I'm not sure how valid time shifting a rented video would be, as there is no need to time shift.
Either way its a good, legal, buisness plan IMO, however IANAL so you'd have to ask one (preferably a good one). Even if you need to have a $15 video for each stream, you have earnt the video back after 20 plays (assuming bandwidth and maintenence costs of 50p per movie), and it doesnt degrade. You could have a massive library, selling the old videos that you have for a little above bandwidth cost, and blockbusters for more to cover the cost of the video.
The only problem would be if you were not allowed to transfer formats for commercial gain. Not sure if you can or not.
you can have whatever philosophy you want, however are you waying its illegal for me to sel my TV 2nd hand?
If the people selling in nearby towns were saying (or implying) they were official Krispy Kreme resalers, then that might be using a trade mark wrongly, and reducing the qualiy of the brand. Fair enough.
Doesnt stop them from seling them though, as long as they are clear they are not official representatives of krispy kreme
IANAL
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I dont get to mod anymore, but I was wondering if posting as an AC undoes moderation?
Our old high school had a games night every thursday, and we had great fun playing all sorts of games, from some cheesy network space game you got with novell 3.1 running on a lab of 386s, all the way up to the latst quakes. We even played duke nuken for a while, and had a map of the entire school to blast each other in:)
The better comparison would be between the jewelry shop on 51st and 5th vs the guy on the corner in Times Square selling jewelry. One is clearly legal, whereas the other isn't.
So now I need permission from the original maker of my watch to sell it on ebay? What a load of rubbish!
The reason the 5th street corner seller is breaking the law iss because he is running a buisness without paying the apropiate rates, keeping the appropiate books, and most importantly using the public highway as his shop window.
(not to mention the watches are probably stolen anyway;))
Film88 isn't deprived of their copy when they stream it to a customer. Assuming they own 10 copys of "harry potter". Someone strams a copy.
1 copy (of the 10 copys they own) of harry potter gets put in a box and sent to the customer Software database updated (update videos set available = 9 where title = harry potter) 2 hours later the box returns from the customer video gets put back on shelf. If 10 copys are streamed in the 2 hour gap, then (select videos.available where title = harry potter) would be 0, and the website wouldnt allow streaming.
While the video is in said box, it is on the way to the customer. Doesnt matter if it reahes the customer before it is returned. They dont have rights to said video ()you pay your $1, you have the video for that 2 hours, no one else can touch it. You keep it in that box same as you could rent a blockbuster video and kee it in a safety deposit box at the train station next door).
Ummm, first sale rights (which are being eroded) still give me the right so 1) buy a video from the store for $15 2) lend said video for $5 to a friend overnight, providing I dont retain any copys of said video 3) get said video back off friend, lend to another friend for $5 4) after doing this 20 times, sell video for $5.
If my friend copies the video I lend them, they are infringing on copyright - not me.
This is no different, providing the content provider has at least 1 copy of the video for each copy they are streaming.
They can sell it cheaper then blockbuster because: 1) They rent the movie for 90 minutes. Then they can rent it again. A 90 minute movie can be let upto 16 times a day, providing the times its let out are right (note this doesnt mean they can let 16 copys of the movie out at once for each copy they own) 2) They dont have as many monkeys behind the counter trying to upsell you popcorn 3) No high street costs 4) No tapes going missing 5) Minimal overheads
Only major expenses are 1) Streaming servers 2) Bandwidth
I agreee that this site may not have a copy of the movie for each copy it streams out at once, but it doesnt mean the principal is wrong.
Championship manager 93 had you typing in the football score from a random page. I remember in my first term of high school some kids in the yard copying down the numbers out of the book. Much harder to beat the copy protection back then then (photocopy 50 page manual) then it is now (apply crack, play).
I just laughed, as it was generally faster to guess "1-1" about 10 times before it let you in the game.
The good old days....
I was impressed with the RT2 linux manual though, and civ 3's wasnt bad for a modern manual.
Those were the days when manuals were real manuals, games were real games, and you didnt have any of these crap graphics.
Contrast the average game manual now (2 pieces of paper saying "run d:\setup", stuffed in the cd case), compared with the 100-200 page encyclopedias in the past.
Most of my railroad knowlege came from the railroad tycoon manual, and indeed the civilisation manual and civilopedia helped me answer quite a lot of questions through school, including one on my english gcse paper.
Nothing beats the pisstake I took of R.E. though
The question said something like "write down a creation story". Mine went:
"In the begining, the earth was without form, and void. But the sun shone upon the sleeping earth and deep inside the brittle crust, massive forces waited to be unleashed...."
