Sometimes, I think that there was more to the move to ban Napster and other P2P systems than just the "loss of sales" argument. I found some real gems on Napster...
...the RIAA know they have a losing formula, but stick to it because it's all they know.
If there was an award for succintness...
MjM
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PR releases tend to hype (and even lie) about how many companies are "interested" in an attempt to lure the others in. We need to shine more light on this subject fast.
This is so true. In fact, when I first looked into this, I accidentally clicked on the Doc Witless site and realized I was reading hype and not going to get a whit of useful information concerning the technology.
The little article on Technology Review didn't add much, either. This is what's so wonderful about things like/. We now have hundreds of curious hackers trying to figure out how this works. I love it!
Fuck you, indie shithead. You knuckle under, you suck our cock, and maybe we'll buy your company with loose change and pay your artists a few pennies on the CD, like we do with our artists".
Hol' on there, lil' bucaroo. So an entire decent, working, accepted hardware platform is abandoned? Gee, guess what? The indie crowd suddenly has a home!
Can't get cool stuff to play on your old CD hardware? Fear not dear friend, we here at Indi# have just the tunes for you!
The only good thing I can say about this is, at least it will put an end to all the Euro-weenies who keep bragging about how they don't "have laws like that here."
The only good thing I can say about this is, at least it will put an end to all the Euro-weenies who keep bragging about how they don't "have laws like that here."
If everything recorded is watermarked then somehow, somewhere, it's going to have to be decided which watermark content to "play" and which to restrict. I'm assuming then, that recorders will be able to specify types of playback. You want the most exposure? Set the thing to "All+Dog", etc.
If someone can't record himself singing in the shower and send it to his wife over the internet, there will be mass consumer revolt, I have no doubt.:) In other words, the technology people have come to expect will continue to exist - you will be able to give away copies of your own or someone else's intentionally un-protected creations - that will not go away.
Therefore, at one end there will be restricted content which will be expensive and inflexible, at the other, unrestricted content whihch will be cheap and pliant and perhaps several levels in between. The fractured entertainment market will become even more divided as people seek out cheap, simple alternatives to difficult expensive industry offerings.
Despite their greed and/or ignorance, US representatives will never be able to justify to the public why the kid's crappy techno band or grandpa's atrocious blues quartet or the church's miserable choir must include DRM in free distributions of their hand-made, debut CDs.
This weekend I thought that what would really be nice would be if you could pay $40 a month and get all the commercial-free TV, movies and music you could want. $20 a month for video, $20 for audio, say.
And I think there's a good chance of that happening. Who's going to want to go online and go through the hassle of downloading, arranging and burning CDs if it's all available for a monthly pittance? 200 million subscribers * $40/mo ==, well, you do the math:)
The cost of entertainment has been artificially high for decades because the cost of access to distribution has been high. New technology has changed all that. I'm sure this is happening right now - unknown companies going around signing up unknown bands for distribution over the internet.
You can't compete with free - musicians, actors, writers, artists who couldn't get attention before will provide legal, flexible, cheap alternative entertainment to the DRM-laden, artificially expensive product of the major corps.
Where is it written that a Crowe or a Cruise has to make $30 million for each movie?
If Palladium requires a hardware component on the motherboard, and AMD/Intel/whomever document the interace to that control, then it would be simple to write a boot-time routine which would turn it on by default - or, enable it to be toggled at any time during operation.
One of your 'false' assumptions is somewhat misinformed.
"...rarely if ever hit the forward button and I think this is similar with the PVR folk."
The Replay TV unit will automatically skip commercials while recording. Therefore no one needs hit a 'forward' button. This is one of the two things that have the industry up in arms. In other words, if you're willing to wait 10 minutes before watching a 30-minute show, Replay TV will begin recording, automatically skipping commmercials. You then sit down and watch the entire show as if it were delivered without commercial interruption.
The value of a television broadcast license should plummet. In a free market, when one technology obsoletes the business of another, the latter fails. After all, we sell a hell of a lot more oil filters than we do buggy whips in this country.
In an ideal setting, that would mean that large corporations would abandon broadcast licenses in droves and they would be cheap enough that individuals and small groups could pick them up and find new, innovative and interesting uses for them.
How long do you think it will be before that happens?:)
If that is, in fact, the natural (capitalist) way of the world, then how long do you think the artificial value of broadcasting licenses will be kept propped up by a colluding industry and government? "Gee, we can't make any money with this damn FCC license. We need to go to Congress and see if we can't get some laws passed to make television broadcasting profitable again".
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If there was an award for succintness...
MjM
I only mod up...
This is so true. In fact, when I first looked into this, I accidentally clicked on the Doc Witless site and realized I was reading hype and not going to get a whit of useful information concerning the technology.
The little article on Technology Review didn't add much, either. This is what's so wonderful about things like /. We now have hundreds of curious hackers trying to figure out how this works. I love it!
MjM
I only mod up...
