And as for the artists that get royalties per disc or single, they will get what out of this?
The artist signed their life over when they signed the contract to the record company. As far as I can see, once they sign that, their next 4 albums they they produce is the property of the record company, not the artist, so why dont the record companies get money. I'm not saying its right and all, its just a new version of the Mafia making a lot of money..
I hope the artists find a good way to distribute and produce music without using a record company, they would be cutting them out, and ack, they might go out of buisness.. even though I kinda doubt that with people like britney spears and nsync that dont have much talent but use a lot of flashy lights and stuff provided by the record companies, and all the young teens buy the cds cause all their friends have it.
Its a sick and discusting world we live in but that doesn't stop me from having a good day.
Hey, whoever is selling that windows is from my town, coeur d'alene! Not that it really matters much, just nice to see our hole of a town mentioned every once in a while.
I belive what its called is Black box reverse engineering. They didn't use anything at all from it, just looked at the output of the device and see if they could figure out what it is spitting out. I dont see anything wrong with that, its how the IBM BIOS was figured out if I remember right...
If the FBI gets a wiretap against me, they can only listen to phone calls that I make. How do they know that all the email that is sent from my house is from ME, and not from my friend, or whatnot. There is where I see the problem. Should the FBI get more access to your life because you chose to use email over using the phone?
It figured out where I was with sucess, but I started trying some other ip address's, and I tried 192.169.1.1, it came back with a pirate flag, and said pirate where normally the country would be.. heh, pretty interesting I think..
It seems like it would be easy to use a DVI output on a video card to get this to work, as far as I know it sends out digital signals, and i would think more people have a DVI output (being the small amount there are out there) then there would be people with a PCMCIA deal on their home machines. Ah well, i doubt ill see these in stores anytime soon...
I dont think the cd burner is the device that is circumventing the watermark, its the program that controls the cd burner. You go get Easy CD Creator, and it wont do a bit for bit copy, it might say it in one of the options, but try to burn a copy of age of empires 2, and have it pass the cd check, it wont work. If you use clonecd, it will work, because that program gets around the cd check. With your thinking, hard drives are copyright circumvention devices, because I could copy the cd to my hard drive just as easy. Do you really think that they will try to push to make hard drives illegal? A burnt cd is just the medium that the information gets placed on, a cd burner only does what the cd burning program tells it to, so, in essence, i think that the program itself would be the one that would get targeted.
I cant bring up all of the pages right now, very slow, but does it say it uses DeCSS? I didn't see it as a requirement to do this.//offtopic//
Also, has DeCSS now describing the actual c code, or does it include all code that decrypts CSS(java, c++, etc etc..), could you change the code a bit and it wouldn't be DeCSS anymore? According to the DMCA, a device is called an anti-circumvention device when one of these things happen: (mind you I am not a lawyer)
is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological protection measure
has limited commercially significant purposes or uses other than circumvention
or is marketed for use in circumventing TPMs (Technological Protection Measures)
If you were to make a program that, lets say is a full featured media player, which plays just about every type of media format there is, and one of the small options in the program would to take a dvd and decrypt it, and save it to a file, would it then still be labeled as such a device? If DeCSS wasn't distributed until it was built into a linux player, would it have been ok at that point? I was reading up on the BETA Max case, something about camcorders, saying that they were legal because their main purpose was to film home videos, not make illegal copies of copyrighted movies. I realize that if you had a media player that could play all kinds of formats, you may as well make it able to play DVD's as well (lets assume this is on a linux box), so for those of you wanting to flame me for that, replace it with a full fledged backup program or whatever. Any thoughts?
These are 2 different kinds of technologies, so no, its not common knowledge that the i815 chipsets will use this DDR RDRAM that you seem to know about, because DDR RDRAM doesn't exist. I believe what you meant was DDR SDRAM, which is what it will use as far as I know.
Id go check out that site for info about RAMBUS, and you should see for yourself that there is no such thing as DDR RDRAM.
Snippet from the article:
The PC600 RDRAM bandwidth peaks at 1.2GB/sec--less than 20% faster than PC133. In real world applications there is no performance difference between PC133 and PC600. Sure RDRAM is fast, but has only a 16-bit data path. That's because with RDRAM only one 16-bit wide memory chip on the module is active at a time. When one chip is being addressed the other chips are in standby mode. With SDRAM eight 8-bit chips are active at once, giving a 64-bit data path.
