It's not as if Intel is making an 850 MHz Pentium 4.
That is, unless you count the 1.7 GHz Pentium 4 processor that safely underclocks itself by half when run fanless (or possibly by factors between half and full speed when run in a mobile setting), but even I don't count that.
There's almost no overlap (OK, there is at 1.4 GHz)
For one thing, look at low-end P4 processors vs. high-end Pentium-M processors. (Pentium-M processors, based on Intel's PIII-derived Banias core, show up in e.g. Centrino chipsets.) Intel sells Pentium-M parts rated up to 1.70 GHz, which should give a bit more overlap clock-for-clock with the P4 line, especially the 1.70 GHz Celeron 4.
Abandonware, of which this is a form, sounds nice, but it is breaking copyright laws.
Abandonware does involve copying a copyrighted work, but the fair use of a copyrighted work is not an infringement. Look at factors 1 and 4 listed in 17 USC 107. If the owner of copyright in a published work refuses to sell more copies of the work, it could be argued that the copyright owner has thereby admitted that the work no longer has substantial market value. In addition, a not-for-profit site would more likely be able to pull off a fair use defense. Though factors 2 and 3 probably lie on the copyright owner's side, the courts have tended to count factor 4 double.
No. The copyright in a work does not extend to the ideas embodied in that work (17 USC 102). The DMCA applies only to copyrighted works, to mask works, and to vessel hulls.
Toy guns, such as squirt guns and the pointing devices in coin-op shooting games, are brightly colored so that police officers won't shoot a person holding a toy gun.
the weak encryption provided by CSS would be useless from a standpoint of securing your data.
That's exactly what they want you to think. The forms of crypto used by kids on the playground (monoalphabetic substitution ciphers on secret decoder rings, language games such as Pig Latin, etc.) are even weaker, but they do the job they were intended for. A 40-bit cipher such as CSS may prove useful in countries that ban private use of stronger crypto.
So Anka wrote what was for decades one of the most widely broadcast tunes in the world, and he got a lousy $35K a year for it?
Before Leno took over for Carson on Tonight Show, $35,000 was actually worth something. Besides, I'm assuming he supplemented his income from that song with income from other songs.
the TRUTH is that there is no LEGITIMATE use of CSS on the first place
What? You want to go back to table layout and <font>!?
Somebody who went to school with me made a crypto module for the Mono platform based on the Skipjack cipher used in the Clipper chip. I wonder what it'd be like if DVD CCA's CSS were re-implemented as yet another general-purpose stream cipher for a popular platform's crypto interface. Interchangeable modules, each with a substantial non-infringing use, make it harder for the DMCA police to point a finger at a guilty party.
Not quite. According to the artists, they regard the complete album as the product, not individual tracks.
According to Microsoft, marketing regards the complete distribution as the product, not individual OS components such as the kernel, shell, or web browser.
The copyright runs for 50 years, and you can pay $1.00 for ANOTHER 50 years?
It's not exactly like the old 28+28 scheme of 1909-1963. The Eldred Act proposes 50 years, and $1.00 per year for another 45 years. The goal there is to put an expensive bookkeeping burden on those who want to keep a copyright.
And any politician who supported that bill should be voted out of office for stupidity,
THOMAS tells me that Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah sponsored the Bono Act, and that the following senators co-sponsored it. Vote them out if they're still in office.
Sen Abraham, Spencer [MI]
Sen D'Amato, Alfonse [NY]
Sen Daschle, Thomas A. [SD]
Sen DeWine, Michael [OH]
Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA]
Sen Hagel, Chuck [NE]
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT]
Sen Lott, Trent [MS]
Sen Mack, Connie [FL]
Sen Thompson, Fred [TN]
Sen Torricelli, Robert G. [NJ]
Because not even 20 percent of the House or Senate opposed the Bono Act, they cast a voice vote, which does not record who voted for or against a bill. (Twenty percent of either house can force a roll-call vote in that house.)
Put every song in existance on-line in one central location for download at a reasonable price (25 cents per song or less) in standard mp3 format with no DRM crap.
Given that the songwriter automatically gets eight cents per download (pursuant to 17 USC 115 and corresponding regulation), the recording artist would get nothing out of this.
They have an expectation that specific works will be made available to them--to which they would otherwise not have access--if they provide without permission certain copyrighted works... I would suggest that only in the latter case could a 'financial gain' argument even be considered.
Many people on WinMX have set "share or get disconnected" policies. Some Direct Connect hubs have a similar policy. The eMule client for the eDonkey network punishes leechers in the queue. If a rare file is available on peers behind such a policy, then the copyright owner may find evidence for such an expectation.
The law defines "financial gain" to "includ[e] receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works."
I lose the ablility to copy music I purchased to another device, for my own use.
Line out, line in. The labels are not going to plug this analog hole within the foreseeable future, even if the analog hole does look like goatse.cx to labels.
All my music are ripped from my own CD collection to 128 WMA.
