You put something out on the net or make it digital it no longer has any substance.
In this respect, how is the Internet different than analog broadcast? I can't touch or hold any broadcast any more than I can touch or hold a digital stream.
The reasoning you have on sharing ideas seems pretty odd on a site whose constituents routinely say that the recording and movie industries and their products don't have any ideas.
I think your argument is specious in another way, because it is continually getting easier and cheaper for anyone to make their own images, music and videos to share their own artistic views, why advocate the sharing the works of those that are least interested in it? The quicker we leave them out of it, the quicker they'll go away.
If they can merge the user bases without too many subscribers defecting, cut the costs of operating competing satellites, cut out the duplication of royalties, and other duplicated overhead, I think they can make money. They bid heavily against each other to get "talents" like Howard Stern and others. They spent far too much money competing against each other when their main competition is really terrestrial radio, podcasts, audio books, mp3 players and such. That's the idea.
Whether or not they can do this without letting it get to their heads is a different matter. Users of one of the two services have been complaining about getting ads when they were sold a service that wasn't supposed to have ads.
It sure was annoying. There hasn't been a story on this on Slashdot that I remember, and somehow we're thrown in the middle or end of the story without a quick recap? It's a good way to make people think you're just being weird or excluding.
The impression that I got was that the original cold fusion wasn't repeatable anywhere and the original pair that made the claims wouldn't let anyone else touch the apparatus that they had used. Any further inquiry was basically evaded and really looked very suspicious in their behavior, and it was time to just move on.
I'm pretty sure that "spacefaring civilization" assumes that members of the civilization leaves its original solar system.
Earth is spacefaring only so much as the very upper atmosphere, and with only a few people at a time. A few trips to the moon really doesn't help the case.
That's the problem. In terms of the law, it doesn't really matter if the mix tapes are advertisement. Using large pieces of any single copyrighted item without the copyright owner's permission is infringement. Maybe if a mix tape contains no more than seconds of any given artist's work, they might be considered some odd twist of a "review" under fair use, but that's up to judician interpretation. Maybe if the labels weren't so rigid about their licencing, it wouldn't be a problem. Back when I used to promote a niche form of video entertainment, the rights owners were usually fairly liberal on granting permission to show their works in public for free, but the point is, I got permission because it's not my work. I didn't try to distribute works for profit either, and that's kind of troublesome in terms of copyright.
I agree. That being said, this is just one article and probably really doesn't properly cover the situation.
The safest legal way to fire someone is to first have a written policy that is followed. They should also establish an indisputable track record, being a series of written reprimands over time, and of course the evidence. I think a policy that punishes supervisors for ignoring transgressions should also be there, so they can't just selectively enforce policies based on factors unrelated to the situation, such as age. I'd actually be surprised if IBM doesn't have many of these policies already, but wasn't properly enforced.
Player and device interoperability was just one of three major complaints that the Norwegian consumer groups complained about.
The terms of sale for Norwegians should not be governed by English law for iTunes Norway and items being sold for Norwegians because England has nothing to do with the sale.
Also, the terms of purchase rights should not be allowed to be changed for an item after it has been sold.
Most parties of this discussion had completely left out the last two major sticking points, and I think it's unfortunate that it has been largely ignored in favor of just being a DRM dispute.
I didn't think I would ever say this, but I think it's actually a bit of a cultural battle.
The people that advertise by MySpace, YouTube or any other social site won't need to sign with a label so much. Usually it's the "replacements" that change how things are done, not the "old guard". I can see the transition taking a long time because the old guard often has to just die out or fade away, but revolutionary changes are possible too.
I'm afraid that the battle over DRM is about to morph from a guerilla action to mutually assured detruction, and the Copyright Industry may prefer the latter in the end to actually sitting down with their enemy (the customers) and coming up with a reasonable solution.
I don't even see how that is possible. How can a solution be agreed upon? I'm not sure if a social contract can be struck because the customers are an extremely diverse group of people.
For example, some here suggest that recordings should be free of copyright, considered advertisements, and that concerts should be the sole way that artists make money. The problem is, maybe I'd like to support a big name artist, but I won't pay hundreds of dollars for a tiny seat in a two hour concert in a neighboring city.
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None of the options given provide anything for shielding either. The sun's magnetic field slows down cosmic rays, and the earth's magnetic field provides a lot of shielding from the sun's radiation as well as more of the cosmic rays. There is no realistic means for long-term shielding against such high energy radiation that I'm aware. Shipping building blocks would be the most convenient method, less shielding to worry about because the cargo is a lot smaller.