That pretty much shows you some downfalls to a memory technology that is proprietary, and very expensive, versus one that non-proprietary, and very cheap (compared to RDRAM). RAMBUS worked great for the Nintendo 64, but for pc's it seems we are going to be using PC133, and DDR for a while. Thank god is all I can say, I mean $1000 bucks for a stick of 128mb PC800 RDRAM is a joke.
I believe censorship, at least in my mind, would cover information that I ask to look at. If I ask to look at a certain document lets say, and half of it is gone, and I cannot get access to it, then that is censorship. I cant see having a way to stop email that I dont even want to get to me, no way for me to say, "i dont want your crap, leave me alone".
If I want to buy something, I will chose a place that I want, I feel that if a company has to stoop to the level of sending out spam, then I dont need to do buisness with them. I bet many other people do the same, I wonder if they know about that.
so if the creators of DeCSS should come out on top
Remember, Eric Corley isn't in court right now because he created DeCSS, he just made the file available on his website. By the way, the new york times linked to his site, and you could find DeCSS by going to one of the search engines that disney owns, and disney is part of the MPAA, cute isn't it.. =P
If he is the one that stands up, and stops this madness that the MPAA is doing, then yes, id respect him 100%. Dont you find it funny that we went from cds, which really had no sort of copy protection on them at all, to dvds where you have to buy them in a certain region, and only play them on liscensed players. I mean, what if you were some sort of hardcore multimedia programmer, and wanted to make your own player for giggles. It really does take away the rights of the copyright users, and I hope that this case fixes a lot of that. The only bad precedent that can be set from this case is that if the MPAA wins. Did you hear they are trying to ban those tshirts with the DeCSS code on them... Do you want the MPAA to be the ones representing 'our side' whatever that means?
So according to the MPAA mentality and the DMCA, I can sell a rock collection that comes in a box, but you have to have a liscense to open my box. (DVD=Rocks, the box is the DVD player plus the key to unlock CSS). I have a copyright on the rock, lets say I put a logo on it or whatever. Then, when I sell my box, if someone just opens it without having a liscense, I could sue them for copyright infringement? Even though all they did was bypass my scheme to protect the rock?
I just recently bought one of these as well, just to see what it was about. Arrived in the mail a few days ago, pretty small little thing, but it was up on the internet in about 2 minutes. Theres really not much to it, first thing i did after hooking it up was to take it apart of course, small little 8x8 inch motherboard, its got a pentium looking processor there (socket 7 it looks like), along with a standard pc100 DIMM, a laptop cdrom (hooked up with a standard IDE cable, ill tell you why thats important in a bit.) and whats this.. A normal Award bios chip. This got me thinking.. I hope someone can help, or at least tell me im nuts, but I have an extra motherboard here, with a flashable bios award chip, looks the same size and all. I figure I can take the bios chip that came with the NIC, take it out, and take a brand new flashed bios chip, hook up a hard drive to the ide cable, and wala. Ive had this idea in my head the day I got it, but havent been able to work on it yet. I figure I can get some sort of generic award bios, which should let me in there to tell it what hard drive it has, and bootup to a small and cheap linux box. If anyone is interested in this, post back, ill put up a review of it after im done, if anyone else does it lemme know! (by the way the thing gets damn hot!) I might have it up on www.bahemut.com if I get a chance, been very busy lately though.
Only problem is that King is counting 'official' downloads from his site in the percentage of people that have paid. How many have gotten the text from someone else and not actually downloaded it from King's site? Just something to think about.
I dont really see a problem with it. What would happen if he would have released his novel only in book form. Do you think that the only people who are going to read it are those who buy it? I lend my books to my friends all the time. He expected to make a certain amount of money off of this little project of his, and it looks like he is doing very good so far, so where is the problem at?
