I have no idea how Apple's current products are supposed to compete with their competitors' future products. Perhaps Apple will also release future products. In the future.
Someone first has to steal your phone and then hack it for this Trojan to work remotely.
Or get you to install the firmware yourself from an untrusted source, which would be pretty much everyone who's installed a hacked firmware. (Unless they hacked it themselves...?)
Yeah, I've actually been using it lately to play Final Fantasy Tactics. The recent GBA sequel kind of lacks some of the charm of the original. And I've heard that DDR fans rotate through the PS2 DDR games (only two, I think), then the PS editions, then back to PS2...
Kind of bugs me that the memory cards AREN'T compatible.
Let's see if I can be the first to point out that they aren't trying to foil compression, but to identify a certain print should it be leaked. Only one print will have red blotch at 0:32:11 and two white dots at 1:03:05. Slightly distracting for viewers, but uniquely identifying.
"If the labels acknowledge a legitimate use for P2P programs, it would undercut their case as well as their zero-tolerance stance."
I'm not so sure. They aren't acknowledging the legitimacy of the programs or their use, they're observing a market that they believe to be illegitimate. Spying on the activity doesn't mean that they endorse it.
The point of that sentence in the article (and it's buried pretty deep, so I wonder why it got bumped up to the summary here) seems to be "why are they fighting KaZaA if they love it so much?" While the information they glean from KaZaA may be valuable to them in many ways, the two markets can only coexist uncomfortably. Nobody will go before a judge and claim that they were doing the labels a favor by not paying for music in exchange for consenting to being watched while stealing it.
I guess my argument hindges on whether Big Champagne is sharing copyrighted files and tracking their download (which would at least dirty the labels' hands) or simply tracking searches (observing the activity, and not participating in it).
Or maybe Big Champagne is responsible for all those mislabeled or dummy tracks.
They've got an interesting position in the debate, though.
As a Minnesotan, I can write a letter that his staffers might possibly read, a privelege you non-Minnesotans might not enjoy. On the other hand, I can't think of what exactly I'd like to say to him about this. I'm generally happy someone's trying to keep the RIAA in check, but it seems like all he's going to find is that a lot of people are breaking the law under the current system, and that the subpeonas often do reach their targets (file sharers).
So if I were to write that letter, what input would you non-Minnesotans like to have? Let me know!
I think this is my new favorite cliche here on/.: the view that the judges, juries and structures of the legal system in the United States are completely blind to anything but money.
It doesn't cost ANYTHING to defend yourself in court. Sure, a company with a ton of money and resources can research an argument or position limitlessly, but if that position doesn't have truth behind it, a court will certainly see through it.
So can we please toss this argument already? Anyone who is likely to sympathize with the crack of "more money = scales of justice" is already thinking it when you've hit the Submit button.
My guess is that if you ran a regular ol' satellite hacking business out of your house, you could probably count on 10 orders a day. If you couldn't, you probably wouldn't be doing it.
We'll also assume that they caught Linh Ly after only a year of selling mods. So that's 3650 customers.
Those 3650 customers all start watching DTV... but I'll make another ridiculous concession: half of them are students and wouldn't have spent any money in the first place. The other 50% cancel their cable.
Of that half, just 1825, let's assume they don't watch any sports, PPV, whatever, and just use it to replace cable. We'll just say that they could have bought the El Cheapo $32 a month plan, but now they won't. That's $58,400 in lost revenues, every month, at the time his business is shut down. (The total loss to DirecTV is something like $350,000 for that year, but even with him in jail or paying huge fines, DirecTV still has to live without that $700,000 the years after that if nobody else steals satellite service.)
Now these are just estimates. It's reasonable to assume that more than half of people with hacked satellite systems would pay for it (or something like it) if they couldn't steal it. They wouldn't all buy the cheapest plan, either. But a business that sells any kind of volume of these tools (to people who would otherwise pay for satellite, not DSS hacking enthusiasts) has to understand that greivances of six or seven figures is not at all uncommon or even unreasonable.
I thought that was how Blow N' Pray worked... you get the cart a little bit moist with your breath, and a dead connector that was returning all 0s before can read. I probably made the problem much worse by sighing/panting into the cart.
First, I think you're misunderstanding the point of DIBS... a public key is required to encode, but doesn't do any good for decoding, so giving someone your public key only allows them to give you things you could decode.
I wouldn't read too much into the fact that they say you're "trading files"... because that is, after all, what you're doing, even if you can't read the files that you recieved in trade.
