The recording that is being given a public performance belongs to the recording label.
The part of copyright law that covers public performances over something other than a digital network does not care how you acquired a recording.
You may be able to read a Tom Clancy novel over a loudspeaker system, but you have to have a legal copy of the book to do so
Making a licensed public performance of a song proves nothing about the recording but possession. Mere possession of an illegal copy is not infringement, is it? Can you point out the specific section of copyright law to which you refer?
Besides, because most electronic dance music artists don't record on RIAA labels, their contracts might actually let the artists authorize royalty-free electronic redistribution of the recordings.
you can't just Xerox the book
You can't "Xerox" anything; that's trademark infringement. On the other hand, you can "make a copy" or "make a photocopy" or "copy it on a Xerox machine". Trademarks are adjectives.
one should never NEED to break... out of a... for loop
Then what do you do when you get a "Virtual memory exhausted" error on a widely deployed machine with extremely limited but non-upgradable RAM? Surely you don't switch to C++ exceptions, because that will take up even more RAM for the exception handling code, right?
USE A... WHILE OR DO WHILE LOOP
I've considered this, but I'm not sure GCC's optimizer will know what to do with putting complicated expressions in a while loop's condition. I don't want my profiler to report a 30% performance hit from inefficient control structures.
Funny, I use return to break out of nested loops. If your functions are so huge you feel the need to use goto, that's a sign they need to be split up.
I write video drivers for soft real-time applications. If I split up a function into an inner function and an outer function wherever I need to break out of something, performance drops 30% because now I have to pass a dozen arguments to a function call in a loop, and on some architectures, function calls are very expensive.
Another possibility is to place all your favorite websites in one bookmark folder, and then, just right-click and "Open this folder in tabs".
If you're not running GNOME, you can do nearly the same thing with recent Mozilla. Open several pages, then tell Mozilla to "Bookmark This Group of Tabs..." giving you a nice little button on your Personal Toolbar.
Who uses goto statements? I'd count that as a feature.
Some CS people hear "go to hell" and are more offended by the "go to" than by the "hell", but in my C code, I use goto carefully to break out of nested loops and to bail on exceptions. Even though the Java language has goto bound to nothing, it has nearly equivalent structures: 1. try...catch; 2. labeled break.
If you are so worried about CPU cycles, then only use programs written using an assembler instead of a compiler.
Grandparent was talking about the speed hit of Java VMs currently in use (i.e. the VM from 1998 installed on most Windows machines) vs. native assembly language on the same machine. Pascal and C for applications took off only when optimizing compilers matured enough that the only remaining asm-critical portions were the inner loops of I/O drivers. (Note that many computer games still have asm inner loops.) C# and Java will take off when they no longer provide much of a performance difference vs. native assembly language.
Apple/Claris make the home user version of office. over the years it was called either ClarisWorks or AppleWorks (Claris/Apple is the same thing)
I used AppleWorks on Apple IIe computers. The first version of ClarisWorks I used had a feature set similar to that of the version of AppleWorks for the IIGS.
If you want to write KDE apps on the Mac, you're in luck: Fink, the most comprehensive distribution of free software for the Darwin operating system, now includes KDE. Fink also includes PHP, Ruby, Python, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
there's a need for a 'popular and trendy DJ', but also only a 'human being';-) can react to the particularities of audience
You hit the nail. The point of this article, along with other articles that people have linked to in this discussion, is that new technology has begun to simplify the dirty work of hauling heavy vinyl and beat matching, giving the DJ more free brain cells to spend on the audience.
But downloading music and then getting paid to play it out is evil. Not a cent goes to the artist.
The club already pays ASCAP and BMI for the right to publicly perform music, and most of that goes to the songwriter's publisher, who in turn cuts a check to the songwriter. And in electronic dance music, the lead songwriter is usually the same person as the artist because that kind of music is generally composed on modplug or some MIDI sequencer anyway.
I'm less concerned about the RIAA
By USA copyright law, the record label isn't owed anything for a public performance over loudspeakers.
