You have more power than the courts and lawmakers: the power of your wallet. If you do not like what your provider forces you to see, take buisness elsewhere.
In the United States, only one or two companies own the copper that carries high-speed residential Internet access in any given town. Few working-class families can afford the $200,000 setup fee to relocate a family to an area served by a different provider.
If there's really neither a current DivX player, nor a computer able to run an old DivX player in 20 years, there still will be an emulator for x86 hardware.
Better yet:
There exists freely available source code to parse AVI files and to decode MPEG-4 Simple (DivX) video and MPEG-1 audio layer 3 (MP3) audio.
The patents on DivX and MP3 will have expired after 20 years (provided that something like this doesn't pass).
I assume that C compilers (and the rest of the GNU system) will continue to be maintained after 20 years. Heck, if we're lucky, we might all be running HURD by then;-)
So just put the source code for an AVI player and codecs alongside your movies.
The ONLY reason [peer-to-peer file transfer] networks exist is to trade free stuff that is supposed to cost money.
Then why did Red Hat decide to release the latest version of its GNU/Linux distribution on a P2P system called BitTorrent?
Madonna sounded pretty pleased that I'd downloaded that song.
She sounded pleased because I paid Warner Bros. Records for the MP3. Want to see my receipt?
Name a popular RIAA member artist that condones their music being ripped off their CD and freely traded on P2P networks.
What about the Offspring, as quistas mentioned? What about System of a Down, who even called an album "Steal This Album!"? What about Smashing Pumpkins, who released the band's Machina II album on vinyl and suggested that it be ripped and distributed online? What about Eminem, who contradicts himself by speaking out publicly against piracy yet suggesting that listeners "download the audio on MP3 and show the whole world" in the lyrics to "The Real Slim Shady"?
I see [the "preview"] argument occassionally
I have a rule: once I have pirated 3 songs from an album, I make a point to pick up an authorized copy of the CD next time I'm out.
the ACC seems to be missing everything above 16Khz
Well so are most MP3s. If there's something significant going on in the treble, especially in 8000-12000 Hz, most people can't hear the difference between the original and the same thing with a low-pass filter at 16000 Hz. Things like this are part of the masking model that underlie lossy codecs such as Ogg, AAC, and MP3.
The DMCA EXPRESSLY says that circumvention of an access control mechanism for the purpose of making fair use of a work is NOT PROHIBITED.
To what part of 17 USC 1201 do you refer? If 1201(c)(1), how do you reconcile this with the decision in Universal v. Reimerdes (the DeCSS case)? The court interpreted 1201(c)(1) to state that fair use is not a defense to circumvention but only a defense to infringement, which is completely orthogonal to circumvention.
How so? You can use a RW to record an album, if you want, then reuse the disc.
Really? I thought CD-RW discs developed uncorrectable errors at the C2 level after about 50 write cycles. The oft-quoted "1000 writes" figure apparently includes writes that contain errors corrected at the third level of error correction used only in CD-ROM that is not used for Red Book audio or VCD video, which use only C1 and C2 error correction. Slashdot did an article on that but I can't seem to find it because I forget which words the article used.
BTW, my family has four CD players, and not one has a problem with CD-RW discs. I use CD-RW for proofing mix CDs.
are the same people who don't understand why the lack of CMYK support is such a limiting factor for Gimp.
Is timecode patented? The biggest things holding back CMYK support in GIMP are the patents on acceptable-quality conversions between RGB and CMYK color spaces.
That said, does one need timecode for pop music production?
If your label represents independent artists, and you want to license your label's recordings to Apple Computer for use in the iTunes store, contact Apple Computer.
If the laws of the Netherlands prohibit the normal action of the software bundled with this new PC, then Microsoft will probably just "region code" the system not to work in the Netherlands.
If purchasing permanent copies of recordings "does not allow the RIAA's sponsers[sic] to collect enough money", then how the hex did Apple manage to strike a deal with major labels and music publishers to offer their works in the iTunes store?
Had you read my post and checked out the FrontierLabs mp3 player
I did.
you'd have seen that it supports flash ram up to 1gb
I was commenting that while quite a few other players support larger cards, they just come bundled with small cards to keep the price of the player down.
