Provided that the film's publisher deigns to produce a version for your player.
And the vast majority of the time they do. BluRay is still a hell of a lot more accessible to users worldwide than anything like NetFlix (or similar) so that's certainly far from being a viable replacement.
but i could get a region-free player
I thought the countries that gave the most legal support to region-free players (e.g. Australia) were also the countries that banned the import of copies of films that don't carry a rating by the specific country's film classification board.
Anonymous is a meme, just as the Laughing Man was a meme.
wow, that sure is some similarity.
Individual units operating under a meme which produce in aggregate an emergent intelligence that operates as if but with out a centralized governance.
So of course that would mean any sort of 'we didn't do this' or 'we've gotten bored of this' announcements on behalf of Anonymous would be complete bullshit then.
This is the Laughing Man, this is Anonymous.
Anonymous is different attacks on different targets with different goals being attributed to the same name and discussed/planned in a number of known places. This is not the Laughing Man at all, you may manufacture similarities but they are far from the same thing.
No it isn't, in a stand alone complex there is no 'us' unlike with Anonymous who's media releases reference 'we' or 'us' and the actions of participating individuals are far from being unrelated like they are in a stand alone complex.
You sure about that?
If you are, you must be one of the participating individuals, and it a position to verify that all the actions by "Anonymous" to date have been by your group and not by copy-cats like in SAC. If you aren't, then you have no possible way of knowing if they are or not.
Not necessarily, particularly since a SAC is not a copy-cat, and even then this isn't copy-cat behavior, it's just attributing different actions with different ends to one name with knowledge of the other actions and ends attributed to that name, that is nothing like a stand alone complex. Either they are one group of people (maybe not always the same individuals) doing many different things or many different groups of people doing many different things and attributing it to the one name, neither makes it a stand alone complex.
If you want to understand Anonymous you need to watch the Ghost in the Shell anime. Anonymous is a seeded attempt at the "Laughing Man" of the series.
No it isn't, in a stand alone complex there is no 'us' unlike with Anonymous who's media releases reference 'we' or 'us' and the actions of participating individuals are far from being unrelated like they are in a stand alone complex.
How about I bought the f****** hardware so shouldn't I be the one to control it?
You aren't aware there's nothing stopping you from hacking your TiVo? TiVo aren't going to support you or provide you tools but it's your hardware and you can do what you want with it.
I hear this "does not preserve the freedoms" thing all the time from pro-GPL folks. It seems like they honestly believe that a commercial company can take existing GPL code, incorporate it into a product, and then magically the GPL code can no longer be used by open-source folks anymore.
I think I understand the sort of thing you're referring to, that argument that BSD allows the 'freedom to take away freedom', which of course it doesn't, the original code does not become non-free. Yes it allows for non-free derived works, which means you provide 'freedom of choice' to the people who use your code.
GPL controls the code in such a way that it ensures that everyone who uses your code and anything derived for it gets the same rights and the same freedoms. So it's all just dependent on your world view, no license is 'better'. To me Free Software means being altruistic and not forcing others to think my way, so i prefer the BSD license, of course others would disagree. The fact is permissive free, restrictive free and proprietary licenses can co-exist and that's really all that matters.
While they have transient organization, there is nothing permanent or overarching like a traditional group.
If that were true no-one could ever deny that Anonymous was involved in anything, anyone involved in any action can attribute it to Anonymous and regardless of whether they are doing it to use the Anonymous name as a scapegoat it makes the action a valid Anonymous action. The message posted on anonnews denying the sony hacking is obviously representing someone, since Anonymous can be anyone no-one could ever deny Anonymous was involved.
People will act based on their own motivations and initiative, sometimes forming into like-minded groups to do so.
That's pretty much what every Anonymous 'operation' ends up being. The 'Anonymous' behind an individual operation is always a group though they may or may not be the same group participating in any other 'operation'.
There wouldn't be any difference then since you've said Anonymous isn't a group and anyone acting in the name of Anonymous is Anonymous.
You make a good point and may be right, depending on how you delineate Anonymous. I would liken this to someone who loots a store during a revolution. If they do so to further the revolution, then they're a revolutionary. If they're merely taking advantage of the chaos, they're just a thief, even if they try to credit their crime to the revolution.
Fair enough, i see your point but i would imagine not everyone involved in - say the DDOS attacks - was doing it for the same goal and chasing the same end. This contrasts with a stand alone complex where everyone is chasing the same ends via the same or different means.