I really find it hard to believe that ABC is letting him post that stuff up on their site. What that sounds like is a troll post from slashdot, backing nothing up, and coming up with numbers from nowhere. If you look at the pretty charts they made, look who is at the top of the list for vulnerabilites for the year 2000.. And even better yet, 1999. Lets see, in 1999:
Windows NT had 96 vulnerabilities
Windows 98 with 44
Windows 95 with 40
And wait, then they have a section for:
NT w/ sp3 at 32
NT w/ sp1 at 31
NT w/ sp2 at 30
NT w/ sp4 at 29
The next few entries are dealing with Internet Explorer (which I think should be just added in with Windows 98, but thats just my opinion). And then look at the bottom of the list, we have Red Hat 5.2 at 21, and Red Hat 6 at 19. At least with linux cut down the vulnerabilites with the later release, its only by one, but it is less. On this chart, it shows that SP1 had less vulnerabilities then SP3. Hey now, they told me it was going to fix problems, not create more. I was hoping this guy provided an email address to send comments to, but I fail to see one. I dont know if ive read an editorial without a way to send your comments in at all, he's probably sick of being flamed. I feel this guy has some sort of stake in the windows franchise, and doens't want to see his money maker start losing money when people open their eyes a bit. I feel that anything that can be opened up and studied by the general public is going to be more secure then something that is done within a closed enviorment. This may not always be true, but if you look at cryptography, it is studied and tested for many many years, trying to find vulnerabilities, weakness's, whatever it may be that could cause security/privacy/etc concerns in the future. You take a closed system, with a certain amount of people who can study it, they wont find everything out, and with a system like that, if they do find something, which may take a lot longer to get fixed then normal, they can still release the product, not tell anyone about it, hopefully it doesn't become an issue until a service pack can be released. They dont fix bugs unless its cost-effective, or will give them good PR. Well enough rambling, time for bed..
How about a law that says search engines can only index HTML pages?
I see no reason to add such laws, if I want to build a search engine, I dont want to have to go ask a lawyer all the laws that I must abide by. Is that really the kind of internet you want to be browsing in the future? What next, ban hyperlinking?
Oh wait forgot, the MPAA is already trying to do that as well...
I think that would be fair, since most multimedia is pirated.
How about we just make mp3s illegal.. i mean, since most of them are pirated. Or maybe get Carnivore to do some blocking of websites and services that are known to give access or show where pirated material is at. Or just maybe, just maybe, the digital media world will figure out a way to use the internet in a good way, pretty much cutting distribution costs way down, just making a profit off of copying a file from them to you. In any case I dont like any of it, I have a feeling after all this Napster/DeCSS stuff gets over with we are going to have some interesting changes in how things are working..
There are a lot of places that search on things that aren't html pages, ftpsearch is a good one. What about lycos and mp3.lycos.com. Heck on Ebay you can buy burnt copies of software and im sure movies, not sure on that one. (my friend from work just bought an old game off of ebay, it was a burnt cd along with a list of other software that I could get from him on CD-R's. Heck, I think just about any search engine I can find mp3's, movies, etc etc its just the nature on how search engines work. Face it, no law is going to stop people from copying something that someone else bought. Some people will get whatever they can for free, before buying it for themselves. Cd and DVD recorders certainly dont help the situation, and neither does high quality digital video cameras that you can go down to Sears and buy, they are quite small, and sneak it into a movie theater and just record the movie as it plays. (from what ive seen, it seems like some of the movies are shot from the room that is playing the reel of film, maybe even patched into the machine that plays it, or video cameras are a lot better then I thought)
I went and looked at the ZDnet page, pretty spiffy, but it looks like the only color we will see on these is from the faceplates. The color model now just pretty much sucks compared to other color PDA's out there. One of my friends at work has an HP WinCE 'device' as they like to call them, and the color looks great on it, id just rather not have WinCE as the OS. Ah well, maybe they will release a nice color palm.. who knows
The reason why there needs to be some sort of encryption going to a digital monitor, is because you can take some sort of box, put them between the computer and the monitor, and capture a pretty good copy of whats going to the monitor. (something similar to that, ive heard about it but never tried anything like it) The system is called "High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection" (HDCP) and is going to be used with the Digital Visual Interface (DVI). I believe intel came out with the HDCP standard, might find some info on thier page about it.
If you haven't been there before, you can search on just about any computer part, and it will show you the prices from thousands of online shops, starting at the lowest price. Now the difference is the companies I think send pricewatch the prices, not sure, they have special deals that if you mention pricewatch you will get it cheaper or whatever. Its looking more and more like ebay just wants to control the market this way.
I think that ebay needs to tighten up its security on the site, just last week ebay asked the federal government to bad a user to its site, he had been kicked off 45 times.. Its not tough to get a user account on ebay, not hard at all. If they want to stop all this, why not make it a bit tougher to get an account, make it so someone cant make an account, get banned, then make another one. Make it so all the auction material is in an area that requires user authentication (when he logs into the site) to get to, so if a search engine were to search the site, it would come up with an error that it was inaccessable. Problem solved. (I am not a developer of web servers, i dont know if this is possible but I dont see why not.)
