If you're using Avid Symphony, Avid|DS, Avid|DS HD, or Avid|DS HD Editor, you are most certainly uisng a Windows box as you can't run any of this on any other system. If you are running 3D StudioMAX, once again, you are running Windows because this is all it runs on. Should I go on?
"No one can just hand me a disk of the Angel episode I missed last week or something."
Correcty me if I'm wrong but isn't that the purpose of Tivo devices? You're supposed to record the show on the Tivo device and watch it at your leisure.
Personally I would like to be able to have the service be unattached to the cable company and choose which DVR I want to use. Cable companies woudl provide their schedules in XML or some other similar foramt and let the DVRs decode the data on their own within the constraints of their own UI.
I think you need to reread teh article. Leibowitz explicitely states that fair use isn't gone, after all you can still copy the passage by hand, it's just not as easy as copy and paste. Nothing in copyright law states that copyright holders MUST make it as easy as possible to copy passages, images or parts of music.
I'm assuming that by "...materials you have clearly paid for..." you are referring to DVDs, CDs and the like. I'd only point out that you in no way own the content, you merely own the physical disc. You may do with the disc as you please but you have very few rights in regards to the content. If you want to do with the content as you please, you're going to have to pony up some major cash to do so.
Citizens should learn that they do NOT live in a Democracy, they live in a Democratic REPUBLIC. Once you finally learn the distinction you will undertsand why things are done the way they are and you might be in a better position to improve the situation through reasonable compromise. Until then you are a worthless slashbot, repeating the sentiments of others here for the sake of earning karma.
Many season 1 shows aren't all that great, even (especially?) sci-fi shows. Look at shows like the X-Files, ST:TNG (really all the ST spin-offs) or Earth: Final Conflict. Shows evolve as characters are developed, bad plot decisions from the first seasons are written off and fan input is worked into the new episodes. Stargate: SG-1 took a season or two before many of the kinks were worked out and a few story plotlines could be established. Now if I could only remember when it comes on I'd be set.
Some programmers do make lots of money. You're trying to compare apples to oranges though. If you want to compare Nomar Garciaparra or The Rolling Stones to a programmer, try John Carmack. If you want to compare yourself to sports players or musicians try the minor leage players and the bands that play in the more prominent urban clubs (Mama Kin's, though it's now closed, comes to mind). Keep things in perspective. Many artists and athletes work a second job to be able to support themselves and their families.
"This may be true in some cases, but the major problem is that the MPAA isn't allowing anybody to license the content. (If somebody knows better, please correct me. I'm going to be up front and tell you that what I just said is a half-informed statement.)"
I have no data either but one has to ask, what kind of offers are being made? Are they reasonable? Are they legitimate? Have the business plans been well thought out or is it more dot.com hype? My guess is it's more hype than not and once this material is in a digital form and distributed on the web the MPAA member companies stand to lose a substantial amount of money unless they cover themselves through the licensing contracts (for instance, they make piracy a problem of the dot.com has to deal with, the studio gets their fees regardless.)
I have no problem with graffiti art. If graffiti artists were hired to paint a mural in a local community on a wall set aside for this artwork, I'm all for it. What I have a problem with is vandalism. Most graffiti is nothing more than this.
Oh, really persuasive argument there chief. Crime costs too much to prosecute so we shoudl just fine the criminal and send them on theri merry way. What happens when graffiti becomes more common? It raises the cost to clean up and while it might still be more expensive to prosecute ALL those involved, it increases taxes paid by the citizens because cleanup costs have increased.
Actually the RIAA as a group doesn't have any say how music is released. It't up to the labels themselves to determine how best to release music. So far the internet has shown to be a place where copyrights aren't respected and people will swap music without regard for the law. These people aren't hurting the labels, they're hurting the musicians. Are labels contracts fair? Questionable. If musicians like Courtney Love are so concerned, perhaps they should invest in their own labels and promote artists as they see fit. There's nothing the RIAA and their member companies can do about it. This is how one proves the internet is a viable market, not by violating copyright laws.
As for fair use and the DMCA, Film88 is not providing material through a manner compliant with fair use exemptions nor have they violated the DMCA. I don't see any reason to bring these up except to raise the spectre of "big corporation = bad, small internet starutp = good, uggh". That's not an argument, it's an opinion.
