Ignoring them won't help (not sure why you suggested that--if MS used GPL code, say, the kernal, instead of developing their own idea, you'd say ignore them?).
Actually, I would say yes. They have way too much money to try to sue them. It's a lost cause for just about anyone unless their lawyer is willing to work pro bono.
You mention sue them--sorry, but copyright infringment usually falls into civil, not criminal (there are exceptions, e.g. DMCA, the other one Ashcroft is using that Clinton signed into law in '97) court. Civil court cases are darn expensive. And if you lose, you're liable for the other parties legal bill.
Not in the US. In fact, nearly every statement you made doesn't apply to the US. Filing criminal charges falls into criminal. Filing a lawsuit almost always falls into civil. Also, in the US you are not, by default, liable for the other parties legal fees. This is one of the problems some people have with the system here. Civil court cases are indeed expensive, but if the loser was required to pay the winner's legal fees, you'd see a lot more lawyers willing to work on a loan, particularly when they're sure they can win given enough time.
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I was being sarcastic and expecting a Redundant or Flamebait response (which I did get one each of....)
As someone else points out, a boycott will not do any good because it will still make several mil. Plus, even if there was a drop, the MPAA would just spin it and say that no one is seeing movies anymore because they can just download them. We're really damned whether we do or don't.
I was trying to be more generic in my statement. Any foreign movie that's brought over here will almost certainly be produced and released by a US based company, in which case the MPAA most likely will apply:)
Well let's see.. for one, the entire disc could be encrypted if they really wanted, for one. This greatly increases the amount of time it takes to download. For another, the smartchip is able to interact with the Installer or program that's running. The installer could just copy the CD's contents to the hard drive, and then the key to decrypt any given part of it is given by the disc/only/ when it is needed. This makes it harder, but still not impossible, to "rip" the CD.
Does anyone read the articles anymore? "Apparently it will not work with today's standard drives," is a completely invalid statement if you actually read the article that was provided. This isn't for use with Video or Audio discs, it's for use with program discs, specifically things you install to the hard drive and then run. "Apparently" the install program will request the CD key from the disc by pulsing the laser in a certain sequence. The disc, realizing that this is a legitimate sequence, will send a beam of light back at the reader that tells it the key. The key then is used to decrypt the contents of the disc and install the program. Presumably the fact that the disc has been installed is recorded on the smart card, along with (also presumably) a hardware profile of the machine. This way they can prevent you from reinstalling. The data could be erased during an uninstall, or it could remain, truly binding that particular disc to that particular computer. One thing that no one has mentioned is the fact an inopportune power failure could actually render the disc unreadable. Also, how will jitter affect this? Guess we'll have to wait to find out.
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As for my childish hatred on Disney... Yep, it probably is childish but come on every animated film they made since id on't know when happen to be so.... disneyish! You know that sappy/corny stuff.
You should really check out Atlantis, then. While it had sappy/corny elements, the overall movie was quite the gorefest. Huge bodycount and a great premise.
Lilo and Stitch was also fun, but a bit more sappy than Atlantis. Overall though, it looks like Disney is taking their films in a different direction from the "classics" of Cinderella and The Little Mermaid, etc. Unless you're boycotting for moral reasons, I suggest giving some of their latest offerings a shot.
Geez, you guys keep telling this guy how to run his (and his son's) life rather than giving constructive criticism to the question at hand. Do you think he hasn't thought about his son's gaming "addiction"? He came here with a question and all you can do is tell him how to raise his son. You have no idea how their family is set up. Perhaps his son is only allowed to play games on the weekends when he doesn't have to think about school? Rather than asking him to make the choice between fencing and gaming, his father could be trying to work out a compromise. You don't know the situation, so how dare you pretend you know what's best?
No, the analogy is completely off. MP3s are far from illegal. Copying copyrighted material is illegal. MP3s are a good format for doing so, but no one is saying that MP3 trading or sales should be illegal. Just MP3s that reproduce copyrighted material.
It's really a shame that so many people here are sheep[burn karma here] that can't think for themselves.