When you first watch a DVD on a fairly nice tv, you notice that it is just as clear as they say, very very nice picture etc. etc. When you go buy a DVD movie, thats where things get a bit strange. You are only allowed to play that movie in the same region that the DVD was bought in. The content is scrambled as well. I first rented a dvd player back when I didn't have an rca jack on my tv for video in. I usually used my vcr and its jacks for that. I plugged the dvd into my vcr, and every movie I had rented would play fine for about a second, start to go black and white, the screen would roll up, and it would be back to color again, over and over. In any case, I took the dvd player back to the store and said that it didn't work. I had then found out that you cant send out the DVD's signal thru a vcr first, because the content gets scrambled. And for one final blow, anyone that wants to make a software/hardware dvd player has to get a liscense from the DVD CCA (something to that nature), id imagine if you wanted to produce retail quality dvds you would have to get your disc encrypted, and probably have to buy yet another liscense to do that. (by the way all these restrictions have already been cracked, in fact there was a hardware dvd player sold at circut city that bypassed the region info and the content scrambling system, for those who knew how to get into the dev menu). Pretty tough restrictions as far as im concerned. You look at the vcr and think wow. Could this happen to cds as well? I really doubt it. Music has become so small and compact, so many portable/recordable audio devices around that they would be too popular to completely get rid of. The only way I can see it happening is if the record labels/bands decided not to publish thier content on non-secure media. Of course this really means in the real life is that it will be secure until its cracked, thus defeating the whole purpose, and wasting a LOT of money on copy protection issues, and they blame that on the pirates out there. This cycle will continue forever, unless the record companies/bands change how they do buisness. This will not happen by restricting information to the people they are providing it to, but by making a new buisness model that fits into the digital world.
If metallica made 10 million bucks the year before napster was released, and how makes 8 million dollars this year, I can see how napster would be a good excuse for that, for we all know Metallica music has gotten better and better by every release *gags* Can you answer me this: How can calculate the losses if the losses have not even happened yet. Last time I heard, cd sales were up 6% from last year, and as far as I know, when more cds are sold at a higher price then the year before, they are making more money then the year before, its pretty simple math. Geist Geist
Id have to agree 100%. I love music myself, I would think an artist who provides me with this music probably has a greater passion then I do for the stuff. In fact, id have to say that musician would still play music if he make money off of it. Music is something that in the past few years has become an entity for many to make money, plain and simple. Any time you get any sort of large corporation or company, one big thing that floats above their heads is spending the least amount of money (lets say to the artist)to make the greatest amount back (for themselves). Ive often heard of times past, where musicians were only interested in playing music, and this alone drove them to make more music. Today this has now gone to, lets make a piece of music, and make money on it in every way possible. One thing that they are going to have to realize, once it hits the net theres no stopping it. If napster goes away, there will always be another way of doing it. On a last note, it looks like we have some interesting lawsuits on our hands that could change our future significantly, both the DeCSS case, and the Napster vs. RIAa.. err Metallica. Lets hope that common sense can bring us all thru this =) Geist
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The artist signed their life over when they signed the contract to the record company. As far as I can see, once they sign that, their next 4 albums they they produce is the property of the record company, not the artist, so why dont the record companies get money. I'm not saying its right and all, its just a new version of the Mafia making a lot of money..
I hope the artists find a good way to distribute and produce music without using a record company, they would be cutting them out, and ack, they might go out of buisness.. even though I kinda doubt that with people like britney spears and nsync that dont have much talent but use a lot of flashy lights and stuff provided by the record companies, and all the young teens buy the cds cause all their friends have it.
Its a sick and discusting world we live in but that doesn't stop me from having a good day.
Hey, whoever is selling that windows is from my town, coeur d'alene! Not that it really matters much, just nice to see our hole of a town mentioned every once in a while.
I belive what its called is Black box reverse engineering. They didn't use anything at all from it, just looked at the output of the device and see if they could figure out what it is spitting out. I dont see anything wrong with that, its how the IBM BIOS was figured out if I remember right...
If the FBI gets a wiretap against me, they can only listen to phone calls that I make. How do they know that all the email that is sent from my house is from ME, and not from my friend, or whatnot. There is where I see the problem. Should the FBI get more access to your life because you chose to use email over using the phone?
It figured out where I was with sucess, but I started trying some other ip address's, and I tried 192.169.1.1, it came back with a pirate flag, and said pirate where normally the country would be.. heh, pretty interesting I think..
