1. Charge extra with low monthly caps and high per megabyte charges 2. Sell off user list, resulting in increased bandwidth consumed by all customers 3. Profit!
I can see an advantage when shipping a LCD monitor. While I don't have an accurate picture, but rather like a laptop where the action of closing the lid protexts the screen when putting in your bag, a folding screen could serve to protect it when shipping.
Also.... There are those people who are offended by dust on their screens. folding down your screen, like a laptop would serve to keep dust off the screen when it's not active.
As far as a business arangement, I can imagine being spoken to by someone behind a desk who folds down their monitor so they can see who they are speaking to.
Lastly, one issue for failure in some laptops is the clamshell hinge. Though personaly I've only seen them fail on cheeper laptops, but never the less I could see some room for improvement in that design.
But honestly, if I wanted that sorta design personaly, I think i'd go with a laptop style screen, if not a physical laptop. Makes life so much easier.
What if I have a Caldara CD yet choose to run redhat?
This is something i'm pondering... I got a free caldara cd at some point for some reason or another. I never thought much about it till this artical came up.
Not that I actually run caldara, but in theory I was granted a free license at the time.
Was was that grammar check bug in either word 97 or 2000?
"unable to follow directions" was incorrect "Unable to get an erection" was correct
Something like that... it was something to that effect, which I first learned about it after a niece of mine got a kindergarden report card... and other parents were most miffed.
I don't know about your region. Based on much personal experence, blowing by a trooper at 120+mph they don't chase you. This is *exactly* what i'm saying.
At 120mph, you are a mile away in 30seconds. I'm unsure about the 0-120mph in cop cars, I would approximate 15-30 seconds. 1/4 to 1/2 mile away by the time speed is matched.
Assume also a top end speed of 150mph. At 30mph it would take an additional 30 to 60 seconds for them to actually intercept you.
So... 45seconds to 90 seconds assuming 0-120 in under 30 seconds, and assuming a top speed of 150mph. This is under an ideal situation.
It's simple logic, no cop in their right mind would put them selves in danger like this even if they were a super trooper in a super car. 90seconds is too long a lag time. Plus the fact that they have to put away their radar guns, and get authorization from home base.
Unless a felony was commited, typicaly speaking, based on personal observation, all they do is blink their lights, radio into base, and that's about it.
5-15mph are far safer, and you can actually meet your quotas pursuing them. Sad but true.
Presently in washington... motorcycles already can use the HOV lane without any difficulty. Just buy a motorcycle for your morning commute, or a vehicel that would be equilivent.
I wonder if the state has the right to sell special passes to the HOV lane on MAJOR interstates, roads that do get some federal funding after all.
I'd sooner support a toll road then a paid HOV pass. That would make a hell of alot more sence to get transportation funding.
Dangerous driving doesn't get a ticket. Police typicaly are not allowed to engage in high speed pursutes without either authorization, or unless it's in relation to a felony.
Only the +5 to +15 mph speeders typicaly get tickets. They are so easier to catch, and quotas get made much more quickly.
"They'll probally kill them selves" is that I hear regarding super speeders, atleast among police at starbucks. Or "I wish I could have pursued that guy I clocked at 100+, but I hadn't made my quota yet".
Funny thing is, the school my nephew goes to supports students getting their music from Kazza and bringing in home brew CDs to their audio video department. These CDs are used as part of their school's announcements.
I know in washington state all our licenses are getting barcodes, let alone libary cards which already have them.
I would incoperate some common sence, and automate the system of verifying age of the users of the library to determine wether or not they want the filters in place or not. While we'd run the risk of kids printing bar codes on their own, this requires access to a computer, and if you already have access to a computer you can get your porn on your own.
The diffrence is the apple newton was an inovative product, sorta pioneer pda that people actually actually purchaced. The demonstration was to protest them ending the product line and attempt to convience apple that people would buy newtons. While I'm not a big apple fan my self, I had respect for the newton.
