If DRM-included hardware does become the law via the CBDTPA (SSSCA) or any other legislation, how does this interact with regards to copyright expiration? The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent such DRM, thereby basically enforcing perpetual protection of the work. If the work is perpetually protected via this combination of law and technology, how can it be copyrighted legitimately, since the work will never *really* be able to join the public domain? This is analogous to trade secrets vs. patents, unless measures are taken to ensure the DRM encryption is removed once the copyright term is over. Or would that be illegal through the DMCA as well? The DMCA states, "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title." The title referred to is title 17 of the US Code, which covers copyright. I can therefore assume that removing copyright protections on expired copyrights would not be against the law. However, the DMCA also forbids the selling of tools to circumvent the very same DRM. I find it hard to believe that the RIAA/MPAA would let these tools become available regardless of the user's intent and/or rights under copyright expiration rules. Any comments about this apparent paradox?
A very true statement, sadly. A very good chart detailing our "perpetual war for perpetual peace" is in a book of the same name by Gore Vidal.
5 billion for our 12th carrier. And who is our monumental enemy? Who wants these carriers to be built besides big defense contractors, the military, and their puppets in congress?
Exactly my thoughts. I wonder if Oppenheim has any comments regarding the pitiful pay for the artists he supposedly "represents". Or if he had any opinion on Courtney Love's lawsuit to try to gain some of the money the RIAA claimed it won in "defence of its artists". I wonder if he has any thoughts regarding the contracts that strip all the rights to the music away from the artist and give them to the RIAA member in question. As a lawyer for the RIAA, you would think he would realize the gargantuan fallacy in this statement...
--rhad
Re:Misconceptions--No, more like hypocrisy
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Its more insiduous then you think. Their "customers", the desktop PC users who probably are annoyed with DRM, are being sold out to the big media corporations that want the DRM. Unfortunately, the desktop users will be hard-pressed to switch out of windows when all media content is in "windows-only-DRM" format. Nice nasty move by MS.
---rhad
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If its MS, its bad. If its Linux, well, its ok since its not really linux's fault...
Lets think for a minute here people. Someone else in a lower thread remarked that DRM was aimed at the "95% of windows users on the net". DRM is NOT a MS development effort. MS is just catering to the large amount of business's wanting it (RIAA, MPAA etc.). Linux tends to stay on a more anti-DRM ideal, whereas from MS's point of view, its strictly business. Their customers want it, so they'll provide it. Similarly, even though Linux developers may be ideologically opposed to DRM, they have no say in its implementation on Linux, since the liscense basically says, "do what you want". Don't blame MS for trying to make money in this case (other cases are exempt-DOJ for instance). It's what they do.
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Precisely the point. Who cares? They lose some customers (statistically irrelevant, yes) for really no good reason but a silly patent. Their choice. Whatever.
All this means is Intel can add a silly patent to their arsenal, while AMD continues to gain more and more support from the overclocking community. Heck, if Intel really does lock out overclockers, AMD may own the overclocking community...
"Yeah yeah. It's a dupe. Funny that not a single reader emailed me in almost 2 hours to tell me."
No one emailed you? Jesus, did it ever occur to you that you can just READ YOUR OWN WEBSITE!!
I mean, we knew you had trouble with keeping track of the stories, but saying you hadn't noticed in two hours due to no emails?!? Why not just come out and admit to the whole world you have to be the first "webmaster" who never checks his own site...
Friend of mine just got a new Samsung 65 inch DLP flatscreen TV. It is absolutely awesome. It has a built in VGA input as well as the normal S-video and whatnot. The computer screen is extremely crisp (although a little too bright) and looks exactly like a computer monitor would to my eyes. Best of all it only weighs 105 lbs. My 19 inch (thats 46 inches smaller) CRT weighs 75 lbs...
absolutley badass. They are just coming out, so look to see them showing up in stores in about a month. It supports HDTV and all that other stuff, but the best beneift is just the gorgeous size.
Ok, so these are asteroids percieved to be dangerous, as in "may hit us at some point". If they do hit us, what the heck is knowledge of their chemical composition going to achieve in terms of post-impact help? This does not make sense to me...
I dunno about the FTP over HTTP for large file transfers in particular...
It seems to me that the stateless connection of FTP is particularly useful if you desire many smaller files (no new request/connection per download). HTTP and FTP are remarakably similar in terms of transfer time if the files are large, IMO. However, a busy website can substantially alter this evaluation...
