Australians are getting ripped off, and are jack of it, so piracy is increasing. No surprises there.
Some examples: The AUD and USD are close enough to each other to be comparable.
Netflix Streaming only subscription in US - $8 per month UNLIMITED. Streaming service in Australia (no Unlimited subscription services exist as far as I know. Bigpond movies $6/movie. Sony on PS3 $6 or $7/movie, Quicklix $6/movie
New release DVD purchased in Australia (Battle: Los Angeles) - $30 New release DVD purchased in US (Battle: Los Angeles) - $20
New release Blu-Ray purchased in Australia (Battle: Los Angeles) - $40 New release Blu-Ray purchased in US (Battle: Los Angeles) - $30
2D Cinema Ticket in Australia - $15.50 2D Cinema Ticket in the US - ~$10.00
A simple thanks is never enough. From a long time reader, small time contributer, I can't thank you enough for the hard work and effort that has made my world a better place.
Long live/. even if http:// is redundant to the masses.
I use VBA in word docs for doing large scale mail merges where I save each merged doc as an indivdual file named with the contents of two merged cells. I re-use this code lots, but it still place it inside the merge template, because it is easier to distribute for people to use.
We have broadcast standards for TV stations and radio, same as in the US. In Australia, our standards are much more relaxed. We don't need to sensor out anywhere near as much nudity or bad language from free to air broadcasts.
People moaned to the regulator about a TV STATION braodcasting a "LIVE Sexual Assult" on the internet. So people complained that this was a breach of the television code of conduct.
The regulator reviewed the incident and said no breach occured because it was an internet broadcast, and the footage was not aired on TV. They then went on to say that the legislation should be reviewed in light of changing technology.
This would suggest that "Licensed" broadcasters may have to uphold the same standards on the web as they do on FTA TV, which oddly enough is a logical bow to draw.
It does NOT mean they try and apply that regulation on the rest of the worlds content coming into Australia.
I have a DSL 2+ connection, and I am about 800m (half mile) from the exchange.
I synch at 18.5Mb/1Mbps When I download I get 1.8MBytes ti 2Mbytes per second from the few hosts that can actually keep up with this kind of throughput.
For the most parts I am limited by the available bandwidth of the site providers.
P2P however is blindingly fast with these speeds.
Latency for Online gaming (eg: WOW with US hosts) sucks hard though at 250ms MINIMUM.
In the FTA hearings the democrats (minor party in Aus) pushed for the introduction of Fair use into to counter-balance the DMCA provisions. The recommendations presented to the government include fair-use provisions
If you go back and read the public submissions, a large number of them were warning the government that DMCA without fair-use would unbalance the copyright laws.
Last I looked, they hadn't decided on a codec for blu-ray and they had decided on one for HD-DVD, and there was only one.
Well You obviously haven't been looking for a *while* and therefor shouldn't post on stuff like this.
BD-Rom supports MPEG2 (dvd), Mpeg4 AVC (H.264), and VC-1 (MS WMP9)
And HD-DVD supports EXACTLY the same.
I can't believe how short sighted that argument is.
Copyright is a law of Balance between the Copyright Holder and the consumer. Part of that balance allows Fair Use. You know, I buy a DVD, I can copy it to my PC, or buy a CD and copy it to tape.
The copyright holder then decides they only want to collect the cash, and not allow the fair use... and then they give us a "little" of that back and you call that a Good thing ???
If the media companies don't put the balance back in copyright, the consumers will do it for them, and failing that *eventually* the courts will.
Weak kneed leaders in the U.S. have been totally 100% cowed by irrational environmental types who do not use any of this data or statistical evidence or engineering facts to oppose anything but "green".
What ? You are kidding me right. At last count - how many nuclear power plants are there in the USA ? More than 100. When was the last one opened ? 1997.
Have you heard of the US "Nuclear Power 2010 Program"?
The current huge argument is over whether it is human to beat them to death with Golf clubs.
Seriously, a NT minister suggested that golf clubs worked great, and lots of animal liberationists lost it, and suggested the only humane way was to put something on their back (can't remember what, put them in a plastic bag and then freeze them to death.
Hello people, this Toad is destroying our Native wildlife and you are worried about cruelty ????
Kontiki is a media distribution platform. They call their technology "Grid Computing" but there is a definite element of P2P in there if you read through the details
Groove Corporate File Sharing Software. Here is a Case Study that involved the navy.
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And then we use Priceusa.com to have it remailed.
Mainstream - maybe,maybe not. But to see a balanced view from a government owned media outlet is encouraging.
Australians are getting ripped off, and are jack of it, so piracy is increasing. No surprises there.
Some examples:
The AUD and USD are close enough to each other to be comparable.
Netflix Streaming only subscription in US - $8 per month UNLIMITED.
Streaming service in Australia (no Unlimited subscription services exist as far as I know.
Bigpond movies $6/movie. Sony on PS3 $6 or $7/movie, Quicklix $6/movie
New release DVD purchased in Australia (Battle: Los Angeles) - $30
New release DVD purchased in US (Battle: Los Angeles) - $20
New release Blu-Ray purchased in Australia (Battle: Los Angeles) - $40
New release Blu-Ray purchased in US (Battle: Los Angeles) - $30
2D Cinema Ticket in Australia - $15.50
2D Cinema Ticket in the US - ~$10.00
A simple thanks is never enough.
