or 3. send them to the trashbin. Get your head out of the sand. The sad truth here is that no one really cares. Only the technical people in the world are fighting this. and the mpaa has enough lawyers to fight us off with ease. We're pretty fucked here. I think the best tactic would be to find some illegal action caused by the mpaa and bring the ball back into play on OUR terms. That and get some MAINSTREAM media coverage. Not just a bunch of geeks who code the stuff and a bunch of 14 year old computer nerds spouting "first post".
I don't know about the rest of the world but in Canada. A person can sue for slander, libel and (this would be the case) undue defacement of one's name (generally THEM.).
If someone goes to court and looses the defendant may then turn around and sue the original plantiff. Obviously they could sue for their legal costs+work lost but also for the loss in reputation. Obviously that's happened here as now the industry organizations are trying to pain these people as illegal pirates with no good pourpose in life...
There's a number of other things that could be brought up as well. INAL. But I do keep an ear to the ground about this stuff.
Perhaps the these corporations really do feel that piracy IS the issue here. They see this DeCSS thing on a website and instantly can only think of one way to use it. Perhaps some education in the courts is in order. If it could be proved that A) the code was written to support playing on unsupported platforms and B) You can copy dvd's just fine without it then you've effectively poked some pretty large holes in their arguments.
On the other hand large industry organizations have some pretty good spin-miesters and will start to get legal-technical on our asses. Something needs to be done. I know *I* have a copy of the css-auth source on my system. I also know that it's not there for pirating movies. I'm quite happy to rent dvd's and watch them. It's there for me to read and learn how it was done. So 20 years down the road when i'm done my time in the trenches as a coder and have moved on to become a pointy haired boss I know what *NOT* to do.
Something i've noticed over the last little while. We always seem to be on the defence here. We react. I think it's about time that people got together. Made this a BIG issue and drive it home to these organizations. Not just complain and defend ourselves but put these organizations on the defence. In a big way. Make them feel the hurt. Consumers have been wronged here. Don't bother keeping things secret. Come up with an encryption standard that can be released to the public and yet still be secure.
It shouldn't be our place to justify what we do. Remember these corporations are here to serve us(This is a capitalist ecconomy right?). Not the other way around. Lets drive this home to them.
I've been working with wavelet compression for a few years now as a demoscener (No i'm not unreal. That's a different Wojtek) and it has it's advantages and disadvantages. All in all it's a good thing. I'm not a lawyer but if they can get around any patent issue's that crop up this should be a decent system. Wavelets have a distinct advantage of holding up very well in very active images with lots of contrast. (Such as those nice textures you see in all the demos and games)
This is real. In the seattle/victoria area we're having fanfuckingtastic lighting storms right now. I just got back from watching them god it's nice. Isn't to kind on competers though with lightning coming down evert 3-5 seconds.
And these user's are EXACTLY the sort of people I don't want to see using linux. if you're to ignorant to learn even the basics of your computer before you buy you should be stuck with windows. You don't go and buy a car based on the salesmans pitch do you? No. You shop around and get the facts about the car first. How long will it last. How easy are the parts to replace? What features does it have. if you bought a winmodem tough shit. Your stupid mistake. I'm not going to cripple MY operating system just so some person who buys a computer from circut city can use it in linux. Rather i'd have them fork out the $15 to get a nonwinmodem (that's how much a 33.6 costs here). he'll actualy have decent hardware and we don't have to contaminate linux with support for hardware that should have never existed in the first place. Yes. The same can be said about pio network cards. But it's happened and we cant turn back the clock to fix things. Lets not let that sort of thing happen with winmodems.
What needs to be understood is that winmodems are just plain bad hardware. Linux should not support them. This will open the market up for other vendors to say "Hey you guys support winmodems so we can make crappy hardware and sell it for linux too." This is a bad thing(TM) I for one don't ever want to see this. We left bad software back in windowsland. Lets leave the bad hardware there too.
Yes they are working on such motherboards. The only thing that needs replacing in fact will be the bios chip and perhaps a keyboard controller. Very sneaky indeed.
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or 3. send them to the trashbin.
