The thing is...these copy protection schemes frustrate fair use badly, but don't really affect piracy. Consider this: most people pirating music online are quite happy with 128kbit MP3 files. They will also likely be happy with an analogue recording from the line-out of a DVD-A encoded at 128kbit/s. People who want to pirate music will go to the effort of re-recording the music.
However, someone who just wants to have the convenience of hearing their music regardless of what computer they are using, or perhaps be able to listen to it on the hi-fi upstairs, and when they are working, in the computer room upstairs without having to fish out the disc are frustrated. They aren't stealing, they aren't doing anything morally wrong. The pirates will still pirate regardless of what measures are put in place, but people just wanting to hear their music anywhere will just find it annoying (and probably won't buy DVD-A discs, I certainly won't be buying any).
The day all music is DRMed such that it can't be trivially cracked is the day I stop buying music. I'm not interested in pirating it, after all I've bought three albums of Magnatune this week and it's trivial to listen to the entire albums for free at Magnatune if you are a cheapskate. Part of the reason I'm willing to buy from them is that they do NOT drm the music, so I can put it on my PowerBook, or put it on my Linux workstation, or on my NFS server and just pick it up from anywhere in the house. Part of the reason I'm willing to buy music from iTunes is that JHymn exists and it's trivial to strip off the DRM so I can put the music on my server and listen to it anywhere.
I've had the opposite experience - I frequently use Bluetooth to connect my PowerBook to my Nokia phone to use for GPRS on the move, and I've not had a problem with it. Also worked fine with a Sony Vaio laptop.
Eire *is* part of the EU, and much closer to the EU than Britain - Eire have given up their currency for the euro for instance.
The only parts of the British Isles that are NOT part of the EU is: the Isle of Man (where I live), and the Channel Islands. The Isle of Man is very business friendly (zero business tax).
But the turkey guts are a *waste product* that otherwise would have been thrown away; the turkeys aren't being farmed for energy, they are being farmed for food.
Any carbon source can be used for plastic. If you're using algae or reformulated turkey guts to provide portable energy storage, then they can be used to make plastic, too.
When I lived in the US, when I was under 25, it cost me $2400 to insure my ten year old, low performing pickup truck for one year - liability and theft only. The limits were the minimum for Texas (i.e. $15K accidental damage, $45K personal injury). In the UK, the liability limits from the policy you quite is £millions.
And as another poster pointed out, 17 year old drivers SUCK. They think they are good but they aren't. Yes, I was the same. I lost count of how many of my friends crashed (with no other vehicles around) and claimed 'there was mud on the road' or 'the tyre blew out' when the real reason was as always they were terrible drivers or driving too fast for the conditions.
Get a small motorbike instead. That way you'll feel vulnerable and drive a bit more carefully. If you don't autodarwinate, you'll be a much better driver for it.
It's interesting - although the BBC has the FULL RIGHTS to distribute this music as they see fit (including free), the record companies were STILL whining about it, and going on about "how it would destroy the record industry" etc. The record companies were on the BBC news at least twice whining about this.
This proves the truth - record companies just don't like competition.
Or for those who don't need/cannot afford the support for RedHat Enterprise 4, there is CentOS 4 which is built from the same source, but community supported.
That's the whole point of the GPL. It's not to get 'fan boys', it's to ensure if I release my work for free, it stays free - i.e. you cannot subsequently derive something off it then close my work up.
What you have had to do is the entire intention behind the GPL. If you want to write closed-source software, don't use GPLed libraries and code, it's as simple as that. It's not a popularity contest - it's because the authors of the original GPLed work wanted to stop people from being to take their work and close it up.
Yes - you do have to worry about it. Your computer is no longer an island once it's on the Internet.
At home, I do not run any Microsoft software, yet I still have to deal with the consequences of zombied Windows PCs on broadband connections, deluging my email inbox with spam and chewing up valuable network bandwidth. When SQL Slammer made its attack, it completely knocked out one of the ISPs here due to the massive amount of traffic.
Microsoft's insecurity affects everyone - even those who don't use MS software at all.
