I know nothing about Swedish law, but I think I understand the basics of US copyright law.
Regarding music and playing it. As far as I know a player won't compy the whole music into the memory, do it really? I can imagine a few bits (well a whole bunch) being processed in memory while it is being played, but to then leave it in memory seems unnessecary and need far more memory than most CD players probably have. Still, arguing that such a thing is copying would be like arguing your brain has a copy of a book you read and really silly (which of course has nothing to do with how the law would actually be interpreted by a court of course).
Copying digital audio into the memory of a player is not the same thing as reading and understanding a book. The former is making an exact copy, while the latter is not. Digital audio in RAM can be copied further, while one's memories are personal. Maybe this will become an issue when telepathy becomes widespread.
No, the entire song doesn't need to be copied at once to play it, but each part needs to be copied at some point. The law doesn't address specific implementation details like copying a whole song at once or just a few seconds at a time. However, whether a copy is fair use does partly depend on how much of the work is copied, which is why I assume it applies when playing a CD.
The precise limits of fair use under US law are constantly debated and challenged. There are many applications that I'm unsure of. For instance, I know that it's been shown in court that recording TV broadcasts for later viewing is fair use. I'm unsure if it is still fair use when one gives a copy to someone through the Internet.
I think you're saying exactly the same thing I did, but for some reason, you won't acknowledge that. It seems you're agreeing that the piece of plastic is not what's being bought and sold for $15 (or less, if it's used).
If you want to be pedantic, copyright law doesn't say anything specific about playing a CD. As the name implies, it says who has the right to copy a work, wich can be a music recording. Whoever manufactures the CD has the right to copy the recording onto the CD. The person who buys it doesn't have the right to make any copies, except for the fair use provisions. That's fortunate, since you can't even play CD without making a copy of it (into the player's RAM, for instance).
To make a copy of the music to your hard drive or another CD for your personal use is also under fair use. However, it would probably not be if you borrowed a CD from your friend, copied all the music, then gave the CD back. Every time you played those songs, you'd be making unauthorized copies (into the player's RAM). That's what I meant when I said you need a license to play the music, though perhaps "right," or "permission" is a better word.
I have MP3s of songs from a certain album. I bought a used CD of the same album. The MP3s are probably still unauthorized copies, so I'd probably have to make my own copies from the CD I bought to make everything kosher. If the end result was the same, I wouldn't bother. I wanted higher quality Vorbis anyway, so I copied the songs and deleted the old MP3s.
You're still missing the point. Of course one buys and owns the piece of plastic that is the CD, but that's not worth much (probably a few cents). When one buys a music CD, one is mainly buying the right (or license) to play the music and (at least for now) make copies under fair use. Would you pay five or twelve dollars for a few grams of plastic?
To rephrase: you need a license to play a CD for private use, but if you obtained the CD legally, you have the license.
Yeah, I don't think it would be worth it to try media players on Wine. There are various other Free Software players for *nix anyway, most notably Xine.
Sure it's a good compromise and I never knocked it. Just don't deceive yourself by thinking that buying used CDs is non-participation. To boycott the RIAA or music industry in general, one would have to spend no money at all on the products of the evil group.
Of course I own the the piece of plastic I buy. But, if I already had the recordings that are on the CD, I wouldn't have to copy them again. I was observing that since it's so easy to make digital copies today, the piece of plastic has less inherent value.
Buying a record or tape or CD has never meant buying songs. The original author (or publisher, or whoever) still holds the copyright. Buying an album has always meant buying a license to use the recording on it; it has nothing to do with Billy boy or software.
Some of your money still gets back to the publishers and the RIAA. In particular, the seller will probably buy more new CDs. Obviously, buying used CDs is a good idea and I've bought a number of them. I've bought several because I already had copies of the songs on them. In that case, it would have been acceptible even if the CD was unreadable, since I was just buying a license to use the songs. They were all in good condition, however.
These people are probably counting on the fact that both the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government have bigger fish to fry than copyright infringers. They probably just expect to be ignored. Why are they openly challenging the MPAA? Do they want yet another foreign power trying to exert pressure in that part of the world? They might just get themselves blown up, since some Muslims may see them as spreading Western evil.
IP traffic cannot be completely anonymous. If someone has access to a router or host between two hosts that are communicating, she can tell the two hosts are communicating and estimate the flow rate. Using encryption can hide the content, but not existence of communication. I doubt ES5 goes as far to protect anonymity as Freenet, but Freenet doesn't work very well yet.