And so on, almost word for word from civ 1. I wonder if I'll get sued:)
I did like the "maual" copyprotection in those days too. After a while you could get railroad tycoon, and civ, all the time thanks to learning.
IIRC where in the world is carman sandiago actually came with a world almanac! Learnt a lot about geography from that too - forget the game!
I really must dig out my SimEarth manual some time, I never did get into that game.
I've got an aincent 8mm camera that films IR as white. Great fun:)
Our stations minidv camera has an IR mode, which is useful for filming in the dark:) FeX also used it was a black and white filter when filming for singing in the rain.
Conversly I dont think our big jvc (gx3 3ccd camera) picks up IR light - I'm pretty sure theres a filter on the lens. Cant remember the name of the lens though.
OK but who in the U.S. executes minors? Forgive me, I dont hear about many executions over hear, but I'd be surprrised if under 18's could get executed. Seems especially dumb with ur arcane drinking laws;)
However adside from that, if we are talking about ever, I'm sure the U.S. in its 250 year history, has had a few infringements on human rights issues If we are talking about recently, I'd ike to know what members of the ESA (which include those scandanavian countries), which are in the top 4 for colonisation, have done since WWII
I hear in England they still have a Royal family - talk about backwards.
Yes we do, you pay use hundereeds of millions a year to take pictures of them too.
The tv license is generally a good idea, we dont have problems with adverts on the bbc - or logos in the corner of the screen, or overdone product placement
Its not too hard to trim an mpeg (or even a normal tv signal - change a capacitor or two in a tv and you have a zoom function) in real time.
The problem is channel stamping (I dont know why they do this - seems dumb to me), product placemnet (Ever seen an episode of friends - unintrusive adverts inside the program are much more influencing then adverts outside programs).
What I worry about is when they are going to have adverts at the same time. Mix a faint image of a coke can into the program etc.
Personally I'm all for paying for quality tv directly (in which case the cost of a can of coke should drop thanks to a reduction in advertising expense). if it gets too much I'll get the episode (in glorious high quality mpeg) of the internet. Hell, I'll pay for a decent fast internet source where I could download and burn shows before they come to air here in the UK. I've got a 10mbit line available, I want to be able to stream at svcd quality minimum)
As for crap TV? Either broadcast with normal adverts, I'll watch it if I'm bored. If you dont then I wont watch, end of story.
Richard M. Stallman takes a strong position against commercial software without resorting to piracy,
Thats right, he doesnt have a ship for starters.
Oh you mean unarthorised copying? Hardly the same boat (no pun intended) as piracy (which I believe is still a hangable offence in the UK, along with high treason).
Good job the lawmakers make the distinction - imagine: someone emails you an mp3 and you get a harsher punishment then harold shipman (killed hundereds of patients over the course of a few years as a doctor)
actually printing the work that needs to be complete in 20 minutes time before the latest chainmail email would be more efficent
if its a long piece it should redirect to the nearest printer
Our uni stores the documents on the local print server, and the first person physically to the printer prints first. You can go to another printer and print your copy if you dont want to wait too.
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It was £86 million - not £86 billion. Just a tad over US$125 million.
And compared to the millenium dome or wembley mark 2....
I looked at this card a few months back when I was looking for a video capture solution. I deided to go for a little external box that converted analog video (pal or ntsc) and audio to firewire, and back again. It was a little more expensive, but I figured the flexibility of a standard interface (looks like a firewire dv cam, without software controls (duh)), outweighed the extra £40 it cost. It'll also work with a mac should I get one in the future, is easily movable from one computer to another, hot pluggable etc.
No fancy pvr software, but it shouldnt be hard to write a program that compresses dv to mpeg 2/divx, and writes to the hdd. Interface with an oline tv directory and you have no problems with your computer, architecture, os, company, service provider etc going bust, as long as you still have a firewire port somewhere.
lots of good points. software patents are bad, redhat is the better of two evils.
I'm under the impression a single person cant patent an idea thanks to expense, but I'm woried about your line: "Perhaps with at most a very small specified licensing charge for proprietary use to fund the filing of patents/etc. "
btw: Can you "public domain" a patent? Prior art doesnt mean squat to most patents, so you'd have to patent then deliberatly destroy the patent
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I'm not sure how valid time shifting a rented video would be, as there is no need to time shift.
Either way its a good, legal, buisness plan IMO, however IANAL so you'd have to ask one (preferably a good one). Even if you need to have a $15 video for each stream, you have earnt the video back after 20 plays (assuming bandwidth and maintenence costs of 50p per movie), and it doesnt degrade. You could have a massive library, selling the old videos that you have for a little above bandwidth cost, and blockbusters for more to cover the cost of the video.