I used to watch things on VHS tapes. The quality always seemed decent enough. Then I went a number of years where I watched pre-recorded stuff on DVD, and I bought a digital-8 camcorder for my home video needs.
Then I watched a VHS tape at my Dad's house. I was appalled at the awful quality - poor resolution, "compression artefacts" (i.e. really awful colour rendering - not that the colour was the wrong one, but smeared and poorly defined colours). The quality of VHS hadn't got worse - I'd just got used to something so much better. Even my home videos looked fantastic compared to a pre-recorded VHS tape.
[RedHat Enterprise]... and if you're a small shop or can support yourself, you can always install CentOS 4 which is effectively RedHat Enterprise. You get updates, too.
-- [winston@perplexed ~]$ uname -a OpenBSD perplexed.alwyn.alioth.net 3.6 GENERIC#304 sparc64
Auditor: Yeah, but what if an EMP takes out the city? Me: Well, then the tapes will survive. And if they don't I'll be too busy dying myself from the effects of the nuclear explosion to care!
..and is why they are so much more expensive to fly than a fixed wing aircraft with the same engine: they are incredibly maintenance intensive. Even the worst fixed-wing hangar queen doesn't need near the maintenance of its helicopter equivalent.
Knoppix is fantastic - it's been a great system-saver and diagnostic tool, as well as my way of making a ghosting system.
My only complaint is if you let it load the desktop, the desktop is incredibly ugly - busy amateurish backgrounds, and almost always the ugliest KDE themes. I can see Knoppix putting off a lot of people who would otherwise move to Linux when they see the awful desktop theme in Knoppix. Can't they make it simple and elegant like Red Hat's Bluecurve?
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It's already been done.
http://www.magnatune.com/
The music they sell is not DRMed. It is good quality. You can download the music as lossless FLAC if you so wish, or VBR mp3, or ogg...
The thing is...these copy protection schemes frustrate fair use badly, but don't really affect piracy. Consider this: most people pirating music online are quite happy with 128kbit MP3 files. They will also likely be happy with an analogue recording from the line-out of a DVD-A encoded at 128kbit/s. People who want to pirate music will go to the effort of re-recording the music.
However, someone who just wants to have the convenience of hearing their music regardless of what computer they are using, or perhaps be able to listen to it on the hi-fi upstairs, and when they are working, in the computer room upstairs without having to fish out the disc are frustrated. They aren't stealing, they aren't doing anything morally wrong. The pirates will still pirate regardless of what measures are put in place, but people just wanting to hear their music anywhere will just find it annoying (and probably won't buy DVD-A discs, I certainly won't be buying any).
The day all music is DRMed such that it can't be trivially cracked is the day I stop buying music. I'm not interested in pirating it, after all I've bought three albums of Magnatune this week and it's trivial to listen to the entire albums for free at Magnatune if you are a cheapskate. Part of the reason I'm willing to buy from them is that they do NOT drm the music, so I can put it on my PowerBook, or put it on my Linux workstation, or on my NFS server and just pick it up from anywhere in the house. Part of the reason I'm willing to buy music from iTunes is that JHymn exists and it's trivial to strip off the DRM so I can put the music on my server and listen to it anywhere.
If you buy a GSM phone, the US GSM operators are very happy to have you.
I've had the opposite experience - I frequently use Bluetooth to connect my PowerBook to my Nokia phone to use for GPRS on the move, and I've not had a problem with it. Also worked fine with a Sony Vaio laptop.
Eire *is* part of the EU, and much closer to the EU than Britain - Eire have given up their currency for the euro for instance.
The only parts of the British Isles that are NOT part of the EU is: the Isle of Man (where I live), and the Channel Islands. The Isle of Man is very business friendly (zero business tax).
But the turkey guts are a *waste product* that otherwise would have been thrown away; the turkeys aren't being farmed for energy, they are being farmed for food.
Any carbon source can be used for plastic. If you're using algae or reformulated turkey guts to provide portable energy storage, then they can be used to make plastic, too.
Boo hoo.
When I lived in the US, when I was under 25, it cost me $2400 to insure my ten year old, low performing pickup truck for one year - liability and theft only. The limits were the minimum for Texas (i.e. $15K accidental damage, $45K personal injury). In the UK, the liability limits from the policy you quite is £millions.