When speakers have the ability to playback all those frequencies clearly the ear can easily hear the difference between analogue/44.1kHz/MP3
Not when the ear has a bandpass filter centered at 3000 Hz, and when you're not dealing with pure tones, spectral masking effects inside the inner ear kill everything above 19 kHz, giving CDs a 3 kHz margin of error. In addition, CD has a -90 dB noise floor (can you hear a faint whisper over the pounding music?), and even that can be reduced by pushing dither noise up above 18 kHz.
I can hear the difference between the source and MusicMatch at 128 kbps, but LAME at just under 192 kbps has been shown (on good speakers, no less) to provide transparent reproduction.
How do you know he doesn't just go pull up some wav editor and normalize everything to (say) 125 bpm before encoding his set and copying it to the iPod players?
Is a hard drive really that much smarter than a cd-r?
It's easier to access multiple portions of a HD at the same time because seeking on HD is much faster than seeking on CD. This is important unless your device has a very large RAM cache to load the next song you're trying to beatmatch to.
A single CD stores 8 hours of 192 kbps Ogg audio. If your set is larger than that (one copy for each Ogg CD player), you have to carry multiple CDs and possibly swap after every song, which brings me to the next part:
Unlike a CD-R, a HD has an airtight seal between scratches and your data.
An iPod is also much lighter than a crate of vinyl and is much harder to break in transit. I've talked to DJs who felt that they had to bodybuild just to be able to carry their collections.
Disney should be paying its dues in every country it releases Peter Pan!
Not necessarily. The Berne Convention only requires contracting parties to recognize a foreign copyright for author's life + 50 years. (USA recognizes life + 70 on post-1978 works.) The copyright on Peter Pan is perpetual, which is against the constitution of several non-UK countries such as the United States. (UK doesn't have a standard set of documents called "The Constitution".) Whether or not the US constitution contains a loophole that allows perpetual copyright on the installment plan is the subject of a Supreme Court case, Eldred v. Ashcroft, due to be heard on October 9, 2002.
If you import DVDs from the states to the UK you still pay the VAT, and hence the tax arguement doesn't really cut it with me.
If Disney sells copies of Return to Never Land in the United States, Disney pays royalties only to the DVD Forum, MPEG LA, and Dolby for use of the patents involved in DVD coding. If, on the other hand, Disney sells copies of that movie in the United Kingdom, Disney must pay additional royalties to Great Ormond Street Hospital, owner of the copyright on James M. Barrie's Peter Pan in the United Kingdom. (Read More...)
I don't know about the laws of Australia, but here in the United States, it isn't copyright infringement to make a legitimate backup copy of a computer program if you own a genuine copy.
And there is NO OTHER reason why you would want to chip your PS
Ever heard of homebrew software development? The only part of the PS2 that the Linux Kit doesn't grant you access to is the I/O subsystem, which is apparently similar to a PS1. Perhaps once somebody figures out the PS1, he or she might be able to 1) write clustering software for a network of PS1 consoles, or 2) rewrite PS2 Linux's hypervisor (which runs on its I/O processor) and make a *real* linux port.
A Game Boy Advance emulator takes 300 KB. The driver for my Visoly GBA cart reader takes 300 KB. Golden Sun takes 8 MB. Mario Kart Super Circuit takes 4 MB. Tetanus On Drugs takes 160 KB. Who needs a 200 GB drive just to play games?
Try playing mortal kombat on your p200 and see what happens.
Are you sure SNES9x has problems on a p200? Mortal Kombat With Blood Patch, MK2, and Ultimate MK3 have all been released on Super NES. (Yes, the MK3 engine ran on what was essentially PS1 hardware, but the Super NES port was nearly pixel perfect.) If you have the cartridges, hook up a cart reader, and play away.
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That was my first thought too. See also these.
The recording that is being given a public performance belongs to the recording label.
The part of copyright law that covers public performances over something other than a digital network does not care how you acquired a recording.
You may be able to read a Tom Clancy novel over a loudspeaker system, but you have to have a legal copy of the book to do so
Making a licensed public performance of a song proves nothing about the recording but possession. Mere possession of an illegal copy is not infringement, is it? Can you point out the specific section of copyright law to which you refer?
