I agree - let people copy all they want. Which they're doing anyway - as you've already said. But Amazon is already doing what you propose - and it does work good. I have an alternative. Let em have it - give the movies away.
But here's where I see the money... have the studios release the originals cryptographically signed. This proves that the release is original and not altered - but doesn't prevent copying. People will want original studio releases because they guarantee quality.
Second, build a simple online and telephone payment infrastructure which allows payment of royalties based on the content signatures. Even provide a tipping system for writers, actors, directors, etc...
Third, give free player and codec licenses to all developers willing to include the payment system. The license should be draconian free - simply says that you nag the user at appropriate times if they're playing a movie/song/book/whatever. It also gives the paying user links to more online content, games, interviews, commentary, foreign subtitles and audio, etc... Provide a simple way to get a whole library from a friend.
This isn't bullet-proof, but neither is restrictive DRM. Also, this becomes the friend of users by providing more quality content, and guaranteed clean video encoding.
And lastly - it provides a great playing field for more movies and music. Signing artists and making movies would be far cheaper due to lower manufacturing and distribution costs. Marketing costs come down because you can cross-advertise. Heck, movie companies might make money from only the advertising on their torrent distrubtion sites - they'll be VERY popular.
It also makes the studios into "Good Guys" and turns the perception into "True Artists" instead of "Greedy Bastards." Also, you can give discounts to large buyers and open up all kinds of marketing/sales schemes.
Heck, I'm going to do this myself if nobody else does. I can do the crypto and payment system. It's a no-brainer.
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We'll need decent soil... perhaps terra prata. There's little to no plants that will make those kinds of changes quickly. Brush and trees take decades - with low substainability. I lived in the desert for years with my father, who was a sustainable rancher before his passing.
There is no silver bullet - what needs to be done is a complete environmental system that is sustainable and profitable. Yes, the two can go together - and it will either be government profit (taxation and subsidies) or commercial (energy/water/crop production) - but likely a blend.
It's a great idea - but it doesn't solve the worlds problem. Integrate it into a system or launch a sustainable movement, much like the organic farmers have done.
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The only general purpose CPU series I know that has proper crypto in it is the Via series - even then you'd see the disassembled call to the AES and be able to retrieve the output.
Registers versus memory is a non-starter - they're both easily available on a general purpose computer.
The amount of data that's encrypted on a video stream necessarily entails that a good portion of CPU time is going to be spend decrypting so it will be "obvious" for someone debugging the code.
There is no way to do this in software. Just forget about it. It's all smoke and mirrors - and every cryptographer not on the payroll knows it.
As long as the key and the cryptographic material are on the same host and available - there's no known algorithms to protect the ciphertext. Period. The end.
It's like the King's men trying to stop the printing press.
The table is one megabyte - but the specification specifically says that implementations should utilize a streaming read so that the size is not limited.
That's not to say that some implementation is going to hoark it up - almost guaranteed IMHO.
Heh, it's kindof funny.. back in the 80's some Music Artists put up FarmAid to help offset the effects of a "global economy" upon commodity food prices...
Who's going to feel sorry for (arguably) a bunch of lawyers though?
That all true - but the crux of my argument is that the big price Windows Server license is going away because ISV's (office solution packages, patient records, billing, etc...) are moving towards Linux web-based applications. I don't see Linux on the desktop, same as you.
MS doesn't largely care about the people that can roll their own. What they worry about is the millions of Doctors, Lawyers, and other guys. They get 700-1000$ for each server they sell to those guys - but those Doctors aren't rolling their own - they're buying solutions from independent ISV's.
ISV's in the specialty markets are largely moving towards Linux for servers. Yeah, they'll keep a windows client as "just a web browser" - but they can make more and still be cheaper if each server is 700$ cheaper than the Windows based competitor.
I developed a whole game platform using embedded Mono with Irrlicht - it was somewhat larger footprint initially - but the amount of functionality and speed of code development completely demolishes the alternatives - namely C/C++ code. I never ran into ANY speed issues with the VM - so perhaps that's just interface code.
And given the state of most game engines - an extra 4 MBytes of resident code was not a problem.
My two takes here: 1. MS called Novell and said we're going to nuke ya for Mono, or you could play nice and take the money, go ahead.. it won't bite.. yeah. See other comments - they slowly strangle the linux COMMERCIAL services market.
2. MS is actually serious and is ready and willing to kill their own server product over time, and replace it with Linux + some proprietary stuff to run their server products on.
Lets face it - MS has been going on for a decade to take the server room market - and by and large they haven't. So the gains here are moving Linux into more server space.
