saying that you're wrong, it's just that that number is a bit hard to believe.
--Colbey
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There's nothing wrong with biased reporting, as long as you can identify the bias and interpret accordingly. Not only is a completely unbiased mews source a rather rarely achieved goal, it's a relativly new concept, if you think about it.
Slashdot reports what it reports wonderfully. If you want the other side of the MPAA dispute, or the RIAA dispute, i suggest you check their web sites, or the sites of their contingent organizations. Once you have propaganda from both sides, it's a lot easier to start striving for the truth.
Yeah, I do mean that it sticks to nothing but itself. Sadly, it doesn't stick to itself very well, either, at least in my opinion. You can use it for things like bundling cables together, instead of using cable ties...
I suppose it's not like Teflon, though. Nothing can stick to Teflon, they say. I'm just saying that friction tape can't stick to anything under its own power. That's not too special of a thing; neither can car keys, for instance.
Where do you get it? Theater supply stores, I suppose. I don't buy it, I just use the stuff.
--Colbey (who replies to his own threads too much)
gaff tape? never heard of it. Please enlighten us!
Hmmm...how can i really describe it? It's kinda fabric-ey, tears easily enough, it's really strong...It comes in a variety of colors, but black is the most common, since it's usually used to cover cables, either so that people don't trip, or to change the color of an otherwise very noticable cable onstage. Easy enough to get unstuck without WD-40.
We get to play with lots of cool stuff backstage...My latest discovery is friction tape, which sticks to nothing except itself...
I realize how sacreligious that subject is, but I'm serious. Anyone who works in the theater knows how incredible gaff tape is. I'd completely replace all of my duct tape uses with gaff, except that on my student budget I can't quite afford $10 per roll...
Every DeCSS story on slashdot has someone posting, "DeCSS overcomes playback protection, and not copy protection," or something along those lines. An analogy is usually drawn to a photocopier, which can easily copy, but not decode, material like cryptograms. This is in contrast to DeCSS, which does the opposite. The job of the photocopier can be performed for copying DVDs without DeCSS.
In all my reading on the subject, not only have I found this to be true, but I haven't even found any argument to the contrary beyond, "No, you're wrong."
So is it bad when the lawyer hired to protect DeCSS doesn't seem to grasp this point in an interview? Was he just simplifying the matter for the interviewer, does he really not understand the nature of the software he's defending, or is there something I'm missing?
Hmmm....is totl.net slashcode? Does anyone know? It looks like it could be, but if it is, it's the one that looks the least like slashdot of all that I've seen.
, says the poster who knows absolutely nothing about web programming.
As long as I didn't miss anything, I find the conspicuous absence of links to either Napster's or Gnutella's web sites in any of these articles rather interesting.
If I remember correctly from English class several years ago, this was the way Shakespearean (and presumably other) plays used to work. No actor had more of the script than he needed.
Fast forward several hundred years, and Shakespeare plays are probably the cheapest things in a bookstore. Interesting...So does that mean that in hundreds of years Windows will be a "classic?" I hope not...
Y'know, I'm not really sure where I'm going with this.
I agreed with you, until I tried signing on. As soon as I was connected, i saw about 800GB of served files. And this wasn't exactly peak university usage time (around noon, not midnight). Granted, these numbers will be higher per user than Napster's simply because video files and the like take up more storage space than MP3s, but I still think that that's a big enough critical mass for the law of increasing returns to start kicking in. Unless my judgement is way off, Gnutella seems to have hit that point a lot more quickly than ICQ ever did. (I was a late convert to Napster, so I'm not sure about that one...)
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how ironic
Not necessarily true. They can probably change FastTrak to do whatever they want, among users who download a new version and those who connect to them. If there's an update which, say, bans all MP3s coded above 64kbps, people won't download it, and the change won't propagate.
So they have some control, but only to the extent the users will let them have. (Sort of like the US government, when you think about it...)
Yes....argh, my subtle humor is lost in this venue. It's hilarious in real life, trust me.
So since most of the news sites generally take a few hours to update, I have an idea. Now that it's past midnight EST, can anyone whose service goes down post here as soon as they lose access, so we know if this is actually happening or not? Cool, thanks.
