The studio said a key factor in allowing people to download digital copies of its films was CinemaNow's anti-piracy technology, supplied by Microsoft Corp
Which will be hacked to allow unlimited playtime in... 3...2...1...
... floating along in his rickety fishing vessel in the North Atlantic hundreds of miles off the coast and probably as far from any other human being when suddenly he looks up and sees....
nnnnneeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......
this little red plane buzzing by.
One of two things will happen. Either he'll jump overboard... or he'll finally give up the sauce.
Quit tagging on "and distribute" to your arguements. That's a red herring. I'm not arguing that copyright holders have a right to do whatever they want as far as these stupid region-coding schemes. But I have (or damn well should have) a right to view material that I have bought in a locaton of my choosing. It should NOT be illegal for manufacturers to provide "region-free" players or software makers to make "region-free" software. I'm NOT talking about distrubuting copyrighted works. I'm talking about viewing something I bought when I want, where I want, and on equipment of my choosing.
If the DVD is not offered in a region version you are capable of viewing, even if you purchased another region, you aren't entitled to "translate" the work.
Why not? I bought it. I can burn it. I can piss on it. I can decorate my Christmas tree with it. I can sell it. And I can translate it.
This is the right of jury nullification, and until the middle of the last century was assumed to be the whole reason behind a jury trial in the first place.
And it's a right that is completely forgotten by all but the rarest of jurors and something that judges never mention. At a recent family function, one family member was telling us about a jury trial he was recently on. The defendant was convicted of a vicimless crime. I told him that if I'd been on the jury, I would have found him innocent regardless of what the evidence said. Another family member, who is in the law department at a large company, was adamant that I would NOT be allowed to do such a thing. The ignorance on this issue of the American public is amazing.
Why the hell don't they teach these things in school anymore? It is a point that should be drilled into kids heads as they're growing up and learning about the American justice system. They have a duty to participate and the RIGHT to make it better.
I know the english is kind of scetchy right there, but it's not easy to translate norwegian law language on-the-fly..
Yea, but you did a whole hell of a lot better than this site...
At the described affair brøt Jon Lech Johansen kopibeskyttelsen at DVD - the movies and generated her and other access at combining at DVD - disk's in unprotected admonish. Admittance stayed baseless as a matter of DVD - the movies stayed sold along with assumption about that the user do be about consumes authorized avspillingsutstyr and abide by kopibeskyttelsen. Appropriation at the movies in unprotected admonish has rape breakdown as a matter of the licensees no longer has protect against baseless diffusion at the movies.
At least I hope you did better... otherwise the judge has his work cut out for him. Either that or Mr. Johansen is in big big trouble.
If you bring your DVD with you, it is highly likely that you will also bring your DVD player as well. You will still be able to use this DVD player to play your region encoded discs.
Um, no. When my friends from Europe come to visit, it would be great if they could bring some of their DVDs with them for us to watch. Oh, then can bring them... but unless I have a region-free player, we can't watch them. That's bullshit.
It's not really practical for them to bring a DVD player in the luggage.
key there is the quality is much better than software based mpeg encoding routines
Before anyone jumps down my throat (I know they're waiting), I should have said "realtime software based mpeg encoding routines.". Obiously, given enough compute time, a software routine can do a much better job than an mpeg co-processor chip, but the key here is realtime compression and all but the most wickedly fast CPUs can't keep up with a dedicated mpeg encoder chip.
... in case TiVo, Inc. goes under, I do take some comfort in the fact that PCs are getting there. The big advance in the last year or so has been advent of inexpensive PCI cards with built-in MPEG2 encoder chips. The key there is the quality is much better than software based mpeg encoding routines. The chips handle 3/2 pulldown and deinterlacing much better, if such things tickle your fancy.
Hauppauge has a new card that I've been looking into, and the Navis-Pro is also supposed to be good.