Seeking is certainly a weak point of MPlayer. The GUI could be considered a weakness as well, but I don't even use it. If you've not gotten sound from some movies, you may be missing some codecs. Particularly, people often complain of missing audio in Quicktime movies, only to discover they don't have faad (AAC decoder) installed. I had to install it and rebuild MPlayer to get AAC sound. If you want to be able to play as much as possible, build MPlayer from CVS, since much development has happened since the last stable release.
I think I've tried MPC, and I'd probably use it more if I ever booted into Windows. Does it run on Wine? I assume it would need the DirectShow framework, which may not be available.
They were considering Apple three years ago. He probably didn't care whether the stock had voting rights or not; he didn't want to do anything to benefit M$ in any way, shape or form.
The interview is an advertisement for Free/Open Source Software in general, and in particular GNU/Linux, Redhat, OpenOffice, and Gnome.
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That's true. The original brochures (or textfile equivalents) for Wolf3D compared it to Ultima Underworld (The Stygian Abyss), saying that Wolf3D was smoother. The animation was smoother and somewhat more immersive, but the 3D engine in UU was more advanced in a number of ways. Like Doom, the floor plan could have any polygonal shape, rather than all square. It had some 3D objects, rather than all flat sprites. The map designs were more flexible than Doom in that there were bridges and sloped floors.
Ultima Underworld was probably the first game with a textured, first person 3D view. However, it was not a "first person shooter." I would call it a real time, first person, hack 'n slash adventure game, since it combined features from several game genres.
How new do you mean? MPlayer handles most of the Quicktime files I throw at it, including ones with SVQ3, MPEG-4 Video, and AAC audio. Various other players have advantages over MPlayer (like a nicer GUIs), both on Windoze and *nix, but I end up using MPlayer all the time because I don't have to remember exactly which player works for which movie and I prefer using keys to control a player.
I used to use about four players (Ogle, Realplayer, aviplay, and mtv), but now I only use one and can play Quicktime as well. Sometimes, I use Xine to play a DVD, since it has a superior GUI and DVD navigation. Xine has gained support for many formats and codecs, so it may now rival MPlayer in sheer movie playing ability. I don't think there are any Windows builds of it yet, though.
Yeah, they should use grown up, serious names. Who needs creativity and individuality? They should just call it Video 3.0, powered by Container 1.0, with Audio 1.0.
ffdshow may not encode, but ffmpeg (the "ff" in ffdshow) certainly can. I use ffmpeg's libavcodec in mencoder (part of MPlayer) all the time. Both XviD and libavcodec are excellent MPEG-4 encoders and they continue to improve. The only advantage of the gratis DivX may be that MPEG-4 licensing is taken care of.
Though Theora isn't stable yet, VP3 is quite mature and it's Free Software and free to use, patent wise. I haven't yet seen tools to encode it on *nix, but there are Windoze and Mac ones.
I know exactly what you're talking about. A couple of places I've lived (Haiti and Honduras) have had frequent blackouts, so I know it's quite possible to live without reliable electricity. I'd be more afraid of blackouts in the US, where people don't have experience with it and don't know how to handle it.
I suspect that the primary problem is that CEOs have too much power and autonomy. It's just like the third world states that go through a dictator every couple of years. One seizes power, lives high on the hog for as long as possible, looting as much as possible, then flees in exile to Europe as soon as a challenger appears. He lives out his days in comfort and luxury on the money he's looted from the state.
Maybe corporations would serve their shareholders better if boards had more active roles. Who's to blame? Are the shareholders too quick to accept a dictator that promises riches for everyone, or do the shareholders have too little say in the running of a corporation?
If anyone has insight into how corporations typically run, please respond. I'm just making wild guesses based on my observations of human nature.
As smart as those Apple guys are, I'm sure they can manage to make Windoze users comfortable without opening things up to typical abuses. OS X is a real operating system and they are good at designing GUIs. They could provide an optional Winders look and feel if they wanted. I wasn't talking about bug for bug compatability.
Most of the things we use computers to do are so different from the things they replace that there is no way of making them intuitive to complete neophytes. What is ejecting a floppy disk like anyway? It's somewhat like ejecting a cassette tape, which has traditionally required pushing a physical button. I guess PCs win on that count, since they have such a button.
It probably doesn't matter that much any more in the US, since there are fewer and fewer complete neophytes. The main gist of the article is that schools are switching to Wintel because that's what people are used to. Sadly, Apple might have to start emulating M$ to survive, an extremely sad and ironic state of affairs.
