You do realize that MS sells each one of these systems at a loss
Contrary to popular belief, the console makers do not sell the consoles for less than their marginal cost of production and distribution. The "loss" lies mainly in the expenses of product development and promotion.
Salon.com changes links to the story into links to an ad unless the Referer: points to Salon.com. This allows Salon to add an interstitial advertisement. Yahoo! Groups does the same thing.
No, graphics would use vector operations, which use 64-bit vectors but are not called "64-bit" operations. A "64-bit" operation is typically defined as one that uses a 64-bit number or a 64-bit pointer, not a vector of four 16-bit numbers. Current 32-bit processors are perfectly capable of performing operations on vectors of 16-bit numbers through such instruction set extensions as 3DNow! and AltiVec.
I would never dl Public Domain, or Linux Isos from a P2P when I can get it from an FTP that's trustworthy.
Why wouldn't you trust a copy of a free operating system distribution you download on a P2P filesharing network? If you download a file from P2P, and its MD5 hash matches the hash available on the trustworthy FTP site, there should be not one bit of difference between the file you got from P2P and the file on the trustworthy FTP site.
Is there an easy way to get it in bulk(compressed, etc)
If your user agent supports mod_gzip, many web sites deliver pages with gzip compression.
that won't required many(!) individual HTTP requests?
You can minimize the number of pageviews by fetching pages in "nested" mode.
But then you run into the problem that "Comments are owned by the Poster" and that you have no way to ask Anonymous Coward for permission to reproduce the comments outside of Slashdot.
If you delete the "small print" section and all references to Project Gutenberg, you can do whatever you want with the text.
However, a few of the PG texts are copyrighted. Even so, if you know Ruby, Python, or Perl, you could probably whip up a script that does the following:
Reject any file that does not contain the exact phrase *END*THE SMALL PRINT! FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTS* or any of the other similar phrases that PG has used over the years.
If you have the right kind of digitizing hardware for audio and video, and you have a DBS satellite TV system, you can rip all the stuff you want from it. You can archive the stuff
Under precedents such as those established in the Betamax case (Sony v. Universal), archiving broadcasts is not an infringement of copyright in the United States. However, Betamax doesn't let you distribute copies of your archives.
Unlicensed episodes which are not illegal to distribute because there are no licensees outside of Asia.
Can you point me to a web page that explains, with argument from statutes and case law, why redistributing such works without the written consent of the Asian copyright owner is not an infringement of copyright?
a good-sized collection of free tracked (mod/s3m/xm/it/etc.) and MPEG-format music.
How do you know that the authors of those s3m files didn't inadvertently copy a popular song? George Harrison got in big trouble for that (search Google for Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music).
[Laws of the European Union] make some US IP laws look sensible.
Not in this case. United States copyright law also recognizes a copyright on a compilation[1] of works separate from the copyrights on the individual works themselves.
[1] "Compilation" here has nothing to do with translation of a program's source code into binary code.
How do you know that you have the right to redistribute files created by a patented process? The process of encoding an MP3 file is patented. From here on, I'll assume you meant "ogg" because it simplifies the analysis.
Even if you download the.ogg files directly from the band's web site, how do you know that the band has the right to distribute recordings of the musical works, or that you have the right to redistribute them? Only the songwriter can grant that, though USA copyright law caps royalties at 8 cents per track.
Use FLAC [xiph.org] and make Perfect CD Quality copies of your CDs and make them available.
"Your CDs"? That only works if you're in a band. Even if the original poster is in a band whose members write their own songs, how many albums has that band released? Divide that by about 4 to see how many GBs that would make up.
Video footage of other disasters can also help you fill up a 150 GB hard disk. Here are some clips of the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Just make sure to ask any identifiable copyright owner before you mirror them on DC.
DJ demo tapes usually contain continuous mixes of copyrighted recordings of copyrighted songs, and because there's not as much of an "open source" community in songwriting as in programming, most songs ("song" in copyright law refers to the melody independent of any recording thereof) are not published under a license allowing free redistribution of recordings.
movie trailers
This could work. I'd assume that at least one of the seven major American motion picture studios would be happy to let you mirror advertisements for its movies. Just ask first.
look for serious abandonware sites
Strictly, copyright lasts ninety-five years, but the fact that the copyright owner has allowed the program to fall out of print may constitute an admission that the work has negligible market value, and market value is one of the four primary factors of fair use.
host linux distros
This should work. However, you should look closely at the license for the distribution; some distributions of free operating systems (such as Theo de Raadt's official OpenBSD) copyright the directory structure of the distro CD and do not license it for free redistribution.
watch/. and wget/archive the referenced web sites with a distinctive name, then posting a link in the/. discussion with the filename (would be coolest if you had it on several p2p networks)
This can actually be legal in the USA under the proxy and caching exemptions passed as riders to the DMCA.
