Why spend time concocting protection schemes? Here, I'll pull the answer right out of your own comment: "they make money off it". It's that simple. Sony not only has an impetus, but in fact the legal obligation to do whatever it can to maximize its profits (legally), so if this helps them make money, it's case closed.
oh yeah? well 13 year old kids also don't know that before electronic, silicon-chip computers, a "computer" was a human who sat behind a desk and did math by hand (well, mabye with a slide rule or something).
mmm... maybe the kids do know that, and they laugh about it.
yes, clearly if you are a phd you have a grasp on thermodynamics far beyond that which our eleventh grade physics teachers taught us, but you missed the lesson where you would have been taught to address basic criticisms of your design right at the top of your webpage, or at least list the cost of producing ice in your cost summary.
PS no one has mentioned that not only did you do this for 24 dollars, you did this for 24 Canadian dollars, which is what, like seventy-five cents? god i love Canadian money, it's like spending tickets at Chuck E Cheese's.
It would be difficult for me to imagine this being any more successful at the general consumer market than DiVX, which as we all know only lasted six months and hardly sold any units at all. But elsewhere in the forum, someone noted that the technology could be useful in other markets: the other poster posthulated use in distributing pre-release copies of movies; I can imagine military uses.
good point, but it's also valid to argue that the maximum compensatory damages would be limited by $5 per month * number of months left in the person's lifetime. I'm young -- 25 -- and let's say i live for fifty more years, times 12 months, is six hundred months, times five dollars is three grand. (wow, hold on, i could have all the music in the world for life for three grand? that's starting to sound like a deal.) but doesn't the RIAA claim something like five g's *per song* as damages? it just really doesn't compute.
i don't know about this. i like the idea that any person can claim legal protection for their work without having to jump thru legal hoops. can you imagine sending every single minor version of your software to Uncle Sam just so you could keep distributing it under the GPL (which is premised on Copyright)? it would probably dampen the immediacy of distribution over new media such as the internet.
i suggest two modifications to your plan: first, digital backups are only good for digital works, because the media holding the data will only be readable for a generation or so (even ignoring media deterioration, the main problem is that in two hundred years we won't have CD drives). paper copies of works are best.
second, a ten year window of unavailability is, in my opinion, *way* too long. why would i have to wait ten years to get my hands on a book which the publisher no longer cares to distribute? i suggest that the Copyright Office start distributing works *immediately* when the market stops. all it should take is a finding that the work is no longer commercially (or otherwise publically) available, and the work should immediately become public domain. (another poster made this same point elsewhere in this forum.)
PS i hate to burst any bubbles here, but isn't Australia the only country in the world more backward than America with respect to things like copyrights? the cynic in me says that Australia will take this opportunity to make their laws worse, then they'll ask (and get) the WTO to spread those laws to other countries.
...for doing all the things that a computer can do besides typing? (don't you think this potential device would have a usb port for your keyboard?)
wait, wait, i have an even better answer: if it has finger-touch screen technology, why couldn't you type right on the screen on a displayed keyboard? (i use one of those Fingerworks keyboards which is not so dissimilar.)
Dude that is exactly what I thought: "I don't understand, is she implying that MP3s downloaded from pay sites other than iTMS won't work on my iPod? Does she know something I don't?"
Then I realized that she wants my iPod to support file formats that I, as the consumer, don't want it to support. I shudder to think what would happen if iPods played Windows Media files.
The solution here is totally obvious: start selling MP3s (I won't even pay for those iTMS files). Even better, choose a tighter, freer format, with the obvious choice being Ogg.
Can you imagine what would happen if bugs in proprietary software (I'm thinking of Windows or IE) were considered "extremely critical" as soon as an exploit was solidified in code? I mean, if "extremely critical" corresponds to "it is *possible* to exploit this bug" then what is the term to describe a bug which in fact is wreaking havoc on worldwide information infrastructure (as many Windows bugs)?
yeah that's a great idea! maybe the PDF could be ultra-high resolution, too, at 100% real size. maybe the Feds could post it online so we could all make sure our money is real?
I don't know for sure, but I bet there is a law that keeps old coins legal tender. In fact, as an American, I can say I'd be pretty peeved if I had a bagful of cash and suddenly the government tried to tell me my cash wasn't money anymore. I'd even say that would be a violation of due process, since the government would be depriving me of property.
But y'all don't have the benefit of a (written) constitution.
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Ive got it pretty good with the "best of both worlds"
/wag
oh, you have a mac?
that's not funny, it's insightful, maybe obvious, too
Yeah, you're right, a handheld video player wouldn't make sense.
You are the reason Slashdot puts the message about "should have used the 'Preview' button" on their comment-submission page.
don't blame the submitter, blame the editor who approved the story.
Golly gee, at this rate Apple could grow from 1.3 to 1.6 percent market share in only a matter of years! /cynical mac user
It's not that Sony decided that all of their customers are criminals, rather that any of their customers could be criminals.
