>Whoever creates the music or code gets to decide how it's used.
ah, key point to remember here, musicians do not own the copyrights to their music, their label does. therefore, it is the labels that decide how the music is used, not the musicians. i doubt the stone temple pilots were consulted when "wicked garden" was used in a nissan commercial. this is one of many reason why labels suck. thus endeth the lesson.
(for those who wish to pick nits, this may not apply to indie labels; and yes, eventually the copyright does revert to the musicians)
furthermore, multicasting has fuck all to do with servers. multicasting is accomplished within a routing/switching infrastructure. the server sends out a SINGLE data stream to a SINGLE SPECIAL ip address; this SINGLE SPECIAL ip address actually identifies a GROUP of hosts. routers & switches know which UNIQUE hosts belong to said GROUP and selectively forward the data. the whole point of this is to reduce load on the server, and prevent multiple identical data streams on the network infrastructure.
"Multicast---Multicast applications send each packet to a multicast group address. Hosts that want to receive the packets indicate that they want to be members of the multicast group. This type of application expects that networks with hosts that have joined a multicast group will receive multicast packets. Multicast applications and underlying multicast protocols control multimedia traffic and shield hosts from having to process unnecessary broadcast traffic."
" IP multicasting applications use Class D addresses to address packets. The high-order four bits of a Class D address are set to 1110, and the remaining 28 bits are set to a specific multicast group ID. Class D addresses are typically written as dotted-decimal numbers and are in the range of 224.0.0.0 through 239.255.255.255."
" The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) uses IP datagrams to allow IP multicast applications to join a multicast group. Membership in a multicast group is dynamic---that is, it changes over time as hosts join and leave the group.
Multicast routers that run IGMP use IGMP host-query messages to keep track of the hosts that belong to multicast groups. These messages are sent to the all-systems group address 224.0.0.1. The hosts then send IGMP report messages listing the multicast groups they would like to join. When the router receives a packet addressed to a multicast group, it forwards the packet to those interfaces that have hosts that belong to that group. If you want to prevent hosts on a particular interface from participating in a multicast group, you can configure a filter on that interface by using the ip igmp access-group interface configuration command."
>To them the Internet is nothing more than a new distribution platform for commerce.
there's an interesting article over at www.osopinion.com regarding asymetric broadband links potentially being used to subvert the internet into a one way medium. if your connection is limited on the transmit side, your ability to participate in p2p networks (or serve anything, really) is kneecapped.
"Uunet and the few other giant data haulers that dominate Internet traffic don't have the fat, 45-megabit lines Brown would like in Albuquerque"
translation : mom and pop isp is in an underserved market. so what? welcome to the midwest. most isp's don't own their own wires/fibers anyway. their t1/t3/oc-whatever still rides on phone company equipment.
"Without Uunet, a Net service can slow to a crawl"
what no mci, verio, psinet, etc?
"These few behemoths have a cozy arrangement for swapping traffic ("peering") free-of-charge among themselves"
peering is not about swapping traffic. peering is when 2 (or more) big isps link together and set up BGP routing relationships to exchange routes for their entire ip address space in a summarized format.
"--but they charge stiff fees for the very same service when dealing with smaller players."
i don't know what this is about, a small isp gets their address space from a larger isp (who gets it from the numbering authority). if you get a/16 block from uunet (cut from their/8) you don't go ask psinet if you can peer with them.
"Look, individuals can vote, corporations can't. It's time we make that very clear to the politicians who have forgotten."
but corporations can/do make ENORMOUS political contributions to the canidate(s) that will best support their (business) interests. our public officials are more answerable to private interests then the voting public. even if voters get fed up and "throw the bums out"; the only available replacements are still just different members of the republicrat business party. read noam chomsky's "profit over people", it paints a pretty stark picture of where the power in our society lies and how it systematicly excludes public participation in the decision making process.
so according to current government thought a gun is a morally neutral "tool" but; a distributed file sharing system has inherent criminal intent. conclusion : napster should hire the NRA as their lobbyist.
traditional media is a one way medium; the people are the passive recipients.
the lack of any kind of feedback mechanism for different or dissenting opinions causes any individuals holding such opinions to feel marginalized.
consequently individuals beleive they are alone and in the dark.
which is not the case.
the current feeling of disillusionment towards consumer culture/corporate media control is not a new or unknown concept (american beauty, fight club, coercion: why we listen to what "they" say, culture jam : the uncooling of america, faster : the acceleration of just about everything, amusing ourselves to death : public discourse in the age of show business)
we need to take back our culture from corporate media interests; culture is not theirs to create and sell to us.
the first step is to break the individuals feeling of marginilization; which obviously cannot be accomplished through traditional media channels.
this is why the idea of a web site with mobilization statistics for a given goal is a fantastic idea.
anyone with an interest in media, technology, ethics, etc; check out the books mentioned above; i HIGHLY recomend culture jam, written by the founder of adbusters. their website, www.adbusters.org, has some fanstatic do it yourself kits for media subversion.
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>Whoever creates the music or code gets to decide how it's used.
ah, key point to remember here, musicians do not own the copyrights to their music, their label does. therefore, it is the labels that decide how the music is used, not the musicians. i doubt the stone temple pilots were consulted when "wicked garden" was used in a nissan commercial. this is one of many reason why labels suck. thus endeth the lesson.