Actually Dr. Dan Luss. Balakotaiah wanted to teach rxn engineering but Luss has seniority. My classmates and I wish we had Balakotaiah instead; Luss is SO much worse...
The guy is not only a completely inept teacher, but an utter jerk. Raather nasty combo in a professor...
A group of doctor's are discussing which patients are the easiest to operate on. The first doctor says, "easy. Accountants for sure. When you open them up, all their insides are numbered for you."
The second doctor says, "nope, you are wrong. The best patients are engineers, whe you open them up the organs are numbered and color coded."
The last doctor says, "you guys are both wrong. The easiest patients to operate on are lawyers." The other two lawyers gasp in confusion. "Lawyers?"
The third doctor says, "well yeah, they only have two organs--a mouth and an asshole. And they're interchangeable."
Likewise here. My mother told me a story about a supervisor trying to explain to a group of teachers that the new "slogan" was to treat the parents like customers, i.e. give them what they want, they're never wrong, yadayadayada. It's sick and foolish. I don't care about my grades one bit, and I tell that too my professors usually when we meet over a question or whatnot. Usually they are happy I have that attitude. If I get a 'C' but I feel like I learned the material my objective is met. I know plenty of people at bigger schools with a better 'name' where few students have less than a 3.5. I guess in the long run it does not bother me too much. If they don't really want to learn anything or become accustomed to the occasional defeat, more power to them. Real life will probably kick them in the balls.
FYI the university of houston chemical engineering department does NOT inflate grades. My reactor engineering course had a few Fs, a ton of Cs, and a couple of Bs and As, mainly given to those who were repeating and new the material better. Interesting how the ChemE program here is still ranked pretty high nationally--Not that any of that crap matters to me.
---rhad
When we were young
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and stupid, we made several of these.
The most "impressive" one was a 6ft long black barreled cannon known as "black beauty". It had an ignition switch from a grill, eliminating more clumsy homemade solutions for ignition and could put a potato through a wooden fence from about 20 yards. It could fire them @150 yards on a good day. It was tremendously dangerous, with a 3 foot flame shooting out of the barrel each time you fired it. The heat and pressure on the piping caused it to crack and need replacement, a function often ignored by my more idiotic friends. Here in texas some younger kids at my church got caught firing one in a golf course not too long ago and recieved some fines from the local police. These things are not safe...
My last memory of that cannon involved modification to shoot sprays of water. Ignition, upon filling the barrel with water after placing a "separator" in the piping caused a huge spray of water and steam to eject in every direction. Took the bark right off of trees...
While there are serious concerns that these subpeonas could be misused quite easily and simply by the good ol' RIAA, I wonder to myself--
Isn't this what "we" wanted?
I (and many others) have said in the past that we were ticked at the RIAA for praposing blanket clauses to prevent piracy, often resulting in the demolition of fair use. Often the war cry was something along the lines of "go after the pirates, not the technology" or "Don't introduce new draconian laws, use the ones available now (copyright infringement is a crime already)". Now they start doing this and I'm even more concerned/disgusted....
"While there is some truth in that of course, it is only part of the truth. The much larger truth is that without the content, the publisher has nothing, ZERO, zilch."
Sorry, but that depends entirely on the 'publisher' in question. The RIAA, for example, got around this nasty problem by conglomerating many companies into one 'Association' and then making it cumpolsory for content creators to sign over their works in exchange for publication, thus making the publishers the temporary 'owners' of the content, and the associated revenue. Lawrence Lessig, in The Future of Ideas quoted the founder of MP3.com (whom I forget-but is now at Lindows) who was barraged by RIAA types who could not understand why MP3.com did not demand ownership of new artist's works before 'publishing' the music. The quote (paraphrased from memory) was something like:
"Why are you helping the next Madonna without owning the next Madonna first?!"
You are correct in saying that the the middleman should be put back in his/her place, but they have a lot more clout -- reference MP3.com's collapse...
I am not sure if the other replying slashdotter is correct about the water-hose or not, but Chemical Process Safety by Daniel A Crowl, does mention that the Bhopal incident was the result of a labor dispute, and not necessarily "gross negligence" on the part of Union Carbide. The labor dispute resulted in the unoperational status of the air-scrubber/flare sytem following the pressure relief valve on the MIC tank. Becuse of this, the rapidly venting MIC was released unaltered to the atmosphere, killing 2000 people and injuring about 20,000. Incidentally, it does list the cause of the accident as unknown.
You are correct in assuming that P2P apps are the reason companies are scared to invest in online entertainment. Especially movies. It is too risky.
