Two huge examples of why region-free DVD players are great: the UK only (Region 2) DVD sets of the complete first seasons of Family Guy and Futurama.
These examples instantly defeat the MPAA's argument that region coding helps them skew movie releases in different markets (as if that wasn't obvious already).
If you think about it for a minute, it may actually be a GOOD thing that individuals are discouraged from looking at the source code. Say for example that a Samba programmer gets a chance to peek at Microsoft's network file sharing source code. Said programmer gets ideas from it, and these ideas end up in Samba. M$ would then have a potential argument against this programmer, *and now against the entire Samba project*, because regardless of what NDAs were signed, there is a chance that their IP has gone into a project that is not theirs.
This is the same kind of reasoning behind non-compete agreements that many in the tech sector are required to sign before accepting employment: without these agreements, the employer would go into job #2 with knowledge of proprietary information from job #1, and it would be too much of a legal minefield to try and disprove the use of any of this IP.
Actually, it just might be illegal. They're using their market monopoly in desktop systems to muscle their way into financial services and personal information warehousing. This might be very framable as a Sherman Act violation
M$ has already been conviced of anti-trust violations. The government has done two things to punish them: 1) Absolutely 2) Nothing. With as little faith as I already have in the government's willingness to enforce anti-trust legislation, I seriously doubt they'll even think about going this route. And if they do, hey, the defendant is Microsoft -- let them off with another warning!
and side question, the RIAA is a for-profit organization?? I always assumed(stupidly i guess) they were non profit, u know, a voice for the artists, not another arm in the octopus of profit.
They are officially a non-profit organization acting as a voice for the (for-profit) major labels that are RIAA members. I'd go to their web site to come up with a link to prove this, but I'm annoyed enough with their antics that the less I see of them, the better. Don't you just love how a "non-profit" organization can continually screw over your rights as the RIAA keeps doing?
The webcasters put out of business by the royalties include SomaFM, Monkeyradio, KPIG, and many others.
KPIG? The PIG makes it sound like this identifier would be more appropriate for a station the RIAA ran.
Re:Right, And this part truly makes my blood boil!
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like: the penalty for the first offence is 50 years without parole.
So then they would get to sell their penis enlargement kits to other prisoners. Now THAT would be poetic justice -- the spammers becoming bitches to the same people who just bought and used their kits.
I personally would rather trust the government (some think otherwise) than some high ranking executive, who would most likely be controlling things without the government.
Perhaps I'm just being paranoid here, but I'm losing trust in the government as tha *AA buys off more and more of it.
Even better, maybe we can get someone to sue someone else for breathing, and use the DMCA
You would first have to make the claim that breathing was an unauthorized method by which to circumvent an access control mechanism. But it's simple: Without breathing, you die rather quickly. Thus, breathing is a mechanism by which your access to being dead is controlled. Unauthorized breathing is an unauthorized breach of this access control, and is therefore covered by the DMCA.
Not really. Using OpenSSH and Linux? Well, Microsoft has a patent on "secure O/S"...
Linux cannot be applied in this sense because Micro$oft's patent is for a DRM-OS, i.e. an OS that enforces DRM restrictions. Suffice it to say that this is one thing Linux does not do. You're confusing the "script kiddie proof" connotation of secure with the "restricting access to digital media" one.
Just set a Gigawatt transmitter to broadcast the stuff into space, and see which systems start accelerating away from us! Voila! Life!
One can only imagine how freaked out E.T. would have been if he had heard Britney. He would have been dying to get back on the spaceship. Possibly literally.
If this bill passes, I think it's time to officially declare this government a plutocracy [freespeech.org].
I pledge allegiance to the flag Of the Corporate States of America And to the big business for which it stands One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all CEOs
As of a few days ago if citizen do these same things they can be considered terrorists and subject to a maximum sentance of life in prison.
"As of a few days ago"? The Patriot Act is still in full effect, is it not? What this all means is that if they get their way (when do they not?), corporations can hack/DoS you all they want, but if you return fire in any way, you're a fucking TERRORIST.
IMHO, anybody who would even consider passing or proposing anything like this is far more of a terrorist than any John Q. Mp3trader ever could be. It pisses me off to no end that corporations could even think of doing crap like this, and that our government would let it happen. Oh, corporate interests can do this to anybody they don't like, but private citizens are treated as terrorist scum if they even think about doing it. The Constitution is being defecated upon in the name of corporate interests and big money.
Double standards annoy me as is. But to make a distinction between being perfectly legal and being an Osama Bin Laden in training just because of how much money you have is the dumbest fucking thing I have ever heard.
I know a guy that bought $1000 worth of worldcomm stock a while back, it's now only worth $700.
Assuming that he paid around $50 per share (when WorldCom was doing good, its stock peaked over $60), that means he got 20 shares. Since WorldCom stock is worth nine cents a share now, that means that this guy's stock is worth less than two bucks now.
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You can do anything at Zombocom, so I would assume that you would be able to do something like this with a secret you were holding.
This company pays only 1.8% in federal taxes
No they don't. M$ pays **NO** federal taxes (and no, I am not making this up).
/. is well on their way to accomplishing that every single time they shell out for the PS2 Linux kit.
Not to mention every time they post another story praising the last MPAA-sponsored movie.
Two huge examples of why region-free DVD players are great: the UK only (Region 2) DVD sets of the complete first seasons of Family Guy and Futurama.
These examples instantly defeat the MPAA's argument that region coding helps them skew movie releases in different markets (as if that wasn't obvious already).