On the P2P thing, I'm not sure public key cryptosystems would be advantageous at all. First off, the public keys would uniquely identify the participants. On the other hand, if a P2P client were to generate its own keys, then it would be trivial for authorities to join the network and see the traffic unencrypted.
There might be interest in "private" P2P, but that kind of defeats the purpose of P2P, right? Getting files from unknown sources and searching millions of clients worldwide?
Napster would have been boring if it were just me and my friends.
It's not that they're 128k (I can live with that), it's that they make really bad rips. When I was a member last year, I remember being just disgusted at the sound quality. The Elvis Costello stuff they had last year was an excellent example: the MP3s sounded worse than the original CDs, to say nothing of the Rykodisc remasters. Whatever encoder they're using is terrible, or they're making their MP3s from something that isn't CD quality.
That kind of mistake was forgivable in 1998 (the first time I ordered from them), but in 2002? Yuck.
The year of TMBG stuff was pretty good, but even their MP3 copy of Mink Car was crummy. It seemed like the drums were pushing the top of the vu, when I know the CD didn't sound like that.
Um, no... when you do that, your video will be 12 seconds behind. The question specifically said he wanted to delay the AUDIO, not the video.
I've actually noticed this with DirecTV: I'll be watching football, and about five seconds before a big play, the people downstairs would start celebrating.
I've been trying to do this for the past few months (I already have DirecTV service), but it seems that the first generation ones are out of production. I don't want to pay $400 to get a refurbished one, and the leading model, made by Philips, won't get the version 2 facelift: Philips is getting out of consumer electronics.
I don't even care about the watch-two-things part: most TV is on when I'm not around, and I would love to be able to pause sports and zip through commercials. I've thought about plain TiVo in addition to my DirecTV service, but that's higher fees, double-dip compression, and I really want the integration into the single unit.
In short, the quest for a reasonably priced, new DirecTiVo unit for someone who already has DTV service is on hold until the next generation comes out, and I have no idea when that will be. Bah!
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I have no idea how Apple's current products are supposed to compete with their competitors' future products. Perhaps Apple will also release future products. In the future.
Or get you to install the firmware yourself from an untrusted source, which would be pretty much everyone who's installed a hacked firmware. (Unless they hacked it themselves...?)
And, while it's totally 100% Firefox, it's not compatible with AdBlock... sneaky.
Yeah, I've actually been using it lately to play Final Fantasy Tactics. The recent GBA sequel kind of lacks some of the charm of the original. And I've heard that DDR fans rotate through the PS2 DDR games (only two, I think), then the PS editions, then back to PS2...
Kind of bugs me that the memory cards AREN'T compatible.
Rocking and rolling all night? Partying every day?
I can't think of any possible downside to that proposal.
Er, wait, yeah I can.
Let's see if I can be the first to point out that they aren't trying to foil compression, but to identify a certain print should it be leaked. Only one print will have red blotch at 0:32:11 and two white dots at 1:03:05. Slightly distracting for viewers, but uniquely identifying.
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"If the labels acknowledge a legitimate use for P2P programs, it would undercut their case as well as their zero-tolerance stance."
I'm not so sure. They aren't acknowledging the legitimacy of the programs or their use, they're observing a market that they believe to be illegitimate. Spying on the activity doesn't mean that they endorse it.
The point of that sentence in the article (and it's buried pretty deep, so I wonder why it got bumped up to the summary here) seems to be "why are they fighting KaZaA if they love it so much?" While the information they glean from KaZaA may be valuable to them in many ways, the two markets can only coexist uncomfortably. Nobody will go before a judge and claim that they were doing the labels a favor by not paying for music in exchange for consenting to being watched while stealing it.
I guess my argument hindges on whether Big Champagne is sharing copyrighted files and tracking their download (which would at least dirty the labels' hands) or simply tracking searches (observing the activity, and not participating in it).
Or maybe Big Champagne is responsible for all those mislabeled or dummy tracks.
They've got an interesting position in the debate, though.
As a Minnesotan, I can write a letter that his staffers might possibly read, a privelege you non-Minnesotans might not enjoy. On the other hand, I can't think of what exactly I'd like to say to him about this. I'm generally happy someone's trying to keep the RIAA in check, but it seems like all he's going to find is that a lot of people are breaking the law under the current system, and that the subpeonas often do reach their targets (file sharers).
