Don't lie to me and say books have the same production cost when distributed digitally and I should save a 'whopping' 11 bucks and change.
The publishers love it. Low production costs and you get to lose the right of first sale. In otherwords, you can resell the dead tree edition when you are done with it, or exchange it at your favorite used book store.
Your eBook? How are you going to sell the copy or even give it away? Isn't it DRM'ed to your registered display device?
DRM, Right of first sale, etc. Don't expect me to buy the DRM content. However the electronic gadget may be useful for other uses such as stuffing a slashdot article as text so you can read it while riding public transportation to your emplyment location.
This thing has the Apple I-pod business model. It will display non DRM content and they hope you will buy some DRM content, but the main use will not be for DRM content.
I think there is a confusion between close-up and high resolution telephoto from orbit.
I think super close up, I think of the microscope shots of the rock worked on with the abrading tool.
This orbiting camera does not have shots that are more close up than that. With the mention of a 1 meter resolution, I have my doubts that they could even find the abraded rock.
Music today is no better nor worse than yesterday. You remember the good stuff and forget the crap, the same way I remember the good 90s music and not the crap.. That is how things work. You remember the good and discard the crap.
Maybe true, but in the 1970's a parental advisory on the cover for the vulgar content wasn't required. The first foul language LP I can remember is Geroge Carlyn's "The Seven Words you can Never say on TV" on the Class Clown LP released in 1972.
Some history on the seven words being broadcast and the legal response are here.
I wonder how much of the decrease is accounted for by those intentionally refraining from CD purchases as part of an anti-RIAA attitude?
And how many can't identify a redbook CD on the shelf from a shiny plastic round thing the either tries to root the system or install some DRM player. The lack of a Compact Disk logo prominately displayed is a sure sign the contents may try to hose my system.
Get real. There are real risks to trying to buy retail music anymore. This has had an impact on the market. Denying it is blind.
Before i graduated high school, I bought very little music. I was a full time student and a single record was a little more than my weekly allowance.
Fast forward a few years. I'm in the Navy and just bought a killer sound system. I live in the housing with no expenses. I find music I like down the hall. I buy a few LP's. I get a car. I get an LP badly scratched so it skips. I buy a case of good Maxell tapes. Make a set of tapes for the car (Can't play LP's in the car) and another set to play to preserve the original LP quality. I get a few tapes tangled in a friends car tape player. No problem, recreated a replacement. Also traded a few tapes (before lawsuits start, the Statute of Limitations ended about 25 years ago) so yes I pirated music in my youth. It also happened to be my peak music buying years. For the music that I really liked, it was worth buying a pristine copy. I bought the Mobile Sound Fidelity Labs copy of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at a premimum price. It has been played less than 15 times in the years I have owned it. Each time was to cut a tape from it to preserve the original.
If I didn't have a tape deck and a good way to expand my library by sharing, I would probably have just stuck with radio and not have ever heard of Pink Floyd. File sharing is a marketing tool. Learn to embrace it.
Nowadays, putting all that stuff into a contract is just standard; it's assumed that you're going to want to put the show in syndication, put it out on DVD, whatever.
And the cartel is being totaly anal about it. What the heck are they going to do with the back catalog? Why can't they sell the rights for a few bucks. I bet they are demanding 99 cents per copy per song. A DVD of The Andy Griffith Show has like 6 episodes, so that would be 12 copies of the theme song thank you very much. Now it is impossible to sell the $2 DVD as each episode has the theme song twice. $12 would have to go for the 12 copies of music on the DVD.. It's time for Anti-Trust action on this one.
More important is how can the RIAA force the MPAA to keep their back catalog off of retail shelfs.
I wish turn about was fair play. I wish the RIAA wanted to release some music videos from the back catalog, such as old Thomas Dolby or Devo, but the MPAA refused to release video portion forcing the RIAA to strip the video and come up with their own act to lip sync to the soundtrack. It's what the music industry is doing to the TV industry. You can't use that theme song for that old TV show. We are not going to lisence it to you. This is why old TV DVD's no longer have the theme songs anymore. How is this good for the consumer? It is time for Anti-Trust action.
After Walt Disney lost Mortimer Mouse, I would think the TV studios would have gotten a clue and followed Walt Disney's lead and Owned all portions of the show. If they did, then their back catalog could not be held hostage by the RIAA.
LimeWire is free to produce their own music and sell it through their own store. Instead they want to force the RIAA to sell the RIAA's music through LimeWire's store, and the RIAA doesn't want to deal with thieves.