Get your head out of the sand. The sad truth here is that no one really cares. Only the technical people in the world are fighting this. and the mpaa has enough lawyers to fight us off with ease. We're pretty fucked here. I think the best tactic would be to find some illegal action caused by the mpaa and bring the ball back into play on OUR terms. That and get some MAINSTREAM media coverage. Not just a bunch of geeks who code the stuff and a bunch of 14 year old computer nerds spouting "first post".
I don't know about the rest of the world but in Canada. A person can sue for slander, libel and (this would be the case) undue defacement of one's name (generally THEM.).
If someone goes to court and looses the defendant may then turn around and sue the original plantiff. Obviously they could sue for their legal costs+work lost but also for the loss in reputation. Obviously that's happened here as now the industry organizations are trying to pain these people as illegal pirates with no good pourpose in life...
There's a number of other things that could be brought up as well. INAL. But I do keep an ear to the ground about this stuff.
An on topic comment for a change.
Perhaps the these corporations really do feel that piracy IS the issue here. They see this DeCSS thing on a website and instantly can only think of one way to use it. Perhaps some education in the courts is in order. If it could be proved that A) the code was written to support playing on unsupported platforms and B) You can copy dvd's just fine without it then you've effectively poked
some pretty large holes in their arguments.
On the other hand large industry organizations have some pretty good spin-miesters and will start to get legal-technical on our asses. Something needs to be done. I know *I* have
a copy of the css-auth source on my system. I also know that it's not there for pirating movies. I'm quite happy to rent dvd's and watch them. It's there for me to read and learn how it was done. So 20 years down the road when i'm done my time in the trenches as a coder and have moved on to become a pointy haired boss I know what *NOT* to do.
Something i've noticed over the last little while.
We always seem to be on the defence here. We react. I think it's about time that people got together. Made this a BIG issue and drive it home to these organizations. Not just complain and defend ourselves but put these organizations on the defence. In a big way. Make them feel the hurt. Consumers have been wronged here. Don't bother keeping things secret. Come up with an encryption standard that can be released to the public and yet still be secure.
It shouldn't be our place to justify what we do. Remember these corporations are here to serve us(This is a capitalist ecconomy right?). Not the other way around. Lets drive this home to them.
I've been working with wavelet compression for a few years now as a demoscener (No i'm not unreal. That's a different Wojtek) and it has it's advantages and disadvantages. All in all it's a good thing. I'm not a lawyer but if they can get around any patent issue's that crop up this should be a decent system. Wavelets have a distinct advantage of holding up very well in very active images with lots of contrast. (Such as those nice textures you see in all the demos and games)
This is real. In the seattle/victoria area we're having fanfuckingtastic lighting storms right now. I just got back from watching them god it's nice. Isn't to kind on competers though with lightning coming down evert 3-5 seconds.
And these user's are EXACTLY the sort of people I don't want to see using linux. if you're to ignorant to learn even the basics of your computer before you buy you should be stuck with windows. You don't go and buy a car based on the salesmans pitch do you? No. You shop around and get the facts about the car first. How long will it last. How easy are the parts to replace? What features does it have. if you bought a winmodem tough shit. Your stupid mistake. I'm not going to cripple MY operating system just so some person who buys a computer from circut city can use it in linux. Rather i'd have them fork out the $15 to get a nonwinmodem (that's how much a 33.6 costs here). he'll actualy have decent hardware and we don't have to contaminate linux with support for hardware that should have never existed in the first place. Yes. The same can be said about pio network cards. But it's happened and we cant turn back the clock to fix things. Lets not let that sort of thing happen with winmodems.
What needs to be understood is that winmodems are just plain bad hardware. Linux should not support them. This will open the market up for other vendors to say "Hey you guys support winmodems so we can make crappy hardware and sell it for linux too." This is a bad thing(TM) I for one don't ever want to see this. We left bad software back in windowsland. Lets leave the bad hardware there too.
Yes they are working on such motherboards. The only thing that needs replacing in fact will be the bios chip and perhaps a keyboard controller. Very sneaky indeed.
But will it run linux ppc? That's the real question. Reading your email while on the can would make very constructive use of otherwise wasted time.