Your comment highlighting an apparent misconception by the journalist about the iPod being a closed system fails to acknowlege that the article was written for The Age newspaper, which is an Australian newspaper, servicing a predominantly Australian readership. Currently in Australia, due to our strict copyright legislation, the only way to get commercial media onto an iPod is via the iTunes Music Store. It is currently illegal in Australia to rip a store bought CD into an iPod, or any other portable media device for that matter. Not every country's copyright law is the same as the USA's. So from an Australian point of view, the article is accurate on that point.
There is a review of Australia's copyright legislation underway by the Federal Gov, with a view to making it legal to rip your own CDs onto an iPod, hopefully this will become a reality in the near future.
"My iBook with a lowly 1.33GHz proc, a mere gig of RAM, and nothing more than a ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 with 32 megs of video memory looks *stunning* and does things that from what we have seen so far Vista can only dream about."
What a load of crap. Your iBook is incapable of displaying all the pretty tweaks in Tiger, Apple's own OS, so don't crap on about how suyperior you antiquated iBook technology is. These are long overdue for the scrap heap unless all you want from you iBook is simple text editing, web browsing and emailing. It is a dog by comparison to all other portables on the market for anything that will place the CPU under stress.
How do you propose that this alternative store provide tracks to the public when Apple will not licence their proprietary Fairplay DRM technology. Fairplay is the only DRM that will work with current iPods.
It is not going to be so easy for Apple. Their implementation of DRM is widely known to be crackable. Hymn will strip out the DRM, meaning that no re-encoding of the audio stream is required. No equivalent utility exists for DRMed WMA files. The labels can feel comfortable for an online merchant to provide a subscription model for the delivery of their music, because the DRM remains intact. For someone to circumnavigate the DRM, they have to re-encode the audio stream from the DRM capable player. This is a hassle, and not the same as simply stripping out the DRM.
Another reason it will be difficult for Apple is that their DRM is not as flexible for the rights holders over the degree of flexibilty that the DRM attached to WMA has. A rights holder can stipulate that the WMA file will only play during the month of October 2005, and that is all it will play, period. AAC does not offer the rights holder that same degree of control.
Coupling these two things means that, at least in my opinion, the record labbels will be less excitied about Apple offering a subscription model than another merchant who can use the more secure WMA DRM.
As far as I am aware, there is no such thing as a DRM stripper for WMA files, especially those that use the latest DRM standards that come with Media Player 10. In the case of the Napster "hack", it is not stripping DRM out of the audio file as you suggest, it is simply using a plugin for Winamp that directs the audio output of the file, as it is being played, to a ripping codec, where the audio stream is ripped into a DRM free format of your choice.
This is fundamentally different to stripping out the DRM from the file as this tool for iTMS does, and will work with any audio file, whether it be DRMed or not, as all audio has to be converted to an analogue signal at some point in the process of getting from your hard disk drive to your ears.
For the 5 millionth time, copyright infringement is not theft, just like rape is not DUI. Only people who have no grasp of copyright law, or who blindly regurgitate the mantra of the RIAA or MPAA continue to call it theft.
I would assume that Media Center 2005 comes with WMA DRM. If so, does that mean that everything I record from television will be DRM encoded, or can it be optionally switched off like with Media Player? I hate DRM
Im my friend's case, from 1984 to 1999 he purchased around 1,000 CDs, from 2000 to the present day, he has purchased 0 CDs. in 2000 he had broadband installed. I don't think his is an isolated case.
But surely all of these ventures need financing. And surely the financiers, after getting burnt badly in the dotcom bust of 2000 will be a lot more stringent in their lending criteria for these sorts of vendors. I could not imagine anyone getting very far in a venture capitalist's office these days with just a winning smile and a flaky idea about how selling songs over the web is going to make zillions. you would be escorted out of the building by baseball bat wielding security guards.
Britain has Patent Attorneys, however unlike their counterparts in the US and Canada, British Patent Attorneys need not be a qualified lawyer/solicitor, though quite a few of them are.
The British system requires Patent Attorneys to be qualified in a prescribed range of technical fields such as Engineering or Applied Science etc, then the candidate must sit a series of examinations in order to gain registration as a Patent Attorney.
Don't Mac users carry wallets like the rest of us?:-)
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Only if you just bought your mac in the last month or so. The rest of us are expected to bend over and grab our ankles then cough up the money if we want to be supported in the future.
I read somewhere that it costs several mu=illion dollars per month to keep all the satellites operational. Where would an open source model of administration raise funds of that magnitude?
Out of the box, Netscape always falls over for me on sites running java applets, an example site of this is http://news.ninemsn.com.au/default.asp
However after much soul searching I have managed to get my Netscape runnning a lot more stably by switching off java in the Windows Tools menu but leaving java applets enabled.