Hol' on there, lil' bucaroo. So an entire decent, working, accepted hardware platform is abandoned? Gee, guess what? The indie crowd suddenly has a home!
Can't get cool stuff to play on your old CD hardware? Fear not dear friend, we here at Indi# have just the tunes for you!
voila!
(at least, that's a hopeful scenario...)
MjM
I only mod up...
What happens when someone finally builds a machine that allows you to duplicate simple objects?
We will we not allow a device this fantastic to exist?
That would suck.
MjM
I never mod down...
Can't a Pringle's can be made to look like a drainpipe?
MjM
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Hint: The smiley means it's a joke
or maybe Aynica
MjM
MjM
I thought they were called "flippies" 'cause you could throw them with less likelihood of damage.
MjM
"Corporate Whoring is a bi-partisan initiative."
MjM
1)By accepting the existence of the internet on your computer, you may not publish any information concerning the contents of EULAs.
Regards,
Your Corporate Masters
If someone can't record himself singing in the shower and send it to his wife over the internet, there will be mass consumer revolt, I have no doubt. :) In other words, the technology people have come to expect will continue to exist - you will be able to give away copies of your own or someone else's intentionally un-protected creations - that will not go away.
Therefore, at one end there will be restricted content which will be expensive and inflexible, at the other, unrestricted content whihch will be cheap and pliant and perhaps several levels in between. The fractured entertainment market will become even more divided as people seek out cheap, simple alternatives to difficult expensive industry offerings.
MjM
I believe this:
Despite their greed and/or ignorance, US representatives will never be able to justify to the public why the kid's crappy techno band or grandpa's atrocious blues quartet or the church's miserable choir must include DRM in free distributions of their hand-made, debut CDs.
That's all it's going to take.
MjM
I so totally agree.
This weekend I thought that what would really be nice would be if you could pay $40 a month and get all the commercial-free TV, movies and music you could want. $20 a month for video, $20 for audio, say.
And I think there's a good chance of that happening. Who's going to want to go online and go through the hassle of downloading, arranging and burning CDs if it's all available for a monthly pittance? 200 million subscribers * $40/mo ==, well, you do the math :)
The cost of entertainment has been artificially high for decades because the cost of access to distribution has been high. New technology has changed all that. I'm sure this is happening right now - unknown companies going around signing up unknown bands for distribution over the internet.
You can't compete with free - musicians, actors, writers, artists who couldn't get attention before will provide legal, flexible, cheap alternative entertainment to the DRM-laden, artificially expensive product of the major corps.
Where is it written that a Crowe or a Cruise has to make $30 million for each movie?
MjM
Yeah!
This article over at The Reg gives a satiric slant on that.
Go get yur black hats, podners!
MjM
If Palladium requires a hardware component on the motherboard, and AMD/Intel/whomever document the interace to that control, then it would be simple to write a boot-time routine which would turn it on by default - or, enable it to be toggled at any time during operation.
Yes? No? Anyone? Ferris?
Mjm
Gads, you're right!
However, maybe it's just due to the currency of the names, but I don't remember Brave New World being this funny.
MjM
Yowch!
I want to read the novel!
thanks!
MjM
I wish I could mod you up. You summed up the entire thing in two sentences.
kudos
MjM
All that can be hoped is that something like this will eat their lunch.
MjM
Apparently ADTI is not as embarassed as Microsft and Unisys by the fact that they are apparently running Open Source software while simultaneously bashing it.
(yes, I am assuming that Rapidsite/Apa is an Apache variant. Am I wrong? I can't find any info on their website about their httpd server software.)
MjM
"...less than 40% of the on-screen space used for content, right in the middle."
Good thing we're all buying those huge projection TVs, eh?
Maybe now's a good time to stock up on black paper and duct tape to make Screen Masks® from.   :)
MjM
One of your 'false' assumptions is somewhat misinformed.
"...rarely if ever hit the forward button and I think this is similar with the PVR folk." The Replay TV unit will automatically skip commercials while recording. Therefore no one needs hit a 'forward' button. This is one of the two things that have the industry up in arms. In other words, if you're willing to wait 10 minutes before watching a 30-minute show, Replay TV will begin recording, automatically skipping commmercials. You then sit down and watch the entire show as if it were delivered without commercial interruption.
MjM
The value of a television broadcast license should plummet. In a free market, when one technology obsoletes the business of another, the latter fails. After all, we sell a hell of a lot more oil filters than we do buggy whips in this country.
In an ideal setting, that would mean that large corporations would abandon broadcast licenses in droves and they would be cheap enough that individuals and small groups could pick them up and find new, innovative and interesting uses for them.
How long do you think it will be before that happens? :)
If that is, in fact, the natural (capitalist) way of the world, then how long do you think the artificial value of broadcasting licenses will be kept propped up by a colluding industry and government? "Gee, we can't make any money with this damn FCC license. We need to go to Congress and see if we can't get some laws passed to make television broadcasting profitable again".
MjM