I hate the fact that the new windows media player, by default, has a little box checked that says, "Allow WinMedia to send information to sites you download movies from.."
I would be about as excited to know that everytime I play a CD in my computer, or an MP3 file, that information is being sent to the RIAA (or anyone for that matter.) What exactly would be the point in surrounding an audio format in with a barrier to prevent copying? Besides what was mentioned before.. nothing is perfect. PGP isn't perfect (although it has not been cracked in some time, it WILL eventually get cracked..) And the same goes for this new audio format.. CSS got cracked, so will SDMI.
If I own a company and I invest millions of dollars in an encryption scheme, which I know will not last more than a year, maybe two, but will require a change from hardware manfacturer's to make a new encryption - I'm going to go out of business. Something tells me that 12 months is a pretty generous estimate considering the amount of hype this story has recieved.
Realistically, the RIAA should look at some different models to make money off of music. Naptser is insanely popular, even among novice users (my Dad is on Napster and he has trouble starting IE and searching Yahoo.) I would pay $5/month to use Naptser and Napter's 4 million + users would make that equivalent to approximately 500,000+ CD's.. ($15 apeice for the CD's). Napster pays the artists or the record labels a royalty and everyone is happy.
Or base it on downloads.. every song costs.20 or.10 for that matter.. either way you slice it MP3's are free once they are made.. no CD art, no reproduction cost, no CD case, no shipping or handling..
However, if their intentions are to keep ALL of the pirated music off the net, well that will never happen. There will always be the squadrons for rouges for whatever reason will blatantly infringe on copyrights, just because they can. As there will always be people that download that material because it's free.
To think that someone gets paid to set there and say, "Hey let's make a new encryption scheme" is ludicris to me. I could be making a ton of money thinking up actual good ideas.. I wonder how that guy got that job... hmmm
"The same thing we do everynight Pinky, try and take over the world." - Brain
If this is all a pubilicity stunt, I think that he would be stupid not to go ahead and sell it. The bidding is up to $500,000 when I looked a couple of minutes ago.. sheesh.
Bombing anything does not equate with making a stand. How can one consider that to even be a intelligent statement?
How silly to expect the deaths of 300 people to be equal or justified to stimy the ability of someone to tap your email.
Here on the other hand are some intelligent questions, and if you don't know them - then you should not post about how 'bad' things are: What are the names of the congressmen and women that represent your district on the state level, in both houses. What are their addresses? What are the names of the congressmen and women that represent you on a Federal Level? What are their addresses. How many more years do each one of them have until re-election.
You see, the only revolution worth fighting at this point is one on a low-level political battle. The theory is that we outnumber them, we have the power, we can make them do what we want, but we actually have to take some action by contacting those whom we have elected to represent us.
It's a scary thought, because they probably won't even finish the letter that starts out with, "We gonna bomb if'n we don't get some dad burned change around this here nation. This is what we want.. " W1 OHP since 93
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I am a real-estate appraiser. I do evaluation of houses for mortgage companies that perform refinances, second and first mortgages, repossesions, etc.. Most of the companies that I deal with have gone 'technological' and require that I send them appraisals via electronic transfer. This is fine with me, my problem is that to do this I have to have a certain brand of software. ACI by Polaroid Digital Solutions.
The software is good and functional, but there are several problems with it.. and I will start with the most obvious:
When you install the software the CD generates a random key. In order to 'unlock' the software you have to call a 1-800 number, that no one has ever answered to date, leave a message and wait for them to call you back to unlock your software. I have had to perform several upgrades, reinstalls, etc., in which my fellow appraisers had to wait most of the day to do any work - even though we paid for the software, the unlimited right to use that software on this one machine (supposedly). WHAT A PAIN.. I wish that I had more of a choice. Unfortunately in order to put bread on the table I have to use this software to get business.
Some of the other things include the fact that you have to PAY for updates that supposedly fix bugs in the software. What kind of a sick joke is that? If I make an appraisal riddled full of errors and a client calls me to perform corrections and I say, "That will be $50.00 to correct the errors in the appraisal." They are going to laugh, say, "forget it," and go find someone else that is a little better at supporting their product. This whole thing is a big JOKE. MS, Adobe, Polaroid, etc.. have no respect for the customers. So while everyone on here may complain of legality, rights, monopolies, I offer an alternative term: Respect.
Wholen1 You can't fly with eagles running with Turkeys.