SCO on the other hand is a product that typicaly isn't purchaced [not often pirated either]. Protesters could either care less if their product is sold to anyone, and in many cases actually don't want their product sold. I would even venture to say that signs that said, "Go away SCO" implied that sco should take their business and shove it up their own respective asses.
This type of crowd you don't want to actually find drinks and candy to. Apple for example wanted the crowd to continue to support Apple products. SCO on the other hand, I believe, wished to antaganize the crowd so they can document how evil the pot smoking communist nazi linux users are, and toss these hippies in jail.
Two very diffrent companies. While Apple products are a might bit costly IMHO, they do see everyone as being a customer, and they act accordingly. SCO only sees pot smoking nazi communist hippies who can't afford their products.
To add the the contrast, one time protesting microsoft they gave out free copies of back office.
The OPIP [other people's Intelectual Property] sign I found particularly disturbing. SCO wouldn't be wehre they were today without OPIP, though it be legaly aquired. And the whole thing seems to be about making money from OPIP. Even is SCO's account is 100% accurate and there is a very small percent of their(sic) code in linux, the vast majoirty of it just isn't.
More disturbing the fact that AT&T got in trouble for OPIP violations, a legagy they seem to be ignoring.
And the most prominate fact... SCO's products just are not worth the time to pirate.
While a p3 733 isn't exactly a powerhouse penis extention, I find mozilla works perfectly well on a celeron 333. I'll agree that surfing with a amd 2000xp chip is a *hell* of alot more swift, 733 is more then adquate for web browsing.
Would it be considered a form of criminal slander to a company to sugest that users of a particular software product smoke illegal drugs?
I use linux, but I don't smoke pot. While I'm not offended by people who do smoke pot, I really don't want HR to look at my resume and assumume I smoke pot because of my choice in operating systems. I'm not aware of any connection between linux and pot, yet somehow SCO has. It's a very dangerious remark given the fact that the war on drugs is still happening.
Actually I should get on the horn and send off a letter to them communicating my dismay on the subject of infering linux users smoke pot.
For you linux users who also smoke pot, hey might be legal where you are at, or your might have a medical prescription. But for most people living in america, posession of pot carries heavy criminal penitalies.
I found none of the pitures at your link at all illuminating. Seriously, photos with no stars would indicate that there wasn't enough in the way of exposure for the stars to reach the film. For an expiment, try photographing the side of a barn with a set of hallogin lights, or even your high beams. Stars typicaly don't come out in standard film unless you use a very long exposure.
Shadows cast in the moon assuming only one light source is unrealistic, as anyone intrested in photography is going to bring their own light source. I don't know if they did, but that offers a reasonable explanation. I'd have to research what sorta of photoequipment they bought with them, but assuming their primary interest was geology, I would suspect a SLR camera with ring flash.
A landscape shot where the land fades out into the distance would sugest that the subject was in focus, and the background is out of focus. This affect would be more dramatic shooting with your lens apature fully open.
The letter C carved in a rock looks to me like a hair on the negative. When developing B/W negatives and my solution gets a little dirty, you get that sorta effect. You can see this in movie theaters with alot of the previews.
Personaly I'm not all all convienced, but hey don't take my word for it. Let us support other nation's project to land on the moon. In theory there are robotic rovers still there in desprite need of a battery replacement. Battery replacement of existing hardware would allow exploration after departure without the pesky need to bring your own rovers.
1. The Xbox is a cheepo PC with an excelent output to TV display. I'm not up to date on current video cards but when looked at TV output before, they were all shite. I had to invest in a mpeg decoder card to get decent output. I'll have to check out my new vid card when i'm not so lazy.
2. The Xbox is a tiny PC, making it perfect to put on your entertainment stack. Nice for AV, possible additional application of car mount system (not sure about car mount xbox to be honest, it would be something worth looking into). While I do own a couple full towers for expanation, i'd consider an x-box just to stick on my entertainment center stack to watch movies and such.
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In short, the xbox is a decent gamming platform but it's *computer* features are locked out of common man's reach due to a choice at microsoft. They are after all selling you a game box and not a computer. If I owned one, the first thing I'D do is get a mod chip and the ability to run Mozilla on my TV, check my e-mail and such.