Anonymous is not a group, it's a collective of individuals. Kinda like a Stand Alone Complex if you've seen that show.
It isn't like a stand alone complex, attacks by Anonymous are always organised (look at the IRC channel), a DDOS with multiple participants would not work if it weren't organised.
(Obviously assuming this was someone doing this in the name of Anonymous rather than a thief who wants to misdirect the investigation.)
There wouldn't be any difference then since you've said Anonymous isn't a group and anyone acting in the name of Anonymous is Anonymous.
So BluRay is an international solution, Netflix is not
Ideally, there would be a counterpart to Netflix in each country, just like Spotify is in some countries but Pandora is in others.
And that's the key thing, ideally. However the fact is that isn't the case and until it is disc formats like DVD and BluRay will continue to be relevant market drivers. I would love for there to be an international Netflix service but unfortunately the movie studios will resist such a thing as long as they can.
Yes. I'm equating the fact that Netflix does not play on IP addresses in markets outside the United States and Canada to the fact that Region 1 DVDs do not play on DVD players made for markets outside the United States and Canada and to the fact that Region A BDs do not play on BD players made for markets outside North America, South America, Japan, and southeast Asia.
Which is stupid since they are not equal. I can get all those BluRay discs, i just have to buy the version for my player, and i can buy it from anywhere, it doesn't matter where i am, not only that but i could get a region-free player. However with netflix i cannot get it outside of the US and Canada. So BluRay is an international solution, Netflix is not...see how they aren't equal?
Are you saying you don't know any sheep who bought a BluRay player and thought, "Wow, I really need to get the HD version of Blade Runner!"? Most of the people I know who have BR attached to their big screen TVs have an old collection of several hundred dollars' worth of DVDs, and another pile of BR discs, and there is typically a significant overlap between the two piles.
That is in no way an explanation for your suggestion that bluray is a way to make people buy their libraries all over again. It gives you the ability to have a higher quality version if you want it, that isn't going to make you buy your whole library again, in fact bluray players play DVDs as well so if you get a bluray player you can ditch your dvd player and *not* have to buy your collection again. I suppose you though DVD was just a way to make people buy their VHS collections again too.
Microsoft totally caved to the MPAA, with driver signing, tilt bits in hardware, checking that you haven't physically modified your hardware multiple times a second.
You have a misunderstanding of Apple's development tools. Adding a new CPU binary to an existing app for Apple developers is trivial - just a recompile.
That's a pretty narrow and uninformed view, that assumes you haven't made any arm-specific assembly optimisations.
In fact, the iPhone was first shown before the Samsung F700 was first shown
You are right, however there was 1 month between them, clearly they were designed in parallel so the design is so simple it's just obvious. No-one copied anyone, they were both original and considering the basic and simplistic design as well as the timing it's hardly a stretch to imagine this is just coincidence.
Everything since then is basically a rehash of the same clunky keyboard and joystick interface.
They have optical trackpads, and before that trackballs, it's hardly 'clunky' given it's pretty much the same interaction method as you get with any desktop or laptop. Not everyone wants to be pawing over the screen to get things done.
Yeah, they have some sort of touch technology, all crammed into a tiny little screen because they have to make room for the physical keyboard at the bottom.
did you consider that not everyone wants a virtual keyboard?
Unless you're in a country where RIM let's the government read the emails.
But they don't do that at all, don't spread FUD, do some research before you make rubbish posts like that. The emails are encrypted using the company's BES encryption key, which RIM doesn't have, however they can identify the source and destination of emails and this is the information they give to the government who can then subpoena the company for the unencrypted information.
Compare and contrast this to the Windows world where the execute bit is tied to 3 letters in the file name and Windows will duly execute the file as soon as it's double-clicked.
No it doesn't, don't spread FUD. You will always get security warnings when trying to run unsigned executables.
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i just have to buy the version for my player
Provided that the film's publisher deigns to produce a version for your player.
And the vast majority of the time they do. BluRay is still a hell of a lot more accessible to users worldwide than anything like NetFlix (or similar) so that's certainly far from being a viable replacement.
but i could get a region-free player
I thought the countries that gave the most legal support to region-free players (e.g. Australia) were also the countries that banned the import of copies of films that don't carry a rating by the specific country's film classification board.
Only if they are Refused Classification.
Anonymous is a meme, just as the Laughing Man was a meme.
wow, that sure is some similarity.
