How many of its former users are going to want to participate in a system where
anything they want to share has to be inspected and converted by a central authority?
None. Or very few. As noted on this thread, bye-bye Napster! Nice knowing ya.
I wouldn't be surprised if this were their plan. Doubt it will work, though, as nobody buys DVD-audio now, and people really will resist the copy protection. Ripping CDs to MP3 is too mainstream now for the industry to kill it, I think.
You can not simultaneous provide the end user complete and total control over the hardware
that he owns and still have digital rights management in place.
Right. And end-user control will win in the end, because someone will always come up with a hack, legal or not. Perhaps IBM is doing this, knowing full well that it is futile, purely for political reasons (not to piss off the content providers who are also big customers)?
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isn't blowing up statues, or summarily killing its opponents. Big difference. I think they're wrong about a great many things, but terrorists they are not.
My experience is that MS products for Mac have been, since the investment in Apple, excellent. Office 98 in particular has behaved extraordinarily well. I don't see cutting MS' marketshare as a sufficient reason to switch.
Of course, if/when MS moves to subscription pricing, then GPL software looks more attractive. But will it be any good? This story implies that it won't.
Microsoft Office has held a commanding lead in the Mac market for about 10 years - far longer than in Windows, where MS has to fight off Lotus and Borland back in the Win 3.1 days. Mac users are also historically very willing to put up with shit from Microsoft - e.g. the very slow and buggy Word 6. Now that Office 2001 (and previously 98) work well, why switch?
It used to be called Computer Literacy Bookshops, back in the day. Great chain in San Jose. I thought Fatbrain was kind of dumb as a name; they were clearly looking for a memorable yet pithy.com, and that shows in the name.
My question: why doesn't ThinkGeek carry this in its Books department? It's lighter weight than a case of Whoop Ass...
they are logging your IP address even when you post AC.
How we know they're logging something: you can't moderate a discussion you've posted AC in. So Slash knows you've posted AC from your account, at least for a period of time. Probably not for very long (days?), though.
On Plastic, by comparison, you can moderate your own AC posts. Maybe they took that "feature" out to preserve anonymity?!
I wonder what the real effect of this is on ACs. On/. and other sites, ACs can't be contacted in advance as required by the ruling, since no (or at least not sufficient) information is saved about them. If this court demanded that an AC be identified in a defamation suit, wouldn't/. just say "sorry, we can't?"
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None. Or very few. As noted on this thread, bye-bye Napster! Nice knowing ya.
UNLESS it has CPRM, in which case I will forget all about this. So which is it, Toshiba? Do you want to succeed or fail?
I wouldn't be surprised if this were their plan. Doubt it will work, though, as nobody buys DVD-audio now, and people really will resist the copy protection. Ripping CDs to MP3 is too mainstream now for the industry to kill it, I think.
They don't need copy protection to do that.
Don't CD's have some sort of "Don't Copy" bits? As I recall these exist but are universally ignored.
and read the Amazon link. People are already commenting on Amazon that it's copy-protected! Bet that slows sales down a bit...
Do this enough, and they'll complain to their supplier. Tell me which CD it is - I'd gladly buy, return, buy, return, lather, rinse, repeat.
Right. And end-user control will win in the end, because someone will always come up with a hack, legal or not. Perhaps IBM is doing this, knowing full well that it is futile, purely for political reasons (not to piss off the content providers who are also big customers)?
Kind of like Ask Slashdot!
isn't blowing up statues, or summarily killing its opponents. Big difference. I think they're wrong about a great many things, but terrorists they are not.
http://www.afghan.gov.af/ is an anti-Taliban site, I think run by the government in exile in London.
Even better is the moderation: 4, Redundant. No kidding!
I admit that I'm still on OS 9. Time to upgrade, I guess!
can I self-moderate (0, Dumbass)?
Macintosh: Most applications crash; if not, the operating system hangs.
You're just on a fast connection with good peering. You can buy those from major ISPs now, and have been able to for years...
don't you mean the stuff-to-comment-on-at-length-without-reading dept.? That's more normal /. behavior...
Of course, if/when MS moves to subscription pricing, then GPL software looks more attractive. But will it be any good? This story implies that it won't.
Microsoft Office has held a commanding lead in the Mac market for about 10 years - far longer than in Windows, where MS has to fight off Lotus and Borland back in the Win 3.1 days. Mac users are also historically very willing to put up with shit from Microsoft - e.g. the very slow and buggy Word 6. Now that Office 2001 (and previously 98) work well, why switch?
This one needs to be +5. The PC still works, people buy it, end of fucking story!
You do, since you flamed him.
My question: why doesn't ThinkGeek carry this in its Books department? It's lighter weight than a case of Whoop Ass...
How we know they're logging something: you can't moderate a discussion you've posted AC in. So Slash knows you've posted AC from your account, at least for a period of time. Probably not for very long (days?), though.
On Plastic, by comparison, you can moderate your own AC posts. Maybe they took that "feature" out to preserve anonymity?!
I wonder what the real effect of this is on ACs. On /. and other sites, ACs can't be contacted in advance as required by the ruling, since no (or at least not sufficient) information is saved about them. If this court demanded that an AC be identified in a defamation suit, wouldn't /. just say "sorry, we can't?"
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