But I'm just quoting off the top of my head, I don't know exactly how advanced the current linux project is for the x-box, and how viewable diffrent codexs are. But if it's half way decent for divx4 vids, well it's a serious consideration, given that most DVD players are limited to mpeg-1 or mpeg-2, and you can't exactly upgrade them to other standards.
But hey, not your bag? NO worries. I don't own one, and won't till they drop in price to like $75.00. But that's just me.
...how long before we start seeing cd burning terminals at music stores where you can either buy full licensed albums, or pick and choose tracks ala cart? I imagine that such a service could be provided at similar cost to itunes and still make a buck or two.
The funny thing about lower distrobution costs, it does give an artist a bigger cut. 12% is a step in the right direction, but it's sad the fact that artists don't nessicarly have the following to justify not signing on with a label *yet*.
The sad thing is, i'd easily pay a quarter to a dollar for a good electronic copy of a novel.
I think the biggest problem wouldn't nessicarly be the dollar value established for tracks, but rather the fact that I'm sure the FBI if given the mandate would do a good job, a damn good job. Being an organization of justice and following guidelines of due process, the FBI would be most maticlious regarding fingering online pirates. This would include
1. Scanning the P2P networks for titles 2. Downloading tracks [speed limited to the target user's upstreem] 3. Verifying the tracks being authentic
a) Listening to the track
b) digital fingerprinting establishing the specific release the track is from
c) verifying that the copyright holder had indeed not intended this track
4. Storage of this information per american, when value hits pre-determined amount issue warning
5. If threthold of warnings have been issued, forward all pertentant data to enforcement departments.
Assuming we are talking exclusivly music, which it makes it much easier for conversation, the value of the manpower will exceed the value of the track, which presently is rated at.99cents per unit based on apple itunes rates.
While I'm sure this process could be automated to a large degree, we're talking huge amounts of bandwidth consumed, huge databases, a need for a bigger staff.
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I do not believe it's in the best intrest of the US federal goverment to fund such a venture. I do believe the cost to persue this would be in excess of any dollar value claimed as a loss.
I honestly believe that the FBI has better things to do with it's time.
The FBI at the very least has to follow due process. They can assume you are guilty based on evidence, but because they are not a civil agency, innocent until proven guilty is the rule. This in it self is great!
But on the other hand, I really think the FBI has much better things to do then pursue audio piracy. It's hard enough getting them to investigate forms of cybercrime unless you're a business and can demonstrate a dollar amount lost (believe it's $5000 for FBI). While we may get annoyed by this at times.... it is indeed reasonable. I don't see why music / video piracy should be given special treatment. Assuming a $20 cd was downloaded 250 from a single user, that would be the threathold required based on this $5000 rule.
If I had a vote in the matter, i'd say their time would be better spent with bootlegers rather then pirates. It's much easier to establish a dollar amount less based on the sale of goods, and it's only fair the copyright holders get money from profit of their goods. I know of stores localy where you can buy pirate DVDs for $10.00 a pop. This isn't fair use, this is bootleging.
Already exists, think compact flash. Plenty of the new TVs have a built in compact flash reader
Last time I checked there were a number of compact solid state media types and no assurances that one handheld device use the same form of media as another hand held device. There is also no assurance that physical media will continue to be popular. Let's face it, zip and super disks were popular once and still are to some degree. Let's say you invested in a TV with the ability to read files from a 120meg zip disk. This would have been most spiffy in many ways, but pretty damn useless now as most people with cameras and handhelds use solid state storage. I have to admit part of the reason I bought my printer was because it took 3 solid state media types.
The point of hassling with wire or wireless connections is electronic compliance without worry of the physical complience to media. Let's say hypotheticly either your TV or your DVD player had onboard ethernet, and the ability to accept a video streem from a remote device. Even with wire based ethernet it opens up a wonderful world of just one freaking wire to your media center per device. Don't want a rat's nest behind your entertainment center, no problem. Shotty video cables eliminated, ground loops a thing of the past, and a little bit of digital convergence.