If you think about it for a minute, it may actually be a GOOD thing that individuals are discouraged from looking at the source code. Say for example that a Samba programmer gets a chance to peek at Microsoft's network file sharing source code. Said programmer gets ideas from it, and these ideas end up in Samba. M$ would then have a potential argument against this programmer, *and now against the entire Samba project*, because regardless of what NDAs were signed, there is a chance that their IP has gone into a project that is not theirs.
This is the same kind of reasoning behind non-compete agreements that many in the tech sector are required to sign before accepting employment: without these agreements, the employer would go into job #2 with knowledge of proprietary information from job #1, and it would be too much of a legal minefield to try and disprove the use of any of this IP.
Actually, it just might be illegal. They're using their market monopoly in desktop systems to muscle their way into financial services and personal information warehousing. This might be very framable as a Sherman Act violation
M$ has already been conviced of anti-trust violations. The government has done two things to punish them: 1) Absolutely 2) Nothing. With as little faith as I already have in the government's willingness to enforce anti-trust legislation, I seriously doubt they'll even think about going this route. And if they do, hey, the defendant is Microsoft -- let them off with another warning!
Quote the Raven, nevermore.
and side question, the RIAA is a for-profit organization?? I always assumed(stupidly i guess) they were non profit, u know, a voice for the artists, not another arm in the octopus of profit.
They are officially a non-profit organization acting as a voice for the (for-profit) major labels that are RIAA members. I'd go to their web site to come up with a link to prove this, but I'm annoyed enough with their antics that the less I see of them, the better. Don't you just love how a "non-profit" organization can continually screw over your rights as the RIAA keeps doing?
The webcasters put out of business by the royalties include SomaFM, Monkeyradio, KPIG, and many others.
KPIG? The PIG makes it sound like this identifier would be more appropriate for a station the RIAA ran.
like: the penalty for the first offence is 50 years without parole.
So then they would get to sell their penis enlargement kits to other prisoners. Now THAT would be poetic justice -- the spammers becoming bitches to the same people who just bought and used their kits.
I personally would rather trust the government (some think otherwise) than some high ranking executive, who would most likely be controlling things without the government.
Perhaps I'm just being paranoid here, but I'm losing trust in the government as tha *AA buys off more and more of it.
If a company uses the app to spy the contents, they are in voliation of the EULA and you sue
But then you'll set an EULAs-are-good legal precedent that M$ would just love to exploit...
Spam Detective can work with Hotmail accounts. What other programs can?
So now the MPAA is good? I see.
Even better, maybe we can get someone to sue someone else for breathing, and use the DMCA
You would first have to make the claim that breathing was an unauthorized method by which to circumvent an access control mechanism. But it's simple: Without breathing, you die rather quickly. Thus, breathing is a mechanism by which your access to being dead is controlled. Unauthorized breathing is an unauthorized breach of this access control, and is therefore covered by the DMCA.
Now. I'll take a 50% cut of your profits.
Not really. Using OpenSSH and Linux? Well, Microsoft has a patent on "secure O/S"...
Linux cannot be applied in this sense because Micro$oft's patent is for a DRM-OS, i.e. an OS that enforces DRM restrictions. Suffice it to say that this is one thing Linux does not do. You're confusing the "script kiddie proof" connotation of secure with the "restricting access to digital media" one.
Just set a Gigawatt transmitter to broadcast the stuff into space, and see which systems start accelerating away from us! Voila! Life!
One can only imagine how freaked out E.T. would have been if he had heard Britney. He would have been dying to get back on the spaceship. Possibly literally.
If this bill passes, I think it's time to officially declare this government a plutocracy [freespeech.org].
I pledge allegiance to the flag
Of the Corporate States of America
And to the big business for which it stands
One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all CEOs
Does any Linux distribution support Promise Ultra100-TX2 PCI mass-storage cards "out of the box"?
SuSE 8.0 does.
Promise makes one, I'm sure
Yup, the Promise PDC20269 has been out for quite some time now. I got mine several months ago (came with my new 80 GB Maxtor drive).
I've probably got enough hard drive space to last me another 5 years
Or until you *finally* decide to upgrade Windows...
Even if it passes its obviously unconstitutional and any judge in his right mind will strike it down.
Really? I sure hope so.
How long will it now be before Slashdot posts a story praising the latest movie?
As of a few days ago if citizen do these same things they can be considered terrorists and subject to a maximum sentance of life in prison.
"As of a few days ago"? The Patriot Act is still in full effect, is it not? What this all means is that if they get their way (when do they not?), corporations can hack/DoS you all they want, but if you return fire in any way, you're a fucking TERRORIST.
IMHO, anybody who would even consider passing or proposing anything like this is far more of a terrorist than any John Q. Mp3trader ever could be. It pisses me off to no end that corporations could even think of doing crap like this, and that our government would let it happen. Oh, corporate interests can do this to anybody they don't like, but private citizens are treated as terrorist scum if they even think about doing it. The Constitution is being defecated upon in the name of corporate interests and big money.
Double standards annoy me as is. But to make a distinction between being perfectly legal and being an Osama Bin Laden in training just because of how much money you have is the dumbest fucking thing I have ever heard.
I know a guy that bought $1000 worth of worldcomm stock a while back, it's now only worth $700.
Assuming that he paid around $50 per share (when WorldCom was doing good, its stock peaked over $60), that means he got 20 shares. Since WorldCom stock is worth nine cents a share now, that means that this guy's stock is worth less than two bucks now.
<Nelson> HA-HA! </Nelson>