Hmmm... intellectually these seem to go hand-in-hand. MP3s (er... that is to say copyrighted ones) everyone will agree are illegal because they contain copyrighted information. We all still love them... The MP3 bits and bytes themselves aren't illegal, but the information they contain is.
DeCSS is something more -- this is using "illegal" means to get to right-fully owned copyrighted material. Sure you could rip the DVD data, but lets face it -- its not entirely practical to copy DVDs yet -- but its inevidable.
I think I agree with something I read on Wired today -- we need special technology courts... because just like any good lie, there's a lot of honesty in MP3s and DeCSS, and I think that *intent* needs to be redefined in the information world.
It can also be used as a portable player running off a single AA battery in the Energy Clip accessory from Good Technology...The Energy Clip will be available in November for $40.
Not exactly a cheap battery holder... an example of insanse marketing and pricing, but I guess the springboard market is somewhat a niche...
However, this is quite an amazing total for an MP3 player: $309... How's come you can spot this kind of stuff like the $40 battery pack a mile a way? I thought this was the *new* economy... but they're doing the old "lets find something otherwise cheap, make it special, and charge out the ass..."
I think I'll get the CD mp3 players, and to hell with the visor integration... I'm not an organized person anyway so a PDA won't do me any good.
Being older this really doesn't affect me since I have to show my ID other places (cigarettes, beer, credit card sometimes, checks, the airport, speeding tickets, clubs, Sylvian Prometric testing)... so I think I'm just going to punch a hole in my ID, and attach a belt zip chord thingy along with my building access card.
Ya know, in Ohio, we now have a magnetic strip on the badboy, and I've never seen it swiped... ever.
Apple really needs to deal with this internally. I cannot believe that at the very least they just fire the individual. What do they expect to gain?
I know that it's imparitive in marketing/corporate image to make sure that you have control over materials and products. I know that its imparative that a leak *could've* done harm (heh... like MS/Unix from another article today)... but geez... just pictures?
I believe that this is more a policy gone awry. I don't doubt to see some sort of mercy statement at a later date... probably from Jobs himself.
What an incredibly short piece of crap. It's probably what the people said, but jeez... I would've enjoyed some more detail. I mean we don't even know if they are disgruntled ex-microserfs...
This was like reading a junior high research paper.
to get hands on... I know a lot of i-opener types have been interested into the interworkings of QNX for quite some time, and with the potential for even more loss-leader hardware (vaporous webpads) in the near future, we need people to be looking at this OS. The more people interested, and the more of a chance I have of having linux picture frames throughout my place;)
Okay... I admit its intriguing -- the nuances of what is property, what is commerce, what is theft -- but I'm just sick of it. I want it to go away... I want my mp3s, but I'm tired of it coming up all the time. Who else wants the underground to go back underground?
I guess the same can be said about Modern Rock. I could name off bands and sound all hoity-toity but I bet you all would have different bands to mention and the conversation becomes flaimbait. However, I think we'd all agree that music evolves, and what once was unheard-of is now pop. It's been like that for awhile... maybe not specific bands, but definately styles.
Like Music, MP3 & other CNNfN buzz words will continue to circulate our media, and I'm sick of it.
Can anyone name something interesting that will soon to be be exploited in the media? Screener/movie piracy? Electronic book piracy? The cycle will continue.
I agree... I have often thought that government should sponser initiatives to let everyone have a crack at say... AIDS research or Cancer... I think everyone could be brought up to snuff, and then they can pitch an idea. We could also employ people to rummage through the ideas... perhaps they could use slashcode;)
Why it was Slashdot's obivious wonderful coverage of the issue! Also, I know *a lot* of people that did the online fax/write your congressman thing... which was given much attention in my local music scene. This is a good thing! From the RIAA even!
In polotics I think of protest as white noise. I also think of the actual poloticians in that white noise too. I'm glad this person expressed what they needed to expressed, and I'm also glad that/. voiced it too. Its hard to get people to hear you (er... to +1 ya so to speak) during an election year. Does anyone have some ideas for forming non-biased opinions for a candidate or party? Or is it possible? Or does anyone really care?
I think this piece brings up the topic of Urban Sprawl in sort of an information kind of way. I agree with the statements about food, and our market becoming very totalitarian. One Walmart can kill an entire community. Perhaps online its similar to say that one Napster can kill an entire underground of ftp's, irc channels, etc.