Run out of ports, get a freaking hub. Jack into the wall, jack into the center, doesn't freaking matter anymore.
I see exactly where you are comming from with the hassle. However, i've just spent 4 hours in the attic routing speaker wires so I can move my audio entertainment center to the kitchen and make more space for the video center, yet have them still be connected. Even wire based ethernet would have been a godsend, would have been NO need to put in all that extra work just to add essentally two wires.
As far as your TV, great! I personaly prefer my smart shit outside my TV. In the past 20 years we've seen VHS / Beta / VCD / VideoCD / 5 or so acronyms for solid state media. I don't want my TV to accept media, I prefer external media readers. Why upgrade my TV set just to play media when ya can buy sub $100 Vcr / DVD. Not that it isn't cool, I just don't want to upgrade my TV everytime a new media standard comes out. I'd rather upgrade outside the tube, but that's just personal choice. You might not want extra wires or the extra space required, and that's cool too.
The thing about DRM I do not support is that whole need a computer based authorization in order to play media. What is to stop a media giant from changing the terms on our media. Before you say it can't be done, look at all the annoyance with SCO and their attempt to revoke their contracts. With DRM a company like SCO would have the power to shut off access to material we bought in good faith.
Good gawd, now i'm starting to understand why people like physical books, hard to revoke a license on a book.
As far as the piracy thing goes, i've ALWAYS been an advocate of a little piracy. Works like word of mouth advertising. If you disagree with this form of media propigation, then I guess you never visited a local library. While they are not pirates in the conventional sence, they do allow multiable people access to media.
I'd love it if my DVD player had on it WiFi or ethernet. I already have cat5 runs and would enjoy output of my computer in the form of media files on my TV, which I already enjoy over analog cable. This in a way makes sence, the fact that a DVD player is just a glorified mpeg decoder, it would be the next logical step having it act as essentally a networked video card. WiFi ability would just be icing on the cake in this sorta setup.
And it's also not like people like my self wouldn't enjoy this ability, which makes a fair amount of sence, to extend to mobile phones and PDAs. It seems the next logical step in home entertainment, being able for your friend to come over to your pad and share his snapshots directly from their handheld device directly to your TV. Or even a.mp3 file.
These things make sence and are very marketable ideas. Hell, i'd buy a networkable DVD player.
But I think perhaps with the shadow of DRM that we should reserve implementations of these technologies to OSS. It's already been demonstrated by microsoft they are experimenting with "phone home for authorization" technologies and this just has far too much bad mojo. The last thing we need are remote enforcable EULAs.
I'm not trying to troll or anything, I'm really interested in this paradox
While many nations did partisipate in a trade embargo, some nations did not.
While I know jack squat about computer gear... there was alot of flack flying around about american ciggerettes making into iraq hands.
[http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid =4 708] U.S. can't knowingly sell them in the Iraqi market -- either directly or through intermediaries -- unless they obtain a license from the U.S. government.
It's no paradox at all. Assuming the goods were made in America they either had a license to sell to iraq, which is easy enough to believe. Alternativly good could be purchaced by nations neighboring and on good terms with iraq and taking into iraq borders.
While computers are something listed as being a dual use item, as in could possibly be used as making weapons, the embargo in theory restricted their access. But it's not like Iraq didn't have free trade agreements with it's neighbors to import them. According to this bbc artical anyway... [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1959 481.stm]
That's the thing.... I am sharing it, to my self. Either via a fileshare to my self, or password proected http. Other people who happen to be with me have access, but that's only because I don't provide them with RIAA approved ear plugs.
Besides, I thought the rouge WMA files link you to sites that run software to scan your system for.mp3 titles, not taking into account wether or not they are shared publicly or not.
The request for information is a legit one as the RIAA has NO business going through my personal music library, and I have NO interest in apearing in court showing my license for what I have in the form of CDs, Tapes, vinyl, and John Denver's Greatest Hits Vol 2 on 8 track that some RIAA goon said I could convert to.mp3.