MS won't be able to compete long term in the server space - Nearly ALL the other companies are leveraging the free (or nearly) Linux kernel and developing on top of that. If MS has to invest billions every 5 years to revamp their server kernel - they will eventually be outrun simply by cost.
It's only because of a lot of hard work that those things haven't come to pass, honestly. And, I know that a lot of people disagree with me - and some of them have damn good reasons too. I have my own.
The whole problem with the US isn't Dems/Repubs - it's Federalism. If we truly limited the power of the federal government to the levels of say 1900 or 1850 even, then States could decide these issues by themselves.
I honestly think it's better to have a heterogenous law from state to state. But then our leaders wouldn't be to happy with all those happy people, would they?
Even though Lincoln was right in his quest to destroy slavery - it ushered in the super federal State - and that is truly the root of our discontent.
Google has a strange hiring practice - they purposfully set the bar higher than the position may actually require - and that's going to be more expensive overall.
They require many interviews to prove your capacity - and honestly a lot of professionals with many years of experience aren't going to go for that if there are other good paying jobs available. Me included.
I feel the same way about murderers... I mean, most murderers are honestly nice, normal people.
Really, if we could just learn to accept murders as the small price of helping those who do the murdering - would that not be a wonderful thing? Murderers are simply crying out for help - and our answer is to incarcerate and/or kill them as punishment?
We could save so many lives in the end - and though we would have to accept a few crimes now - imagine what a better place the world would be.
Since our countr(ies) have no moral foundation anymore - I see no problem with ANYTHING anymore. Ah, to be free at last.
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I agree - let people copy all they want. Which they're doing anyway - as you've already said. But Amazon is already doing what you propose - and it does work good. I have an alternative. Let em have it - give the movies away.
But here's where I see the money... have the studios release the originals cryptographically signed. This proves that the release is original and not altered - but doesn't prevent copying. People will want original studio releases because they guarantee quality.
Second, build a simple online and telephone payment infrastructure which allows payment of royalties based on the content signatures. Even provide a tipping system for writers, actors, directors, etc...
Third, give free player and codec licenses to all developers willing to include the payment system. The license should be draconian free - simply says that you nag the user at appropriate times if they're playing a movie/song/book/whatever. It also gives the paying user links to more online content, games, interviews, commentary, foreign subtitles and audio, etc... Provide a simple way to get a whole library from a friend.
This isn't bullet-proof, but neither is restrictive DRM. Also, this becomes the friend of users by providing more quality content, and guaranteed clean video encoding.
And lastly - it provides a great playing field for more movies and music. Signing artists and making movies would be far cheaper due to lower manufacturing and distribution costs. Marketing costs come down because you can cross-advertise. Heck, movie companies might make money from only the advertising on their torrent distrubtion sites - they'll be VERY popular.
It also makes the studios into "Good Guys" and turns the perception into "True Artists" instead of "Greedy Bastards." Also, you can give discounts to large buyers and open up all kinds of marketing/sales schemes.
Heck, I'm going to do this myself if nobody else does. I can do the crypto and payment system. It's a no-brainer.
We'll need decent soil... perhaps terra prata. There's little to no plants that will make those kinds of changes quickly. Brush and trees take decades - with low substainability. I lived in the desert for years with my father, who was a sustainable rancher before his passing.
There is no silver bullet - what needs to be done is a complete environmental system that is sustainable and profitable. Yes, the two can go together - and it will either be government profit (taxation and subsidies) or commercial (energy/water/crop production) - but likely a blend.
It's a great idea - but it doesn't solve the worlds problem. Integrate it into a system or launch a sustainable movement, much like the organic farmers have done.
It can all be fixed with Global Hugging though...
The only general purpose CPU series I know that has proper crypto in it is the Via series - even then you'd see the disassembled call to the AES and be able to retrieve the output.
Registers versus memory is a non-starter - they're both easily available on a general purpose computer.
The amount of data that's encrypted on a video stream necessarily entails that a good portion of CPU time is going to be spend decrypting so it will be "obvious" for someone debugging the code.
There is no way to do this in software. Just forget about it. It's all smoke and mirrors - and every cryptographer not on the payroll knows it.
As long as the key and the cryptographic material are on the same host and available - there's no known algorithms to protect the ciphertext. Period. The end.
It's like the King's men trying to stop the printing press.
The table is one megabyte - but the specification specifically says that implementations should utilize a streaming read so that the size is not limited.
That's not to say that some implementation is going to hoark it up - almost guaranteed IMHO.
I don't think they be quite so worried about that as they would the large tanks of hydrogen sitting in the back yard.