The flow of life goes beyond just real-world examples. I doubt that all up and down the line-of-supply of Walmart (or similar) you won't find technology somehow influencing end retail cost.
As far as Esther Dyson's comments about spreading like a virus, our whole market is like that, and from bigger beef and vegetables to $.99 impulse-item-goo-removers, we're quite corrupted in the real world without even seeing the computers responsable. I'm not complaining, it's just obvious how deep this goes, and it's just our times.
that there was something like the Internet Movie Database but for music. I know that there's a lot of relationships between artists and their music, style, and relationships. It'd be nice to have a RDBMS to publicly help us drill down on the location of that beauty in music.
that this is sort-of kind-of denoting some kind of drop in price in hardware.... anyone venture to say that this sort of pricing, and general concept will lead to the "neighborhood" linux box? Granted it'll probably definately lead to a resurgance of mainframe computing, as we've been hearing a lot of linux/mainframe stories lately.
That'd be cool to see a comet, and sometimes I catch a piece of something falling into the atmosphere at about the time I looked up.
Another freaky thing, I saw my *actual* doctor (not an associate that I usually see) at a gas station in a completely different city. Anyway... I'm happy that astronomers are getting a cool show!
For pocketmail devices, I threw together my own scripts that parse the.WML to give me just the latest headlines, and story bodies. Anyone doing similar?
Well, for a brief stint before mp3 got popular, I remember a rather large community that would trade commercial mod's (er... like I remember the Macarena or something... sliced up and tracked). Don't get me wrong... tracking is the f'in shit, and I highly respect those tracking today. I think its amazing to compose music on such a heirarchial level.
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DeCSS is something more -- this is using "illegal" means to get to right-fully owned copyrighted material. Sure you could rip the DVD data, but lets face it -- its not entirely practical to copy DVDs yet -- but its inevidable.
I think I agree with something I read on Wired today -- we need special technology courts... because just like any good lie, there's a lot of honesty in MP3s and DeCSS, and I think that *intent* needs to be redefined in the information world.
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Not exactly a cheap battery holder... an example of insanse marketing and pricing, but I guess the springboard market is somewhat a niche...
However, this is quite an amazing total for an MP3 player: $309... How's come you can spot this kind of stuff like the $40 battery pack a mile a way? I thought this was the *new* economy... but they're doing the old "lets find something otherwise cheap, make it special, and charge out the ass..."
I think I'll get the CD mp3 players, and to hell with the visor integration... I'm not an organized person anyway so a PDA won't do me any good.
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Being older this really doesn't affect me since I have to show my ID other places (cigarettes, beer, credit card sometimes, checks, the airport, speeding tickets, clubs, Sylvian Prometric testing)... so I think I'm just going to punch a hole in my ID, and attach a belt zip chord thingy along with my building access card.
Ya know, in Ohio, we now have a magnetic strip on the badboy, and I've never seen it swiped... ever.
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I wonder tho if they'll find the guy in the beta program that leaks it to a pirate group...
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I know that it's imparitive in marketing/corporate image to make sure that you have control over materials and products. I know that its imparative that a leak *could've* done harm (heh... like MS/Unix from another article today)... but geez... just pictures?
I believe that this is more a policy gone awry. I don't doubt to see some sort of mercy statement at a later date... probably from Jobs himself.
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This was like reading a junior high research paper.
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I guess the same can be said about Modern Rock. I could name off bands and sound all hoity-toity but I bet you all would have different bands to mention and the conversation becomes flaimbait. However, I think we'd all agree that music evolves, and what once was unheard-of is now pop. It's been like that for awhile... maybe not specific bands, but definately styles.
Like Music, MP3 & other CNNfN buzz words will continue to circulate our media, and I'm sick of it.
Can anyone name something interesting that will soon to be be exploited in the media? Screener/movie piracy? Electronic book piracy? The cycle will continue.
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The flow of life goes beyond just real-world examples. I doubt that all up and down the line-of-supply of Walmart (or similar) you won't find technology somehow influencing end retail cost.
As far as Esther Dyson's comments about spreading like a virus, our whole market is like that, and from bigger beef and vegetables to $.99 impulse-item-goo-removers, we're quite corrupted in the real world without even seeing the computers responsable. I'm not complaining, it's just obvious how deep this goes, and it's just our times.
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Another freaky thing, I saw my *actual* doctor (not an associate that I usually see) at a gas station in a completely different city. Anyway... I'm happy that astronomers are getting a cool show!
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