Even BBSs were to slow for me before I had net access in 97. Trouble was, blank CDs and CDR drive weren't cheap,
In the '70's there were no blank CD's. It was compact cassette. Good Maxell or TDK tapes were only a couple bucks each. Blank T120 Videotape in the early 1980's were $15-$20 each. I remember paying $150 for a package of 10 blanks. Pre-recorded tapes were about $60, so piracy and sharing was common.
Now that movies are less than the price of the old price for a blank tape, they sell a lot more movies. Too bad the music industry hasn't caught on. If they would sell CD's for $3-$5 they could kill a lot of the incentive to copy instead of buy.
Per capita, the industry still sells about 2 albums per person per year. Older people simply don't buy them anymore so they sell mainly to the 14-26 year old group. I don't buy CD's simply because of DRM, over compression, content, and price.
They don't market to my demographic at all. It is their loss. My entertainment dollars go to other items of more value to me.
Why does everyone who makes the "Cost to fill my iPod" pricing argument always ignore the fact that most if not all iPod buyers have a preexisting CD collection with which to populate their device? Also, it would be even more financially responsible to add to your music collection by buying used CDs-- $150 a year would get you at least 15-17 of them, you can rip those tracks to whatever format and quality level you prefer, and they're yours to keep forever with no DRM.
have a preexisting CD **cough**MP3**cough** collection;-)
It will be the default install for 95% of computers sold.
In other news... Bands use Sound Recorder to record their gig. Editors use Notepad to write their stories. Most people use Outlook Express for their e-mail.
In reality most people have learned to not use the default applications.
They are limited and produce poor output for any serious work.
Firefox is not the default Windows browser. MSAV is not the most common anti-virus application on PC's. See a trend. Sure, there may be a few who try it for a while, but expect high turnover to alternitives.
The user does everything inside this virtual machine's guest OS, and never installs or runs any other software on the host OS.
When I travel or need to visit questionable websites, I boot a live Ubuntu CD. Anything I could possibly catch is gone when I power down. There is simply no place to download any code that is still there at next power up.
I have used this to run tools inside a compromised network environment to see the net traffic and identify the bug.
It's clear people cannot resist clicking "yes" to anything they're presented with via IM - with this in mind, what on Earth can we do so stop the spread of garbage like the above?
Number 1 is to stop running as root.
I set up a machine for my kids. They run restricted accounts like I do. If I need to install a program (not from a link sent by a buddy) I log in as root, (Administrator) and google search the desired program from the author website. No other account has permission to install software.
Browsing as root is like sex without a condom. Eventualy you will get something that you don't want and is hard to get rid of.
$150.000 per song, 160.000 distinct song offered per month... That $24.000.000.000 in potential damages. I think this day can be mark as the day when the RIAA finally lost it.
The sad part of this whole thing is they are suing a service that has listeners that are paying to access music. The RIAA wants to make the devices that can time shift go away. As a result, fewer people subscribe to the service. How does this help the industry?
It reminds me of the story of the dog, the hay and the cow.
The article in the link is right on. In the 70's i bought boxes of blank cassetts. I bought high quality decks and a linear tracking turntable. Some of my LP's have been played less than 5 times. They were put on tape to preserve the original. I swapped some copies (oops did I admit a crime?) and learned of new and interesting artists in the process. Those were my peak record buying years. Without the ability to make tapes for the car and preserve the quality of the original, I simply wouldn't have bought LP's. They got scratched, got pops from dust and fingerprints and in general were a poor investment.
I would even record off the radio. Dr. Demento was a riot.
With DRM, it's back to music that can not be backed-up, isn't portable (won't play in the car MP3 player, living room DVD player, loaded on the media server, etc), and expires when the physical media bites the dust (Hard Drive). In that environment, I'm no longer buying music as it no longer has high value and has no resale value.
Instead I'm converting many of my analog LP's and tapes to MP3's. Format shifting is still legal isn't it?
This is a good business plan how?
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I'm hoping that all DRM will be patented and kept off the shelves each with a huge market penetration like the SONY Memory Stick.
After that then maybe players will go to OGG or plain MP3 and use a simple thumb drive connection and no special software.
I know that is just a pipe dream as the media companies are against non-DRM products.
Maybe your problem is that you're using Windows to begin with.
True. One of my machines is Windows simply because there isn't good support in other formats. The GPS utility software, Topo Maps, MIDI piano lessons, and DMX512 Lighting console software is Linux unfriendly. I don't have the skills, time, or knowledge to get them to work with WINE.
For general WEB surfing the Ubuntu machine with Firefox is the best for the job.