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Your comment highlighting an apparent misconception by the journalist about the iPod being a closed system fails to acknowlege that the article was written for The Age newspaper, which is an Australian newspaper, servicing a predominantly Australian readership. Currently in Australia, due to our strict copyright legislation, the only way to get commercial media onto an iPod is via the iTunes Music Store. It is currently illegal in Australia to rip a store bought CD into an iPod, or any other portable media device for that matter. Not every country's copyright law is the same as the USA's. So from an Australian point of view, the article is accurate on that point.
There is a review of Australia's copyright legislation underway by the Federal Gov, with a view to making it legal to rip your own CDs onto an iPod, hopefully this will become a reality in the near future.
"4 lbs, 4 hours of battery at full load, $1000 US."
Free spinning beach ball. 4 hours at full load!. what tobacco are you toting
"My iBook with a lowly 1.33GHz proc, a mere gig of RAM, and nothing more than a ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 with 32 megs of video memory looks *stunning* and does things that from what we have seen so far Vista can only dream about."
What a load of crap. Your iBook is incapable of displaying all the pretty tweaks in Tiger, Apple's own OS, so don't crap on about how suyperior you antiquated iBook technology is. These are long overdue for the scrap heap unless all you want from you iBook is simple text editing, web browsing and emailing. It is a dog by comparison to all other portables on the market for anything that will place the CPU under stress.
How do you propose that this alternative store provide tracks to the public when Apple will not licence their proprietary Fairplay DRM technology. Fairplay is the only DRM that will work with current iPods.
It is not going to be so easy for Apple. Their implementation of DRM is widely known to be crackable. Hymn will strip out the DRM, meaning that no re-encoding of the audio stream is required. No equivalent utility exists for DRMed WMA files. The labels can feel comfortable for an online merchant to provide a subscription model for the delivery of their music, because the DRM remains intact. For someone to circumnavigate the DRM, they have to re-encode the audio stream from the DRM capable player. This is a hassle, and not the same as simply stripping out the DRM.
Another reason it will be difficult for Apple is that their DRM is not as flexible for the rights holders over the degree of flexibilty that the DRM attached to WMA has. A rights holder can stipulate that the WMA file will only play during the month of October 2005, and that is all it will play, period. AAC does not offer the rights holder that same degree of control.
Coupling these two things means that, at least in my opinion, the record labbels will be less excitied about Apple offering a subscription model than another merchant who can use the more secure WMA DRM.
Sounds like Motorola is now using Apple's classic modus operandi :-)
As far as I am aware, there is no such thing as a DRM stripper for WMA files, especially those that use the latest DRM standards that come with Media Player 10. In the case of the Napster "hack", it is not stripping DRM out of the audio file as you suggest, it is simply using a plugin for Winamp that directs the audio output of the file, as it is being played, to a ripping codec, where the audio stream is ripped into a DRM free format of your choice.
This is fundamentally different to stripping out the DRM from the file as this tool for iTMS does, and will work with any audio file, whether it be DRMed or not, as all audio has to be converted to an analogue signal at some point in the process of getting from your hard disk drive to your ears.
For the 5 millionth time, copyright infringement is not theft, just like rape is not DUI. Only people who have no grasp of copyright law, or who blindly regurgitate the mantra of the RIAA or MPAA continue to call it theft.
I would assume that Media Center 2005 comes with WMA DRM. If so, does that mean that everything I record from television will be DRM encoded, or can it be optionally switched off like with Media Player? I hate DRM
Im my friend's case, from 1984 to 1999 he purchased around 1,000 CDs, from 2000 to the present day, he has purchased 0 CDs. in 2000 he had broadband installed. I don't think his is an isolated case.
But surely all of these ventures need financing. And surely the financiers, after getting burnt badly in the dotcom bust of 2000 will be a lot more stringent in their lending criteria for these sorts of vendors. I could not imagine anyone getting very far in a venture capitalist's office these days with just a winning smile and a flaky idea about how selling songs over the web is going to make zillions. you would be escorted out of the building by baseball bat wielding security guards.
Britain has Patent Attorneys, however unlike their counterparts in the US and Canada, British Patent Attorneys need not be a qualified lawyer/solicitor, though quite a few of them are.
The British system requires Patent Attorneys to be qualified in a prescribed range of technical fields such as Engineering or Applied Science etc, then the candidate must sit a series of examinations in order to gain registration as a Patent Attorney.
Don't Mac users carry wallets like the rest of us? :-)
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Only if you just bought your mac in the last month or so. The rest of us are expected to bend over and grab our ankles then cough up the money if we want to be supported in the future.
I read somewhere that it costs several mu=illion dollars per month to keep all the satellites operational. Where would an open source model of administration raise funds of that magnitude?
For those less knowledgable amongst us, like me, could you explain the significance of Tom's oversight?
Out of the box, Netscape always falls over for me on sites running java applets, an example site of this is http://news.ninemsn.com.au/default.asp
However after much soul searching I have managed to get my Netscape runnning a lot more stably by switching off java in the Windows Tools menu but leaving java applets enabled.