If you read the article, you'll see that they're suing to get a court order requiring the blocking of the site. They're/attempting/ to set a legal precedent where there is not yet one as opposed to suing/because/ of a legal precedent in order to get money.
You can remove a lot of stuff that you don't need... additional languages, subtitles, other misc. tracks (like commentary), deleted scenes, etc. I usually watch the "extras" once for every 5-6 times I watch a movie. I never use the extra language tracks, and I only watch commentary on DVDs where I expect it to be entertaining (as opposed to commentary that is almost exclusively devoted to the filmography, which I'm not interested in). When you consider all this that you can remove, you can almost always fit a single DVD movie onto the 4.7g available to DVD-Rs.
Seriously, there are times I just like the full-screen display on my BSD box, or even want to have a local X display. Then there are those times when you won't have sshd running or (god forbid) it actually crashes and you need a local terminal. Sure, if you have it set up you could go in through the serial port, but who wants to do that?:)
Around here (College Station, Texas) blank CDRs cost less than floppy discs, per unit. Now admittedly you can only write them once, but I also like to keep around (read: not change) my obsd boot floppies for archival purposes. To install (or in my case recently, upgrade) my OpenBSD box, I downloaded the floppy image and the base installation (.tgz files) and burned them to a CD. Booted the box and finished the entire process in under 5 minutes, and now I've got a bootable disc for future use.
http://www.nu2.nu/ is a great reference for making more advanced bootable CDs, including having multiple floppy images on one CD and a menu to choose between them. Works great with my OpenBSD box. You can have all three of the i386 boot images on one CD, as well as a custom boot floopy and damn near anything else you could want. I used this process to build a CD combining 3 different Windows flavors onto one CD for easy installation (well, back when I had a job at least!). One CD could install Windows 2000, Windows 98 or Windows NT4, and was preferable to a network installation if we needed to do it during the day--we had very heavy network usage.
Sorry if you thought my reply was a flame. It certainly wasn't meant to be. Just a counter to your statements.
As for your response, I don't see any direct reference to my post except for the "one season at a time" bit. You just sort of restate everything you said without giving any consideration to what I said, unless it's the fact that I agreed with you on Willow and said that it was the actress. I wasn't defending the show in that case. I was agreeing that she has very little range. I disagreed with your statements on the other characters.
Anyway, they don't all end in the manner you describe. In fact, a whole slew of them simply don't. I think it's glaringly obvious that you don't watch the show. You're probably right if you look only at first season, but that's the minority.
The point isn't the severity of the restriction, but that the restriction is taking place because of elitism. That was the first thing to come to my mind. Obviously the loss of a civil right has greater weight and is actually important whereas a silly award is not, but the parallel is there. Guys with power removing choice from those without it.
I really have to wonder how much of a chance these people have given Buffy. I used to think it was the dumbest show on TV, based solely on the premise and having seen one episode. When Buffy died, it made big news on a lot of sites and with several of my friends who were fans of the show. Then FX started rerunning it, and I gave it a shot. I came in around the second season and was hooked. The dialogue is witty (although sometimes predictable). I fell in love with the characters after about three episodes, and began to really care about what happens to them. That's the mark of good characterization. The plots are often contrived, but they're hilarious.
You really have to watch several consecutive episodes of Buffy to "get" it. The show is meant to be viewed as a whole, not as individual episodes. My bet is that most people who immediately discount it have seen fewer than three episodes, and probably didn't come to the show with an open mind.
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Ignoring them won't help (not sure why you suggested that--if MS used GPL code, say, the kernal, instead of developing their own idea, you'd say ignore them?).
Actually, I would say yes. They have way too much money to try to sue them. It's a lost cause for just about anyone unless their lawyer is willing to work pro bono.
You mention sue them--sorry, but copyright infringment usually falls into civil, not criminal (there are exceptions, e.g. DMCA, the other one Ashcroft is using that Clinton signed into law in '97) court. Civil court cases are darn expensive. And if you lose, you're liable for the other parties legal bill.