The only problem would be if you were not allowed to transfer formats for commercial gain. Not sure if you can or not.
you can have whatever philosophy you want, however are you waying its illegal for me to sel my TV 2nd hand?
If the people selling in nearby towns were saying (or implying) they were official Krispy Kreme resalers, then that might be using a trade mark wrongly, and reducing the qualiy of the brand. Fair enough.
Doesnt stop them from seling them though, as long as they are clear they are not official representatives of krispy kreme
IANAL
I dont get to mod anymore, but I was wondering if posting as an AC undoes moderation?
First, almost everyone's local lan is in a 192.168 block or 10.
:)
Speak for yourself, I have a 172.16.x.x
Our old high school had a games night every thursday, and we had great fun playing all sorts of games, from some cheesy network space game you got with novell 3.1 running on a lab of 386s, all the way up to the latst quakes. We even played duke nuken for a while, and had a map of the entire school to blast each other in :)
The better comparison would be between the jewelry shop on 51st and 5th vs the guy on the corner in Times Square selling jewelry. One is clearly legal, whereas the other isn't.
So now I need permission from the original maker of my watch to sell it on ebay? What a load of rubbish!
The reason the 5th street corner seller is breaking the law iss because he is running a buisness without paying the apropiate rates, keeping the appropiate books, and most importantly using the public highway as his shop window.
(not to mention the watches are probably stolen anyway
Film88 isn't deprived of their copy when they stream it to a customer.
Assuming they own 10 copys of "harry potter". Someone strams a copy.
1 copy (of the 10 copys they own) of harry potter gets put in a box and sent to the customer
Software database updated (update videos set available = 9 where title = harry potter)
2 hours later the box returns from the customer
video gets put back on shelf.
If 10 copys are streamed in the 2 hour gap, then (select videos.available where title = harry potter) would be 0, and the website wouldnt allow streaming.
While the video is in said box, it is on the way to the customer. Doesnt matter if it reahes the customer before it is returned. They dont have rights to said video ()you pay your $1, you have the video for that 2 hours, no one else can touch it. You keep it in that box same as you could rent a blockbuster video and kee it in a safety deposit box at the train station next door).
Ummm, first sale rights (which are being eroded) still give me the right so
1) buy a video from the store for $15
2) lend said video for $5 to a friend overnight, providing I dont retain any copys of said video
3) get said video back off friend, lend to another friend for $5
4) after doing this 20 times, sell video for $5.
If my friend copies the video I lend them, they are infringing on copyright - not me.
This is no different, providing the content provider has at least 1 copy of the video for each copy they are streaming.
They can sell it cheaper then blockbuster because:
1) They rent the movie for 90 minutes. Then they can rent it again. A 90 minute movie can be let upto 16 times a day, providing the times its let out are right (note this doesnt mean they can let 16 copys of the movie out at once for each copy they own)
2) They dont have as many monkeys behind the counter trying to upsell you popcorn
3) No high street costs
4) No tapes going missing
5) Minimal overheads
Only major expenses are
1) Streaming servers
2) Bandwidth
I agreee that this site may not have a copy of the movie for each copy it streams out at once, but it doesnt mean the principal is wrong.
watched 24/7 by teams of secret police
who watches the mpaa^H^H^H^H secret police? They are people after all
Championship manager 93 had you typing in the football score from a random page. I remember in my first term of high school some kids in the yard copying down the numbers out of the book. Much harder to beat the copy protection back then then (photocopy 50 page manual) then it is now (apply crack, play).
I just laughed, as it was generally faster to guess "1-1" about 10 times before it let you in the game.
The good old days....
I was impressed with the RT2 linux manual though, and civ 3's wasnt bad for a modern manual.
Those were the days when manuals were real manuals, games were real games, and you didnt have any of these crap graphics.
:)
Contrast the average game manual now (2 pieces of paper saying "run d:\setup", stuffed in the cd case), compared with the 100-200 page encyclopedias in the past.
Most of my railroad knowlege came from the railroad tycoon manual, and indeed the civilisation manual and civilopedia helped me answer quite a lot of questions through school, including one on my english gcse paper.
Nothing beats the pisstake I took of R.E. though
The question said something like "write down a creation story". Mine went:
"In the begining, the earth was without form, and void.
But the sun shone upon the sleeping earth
and deep inside the brittle crust, massive forces waited to be unleashed...."
And so on, almost word for word from civ 1. I wonder if I'll get sued
I did like the "maual" copyprotection in those days too. After a while you could get railroad tycoon, and civ, all the time thanks to learning.
IIRC where in the world is carman sandiago actually came with a world almanac! Learnt a lot about geography from that too - forget the game!