Individual units operating under a meme which produce in aggregate an emergent intelligence that operates as if but with out a centralized governance.
So of course that would mean any sort of 'we didn't do this' or 'we've gotten bored of this' announcements on behalf of Anonymous would be complete bullshit then.
This is the Laughing Man, this is Anonymous.
Anonymous is different attacks on different targets with different goals being attributed to the same name and discussed/planned in a number of known places. This is not the Laughing Man at all, you may manufacture similarities but they are far from the same thing.
No it isn't, in a stand alone complex there is no 'us' unlike with Anonymous who's media releases reference 'we' or 'us' and the actions of participating individuals are far from being unrelated like they are in a stand alone complex.
You sure about that?
If you are, you must be one of the participating individuals, and it a position to verify that all the actions by "Anonymous" to date have been by your group and not by copy-cats like in SAC. If you aren't, then you have no possible way of knowing if they are or not.
Not necessarily, particularly since a SAC is not a copy-cat, and even then this isn't copy-cat behavior, it's just attributing different actions with different ends to one name with knowledge of the other actions and ends attributed to that name, that is nothing like a stand alone complex.
Either they are one group of people (maybe not always the same individuals) doing many different things or many different groups of people doing many different things and attributing it to the one name, neither makes it a stand alone complex.
If you want to understand Anonymous you need to watch the Ghost in the Shell anime. Anonymous is a seeded attempt at the "Laughing Man" of the series.
No it isn't, in a stand alone complex there is no 'us' unlike with Anonymous who's media releases reference 'we' or 'us' and the actions of participating individuals are far from being unrelated like they are in a stand alone complex.
How about I bought the f****** hardware so shouldn't I be the one to control it?
You aren't aware there's nothing stopping you from hacking your TiVo? TiVo aren't going to support you or provide you tools but it's your hardware and you can do what you want with it.
Things are unethical because they are likely to cause harm to other people.
Things are unethical because they are 'wrong' in terms of 'right and wrong' which are subjective and determined by an individual's point of view.
I hear this "does not preserve the freedoms" thing all the time from pro-GPL folks. It seems like they honestly believe that a commercial company can take existing GPL code, incorporate it into a product, and then magically the GPL code can no longer be used by open-source folks anymore.
I think I understand the sort of thing you're referring to, that argument that BSD allows the 'freedom to take away freedom', which of course it doesn't, the original code does not become non-free. Yes it allows for non-free derived works, which means you provide 'freedom of choice' to the people who use your code.
GPL controls the code in such a way that it ensures that everyone who uses your code and anything derived for it gets the same rights and the same freedoms. So it's all just dependent on your world view, no license is 'better'.
To me Free Software means being altruistic and not forcing others to think my way, so i prefer the BSD license, of course others would disagree. The fact is permissive free, restrictive free and proprietary licenses can co-exist and that's really all that matters.
While they have transient organization, there is nothing permanent or overarching like a traditional group.
If that were true no-one could ever deny that Anonymous was involved in anything, anyone involved in any action can attribute it to Anonymous and regardless of whether they are doing it to use the Anonymous name as a scapegoat it makes the action a valid Anonymous action. The message posted on anonnews denying the sony hacking is obviously representing someone, since Anonymous can be anyone no-one could ever deny Anonymous was involved.
People will act based on their own motivations and initiative, sometimes forming into like-minded groups to do so.
That's pretty much what every Anonymous 'operation' ends up being. The 'Anonymous' behind an individual operation is always a group though they may or may not be the same group participating in any other 'operation'.
There wouldn't be any difference then since you've said Anonymous isn't a group and anyone acting in the name of Anonymous is Anonymous.
You make a good point and may be right, depending on how you delineate Anonymous. I would liken this to someone who loots a store during a revolution. If they do so to further the revolution, then they're a revolutionary. If they're merely taking advantage of the chaos, they're just a thief, even if they try to credit their crime to the revolution.
Fair enough, i see your point but i would imagine not everyone involved in - say the DDOS attacks - was doing it for the same goal and chasing the same end. This contrasts with a stand alone complex where everyone is chasing the same ends via the same or different means.
Anonymous is not a group, it's a collective of individuals. Kinda like a Stand Alone Complex if you've seen that show.
It isn't like a stand alone complex, attacks by Anonymous are always organised (look at the IRC channel), a DDOS with multiple participants would not work if it weren't organised.
(Obviously assuming this was someone doing this in the name of Anonymous rather than a thief who wants to misdirect the investigation.)
