There is nothing in our law stating that it is illegal to play region one DVD's in region 4. The whole region encoding thing is nothing more than a matter of standards compliance. It has no real legal basis. If it did, then you wouldn't be able to buy region 1 or region free players in Harvey Norman would you?
Yeah, I rent them, at least the ones I haven't yet seen. If I liked them at the cinemas, then I buy it straight away, but if I missed it at the cinema, it gets a trial run from the video store first.
Not cabling houses? You mean town houses I take it? They fall under the same category as apartments, as they are covered by a body corporate.
They most certainly do cable houses, as that is where most of their market reside.
And I covered the removal of nodes in an earlier post. I'm aware that Brisbane isn't fully covered, but it's in similar proportions to Melbourne and Sydney.
Not quite. The problem is more to do with the fact that Optus does not want the expense of wiring up units because it's just not worth their time and money when they can't know how many people will be using it in each lot of units.
And they are hardly rejecting unit dwellers from over demand. See this thread on WP. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t =1630972932
They're actually shutting down nodes, which to me says that they're not interested in being in the game for too much longer.
Java works on my build of.97 without any problems at all. You just need to move the plugin files acorss manually, 'cause the installer screws it up for some reason.
I clicked on the link in the main article, and what are the words I see? "Overwhelming traffic to DotcomScoop.com has created technical problems leading to data loss. Recent news stories published on the site are lost for the time being. We will continue to provide updates as news warrants."
And this is before the/. effect hits them. I feel their pain:)
ROFL. That's one of the funniest things I've ever heard. I mean everything in CS is _so_ closely modelled on reality, of course they bowed to pressure. I mean don't you know, bunnyhopping was only used by the Taliban, so they bowed to American propaganda and removed it as well.
And that networking code as well. They knew that all those terrorist loving middle easters with their cable connections were just trouncing the poor old yanks on their 56K modems, so they threw in predictive network code. Damn that propaganda!:)
If you insist. Personally, if I don't find something funnny I just don't laugh. I think you're seeing a little too much in to it if you think people laugh because they're 'supposed to'
lol. Man, whoever mod'ed this up should of saved their little moderator point and modded up the post he was talking about. I mean really, if you agree with his point, how about fixing the problem:)
Offtopic? You're joking me? Someone was commenting on a problem they have with the story, and I was pointing out how it LET PEOPLE READ ABOUT THE TOPIC AT HAND, and you're telling me it's offtopic?
Well it would stop a bunch of images and text from being loaded, that otherwise would use up even more bandwidth, so it's not completely without merit.
It was rated up because earlier some people couldn't see the story in question. And by rating it up, it makes it through peoples filters so everyone can get it. Simple really:)
Not an option. They use transparent proxies on port 80. So unless the web server you are accessing is on a different port, then you have no option but to use their proxy.
As has already been mentioned a couple of times already by various people though, it's not really relevant as there will not be any active snooping. They are instead only acting on complaints.
Sorry, that's just plain wrong. The 3 gig cap was introduced by Telstra, which is Optus' only competitor in cable internet access within Australia. Optus itself offers an AUP that doesn't allow a given user to download more than 10 times the average use of all users over a 14 day rolling period. This in effect leads to a monthly download limit of anywhere between 15 and 19 gig.
Not an option. Optus@Home is one of two cable providers in the country. When the other cable provider leaves you with a 3gig download cap per month, you basically are left with the choice of our horrendous ADSL network, a 3 gig cap on Telstra cable or staying with Optus.
That being said however, the reality is no where near as bad as the story makes it out to be. According to the O@H CEO in this article, they are not actually monitoring downloads at all, but rather will only be investigating if someone dobs the user in for wrongdoings.
This link is to the Australian Excite@home press release on the subject. Basically, Optus@home will be buying them out, and it will be business as normal.
I don't think that's a real problem, well no more than it is at the moment. We already have the situation where two or more players can be using NAT, and playing through the one broadband connection from the same room. How is this any different?
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There is nothing in our law stating that it is illegal to play region one DVD's in region 4. The whole region encoding thing is nothing more than a matter of standards compliance. It has no real legal basis. If it did, then you wouldn't be able to buy region 1 or region free players in Harvey Norman would you?
Ray.
Yeah, I rent them, at least the ones I haven't yet seen. If I liked them at the cinemas, then I buy it straight away, but if I missed it at the cinema, it gets a trial run from the video store first.