However, the real problem here is that MS doesn't just want to make a DRM system for media, but a DRM system that uses proprietary extensions built on damn-near propietary laws. If the CBDTPA (or whatever it is now) passes, not only does MS offer its own incompatible "standard" for DRM technology, but this technology is inherently biased since the big media groups decide on who can and cannot make use of the the digital watermarking...
Anything is possible, and I prefer to be cautious. Anyhow, this is a TROLL article, but the DRM debate is useful, and I welcome more opinions...
I'm sorry, I find this really funny. In fact, the only thing funnier would be if they accessed the contacts via an outlook security hole of some sort...
I know I shouldn't be laughing, but this is just one of those things which makes me grin in amusement at all those poor outlook-users out there...
Ok, say that this worked, and the were "banned". Would ISPs have to shut down P2P users on their networks then since the companies cannot? If so, who picks up that expense? How do you stop P2P in other countries?
Going further, what's to stop IRC and a number of FTP servers? I still host a ton of content on my FTP server, and it is NOT anonymous (yeah-yeah, insecure blahblah). Or, I could burn info to a CD and send it wherever to whomever, or even just email a MP3 if its small enough...
"Powell would be ripe for replacement--if his feckless, ideological approach didn't so perfectly reflect the president he serves."
So true, so true. Powell seems to really have absolutley NO CLUE on how to apporach or handle his job. Everything he has done so far has been primarily a benefit to big business (allowing telephone records to be sold, forcing TVs to use digital recievers, etc). And even that (benefiting business) he does poorly. I wish my daddy was secretary of state. Then I could be put in charge of an important government regulatory commision that I have no clue about too, as long as I support the president's ideology: business first--consumers (I hate that word!) second. It makes me sick.
APEX AD-3201. At K-mart for about 100 bucks. Open the tray, press 8-4-2-1, and turn off region encoding and macrovision. Wonderful. Some people say the quality of the player is questionable--but it works fine for myself, and so does the one I got my dad...
this will probably be modded as offtopic--which only makes my sig more ironic than usual...
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If DRM-included hardware does become the law via the CBDTPA (SSSCA) or any other legislation, how does this interact with regards to copyright expiration? The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent such DRM, thereby basically enforcing perpetual protection of the work. If the work is perpetually protected via this combination of law and technology, how can it be copyrighted legitimately, since the work will never *really* be able to join the public domain? This is analogous to trade secrets vs. patents, unless measures are taken to ensure the DRM encryption is removed once the copyright term is over. Or would that be illegal through the DMCA as well? The DMCA states, "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title." The title referred to is title 17 of the US Code, which covers copyright. I can therefore assume that removing copyright protections on expired copyrights would not be against the law. However, the DMCA also forbids the selling of tools to circumvent the very same DRM. I find it hard to believe that the RIAA/MPAA would let these tools become available regardless of the user's intent and/or rights under copyright expiration rules. Any comments about this apparent paradox?
5 billion for our 12th carrier. And who is our monumental enemy? Who wants these carriers to be built besides big defense contractors, the military, and their puppets in congress?
--rhad
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Lets think for a minute here people. Someone else in a lower thread remarked that DRM was aimed at the "95% of windows users on the net". DRM is NOT a MS development effort. MS is just catering to the large amount of business's wanting it (RIAA, MPAA etc.). Linux tends to stay on a more anti-DRM ideal, whereas from MS's point of view, its strictly business. Their customers want it, so they'll provide it. Similarly, even though Linux developers may be ideologically opposed to DRM, they have no say in its implementation on Linux, since the liscense basically says, "do what you want". Don't blame MS for trying to make money in this case (other cases are exempt-DOJ for instance). It's what they do.
--rhad
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"Yeah yeah. It's a dupe. Funny that not a single reader emailed me in almost 2 hours to tell me."
No one emailed you? Jesus, did it ever occur to you that you can just READ YOUR OWN WEBSITE!!
I mean, we knew you had trouble with keeping track of the stories, but saying you hadn't noticed in two hours due to no emails?!? Why not just come out and admit to the whole world you have to be the first "webmaster" who never checks his own site...
----rhad the bemused
absolutley badass. They are just coming out, so look to see them showing up in stores in about a month. It supports HDTV and all that other stuff, but the best beneift is just the gorgeous size.
----rhad
It seems to me that the stateless connection of FTP is particularly useful if you desire many smaller files (no new request/connection per download). HTTP and FTP are remarakably similar in terms of transfer time if the files are large, IMO. However, a busy website can substantially alter this evaluation...