I'm not sure how the humans would develop without any warm-bodied parental care though, the experiments I've heard about were anything but promising.
Please tell me exactly what business can compete with free?
I think it does dramatically hurt. Please tell me the name of a Malaysian theatrical film made in the last ten years. Anyone? There's no point in making one because it would never post a profit, anyone that wants to see it can just buy a $1 bootleg.
Quite simply, this is bullshit. Some of the greatest (sorry, "High value") music and film was produced in an era when there was no DRM. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Charlie Chaplin, B.B King, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Martin Scorcese, Stanley Kubrick, even Steven Spielberg created their work in a pre-DRM era and somehow managed to sell their work.
I don't think that counts as much of an argument because during that era, the quality loss in making a copy was so great, and generational loss was great. Now, the quality loss in making a copy is so small, and the loss is often in the original re-encoding, duplicating the encoded file entails no generational loss whatsoever. That's what is considered the problem, you can pass a copy from a copy hundreds of times with no quality loss, unless there was a rare glitch along the way.
Macrovision is a bunch of hacks, a one-trick pony who has made a living from a stupid analog video hack. I doubt they are even competent to write software.
This is fairly ignorant, they do own a software company that makes copy protection. They now own InstallShield - the Windows Installer and quite a few other products.
I can imagine the dumber business men would consider two players as a saturated market, but I don't think that's necessarily the case. It seems as if the opposite is true, they continue piling in with a "me too" even when it is unwise, if the market has a million players and with sufficient turnover that 90% of them die in six months.
I suppose you might point out certain things like OS software, or telecom where there are only two or three players and it's often unwise to try to jump in without enormous backing, but those are relatively special cases.
BBC has a lot of interesting stuff, as well as a lot of funny stuff. Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, and some people even like Monty Python, many seem to rate those at the level of among the best of comedy TV, commercial or not. Since I don't get much of a direct pipe of BBC here, I have no idea what is going on.
If the fun is in a challenge, and the game turns out to be just a bunch of pizza errands, what is the point? If one wanted to do pizza errands, I'm sure Domino's is hiring. The amount of time it takes to level-up to be able to have a chance against the next boss is what turns me off of RPGs, MMOs and such.
I think those are pretty good points. I had tried to set up a micro-ISP but it wasn't going to work. A lot of people I talked to either don't use or need much from the Internet. Many that I've talked to even do their Internet stuff at work and leave it there, to live their lives with dial-up at home. Some that I've talked to are so busy living life that using the Internet would just get in the way. Some just can't afford it either.
I think it would help if some of the regulations were improved. I don't think it makes sense that there is often only one DSL provider and one cable provider and if you are lucky, a wireless provider in a given area. None of them really compete very well against each other, I really don't think that's enough competition. There's so little competition that some of them have the nerve to ask major sites for money to get "preferred" priority on their traffic.
In the last discussion about this topic, someone mentioned that it could have been transferred over a free-to-air C-Band channel, which is one way networks distribute videos to their affiliates before it airs. Fox does have several channels that they can use to do this. Finding a feed working is the hard part, but often those feeds are unencrypted and open to recording to anyone that finds the channel.
Because that's a different division or a different company? Only the solid state or long term storage people can improve that, and they are working against major limitations in mass storage. Laying down transistors is expensive, and flash memory isn't necessarily faster than hard drives on anything except maybe latency, throughput is lower enough that the latency advantage doesn't make up for it.
One problem is that many of the companies have nothing to do with solid state storage, so they can do nothing about what you complain about. I don't think IBM does flash memory and they've left the hard drive market.
If you are truly desperate to increase speed, why not stripe a couple Raptors? They will be on average, faster and despite their costs, Raptors are far cheaper than any equivalent capacity flash storage that's currently available.
If DVI-D doesn't fit, then doesn't that mean it's just an analog port? DVI-I has both analog and digital ports. If the video card doesn't have analog outs, then the excess pins can be yanked out of the cable.
Not everybody enjoys the movie theater experience. For not much money (to me anyway), I can have a nice theater in my home that will last for years if not over a decade where I don't have to deal with cell phones, babies crying and many other nuisances.
Even the low budget movies with big grass-roots promotion can't make their money back at the theater, so I am incredulous that cutting all DVD income will come to net null result. For several years there, a movie made more money on DVD than it did in the theaters.
