5) Did they even consider that anyone with a recent Mac or with USB speakers doesn't have an analog link from their CD-ROM and must use DAE to play CDs?
2) using a SP/DIF digital (error-corrected) output...which I assume is only available in high-end players
What about simply the CD-digital outputs on dang near every PC CD/DVD drive from the past few years?
Both my Creative DVD-ROM (rebadged Matsushita) and HP CD-RW (rebadged Lite-on, I believe) have this output and yes, it works on both. If this works as an error-corrected digital out, then anyone with the right input on their sound card (all SBLives except newer Value versions have it, as does the TB Santa Cruz) effectively has the means to create as perfect of a digital copy as possible already. If only we knew which damned CDs have this copy prevention, I would give it a try myself...
(Yes, I hijacked the title because I despise the term "copy protection". It makes it sound as if all copying is a bad thing which, of course, is not true.)
From the fast facts in post #15, there are 150 million voter registrations in the US. Secondly, only half of those people voted, so suddenly that 5 million comes out of 75 million. That's 6.67%.
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Jeebus cripes, did you even READ your first link? It says is that the Tax Act is not on the *CCRA's* web site, but it *is* on the Dept. of Justice Canada's web site, as well as from some commercial publishers.
Any browser that show the ALT text when the pointer is hovered over images will show you that he registered on AT forums in Oct '99 when they were created. Also, read the thread. One member named Russ has already contacted the attorney's office and has offered help. In case you didn't know, Russ is the maintainer of the TA Cube account, which is seventh overall in in the RC5 contest. Russ is very involved in RC5, and I would assume he knows what he's talking about. Finally, read the guy's RC5 stats. Note that he's 94th overall but his current keyrate is only about 1000 kkeys/s compared to his overall of over 55,000. The PCs he lost are probably the ones he's being sued over. I don't think this is a hoax at all.
But not all software has the media separately wrapped`. In many cases the box conatins an unwrapped jewel case. And most places will not allow you to return opened software. I believe that here in Canada, stores are required by law to not accept returns on opened software, so we're screwed when the license only becomes viewable after the purchase becomes irrevocable.
It's so people have time to get a good overview of all of what the appeals court did instead of hearing "Microsoft verdict overturned" and rushing like mad to buy MSFT stock.
Well, it could at least recognize protocol:// URLs. So it wouldn't linkify www.wherever.tld, but http://www.wherever.tld/, nntp://news.wherever.tld, ftp://user:password@ftp.wherever.tld:port and telnet://wherever.tld:port would all be linkified.
Actually, I'd think the author/rights holder CAN copyright titles.
However, there is a fair use right to create lists and databases of those titles, though not one to USE that title for another song, etc.
Then why in my CD collection can I find three different songs by three different groups (Collective Soul, Moist, Prodigy) called Breathe? (All feature singles from the respective albums, no less.) Why hasn't there been a court battle between The Offspring and U2 over Staring At The Sun?
Breach of contract, naturally. Also, there may be action under the DMCA because it's not specifically copy control mechanisms that cannot be bypassed, but access control mechanisms.
The problem is that the hardware people have to sign an agreement with the DVDCCA to get a license for CSS decryption, and that license forbids the kind of things that you mention (except "decent quality").
The Iomega HipZip will get support eventually. Monty and Jack, the main guys doing Vorbis development, mentioned on BinaryFreedom back in February that they had test-version HipZips with Vorbis support.
I don't know of any standalone apps, but there's a plugin for Winamp that can do that. This particular plugin is being developed for Nullsoft by the same guy who does their MIDI plugin. He's also done a Vorbis encoder plugin for Winamp.
And just a nitpick, Win98SE is officially obsolete and (as far as I know) is no longer sold.
Maybe not through retail or OEM, but they do still offer the upgrade from Win98FE to SE through a link on Windows Update. If you go there using Win98, there's a link that offers the Win98 service pack on CD. Follow that link and you can also order the SE update. And yes, it does work. I ordered a copy early last month and it arrived in less than four weeks.
The 1600SW? Geez, that thing's at least two years old now. I first heard of it when Maximum PC magazine gave it a review - and declared it the best monitor ever. There's a link right off the URL you gave to a list of compatible graphics cards. Basically, the only "Superwide-savvy" card listed under Win2000 is the Matrox G400. It can also take VGA input, but not all cards can do the full digital interface and/or the 1600x1024 resolution.
cdrecord couldn't burn tracks without gaps, dunno if that's changed..
DAO support is now in cdrecord, but cdrdao still does it better. cdrecord doesn't use a table of contents. You can burn tracks that run into each other and have them end up playing seamlessly, but you can't have audio in-between tracks. With cdrdao I burned a copy of The Tea Party's Transmission and the two minutes of audio between tracks 8 and 9 showed up as it should have, not just as a part of track 8 as it would with cdrecord.
Intel doesn't seem to like competition lately on their own buses. That's why they revoked VIA's license to manufacture chips using the P6 bus. In one of their craftier manoevers, VIA simply contracted the manufacturing out to National Semiconductor, who does have a P6 license and is less likely to be pushed around by Intel, which is why National's logo appears on VIA's chipsets now.
I bet you were just trying to see if you could get modded up with the mods reading them, right?
Moderators, check the links before you moderate. Yes, they're RFCs, but if you look at the titles and the dates, you'll see he's not exactly "informative".
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5) Did they even consider that anyone with a recent Mac or with USB speakers doesn't have an analog link from their CD-ROM and must use DAE to play CDs?