And as another poster pointed out, 17 year old drivers SUCK. They think they are good but they aren't. Yes, I was the same. I lost count of how many of my friends crashed (with no other vehicles around) and claimed 'there was mud on the road' or 'the tyre blew out' when the real reason was as always they were terrible drivers or driving too fast for the conditions.
Get a small motorbike instead. That way you'll feel vulnerable and drive a bit more carefully. If you don't autodarwinate, you'll be a much better driver for it.
Umm, actually - yes I do. Life would be pretty damned dull without it.
It's interesting - although the BBC has the FULL RIGHTS to distribute this music as they see fit (including free), the record companies were STILL whining about it, and going on about "how it would destroy the record industry" etc. The record companies were on the BBC news at least twice whining about this.
This proves the truth - record companies just don't like competition.
Or for those who don't need/cannot afford the support for RedHat Enterprise 4, there is CentOS 4 which is built from the same source, but community supported.
The GPL is *not* viral, that is FUD put out by Microsoft.
That's the whole point of the GPL. It's not to get 'fan boys', it's to ensure if I release my work for free, it stays free - i.e. you cannot subsequently derive something off it then close my work up.
What you have had to do is the entire intention behind the GPL. If you want to write closed-source software, don't use GPLed libraries and code, it's as simple as that. It's not a popularity contest - it's because the authors of the original GPLed work wanted to stop people from being to take their work and close it up.
No, that's not true. If you distribute your web app without MySQL, then you don't have to GPL it because you are not distributing MySQL.
Yes - you do have to worry about it. Your computer is no longer an island once it's on the Internet.
At home, I do not run any Microsoft software, yet I still have to deal with the consequences of zombied Windows PCs on broadband connections, deluging my email inbox with spam and chewing up valuable network bandwidth. When SQL Slammer made its attack, it completely knocked out one of the ISPs here due to the massive amount of traffic.
Microsoft's insecurity affects everyone - even those who don't use MS software at all.
No - I submitted that a few days ago and they rejected it: http://slashdot.org/~Alioth/journal/110510
Those who say 'Evolution is *just* a theory' don't actually understand what a theory is. They are confusing a theory with a hypothesis.
I think our tolerance has gone down.
I used to watch things on VHS tapes. The quality always seemed decent enough. Then I went a number of years where I watched pre-recorded stuff on DVD, and I bought a digital-8 camcorder for my home video needs.
Then I watched a VHS tape at my Dad's house. I was appalled at the awful quality - poor resolution, "compression artefacts" (i.e. really awful colour rendering - not that the colour was the wrong one, but smeared and poorly defined colours). The quality of VHS hadn't got worse - I'd just got used to something so much better. Even my home videos looked fantastic compared to a pre-recorded VHS tape.
Get Sky Digital and pay yet another subscription fee!
[RedHat Enterprise] ... and if you're a small shop or can support yourself, you can always install CentOS 4 which is effectively RedHat Enterprise. You get updates, too.
--
[winston@perplexed ~]$ uname -a
OpenBSD perplexed.alwyn.alioth.net 3.6 GENERIC#304 sparc64
Auditor: Yeah, but what if an EMP takes out the city?
Me: Well, then the tapes will survive. And if they don't I'll be too busy dying myself from the effects of the nuclear explosion to care!
It's only "excitingly dangerous" to you because you are seriously risk-averse.
..and is why they are so much more expensive to fly than a fixed wing aircraft with the same engine: they are incredibly maintenance intensive. Even the worst fixed-wing hangar queen doesn't need near the maintenance of its helicopter equivalent.
Knoppix is fantastic - it's been a great system-saver and diagnostic tool, as well as my way of making a ghosting system.
My only complaint is if you let it load the desktop, the desktop is incredibly ugly - busy amateurish backgrounds, and almost always the ugliest KDE themes. I can see Knoppix putting off a lot of people who would otherwise move to Linux when they see the awful desktop theme in Knoppix. Can't they make it simple and elegant like Red Hat's Bluecurve?
I wish there was a way of stabbing people in the face over the Internet when they use that awful buzzword "blogosphere"!!