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1. Charge extra with low monthly caps and high per megabyte charges
2. Sell off user list, resulting in increased bandwidth consumed by all customers
3. Profit!
I can see an advantage when shipping a LCD monitor. While I don't have an accurate picture, but rather like a laptop where the action of closing the lid protexts the screen when putting in your bag, a folding screen could serve to protect it when shipping.
Also.... There are those people who are offended by dust on their screens. folding down your screen, like a laptop would serve to keep dust off the screen when it's not active.
As far as a business arangement, I can imagine being spoken to by someone behind a desk who folds down their monitor so they can see who they are speaking to.
Lastly, one issue for failure in some laptops is the clamshell hinge. Though personaly I've only seen them fail on cheeper laptops, but never the less I could see some room for improvement in that design.
But honestly, if I wanted that sorta design personaly, I think i'd go with a laptop style screen, if not a physical laptop. Makes life so much easier.
What if I have a Caldara CD yet choose to run redhat?
This is something i'm pondering... I got a free caldara cd at some point for some reason or another. I never thought much about it till this artical came up.
Not that I actually run caldara, but in theory I was granted a free license at the time.
Was was that grammar check bug in either word 97 or 2000?
"unable to follow directions" was incorrect
"Unable to get an erection" was correct
Something like that... it was something to that effect, which I first learned about it after a niece of mine got a kindergarden report card... and other parents were most miffed.
I don't know about your region. Based on much personal experence, blowing by a trooper at 120+mph they don't chase you. This is *exactly* what i'm saying.
At 120mph, you are a mile away in 30seconds. I'm unsure about the 0-120mph in cop cars, I would approximate 15-30 seconds. 1/4 to 1/2 mile away by the time speed is matched.
Assume also a top end speed of 150mph. At 30mph it would take an additional 30 to 60 seconds for them to actually intercept you.
So... 45seconds to 90 seconds assuming 0-120 in under 30 seconds, and assuming a top speed of 150mph. This is under an ideal situation.
It's simple logic, no cop in their right mind would put them selves in danger like this even if they were a super trooper in a super car. 90seconds is too long a lag time. Plus the fact that they have to put away their radar guns, and get authorization from home base.
Unless a felony was commited, typicaly speaking, based on personal observation, all they do is blink their lights, radio into base, and that's about it.
5-15mph are far safer, and you can actually meet your quotas pursuing them. Sad but true.
Presently in washington... motorcycles already can use the HOV lane without any difficulty. Just buy a motorcycle for your morning commute, or a vehicel that would be equilivent.
I wonder if the state has the right to sell special passes to the HOV lane on MAJOR interstates, roads that do get some federal funding after all.
I'd sooner support a toll road then a paid HOV pass. That would make a hell of alot more sence to get transportation funding.
Funny thing is..
Dangerous driving doesn't get a ticket. Police typicaly are not allowed to engage in high speed pursutes without either authorization, or unless it's in relation to a felony.
Only the +5 to +15 mph speeders typicaly get tickets. They are so easier to catch, and quotas get made much more quickly.
"They'll probally kill them selves" is that I hear regarding super speeders, atleast among police at starbucks. Or "I wish I could have pursued that guy I clocked at 100+, but I hadn't made my quota yet".
Funny thing is, the school my nephew goes to supports students getting their music from Kazza and bringing in home brew CDs to their audio video department. These CDs are used as part of their school's announcements.
I know in washington state all our licenses are getting barcodes, let alone libary cards which already have them.
I would incoperate some common sence, and automate the system of verifying age of the users of the library to determine wether or not they want the filters in place or not. While we'd run the risk of kids printing bar codes on their own, this requires access to a computer, and if you already have access to a computer you can get your porn on your own.
The diffrence is the apple newton was an inovative product, sorta pioneer pda that people actually actually purchaced. The demonstration was to protest them ending the product line and attempt to convience apple that people would buy newtons. While I'm not a big apple fan my self, I had respect for the newton.
SCO on the other hand is a product that typicaly isn't purchaced [not often pirated either]. Protesters could either care less if their product is sold to anyone, and in many cases actually don't want their product sold. I would even venture to say that signs that said, "Go away SCO" implied that sco should take their business and shove it up their own respective asses.