Geist
It seems like it would be easy to use a DVI output on a video card to get this to work, as far as I know it sends out digital signals, and i would think more people have a DVI output (being the small amount there are out there) then there would be people with a PCMCIA deal on their home machines. Ah well, i doubt ill see these in stores anytime soon...
I dont think the cd burner is the device that is circumventing the watermark, its the program that controls the cd burner. You go get Easy CD Creator, and it wont do a bit for bit copy, it might say it in one of the options, but try to burn a copy of age of empires 2, and have it pass the cd check, it wont work. If you use clonecd, it will work, because that program gets around the cd check. With your thinking, hard drives are copyright circumvention devices, because I could copy the cd to my hard drive just as easy. Do you really think that they will try to push to make hard drives illegal? A burnt cd is just the medium that the information gets placed on, a cd burner only does what the cd burning program tells it to, so, in essence, i think that the program itself would be the one that would get targeted.
is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological protection measure
has limited commercially significant purposes or uses other than circumvention
or is marketed for use in circumventing TPMs (Technological Protection Measures)
If you were to make a program that, lets say is a full featured media player, which plays just about every type of media format there is, and one of the small options in the program would to take a dvd and decrypt it, and save it to a file, would it then still be labeled as such a device? If DeCSS wasn't distributed until it was built into a linux player, would it have been ok at that point? I was reading up on the BETA Max case, something about camcorders, saying that they were legal because their main purpose was to film home videos, not make illegal copies of copyrighted movies. I realize that if you had a media player that could play all kinds of formats, you may as well make it able to play DVD's as well (lets assume this is on a linux box), so for those of you wanting to flame me for that, replace it with a full fledged backup program or whatever. Any thoughts?
Geist
RDRAM = RAMBUS Direct Random Access Memory
DDR = Double Data Rate
These are 2 different kinds of technologies, so no, its not common knowledge that the i815 chipsets will use this DDR RDRAM that you seem to know about, because DDR RDRAM doesn't exist. I believe what you meant was DDR SDRAM, which is what it will use as far as I know.
RAMBUS Info from www.pcaccelerate.com
Id go check out that site for info about RAMBUS, and you should see for yourself that there is no such thing as DDR RDRAM.
Snippet from the article:
The PC600 RDRAM bandwidth peaks at 1.2GB/sec--less than 20% faster than PC133. In real world applications there is no performance difference between PC133 and PC600. Sure RDRAM is fast, but has only a 16-bit data path. That's because with RDRAM only one 16-bit wide memory chip on the module is active at a time. When one chip is being addressed the other chips are in standby mode. With SDRAM eight 8-bit chips are active at once, giving a 64-bit data path.
That pretty much shows you some downfalls to a memory technology that is proprietary, and very expensive, versus one that non-proprietary, and very cheap (compared to RDRAM). RAMBUS worked great for the Nintendo 64, but for pc's it seems we are going to be using PC133, and DDR for a while. Thank god is all I can say, I mean $1000 bucks for a stick of 128mb PC800 RDRAM is a joke.
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If I want to buy something, I will chose a place that I want, I feel that if a company has to stoop to the level of sending out spam, then I dont need to do buisness with them. I bet many other people do the same, I wonder if they know about that.
If you want your spam, use hotmail!
Geist
so if the creators of DeCSS should come out on top
Remember, Eric Corley isn't in court right now because he created DeCSS, he just made the file available on his website. By the way, the new york times linked to his site, and you could find DeCSS by going to one of the search engines that disney owns, and disney is part of the MPAA, cute isn't it.. =P
Geist
I urge every one of you to check out:
Joint Study Required by Section 104 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
And especially Przemek Klosowski's submission.
Good luck to 2600 and the EFF!
Geist
I just recently bought one of these as well, just to see what it was about. Arrived in the mail a few days ago, pretty small little thing, but it was up on the internet in about 2 minutes. Theres really not much to it, first thing i did after hooking it up was to take it apart of course, small little 8x8 inch motherboard, its got a pentium looking processor there (socket 7 it looks like), along with a standard pc100 DIMM, a laptop cdrom (hooked up with a standard IDE cable, ill tell you why thats important in a bit.) and whats this.. A normal Award bios chip. This got me thinking.. I hope someone can help, or at least tell me im nuts, but I have an extra motherboard here, with a flashable bios award chip, looks the same size and all. I figure I can take the bios chip that came with the NIC, take it out, and take a brand new flashed bios chip, hook up a hard drive to the ide cable, and wala. Ive had this idea in my head the day I got it, but havent been able to work on it yet. I figure I can get some sort of generic award bios, which should let me in there to tell it what hard drive it has, and bootup to a small and cheap linux box. If anyone is interested in this, post back, ill put up a review of it after im done, if anyone else does it lemme know! (by the way the thing gets damn hot!) I might have it up on www.bahemut.com if I get a chance, been very busy lately though.