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Copying digital audio into the memory of a player is not the same thing as reading and understanding a book. The former is making an exact copy, while the latter is not. Digital audio in RAM can be copied further, while one's memories are personal. Maybe this will become an issue when telepathy becomes widespread.
No, the entire song doesn't need to be copied at once to play it, but each part needs to be copied at some point. The law doesn't address specific implementation details like copying a whole song at once or just a few seconds at a time. However, whether a copy is fair use does partly depend on how much of the work is copied, which is why I assume it applies when playing a CD.
The precise limits of fair use under US law are constantly debated and challenged. There are many applications that I'm unsure of. For instance, I know that it's been shown in court that recording TV broadcasts for later viewing is fair use. I'm unsure if it is still fair use when one gives a copy to someone through the Internet.
I think you're saying exactly the same thing I did, but for some reason, you won't acknowledge that. It seems you're agreeing that the piece of plastic is not what's being bought and sold for $15 (or less, if it's used).
If you want to be pedantic, copyright law doesn't say anything specific about playing a CD. As the name implies, it says who has the right to copy a work, wich can be a music recording. Whoever manufactures the CD has the right to copy the recording onto the CD. The person who buys it doesn't have the right to make any copies, except for the fair use provisions. That's fortunate, since you can't even play CD without making a copy of it (into the player's RAM, for instance).
To make a copy of the music to your hard drive or another CD for your personal use is also under fair use. However, it would probably not be if you borrowed a CD from your friend, copied all the music, then gave the CD back. Every time you played those songs, you'd be making unauthorized copies (into the player's RAM). That's what I meant when I said you need a license to play the music, though perhaps "right," or "permission" is a better word.
I have MP3s of songs from a certain album. I bought a used CD of the same album. The MP3s are probably still unauthorized copies, so I'd probably have to make my own copies from the CD I bought to make everything kosher. If the end result was the same, I wouldn't bother. I wanted higher quality Vorbis anyway, so I copied the songs and deleted the old MP3s.
You're still missing the point. Of course one buys and owns the piece of plastic that is the CD, but that's not worth much (probably a few cents). When one buys a music CD, one is mainly buying the right (or license) to play the music and (at least for now) make copies under fair use. Would you pay five or twelve dollars for a few grams of plastic?
To rephrase: you need a license to play a CD for private use, but if you obtained the CD legally, you have the license.
Yeah, I don't think it would be worth it to try media players on Wine. There are various other Free Software players for *nix anyway, most notably Xine.
Sure it's a good compromise and I never knocked it. Just don't deceive yourself by thinking that buying used CDs is non-participation. To boycott the RIAA or music industry in general, one would have to spend no money at all on the products of the evil group.
Of course I own the the piece of plastic I buy. But, if I already had the recordings that are on the CD, I wouldn't have to copy them again. I was observing that since it's so easy to make digital copies today, the piece of plastic has less inherent value.
Buying a record or tape or CD has never meant buying songs. The original author (or publisher, or whoever) still holds the copyright. Buying an album has always meant buying a license to use the recording on it; it has nothing to do with Billy boy or software.
Some of your money still gets back to the publishers and the RIAA. In particular, the seller will probably buy more new CDs. Obviously, buying used CDs is a good idea and I've bought a number of them. I've bought several because I already had copies of the songs on them. In that case, it would have been acceptible even if the CD was unreadable, since I was just buying a license to use the songs. They were all in good condition, however.
These people are probably counting on the fact that both the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government have bigger fish to fry than copyright infringers. They probably just expect to be ignored. Why are they openly challenging the MPAA? Do they want yet another foreign power trying to exert pressure in that part of the world? They might just get themselves blown up, since some Muslims may see them as spreading Western evil.
IP traffic cannot be completely anonymous. If someone has access to a router or host between two hosts that are communicating, she can tell the two hosts are communicating and estimate the flow rate. Using encryption can hide the content, but not existence of communication. I doubt ES5 goes as far to protect anonymity as Freenet, but Freenet doesn't work very well yet.
You see all kinds of odd quotes in sigs on Slashdot, but I never thought I'd see the Bunny Song.
Seeking is certainly a weak point of MPlayer. The GUI could be considered a weakness as well, but I don't even use it. If you've not gotten sound from some movies, you may be missing some codecs. Particularly, people often complain of missing audio in Quicktime movies, only to discover they don't have faad (AAC decoder) installed. I had to install it and rebuild MPlayer to get AAC sound. If you want to be able to play as much as possible, build MPlayer from CVS, since much development has happened since the last stable release.