Do you have permission from Konami or Sega to distribute recordings of Konami's or Sega's copyrighted musical works? I don't think so. See my other comment.
Almost all of the recordings available at overclocked.net (except possibly for some arrangements of Russian folk tunes such as Korobeiniki, labeled as "Tetris" remixes) are derivative works of the songs in video games and thus infringe copyrights owned by (the songwriters who licensed the music to) the video game publishers.
Music videos for major-label recordings that include footage from animated television shows infringe three copyrights: 1. the copyright on the TV show, 2. the copyright on the song, and 3. the copyright on the recording.
The (mis)conception of a "24-hour trial period" in the warez community comes from various exceptions in U.S. copyright law pertaining to libraries. Warez sites claim that they are "checking out" files to patrons, putting the patrons on the honor system to "return" the files by deleting them. And the warez curators just may be able to pull it off if they disable each download for 24 hours, marking it "Checked Out".
Think of it as building a ship in a bottle. One could build the ship outside the bottle, but where the fun it that?
Actually, ships in bottles are built mostly outside the bottle with jointed masts. Then the ship is stuffed in the bottle, and the masts are raised.
Likewise, modern programs for underpowered systems (Palm, GBA, retro consoles) are developed on PCs using cross-compilers and emulators and then moved to the target system for testing.
Slashdot Mirror
You do realize that MS sells each one of these systems at a loss
Contrary to popular belief, the console makers do not sell the consoles for less than their marginal cost of production and distribution. The "loss" lies mainly in the expenses of product development and promotion.
You're linking to an ad.
Salon.com changes links to the story into links to an ad unless the Referer: points to Salon.com. This allows Salon to add an interstitial advertisement. Yahoo! Groups does the same thing.
It's not this free hand-out thing that the government gives the NEA.
But copyright in the United States is just that: a free handout given by the U.S. Congress to authors "to promote the Progress of Science".
a reduced fat oil
Is that anything like "low moisture water"?
Would it help with graphics applications?
No, graphics would use vector operations, which use 64-bit vectors but are not called "64-bit" operations. A "64-bit" operation is typically defined as one that uses a 64-bit number or a 64-bit pointer, not a vector of four 16-bit numbers. Current 32-bit processors are perfectly capable of performing operations on vectors of 16-bit numbers through such instruction set extensions as 3DNow! and AltiVec.
Lucas has always voiced his support of fanfilms.
Even pornographic ones?
And can you support your assertion with a URL?
Offer a free service for bands to submit audio and video recordings.
How are you going to verify that the recordings submitted aren't unauthorized covers of published songs?
I would never dl Public Domain, or Linux Isos from a P2P when I can get it from an FTP that's trustworthy.
Why wouldn't you trust a copy of a free operating system distribution you download on a P2P filesharing network? If you download a file from P2P, and its MD5 hash matches the hash available on the trustworthy FTP site, there should be not one bit of difference between the file you got from P2P and the file on the trustworthy FTP site.
Is there an easy way to get it in bulk(compressed, etc)
If your user agent supports mod_gzip, many web sites deliver pages with gzip compression.
that won't required many(!) individual HTTP requests?
You can minimize the number of pageviews by fetching pages in "nested" mode.
But then you run into the problem that "Comments are owned by the Poster" and that you have no way to ask Anonymous Coward for permission to reproduce the comments outside of Slashdot.
If you delete the "small print" section and all references to Project Gutenberg, you can do whatever you want with the text.
However, a few of the PG texts are copyrighted. Even so, if you know Ruby, Python, or Perl, you could probably whip up a script that does the following:
If you have the right kind of digitizing hardware for audio and video, and you have a DBS satellite TV system, you can rip all the stuff you want from it. You can archive the stuff
Under precedents such as those established in the Betamax case (Sony v. Universal), archiving broadcasts is not an infringement of copyright in the United States. However, Betamax doesn't let you distribute copies of your archives.
Lots of musicians who dont have recording industy contracts distribute their music online for free
Then how do they pay their songwriters?
You might also try to find some independant films that are alowed to be shared on the internet I know that Park Wars [parkwars.com] is one.
What makes you think Lucasfilm and Comedy Partners (owners of the Star Wars and South Park franchises) won't come after you?