I thought copyright has been around a lot longer than just a hundred years.
I don't know of anyone that's started out in any industry that's trying to have a perpetual livable income from just one work. Maybe Stephen King, John Grisham, etc. have enough to live on without writing more books, however, they still continue to write. I really can't think of anyone that is trying to make a living on just one work, so I really don't get your claim on that. Maybe the naive people think that.
I don't understand how one individual or company's copyright ownership of one work prevents another individual or company from making their own work. Instead, there are plenty of competing books, movies and CDs on nearly any topic or genre.
I have a very hard time jusifying paying as much as you are for a couple hour's worth of entertainment. I know a fan of Celene Dion and she said she was thinking of going to her Vegas concert, but then realized how many CDs that can buy. My impression is that live performances is not a good way of supporting oneself. I don't think they only get a very tiny cut of the ticket sales. Living "on the road" is a very tough life in my opinion, and I really can't support the suggestion that's the only good way that a musicians should make their money because of that.
I think one big counterpoint is that most of the SE Asian countries do not have anything you would call a domestic movie industry. There's no reason for anyone to bother funding a movies in those countries if they are going to be ripped off by the corner vendors selling the movie for less than $1 a piece. I certainly am not able to go to say, Malaysia to watch a Malaysian play, and plays aren't really my thing anyway.
and I'm pretty sure people on Josh's side are in the vast minority in this case.
Vast is "great" not "tiny". A vast minority would be 49% of a population, not something like 1%. I'm not sure if the two words make any sense when used together.
In the US, taxes on out of state purchases is called a use tax whereever I've heard it called by a technical name. I don't know if Australia does random audits, if a person is not reporting them, I think at least some of it might show up, I don't know. My state has a very lenient amnesty program such that I pay a very small amount, proportional to my annual income so that I don't have to keep track of all the out of state purchases to stay honest. I think I paid $3 US. At least the state will mis-spend it on education.
Most of those situations were localized phemonena. You can have an average warming and some places still get colder. A warming earth will result in changes in circulation patterns. There are some suggestions that Europe will get colder because an average warming will slow down the North Atlantic currents that warm Europe.
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You put something out on the net or make it digital it no longer has any substance.
In this respect, how is the Internet different than analog broadcast? I can't touch or hold any broadcast any more than I can touch or hold a digital stream.
The reasoning you have on sharing ideas seems pretty odd on a site whose constituents routinely say that the recording and movie industries and their products don't have any ideas.
I think your argument is specious in another way, because it is continually getting easier and cheaper for anyone to make their own images, music and videos to share their own artistic views, why advocate the sharing the works of those that are least interested in it? The quicker we leave them out of it, the quicker they'll go away.
If they can merge the user bases without too many subscribers defecting, cut the costs of operating competing satellites, cut out the duplication of royalties, and other duplicated overhead, I think they can make money. They bid heavily against each other to get "talents" like Howard Stern and others. They spent far too much money competing against each other when their main competition is really terrestrial radio, podcasts, audio books, mp3 players and such. That's the idea.
Whether or not they can do this without letting it get to their heads is a different matter. Users of one of the two services have been complaining about getting ads when they were sold a service that wasn't supposed to have ads.
It sure was annoying. There hasn't been a story on this on Slashdot that I remember, and somehow we're thrown in the middle or end of the story without a quick recap? It's a good way to make people think you're just being weird or excluding.
The impression that I got was that the original cold fusion wasn't repeatable anywhere and the original pair that made the claims wouldn't let anyone else touch the apparatus that they had used. Any further inquiry was basically evaded and really looked very suspicious in their behavior, and it was time to just move on.
I'm pretty sure that "spacefaring civilization" assumes that members of the civilization leaves its original solar system.
Earth is spacefaring only so much as the very upper atmosphere, and with only a few people at a time. A few trips to the moon really doesn't help the case.
That's the problem. In terms of the law, it doesn't really matter if the mix tapes are advertisement. Using large pieces of any single copyrighted item without the copyright owner's permission is infringement. Maybe if a mix tape contains no more than seconds of any given artist's work, they might be considered some odd twist of a "review" under fair use, but that's up to judician interpretation. Maybe if the labels weren't so rigid about their licencing, it wouldn't be a problem. Back when I used to promote a niche form of video entertainment, the rights owners were usually fairly liberal on granting permission to show their works in public for free, but the point is, I got permission because it's not my work. I didn't try to distribute works for profit either, and that's kind of troublesome in terms of copyright.
