Rather than whining and giving up mearly write the attorneys a letter requesting permission to use files soley in a non-profit capacity for a fan web-site.
Once upon a time, I made a fansite about a different TV show. The only copyrighted material I used was one picture of the main character (fair use 3) for non-commercial (fair use 1) purposes. I even linked to the official site (fair use 4).
The copyright owners sent me a cease and desist letter. I took the image down within half an hour of checking my mail. I would later study the issue in more depth and discover that fair use is not infringement; cease and desist letters against obvious fair use can constitute harassment.
So I asked for a license. They refused to give me one, claiming a possibility of defamation aka libel. Then I just took the site down and put a rant in its place.
If Sony makes its money on the games, then emulators would be a good thing $-wise, as they provide an additional platform for the games. I don't see DVD-ROM bootlegging as a significant threat (4 GB = 10 days over 56K modem at 4 KB/s); emulators will play games off the DVD, much as Bleem! does today.
PSX2 games won't be bootlegged until broadband becomes broad enough (>T1) to support DVD bootlegging. A 4 minute, 4 MB Vorbis or MPEG clip takes 15 minutes over a V.90 (4 kilobyte per second) connection. Multiply that by about a thousand for a DVD-ROM. That's over ten days!
EFF's Deep Crack crypto supercomputer supplied 1/3 of the computing power in the latest distributed.net DES challenge. Now, if it could be rebuilt for RC5-64...
I start (say) MS-DOS with a bootdisk with command.com configured to load resident in high memory. I replace the bootdisk with a freshly formatted disk. To the computer, I just erased the bootdisk, but I can still do things (e.g. launch programs).
Has the tld.us got entries for organisation type in it? I know the 2 letter state codes are all present & accounted for (apparently, they are fairly difficult to get hold of tho')
*.co.us = State of Colorado, or corporate (like.com)
*.ne.us = State of Nebraska, or ISPs (like.net)
*.or.us = State of Oregon, or nonprofit (like.org)
This is a short program I wrote a while back that actually composes classical-sounding music (based on pseudorandom numbers and a lot of music theory). It compiles for DOS and Linux; a DOS binary is included.
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Rather than whining and giving up mearly write the attorneys a letter requesting permission to use files soley in a non-profit capacity for a fan web-site.
They'd be refused as I was refused.
The Fair Use Doctrine is basically intended to prevent copyrights from interfering with education.
If so, it's not working. A fansite's purpose is to educate the public about a story cycle.
A fan website would be very unlikely to successsfully claim (and defend) a valid purpose of use to fall within the Fair Use Doctrine.
Only because the © owners are big bullies with money to burn on lawyers.
Once upon a time, I made a fansite about a different TV show. The only copyrighted material I used was one picture of the main character (fair use 3) for non-commercial (fair use 1) purposes. I even linked to the official site (fair use 4).
The copyright owners sent me a cease and desist letter. I took the image down within half an hour of checking my mail. I would later study the issue in more depth and discover that fair use is not infringement; cease and desist letters against obvious fair use can constitute harassment.
So I asked for a license. They refused to give me one, claiming a possibility of defamation aka libel. Then I just took the site down and put a rant in its place.
I'd make it a popup menu like Scoop Engine (found on Kuro5hin) does:
Post asNice idea (OS held in a socketed ROM). Very nice.
tera == 2^40; peta == 2^50; exa == 2^60; address space of a 64-bit machine == 16 exabytes
The whole os fits in a rom of 512 kB. (256 on pre 2.0 machines.
So when you want to upgrade to the latest OS, you buy a new machine?
ObPike: what's it got that python hasn't got?
If Sony makes its money on the games, then emulators would be a good thing $-wise, as they provide an additional platform for the games. I don't see DVD-ROM bootlegging as a significant threat (4 GB = 10 days over 56K modem at 4 KB/s); emulators will play games off the DVD, much as Bleem! does today.
no one is going to be able to emulate a ps2 for some years to come
Then what's Bochs? Emulates IBM PS/2 computers quite nicely, useful for running older CPU-sensitive games.
Oh, you meant Sony's ps2. That's a different story entirely.
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Sony already has this. It's a workstation with a built-in PSX 2 subsystem. Costs $20,000, but its graphics performance will make you drool.
Those can be purchased (at least for PSX 1.x). They're probably in development for PSX 2.
PSX2 games won't be bootlegged until broadband becomes broad enough (>T1) to support DVD bootlegging. A 4 minute, 4 MB Vorbis or MPEG clip takes 15 minutes over a V.90 (4 kilobyte per second) connection. Multiply that by about a thousand for a DVD-ROM. That's over ten days!
EFF's Deep Crack crypto supercomputer supplied 1/3 of the computing power in the latest distributed.net DES challenge. Now, if it could be rebuilt for RC5-64...
We know 10^12 is tera. But did you know 10^15 is peta and 10^18 is exa?
Show me the source code for THOSE programs, and then they will no longer be in violation.
Many of the tools the license mentions are GNU tools; the source for the GNU system can be found at gnu.org or any Linux distro site.
All applications will be totally code identical across platforms.
How can assembly programs (the language is assembly; an assembly compiler is an assembler) be compatible across platforms?
The closest we could get to portable assembly would be C.
I start (say) MS-DOS with a bootdisk with command.com configured to load resident in high memory. I replace the bootdisk with a freshly formatted disk. To the computer, I just erased the bootdisk, but I can still do things (e.g. launch programs).
I've seen .us domains (e.g. FWCS) without a city. Couldn't .co.us (State of Colorado) sell its namespace like Christmas Island (of Goatse.cx fame) did?
Has the tld .us got entries for organisation type in it? I know the 2 letter state codes are all present & accounted for (apparently, they are fairly difficult to get hold of tho')
The complaint issued from the IFTI, the International Federation of Phonographic Industry
Read "IFTI" as "RIAE" (recording industry association of Europe).
The FTC found that CDs cost TOO MUCH! ... If CDs costed $4.95 a piece, would we see as much piracy? NO!!!
I don't work for Play, but Play has lots of 60% off deals. And they start you out with 15 CDs for $50 + shipping.
I personally find it ironic that Metallica, which had previously promoted spreading of their music via bootlegs
And the band still does encourage bootlegging of its concert performances.
is so up in arms over napster
They have the rights to their studio recordings; how can you argue with that?
This is a short program I wrote a while back that actually composes classical-sounding music (based on pseudorandom numbers and a lot of music theory). It compiles for DOS and Linux; a DOS binary is included.