I really must dig out my SimEarth manual some time, I never did get into that game.
I've got an aincent 8mm camera that films IR as white. Great fun :)
:) FeX also used it was a black and white filter when filming for singing in the rain.
Our stations minidv camera has an IR mode, which is useful for filming in the dark
Conversly I dont think our big jvc (gx3 3ccd camera) picks up IR light - I'm pretty sure theres a filter on the lens. Cant remember the name of the lens though.
OK but who in the U.S. executes minors? Forgive me, I dont hear about many executions over hear, but I'd be surprrised if under 18's could get executed. Seems especially dumb with ur arcane drinking laws ;)
However adside from that, if we are talking about ever, I'm sure the U.S. in its 250 year history, has had a few infringements on human rights issues If we are talking about recently, I'd ike to know what members of the ESA (which include those scandanavian countries), which are in the top 4 for colonisation, have done since WWII
I've seen an amiga changing channels on a pace sky digital box, it was a simple hack I believe.
I forget, 20 minutes round trip to get a response from Earth? Going up to 40 minutes?
I guess no interplanetary deathmatches then?
Actually, this bit interestes me the most
This week's figures do not include all U.S. Customs surveillance --
some of their records were lost in the destruction of the World Trade
Center
Hasnt anyone in america heard of off site backups?
I hear in England they still have a Royal family - talk about backwards.
Yes we do, you pay use hundereeds of millions a year to take pictures of them too.
The tv license is generally a good idea, we dont have problems with adverts on the bbc - or logos in the corner of the screen, or overdone product placement
Its not too hard to trim an mpeg (or even a normal tv signal - change a capacitor or two in a tv and you have a zoom function) in real time.
The problem is channel stamping (I dont know why they do this - seems dumb to me), product placemnet (Ever seen an episode of friends - unintrusive adverts inside the program are much more influencing then adverts outside programs).
What I worry about is when they are going to have adverts at the same time. Mix a faint image of a coke can into the program etc.
Personally I'm all for paying for quality tv directly (in which case the cost of a can of coke should drop thanks to a reduction in advertising expense). if it gets too much I'll get the episode (in glorious high quality mpeg) of the internet. Hell, I'll pay for a decent fast internet source where I could download and burn shows before they come to air here in the UK. I've got a 10mbit line available, I want to be able to stream at svcd quality minimum)
As for crap TV? Either broadcast with normal adverts, I'll watch it if I'm bored. If you dont then I wont watch, end of story.
Richard M. Stallman takes a strong position against commercial software without resorting to piracy,
Thats right, he doesnt have a ship for starters.
Oh you mean unarthorised copying? Hardly the same boat (no pun intended) as piracy (which I believe is still a hangable offence in the UK, along with high treason).
Good job the lawmakers make the distinction - imagine: someone emails you an mp3 and you get a harsher punishment then harold shipman (killed hundereds of patients over the course of a few years as a doctor)
actually printing the work that needs to be complete in 20 minutes time before the latest chainmail email would be more efficent
if its a long piece it should redirect to the nearest printer
Our uni stores the documents on the local print server, and the first person physically to the printer prints first. You can go to another printer and print your copy if you dont want to wait too.
It was £86 million - not £86 billion. Just a tad over US$125 million.
And compared to the millenium dome or wembley mark 2....
You might as well mod me down as a troll right now, but who cares, I've got plenty of karma :)
I'm not gonna feel sorry for them because their nation is ran by idiots
Yet you expect the rest of the world to feel sorry for you because your nation is run by idiots (and corrupt buisnesses)
I looked at this card a few months back when I was looking for a video capture solution. I deided to go for a little external box that converted analog video (pal or ntsc) and audio to firewire, and back again. It was a little more expensive, but I figured the flexibility of a standard interface (looks like a firewire dv cam, without software controls (duh)), outweighed the extra £40 it cost. It'll also work with a mac should I get one in the future, is easily movable from one computer to another, hot pluggable etc.
No fancy pvr software, but it shouldnt be hard to write a program that compresses dv to mpeg 2/divx, and writes to the hdd. Interface with an oline tv directory and you have no problems with your computer, architecture, os, company, service provider etc going bust, as long as you still have a firewire port somewhere.
It works great too.
lots of good points. software patents are bad, redhat is the better of two evils.
I'm under the impression a single person cant patent an idea thanks to expense, but I'm woried about your line: "Perhaps with at most a very small specified licensing charge for proprietary use to fund the filing of patents/etc. "
btw: Can you "public domain" a patent? Prior art doesnt mean squat to most patents, so you'd have to patent then deliberatly destroy the patent
Perhaps it is its length that has put people off.
Nah, cant be that - most people dont read the articles