This type of crowd you don't want to actually find drinks and candy to. Apple for example wanted the crowd to continue to support Apple products. SCO on the other hand, I believe, wished to antaganize the crowd so they can document how evil the pot smoking communist nazi linux users are, and toss these hippies in jail.
Two very diffrent companies. While Apple products are a might bit costly IMHO, they do see everyone as being a customer, and they act accordingly. SCO only sees pot smoking nazi communist hippies who can't afford their products.
To add the the contrast, one time protesting microsoft they gave out free copies of back office.
Agreed...
The OPIP [other people's Intelectual Property] sign I found particularly disturbing. SCO wouldn't be wehre they were today without OPIP, though it be legaly aquired. And the whole thing seems to be about making money from OPIP. Even is SCO's account is 100% accurate and there is a very small percent of their(sic) code in linux, the vast majoirty of it just isn't.
More disturbing the fact that AT&T got in trouble for OPIP violations, a legagy they seem to be ignoring.
And the most prominate fact... SCO's products just are not worth the time to pirate.
While a p3 733 isn't exactly a powerhouse penis extention, I find mozilla works perfectly well on a celeron 333. I'll agree that surfing with a amd 2000xp chip is a *hell* of alot more swift, 733 is more then adquate for web browsing.
Would it be considered a form of criminal slander to a company to sugest that users of a particular software product smoke illegal drugs?
I use linux, but I don't smoke pot. While I'm not offended by people who do smoke pot, I really don't want HR to look at my resume and assumume I smoke pot because of my choice in operating systems. I'm not aware of any connection between linux and pot, yet somehow SCO has. It's a very dangerious remark given the fact that the war on drugs is still happening.
Actually I should get on the horn and send off a letter to them communicating my dismay on the subject of infering linux users smoke pot.
For you linux users who also smoke pot, hey might be legal where you are at, or your might have a medical prescription. But for most people living in america, posession of pot carries heavy criminal penitalies.
Sweet! How much does it cost you to buy a CD via that sorta system?
ok, I'll bite.
I found none of the pitures at your link at all illuminating. Seriously, photos with no stars would indicate that there wasn't enough in the way of exposure for the stars to reach the film. For an expiment, try photographing the side of a barn with a set of hallogin lights, or even your high beams. Stars typicaly don't come out in standard film unless you use a very long exposure.
Shadows cast in the moon assuming only one light source is unrealistic, as anyone intrested in photography is going to bring their own light source. I don't know if they did, but that offers a reasonable explanation. I'd have to research what sorta of photoequipment they bought with them, but assuming their primary interest was geology, I would suspect a SLR camera with ring flash.
A landscape shot where the land fades out into the distance would sugest that the subject was in focus, and the background is out of focus. This affect would be more dramatic shooting with your lens apature fully open.
The letter C carved in a rock looks to me like a hair on the negative. When developing B/W negatives and my solution gets a little dirty, you get that sorta effect. You can see this in movie theaters with alot of the previews.
Personaly I'm not all all convienced, but hey don't take my word for it. Let us support other nation's project to land on the moon. In theory there are robotic rovers still there in desprite need of a battery replacement. Battery replacement of existing hardware would allow exploration after departure without the pesky need to bring your own rovers.
1. The Xbox is a cheepo PC with an excelent output to TV display. I'm not up to date on current video cards but when looked at TV output before, they were all shite. I had to invest in a mpeg decoder card to get decent output. I'll have to check out my new vid card when i'm not so lazy.
2. The Xbox is a tiny PC, making it perfect to put on your entertainment stack. Nice for AV, possible additional application of car mount system (not sure about car mount xbox to be honest, it would be something worth looking into). While I do own a couple full towers for expanation, i'd consider an x-box just to stick on my entertainment center stack to watch movies and such.
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In short, the xbox is a decent gamming platform but it's *computer* features are locked out of common man's reach due to a choice at microsoft. They are after all selling you a game box and not a computer. If I owned one, the first thing I'D do is get a mod chip and the ability to run Mozilla on my TV, check my e-mail and such.
