These songs are copyrighted, and I am offering them up, free of charge, to anyone who wishes to download them. The trick is, I'm the singer for this band. We own our own copyrights.
In order for you to own your own copyrights, you have to be able to prove in court that the songs you have written are in fact original and not accidentally plagiarized from some other song that has been played on commercial radio. Good luck.
whenever MP3 or downloading music comes up, people instantly assume you are talking about copyright infringement, and not about the MILLIONS upon millions of freely and legally downloadable MP3s available.
A songwriter has the right to distribute digital phonorecords[1] of his songs only if the songs are in fact original. How can he prove the originality of his musical works in court, given what happened to George Harrison?
[1] "Digital phonorecords" is legalese for "audio files".
30 MB at 16 MB per hour? I watched it (and liked it) because I'm lucky enough to live in an area that offers high-speed Internet access, but some people don't have either nearly two hours to sit and wait for a movie to download or $200,000 for the broadband setup fee.
Based on that DPI, at the size of a billboard, i don't know of any videocard in the world that could drive something like that.
OK, one video card probably couldn't handle this resolution, but imagine video cards in a Beowulf cluster. Give each blade the job of driving 1024x1024 pixels' worth of the image, and you have implemented a parallel method of image rendering that is commonly called "tile based rendering".
5mm wide pixels means 200 pixels to the meter. This means that a 5m by 4m display would have about the same pixel count as the 1024x768 pixel display I'm typing this on. Widen it to 7m by 4m, and you have a movie screen.
It has the appearance of an LCD with it's poor viewing angle.
This is entirely the point. If only one driver can see the ad at a given time, the billboard owner can sell more targeted advertising space based on the make and model of the car approaching the billboard.
Besides, LCD viewing angles have got a lot better over the past years. Even in mid-1999, when Rose-Hulman was putting together Acer TravelMate 721TX laptop bundles for its incoming freshmen, the viewing angles were wide enough not to cause a problem.
when you can only write each bit a few thousand times, your disk is pretty much useless to run a modern OS off.
There exist specialized flash file systems that perform sector wear management, which eases wear and tear on frequently modified sectors, especially those containing directories and log files. A CompactFlash cartridge typically has such wear management on the drive's built-in controller.
If you give the thing enough SDRAM to hold the apps and the/tmp folder without swapping, and you run wear management on everything else, a CF cartridge should last quite a while. If that fails, use an IBM CF Microdrive; it still uses quite low current but may last longer than flash memory.
You forgot American military operations in Bosnia, Somalia, and Kosovo. Or are you claiming Desert Fox was a war and was the first "Iraq" that you mentioned?
When I was studying U.S. history in the late 1990s, I learned that at that time, the United States Congress had not declared a "war" since World War II. Operations in Korea were officially a "police action", and operations in Vietnam were a "conflict".
in an age where barriers to becoming a content distributor are virtually nil
What about the cost of either licensing such works or, if you produce content yourself, proving in court that the works are in fact original? Songwriters are screwed, and Spider Robinson knows it.
AOL and road runner have both decided to redirect their users to Time's own sites.
Wouldn't that be false advertising? AOL advertises that any grown-up with a computer running Windows or Mac OS, a modem, a land telephone line, and a credit card can access the whole Internet with AOL. It would at least be deceptive if not outright fraudulent to filter web sites based on whether they agree with the opinions of Time Warner.
Great point. I do that to nowadays. I stopped going to the "regular" movies when tickets went from $5.50 to $7.50. Wait a month or two and you can go to the "dollar" theater
Unless there aren't any second-run theaters left in your town.
Movie studios ship videos all over the planet to any media outlet that has a reviewer on staff
Encode the movie with a visible watermark that mostly stays along the bottom of the picture but bounces up and down a few times at the intended chapter stops. This way, leaks can be traced and prosecuted.