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I dont really see a problem with it. What would happen if he would have released his novel only in book form. Do you think that the only people who are going to read it are those who buy it? I lend my books to my friends all the time. He expected to make a certain amount of money off of this little project of his, and it looks like he is doing very good so far, so where is the problem at?
SecurityFocus: BUGTRAQ VulDB Stats
I really find it hard to believe that ABC is letting him post that stuff up on their site. What that sounds like is a troll post from slashdot, backing nothing up, and coming up with numbers from nowhere. If you look at the pretty charts they made, look who is at the top of the list for vulnerabilites for the year 2000.. And even better yet, 1999. Lets see, in 1999:
Windows NT had 96 vulnerabilities
Windows 98 with 44
Windows 95 with 40
And wait, then they have a section for:
NT w/ sp3 at 32
NT w/ sp1 at 31
NT w/ sp2 at 30
NT w/ sp4 at 29
The next few entries are dealing with Internet Explorer (which I think should be just added in with Windows 98, but thats just my opinion). And then look at the bottom of the list, we have Red Hat 5.2 at 21, and Red Hat 6 at 19. At least with linux cut down the vulnerabilites with the later release, its only by one, but it is less. On this chart, it shows that SP1 had less vulnerabilities then SP3. Hey now, they told me it was going to fix problems, not create more. I was hoping this guy provided an email address to send comments to, but I fail to see one. I dont know if ive read an editorial without a way to send your comments in at all, he's probably sick of being flamed. I feel this guy has some sort of stake in the windows franchise, and doens't want to see his money maker start losing money when people open their eyes a bit. I feel that anything that can be opened up and studied by the general public is going to be more secure then something that is done within a closed enviorment. This may not always be true, but if you look at cryptography, it is studied and tested for many many years, trying to find vulnerabilities, weakness's, whatever it may be that could cause security/privacy/etc concerns in the future. You take a closed system, with a certain amount of people who can study it, they wont find everything out, and with a system like that, if they do find something, which may take a lot longer to get fixed then normal, they can still release the product, not tell anyone about it, hopefully it doesn't become an issue until a service pack can be released. They dont fix bugs unless its cost-effective, or will give them good PR. Well enough rambling, time for bed..
I see no reason to add such laws, if I want to build a search engine, I dont want to have to go ask a lawyer all the laws that I must abide by. Is that really the kind of internet you want to be browsing in the future? What next, ban hyperlinking?
Oh wait forgot, the MPAA is already trying to do that as well...
I think that would be fair, since most multimedia is pirated.
How about we just make mp3s illegal.. i mean, since most of them are pirated. Or maybe get Carnivore to do some blocking of websites and services that are known to give access or show where pirated material is at. Or just maybe, just maybe, the digital media world will figure out a way to use the internet in a good way, pretty much cutting distribution costs way down, just making a profit off of copying a file from them to you. In any case I dont like any of it, I have a feeling after all this Napster/DeCSS stuff gets over with we are going to have some interesting changes in how things are working..
There are a lot of places that search on things that aren't html pages, ftpsearch is a good one. What about lycos and mp3.lycos.com. Heck on Ebay you can buy burnt copies of software and im sure movies, not sure on that one. (my friend from work just bought an old game off of ebay, it was a burnt cd along with a list of other software that I could get from him on CD-R's. Heck, I think just about any search engine I can find mp3's, movies, etc etc its just the nature on how search engines work. Face it, no law is going to stop people from copying something that someone else bought. Some people will get whatever they can for free, before buying it for themselves. Cd and DVD recorders certainly dont help the situation, and neither does high quality digital video cameras that you can go down to Sears and buy, they are quite small, and sneak it into a movie theater and just record the movie as it plays. (from what ive seen, it seems like some of the movies are shot from the room that is playing the reel of film, maybe even patched into the machine that plays it, or video cameras are a lot better then I thought)
I went and looked at the ZDnet page, pretty spiffy, but it looks like the only color we will see on these is from the faceplates. The color model now just pretty much sucks compared to other color PDA's out there. One of my friends at work has an HP WinCE 'device' as they like to call them, and the color looks great on it, id just rather not have WinCE as the OS. Ah well, maybe they will release a nice color palm.. who knows
The reason why there needs to be some sort of encryption going to a digital monitor, is because you can take some sort of box, put them between the computer and the monitor, and capture a pretty good copy of whats going to the monitor. (something similar to that, ive heard about it but never tried anything like it) The system is called "High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection" (HDCP) and is going to be used with the Digital Visual Interface (DVI). I believe intel came out with the HDCP standard, might find some info on thier page about it.