However, I won't disagree that the internet could be a legitimate market for music but it's up to the content creators to provide the distribution of the content. If startups like Napster want to exist, they need to negotiate with the content owners to license the work and provide a reasonable business model customers will flock to. Napster and Film88.com have gone about this backwards and have created a business model based on illegal behavior. Not only that but they are holding the content creators hostage by saying, "we'll keep giving away your work unless you play by our rules." According to US and International law this is illegal because copyrights protect the work.
What about the rights the content creators have? You do realize they have rights that are being taken away by sites like Film88 don't you? Even if we went to the original 14/14 year copyright terms, sites like this and applications like Napster are in gross violation of copyright law because they make current works available for download, not works available in the public domain. I don't care how many semantics games you play with the definition of theft, you are breaking the law, even if it were reverted to the original "reasonable" terms.
When are you going to understand that these poeple do not have the RIGHT to distribute movies without licensing them from the film industry? You people talk about YOUR rights being taken away and violated, what about the rights of the film and music industries? You have heard of that little piece of paper entitled the US COnstitution? It gives content creators five basic rights concerning their works of art, distribution being one of them. When a site like Napster or Film88 provides the same content without licensing the right to do so they are taking away the rights of the content creators. I hope the MPAA shuts this site down.
And what do you call the flagrant copying and distribution of copyrighted material by internet users? I'd call that "rights-trampling". People have taken fair use and abused it beyond belief and expect numerous industries to just change their business models so people can have copyrighted material for free. Sorry, but illegal business models should be shut down, not dealt with.
While this didn't really encourage one to read the manual, their animation software (RayDream and Bryce) manuals had a tiny flip book in the corner. A couple topics caught my attention while flipping through and watching the submarine float around and I read those but I rarely had to reference the manual.
Personally I want my manuals to remain straight forward and informative. I don't want cute anecdotes or useless tutorials, just information. If I want the latter I'll buy a third party book which covers the material in this manner. The other thing I don't want is HTML help systems to replace the printed manuals. HTML help manuals are so poorly designed it's more cumbersome to search through them than it is a dead tree edition.
Threre a couple Tablet PC designs which mimic the Vadem Clio HPC device. The screens on these devices flip up to work much like a regular laptop and they can flip around, covering the keyboard for pen input. The monitor can then close much like a laptop protecting the screen from harm. Granted, not all Tablet PCs will follow this form factor design but a few will.
Also, I would wager that one will be able to purchase a special case much like you can purchase laptop and PDA cases today. I'm sure there won't be nay problems being able to properly protect these devices either direct from the manufacturers or through third parties.
Actually Microsoft has already demonstrated these Tablet PCs with handwriting recognition and they are in the process of rolling handwriting recognition into a future release of Windows XP designed for the Tablet PC named, accordingly, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Not to mention that Microsoft already has some solid handwriting recognition software in their PocketPC devices as well as handwriting recognition in Office XP.
You also asked how useful these devices could be without handwriting recognition? I'm a graphic designer and I am anxiously awaiting the time when I can buy one of these so I can sketch away from my desktop workstation. I want to be able to see what I am drawing, unlike the experience I have with my Wacom Intuous tablet. While the Intuous is great, I feel disconnected from what I'm drawing. I could either buy one of these devices or the new Wacom Cintiq but then I couldn't draw sitting in the park on a nice day like today.
I also read. I would like to be able to take an MS eBook or Adobe Acrobat Reader book along with me on the public transportation here in Boston. I would like to read in bed without having to turn on a light behind me or use one of those crappy book lights. Currently my PocketPC fills in for this purpose but it would be nice to have a larger screen and a laptop computer just doesn't interest me; not with these Tablet PCs around the corner.
Demonstrate to me why you have the right to take another's thoughts and use them for your own purposes? Apparently the framer's of the Constitution felt that the right to own the interpretations of one's ideas was vital to the expansion of science and art in America; so much so they put it in the Constitution itself instead of making it an amendment.
Don't forget that First Amendment issues are raised when discussion about banning marketing mail (electronic or snail) is raised. In the US we are bound by the Constitution wheteher we like it or not and regardless of its consequences; it's a double-edged sword that needs to be handled very carefully. The spammers know this and are going to this argument as long as they can.
I can tell you what it was NOT running. If the systems were running any flavor of Windows Server this information would be in the headline. This leaves you with a flavor of *nix; pick one.
The factual information is educating on it's own - and the analysis of why they think it will fail is interesting as well.
Factul information? Where? Interesting? About as interesting as your commentary Hemos. You should get out more if you thought that article was enlightneing and factual.