In the DVD production process, there would be multiple copies of the movie, at the subtitling studio, at the dubbing studio, at the scene selection encoding studio, and at the assembly point where all the extra stuff meets up with the dubbing and subtitling.
Studios can eliminate leaks from at least three of those (subtitling, dubbing, and menu making) by 1. giving them DVD-R copies watermarked as above and 2. shipping the subtitler and the menu maker a low-quality encoding at half resolution and six frames per second. That's fast enough to see what's going on and synchronize it with the video and audio but not fast enough to pose as a substitute for the real thing.
Modern P2P applications tend to do two things beyond the original WWW model:
You mention that popular file-sharing apps bundle the server and client into one download and claim that this has dubious value. I claim that this has value: it encourages people to actually use the server as opposed to just leeching with the client.
You also forget to mention that popular file-sharing apps automatically handle indexing content available on peers, as opposed to the Web, where Google can take up to a month to find your site, or longer if nobody else links to your site in a well-known web page.
A long-haul network can never have latency as low as that of PCI or AGP because signals just move too slowly through copper or fiber. In fact, speed-of-light limitations are part of why the Pentium 4 has such a deep pipeline, to get the signals moved across the core reliably.
Can the popular NUMA computing models deal with 50ms communication latencies?
You have 1 year from publication to file a patent application.
AFAIK, the inventor can file for a U.S. patent if he has published the invention in the USA within the past year but not if somebody else has published the invention in the USA within the past year. This is what I meant by "only [] on behalf of the inventor."
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Ghostscript GSView is free software. Does the file work in that program?
These songs are copyrighted, and I am offering them up, free of charge, to anyone who wishes to download them. The trick is, I'm the singer for this band. We own our own copyrights.
In order for you to own your own copyrights, you have to be able to prove in court that the songs you have written are in fact original and not accidentally plagiarized from some other song that has been played on commercial radio. Good luck.
whenever MP3 or downloading music comes up, people instantly assume you are talking about copyright infringement, and not about the MILLIONS upon millions of freely and legally downloadable MP3s available.
A songwriter has the right to distribute digital phonorecords[1] of his songs only if the songs are in fact original. How can he prove the originality of his musical works in court, given what happened to George Harrison?
[1] "Digital phonorecords" is legalese for "audio files".
do you know any storage medium would be large enough (or fast enough) to playback video at that resolution.
Heard of vector animation? That is, unless you mean "video" as in using a photographic recording of live action.
A percentage of broadband users actually do WORK using broadband.
And violate the "no commercial use or we'll bump you to business-priced service" clause of the typical residential broadband contract.
Dialup + dedicated phone line: $40 [...]
Last internet bill: $46
DSL setup fee: $200,000
a billboard flashing red and yellow advertising viagra
VIAGRA(tm) (sildenafil citrate) is a blue pill. Why would Pfizer's advertisement for a blue pill have a red and yellow motif?
You have to watch nearly the entire movie
30 MB at 16 MB per hour? I watched it (and liked it) because I'm lucky enough to live in an area that offers high-speed Internet access, but some people don't have either nearly two hours to sit and wait for a movie to download or $200,000 for the broadband setup fee.
Based on that DPI, at the size of a billboard, i don't know of any videocard in the world that could drive something like that.
OK, one video card probably couldn't handle this resolution, but imagine video cards in a Beowulf cluster. Give each blade the job of driving 1024x1024 pixels' worth of the image, and you have implemented a parallel method of image rendering that is commonly called "tile based rendering".
5mm wide pixels means 200 pixels to the meter. This means that a 5m by 4m display would have about the same pixel count as the 1024x768 pixel display I'm typing this on. Widen it to 7m by 4m, and you have a movie screen.
It has the appearance of an LCD with it's poor viewing angle.
This is entirely the point. If only one driver can see the ad at a given time, the billboard owner can sell more targeted advertising space based on the make and model of the car approaching the billboard.