But I'm just quoting off the top of my head, I don't know exactly how advanced the current linux project is for the x-box, and how viewable diffrent codexs are. But if it's half way decent for divx4 vids, well it's a serious consideration, given that most DVD players are limited to mpeg-1 or mpeg-2, and you can't exactly upgrade them to other standards.
But hey, not your bag? NO worries. I don't own one, and won't till they drop in price to like $75.00. But that's just me.
...how long before we start seeing cd burning terminals at music stores where you can either buy full licensed albums, or pick and choose tracks ala cart? I imagine that such a service could be provided at similar cost to itunes and still make a buck or two.
The funny thing about lower distrobution costs, it does give an artist a bigger cut. 12% is a step in the right direction, but it's sad the fact that artists don't nessicarly have the following to justify not signing on with a label *yet*.
The sad thing is, i'd easily pay a quarter to a dollar for a good electronic copy of a novel.
I think the biggest problem wouldn't nessicarly be the dollar value established for tracks, but rather the fact that I'm sure the FBI if given the mandate would do a good job, a damn good job. Being an organization of justice and following guidelines of due process, the FBI would be most maticlious regarding fingering online pirates. This would include
.99cents per unit based on apple itunes rates.
1. Scanning the P2P networks for titles
2. Downloading tracks [speed limited to the target user's upstreem]
3. Verifying the tracks being authentic
a) Listening to the track
b) digital fingerprinting establishing the specific release the track is from
c) verifying that the copyright holder had indeed not intended this track
4. Storage of this information per american, when value hits pre-determined amount issue warning
5. If threthold of warnings have been issued, forward all pertentant data to enforcement departments.
Assuming we are talking exclusivly music, which it makes it much easier for conversation, the value of the manpower will exceed the value of the track, which presently is rated at
While I'm sure this process could be automated to a large degree, we're talking huge amounts of bandwidth consumed, huge databases, a need for a bigger staff.
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I do not believe it's in the best intrest of the US federal goverment to fund such a venture. I do believe the cost to persue this would be in excess of any dollar value claimed as a loss.
I honestly believe that the FBI has better things to do with it's time.
The FBI at the very least has to follow due process. They can assume you are guilty based on evidence, but because they are not a civil agency, innocent until proven guilty is the rule. This in it self is great!
But on the other hand, I really think the FBI has much better things to do then pursue audio piracy. It's hard enough getting them to investigate forms of cybercrime unless you're a business and can demonstrate a dollar amount lost (believe it's $5000 for FBI). While we may get annoyed by this at times.... it is indeed reasonable. I don't see why music / video piracy should be given special treatment. Assuming a $20 cd was downloaded 250 from a single user, that would be the threathold required based on this $5000 rule.
If I had a vote in the matter, i'd say their time would be better spent with bootlegers rather then pirates. It's much easier to establish a dollar amount less based on the sale of goods, and it's only fair the copyright holders get money from profit of their goods. I know of stores localy where you can buy pirate DVDs for $10.00 a pop. This isn't fair use, this is bootleging.
Already exists, think compact flash. Plenty of the new TVs have a built in compact flash reader
Last time I checked there were a number of compact solid state media types and no assurances that one handheld device use the same form of media as another hand held device. There is also no assurance that physical media will continue to be popular. Let's face it, zip and super disks were popular once and still are to some degree. Let's say you invested in a TV with the ability to read files from a 120meg zip disk. This would have been most spiffy in many ways, but pretty damn useless now as most people with cameras and handhelds use solid state storage. I have to admit part of the reason I bought my printer was because it took 3 solid state media types.
The point of hassling with wire or wireless connections is electronic compliance without worry of the physical complience to media. Let's say hypotheticly either your TV or your DVD player had onboard ethernet, and the ability to accept a video streem from a remote device. Even with wire based ethernet it opens up a wonderful world of just one freaking wire to your media center per device. Don't want a rat's nest behind your entertainment center, no problem. Shotty video cables eliminated, ground loops a thing of the past, and a little bit of digital convergence.
