(iv) This isn't about publisher's rights. Microsoft isn't changing what is published, they are effectively providing reference material on what is published. As I stated in (i), links aren't content - they are just references to other content.
If I own a store that sells, say hardware, I can't walk into a competing store and hand out brochures about my store telling people about the specials on hammers I'm having. Hey, I'm just providing reference material, right? It's still up to the "end user", right?
What Microsoft will do with this technology is the re-direct users to their partner sites. Go searching for information about new cars, and lo and behold all of the words on that cool site you found point to carpoint.microsoft.com.
Sorry, but that's no different from me standing in my competitor's store and handing out information about my store.
Well, the great thing about blackjack is that (if you can count cards), it's the only casino game that's tipped slightly in the player's favor. Playing online means that you could have another system sitting next to you (or another program running) telling you exactly what to do based on the cards that have already come up.
Getting the basic "when to hit / when to stand" rules down is pretty easy, it's the card counting stuff that most novices have trouble with.
I figure that because of this the casinos would offer this game under normal Las Vegas rules...
When I was a kid, my folks bought me a cassette boom box. I would listen for HOURS to the radio every day recording songs that I liked. I had boxes of tapes, all neatly labeled and catalogged. I pretty much had any decent song that was getting played on FM radio and I knew where I could find it.
Sound anything like the.mp3 craze today? Sounds just like it to me. New technology, same concept. So why didn't the RIAA freak out back in the early 80's when every kid on the planet was running around recording songs off of FM radio?
I was in my early teens. I didn't have any money to buy albums or cassettes. I think the RIAA was a bit less paranoid back then. And because they didn't try to stifle my music listening, I have since turned into quite a music BUYER. Music is an important part of my life, and I buy lots of CDs (mp3 sounds like crap, as did cassette). If I'd had to jump through hoops to record those songs back then, who knows how I would have ended up. Chances are I would have ended up with a bitter taste in my mouth toward the music industry and would not have given them anywhere NEAR the money I have over the years.
While we're all here preaching to the choir and bitching about what Mr. Ballmer said, how about instead directing some of that energy towards CORRECTING him? I'm sure the Sun-Times would be happy to print a rebuttal. Failure for us to do anything except talk to eachother about it means that Microsoft has won this battle and that those who are not in-the-know will take the statements made in the interview as facts.
http://www.suntimes.com/geninfo/feedback.html and
http://www.suntimes.com/geninfo/email.html have contact info. I couldn't find the contact info for the interviewer or info on snail-mail (always the BEST way to make your comments), but perhaps someone with access to the physical paper rather than the website can post those.
The inclusion of Internet Explorer with Windows has been absolutely great... for innovation in the software industry. Whether it was great for Netscape is a different question.
I'll bet he wished he could suck that last sentence back in as soon as he said it.
Huh.... the Babel Fish'd version makes even less sense to me...
OPERATOR: principal screen ignite.
MR. THE CAPTAIN: It is you!!!
MICHAEL: How are you Messrs.
MICHAEL: The more Ca changes, plus it is the same thing.
MR. THE CAPTAIN: What do you say!?
MICHAEL: You etes in the path with the destruction.
MICHAEL: You do not have a chance to survive made your time.
MICHAEL: Ah-hau hau hau hau.
No intervention would be necessary if the users themselves would wake the hell up and manage their computers properly
Come on now. We both know that this is NOT going to happen. Ever helped your mom or your neighbor or some other clueless individual with a Windows PC? Most of the people I talk to can barely figure out what an icon is much less understand at all how to secure their system. It sucks, but that's the reality. Computers are commodity, like VCRs and CD players. At this point, they're no different. That's the sad truth.
Well, at least when Penn State implodes in on itself and dissapears, we'll have an idea about what happened.
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I like this quote from the FAQ...
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The wide use of Linux code and its licensing under the GPL presents a real threat to businesses and individuals who wish to obtain value from their intellectual property
IE, Microsoft. To the end users, it represents a real benefit.
Good comment. It's not all that different from hijacking images from someone elses server to use on your own page. You ask for the image, their server says "fine" and gives it to you. Surely there are technical ways to prevent that, just as there are surely technical ways for Ford to restrict how their pages are served.
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For an article with no redeeming value, it certainly has generated a lot of discussion in a short amount of time.
Now lets be real here... the broadcast media companies are less interested in making sure you watch Friends at 8:00pm on Thursday than they are making sure you watch the commercials.
Digital recording and time-shifting (TiVo, UltimateTV, ReplayTV, and the like) break their business model. I'll be honest here... I watch almost NOTHING live anymore. If there's a sporting event I want to watch, I fire up TiVo and do something else constructive for an hour and then start watching it. That allows me to fast forward through all commercials, and pretty much anything else that's boring. And yea, I can see why broadcasters are pissed about my ability to do that. Yea, you could time-shift with a VCR, but not with the simplicity of something like TiVo.