Similar cards were in the thousands of dollars a couple years ago. Now they're around $200... and falling. We're not long before its very easy, very good quality, and very inexpensive. We're not quite there yet though, and for now TiVo and the like and certainly the way to go.
This is precisely why Mr. Edelman and the ACLU are going about things the way that they are. They are filing a preemptive lawsuit. No one has threatened them with DMCA prosecution and backed off. They are saying to a judge "look, this is what we plan to do. We want to to declare it legal before the filtering company decides to threaten us."
Specifically I'm talking about the Australian govt who a while back cut all funds to asteroid search programs, virtually leaving the entire southern hemisphere unchecked for such potential threats.
Would anyone actually notice if the southern hemisphere went away?
What I want is a board for video capturing with a decent mpeg encoder chip on it. No a co-processor... a real mpeg encoder that does correct 3-2 pulldown detection, deinterlacing, etc. To get a really good quality video capture on a PC means capturing with any of the many video capture boards using a codec that either doesn't compress at all, or just compresses a little bit... then taking the.avi file and running it through an mpeg compressor that can do the de-interlacing, and whatnot... all to end up with a DVD spec mpeg file. Using a real-time codec usually means crummy quality.
What I want is a board that has an mpeg chip, similar to what might be in a standalone DVD recorder or a TiVo, that will take an incoming signal and spit out a good quality mpeg file in real time. Standalone DVD recorders can do it, so surely a PCI card can too.
I heard a Verizon ad on the radio today that kept talking about the speed at which you can download MP3s. The ad must have said "download music" a half-dozen times. I've also seen billboards in the area for other high-speed internet vendors touting "music downloads" as a key feature of their service.
You're not going to get much music if they start throwing caps on the bandwidth.
The reason the source to gov't used software shouldn't be open is the same as the reson the NYSE doesn't let you take a camera onto the floor. If the SW is open then someone can have a MUCH, MUCH easier time to figure out an exploitation.
Yes, but the reason they give is completely bogus. They assert that a programmer could hide some piece of malicious code in the program that could "could contain a critical problem, a backdoor or worse, a dangerous virus."
Uh, isn't that the problem with CLOSED source? With a closed source project, you really don't know what sort of things the programmer has hidden in there. At least with open source, you can LOOK AT THE CODE and check!
They're thrashing around like a wounded animal. No thought of what they're doing or where they're going... just trying to survive the next minute before the lights go out.
The irony is that it's the thrashing that will kill them.
No one likes to see an animal suffering like that, but I for one am having a good time watching this one fighting for its life. Just don't get in its path because a wounded animal is a dangerous beast.
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Which will be hacked to allow unlimited playtime in... 3...2...1...
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Being -slightly- less secretive about the country you're talking about might help people analyze and answer the question at hand...
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Worldcom is based in Mississippi? Well why didn't they just say so.
The missing money? It's buried in mason jars out behind the shed. Sheesh.
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"Hey everybody! Watch this!"
Egads. I guess these are the guys who always ignored the "don't try this at home" warnings, huh?
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... floating along in his rickety fishing vessel in the North Atlantic hundreds of miles off the coast and probably as far from any other human being when suddenly he looks up and sees....
nnnnneeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......
this little red plane buzzing by.
One of two things will happen. Either he'll jump overboard... or he'll finally give up the sauce.
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Oh man are those guys gonna be pissed.
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If the DVD is not offered in a region version you are capable of viewing, even if you purchased another region, you aren't entitled to "translate" the work.
Why not? I bought it. I can burn it. I can piss on it. I can decorate my Christmas tree with it. I can sell it. And I can translate it.
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Close. They're not being charged with murder, but they are (or were) being sued.
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And it's a right that is completely forgotten by all but the rarest of jurors and something that judges never mention. At a recent family function, one family member was telling us about a jury trial he was recently on. The defendant was convicted of a vicimless crime. I told him that if I'd been on the jury, I would have found him innocent regardless of what the evidence said. Another family member, who is in the law department at a large company, was adamant that I would NOT be allowed to do such a thing. The ignorance on this issue of the American public is amazing.