Comparing LightFactory to DMX4Linux is like comparing XP to PC DOS. It works, but hardware support applications simply don't run on it.
Microsoft doesn't give a crap about their customers and they are still own the operating system market.
Have you noticed any trend in their market share? Remember Apple going out of business? Remember them killing Netscape? Checked Mozilla's Firefox lately? Seen any uptake in open document standards? They may own the OS market, but it is leaking badly.
This really pisses me off. I use iTunes to manage my music library (got an iPod), but WMP detects my podcasts trying to download and wants to takeover.
That is so funny. You have named the two top players that do that. I wanted to watch a video. It was in Quicktime format. I went to download the Quicktime player..
Suprise. I couldn't get just the Quicktime player. You have to download and install I-Tunes which comes with Quicktime. I use Winamp and have the same problem with I-Tunes you have with WMP.
For example, I got one this morning talking about my home loan account with a large bank I don't have an account with.
When I get those, I call the bank on the phone. (Whitepages online) to let them know I don't have a home loan with them. It is possible the loan is an identity theft and this mail is the first indicator.
It would take me to a plain page that simply said "Thank you for verifying your information!" or somethign similar and generic.
Every now and then it would redirect me to the real site.
I got a Paypal phish like that. They were doing a man in the middle attack. I don't have a Pay Pal account, so I knew it was bogus. The real Paypal site rejected my login. I didn't think to check the IP addresses at that time to see if I still was on a man in the middle link. If I was, they could have automaticaly dumped the invalid login.
I later sent the e-mail to the real Paypal abuse e-mail and explained I didn't have an account and if one existed using my real e-mail, it was an identy theft crime. I got a nice generic reply from Paypal within 2 days thanking me for reporting it.
using a shovel will never be replaced as the way to dig a small hole
I don't know. On our street the crew was fixing a broken water line. They used a vac and water jet truck to make mud and suck it up. It made a nice small hole about 8 inches in diamater and about 2 feet deep.
I found they use it because it can't cut into nearby underground phone/electric/gas/cable service. A shovel is too dangerous for many curbside utility repairs. They were not permitted to use a shovel.
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Now people say most people already have broadband so I shouldnt count that in the cost but in that case why shouldnt I just use Skype which is free ? Charging a monthly fee basically for providing a handset is definitely a scam.
I see you were modded a troll, but I'll just assume you don't know what Vontage is. Skype is free. This applies only if you call another Skype user.
What you get for the fee is nationwide calling to regular telephones. Skype out and Skype in are not free. Please compare apples to apples. Vontage includes most of the extras you would get with a phone plan including caller ID, 3 way calling, etc.
The thing that may have raised eyebrows is he found a fault and sent the information to a 3rd party who then contacted the owner. The owner then checked logs to find out who breached the system.
If he found the problem and contacted them directly they may have been more willing to patch and say thanks.
Anything that gets installed as a non-essential but default bundle with anything else is questionable.
I agree. In that light, add Apple to the offenders. I tried to download and install quicktime to watch some videos. What I got was the I tumes installer. I tried 3 times to get Quicktime to download instead of I tunes because it was Quicktime that I wanted. Then I noticed in the print that I tunes comes bundled. From my perspective, it looked like I was downloading I tunes and getting Quicktime bundled with I tunes.
Grr.. I use Winamp on that PC. I have no use for I tunes.
Are the biggest reason to not use Java Script most of the time.
I have a couple PC's. One for trusted sites, and the other for general internet browsing. Some sites display a blank page. Too bad the site doesn't check what the client is running. A blank page does not provide any information including any reason I might want to visit with scripting turned on.
An additional $529 million in losses came from consumers making copies of legitimate films they bought on DVD or VHS.
This is the same studio who won't provide any kind of disk exchange for disks broken by the small ones in the family. Making a working copy and putting away the originals in a safe place is the norm for me. CDex is used to add music to the Winamp jukebox and Roxio for making car copies. When the car copy gets dropped doing the shuffle in the car and later ground into the floor mat by the kids, my insurance against loss is much better than any exchange program provided by the producers. Yet they have the accounting call it loss due to piracy.
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Even BBSs were to slow for me before I had net access in 97. Trouble was, blank CDs and CDR drive weren't cheap,
In the '70's there were no blank CD's. It was compact cassette. Good Maxell or TDK tapes were only a couple bucks each. Blank T120 Videotape in the early 1980's were $15-$20 each. I remember paying $150 for a package of 10 blanks. Pre-recorded tapes were about $60, so piracy and sharing was common.