Thanks, /. team, for all the changes. But thanks especially to Cliff, who seems to have had one of the more thankless jobs I can think of. I can't stand a couple hours of busywork, and what you did probably took days. We salute you!--Colbey
This reminds me of a definition of "surfing the internet too much" that I heard once. Or maybe I made it up, I'm not even sure. If you're clicking on links so much and so quickly that you wind up at a page selling toenail clippers, then you're surfing too much. Wonder how many clicks it takes to get there from the PM of New Zealand's page...
--Colbey
Hey, at least April Fools here is better than last year's edition so far....Everyone remember the unfunny language/dialect fiasco?
--Colbey
I'm sure I'll agree with everyone else that this story is obvious, once I know what's going on.
--Colbey
Digital Convergence delenda est. Carthago DigitalConvergenceque delendi sunt.
Geez, pretty expensive dollar store....
--Colbey
Anyone got the Hamburg show for trade?
Colbey
--Colbey
I also find it interesting that it doesn't work anymore. Since I never really understood how it worked in the first place, this makes almost no sense to me. Anyone feel like giving me a quick DNS lesson on what's going on here?
--Colbey
Has anyone used FlasK MPEG and found this to be true? Or false? Because software that can rip DVDs but can't rip the encrypted ones seems to have very limited utility to me...
--Cobey
Um, did you say 50 million? I really really hope you mean dollars grossed and not copies sold, because that would be more copies than any one music album ever sold...and even if you do mean dollars, that works out to 1M copies, which has only been achieved in an opening week by a select few albums.
Not saying that you're wrong, it's just that that number is a bit hard to believe.
--Colbey
Slashdot reports what it reports wonderfully. If you want the other side of the MPAA dispute, or the RIAA dispute, i suggest you check their web sites, or the sites of their contingent organizations. Once you have propaganda from both sides, it's a lot easier to start striving for the truth.
--Colbey
I suppose it's not like Teflon, though. Nothing can stick to Teflon, they say. I'm just saying that friction tape can't stick to anything under its own power. That's not too special of a thing; neither can car keys, for instance.
Where do you get it? Theater supply stores, I suppose. I don't buy it, I just use the stuff.
--Colbey (who replies to his own threads too much)
Hmmm...how can i really describe it? It's kinda fabric-ey, tears easily enough, it's really strong...It comes in a variety of colors, but black is the most common, since it's usually used to cover cables, either so that people don't trip, or to change the color of an otherwise very noticable cable onstage. Easy enough to get unstuck without WD-40.
We get to play with lots of cool stuff backstage...My latest discovery is friction tape, which sticks to nothing except itself...
--Colbey
--Colbey
Scientology, anyone?
I can't think of any examples right now, but L. Ron Hubbard leans rather heavily on new definitions and analogies.
Maybe that's why I've Got A Bad Feeling About This manifesto...
--Colbey
In all my reading on the subject, not only have I found this to be true, but I haven't even found any argument to the contrary beyond, "No, you're wrong."
So is it bad when the lawyer hired to protect DeCSS doesn't seem to grasp this point in an interview? Was he just simplifying the matter for the interviewer, does he really not understand the nature of the software he's defending, or is there something I'm missing?
--Colbey
, says the poster who knows absolutely nothing about web programming.
--Colbey
--Colbey
Fast forward several hundred years, and Shakespeare plays are probably the cheapest things in a bookstore. Interesting...So does that mean that in hundreds of years Windows will be a "classic?" I hope not...
Y'know, I'm not really sure where I'm going with this.
--Colbey
I agreed with you, until I tried signing on. As soon as I was connected, i saw about 800GB of served files. And this wasn't exactly peak university usage time (around noon, not midnight). Granted, these numbers will be higher per user than Napster's simply because video files and the like take up more storage space than MP3s, but I still think that that's a big enough critical mass for the law of increasing returns to start kicking in. Unless my judgement is way off, Gnutella seems to have hit that point a lot more quickly than ICQ ever did. (I was a late convert to Napster, so I'm not sure about that one...)
-Colbey