Besides, because most electronic dance music artists don't record on RIAA labels, their contracts might actually let the artists authorize royalty-free electronic redistribution of the recordings.
you can't just Xerox the book
You can't "Xerox" anything; that's trademark infringement. On the other hand, you can "make a copy" or "make a photocopy" or "copy it on a Xerox machine". Trademarks are adjectives.
one should never NEED to break ... out of a ... for loop
Then what do you do when you get a "Virtual memory exhausted" error on a widely deployed machine with extremely limited but non-upgradable RAM? Surely you don't switch to C++ exceptions, because that will take up even more RAM for the exception handling code, right?
USE A ... WHILE OR DO WHILE LOOP
I've considered this, but I'm not sure GCC's optimizer will know what to do with putting complicated expressions in a while loop's condition. I don't want my profiler to report a 30% performance hit from inefficient control structures.
Funny, I use return to break out of nested loops. If your functions are so huge you feel the need to use goto, that's a sign they need to be split up.
I write video drivers for soft real-time applications. If I split up a function into an inner function and an outer function wherever I need to break out of something, performance drops 30% because now I have to pass a dozen arguments to a function call in a loop, and on some architectures, function calls are very expensive.
Another possibility is to place all your favorite websites in one bookmark folder, and then, just right-click and "Open this folder in tabs".
If you're not running GNOME, you can do nearly the same thing with recent Mozilla. Open several pages, then tell Mozilla to "Bookmark This Group of Tabs..." giving you a nice little button on your Personal Toolbar.
Who uses goto statements? I'd count that as a feature.
Some CS people hear "go to hell" and are more offended by the "go to" than by the "hell", but in my C code, I use goto carefully to break out of nested loops and to bail on exceptions. Even though the Java language has goto bound to nothing, it has nearly equivalent structures: 1. try...catch; 2. labeled break.
>> Green Party
> Libertarians
And when you combine both those parties and throw in a little , you get the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party.
I'm hopeful that StarOffice will be good for the Mac. (Either that, or I'll have to go write another integrated app - I won't use MS software.)
If you want to help out, join the development team.
Inspector Carla Valenti and her team-mate agent Tyler Miles are in charge of the investigation.
In this game, the cops are the bad guys. Carla Valenti is one of the cops.
In the real world, Jack Valenti is the head of the MPAAfia.
C++ can be ported to many platforms. You just make up a virtual platform, write a VM for it, then port a C++ compiler to emit VM code.
Microsoft did this. It's called Managed C++, part of Microsoft .NET.
If you are so worried about CPU cycles, then only use programs written using an assembler instead of a compiler.
Grandparent was talking about the speed hit of Java VMs currently in use (i.e. the VM from 1998 installed on most Windows machines) vs. native assembly language on the same machine. Pascal and C for applications took off only when optimizing compilers matured enough that the only remaining asm-critical portions were the inner loops of I/O drivers. (Note that many computer games still have asm inner loops.) C# and Java will take off when they no longer provide much of a performance difference vs. native assembly language.
Apple/Claris make the home user version of office. over the years it was called either ClarisWorks or AppleWorks (Claris/Apple is the same thing)
I used AppleWorks on Apple IIe computers. The first version of ClarisWorks I used had a feature set similar to that of the version of AppleWorks for the IIGS.
I use my home x86 boxen for web development (php, mysql), with KDE/Qt for C++ development (and some Java).
Mac OS X out of the box includes extensive support for the Java platform.
If you want to write KDE apps on the Mac, you're in luck: Fink, the most comprehensive distribution of free software for the Darwin operating system, now includes KDE. Fink also includes PHP, Ruby, Python, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
there's a need for a 'popular and trendy DJ', but also only a 'human being' ;-) can react to the particularities of audience
You hit the nail. The point of this article, along with other articles that people have linked to in this discussion, is that new technology has begun to simplify the dirty work of hauling heavy vinyl and beat matching, giving the DJ more free brain cells to spend on the audience.
But downloading music and then getting paid to play it out is evil. Not a cent goes to the artist.
The club already pays ASCAP and BMI for the right to publicly perform music, and most of that goes to the songwriter's publisher, who in turn cuts a check to the songwriter. And in electronic dance music, the lead songwriter is usually the same person as the artist because that kind of music is generally composed on modplug or some MIDI sequencer anyway.
I'm less concerned about the RIAA
By USA copyright law, the record label isn't owed anything for a public performance over loudspeakers.