Now that movies are less than the price of the old price for a blank tape, they sell a lot more movies. Too bad the music industry hasn't caught on. If they would sell CD's for $3-$5 they could kill a lot of the incentive to copy instead of buy.
Per capita, the industry still sells about 2 albums per person per year. Older people simply don't buy them anymore so they sell mainly to the 14-26 year old group. I don't buy CD's simply because of DRM, over compression, content, and price.
They don't market to my demographic at all. It is their loss. My entertainment dollars go to other items of more value to me.
It looks a lot of filesharing is going back to sneakernet like it was in the 1970's.
I wonder if they raided any homes with a wireless AP being leached by a neighbor. That could be fun when they can't find evidance.
Why does everyone who makes the "Cost to fill my iPod" pricing argument always ignore the fact that most if not all iPod buyers have a preexisting CD collection with which to populate their device? Also, it would be even more financially responsible to add to your music collection by buying used CDs-- $150 a year would get you at least 15-17 of them, you can rip those tracks to whatever format and quality level you prefer, and they're yours to keep forever with no DRM.
;-)
have a preexisting CD **cough**MP3**cough** collection
It will be the default install for 95% of computers sold.
In other news...
Bands use Sound Recorder to record their gig.
Editors use Notepad to write their stories.
Most people use Outlook Express for their e-mail.
In reality most people have learned to not use the default applications.
They are limited and produce poor output for any serious work.
Firefox is not the default Windows browser. MSAV is not the most common anti-virus application on PC's. See a trend. Sure, there may be a few who try it for a while, but expect high turnover to alternitives.
Here is a link to cutting oddly shaped holes in a frozen lake. No bucket needed. ;-)
ICE CARVING ROBOT
http://jessehemminger.com/art-shanty/index.html
My Windows machine and my Linux machine are on the same NAT.
Oh, my NAT runs Linux.. Nevermind.
The user does everything inside this virtual machine's guest OS, and never installs or runs any other software on the host OS.
When I travel or need to visit questionable websites, I boot a live Ubuntu CD. Anything I could possibly catch is gone when I power down. There is simply no place to download any code that is still there at next power up.
I have used this to run tools inside a compromised network environment to see the net traffic and identify the bug.
It's clear people cannot resist clicking "yes" to anything they're presented with via IM - with this in mind, what on Earth can we do so stop the spread of garbage like the above?
Number 1 is to stop running as root.
I set up a machine for my kids. They run restricted accounts like I do. If I need to install a program (not from a link sent by a buddy) I log in as root, (Administrator) and google search the desired program from the author website. No other account has permission to install software.
Browsing as root is like sex without a condom. Eventualy you will get something that you don't want and is hard to get rid of.
8. DRM is declared illegal, DMCA revoked, and the RIAA dissolved.
Dude, what were you smoking? #8 in your list would launch PC's much like the original Napster. Everybody will need one.
$150.000 per song, 160.000 distinct song offered per month... That $24.000.000.000 in potential damages. I think this day can be mark as the day when the RIAA finally lost it.
The sad part of this whole thing is they are suing a service that has listeners that are paying to access music. The RIAA wants to make the devices that can time shift go away. As a result, fewer people subscribe to the service. How does this help the industry?
It reminds me of the story of the dog, the hay and the cow.
The article in the link is right on. In the 70's i bought boxes of blank cassetts. I bought high quality decks and a linear tracking turntable. Some of my LP's have been played less than 5 times. They were put on tape to preserve the original. I swapped some copies (oops did I admit a crime?) and learned of new and interesting artists in the process. Those were my peak record buying years. Without the ability to make tapes for the car and preserve the quality of the original, I simply wouldn't have bought LP's. They got scratched, got pops from dust and fingerprints and in general were a poor investment.
I would even record off the radio. Dr. Demento was a riot.
With DRM, it's back to music that can not be backed-up, isn't portable (won't play in the car MP3 player, living room DVD player, loaded on the media server, etc), and expires when the physical media bites the dust (Hard Drive). In that environment, I'm no longer buying music as it no longer has high value and has no resale value.
Instead I'm converting many of my analog LP's and tapes to MP3's. Format shifting is still legal isn't it?
This is a good business plan how?
I'm hoping that all DRM will be patented and kept off the shelves each with a huge market penetration like the SONY Memory Stick.
After that then maybe players will go to OGG or plain MP3 and use a simple thumb drive connection and no special software.
I know that is just a pipe dream as the media companies are against non-DRM products.
Maybe your problem is that you're using Windows to begin with.
True. One of my machines is Windows simply because there isn't good support in other formats. The GPS utility software, Topo Maps, MIDI piano lessons, and DMX512 Lighting console software is Linux unfriendly. I don't have the skills, time, or knowledge to get them to work with WINE.