Why the hell don't they teach these things in school anymore? It is a point that should be drilled into kids heads as they're growing up and learning about the American justice system. They have a duty to participate and the RIGHT to make it better.
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Yea, but you did a whole hell of a lot better than this site...
At least I hope you did better... otherwise the judge has his work cut out for him. Either that or Mr. Johansen is in big big trouble.
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That's too negative. It's not a piracy tool any more than a hammer is a murder tool.
Instead, it's a tool with legitimate usage, but it also can be used for piracy.
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Um, no. When my friends from Europe come to visit, it would be great if they could bring some of their DVDs with them for us to watch. Oh, then can bring them... but unless I have a region-free player, we can't watch them. That's bullshit.
It's not really practical for them to bring a DVD player in the luggage.
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Cool! I can loose weight not by dieting, but by just moving further north!
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Before anyone jumps down my throat (I know they're waiting), I should have said "realtime software based mpeg encoding routines.". Obiously, given enough compute time, a software routine can do a much better job than an mpeg co-processor chip, but the key here is realtime compression and all but the most wickedly fast CPUs can't keep up with a dedicated mpeg encoder chip.
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Hauppauge has a new card that I've been looking into, and the Navis-Pro is also supposed to be good.
Similar cards were in the thousands of dollars a couple years ago. Now they're around $200... and falling. We're not long before its very easy, very good quality, and very inexpensive. We're not quite there yet though, and for now TiVo and the like and certainly the way to go.
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This is precisely why Mr. Edelman and the ACLU are going about things the way that they are. They are filing a preemptive lawsuit. No one has threatened them with DMCA prosecution and backed off. They are saying to a judge "look, this is what we plan to do. We want to to declare it legal before the filtering company decides to threaten us."
Seems like a very good strategy to me.
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No true geek/modder ever has the cover on their PC anyway, so EMI problems are somewhat irrelevant.
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Would anyone actually notice if the southern hemisphere went away?
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What I want is a board for video capturing with a decent mpeg encoder chip on it. No a co-processor... a real mpeg encoder that does correct 3-2 pulldown detection, deinterlacing, etc. To get a really good quality video capture on a PC means capturing with any of the many video capture boards using a codec that either doesn't compress at all, or just compresses a little bit... then taking the .avi file and running it through an mpeg compressor that can do the de-interlacing, and whatnot... all to end up with a DVD spec mpeg file. Using a real-time codec usually means crummy quality.
What I want is a board that has an mpeg chip, similar to what might be in a standalone DVD recorder or a TiVo, that will take an incoming signal and spit out a good quality mpeg file in real time. Standalone DVD recorders can do it, so surely a PCI card can too.
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I heard a Verizon ad on the radio today that kept talking about the speed at which you can download MP3s. The ad must have said "download music" a half-dozen times. I've also seen billboards in the area for other high-speed internet vendors touting "music downloads" as a key feature of their service.
You're not going to get much music if they start throwing caps on the bandwidth.
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Click click...
Let's see here... I wonder if Joe wants to get together to study for the physics exam.
Click click... log in... search... triangulate... click click click...
HEY! What's he doing in my girlfriend's dorm room?!?!?!
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Yes, but the reason they give is completely bogus. They assert that a programmer could hide some piece of malicious code in the program that could "could contain a critical problem, a backdoor or worse, a dangerous virus."
Uh, isn't that the problem with CLOSED source? With a closed source project, you really don't know what sort of things the programmer has hidden in there. At least with open source, you can LOOK AT THE CODE and check!
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They're thrashing around like a wounded animal. No thought of what they're doing or where they're going... just trying to survive the next minute before the lights go out.
The irony is that it's the thrashing that will kill them.
No one likes to see an animal suffering like that, but I for one am having a good time watching this one fighting for its life. Just don't get in its path because a wounded animal is a dangerous beast.
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