How can IE continue to matter exclusively if it's no longer being maintained (apart from security patches) for the Windows operating systems in use today?
But "idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery" seems to aptly describe what code is and does to me.
And that's why it's so easy to clean-room a copyrighted piece of code into a clean-room piece of code, because translation into English and back preserves only the process.
Computer programs are copyrighted as literary works.
Most seem to be under the delusion that P2P networks don't hurt sales.
Does P2P file sharing hurt record sales more than a slow economy and fewer new titles?
And many who aren't under that delusion believe that a one-line disclaimer saying "don't use this software for copyright infringement" is plausible deniability.
In the USA: If a product is capable of substantial non-infringing use, then making or selling that product is not contributory infringement of copyright in works that the product is able to copy (RIAA v. Grokster, citing Sony v. Universal).
Personally, yes, I'm against copyright law
I agree that copyright as we know it is fundamentally broken, but what alternative model gives authors an incentive to create works without copyright's drawbacks? I know of patronage (that is, commissioning of original works for use in advertising) and the Street Performer Protocol (which is useful for series), but are there other models with as wide applicability as copyright?
Why should music be public domain and freely available if software (also easily copied and distributed) can be held down under a license?
I have to separate my views on music itself from my views on recordings of that music. I understand that performing artists need to eat and that record labels need to recover their costs somehow. That's why I buy after I try.
But songwriters and their publishers have become too litigious as of recently, winning court decisions and setting precedents that, when taken together with basic music theory, seem to indicate that under U.S. copyright law's definition of originality, it's impossible to write original music.
(I admit that this issue is tangential to the RIAA topic because licensing of musical works is the domain of BMI and Harry Fox rather than the RIAA.)
The proper way for U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents to screw the Bono estate is to sign a petition to pass a law to take a bite out of the Bono Act.
If Australian patent law is anything like European patent law, an inventor who has filed for a patent on an invention outside Australia has 365 days to file in Australia. I wouldn't suggest celebrating for another year.
"Prior art" is exactly why the European and Japanese patents expire almost one year to the day after the U.S. patent does. After filing for a patent in the States, the inventor must file abroad within 365 days or loses the right to file abroad at all.
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What's the best CPU for playing Quake III - Arena? An ASIC with the Quake III program encoded in its logic gates
Which blows up in the hardware maker's face when the player tries to run the duck-hunting mod.
It's not as if Intel is making an 850 MHz Pentium 4.
That is, unless you count the 1.7 GHz Pentium 4 processor that safely underclocks itself by half when run fanless (or possibly by factors between half and full speed when run in a mobile setting), but even I don't count that.
There's almost no overlap (OK, there is at 1.4 GHz)
For one thing, look at low-end P4 processors vs. high-end Pentium-M processors. (Pentium-M processors, based on Intel's PIII-derived Banias core, show up in e.g. Centrino chipsets.) Intel sells Pentium-M parts rated up to 1.70 GHz, which should give a bit more overlap clock-for-clock with the P4 line, especially the 1.70 GHz Celeron 4.
Abandonware, of which this is a form, sounds nice, but it is breaking copyright laws.
Abandonware does involve copying a copyrighted work, but the fair use of a copyrighted work is not an infringement. Look at factors 1 and 4 listed in 17 USC 107. If the owner of copyright in a published work refuses to sell more copies of the work, it could be argued that the copyright owner has thereby admitted that the work no longer has substantial market value. In addition, a not-for-profit site would more likely be able to pull off a fair use defense. Though factors 2 and 3 probably lie on the copyright owner's side, the courts have tended to count factor 4 double.
No. The copyright in a work does not extend to the ideas embodied in that work (17 USC 102). The DMCA applies only to copyrighted works, to mask works, and to vessel hulls.
Toy guns, such as squirt guns and the pointing devices in coin-op shooting games, are brightly colored so that police officers won't shoot a person holding a toy gun.
the weak encryption provided by CSS would be useless from a standpoint of securing your data.
That's exactly what they want you to think. The forms of crypto used by kids on the playground (monoalphabetic substitution ciphers on secret decoder rings, language games such as Pig Latin, etc.) are even weaker, but they do the job they were intended for. A 40-bit cipher such as CSS may prove useful in countries that ban private use of stronger crypto.
So Anka wrote what was for decades one of the most widely broadcast tunes in the world, and he got a lousy $35K a year for it?
Before Leno took over for Carson on Tonight Show, $35,000 was actually worth something. Besides, I'm assuming he supplemented his income from that song with income from other songs.
the TRUTH is that there is no LEGITIMATE use of CSS on the first place
What? You want to go back to table layout and <font>!?
Somebody who went to school with me made a crypto module for the Mono platform based on the Skipjack cipher used in the Clipper chip. I wonder what it'd be like if DVD CCA's CSS were re-implemented as yet another general-purpose stream cipher for a popular platform's crypto interface. Interchangeable modules, each with a substantial non-infringing use, make it harder for the DMCA police to point a finger at a guilty party.