Not in the US. In fact, nearly every statement you made doesn't apply to the US. Filing criminal charges falls into criminal. Filing a lawsuit almost always falls into civil. Also, in the US you are not, by default, liable for the other parties legal fees. This is one of the problems some people have with the system here. Civil court cases are indeed expensive, but if the loser was required to pay the winner's legal fees, you'd see a lot more lawyers willing to work on a loan, particularly when they're sure they can win given enough time.
I was being sarcastic and expecting a Redundant or Flamebait response (which I did get one each of....)
As someone else points out, a boycott will not do any good because it will still make several mil. Plus, even if there was a drop, the MPAA would just spin it and say that no one is seeing movies anymore because they can just download them. We're really damned whether we do or don't.
I was trying to be more generic in my statement. Any foreign movie that's brought over here will almost certainly be produced and released by a US based company, in which case the MPAA most likely will apply :)
Well let's see.. for one, the entire disc could be encrypted if they really wanted, for one. This greatly increases the amount of time it takes to download. For another, the smartchip is able to interact with the Installer or program that's running. The installer could just copy the CD's contents to the hard drive, and then the key to decrypt any given part of it is given by the disc /only/ when it is needed. This makes it harder, but still not impossible, to "rip" the CD.
Does anyone read the articles anymore?
"Apparently it will not work with today's standard drives," is a completely invalid statement if you actually read the article that was provided. This isn't for use with Video or Audio discs, it's for use with program discs, specifically things you install to the hard drive and then run.
"Apparently" the install program will request the CD key from the disc by pulsing the laser in a certain sequence. The disc, realizing that this is a legitimate sequence, will send a beam of light back at the reader that tells it the key. The key then is used to decrypt the contents of the disc and install the program. Presumably the fact that the disc has been installed is recorded on the smart card, along with (also presumably) a hardware profile of the machine. This way they can prevent you from reinstalling. The data could be erased during an uninstall, or it could remain, truly binding that particular disc to that particular computer. One thing that no one has mentioned is the fact an inopportune power failure could actually render the disc unreadable. Also, how will jitter affect this? Guess we'll have to wait to find out.
As for my childish hatred on Disney... Yep, it probably is childish but come on every animated film they made since id on't know when happen to be so.... disneyish! You know that sappy/corny stuff.
You should really check out Atlantis, then. While it had sappy/corny elements, the overall movie was quite the gorefest. Huge bodycount and a great premise.
Lilo and Stitch was also fun, but a bit more sappy than Atlantis. Overall though, it looks like Disney is taking their films in a different direction from the "classics" of Cinderella and The Little Mermaid, etc. Unless you're boycotting for moral reasons, I suggest giving some of their latest offerings a shot.
Not if you see it in Japan, but if it's released here under an MPAA studio, then you better believe they have a say in its handling.
we could send a message to the MPAA by boycotting [these] movies.
Nah, I guess that just won't happen.
realize that the article was submitted a day before it was posted to the main page, so "today" actually refers to August 20th.
If you read through the manpage, a given email can be analyzed and added to the list--in fact, that is presumably how the badword list was generated.
Sounds really great.. anyone care to write one that doesn't require the Judy libraries?
Geez, you guys keep telling this guy how to run his (and his son's) life rather than giving constructive criticism to the question at hand. Do you think he hasn't thought about his son's gaming "addiction"? He came here with a question and all you can do is tell him how to raise his son. You have no idea how their family is set up. Perhaps his son is only allowed to play games on the weekends when he doesn't have to think about school? Rather than asking him to make the choice between fencing and gaming, his father could be trying to work out a compromise. You don't know the situation, so how dare you pretend you know what's best?
No joke...that second one was:
FBI warns 'warchalking' practice could expose business data to hackers--or terrorists.
It's not the warchalking that exposes the data, it's the dumbasses not securing their networks!