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There is no violation of fair use here and if you think there is you need to read up on fair use again because you have completely missed the boat.
If you're using Avid Symphony, Avid|DS, Avid|DS HD, or Avid|DS HD Editor, you are most certainly uisng a Windows box as you can't run any of this on any other system. If you are running 3D StudioMAX, once again, you are running Windows because this is all it runs on. Should I go on?
Correcty me if I'm wrong but isn't that the purpose of Tivo devices? You're supposed to record the show on the Tivo device and watch it at your leisure.
Personally I would like to be able to have the service be unattached to the cable company and choose which DVR I want to use. Cable companies woudl provide their schedules in XML or some other similar foramt and let the DVRs decode the data on their own within the constraints of their own UI.
I think you need to reread teh article. Leibowitz explicitely states that fair use isn't gone, after all you can still copy the passage by hand, it's just not as easy as copy and paste. Nothing in copyright law states that copyright holders MUST make it as easy as possible to copy passages, images or parts of music.
I'm assuming that by "...materials you have clearly paid for..." you are referring to DVDs, CDs and the like. I'd only point out that you in no way own the content, you merely own the physical disc. You may do with the disc as you please but you have very few rights in regards to the content. If you want to do with the content as you please, you're going to have to pony up some major cash to do so.
Citizens should learn that they do NOT live in a Democracy, they live in a Democratic REPUBLIC. Once you finally learn the distinction you will undertsand why things are done the way they are and you might be in a better position to improve the situation through reasonable compromise. Until then you are a worthless slashbot, repeating the sentiments of others here for the sake of earning karma.
Many season 1 shows aren't all that great, even (especially?) sci-fi shows. Look at shows like the X-Files, ST:TNG (really all the ST spin-offs) or Earth: Final Conflict. Shows evolve as characters are developed, bad plot decisions from the first seasons are written off and fan input is worked into the new episodes. Stargate: SG-1 took a season or two before many of the kinks were worked out and a few story plotlines could be established. Now if I could only remember when it comes on I'd be set.
If companies didn't market their products there would be no product awareness by the consumer and they wouldn't know to buy the product.
Some programmers do make lots of money. You're trying to compare apples to oranges though. If you want to compare Nomar Garciaparra or The Rolling Stones to a programmer, try John Carmack. If you want to compare yourself to sports players or musicians try the minor leage players and the bands that play in the more prominent urban clubs (Mama Kin's, though it's now closed, comes to mind). Keep things in perspective. Many artists and athletes work a second job to be able to support themselves and their families.
I have no data either but one has to ask, what kind of offers are being made? Are they reasonable? Are they legitimate? Have the business plans been well thought out or is it more dot.com hype? My guess is it's more hype than not and once this material is in a digital form and distributed on the web the MPAA member companies stand to lose a substantial amount of money unless they cover themselves through the licensing contracts (for instance, they make piracy a problem of the dot.com has to deal with, the studio gets their fees regardless.)
I have no problem with graffiti art. If graffiti artists were hired to paint a mural in a local community on a wall set aside for this artwork, I'm all for it. What I have a problem with is vandalism. Most graffiti is nothing more than this.
Oh, really persuasive argument there chief. Crime costs too much to prosecute so we shoudl just fine the criminal and send them on theri merry way. What happens when graffiti becomes more common? It raises the cost to clean up and while it might still be more expensive to prosecute ALL those involved, it increases taxes paid by the citizens because cleanup costs have increased.
Actually the RIAA as a group doesn't have any say how music is released. It't up to the labels themselves to determine how best to release music. So far the internet has shown to be a place where copyrights aren't respected and people will swap music without regard for the law. These people aren't hurting the labels, they're hurting the musicians. Are labels contracts fair? Questionable. If musicians like Courtney Love are so concerned, perhaps they should invest in their own labels and promote artists as they see fit. There's nothing the RIAA and their member companies can do about it. This is how one proves the internet is a viable market, not by violating copyright laws.
As for fair use and the DMCA, Film88 is not providing material through a manner compliant with fair use exemptions nor have they violated the DMCA. I don't see any reason to bring these up except to raise the spectre of "big corporation = bad, small internet starutp = good, uggh". That's not an argument, it's an opinion.
However, I won't disagree that the internet could be a legitimate market for music but it's up to the content creators to provide the distribution of the content. If startups like Napster want to exist, they need to negotiate with the content owners to license the work and provide a reasonable business model customers will flock to. Napster and Film88.com have gone about this backwards and have created a business model based on illegal behavior. Not only that but they are holding the content creators hostage by saying, "we'll keep giving away your work unless you play by our rules." According to US and International law this is illegal because copyrights protect the work.