No, it's more like Zerox could not get a publishers lisence to sell books, so they distributed a Photocopy machine instead that had non-infringing use as well as the ability to copy pages in a copyrighted book without a filter. Don't confuse Limewire with the end user's application of the product.
"28. This case is but one part of a much larger modern conspiracy to destroy all innovation that content owners cannot control and that disrupts their historical business models."
Now, I know allegations set forth in a pleading do not require specifics (that what discovery and trial are for...to prove facts),
You mean specifics that are spelled out including the introduction of the Player Piano and piano rolls, The introduction of the Radio, The introduction of the Betamax VCR, the Introduction of the Rio MP3 player, the DAT (killed in infancy by serial copy protection), the introduction of Online music sales,.... Now Peer to Peer. A simple look at any inovation in history is met by resistance of the new disruptive technology.
One not mentioned that needs added to the list is the non-lisencing for works now in the public domain. Hit Wal-mart and pick up a few of the under $6 DVD's of old TV shows. If you are old enough, notice anything unusual about the theme songs? I have Pettycoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillys, Andy Griffith, and others. The RIAA has raped these releases by not permitting them to be released with their original soundtracks intact. To make matters worse, there is no indication on the package they have been altered to remove the original theme songs. Buying a TV show is buying a pig in a poke. You just don't know if it's all there until you get it home and open the package.
but their business model is based off illegally downloading music, for the most part.
Read the complaint and countersuit. Their intended business model was to compete with the other online stores, sell DRM protected content and filter the copyrighted files by using hash signatures of the cartel's catalog. However the Monopoly Cartel was not interested at providing price competition in the market and did everyting to make Limewire simply go away by depriving them of a revenue model (no product to sell at any price). Therefor the Sherman Anti-Trust defense is attempted.
Read the countersuit completely. They attempted to 1 filter the material using a hash of the copyrighted songs provided by the RIAA, and 2 attempted to lisence the copyrighted material. The RIAA and labels would neither provide a license or hash of the copyrighted songs to use as a filter. The cartel failed to prevent damages and only decided to SUE SUE SUE. Limewire responded with We asked, begged and pleaded for both material to use in a filter, and license to sell DRM'ed legal audio files.
It's like back in the 1980's. Lucas films said they would never release Star Wars to the video market. There was no way possible to obtain a legal copy. Due to piracy they changed their mind. However by then I had a copy for over 4 years. Limewire is playing the same game. Please License, provide filter hashes, as we want to also open an online store. Now that the RIAA has opened the can of worms, the defense is there is no legal avenue to compete with price fixing of the cartel in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust act. They tried and begged at the door. They cite every new dirstrubition method has been met the exact way from Player Piano rolls, to Radio, to the Betamax case, to the Rio MP3 player, Online stores, and now Peer to Peer.
Please read the countersuit. I think it has some merit.
Let's not forget the judge has a windows desktop using totally proprietary software with antivirus and antispyware and anti-this and anti-that run by a system administrator who babysits the judge when the computer has a hic-up.
Also let the judge in on a dark and dirty secret. His computer has file sharing software built in! If P-P goes down, then MS folder shareing and MS explorer are at risk. Ask the judge if he would like the ability to e-mail a perfect copy of a photo or document which may or may not be copyrighted be eliminated from his computer. This is the first step in eliminating the ability to transfer a file from one PC to another. It has the capability to infringe.
Tagging it as "hurray". Why didn't I think of this first? It seems obvious now - sue RIAA for antitrust.
Tack on the DMCA countersuit for the RIAA hacking the encryptin employed by Limewire to harass their customers with threats and invade their privacy.
I can see a bunch of John Doe lawsuits being held up while awaiting a rulling on this. You honor, "The RIAA tagged by illegal means by violating the DMCA"
Now the RIAA has no evidence that it can present in court!
I'd imaging that the medium that 1.2 Megawatts has a bit of a an electro-magnetic field to it. May just interfere with your iPod's playback.
Coax eliminates that problem. The magnetic field from the current in the center conductor exactly matches the magnetic field in the outer conductor with a net result of zero field remaining outside the outer conductor.
High voltage mains (such as power your stove at home) in the US and Canada are 220 V. So, current would be 90,000/220 = 409 amps, and it would take one hour to charge the battery
You forgot to mention the typical home service panel is for 200 Amp service. Full load on the panel with the entire rest of the house in the dark would still take over 2 hours to charge. It would take even longer if you still used some power in the house for things like doing the laundry, running a few lights and heating water.
Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.
But trust me.... You don't.
Troll I think, but I'll bite..