Run out of ports, get a freaking hub. Jack into the wall, jack into the center, doesn't freaking matter anymore.
I see exactly where you are comming from with the hassle. However, i've just spent 4 hours in the attic routing speaker wires so I can move my audio entertainment center to the kitchen and make more space for the video center, yet have them still be connected. Even wire based ethernet would have been a godsend, would have been NO need to put in all that extra work just to add essentally two wires.
As far as your TV, great! I personaly prefer my smart shit outside my TV. In the past 20 years we've seen VHS / Beta / VCD / VideoCD / 5 or so acronyms for solid state media. I don't want my TV to accept media, I prefer external media readers. Why upgrade my TV set just to play media when ya can buy sub $100 Vcr / DVD. Not that it isn't cool, I just don't want to upgrade my TV everytime a new media standard comes out. I'd rather upgrade outside the tube, but that's just personal choice. You might not want extra wires or the extra space required, and that's cool too.
The thing about DRM I do not support is that whole need a computer based authorization in order to play media. What is to stop a media giant from changing the terms on our media. Before you say it can't be done, look at all the annoyance with SCO and their attempt to revoke their contracts. With DRM a company like SCO would have the power to shut off access to material we bought in good faith.
Good gawd, now i'm starting to understand why people like physical books, hard to revoke a license on a book.
As far as the piracy thing goes, i've ALWAYS been an advocate of a little piracy. Works like word of mouth advertising. If you disagree with this form of media propigation, then I guess you never visited a local library. While they are not pirates in the conventional sence, they do allow multiable people access to media.
I'd love it if my DVD player had on it WiFi or ethernet. I already have cat5 runs and would enjoy output of my computer in the form of media files on my TV, which I already enjoy over analog cable. This in a way makes sence, the fact that a DVD player is just a glorified mpeg decoder, it would be the next logical step having it act as essentally a networked video card. WiFi ability would just be icing on the cake in this sorta setup.
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And it's also not like people like my self wouldn't enjoy this ability, which makes a fair amount of sence, to extend to mobile phones and PDAs. It seems the next logical step in home entertainment, being able for your friend to come over to your pad and share his snapshots directly from their handheld device directly to your TV. Or even a
These things make sence and are very marketable ideas. Hell, i'd buy a networkable DVD player.
But I think perhaps with the shadow of DRM that we should reserve implementations of these technologies to OSS. It's already been demonstrated by microsoft they are experimenting with "phone home for authorization" technologies and this just has far too much bad mojo. The last thing we need are remote enforcable EULAs.
.... my question is who sold them the gear?
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I'm not trying to troll or anything, I'm really interested in this paradox
While many nations did partisipate in a trade embargo, some nations did not.
While I know jack squat about computer gear... there was alot of flack flying around about american ciggerettes making into iraq hands.
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U.S. can't knowingly sell them in the Iraqi market -- either directly or through intermediaries -- unless they obtain a license from the U.S. government.
It's no paradox at all. Assuming the goods were made in America they either had a license to sell to iraq, which is easy enough to believe. Alternativly good could be purchaced by nations neighboring and on good terms with iraq and taking into iraq borders.
While computers are something listed as being a dual use item, as in could possibly be used as making weapons, the embargo in theory restricted their access. But it's not like Iraq didn't have free trade agreements with it's neighbors to import them. According to this bbc artical anyway... [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/195
That's the thing.... I am sharing it, to my self. Either via a fileshare to my self, or password proected http. Other people who happen to be with me have access, but that's only because I don't provide them with RIAA approved ear plugs.
.mp3 titles, not taking into account wether or not they are shared publicly or not.
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Besides, I thought the rouge WMA files link you to sites that run software to scan your system for
The request for information is a legit one as the RIAA has NO business going through my personal music library, and I have NO interest in apearing in court showing my license for what I have in the form of CDs, Tapes, vinyl, and John Denver's Greatest Hits Vol 2 on 8 track that some RIAA goon said I could convert to