The bottom line is that it's their business model that needs fixing, not our recording habits. Given the popularity of crappy sounding mp3 recordings, does the broadcast industry really think that the public will give up the ability to record just because they can't recording the original HDTV signal? Digital TV receivers will have analog outputs for a VERY long time, and as long as that analog signal exists, there will be someone with a product like TiVo to take advantage of it. And by the time that the analog signal goes away, products like TiVo will be so commonplace that there will be a HUGE public outcry if they suddently can't use them. Fair use and time-shifing is something the public EXPECTS to be able to do, more so now than ever, and that expectation will continue to grow in coming years.
Regular radio sucks, and this will suck worse. Radio stations have become homogenized slaves to the recording industry. See this salon article.
As far as radio goes, I live in one of the best areas of the country... around Boston. There's lots of selection in many genres (unless you like country), but there's still not a damn thing on worth listening to. It's all so boring. The few bands that are worth listening to don't get any radio play. Even WBRU has gone down hill in the last couple of years...
And satellite radio is supposed to be a good thing? It'll be the worst that traditional radio has to offer.
What constitutes the OEM machine? If I do a memory upgrade? A CPU upgrade? Add a hard drive? New video card? New motherboard? New case? New monitor?
At what point do you say "this machine is not the machine that I licensed the OEM copy of Windows 98 on. My current primary system started out as an OEM machine, and I have literally, one at a time, upgraded nearly every component in the box (except for the floppy drive). So when did I become "non compliant" with the OEM license agreement?
I mailed my congresmen a copy of the US Constitution (after being fed through a paper shredder) along with a very brief letter stating that this is exactly what the DMCA has done.
On Thursday, Oppenheim released a backpedaling statement: "The Secure Digital Music Initiative Foundation (SDMI) does not -- nor did it ever -- intend to bring any legal action against Professor Felten or his co-authors. We sent the letter because we felt an obligation to the watermark licensees who had voluntarily submitted their valuable inventions to SDMI for testing... The Recording Industry Association of America, one of the founding members of SDMI, strongly believes in academic freedom and freedom of speech."
...and could subject you and your research team to actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DCMA").
and...
Such disclosure is not authorized in the Agreement, would constitute a violation of the Agreement and would subject your research team to enforcement actions under the DMCA and possibly other federal laws.
and...
you could be subject to enforcement actions under federal law, including the DMCA
RIAA, did you say that you did not intend to bring legal action? Oh, this was just an intimidation letter? I see.
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If I own a store that sells, say hardware, I can't walk into a competing store and hand out brochures about my store telling people about the specials on hammers I'm having. Hey, I'm just providing reference material, right? It's still up to the "end user", right?
What Microsoft will do with this technology is the re-direct users to their partner sites. Go searching for information about new cars, and lo and behold all of the words on that cool site you found point to carpoint.microsoft.com.
Sorry, but that's no different from me standing in my competitor's store and handing out information about my store.
-S
You're kidding, right? This is the most corporate-friendly administration the country has ever seen.
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Well, the great thing about blackjack is that (if you can count cards), it's the only casino game that's tipped slightly in the player's favor. Playing online means that you could have another system sitting next to you (or another program running) telling you exactly what to do based on the cards that have already come up.
Getting the basic "when to hit / when to stand" rules down is pretty easy, it's the card counting stuff that most novices have trouble with.
I figure that because of this the casinos would offer this game under normal Las Vegas rules...
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And salon has posted articles:o la /index.html
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http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/03/14/pay
http://www.salon.com/business/feature/2000/07/2
And speaking of FM radio...
.mp3 craze today? Sounds just like it to me. New technology, same concept. So why didn't the RIAA freak out back in the early 80's when every kid on the planet was running around recording songs off of FM radio?
When I was a kid, my folks bought me a cassette boom box. I would listen for HOURS to the radio every day recording songs that I liked. I had boxes of tapes, all neatly labeled and catalogged. I pretty much had any decent song that was getting played on FM radio and I knew where I could find it.
Sound anything like the
I was in my early teens. I didn't have any money to buy albums or cassettes. I think the RIAA was a bit less paranoid back then. And because they didn't try to stifle my music listening, I have since turned into quite a music BUYER. Music is an important part of my life, and I buy lots of CDs (mp3 sounds like crap, as did cassette). If I'd had to jump through hoops to record those songs back then, who knows how I would have ended up. Chances are I would have ended up with a bitter taste in my mouth toward the music industry and would not have given them anywhere NEAR the money I have over the years.