Instead of making some generalizations, could you pick on any fact presented by a poster that is untrue and post a correction. This is a public forum and the facts are presented and debated. Anything less is a flame war.
There are posts regarding the number of outlook express and IE exploits. There are posts regarding the issues of trojan TIFF and JPEG files that XP will execute and Linux will not. There are a number of posts regarding connecting a rebuilt XP box to the internet and the time it takes for it to be exploited before the updates are installed. There are a number of posts mentioning the XP home is dumbed down and for some reasons Win 2K pro is better for some home users.
Please pick an issue and present the facts. Please don't flame the posters in a wide sweep.
I've never actually had a problem with Windows itself, only dodgy hardware.
Do you make housecalls? My dodgy hardware is an HP Scanjet that works on all machines except the XP box. It worked on the XP box until I tried to edit a photo with the photo editor demo software that came on the Dell box. Now when I run the photocopier software, the photo editor pops up and takes over the scanner output so the photocopier can not print the scan. Uninstalling the photo editor and uninstalling and reinstalling the scanner driver and photocopier did not fix the problem. It now says MS can't find the photo editor and would you like to search for the program? Grrr... There should be a simple way to un-install the photo editor and un-hook it from the TWAIN driver.
Sure you could run windows 2000 Pro at home, and many people I know do, but it's priced a big higher than what most people are willing to pay for an operating system.
In a trickle down society, many Win 2K boxes are comeing into home use. I acquired 2 IBM ThinkPads with Win 2K very inexpensivly. Compared to my Wife's XP home box, it's an upgrade.
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Close ups, or super close ups, are matters of opinion.
;-)
Most amature and semi pro photographers don't have any trouble knowing the close up lens from the telephoto lens.
Except they forgot to create a bookstore
Dig further. The deal is pre order and get a $50 dicount to use at the bookstore. Keep reading. The bookstore is there.
Don't lie to me and say books have the same production cost when distributed digitally and I should save a 'whopping' 11 bucks and change.
The publishers love it. Low production costs and you get to lose the right of first sale. In otherwords, you can resell the dead tree edition when you are done with it, or exchange it at your favorite used book store.
Your eBook? How are you going to sell the copy or even give it away? Isn't it DRM'ed to your registered display device?
DRM, Right of first sale, etc. Don't expect me to buy the DRM content. However the electronic gadget may be useful for other uses such as stuffing a slashdot article as text so you can read it while riding public transportation to your emplyment location.
This thing has the Apple I-pod business model. It will display non DRM content and they hope you will buy some DRM content, but the main use will not be for DRM content.
I think there is a confusion between close-up and high resolution telephoto from orbit.
I think super close up, I think of the microscope shots of the rock worked on with the abrading tool.
This orbiting camera does not have shots that are more close up than that.
With the mention of a 1 meter resolution, I have my doubts that they could even find the abraded rock.
Music today is no better nor worse than yesterday. You remember the good stuff and forget the crap, the same way I remember the good 90s music and not the crap.. That is how things work. You remember the good and discard the crap.
Maybe true, but in the 1970's a parental advisory on the cover for the vulgar content wasn't required. The first foul language LP I can remember is Geroge Carlyn's "The Seven Words you can Never say on TV" on the Class Clown LP released in 1972.
Some history on the seven words being broadcast and the legal response are here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words
I wonder how much of the decrease is accounted for by those intentionally refraining from CD purchases as part of an anti-RIAA attitude?
And how many can't identify a redbook CD on the shelf from a shiny plastic round thing the either tries to root the system or install some DRM player. The lack of a Compact Disk logo prominately displayed is a sure sign the contents may try to hose my system.
Get real. There are real risks to trying to buy retail music anymore. This has had an impact on the market. Denying it is blind.
Before i graduated high school, I bought very little music. I was a full time student and a single record was a little more than my weekly allowance.
Fast forward a few years. I'm in the Navy and just bought a killer sound system. I live in the housing with no expenses. I find music I like down the hall. I buy a few LP's. I get a car. I get an LP badly scratched so it skips. I buy a case of good Maxell tapes. Make a set of tapes for the car (Can't play LP's in the car) and another set to play to preserve the original LP quality. I get a few tapes tangled in a friends car tape player. No problem, recreated a replacement. Also traded a few tapes (before lawsuits start, the Statute of Limitations ended about 25 years ago) so yes I pirated music in my youth. It also happened to be my peak music buying years. For the music that I really liked, it was worth buying a pristine copy. I bought the Mobile Sound Fidelity Labs copy of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at a premimum price. It has been played less than 15 times in the years I have owned it. Each time was to cut a tape from it to preserve the original.