Ray.
Aren't films made of plastic as well though? :)
Ray.
Not cabling houses? You mean town houses I take it? They fall under the same category as apartments, as they are covered by a body corporate.
They most certainly do cable houses, as that is where most of their market reside.
And I covered the removal of nodes in an earlier post. I'm aware that Brisbane isn't fully covered, but it's in similar proportions to Melbourne and Sydney.
Ray
Not quite. The problem is more to do with the fact that Optus does not want the expense of wiring up units because it's just not worth their time and money when they can't know how many people will be using it in each lot of units.
t =1630972932
And they are hardly rejecting unit dwellers from over demand. See this thread on WP. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?
They're actually shutting down nodes, which to me says that they're not interested in being in the game for too much longer.
Ray.
It's available in Brisbane as well, so the 3 major cities are covered.
Ray.
Java works on my build of .97 without any problems at all. You just need to move the plugin files acorss manually, 'cause the installer screws it up for some reason.
Ray
I clicked on the link in the main article, and what are the words I see? "Overwhelming traffic to DotcomScoop.com has created technical problems leading to data loss. Recent news stories published on the site are lost for the time being. We will continue to provide updates as news warrants."
/. effect hits them. I feel their pain :)
And this is before the
Seems like you've got a fairly good grasp of the concept to me then :)
ROFL. That's one of the funniest things I've ever heard. I mean everything in CS is _so_ closely modelled on reality, of course they bowed to pressure. I mean don't you know, bunnyhopping was only used by the Taliban, so they bowed to American propaganda and removed it as well.
:)
And that networking code as well. They knew that all those terrorist loving middle easters with their cable connections were just trouncing the poor old yanks on their 56K modems, so they threw in predictive network code. Damn that propaganda!
If you insist. Personally, if I don't find something funnny I just don't laugh. I think you're seeing a little too much in to it if you think people laugh because they're 'supposed to'
Herded in to laughter? What on Earth does that mean? It's not like he forced you to find the joke funny...
lol. Man, whoever mod'ed this up should of saved their little moderator point and modded up the post he was talking about. I mean really, if you agree with his point, how about fixing the problem :)
They can laugh it up all they want. I have one thing to say back to them. "One button mouse". :)
It's Aluminum. Of course it is. I mean it's not like there are any other metals out there that end in -ium is it? ;)
Offtopic? You're joking me? Someone was commenting on a problem they have with the story, and I was pointing out how it LET PEOPLE READ ABOUT THE TOPIC AT HAND, and you're telling me it's offtopic?
Well it would stop a bunch of images and text from being loaded, that otherwise would use up even more bandwidth, so it's not completely without merit.
It was rated up because earlier some people couldn't see the story in question. And by rating it up, it makes it through peoples filters so everyone can get it. Simple really :)
See, now I thought everyone was using Limewire. I don't know anyone that uses Bearshare personally, so there is hope :)
You mean you've never heard someone exclaim "Windows is Gh3y!" ;)
Not an option. They use transparent proxies on port 80. So unless the web server you are accessing is on a different port, then you have no option but to use their proxy.
As has already been mentioned a couple of times already by various people though, it's not really relevant as there will not be any active snooping. They are instead only acting on complaints.
Sorry, that's just plain wrong. The 3 gig cap was introduced by Telstra, which is Optus' only competitor in cable internet access within Australia. Optus itself offers an AUP that doesn't allow a given user to download more than 10 times the average use of all users over a 14 day rolling period. This in effect leads to a monthly download limit of anywhere between 15 and 19 gig.
Not an option. Optus@Home is one of two cable providers in the country. When the other cable provider leaves you with a 3gig download cap per month, you basically are left with the choice of our horrendous ADSL network, a 3 gig cap on Telstra cable or staying with Optus.
That being said however, the reality is no where near as bad as the story makes it out to be. According to the O@H CEO in this article, they are not actually monitoring downloads at all, but rather will only be investigating if someone dobs the user in for wrongdoings.
This link is to the Australian Excite@home press release on the subject. Basically, Optus@home will be buying them out, and it will be business as normal.
I don't think that's a real problem, well no more than it is at the moment. We already have the situation where two or more players can be using NAT, and playing through the one broadband connection from the same room. How is this any different?