My Sarcasm Detector (tm) broke shortly after I started reading Slashdot, my apologies :)
The site is now slashdotted :) It now points to:
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http://www.mp3mediaworld.com/
Which is not the site I saw when I clicked the link the first time
No, the analogy is completely off. MP3s are far from illegal. Copying copyrighted material is illegal. MP3s are a good format for doing so, but no one is saying that MP3 trading or sales should be illegal. Just MP3s that reproduce copyrighted material.
It's really a shame that so many people here are sheep[burn karma here] that can't think for themselves.
If you read the article, you'll see that they're suing to get a court order requiring the blocking of the site. They're /attempting/ to set a legal precedent where there is not yet one as opposed to suing /because/ of a legal precedent in order to get money.
You neglect the fact that the idea was developed on his own time. My company does /not/ own any part of me while I'm not on their time. Period.
You can remove a lot of stuff that you don't need... additional languages, subtitles, other misc. tracks (like commentary), deleted scenes, etc. I usually watch the "extras" once for every 5-6 times I watch a movie. I never use the extra language tracks, and I only watch commentary on DVDs where I expect it to be entertaining (as opposed to commentary that is almost exclusively devoted to the filmography, which I'm not interested in).
When you consider all this that you can remove, you can almost always fit a single DVD movie onto the 4.7g available to DVD-Rs.
Yeah, but KVMs don't get trojan'd ;)
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Seriously, there are times I just like the full-screen display on my BSD box, or even want to have a local X display. Then there are those times when you won't have sshd running or (god forbid) it actually crashes and you need a local terminal. Sure, if you have it set up you could go in through the serial port, but who wants to do that?
Around here (College Station, Texas) blank CDRs cost less than floppy discs, per unit. Now admittedly you can only write them once, but I also like to keep around (read: not change) my obsd boot floppies for archival purposes. To install (or in my case recently, upgrade) my OpenBSD box, I downloaded the floppy image and the base installation (.tgz files) and burned them to a CD. Booted the box and finished the entire process in under 5 minutes, and now I've got a bootable disc for future use.
http://www.nu2.nu/ is a great reference for making more advanced bootable CDs, including having multiple floppy images on one CD and a menu to choose between them. Works great with my OpenBSD box. You can have all three of the i386 boot images on one CD, as well as a custom boot floopy and damn near anything else you could want. I used this process to build a CD combining 3 different Windows flavors onto one CD for easy installation (well, back when I had a job at least!). One CD could install Windows 2000, Windows 98 or Windows NT4, and was preferable to a network installation if we needed to do it during the day--we had very heavy network usage.
It's on hold until Joss has time to work with it. He's got a lot on his plate right now.
Sorry if you thought my reply was a flame. It certainly wasn't meant to be. Just a counter to your statements.
As for your response, I don't see any direct reference to my post except for the "one season at a time" bit. You just sort of restate everything you said without giving any consideration to what I said, unless it's the fact that I agreed with you on Willow and said that it was the actress. I wasn't defending the show in that case. I was agreeing that she has very little range. I disagreed with your statements on the other characters.
Anyway, they don't all end in the manner you describe. In fact, a whole slew of them simply don't. I think it's glaringly obvious that you don't watch the show. You're probably right if you look only at first season, but that's the minority.
The point isn't the severity of the restriction, but that the restriction is taking place because of elitism. That was the first thing to come to my mind. Obviously the loss of a civil right has greater weight and is actually important whereas a silly award is not, but the parallel is there. Guys with power removing choice from those without it.
I really have to wonder how much of a chance these people have given Buffy. I used to think it was the dumbest show on TV, based solely on the premise and having seen one episode. When Buffy died, it made big news on a lot of sites and with several of my friends who were fans of the show. Then FX started rerunning it, and I gave it a shot. I came in around the second season and was hooked. The dialogue is witty (although sometimes predictable). I fell in love with the characters after about three episodes, and began to really care about what happens to them. That's the mark of good characterization. The plots are often contrived, but they're hilarious.
You really have to watch several consecutive episodes of Buffy to "get" it. The show is meant to be viewed as a whole, not as individual episodes. My bet is that most people who immediately discount it have seen fewer than three episodes, and probably didn't come to the show with an open mind.