the online distribution method, currently exists as a grass-roots movement. apple is the only company willing to participate, and only because it sells hardware for them. the market should be consumer-driven the way every economics professor describes it. but when you have the industry buying laws and terrorizing citizens, you can't help but see a rathole. The slow push of broadband is a result of the media cartel and their "bandwidth breeds piracy" mentality. bandwidth could breed business if they ever unstuck their collective head from their collective ass long enough to fill the gap in content distribution. Maybe George Lucas wouldn't have to spend 200 million on a special effects film if they could stop spending so much on promotion of these movies. Consumers want what they want. It's clear that we want an uncrippled DVD quality movie that we can buy over the internet, and watch on anything we own and even burn it to DVD. But the media cartel wants to control how we use their product. it is a product isn't it? copyrights don't protect products do they? A new congress of the American People needs to enact new laws regarding digital content. The existing laws aren't applied appropriately. Don't think for a second that this move by lucas isn't directly related to the internet. Movies are no longer a sound investment for him. The ROI would improve if the promotion budget were cut to a quarter of what it currently is. They would be a sound investment if he set the trend for online distribution. There is so much money to be made. The media cartel just refuses to compromise on DRM. Content is culture. Culture is shared. Content is business. Business is the market. The market dictates the culture. Culture dictates the market. Culture dictates the market. Culture dictates the market.
The media cartel is trying to hold onto its despotic business model by any means necessary.
They're continuing to make shit up that suits them. Intellectual piracy is buying an ebook of Dostoevsky from a street bazaar in hong kong. Intellectual property is such that it can only be covered by patent. Copyrightable works are not property, unless you count my DVD collection. Those are my property. But, apparently, a property which I don't have any rights to. If it's intellectual property, then that implies it's not copyrightable. Which is it, a product or a license? If it's a license, I'm going to trade in my 60 or so VHS tapes for the DVDs. I'm tired of buying the White Album again. If it's a product, it's not copyrightable and, therefore, not covered under the bought and paid for laws like the DMCA.
The **AA wants their cake and your cake and make you watch them devour both.
1.)the current climate in the US is that of exploitation for profit. the ILECs and the network owners are not finished squeezing every penny out of dial-up.
They can actually get away with charging $120 a month for 6Mbit DSL. They constantly throttle upstream because they say that only PIRATES need that much bandwidth.
upstream is so expensive because if you could host from home or office, why would you pay for a hosting company?
you always have some idiot with who says he really doesn't use it that much, so DSL is too expensive to justify. He's either old and has plenty of time to waste waiting for those 6Mp pictures of his grandson to take 8 hours downloading, or he's from idaho and doesn't have a clue about the rest of the world. 2.)infrastructure.
Sweden has much less infrastructure than the US. so they can afford to upgrade it all to 2Gbps.
The US is all about passing on the cost to the consumer.
if the US upgraded their networks so everyone could get 2Gbps, we'd be paying $499 a month for DSL.
Think about network capacity, think about cost per user vs. cost overall. Think about how long it would take to complete a network upgrade in the US.
hardware manufactures can barely keep up with government demand for enough equipment to upgrade the US government's darknet.
Yeah, it's a slow news day, but this guy is flamebait.
you use the caps_lock key when you need to type in ALLCAPS.
sometimes you just need to deal with it. and stop complaining about it like it's the most important thing in your existance to be insulted by some kid typing in allcaps because that's like shouting on the internet and you shouldn't be shouted at and don't these kids know you should never use the allcaps key because i find it rude to do that sort of thing so i must inflict my unbearable will on the rest of society instead of leaving people the hell alone!
There are times when you need allcaps.
some medical software and proprietary systems require allcaps.
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sorry nitwit, this is about star trek. go watch your kevin sorbo reruns and leave the trekkers alone.
a new storyline/universe wouldn't be star trek.
and firefly was sublime. it's ashame to lump it in with babylon 5(crap) and andromeda(hercules trek)
that's probably why the firefly fans got their(our) movie.
the online distribution method, currently exists as a grass-roots movement.
apple is the only company willing to participate, and only because it sells hardware for them.
the market should be consumer-driven the way every economics professor describes it.
but when you have the industry buying laws and terrorizing citizens, you can't help but see a rathole.
The slow push of broadband is a result of the media cartel and their "bandwidth breeds piracy" mentality.
bandwidth could breed business if they ever unstuck their collective head from their collective ass long enough to fill the gap in content distribution.
Maybe George Lucas wouldn't have to spend 200 million on a special effects film if they could stop spending so much on promotion of these movies.
Consumers want what they want. It's clear that we want an uncrippled DVD quality movie that we can buy over the internet, and watch on anything we own and even burn it to DVD.
But the media cartel wants to control how we use their product. it is a product isn't it? copyrights don't protect products do they?
A new congress of the American People needs to enact new laws regarding digital content. The existing laws aren't applied appropriately.
Don't think for a second that this move by lucas isn't directly related to the internet.
Movies are no longer a sound investment for him. The ROI would improve if the promotion budget were cut to a quarter of what it currently is.
They would be a sound investment if he set the trend for online distribution.