I agree. That being said, this is just one article and probably really doesn't properly cover the situation.
The safest legal way to fire someone is to first have a written policy that is followed. They should also establish an indisputable track record, being a series of written reprimands over time, and of course the evidence. I think a policy that punishes supervisors for ignoring transgressions should also be there, so they can't just selectively enforce policies based on factors unrelated to the situation, such as age. I'd actually be surprised if IBM doesn't have many of these policies already, but wasn't properly enforced.
Player and device interoperability was just one of three major complaints that the Norwegian consumer groups complained about.
The terms of sale for Norwegians should not be governed by English law for iTunes Norway and items being sold for Norwegians because England has nothing to do with the sale.
Also, the terms of purchase rights should not be allowed to be changed for an item after it has been sold.
Most parties of this discussion had completely left out the last two major sticking points, and I think it's unfortunate that it has been largely ignored in favor of just being a DRM dispute.
I didn't think I would ever say this, but I think it's actually a bit of a cultural battle.
The people that advertise by MySpace, YouTube or any other social site won't need to sign with a label so much. Usually it's the "replacements" that change how things are done, not the "old guard". I can see the transition taking a long time because the old guard often has to just die out or fade away, but revolutionary changes are possible too.
I'm afraid that the battle over DRM is about to morph from a guerilla action to mutually assured detruction, and the Copyright Industry may prefer the latter in the end to actually sitting down with their enemy (the customers) and coming up with a reasonable solution.
I don't even see how that is possible. How can a solution be agreed upon? I'm not sure if a social contract can be struck because the customers are an extremely diverse group of people.
For example, some here suggest that recordings should be free of copyright, considered advertisements, and that concerts should be the sole way that artists make money. The problem is, maybe I'd like to support a big name artist, but I won't pay hundreds of dollars for a tiny seat in a two hour concert in a neighboring city.
None of the options given provide anything for shielding either. The sun's magnetic field slows down cosmic rays, and the earth's magnetic field provides a lot of shielding from the sun's radiation as well as more of the cosmic rays. There is no realistic means for long-term shielding against such high energy radiation that I'm aware. Shipping building blocks would be the most convenient method, less shielding to worry about because the cargo is a lot smaller.
I'm not sure how the humans would develop without any warm-bodied parental care though, the experiments I've heard about were anything but promising.
Please tell me exactly what business can compete with free?
I think it does dramatically hurt. Please tell me the name of a Malaysian theatrical film made in the last ten years. Anyone? There's no point in making one because it would never post a profit, anyone that wants to see it can just buy a $1 bootleg.
Quite simply, this is bullshit. Some of the greatest (sorry, "High value") music and film was produced in an era when there was no DRM. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Charlie Chaplin, B.B King, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Martin Scorcese, Stanley Kubrick, even Steven Spielberg created their work in a pre-DRM era and somehow managed to sell their work.
I don't think that counts as much of an argument because during that era, the quality loss in making a copy was so great, and generational loss was great. Now, the quality loss in making a copy is so small, and the loss is often in the original re-encoding, duplicating the encoded file entails no generational loss whatsoever. That's what is considered the problem, you can pass a copy from a copy hundreds of times with no quality loss, unless there was a rare glitch along the way.
Macrovision is a bunch of hacks, a one-trick pony who has made a living from a stupid analog video hack. I doubt they are even competent to write software.
This is fairly ignorant, they do own a software company that makes copy protection. They now own InstallShield - the Windows Installer and quite a few other products.
I can imagine the dumber business men would consider two players as a saturated market, but I don't think that's necessarily the case. It seems as if the opposite is true, they continue piling in with a "me too" even when it is unwise, if the market has a million players and with sufficient turnover that 90% of them die in six months.
I suppose you might point out certain things like OS software, or telecom where there are only two or three players and it's often unwise to try to jump in without enormous backing, but those are relatively special cases.
BBC has a lot of interesting stuff, as well as a lot of funny stuff. Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, and some people even like Monty Python, many seem to rate those at the level of among the best of comedy TV, commercial or not. Since I don't get much of a direct pipe of BBC here, I have no idea what is going on.
I'm not sure if you understand what he meant.
If the fun is in a challenge, and the game turns out to be just a bunch of pizza errands, what is the point? If one wanted to do pizza errands, I'm sure Domino's is hiring. The amount of time it takes to level-up to be able to have a chance against the next boss is what turns me off of RPGs, MMOs and such.