When speakers have the ability to playback all those frequencies clearly the ear can easily hear the difference between analogue/44.1kHz/MP3
Not when the ear has a bandpass filter centered at 3000 Hz, and when you're not dealing with pure tones, spectral masking effects inside the inner ear kill everything above 19 kHz, giving CDs a 3 kHz margin of error. In addition, CD has a -90 dB noise floor (can you hear a faint whisper over the pounding music?), and even that can be reduced by pushing dither noise up above 18 kHz.
I can hear the difference between the source and MusicMatch at 128 kbps, but LAME at just under 192 kbps has been shown (on good speakers, no less) to provide transparent reproduction.
And he can't use iPods to match up beats
How do you know he doesn't just go pull up some wav editor and normalize everything to (say) 125 bpm before encoding his set and copying it to the iPod players?
Here's a short essay I wrote about a year ago about digital DJing.
Is a hard drive really that much smarter than a cd-r?
It's easier to access multiple portions of a HD at the same time because seeking on HD is much faster than seeking on CD. This is important unless your device has a very large RAM cache to load the next song you're trying to beatmatch to.
A single CD stores 8 hours of 192 kbps Ogg audio. If your set is larger than that (one copy for each Ogg CD player), you have to carry multiple CDs and possibly swap after every song, which brings me to the next part:
Unlike a CD-R, a HD has an airtight seal between scratches and your data.
I could be talking out myAn ipod has -way- too much storage room for a DJ.
An iPod is also much lighter than a crate of vinyl and is much harder to break in transit. I've talked to DJs who felt that they had to bodybuild just to be able to carry their collections.
Disney should be paying its dues in every country it releases Peter Pan!
Not necessarily. The Berne Convention only requires contracting parties to recognize a foreign copyright for author's life + 50 years. (USA recognizes life + 70 on post-1978 works.) The copyright on Peter Pan is perpetual, which is against the constitution of several non-UK countries such as the United States. (UK doesn't have a standard set of documents called "The Constitution".) Whether or not the US constitution contains a loophole that allows perpetual copyright on the installment plan is the subject of a Supreme Court case, Eldred v. Ashcroft, due to be heard on October 9, 2002.
If you import DVDs from the states to the UK you still pay the VAT, and hence the tax arguement doesn't really cut it with me.
If Disney sells copies of Return to Never Land in the United States, Disney pays royalties only to the DVD Forum, MPEG LA, and Dolby for use of the patents involved in DVD coding. If, on the other hand, Disney sells copies of that movie in the United Kingdom, Disney must pay additional royalties to Great Ormond Street Hospital, owner of the copyright on James M. Barrie's Peter Pan in the United Kingdom. (Read More...)
Not use copied games though.
I don't know about the laws of Australia, but here in the United States, it isn't copyright infringement to make a legitimate backup copy of a computer program if you own a genuine copy.
And there is NO OTHER reason why you would want to chip your PS
Ever heard of homebrew software development? The only part of the PS2 that the Linux Kit doesn't grant you access to is the I/O subsystem, which is apparently similar to a PS1. Perhaps once somebody figures out the PS1, he or she might be able to 1) write clustering software for a network of PS1 consoles, or 2) rewrite PS2 Linux's hypervisor (which runs on its I/O processor) and make a *real* linux port.
You obviously don't play games.
A Game Boy Advance emulator takes 300 KB. The driver for my Visoly GBA cart reader takes 300 KB. Golden Sun takes 8 MB. Mario Kart Super Circuit takes 4 MB. Tetanus On Drugs takes 160 KB. Who needs a 200 GB drive just to play games?
Try playing mortal kombat on your p200 and see what happens.
Are you sure SNES9x has problems on a p200? Mortal Kombat With Blood Patch, MK2, and Ultimate MK3 have all been released on Super NES. (Yes, the MK3 engine ran on what was essentially PS1 hardware, but the Super NES port was nearly pixel perfect.) If you have the cartridges, hook up a cart reader, and play away.
There are many ways for people to get legal roms, legally.
There are? What way would you suggest for players to obtain licenses for arcade game binaries cheaper than buying the boards themselves?
My solution was to play the PC port.