There is so much money to be made. The media cartel just refuses to compromise on DRM.
Content is culture. Culture is shared. Content is business. Business is the market. The market dictates the culture. Culture dictates the market. Culture dictates the market. Culture dictates the market.
The media cartel is trying to hold onto its despotic business model by any means necessary.
web tv web tv webtv? just like grandma and grandpa use to send their internets through the tubes.
fadeware will never catch on.
if you must be root, then it's not a weakness.
root is the be all end all.
they want to change the name and icon?
Debian is losing the spirit of their rules here.
Firefox is really free.
They just want their fox and globe on their really free software.
Debian is just non-conformist.
now that firefox is popular, they don't like it any more.
that's what this is about.
They're continuing to make shit up that suits them. Intellectual piracy is buying an ebook of Dostoevsky from a street bazaar in hong kong. Intellectual property is such that it can only be covered by patent. Copyrightable works are not property, unless you count my DVD collection. Those are my property. But, apparently, a property which I don't have any rights to. If it's intellectual property, then that implies it's not copyrightable. Which is it, a product or a license? If it's a license, I'm going to trade in my 60 or so VHS tapes for the DVDs. I'm tired of buying the White Album again. If it's a product, it's not copyrightable and, therefore, not covered under the bought and paid for laws like the DMCA.
The **AA wants their cake and your cake and make you watch them devour both.
we don't have a right to spy on anyone, it's a privelege that they afford us
Gordon Moore must be proud of himself.
this is a natural response to game piracy.
they figure, why lose all your dough in one pop?
you most likely won't be able to access the pay-per content without connecting to your sony online account.
this is smart business. but poor form from the gamer perspective.
though, this is better than the mmorpg model from the gamer perspective.
though I'm sure they'll charge full price for the crippled game.
where are you going to find a tiny mechanic to change the tiny spark plugs and tiny oil filter?
I'll have to buy the white album again.
do people still use IE? I thought that was a thing that went out with all your base and peanut butter jelly time!
banks have FDIC insurance in the event they are robbed.
phishing is the same as being robbed.
anyone can lookup a netblock with arin.net
then simply call the phone number of the network owner.
that is easy.
the government is so caught up in buying expensive shit to solve non-existant problems, they have forgotten basic net troubleshooting.
the are spart
you should consider the benefits of LDAP being less resource overhead for mysql.
this is good if you've got a lot of robust web apps with intensive reads.
as for integration, apache, mysql and php all have ldap interfaces.
plus ldap can authenticate over SSL and TLS.
with LDAP being used instead of MySQL, there is also less of a chance of your users being comprimised in the event of a cross-site scripting snafu.
/. can could learn the English language.
2 reasons:
1.)the current climate in the US is that of exploitation for profit. the ILECs and the network owners are not finished squeezing every penny out of dial-up.
They can actually get away with charging $120 a month for 6Mbit DSL. They constantly throttle upstream because they say that only PIRATES need that much bandwidth.
upstream is so expensive because if you could host from home or office, why would you pay for a hosting company?
you always have some idiot with who says he really doesn't use it that much, so DSL is too expensive to justify. He's either old and has plenty of time to waste waiting for those 6Mp pictures of his grandson to take 8 hours downloading, or he's from idaho and doesn't have a clue about the rest of the world.
2.)infrastructure.
Sweden has much less infrastructure than the US. so they can afford to upgrade it all to 2Gbps.
The US is all about passing on the cost to the consumer.
if the US upgraded their networks so everyone could get 2Gbps, we'd be paying $499 a month for DSL.
Think about network capacity, think about cost per user vs. cost overall. Think about how long it would take to complete a network upgrade in the US.
hardware manufactures can barely keep up with government demand for enough equipment to upgrade the US government's darknet.
you are mistaken about forcing lesser choices out of the market.
I can still purchase a tube television.
not that I would want to.
LCD is far superior to tube and plasma.
lower power, less heat, better picture.
"music" CD-Rs is a joke. it's the same as the data one.
Copyright infringement isn't a crime.
It's a civil matter.
The constitution says so.
why should you go to court and spend millions fighting someone, if they can just buy a higher up judge and render your ruling "pfft"
Tivo won. echostar bought a judge who says, "don't worry about that pesky court loss, I say you can sell your DVRs"
why can't echostar just face the facts. they lost. they should be fucked.
but once again, we learn with enough money, you don't need to worry about the law or the courts.
I own a Tivo and I have dishnetwork(echostar). anyone with a DVR system that isn't Tivo thinks it's the same. It's not the same.
Yeah, it's a slow news day, but this guy is flamebait.
you use the caps_lock key when you need to type in ALLCAPS.
sometimes you just need to deal with it. and stop complaining about it like it's the most important thing in your existance to be insulted by some kid typing in allcaps because that's like shouting on the internet and you shouldn't be shouted at and don't these kids know you should never use the allcaps key because i find it rude to do that sort of thing so i must inflict my unbearable will on the rest of society instead of leaving people the hell alone!
There are times when you need allcaps.
some medical software and proprietary systems require allcaps.
what then genius?