I don't have firm numbers, but this is a clip from the alt.video.dvd FAQ http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html:
1.9] How quickly will DVD become established? Not as fast as generally predicted, but faster than videotape, laserdisc, and CD. By the end of 1997 over 500,000 DVD-Video players shipped worldwide. 349,482 of these were in the US (with about 200,000 actually sold into homes). About 600 DVD video titles were available in the US, with over 5 million copies shipped and about 2 million sold. Around 330,000 DVD-ROM drives were shipped worldwide with about 1 million bundled DVD-ROM titles. Only 60 DVD-ROM titles were available by the end of 1997, most of them bundled with PCs or drive upgrade kits.
By the end of 1999, there will be almost 4 million DVD-Video players in the US, and about 30 million DVD PCs.
Actually, the earliest I saw this idea was in a short by Robert Heinlein titled "Blowups Happen". It was written in the 40s, I believe (If I dig up a reference to the first publication, I will).
The power restriction is there to minimize crosstalk between the various different lines between the CO and the end user (i.e. where it's still straight analog twisted pair wires bundled up together). Push to much power through, and people will end up hearing your modem hiss at the ISP underneath their call.
The point to this is that while the files can be downloaded to a computer, they can't be connected to each other as yet. This probably would need some sort of intermediary device, which means they have not violated any laws (the person circumventing the copying restrictions is).
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I think in this context root == rape.. slang differs in different parts of the world.. Of course I may be totally wrong, but oh well.. :)
I don't have firm numbers, but this is a clip from the alt.video.dvd FAQ http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html:
1.9] How quickly will DVD become established?
Not as fast as generally predicted, but faster than videotape, laserdisc, and CD. By the end of 1997 over 500,000 DVD-Video players shipped worldwide. 349,482 of these were in the US (with about 200,000 actually sold into homes). About 600 DVD video titles were available in the US, with over 5 million copies shipped and about 2 million sold. Around 330,000 DVD-ROM drives were shipped worldwide with about 1 million bundled DVD-ROM titles. Only 60 DVD-ROM titles were available by the end of 1997, most of them bundled with PCs or drive upgrade kits.
By the end of 1999, there will be almost 4 million DVD-Video players in the US, and about 30 million DVD PCs.
Actually, the earliest I saw this idea was in a short by Robert Heinlein titled "Blowups Happen". It was written in the 40s, I believe (If I dig up a reference to the first publication, I will).
The power restriction is there to minimize crosstalk between the various different lines between the CO and the end user (i.e. where it's still straight analog twisted pair wires bundled up together). Push to much power through, and people will end up hearing your modem hiss at the ISP underneath their call.
It's probably the "Acclerated X" server grabbing the PCI bus and not letting go.
We all know Macs aren't Y2K compliant. Don't you ever read the news?
The point to this is that while the files can be downloaded to a computer, they can't be connected to each other as yet. This probably would need some sort of intermediary device, which means they have not violated any laws (the person circumventing the copying restrictions is).