From a long time reader, small time contributer, I can't thank you enough for the hard work and effort that has made my world a better place.
Long live /. even if http:// is redundant to the masses.
I use VBA in word docs for doing large scale mail merges where I save each merged doc as an indivdual file named with the contents of two merged cells. I re-use this code lots, but it still place it inside the merge template, because it is easier to distribute for people to use.
yeah there should be a royal-free requirement on any patent work submited for standardisation but that's a whole new kettle of fish
the bigger picture
CSIRO has been "negotiating" licences for the patents with LOTS of copmnanies, including buffalo, dell, microsoft, HP, netgear etc etc etc.
Buffalo file for invalidation
CSIRO claimed immunity (worth a shot, but obviously failed)
then counter-sue for unpaid royalties.
So it sounds more complicated than it is. The counter-suit is the logical response to an invalidation suit.
and yeah, plenty of US companies to sue. don't have to worry about the rest of the world if you can sue them all in the US
it's called precedent. By winning this one, every other company will pay rather than fight, because the judges will refer to the buffalo case.
The poster of this comment is spot on.
We have broadcast standards for TV stations and radio, same as in the US. In Australia, our standards are much more relaxed. We don't need to sensor out anywhere near as much nudity or bad language from free to air broadcasts.
People moaned to the regulator about a TV STATION braodcasting a "LIVE Sexual Assult" on the internet. So people complained that this was a breach of the television code of conduct.
The regulator reviewed the incident and said no breach occured because it was an internet broadcast, and the footage was not aired on TV. They then went on to say that the legislation should be reviewed in light of changing technology.
This would suggest that "Licensed" broadcasters may have to uphold the same standards on the web as they do on FTA TV, which oddly enough is a logical bow to draw.
It does NOT mean they try and apply that regulation on the rest of the worlds content coming into Australia.
I have a DSL 2+ connection, and I am about 800m (half mile) from the exchange.
I synch at 18.5Mb/1Mbps
When I download I get 1.8MBytes ti 2Mbytes per second from the few hosts that can actually keep up with this kind of throughput.
For the most parts I am limited by the available bandwidth of the site providers.
P2P however is blindingly fast with these speeds.
Latency for Online gaming (eg: WOW with US hosts) sucks hard though at 250ms MINIMUM.
In the FTA hearings the democrats (minor party in Aus) pushed for the introduction of Fair use into to counter-balance the DMCA provisions. The recommendations presented to the government include fair-use provisions
If you go back and read the public submissions, a large number of them were warning the government that DMCA without fair-use would unbalance the copyright laws.
Microsoft's problem with a HD-DVD add-on drive is going to be interface speed. Are you going to plug it into the USB 2.0 port?
never mind you say, we can cache the game on the HDD... but how many will fit?
I think this is a big problem for Microsoft.
I can't believe how short sighted that argument is.
Copyright is a law of Balance between the Copyright Holder and the consumer. Part of that balance allows Fair Use. You know, I buy a DVD, I can copy it to my PC, or buy a CD and copy it to tape.
The copyright holder then decides they only want to collect the cash, and not allow the fair use... and then they give us a "little" of that back and you call that a Good thing ???
If the media companies don't put the balance back in copyright, the consumers will do it for them, and failing that *eventually* the courts will.
.. he gave up his spyware business to focus on the olympics...
Well at least the olympics are good for reducing spam right ?
What ? You are kidding me right. At last count - how many nuclear power plants are there in the USA ? More than 100. When was the last one opened ? 1997.
Have you heard of the US "Nuclear Power 2010 Program"?
The damn cane toads are always in the news here.
The current huge argument is over whether it is human to beat them to death with Golf clubs.
Seriously, a NT minister suggested that golf clubs worked great, and lots of animal liberationists lost it, and suggested the only humane way was to put something on their back (can't remember what, put them in a plastic bag and then freeze them to death.
Hello people, this Toad is destroying our Native wildlife and you are worried about cruelty ????
Component and Composite and different.
Component can do 1080i no probs.
In Australia you can tax deduct 100% of the cost of a laptop in the first year. you can onlydeduct 33% of a desktop in the first year.
As such there is a huge incentive to buy laptops rather than desktops.
it reads to me like they are trying to patent DHCP
well you are obvioulsy not in Australia... because the highest peak here aint even 8000Ft.
All I can say is - forget licences and rudness. This is hypocrisy ! The pot calling the kettle black.
"I want alll of the code everyone else has written, but I don't wanna share any of my code with anyone else".
Will he honestly never take code from the original again.... Puhlllleeeeaaaassseeeee
Well - people like that tend to end up very lonely indeed.
Groove Corporate File Sharing Software. Here is a Case Study that involved the navy.
Don't feel guilty. You worked for a corporation, and were bound by law to do what was in their best interests....
remorse yes, but not guilt.
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These bags are incredibly sturdy, I travelled around asia with my laptop and clothes in this baby.
mine was silver and blue.