I think I've tried MPC, and I'd probably use it more if I ever booted into Windows. Does it run on Wine? I assume it would need the DirectShow framework, which may not be available.
They were considering Apple three years ago. He probably didn't care whether the stock had voting rights or not; he didn't want to do anything to benefit M$ in any way, shape or form.
The interview is an advertisement for Free/Open Source Software in general, and in particular GNU/Linux, Redhat, OpenOffice, and Gnome.
The flexibity of map design in UU wouldn't be exceeded until Descent, several years later.
That's true. The original brochures (or textfile equivalents) for Wolf3D compared it to Ultima Underworld (The Stygian Abyss), saying that Wolf3D was smoother. The animation was smoother and somewhat more immersive, but the 3D engine in UU was more advanced in a number of ways. Like Doom, the floor plan could have any polygonal shape, rather than all square. It had some 3D objects, rather than all flat sprites. The map designs were more flexible than Doom in that there were bridges and sloped floors.
Ultima Underworld was probably the first game with a textured, first person 3D view. However, it was not a "first person shooter." I would call it a real time, first person, hack 'n slash adventure game, since it combined features from several game genres.
Nothing! Absolutely nothing! Stupid! I'm so stupid.
How new do you mean? MPlayer handles most of the Quicktime files I throw at it, including ones with SVQ3, MPEG-4 Video, and AAC audio. Various other players have advantages over MPlayer (like a nicer GUIs), both on Windoze and *nix, but I end up using MPlayer all the time because I don't have to remember exactly which player works for which movie and I prefer using keys to control a player.
I used to use about four players (Ogle, Realplayer, aviplay, and mtv), but now I only use one and can play Quicktime as well. Sometimes, I use Xine to play a DVD, since it has a superior GUI and DVD navigation. Xine has gained support for many formats and codecs, so it may now rival MPlayer in sheer movie playing ability. I don't think there are any Windows builds of it yet, though.
Yeah, they should use grown up, serious names. Who needs creativity and individuality? They should just call it Video 3.0, powered by Container 1.0, with Audio 1.0.
ffdshow may not encode, but ffmpeg (the "ff" in ffdshow) certainly can. I use ffmpeg's libavcodec in mencoder (part of MPlayer) all the time. Both XviD and libavcodec are excellent MPEG-4 encoders and they continue to improve. The only advantage of the gratis DivX may be that MPEG-4 licensing is taken care of.
Though Theora isn't stable yet, VP3 is quite mature and it's Free Software and free to use, patent wise. I haven't yet seen tools to encode it on *nix, but there are Windoze and Mac ones.
To quote Bender from the episode of Futurama I just watched five minutes ago, that's not ironic, that's just coincidental!
You're absolutely right. I can't stand electric stoves. How did they become so common in the US?
I know exactly what you're talking about. A couple of places I've lived (Haiti and Honduras) have had frequent blackouts, so I know it's quite possible to live without reliable electricity. I'd be more afraid of blackouts in the US, where people don't have experience with it and don't know how to handle it.
I suspect that the primary problem is that CEOs have too much power and autonomy. It's just like the third world states that go through a dictator every couple of years. One seizes power, lives high on the hog for as long as possible, looting as much as possible, then flees in exile to Europe as soon as a challenger appears. He lives out his days in comfort and luxury on the money he's looted from the state.
Maybe corporations would serve their shareholders better if boards had more active roles. Who's to blame? Are the shareholders too quick to accept a dictator that promises riches for everyone, or do the shareholders have too little say in the running of a corporation?
If anyone has insight into how corporations typically run, please respond. I'm just making wild guesses based on my observations of human nature.
As smart as those Apple guys are, I'm sure they can manage to make Windoze users comfortable without opening things up to typical abuses. OS X is a real operating system and they are good at designing GUIs. They could provide an optional Winders look and feel if they wanted. I wasn't talking about bug for bug compatability.
Most of the things we use computers to do are so different from the things they replace that there is no way of making them intuitive to complete neophytes. What is ejecting a floppy disk like anyway? It's somewhat like ejecting a cassette tape, which has traditionally required pushing a physical button. I guess PCs win on that count, since they have such a button.
It probably doesn't matter that much any more in the US, since there are fewer and fewer complete neophytes. The main gist of the article is that schools are switching to Wintel because that's what people are used to. Sadly, Apple might have to start emulating M$ to survive, an extremely sad and ironic state of affairs.