I think that ebay needs to tighten up its security on the site, just last week ebay asked the federal government to bad a user to its site, he had been kicked off 45 times.. Its not tough to get a user account on ebay, not hard at all. If they want to stop all this, why not make it a bit tougher to get an account, make it so someone cant make an account, get banned, then make another one. Make it so all the auction material is in an area that requires user authentication (when he logs into the site) to get to, so if a search engine were to search the site, it would come up with an error that it was inaccessable. Problem solved. (I am not a developer of web servers, i dont know if this is possible but I dont see why not.)
When you first watch a DVD on a fairly nice tv, you notice that it is just as clear as they say, very very nice picture etc. etc. When you go buy a DVD movie, thats where things get a bit strange. You are only allowed to play that movie in the same region that the DVD was bought in. The content is scrambled as well. I first rented a dvd player back when I didn't have an rca jack on my tv for video in. I usually used my vcr and its jacks for that. I plugged the dvd into my vcr, and every movie I had rented would play fine for about a second, start to go black and white, the screen would roll up, and it would be back to color again, over and over. In any case, I took the dvd player back to the store and said that it didn't work. I had then found out that you cant send out the DVD's signal thru a vcr first, because the content gets scrambled. And for one final blow, anyone that wants to make a software/hardware dvd player has to get a liscense from the DVD CCA (something to that nature), id imagine if you wanted to produce retail quality dvds you would have to get your disc encrypted, and probably have to buy yet another liscense to do that. (by the way all these restrictions have already been cracked, in fact there was a hardware dvd player sold at circut city that bypassed the region info and the content scrambling system, for those who knew how to get into the dev menu). Pretty tough restrictions as far as im concerned. You look at the vcr and think wow. Could this happen to cds as well? I really doubt it. Music has become so small and compact, so many portable/recordable audio devices around that they would be too popular to completely get rid of. The only way I can see it happening is if the record labels/bands decided not to publish thier content on non-secure media. Of course this really means in the real life is that it will be secure until its cracked, thus defeating the whole purpose, and wasting a LOT of money on copy protection issues, and they blame that on the pirates out there. This cycle will continue forever, unless the record companies/bands change how they do buisness. This will not happen by restricting information to the people they are providing it to, but by making a new buisness model that fits into the digital world.
Im pretty sure mp3.com has been wanting to work with the record labels for some time now, none of them have wanted to I guess.
If metallica made 10 million bucks the year before napster was released, and how makes 8 million dollars this year, I can see how napster would be a good excuse for that, for we all know Metallica music has gotten better and better by every release *gags* Can you answer me this: How can calculate the losses if the losses have not even happened yet. Last time I heard, cd sales were up 6% from last year, and as far as I know, when more cds are sold at a higher price then the year before, they are making more money then the year before, its pretty simple math. Geist Geist
Id have to agree 100%. I love music myself, I would think an artist who provides me with this music probably has a greater passion then I do for the stuff. In fact, id have to say that musician would still play music if he make money off of it. Music is something that in the past few years has become an entity for many to make money, plain and simple. Any time you get any sort of large corporation or company, one big thing that floats above their heads is spending the least amount of money (lets say to the artist)to make the greatest amount back (for themselves). Ive often heard of times past, where musicians were only interested in playing music, and this alone drove them to make more music. Today this has now gone to, lets make a piece of music, and make money on it in every way possible. One thing that they are going to have to realize, once it hits the net theres no stopping it. If napster goes away, there will always be another way of doing it. On a last note, it looks like we have some interesting lawsuits on our hands that could change our future significantly, both the DeCSS case, and the Napster vs. RIAa.. err Metallica. Lets hope that common sense can bring us all thru this =) Geist