If you cheat, the hub administrator will ban your IP address. If you cheat on three IP addresses, the hub administrator will ban your /24.
Unlicensed episodes which are not illegal to distribute because there are no licensees outside of Asia.
Can you point me to a web page that explains, with argument from statutes and case law, why redistributing such works without the written consent of the Asian copyright owner is not an infringement of copyright?
a good-sized collection of free tracked (mod/s3m/xm/it/etc.) and MPEG-format music.
How do you know that the authors of those s3m files didn't inadvertently copy a popular song? George Harrison got in big trouble for that (search Google for Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music).
[Laws of the European Union] make some US IP laws look sensible.
Not in this case. United States copyright law also recognizes a copyright on a compilation[1] of works separate from the copyrights on the individual works themselves.
[1] "Compilation" here has nothing to do with translation of a program's source code into binary code.
Get legal mp3's
How do you know that you have the right to redistribute files created by a patented process? The process of encoding an MP3 file is patented. From here on, I'll assume you meant "ogg" because it simplifies the analysis.
Even if you download the .ogg files directly from the band's web site, how do you know that the band has the right to distribute recordings of the musical works, or that you have the right to redistribute them? Only the songwriter can grant that, though USA copyright law caps royalties at 8 cents per track.
And even if the band members write the band's songs, how can you be sure that the band didn't unwittingly crib the melody from some popular song?
Use FLAC [xiph.org] and make Perfect CD Quality copies of your CDs and make them available.
"Your CDs"? That only works if you're in a band. Even if the original poster is in a band whose members write their own songs, how many albums has that band released? Divide that by about 4 to see how many GBs that would make up.
And if the original poster is in a band whose members write their own songs, how can they be sure that in writing the songs, they didn't accidentally infringe another songwriter's copyright?
Video footage of other disasters can also help you fill up a 150 GB hard disk. Here are some clips of the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Just make sure to ask any identifiable copyright owner before you mirror them on DC.
look up some DJ Demo Tapes
DJ demo tapes usually contain continuous mixes of copyrighted recordings of copyrighted songs, and because there's not as much of an "open source" community in songwriting as in programming, most songs ("song" in copyright law refers to the melody independent of any recording thereof) are not published under a license allowing free redistribution of recordings.
movie trailers
This could work. I'd assume that at least one of the seven major American motion picture studios would be happy to let you mirror advertisements for its movies. Just ask first.
look for serious abandonware sites
Strictly, copyright lasts ninety-five years, but the fact that the copyright owner has allowed the program to fall out of print may constitute an admission that the work has negligible market value, and market value is one of the four primary factors of fair use.
host linux distros
This should work. However, you should look closely at the license for the distribution; some distributions of free operating systems (such as Theo de Raadt's official OpenBSD) copyright the directory structure of the distro CD and do not license it for free redistribution.
watch /. and wget/archive the referenced web sites with a distinctive name, then posting a link in the /. discussion with the filename (would be coolest if you had it on several p2p networks)
This can actually be legal in the USA under the proxy and caching exemptions passed as riders to the DMCA.
game music remixes
Do you have permission from Konami or Sega to distribute recordings of Konami's or Sega's copyrighted musical works? I don't think so. See my other comment.
Star Wars Fan Films
Which possibly infringe the copyrights of Lucasfilm Ltd.
Almost all of the recordings available at overclocked.net (except possibly for some arrangements of Russian folk tunes such as Korobeiniki, labeled as "Tetris" remixes) are derivative works of the songs in video games and thus infringe copyrights owned by (the songwriters who licensed the music to) the video game publishers.
Music videos for major-label recordings that include footage from animated television shows infringe three copyrights: 1. the copyright on the TV show, 2. the copyright on the song, and 3. the copyright on the recording.
The (mis)conception of a "24-hour trial period" in the warez community comes from various exceptions in U.S. copyright law pertaining to libraries. Warez sites claim that they are "checking out" files to patrons, putting the patrons on the honor system to "return" the files by deleting them. And the warez curators just may be able to pull it off if they disable each download for 24 hours, marking it "Checked Out".
Think of it as building a ship in a bottle. One could build the ship outside the bottle, but where the fun it that?
Actually, ships in bottles are built mostly outside the bottle with jointed masts. Then the ship is stuffed in the bottle, and the masts are raised.
Likewise, modern programs for underpowered systems (Palm, GBA, retro consoles) are developed on PCs using cross-compilers and emulators and then moved to the target system for testing.