Besides, LCD viewing angles have got a lot better over the past years. Even in mid-1999, when Rose-Hulman was putting together Acer TravelMate 721TX laptop bundles for its incoming freshmen, the viewing angles were wide enough not to cause a problem.
when you can only write each bit a few thousand times, your disk is pretty much useless to run a modern OS off.
There exist specialized flash file systems that perform sector wear management, which eases wear and tear on frequently modified sectors, especially those containing directories and log files. A CompactFlash cartridge typically has such wear management on the drive's built-in controller.
If you give the thing enough SDRAM to hold the apps and the /tmp folder without swapping, and you run wear management on everything else, a CF cartridge should last quite a while. If that fails, use an IBM CF Microdrive; it still uses quite low current but may last longer than flash memory.
You forgot American military operations in Bosnia, Somalia, and Kosovo. Or are you claiming Desert Fox was a war and was the first "Iraq" that you mentioned?
When I was studying U.S. history in the late 1990s, I learned that at that time, the United States Congress had not declared a "war" since World War II. Operations in Korea were officially a "police action", and operations in Vietnam were a "conflict".
Try internet radio.
Very few people have wireless Internet access of sufficient throughput to listen to Internet radio in a moving automobile.
in an age where barriers to becoming a content distributor are virtually nil
What about the cost of either licensing such works or, if you produce content yourself, proving in court that the works are in fact original? Songwriters are screwed, and Spider Robinson knows it.
AOL and road runner have both decided to redirect their users to Time's own sites.
Wouldn't that be false advertising? AOL advertises that any grown-up with a computer running Windows or Mac OS, a modem, a land telephone line, and a credit card can access the whole Internet with AOL. It would at least be deceptive if not outright fraudulent to filter web sites based on whether they agree with the opinions of Time Warner.
That was a coke, not a Coke. Besides, the movie theater chain in my town does not serve Coca-Cola products.
Great point. I do that to nowadays. I stopped going to the "regular" movies when tickets went from $5.50 to $7.50. Wait a month or two and you can go to the "dollar" theater
Unless there aren't any second-run theaters left in your town.
These dots are not the reel-change indicators in the upper right corner of the picture.
Movie studios ship videos all over the planet to any media outlet that has a reviewer on staff
Encode the movie with a visible watermark that mostly stays along the bottom of the picture but bounces up and down a few times at the intended chapter stops. This way, leaks can be traced and prosecuted.
In the DVD production process, there would be multiple copies of the movie, at the subtitling studio, at the dubbing studio, at the scene selection encoding studio, and at the assembly point where all the extra stuff meets up with the dubbing and subtitling.
Studios can eliminate leaks from at least three of those (subtitling, dubbing, and menu making) by 1. giving them DVD-R copies watermarked as above and 2. shipping the subtitler and the menu maker a low-quality encoding at half resolution and six frames per second. That's fast enough to see what's going on and synchronize it with the video and audio but not fast enough to pose as a substitute for the real thing.
More like Quackquack
To pronounce the Italian name "Gigli", say JEE-lee, which rhymes with Mr. McFeely.
Modern P2P applications tend to do two things beyond the original WWW model:
You mention that popular file-sharing apps bundle the server and client into one download and claim that this has dubious value. I claim that this has value: it encourages people to actually use the server as opposed to just leeching with the client.
You also forget to mention that popular file-sharing apps automatically handle indexing content available on peers, as opposed to the Web, where Google can take up to a month to find your site, or longer if nobody else links to your site in a well-known web page.
A long-haul network can never have latency as low as that of PCI or AGP because signals just move too slowly through copper or fiber. In fact, speed-of-light limitations are part of why the Pentium 4 has such a deep pipeline, to get the signals moved across the core reliably.
Can the popular NUMA computing models deal with 50ms communication latencies?
You have 1 year from publication to file a patent application.
AFAIK, the inventor can file for a U.S. patent if he has published the invention in the USA within the past year but not if somebody else has published the invention in the USA within the past year. This is what I meant by "only [] on behalf of the inventor."