It is one thing to endorse 'free speech', but 'free speech' is not freedom to break the law. Regardless of how you feel about a law, the internet is not an excuse to violate ordinances, codes, or do any other act that would be considered illegal within the country that you reside. Don't ship your site off-shore, you are still legally responsible for the content on it - unless you move there also and never come back. Get the laws changed that you don't like.. or better yet - rethink wether the content of your site would ever be feasibly legal. I haven't seent the site - so I wouldn't know.. Play with fire and get burned
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I hate the fact that the new windows media player, by default, has a little box checked that says, "Allow WinMedia to send information to sites you download movies from.." .20 or .10 for that matter.. either way you slice it MP3's are free once they are made.. no CD art, no reproduction cost, no CD case, no shipping or handling..
I would be about as excited to know that everytime I play a CD in my computer, or an MP3 file, that information is being sent to the RIAA (or anyone for that matter.) What exactly would be the point in surrounding an audio format in with a barrier to prevent copying? Besides what was mentioned before.. nothing is perfect. PGP isn't perfect (although it has not been cracked in some time, it WILL eventually get cracked..) And the same goes for this new audio format.. CSS got cracked, so will SDMI.
If I own a company and I invest millions of dollars in an encryption scheme, which I know will not last more than a year, maybe two, but will require a change from hardware manfacturer's to make a new encryption - I'm going to go out of business. Something tells me that 12 months is a pretty generous estimate considering the amount of hype this story has recieved.
Realistically, the RIAA should look at some different models to make money off of music. Naptser is insanely popular, even among novice users (my Dad is on Napster and he has trouble starting IE and searching Yahoo.) I would pay $5/month to use Naptser and Napter's 4 million + users would make that equivalent to approximately 500,000+ CD's.. ($15 apeice for the CD's). Napster pays the artists or the record labels a royalty and everyone is happy.
Or base it on downloads.. every song costs
However, if their intentions are to keep ALL of the pirated music off the net, well that will never happen. There will always be the squadrons for rouges for whatever reason will blatantly infringe on copyrights, just because they can. As there will always be people that download that material because it's free.
To think that someone gets paid to set there and say, "Hey let's make a new encryption scheme" is ludicris to me. I could be making a ton of money thinking up actual good ideas.. I wonder how that guy got that job... hmmm
"The same thing we do everynight Pinky, try and take over the world." - Brain
If this is all a pubilicity stunt, I think that he would be stupid not to go ahead and sell it. The bidding is up to $500,000 when I looked a couple of minutes ago.. sheesh.
Bombing anything does not equate with making a stand. How can one consider that to even be a intelligent statement?
How silly to expect the deaths of 300 people to be equal or justified to stimy the ability of someone to tap your email.
Here on the other hand are some intelligent questions, and if you don't know them - then you should not post about how 'bad' things are: What are the names of the congressmen and women that represent your district on the state level, in both houses. What are their addresses? What are the names of the congressmen and women that represent you on a Federal Level? What are their addresses. How many more years do each one of them have until re-election.
You see, the only revolution worth fighting at this point is one on a low-level political battle. The theory is that we outnumber them, we have the power, we can make them do what we want, but we actually have to take some action by contacting those whom we have elected to represent us.
It's a scary thought, because they probably won't even finish the letter that starts out with, "We gonna bomb if'n we don't get some dad burned change around this here nation. This is what we want.. " W1 OHP since 93
The software is good and functional, but there are several problems with it.. and I will start with the most obvious:
When you install the software the CD generates a random key. In order to 'unlock' the software you have to call a 1-800 number, that no one has ever answered to date, leave a message and wait for them to call you back to unlock your software. I have had to perform several upgrades, reinstalls, etc., in which my fellow appraisers had to wait most of the day to do any work - even though we paid for the software, the unlimited right to use that software on this one machine (supposedly). WHAT A PAIN.. I wish that I had more of a choice. Unfortunately in order to put bread on the table I have to use this software to get business.
Some of the other things include the fact that you have to PAY for updates that supposedly fix bugs in the software. What kind of a sick joke is that? If I make an appraisal riddled full of errors and a client calls me to perform corrections and I say, "That will be $50.00 to correct the errors in the appraisal." They are going to laugh, say, "forget it," and go find someone else that is a little better at supporting their product. This whole thing is a big JOKE. MS, Adobe, Polaroid, etc.. have no respect for the customers. So while everyone on here may complain of legality, rights, monopolies, I offer an alternative term: Respect.
Wholen1You can't fly with eagles running with Turkeys.
It is one thing to endorse 'free speech', but 'free speech' is not freedom to break the law. Regardless of how you feel about a law, the internet is not an excuse to violate ordinances, codes, or do any other act that would be considered illegal within the country that you reside.
Don't ship your site off-shore, you are still legally responsible for the content on it - unless you move there also and never come back. Get the laws changed that you don't like.. or better yet - rethink wether the content of your site would ever be feasibly legal. I haven't seent the site - so I wouldn't know..
Play with fire and get burned