So if I were to write that letter, what input would you non-Minnesotans like to have? Let me know!
Rounder: also a member of the RIAA. Just saying.
I think this is my new favorite cliche here on /.: the view that the judges, juries and structures of the legal system in the United States are completely blind to anything but money.
It doesn't cost ANYTHING to defend yourself in court. Sure, a company with a ton of money and resources can research an argument or position limitlessly, but if that position doesn't have truth behind it, a court will certainly see through it.
So can we please toss this argument already? Anyone who is likely to sympathize with the crack of "more money = scales of justice" is already thinking it when you've hit the Submit button.
My guess is that if you ran a regular ol' satellite hacking business out of your house, you could probably count on 10 orders a day. If you couldn't, you probably wouldn't be doing it.
We'll also assume that they caught Linh Ly after only a year of selling mods. So that's 3650 customers.
Those 3650 customers all start watching DTV... but I'll make another ridiculous concession: half of them are students and wouldn't have spent any money in the first place. The other 50% cancel their cable.
Of that half, just 1825, let's assume they don't watch any sports, PPV, whatever, and just use it to replace cable. We'll just say that they could have bought the El Cheapo $32 a month plan, but now they won't. That's $58,400 in lost revenues, every month, at the time his business is shut down. (The total loss to DirecTV is something like $350,000 for that year, but even with him in jail or paying huge fines, DirecTV still has to live without that $700,000 the years after that if nobody else steals satellite service.)
Now these are just estimates. It's reasonable to assume that more than half of people with hacked satellite systems would pay for it (or something like it) if they couldn't steal it. They wouldn't all buy the cheapest plan, either. But a business that sells any kind of volume of these tools (to people who would otherwise pay for satellite, not DSS hacking enthusiasts) has to understand that greivances of six or seven figures is not at all uncommon or even unreasonable.
I thought that was how Blow N' Pray worked... you get the cart a little bit moist with your breath, and a dead connector that was returning all 0s before can read. I probably made the problem much worse by sighing/panting into the cart.
First, I think you're misunderstanding the point of DIBS... a public key is required to encode, but doesn't do any good for decoding, so giving someone your public key only allows them to give you things you could decode.
I wouldn't read too much into the fact that they say you're "trading files"... because that is, after all, what you're doing, even if you can't read the files that you recieved in trade.
On the P2P thing, I'm not sure public key cryptosystems would be advantageous at all. First off, the public keys would uniquely identify the participants. On the other hand, if a P2P client were to generate its own keys, then it would be trivial for authorities to join the network and see the traffic unencrypted.
There might be interest in "private" P2P, but that kind of defeats the purpose of P2P, right? Getting files from unknown sources and searching millions of clients worldwide?
Napster would have been boring if it were just me and my friends.
Made up. Come on, it's too perfect. I've seen it attributed to Nintendo guys, Atari guys, Time magazine... sheesh.
Yeah, so they have private stock holders. They still want the company to perform.
It's not that they're 128k (I can live with that), it's that they make really bad rips. When I was a member last year, I remember being just disgusted at the sound quality. The Elvis Costello stuff they had last year was an excellent example: the MP3s sounded worse than the original CDs, to say nothing of the Rykodisc remasters. Whatever encoder they're using is terrible, or they're making their MP3s from something that isn't CD quality.
That kind of mistake was forgivable in 1998 (the first time I ordered from them), but in 2002? Yuck.
The year of TMBG stuff was pretty good, but even their MP3 copy of Mink Car was crummy. It seemed like the drums were pushing the top of the vu, when I know the CD didn't sound like that.
Um, no... when you do that, your video will be 12 seconds behind. The question specifically said he wanted to delay the AUDIO, not the video.
I've actually noticed this with DirecTV: I'll be watching football, and about five seconds before a big play, the people downstairs would start celebrating.
I've been trying to do this for the past few months (I already have DirecTV service), but it seems that the first generation ones are out of production. I don't want to pay $400 to get a refurbished one, and the leading model, made by Philips, won't get the version 2 facelift: Philips is getting out of consumer electronics.
I don't even care about the watch-two-things part: most TV is on when I'm not around, and I would love to be able to pause sports and zip through commercials. I've thought about plain TiVo in addition to my DirecTV service, but that's higher fees, double-dip compression, and I really want the integration into the single unit.
In short, the quest for a reasonably priced, new DirecTiVo unit for someone who already has DTV service is on hold until the next generation comes out, and I have no idea when that will be. Bah!