Not quite. According to the artists, they regard the complete album as the product, not individual tracks.
According to Microsoft, marketing regards the complete distribution as the product, not individual OS components such as the kernel, shell, or web browser.
If you accept that point of view
As you admit, that's a big "if".
not to mention the problem of "have you ever gotten a file from bit torrent that was invalid?" I have.
Really? I thought BitTorrent used MD5 or SHA1 hashing to make sure the file transfer had no errors.
The copyright runs for 50 years, and you can pay $1.00 for ANOTHER 50 years?
It's not exactly like the old 28+28 scheme of 1909-1963. The Eldred Act proposes 50 years, and $1.00 per year for another 45 years. The goal there is to put an expensive bookkeeping burden on those who want to keep a copyright.
And any politician who supported that bill should be voted out of office for stupidity,
THOMAS tells me that Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah sponsored the Bono Act, and that the following senators co-sponsored it. Vote them out if they're still in office.
Because not even 20 percent of the House or Senate opposed the Bono Act, they cast a voice vote, which does not record who voted for or against a bill. (Twenty percent of either house can force a roll-call vote in that house.)
Put every song in existance on-line in one central location for download at a reasonable price (25 cents per song or less) in standard mp3 format with no DRM crap.
Given that the songwriter automatically gets eight cents per download (pursuant to 17 USC 115 and corresponding regulation), the recording artist would get nothing out of this.
They have an expectation that specific works will be made available to them--to which they would otherwise not have access--if they provide without permission certain copyrighted works ... I would suggest that only in the latter case could a 'financial gain' argument even be considered.
Many people on WinMX have set "share or get disconnected" policies. Some Direct Connect hubs have a similar policy. The eMule client for the eDonkey network punishes leechers in the queue. If a rare file is available on peers behind such a policy, then the copyright owner may find evidence for such an expectation.
The law defines "financial gain" to "includ[e] receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works."
I lose the ablility to copy music I purchased to another device, for my own use.
Line out, line in. The labels are not going to plug this analog hole within the foreseeable future, even if the analog hole does look like goatse.cx to labels.
All my music are ripped from my own CD collection to 128 WMA.
WMA sucks.
In general, [copyright infringers] are not criminals--in most jurisdictions, they are not committing a crime within the definition of criminal law.
Not committing a crime? Oh really?
Is this the first time software can actually be made to dramatically increase the quality of a movie, even if the source sucks?
Image processing systems have contained "noise reduction" processes for a long time. However, no software can save a bad script.
How can IE continue to matter exclusively if it's no longer being maintained (apart from security patches) for the Windows operating systems in use today?
Besides, IE can view MNG images with a plug-in.
But "idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery" seems to aptly describe what code is and does to me.
And that's why it's so easy to clean-room a copyrighted piece of code into a clean-room piece of code, because translation into English and back preserves only the process.
Computer programs are copyrighted as literary works.
Most seem to be under the delusion that P2P networks don't hurt sales.
Does P2P file sharing hurt record sales more than a slow economy and fewer new titles?
And many who aren't under that delusion believe that a one-line disclaimer saying "don't use this software for copyright infringement" is plausible deniability.
In the USA: If a product is capable of substantial non-infringing use, then making or selling that product is not contributory infringement of copyright in works that the product is able to copy (RIAA v. Grokster, citing Sony v. Universal).
Personally, yes, I'm against copyright law
I agree that copyright as we know it is fundamentally broken, but what alternative model gives authors an incentive to create works without copyright's drawbacks? I know of patronage (that is, commissioning of original works for use in advertising) and the Street Performer Protocol (which is useful for series), but are there other models with as wide applicability as copyright?
Why should music be public domain and freely available if software (also easily copied and distributed) can be held down under a license?
I have to separate my views on music itself from my views on recordings of that music. I understand that performing artists need to eat and that record labels need to recover their costs somehow. That's why I buy after I try.
But songwriters and their publishers have become too litigious as of recently, winning court decisions and setting precedents that, when taken together with basic music theory, seem to indicate that under U.S. copyright law's definition of originality, it's impossible to write original music.
(I admit that this issue is tangential to the RIAA topic because licensing of musical works is the domain of BMI and Harry Fox rather than the RIAA.)
The proper way for U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents to screw the Bono estate is to sign a petition to pass a law to take a bite out of the Bono Act.
I'm in Australia ...
If Australian patent law is anything like European patent law, an inventor who has filed for a patent on an invention outside Australia has 365 days to file in Australia. I wouldn't suggest celebrating for another year.
The holder of a patent in an invention has the right to prevent anybody from making, using, offering to sell, or selling the patented invention.
"Prior art" is exactly why the European and Japanese patents expire almost one year to the day after the U.S. patent does. After filing for a patent in the States, the inventor must file abroad within 365 days or loses the right to file abroad at all.
No, I don't know why Canada is an exception.