If I didn't have a tape deck and a good way to expand my library by sharing, I would probably have just stuck with radio and not have ever heard of Pink Floyd. File sharing is a marketing tool. Learn to embrace it.
Nowadays, putting all that stuff into a contract is just standard; it's assumed that you're going to want to put the show in syndication, put it out on DVD, whatever.
And the cartel is being totaly anal about it. What the heck are they going to do with the back catalog? Why can't they sell the rights for a few bucks. I bet they are demanding 99 cents per copy per song. A DVD of The Andy Griffith Show has like 6 episodes, so that would be 12 copies of the theme song thank you very much. Now it is impossible to sell the $2 DVD as each episode has the theme song twice. $12 would have to go for the 12 copies of music on the DVD.. It's time for Anti-Trust action on this one.
More important is how can the RIAA force the MPAA to keep their back catalog off of retail shelfs.
I wish turn about was fair play. I wish the RIAA wanted to release some music videos from the back catalog, such as old Thomas Dolby or Devo, but the MPAA refused to release video portion forcing the RIAA to strip the video and come up with their own act to lip sync to the soundtrack. It's what the music industry is doing to the TV industry. You can't use that theme song for that old TV show. We are not going to lisence it to you. This is why old TV DVD's no longer have the theme songs anymore. How is this good for the consumer? It is time for Anti-Trust action.
After Walt Disney lost Mortimer Mouse, I would think the TV studios would have gotten a clue and followed Walt Disney's lead and Owned all portions of the show. If they did, then their back catalog could not be held hostage by the RIAA.
LimeWire is free to produce their own music and sell it through their own store. Instead they want to force the RIAA to sell the RIAA's music through LimeWire's store, and the RIAA doesn't want to deal with thieves.
No, it's more like Zerox could not get a publishers lisence to sell books, so they distributed a Photocopy machine instead that had non-infringing use as well as the ability to copy pages in a copyrighted book without a filter. Don't confuse Limewire with the end user's application of the product.
Wait, so basically, instead of offering to deal with known criminals, the RIAA decided to sue them instead.
No, instead of dying for lack of merchandise from a monopoly, they went an optional route in an attempt to not die and negotiate a contract.
"28. This case is but one part of a much larger modern conspiracy to destroy all innovation that content owners cannot control and that disrupts their historical business models."
.... Now Peer to Peer. A simple look at any inovation in history is met by resistance of the new disruptive technology.
Now, I know allegations set forth in a pleading do not require specifics (that what discovery and trial are for...to prove facts),
You mean specifics that are spelled out including the introduction of the Player Piano and piano rolls, The introduction of the Radio, The introduction of the Betamax VCR, the Introduction of the Rio MP3 player, the DAT (killed in infancy by serial copy protection), the introduction of Online music sales,
One not mentioned that needs added to the list is the non-lisencing for works now in the public domain. Hit Wal-mart and pick up a few of the under $6 DVD's of old TV shows. If you are old enough, notice anything unusual about the theme songs? I have Pettycoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillys, Andy Griffith, and others. The RIAA has raped these releases by not permitting them to be released with their original soundtracks intact. To make matters worse, there is no indication on the package they have been altered to remove the original theme songs. Buying a TV show is buying a pig in a poke. You just don't know if it's all there until you get it home and open the package.
but their business model is based off illegally downloading music, for the most part.
Read the complaint and countersuit. Their intended business model was to compete with the other online stores, sell DRM protected content and filter the copyrighted files by using hash signatures of the cartel's catalog. However the Monopoly Cartel was not interested at providing price competition in the market and did everyting to make Limewire simply go away by depriving them of a revenue model (no product to sell at any price). Therefor the Sherman Anti-Trust defense is attempted.
How can anyone with brains defend Limewire?
Read the countersuit completely. They attempted to 1 filter the material using a hash of the copyrighted songs provided by the RIAA, and 2 attempted to lisence the copyrighted material. The RIAA and labels would neither provide a license or hash of the copyrighted songs to use as a filter. The cartel failed to prevent damages and only decided to SUE SUE SUE. Limewire responded with We asked, begged and pleaded for both material to use in a filter, and license to sell DRM'ed legal audio files.
It's like back in the 1980's. Lucas films said they would never release Star Wars to the video market. There was no way possible to obtain a legal copy. Due to piracy they changed their mind. However by then I had a copy for over 4 years. Limewire is playing the same game. Please License, provide filter hashes, as we want to also open an online store. Now that the RIAA has opened the can of worms, the defense is there is no legal avenue to compete with price fixing of the cartel in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust act. They tried and begged at the door. They cite every new dirstrubition method has been met the exact way from Player Piano rolls, to Radio, to the Betamax case, to the Rio MP3 player, Online stores, and now Peer to Peer.