(for those who wish to pick nits, this may not apply to indie labels; and yes, eventually the copyright does revert to the musicians)
wasn't establishing a future, interoperable instant messaging standard a government mandated requirement of the AOL/Time Warner merger?
what in the nine hells is a "quad"?
i think you're fumbling for the term "octet".
furthermore, multicasting has fuck all to do with servers. multicasting is accomplished within a routing/switching infrastructure. the server sends out a SINGLE data stream to a SINGLE SPECIAL ip address; this SINGLE SPECIAL ip address actually identifies a GROUP of hosts. routers & switches know which UNIQUE hosts belong to said GROUP and selectively forward the data. the whole point of this is to reduce load on the server, and prevent multiple identical data streams on the network infrastructure.
k /i cs/cs011.htm
a few notes from cisco :
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintw
"Multicast---Multicast applications send each packet to a multicast group address. Hosts that want to receive the packets indicate that they want to be members of the multicast group. This type of application expects that networks with hosts that have joined a multicast group will receive multicast packets. Multicast applications and underlying multicast protocols control multimedia traffic and shield hosts from having to process unnecessary broadcast traffic."
" IP multicasting applications use Class D addresses to address packets. The high-order four bits of a Class D address are set to 1110, and the remaining 28 bits are set to a specific multicast group ID. Class D addresses are typically written as dotted-decimal numbers and are in the range of 224.0.0.0 through 239.255.255.255."
" The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) uses IP datagrams to allow IP multicast applications to join a multicast group. Membership in a multicast group is dynamic---that is, it changes over time as hosts join and leave the group.
Multicast routers that run IGMP use IGMP host-query messages to keep track of the hosts that belong to multicast groups. These messages are sent to the all-systems group address 224.0.0.1. The hosts then send IGMP report messages listing the multicast groups they would like to join. When the router receives a packet addressed to a multicast group, it forwards the packet to those interfaces that have hosts that belong to that group. If you want to prevent hosts on a particular interface from participating in a multicast group, you can configure a filter on that interface by using the ip igmp access-group interface configuration command."
monty python
fawlty towers
red dwarf
mr bean
blackadder
the young ones
hitchikers guide
>To them the Internet is nothing more than a new distribution platform for commerce.
there's an interesting article over at www.osopinion.com regarding asymetric broadband links potentially being used to subvert the internet into a one way medium. if your connection is limited on the transmit side, your ability to participate in p2p networks (or serve anything, really) is kneecapped.
"Uunet and the few other giant data haulers that dominate Internet traffic don't have the fat, 45-megabit lines Brown would like in Albuquerque"
/16 block from uunet (cut from their /8) you don't go ask psinet if you can peer with them.
translation : mom and pop isp is in an underserved market. so what? welcome to the midwest. most isp's don't own their own wires/fibers anyway. their t1/t3/oc-whatever still rides on phone company equipment.
"Without Uunet, a Net service can slow to a crawl"
what no mci, verio, psinet, etc?
"These few behemoths have a cozy arrangement for swapping traffic ("peering") free-of-charge among themselves"
peering is not about swapping traffic. peering is when 2 (or more) big isps link together and set up BGP routing relationships to exchange routes for their entire ip address space in a summarized format.
"--but they charge stiff fees for the very same service when dealing with smaller players."
i don't know what this is about, a small isp gets their address space from a larger isp (who gets it from the numbering authority). if you get a
"Look, individuals can vote, corporations can't. It's time we make that very clear to the
politicians who have forgotten."
but corporations can/do make ENORMOUS political contributions to the canidate(s) that will best support their (business) interests. our public officials are more answerable to private interests then the voting public. even if voters get fed up and "throw the bums out"; the only available replacements are still just different members of the republicrat business party. read noam chomsky's "profit over people", it paints a pretty stark picture of where the power in our society lies and how it systematicly excludes public participation in the decision making process.
so according to current government thought a gun is a morally neutral "tool" but; a distributed file sharing system has inherent criminal intent. conclusion : napster should hire the NRA as their lobbyist.
as previously stated, this is dead brilliant
and here's why :
traditional media is a one way medium; the people are the passive recipients.
the lack of any kind of feedback mechanism for different or dissenting opinions causes any individuals holding such opinions to feel marginalized.
consequently individuals beleive they are alone and in the dark.
which is not the case.
the current feeling of disillusionment towards consumer culture/corporate media control is not a new or unknown concept (american beauty, fight club, coercion: why we listen to what "they" say, culture jam : the uncooling of america, faster : the acceleration of just about everything, amusing ourselves to death : public discourse in the age of show business)
we need to take back our culture from corporate media interests; culture is not theirs to create and sell to us.
the first step is to break the individuals feeling of marginilization; which obviously cannot be accomplished through traditional media channels.
this is why the idea of a web site with mobilization statistics for a given goal is a fantastic idea.
anyone with an interest in media, technology, ethics, etc; check out the books mentioned above; i HIGHLY recomend culture jam, written by the founder of adbusters. their website, www.adbusters.org, has some fanstatic do it yourself kits for media subversion.