What about simply the CD-digital outputs on dang near every PC CD/DVD drive from the past few years?
Both my Creative DVD-ROM (rebadged Matsushita) and HP CD-RW (rebadged Lite-on, I believe) have this output and yes, it works on both. If this works as an error-corrected digital out, then anyone with the right input on their sound card (all SBLives except newer Value versions have it, as does the TB Santa Cruz) effectively has the means to create as perfect of a digital copy as possible already. If only we knew which damned CDs have this copy prevention, I would give it a try myself...
(Yes, I hijacked the title because I despise the term "copy protection". It makes it sound as if all copying is a bad thing which, of course, is not true.)
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/main.html
"Adobe's worldwide headquarters are in San Jose, California."
From the fast facts in post #15, there are 150 million voter registrations in the US. Secondly, only half of those people voted, so suddenly that 5 million comes out of 75 million. That's 6.67%.
The IP policy homepage leads to this page about the copyright reform process. All Canadians can submit comments by September 15 by mail or fax, or electronically in HTML, Wordperfect or Word format. Comments on the submissions are due October 5. Time to start a draft...
My DVD-ROM drive has a digital CD output. I haven't listened to a CD though its analog out in two years. How would SafeAudio get around this?
Jeebus cripes, did you even READ your first link? It says is that the Tax Act is not on the *CCRA's* web site, but it *is* on the Dept. of Justice Canada's web site, as well as from some commercial publishers.
"When It's Done", of course.
Any browser that show the ALT text when the pointer is hovered over images will show you that he registered on AT forums in Oct '99 when they were created. Also, read the thread. One member named Russ has already contacted the attorney's office and has offered help. In case you didn't know, Russ is the maintainer of the TA Cube account, which is seventh overall in in the RC5 contest. Russ is very involved in RC5, and I would assume he knows what he's talking about. Finally, read the guy's RC5 stats. Note that he's 94th overall but his current keyrate is only about 1000 kkeys/s compared to his overall of over 55,000. The PCs he lost are probably the ones he's being sued over. I don't think this is a hoax at all.
But not all software has the media separately wrapped`. In many cases the box conatins an unwrapped jewel case. And most places will not allow you to return opened software. I believe that here in Canada, stores are required by law to not accept returns on opened software, so we're screwed when the license only becomes viewable after the purchase becomes irrevocable.
Why not go farther? Create a shell script with the same name as the user:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Invalid username\n"
So you get:
login: user
password:
Login incorrect
login: user
Invalid username
Login incorrect
login:
It's so people have time to get a good overview of all of what the appeals court did instead of hearing "Microsoft verdict overturned" and rushing like mad to buy MSFT stock.
Well, it could at least recognize protocol:// URLs. So it wouldn't linkify www.wherever.tld, but http://www.wherever.tld/, nntp://news.wherever.tld, ftp://user:password@ftp.wherever.tld:port and telnet://wherever.tld:port would all be linkified.
However, there is a fair use right to create lists and databases of those titles, though not one to USE that title for another song, etc.
Then why in my CD collection can I find three different songs by three different groups (Collective Soul, Moist, Prodigy) called Breathe? (All feature singles from the respective albums, no less.) Why hasn't there been a court battle between The Offspring and U2 over Staring At The Sun?
Yep, QT went GPL back in September.
Breach of contract, naturally. Also, there may be action under the DMCA because it's not specifically copy control mechanisms that cannot be bypassed, but access control mechanisms.
The problem is that the hardware people have to sign an agreement with the DVDCCA to get a license for CSS decryption, and that license forbids the kind of things that you mention (except "decent quality").
The Iomega HipZip will get support eventually. Monty and Jack, the main guys doing Vorbis development, mentioned on BinaryFreedom back in February that they had test-version HipZips with Vorbis support.
I don't know of any standalone apps, but there's a plugin for Winamp that can do that. This particular plugin is being developed for Nullsoft by the same guy who does their MIDI plugin. He's also done a Vorbis encoder plugin for Winamp.
Maybe not through retail or OEM, but they do still offer the upgrade from Win98FE to SE through a link on Windows Update. If you go there using Win98, there's a link that offers the Win98 service pack on CD. Follow that link and you can also order the SE update. And yes, it does work. I ordered a copy early last month and it arrived in less than four weeks.
The 1600SW? Geez, that thing's at least two years old now. I first heard of it when Maximum PC magazine gave it a review - and declared it the best monitor ever. There's a link right off the URL you gave to a list of compatible graphics cards. Basically, the only "Superwide-savvy" card listed under Win2000 is the Matrox G400. It can also take VGA input, but not all cards can do the full digital interface and/or the 1600x1024 resolution.
DAO support is now in cdrecord, but cdrdao still does it better. cdrecord doesn't use a table of contents. You can burn tracks that run into each other and have them end up playing seamlessly, but you can't have audio in-between tracks. With cdrdao I burned a copy of The Tea Party's Transmission and the two minutes of audio between tracks 8 and 9 showed up as it should have, not just as a part of track 8 as it would with cdrecord.
Intel doesn't seem to like competition lately on their own buses. That's why they revoked VIA's license to manufacture chips using the P6 bus. In one of their craftier manoevers, VIA simply contracted the manufacturing out to National Semiconductor, who does have a P6 license and is less likely to be pushed around by Intel, which is why National's logo appears on VIA's chipsets now.
I bet you were just trying to see if you could get modded up with the mods reading them, right?
Moderators, check the links before you moderate. Yes, they're RFCs, but if you look at the titles and the dates, you'll see he's not exactly "informative".