----rhad
The guy is not only a completely inept teacher, but an utter jerk. Raather nasty combo in a professor...
The second doctor says, "nope, you are wrong. The best patients are engineers, whe you open them up the organs are numbered and color coded."
The last doctor says, "you guys are both wrong. The easiest patients to operate on are lawyers." The other two lawyers gasp in confusion. "Lawyers?"
The third doctor says, "well yeah, they only have two organs--a mouth and an asshole. And they're interchangeable."
FYI the university of houston chemical engineering department does NOT inflate grades. My reactor engineering course had a few Fs, a ton of Cs, and a couple of Bs and As, mainly given to those who were repeating and new the material better. Interesting how the ChemE program here is still ranked pretty high nationally--Not that any of that crap matters to me.
---rhad
The most "impressive" one was a 6ft long black barreled cannon known as "black beauty". It had an ignition switch from a grill, eliminating more clumsy homemade solutions for ignition and could put a potato through a wooden fence from about 20 yards. It could fire them @150 yards on a good day. It was tremendously dangerous, with a 3 foot flame shooting out of the barrel each time you fired it. The heat and pressure on the piping caused it to crack and need replacement, a function often ignored by my more idiotic friends. Here in texas some younger kids at my church got caught firing one in a golf course not too long ago and recieved some fines from the local police. These things are not safe...
My last memory of that cannon involved modification to shoot sprays of water. Ignition, upon filling the barrel with water after placing a "separator" in the piping caused a huge spray of water and steam to eject in every direction. Took the bark right off of trees...
STUPID
Isn't this what "we" wanted?
I (and many others) have said in the past that we were ticked at the RIAA for praposing blanket clauses to prevent piracy, often resulting in the demolition of fair use. Often the war cry was something along the lines of "go after the pirates, not the technology" or "Don't introduce new draconian laws, use the ones available now (copyright infringement is a crime already)". Now they start doing this and I'm even more concerned/disgusted....
devil's advocate, I know...
----rhad
Sorry, but that depends entirely on the 'publisher' in question. The RIAA, for example, got around this nasty problem by conglomerating many companies into one 'Association' and then making it cumpolsory for content creators to sign over their works in exchange for publication, thus making the publishers the temporary 'owners' of the content, and the associated revenue. Lawrence Lessig, in The Future of Ideas quoted the founder of MP3.com (whom I forget-but is now at Lindows) who was barraged by RIAA types who could not understand why MP3.com did not demand ownership of new artist's works before 'publishing' the music. The quote (paraphrased from memory) was something like:
"Why are you helping the next Madonna without owning the next Madonna first?!"
You are correct in saying that the the middleman should be put back in his/her place, but they have a lot more clout -- reference MP3.com's collapse...
---rhad
-----rhad
You are correct in assuming that P2P apps are the reason companies are scared to invest in online entertainment. Especially movies. It is too risky.
However, the real problem here is that MS doesn't just want to make a DRM system for media, but a DRM system that uses proprietary extensions built on damn-near propietary laws. If the CBDTPA (or whatever it is now) passes, not only does MS offer its own incompatible "standard" for DRM technology, but this technology is inherently biased since the big media groups decide on who can and cannot make use of the the digital watermarking...
Anything is possible, and I prefer to be cautious. Anyhow, this is a TROLL article, but the DRM debate is useful, and I welcome more opinions...
Sincerely,
Rhad
I know I shouldn't be laughing, but this is just one of those things which makes me grin in amusement at all those poor outlook-users out there...
-----Rhad
----rhad
Going further, what's to stop IRC and a number of FTP servers? I still host a ton of content on my FTP server, and it is NOT anonymous (yeah-yeah, insecure blahblah). Or, I could burn info to a CD and send it wherever to whomever, or even just email a MP3 if its small enough...
ineffective at best, i say.
----rhad
So true, so true. Powell seems to really have absolutley NO CLUE on how to apporach or handle his job. Everything he has done so far has been primarily a benefit to big business (allowing telephone records to be sold, forcing TVs to use digital recievers, etc). And even that (benefiting business) he does poorly. I wish my daddy was secretary of state. Then I could be put in charge of an important government regulatory commision that I have no clue about too, as long as I support the president's ideology: business first--consumers (I hate that word!) second. It makes me sick.
----rhad
this will probably be modded as offtopic--which only makes my sig more ironic than usual...
---rhad