There wouldn't be any difference then since you've said Anonymous isn't a group and anyone acting in the name of Anonymous is Anonymous.
So BluRay is an international solution, Netflix is not
Ideally, there would be a counterpart to Netflix in each country, just like Spotify is in some countries but Pandora is in others.
And that's the key thing, ideally. However the fact is that isn't the case and until it is disc formats like DVD and BluRay will continue to be relevant market drivers. I would love for there to be an international Netflix service but unfortunately the movie studios will resist such a thing as long as they can.
Yes. I'm equating the fact that Netflix does not play on IP addresses in markets outside the United States and Canada to the fact that Region 1 DVDs do not play on DVD players made for markets outside the United States and Canada and to the fact that Region A BDs do not play on BD players made for markets outside North America, South America, Japan, and southeast Asia.
Which is stupid since they are not equal. I can get all those BluRay discs, i just have to buy the version for my player, and i can buy it from anywhere, it doesn't matter where i am, not only that but i could get a region-free player.
However with netflix i cannot get it outside of the US and Canada.
So BluRay is an international solution, Netflix is not...see how they aren't equal?
Are you saying you don't know any sheep who bought a BluRay player and thought, "Wow, I really need to get the HD version of Blade Runner!"? Most of the people I know who have BR attached to their big screen TVs have an old collection of several hundred dollars' worth of DVDs, and another pile of BR discs, and there is typically a significant overlap between the two piles.
That is in no way an explanation for your suggestion that bluray is a way to make people buy their libraries all over again. It gives you the ability to have a higher quality version if you want it, that isn't going to make you buy your whole library again, in fact bluray players play DVDs as well so if you get a bluray player you can ditch your dvd player and *not* have to buy your collection again. I suppose you though DVD was just a way to make people buy their VHS collections again too.
Not everyone lives in the US and Canada.
Blu-ray Disc also has region codes.
So you're equating the fact that netflix is unavailable to the existence of region codes?
BR is, at its core, a way to get people to buy their video libraries all over again.
How so?
Microsoft totally caved to the MPAA, with driver signing, tilt bits in hardware, checking that you haven't physically modified your hardware multiple times a second.
MS put tilt bits in hardware?
Netflix streaming
Not everyone lives in the US and Canada.
external hard drives
Yeah i'll just head down to the local store and buy some movies on hard drive.
In any case optical media is still a very popular distribution medium.
You have a misunderstanding of Apple's development tools. Adding a new CPU binary to an existing app for Apple developers is trivial - just a recompile.
That's a pretty narrow and uninformed view, that assumes you haven't made any arm-specific assembly optimisations.
In fact, the iPhone was first shown before the Samsung F700 was first shown
You are right, however there was 1 month between them, clearly they were designed in parallel so the design is so simple it's just obvious. No-one copied anyone, they were both original and considering the basic and simplistic design as well as the timing it's hardly a stretch to imagine this is just coincidence.
Having the game makers and designers working on it can only improve what has been, for quite some time, a really awful form of movie.
Mainly because of Uwe Bol.
Everything since then is basically a rehash of the same clunky keyboard and joystick interface.
They have optical trackpads, and before that trackballs, it's hardly 'clunky' given it's pretty much the same interaction method as you get with any desktop or laptop. Not everyone wants to be pawing over the screen to get things done.
Yeah, they have some sort of touch technology, all crammed into a tiny little screen because they have to make room for the physical keyboard at the bottom.
did you consider that not everyone wants a virtual keyboard?
not wasting mod points on AC.
why? it's the comment that's of value, not the author.
Unless you're in a country where RIM let's the government read the emails.
But they don't do that at all, don't spread FUD, do some research before you make rubbish posts like that. The emails are encrypted using the company's BES encryption key, which RIM doesn't have, however they can identify the source and destination of emails and this is the information they give to the government who can then subpoena the company for the unencrypted information.
This meme is getting really tiresome.
How is it a meme? It's a fact.
The so-called "tracking data" used by iOS only contains CELL TOWER data
And you think it's difficult to triangulate a pretty accurate position based on cell tower data?
MACDefender requires that you agree to install it. It's not able to infect your Mac without your knowledge and consent.
That's the case with software on all platforms.
Compare and contrast this to the Windows world where the execute bit is tied to 3 letters in the file name and Windows will duly execute the file as soon as it's double-clicked.
No it doesn't, don't spread FUD. You will always get security warnings when trying to run unsigned executables.