What about the rights the content creators have? You do realize they have rights that are being taken away by sites like Film88 don't you? Even if we went to the original 14/14 year copyright terms, sites like this and applications like Napster are in gross violation of copyright law because they make current works available for download, not works available in the public domain. I don't care how many semantics games you play with the definition of theft, you are breaking the law, even if it were reverted to the original "reasonable" terms.
When are you going to understand that these poeple do not have the RIGHT to distribute movies without licensing them from the film industry? You people talk about YOUR rights being taken away and violated, what about the rights of the film and music industries? You have heard of that little piece of paper entitled the US COnstitution? It gives content creators five basic rights concerning their works of art, distribution being one of them. When a site like Napster or Film88 provides the same content without licensing the right to do so they are taking away the rights of the content creators. I hope the MPAA shuts this site down.
And what do you call the flagrant copying and distribution of copyrighted material by internet users? I'd call that "rights-trampling". People have taken fair use and abused it beyond belief and expect numerous industries to just change their business models so people can have copyrighted material for free. Sorry, but illegal business models should be shut down, not dealt with.
While this didn't really encourage one to read the manual, their animation software (RayDream and Bryce) manuals had a tiny flip book in the corner. A couple topics caught my attention while flipping through and watching the submarine float around and I read those but I rarely had to reference the manual.
Personally I want my manuals to remain straight forward and informative. I don't want cute anecdotes or useless tutorials, just information. If I want the latter I'll buy a third party book which covers the material in this manner. The other thing I don't want is HTML help systems to replace the printed manuals. HTML help manuals are so poorly designed it's more cumbersome to search through them than it is a dead tree edition.
Threre a couple Tablet PC designs which mimic the Vadem Clio HPC device. The screens on these devices flip up to work much like a regular laptop and they can flip around, covering the keyboard for pen input. The monitor can then close much like a laptop protecting the screen from harm. Granted, not all Tablet PCs will follow this form factor design but a few will.
Also, I would wager that one will be able to purchase a special case much like you can purchase laptop and PDA cases today. I'm sure there won't be nay problems being able to properly protect these devices either direct from the manufacturers or through third parties.
Actually Microsoft has already demonstrated these Tablet PCs with handwriting recognition and they are in the process of rolling handwriting recognition into a future release of Windows XP designed for the Tablet PC named, accordingly, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Not to mention that Microsoft already has some solid handwriting recognition software in their PocketPC devices as well as handwriting recognition in Office XP.
You also asked how useful these devices could be without handwriting recognition? I'm a graphic designer and I am anxiously awaiting the time when I can buy one of these so I can sketch away from my desktop workstation. I want to be able to see what I am drawing, unlike the experience I have with my Wacom Intuous tablet. While the Intuous is great, I feel disconnected from what I'm drawing. I could either buy one of these devices or the new Wacom Cintiq but then I couldn't draw sitting in the park on a nice day like today.
I also read. I would like to be able to take an MS eBook or Adobe Acrobat Reader book along with me on the public transportation here in Boston. I would like to read in bed without having to turn on a light behind me or use one of those crappy book lights. Currently my PocketPC fills in for this purpose but it would be nice to have a larger screen and a laptop computer just doesn't interest me; not with these Tablet PCs around the corner.
Demonstrate to me why you have the right to take another's thoughts and use them for your own purposes? Apparently the framer's of the Constitution felt that the right to own the interpretations of one's ideas was vital to the expansion of science and art in America; so much so they put it in the Constitution itself instead of making it an amendment.
Don't forget that First Amendment issues are raised when discussion about banning marketing mail (electronic or snail) is raised. In the US we are bound by the Constitution wheteher we like it or not and regardless of its consequences; it's a double-edged sword that needs to be handled very carefully. The spammers know this and are going to this argument as long as they can.
...that wants to eliminate copyrights so ANYONE can make changes like this on a whim?
Yeah, count my vote on that one.
I can tell you what it was NOT running. If the systems were running any flavor of Windows Server this information would be in the headline. This leaves you with a flavor of *nix; pick one.
So you're suggesting we rip up the Constitution and forget the First Amendment ever existed? Oh yeah, that's MUUUUUUCH better.
Factul information? Where? Interesting? About as interesting as your commentary Hemos. You should get out more if you thought that article was enlightneing and factual.