For general WEB surfing the Ubuntu machine with Firefox is the best for the job.
Comparing LightFactory to DMX4Linux is like comparing XP to PC DOS. It works, but hardware support applications simply don't run on it.
Microsoft doesn't give a crap about their customers and they are still own the operating system market.
Have you noticed any trend in their market share? Remember Apple going out of business? Remember them killing Netscape? Checked Mozilla's Firefox lately? Seen any uptake in open document standards? They may own the OS market, but it is leaking badly.
This really pisses me off. I use iTunes to manage my music library (got an iPod), but WMP detects my podcasts trying to download and wants to takeover.
That is so funny. You have named the two top players that do that. I wanted to watch a video. It was in Quicktime format. I went to download the Quicktime player..
Suprise. I couldn't get just the Quicktime player. You have to download and install I-Tunes which comes with Quicktime. I use Winamp and have the same problem with I-Tunes you have with WMP.
For example, I got one this morning talking about my home loan account with a large bank I don't have an account with.
When I get those, I call the bank on the phone. (Whitepages online) to let them know I don't have a home loan with them. It is possible the loan is an identity theft and this mail is the first indicator.
It would take me to a plain page that simply said "Thank you for verifying your information!" or somethign similar and generic.
Every now and then it would redirect me to the real site.
I got a Paypal phish like that. They were doing a man in the middle attack. I don't have a Pay Pal account, so I knew it was bogus. The real Paypal site rejected my login. I didn't think to check the IP addresses at that time to see if I still was on a man in the middle link. If I was, they could have automaticaly dumped the invalid login.
I later sent the e-mail to the real Paypal abuse e-mail and explained I didn't have an account and if one existed using my real e-mail, it was an identy theft crime. I got a nice generic reply from Paypal within 2 days thanking me for reporting it.
using a shovel will never be replaced as the way to dig a small hole
I don't know. On our street the crew was fixing a broken water line. They used a vac and water jet truck to make mud and suck it up. It made a nice small hole about 8 inches in diamater and about 2 feet deep.
I found they use it because it can't cut into nearby underground phone/electric/gas/cable service. A shovel is too dangerous for many curbside utility repairs. They were not permitted to use a shovel.
Now people say most people already have broadband so I shouldnt count that in the cost but in that case why shouldnt I just use Skype which is free ? Charging a monthly fee basically for providing a handset is definitely a scam.
I see you were modded a troll, but I'll just assume you don't know what Vontage is. Skype is free. This applies only if you call another Skype user.
What you get for the fee is nationwide calling to regular telephones. Skype out and Skype in are not free. Please compare apples to apples. Vontage includes most of the extras you would get with a phone plan including caller ID, 3 way calling, etc.
The thing that may have raised eyebrows is he found a fault and sent the information to a 3rd party who then contacted the owner. The owner then checked logs to find out who breached the system.
If he found the problem and contacted them directly they may have been more willing to patch and say thanks.
Checked your link.. Refrence to an e-mail in 1982. They seem to be late to the game again.
That one is not the yellow one in dispute.
You didn't read the name right just like I did on the first pass on the article.
From the article "Wal-Mart spokesman John Simley told the Los Angeles Times"
Smiley and Simley are not the same.
Anything that gets installed as a non-essential but default bundle with anything else is questionable.
I agree. In that light, add Apple to the offenders. I tried to download and install quicktime to watch some videos. What I got was the I tumes installer. I tried 3 times to get Quicktime to download instead of I tunes because it was Quicktime that I wanted. Then I noticed in the print that I tunes comes bundled. From my perspective, it looked like I was downloading I tunes and getting Quicktime bundled with I tunes.
Grr.. I use Winamp on that PC. I have no use for I tunes.
Ad boxes, Pop-ups, Spinners, and Tabs
Are the biggest reason to not use Java Script most of the time.
I have a couple PC's. One for trusted sites, and the other for general internet browsing. Some sites display a blank page. Too bad the site doesn't check what the client is running. A blank page does not provide any information including any reason I might want to visit with scripting turned on.
An additional $529 million in losses came from consumers making copies of legitimate films they bought on DVD or VHS.
This is the same studio who won't provide any kind of disk exchange for disks broken by the small ones in the family. Making a working copy and putting away the originals in a safe place is the norm for me. CDex is used to add music to the Winamp jukebox and Roxio for making car copies. When the car copy gets dropped doing the shuffle in the car and later ground into the floor mat by the kids, my insurance against loss is much better than any exchange program provided by the producers. Yet they have the accounting call it loss due to piracy.