Please read the countersuit. I think it has some merit.
I don't download tunage. I go to a friend's house with my hard drive. Plug it in, and click and drag and click and drag....
Replace "hard drive" with "I-Pod" or "thumb drive" and you are much closer. No LAN party needed, just a few social visits among friends.
Let's not forget the judge has a windows desktop using totally proprietary software with antivirus and antispyware and anti-this and anti-that run by a system administrator who babysits the judge when the computer has a hic-up.
Also let the judge in on a dark and dirty secret. His computer has file sharing software built in! If P-P goes down, then MS folder shareing and MS explorer are at risk. Ask the judge if he would like the ability to e-mail a perfect copy of a photo or document which may or may not be copyrighted be eliminated from his computer. This is the first step in eliminating the ability to transfer a file from one PC to another. It has the capability to infringe.
Sorry, it would be 9.6 Megawatts capacity. I must have hit a wrong button on the calculator.
To get 1.2 MW of Power flowing into your car you are going to either need a 1000A at 12kV or 100A at 120kV.
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Check the table. 640 ampers at 35KV should handle it at 22 MW. There are a few smaller sizes in the catalog listed in the table.
http://www.okonite.com/Product_Catalog/section2/s
Tagging it as "hurray". Why didn't I think of this first? It seems obvious now - sue RIAA for antitrust.
Tack on the DMCA countersuit for the RIAA hacking the encryptin employed by Limewire to harass their customers with threats and invade their privacy.
I can see a bunch of John Doe lawsuits being held up while awaiting a rulling on this.
You honor, "The RIAA tagged by illegal means by violating the DMCA"
Now the RIAA has no evidence that it can present in court!
I'd imaging that the medium that 1.2 Megawatts has a bit of a an electro-magnetic field to it. May just interfere with your iPod's playback.
Coax eliminates that problem. The magnetic field from the current in the center conductor exactly matches the magnetic field in the outer conductor with a net result of zero field remaining outside the outer conductor.
High voltage mains (such as power your stove at home) in the US and Canada are 220 V. So, current would be 90,000/220 = 409 amps, and it would take one hour to charge the battery
You forgot to mention the typical home service panel is for 200 Amp service. Full load on the panel with the entire rest of the house in the dark would still take over 2 hours to charge. It would take even longer if you still used some power in the house for things like doing the laundry, running a few lights and heating water.
Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.
But trust me.... You don't.
Troll I think, but I'll bite..
Instead of making some generalizations, could you pick on any fact presented by a poster that is untrue and post a correction. This is a public forum and the facts are presented and debated. Anything less is a flame war.
There are posts regarding the number of outlook express and IE exploits. There are posts regarding the issues of trojan TIFF and JPEG files that XP will execute and Linux will not. There are a number of posts regarding connecting a rebuilt XP box to the internet and the time it takes for it to be exploited before the updates are installed. There are a number of posts mentioning the XP home is dumbed down and for some reasons Win 2K pro is better for some home users.
Please pick an issue and present the facts. Please don't flame the posters in a wide sweep.
I've never actually had a problem with Windows itself, only dodgy hardware.
Do you make housecalls? My dodgy hardware is an HP Scanjet that works on all machines except the XP box. It worked on the XP box until I tried to edit a photo with the photo editor demo software that came on the Dell box. Now when I run the photocopier software, the photo editor pops up and takes over the scanner output so the photocopier can not print the scan. Uninstalling the photo editor and uninstalling and reinstalling the scanner driver and photocopier did not fix the problem. It now says MS can't find the photo editor and would you like to search for the program? Grrr... There should be a simple way to un-install the photo editor and un-hook it from the TWAIN driver.
So a user in Linux goes to run an executable off a web page...they get an error from it saying please be in root mode.
This is a lot better than viewing a JPEG and having it execute.
In Linux a trojan JPEG doen't execute.
Linux requires really good social engineering, not default permissions to run aps on a website or in an e-mail attachment or recived by IM.
Sure you could run windows 2000 Pro at home, and many people I know do, but it's priced a big higher than what most people are willing to pay for an operating system.
In a trickle down society, many Win 2K boxes are comeing into home use. I acquired 2 IBM ThinkPads with Win 2K very inexpensivly. Compared to my Wife's XP home box, it's an upgrade.