-S
While we're all here preaching to the choir and bitching about what Mr. Ballmer said, how about instead directing some of that energy towards CORRECTING him? I'm sure the Sun-Times would be happy to print a rebuttal. Failure for us to do anything except talk to eachother about it means that Microsoft has won this battle and that those who are not in-the-know will take the statements made in the interview as facts.
http://www.suntimes.com/geninfo/feedback.html and
http://www.suntimes.com/geninfo/email.html have contact info. I couldn't find the contact info for the interviewer or info on snail-mail (always the BEST way to make your comments), but perhaps someone with access to the physical paper rather than the website can post those.
-S
I'll bet he wished he could suck that last sentence back in as soon as he said it.
-S
Huh.... the Babel Fish'd version makes even less sense to me...
OPERATOR: principal screen ignite.
MR. THE CAPTAIN: It is you!!!
MICHAEL: How are you Messrs.
MICHAEL: The more Ca changes, plus it is the same thing.
MR. THE CAPTAIN: What do you say!?
MICHAEL: You etes in the path with the destruction.
MICHAEL: You do not have a chance to survive made your time.
MICHAEL: Ah-hau hau hau hau.
Sigh....
Come on now. We both know that this is NOT going to happen. Ever helped your mom or your neighbor or some other clueless individual with a Windows PC? Most of the people I talk to can barely figure out what an icon is much less understand at all how to secure their system. It sucks, but that's the reality. Computers are commodity, like VCRs and CD players. At this point, they're no different. That's the sad truth.
-S
Great. Instead of roaches in your room now you get little alien bugs.
At least in space no one will complain about their bed being too soft.
-S
Well, at least when Penn State implodes in on itself and dissapears, we'll have an idea about what happened.
-S
IE, Microsoft. To the end users, it represents a real benefit.
-S
Good comment. It's not all that different from hijacking images from someone elses server to use on your own page. You ask for the image, their server says "fine" and gives it to you. Surely there are technical ways to prevent that, just as there are surely technical ways for Ford to restrict how their pages are served.
-S
For an article with no redeeming value, it certainly has generated a lot of discussion in a short amount of time.
-S
Can you say "chilling effect" boys and girls. I knew you could.
-S
Now lets be real here... the broadcast media companies are less interested in making sure you watch Friends at 8:00pm on Thursday than they are making sure you watch the commercials.
Digital recording and time-shifting (TiVo, UltimateTV, ReplayTV, and the like) break their business model. I'll be honest here... I watch almost NOTHING live anymore. If there's a sporting event I want to watch, I fire up TiVo and do something else constructive for an hour and then start watching it. That allows me to fast forward through all commercials, and pretty much anything else that's boring. And yea, I can see why broadcasters are pissed about my ability to do that. Yea, you could time-shift with a VCR, but not with the simplicity of something like TiVo.
The bottom line is that it's their business model that needs fixing, not our recording habits. Given the popularity of crappy sounding mp3 recordings, does the broadcast industry really think that the public will give up the ability to record just because they can't recording the original HDTV signal? Digital TV receivers will have analog outputs for a VERY long time, and as long as that analog signal exists, there will be someone with a product like TiVo to take advantage of it. And by the time that the analog signal goes away, products like TiVo will be so commonplace that there will be a HUGE public outcry if they suddently can't use them. Fair use and time-shifing is something the public EXPECTS to be able to do, more so now than ever, and that expectation will continue to grow in coming years.
-S
As far as radio goes, I live in one of the best areas of the country... around Boston. There's lots of selection in many genres (unless you like country), but there's still not a damn thing on worth listening to. It's all so boring. The few bands that are worth listening to don't get any radio play. Even WBRU has gone down hill in the last couple of years...
And satellite radio is supposed to be a good thing? It'll be the worst that traditional radio has to offer.
-S
Thanks, I didn't know that.
So how does TiVo keep the DirecTV encryption scheme a secret?
-S
Is this any different than TiVo using Linux? They take a GPL OS, do some proprietary modifications, then use it in their product.
That's OK, is it not?
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You're all addicted, but you just don't know it.
And Keanu is coming to save you.
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What constitutes the OEM machine? If I do a memory upgrade? A CPU upgrade? Add a hard drive? New video card? New motherboard? New case? New monitor?
At what point do you say "this machine is not the machine that I licensed the OEM copy of Windows 98 on. My current primary system started out as an OEM machine, and I have literally, one at a time, upgraded nearly every component in the box (except for the floppy drive). So when did I become "non compliant" with the OEM license agreement?
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I mailed my congresmen a copy of the US Constitution (after being fed through a paper shredder) along with a very brief letter stating that this is exactly what the DMCA has done.
I hope that got the point across...
-S
The what the heck is this...? The letter sent to Professor Felten (mirrored on http://cryptome.org/sdmi-attack.htm) states:
and...
and...
RIAA, did you say that you did not intend to bring legal action? Oh, this was just an intimidation letter? I see.
-S
We need a Million Geek March to protest this stuff!
Also to be billed as the world's first megabit sneakernet.
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They DON'T have any grounds to supress it, but my the mere threat they know that they can.