Somewhere in the world there's going to be a reddish explosion on the horizon...
Hrm.. is it merely a game, or a pretext towards a more radical real world?
Comments like "it's unacceptable to debate" seem rather more like Hitler's goons. Truly scary if that's the future of France.. and perhaps Europe.
Vista HAS to provide a method for protecting audio/video content or we will not see PC DVR's, HD content on PC's etc...
Uhh - no they don't. It would be far easier for MS to just offer a good OS that offers no usage hindrence out of the box. Don't believe the FUD.
Happens in Real Life already.. no beer required, just a phone and a husky voice.
Fast food workers torture co-worker
Heh, it's kindof funny.. back in the 80's some Music Artists put up FarmAid to help offset the effects of a "global economy" upon commodity food prices...
Who's going to feel sorry for (arguably) a bunch of lawyers though?
Half the 18 year olds start laughing uncontrollably whenever the commander says "booby."
Alright Llama boy - post your paypal and we'll merry-christmas you.
It's called "Scope creep." Wonder who was the project manager on that one?
Because if it doesn't work out, they can use it for a mushroom farm...
That all true - but the crux of my argument is that the big price Windows Server license is going away because ISV's (office solution packages, patient records, billing, etc...) are moving towards Linux web-based applications. I don't see Linux on the desktop, same as you.
MS doesn't largely care about the people that can roll their own. What they worry about is the millions of Doctors, Lawyers, and other guys. They get 700-1000$ for each server they sell to those guys - but those Doctors aren't rolling their own - they're buying solutions from independent ISV's.
ISV's in the specialty markets are largely moving towards Linux for servers. Yeah, they'll keep a windows client as "just a web browser" - but they can make more and still be cheaper if each server is 700$ cheaper than the Windows based competitor.
I developed a whole game platform using embedded Mono with Irrlicht - it was somewhat larger footprint initially - but the amount of functionality and speed of code development completely demolishes the alternatives - namely C/C++ code. I never ran into ANY speed issues with the VM - so perhaps that's just interface code.
And given the state of most game engines - an extra 4 MBytes of resident code was not a problem.
Heh... I thought you were going to say...
Never pick a battle until you've won the war.
My two takes here:
1. MS called Novell and said we're going to nuke ya for Mono, or you could play nice and take the money, go ahead.. it won't bite.. yeah. See other comments - they slowly strangle the linux COMMERCIAL services market.
2. MS is actually serious and is ready and willing to kill their own server product over time, and replace it with Linux + some proprietary stuff to run their server products on.
Lets face it - MS has been going on for a decade to take the server room market - and by and large they haven't. So the gains here are moving Linux into more server space.
MS won't be able to compete long term in the server space - Nearly ALL the other companies are leveraging the free (or nearly) Linux kernel and developing on top of that. If MS has to invest billions every 5 years to revamp their server kernel - they will eventually be outrun simply by cost.
It's only because of a lot of hard work that those things haven't come to pass, honestly. And, I know that a lot of people disagree with me - and some of them have damn good reasons too. I have my own.
The whole problem with the US isn't Dems/Repubs - it's Federalism. If we truly limited the power of the federal government to the levels of say 1900 or 1850 even, then States could decide these issues by themselves.
I honestly think it's better to have a heterogenous law from state to state. But then our leaders wouldn't be to happy with all those happy people, would they?
Even though Lincoln was right in his quest to destroy slavery - it ushered in the super federal State - and that is truly the root of our discontent.
Google has a strange hiring practice - they purposfully set the bar higher than the position may actually require - and that's going to be more expensive overall.
They require many interviews to prove your capacity - and honestly a lot of professionals with many years of experience aren't going to go for that if there are other good paying jobs available. Me included.
True.. which then goes on to form CANCER in most cases.
Embryonic stem cells are a dead end for the next 20 years. I doubt very much that they'll be useful for anyone.
There's far easier ways of extracting stem cells of other varieties - and those treatments are actually hopeful and/or working.
I'm playing devils advocate, most certainly - and I most clearly said murderers. Why should murderers go to jail? Other than a collective "We say so!"
Water is bad because people drowd in it. Your argument is the same.
I feel the same way about murderers... I mean, most murderers are honestly nice, normal people.
Really, if we could just learn to accept murders as the small price of helping those who do the murdering - would that not be a wonderful thing? Murderers are simply crying out for help - and our answer is to incarcerate and/or kill them as punishment?
We could save so many lives in the end - and though we would have to accept a few crimes now - imagine what a better place the world would be.
Since our countr(ies) have no moral foundation anymore - I see no problem with ANYTHING anymore. Ah, to be free at last.