MP3 players that don't ship with larger than 128 megs of storage space
There exist specific "price points" that hold psychological power in an American or European consumer's mind. Flash storage is relatively expensive. Bundling more than 128 MB of flash with a player would push it into a less attractive price bracket. Let those who want to add more than two hours of music to their pocket compressed audio player buy a larger CF card, or possibly switch to a player with rotating magnetic or optical storage. For example, I have an MP3 player with 650 MB of space. It plays MP3 audio written to a CD-RW disc.
This thing was ported to X-Box not the other way around. Remember?
I'm guessing that Bungie added some new visual effects between being bought by Microsoft and finishing the Xbox version, and the changes have to propagate throughout the OpenGL and DirectX branches of the graphics engine.
Most console programming jobs require several years of experience. How does one learn how to program for a console that hasn't been dead for ten years, to escape the vicious cycle of lack of experience?
Get the dongle. It may not deter hackers, but suits are not hackers.
The phrase "free software", especially when used on Slashdot in the context of "free software community" or "free software subculture" as in sinergy's comment, typically refers to any program licensed to the public under terms that meet these four criteria, some of which require access to the program's source code. The set of programs covered under this definition almost completely mutually overlaps the set of programs covered by the Open Source Definition, which is descended from the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
In general, when somebody points out a fallacy to me (such as your "no true Scotsman" fallacy of definition), I go back and debug the argument. Let me express in more precise terms what I feel sinergy meant:
Given: Let a "free software license" be defined by the Free Software Definition published by the Free Software Foundation. Let a "free" program be a program published under a "free software license", and let a "proprietary" program be any other program. Let a "clone" of program A be another program B that closely reimplements the functionality of A. Problem: Find a "free" program in wide use that was not designed as a "clone" of an existing "proprietary" program.
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You have more power than the courts and lawmakers: the power of your wallet. If you do not like what your provider forces you to see, take buisness elsewhere.
In the United States, only one or two companies own the copper that carries high-speed residential Internet access in any given town. Few working-class families can afford the $200,000 setup fee to relocate a family to an area served by a different provider.
why 20 years ?
Because that's how long it takes for patents to run out and for technologies to become no longer profitable.
If there's really neither a current DivX player, nor a computer able to run an old DivX player in 20 years, there still will be an emulator for x86 hardware.
Better yet:
So just put the source code for an AVI player and codecs alongside your movies.
there is a P2P app called circle which actually does have an interface to apt.
Thanks :-)
The ONLY reason [peer-to-peer file transfer] networks exist is to trade free stuff that is supposed to cost money.
Then why did Red Hat decide to release the latest version of its GNU/Linux distribution on a P2P system called BitTorrent?
Madonna sounded pretty pleased that I'd downloaded that song.
She sounded pleased because I paid Warner Bros. Records for the MP3. Want to see my receipt?
Name a popular RIAA member artist that condones their music being ripped off their CD and freely traded on P2P networks.
What about the Offspring, as quistas mentioned? What about System of a Down, who even called an album "Steal This Album!"? What about Smashing Pumpkins, who released the band's Machina II album on vinyl and suggested that it be ripped and distributed online? What about Eminem, who contradicts himself by speaking out publicly against piracy yet suggesting that listeners "download the audio on MP3 and show the whole world" in the lyrics to "The Real Slim Shady"?
I see [the "preview"] argument occassionally
I have a rule: once I have pirated 3 songs from an album, I make a point to pick up an authorized copy of the CD next time I'm out.
the ACC seems to be missing everything above 16Khz
Well so are most MP3s. If there's something significant going on in the treble, especially in 8000-12000 Hz, most people can't hear the difference between the original and the same thing with a low-pass filter at 16000 Hz. Things like this are part of the masking model that underlie lossy codecs such as Ogg, AAC, and MP3.
The DMCA EXPRESSLY says that circumvention of an access control mechanism for the purpose of making fair use of a work is NOT PROHIBITED.
To what part of 17 USC 1201 do you refer? If 1201(c)(1), how do you reconcile this with the decision in Universal v. Reimerdes (the DeCSS case)? The court interpreted 1201(c)(1) to state that fair use is not a defense to circumvention but only a defense to infringement, which is completely orthogonal to circumvention.
How so? You can use a RW to record an album, if you want, then reuse the disc.
Really? I thought CD-RW discs developed uncorrectable errors at the C2 level after about 50 write cycles. The oft-quoted "1000 writes" figure apparently includes writes that contain errors corrected at the third level of error correction used only in CD-ROM that is not used for Red Book audio or VCD video, which use only C1 and C2 error correction. Slashdot did an article on that but I can't seem to find it because I forget which words the article used.