Why spend time concocting protection schemes? Here, I'll pull the answer right out of your own comment: "they make money off it". It's that simple. Sony not only has an impetus, but in fact the legal obligation to do whatever it can to maximize its profits (legally), so if this helps them make money, it's case closed.
oh yeah? well 13 year old kids also don't know that before electronic, silicon-chip computers, a "computer" was a human who sat behind a desk and did math by hand (well, mabye with a slide rule or something).
mmm... maybe the kids do know that, and they laugh about it.
kudos. you just outgeeked a lot of us.
yes, clearly if you are a phd you have a grasp on thermodynamics far beyond that which our eleventh grade physics teachers taught us, but you missed the lesson where you would have been taught to address basic criticisms of your design right at the top of your webpage, or at least list the cost of producing ice in your cost summary.
PS no one has mentioned that not only did you do this for 24 dollars, you did this for 24 Canadian dollars, which is what, like seventy-five cents? god i love Canadian money, it's like spending tickets at Chuck E Cheese's.
It would be difficult for me to imagine this being any more successful at the general consumer market than DiVX, which as we all know only lasted six months and hardly sold any units at all. But elsewhere in the forum, someone noted that the technology could be useful in other markets: the other poster posthulated use in distributing pre-release copies of movies; I can imagine military uses.
good point, but it's also valid to argue that the maximum compensatory damages would be limited by $5 per month * number of months left in the person's lifetime. I'm young -- 25 -- and let's say i live for fifty more years, times 12 months, is six hundred months, times five dollars is three grand. (wow, hold on, i could have all the music in the world for life for three grand? that's starting to sound like a deal.) but doesn't the RIAA claim something like five g's *per song* as damages? it just really doesn't compute.
These are areas where DRM is threatening to undermine basic consumer rights.
threatening? i feel like my consumer rights have already been undermined
i don't know about this. i like the idea that any person can claim legal protection for their work without having to jump thru legal hoops. can you imagine sending every single minor version of your software to Uncle Sam just so you could keep distributing it under the GPL (which is premised on Copyright)? it would probably dampen the immediacy of distribution over new media such as the internet.
i suggest two modifications to your plan: first, digital backups are only good for digital works, because the media holding the data will only be readable for a generation or so (even ignoring media deterioration, the main problem is that in two hundred years we won't have CD drives). paper copies of works are best.
second, a ten year window of unavailability is, in my opinion, *way* too long. why would i have to wait ten years to get my hands on a book which the publisher no longer cares to distribute? i suggest that the Copyright Office start distributing works *immediately* when the market stops. all it should take is a finding that the work is no longer commercially (or otherwise publically) available, and the work should immediately become public domain. (another poster made this same point elsewhere in this forum.)
(snort) how about
1) expiration
PS i hate to burst any bubbles here, but isn't Australia the only country in the world more backward than America with respect to things like copyrights? the cynic in me says that Australia will take this opportunity to make their laws worse, then they'll ask (and get) the WTO to spread those laws to other countries.
...for doing all the things that a computer can do besides typing? (don't you think this potential device would have a usb port for your keyboard?)
wait, wait, i have an even better answer: if it has finger-touch screen technology, why couldn't you type right on the screen on a displayed keyboard? (i use one of those Fingerworks keyboards which is not so dissimilar.)
in short, your question is myopic.
agreed. anyone else remember the hoopla over "wind-up" iBooks? i still often wish my laptop could be powered that way. that would be sweet.
Only in America could a company get a "design patent" on a damn rectangle.
Not that that will stop me from buying one.
Dude that is exactly what I thought: "I don't understand, is she implying that MP3s downloaded from pay sites other than iTMS won't work on my iPod? Does she know something I don't?"
Then I realized that she wants my iPod to support file formats that I, as the consumer, don't want it to support. I shudder to think what would happen if iPods played Windows Media files.
The solution here is totally obvious: start selling MP3s (I won't even pay for those iTMS files). Even better, choose a tighter, freer format, with the obvious choice being Ogg.
1.) Apple isn't a monopoly
2.) it IS annoying, just not nearly AS annoying
3.) when Apple makes products interoperate, the products don't suck
Can you imagine what would happen if bugs in proprietary software (I'm thinking of Windows or IE) were considered "extremely critical" as soon as an exploit was solidified in code? I mean, if "extremely critical" corresponds to "it is *possible* to exploit this bug" then what is the term to describe a bug which in fact is wreaking havoc on worldwide information infrastructure (as many Windows bugs)?
yeah that's a great idea! maybe the PDF could be ultra-high resolution, too, at 100% real size. maybe the Feds could post it online so we could all make sure our money is real?
I don't know for sure, but I bet there is a law that keeps old coins legal tender. In fact, as an American, I can say I'd be pretty peeved if I had a bagful of cash and suddenly the government tried to tell me my cash wasn't money anymore. I'd even say that would be a violation of due process, since the government would be depriving me of property.
But y'all don't have the benefit of a (written) constitution.