I think those are pretty good points. I had tried to set up a micro-ISP but it wasn't going to work. A lot of people I talked to either don't use or need much from the Internet. Many that I've talked to even do their Internet stuff at work and leave it there, to live their lives with dial-up at home. Some that I've talked to are so busy living life that using the Internet would just get in the way. Some just can't afford it either.
I think it would help if some of the regulations were improved. I don't think it makes sense that there is often only one DSL provider and one cable provider and if you are lucky, a wireless provider in a given area. None of them really compete very well against each other, I really don't think that's enough competition. There's so little competition that some of them have the nerve to ask major sites for money to get "preferred" priority on their traffic.
In the last discussion about this topic, someone mentioned that it could have been transferred over a free-to-air C-Band channel, which is one way networks distribute videos to their affiliates before it airs. Fox does have several channels that they can use to do this. Finding a feed working is the hard part, but often those feeds are unencrypted and open to recording to anyone that finds the channel.
Because that's a different division or a different company? Only the solid state or long term storage people can improve that, and they are working against major limitations in mass storage. Laying down transistors is expensive, and flash memory isn't necessarily faster than hard drives on anything except maybe latency, throughput is lower enough that the latency advantage doesn't make up for it.
One problem is that many of the companies have nothing to do with solid state storage, so they can do nothing about what you complain about. I don't think IBM does flash memory and they've left the hard drive market.
If you are truly desperate to increase speed, why not stripe a couple Raptors? They will be on average, faster and despite their costs, Raptors are far cheaper than any equivalent capacity flash storage that's currently available.
If DVI-D doesn't fit, then doesn't that mean it's just an analog port? DVI-I has both analog and digital ports. If the video card doesn't have analog outs, then the excess pins can be yanked out of the cable.
Not everybody enjoys the movie theater experience. For not much money (to me anyway), I can have a nice theater in my home that will last for years if not over a decade where I don't have to deal with cell phones, babies crying and many other nuisances.
Even the low budget movies with big grass-roots promotion can't make their money back at the theater, so I am incredulous that cutting all DVD income will come to net null result. For several years there, a movie made more money on DVD than it did in the theaters.
I thought copyright has been around a lot longer than just a hundred years.
I don't know of anyone that's started out in any industry that's trying to have a perpetual livable income from just one work. Maybe Stephen King, John Grisham, etc. have enough to live on without writing more books, however, they still continue to write. I really can't think of anyone that is trying to make a living on just one work, so I really don't get your claim on that. Maybe the naive people think that.
I don't understand how one individual or company's copyright ownership of one work prevents another individual or company from making their own work. Instead, there are plenty of competing books, movies and CDs on nearly any topic or genre.
I have a very hard time jusifying paying as much as you are for a couple hour's worth of entertainment. I know a fan of Celene Dion and she said she was thinking of going to her Vegas concert, but then realized how many CDs that can buy. My impression is that live performances is not a good way of supporting oneself. I don't think they only get a very tiny cut of the ticket sales. Living "on the road" is a very tough life in my opinion, and I really can't support the suggestion that's the only good way that a musicians should make their money because of that.
I think one big counterpoint is that most of the SE Asian countries do not have anything you would call a domestic movie industry. There's no reason for anyone to bother funding a movies in those countries if they are going to be ripped off by the corner vendors selling the movie for less than $1 a piece. I certainly am not able to go to say, Malaysia to watch a Malaysian play, and plays aren't really my thing anyway.
and I'm pretty sure people on Josh's side are in the vast minority in this case.
Vast is "great" not "tiny". A vast minority would be 49% of a population, not something like 1%. I'm not sure if the two words make any sense when used together.
How do "the rich" get the money that is taxed from "the poor" based on your view?
In the US, taxes on out of state purchases is called a use tax whereever I've heard it called by a technical name. I don't know if Australia does random audits, if a person is not reporting them, I think at least some of it might show up, I don't know. My state has a very lenient amnesty program such that I pay a very small amount, proportional to my annual income so that I don't have to keep track of all the out of state purchases to stay honest. I think I paid $3 US. At least the state will mis-spend it on education.
Most of those situations were localized phemonena. You can have an average warming and some places still get colder. A warming earth will result in changes in circulation patterns. There are some suggestions that Europe will get colder because an average warming will slow down the North Atlantic currents that warm Europe.