BTW, my family has four CD players, and not one has a problem with CD-RW discs. I use CD-RW for proofing mix CDs.
are the same people who don't understand why the lack of CMYK support is such a limiting factor for Gimp.
Is timecode patented? The biggest things holding back CMYK support in GIMP are the patents on acceptable-quality conversions between RGB and CMYK color spaces.
That said, does one need timecode for pop music production?
Just because they did the research means nothing because they would not have been able to do it in the first place without government grants.
When the drug maker buys research that had been funded by government grants, the drug maker pays back the grants at least in part.
Does it allow entry for independant artists?
If your label represents independent artists, and you want to license your label's recordings to Apple Computer for use in the iTunes store, contact Apple Computer.
If the laws of the Netherlands prohibit the normal action of the software bundled with this new PC, then Microsoft will probably just "region code" the system not to work in the Netherlands.
If purchasing permanent copies of recordings "does not allow the RIAA's sponsers[sic] to collect enough money", then how the hex did Apple manage to strike a deal with major labels and music publishers to offer their works in the iTunes store?
you finally persuade this new machine to run Kazaa ... "Hi, this is Hilary Rosen of the RIAA. Please cease your illegal activities immediately"
"What illegal activities? I was just downloading some free software, and that's not illegal."
click to download Redhat ISO.. "I'm sorry Dave I can't let you do that"
That would be suicide. CNN and Fox News would murder Microsoft's reputation for such a brash action.
They are on the multiple standards commuties and have helped bring USB and cd-roms default on all pc's.
Computer stores carried hardly any USB devices until Apple (not Microsoft) started selling iMac computers.
They give their OSes out for free, I believe, after they release the next version anyway. Microsoft won't even let DOS 2 into the public domain.
Yes, Apple does make some prior versions of Mac OS freely available, but it's still not "public domain" for several decades.
Had you read my post and checked out the FrontierLabs mp3 player
I did.
you'd have seen that it supports flash ram up to 1gb
I was commenting that while quite a few other players support larger cards, they just come bundled with small cards to keep the price of the player down.
functional music
"Functional"? Is that some sort of math rock?
The maker of Transformers has bought the Go Bots line. How ironic can it get?
The only statistic worth debating is typing speed. Not hand movement or anything else.
Reducing hand movement can reduce repetitive strain injuries. Do you claim that RSIs are not worth debating?
MP3 players that don't ship with larger than 128 megs of storage space
There exist specific "price points" that hold psychological power in an American or European consumer's mind. Flash storage is relatively expensive. Bundling more than 128 MB of flash with a player would push it into a less attractive price bracket. Let those who want to add more than two hours of music to their pocket compressed audio player buy a larger CF card, or possibly switch to a player with rotating magnetic or optical storage. For example, I have an MP3 player with 650 MB of space. It plays MP3 audio written to a CD-RW disc.
I'm confused.
In Soviet Russia, joke explanation reads YOU!
This thing was ported to X-Box not the other way around. Remember?
I'm guessing that Bungie added some new visual effects between being bought by Microsoft and finishing the Xbox version, and the changes have to propagate throughout the OpenGL and DirectX branches of the graphics engine.
But concentrate on console games.
Most console programming jobs require several years of experience. How does one learn how to program for a console that hasn't been dead for ten years, to escape the vicious cycle of lack of experience?
Get the dongle. It may not deter hackers, but suits are not hackers.
True, but suits are one Google search away from contact with the crackers.
Not Open Source, but free.
The phrase "free software", especially when used on Slashdot in the context of "free software community" or "free software subculture" as in sinergy's comment, typically refers to any program licensed to the public under terms that meet these four criteria, some of which require access to the program's source code. The set of programs covered under this definition almost completely mutually overlaps the set of programs covered by the Open Source Definition, which is descended from the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
In general, when somebody points out a fallacy to me (such as your "no true Scotsman" fallacy of definition), I go back and debug the argument. Let me express in more precise terms what I feel sinergy meant:
Given: Let a "free software license" be defined by the Free Software Definition published by the Free Software Foundation. Let a "free" program be a program published under a "free software license", and let a "proprietary" program be any other program. Let a "clone" of program A be another program B that closely reimplements the functionality of A. Problem: Find a "free" program in wide use that was not designed as a "clone" of an existing "proprietary" program.